These lifestyles are a direct reflection of the life you live You do not have to be in these lifestyles You first have to have a life And a direction built on a stable image as to what you want out of your life
But there are too many choices There are too many advertisements There are too many distraction And there is too much time to dream
What do you want out of your life? What do you want to offer others in your life? What do you want out of others in your life? What is your purpose in these lifestyles of your life?
Monogamy?
I spent a great deal of time reading Teal's page She has a way of provoking good topics through sexuality And she has some sexy ass nipples too *wicked grin*
But I think that many of you need to learn more about what you are doing or not doing right in your life And how it effects your lifestyle as well
And then maybe you can better seek what you lust for out of these lifestyles Because all they offer you is style But if you have no real respect for life it's self? You can not have what you do not respect
Monogamy Monogamy is the custom or condition of having only one mate in a relationship, thus forming a couple. The word monogamy comes from the Greek word monos, which means one or alone, and the Greek word gamos, which means marriage or union.
Serial monogamy is having no more than one sexual partner at a time but allows for multiple partners in a lifetime. In western culture serial monogamy is common with individuals before they start a family, due to divorce rates.
Monogamy is one of several mating systems observed in animals. The
amount of social monogamy in animals varies across taxa, with over 90
percent of birds engaging in social monogamy but only 7 percent of mammals engaging in social monogamy.
The incidence of sexual monogamy appears quite rare in the animal
kingdom. It is becoming clear that even animals that are socially
monogamous engage in extra-pair copulations.
With this description? Having ONE means you ONLY have ONE Ever!
But that is not how many of you are today The real issue is how many of you Do not know the real definition of what you call your own acts
Most of you are not Monogamous You are serial monogamous And the only reason why so many of you do not call what you are And what you do Serial monogamy Is because you do not know what it is Or what's the difference
Serial monogamy is characterized by a series of long- or short-term, exclusive sexual relationships entered into consecutively over the lifespan. In common usage partners need not be married, but there is never more than one partner at a time. This behavior is a variant of monogamy,
in which a given individual has only one sexual partner throughout
life. This behavior is sometimes referred to as a form of, or
replacement for,polygamy. However, this practice inherently excludes the practice of having multiple simultaneous sexual partners. Meaning? Generally, any animals that do not mate with one partner for life can be considered serially monogamous, including those who find a second mate only upon the death of the first.
There are arguments that evolutionary biology has selected a four-year mating cycle for humans based on natural birth spacing, as well as the belief that finding a 'fully' monogamous species is rare.
Within Western culture,
serial monogamy is considered more fundamental than "full" monogamy.
Relatively few people consciously enter a long-term relationship
wanting it to eventually end so as to begin another. But they do! Especially in this country
Divorce
Serial monogamy has always been closely linked to divorce practices. Whenever procedures for obtaining divorce have been simple and easy, serial monogamy has been found.
As divorce has continued to become more accessible, more individuals have availed themselves of it, and many go on to remarry
But in this life we all live Many of us don't have a legal divorce from our mates And many of you are not open about what you do in your vanilla lives With your mates It's not personal, it's cultural.
The sexual revolution refers to the well documented changes in sexual behavior throughout the Western world that continue to evolve.
In
general use, the sexual revolution is attributed to the changing trends
in social thought, witnessed from the 1960s into the early 1970s.
Although the term has been used at least since the late 1920s.
During
the 1960s and 1970s fundamental changes were made on how society viewed
its sexuality, heralding a period of de-conditioning away from old
world antecedents, and developing new codes of sexual behavior many of
which are now integrated into the mainstream. The 1960s and 1970s
heralded a new culture of "free love” with millions of young people embracing the hippie ethos and preaching the power of love and the beauty of sex as a natural part of ordinary life. Hippies believed that sex was a
natural biological phenomenon which should not be denied or repressed.
Changes in attitudes reflected a perception that traditional views on
sexuality were both hypocritical and chauvinistic. Sexual
liberalization heralded a new ethos in; experimenting with open sex in
and outside of marriage, contraception and the pill, public nudity, gay Liberation, liberalization of abortion, interracial marriage, a return to natural birth control and childbirth, women's rights and feminism. [5][6] The perception that all hippies were excessively promiscuous and the sexual revolutionary era was an uncontrolled orgy of group sex is a myth without basis. Many of the era’s countercultural people were celibate due to personal preferences. These choices had nothing to
do with issues of morality, but were ones of personal deliberation due
in part to spiritual conviction.
The consideration that relationships and sex could become distractions
upon the path of personal spiritual deliverance, ensured that many
hippies refraned from all sexual activity. Celibate hippies were not critical of others who chose the paths of “free love”
and “sexual liberalization”. In the late seventies and eighties new won
sexual freedoms were exploited by big business looking to capitalise on
a more open society, with the advent of public pornography and hardcore.
