Kinda Random...Kinda Not

Soooo...

1. Someone commits a crime
2. Gets caught
3. Is arrested
4. Tried and convicted
5. Has to do time
6. All of this done within current legal standards and proceedures (no mess-ups)
7. Said person while in prison,rather than rehabilitating is displaying same behaviors that led him/her to prison
8. AND YOU WANT THIS PERSON FREED?
9. "FREE *insert name* !!!" all on ya FB, TWITTER, BLOG, etc?
10. Word?
11. OK. O_o

Listen, I don't care who it is, fam, friend, whoever...if you are engaged in illegal behaviors and I know you, more than likely we have spoken about it and I of course gave you advice to cease. So, if you get caught, you gotta do ya time. Period. Ima still pray for you, give you advice, and be there for you, loving you...no doubt. But I'm really cool on the whole FREE YOU deal...not here. And quite frankly, anyone that does this for their peeps....two words....IT'S FOOLISH!!!!! Chill with that, let them do their time. Stop posting up jailhouse photos of them flashing gang signs. Stop making graphics with their pics of them in their colors with their homies with FREE____! Really...chill.

If you wanna talk about freeing someone, how about freeing those who have been wrongly accused and have been VICTIMS of the judiciary....sheesh. Moving on...

CHEESECAKE MUFFINS/CUPCAKES

This is an easy cheesecake recipe that I tweaked a lil bit to suit my needs. So, play around with it, and I hope you like it!

CHEESECAKE
2 8oz packages of cream cheese (room temperature and softened)
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

CRUST
About half box of crushed vanilla wafers or graham cracker crumbs
Butter

CRUST: Melt half stick of butter slowly. (in a microwaveable bowl is fine).
Mix with cookie crumbs until sticky and pasty, shoudn't be too loose or firm. Eyeball it. Leave in warm place so butter doesn't re-solidify.

CHEESECAKE: Beat all until smooth; at least 5 minutes. You can sub splenda for sugar. You can also sub vanilla flavoring for lemon flavoring. I prefer lemon myself.

Press the crumb/butter mixture in the bottom of aluminum or paper cupcake lined cupcake pan. Then fill with cheesecake mixture about 1/4 inch from the top of the cupcake liner. Bake at about 375degrees for 15 minutes. Let cool for an hour in open air, and then chill in fridge for about 2 hours. (if you can wait that long) Smear the top with your favorite fruit compote/jam/preserves or drizzle with chocolate or eat plain.

SUBSTITUTIONS/ADDITIONS Cookie crust with thin cut out rounds of pound/chocolate/angel food/ur favorite cake. You can even slice thin slices cake and layer the cake and cheesecake batter in the muffin tins. <---that is awesome.

You can also use chocolate graham cracker crumbs or butter cookie crumbs or your favorite cookie crumbs in the cookie/butter mixture.

Flavor the cheesecake batter with key limes (key lime cheesecake is the bizness). Top with your fav candy (broken frozen reeces pnut butter cups or m&m's r the bizness too!)

These are just my suggestions. Have fun with it.

NOTE: This recipe does not work well with full size cheesecake. So stick to muffins/cupcakes and use a traditional cheesecake recipe something larger.

It's been a long time...shouldn't have left you. (well not really, I just like that line)

Hello folks. It's been a short minute, but a minute nonetheless. Just two things I want to touch on. Enjoy, comment, don't comment, point & jeer, stare, complain, accuse, criticize, whatever....just read...lol.

1. WELFARE
Just a little gem of the welfare system from God's point of view. This is straight from His word, the #Bible.

• Leviticus 19:10 says: Don't strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the LORD your God. (CEV)
• Leviticus 23:22 says: When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing around the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground. Leave it for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the LORD your God! (CEV)

In both these passages, people who owned farmland would harvest their fields. Of course it was more manual than it is by today's standards without machinery and such. When harvesting, crops fell. The poor and those travelling could harvest the crops left behind. The thing was, they had to WORK. They had to go into the field after the harvesters and gather, bundle, package, and haul the leftover crops themselves. So God's system of welfare shows us 2 things:

• Those who "have" should not be greedy and take everything for themselves. Leave some for those in need.
• Those who "have not" should have to work in order to receive what is left for them.

