Happy Fathers Day! Lakers Win Game 5

Well, Happy Father's Day for all the Dad's that's doing it! Biological or integrated into a family. God Bless and Keep You! For all those, who haven't been doing it, for whatever reason, we need you! Get to it!

Maybe, you can only set some money aside for your seeds or you can only take them to the park but take them, damn it! Being a father is about much more than how much money you give, it's about love, guidance, time! It's being an active participant in the game!

So what, you and the Woman can't make it! No excuses! Send a cashier's check, call them and take some groceries over there, that's for your seeds; Do it every week and call them every night, to say good night, and find out what they did that day and how is school, and say I love you! Pray for your children and for yourself and they Mama, so that you can have an active role in their lives. It ain't about you and the Woman! She got a new dude, cool, let them have it!Your kids, that's why you there, and she gave birth to them, so give her that respect always!

And Ladies, that goes the same for you, don't get in the way, of that man, seeing his kids! Unless you know, he puts them in danger! Y'all can't make it, he don't bring enough money, he got a new Woman and you don't like it, that is not a reason to keep him from building a relationship with his kids. Both of y'all you and him need to grow up! Grow Up! Give him, the same respect I told him to give you. He's the father of your seeds!

Now for them Daddies that's in the house, married or maybe y'all haven't taken it down the ailse but you there; You gotta raise them! You gotta be involved, it's your job to teach them of God, about work and responsibility and love and to protect them from those influences that you know will do them harm. It's your job! Happy Dad's day! They say we missing in action! But I know children all over being raised by MEN, Men who took the job even though it wasn't theirs to take and are doing it well. God Bless you!

Scratch That! It's a Man's responsibilty to help guide a child period! That's what Boys and Girls club, Cub Scouts, Pathfinder Scouts, Big Brothers of America, Kappa League all all them are there for. They are there, to tell a child ,Boy or Girl, that they matter and maybe that child, will believe you, and believe in themselves.

Happy Fathers Day! Now get back to work!

Now in other news, The Lake Show pulled out game five at the Staples Center against the scrappy but hated Boston Celtics who stood on the verge of collecting thier seventeen championship banner and unleashing the wrath of the true four horsemen of the apocalypse; Barney The Dinosaur, Kenny G, Michael Bolton and Yanni were once again held back! Whew! Obi Adisa Asad, while he does protest equating the four horsemen with Kenny G and Barney, he quivers a bit still. Hey Lakers! Play defense! That means ya don't let Paul Pierce walk up for a layup when there are three, count them, three Lakers standing there! Take a charge, foul them, tell him a story but keep him away from the basket!

Now for James Hit Man Posey, Hey, Refs! He's fouling the Lakers after the play is over, every time! Ya might wanna do something about it! Remember Defense creates offense! Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Ray Allen should not be able to walk up to the basket! See earlier paragraph about Paul Pierce!

Happy Dad's Day! My daughter just graduated high School! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Be Mindful! Be Careful! Be Prayerful!

Jaycee

Stopping This Bottom Feeding Ghetto MF's Mentality!

I planted a garden in the flowerbed, of the building where I reside and since then, It's been a very real battle to keep it from being destroyed. The flowerbed garden, is on the second floor of my building behind a railing so folks don't fall and go SPLAT!

I planted it to make the building look nice. The building had gone through some turmoil with people selling and moving out, building management had left us for dead by not taking an active interest in the building. So the building after some months and years began to look like shit! And the flowerbeds told the story. The flowers had died, and when I got there, it was just dirt, dead branches, trash, cigarette butts, weeds, and cat poop.

I complained to the association and although they were sympathetic, they were practically powerless and even moreso under assault from a few thugish types that used intimidation and keyed cars and other things when they were angry.

Obviously, It worked, nothing got done. The management company stopped coming out and then they abandoned us. But worse, folks in the building stopped getting involved and it got worse.

So my dumb ass decided to do something about it! I would plant the garden myself!

So, I planted aloe Vera, cactus, spider plants and a few other things. I placed Asian vases with large stems of bamboo at both ends and I grabbed a little doll chair as an ornament and the flowerbed was looking good. It only cost about fifteen dollars and about two hours or sweat. I paid for it out of my own pocket when the building managers didn't or couldn't do it! It was worth it!

I highly recommend gardening to balance and soothe the soul. It makes me feel good. There are folks that don't care and they pour cleaning agents out into the bed, leave broken glass, cigar butts, trash and everything else you can find in any urban garden. Dig, I understand, that goes with the territory.

