There has been a news story in New York for the past few days regarding 4 NYC stores that were defaced with Anti-Semitic symbols and language.  The NYPD, one of the so-called most advanced police departments in the world-with its own intelligence-that NYPD, has released footage of four persons of interest.

NY1 and the Daily News have blatantly associated the four suspects in the released footage as racists and the culprits.  This characterization is consistent with the toilet paper gutter news organizations that they have both become known to be.  What these idiots have not considered is that those four individuals in footage may not have had anything to do with the crime.

I have no criminal justice education or experience.  Yet, eating enough Wheaties has fueled this brain enough to know when things do not add up, or make sense.

One of the four persons in the footage went to her local police department last evening along with her representation.  She stated that the local detectives told her there was nothing they could do to assist her, because higher ups were on this case.  K.  Your face and image is plastered all over the news for being associated with this hate crime, and the local NYPD can’t do a thing to protect you, when their release of the footage has put you in harm’s way for any nutjob who wants to go overboard because of the inflammatory media coverage.

The young lady stated she waited for the Manhattan detectives to arrive and they presented her with additional footage, which was not yet released in the media. ASIDE:  How come this information I am relaying to you isn’t all over the internet through news media outlets, and they are supposed to be following this situation?  Might it be because journalism has become so degenerative that what makes print and press is what Bloomberg and a few lazy detectives have to say?

Back to the point.   The young lady stated that she adamantly told the detectives that what they saw on the additional footage was not anyone defacing the store window.  The young man was simply pointing to an item.  She also stated that the detectives wanted to know WHY the four of them met in the store, WHY one of them went onto the lower level and looked at something in a corner, and a bunch of stupid questions to ask about people who were mere patrons.  Do people stop at racks and pick up an item and look at it?  Is it suspicious behavior to meet a group of friends to hang out in the NYC for the day?  Is it suspicious activity to point at a store window?  How about smudge your face on the window?  How about touch the store door handles?

Idiocy supreme.

Might people who commandeer huge salaries do the following:

Look at the footage of the three other stores that were part of the hate crime “spree”. You might find the same person or persons on the footage in or in front of the stores.  That’s a better correlation of suspect behavior that targeting four people who met up at one store, with no other compelling footage.

Don’t assume all the persons of interest are Asian.  Idiocy-or bias-galore. At least two of those persons on the footage are Black.

It’s an alarming day in America when you meet up with some friends to go to Bryant Park at a local store and have to hire an attorney and be plastered all over the television and internet as racists, when all you did was get your image captured on video footage in conjunction with your friends because you patronized a store that has now become a crime location.  It is more horrific when family and friends alert you all day long that you were on a crime spree, according to the news, in three other stores you never patronized.

Shop alone so dingbat copism doesn’t put you at risk because you were in a group of people who were within the jurisdiction of a racist NYPD.  The Mayor and police might emphasize that these people are persons of interest who may have information about this crime in their public commentary; this would be too unbiased in investigating a biased crime where the NYPD has released images of Black folk as racists,  now wouldn’t it?

Overnight, people whose worst judgment led them to hang out in a Japanese store can lose their jobs, have to defend themselves and be associated as racists in the public eye because the NYPD and the low-grade journalists have done it once again: towed the lines of ethics and decency and just may mess up innocent people’s lives.

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Update:  An anti-Semitic bandit strikes in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn.  Does this mean that the NYPD will broaden their scope of people of interest?  Let’s hope they find the real culprit/s.  And, then they might want to really start having this much gumption and dedication when Anti-Black folks hang nooses.

One of my BFF’s told me she had this fantastic vegetable lasagna.  As an amateur Foodie, I tell her to get the recipe.  Homegirl tells me the lasagna was made out of:

White potatoes (rather than hi-calorie pasta), a rich homemade soup broth (instead of marinara sauce), no ricotta, zucchini and a bunch of other chopped vegetables, mozzarella and sprinkled with parmesan.  So, I summarized the dish as it registered in my  mind and repeated the ingredients to homegirl:  Potatoes, zucchini and other diced veggies, broth, mozzarella and topped with parmesan?  I got an affirmative answer.  I declared, “That is not lasagna.”

