Its true

Sometimes we have to stop and smell the wonderful joy of life! Eventually we get cut off on the highway by a seemingly careless driver and other times we find some money. We have to learn to accept the good along with the bad, other wise how can you enjoy the sunshine if you never been caught out in the rain? Today I choose to use my eyes to see what's good in the world and leave the problems for another day.
I am Ward...

Why can't we get quality black t.v. shows

Seems like every time a good black t.v. show is on the air it revolves around negativity or some image that screams "we safe up in here"! I mean think about, Good times was the show when I was young, but how come the father (who was a strong family head) couldn't keep a job. That family lived with the smallest of smallest means. Still we loved that show. What about Uncle Phil from the Fresh Price of Bel Air? He did have a career and a nice house, but why he gotta be extra healthy in the tummy area? He had an obvious food addiction and the butler often let him know he was over weight.
Oh, so you don't think my point is valid, consider Officer Carl Winslow from Family Matters? Again a fat safe black man that America could accept in their homes each week. Now that I think about it, how many black youth dressed like that weird Urkel character anyway? Oh sorry I got side tracked, I do recall Mr.George Jefferson, I think he is the reason we can't have more positive black shows no more-lol! That man was self made with an attitude that he wasn't afraid to use on the man! He was a lot like I wish I was I guess. He did it his way but at the end of the day he always did the right thing for all involved. I hate to say that Terry Crews on Every Body Hates Chris, is all we really had recently, but that sucka was not only cheap, but the show was set in the 80's. Does that mean that ain't no good black families in 2010????
Fast forward to (((NOW))), I don't see nothing out there that moves me like it use to! I know what you thinking, but movies don't count cuz its over in 2 hours. Oh well, it don't really matter any way cuz the dang reality shows have ruined it for errry body! Flavor of love 1-3, I love New York,Real Chance of Love and For the love of Ray J. I think I am just gonna live off my Martin and Sanford and Son Reruns......
I am Ward.....

If She all up in they pockets....Y eye gotta be the one to change??????

My old friend gave me a call yesterday afternoon around 4:30pm. The conversation started out casual and lite until I mentioned the Oprah show and how she gave all those people free gifts of her favorite things. My friend, began to say how much better of a show that Ellen has, so I jokingly said Why you like Ellen better cause she gay? What did I say that for-lol! OMG it all started 2 get really stupid from there..... This is my story!

My friend told me that she doesn't support Oprah because she doesn't use her $$$ to help the black people that made her career. She said that the movie "THE COLOR PURPLE" was a black movie that black folk supported cuz white folk didn't know who Oprah was during this time. Well yall know me, I had to correct my erroneous com-padre. I tried (notice I said tried) to told her that the movie was a Stephen Spielberg joint and he personally saw Oprah's show and felt that she would make a great Cillie and had he people get at her and they made it happen. In effect, he made her career because she was on a larger scale, not just for Chicago, but the world and of course the white dollar!

My friend still says, it was Oprah who made the show. Perhaps she is correct, but then again, how many first time actors do you know that made a major movie pop? Yeah me either-lol! Still she said Oprah will help others around the world with her millions but not here. I asked "shouldn't Oprah be allowed to spend her money any where she wanted because she made it. She didn't owe anybody anything". I think she dang near blew a gasket with my questions!!!! O asked her didn't God create all the people in the world and if Oprah helped anyone wasn't she doing a good thing??? Again, she stated that she is supposed to help Americans.

Well it ain't stop there. She said even though she loved Jordan shoes when she was a kid, but now don't support him either cause he charges to much for them and knowing kids love them. I again attempted to tell her that NIKE sells them shoes, sets the price points and marketing. Jordan receives a hefty fee!I mean really, who needs Jordan's. I would consider that a WANT. And if it is truly a need, I freaking sell them myself for $70 bucks, but then again I don't financially give back to my community either so I guess we know where that puts me-lol!

I gave much thought to her view points but I only could see my own. I think whether it be Micheal Jordan,Oprah,Tiger Woods or Wardy: we all made sacrifices to get where we are. We worked out before the sun rose and long after it went down, we missed celebrations and time with family all for the love of the art. Now that the fruits of the hard work are coming in, do we (I say we becuz I feel their pain) owe something to someone other than doing our best on the field, in front of the camera or on the golf course? I think not. I feel once you get into the doing what others think you should do, you will be in for a long long day that you will soon regret. I can't understand why SHE ALL UP IN THEY POCKETS anyway? When you think about it, if a person wants to get mad at someone for poor money choices would make more sense if they demanded rich people use their money to glorify God! Naah that sounds too much like right.

