Remember folks, if you’re a high school student, you can place your name on an opt-out list at your school. If you’re a parent, you can put your kids’ names on the list.

What is the opt-out list? It’s the list that keeps you (or your kids) safer from military recruiters. Because of provisions in No Child Left Behind, military recruiters have complete access to all kinds of school records — race, gender, GPA — unless they are specifically prohibited from contacting individual students.

In this time of war and uncertainty, the military is a worse option than ever. Aside from their time-tested lying and cheating to potential enlistees, new reports of internal military violence — among enlistees and in recruitment — are coming to light every day (see what the Associated Press has to say about it here)

Project Yano has some excellent information for students, parents and anyone else looking to counter the hype.

Good luck.

Sudanese novelist Kola Boof, who claims she was Osama bin Laden’s sex slave, says bin Laden is obsessed with Whitney Houston and thought about killing her husband Bobby Brown.

Daily Mail

The new arrival of Cupcake Station in Birmingham, Mich. gives residents there small plots of baked-goods of which they can be the sole proprietors.

“There’s just something neat about having your own little cake,” says Holleman, 50, of Northville. “You don’t have to share it with anybody. It’s all yours. There’s something delightful about that.”

Groundbreakingly, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Hey folks, all those years of degrading Black women has finally caught up with us–and MTV is in on the game. Yea boy!!!

Hip hop artists, mostly Black men, have sanctioned this stuff for years in the name of ‘getting mine, son.’ Booty shaking, humping and groveling Black women have gone mainstream and corporate America has joined in on the fun.

MTV recently aired a cartoon entitled ‘Where my dogs at?’ It depicted Black women on all fours wearing leashes and crapping on the floor.

How you like me now?

Washington Post

Ford’s announcement that they will cut 4th Quarter production by 21% (168,000 vehicles) is another huge blow to the sluggish Michigan economy. This will lead to more job cuts in an area where so many businesses are dependent on this one industry.

Consumers have been asking for more fuel efficient vehicles for years, and though gas-guzzling truck and SUV sales have been keeping Ford’s ship afloat for a while, the writing has been on the wall for some time now. Company leadership just refused to read it, and now they are sinking under the weight of their own arrogance.

Dinosaurs like Ford and GM continue to react to the market while Japanese automakers anticipate demand and even set trends. This is why the dinos are losing marketshare.

Didn’t Detroit’s automakers go through this in the 70’s? Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

OUTRAGEOUS! The nation’s Last Chocolate City ranks near the top of yet another list of negative statistics. Detroit came in third among Men’s Health Magazine’s 100 Angriest Cities ranking.

And just how did the muscleheads at Men’s Health come up with this VEXING viewpoint? Their surprisingly unscientific methods will send you into a RAGE!!! (more…)

It’s more probable for you to fall off a ladder and die than for Bin Laden to have something to do with your death. In 2001, the year of the tragic September 11th attacks on American soil, 2973 people died. In the same year 101,537 died from unintentional injury.

So why hasn’t the goverment passed any home ‘improvement’ security acts? BECAUSE IT’S ALL A SHAM. The homeland security departments across the nation have been getting more and more funding by the day to keep our country safe, while cops are being taken off the streets and ambulance services are being contracted out. Billions of dollars are being spent yearly to prevent the deaths of maybe 3500 Americans. When heart disease kills Americans in OVERWHELMING numbers. If our public officials would spend Billions of dollars on Cancer research then maybe we’d have an answer to medicine’s biggest mystery?

To be provoked to change the way of American life because of the actions of a very few is only giving in to TERRORISTS, Freedom Fighters, or whetever they maybe. If Bin Laden can carry liquids on his travels through the desert then why can’t I carry Gatorade on my travels through the “FRIENDLY SKIES?”

Top 20 Causes for American Death in 2001

In the Friday, August 11 edition, our right leaning friends at the Detroit News ran a “Special Letter” from Jeanne Allen, president of the pro-voucher group Center for Education Reform blasting the Detroit Public School’s $500,000 PR campaign budget. Allen suggested instead that this money would be better spent if given to charter or private schools in the way of scholarships or expansion of services.

Granted the reason DPS needs a PR campaign in the first place is because students are fleeing in droves. But public relations isn’t the answer, and neither are vouchers.

How about relating to the students for a change? How about using that money to buy books? Or to provide toilet paper to schools that don’t have it? Or to provide needed facilities repairs? Or to actually educate someone?? (more…)

This week, Livonia hosted a conference on diversity. Despite its long history of intolerance, the whitest city in the COUNTRY has decided harmony is important.

Click HERE to read the article.

Politicians who are guilty of associating with Grandwizard GDub are taking it on the chin as we pull into the mid-term election home stretch. This goes for Republicans and even pro-war Dems ala Shoeless Joe Lieberman. So what fortuitous timing that the latest terror scare occured right after the US primary results were in, but with plenty of time to affect the November ballot!

We would never suggest that there might be a conspiracy, but… (more…)

if we are serious about affirmative action we need to show up in record numbers at the U.S. District court Aug. 17 for the hearing on affirmative action. this is perhaps the last chance to right the wrongs of the Michigan Civil Wrongs Initiative. Don’t fall for the cheap talk that affirmative action makes Black folks lazy….It is needed more than ever before if history is any indication.

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When will Detroit and Michigan get off the memory lane trip? In these tough economic times Woodward Cruisers continue to wax poetic about a time when gas was cheap, Black folks couldn’t eat at the same lunch counter and without a high school diploma a redneck could buy a boat and house up north.

Despite the fact that we are in a costly and deadly war for oil… our state economy is in the toilet…Woodward Cruisers annual tribute to American decadence, ignorance and arrogance continues.

http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/