2012 Politically Correct Lasagna (Disclaimer: not an actual representation of the dish in question)

Do you believe what I got in response?  The recipe came from a PROFESSIONAL world-renowned chef;  there are alternatives to traditional lasagna.  The chef can call it what he thinks it is, and just because I don’t think it’s not lasagna, doesn’t mean it isn’t lasagna.  Some things are subjective, and this lasagna recipe-without lasagna noodles or any type of pasta-is one of them.  The chef has millions of people who eat his recipes, so because he called it lasagna, what the restof the world might deem as  variant vegetable scalloped potatoes is lasagna.  Meanwhile, I’m was online perusing 50 dictionary definitions of lasagna and wondering if the world has become so politically correct, that we “buy” anything.  By the way, no objective definition of lasagna gave room for a baked dish without the self-named pasta or some type of Italian sauce. But the chef is a PROFESSIONAL so there is no need to discuss whether it is lasagna, or not.

With this recipe, lasagna must be  any prepared food with mozzarella and parmesan cheese.  Politically correct lasagna requires NO pasta.  Not even spaghetti. Who needs pasta or Italian when a renowned Chef calls a white potato based entrée, lasagna?   Completely forget pasta in your concept of 2011 Professional Chef lasagna.  Forget marinara, tomatoes or any kind of alternative Italian sauce.  Broth is the new lasagna sauce!

As a tribute to this newfound enlightenment (I can’t even type this without laughing in disbelief), I offer a secret recipe for FRIED RICE:

1 box of orzo

1/2 red bell pepper

1/2 green/yellow pepper

a stalk of scallions

3/4 plum tomatoes

about 1/2 of your biggest finger size of fresh ginger

1 large clove of fresh garlic (garlic lovers, add less garlic; remember, this is a politically correct recipe)

a couple of tablespoons of olive oil

Prepare orzo as directed on pasta box;  Rice is not needed for this fried rice recipe.

Saute all other ingredients peeled, chopped finely and par-cooked.  Add drained orzo and continue to sauté.  Add some all spice, such as adobo and a hint of ground black pepper and paprika.

Serve hot, cold, or room temperature.  I love it room temperature.

Serve to loved ones and let them know that the world and their outlook toward food is changing.  This is the new Vegetable Fried Rice.  A nice complimentary side dish would be some politically correct spinach lasagna, without the oven, pasta, sauce or cheese.  Just mix some fresh spinach with sliced mushrooms, red peppers and sprinkle some sunflower seeds and dried red cranberries.  We used to call this a bed of spinach salad.

I think I just may take this concept and open an eatery on Capitol Hill.

MullOverThis.

P.S. Other than this here commitment to defering to an impressive chef, the good girlfriend is otherwise one of the most sane, sound people I know.

Out of all of the people in the world-I mean think about this-who are qualified to shepherd a flock of believers, Paula White gets the appointment.  Would you be shocked to know that hhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhh  MassaPassa Paula White was on the committee designated to find an appropriate leader?  No need to get wide-eyed over this, she was “objectively” looking for a pastor for the New Destiny Christian Center in conjunction with her croonies.

See, celebrity pastors shepherd effectively knowing they will never be available to mount the pulpit each Sunday, more or less know Jesus’ sheep.  That is what these “wise” leaders believe.  A woman who may show up twice each month because she has to split her time between another mega church-and if anybody thinks Massa Passa is going to regard NDCC more than the work she founded, go ahead and eat some of Ms. Abilene’s chocolate pie (The Help)-is not a “good” senior pastor for thousands of people who just may need to see their pastor more than twice a month between her helicopter rides, and correspondence with key NDCC staff. God forbid the Holy Spirit attempt to move during a service and bust up the television taping schedule and keep Passa’s helicopter pilot waiting.  We can’t afford these kinds of interruptions when we’re reaching the lost for Christ on a schedule that helps keep the cha ching ding sound in place.

In celebrity churches, the Bible is the blueprint that the people “work” to get big fat paychecks.  A church whose former pastor allegedly died from drugs and exemplified a “torn” heinous lifestyle which prompted him to stop his co-founding pastor wife from setting her foot on their church property, needs a pastor who will seek God for NDCC.  NDCC needs a pastor who is committed to that work, not fifteen other competing interests.  When the crux of pastoring is in scheduling programs, services and flying in two to three times a month, we all need to be crying out for the Lord’s return as soon as possible.  If this is what God’s will is, then we all need to just look to the skies and hope Jesus cracks them and ushers us home.

