Mildred and Lavena!

Surf the net or lurk through the blogs and you will see story after story about these two sistahs! What you won't see is Justice coming to fruition as a result of some one's conscience being awaken or just good ole fashioned detective work yielding the results! There are some great blogs and commentators giving vigil for these sistahs, yours truly included but what I want to know is when will we read Killers found! Killers convicted! Killers sentenced to life imprisonment until death! Military puts muscle behind efforts to protect female personnel. Military Justice finds offenders, Evidence irrefutable! Killers, Rapists Convicted! Military prosecutes those involved in cover up! When is that going to happen?

I signed a large petition for PFC. Lavena Johnson, after reading the stories. Her death was ruled a suicide but upon further investigation evidence surfaced that she may have been raped and murdered and that the evidence was tampered with by parties unknown and the case quickly swept under the rug as a suicide! In a time of war, the Armed Forces owes it to its own troops to protect them and see that they receive a proper investigation hopefully resulting in Justice! Check out the petition and the stories online and please participate!

I wrote about Mildred, how she was shot after her and her friends ran afoul of a group of hard heads who spurned decided to open fire on a group of Girls! There's more to the story but that about sums it up! Still, I don't want us to forget! So I encourage you to read the earlier posts!

Mildred Beaubrun is dead and still awaiting Justice! Her killers are still out there!

PFC Lavena Johnson is gone, she too awaits justice and most of all truth! None of us is safe or free when we forget about someone else!

Don't keep quiet on Murder! It's Murder! It's Murder! It's Murder! Don't protect Murderer's!

Don't pledge Loyalty to Murderers! They committed the most heinous offense on Earth! Don't hide em! Don't help em! Turn them in! Turn them in! Turn them in! We owe them Nothing!

Justice for Mildred and Lavena!

BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

Oscar Winning Composer Issac Hayes Dies in Memphis!

Stax Records Soul Pioneer Issac Hayes has passed and joined the ancestors earlier this morning in his home in Memphis, Tennessee. He was found near a treadmill in his home and was unresponsive to attempts to revive him.

He and his writing partner David Porter began writing for the Stax Label when they were 17 year old kids, writing, producing and backing up Otis Redding, The Markeys, The Barkays and Sam and Dave. Their formula was to write stories about things they knew. Hayes eventually became a solo artist for the label, releasing Hot Buttered Soul, Black Moses and the Issac Hayes Movement. Hayes, self taught played keyboards, organ and saxophone but it was his voice, his orchestrations and the arrangements that stretched up to 14 minutes long where Issac would just rap and talk with the audience that made the crooner famous. It was his boldly shining dome accenting his physique that made him a legend.

He won an Oscar for the score of Shaft in 1971 directed by A Choice of Weapons inspiring ancestor Gordon Parks starring a young Richard Roundtree. He went on to compose several movie scores and act in several films most notably Escape From New York starring Kurt Russell as The Duke of New York! His acting talents extended well beyond just drama, he also was adept at comedy mocking his own super soul brotha persona alongside Jim Brown in I'm gonna git you sucka!

He is probally best known though as Jerome "Chef" Mcelroy, the love machine, crooning school cafeteria cook and guru to the foul mouth fourth graders of South Park. He explained life's mysteries to the young charges, oft times the only sensible adult the kids would listen to. As Chef he crooned some of the raunchiest lyrics ever set to animation. It was funnie, bawdy, tongue in cheek but most of all melodic and funky!

Hayes left the series after the Tom Cruise Scientology episode. Hayes, a longtime member of the Church of Scientology was incensed at the what he felt were bigoted views of his religion. In fairness, he was a good sport and gladly participated whenever they lampooned anyone else. I wonder did he protest loudly when the episode was proposed?

I personally believed that he was influenced by his churches leaders to leave the show but that is just my opinion.

