So… how do you think that’s going to work out for you on Judgment Day? I’m just sayin…

If health care isn’t a right, then whatever laws that say emergency care must be provided in the ER need to be repealed. Let’s just go all the way with it, then. Let’s have everyone fend for themselves, and to hell with compassion or helping those less fortunate. If you can’t afford health care then you have the RIGHT to die and be cremated on the cheap, instead of buried, with the cost of cremation coming out of an Indigent Cremation Fund that everyone pays a nominal flat fee into every year. Your relatives can dig a hole in the backyard and bury your urn there, right next to beloved Fido, if they want.

After all, God didn’t bless any of us with anything, or make it possible for us to have what we have. We did it ALL on our own and by ourselves. God who? Let’s just all stop pretending. Why even FAKE anymore? I mean, really, it’s time to end the charade. We have become our own Gods (yes, with the capital G), and there is not enough room for us and him, so he has to go. Oh, wait, he’s already gone. We just need to stop pretending he’s still here, still relevant, and still matters.

I mean, since he didn’t, and never has, done anything for us anyway, why keep him around? After all, we worked for our money and why should we have to give it away in tithes and offering for a building we only use once a week, if that? If our hurting and sick neighbor who we CAN see doesn’t deserve any of our largesse, then why should we give anything to some “being” – a perfect, and perfectly healthy one at that – we’ve never seen? Like, what kind of sense does that make?

So, let’s just cut the crap and get real. Anything that’s not a right needs to be eliminated right now, so we all can keep as much of our hard earned money in our pockets as possible. Poor, sick people? Eh well. They’ll die off sooner or later, and just could be better off for it. Right?

/sarcasm

I just watched a documentary about a relatively recently discovered tribe of natives in the Amazon rain forest. These people eat only manioc that they grow themselves, and what they can gather or kill in the rain forest.

They don’t have access to candy, cakes, pies, fast food or other junk foods. They drink water, and they walk for miles everyday… See More because they don’t have refrigeration, so they can only gather or kill what can be immediately consumed. For many months of the year, they survive on very little.

Why did I see overweight adults, including one morbidly obese woman just in the one family grouping that was profiled in the documentary? Surely, these people are making quality deposits into their bodies, right?

Being “fit” is now the catch-phrase for having a nice body, primarily to attract (or keep the attraction of) the opposite sex. This new catch-phrase is rooted in VANITY, and that’s why I resist it, personally.

FEW of the people I hear touting the “fitness” thing emphasize being HEALTHY. Those that do often confuse being healthy with being thin. To them, an overweight (and therefore unfit) person cannot possibly, in a million years, be healthy.

This is not all the time true; in fact, I would say it’s not true enough that our culture needs to start thinking differently. There are plenty of people in this country who always eat the right things, get plenty of water, and even exercise hard 3-4 days a week who will NEVER EVER EVER be considered “fit” just to look at them. But, ask their doctors and they’re the picture of HEALTH, internally.

Then, what about the ones who watch what they eat, but don’t exercise at all, and are still considered to be very healthy, medically? Besides reasons rooted in vanity, what incentive does this group have to get “fit = thin”, if they’re ALREADY healthy?

None of this applies to me, personally, because I’ll never be completely healthy or fit again on this side of Heaven. But, I’m just sayin…

I’m really late talking about this, but better late than never…

Well y’all, I called it! When I wrote my review of the season four finale of Lincoln Heights back in November 2009, I predicted that ABC Family would be pulling the plug, even though the network swore they were not planning to kill the show. How did I know for sure? As I said then, anyone who is a Lincoln Heights fan knows that there is always a killer cliffhanger at the end of each season’s finale, and the season four finale was wrapped up, and tied in a pretty little bow, as if to make sure the show ended on a good note. This was no doubt done to ward off the same type of firestorm that the network was engulfed in when they abruptly pulled the plug on Kyle XY. The first reliable confirmation I got about LH being canceled was from Rhyon Brown (“Lizzie”), who posted a video on YouTube saying the show was canceled. Other cast members took to Twitter to confirm the cancellation.

Now, does anyone besides me find it suspicious that Lincoln Heights was cancelled right when it was beginning to become recognized and lauded in the black American community? The show won several NAACP Image Awards, and the three “Sutton women” appeared in TV interviews and on black-oriented talk shows like the Mo’Nique Show. So, their buzz was finally building in the black community and suddenly… BAM!, the show is no more. You’re damned skippy I’m suspicious about how this went down. And, I’m further ticked off that ABC Family would have the cast out doing press if they knew they were pulling the plug. There is no way in two hells that ABC Family can convince me that this show’s cancellation was an unexpected, last minute decision.

I hope and pray that another network picks up and continues Lincoln Heights. This was an EXCELLENT show that showed a strong black family, headed by two strong and loving parents who had a great marriage. As much as I loathe what BET has become, if they picked up Lincoln Heights I’d watch. However, I’d much rather that TV One or the forthcoming OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network), or another much less ghetto fabulous network picked up the show. TV One is showing the reruns of season four. Let’s hope they’re planning on buying the show from ABC Family and reviving it. With so few quality black television shows on the air now, we (especially our youth) need this show.