But tonight, when the garden was damaged, I got angry! I spoke to my wife and my aunt who is visiting. They said just to let it go. " I told you not to decorate it, they would just tear it up!" And there are others who looked at garden and thinking that they're giving good advice, said to me, "Well, you know folks will tear it up! Maybe you shouldn't decorate it!"

Who is this, "They"?

The folks in the building of course! I've painted and scrubbed graffiti from inside the building, tagged by folks in the building. I picked up trash, swept glass, etc.

I noticed that they never actually looked at the garden. They never took the time to enjoy it. To smell it and pray and meditate by it. They never really allowed themselves to admit that it was nice. They've been jaded so long that all they could see is that someone would destroy it and take it away. This is truly, the ghetto mindstate. You won't even let yourself enjoy life a little. My God!

Why? Do i continue to fight? Because, I live there! I don't want to live in a filthy place period!Rent or own! Apathy, is the thing that kills Black progress, more than drugs, alcohol and guns.

Apathy, fuels the attitude of the bottom feeding ghetto mutha-f----! Ya know what I saying. The I don't care, what them Knucka's do, as long as it don't affect me, people! It's a selfish, race defeating attitude, that incubates and spreads to everyone and everything.

You gotta fight this attitude and the people that are infected with it including You! Or else, it won't be long before all the nice things, you saved for, built up or planted are dead! This includes your other, seeds. Your kids!

Can't go to the parks! Can't party nowhere without fear of something happening? Can't go to a decent hospital, grocery store, or sit on the porch and have a drink with a neighbor cause of fear.

You must get involved and combat it. Organize, and plant, clean and create. If your neighborhood does not have an upkeep or beautification program, then as God fearing, spiritually inspired folks, ya gotta start one! And like locusts, termites, ants, rats or other vermin, ya gotta fight BFGMF'S and never let up.

Check for this, if you ask, someone in your building, to help with a beautification project and you hear, Naw, I ain't doing s---t for this place!" This is an infected person and they're contagious! They're jaded, selfish, bitter, hurt or possiblly lazy, triflin, and directly influenced by evil but most of all, contagious!

It does not matter how a person got infected, we have got to be the vaccine, and teach care and prevention or you know what you get when you tolerate BFGMF'S? You get, ya guess it, a ghetto! An outwardly hellish place to live and a place where bitterness, anger, sadness, cruelty, sloth and apathy and hopelessness rule the day!

Nah, I'd rather fight! I don't like it but ya gotta do it. Organize, and report it to the landlords, the building management and the city as a group. Make sure that gardening and maintenance is not allowed to slack or if it has make sure that gets changed. Landlords, can be guilty of this too!

This, will take time, but first, you must change your mindset by not tolerating it period. It means, that you sweep the front, even though it ain't your job! It means, you may have to get a few kids, to pick up trash around the building or help you. Five or ten dollars is a small price to pay for a clean and attractive place to live. I love my people and where I live and I wanna see it thrive!

Only, you can fight Ghetto disease! Change, starts with you, then us!

Be Mindful! Be Prayerful! Be Careful!

Jaycee

What the Hell? Game 4!

OK, it's obvious, we are in trouble. We set a record in the first quarter, had them on the ropes by half time and blew our lead and the game by the fourth!

We must play four quarters of defense! Defense creates offense! Defense creates offense! This is a constant and the hated Boston Celtics demonstrated this to the beloved Lakers. Hopefully, they will learn that lesson.

In better news, the supreme court of the United States of America, in a 5-4 decision upheld habeus corpus, stating to Presitrick Bush that you can not detain people indefinitely without trail or a lawyer.

5-4 huh? Oh, it's just an American founding principle. No need to worry now! 4 judges, that voted to not uphold a founding American principle. Nah, no need to worry. It's not like we'll be spying without a warrant or sponsoring a state sponsored religion or wait......Torturing anyone?????

Wait!

Moving right along, Ward Connelly, is going from state to state, placing deceptively written and named civil rights initiatives on the ballots, to remove affirmative action and racial preferences. Something must be said about a man who continues to pursue a course of action that the majority of his own race is not in agreement with especially when he insists he doing it for the good of everyone.

In California, he led the charge to remove racial consideration in the UC system, got it passed, then tried to remove legacies from consideration only to have that fail like pork flavored cheerios. Hey, Ward! If you do something that hurts Black folks or some other colored folks, they'll help you but if you try to hurt the rich and powerful then they'll squash you!

Idiot!

I believe that he's being paid an awful lot of dough. Sambo sell outs usually are. Why haven't Black folks made this dude move? Or shown up at this dude's job or house? Just asking....

