O Hell Nawl! Hillarious Hillary Comic Strip

I’m a huge fan of the blog O Hell Nawl!. Its one of the blogs I read everyday. Slaus and the crew over there keep me in stitches with their comic strips and hilarious commentary. The latest comic strip focuses on Miss Hillary using the RFK assasination to justify her staying in the race and how the public interpreted those comments. As usual, Slaus is hilarious and on point. Click on the image below and check it out (and while you’re at it check out the blog itself):

Hillary Puts the Final Nail in the Coffin

Hillary Clinton essentially ended her campaign today and ruined any chance she had of becoming VP by invoking Robert Kennedy’s assassination to defend her decision to stay in the race. Speaking to the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader about calls to drop out of the race, Miss Hillary said:

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don’t understand it.”

Now no one believes Miss Hillary is hoping something bad will happen to Barack Obama (like assassination) so she can win the Democratic nomination, but referring to assassinations with a Black man running for President is in really bad taste. And in light of Ted Kennedy recently being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, and June being the 40th anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination, Miss Hillary really put her foot in it.

The so-called apology:

“I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.”
What about Barack Obama??? I notice he isn’t mentioned in this non-apology apology. So Miss Hillary didn’t mean to offend the Kennedy family, but Obama on the other hand….

But leave it to MSNBC’s Keith Olberman to put the verbal smackdown on Miss Hillary. His special comment tonight was blistering to say the least.

Friday Flashback: Bob Marley "No Woman No Cry"

Twenty-seven years ago this month (May 11, 1981) Bob Marley died of cancer. On this day (May 23) he was given an official funeral “by the people of Jamaica“. So today’s Friday Flashback is “No Woman No Cry” which is my favorite Bob Marley song.

Where’s the Media Coverage of Rev. John Hagee’s Comments?

Comments John McCain’s pastor John Hagee’s made in a sermon from the 1990s about Adolph Hitler “doing God’s will” have recently come to light. However, this story does not seem to be getting a lot of play in the mainstream media. The Huffington Post and Keith Olberman and Dan Abrams of MSNBC have covered it, but these comments do not seem to be getting the media saturation that Barack Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright received. Double standard? Hmm…. Here’s the audio of the comments posted on YouTube.

Faking a Death to Avoid Paying Bills?

This unbelievable story, happened right here in my hometown of North Charleston, SC. To keep the bill collectors at bay, Melanie Grant submitted a fake obituary to a funeral home that was published in the local newspaper The Post and Courier. In the obituary, Melanie Grant said her daughter Melissa Grant a US Airforce officer was killed in Iraq. The problem is not only didn’t Melissa Grant die and was not a US Airforce officer, Melissa Grant DOES NOT EVEN EXIST!!!! From The Post and Courier:

Melanie Grant, 39, said she thought she could buy time with creditors if she told them her daughter had died. A paid obituary published Thursday and Friday in The Post and Courier stated Lt. Melissa Hope Grant, 24, died May 11 in Iraq. “I just made it up. Honestly, I don’t know what I was thinking,” a tearful Melanie Grant said. A photograph accompanied the obituary. Grant said she tore the photo from the pages of a bridal magazine.

This is who the obit named as the relatives of the imaginary Melissa Grant:

“…the beloved daughter of Mrs. Melody Grant and Mr. Michael “Candy” King,step-daughter of the late Mr. Marcus Grant; sister of Kelondria Pendergrath, Kelvin Pendergrath, Raheem Brown, Akhaeem Brown, and Becole “Cola” Scales; granddaughter of Mrs. Darnell Grant and Mr.Henry “Muffin” King; niece of Shirline Denise Wright, Quindella “Que” Simmons, Meka Butler, and Marvin “Butter” Myers; cousin of Xavier D. Stewart, Sr., Karin L. Bland and Mercedes A. Jones.”

Take a good look at those names. Now here is the picture that was printed in the paper as “Melissa” that was taken from a bridal magazine.

Now Ms. Grant’s race wasn’t mentioned in the article but names like Kelondria, Raheem, Akhaeem, Becole, Quindellla, and Shirline don’t necessarily conjure up images of white folks. If anyone knows any white people by those names please email me. Apparently the funeral home director never met the mother and only spoke to her on the phone. He did meet with two women who claimed they were the aunts of “Melissa”. Maybe he thought the white girl in the picture was biracial, adopted, or REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, light-skinned.

