Lebrongate

So I am a Clevelander Born and raised and thus I am used to disappointments in sports. However even though Lebron is leaving I have no ill will. I wish him well. If I was in his position I may have left too. He wants a ring and if he feels Cleveland is the place to do it, no one should make him stay.

SIGH but looks like team owner Dan Gilbert had other ideas. I don't even have the energy to waste to copy and paste his letter to fans in what I have now called Dan Gilbert does Bernadine in Waiting to Exhale. That man verbally burned Lebrons car full of all his Cavs uniforms with gas can an match. SMDH. You really would have thought Lebron was his boo and he was breaking up with him!

The only beef I have with Lebron is the manner he made his announcement. Sir! A One hour special???? Really? You couldn't have just tweeted like every other celeb/athlete. It was overboard. We were all witnesses alright. To a steaming hot mess bowl of media whoring.

However, I have a theory. He may have been trying to really make a point to the Cavs. Like hmmm maybe the organization may have known something going on with a close unnamed family member of his and a person who may have been a teammate of his* and not told him and when he found out he may have really wanted to bounce and throw some baby powder as he left (The Decision Special) in peoples faces as he did it.

*I apologize for the vagueness but please see this link to explain why Toye is super vague with the above discussion. A sister is paying loans and certainly can not be sued! http://www.bvonsports.com/2010/05/18/lebron-james-mother-delonte-west/


To quote one of my friends:

"Blame [Insert possible teammate] ... for [insert action verb +ing] Lebron's [Insert unknown family member] ... you gotta leave after that... you know the hood knew what was going on... and no one told him " Sorry for this round of ad libs but do a quick google search if you are still confused once again a sister is pushing 30 and eating ramen. I can't be sued!

NBA FINAL CHAMPS

Soooo they said if you can't say something nice. Say nothing at all. So I can't really discuss the outcome of the 2010 NBA Finals it turns into a dissertation full of range. But I will say Ron Artest has come a long way from choking a fan out at the Palace in Detroit..........or has he. Many Thanks to his "hood" and his "psychiatrist". SMDH

Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup

For those who are not football (translation soccer) fans. This is putting you on notice that the FIFA World Cup has started. Toye's family is Nigerian so besides being a Supereagle fan I basically came out my mother's womb a Soccer fan. My Dad wouldn't have had it any other way. I played as a child, my brothers both played, my sister plays. Sadly my Dad's secret (not so secret) desire that one of us would play in a World Cup was never realized. (I while I had the speed needed to be a striker had issues actually striking! eh we all can't be Pele) Anyhow I encourage you all to watch. Many of you probably won't, but think about it this way. FOOTBALL is Big in EVERY OTHER country on Earth except the US. Don't you owe to yourself to see what you are missing? Per usual I will be watching late night replays of games that I miss while at work because I would never take an extra long lunch to catch a midday game (..................................) And for the ladies who read this blog if it helps. Soccer is probably the most physically demanding sport you can think of. You run for 90 minutes. Soccer players therefore are BUILT. I mean bodies are most definitely on point. Everyone swoons for Becks but Google Ronaldo, Oguchi Onyewu, Thierry Henry, Christiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba. Yummy!

So sometime ago I put you all onto my theory about OJ Simpson Syndrome. (Take a look at the post for a full explaination. ) So basically in my clinical opinion I said "This syndrome is celebrities who have such a sense of self worth that they think they can do any damn thing they please. OSS often causes clouded judgment and extreme acts of stupidity." Well this man:

Joran Van Der Sloot definitely is a victim of the syndrome.

Was it not enough that this man did the unbelievable. a white man killed and made a white woman disappear and got off not once but twice and was able to go home and live his life. I guess its not that unbelievable. It would have been unbeleivable if he was African descent and named Leroy.