Counter forces such as Fraenkel (1992) say that the "sexual revolution", that the West
supposedly experienced in the late 60s, is indeed a misconception and
that sex is not actually enjoyed freely, it is just observed in all the
fields of culture; that's a kind of taboo behavior technically called "repressive desublimation". In his writing Marcuse explores the concept that Establishment sanctioned forms of sensual
release, what he calls "repressive desublimation", complete our
enslavement on the instinctual level. In order to move from that to an
actual sexual liberation, it is necessary a change in our mental structures and our moral inhibitions; instead the Judeo-Christian morals still basically hold, and the small social changes are exaggerated because they are seen in
that light. Even most of the self-claimed atheists, have just secularized and internalized the same old morals.
While the extent to which the sexual revolution involved major changes in sexual behavior is debated, many observers
suggest that the main change was not that people had more sex or
different types of sex, it was simply that they talked about it more
openly than previous generations had done - which in itself can be
described as revolutionary by supportive historians.
Historian David Allyn argues it was a time of "coming-out": about premarital sex, masturbation,
erotic fantasies, pornography use, and sexuality. Although this may be
true, some historians have doubts on this due to the lack of
contraceptives en masse before the common era. This would have made it
extremely difficult to cover up pre-marital relations due to extremely
high risk of pregnancy.
It is clear that sexual behavior did change radically for the vast majority of women, but only a generation
after the "revolution" had begun. Women reaching sexual maturity after
about 1984 have behaviors much more in common with the men of a
generation earlier. Some had more partners (two to three times), starting at an earlier age (by three to five years), than women of the 1970s. Nevertheless this rather radical change in actual behavior is rarely reported on, being regarded as no longer newsworthy.
Most of you in America do not know any better Not out of ignorance But out of stupidity *blank stare*
"We have come a long way baby"
Haven't we?
So let's get back to the more advanced living people "The lifestyler's"
Many of you do not consider yourselves in a lifestyle Yet most of you will agree that you have grown to have done your fair amount of "dirt" in your lives
From freakin To sneakin To creaping To cheating To speaking about thinking about something kinky
Yet, many of you who now call these lifestyles a part of your lives? Are still playing the sex game "It's not about the sex" Sometimes it's just about the attention Nobody wants to be lonely So they claim that you can own thee *snicker* But show me where you are doing anything more respectable than I am? *LQQKinG* (take'n a nap until you absorb the first part) *Yawn*
Ok, this is for the advanced sexual lifestyles people The rest of you can go sit in the corner and study the first part *smirk*
Ok Now that we see how life has changed in the past few years Sexually A new reality
And here we are Trying to be sexually evolved And free to be grown ass adults Enjoying all that life has in store for consenting adults Of like minds And a lust for a more responsible kinky life SSC
So this is where we are in this subject "Free love" "The revolution was not only televised, it was pod cast!"
The
sexual revolution can be seen as an outgrowth of a process in recent
history, though its roots may be traced back as far as the Enlightenment (Marquis de Sade) and the Victorian era (A. C. Swinburne's scandalous Poems and Ballads of 1866).
It was a development in the modern world which saw the significant loss of power by the values of a morality rooted in the Christian tradition and the rise of permissive societies,
of attitudes that were accepting of greater sexual freedom and
experimentation that spread all over the world and were captured in the
phrase free love.
Historians
argue that the ongoing Sexual Revolution in the new century is
continued liberalization after a conservative period that existed
between the 1930s and 1950s. They note that the Cold War sparked a socially conformist identity which tended to be self-conscious of its appearance to the outside world. .
Within the United States, this conformity took on puritanical overtones which contradicted natural or even culturally-established human sexual behaviors. It was this period of Cold War puritanism,
some say, which led to a cultural rebellion in the form of the "sexual
revolution". Despite this, however, before the 1920s the Victorian era
was much more conservative than even the 1930s and 1950s. Due
to the invention of TV and the increasingly wide use of it in the 50s,
by the 1960s a vast majority of Americans had television. This mass
communication device, along with other media outlets such as radio and
magazines, could broadcast information in a matter of seconds to
millions of people, while only a few wealthy people would control what
millions of people would watch.
Some have now theorized that perhaps that these media outlets helped spread new ideas among the masses.
A prime example of this occurred during the early 1960s when the Beatles (virtually unknown at the time) came to America and were introduced on the Ed Sullivan show. Once the show was over they were an instant hit.
Forty
million Americans had watched it that night and thus morals in one
perspective changed instantly; although obviously it would take longer
for this to occur.
The mass media's
broadcasting of new ideas to the population was radical, and during the
late 1960s the counterculture was becoming well known on radio,
newspapers, TV and other media outlets.
One suggested trigger for the modern revolution was the development of the birth control pill in 1960, which gave women access to easy and reliable contraception.
Another likely factor was vast improvements in obstetrics, which greatly reduced the number of women who die in childbirth and thus increases the life expectancy of women.
