Boondocks: The Block is Hot

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Watch the full 22-min episode here: http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/1149753#pm_cmp=vid_OEV_P_P

Capricorn Characteristics and Profile
(December 22 - January 19)

The sure-footed Mountain Goat can climb to higher altitudes than any other mammal. And you sure-footed Capricorns are also well-suited for climbing. Capricorn sets high goals for yourself and then you overcome whatever obstacles may appear between you and the top of your personal mountain. As Capricorn climbs the ladder of success, your ambition pushes you forward. Status can be important to Capricorn and often, at the top of your game, you gain personal satisfaction by knowing that others respect you for what you have accomplished.

Capricorn can dance out on the edge of a cliff, but will never fall. Why? Stability plays an important role, but so does practice. As a typical Capricorn, you may appear reckless, but chances are that your actions will have been very well planned, and probably also rehearsed. Capricorn is always calculating what will happen if you do something. You Capricorns are energetically conservative, only expending enough to get you to where you want to be. No silly impulsive actions for you. This is your best insurance to get to the top of the mountain. 

Full profile here: http://horoscopes.mydaily.com/astrology/capricorn/about/

Pisces & Capricorn Compatibility
When Capricorn and Pisces join together in a love match, on the surface, it may appear to be opposites attracting. Capricorn is down-to-earth and regimented, with a very strong work ethic, while Pisces tends to be more emotional and dreamy, and takes on the needs of those around them. This couple is honest, and can be devoted to one another. They admire one another: Capricorn appreciates Pisces's kind nature, and Pisces is drawn in by Capricorn's quick wit and tenacity.

This relationship may develop slowly, the two not necessarily recognizing its progression. But it will get stronger over time. The Capricorn-Pisces duo can really put their heads together and can be fulfilled by their partner. Difficulties can arise if Capricorn is too dominating for Pisces's sensitive side. Pisces needs to understand that this is Capricorn's style and not a personal attack. Pisces might not take too well to Capricorn's stubbornness, but can deal with it through patience and understanding. Pisces enjoys indulging Capricorn through their desire for domestic bliss, which combines well with Capricorn's need for a neat, tidy home and material goods.

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn and Pisces is ruled by a combination of Jupiter and Neptune. Saturn is the planet of dedication, authority and responsibility. Higher learning, ethics and standards are ruled by Jupiter, while Neptune influences Pisces's view of dreams and illusions. These three Planets complement one another because they have a good sense of compassionate justice and dedication.

Capricorn is an Earth Sign and Pisces is a Water Sign. Earth Signs are about possessions, and the Capricorn-Pisces partners like to surround themselves with material objects that show off their sophistication. The Water Sign relies on emotion and intuition, making the Pisces the fueling force behind the relationship, but in a passive way. Shared love of a comfortable, yet fancy, home life ensures that this couple will aspire to a higher ground.

Capricorn is a Cardinal Sign and Pisces is a Mutable Sign. While Capricorn tends to focus on one project at a time, Pisces floats from one thing to another as the feeling strikes them. Because of their flexibility, Pisces may become interested in Capricorn's projects. In turn, Capricorn needs to allow Pisces to enjoy many things at once and not take it personally when Pisces gets bored with something that Capricorn if focused on. Capricorn will stick with Pisces's pursuits even after they've moved on to something else. In return, Pisces can sometimes show Capricorn that flexibility is better than a strong determination to do things a specific way.

What's the best aspect of the Capricorn-Pisces relationship? It's their unique blend of temperaments. Both partners enjoy sharing their lives with someone else, and both like to help the other achieve their goals. Their difference in temperaments makes theirs a highly compatible relationship.

http://shine.yahoo.com/astrology/compatibility/love/?sign1=pisces&sign2=capricorn

Pisces Characteristics and Profile
(February 19 - March 20)
Fish appear to be individuals, but have you ever seen a school of them swimming together? They act as one. Each is part of a greater whole. And you Pisces Fish are more aware of your interdependency than any other sign. It's as if Pisces live in an ocean and the spirit that flows through you is like the one ocean that flows through all fishes. The symbol of the Fish is also the symbol of Christianity, the predominant religion during the past two thousand years -- also known to astrologers as the "Age of Pisces."