At the end of the day, we are all entitled to our own opinions, but it behooves us all to remember that freedom of choice is a thing that America is supposedly known for. I personally, could careless about what anybody does with their money because I am too busy trying to make my own change and do my own thang but still, I aint madd at my friend, but I wish she would consider leading by example.....

I Am Ward......

Why is it that ........

*When you are running late some old person always pulls in front of you?
*Handicapped people always get the best parking spaces and never use them?
*people dress any kind of way when going to WalMart?
*People always blowing their nose at the table of restaurants
*Young ghetto momz be getting so loud with they kids at the store
*Sagging pants still popular?
*People really think Politicians actually care about them?
*Why do free people date/marry prisoners?
*Kids always move back home a few times before they realize $$$ don't grow on trees?
*Women go out in public with rollers or they hair all wrapped up?
*People who are not on the Colts team dress up like the team and yell at the t.v.???
*Black folks can't never arrive on time but they leave on time with everybody else.
*Can't resist putting mayonnaise on everything.........
*School bus drivers can't beat down a kid or two once a month
*My co-worker keeps letting that nasty cat come on the job site and sit on the counter?
*City snow plowers wait until the snow falls before moving to action, while Chicago workers be on the side of the road waiting 4 any sign of snow flakes.
*that the malls are soo crowded during the holidays and shoppers have no patience!
*Why women gotta wear make up and weave. Just be freaking natural?
*Gay folk aways compare their struggle to black folk from the 60's?
*Why is it that?
I am Ward.....

What does it really mean?

I was driving home today and noticed yet another truck with a Confederate flag on the front plate. I did a double take because I had the urge to see what the driver looked like. I guess I was wondering if I thought they were prejudice or not? I mean I see them occasionally living on the South Side of Napp town, but I just became more aware today???
I know the dukes of Hazard use to have one on top of that darn General Lee Car, but I never thought of them Duke boys as being racist. So could that mean that the flag means nothing more than pride for one's beliefs or just something that people in the South hang on to? I really don't know but I know once a white guy told me that its no different than black people walking around with Black pride or black power on their shirts. I guess I can respect that view point but I still think that many people who sport that flag have a slightly unique agenda.
I am sure I am not prejudice but why do so many of the flag supporters have to have big trucks with huge tires, plaid shirts with no sleeves,big bellies, dirty baseball caps and chewing tobacco in their mouths. Seems like they just want to get even more attention by having the flag displayed. Strangely enough I never saw a Confederate flag displayed at their cubicles? Wonder why not? This is America, ya know freedom of choice and so fourth? I know also that the KKK has used this flag before too!
Anyway, I was just thinking about it. I wonder how other minorities feel when they see this flags proudly displayed by their neighbors.

I am afraid that I am a homophobic stereo typing Guy

I know that this great country that we live in (USA) was supposedly founded on a bunch of freedom based ideals, but eye get this strange feeling that being gay wasn't in the original data-lol! Now don't get it twisted, I could care less about the next man being gay-straight, bi-curious or prison gay, but when those people in question gives me that look of "are you like me-ness" Wardy gets Koncerned!
Here is a great example of a bad example! I was somehow talked into going to Pier One on one Saturday evening. No biggie,
I thought as I walked around the store (minding my business as always)pretending to be interested in the over priced cheap looking items when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a short African man, with slightly greasy hair and extra extra tight pants on (he had a dime and a nickel in his front left pocket)sorta going in the same direction I was walking. Immediately my "Gaydar" when into over drive. I knew I had to get out of there ASAP!!! As I made my way toward my ((so called friend)) to explain that we have to vacate the situation quickly due to a code queer....It happened......! Twannn cut me off from out of now where like a super gay ninja. I will never forget what transpired next! He winked his eye and smiled that smile they do and say is there anything I can help you find? I pretended not to hear him and quickly turned the opposite direction as if I was interested in this rusty chair combination in the corner.
Nope, I wasn't safe.....this sucka reappeared like we was in the Matrix and said in a louder deeper voice, "CAN I HELP YOU FIND ANYTHING"? I squinted in my eyes and tilted my head ever so slightly and said ummm "No I am good and straight"! (O.k. I didn't actually say all that, but I was thinking it- so just read on sucker. Well I think Twannn knew I wasn't playing for his team but I guess like all men on the hunt, he had to try. I eventually got out of that store, but never will I go back, because he is still out there!
I thought I would be safer on Face-book to accept friend request from strangers.....FAIL!!!! This guy I know who is Gay (he don't know I know)is a former co-worker of mine who always tried to convince me about his fine girl friend down South told me to friend him on Face-book. I was like alright, we cool like that and he ain't official with it. Anyway to make a long story short, he made a comment on his page one day and I responded a joke and then I got 3 new friend request from men. I was like that is odd but let me check out their profiles. Lets just say I seriously considered closing my account that day! I saw things that made me jump in the shower and stay there for hours scrubbing with 4 different types of soap.
I know only God can judge a man and we all know what the scriptures say about it, so I don't have to. I will say this, I don't like men and can't understand why any other man would, but I respect their decision due to freedom of choice. I even support gay marriages (they need to know the joys of marriage that I found out), I support Gays in the military (Me nor my kids won't be fighting for Uncle Sam) I just don't want that attention directed toward me...
I am Ward....

