Happy Holidays

To All:

Here's a holiday message from the President-elect and his family:

click on this link:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid353515028?bctid=1349141721

We all "have a dog in that fight!"

The 'Bar' just got raised!

The 'Bar' just got raised!


MG,III, this one's for you!

Thank you for introducing more genius back in December 2007 and helping us to see this historic event unfold.

Down in the Tremé of New Orleans, just a block away from Congo Square, where I first remember meeting your father and my uncle was where I was taught to have respect for the "office" of the President of the United States. In the backyard of that little duplex at Ursulines and Villerie is Joseph A. Craig Elementery School where we first learned of the Chief Executive that offered so much hope and solidified our respect for the top political office in the "free world" of that time. I also watched the news, reported on that fateful day in November 1963, when Walter Cronkite spoke saying: "Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting." Decades of wondering who would bring about the kind of hope left empty by the death of the President I was taught to honor and respect by those wonderful teachers at Craig Elementery.

Truly, since November 22, 1963, most of the people I know and love (including those who are not here, except in spirit), haven't had "a dog in that fight" until November 4, 2008. Well, as you said, "the 'Bar' just got raised". The excuses were never valid in the first place. You know, the one that said: "My daddy was'nt around, so...", or "My mamma died when I was little, so...", or ' "Black folks can't ...",blah, blah, blah. I Samuel 4:9 states: "Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight". All translations suggest that we stand up!

Thank you MG,III and President-Elect, Barak Obama for reminding me that I am "the dog in that fight". Yes we can!

Our 2008 President has been chosen!

Genesis of a high-tech defense: How it got it's name ...A Dog In That Fight

In the 1980s and 1990s, President George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker used “I don’t have a dog in that fight”. It means “I don’t have an interest in this matter.” It is not known where or when the saying originated.

In an article written April 8, 1995, Elyria (OH) Chronicle-Telegram, pg. C8?:
Haley Barbour, says: “I am not as dumb as I look .. I ain’t got a dog in that fight.”

An October 23, 1996, New York Times article, pg. A25 writes:
"...How do New Yorkers pick a dog in this fight?"

Well, you get the picture.

A slightly altered use of this comment comes from a well respected, supplier diversity manager for the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet, who said "We have a dog in that fight", referring to a recent legal (malpractice) action brought against an attorney, alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, malpractice and fraud by a group of heirs to property belonging to their family since the end of the 19th century.

Thus, the name of this site.

These days we are bombarded with pit bulls with lipstick, pigs with lipstick, dog-fighting and so on. So to get your attention, we'll "get on the bandwagon" of slogans and universal themes. hopefully we don't loose sight of the simple message that these days you and I may have to fight for not only our rights to pursue, but the right to keep that which you already have or own.

This message is to encourage those family members (both vested and not yet vested) facing this legal battle that promises to be shaping up to be long, contentious and expensive, We have a dog in that fight.