Be Careful! Be Mindful! Be Prayerful!

Jaycee

Lakers, Celtics, Game 3 And they didn't recognize Kareem!

It was a must win for the Lake Show, down 2 zip to the hated Boston Celtics and they came through in fine style. They hustled, they played defense, they got hosed on alot of calls as the hungry Kevin Garnett, continually set an illegal screen that the refs didn't notice until almost the end of the fourth quarter.

I began watching this game with a cold spot in my stomach, hearing faint strains of Kenny G and seeing Barney smile, as he prepped the other two horsemen for Armageddon or worse, a concert!

Then, I heard that Kareem was turned away in Boston the game before. They didn't recognize him. Who? Kareem, Kareem Abdul Jabarr, the all time leading scorer in the games history! Kareem, six time MVP, Kareem, owner of five rings with the Lakers during the leagues most successful period, owner of another ring with the Bucks, Kareem, world renowned author, Kareem, Yoga and Jeet Kun do practitioner, friend of Bruce Lee, actor at the top of the Pagoda in Lee's last film, The Game of Death! The greatest college basketball player in history, UCLA Bruin, Baby, that Kareem, co pilot in Airplane, the movie; You didn't recognize that Kareem? Hell, Naw!

The League should be outraged that the legends who made it possible for some snotty nosed kid on the door to have a job and a team to cheer for are being disrespected in this way. The league needs to show an all Mikan, Jabaar, Russell, Walton, Dawkins, Erving, Wilt, tutorial to remind folks what greatness truly is. But even more than that the league needs to buy a million copies of each of Kareem's books and give them to schools and to fans in the stands, and say we are sooooo sorry Cap, we are sooooo sorry Mr. Bill Russell!

This is just one more reason why Boston must be defeated. No respect for Kareem! Mr. Bill Russell would be welcomed into the Staples Center as he is an eleven time NBA Champion, an Olympian, a scholar from San Francisco State, the NBA's first Black coach, and from what I understand, a pretty nice dude!

Mr. Russell, if you are ever disrespected at Staples, I can't afford a ticket for you, but I'll buy you a couple a hot dogs and some nachos too! Bet!

Play Hard!

Be Mindful! Be Prayerful! Be Careful!

Jaycee

Yoga, A Path To Health!

Years ago, my friends Mama told me a story of how she once took her daughter out of a pre-school because the teacher and staff began teaching the children Yoga.

As a Christian she felt that this was necessary to protect her child from what she felt was a different, unchristian doctrine and influence, and today there are probally alot of folks from all different walks who still feel that way. They don't understand Yoga and the physical benefits or meditation and how it can complement there life no matter their spirtual practice.

First, Yoga like all the martial sciences, tai chi, Kung Fu and Karate all have eastern religious philosophies but all these physical exercises are designed and capable of including any religious thought or none at all. The arts themselves promote tolerance, physical fitness, mental stamina and clarity and spiritual awakening and awareness. They link the body and mind and energize the spirit. A good Christian believer needs mental clarity and physical fitness and flexibility, just as much as a non Christian believer but a non Christian believer is often taught tolerance and an appreciation of other people and their faiths whereas Christians are not always tolerant and should emulate these qualities. I always felt it was kinda stupid that most Christians I met would look down on meditation and yoga and other martial sciences when healthy but have a heart attack and then start meditation, tai chi, wearing copper bands, and change their diets to include vegetarian dishes. But God's eight natural health laws are universal! I believe that the Patriarch Abraham, the Chaldean, used a martial science to remain fit and all the Abrahamic religions included at least one. There is evidence that this is correct as there is Egyptian Kemetic Yogas, The asanas, Tai Chi and several others in the histories. I believe it is only Western thought that has discouraged all things Eastern, all things Afrikan from it's canon of thought and practice including History, religious thought and medicine. What a shame! It's time to change this. Try it, try something and live happier and healthier. Long life, without good health is a curse!

This is a great outward demonstration of God's eight natural health laws. Mediation and prayer, Exercise, fresh air, fresh water, proper nutrition, proper rest and temperance. This is right here in LA maybe you will try it or something like it soon.

Be Careful! Be Mindful! Be Prayerful!

Jaycee

Lakers, Celtics! Game 2 Ugly yet amazing!

What the hell?????

The Lake show entered game 2 looking listless and uninspired. Did they not know it was game 2 and they lost game 1 in the hated Fleet Center? Of course, they did but they sure as hell didn't play like it! Where was the hustle in the first three and a half quarters? Sure the hometown refs weren't calling any fouls for the Lake Show as they were hacked to pieces by the hated Boston Celtics but even so....where was the rebounding, the post presence? The cutting to the basket? Where Damn It? Where?