Hayes, was considered along with Gil Scott Heron, James Soul Brother # 1 Brown, P- Funk and Barry The Maestro White to be one of Pioneers of Rap Music often sampled and Hayes in particular one of the guiding lights to the long playing dance recordings that eventually morphed into the abomination known as Disco. Death Before Disco! But I digress!

I guess I'll grab my copy of Issac Hayes Greatest hits and play a few more kisses to go then grab my wife and dance long and slow groovin just like Ike!

Rest in Peace Brother May the Funk be with you!

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

More Boobs, Mon Frere!

I Ain't Scared Of You Mutha&#$@!

Original King of Comedy member Bernie Mac passed away and has now joined the ancestors awaiting that Last day and The first resurection. I first saw him on Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam when it was still funnie, Yelling his signiture catch phrase I ain't scared of you Mutha@^%&$ !

Earlier this week, it was reported that he passed, thankfully that was a rumor but today when it was again reported sadly it was all too real. He came up from Chicago, he came up hard, he paid his dues performing on the subways trains and in nightclubs. When stardom came he like his fellow Original Kings of Comedy dressed dapper and gave us insightful, blazing comedy. He is most well known for The Bernie Mac show but I will always remember him for looking at the camera and talking to America! Rest well Bernie!

We will Miss you!
Jaycee

John Edwards Exposed! Sob!

Say it ain't so John! Say it ain't so!

You cheated on your wife and the baby's possibly yours?

Ya don't say!!

But wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!

It gets better!

No, not really but well...it gets worse! WTF! John, you did this while your wife is suffering from breast cancer? No, your wife knew you did it, helped you cover it up, with your stank self and you ran for President again. The other woman kept quiet too didn't she? Y'all paid her off, huh? Is that what happened? She didn't list the Daddy on the birth certificate did she? No, she didn't!
So y'all was all complicit! All y'all!

You telling me, ya actually want me to believe that Johnnie Edwards, Trial Lawyer, Millionaire, Former Liberal, Demo-Cratic, Senator From North Carolina, home to The Finally, Late Not Great Sen. Darth Jesse Helms's State, the Twice, Presidential Also Ran senator, good hair, nice smile, that dude? And y'all saying y'all didn't know? With all the background checks they go through? With all the Dirty Rotten Tricks that the Republican led country has used since 1993? Ya saying that The National Enquirer is the only investigative journalistic body with Integrity? HAHAHAHAHAAH, I almost had it that time but I can't keep a straight face!

John, is there any real reason to have a blood test? Is the baby yours John? If it is then say that now!

You were my choice for President John, You would have been my choice with or without John Kerry or Barack Obama. You were the only candidate that spoke for the poor, the working class, frankly me! The only one! Hell, I would still vote for you! So what the President's a trick! Beats what we got now! The last Trick we had left us with a surplus and the world still likes him better than the one we got right now!

Now, that it's out it's time for you to be even more outspoken! Why, cause you been liberated!

Liberated John! Nothing that they can hold over you with they hypocritical behinds! You can speak to the New York Times now! Why, cause they just whores themselves! They hyped up the lies that led to the Iraq war! They parroted the Bush administration's agenda! Bush's and Karl Rove's own mega media propaganda machine, with Judith Stooge Miller running the point!

You can speak to FAUX News who knows more than a lil bit about lying and manipulation of data than anyone this side of Joseph Goebbels! You and Jesse Jackson can hang out, talk shop and maybe y'all can redeem yourselves by doing some good. Kick Kwame Kilpatrick a good swift one in his lower realms! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The Liberation can you smell it?

My respected colleague Professor Tracy over at Aunt Jemima's Revenge is alot more harsh on you! Oh, the things she said, they burned my retinas! They hurt my virgin eyes! Just kidding!

There's only a few parts of me that's still virgin and it ain't my eyes, ears well there ain't nothing on me virgin! And there ain't nothing ( double Negative) virgin bout y'all's behind either! Hell, we all know somebody close to us that's done this and alot worse and we still friends with they stank behinds but alot more careful! So don't puss on me now! No, we ain't virgins! Cynics, Angry Jaded beyond belief but VIRGINS NAWWWWW!