Pisces are spiritual in nature and emotional in expression. Pisces intuition and imagination are at once Pisces strengths and weakness. Pisces are attracted to the mystical side of things, and herein lay potential danger, for when pulled beneath the currents of everyday life, the realms of imagination and the subconscious offer little structure. Without the foundation of reality, it becomes easy to flounder and to lose direction. Pisces own salvation, however, can come from helping others less fortunate that yourself, especially those who have fallen into the misty realms of drugs, alcohol or spiritual confusion.

Full profile here: http://horoscopes.mydaily.com/astrology/pisces/about/

Badass Awori Chick,

Let me know what you think.  Not my original work, of course, but I think the two sites I used provide enough detail for us to start a discussion.  I'll do some other combinations.

I'm still not sure this is anything other than entertainment.  What of the description of[b] character traits [/b]ascribed to each sign?  Any relevance to compatibility factor?

I'm spooked at how accurate some parts are

This couple is honest, and can be devoted to one another. They admire one another: Capricorn appreciates Pisces's kind nature, and Pisces is drawn in by Capricorn's quick wit and tenacity.

Pisces enjoys indulging Capricorn through their desire for domestic bliss, which combines well with Capricorn's need for a neat, tidy home and material goods.


It's their unique blend of temperaments. Both partners enjoy sharing their lives with someone else, and both like to help the other achieve their goals. Their difference in temperaments makes theirs a highly compatible relationship.

I know a couple with this combo

Cancer Characteristics and Profile
(June 21 - July 22)

Crabs live in the inter-tidal zone of the oceans, where tides rise and fall twice every day. This is the most dynamic and changeful place on earth, but also the most nutrient rich. Because of the constant change, Cancer have developed a hard outer shell for protection. Cancer can use the hard outer shell of your home as your protection. But it's more than just that. Typically, your sensitive Cancer can hold your feelings quietly behind your own walls.

Crabs also have large pinching claws, and Cancer can hold onto things, especially from the past. Cancer are fiercely loyal and have a difficult time letting go. But Cancer are also quick to bring those you love inside the safety of your outer shell while you nurture them. Cancer love is protective, but unless tempered, can be smothering.

Cancer motto could be, "A good defense is the best offense." Like a Crab in its cave, your attack can consist of baiting your opponent into your territory. What appears to be a retreat to others can be your best aggressive tactic. As you feel your way through life, building your security by developing your home and family relationships, remember that unexpressed anger can turn into resentment and depression, so find someone you can trust and share your feelings.

Full profile here: http://horoscopes.mydaily.com/astrology/cancer/about/

naijababe:

I'm spooked at how accurate some parts are

I know a couple with this combo 

lol.  You're welcome to delve into it.  I don't mind. 

I'll say I generally find it to be more than 50% accurate in terms of personality and motivation.   

While i dont place too much on these kinda stuff, sometimes they can be quite compelling.

Well, maybe I'll post some more later. I don't think we can make headway on any discussion unless we identify our signs.

We need a brave soul to come in here and tell us his sign, agree to have the chart posted and open up the floor for analyses.

I've shed a little too much light on myself lately, so I'm all "confession'ed" out.

If you've never watched Boondocks, you gotta watch the episode "The Block is Hot" on the link I provided. It's awesome. Towards the end the little girl squeals: "Poniiiiiiieeeeeesss. Oh My God! Ponies. Look at the mane." Too cute.

A link to some of the best lines from the series:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Boondocks_(TV_series)

Change of subject for a moment.

WTH is the status of the election at home? What have you heard? I am so confused. I won't lie. Some votes were started and will need to be restarted; some were postponed completely? I really hate that we can't vote absentee ballot.

I've called and talked to various family members but never enough time to go over the whole shenanigan. With all the rumoured chaos, I'm not even sure my mom wants to go to the trouble of voting this time around. That'll be a shame.

I thot it wasnt starting until Saturday

Thread----> waste of Seun's bandwidth.

^New section, new trolls. SMH

Kilode?!:

^New section, new trolls. SMH

Hahahahahah! kilode?! is a mortal after all. I'm so pleased

hahahahaha.   Every one has his limit.  Even the saintly Kilode?!

Some years ago, during the heyday of Spike Lee, there developed a manufactured illusory contest between (the legend of) Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.  At the time, due to a reaction to the apathy in the American black community, X won out.  Now that things have settled down, and we have returned to the age of reason and comtemplation, is MLK back in favour?  He never lost it with me.  I am and always have been ambivalent towards the hype around Malcolm X.  You can think it blaspemy if you want.  You can even think it demagoguery.  I was never fully sold on this man.  Farrakhan I get; X I'm still not sure about.