Well here he goes again and these Peruvians are not playing games. A young woman was found beaten in his hotel room and when the police finally caught him in a cab WITH blood clothes they were not letting him go, The family of this young woman seems convinced he did it as they should. And he is not going to get off it seems if the family has anything to do with it. The girls daddy was on tv and looked real serious when he said the family "will have justice" By serious I mean mafioso. Apparently their family is very wealthy and powerful in Peru. So the Peruvian police have been "interrogating" him (ie beating him down).

I should probably share that my family members are also foreigners. So we can appreciate sometimes in cases like this when things like due process and prisoners rights do not exist. I personally hope they let the family in their late one night. All four of this girls brothers to just go at it with him. Yea some may say Toye thats insensitive, that ain't right,....whatever.

This young man has been killing people all willy nilly! He needs to be stopped and I am sad this young woman had to suffer at his hands (yea I didn't say alleged anywhere in this post. Like OJ "(If) I Did It" Simpson, this kid is guilty!

Random Rant From Toye

I have been Ghost yes I admit it I started a new job and have been easing in. I still love you blog.

So its Friday Night and I am boo'd up with some of my best friends: TVOne, my computer, and a cherry coke zero pondering some deep thoughts that I thought I would share:


1. Why Do Networks Who Rerun A Different World Even Bother Playing Season 1

Denise wasted her parents money and our time even trying to make a go at it that first semester at Hilman. Heifer should have just gone ahead and named herself Lilakoi Moon and ran off to South Africa or had Lenny Kravitz's child (who walks around looking as bohemian chic aka homeless as her mama). That season sucked! Thank goodness that Debbie Allen was able to save the show and make it a permanent part of my weeknights from 10-11p.

2. I Think I need To Start A Campaign for More Days Off

Now as a federal empployee I am glad that I will be getting more days off like Veteran's Day. (I thank all Veteran's but for your efforts I wowuld not now get two days off in November!) However, since this country refuses to acknowledge the need for a siesta (A TWO Hour period in many countries overseas where everything just shuts down so people can go home and have a meal or otherwise what they do at a certain HBCU that shall remain unnamed whenever I needed my transcripts) I have a plan for more off days. See I figure Jesus was a Jew, so by default us Christians should also get Rosh Hoshannah, Yom Kippor and Passover off too!! Thats three whole days!! Isn't their some kind of implicit holiday acceptance? Imagine if I ceould take Hannakah week off! A whole week! Then Christmas and then tack on Kwanzaa (I mean they say Jesus's hair was like lambs wool) Thats 3 weeks for holiday. Think about it. Begin writing letters to Obama.

3. BP is somehow shocked that Their Capping the Hole did not Work.

One year- I wasn't older than 7- I was at a friend of my parents house. It was the eighties so while the parents chatted downstairs, probably a little older than I am now, we kids unsupervised roamed around upstairs. Again it being the eighties, they had a waterbed. Well between our game of tag and kickball....you guessed it we caused a tear in the bed. (Who sleeps on a waterbed for real!) So us being oh so smart thought we could duct tape the hole and stop the leak. Well flash forward 1 hour to six children aged 6-11 fresh off a spankings (this was the eighties were this the present I would have just said receiving disciplanary action) from their respective parents staring at the two new leaks that broke through the bed as the preasure from the duct tape was too much. So when I heard BP was creating a cap for the freaking one month old leak in the ocean I shook my damn head and knew that was not going to work. Someone please Whoop oops Disciplane BP. That hole is capped and still leaking out the sides. DUH.


Lol hopefully you are not reading this until Saturday Morning after enjoying your Friday night out while I start this second episode of A Different World.

Happy Monday and Happy BDAY Youtube

Hi Loves!

Its been a little over a week since my last post so forgive me. I have been super busy and a lot of great things have been going on. However..... in the midst of my busy few weeks. I must say... my room.....well its suffered. I am currently living in a FEMA disaster area. It was like one of those situations that you can only let good friends in because you know that they won't completely write you off as trifling or report you to A and E Hoarders.