TeacherHarmoney.com?????

The following is a reprint from a Miami newspaper I found on Sunday.......




A Duval County fifth-grade teacher is in jail after authorities questioned her about having sex with a student she tutored in math and counseled at church.

On Friday, police charged Kristina Rhoden Hartless, 39, with three counts of capital sexual battery on a child older than 12. Authorities said she also served as the male victim's church counselor.

Hartless has taught at Beauclerc Elementary since 2006, a schools spokeswoman said.


......After working in a Public school system for a few years as an educator, I cram to understand how this can still keep happening. 5th graders are on 9 or 10 years old. They have nothing to offer you...not even doing their home work on time. I guess its just another sign of the times.
I am Ward.....

King James is ((((GONE))))..........Cleveland get a life!

Can you believe that the Media is still tripping over James leaving Ohio.....still. The fans wanted him to loose so bad the other day when the Heat came to town! Nope-it didn't happen cuz the King scored 38 with a myriad of spectacular dunks and shots! In the first quarter the fans was booing every time he touched the ball. That soon wore off.
All I am saying is that Dude is gone. He did his time and moved on. I bet them same fans who are supposedly tripping (you never know if the media is lying or not) are the type of people who have serious issues with their parents divorcing or getting a new boss.

I am sure if Lebron said he wanted to come back to the cold and snow of Cleveland, all would be forgiven with open arms. Well it ain't happening Captain. Besides the Heat is on a 6 game win street.
I am (a Miami Heat fan named) Ward.........

The truth about Y I choose to never drink or do drugs!

As far back as I can remember N my child hood as I can remember, going to Mississippi for the summer (the entire freaking summer)was a major part of my life. I can't tell you how much of a culture shock it was a city boy to survive in the country with out his parents around. I was probably the only kid at my school who wasn't looking forward to summer vacation. I mean on the last day of school at 3pm, my parents would be waiting in the car with my bags packed and ready for me to head to Prentiss, Mississippi. Man, it was so dark where I stayed that fish stopped swimming at night due to fear!
Darkness wasn't the greatest of my concerns. At my grand parents house is where all the real excitement went down! Several of my Uncles lived there, a few aunts and at least a thousand of my cousin all lived in a 3 bedroom house on a farm!! I mean I adapted to the Cows and pigs in the yard, the burning of all of our trash, the slopp bucket under the kitchen table that we fed to the hogs, the rooster at "my" window @ 5:55 am every day, I just couldn't get use to all of us having one bath room in that house!!! I don't think I ever got in the that restroom and not discover a new smell each time-lol!
As I said, living in this house was like being on a ghetto version of MTV road rules! I don't know if I would change a thing from my past cuz I love my family but I was literally at war on a nightly basis! My Uncles craved entertainment like the Roman gladiators so each night the cousins and I had to fight until someone gave up. We usually had bloody noses and sore knuckles but nobody cried and nobody complained. We knew what we had to do- in order to not face my Uncles wrath! This leads to the point of why I dont indulge in liquid libations and drugs. I watched almost nightly as my family members would drink, smoke and cuss like sailors. Everyone aged so much, that it truly taught me to make.....lets just say....I decided that I needed to learn from this time in my life. Yall know what I am saying!
A few years back, I re-visited down south with my family and got to see some of the old cousins and Uncles. It was an experience! Some of my cousins had served time, some were recovering from substance abuse but they was still a family. Heck, what family don't have these issues (black anywayz). We stayed at my Aunt's house this rip, and this was much better fit for me. The house was huge with all the toys one could need, such as swimming pool, hot tub, huge lake, Mercedes, Lexus, old school cars, limo's etc. We had a big party and everybody came out. Had a huge tent in your massive yard, It was like a family reunion, that my Aunt paid for.It was truly wonderful this time!
Looking back, I learned a lot from Mississippi, and it helped shape my views on how I am today. I still don't drank and have no desire. I think my kids won't ever drink either! Of course I don't think its anything wrong with drinking, I just have no desire. Heck for that matter to much of anything is bad for you, this is just one of them thangs that I just don't prefer.
Sure I could get deeper about my down south painful memories, like the time my grand father got all the boys up at 6 am and worked us like slaves picking pickles, sugar cane, watermelons and killing hogs! It would have been fun, but me being the ever watchful student, I saw my grand popz get paid from our labor! My loving grand popz changed our relationship for ever when he gave all us boyz a quarter for all that work we did while he sat in his Chevy Truck looking like a broke Joe Jackson. I politely told him to keep his quarter cuz Wardy was getting off this soul train ride to no where. He never liked me since then nor did I like him. But like I said, I could go on with these stories, but I will save this for another day!
I am Ward
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I gotta kill the kat.....are you with me?