Other data suggest the "revolution" was more directly influenced by the financial independence gained by many women who entered the workforce during and after World War II, making the revolution more about individual equality rather than biological independence.
Many people, however, feel that one specific cause cannot be selected for this large phenomenon. And the above is why so many of us are now struggling with the Old Guard while living in a new age
Many of you have grown to invest your lives in this lifestyle Without the common respect for the act of sex
And sex in now the number one cause of infidelity in this country And in these lifestyles
And many of you are not adult enough to admit it That is not a threat It's a human trait of this new age we live in right now get over it understand it respect it
"We are not living your grandmothers life anymore"
Advances in the manufacture and production of rubber made possible the design and production of condoms that could be used by hundreds of millions of men and women to prevent pregnancy at little cost. Advances in steel production and immunology made abortion readily available.
So for a while, it was the woman's choice to keep a unwanted child from a sexual encounter.
So for a while, it became ok to be over sexual active
Sado-masochism ("S&M") gained popularity, and "no-fault" unilateral divorce became legal and easier to obtain in many countries during the 1960s and 1970s.
So for a while, we became more kinky adults
All these developments took place alongside and combined with an increase in world literacy and decline in religious observances. Old values such as the biblical
notion of "be fruitful and multiply" for example, were cast aside as
people continued to feel alienated from the past and adopted the
life-styles of modernizing westernized cultures.
So for a while, we became church freaks, jewish freaks, muslim freaks, and just plain ole freaky spiritual people.
A we lost sight of a old out dated culture
And failed to respect this new culture we live in today
The New World Order Of Sexuality of The Ages
E Pluribus Unum
From the many we became the one
American Freaks
So what is your excuse?
So why do many of us in these lifestyles suffer the same fate As many people in the vanilla world?
"Maybe it is because we are NOT respecting the basic rules of relationships?"
There are rules we all try to tell the younger freaks they too need to respect Even if we tell them to do as we say and not as we do They do just like you
So we owe it to not just ourselves or these lifestyles But our next generations to get better in bed And in our lives together
It is said that at the time, public morality severely restricted open discussion of sexuality as a human
characteristic, and specific sexual practices, especially sexual
behaviors that did not lead to procreation.
Kinsey's books contained studies about controversial topics such as the
frequency of homosexuality, and the sexuality of minors ages two weeks
to thirteen years. Scientists working for Kinsey reported data which
led to the conclusion that we are capable of sexual stimulation from
birth.
And with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemy in early 1980s — culminating with the publicly-known death of Rock Hudson in 1985 — marked the return of conservative values into society and the
juridical and political questioning of the achievements of Sexual
Revolution(see Meese Commission and Bowers v. Hardwick).
This situation would prevail until the mid-to-late-1990s, when the discovery of more effective ways to control AIDS infections and cultural phenomena like internet pornography made the moral-cultural tide slowly turn again. But many of you still consider AIDS more of a homosexual issue today still And even the more sexually evolved lifestyle types see this in the same light So that means that we have too many people who have no respect for sexuality as a whole still Although more of you are educated? You still do not know enough to respect what you are doing or not doing
yet You want to respect monogamy? You want to respect sexual monogamy? You want to respect polyamory?
There was a few statements that I read in Teal's post That I really felt needed to be read again Maybe by more intelligent people than many who replied *snicker*
" Sexual monogamy is not equal to relationship monogamy. " " Faithfulness (or 'Monogamy') to a relationship (or marriage) does not have to equate to sexual faithfulness." Made by Buck and Wife
And I have heard these words spoken by family members and friends that have been together forever
But these rules are deeper for many of us who claim involvement with many of these lifestyles Because what we do is not all about sex But too many of you have not mastered sex So to submit and be Mastered by each other in these sexual lifestyles? Can cause major issues and drama between each other And the lifestyles in general
Because you are not following the rules
The worse abuse ever noted? Is selfish abuse The need to take more than you give And not be concerned with the longterm effects
And yet you want monogamy?
For most of you it is too late Because you are not virgins anymore
So you all are serial monogamous respect that first
Too many of you suffer from selfish pride To see how you fit in this post And as adults And that is a deadly sin *wicked grin*
So what good are you to anyone if you do not follow the rules you claim you are about?
Maybe that is why so many people in these lifestyle are single? Or have mates that are not in these lifestyles with you? Not that they can not handle it But because they can not handle you not feeling that they can handle it too?
And there is no such thing as being vanilla in these lifestyles Once you have learned to respect your own sexuality? Once you have found a lust for your own kink? Once you have found a lifestyle that fits you?
You are no longer vanilla Because vanilla is a flavor Not a lifestyle In a lifestyle? You can be any flavor you want to be SSC
But if you think that these lifestyles are about sex? Then you are not ready to go further than just sex in your lifestyle
Until you learn the rules And how to define who you are in reality
What are the real issues with Marijuana and Medicine?
