PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney I usually don't blog about stuff like this, maybe it's the frigid temps and crunchy hard snow outside my window that has me focusing on warmth, but today Amazon is selling this Microsuede Down/Feather Comforter Set -- even King sizes! -- for only $34.99, which is $75.01 off of their normal list price of $110.00! The one customer review out there raved about the comforter set and honestly stated that the pillows were a little small, but heck, for $34.99, I can deal with that. I see that some sizes are already sold out as more folks find out about this. Don't know how long these will last. Still, I hesistated on spending some of the money in my PayPal account that Associated Content just paid me for my January news stories...so many other ways I could use the money...but then when I especially saw that I could get free shipping and that my final cost was only $34.99, I said: Go for it! Subscribe to Paula Mooney by Email Bookmark http://www.paulamooney.b...

by Paula Neal Mooney ThePhink.com has broken a crazy and sad story that other news organizations are picking up on now too: Clemson University's MLK Day Party -- a "theme" party held by a few students. While some thoughtful Clemson University students were no doubt reflecting on the uplifting speeches of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the most-recent holiday weekend celebrating his life, select students at Clemson University were allegedly throwing an MLK Day Party in his honor...or, dishonor. Missing seemed to be reverence for the man and how far we as a nation have come with race relations at this Clemson MLK Day party . In its place were allegedly some of the other things (like forty ounces of beer taped to hands) seen at earlier parties like this one: backsides stuffed with tissue to emulate the ample behinds of black women, gold grills on teeth and not just a man in black face, but in black body! "It couldn't have been that bad," said...

by Paula Neal Mooney My mother raised me to have couth . (If you don't know what "couth" means, that might be a tip-off that you're lacking a little bit of it.) Mommy's definition of the kind of black folks who lacked couth were the ones who might: * Walk down city streets eating and talking "loud and wrong" * Go out in public with curlers in hair * Use words like "gooder," the cringing "his-self" and phrases like "I be going..." The list of uncouth-like crimes goes on and on. I thank my mother tremendously for being the kind of woman who taught me manners and correct English. The Lord has used my uber-couthness to take me far businesswise and in my personal life... ...but yet and still, I realized that having all this couth at times has turned me into the type of elitist "uppity Negro" that blacks accuse other blacks of becoming. This comes to light in part because of my previous post about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...

Right before he died ...by Paula Neal Mooney All this week XM's 33 - The Spirit Channel has been playing excerpts from the Reverened Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. 's rousing, sing-songy sermons. What a man with holy power working mightily thru him. MLK is still our leader today, since no man has come close to leading us and affecting change since. This is my favorite MLK speech. After he closes with "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..." he collapsed into the arms of the men with him, as if he's expelled all his energy for a lifetime. Amazing... Bookmark http://www.paulamooney.blogspot.com/ or Please, please, please Add me to your Technorati favorites...or... Tags: mlk , youtube , video , martin , luther , king , mountain , top , promised , land , mine , eyes , have , seen , the , glory , of , the , coming , of , Lord