By today's standards, the gathering of leftover crops is not that likely. But what about requiring welfare recipients to volunteer in various capacities? Welfare can be used as a stepping stone for those who view it that way. I don't think the welfare system in and of itself is bad, but I think the way it is carried out can use some tweaking, from both ends, recipients and administrators. DONE.

2. MEN PRAISING GOD

Had a brief dialogue with some twitter cohorts on this subject. While we did not get deep into it, we got talked enough to express a few points. There is this general view of men in church. Either they don't praise God enough, they praise God too much, perceived as being effeminate or gay, or they are just non-existent/inactive in church. I could blog all day about men in church. But let me stick to MEN PRAISING GOD. When a man praises, it should be LIKE A MAN! There should be nothing remotely feminine about a man's praise. When a man claps, it should sound like the crackle of God's lightening. When a man plays a tambourine, it should sound like the mighty boom of God's thunder. When a man dances before the Lord it should be joyous and like David danced, with all of his might. If a man dances with all of his might, the steps are not light, nor with flair, but I believe that his foot stomps will shake the very foundation of satan's kingdom and send reverberating earthquakes in the dominion of hell! This is why many men don't come to church, because it is made out to be the woman's domain. JESUS WAS A MAN. Check this, he was a carpenter. DID HE HAVE POWER TOOLS? DID HE HAVE ERGONOMIC HAND TOOLS? Naw, he had MUSCLE and BRAWN. He had to be strong and burly to be a carpenter and good at what he did. So why do men perceive that church is girly and womanly? Yes we have to have compassion and love and be gentle and kind. None of those things are feminine in nature. Men, we can be those things and still be macho and manly. Its all in the way that it's done. Men, praise God like men. AND I'M DONE!

That's all for now...be blessed. Peace.

Minister Q

Annoying Things To Do (gathered from around the net)

AT WORK

1. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “In.”
   
2. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to Espresso.
   
3. Finish all your sentences with, “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”
   
4. Don’t use any punctuation.
   
5. Type every word in a different font. Alternate really big fonts with really small fonts.
   
6. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
   
7. Put mosquito netting around your cubicle and play tropical sounds all day.
   
8. Insist your co-workers address you by your wrestling name,… Rock Bottom.
9. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
   
10. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

WHILE ORDERING A PIZZA

1. Start the conversation with "My call to (Pizza Place), take one... and... ACTION!"
2. If using a touch-tone phone, press random numbers while ordering. Tell the person taking the order, "would you please stop doing that...?"
3. Terminate the call with, "Remember, we never had this conversation."
4. Do not name your toppings; rather, spell them out.
5. Ask what the order taker is wearing.
6. Order 52 pepperoni slices arranged in a fractal pattern following from an equation you are about to dictate. Ask if they're getting all of this down.
7. If they repeat the order to verify it, say "OK. Your total comes to $10.99. Please pull up to the window."
8. Ask if you get to keep the pizza box. When they say "Yes," heave a sigh of relief.
9. Put the accent on the last syllable of "pepperoni," using a long "i" sound.
10. Say "Are you sure this is (Pizza Place)?" When they say yes, say "Well, so is this! You've got some explaining to do!" When finally offered proof that they are really (Pizza Place), start to cry and ask, "Do you know what it's like to be lied to?"
11. Ask to see a menu.
12. Say you'll be able to pay for this "when the Hollywood people call back."
13. Demand imperiously, "Do you have ANY IDEA what is at stake with this pizza?!?"
14. Order two toppings, then say, "No, they'll start fighting."
15. Punctuate your sentences with exclamations such as "Great Caesar's Ghost" and "Jesus Joseph and Mary in Tinsel Town."
16. Start the conversation by reciting the date and time, and saying, "This may be my last entry."
17. Sing the order to the tunes of songs from Metallica's "Master of Puppets" album: "Chop your pizza on a mirror!"; "Master! Master! Put hot sausages on my pizza!"; or "Gimme Pizza! You will do what I say, when I say Gimme Pizza!"
18. Give your order, then state firmly, "And that's as far as this relationship is going to get."
19. Ask for a deal available from a different pizza chain (e.g., if phoning Domino's, ask for a CheeserCheeser)
20. When listing toppings you want on your pizza, include another pizza. Repeat this nested loop until asked to stop, then explain that you got "stuck."
21. Learn to play a blues riff on the harmonica. Stop talking at regular intervals to play it.
22. Learn to imitate a celebrity's voice. Stress that you won't take any crap from some two-bit can't-hack-it pimple-faced gofer.
23. Attempt to teach the order-taker a secret code. Use the code on all subsequent orders.
24. When the order is repeated, change it slightly. When it is repeated again, change it again. On the third time, say "You just don't get it, do you?"
25. When they say "Will that be all?", snicker and say "We'll find out, won't we?"
26. Order with a Speak-n-Spell.
27. If order-taker suggests a side order, ask why s/he is punishing you.
28. Get taker's name. Later, call exactly on the hour to say, "This is your (time of day) wake-up call, (So-and-so)."
29. If any of the above practices are rejected by the order taker, say, in your poutiest voice, "LAST guy let me do it..."

This blessed me...

⁴And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

⁵And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

⁶For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

⁷And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

⁸And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves. (Mark 9:4-8, King James Version)

What will you do when the witnesses that you depended on to tell you of the savior and point you to Jesus are no longer around and all you have is Jesus? Will you trust him to be your everything or will you continually need someone else to show you Jesus? At what point in your life do you discontinue hanging on to every word someone else says and suckling milk from them and get up and feed yourself MEAT? Just some simple quesions. This will be fleshed out into a sermon...trust...

Just some of my fav youtube vids...

My absolute fav song by these guys...RIP Tony Thompson

THIS RIGHT HERE WAS THE JOINT...stop playin, u know you was diggin it too!

These dudes were nuts...miss them

Always one of my favorite songs, even the original...but why was the lil fat boy runnin with everyone else chasing after G Levert nem?

AND THE ORIGINAL....simply fiya

Who remembers this? Don't lie...just wow...

Stuff I've run across on this thing we call the internet...

I have eclectic tastes. (if you are a fan of the movie Sister Act II, then you know what eclectic means...lol). I run across things on the net that are hilarious, serious, thought provoking, crazy, and a plethora of other adjectives, but overall INTERESTING. (at least to me). Here is where I share. Leave a comment and share some spots you dig.

THIS IS WHY YOU'RE FAT

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Various Lies Blog

A bunch of funny stuff, but this one post is just stupid...lmboo.

It's about SAMUEL L. JACKSON

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Just general, run of the mill and not so run of the mill fodder for your brain. I dig it.

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This digital painting will bless you

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Multiple cities/metro areas and how to get around.

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MR. T FACTS. lmboooo just dumb!

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Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.

Self Explanitory...funny!

Comment and share...peace.

HMPH! WORD? REALLY? SMH! UGH!

So...someone asks you a question and you fully disclose and answer their question. Including any and all compounded questions surrounding the original question. It gets to be quite complicated and you find yourself expressing thoughts and even sometimes feelings that you have kept to yourself for years. After all is out in the open and the picture is crystal clear with no more questions or wonderings you expect the person to reciprocate. At least a little bit. And they give you....

NOTHING!

NADA!

ZIP!

ZILCH!

ZERO!

And all you wanna do is YELL @ them!