Yeah I know that many of you are down low weed smokers Not all of you But most of you at least feel there is little threat Of the use of Marijuana and Medicine
So let's look deeper into this subject (as I go make my self a sammitch) *wicked grin*
Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves,
stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Cannabis
is a term that refers to marijuana and other drugs made from the same
plant. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, marijuana is
the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States.
One
of the active chemicals in marijuana is THC
(delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). THC is the main component responsible
for marijuana's mind-altering effect. For decades, scientists have been
studying THC’s potential medical uses to determine its validity and
found that it may help treat a variety of conditions including nausea,
glaucoma, pain and multiple sclerosis.
Medical
marijuana advocates argue that marijuana provides medical benefits for
cancer and AIDS patients by increasing appetite and decreasing nausea
and it has been shown to assist some glaucoma, Parkinson’s and multiple
sclerosis patients.
According to the White House
Office of National Drug Control Policy and opponents to medical
marijuana, marijuana use results in problems with memory and learning,
distorted perception, difficulty in thinking and problem solving, loss
of coordination, increased heart rate, and anxiety. Also, chronic use
of marijuana may increase the risk of psychotic symptoms in people with
a past history of schizophrenia.
Twelve states have
compassionate use laws: Alaska, Nevada, California, New Mexico,
Colorado, Oregon, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Montana,
Washington. In these states, patients with a doctor’s note are
protected from state prosecution. Anyone who uses marijuana for any
reason is vulnerable to Federal anti-drug laws, arrest and prosecution.
According to Americans for Safe Access, several
state legislatures are currently considering medical marijuana,
including: Illinois, New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota and
Massachusetts.
The California Compassionate Use Act
provides that certain criminal statutes prohibiting the possession and
cultivation of marijuana shall not apply to a patient (or caregiver)
"who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical
purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or
approval of a physician."
By Federal statute,
doctors are presently permitted to prescribe opiate painkillers derived
from poppy seeds such as Codeine and Demerol and narcotic drugs such as
morphine, but not marijuana. Source: The Controlled Substances Act of
1970, 21 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq
Controlled Substances
Act of 1970 established five categories for all prescription and
illicit drugs. Marijuana was placed in Schedule I, which defines the
substance as having: a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted
medical use in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use
under medical supervision.
According to information
dated March 30, 2007, from the Colorado patient registry system, the
average age of patients registered in the Medical Marijuana program for
the state is 43 and patients range in age from 17-80 years old.
The
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has stated that
marijuana has a high potential for abuse and can incur addiction and
serve as a gateway to other drugs. Frequent use of marijuana leads to
tolerance to the psychoactive effects and smokers compensate by smoking
more often or seeking higher potency marijuana.
According
to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 97.5
million Americans aged 12 or older tried marijuana at least once in
their lifetimes, representing 40.1% of the U.S. population in that age
group. The number of past year marijuana users in 2005 was
approximately 25.4 million (10.4% of the population aged 12 or older)
and the number of past month marijuana users was 14.6 million (6.0%).
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
Results from the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National
Findings, September 2006
The Institute of
Medicine’s 1999 report Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science
Base was neither a blanket endorsement nor a dismissal of the medical
marijuana use concluding “[C]annabis and its derivatives have shown
promise in the treatment of a variety of disorders.” The report said
that the active ingredients in marijuana were useful in controlling
pain, nausea and lack of appetite in very seriously ill patients. The
experts called for further research and development of "safer" pills
and inhalers based on chemicals found in marijuana cautioning that
marijuana smoke delivers harmful substances found in tobacco smoke. It
called for further research to conclusively determine whether habitual
marijuana smoking causes cancer.
Ok I have been thinking of this subject also because I have older parents And good friends who are now over the age of 50
And some of them are on medications for pain and other discomforts And watching them struggle over the side effects Only to feel less pain or nothing at all mentally
I started really thinking about what are the real issues With Medical Marijuana and how the candidates see this issue Being that everyone of them are promoting change
I wonder what would change in this countries views of Marijuana use If Medical Marijuana was prescribed for pain and the symptoms AIDS And other illnesses Legally
Because there is no shortage of pot For people who smoke pot
So what about the people who may find some help From Hemp ?
But this is a interesting statement right here
Not that we can expect this kind of vending machine country wide But if my family or my friends who are suffering and in need of weed? I would go to the store And get more than I normally do
Because unlike you
If my father or mother would suffer less pain I would not complain With passing the good shit To my own parents And they know me I don't grow weed
But I know that we need to think deeper into this election Because we need change and protection By thinking of the real issues in every direction
And as I inhale the essence of THC I know it aint the Herb that bothers me But the stupidity Of so many
Who think the only issues that we think are important We have already talked about or heard from the press
About who is best At changing the way we live In this country
Not that this is Amsterdam But this country has no shortage To help some people live and die more comfortable Even if it takes them smoking blunt They should have lived long enough to smoke whatever they want
And with so many "Baby Boomers" becoming elderly
I think some people are feeling me too
So what about you?
