Just My Opinion

You know I'm going to have to just say this one little thing then I think I'm done unless some idgit pisses me off about it.

ALICIA KEYS SLEPT WITH AND THEN GOT PREGNANT BY SOMEBODY ELSE'S HUSBAND! 

Yes he was still married when she got pregnant.  The divorce was final like last week.  I'm all on these web sites where people are all giddy and happy for her.  REALLY??  Yes a baby is a blessing but how the child got here is a hot damn mess and I'ma need people to not be condoning this behavior.  It's my blog and I say what I want!!  Wooooohsaaaaaaa ............. Am I judging.  HELL YEAH I am but it is also a FACT.  He was married for almost 5 yrs and out of those 5 yrs you been fuxing with him for 4 yrs. ....... ?!?!?!?....... Now don't he have a 2yr old son with the ex?  Numbers and the addition is off.

EXHIBIT A - Big Bump

Now you GOOD-AN-PREGNANT cause see that's a pretty good bump so I'd say at lease 5 month.  I'm gaging cause I've have 3 babies so I'm figuring it base on that.  I just don't know what to say about it.  I mean no we all aren't perfect I sure as hell ain't but day.yum.

I feel so bad for his (recent) ex wife.  To hear her tell it she was happy go lucky until she found out, found out since there were only rumors floating around.  I know how it can be to be so in love you just don't see the signs.  It can make you flip out when life as you know it is poof over.  She had every right to flip in any manner she felt like ... if it made her feel better.  When you've worked to build a life, a home with someone to find out it was a lie.  WooooChil...... Knowing me I'ma go straight jacket cratzy all up n through.

I just think Ms. Superwoman and such should have made sure he was free and clear before she got involved with dude.  Tacky and Ratchet.  I am really feeling disappointed in her.  Yup and I'm entitled to my opinion.

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Ben's Chili Bowl looking for franchise opportunities

Visits by President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have prompted franchise inquiries from overseas. ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE WASHINGTON POST 

(Linda Davidson - The Washington Post)

By Jonathan O'Connell

Monday, April 19, 2010

 

For 51 years, Ben's Chili Bowl has been a family-owned greasy spoon, a U Street fixture that bustled with hungry customers from breakfast to late at night.

Now it is on the verge of becoming a franchise.
Kamal and Nizam Ali, two of chili bowl founder Ben Ali's three sons, are considering extending the Ben's name into a chain that would bring the restaurant's famous chili and half-smokes to new locations locally and maybe around the world.
Even before their father died last October, the family had begun expanding the business, enlarging the original restaurant to accommodate peak crowds and tour buses, then signing a licensing deal to provide chili and half-smokes at Nationals Park. In 2008 the family opened an adjacent restaurant and bar, Ben's Next Door, and this February welcomed a visitors center, complete with a visual history of U Street and a Ben's gift shop.
Kamal Ali said that thanks to visits by Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, he has received franchise inquiries from as far away as Australia and Brazil. "Everything's got to a point where I'm ready to consider the next thing on my plate," he said.
Ali, a father of 9-year-old twins, said the family doesn't have the time or staff to manage new restaurants itself, so he has begun talking with franchisers and consultants about the best way to expand. The family already contracts with a Pennsylvania facility to produce Ben's famous chili; about 60,000 pounds are made there annually for sales at Nationals Park and through the company's mail order business, which makes about 100 shipments a month. The agreement "kind of gave us a model for what we can do in the franchise world," Ali said.
Developers have salivated over bringing Ben's to their buildings for years. Developer Chris Donatelli said interest would run high. "It's unique in that it's destination-oriented fast food. You have people that will travel across the city for their fast food," he said. Tim Chapman, another developer, tried to woo the Ali brothers recently. "The thing about Ben's Chili Bowl is you know what you're getting when you walk in there," he said.
The brothers have begun taking an early look at locations. On April 14, they scouted Penn Branch Shopping Center in Southeast D.C., where developers from ICG Properties plan a restaurant space that could accommodate a Ben's Next Door. "We'll consider it," Ali said.
Any expansion will require more than replicating the food, said Michael Seid, a West Hartford, Conn., franchise adviser who has spoken with the Ali brothers.
"The risk to Ben's is that when it is replicated into a franchise, the franchise has to embody the culture of Ben's as much as it does the product and the delivery of Ben's."
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There is only ONE Ben's Chili bowl in my opinion and I think they should keep it that way!  How do you feel about it?

No Touchy

ORIGINAL POST ON NPR
 

Can I Just Tell You?

by Michel Martin

Today, we hear from Tell Me More guest host Allison Keyes.
This week we're going to talk about hair. To touch — or not to touch, that is the question.
And as far as I'm concerned the answer is nearly always, no.
OK — let me explain why this really annoys me.
I'm African-American, and I wear my hair natural. That means in an Afro, or in twists, or some other style that showcases my kinky hair in the tight curls in which it grows from my scalp. It is not chemically straightened. In other words — think India.Arie — NOT Beyonce!
And for the past few weeks, I've been rocking an Afro puff: a round fluffy puff perched atop a braided or twisted up-do. It is fierce!
And I must admit — the texture does look inviting to touch. But walking up and palming my puff?! Particularly without permission? Can I Just Tell YOU — speaking colloquially — that is not cool.
I think it is a race issue — as well as a personal space issue. The space issue seems obvious. I see it as a violation as unwanted as those who approach pregnant women — hands out — and start rubbing their bellies.
The race issue is a little more tricky.
For example, I was walking one day recently, puff held high, when a white woman walked up and just grabbed it — cooing, "Oh that's so cute!"
Fighting back my impulse to grab her wrist, I simply stepped back and growled, "Don't touch my hair!"
She reared back, offended, "Well, I don't see what the big deal is!"
That response is exactly the problem.
In what realm of reality is it OK to walk up to a person and — without her permission — lay your hands on her body?
I took a look around Google, wondering about the basis for this distaste that I and many other African-Americans have to acquaintances, co-workers or — most infuriating — strangers, just walking up and grasping away.
On blog after blog, black women railed about the rudeness of folk just walking up and touching their hair.
On another site, womanist-musings.com, in an article called "Can I Touch Your Hair? Black Women and The Petting Zoo," the author noted, "Today white people still feel that they have the right to our bodies." She went on to say, "My blackness and your curiosity does not give you the right to touch me."
Let's have a reality check here. For hundreds of years, whites had permission to do anything they wanted to black people, and that includes things far worse than touching our hair.
Even now, there are still those pesky signs of disrespect, like a white person calling a woman old enough to be their grandmother by her first name. Is it because she's black and therefore doesn't deserve the respect of a title? Don't both acts send a signal that black people are still objects to be treated as one pleases — all without said object's permission?
One Web site actually suggested that blacks try humor or self-deprecation to assuage the hurt feelings of the offended person who has just forcibly touched them. But I think, what you ought to do, is keep your hands outta my hair, unless I invite you to touch it. Whether it's a $1,000 hair weave, a 10-inch Afro or an Afro puff ... watch out! There could be a mousetrap in there — or worse!
That way, no one's fingers will be injured.

*** ALL I CAN SAY IS AMEN***
PLEASE TAKE HEED PEOPLE.  ASK BEFORE YOU TOUCH MY HAIR.  YOU MIGHT PULL BACK A NUB!!!!