So today is the day that I try to dig out. I have a week vacay of sorts and I will be heading to the complete anti -tropical location..... a random city, in a greaf midwest state, on a not so random mama's newly remodeled patio to spend my vacay. No beach but def will have a drink with an umbrella and lots of rum in it!

Anyhow today I write in celebration of one of my fav hobbies: Youtube. Youtube is five and its def changed my life. I love ignorance and ridiculousness. Youtube brings these things to me quickly. Whatever you want to find yoga videos, cooking shows, dancing babies..... one click away! In honor of Youtubes BDay I thought I would share one of my favs this Monday for you to start your work week. Enjoy!!

120 Reasons Not to Cheat.......Rather a $500 million Reason

Well Tiki Barber can thank Tiger Woods for burying his dorm affair deeper in the news reel.....

I had sworn off talking about Tigergate as I had SkipperGates and the beer summit. The situation had gotten so ridiculous that I could not invest any personal time into it. However, it has just come out today from the New York Daily News (which yea I know is a tabloid but so is Bossip and some of you all take those fools as word bond) that while in sex therapy, Tiger admitted to sleeping with AT LEAST 120 women while in his 5 year marriage to Elin. She apparently was so angered that it was a Reynolds wrap for their marriage after he revealed that.

I entitled this post 120 reasons not cheat in honor of these women. 50 of those reasons include the 50 recognized sexually transmitted diseases by the CDC that he could have brough home to his wife! (Since Tiger in all his mess seemed to like to go without sunscreen, raincoat, rubbermaid, or whatever you chose to call a prophylactic) However, I will say $500 million reasons because thats how much Tiger could potentially be paying Elin who after learning this information lawyered up. Once again I recommend she add T.I.'s attorney to her team. She will definitely get that money!

I am not mad at Elin's viking self. I mean people have argued that just because you cheat does not mean you do not love your spouse. BUT 120 WOMEN? You clearly don't love me. You don't respect me and did not care if I found out. Y'all know how hard it is to keep a secret that you let just one person in on? I know for me there are people off jump I know I can't say blip to because as soon as we get off the phone they will most def tell at least one person. So he had to know it would be hard to keep his cheating secret with 120 women. From what I saw of the women who came out, some of them off jump looked like the Snitchin for Cash type. But our friend the Caublasian has always had a sense of entitlement if you ask me so perhaps he thought he had that privelege blanket to protect him. Clearly he was confused. We all see how quick the women came out the woodwork to get paid for their stories.

Anyhow this whole situation is just shocking to me. One..... if y'all heard those voicemails (errrr uhhhhh ummmm hey its Tiger), the mans game is whack. How'd he pull 120 women!!?? The power of money. Secondly......The public relations nightmare of this whole thing has been a mess. To me the only way he could show he ever loved his wife is to not fight any settlement negotiations, give her what she is owed, and move on.

I wonder if Tiger thinks this was all worth it. He will have $500 million reasons to think of why it may not have beem. He should have just did the Diddy. Had his children by women willing and comfortable with collecting child support checks as income and not even have fronted to be the guy next door.

Welcome to Atlanta

Oh Atlanta! How I miss thee. I am sure T.I. did as well. Unless you were living under a rock, I am sure you are familiar with the fact T.I. went away for a year or so for stock piling like he was a militia leader. (You can read my original comments on that here)

So TIP throws himself a welcome back party. When did it become appropriate to celebrate getting out of jail?? I don't think Hallmark has a card for that [Congrats on your release. Hope you didn't drop the soap!] I mean really I feel like its a glorification of breaking the law. You are getting praise for something you weren't supposed to have done.

