Can’t say that I was impressed by the Presidential Debate on Friday. But I am impressed that I sat and watched all 2 hrs. I think this is the first year I’ve done that. And I’m looking forward to watching the vice-presidential candidates face-off this Thursday, October 2nd.

 
Oh, and make sure yall get registered to vote too. Hit the DMV, the post-office, or go to a website, fill out the form, and mail it in! http://www.rockthevote.org/

Whatever you do, do it NOW! Do it TODAY!

 
But yeah, ummm……I wasn’t overly moved or excited by either candidate during that debate. All the hype over having this debate, and it wasn’t even all that. All I heard was Iraq, cut spending, health-care, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, alternative energy sources, something about us sending $10 billion a month overseas (WTH?!?), no direct comments on the bail out, cut more gov’t spending……waa-waa-waa, and so on.

 
One comment that stood out to me was while McCain was going on (and ON) about how the gov’t needs to cut spending in order to start getting the economy back on track, Obama pointed out that McCain approved the budget and voted with “his” president during the 8 years that we did all this extra, un-wise spending. So ummm, where was all the concern then?

McCain didn’t seem to have a response for that.

That was a GOTCHA! moment for me.

 
Another comment was during the Iraq segment, McCain was pumping up this surge strategy that apparently “worked” recently during the war, and how Obama was against this successful strategy from jump. Obama clapped back with (and I’m paraphrasing), “John, you act as if the war started in 2007. The war started in 2003 and had it not been for poor planning and poor strategies to begin with, that surge wouldn’t have been needed.”

Barack, I was saying the EXACT same thing.

GOTCHA!

 
I’m sure I’m overlooking some good points here and there (apparently they didn’t matter that much to me), but overall……I’d call it a weak draw between the two candidates, with a slight edge towards Obama (based off his two GOTCHA-GOTCHA’s). I’m sure my slight bias also played a factor, lol.

 
But I will hand it to McCain that he managed to stand his ground more than I anticipated. With all his side-stepping before the debate, he didn’t seem as unprepared as I thought he would.

This has got to be the WORST season of Bridezillas, yet. And by worst, I mean……the most horrid looking weddings I’ve ever seen, considering the stress it took to get there, and the worst at-ti-tudes I’ve ever seen displayed in public.

 
The most horrific crimes……are these dresses. Namely, the bridesmaid’s dresses. Why don’t people make comfortable, sensible decisions when choosing 1) their bridesmaids, and 2) the dresses they’ll wear? Strapless dresses do NOT work for everyone. If you have full-figured bridesmaids, with large breasts and large backs……you might wanna choose a different style of dress. Backless dresses??? No boo-boo, not gonna fly with the side rolls up and down your maid of honor’s back. STOP IT!

 
That bootleg Houston wedding, where the bride’s dress was cut out on the sides, and extra ruffled or some shit. Tex’s friend said it best - it looked like the inside of a coffin. That was awful!
 
BRAS! Incredible inventions that prevent saggy boobs from falling out of a dress. USE ‘EM!

 
All this not being able to fit the dress?? That’s some bull. I mean how much time passes between the buying of the dress, and the wedding, that it doesn’t fit……AT ALL? Having to buy a new dress because you outgrew yours is NOT a good look.

(Did yall SEE the way that one girl ATE??? It was ridiculous…and so despicable considering the fact that she already couldn’t fit her dress, her wedding was days away, and her parents woulda had to seriously come out of pocket AGAIN due to her inconsiderate behavior. How wack!)

 
Ummm, this chick who wanted the grooms cake in the shape of a vagina??? I mean she was DEAD serious. Thank God her sister has sense, and forced her to choose a more sensible design. Even the cake lady was lookin at that broad crazy. A vagina??? At your wedding? I can’t…..I just can’t.

Dear God, where did they find these people???

 
Bitching out your soon-to-be husband over every.lil.thing??? Ummm, isn’t this the man you love and adore? I’d think you’d be a lil kinder to him. I’m amazed some of these women found men willing to commit to them for more than an hour, let alone a lifetime. But hey, it proves yet again that (many) men like that kinda thing.

I’ll be damned if I’m with a guy that I (feel I) have to direct, instruct, guide, teach, and order around like an idiot, and who irritates me to the point that I can’t stand for him to talk to me, look at me, touch me, and I can’t help but fly off the handle at him. Oh HELLS naw (reason why pseudo-boyfriend is on the outs). Who has the energy and desire for all that?

(That Dawn bitch, that’s who. The FAT bitch who was bitchin’ her finace’ out about losing weight and fitting into his suit. BITCH! Have you SEEN you??? Tryna teach him etiquette and shit, and she doesn’t even know how to behave or treat a human being like a PERSON and not a dog. I’ve yet to hear her say something positive about her man or TO her man. She just complains rudely and obnoxiously about everything he does and every move he makes. That bitch has nerve. Ok, I probably shouldn’t use the word bitch so many times in so few sentences about a person…a woman…I don’t even know. But there is NO other word to describe that chick. She’s a straight BITCH!