I was on with an old friend. We go back a few years, lost touch (by choice over a disagreement), and re-connected. It was cool. Well, in our discussion, we addressed issues between us. Well actually we addressed issues between us from MY SIDE ONLY. She would not, and I mean outright refused to give her side. I was soooooooo ticked off! How dare you? I bore things that I have not told you in the almost 4 years we have known each other and all I asked for was that you do the same and talk to me. I even tried to compromise and would accept a "half-disclosure" rather than a "full-disclosure". I even tried to meet half way and agreed that even if it was not favorable that I am a "big boy" and can handle that. BUT DID SHE? DID SHE BE THE FRIEND TO ME THAT I WAS TO HER? DID SHE RECIPROCATE? NO. And I am not ashamed to say that I am bruised by it. I'm not broken, I'm not tore down, I am not hurt, but I am a little shaken and bruised. Goes to prove what I learned a while ago, that apparently is a lesson that repeats itself for me. That lesson: ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE CRACKHEADS! SMH. The convo ended like this:

Her: WHY DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

Me: THE SAME REASONS YOU NEEDED TO KNOW FROM ME!

Her: stop, you're making me cry.

Me: Why can't you just tell me?

Her: What does it matter? Why do you need to know?

Me: you said stop, so discussion over, done.

Her: ok

And we haven't spoken since, that was earlier this afternoon. Although I did get quite busy at work, but still...she's never gone this long without saying something. She did post a FB status vaguely about how she felt about the discussion, but I refuse to address it any further with her. I just needed to vent. UGH! Relationships of any kind with any woman is difficult. People want to talk about marriage and bf/gf relationships, but I will say that a platonic friendship with a woman is probably the most difficult type of relationship. Case in point, me and my BFF (who just steams me, daily, even when we don't talk)....but I digress. Anyway...how do you coax and draw information from someone that you say is valuable to you for one reason or another but then won't turn around and give that person that same info for their fulfilment? I need to assess the quality of the friends I have. And on top of all that, she knows the Lord!!!!!! I would think that her being not only a friend, but a SISTER IN CHRIST would give her that much compassion to satisfy my hunger for the answer to my query.

At this point, I don't know when the next time we will speak. We fell out of touch for a year over a simple disagreement about the subject matter of series of books/movies and her stubbornness to even hear and assess my point in light of the disagreement. But I had to hear her out and fully understand where she was coming from. SMH, once again! So, this being more serious, I don't know where this leaves us. Another yearlong sabbatical? A few days break? A few hours? Permanent?

[insert Law & Order "doink doink" sound effect]

There's my BBM now....hmph!

Randomness & Two Pastrami Sandwhiches on wheat.

HEY...it's #musicmonday on Twitter. You know I am down with that! So, the UNCF tribute to Senor Lionel Richie was cool for what I saw. I think I took it down and went to bed just as Akon was performing. I did a few updates on Twitter last night under #UNCF & #LIONELRICHIE hashtags. I'll post here for your viewing pleasure in decending order. Additional comments by me in RED:

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:02p
#uncf Lionel Richie is the truth #thatisall - i said THAT IS ALL

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:04p
#uncf I see johnny gill still aint learn 2 dance. Eddie Murphy, get tha boy dance lessons. Sheesh. - I failed to mention that he did sound great. Brickhouse though? He should've sang "Hello"

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:05p
#uncf Boney James = SICK! Someone throw a church mother @ him! Gawdt! - Yo, legendary and professional. Just NUTS! He got an anointment! lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:11p
#uncf lionel richie looks less horse/camel like as the years go on. There might b hope 4 jay-z. - my peeps Jamie said "Jay-z is gonna die a camel face"...lmbooooo, i had my funeral after that! lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:14p
#uncf Tom Joyner = cooncooncooncooncoon - He is NOT a coon. he looked coonish in that commodores outfit.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:16p
#uncf natalie...I love natalie cole. - PERIOD

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:17p
#uncf natalie after drugs/near death/cancer and whitney nor mariah can touch her. #thatisall #pedigree #professionalism

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:19p
#uncf natalie cole- professionalism and steady vocals will always win over vocal acrobatics with me!

