Inspiration for my fellow blogger "Regina's Family Season."

This is to Regina over at "Regina's Family Season," and for anyone else who now has had so many burdens and trials to overcome. I have overcome so many things in my life and GOD will always be my passage. 

So big (((HUG))) to anyone out there who needs it today.

I am still gonna rise

You may write me down in history
with your bitter, twisted lies,
you may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my confidence in life upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But Get thee behind me obstacles

because , like air, I’ll still rise.

As recently as two years ago Mike Tyson was Tyson was convicted of felony cocaine possession and misdemeanor DUI in Arizona. He was placed on 3 years probation. One of the conditions -- Tyson can't violate any laws. So here we go again. Mike, Mike whatcha doing man? Tyson's spokeswoman Tammy Brook had said the boxer was traveling with his wife and 10-month-old child on November 11 when he was attacked by overly aggressive paparazzi following which the 43-year-old acted in self-defense to protect his child.

An airport police spokesman had said the incident happened at a United Airlines ticket counter and that the photographer accused Tyson of hitting him.

Currently Arizona is now looking into the possibility that this altercation might be grounds for violation of his probation. I think if you are a boxer, sadly your hands are viewed as lethal weapons. Reports are the photographer got jacked up. Sad for Mike (especially after the recent death of his daughter). Many in the entertainment field can empathize with him.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/12/mike-tyson-arizona-probation-dui-arrest/#ixzz0Wkwse9LS

DMX owes IRS, isn't this a repeat of so many entertainers?

Earl Simmons,(DMX's real name), born December 18, 1970, rose to fame in the late 1990's.

The IRS and state of New York are saying that DMX owes them approximately e $1.5 million in delinquent taxes.

What is owed:

• The IRS filed a $442,869 lien against DMX and his wife on Jan. 2 in the New York City Register's office.
• The IRS filed a $663,554 lien against DMX on Sept. 10, 2007, in the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Recorder's office. According to the lien, he owes income taxes from 2002, 2003 and 2005.
• The state of New York filed an $8,343 tax warrant against the couple on Feb. 15, 2007, in the New York County Clerk's office.
• The New York State Tax Commission filed a $44,357 tax warrant against the couple on March 6, 2006, in New York.
• The IRS filed a $370,460 lien against the couple on Sept. 20, 2005, in New York.

DMX and his wife Tashera allegedly had a tax lien filed against them by New York officials earlier this year.

There are two claims against him. One for $33,457 and another one for $370,460 in 2005 and 2006, respectively. DMX I just want to let you know Walmart is hiring. Do your thing man!

Fort Hood Killings- Are Psychiatric Screenings Necessary?

Everyone by now has heard about the massacre that occurred November 5 on the army post, Fort Hood. Major Nidal Malik Hasan was charged yesterday with 13 counts of premeditated murder. Here was one man (himself an Army psychiatrist) who went into a medical facility (where there were men/women who had just returned from overseas deployment) and shot to deat 4 officers, 8 enlisted soldiers and 1 civilian, 29 additonally were wounded.

So here is a man who is entrusted with the job of making sure these men/women have a good transitional period back home, through his own personal angst, decided to take out these same people

So again, intial question is should "everyone" (including longterm soldiers) be subjected to annual or even bi-annual mental health screenings? 

My daughter, who is about to enter military life, I am scared for her. If the real terror is indeed internal, then my fear is very real. The term the "enemy is among us" is a sad analogy.

For more of this news story click------> HERE
  

20 gang raped this girl near my location, no one helped

I know by now many of you have read the story of the 15 year old that was gang raped outside the high school in Richmond California. I don't know if any of my readers have any religious affliations, but I do. If this is not a sign of the last days, I don't know what is. 

How have our children evolved so much that they can callously (not to mention even participate) in a rape of a young girl who just turned 15. Did these young boys not have sisters? mothers? aunts? grandmothers?

There were as many as 10 people who participated in the Oct. 24 attack on the girl in a dimly lit courtyard on campus. The school dance was going on in the high school. The victim was found naked and semi-conscious after the nearly two-hour assault.

Investigators believe as many as 20 people may have watched the rape without calling police. I have a friend who knows the family. Immediately there were members of that family who wanted swift justice, thankfully calmer heads prevailed. You can't fight violence with violence.

Today a 6th suspect was picked up and charged. Contra Costa County prosecutors According to a  1999 California law. it is illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, but the law applies only to children 14 and under.filed rape charges against five others, ranging in age from 15 to 21. Time for this and MANY other laws to be revised.

Source: CNN NEWS

Katt Williams- Tell the Truth. Are U on Crack?

Why the heck would an established entertainer with so much in their future ruin it? . The "Wild 'N Out" cast member , is in custody at a facility in Coweta County,

The Associated Press, states, Williams is expected to go before a judge on Monday afternoon (November 9) to answer to charges. The "Wild 'N Out" alumnus, who has made appearances in movies alongside Ice Cube and Eddie Murphy, is in custody at a facility in Coweta County, Georgia. A representative with the prison would only confirm to MTV News that Williams was being held on felony and misdemeanor charges. Georgia. 

 I mean is it for attention? Are they bored? I mean there are other ways to cure boredom. I think he needs a pyschological evaluation. I am serious. Lately we seem to have so many entertainers who I believe the combination of the pressure of the job and life are taking a toll on them. Of course some were on the "other side" of the law before they became famous and doing some of the same (sad to say) illegal activities. 

More of the story ---------> HERE

York Pennsylvania, First black Mayor elected

York Pennsylvania was a city that has survived many racial milestones. Democrat and Republican candidates are African-American, with Democrat Kim Bracey, York's former director of community development and a relative newcomer to politics, the favorite to win in a city where Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by nearly 2 to 1. In 1969 their was the tragic murder of a white police officer and and African-American woman. This incident cause much rioting and unrest in the city.

In 2001, York's mayor, who had been a police officer during the unrest, was charged with murder for allegedly inciting white gangs involved in killing the African-American woman. The mayor resigned before being acquitted in 2002. Others were convicted of murder, in separate cases, of the woman and the police officer.

So here we are in 2009, and we have two candidates that are black. York is known as one of the poorest cities in Pennsylvania. The new Mayor will indeed have her share of challenges.

Read More of the story-----> HERE