How do you feel about the issue of medical Marijuana?
Do you think that issue is just as important when we talk about health care And not try to use the excuse of smoking being bad for your health
*blank stare*
I Am Mr Ez And this is my home of Moanin by MAN LAW!!! again
AMP Sir Ez
Hafez
And I wonder what is the real issue with Marijuana And me *snicker*
"THE" oldest touring band in music history! (I bet most of you didn't know that)
I wanted to post the history of these brothers Because we tend to forget about the accomplishments of our people When we are faced with media drama
So here's their story to date:
Ronald Isley (IPA: /ˈaɪzliː/) (b. May 21, 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an Americanpop, rock, soul, and R&B singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the legendary family music group The Isley Brothers.
He is currently serving time in Federal Prison for tax evasion in Terre
Haute, Indiana, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
Early life
Born
the third of six brothers, Ronald, like many of his siblings, began his
career in the church. He began singing at the age of three, winning a
$25 war bond for singing at a spiritual contest at the Union Baptist Church. By the age of seven, Ronald was singing onstage at venues such as the Regal Theater in Chicago, alongside Dinah Washington and a few other notables.
Beginning of an era
In 1954, when Ronald was only 13, he and his brothers, Rudolph, O'Kelly and Vernon Isley,
formed the original lineup of what would become the Isley Brothers.
Beginning as a gospel quartet, they began singing alongside their
father, O'Kelly, Sr. (also a singer in his own right at the time), and
their mother Sallye (the group's first pianist).
Ronald carried
on as the leader of the Isleys after Vernon's 1955 death in a bicycle
accident at age 13. In 1957, the Isleys moved out of Cincinnati and
headed to New York City, where they began recording doo-wop material for several record labels. After several failed attempts, the
brothers hit pay dirt after cultivating a song that had been created
after the brothers' inspired performance of Jackie Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops" at a 1959 Washington, D.C. show. After signing with RCA Records, the group released "Shout!", a song that has since become a legendary rock and roll staple.
After the 1962 hit, "Twist & Shout", and a brief successful stint at Motown, the brothers formed the T-Neck record label (named after their New Jersey hometown) in 1968 and released the hugely successful funk anthem, "It's Your Thing", which won the group their only Grammy.
Ronald
could sing rock & roll as well as funk and soul. In fact, Ronald is
considered one of the original belters and vocalists of the rock era. After years singing in gritty gospel-infused vocals, Ronald introduced R&B audiences to his piercing falsetto and softer tenor in ballads that critics have hailed as some of the greatest love songs
of all time, including "For the Love of You", "Harvest For the World",
"Sensuality", "At Your Best",
"Footsteps in the Dark", "I Need Your Body", "Choosey Lover", "Between
the Sheets", and "Don't Say Goodnight." He still sang in his gritty
tenor in hits like "That Lady", "Live It Up", "Fight the Power" and
"Take Me to the Next Phase".
After the death of his oldest brother, O'Kelly, in 1986, Isley began working with soul singer-songwriter-producer Angela Winbush on the next Isley Brothers record, Smooth Sailin'. The album was released in 1987. Isley and Winbush shared a duet on Winbush's Sharp album (the top 40 R&B ballad "Hello, Beloved"), and in 1993, they
were married. Winbush continued producing records with Isley for 1989's
Spend the Night, 1991's The Tracks of Life (with a revamped version of the Isley Brothers), 1996's Mission to Please (from which Isley and Winbush scored a hit duet, "Floatin' On Your Love", whose remix featured Lil' Kim) and 2001's Eternal, before Isley and Winbush divorced in 2001. The former couple remains close.
One
of the founding members of the Isley Brothers, he and Ernie remain the
only brothers (as of 2006) who remain in the group. His vocals have
helped the Isleys become the longest-running charted group in music
history. Few bands or artists could get away with having a hit in 1959,
and still make hits in the new millennium. Isley has accomplished this
feat with the hits "Contagious" (a Top 20 smash in 2001) and the Hot
100 singles "What Would You Do" and "Busted" (released in 2003). He was
also was featured singing the hook in Swizz Beatz' "Big Business" and
the remix, "Bigger Business".[citation needed]
Since the 1990s, he has become a sought-after vocalist for hip-hop artists like Warren G, Nas, UGK, Ja Rule and Jay-Z. In 1995, he began collaborating with one of his fans, R&B singer-songwriter R. Kelly, who had a hit duet with Ronald and brother Ernie with "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)",
the first hit by the Isleys in a long time. In the video to the song,
Kelly and Isley introduced youngsters to the "Mr. Biggs" character,
which has since become a Ronald Isley trademark. The Mr. Biggs
character has also been featured in the video of B2K's "Girlfriend".