So, it was truly auspicious that I happened upon this book review about a new biography of the life of Malcolm Little aka Malcolm X aka Malcolm Shabazz. 

A must read.  The review and the book.  I can't wait.  naijababe, can you buy it and mail it to me asap! 

BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: April 7, 2011

He was a master of reinvention who had as many names as he did identities: Malcolm Little, Homeboy, Jack Carlton, Detroit Red, Big Red, Satan, Malachi Shabazz, Malik Shabazz, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and, most famously, Malcolm X. A country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer who became a petty criminal who became a self-taught intellectual who became a white-hating black nationalist who became a follower of orthodox Islam who became an international figure championing “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.”

In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” Manning Marable — a professor at Columbia University and the director of its Center for Contemporary Black History, who died just last week — vividly chronicles these many incarnations of his subject, describing the “multiple masks” he donned over the years, while charting the complex and contradiction-filled evolution of his political and religious beliefs. The book draws from diaries, letters, F.B.I. files, Web resources and interviews with members of Malcolm X’s inner circle.

This volume does not provide much psychological insight into why Malcolm X became such a protean figure (or why he needed to distance “his inner self from the outside world”), and it lacks the urgency and fierce eloquence of Malcolm X’s own “Autobiography.” Still, Mr. Marable artfully strips away the layers and layers of myth that have been lacquered onto his subject’s life — first by Malcolm himself in that famous memoir, and later by both supporters and opponents after his assassination in 1965 at the age of 39.

Mr. Marable argues that Malcolm X was a gifted performer, adept at presenting himself to black audiences “as the embodiment of the two central figures of African-American folk culture, simultaneously the hustler/trickster and the preacher/minister.” He also suggests that Malcolm exaggerated his criminal youth in his “Autobiography” to create “an allegory documenting the destructive consequences of racism within the U.S. criminal justice and penal system,” and to underscore the transformative power that the Nation of Islam brought to his own life while in prison.

As Mr. Marable sees it, the “Autobiography,” which was written with Alex Haley (later of “Roots” fame), was in some respects “more Haley’s than its author’s.” Because Malcolm X died in February 1965, Mr. Marable writes, “he had no opportunity to revise major elements of what would become known as his political testament.” Haley, “a liberal Republican,” in Mr. Marable’s words, made the finished book read like a work in “the tradition of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography” rather than “a manifesto for black insurrection” — which perhaps explains its widespread popularity and prominent place in high school and college curriculums.

One of the many achievements of this biography is that Mr. Marable manages to situate Malcolm X within the context of 20th-century racial politics in America without losing focus on his central character, as Taylor Branch sometimes did in his monumental, three-volume chronicle of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. At the same time Mr. Marable provides a compelling account of Malcolm X’s split with the Nation of Islam as he moved away from that sect’s black nationalism and radical separatist politics, and as personal tensions between him and the Nation leader Elijah Muhammad escalated further after Muhammad impregnated a woman who had had a longtime romantic relationship with Malcolm X.

Along the way Mr. Marable lays out a harrowing picture of Nation members’ determination to do away with the charismatic Malcolm X, who after being exiled from the sect had struck out on his own, forming a new group and alliances with orthodox Islamic groups abroad. When surveillance records become fully available, Mr. Marable asserts, “it would not be entirely surprising if an F.B.I. transcript surfaced documenting a telephone call from Elijah Muhammad to a subordinate, authorizing Malcolm’s murder,” but he does not come up with a smoking gun on that count in these pages.

It is Mr. Marable’s contention that while two of the three men convicted of the murder had alibis, the man who actually fired “the kill shot, the blow that executed Malcolm X” went free, only to serve prison time later for other crimes. He says this man is one Willie Bradley, who was later inducted into the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame for his high school baseball achievements and briefly appeared in a campaign video, promoting the re-election of Newark’s mayor, Cory A. Booker. (The Star-Ledger of Newark published an article about a man it says is Mr. Bradley, but his family denies any connection to the shooting.)

Mr. Marable speculates that Mr. Bradley “and possibly other Newark mosque members may have actively collaborated on the shooting with local law enforcement and/or the F.B.I.,” but fails to provide any hard evidence concerning this allegation either. In addition he argues that law enforcement agencies did not actively investigate threats on Malcolm X’s life, but instead “stood back, almost waiting for a crime to happen.”

