Former Enemies, Former Friends
/Translate combat into competition. Your enemy may be a friend in disguise.Play by the rules ☚ Nope, Eff That!
Play to Win!
Translate combat into competition. Your enemy may be a friend in disguise.Play by the rules ☚ Nope, Eff That!
Play to Win!
Put the past behind you, let go of old grudges and resentments. Power is not the answer ...
PULL TOGETHER
"Piggy Backing" off of ... The Past Presented as the Present
Have you really tried to understand?
No. Okay well why don't you try to mute dissent and turn arguments into conversations. ☚ Not a question ... this is advice.
Look outside your own world
We all get caught up secretly believing that our way is better than others, however,The Merciless God of Perfection doesn't want you to believe there are other ways of viewing things. ☚ Shout out to The One real GOD, his SON & their homeboy the HOLY GHOST cause' they are the only ones you should put your faith in.
Pay attention to the needs of others
Try to keep track of what's going on, be sensitive to telltale signs & don't take things for granted. Think constructively & work to improve relations.
Calm your nerves and center yourself
Don't stick stubbornly to your point of view, go ☠smoke or exercise or do that thing the we all like to do ☚ You scream, I scream, we all scream for ...
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Needing to be Needed
Would you rather be alone?
Appreciate what you have while you have it.
Open lines of sympathy and empathy.
It's sleepy, sleepy time ... thought I'd hip you to some late night hipnipedness.
It always amazes me how folk hide behind a facade of religion and faith, write one social comment praising God and the very next one raising hell. Before you judge anyone for what you perceive to be "A fall from Grace" ... turn the mirror around and ask yourself; Have I cultivated acceptance and understanding? Have I suspended judgments? Have I learned to compromise?
Can't sleep at night? Up at 3:30 a.m. blogging? Well me too. I'm up because of my inner demons.
We all know the feeling of struggling with our demons & sometimes it can feel like a losing battle. One problem is that people don't get enough understanding or clarity about what their demons consist of. It's hard to beat something when you can't clearly see. Inner demons are emotional conflicts.
I'm up cause' I've enslaved myself to my ideas for making life better for me and my folk. I'm in my own personal recession and it's this emotional conflict of having the exepctation that others will see me as a disapointment & add the fact that I worked until 1:00 a.m.
A person who is rich in many ways can still feel deeply deprived and dissatisfied. I'm seeing clearly the inner conflict, and beginning to undermine the power of the negative side of said conflict.
*A weakness for money does not imply power*
Imma stop reaching for this phone or my machine & start my day with prayer.
Our soul waiteth on the Lord. He is our help and our shield. (Pslams 33:20)
Written & Drawn By Lena Hopkins-Jackson
10. SWIZZ BEATZ …Okay we all know Alicia Keys is a gorgeous,11 time-Grammy award wining artist BUT imagine how mega producer Swizz Beatz's soon-to-be ex wife Mashonda felt when Lil’ Miss “Teenage Love Affair” kept on falling in and out of Love with HER husband!!! I even read that the heart-broken Mrs. Beatz has been calling Alicia out on 'Twitter', (Oooh! Can 'Facebook' be next?) Well, let's just hope he used some "Ruff Rider”condoms, no tellin’ what else Alicia’s been fallin’ in and out of before Swizz.... After all, talent ain't synonymous with clean, and AIDS is very real.
9. SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS….Edwards is worse than arm-pit sweat considering HE is the one that cheated on his loyal,cancer-ridden wife , ended up with a love child to boot and if nominated would have slid his slimy,scandalous butt right into the democratic spot( ensuring that McCain would've been president!!) That alone earns him a public beat-down and I’m praying for Elizabeth Edwards’ speedy recovery so she can be the one to do it!