Isley and his wife are the parents of, Ronald, Jr., his first son. He has a daughter, Tawana, from an earlier marriage
The longtime lead vocalist for the Isley Brothers, Ronald Isley helmed the influential family group for close to a half century, a
period spanning not only two generations of siblings but also massive
cultural shifts that heralded their music's transformation from gritty
R&B to Motown soul to blistering funk. Born in Cincinnati, OH, on
May 21, 1941, as a preteen he joined siblings Rudolph, O'Kelly, and Vernon to form the earliest incarnation of the group. After Vernon's 1955 death in a bicycling accident, Ronald was tapped as the remaining trio's lead vocalist. Early singles
stiffed, but "Shout" -- their 1959 debut for RCA -- sold a million
copies, despite failing to crack the Top 40. Only after the Isleys left RCA for the Wand label did they have another hit, this time with their seminal 1962 cover of the Top Notes'
"Twist and Shout." After recording for their own T-Neck label, they
signed to the Motown subsidiary Tamla in 1965, joining forces with the
famed Holland-Dozier-Holland writing and production team. The Isleys' first single, the shimmering
"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)," was their finest moment yet
and barely missed the pop Top Ten. The group still felt straitjacketed
by the Motown assembly line production formula and in 1969, they exited
Tamla to resuscitate the T-Bone label. Their next release, the muscular
and funky "It's Your Thing," hit number two on the U.S. charts in 1969
and became their most successful record. In 1973, the Isleys scored a massive hit with their rock-funk fusion cover of their own
earlier single "Who's That Lady," retitled "That Lady (Pt. 1)." The
album 3 + 3 also proved highly successful, as did 1975's The Heat Is On,
which spawned the smash "Fight the Power (Pt. 1)." As the decade wore
on, the group again altered its sound to fit into the booming disco
market; while their success on pop radio ran dry, they frequently
topped the R&B charts with singles like 1977's "The Pride," 1978's
"Take Me to the Next Phase (Pt. 1)," 1979's "I Wanna Be With You (Pt.
1)," and 1980's "Don't Say Goodnight." In 1986, O'Kelly Isley died of a
heart attack and brother Rudolph left to join the ministry soon after; Ronald forged on, however, teaming with younger siblings Ernie and Marvin for albums, including 1996's Mission to Please. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Singer Ronald Isley gets 3 years in prison
R&B icon, in poor health, is sentenced on tax evasion charges
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LOS ANGELES - Ronald Isley has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
The
65-year-old R&B singer was also ordered to pay $3.1 million in back
taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, said Assistant U.S. Attorney
Robert Conte.
Isley was convicted last year of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return.
During
Friday’s hearing, defense attorney Anthony Alexander argued that Isley
should receive probation instead of prison time because of
complications from a stroke and a recent bout with kidney cancer.
Alexander also pleaded for leniency because Isley had been attempting to pay down his IRS debt.
“He’s been liquidating assets, he’s been doing the things that he can,” Alexander said.
But U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson declined to sentence Isley to less time than called for under federal guidelines.
“The term serial tax avoider has been used. I think that’s appropriate,” Pregerson said.
During
the trial, prosecutors said Isley, lead singer of The Isley Brothers,
avoided paying taxes numerous times in the past three decades and
declared bankruptcy after the IRS seized his yacht, cars and other
property in 1997.
He was discharged from bankruptcy
four years later, but then did not file tax returns for the years 1997
to 2001 and in 2002 did not sign his return and failed to pay all taxes
due.
Alexander argued during the trial that
“unfortunate circumstances” such as the deaths of two of Isley’s
accountants made him unable to get records together and pay taxes
during the years that led to the criminal charges.
Isley’s
recent albums include a 2003 collaboration with Burt Bacharach titled,
“Here I Am,” and The Isley Brothers album “Body Kiss.”
He was expected to be sent to a Bureau of Prisons hospital facility.
We’ll have to take Ron Isley off of our Celebrity Tax List — he got busted for tax evasion and is going to be in jail for the next three years.
From a quick scan of the details it sounds like two of his accountants
“died” while trying to get his tax returns together…
U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson said, “The term serial tax avoider has been used. I think that’s appropriate.”
Just in case you’re wondering what he’s been up to since his popularity over 40 years ago, he was in a recent R. Kelly video.
As part of my undergraduate federal income tax class, I have a sporadic “where are they now?” segment. I go to the
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Inmate Locator Page
(http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp) and type in the name of
someone about whom we are curious. It seems that one Roanld Isley
(number 31215-112) is still in transit. But you could chek back
regularly.
Isley Brothers
February 12, 2008
LOS ANGELES—An appellate court has upheld a 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion for R&B singer Ronald Isley.
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The
three-judge panel rejected the 66-year-old singer's argument that his
sentence was unreasonable due to his age, poor health and lack of proof
that the federal prison system can provide him adequate health care.
