Take One 4 The Team!

This is such a story of strength, dedication and determination.  A real feel-good story…

Holland Reynolds is, and always will be, a champion in my book all day long! 

The 16 yr old is captain of University High School (SF., CA) girl’s cross-country team, and ranked 3rd in the state.  She was in 2nd place with a half mile to go in the CIF state championship meet in Fresno.

She collapse meters short of the finish line.

“My legs started to feel heavy and I started to slow down a lot and I felt I couldn’t run anymore.  I was breathing really heavily, hyperventilating. My hands were really cold at that point.”

The state championship was on the line. Instead of quittin’, Holland crawled her ass over that  finish line!

She did it for her coach, Jim Tracy, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s  last summer.  He is a dedicated coach, still with the team even though he had occasional slurred speech, scrambled thoughts and little energy, sometimes fallin’ down at practice and  had taken  to sittin’  in a chair for their workouts.   She wanted his last season to go out with a bang.

She finished 37th out of 169.    THEY GOIN’ TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP!

This story brought tears to my eyes…

Kudos to this selfless young lady.   I’m on “Team Holland”  from here on out!

(*feelin’  all  warm & squishy*)

 

Why Is This?

Introducin’ the latest  billboard erected by some racist Obama-hater.  This one is  in Grand Junction, Colo.

It shows Bam as a terrorist, a mobster, an illegal immigrant, and a gay man.    I guess he’s all these people while he is supposedly “ gamblin’ with the values of America.”   The man who commissioned  and paid for the billboard wants to remain anonymous, but the ‘artist’ – if you can call him that- Paul Snover, stepped up to the mic for his 15 minutes of fame,  and claimed his work, sayin’:

“To not put my name on it would be saying that I’m embarrassed or afraid, or ashamed of what I’ve done, and, I’m not.”

And he got a whoppin’ $500 bucks for his trouble.   He’s really goin’  places.

I have to say in my life time I have never seen so much blatant racism,  as I have since this man was elected President.  He had been depicted akin to Hitler, as a monkey, a witch doctor, and even as Osama Bin Laden.    I even ran across one evidently callin’ for the assassination of the President of the United States, since it was  askin’  ‘Who Killed Barack Obama?”, and showin’ a very dead Barack.

White folks are cloggin’ the internet with racist emails showin’  watermelons growin’ on the White House lawn,  postin’ hateful,  nasty,  racist comments and pics  in forums and blogs (I was told by one of those cretins that  I was a “She Ape” ,  and not human.  How that for insanity?), all kinds of insane bullshyt.

I can picture one of them frothin’  at the mouth with hate and venom,  typin’ some of the shyt I’ve read.    One Senator’s aide sent out numerous emails callin’ Bam,  “Barack The Magic Negro“.    Her only regret was that she sent it to the wrong address book.     And she’s still at work today.

I have ran up on the many blogs dedicated soley to bashin’ The Prez.  I even found one blog – ‘prolly ran by some fat, out of shape, loney , homely, white woman with a ragin’ case of herpes-  extrollin’ the sins of Chelley-O showin’ her upper arms in a dress, or how she is wearin’ her hair today.    And lets not forget the  full-length videos all over YouTube, with white folks tellin’ us how much they hate Barack Obama, a man they have never met or even had a conversation with, for no other reason other than his Black skin.

And all of this is evidently ok…

These people want to say that the color of the man’s skin had nothin’ to do with these things, and become shocked and appalled if you accuse them of bein’  racist.    That’s what most racist do; deny the fact that they are racist, and then tell you (in a very condescendin’ voice as if they were talkin’ to a 2 yr old) that YOU  have the problem.  I guess we could ask  that Tea Partier that was holdin’ the sign,  straight out callin’ somebody a “nigger“,  if he is actually prejudice, or was he just makin’ his ‘political point’ (and that was…?)

Inbred didn’t even spell it right.

I will fight to the death for a person to believe in what and who they want to.    BE who and what you want to be.  But when it comes to all this name-callin’ ‘ race-baitin’ and KKK actions, that’s something I can’t and won’t stand down for.   This is what America has become.    All over again.

The racist billboard in Colo was taken down yesterday.   Something about death threats to the ‘unknown’ man who commissioned it.  How can you threaten an “unknown” person?   Somebody knew who that mofo was and told it- ’prolly for a price.  (Shyt, Paul might have!)  Everything’s for sale these days…   Paul claims he got death threats and hate-mail too.   ‘Prolly tryin’  to extend his 15 mins, since it looks like they gone fizzle out before they really even start…

At any rate I’m hopin’  this starts a trend that these types of things wont be tolerated in regards to our President, no matter WHO or WHAT RACE he is.

We gon’  pray on it…

Stimulate the Economy with Chronic Smoke!

::the store-window of the future?::

 

   

MARIJUANA TO BE SOLD IN STATE-RUN LIQUOR STORES!  

Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, a state senator from Washington State, is introducin’ new bill that would legalize marijuana and allow it to be taxed for state revenue!  

(**I SAID as soon as the Gub-ment’ figger out how to get they money, Mary Joe will go legal, and I was right! **)  

In a nutshell:   Marijuana would be sold in Washington state’s 160 state-run liquor stores (package stores), and customers, 21 and older, would pay a tax of 15 percent per gram.   (A $60 gram would be taxed $9).     The measure would dedicate most of the money raised for substance abuse prevention and treatment (how ironic!), which is facing potential cuts in the state budget.    Dickerson said the measure could eventually bring in as much to state coffers as alcohol does, more than $300Milli a year!  

::cool-ass Mary Lou!::

 

Now that’s what I call ‘linin’ the pockets!’        

If this catches on, and it will, other states will follow.     In February, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol.      Bill supporters estimate the state’s pot industry could bring in more than $1Billi in taxes to California.  

A pro-marijuana group launched a television advertisement  Wednesday, advocating legalization and taxation of The Chronic to help solve that state’s budget problems.   The 30-second spot aired yesterday,  and was paid for by the Marijuana Policy Project. The spot features a retired 58-year-old state worker who says state leaders “are ignoring millions of Californians who want to pay taxes.”  

“We’re marijuana consumers,” says Nadene Herndon of Fair Oaks, who says she began using marijuana after suffering multiple strokes three years ago.    “Instead of being treated like criminals for using a substance safer than alcohol, we want to pay our fair share.”  

Three California stations — KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV of San Francisco and KNTV-TV in San Jose — refused to air the ad.     And they have a plethora of  weed-heads and ‘farmers’;  those are the places to go for the Chronic in Cali!   More than any other city  in the state!    They betta get with the program, because this will come to fruition.  

It’s not like Mari Joe is a dangerous drug.    I’ve never heard of anyone robbin’ a bank to get a sack.   No one has O’D’d on it,  that I know of.   Besides, there are medicinal properties, and it does  relieves pain.   Cancer patients rank high as users, all the pain they be in.    Bam  already took the pressure off the Medical Marijuana  cafes.     

We almost there.  

Now if they could just do somethin’ about the smell…