Jack and Jill Politics - Latest Comments in Afternoon Open Thread

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BlackAmericanPrincess — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:14:45 -0000

that link isn't working for me morphus, can you post it again please? Thanks in advance! :)

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:44:23 -0000

I freely admit that I've seen all of Tyler Perry's movies. I've never seen any of his plays, and had never heard of him until Diary of a Mad Black Woman. I think Meet the Browns is hideous and couldn't make it through one episode. House of Payne started weak, but he's actually built a show with ok storylines.

I don't think that Spike is 'hating', he's just telling the truth as he sees it. Spike is a serious filmmaker. He went to school for it, and maybe he's being sort of a snob about Perry, who wrote plays and then jumped into movies.

No doubt I'm scared about Perry getting “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.” if he butchers that...it might turn me into a Perry hater.

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:45:51 -0000

you nail it everytime.

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:42:41 -0000

don't know

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Town — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:30:16 -0000

Real Americans want Real American Presidents and Real American First Ladies to look down on them.

Real Americans can't look up to Negroes.

That is all.

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carolinagirl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:59:47 -0000

I love the outtakes at the end of the show.

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carolinagirl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:59:15 -0000

Love all of the above except for Burn Notice.

Never got a chance to get into it. Does Hulu have the previous episodes?

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carolinagirl — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:52:58 -0000

This explains the penis envy.

Hmmm....

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:23:47 -0000

EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:23:08 -0000

Weiner calls on GOP against PO to give up their Medicare.
by The Erratic Synapse [Subscribe]
Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 05:08:52 PM PDT

Fuck. Yes.

A new study by Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Queens & Brooklyn), member of the Health Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the Caucus on the Middle Class, revealed that 151 members of the House and Senate currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care - Medicare.

On the list of recipients are 55 Republicans who have steadfastly opposed other Americans getting the public option, like the one they have chosen.

http://www.dailykos.com/sto....

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Guns3000 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:17:53 -0000

Sounds like business as usual with networks. It's all about ratings with them. If you are not barbie or a cabbage patch toddler forget about news coverage.

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Guns3000 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:14:42 -0000

If the Dems had their shit together they wouldn't if kiss Snowe's ass in the first place. We want a public option not some compromise bullshit that Snowe would vote for because she wants to be seen as "bipartisan."

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Guns3000 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:12:43 -0000

The real question is this, why are black folks flocking to his movies? If it's "connery and buffoonery" is that what black folks want to see? I know a lot of black folks who love his movies. Just something to think about. I haven't see one of his movies because his shtick isn't really my thing.

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Guns3000 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:08:55 -0000

That guy's mistress looks like a tranny. He risked his whole life and reputation for some breezy who I wouldn't give the business to even after having a dozen henny and cokes. Sex with that woman almost qualifies as bestiality. SMH

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:53:32 -0000

ESPN Analyst's Mistress Taunts Wife

Sandra Rose writes about EPSN baseball analyst Steve Phillips' sexscapades with 22-year-old ESPN production assistant Brooke Huntley (both pictured). His jumpoff got Fatal Attractionesque with his wife of 19 years, who has now filed for divorce. Apparently, in 1998, Phillips admitted having sex with a team employee, who sued for sexual harassment. That case was settled out of court. The conservative blogger writes: "According to online reports, ESPN analyst Steve Phillips has taken a leave of absence from the sports news network after admitting to an illicit affair with a 22-year-old ESPN production assistant. The first mistake that Marni Phillips made was not leaving her husband when she found out he cheated in the workplace. Marni Phillips made the mistake so many women make when their husbands cheat in the workplace: she gave him a second chance. As I wrote in an earlier post, most men will cheat if they have the time and opportunity, and most affairs occur in the workplace. Men don’t cheat by accident — they cheat by nature. If they did it once, they will do it again."