So him and Tiny seem to be back on track. He has given her a ring and they are engaged, They are in this pic stepping out to this party. They seeem happy. Her with her new hair color of the week, tasting the rainbow as always and him sans weapons. Fabuolous. I really try to like them as a couple, but I am just not feeling it! First off the fact that subtitles are necessary to understand both of them [On T.I.'s Road to Redemption] maybe is causing a disconnect for me. Secondly, I am consistantly confused when people have been together for years and have children together and are still dating or newly engaged. Ummmmm what are you doing? Getting to know each other better?? I mean really! Tie the knot already!

But I guess their dimmuntive sizes and extreme hoodness make them a good match. Its not for me to understand I suppose. However, I need her to keep her man out of trouble from now on. Cause T.I. is beyond his three strikes for sure and with him being 5 foot tall, any long jail stints might make her boo someone elses boo!

R&B Today: Keith Sweat Come Teach Some Whinning

So anyone who knows me. Knows I LOVE a good R and B song. I am talking about some male singer begging and pleading for his woman or from the depths of his soul explaining why he loves his woman. Carl Thomas's Emotional is currently in my car CD player and I have been blasting Cold Cold World.

It's a cold cold cold world

Living here without you in my life

Although I try to get along, but I can't

Cuz I need you to be here, why oh why

WOOOHH I mean can't you feel it!? He's singing from his heart! I can just imagine him in that studio begging and pleading for his woman back, Scurl juices running down his forehead and all!

So of course the current state of music saddens me. When it comes to R &B I have a general rule with few exceptions made, that if it was made after 2000, I generally don't listen to R&B. [Please no judgement but that allows for my enjoyment of TP2.com by Robert Kelly] I mean singers these days are usually singing a song featuring some rapper, and not singing about how they love their woman and want her back, but usually about something ignorant. Even Usher has succumbed to this madness. Have you heard that song Little Freak by him. Put your hand in my pants??? Usher you are a 30 year old man, I need you to stop the madness! As one of my friends remarked when she heard it "Usher's Little Freak is beyond filfth, I turn it off whenever it comes on, my Jesus comes out". I can only agree.

Anyhow suprise suprise that my new favorite CD is Trey Songz's Ready. I for the most part enjoy every song on the CD. However, its a prime example of whats wrong with R and B today. First off Trigga must every single you drop have an accompaning sexually explicit video???!!! Sir if my 13 year old sister is in the room I certainly could not watch any of your videos! Secondly, about 50 percent of the CD is about him having relations. Its overkill. He is in fact pulling what I call a "male Rhianna/Ciara". I mean he can actualy sing so he is not using sex to cover up his lack of talent. But he is using sex (and his washboard abs) as a distraction. He is distracting us from the fact that he is just like the other perpitrating R&B singers out there and is not really singing about love, but lust. And he has somehow successfully distracted me!

You know in the midst of this hooplla on black relationships. I think Nightline, Steve Harvey\, and Jill I mean Hill Harper (cough) need only look at R & B music. Maybe if more begging for my heart was going on in music and not for the nookie, I believe men would follow suit. Yep see I have solved the whole issue. Go ahead crown me a relationship expert like Steve Harvey. Minus the two divorces I am dropping knowledge just as well. :) Now if someone would just pay me to write a book with my theory, life would be grand, and Sallie Mae could stop caling me!

Keepin it Real Goes Wrong..... Techie Edition

So clearly I am proof that New Years Resolution's are easily broken. On January 1, 2010 I promised I would write consistantly....my computer crashed two days later.....so here it is April 21 and I am back! Thank Dell Preffered Finance and this situation I am about to comment on for my return.