Her and that psycho Italian woman, with the horrible blond dye job, who remarried her ex-husband. He’s a DUMBASS for that one. Did yall see her act a straight FOOL in the travel agency when she wanted the $9000 plane tickets - EACH! - to wherever their honeymoon was, and then in the restaurant when she didn’t like the wedding band he gave her so she caused a scene and stormed out the building, and then at the rehearsal dinner when she got whiny and loud cuz they brought out a cake for someone else’s birthday? (Ok, I kinda felt her on that one…it wasn’t exactly the time and place for someone else’s birthday celebration…but dammit, act like a grown-up and deal with that shit later and with some maturity) She is a spoiled BITCH and they’ll be in divorce court YET again.)

 
OH! Its enough to make me wanna spit! I will SO pass on that whole “wedding” thing, if thats what happens when you plan it; you disrespect and disregard the very person you’re committing your life to, alienate your friends and family (and vice versa) all for the sake of……an “event”???

 
All this selfishness and spoiledness……me me me and my my my.

BITCH!

 
WHO IS YOU?

 
With your tacky ass wedding. Oh, I can’t stand it!

 
Is it really necessary? Is it really worth it?

Have Mercy.

And some of these “younger” women (21, 22, 23) look old as hell!

 

 

Ok, I’m done.

 
Well folks, tomorrow I’ll be heading off to Detroit for a week. I know, I know. Why the hell am I going to Detroit? Not my ideal vaycay spot either, but I’m attending a national business convention that’s being hosted there, so……yeah. Off I go!

 
But the good news is, I’ll be in GREAT company, meeting and networking with some great people, doing some great things, and experiencing the love experience. That’s right, my man, Raheem Devaughn will be performing at the conference. Are you kidding me?? I was SO upset that I missed his performance here in NY, and now he’s being hand delivered to me. I could just spit!

 
There’s also word that Dr. Ian Smith will be in attendance. Lord, that man. He is the quintessential man. He’s also married. With child. *sigh* I can still stare and dream, right?

 
So yeah, I’ll be MIA for a few. I wish I had some posts lined up to publish while I’m away, but……I don’t. Hell, I ain’t even have anything to contribute the last week I was actually here.

 
The 20 Sexiest Black Women over 40 (shout out to Victoria Rowell!) But umm, WHAT??? These women look better than I do at nearly twice my age. Damn shame. While I could hate, I’ll choose to feel blessed that I still have a shot in hell of being super fly yet! They’ve truly given me something to aspire to.

Elise Neal is over 40? Who knew!

Sade is kissing 50…is she really???

We already know Stacey Dash is a beautiful freak of nature.

When did Chante’ Moore and Toni Braxton reach 40?

 

I’m just BLOWN away.

Oh, and I managed not to gain any extra pounds this week. But it wasn’t like I tried one way or the other.

 
I will leave you with one thing. This song by Flyleaf that I absolutely love.

Enjoy!

 

 
Yo, there will be two new roommates joining this season of MTV’s “The Real World”.

And they’re both Black.

Yup, you read me right.

 
That makes 4 black people in the house (out of 7), and 5 on the show if you count one of the original roommates who got kicked off.

What’s goin’ on over at MTV?

 
Its almost like Dave Chappelle’s skit come true! LOL. The new dynamic in the house is gonna be very interesting to watch.

 
This is so my favorite season already!

 
I started watching this show called “Locked Up Abroad“. It comes on the National Geographic channel (what? I like that channel).

Its about these everyday people who get locked up for trying to smuggle illegal drugs out of a foreign country. The drug dealers usually seek out white (English) people who look like tourists, because they figure that the local authorities won’t give them a second look as they leave Chili, Thailand, Costa Rica, etc. with these bags of dope.

These people are promised thousands of dollars and a dream vacation to an exotic place with all expenses paid, in exchange for carrying drugs in their luggage or on their bodies.

At first, I guess the “easy” money and the vaycay sounds like a great trade-off, especially if you have no money or are looking for a free getaway. However, after the naive marks get to the dream vacation, they are greeted with the grim face of reality……the villainous drug smugglers who mean business. Suddenly, the “tourists” get this gut-wrenching feeling that maybe they shouldn’t do this (uh, ya think?) and they wanna back out of the deal. Problem is, by then its too late because they’ve already accepted the terms of the agreement, and these scary drug lords are threatening their lives if they don’t follow through. For extra insurance, the druggies usually take their passports as collateral so they can’t exactly up and leave.

Needless to say, things go bad, and these people end up in jail. No, not the 4-star resorts we have here in America; but REAL jails, where rights and humanity don’t exist behind the walls. Lawyer? Ha! You wanna make a phone call? Please. Your ass is just STUCK. For 10+ yrs. Miles away from home and your sanity. All because of some silly bullshit ass “dream vacation”, and a couple a dollas.

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

 
This is part of the reason I’m weary of traveling outside of the U.S. Not that I plan on doing anything illegal, but not knowing the laws of the foreign country……I don’t wanna mess around and do something they deem unlawful (like spitting out a piece of gum), and get sentenced to 5 years in hell behind it. Fuck that!

 
But my question is……

did they REALLY think they’d get away with it???

 
I mean, I guess they did (at some point). But WOW, that’s a helluva gamble.