The Sunny James Show 45-09

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The Sunny James Show


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-- Bon jour a tous. To my Guy Canadian kin. Thanks for helping to add a few more branches to my family tree.

-- Laid off and not feeling quite like myself, but still holdin' on

-- What do Jimmy Choos and Starbucks coffee have in common? I can't afford either one. I'll have a $5 triple, grande, non-fat caramel macchiato,extra hot, extra caramel with those $300, 3-inch-open-toe-pumps, please!

--  If so many great people at great media organizations are listening to The Sunny James Show, Why the Hell Ain't I on the Radio Yet? My grammar perhaps?

--  One more time for good measure--The media landscape is changing, you'll have to (should be already) program your own life

--  Who is that flipping between For the Love of RayJ and Rachel Maddow?

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--  Check out how The Daily Mail covered, in graphic detail, President Obama's Cadillac One, Air Force One and Marine One. God, I Love the Foreign Press

--  We don't need no stinkin' Tea Party. We need a friggin' pork bar-b-que or at least a bag of pork rinds. Read the Annual "Pig Book" to see $19.6 billion reasons why. More from the pig barrel. This issue and tea party protestors just irk me to no end. This article from the 4/21/09 Washington Post highlights the king of pork, Rep. John Murth (D-Pa), spending habits for his consitituents.

Like I said during the show, Barak Obama is a politician. And politicians say and do whatever they have to in order to get what they want. In Europe he was one thing and in Latin America he's something else. As noted by the following excerpt from The Washington Post. Just wanted to prove my point!

UPDATE 4/18/09

"PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 -- In presenting himself at a summit here as an equal partner to Latin America, President Obama is drawing on his race as evidence of U.S. social progress and of his own affinity for the region's poor.

Race occupies a far larger and more troubled place in Latin American politics than it does in Europe, where Obama rarely mentioned his ethnic background this month during his first overseas trip as president.

He is doing so more often here at the Summit of the Americas, in part to push an agenda that, among other issues, seeks to address the region's income disparity between rich and poor, the widest in the world.

In talking about his race and the backgrounds of his counterparts, Obama is associating himself more closely than his predecessors did with Latin America's indigenous, black and mixed-race underclass, which has long identified the United States with economic policies that benefit the elite of European descent far more than them."

--  10 ways the economy will look different. And you just might like it.

--  Oakland, Dying for Respect. Also check out Bryant Gumble's Real Sports program featuring a segment on the murders of Black athletes in and around Hampton Roads, Virgina

--  After 500,000 Black men go to jail for selling crack, the justice system says there may have been some bias in doling out sentences --Ya Think?

--  Is Jodi Picoult Just for White Girls? Is Zane Just for Black Lovers?

--  Is Colonel Sanders Spinning in his Special Recipe?

--  Mike Tyson with his guard down

--  The bible says that a child will lead, I pray that in Liberia, a woman will. Ellen Sirleaf Johnson's Autobiography "This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life"

--  The Television Networks Just Ain't What They Used to Be (again, I say, learn to program your own damn life!)

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-- For the Musically Stuck in a Rut . . . Years ago I could listen to Al Jarreau all the time. Then the road got bumpy and I had to mend a broken heart--sorry that's Al Green--and music took a backseat to my tale of woe. But I've recently revisited my love for Al Jarreau and rediscovered his ability to smooth out the rough moments in my life. Al Jarreau new, old or in between and in keeping with the positive believing and faith sprinkled throughout this show, you should give Al Jarreau's "Could You Believe" a listen with fresh ears.

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-- Sunny's Good Word - specious  \ˈspē-shəs\

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-- Where In the World is . . . Shelburne, Nova Scotia? And one more time for good measure, Washington DC, the taxation without representation capital of the United States

        The Leftovers (Still Good the Next Day)
Stuff I Just Couldn't Get to Or I'd Still Be Talking
--  If you haven't given up your cable service yet please turn into "Trouble the Water" on HBO on Thursday April 23 @ 8:30. Those in the 9th Ward are still living with Katrina every day.

-- Another step closer to this long overdue project. The Smithsonian announced that Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup is the architectural team chosen to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture to be located on the National Mall near the Washington Monument. The selection was made by a jury chaired by Museum Director Lonnie G. Bunch III. They will now be asked to respond to an official Request for Proposal to design the new building, scheduled to open on the National Mall in 2015.