Recently, I got an iPhone. I know you are thinking so what? But honestly I don't know how I functioned without it prior. I do everything with it. It's my bestfriend. We are tight. It was love at first sight. I call it iBoo. So some haters out there following the announcement of the iPad, iBoo's big brother, felt that there was no possible need for the device since you could get a computer or an iPhone. I dispute these attacks on my boo's brother because trust if I get $400 in discretionary income, like Swizz Beatz said:"I'll be on to the next one"

However, in this ever changing world leave it to ignorant people to make a bad name for the iFamily:



An ireporter (basically me everyday when I take pics of kids acting a fool on DC metro on my iPhone) was at my old stomping grounds, Lenox Mall in Atlanta GA and saw this fool who was more than willing to pose with his iPad on a chain. Is that what we are doing now?? We are wearing technology! And you know he was playing Gucci Mane or some other foolish rubbish. He thinks he is fly. iReporter thinksthat he is a fool. I find myself per usual like I want to on the metro, wanting to put on my invisible cape and pretend not to be associated with this young man by race.

I know I shouldn't say that. Cause honestly I love being Black.......until we do this foolishness! I was so angered by this that I immediately came to write here to vent!!! Like honestly, why do we feel that ignorance is cool? You look a fool and no one takes you seriously. And now certain types of people will make value judgments about me based on you wearing a iPad around your neck! Prayerfully its not the next person who interviews my under 30 self for a job. I want us to do better.

Also is this man serious! Sir how much street cred do you have rockin an iPad around your neck. Hope you are not walking to the MARTA Station with that on cause trust "pumkin and dem" will jack you.

Anyhow someone just hit me on gchat on my iBoo gotta run! But this is just the beginning. I am back and committed to getting Toye back to Talking.

Happy New Year

Alright..... I know what you are thinking....... after not posting for a decade. No this heifer did not have the nerve to post. One of my friends said I just need to kill Toyetalks cause she can't follow it with my random and inconsistent posting. Lol and eye roll. As usual I shake the haters off and continue.

However, its a new year and I am in a better place right now and recommitted to a lot of things. One of these is using Toyetalks to keep my friends and extended circle abreast on whats going on with me, my life, and as always with a humorous twist. :)

Look for a revamped approach though. A little more personal and look forward to watching me get through what I pray will be a blessed, happy, and prosperous 2010.

With that I share some of my New Years.... well I won't say resolutions because everyone makes this list of stuff that they know they will stick to for 2 weeks and fall off...... so I can't be saying I resolve to do something like lose 30 pounds when you guys will maybe definitely see me out eating Popeyes maybe today [I mean really you guys know those people know how to fry some chicken!]

Some of My New Years Un-Resolutions- Things I will not do this New Year

1. I will absolutely not get a Snuggie

Didn't expect that huh? I noticed in 2010 that these Snuggie people have amplified their efforts to ad to my useless junk chest. Sir since the sweet baby Jesus was in his manger a regular ole knit or wool blanket has had no issues. So I am gonna keep the blankie rolling. If its good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me.

2. I will not give the side eye to crackheads

Not only do I recognize now that an addiction to rock cocaine is a real disease and struggle that affects many and their families, I learned recently that making eye contact with crackheads of any kind causes them to engage you in conversation, and I don't need any of that in my 2010.

3. Not judging a person by their catsuit

Usually I find catsuits morally wrong. But last night at the new years gathering I was at, I met a nice girl who let me sit in her VIP section cause my feet were swollen and killing me! We had a nice discussion about politics as well. Usually the fact that she wore a catsuit would have had me make a snap judgment. It was a lesson learned. I will give catsuit wearers a chance.

4. Not neglect Toyetalks

I can't promise everyday cause I live in the real world. However, I am promising to be more frequent!

5. I will not forget how blessed I am

Often I have a day where the following occurs. I wake up late, miss my buss, catch the next bus, sit next to someone who clearly englected to wash themselves, get to work, encounter some extra douche, realize I forgot my lunch on the bus and the non washer is probably enjoying my homemade chilli and rubbermaid container, have to stay late, get home to find some appliance broken. With all of that, its often that I just want to cap the day with cake.... like a sheet cake. Lol But not everyone has a home to go to and some people did not make it to see 2010. So I will not forget how blessed I am to have family and friends a roof and means to sustain myself. I am blessed and also you remember how blessed you are.

