Thinking

By: L Jones

WTF AIG?

The country’s financial foundation is crumbling. US citizens are losing jobs, money, homes and patience.  Who’s to blame? So many things are the blame, but AIG has the misfortune of being one of the faces associated with the country’s current financial woes. AIG’s alleged mismanagement and poor financial decisions has placed the company in the center of country’s resentment bull’s eye.

Fast forward to now; after the billions of tax-payer’s dollars to “bail-out” one of the country’s leading insurance companies; in a sense insuring the company’s future. MILLION DOLLAR plus bonuses. Ok, I understand that companies give their employees bonuses when the company turns a profit. Why the hell are employees of a failing company getting million dollar plus bonuses?

Edward M. Liddy, Chairman and CEO of AIG, wrote a letter offering the reason for the decisions and plans for the future. Click here if you’d like to read the letter. It’s a good read. He pretty much says that the decision to pay the bonuses was approved sometime last year, when he was not in power.  All I’m saying is, you are in power now. Those bonuses should have been revoked. All the higher ups need to be replaced and AIG needs to start earning their keep or be dismantled. That’s just what I think.

What do you think?

 By: L Jones

How many of you out there think that Rhianna still loves Chris Brown? Anyone? Well, I do. I pretty much see them getting back together whenever all this hoopla dies down. 

It’s probably better that this type of incident happened publicly. Why do I say this? Simply because, I believe that Rhianna still loves Chris Brown. Since they will probably be together in the foreseeable future, it is good that his darker side emerged in such a manner that he is pushed into a position to seek help. Now all of you out there stop getting all holier than thou and let these two lovebirds sing.

But, I would be wrong if I did not speak on the incident. Do I believe that Chris Brown was wrong? Hell yes. Look at the photos. How can you hit a woman in the face like that? Since I have no idea what the situation was that led up to the physical assault, I and no one else is really in a position to judge, except maybe a judge, if it’s deemed necessary. But let me give you something to think about.

Just because Rhianna is pretty and sweet looking and slim and talented and sexy and whatever other adjective you can think of to describe her, she is a strong black woman. I don’t mean mentally strong, though she is, but I mean determined to succeed.

Who had bite marks on them? Rhianna right? Have you ever seen a person get bit who was not controlling the fight? I haven’t; not never. Biting is the last resort to getting out of some sort of submissive position that a person finds him or herself in. Think about it for a little bit. Stop judging. Let these two love birds get the physical and mental care that they need to hopefully help mend, strengthen and  further blossom their relationship. Tattoos are forever.

By: L Jones

I was driving home from work today, when I heard the radio station celebrity soliciting for people to call in and respond to the New York Post printing of a political cartoon. I didn’t know what they were talking about, but everyone who called in were pretty irate about it. I kept listening as they talked with a black caller from northern Florida and white female from Virginia. They mentioned terms like, blatant racism and hatred and treason. “What were they talking about?” I wondered.

“New York Post publishes picture of a monkey with two bullet holes in his chest with two police standing over the monkey saying…”, well you can see the picture. My first reaction was of curiosity, not anger. What is the point of getting angry? Every country in the world knows how infected the United States is with racism; and with a black president at the helm for the first time, I didn’t expect anything less.

I question how the cartoon was published in the first place by such a major newspaper? What were they trying to accomplish? What I do know is that the marriage between the many nationalities of this great nation is once again estranged. The only question is will there be a bitter divorce?