Shut Up Fool! Awards-Happy Birthday Tami! Edition

Today happens to be the birthday on one of my fave bloggers, Tami Winfrey Harris of What Tami Said.and a few other spots in the blogosphere.    

Happy birthday to you my womanist blogging sistah and may you have many many more to continue tellin' it like it T-I-S is..  

In honor of the day that Tami arrived on the planet, today's Shut up Fool Award presentation will be in her honor.

As always, we had a bumper crop of fools that were in fierce bipartisan competition for the SUF award this week.  Rep Mike Pence (R-IN)  Lt. Dan Choi, Glenn Beck,  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)  and Ron Christie were some of the people considered.

But this week's winner of the Shut Up Fool Award was none other than the chillbilly herself, Sarah Louise Heath Palin.

The half term governor and reality TV show star has a new waste of trees coming out, and Miss Right Wing Thang takes another race baiting swipe at the FLOTUS in it.

No Sarah, America has never been fair and equal to POC's and especially those of us of African and Native American descent.

But since you were born in Idaho and grew up in Alaska, you wouldn't know that.

The way you're hatin' on the FLOTUS, sounds like you're still bitter about losing Miss Alaska to Maryline Blackburn and the 2008 election to President Obama aren't you ?

Michelle Obama is more woman than you'll ever be.

Sarah Palin, shut the HELL up fool!

Miss International Queen 2010 Is...

  

Miss Korea,  Mini Han!

1st Runner up was Ami Takeuchi of Japan

2nd Runner up was Stasha Sanchez of the USA. (Damn)

Stasha has been one of my fave pageant sistahs for years and I was hoping she'd not only bring that Miss International Queen title back to the USA, but in the process become the first African-American to win it.

The last African-American contestant to participate in the Miss International Queen pageant was my homegirl Domanique Shappelle in 2006  

The Japanese girls almost pulled off the back to back wins.  2009 queen Ai Haruna won it last year 

Once the pics get posted on the Net from the pageant I'll post them here.

Team USA Ballers Number One Across The FIBA Board!

One of the things that happened in the afterglow of Team USA winning FIBA men's and women's world championships in the same year for the first time since 1986 was the announcement by FIBA of a revamped world basketball ranking system on September 17.


The new FIBA ranking system is designed to create a more accurate picture and ranking order of the world’s basketball nations.   The new ranking system covers two Olympiads (eight years) and five categories, Men, Women, Boys, Girls and a Combined World Ranking that takes into account results from all gender and age categories.


In addition, the U19 and U17 FIBA World Championships for Boys and Girls as well as all U16 and U18 zone championships will be included to determine the new FIBA world rankings for Boys and Girls.

To calculate the new FIBA rankings, they include qualifying competitions at FIBA zone level and take into consideration all World Championships, Olympic Games and Continental championships events.   Whenever a new championship tournament is played, the oldest championship of that category drops out and then the.FIBA rankings will be recalculated.


This year Team USA Basketball had a championship filled summer.  In addition to the Senior national men's and women's teams capturing FIBA world titles with unblemished records, the USA Men’s U17 Team did the same at the FIBA U17 World Championship in Germany with an 8-0 record.   The U18 Men's squad were a spotless 5-0 as they added the FIBA Americas U18 title to our championship haul.

The USA women were just as productive.  They won the FIBA U17 World Championship crown in France by compiling an 8-0 record.  The Women's FIBA Americas U18 Championship also came back to the USA with a spotless 5-0 mark in that tournament.

In all five FIBA categories under the new ranking system, the USA is not only number one in the combined basketball rankings, but in Men's, Women's, Boys and Girls international youth rankings as well.

So read it and weep FIBA world.  We're Number one!  The scary part is that we've got more talent in the b-ball pipeline coming at you on the men's and women's sides for future FIBA competitions.


We won't have long to celebrate this sporting accomplishment because we'll now have to go into title defense mode.   The FIBA U16 Women's championship and the Pan Am Games are on the horizon in 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico..

And like all USA basketball fans, I will be cheering them on