It wasn't there. We didn't post underneath, we shot from the outside, we didn't control the offensive or defensive glass and I sat next to a bold Boston Celtics fan in a Laker room and she was the only one cheering.

Didn't she know she was a Celtic fan and she should feel dirty and ashamed of herself?

She didn't and she wasn't wrong but the Lakers should feel dirty and ashamed because they are the better basketball team and they let the Celtics believe the lie that they are actually in the same class. Shame on the Lakers for that!

But I'm sure by game three, Phil, Brian, Kurt, Kareem, Frank, Jim and Ted will have worked out the problem. Here's a suggestion...If the starters aren't hustling then put in the bench team especially since they're one of the main reasons we're here anyway. Just a suggestion.

Play hard!

Be Mindful! Be Prayerful! Be Careful!

Jaycee

Lakers Lose Game 1 Barney The Face of Fear!

Paul Pierce, the Inglewood expat, led an absolutely inspiring effort for the hated Boston franchise. He's from City of Champions, Inglewood, CA, and he represented well, albeit for the Celtics! Yuck!

Remember, it is Imperative that the LAKERS win or The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Barney see left photo, Kenny G, Michael Bolton and Yanni will wreak havoc on us all!

Now, in real news, Mildred Beaubrun's killers are still loose! Hey, don't protect them fools! The hood is outraged at what they did and they're benefiting from it's protection! They killed her cause she wouldn't give them a phone number! Don't protect them! We owe them nothing except a fair trail. Period!

Be Mindful!, Be Prayerful! Be Careful!

Jaycee

Yaaaaah Obama!

Well, it's almost safe to say that Barack Obama is the Democratic parties nominee for President. Just another long overdue first but still, well, I can't jump up and down cause it should have happened long ago. But Barack's got it so now what?

Now, comes the real work! Not so long ago we gave the democrats control of congress and what did they do with it? Nothing! A big friggin donut!

Nothing!

The war in Iraq is still going and the Dems did nothing but talk about how they couldn't stop it!

Bush and Cheney were not brought up on charges. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, CA, another first, repeatedly stated that impeachment was not on the table! Why not?

Gas is $4.59 a gallon today in California so what the hell are the Dems doing? The housing crisis is getting bigger, the country's infrastructure is collapsing from decades of neglect. People all over the country are out of work while freeways are crumbling, bridges are falling down, forests need to be planted and cared for. The Democrats should be dusting off every FDR program that we have and restarting it!

GM Corp is laying off tens of thousands and Exxon Mobil and the other oil companies are making the largest profit margins ever, while we're paying $4.59 a gallon when we could be and should be rationing fuel because we are in a state of emergency!

So what's that have to do with Obama? He'll fix it when he gets into office, just be patient! Bulls**t!

Do you remember how the Republicans hemmed up Bill Clinton's presidency? How he couldn't get any federal judges confirmed, how he couldn't even get a fair hearing on Lani Guinneer's nomination? Do you remember how the Republicans pursued Whitewater harder than congress pursued Watergate when in the grand scheme of the savings and loan scandal Whitewater wasn't even a blip!

Do you remember how a federal judge allowed a sitting president to be sued in civil court while performing the duties of the presidency and ultimately impeached him for lying about adultery when that didn't have anything to do with the job of the presidency? Remember?

Nancy Pelosi why isn't impeachment on the table for this president when there's enough evidence to say that he lied about Iraq, he and his administration have abused the Patriot Act, denied human rights across the board at Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay, spied on Americans without a warrants, harassed enviormental groups critical of the administration and shown contempt of congress.

Why is impeachment off the table?

But heeeey I'm supposed to celebrate dude being the first African in America to be nominated by a major party for the presidency huh? Hush!

Y'all know that unless he has democrats who will back his agenda in congress and in the senate then he won't be able to get anything done!

We need people in the congress and the senate who will back Obama's policies, his judicial choices, and any policies that he might change or implement! Too many democrats are just twins of the republicans!

That's why the democrats can't persuade the republicans cause they think too much alike. They're rich, White and out of touch with the majority of America; Multi ethnic, multicultural and working class not middle class!

John McCain is old but that's not the real problem, his politics and his political philosophy is cause he ascribes to a dead economic theory, and he still sees the world like it's 1958! He will never live to see the true effects of his policies if he is elected. That takes twenty to thirty years and dude's eighty! He can't be held responsible! Ya can't elect him! But what's the worst thing about him is that he is the status quo!