She continues: "Police say Phillips’ mistress Brooke Hundley began calling Phillips’ wife on Aug. 5, taunting her with text messages describing his birthmarks. Hundley also messaged the couple’s 16-year-old son on Facebook, posing as another teen to get information about his family life. Marni Phillips called police Aug. 19 when she came home to find Hundley standing in her driveway. Hundley had tacked a letter to the Phillips’ front door just before Marni Phillips drove up. When she saw Phillips, Hundley put her car in reverse, smashing into a stone column and then driving across the front lawn to escape. 'I knew instinctively that this was the woman Steve was involved with and I was terrified,' Phillips wrote in a statement to police. 'I’m a real person in his life and I care deeply about his happiness,' police say Hundley wrote in the letter. Steve Phillips claimed his affair with Hundley was “three meetings that all took place in July.”

More: "ESPN, which no doubt has a no fraternization policy, said it took 'appropriate disciplinary action' when the affair came to light back in August. But it wasn’t clear what that disciplinary action was. Police plan to interview Hundley when she returns from vacation next week. But here’s the best part: Marni Phillips filed for divorce Sept. 14, according to court records."

Booker Rising response: I couldn't find a picture of the wife (which is a hot Internet search topic right now) to add here. Your whorish ways are gonna cost you big time, Stevie. I thought ESPN guys attracted the model or cheerleader types? And hell no to some jumpoff being on my property, after having approached my child (if I had one). Mrs. Phillips is clearly not a Scorpio. A Scorpio would properly be plotting revenge....if not a beatdown right there. Then we'd get busy plotting and planning against Lying, Trifling, Low-Down Husband LOL

http://www.bookerrising.net...

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heard about this on the Doug Banks show..

this woman was in Fatal Attraction territory...pimping the couple's child online, pretending to be a teen as you did it...

crazy and creepy

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Guest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:29:11 -0000

Historic Day: Obama Signs Advance VA Funding into Law
Since 2004, Rey Leal has been fighting. He's fought on the streets of Fallujah; for mental health care in south Texas; and in Washington, for a solution to years of late veterans' health care budgets.

Today, Rey and millions of veterans have won their fight.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

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Guest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:27:00 -0000

Congress Passes Hate Crimes Bill

Included in the Defense Authorization bill that the Senate just passed by a vote of 68-29 is the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill -- named in memory of the man beaten to death in Laramie, Wyoming in 1988.

Democrats were unable to pass the bill in 2007 when they controlled both houses of Congress; President Bush had threatened a veto.

It now goes to the President’s desk and President Obama will surely sign it.

The measure extends federal hate crimes law to include crimes motivated by a victim's gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Sen. John McCain argued against the hate crimes bill on the Senate floor earlier today, saying: “It would create new federal crime for willfully causing bodily injury to any person due to the actual or perceived race, national origin, religion, or gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability of any person."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/ge...

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CPL — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:04:43 -0000

Especially when Weston does the narration, and there's captions under the people being introduced in the scene.

Other than that, I watch USA for Law and order repeats.

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CPL — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:01:59 -0000

Got a post up on Cheney's punk ass - go read it.

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Mothsmoke — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:57:10 -0000

Just because a hugh black audience flocks to his films does not mean that the work is not itself "coonery and buffoonery." Hugh numbers at the box office doesn't equate to high art or great movie making. It reflects tastes.

In fact, if the post is an accurate statement of what TP said, he doesn't deny that his work is "coonery and buffoonery." He points to the large black audiences that have been ignored. In other words, he points to his power to rope black folks in to see his brand of "coonery and buffonery." Funny, because if the major studios consistently put out TP like movies, AAs would be razing Hollywood. Amazing what we will take from our own.

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djchefron — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:57:10 -0000

That's the fault of the media.Their meme is Democrats are weak and they run with that.Remember what they did to John Kerry.A decorated Veteran and they smeared him but no mention of bush running away to the National Guard or cheney's cowardice.

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djchefron — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:49:04 -0000

Dont forget Viagra.Hell, they need something to get buggered

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Texas_Girl_in_LA — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:39 -0000

Oh I remember that one. Watch the role reversal for the Joan and Roland (black couple). Touches on racism a bit.

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rikyrah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:45:06 -0000

LOL

I was looking at the packaging and couldn't figure out why there was a difference in price between the two.

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jelana — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:45 -0000

The more expensive one---you know how grandmas are.