The members of NDCC should know what people who give each other Bentley’s for gifts thought of them.  They thought so much of them and their money, not their needs, that they assigned someone who probably would admit she was not capable of adding full-time care for two teenagers to her schedule, but could care for thousands of spiritual children as their most significant spiritual leader in between photo shoots and winks at the camera.

While Massa Passa’s endorsers have drunkenly proclaimed that she knows how to build a church, I’m sure people who have been re-routed to other ministries wonder if Massa Passa’s croonies have checked into the church she pastored and closed, allegedly due to financial struggles.

Welcome to the celebrity corporate church age.

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Zachary and Riva Tims divorce.  They were at some point in time, allegedly a son and daughter of Paula White when they were still married and co-pastored the NDCC.  Upon the divorce, Riva Tims was not permitted to come to the NDCC.  Go figure, because she helped to plant and water that ministry.  Nonetheless, the drug-addicted world-galavanting pastor passed away, with the public awaiting a toxicology report.  For what? To see if “Zach” laid down as opposed to “Pastor Zachery”, according to the illustrious split-personalities Bishop TD Jakes introduced at Tims’ funeral to try to Biblically justify the NDCC pastor’s heinous lifestyle?  Normally viral cheating husbands who spend boat-loads of money on trips with women and drugs aren’t our ideal men.  Only when one hosts TBN, has a bunch of high-profile ministry friends and a big church does this “type” become a poor hero.

Anyway, NDCC church board members don’t even meet with the other church founder, Pastor Riva Tims, in appointing a successor.  They continue in the spirit of their former pastor who banned his ex-wife from her pastoral role at NDCC.

Clear-cut message folks:  Riva was banned from NDCC because of personal issues.  Do I need to type the obvious conclusion, here?  They put her out of the way, and now who is out of the way?  NDCC needs a new leader and Paula White comes to save the day.  What makes Paula White think someone who had that church in her vision, labored and spent years of her life to build for the Lord shouldn’t even be afforded a meeting?  The same Paula White that went back to Without Walls and salvaged her works that she put her life into?  Oh, yeah.  I’m sure it’s the same Paula White.

Although church leadership and successorship isn’t based upon natural lineage because Christ’s lineage as the High Priest to the Body of Christ after the order of Melchizedic undoes this concept (there is no traceable biological lineage), clearly, when God has called, equipped, prepared, ordained and released one to serve as a leader in planting and shepherding, His will isn’t a board room decision.

Paula White needs to go somewhere and have a seat.  I suggest it not be NDCC.  For months, the church parishioners have stated they want their “Mother” back.  Paula needs to step out of the way and the Board of Directors at NDCC need to let Riva Tims be restored to a ministry that she has had the LIFE to lead.  This matter shouldn’t have ever arrived at the point where Riva has to sue to be reinstated as NDCC leader.

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Seems like Mr. Cain should have read my manual for politicians with game who think they won’t get busted.

Don’t run for office if you know you just ended a 13-year affair with a woman who had nothing to lose.  Homegirl is on television, admitting she is so low to the ground that she can kiss ants in the mouth. Is Herman Cain an ant? Only da could-be mistress, God and Herman Cain know. If he is an ant, a crawler who lives low to the ground and you can’t get much lower than that, Mrs. Cain ought to know. Thirteen years is a long time to not have a clue.

Who brags about being a woman good enough to stay in the closet for a man for 13 years?  Who?  Clearly, MullOverThis needs to supply every aspiring and veteran politician with this manual.

As the vermin gain on Mr. Cain, it will be interesting to see if he drops out, or not.  Although things smell a bit fishy, dirty campaign tactics-to dig up and supply the public with all sorts of unethical pants down with the oopsy in places where it’s not supposed be allegations-ought to backfire.

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Laura Prudom joins the rank of flimsy journalism in her article questioning the authenticity of ‘X Factor’ star, Stacey Francis’ claim that she has been unemployed for the past 12 years.  This here foolishness is idiocy served with whipped cream on top.

Paris Hilton’s career depends upon gossip.  He is supposed to stir up controversy, be messy, and get plugs for his contribution to the world, while doing so.  Other serious folks should at least chime in on issues with a degree of sobriety and authenticity.

