BOBBEE BEE: LET THE HATE BEGIN!!!

When: This Saturday!!! September 21, 2013 

Where: James Sprunt Community College at the Monk Auditorium
Time: First Showing from 6pm to 8pm
Second Showing from 9pm to 11 pm
Cost: $10 for adults and $5 for children

Let the Hate Begin

Bobbee Bee: Love Leaves a Legacy.

"Your work will be rewarded," declares the LORD (Jeremiah 31:16 NIV)

There are no "perfect parents" -only good men and women who love their children to the very end. Through losing teeth, bumps and bruises, and countless sack lunches. Through midnight homework and sibling rivalry.

Sometimes it may feel as if we're just constantly caught in an endless cycle, trying to get through this season and keep it all from falling apart. But love is what helps us realize we've actually been building something great-a LEGACY.

A strong family heritage. An investment in countless generations that will follow us forward. That's what our love can help us envision when we close our eyes at night-the prospect of shaping future generations into warriors and winners and blessing them for years to come. We do this through daily sacrifice, hopeful dreaming, and heavy lifting.

But it all gets grounded in love, which is at the core of the legacy you will leave.

Its strength is not merely in the family name of the DNA you're passing on to your children. You legacy of love will speak on, for example, through your wisdom.

Perhaps you don't think you have many priceless gems to be remembered. But most of those nuggets won't come from rehearsed lines or impressive speeches. They'll rather be mentioned offhand from the bedside, the dinner table, or the driver's seat. They will be caught as you whisper in your child's ear during a moment of crisis. Then your words will one day be repeated into the ears of your great-grandchildren. They won't know the source, but they will feel the impact.

So by keeping your mind trained now on God's Word, learning to think His thoughts after Him, and letting His truth flow through your own experiences and memories, your children will embrace truth that is worth carrying on. It's part of your legacy.

Love will also last through your example. Whenever you're sorting out a household argument or dispute, you're not only trying to calm everybody down; you're showing your kids patience and perspective. When you're getting up early to pray and hear from God, you're instilling in them how faith orients a person's day.

Love will also continue forward through your worship. Your children will be allured by hundreds of things in life-money, popularity, entertainment. Each salesman, senator, and suitor will make his case for why he's worthy of your children's devotion. And though your kids will grow to make their own decisions, they will always be influenced by how your faith defined what really matters. How you loved and worshipped God. How you deferred to Him and His will. How you let His and not others' opinions form your identity.

This is part of your legacy. If not yet, it can be.

Over the years, you can always be an affirming voice in your children's hearts, giving them renewed confidence in the healthy, positive steps they're taking in life.

You can be an open door of counsel, ever available with a ready ear and a wise word whenever they face decisions deeper than their understanding and experience.

You may unexpectedly assist or bless them financially with a generous gift that lightens their load or cushions their crisis. You can pray and pray, and never stop praying.

Then you can do all this all over again for your grandkids as opportunities arise and resources allow. 

And it's all of love-God's love-passed on daily through the love of a parent. Always there. Always in the back of their minds. Always with assurance, affection, and mercy. What starts with diapers and high chairs becomes a lifelong ministry and mission, investing your faith and yourself into one of the very few places where your impact can best affect generations.

Your body will age.

Your clothes will become dated.

Your place of employment will eventually move on to fresh replacements. Your various
acquaintances will think of you occassionally, but only when something sparks their memory. Even your church will welcome new members and carry on its ministries without you. But the waves of your life and influence will continue to live on and ripple through the hearts, minds, and faith of your children. It's why one biblical writer prayed, "Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare Your strength to this generation. Your power to all who are to come" (Psalm 71:18)

So be sure to pour the full weight of your love especially into this one place-in these precious, irreplaceable relationships-and you will bless God and the world through your children. Both now and for many years to come.

Ultimately, God gave your children so you could introduce them to Him and personally show them His love and His ways on Earth.

BOBBEE BEE: IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON, BABY!!!

NORTH CAROLINA (BASN) — It’s football season baby!!

That’s right!! Football on Sunday and Monday nights.

There is no better season on the planet!! Not winter, summer, spring or fall?

Football season beats them all.

Neither baseball nor basketball season can compare, when they kick that pigskin in the air.

When football season begins, you can smell victory in the wind.

The aroma in the air is a sweet and sour odor of must and sweat mixed with freshly cut grass and green Gatorade.



Now, slowly shift your head slightly to the right and watch the smoke rise from those smothered Bar-B-Q chicken wings on the grill at the tailgating party.

Take a sniff.

It’s intoxicating.

Let me pat you on the back. I know you are all choked up and your eyes are tearing up like you just gave birth to a brand new baby BOY.