In the course of this volume Mr. Marable corrects some popular assumptions: for instance, Malcolm X was introduced to the Nation of Islam not by a fellow prisoner — as depicted in Spike Lee’s 1992 movie “Malcolm X” — but by family members. Somewhat more enigmatic and sharper-elbowed than the man in the movie, Mr. Marable’s Malcolm is a passionate, conflicted and guarded man, filled with contradictions — charming and charismatic with audiences and the press but detached, even chilly with his wife, Betty, whom he frequently treated with misogynistic disdain. Some people quoted in this volume depict Malcolm X as being fatalistic in the last days of his life, telling one former associate that “the males in his family didn’t die a natural death.”

As a young man in prison Malcolm steeped himself not just in black history, Mr. Marable writes, but in “Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, and other historians and philosophers of Western civilization.” His hungry intellect and gift for oratory would make him a magnetic proselytizer for the Nation of Islam, and later, after his split from the Nation, for his own more pluralistic vision, which would align him more closely with the civil rights movement and Dr. King, whom he had once denounced as an Uncle Tom. (cont.)

Full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/books/malcolm-x-a-life-of-reinvention-by-manning-marable-review.html?_r=1&hp

Haha that was a friendly comment nah

BTW, concerning warriors, you don't shoot your soldiers when you are still at war.

isale_gan2:

hahahahaha. Every one has his limit. Even the saintly Kilode?!

But pray tell, how come he lets fstranger get away with murder? If I didn't know better, I'd think they were kin. I've even seen posts where kilode wrote something like, "we have to give warriors free reign" or some equally appalling "enabling" comments. I don't get it.

And please, this is not directed to any warriors. I don't want trouble. Thank you.

Astrology is bullshit.

PhysicsMHD:

Astrology is bullshit.

Oh! So very clever

You could make a movie outta this thread.
57 pages of 'just gisting'.

What have we here?  hmmm.  "Ajanlekoko"?  What kind of moniker is that?  And what sort of nutjob poster are we dealing with?

naijababe, I checked out a few of his past posts.  So far so good. 

1) Please do Due Dilligence
2) Get his stats
3) Give him the Soul Test
4) Crunch the numbers
5) Report back to me the thread

Ajanlekoko is as cool as they come ( _{I hope he no get garri head like somebody)}

5) Report back to me the thread

Omo, u go wait tire o

isale_gan2:

What have we here?  hmmm.  "Ajanlekoko"?  What kind of moniker is that?  And what sort of nutjob poster are we dealing with?

naijababe, I checked out a few of his past posts.  So far so good. 

1) Please do Due Dilligence
2) Get his stats
3) Give him the Soul Test
4) Crunch the numbers
5) Report back to me the thread

hehehehe,
Na members-only thread? For dis our Nairaland?
make I consult the alagbaras, make dem lock dis thread plus your username briefly, for weekend.
Then you go find something for the boiz

^ Olohun fun awon alagbara ni suuru, abegi sir make una no do as una reach o

naijababe:

Ajanlekoko is as cool as they come ( _{I hope he no get garri head like somebody)}

Oh yeah!

AjanleKoko:

hehehehe,
Na members-only thread? For dis our Nairaland?
make I consult the alagbaras, make dem lock dis thread plus your username briefly, for weekend.
Then you go find something for the boiz

Fail!

Man, that was quick!

Another one bites the dust.

naijababe:

^ Olohun fun awon alagbara ni suuru, abegi sir make una no do as una reach o

Anyway, it's cool.  Just messing with him.  He doesn't scare me one bit.  Se ore yin gbo Yo'oba?  I want a story idea about the thread.  A movie sounds awesome. 

isale_gan2:

Oh yeah!

Fail!

Man, that was quick!

Another one bites the dust.

Sorry I don't speak turenchi. And you better find something, all this yanga no go save you
Make I find Sarjent mukina and inspekta Seun go . . .

naijababe:

Oh! So very clever

Yeah. See a good explanation of why it's BS here:

Why astrology is nonsense

              
                                                   
             
                                            
           
                                                        
           
           
                                        
                                                                       
                                                      
                                                                                   
           
                                                               
           
                                                                          
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
   
 
 
 
               



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Isale gan and new location

How are you my people? and how una dey enjoy this new location? I can see we have new neighbors already.

Ajanlekoko welcome to the club. this is one of the best thread you can be part of. . . everything goes 


Enjoy una weekend!

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