We need to get rid of the status quo in the house, senate and the presidency! This includes democrats stuck in 1958 too! Litmus test, Multimillionaire, receives most of their election money from the military industrial complex, the Prison complex, pacs or the unions just to keep the status quo!

Our chant should be Stat Quo gotsta go! Or Barack will not only be just a first but worst a token!

People are still smarting from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and the Gulf states and we still got people living in trailers! Fidel Castro has outlived more than five presidents. He outlived the USSR! We are still using an embargo that failed more than three decades ago. Stop pissing down a hole and change strategy. Castro is there cause he got rid of our puppet! Change and start working with Cuba so we can bring them into line with the rest of the world and hopefully as an ally. Gone are the days when gangsters used it as their whorehouse, liquor haven, casino! Stop listening to the lobby in Miami who was thrown out with the mob and Baustista. They oppressed the people and they ain't going back to that!

We got rid of Saddam but again he was our boy. The Shah of Iran died and the villainous Ayatollah came on the scene but again, the Shah was our boy and we looked the other way, when he oppressed his people and Khomeini is the fruit of that! Pinochet killed for forty years cause we failed at diplomacy in Chile. Mobutu caused much suffering cause we played around in Congo's politics! Time to change. What we've done hasn't worked! McCain is just living proof of a bunch of brain dead philosophies!

Electing Obama is great, but give the man the tools to do the job or he'll be worse than a failure; He'll be a token!

Be Mindful! Be Prayerful! Be Careful!

Jaycee

Mildred Beaubrun Murdered!

As a father of a lovely young woman, abuse of a lady pisses me the eff off, but the murder of one shakes me to the core. I read about this young lady, Mildred Beaubrun and how she rebuffed a group of dudes in a car trying to get her number. According to the article they were disrespectful and she was a lady so she wasn't buying it. Then these demons shot her and she died later. I'm glad the Orlando Sentinel covered the story and Black Sapience, my fellow blogger, posted it as have others but this needs to be front page news, covered everyday until those folks are caught and jailed!

Mercy on their Mama's for what they've done! But these dudes must be caught and punished their crimes!

How many other people did they hurt that evening? How much suffering have they created since that faithful night? Her blood cries out for justice!

But my voice cries for her now!

Blessed are they that are in the first Resurection. Book of Revelation

Jaycee

The Four Horsemen Defamed! Really?

Obi asks what have Death, War, Pestilence and famine ever done to me to be compared to Kenny G, Yanni, Barney the Dinosaur and Michael Bolton? He feels that Death, War, Famine and Pestilence have been insulted unfairly; Do you agree? I DON'T!

Ya see, death, Famine, War and Pestilence will have some MERCY because they will END!

MB, BTD, KAY G and Yanni never end! They Never END! They lurk in the shadows, swallowing whole formats of great music and transforming them into hours of tedious, torturous boring dreck!

This is bad enough but now they spawn a legion of clones, each spewing their own brand of carbon copied( not a contradiction) dreck! Great acts of evil can occur if they are unleashed. It will be like being stuck in an elevator all the TIME! But I digress.....The Lakers must win!

I suggest we all cross everything! Fingers, Toes, Locks...Everything! And if we have re runs of the Electric Company, Vegetable Soup and Zoom play them or Barney will come and eat us ALLLLLL!

You Think I'm maaaaaaaaad!

Don't You?

Well I'm not!

I'm NOT!

You know you gotta a Kenny G cd, or tape somewhere in your home and remember how it made you feel? Sure, it was nice the first time you listened to Song Bird again but then after listening a few more times you started drinking again, didn't you! Didnt You! You know you should take that tape and smash it! but you can't can you? Evil has a face! Like Clowns it smiles!

It Smiles Damn it!

Remember in the dark ages Bozo was allowed to run loose too long and look what happened!

NIXON! REAGAN! BUSH QUAYLE! The Gas Crisis! Disco! Polyester Fabrics!

Learn Damn It! How many photos lie hidden somewhere in a box marked do not open ever?

Remember the geometrically disasterous hairstyles and colors of the ninties? The fashion faux pas of the eighties? If it wasn't for Rakim and Chuck D where would we be?

Look what happenned to Flavor Flav??? He's even worse but now I think he's on their side!

......Sorry, I was in the corner crying and sucking my thumb in a fetal position but I digress!

LEARRRRRRN! Damn it! LEARNNNNNNN! PLAY DEFENSE! HUSTLE! PLAY DEFENSE! WIIIIIIIIN!

Be Prayerful! Be Mindful! Be Careful!

Jaycee