Don’t lose focus.

Concentrate now.

Just listen to the sounds of those clashing shoulder pads after a bone-crushing tackle, hear the cheers of the crowd, and the whistles from the men in zebra stripes. It’s enough to give you chills down your spine.

Now, you are officially in a football state of mind.

Oh yeah, it’s football season baby!!!

The Preparation
 
Honestly, grown men actually pray for football season to arrive like members of the Nation of Islam anticipating the Mother ship to hover over Washington,D.C., like Christians waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, like little children waiting for Santa Claus on X-mas eve.

You say to yourself, all of this sounds so silly. It’s only a game. I still don’t see why men get so excited and heated about football season’s arrival as if they were going to the strip club to see Big Booty Tooty (Sorry, Pac Man Jones) as they fumble in front of a big screen T.V. with a cold bottle of beer in one hand and a giant 12 inch sub in the other.
I mean, what’s the big deal?

Let me answer that question.

Why Men Love Football

Men love football because football is a game of strategy, military tactics, misdirections, deception, and espionage.

Yeah, I said espionage just ask New England’s Bill Beli-cheat.

Men also love football because it is a violent male soap opera filled with good guys and bad guys, drama, stats, interviews, knockouts, blood, broken bones and R-rated language.

Football, in fact, is one giant chessboard with real life movable objects, a 60-minute metaphor for life with rules, penalties, and consequences.

In simpler terms, it’s controlled violence; that is uncontrollable.

To be honest, football is loved by men because it’s the only sport besides boxing that allows a man to be a man.

A sport that allows you to knock out another man and not get arrested by the police.

Damn, I love this game.

Modern Day Gladiators

Football, actually, invokes that warrior spirit in all of us.

As a result, football players have become our modern day gladiator competing to the death in huge Roman Coliseums like the billion-dollar Palace in Dallas built by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

The picture of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Linebacker Jack Lambert grimacing on the sideline with his front teeth missing captures the spirit and sacredness of this savage sport.

For this reason, these weekend warriors wear mouthpieces, helmets, face masks and chin straps.

They also adorn themselves with war paint, tattoos, and body armor which consists of shoulder pads, neck rows, rib protectors, knee pads, thigh pads, and spike shoes as if they were medieval knights preparing to slay a fire-breathing dragon.

Let’s Go To War

The football field actually is a miniature battlefield with war like tactics and terms.

Therefore, words like ground arsenal, air attack, throwing bombs and shotgun formation are used to describe offensive plays, which are given by calculating college coaches with headphones and walkie-talkies that send in sign language and hand signals from the sideline to nervous, red-shirt, freshmen quarterbacks, as three seconds remain on the play-clock.

On the sideline with the head coaches, are defensive and offensive coordinators, special team coaches, trainers, and water boys for players, who may dehydrated.

Plus, there is an ambulance outside the stadium with an emergency medical team waiting, along with crutches, bandages, and oxygen for injured athletes.

There is even some smelling sauce for players, who unfortunately have been knocked out conscious in the heat of the battle. As you can see, this is serious stuff.



Dangerous Dance With Death

Football is essentially a dangerous dance with death, but you can’t tip-toe your way through it. You have to go full speed ahead.

The WWE’s Vince McMahon tried to tap into the male psyche or desire for testosterone driven action. But his dose of violence is too fake and too cartoonish to be taking seriously.

As a result, wrestling’s choreographed competition simply can’t compare with the NFL’s spontaneous head bangers ball.

Just ask Brock Lesner or Dwayne “Da Rock” Johnson.

To the conservative Christian Coalition, I am sorry to inform you that all athletes practice a form of atheism in the NFL.

Because they instantly become aware that neither Jesus, Joseph nor the Virgin Mary can protect them on the field.

Ask any professional quarterback scrambling for his life, with two 260-pound linebackers chasing him, if Jesus can save him?



Because, he has about three seconds or less to release that football, or he is going to get killed like an innocent deer or Bambi’s mother in the scope of a hunter’s rifle. BAM!!!

DAMN!!

This is RAW and UNCUT!!

Football tests your heart and your guts.

So, buckle up.

Animalistic Nature

For that very reason, football proves Darwin’s Theory of “survival of the fittest” while you are on the field.

Because it’s killed or be killed on this battlefield. And ain’t nothing fallen out the sky but your mouthpiece after you get jaw-jacked by Ray Lewis.

Honestly, football allows us all to tap into our animalistic nature.

This may sound cruel and barbaric, but football allows us to explore our animal instincts.

The beast within us all is released when we growl and grit our teeth like a wild grizzly bear, howl at the moon like a pack of wolves, bark like mad dogs in a pound, flap our hands like an eagle in flight, roar like a lion, bump chest with another overzealous fan like two rambunctious rams, or clap our hands like the mouth of an alligator.

