What is the Congress, in particular the SENATE doing?
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Now this is what I call cool…
What’s even more amazing, perhaps, than the cross-platform support was that Rudder was able to continue playing his game on the Xbox from where he left off on the mobile device.
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Over the past days I have reflected on many things I learned and was taught over the years. Many times I keep drifting back to my early years in Kappa Alpha Psi. Some of the things I was taught are summed up below.
Most of my feelings and the quality to which I was taught are summed up in the article in the Kappa Journal* (February 2010 - pg. 54) and the article is titled "Who Taught You to Guard the Secret Kappa Valut?"
In it Brother George Chavis says the following (only excerpts printed for copyright and length reasons):
When it comes to [just] revealing our secrets, I'm definitely against that...
A good brother said to me: 'I could care less if an outsider knows what Phi Nu Pi is-- I understand it, I live it, and I know what it means to thousands of good brothers who have gone before me, and to thousands of brothers with whom I share it.'...
It shouldn't be what we KNOW, but what we DO that defines us...
Clearly, knowing the translation of 'Phi Nu Pi' does not make you a Kappa, neither does understanding its meaning...
does the possession of this knowledge make anyone a Kappa in the sense intended by our revered Founders? And what about the thousands of us who faithfully discharge our oaths and regularly sustain the fraternity and its goals--does our knowledge of the translation and understanding of Phi Nu Pi alone make us Kappas?
I say it does not...
The "knowing" is not the end, it is the "doing" and the "being" of "Phi Nu Pi" that makes us Kappas. If every person in the world knew the definition of "Phi Nu Pi," it wouldn't interfere with "... who we are, and what we do..." And, if by their knowing, the world acted upon that knowledge as we do, that that's all the better for the world and Kappa Alpha Psi.
So to all those who hate on us and to those who look upon us with disrespect think of it like this.
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What are YOU doing to change this world?
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What are you doing to leave a better legacy to the next generation?
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Are you just surviving through life or are you taking steps to change the world for the better?
Those are some of the things Kappa Alpha Psi stands for. Those are the things we try to achieve. And those are the things that, when you really look at it, really matter.
*the Kappa Journal is published by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated. Subscriptions are done through Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in Philadelphia
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What a segment… Rachel Maddow laid into them. Hope the White House is watching.
IS THIS WHAT THEY WANT?
THIS JUST REALLY PISSES ME OFF!!!
Where is the learned thought of history? Where is the thinking of these people who claim to be for liberty? Those tests had nothing to do with just reading in any case. Anyone who cheered in that room should be ashamed. Anyone who STILL thinks it is valid needs their head examined.
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These reasons below are enough to upgrade. Nice new feature, and the podcast library is a nice touch. I have been wanting to say where the podcasts go for a long time.
You can also choose which locations should be the defaults for saving content. Also new is a Podcast library for syncing podcasts via Homegroup settings
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This seems like an interesting read. The Grio seems like a pretty nice site.
It's official: America is 'post-racial' in the age of Obama
Congratulations to Miguel. A long time coming for the visionary behind Mono.
MVP Award - Miguel de Icaza
I'm highly upset with Tariq Elite's podcast response to the "Nightline" piece on single, successful black females.
< insert title here >: SINCE WHEN IS BEING CALLED 'SUCCESSFUL' A DISS?
In response to that I ran off a quick response as well. It is in the comments, but here I get a much better way to respond.
I find the response here really interesting. Not because I hate on people, but I WAS THAT DUDE they wanted. I was that nice guy, I was that person that would try to do what ever was needed; know what kind of play I got for it? Hardly any; I was the "friend" people did not want to loose. Why is that? I was success in school, I was a success out of school, good in sports. Know what it was? 2 thing; Game (you see I was what they call a SIMP) and Money (gangsters and players got all the ladies you see). Simple as that. So when you try to make the points above and some black women try to get outraged, I just laugh cause the psychology and the knowlege Tariq puts out is REAL. Women say they want the fairy tale and the castle, but end up with welfare and the hood. Also to be fair I checked what these ladies would be making (since society will judge success not by what you are trying to get, but what you got) from my research the MAXIMUM for the attorney was 150000. The "Payroll Specialist" was making no mare than about $18 an hour. This is not what society would call success. They call that a cool job. Not a success. Youngsta brought out some points as well. When you are working "FOR" somebody you are emplyed at their will. But when you are employed by you then you are your work.
Then to a point made earlier:
"Finally (as I told J.salty already), I HATE that he calls us the opposite of loyal. What do you call yourself right now? Furthermore, being independent is the opposite of DEPENDENT, which means I GOT MY OWN WITHOUT YOU, STOP HATIN MR. "BEST-SELLER" cuz you ain't providin. There. Said it. You're jealous because your success is fleeting and their's is here to stay, it's on paper. "
The problem with your statement is that if you were SO independent, would you be even looking to be married? If you are SO independent would you feel the need to be-little what black men are out there and trying to do? He is saying in the podcast to wake up and understand all the subtlities of the Game and how it works. You may have paid your bills but you still feel the need for a man so stop with the INDEPENDENT stuff and realize that you have to adjust your thinking if you are truly looking to be that COMPANION to someone. An independent person only has to be loyal to themselves, ant THAT is his point. The INDEPENDENT black woman has no loyalty to the black man.
And one more thing:
"And for once, they weren't equating blacks with poverty and lack of intelligence, but quite the opposite. You should be proud to be represented that way, that this is your people."
Funny but you saw 1 black man on the show, Steve Harvey. But any other scene of black men were in jail, were without jobs, were not even interviewed. Did you wonder why was that? Why not get "average" or "successful" black men on the show? Why not ASK THEM?
Go back and LISTEN one more time to really pull apart what he is saying. Then listen to the older show to understand even more. At the CORE Tariq is right. You may not LIKE how he says it, but he is right.
http://www.archive.org/download/TariqNasheedMackLessonsRadioShow4246/macklessonsradio46.mp3
http://www.macklessonsradio.com/index/episode-220-response-to-abc-report-why-successful-black-women-find-it-so-hard-to-get-married-
Real talk check out this response. I like this and it is something that points to the heart of the matter in many ways. Steve Harvey does make some good points as well, but below is the REAL RAW talk.
The Original Video & Article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/single-black-females/story?id=9395275
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9414502
The Response:
Episode #220-"Response To ABC Report Why Successful Black Women Find It So Hard To get Married"
FINALLY it is released. PowerShell 2.0 is now available in RTM form.
Download today and get all the new WMI features and the new Remoting framework for PowerShell and management. Also don’t forget the BITS commandlets for downloading large files from the internet and from file shares.
Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!
A great piece of history going away.
Langley decommissioned the tunnel in 1995, and then leased it to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., for research and student engineering training. That lease was up this summer and the tunnel is scheduled for demolition because of its lack of national strategic importance, limited testing capability, deteriorating condition and the environmental liability associated with the materials used in its construction.
NASA - Test of Futuristic X-48C is Historic Wind Tunnel's Swan Song
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