8. GOVERNOR MARK SANFORD.....WOW, the Argentinean women in Buenos-Aires must have Aztec gold between their legs, why else would South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford risk everything ( including a shot at the White house!) just for some chocha! Apparently muy caliente’ chocha at that since this jerk even forgot it was 'Father’s Day' it was so good, I wonder if Sanford remembered using taxpayer money to fly to see his mistress, or wanting to impeach President Clinton for HIS affair OR trying to refuse federal funds to help the unemployed? Ladies & gentlemen, this guy needs an enema!
7. BRAD PITT....Now, I like Brad Pitt, I like Angelina Jolie too...but wrong is WRONG! How would YOU feel if your spouse went off to their job, left you for their co-worker, and everybody in the office knew! Well, the whole WORLD knew about this affair and several years later Hollywood is STILL trying to soothe poor, sweet Jennifer Aniston’s ego by offering her movie role after movie role( no matter how much she sucks in them ! ) As for Angelina, she's a man-eater but I gotta’ give props: any chick who can make a man leave his publically-adored & childless wife to go start a 'Rainbow-Coalition-Tribe-From-Around-The- World' with another chick,plus leave Hollywood to go live in (post Katrina) New Orleans-----> needs to bottle that stuff up & sell it on EBayto the highest bidder!
6. BILL CLINTON... What’s to say about"Slick Willie", I eagerly voted for him twice and would have voted for his wife if President Obama had not run, BUT you would think after all those years of whore-doggin’ that Bill could have found a broad that can keep her mouth shut……um, afterward! ;-)
5. LIONEL RICHIE.....Everything was “Easy Like Sunday Morning” for the ex-commodore turned super star until he left his college sweetheart Brenda, for a younger & ( *GASP!*) White woman behind her back! Well, Miz. Richie TRULY wasn’t leaving without a fight; literally! A third-degree black-belt, Brenda Richie went straight Bruce Leroy and “Raaaah-YUKEN-ed!!” both of ‘em...ALL NIGHT LONG! Forget Mike, I wanna’ be like Brenda Richie!!
4. KWAME KILPATRICK.... Then there's the 'Player-Mayor' from Detroit, you would think a big,ole-swole’ Suge Knight lookin' politician like Kwame would know how to handle his bidness without scandal ,but naw! This guy gets caught using of all things: the OFFICE cell-phone to text his mistress!!! (when will folks learn, 'Big Brother' has been watching since "1984"!) With his political & legal career pretty much a wrap, I’m guessing opening a chain of “Big Pimpin’ Men’s Apparel stores is his best bet!
3. DONALD TRUMP.... When you have money like 'The Donald', it would seem that rules that normal people are governed by don’t apply to you....sadly, often they don't. Trump got tired of his first wife Ivanna, so he upgraded to Marla Maples , Trump got tired of her and upgraded to third wife Melania. With all those Trump Billions, it seems he would’ve upgraded to a new barber by now and told the old one “YOU’RE FIRED!” I mean how hard is it to do a decent comb over..... really.
2. GOVERNOR ELIOT SPITZER… $10,000-a-night for ONE hooker???? Puh-leaze,I think you could book the entire female cast of “The Player's Club” for that price, anybody seen Lisa Raye or the chick that played ‘Ronnie' on screen lately?...EXACTLY!
..AND "THE NUMBER 1# CASE OF A MAN WHO CAN'T KEEP IT IN HIS PANTS... (drum roll pleaze!) BOBBY BROWN!!.....C'mon we all saw it happening. I’m sure his peeps warned him to sit his dumb @ss down, be a 'kept man', and enjoy the good life! I bet even “New Edition”tried to SING it to him: “Bobby, be careful of Every-Little-Step-You-Take with those Tenderonies on the side, cuz’ EVERYBODY knows you’re humpin’ around!" But noooooo, Bobby just HAD to be stupid and go sleep on professional jump-off'Superhead's' couch and get video-taped!( I'm sayin'....c'mon dawg'..."Superhead" ???? That broad would write a 'tell-all' about her son feelin’ up on the girlies by his locker if she thought it would sell!) Next thang' you know, Whitney is being consoled by Oprah( ...and once Oprah gets involved...it's over) Last I heard, Bobby’s praying for "VH1 Behind The Music" to call back for part two, ….. keep waitin' pawtnuh! My Two Cent$ Worth........
