What Wild Animals Are Living In Your Neighborhood?

For at least the last six years, I have had a Possum living somewhere near my home. The other night my son came running into my room and told me to follow him. We went out on the balcony and walking my neighbor's back sidewalk was a huge white possum with a long pinkish -rey tail. The possum is huge - so it is obviously able to feed quite well in my neighborhood.

A few years back I was driving west on a sidesteet near my home and saw an animal crossing the street. Wow, rats I thought. But upon closer inspections, it was a family of brown bunnies.

What have you seen in your neighborhood?

How Much Did This Cost The City of Chicago?

It was about a year ago a woman in the south suburbs left her daughter in the car to walk her other children to make a donation at the Salvation Army kettle. She was charged with child endangerment and arrested.

Yesterday we had the story of the little boy left in the van while the parents picked up newspapers. Unable to speak English, I wonder if they had a license to drive and if they are in this country legally. Never the less, the car was stolen with the young baby inside. All day I saw the messages over the TV. Thankfully the baby was found safe, but those parents should be arrested and charged with child endangerment.

Will The Obamas Spark An Insurgence Of Marriage In The Black Communiyt

It was just about 25 years ago that the Bill Cosby Show first aired. Who amongst us can remember the controversy that that show caused? Why? Because we had a successful married couple (doctor and lawyer) who led a very upper middle class life and after the black community only knowing shows like Good Times or Standford and Son or if middle class then there had to be an element of ignorance like in The Jeffersons. So Cosby came forth with a comedy that wasn't the head rolling and booty shaking.

Now fast forward and we have two successful lawyers, although one has spent most of his time as a politician becoming the new first family. They married FIRST, then waited a number of years before they had a child and then four more years later a second child.

We are seeing a married black couple, in love and one that unlike some previous presidential families, really in love with each other. Now there were other first families where I have no doubt the husband loved the wife, but those couple were so much older that if they had their own bedrooms in the white house, it seems understandable.

While watching the Barbara Walters interview, the love between Michelle and Barack is quite obvious. But going even younger, I was watching the Beyonce video Single Ladies and to hear a hit song telling men "IF YOU LIKE IT YOU SHOULD HAVE PUT A RING ON IT" is quite refreshing.

Only time will tell if there is going to soon be an insurgence of marriages, but I hope there will be.

Is Michelle Obama Pregnant?

When she sat down for the interview, her stomach was looking a little plump.

How will Comedians Make Comedy About the Obamas?

That has been the source of numerous discussions around the web. It is going to be interesting what perspectives are taken.

I think we might finally see some true comedic genuis come out. Especially in light of the fact that Barack Obama isn't the jive-talking, angry black man. He's cool, educated and extremely well spoken.

In fact, Barack talks like "a white man". OMG, after all the years of blackfolks running around claiming that some black people were "talking white", who is the first person that they all ran out to support? A man who "talks white, was raised by whites, and is half white".

Ha Ha Ha!

HAPPY TURKEY DAY

I'm going to grill mine. It's been brining for several hours and the results should be wonderful once I put it on the Weber grill.

Who Should Replace Barack Obama in the Senate

Now that Louie Gutierrez has taken himself out of the running (and trust me I've been ROFL at the though that he even considered himself near the race) who would or should be the replacement senator.

Congressmen Danny K. Davis or Jesse Jackson Jr? I'd take Danny Davis on Jr. There's an old saying that "if you lie, you'll steal". His push for the Peotone airport while dismissing advocating the building up of the Gary airport, his lies about his weight loss (remember he claimed he got a shot in the butt) then was forced to admit he had some sort of gastric bypass for barely being 50 - 60 lbs overweight all lead me to not have a very high opinion of him.

Now there are those who criticize Danny Davis. But every Sunday you can call in to the radio station 1450AM from 10 - midnight and confront him over the air. That alone says to me he has been and would continue to be a very accessible senator.

I don't know much about Tammy Duckworth. But her name has positive name recognition.

Any suggestions?