TEBOW!!

That’s why most of the teams we love are named after animals like the Jaguars, Bills, Eagles, Rams, Lions, Bears, Panthers, Falcons, Cardinals, Ravens, and Bengals.

These animals are chosen to embody the spirit and characteristic of those teams.

This is an ancient custom or tradition borrowed or stolen from our ancient African ancestors and the Native American family.

This embodiment of animal spirits can be seen on the walls of ancient Kemet and in other indigenous cultures like the Mayas, Aztec, and Incas.

For instances, many African tribes adorn themselves with animal head type masks while many Native American tribes wore buffalo skins and feathers of birds as forms of headdress.

These masks and animal inspired attire was believed to give the wearer the power of that animal.

In other words, he would be possessed with that animal’s strength and abilities.

This is also where the concept and the origin of comic book characters and superheroes where formed like Spider-Man, Batman, the Black Panther, the Falcon and Hawk Man, etc, etc.

While many teams give honor to animals, others named themselves after ferocious fighters, who displayed courageous camaraderie on the battlefield throughout the perils of time.
Therefore, you have teams named the Vikings, Redskins, Titans, Patriots, Raiders, Buccaneers, Giants, and Cowboys.

As you can see, football is more than a game.

The Ritual
 
Football is really a religious gathering, a sacred ceremony where blood, sweat, and tears are mixed in a big bowl (Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl or the Super Bowl) like a witches brew.

And if you drink this potent potion in the cup of destiny, you will become intoxicated to the point of madness and experience the ultimate form of Ecstasy and fall in love with the game of football.

And now you know the secret of why men love football, it’s a never-ending love story.

Thank God for Football!!

Eric D.Graham, a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he earned a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television and a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies, is currently the Editor and Chief of BASN, where his thought-provoking articles appear on a daily basis. You can reach Graham at lbiass34@yahoo.com or  go to www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com.

BOBBEE BEE: Ten Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About

by Wesley Messamore

Washington doesn’t merely lack the legal authority for a military intervention in Syria.

It lacks the moral authority. We’re talking about a government with a history of using chemical weapons against innocent people far more prolific and deadly than the mere accusations Assad faces from a trigger-happy Western military-industrial complex, bent on stifling further investigation before striking.

Here is a list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians..

1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 – 1971

Via: AP
 

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of chemicals, including the very toxic Agent Orange, on the forests and farmlands of Vietnam and neighboring countries, deliberately destroying food supplies, shattering the jungle ecology, and ravaging the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Vietnam estimates that as a result of the decade-long chemical attack, 400,000 people were killed or maimed, 500,000 babies have been born with birth defects, and 2 million have suffered from cancer or other illnesses.

In 2012, the Red Cross estimated that one million people in Vietnam have disabilities or health problems related to Agent Orange.


 

 

2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 – 2009

 

White phosphorus is a horrific incendiary chemical weapon that melts human flesh right down to the bone.

In 2009, multiple human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and International Red Cross reported that the Israeli government was attacking civilians in their own country with chemical weapons.

An Amnesty International team claimed to find “indisputable evidence of the widespread use of white phosphorus” as a weapon in densely-populated civilian areas.

The Israeli military denied the allegations at first, but eventually admitted they were true.
After the string of allegations by these NGOs, the Israeli military even hit a UN headquarters(!) in Gaza with a chemical attack.

How do you think all this evidence compares to the case against Syria? Why didn’t Obama try to bomb Israel?
 

3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004

 

In 2004, journalists embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq began reporting the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents.

First the military lied and said that it was only using white phosphorus to create smokescreens or illuminate targets.

Then it admitted to using the volatile chemical as an incendiary weapon. At the time, Italian television broadcaster RAI aired a documentary entitled, “Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre,” including grim video footage and photographs, as well as eyewitness interviews with Fallujah residents and U.S. soldiers revealing how the U.S. government indiscriminately rained white chemical fire down on the Iraqi city and melted women and children to death.
 

4. The CIA Helped Saddam Hussein Massacre Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988.

CIA records now prove that Washington knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons (including sarin, nerve gas, and mustard gas) in the Iran-Iraq War, yet continued to pour intelligence into the hands of the Iraqi military, informing Hussein of Iranian troop movements while knowing that he would be using the information to launch chemical attacks.

At one point in early 1988, Washington warned Hussein of an Iranian troop movement that would have ended the war in a decisive defeat for the Iraqi government.

By March an emboldened Hussein with new friends in Washington struck a Kurdish village occupied by Iranian troops with multiple chemical agents, killing as many as 5,000 people and injuring as many as 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Thousands more died in the following years from complications, diseases, and birth defects.