Ms. Grant claims to be on disability and raising two grandchildren and one stepgrandchild. However, Ms. Grant has a criminal record (Of course) that includes convictions on “loitering for the purpose of prostitution” and a pending fradulent check charge.

I am sorry to hear about Ms. Grant’s financial difficulties, but claiming your imaginary child died in the Iraq war just to get out of paying some bills is taking it a bit too far.(source)

There Can Only Be One

Will today’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon finally end this? Will Miss Hillary finally drop out of the race so Barack Obama and the Democratic Party can finally focus on John McCain and the general election?

Pepperidge Farm Interracial Cookie Ad

I saw this posted over at the MoKelly Report. Pepperidge Farm has a new print ad for their Milano Cookies. The chocolate is portrayed as a woman (a black woman) and the light golden cookie is the man (a white man). Mo seems to think there some deeper racial meaning to it.

The ‘dark chocolate character’ seems to be female in nature…made to look like ‘she’ has long hair (or a weave) and long flowing ‘dress.’ That and the fact ‘she’ is shorter than her ‘White’ (or Asian or Latino) counterpart.

Let’s delve further…

Is the intimation ALSO that this ‘Black woman’ is the meat in a ‘White man sandwich?!’ (Note the caption below the logo…)

“Every taste has a feeling.”

Mo’Kelly is just sayin’…look at the cookie to the left too. Two White/Asian/Latino men “book-ending/sandwich breading a Sista…

Hmmm…

And what about the more ‘subtle’ racism…yes Mo’Kelly said racism.

The attribution of those things being “bold” because they are dark and ” light golden” tread dangerously close to the implied good/evil & white/black connotations of old……

I personally think its kinda funny — making sexual and racial references for a cookie. I wonder if we’ll see a similar ad for the Oreo cookie. Can you imagine?? Two dark brothas sandwiching a blonde chick….

Pepperidge Farm Interracial Cookie Ad

I saw this posted over at the MoKelly Report. Pepperidge Farm has a new print ad for their Milano Cookies. The chocolate is portrayed as a woman (a black woman) and the light golden cookie is the man (a white man). Mo seems to think there some deeper racial meaning to it.

The ‘dark chocolate character’ seems to be female in nature…made to look like ‘she’ has long hair (or a weave) and long flowing ‘dress.’ That and the fact ‘she’ is shorter than her ‘White’ (or Asian or Latino) counterpart.

Let’s delve further…

Is the intimation ALSO that this ‘Black woman’ is the meat in a ‘White man sandwich?!’ (Note the caption below the logo…)

“Every taste has a feeling.”

Mo’Kelly is just sayin’…look at the cookie to the left too. Two White/Asian/Latino men “book-ending/sandwich breading a Sista…

Hmmm…

And what about the more ‘subtle’ racism…yes Mo’Kelly said racism.

The attribution of those things being “bold” because they are dark and ” light golden” tread dangerously close to the implied good/evil & white/black connotations of old……

I personally think its kinda funny — making sexual and racial references for a cookie. I wonder if we’ll see a similar ad for the Oreo cookie. Can you imagine?? Two dark brothas sandwiching a blonde chick….

West Virginia Primary…Big Whoop

Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in the West Virginia Primary.

Obama still leads in delegates with 1,881, now just 144 short of the 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination. Clinton has 1,713 — 312 short.(source)

Angelina, Fix That Child’s Hair!

While I admire Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s for adopting a child of African decent, Angie gets the side-eye for allowing her daughter Zahara to walk around in public looking like Buckwheat. I thought the Jolie-Pitts were down with Carol’s Daughter? They haven’t learned to put a comb through that child’s hair yet? All that money and they can’t take little Zahara to a black hair dresser to give her some braids, ponytails or something!! As a mother of a two-year-old, I know how hard it can be to get a toddler to sit still to do their hair, but dang!!! You don’t have to let the child go out looking crazy! Maybe Angie and Brad need to get some black friends to teach them how to do black hair. I’m sure Will and Jada would be willing to help. Check out these photos I saw on Just Jared. This is just all sorts of wrong!