Toye is back to talking and hoping you will ad me to your blogroll this new year :)

I'm Back and Pissed Off At These Young Musicians

Hi Guys !!

I know its been awhile but I lost the creative juices! But I fugure as we near the year anniversary of Toyetalks, I would hit you with the new new!!

Hurrican Chris is back with more ignorance after his last hit "Ey Babe" The above video is entitled Halle Berry.................................... Thanks to my girl for putting me on.

This video represents all that is wrong with music today. Igninint (not a mispelling I meant ignint!!) @$$ teany boppers making up foolish dances (ummmm the stanky leg) and singing about nothing (ie Marco Polo which ain't nothing but the grown kids version of peak a boo!!) WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOD MUSIC? Shoot music that makes sense?????

Shoot can someone sing a love song anymore?? Or a song that does not require me to learn choreographed steps (Y'all a basic two step is the limits on my dance abilities)

VH1 has thier Save The Music Campaign.............I don't mean no harm... but WHY? So I can hear this nonsense?? Thoughts Welcome.

~Toye

Not So Cute When George Mistakes Your Head For a Banana

Awwwwww.....that's what you think upon first viewing this image. Takes you back to childhood when you used to read The Adventures of Curious George. However at the age of 7 I knew that a monkey in bed with the man in the Yellow Hat was no more than fiction. Clearly some people never got this memo.

I should probably preface my tirade with the fact that I do not really care for animals unless they are on my plate. If you are a PETA member please do not do something crazy like deface my car!!

Anyhow if you have not heard about the Old Navy chimp who attacked a woman's neighbor in Connecticut click below:

Herold had called Nash to her house to help get 14-year-old Travis back inside after he used a key to escape.

While her friend was being attacked, Herold was unable to pull the primate off. She then called 911 before stabbing the chimp with a butcher knife and hitting him with a shovel. Neither fazed Travis, who police said had been like a child to Herold.

A Stamford police officer later shot the chimp multiple times after the primate went after him inside a police cruiser, Conklin said. Travis returned to the house, where police found him dead. Conklin estimated that Travis weighed close to 200 pounds.

I saw the interview with the owner this morning on the Today Show where she said she mourns her friends injury and mourns the loss of her chimp. She said "he couldn't have been more my son if i gave birth"

Lady your "son" just attacked a human being. It was inappropriate for you to have a chimp living up in your house!! They said the chimp had over the years tried to take hers and a few neighbors cars for joy rides. The chimp was drawing pictures. The chimp could unlock doors, use a human toilet, etc. He was one advanced monkey! However he is also a wild animal. I have told people for years that this is why I do not F with animals. This woman raised the monkey from Birth was giving him lobster shrimp and filet mignon. Yet he still turned on her and sadly the friend. I can not feel bad for you and share your mourning over a monley. How many times must I tell people. ANIMALS ARE NOT PEOPLE............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I was this womans friend. Who is currently in critical condition from the monkey mistaking her face for a banana. I would be like do not come see me in the hospital, friendship is over. Especially when you have the gaul to be boo hooing for King Kong on tv.

Now I understand that this womans only child died in a car crash and her husband died so the chimp was all she had. However, its still inappropriate and if she is looking for someone new to feed steak and lobsters to, she can surely come see me! I can not do any tricks in an Old Navy commercial but I sure love steak!

Ohhh Dwayne......Oops I mean Wayne

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So Lil Wayne came out of his Cannibus and Codine induced stupor to conduct an interview with Katie Couric. My friend says Katie looks scared. My favorite line: " I'm a gangsta and gangstas don't ask questions" Ok perhaps I spoke to soon about him not being on something. She had every right to be scared I would be too!! Ignorant he is for sure but at least he did better than Cam'ron who on his CBS 6o Minutes Interview with Anderson Cooper took his devotion to "Stop Snitching" so far as to say if a serial killer was living next door to him, he would not tell but would just move.

