The Apollo Kid

Fancy hotels, extravagant dinners, private concerts with groups such as Chicago, Sheryl Crow and Earth, Wind, and Fire entertaining you … Damn life must be good to spend $1.6 billion in government bailout money.  What’s that? You haven’t heard the news?  Yessir, well check it, our good friends over at TMZ have pulled the rug from under a Chicago-based bank called Northern Trust.  From the looks of it they went well above and beyond sponsoring a golf tournament in sunny L.A. balling out of control.

A bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money just spent a fortune last week in L.A. hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts with famous singers … and TMZ cameras caught it all.

Northern Trust, a Chicago-based bank, sponsored the Northern Trust Open at the Riviera Country Club in L.A. We’re told Northern Trust paid millions to sponsor the PGA event which ended Sunday, but what happened off the golf course is even more shocking.

Northern Trust flew hundreds of clients and employees to L.A. and put many of them up at some of the fanciest and priciest hotels in the city. We’re told more than a hundred people were put up at the Beverly Wilshire in Bev Hills, and another hundred stayed at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Still more stayed at the Ritz Carlton in Marina Del Rey and others at Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica.

Courtesy of TMZ website

I mean really?  Are you serious?  I’m glad someone is having a grandioso time with my tax dollars.  I’ve never seen Earth, Wind and Fire in PUBLIC, never the less in private, anyway, the above snippet is courtesy of TMZ, check out the rest of the article if you have a chance.

Are you following me?  Look at this …

ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. – 17-year-old Jacquelyn Lockard went to a Marine Federal Credit Union ATM Feb. 12 to get some money when she saw there was $2.2 million in her account.

“I looked at my receipt and I realized there as a lot of digits there that didn’t belong to me,” she said. “It was pretty insane.”

Yes, that is insane, I would poo myself with joy if I found this on my bank receipt.

Lockard and her father called the credit union to report the mistake.

WTF?!  Jacquelyn NO!!

Craig Chamberlin, the credit union president, said they got a large direct deposit from the IRS, and when a worker went to put in the amount manually, the employee put in Lockard’s social security number instead.

“It was just an accident. The only people who don’t make mistakes are the ones who aren’t doing anything,” Chamberlin said. “Their honesty is to be applauded. And do you think most people would do that in the same situation? I hope so.”

“The only people who don’t make mistakes are the ones who aren’t doing anything?” - see this is why this bank will continue to mess up peoples accounts, because they confuse careless productivity with accurate productivity.

Lockard said she knows it was the right thing to do, but still, she can think of a few ways she could have spent the money.

“My sister’s in college. I would have finished her college for her and my aunt and uncle always talk about a house in Maryland they want, so I would have gotten that,” she said. “And I really thought about myself later, but my family came first.”

Translation = “I’m so freaking dumb, I should’ve never listened to my dad. Now my sister will have to continue turning tricks to pay for college and my aunt and uncle will continue to live in that card board box near downtown”

Lockard isn’t walking away empty-handed, though. Chamberlin said the credit union is giving her two days dividends on the $2.2 million, or about $125

Man … $125.00?  … is this really the price of honesty? 

You can read the rest of the story here with a video interview of Jacquelyn

A little while ago I went window shopping with a girl friend, and ran across the strangest thing I didn’t know even existed.  It made me feel like I was being made fun of, tricked, I wanted to take a cold shower while sitting down crying, truth be told, it was just horrible.  Once again corporate america has decided to feed off the insecurities of women all over the world, but this is just a new all time low.  You’re probably wondering what has me so torn, well let me tell you, it’s Butt Pads … YES BUTT PADS!! … Butt Pads, BOOTY PADS, ASS PILLOWS, whatever name they want to market them as or what you want to call them, the point is this crap is just ridiculous!!

I mean, at one time big booties were frowned upon, the days are long gone I guess when your girl gets mad because her jeans DON’T make her butt look big. As for men out there with the big booty fetish, be on the look out for “fake ass” females … I mean seriously, how do you explain where the curves went after the pants come off?  First it was the girdle, then came the padded bras, oh can’t forgot about MAKE UP! and now butt pads.  Women of the world, stop the madness and just be yourself, there is nothing more beautiful than a natural woman who doesn’t mind putting in the physical work for the physique she desires.  If you read this and you’re a supporter and wearer of these “butt pads”, send me an email as i’m here 24/7 to help you recover from this cruelty you’ve subjected yourself to.  I love you all!

JUST SAY NO!

To BOOTY PADS

Do me a favor and look at the following:

I ran across this mess maybe 15 – 20 minutes ago.  My initial reaction to this cartoon was “damn, that’s pretty f#)*$ up”.  One can think that this cartoon depicts a racial implication that Obama is the dead monkey being referenced in this piece.  I thought so initially, but I started to read several different blogs, comments, articles discussing this and it’s possibly not.  In light of recent events, it did slip my mind that a woman was severely mangled and mauled by a crazed chimpanzee this week, but if that was the case, why does this cartoon mention the stimulus bill proposed by Obama?  I don’t know, I honestly could twist it around and reference this cartoon to the senseless shootings that have made news recently about shitty cops killing unarmed minorities.  Truth be told, only the author knows his true intentions and thoughts on publishing this piece, albeit it was done in poor taste.

 

Shirley Chisholm - Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

It’s been a little while since I blogged, a lot due to laziness, a lot due to stress, a lot due to other crap I want to use as an excuse, but otherwise I’m back and that’s all that matters, plus honestly there is no valid excuse no matter how I try to put things.  I’m glad I took the little time I did though to step back and analyze things, because if I didn’t, I probably would’ve strolled down a path or two that was wrong, which can best be summarized by a quote I heard that goes something like “sometimes the path to a man’s destiny can be the road he took to avoid it.”  When I heard that, I thought about myself and realized that no matter what road I choose to walk down intentionally or unintentionally it seems as if the final destination is still the same.  So here I sit 12:43 AM inside a Econo-Lodge on the outskirts of Plano, Tx writing this blog, because an empire needs to be completed.  The days to come will be an exclusive take by take journey of the tools, ideas, trials and tribulations of what’s to come.