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:25p
#uncf katherine mcfee? Uhm. Why? Uhm. Ok. *food network* - who is she? Well obviously she's more famous than me...lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:31p
#uncf #lionelrichie Brian MACKnight shlda sang "easy" but this is good. Nicca piano skillz is alien like. Who regularly rocks 13th chords? - He didn't play the piano, but i was just mentioning it. He sounded great...fa real.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:33p
#uncf #lionelrichie that folkz is Brian "u can't do my riffs&runs" McKnight! - Good singers pray to sound like B.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:34p
#uncf #lionelrichie Brian McKnight in bad voice is better than u in ur best voice #technicalexcellence He gets an A+ in theory!

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:34p
#uncf #lionelrichie B. McKnight wasn't even singin in HIS key...wait, all keys r his.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:39p
#uncf #lionelrichie ok richie cunningham aka jesse mccartney...its like robin thicke sneezed & this is wha came out his nose! Sang boy - this lil dude SANG HIS FACE OFF! I would venture to say that on recordings his full personality doesn't come through. Ima look up some other live performances of this cat...he was FIRE.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:40p
#uncf #lionelrichie is tha Todd Bridges aka Willis from diff'rent strokes on bgv's? Lmbooo - no fa real, dude looked like WILLIS.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:58p
#uncf #lionelrichie uhm Ledesi...follow thru & finish the riff/run...thankz...breathing technique @ home...peace - she really was good though. She can sang. she is no where near a bad singer. Just can't be on point all the time and uhm, Opera training, then why can't she reach some of her notes live. Mayb her voice was a lil tired.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:58p
#uncf #lionelrichie but tha was nice tho, not bad @ all Ledesi

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 11:01p
#uncf #lionelrichie lmboo @ my friend Valyncia via text - "is ledesi pitchy or emotional?" DONE & DONE...read 2 Timothy 2 @ my FUNeral. - I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD! DONE.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 11:11p
#uncf #lionelrichie iSleep...catch the rest another day...5:30am approaches.

Question for those of you reading. While my comments above were critical, were they malicious? Or mean? (ok. maybe the Katherine Mcfee comment. lol) But mean? No...I don't think so. What say you? I wonder why some peoples critical remarks come off as mean or even hateful. (and yes i mean "hater" hateful). I've seen comments about people on twitter/facebook that you can read in between the lines and see the person making the comments really has envy for who the comment was about. Saw someone tweet something about someone else and all I could think was "but you are trying to attain exactly what he has attained and beyond, so why are you hating on him?" Not that I didn't have the courage or cojones to reply and tweet, but I pick and choose my battles. Had I picked that battle, he would have deleted his twitter account, or reincarnated himself or just unfollowed me...but big deal. It just wasn't worth it.

I guess what I am asking is "Where is the love, support, encouragement, empathy, sympathy, for others?" I take note of those who are always critical and judgemental. OOOooo and especially those that call others out about their mess when they know they just as, if not more messy. Working on a new sermon (thanks Holy Ghost & @Chozn1, thanks for ya FB status)...the title is "You ain't saved enough to check me"...my homegirl said "kinna like 'who gon check me boo' with a Christian twist" In this I realize more and more that if I do come to a brother or sister with something, that I first must do it in love, and that I AIN'T GOT NO DOO DOO STAINS IN MY DRAWZ...feel me? I know that I cannot draw close to folks that are that way because next could be me on the firing line. Not that I care, because if I had any mess that I don't want on front street I would never tell anyone. Whatever you see come from Aquon is public. If it wasn't, then you wouldn't see it.

Aight, I'm about to dig into my lunch (pastrami on rye w/ american, mayo, and mustard)/ Y'all stay up!

****COMING SOON****

A blog about MODERN DAY BAAL WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH (making someone else other than God your Lord & Master)...yep...its crazy. You ever been to a church where ALL the men emulate the pastor in some way (clothing, speech, even hairstyle). Or ALL the women try to be like the first lady? Oh it's serious folkz. Until then...peace!