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I’m making some serious goal statements this year! However, there’s no way I can accomplish any great feats without your help! I know at one time or another you’ve probably said to yourself, “Why isn’t this T Haddy guy more popular then he is? His music should be out there by now!” Well, there are things that can put me on. You ready for them?
Thing 1. Me
Thing 2. You
LOL! Simple aint it? We need to create a bigger audience. Will you help? Log in to your facebook and twitter accounts, and tell your friends and fam about our goal. 200 more facebook followers, and 200 more twitter followers before the end of January! You down? LETS GO!!!
Go here for a special video announcement: http://thaddy.net/portfolios/t-haddy-makes-big-announcement-for-new-music/
It seems like the older we get, the harder it is to follow our dreams. We get comfortable with normal things in our lives. All our attempts to get outside of the box seem to decrease with time. Here is your question of the day.
Question #6 Are you chasing your dream today, or have you put things off for another time?
Growing up, most of us got spankings to keep us in line. To be honest, IT WORKED FOR ME! However, it seems like society has created laws and regulations to go against this type of correction. So here’s our question of the day.
Question #5
Do you think it’s OK to whoop kids, or do you believe in “time outs”?
I can recall some pretty embarrassing moments I experienced as a child. The question of the day will force you to reflect on some of your own. Even if you don’t answer, you’ll reflect! LOL!
Question #4
Name one of your most embarrassing moments you experienced as a child. Come on and lets LOL together!
Ted Williams, a homeless US man with a deep, refined voice has become an overnight online sensation after being “discovered” by a local reporter on a street corner in Columbus, Ohio. The 53 year-old has now been offered a job by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for possible work. Williams said the team had offered him a two-year contract and said they would pay his living expenses. Williams was recently living in a tent and whose past includes a lengthy list of arrests. He has served time in prison for theft and forgery and has been cited with numerous misdemeanours, including drug abuse. In New York, Williams’ mother Julia was thrilled her only child was turning his life around.
In the first video posted below, Ted Williams gives us the ultimate secret to his new found success. This story is more proof that our God is real! Please watch and comment.
The video that made Ted Williams famous:
So you don’t mind praying for your haters right? You don’t mind ignoring their words? Let’s see if you can take this, and keep it moving….
Question 3: If your hater hauls off and slaps you on your right cheek, would you offer him the other, or would you slap him back? LOL! Keep it ONE-HUNDRED!
Well. I asked you a question via facebook yesterday, and the responses went crazy! LOL! The purpose of this form of blogging is very simple. It’s conversation. Let’s me and you meet here everyweekday, and have small talk. You cool with that? Come on…Thats cool right? (Thats not the question! Don’t answer that! LOL!)
Question #1
If you could only eat one food for dinner for the next 2 months, what dish would it be? Post your answer below.
From the New York Times:
QOSH, Iraq — A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.
The flight — involving thousands of residents from Baghdad and Mosul, in particular — followed an Oct. 31 siege at a church in Baghdad that killed 51 worshipers and 2 priests and a subsequent series of bombings and assassinations singling out Christians. This new exodus, which is not the first, highlights the continuing displacement of Iraqis despite improved security over all and the near-resolution of the political impasse that gripped the country after elections in March.
It threatens to reduce further what Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East called “a community whose roots were in Iraq even before Christ.”
Those who fled the latest violence — many of them in a panicked rush, with only the possessions they could pack in cars — warned that the new violence presages the demise of the faith in Iraq. Several evoked the mass departure of Iraq’s Jews after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
“It’s exactly what happened to the Jews,” said Nassir Sharhoom, 47, who fled last month to the Kurdish capital, Erbil, with his family from Dora, a once mixed neighborhood in Baghdad. “They want us all to go.”
Iraq’s leaders, including Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, have pledged to tighten security and appealed for tolerance for minority faiths in what is an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
“The Christian is an Iraqi,” he said after visiting those wounded in the siege of the church, Our Lady of Salvation, the worst single act of violence against Christians since 2003. “He is the son of Iraq and from the depths of a civilization that we are proud of.”
For those who fled, though, such pronouncements have been met with growing skepticism. The daily threats, the uncertainty and palpable terror many face have overwhelmed even the pleas of Christian leaders not to abandon their historic place in a diverse Iraq.
“Their faith in God is strong,” said the Rev. Gabriele Tooma, who heads the Monastery of the Virgin Mary, part of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Qosh, which opened its monastic rooms to 25 families in recent weeks. “It is their faith in the government that has weakened.”