The Gov of New York Elliot Spitzer got caught this year thanks to Illegal use of the Patriot Act and his own self righteousness and zealousness in prosecuting crooks in New Yawk! Heck! Call the Just-US Department! Hahahahahah! Yeah, I tried to keep a straight face too!

The Good Rev. Ted Haggard and Sen. Larry Craig smiled for the cameras for the Right wing all these years, condemning Gays and got more sugar in their tanks than C and H, Elton John and that Sweet looking Black Dude on America's Next Top Model but hey!!! Don't let me judge!

Rep. Tom Delay allegedly helped engineer the theft of the 2000 US Presidential election and then got busted for corruption later but hey! I'm not judging! No, not me! Dicky Cheney's wife wrote a lesbian book once upon a time, Georgie H. Walker Bush snorted enough coke and drank enough liquor to well...let's just say you had a problem.

Jerry Springer former vice mayor of Cleveland, wrote a check for his Private, Adult Entertainment Contracting services! Chuck Colson, Earliman and Dean, G. Gordon Liddy all went to jail! Dukie Cunningham went to Jail! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It get's better!

The Former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger currently Pope Benedict 16, was once a Hitler youth! Young boy, Germany, 1930/1940's par for the course!

Don't let me judge! So John, unlike your hair and your pretty smile, ya ain't perfect! Ya just like the rest of us! What a shame!

Repentance, Atonement, Forgiveness, Redemption and a good butt kickin from ya wife and it will all be better!

Then afterwards, John smile for the cameras then say Eff em John! Move on, and do what you should be doing which is help the working class and the poor John. Hey Bam- Bam!

John Edwards, would still make for a great Attorney General! Who better than an absolute heel to kick congress squarely in the split!

BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

Voila, Mon Frere, Boobs!

First I would like to thank everyone reading A Choice of Weapons and for your comments, criticisms and most of all for just being there. I intend to continue to Blog about everything from Politics to Why clowns are evil!

With that in mind, my friend and fellow blogger in arms,from The League Of Evil Monkeys reminded me " Hey! The Spiritual stuff and political insights are cool but you've lost sight recently of what the essence of A Choice of Weapons is and you need to get back to it!

What's that?

Your all consuming HATRED of CLOWNS and Your Never ending LOVE of BOOBS!

There was truth in that statement!

So with that here's to the hard core lovers of A Choice of Weapons! I now present my tribute to Tattigge! My latest masterpiece Entitled, Voila, Mon Frere, Boobs!

So do these boobs turn you on? Come on.......They do don't they? Well they shouldn't, ya know why? Cause some of them got elected!

Lighten Up and have Fun!

BE Careful! BE MINDFUL! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

ACOW Nominated for Brillante Weblog Premio Award!

Grateful Daisy from Daisy's Dead Air nominated me for the Brillante Weblog Premio Award! Thanks Daisy! Wow! What a long strange trip this is. I in turn have nominated a few others that I read regularly and are equally deserving of praise. Congrats! To all the nominees.

1. Aunt Jemima's Revenge! http://auntjemimasrevenge.blogspot.com/

2. Fungke Blak Chick! http://funkyblackchick.com/

3. The Black Snob! http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/

4. Getyoshyt! http://getyoshyt.blogspot.com/

5. A Taste of Banana Puddin! http://msfbpuddin.blogspot.com/

6. The Luscious Librarian! http://the-luscious-librarian.blogspot.com/

7. The Old Black Church! http://theoldblackchurch.blogspot.com/

8. Go Zack! http://www.gozack.blogspot.com/

9. Kiamsha! http://kiamshacom.blogspot.com/

Grateful Daisy! http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/

Rules:1. Put the logo on your blog.

2. Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Add links to these blogs on your blog.

5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

The Great Risk!