O.k. here is the situation. There is this black and white cow looking cat that hangs around my work site. Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal for me because I can usually just walk past him but this critter seems to have found some suckers at the job who thinks he is all that! At 1st the others co-workers would just leave small bowls of milk out side for him but the quickly progressed to small pieces of meat-then to this moocher getting his own bowl with actual cat food in it.
So, I was still cool with that until, he started scratching at the door when he wants to come in the house at night. I tell you, if I had stun gun or a pit-bull I could end this toxic relationship now before one of us gets to attached (that is a joke)! One night he sat at the patio door for two hours looking at me as if I would finally give in and let him enter. I guess somebody done told him wrong (in my Martin voice)! I finally put a sheet over the glass and he left and went back to where ever mooching cats go.
I thought he was gone and I would never see him again. I was wrong! I came to work the next day and guess who was in the kitchen on the (((FREAKING COUNTER))) sitting there like he run something. Yeah- it was him "Felix" (Yes they gave this sucka a name too). I could have swore I heard that cat laugh at me when we locked eyes and he saw how surprised I was to see him in the house! The staff said they felt sorry and brought him in out of the cold. Please keep in mind that this cat is fat!! He hasn't missed "any" meals....eva! So they put him out the house cuz I wouldn't take off my coat nor remove my hand from my mouth. I can't have no cat hair flying up my nose! As the cat walked out the front door, he farted and said I will be back like he was Arnold Schaznigger from The Terminator?
I think I pot-tied on myself just a little bit when I heard the cat speak! But I am worried....who am i kidding, I am skerd of the demon seed!
I am Ward....

What Ward Wonders Part -duece

When it gets kold outside like this, I find myself rather pensive about reality. Its has been quite some time since my conversion from idealist to realist but I still gotta dip back and ask myself some rhetorical questions. Here is my latest round.

*Since most of the people who are successful in business decided to venture out and make it happen, why do others stay at a job and complain.....for years?
*Y do black celebrities get more time for doing the same thing white celebrities do?
*Why do dog owners let they dogs lick them and kiss them on the face, don't they know what dogs do with they mouths?
*Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs darn it!
*Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn't it be leaving a dump?
*Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?
*If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?
*Why does your gynecologist leave the room when you undress?
*Why do toasters always have a setting on them which burns your toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?
*If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
*Why do they call it a TV "set" when you only get one?
*Who closes the door when the bus driver gets off?
*When you perform a head count, do Siamese twins count as one or two?
*So you can wear a bikini in public but not underwear?
*Why are his-and-her presents always for her?
*Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but people don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
*If a husband dies, the wife is called a widow. If a child's parents die, the child is called an orphan. Why isn't there a word for a parent that loses a child?
*Why is it called alcoholics anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say "hi, my name's Bob. I'm an alcoholic"?
*Why is it that when someone tells you that there's billions of stars in the universe, you believe them. But if they tell you there's wet paint somewhere you have to touch it?
*Did you ever notice that if you blow in a dogs face it goes mad, yet when you take him on a car ride he sticks his head straight out the window?
*Can a man get raped by a woman? Would she go to jail?
I am Ward