5. The Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s

In the early 1950s, the Army set up motorized blowers on top of residential high-rises in low-income, mostly black St. Louis neighborhoods, including areas where as much as 70% of the residents were children under 12.

The government told residents that it was experimenting with a smokescreen to protect the city from Russian attacks, but it was actually pumping the air full of hundreds of pounds of finely powdered zinc cadmium sulfide.

The government admits that there was a second ingredient in the chemical powder, but whether or not that ingredient was radioactive remains classified.

Of course it does.

Since the tests, an alarming number of the area’s residents have developed cancer.

In 1955, Doris Spates was born in one of the buildings the Army used to fill the air with chemicals from 1953 – 1954. Her father died inexplicably that same year, she has seen four siblings die from cancer, and Doris herself is a survivor of cervical cancer.
 

6. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011

 

The savage violence of the police against Occupy protesters in 2011 was well documented, and included the use of tear gas and other chemical irritants.

Tear gas is prohibited for use against enemy soldiers in battle by the Chemical Weapons Convention. Can’t police give civilian protesters in Oakland, California the same courtesy and protection that international law requires for enemy soldiers on a battlefield? 

7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993

At the infamous Waco siege of a peaceful community of Seventh Day Adventists, the FBI pumped tear gas into buildings knowing that women, children, and babies were inside.

The tear gas was highly flammable and ignited, engulfing the buildings in flames and killing 49 men and women, and 27 children, including babies and toddlers.

Remember, attacking an armed enemy soldier on a battlefield with tear gas is a war crime. What kind of crime is attacking a baby with tear gas?
 

8. The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003

 

 

In Iraq, the U.S. military has littered the environment with thousands of tons of munitions made from depleted uranium, a toxic and radioactive nuclear waste product. As a result, more than half of babies born in Fallujah from 2007 – 2010 were born with birth defects.

Some of these defects have never been seen before outside of textbooks with photos of babies born near nuclear tests in the Pacific.

Cancer and infant mortality have also seen a dramatic rise in Iraq. According to Christopher Busby, the Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, “These are weapons which have absolutely destroyed the genetic integrity of the population of Iraq.”

After authoring two of four reports published in 2012 on the health crisis in Iraq, Busby described Fallujah as having, “the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied.”
 

9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 – 1945

Napalm is a sticky and highly flammable gel which has been used as a weapon of terror by the U.S. military.

In 1980, the UN declared the use of napalm on swaths of civilian population a war crime.

That’s exactly what the U.S. military did in World War II, dropping enough napalm in one bombing raid on Tokyo to burn 100,000 people to death, injure a million more, and leave a million without homes in the single deadliest air raid of World War II.

 

10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945

 

Although nuclear bombs may not be considered chemical weapons, I believe we can agree they belong to the same category. They certainly disperse an awful lot of deadly radioactive chemicals.

They are every bit as horrifying as chemical weapons if not more, and by their very nature, suitable for only one purpose: wiping out an entire city full of civilians.

It seems odd that the only regime to ever use one of these weapons of terror on other human beings has busied itself with the pretense of keeping the world safe from dangerous weapons in the hands of dangerous governments.

BOBBEE BEE: DON'T END UP LIKE CHARLES HAMILTON, the Vincent Van Gogh of Hip-Hop

Interscope Records, the most prominent rap label in the 2000s and home to Dr. Dre, Eminem, and 50 Cent, had finally found the next cornerstone to their franchise, a formerly homeless young man from Harlem named Charles Hamilton.

Charles seemed to have all the pieces in order: a very interesting story and point of view, the same powerhouse lawyer as 50 and Eminem, the same A&R who was involved with Kanye and Soulja Boy, a co-sign from DJ Skee, a viral video where he held his own freestyling with Game and Ye, a rapidly growing buzz online, and what many labeled sheer genius.

After releasing two handfuls of mixtapes during the summer of 2008, and on the eve of debuting music from his first album, a series of events over the course of just a few months caused the house of cards to fall apart.

Charles claimed he was dating Rihanna.

Charles lost in a rap battle at Penn State.

On camera.

Charles made fun of his girlfriend's abortion and she punched him in the face.

On camera.



Charles gave J.Dilla executive producer credit on his album, having had no discussion with Dilla's family or estate, and stirred up a great deal of anger from the city of Detroit.

Charles was dropped from Interscope.

Charles was arrested in Ohio.

Charles took to a wheelchair and was hospitalized for mental reasons.

Four years (and an Internet lifetime) later, Charles is attempting a comeback.

On his own.

WARNING!!!!!!!!! This song by Charles Hamilton contains lyrics not suitable for small children.