In
its ruling, the appellate court said the trial judge was correct in
sentencing and "best balanced the need to sanction Mr. Isley's
'pathological' tax evasion against the need to accommodate Mr. Isley's
poor health."
Isley was sentenced in 2006 after being convicted
of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file
a tax return.
Prosecutors said Isley avoided paying taxes
numerous times over a three-year period and declared bankruptcy after
the IRS seized his yacht, cars and other property in 1997.
He
was discharged from bankruptcy four years later, but then did not file
tax returns for the years 1997 to 2001 and in 2002 did not sign his
return and failed to pay all taxes due.
Isley suffered a minor stroke in July 2004, but got married one year later and continuously performed concerts at that time.
He
is currently incarcerated at the Terre Haute Federal Corrections
Institution in Indiana and his projected release date is in April 2010.
The
Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Terre Haute, Indiana, is a
medium security facility housing male inmates with an adjacent
satellite prison camp that houses minimum security male offenders. It
is part of the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex (FCC).
FCI
Terre Haute is located on Highway 63, 2 miles south of the City of
Terre Haute, which is 70 miles west of Indianapolis on Interstate 70.
Judicial District: Southern Indiana
"Kandy
Isley gives Sister Sister magazine a prison update on her husband
Ronald Isley. CALVIN You told me you had come down with a nasty cold,
but other than that how are you doing these days KANDY I’m doing good.
I know that they had reported that he was in the hospital but that’s
not true. He knows that God has got His hands on him, and because of
his faith in the Lord. He married the girl from JS"
Soul
legend Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley married singer Kandy Johnson in the
fall of 2005. The wedding was one out of the pages of a storybook,
complete with a garden ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Shortly thereafter came news that the happy couple was expecting a
special delivery: a Baby Biggs, if you will. All seemed well for the
Isley household.
Ron and Kandy Isley (pictured at the 2004 BET Awards) Credit: Lester Cohen Archive/WireImage.com
Soul
legend Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley married singer Kandy Johnson in the
fall of 2005. The wedding was one out of the pages of a storybook,
complete with a garden ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Shortly thereafter came news that the happy couple was expecting a
special delivery: a Baby Biggs, if you will. All seemed well for the
Isley household.
But it wasn't.
A year later, Ronald's
troubles with the Internal Revenue Service caught up to him. Not even
his worldwide fame and star status could prevent a judge from ordering
him to the slammer. Ronald was sentenced to three years and one month
in prison for tax evasion and willful failure to file a tax return. Mr.
Biggs was also ordered to pay $3.1 million in back taxes.
What's
life like in prison for Ron? What's it like for Kandy, who is raising
their son? We spoke to Kandy directly to find out the answers to these
questions. She revealed that she and Ronald are relying on God to take
them to "that next phase."
CALVIN: You told me you had come down with a nasty cold, but other than that how are you doing these days? KANDY: I'm doing good.
JAMIE: How's the baby? KANDY: He's almost a year old. He's doing great!
JAMIE: You know we're concerned about Ron. How is he? KANDY: I speak to him every day and he's okay. I know that they had reported that he was in the hospital but that's not true.
CALVIN: Where is serving his time? KANDY: He's in Terre Haute, Indiana.
JAMIE: What kind of facility is it? KANDY: He's in a camp.
JAMIE: What does he do on a daily basis? I know he's a superstar in there. KANDY: It's a blessing where he's at because so many people look up to him and
admire him. So you're right. He is in there signing autographs and he's
doing fine.
Sisters Kim (l) and Kandy (r) Johnson (pictured at the 2004 BET Awards) made up the R&B group JS. Credit: Ronnie Wright
JAMIE: Is he tired or bored? Although I think he probably needs the rest! KANDY: I would say that he does. I don't know about bored though. It's just like a vacation to me.
JAMIE: Does he have to maintain a certain diet? KANDY: Well, he knows what he's supposed to eat and what he's not supposed to eat.
JAMIE: Is he hardheaded? KANDY: Like most men, yes! CALVIN: Hey, wait a minute! KANDY: [Laughs] You men, you guys can't be hardheaded.
JAMIE: It was also reported that Ronald has kidney cancer. Is that true? KANDY: He had surgery on his kidney last year but he does not have any cancer.
JAMIE: What is he supposed to be eating? KANDY: Just healthy stuff: your vegetables, fruit and whole grains, and drink plenty of water.
JAMIE: What is he asking you to sneak in there? KANDY: I can't sneak nothing in there, but he says the food is good.
JAMIE: Do they give him a special diet? KANDY: No. It's not like they bring a special meal or something out to him.
It's a variety of foods and he picks the appropriate foods. He's
exercising. He walks around. They have a track there. So he does that
every day.
JAMIE: Has he lost any weight? KANDY: Yes, he has. He looks good. He does not look like he's under stress
whatsoever. He's at peace. He knows that God has got His hands on him,
and because of his faith in the Lord—that's what keeps Ronald going. He
can see me and his son every weekend.
