President pardons a couple of turkeys!

LOL - the President pardoned a pair of turkeys - Apple and Cider (: /

The two turkeys were raised on a Modesto, Calif. farm.  Modesto in the house! :)

The Los Angeles Times reported:

As if on cue, Apple let out a proud gobble as Obama made the pardon official. The president then made his way over to the bird, giving its head a pat down as he quizzed its owner about the wattle. The first daughters declined the chance to pet it as well.

Way to go President Obama...unfortunately the turkey I had this past November 25th was prosecuted.  Sorry.

Let's Read!!!

Hey book lovers, let's read - Night Biters.

(Back Cover)
When sixteen year old Jamilah and her fourteen year old brother Omari arrive in Oakland, California, a mysterious stranger gives Omari a magical compact disc and a crucifix.  Upon listening to the CD, the siblings learn that the lyrics and the crucifix can aide them against the danger of vampires.

But danger has never been as attractive as the handsome and charismatic heartbreaker Tyrone, or as beautiful and deadly as the vengeful Jennifer.

Soon the siblings find themselves in twined with rival gangs, the Crimsons and the Cobalts.  Their leaders transformed into vampires whose hatred for one another threaten to destroy the city.

Fasten your seatbelts, you're going to a place bustling with taggers, skaters, gangs, girls that literally kick butt, hip hop and vampires.

Let's meet back here next month - December 24th, 2010 and talk about it.

To get your copy, please check out www.urbanhorror.com

The author, A.J. Harper lives right here in the bay area and the book is straight out of Oakland!

Iron Jawed Angels - Movie

Starring Hilary Swank and Frances O'Connor.

Netflix:

From 1912 to 1920, a group of fiery young suffragettes led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) band together to wheedle the United States into adapting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Along the way, they incur the wrath of President Woodrow Wilson (Bob Gunton) and anger other suffragette leaders (Anjelica Huston and Lois Smith). Directed by Katja von Garnier.

Two thumbs up!

A great movie to see anytime.  It wasn't just about voting, it was about women earning the 'right' to vote.  Yes, we had to earn the right, and the movie shows what these women (Alice Paul and Lucy Burns) were willing to do to help ALL women get this right - like being thrown into prison and being force fed by a tube shoved down their throats. 

Watching a movie like this helps you understand the RIGHT to stand as a Sophisticated Lady!

Get the movie and let me know what you think.

Date Rape

In the movie, For Colored Women, one woman was date raped.  Unfortunately, this is something that happens too often to women - at this point in life, probably men too.  Like my blog's opening song says, "I Want To Know What Love Is".  We're all just looking for love. 




So, here are my thoughts about date rape.




1.  It's usually not about the act of sex - it's about power.

2.  Any person that thinks they can just take something from you, is a spoiled brat!  Only children take toys from other children.

3.  If someone aggressively tries to take something from you, 9 times out of 10, it's probably because someone aggressively tried to take something from them - and probably did. :(

4.  People need to feel powerful in some sort of way.  Conquering another person gives this weak minded person power - in their mind (it's not true, they are weak for doing it).

So, notice the pattern here?  The problem lies within the other person - not you. 

YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.

This act of violence is terrible, but don't let it stop you for continuing to look for love.  God's love! 

BUT NOW - you don't wear red to a crips' party and you don't wear blue to a bloods' party.  You don't wear a doe's perfume into a den of lions and you don't take your pit bull over to .... house.  Okay!? :)

I'm not a therapist, or PH.D, or none of that.  I'm just an auntie-cousin that loves all of my Sophisticated Ladies and that's my opinion.  I'm here to talk.

Talk back :)

I Want To Know What Love Is

Original by Foreigner
Redone by Mariah Carey

I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Aaaah woah-ah-aah

Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
And through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
Aaaah woah-oh-ooh

I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me, oooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh oooh
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
I can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me

Let's talk about love
(I wanna know what love is) the love that you feel inside
(I want you to show me) I'm feeling so much love
(I wanna feel what love is) no, you just cannot hide
(I know you can show me) yeah, woah-oh-ooh
I wanna know what love is, let's talk about love
(I want you to show me) I wanna feel it too
(I wanna feel what love is) I wanna feel it too
And I know, and I know, I know you can show me
Show me what is real, woah (woah), yeah I know
(I wanna know what love is) hey I wanna know what love
(I want you to show me), I wanna know, I wanna know, want know
(I wanna feel what love is), hey I wanna feel, love
I know you can show me, yeah