Produced by Kanye West *Beat is sick*
Jay-Z ft Kanye West- Hate Lyrics
[Jay-Z]
Haters,
Haters,
These n-ggas haters, and I made myself so easy to love,
[Kanye West]
Yeh, yeh
How much they hate it? very!
Kiss girls like Katy Perry,
I am never sprung but I Springer Jerry,
Don’t try this at home,
Results may vary,
King like T.i But in the Chi, Larry,
[Jay-Z]
Hoover, Hova,
Both are American Gangsters,
You choose whose colder,
Rappers get nasty in the booth but im gross so I can’t even stomach myself, ulcer!
More realer cos I’m closer,
Had girlies in girdles wearing more than they supposed ta,
Poser, no sir,
My hustle, so Russell,
I stretch work, Yoga,
You know i got it down dog, Al Roker,
I used to knock pounds off,
It ain’t nothing for me to knock nouns off,
at these MC’s praying for my downfall,
They just haters, I wave at you,
I’m so player,
I’ll never be done, I’m so rare,
[Kanye West]
We killing the game, its not fair,
You muthaf-ckers stay right there,
cos we too high up in the air,
we blasting off just like a laser,
n-gga, pee-une, pee-une, pee-une
gimme back, gimme room room room,
DB9 like vroom vroom vroom,
Young Hov what we doin doin doin?
[Jay-Z]
We ballin b-tches,
Eating ya food leaving dishes,
Why these n-ggas always talking Lear talk Ye?
Why I never see em at the clear port Ye?
Why I always hear they at the Airport?
Why i fly daily like i’m in the Airforce?
Therefore, please stop talking my ears off,
millionnaire talk,
You haters, you mad at me cos y’all paper,
need to get his muthaf-cking weight up,
Hold up,
wait up, I ain’t done,
name one thing that I ain’t done,
it hurts when you say that I aint the one,
You haters,
How do i gain your favor?
i need to know cause i care,
i need you to love me i swear-ah,
Look here-ah, see Ye is running the Chi like Gale Sayers,
Im running New York, i got the Mayor on my pager,
you can’t fade us, you haters,
i need you, stay back, i breathe you,
like air-ah, air-ah, air-ah,
yeah yeah yeah yeah-a
yeah yeah yeah yeah-a
where are my haters, i love all my haters
love all my haters, I love all my haters,
uh uh uh, haters,
hater hater….
They all have my last name with the exception of mini me whose mother was on some ole next sh*t decided to hyphenate his last name using my last name first. But that’s another Blog Topic … this is about the fact that between myself, my 3 children, a male cousin and his daughter we are the last to carry the surname Tramuel.
What does my last name mean? If you have ever wondered about the meaning of your last name, where your family lived, what they did, or how they looked, you may find your surname may answer some of these questions about your ancestors. Tramuel is unique in that no other family, at least I haven’t found to be using this particular variation / spelling. Conversations with my mother who is the youngest of 13 children between my Grandfather “A Message to Share” and Grandmother “Fostering Family Talents” have led me to believe that we shouldn’t assume your surname was always spelled the way it is spelled today. Not sure of the exact time Census information started being collected but if you think about it, take the 1800’s when many people were illiterate, names were written by clerks, officials, and priests as they heard the name pronounced. This could have led to different spellings for the same name.
I’ve found a very, very close match with whom I assume to be my grandfather’s father and will continue my search from this new found information. A funny point to add, my aunt told my mother that my grandfather may have used his brother’s first name after he passed.
Surnames were generally derived from one of four sources:
1) Patronymic (from the first name of father)
2) Lives near locality or place
3) Occupation or social status
4) Nicknames describing person or personality
I need a flowchart to figure Tramuel into any of these categories.