In 2000 encouraged by their Imam's, Mosques and Communities, a group of Muslims proposed voting as a block for George Bush. At the same time a group of Christians encouraged by their Pastors, Churches and Communities decided to continue to vote as a block for George Bush also. As a political tactic this was effective and very successful.

Now as a back story African American Muslims including the Nation of Islam did not join the block citing Bush's record in Texas, their opposition to his domestic policies and the Afrikan American history with the Republicians. Most African American Christians or otherwise did not vote Bush or Republican. Ya see, there was a disconnect there. What did African American Muslims see or believe that non Afrikan American Muslims didn't? I respectfully pose the same questions for the Christians.

Here's my theory on it. Muslims and Christians are not monolitic in their thinking as groups but the Muslims proposed to vote monolithically as a show of strength in order to possibly influence the agenda. This is the same thing that Dr. Dobson and The Late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have always proposed and put into action but the other factors involved dividing the Muslims were culture and history. The Muslim Bush Block were mostly foreign born Muslims who through their strength of communities, government backed small business loans, education and perseverance have achieved some simplence of the American Dream.

They also bought into the Social conservative agenda presented by the Republicans. The majority of Afrikan Americans regardless of political or religious stripe weren't buying that.

Now in 04 the Repubs reached out to so called socially conservative Afrikan American congregants appealing to them on hot button issues such as gay marriage and abortion.

Now, my point....to everyone Abortion and Gay marriage or not real issues! They're not!

How much tax you will be charged and how much of that tax will actually be translated into things that benefit you is a real issue. See if Abortion is done away it in the next hour it will have little effect on your life. Hardly any at all. So you have the baby, you will need social programs to assist you. You will need quality education for those children from pre-k to college. You will need parks and green space for those kids. You will need jobs that pay an actual living wage in order to support those kids and raise them. If you are working two low paying jobs then you ain't home to watch them. That's the real issues!

So why the big brew ha over Abortion? It's cause you got Church folks trying to make Heaven on earth through legistration. They tryna legistrate a particular narrow view morality for everybody. Abortion is private and should remain that! It is personal! It should remain that!

This is a basic Republican principle that was discarded years ago in order to win the elections. I personally do not want you in my affairs when it comes to a decision so important. The church will not be the one's grieving with someone or a couple faced with a health issue or just some no account who happen to get lil girl pregnant but won't do much else! It's none of your business!

Gay marriage is not an issue because Gay folks are less than 10% of the population. There is no logical reason why gay folks should not be allowed to marry. They are denied solely by a religious tradition that can not be enforced constitutionally! Two legal aged consenting adults choose to live together and enjoin themselves by contract to decide each others affairs can get married because of what reason? They citizens right? Pay taxes? Signed up for selective service? Serve and are willing to serve in every aspect of American life and they vote! What restricts them someone's enforced interpretation of Judeo Christian/Islamic scripture. This is not a real issue. It just gets everybody riled up and brings their prejudices to the front! Furthermore they are not hurting anyone and it's none of your business!

So are you willing to risk a possibly better future by voting on these divisive non constitutional hot buttons? I hope not cause ya did it with Bush, and now our resources are low, we are threatened by big brother, we are in two badly fought, but one unnecessary war. You are poorer than eight years ago, you are not as free as you were eight years ago and we might not ever be that free again.

Choose America!

Choice and Tolerance or A rigid narrow spiritual view enforced and continued war!

BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

Introducing Roland Gresham!

I met Roland Gresham years ago when I first went to college. He was friendly, approachable and a seriously talented musician. When you go to Roland's website and grab his latest, it's gonna say Gospel Jazz, a label I personally despise but in Roland's case I'll make an exception because Roland Praises! Proclaims! and Edifies! The people with the Gospel of Christ!

He plays in the tradition of Wes Montgomery, Grant Green and George Benson. His soloing is tasty and his tone has that special feel, that breezy feel!

THE DOOR OF NO RETURN