Here’s my comment to Prudom’s article:

“Okay. This is the most insidious media coverage I’ve seen in a while. Perez
and others ought to be put on the sullied bench for this one. Does anyone think
that sporadic appointments equals a career, or a job? Struggling artists get
gigs every now and again, [and] put them on resumes so they can get more gigs. If
Stacey went from Broadway show to Broadway show, or toured with a group/artist
for six months, then we’re talking liar. Otherwise, we’re talking, generally,
unemployed.”

Touring with Madonna is completely different than performing as a background singer while she’s doing a few gigs.  Touring typically requires a contract and is a real job.  Calling upon top-notched background singers to back an artist up is a gig. Industry folk know gigs are too few and far between on a regular, consistent basis.  A landscaper who performed 5 seasonal clean-up jobs in one year ought not to tell people he is gainfully employed, when he is not.

My suggestion:  Leave Stacey alone, and get a life.

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What most people are missing is this:  Kim Kardashian is NO DIFFERENT than many of today’s women who get married.  While just about everyone is citing the number of days she managed to stay married, we need to look at the number of days most people who get annulments, stay married.  We can also examine the number of marriages that fail in less than 2-3 years from couples who cannot AFFORD to hire the best divorce attorneys and call in a moving team to take me to the east coast home, the mid-western retreat or the west coast home on the bay.  Kim is in the same position of women who say, “I do,” knowing that they “don’t” long before they arrive at the altar.

One of my friends had last-minute jitters right before her wedding.  She isn’t the number one celebrity featured on magazine covers in 2010, the queen of  reality television, and an appearance or photo shoot personality who commands millions of dollars each year.  This friend makes good mullah;   I invested almost $4,000 to participate in her wedding festivities, having split most of the bridal party costs with 5 other women.  The friend  spent ONLY $7,000.00 on her dress.  Her wedding festivities only cost around $85,000.00, and we won’t even address the comparable size and cost of her platinum wedding ring, all  kept to a reasonable amount because she and the hubby bought a nice home.  They wanted to be ”prudent”.  Look at one hand and add a couple of fingers.  This same amount of years later, although they are committed to working things out,  they often have near-Kramer vs. Kramer moments.

When I told the friend not to marry her husband because she really didn’t love him the way a wife needs to love a man for the rest of their lives, she told me it was okay.  Of course, she thought of all the work that had gone into the wedding, the public embarrassment, and all the things that really don’t matter when you find out you are living with someone that you may love, but are probably incompatible.  Too may women succumb to the pressure of age, the desire for babies, and to be socially acceptable in kidding themselves as they hyphenate their last names and sign on the dotted line.

I have another friend whose wedding day festivities were approximately $1.4 million dollars.  Her wedding ring cost over $100,00.00.  She is divorced today.  Wealthy people are not excluded from the same mistakes everyday people make.  They just tend to make them on a much larger scale and when they are famous, the entire world knows about it.

Yeah, Kim Kardashian is a brat and because of producers and cameras we can gaugue  all of her personal flaws.  The fixation the public has with her has made just about every private moment of her life profitable, to the point where this one is worth more tweets and headlines than addressing our nation’s economy.

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P.S. A man, namely, Mr. Humphries, rushed to the altar, too.  That’s another post.

This is disheartening and sad.  Not because she was famous or a talented artist, but because she was a lost soul who battled with so much that her avoidance led her to a lifestyle that put her into an early grave.

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Yet  according to a Huffington Post report,  Ohio police respond to a bunch of roaming “exotic” animals that escaped an animal farm by shooting them.   Were any efforts made to get experts, animal associations, or wildlife advocates on the scene to try to capture these animals and place them in zoos or other suitable habitats?  I realize a roaming bear or lion is quite dangerous and life-threatening to human beings.  However, shouldn’t these animals have been given the opportunity to be captured before using the kill ‘em approach?

Public safety versus animal cruelty is a tough call.  I’m just saying, SMH.

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Why?

Why?

Obviously, this guy should not have gotten custody of his children.

How many other people paid the price because a man lost a custody battle?

And to think, some people seem to think that Black people should model themselves after White people to move up a few notches in family values.

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