Christians, of course, are not the only victims of the bloodshed that has swept Iraq for more than seven and a half years; Sunni and Shiite Arabs have died on a far greater scale. Only two days after the attack on the church, a dozen bombs tore through Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, killing at least 68 people and wounding hundreds.
The Christians and other smaller minority groups here, however, have been explicitly made targets and have emigrated in disproportionate numbers. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, these groups account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have gone abroad, while they were only 3 percent of the country’s prewar population.
More than half of Iraq’s Christian community, estimated to number 800,000 to 1.4 million before the American-led invasion in 2003, have already left the country.
The Islamic State of Iraq, an iteration of the insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, claimed responsibility for the suicidal siege and said its fighters would kill Christians “wherever they can reach them.”
What followed last month were dozens of shootings and bombings in Baghdad and Mosul, the two cities outside of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. At least a dozen more Christians died, eight of them in Mosul.
Three generations of the Gorgiz family — 15 in all — fled their homes there on the morning of Nov. 23 as the killings spread. Crowded into a single room at the monastery in Qosh, they described living in a state of virtual siege, afraid to wear crosses on the streets, afraid to work or even leave their houses in the end.
There is no exact accounting of those who have fled internally or abroad. The United Nations has registered more than 1,100 families. A steady flow of Christians to Turkey spiked in November to 243, an official there said.
Christmas was declared a national holiday in 2008, though celebrations are muted, and in Kirkuk, a tensely disputed city north of Baghdad, Christmas Mass was canceled last year.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, appointed by the president and Congress, said that the nominal protections for religious minorities in Iraq — including Christians, Yazidis and Sabean Mandeans, followers of St. John the Baptist — did little to stop violence or official discrimination in employment, housing and other matters. It noted that few of the attacks against minority groups were ever properly investigated or prosecuted, “creating a climate of impunity.”
Archdeacon Emanuel said the government needed to do more to preserve a community that has been under siege in Iraq for decades — from the first massacre of Christians in Sumail in 1933 after the creation of the modern Iraqi nation to the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to today’s nihilistic extremism that, in his words, has taken Islam hostage.
“What happened has been done repeatedly and systematically,” he said. “We have seen it in Mosul, in Baghdad. The message is very clear: to pluck Iraqi Christians from the roots and force them out of the country.”
Before I start let me say that I pray that blogs like this one doesn’t spark an all out stone fest. As Christians we are so quick to judge others (especially celebrities) on there actions.
Back in the day when Tonex first hit the scene, I was simply amazed by his production and vocal abilities. I even had the opportunity to watch him live in Atlanta, GA during TD Jakes’ Mega Fest back in 06 or 07. His gift was truly undeniable. Then a little later on, I started hearing folks talking about him going off in a video blog on Myspace, cussing and venting his frustrations with the music industry, and people who called themselves his friends. So I logged on and saw and heard with my own ears, a side of Tonex I had never seen up to this point. A month or so later, I pulled up an interview he did with Atlanta Gospel Radio Host Co-Co Brotha. I could tell that this was a very trying time for Tonex, yet his tone was still one of frustration, and aggression. Then there was the Lexi TV interview, where I seen a man that seem cool with who he had become. But I also saw a man that believed that homosexuality was OK. I saw a man embracing the same things we call bondage, as if they were freedom.
Now, none of us are perfect! We all have to battle sin in one form or another in our lives, but to me, this just seemed like Tonex was waiving the white flag to his temptations. I don’t care how many times we fail, as TRUE Christians, we should never surrender! As a matter of fact, if my personal sins could be manifested into the form of a person, I’d drag him outside, and beat him senseless. I HATE MY SIN! I thinks its a problem when we stop hating our failures.
Now we see whats called “Evolution” of Tonex into an alter ego named Brain Slade. Believe me, I an’t judging the man, but the fruit of the man is always up for judgement, and this fruit just doesn’t look good. LORD FORGIVE ME IF I’M CASTING THE WRONG LIGHT! We don’t know all the details that lead Tonex up to this point in his life, but God does.
Check out Tonex latest interview below, and post your comments.
Up to this point, T Haddy had never shared the same the stage with Canton, but wasn’t that just long overdue? The two was suppose to rock out to the remix of 24′s but T just couldn’t remember how his verse went…..RATS! Anywho, enjoy the video posted below of Buddy Crunk, Canton Jones, and T Haddy rocking the stage to “Swagg N Pose”. Also check out the official music video that includes hip hop sensation Messenja.