You Say Recession, I Say Depression

So I was watching the news today and a man had the nerve to say that we are in a "mild recession" and we are no where near the actual economic definition of a depression, so people should stop saying that term. ..... I believe he may be smoking some good drugs to even have the nerve to say this.

Monday 71,000 people were laid off and it continued through the week, two families died in murder suicides this week due to unemployment, United States Postal Service says if things do not get better they may have to go to 5 days a week versus their six (Which won't be a huge change for me since besides stealing my Essence Magazine my postal worker only comes every other day) and finally the Girl Scouts are going to start putting less cookies in a box!! So he may not think we are in a depressing but whats going on is mad DEPRESSING. To me thats enough for me to use any term I please and for him to sit on down!

Other's who need to sit down in this Depression are a wealthy couple in Florida who paid $150,000 for what a South Korean laboratory claims is the world's first commercially cloned dog, Lancelot. Lancelot Encore is reportedly an exact duplicate of Lancelot. These fools spent 150k for a dog!! While I sit here and eat Top Ramen years out of college they are spending money on Lassie 2.0. For $150,000 I'll go fetch...... I mean it is a Depression.........

My President is Black......... and Young Jeezy and Nas are Officially on My Hall of Shame

My "View" at the Swearing-In Ceremony

I mean I really need people to actually listen to the full lyrics of this song, as if the hook "My President is Black, My Lambo is Blue" was not ignorant enough. Its pure jibberish and people are chanting it like drones and wearing t-shirts with the slogan on there!!

Anyhow speaking of T-shirts, it was my distinct honor to be living in D.C. for the inaugural festivities of our 44th President: Barack H. Obama and our 47th Vice-President Joseph R. Biden. The weekend from the Opening Ceremonies to the Swearing in was Fab!! It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. I say that not because I have any doubt something so historical will happen in my lifetime, but because I will never ever expose myself to the cold and waiting outside again like that! For 2 days I was out in freezing temps. I am from the Midwest so I am used to the cold, but I am not an Eskimo, they need to really consider moving the inauguration to the summertime or better yet indoors to the Verizon Center!!

Anyhow back to our favorite t-shirts. So in October, I caught Mr. President on the Big Tigger Show aired here in D.C. and when asked how he felt about his name being on t-shirts, cups, and hats. He said : "He is just happy to give a brother a job" Ha! My President is Black and Funny. However, he had nooooo idea that he would be his own stimulus package. There were so many hustlers in D.C. you would have thought it was a Obama hustlers convention. I saw
T-shirts (slogans included "Black is the New President" , "the chosen one" [I def did not buy that. I do not get involved with false idolatry], "Obama Mama" Triple XL Tees with Obama in glitter and saying the Champ for our gangstas, and then just all the shirts with his face on them, no slogan needed )
homemade buttons,
flags with and without his picture,
hats
Barackulors (Yep Binoculars with Obama's picture)
hand warmers: which I bought on my own prior to the weekend rather than buying from hustlers!!
Obama Oil
Obama Pretzels
and the most inappropriate yet The Obama Condom (Regular old Durex Condom slipped into a second package with our Commander and Chiefs picture)

These things were sold everyday near metros and downtown. The only thing I could not find were Batteries!! For my camera which eventually started dying!! Anyhow I am sharing some of my pics with Toyetalks viewers. Enjoy!! Despite the cold and crowds, I can tell the little Toye's that I was there!

Crowd to the "We Are One Concert" Lots of Walking that Weekend

Military Pressence Was in Full Effect!