CALVIN: What's the status of his court case? KANDY: His case is on appeal and it should be coming up the end of the year
and we're pressing and believing in God that He will come through for
him. He always has come through for Ronald. I've watched Him come
through for him and that's what we're believing.
JAMIE: How are you holding up? I know that you miss him. KANDY: I do miss him but I can go every weekend. He calls me every day and we
talk two or three times a day. And because I can go see him every
weekend, that helps us get through all of this.
JAMIE: What a typical family visit like for you all? KANDY: It's a very nice facility for families and visiting. And I go about seven hours a day.
CALVIN: How long is his sentence? KANDY: Right now I cannot give a definite time because, like I said, the
appeal is coming up at the end of this year. Or maybe the beginning of
the year we'll have an answer. But we're not expecting him to be there
that much longer.
JAMIE: How long was his original sentence? KANDY: The sentence was for 37 months.
JAMIE: So what's a typical day like for you? KANDY: I've been doing business as usual. I am raising my son, of course. And
Ronald came out with a Christmas album, so I've been involved with
that. That's on Def Jam. And I'm involved in a cognac line that Ronald
has coming up.
JAMIE: Ronald had a fur line too, right? KANDY: The fur line has been out since 2003, I believe. But the latest project
is this cognac, which is just in the beginning phases, and it's going
to branch out this year.
JAMIE: What's the cognac brand called? KANDY: It's by Baron's Select. But it's a signature piece. It's a 35-year-old
cognac. It's a high-end cognac and it comes in a nice bottle with
Ronald's signature on the bottles.
JAMIE: Well, if this project was in the works during his trial and stuff, they didn't think it would affect sales or anything? KANDY: They weren't concerned with that whatsoever. These guys love Ronald and
they believe in him and his legacy. This particular cognac is a
timeless cognac and they felt that Ronald was a timeless entertainer.
So they wanted to bring the two of them together and they're still
moving forward as planned.
CALVIN: How did you and Ronald first meet? KANDY: I met him through singing with the three of us—my two sisters Kimberly and Crystal. We sang background.
JAMIE: Has R.Kelly or any other artists visited Ronald? KANDY: I don't know if Rob has been there but I know that he has called and
shown his concern. You know, he's dealing with whatever he's got to do
with his case.
JAMIE: Well, I know this ordeal had to be difficult for you. I'm glad to talk to you. Who does the baby look like? KANDY: He looks like Ronald.
JAMIE: Is he trying to sing a little bit? KANDY: He tries to. He watches the Disney programs and he loves watching
Barney. But he knows singing and he knows his daddy's voice when he
hears it.
JAMIE: Give him our best, will you? KANDY: I will.
CALVIN: And kiss that baby, too! KANDY: Okay! [laughs]
Isley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was part of
the Isley Brothers, whose hits included "Twist and Shout" and "This Old
Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)."
First formed in the early '50s, the Isley Brothers enjoyed one of the
longest, most influential, and most diverse careers in the pantheon of
popular music -- over the course of nearly a half century of
performing, the group's distinguished history spanned not only two
generations of Isley siblings but also massive cultural shifts which
heralded their music's transformation from gritty R&B to Motown
soul to blistering funk. The first generation of Isley siblings was
born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, where they were encouraged to begin
a singing career by their father, himself a professional vocalist, and
their mother, a church pianist who provided musical accompaniment at
their early performances. Initially a gospel quartet, the group was
comprised of Ronald, Rudolph, O'Kelly, and Vernon Isley; after Vernon's
1955 death in a bicycling accident, tenor Ronald was tapped as the
remaining trio's lead vocalist.
In 1957, the
brothers went to New York City to record a string of failed doo wop
singles; while performing a spirited reading of the song "Lonely
Teardrops" in Washington, D.C., two years later, they interjected the
line "You know you make me want to shout," which inspired frenzied
audience feedback.
An RCA executive in the audience
saw the concert, and when he signed the Isleys soon after, he
instructed that their first single be constructed around their
crowd-pleasing catch phrase; while the call-and-response classic
"Shout" failed to reach the pop Top 40 on its initial release, it
eventually became a frequently covered classic.
Ronald Isley and wife at the Soul Train Music Awards
Ronald Isley (left) and brother Ernie had a hit album in 2003
I spent almost 5 years touring off and on as a back line tech As well as a few other big named R&B artist and groups And getting to know the band and the staff/management As well as "Gorgeous" George The man who Tailor made the suits for so many artist Was more than just a blessing
It was a history lesson
Because THIS group touched more of the "real" music industry And other than James Brown (RIP) They gave us so many artist and groups Including Jimmy Hendrix And was the driving force for so many more to come
And they were a band A live band A real band
And for that alone
They deserve more than just what we read of them now
All the while following this band all my life
At the highest point in their career that I remember The Isley Brothers was the funkiest band around And them capes! SMH
