Morning Reading

It just gets harder on poor folk, "Maine's welfare agency, she heard, was offering help for poor parents to go to college full time. With the state paying for day care and $513 a month in living expenses, Riordan, 37, has been on the dean's list every semester at the University of Southern Maine, expecting to graduate and start a social work career next spring. But this summer, her plans - and Maine's Parents as Scholars program - suddenly are on shaky ground; under new federal rules, studying for a bachelor's degree no longer counts by itself as an acceptable way for people on welfare to spend their time." Read the article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/06/AR2006080600879.html

This is a story I am continuing to follow, one which I have talked about in the past at length. The more I read it, the heavier my heart gets. The girl was just fourteen. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/lat-080706iraq,0,6948149.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Find me a darn bus pass, http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700131.html

I guess the election day dust has settled in Memphis. Congrats to those who won. I do though have to say that the Democrats in Memphis need to tighten up, that or its candidates need to stop with the selfish or big head syndrome. I am referring to the three black female attorneys who ran against the one white candidate for Juvenile Court Judge. Yes, it was your prerogative to run for the seat, but common sense tells you, if all three remain in the race, you will split the black vote three ways for sure. That's dumb, what the hell were ya'll thinking. Couldn't you have met or something, two of ya'll should have dropped out, period. Egos, I tell ya. I think who ever committed to running first should have had the backing of the other candidates, you snooze you lose, that's if you want to see a member of your party in the seat.

Congress, 16 mickey fickeys in the race, at least 12 of them colored. I don't even feel like going there. Egos. Cohen should be fine in Congress, but it you are mad that a white jewish guy is representing the City's blackest district, guess what, aint no one to blame but you colored folk that had no chance of winning but remained in the race. Just selfish, I tell ya...all ya'll that stayed in the race so yo folk could cast a vote for ya, cause those are the only folk that voted for ya. Now there were at least three to four credible candidates, but damn, 16 folk?