View of The Lincoln Memorial Coming to the Concert

Then President Elect Obama and Michelle Obama walking to their seats

Amongst Many artists including Sheryl Crow, U2, Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Garth Brooks (Who may I add brought down the house... uh the field rather to the point I may get one of his CD's or at least an illegal download) and many others. Here is my b John Legend

6am Inauguration Morning. What we found coming out of the Metro....Chaos and minimal police pressence where needed

I need the city to have done better! I was without a ticket but managed to get around the police while all these ticketed people waited to get through the 3rd street tunnel. If found out later many of these people got stuck in the tunnel and never saw the swearing in.
Walking through the 3rd street tunnel for probably almost a mile was crazy seeing as we saw maybe one police officer

Out the tunnel and onto an on ramp. Really........ Only for Obama


At 9am we are finally at th capital. We left my house thats 5 miles away at 5am

The Swearing in of Joseph Robinette Biden my Camera died after this for a bit

Got power back in time to catch peoples reactions After Obama's swearing in

HAPPY 2 -DOUBLE 0 -NINE!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year Friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well 2009 is here and I am blessed to see another year and if you are reading this so are you!!

So with the new year comes Resolutions. Some people say that they will go on that diet or stop cursing or even perhaps finally finish an unfinished project. However, I would like to give pause to one point. Didn't we say these same things last year? I know I did. So now I am supposed to get a whole new sheet of paper and make another list of things I may not do. Lets do some real conversation here. Just add to the list from last yr. Why waste paper??? Then if something has been on the list the last five years. Just cross it out. You are not doing it! So that leaves you with hmmmm maybe 2 -3 goals..... the ones you added this year. Now cross out the unrealistic goals. So at best you have one goal for 2009. The fact you have one goal now is probably best. You may just reach it!!

Anyhow I resolve to post more frequently on here amongst other things. Lets hope this does not go the way of my resolution last year to stop watching Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!! This blog is still active and I apologize for the infrequent posting but I have been super busy. However, I will be back in 09 with more regular posting. So next time someone decides to up and chuck two shoes at the commander and chief (Hopefully not Barack-a-Boo) or do some other ignorant mess, you'll know to come here for some great commentary.

We's Free!!

Clearly some people are unaware of this very well known fact.......................

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a
seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black
girls, prompting outrage from one girl's mother and the local chapter of the
NAACP. After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the
superintendent said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to
deliver effective lessons."
"If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea,"
said Superintendent Brian Monahan of the North Rockland School District in New
York City's northern suburbs.
The teacher apologized to the mother who
complained and her 13-year-old daughter during a meeting Thursday that also
included a representative of the local NAACP. But the mother, Christine Shand of
Haverstraw, said Friday she thinks the teacher should be removed from the
class.
"I think the teacher should have gotten some discipline," Shand said.
"I know if that was me, I would be uncomfortable going back to that class. Why
should my daughter have to switch?"
Monahan refused to say what, if any,
measures were taken against the teacher, Eileen Bernstein, who was still working
on Friday. The school district said she was not available for comment.
"We
encourage our teachers to deliver the curriculum in a variety of ways, to go
beyond just reading the textbook," the superintendent said. "We don't want to
discourage creativity. But this obviously went wrong because the student was
upset."
On Nov. 18, Bernstein was discussing the conditions under which
African captives were taken to America in slave ships. She bound the two
students' hands and feet with tape and had them crawl under a desk to simulate
the experience, Monahan and Shand said. Monahan said the girls were not the only
blacks in the class.
Gabrielle Shand burst into tears at home, her mother
said.

Alright......... here is my issue with this whole situation. Yes the teacher was a complete simpleton. However, I feel like the kids involved are also clearly the ones who need to be knocked upside the head as well. What do I look like in 2008 letting ANYONE tie me up for a slavery demonstration. Did that not seem wrong to them? Have they not seen Roots? The mom talking about that teacher needed some discipline. So does your child for making you all look the fool!! She also needs some common sense!!

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Real Housewives of Atlanta The Reunion Show was all that I could have dreamed of!! Now I was going to give you a recap, however I found someone to do a better job than I EVER could!!



This fool said in reference to Kim's wig that all that glimmers is not gold.