Showing posts with label National News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National News. Show all posts

7/02/2009

Dumb Ass of the Day!

SUFFOLK - He left his photo.

Now police have a name to go with it. A 17-year-old Suffolk resident has been identified by police as the suspect in a recent burglary in which the perpetrator took a self-portrait with his victim's cell phone camera and left it behind.

Because of his age, the juvenile's name is not being released to the media. Debbie George, spokeswoman for the city of Suffolk, said detectives have interviewed the teen and will secure petitions charging him with a felony burglary count and a larceny count that could be a felony or a misdemeanor.

The burglary happened in early June at a residence on Holbrook Arch. Detectives believe the burglar attempted to make a phone call using the home owner's cell phone but was unsuccessful, then used the camera function to take a photo of himself. The photo was circulated in the media, leading to calls from citizens that helped detectives identify the suspect.

-Source: Dailypress.com

6/16/2009

Oakland Salon Workers Gets Beat Up In Salon By Two Other Females

This right here makes absolutely no sense! This is what's wrong with black women today. In the video the salon worker, after getting her behind beat the first time, asks her assailant "What did I do?" All the attacker kept repeating was "Bitch you said it!" Tell the girl what she said. Be a woman about it. What's the purpose of coming in and accusing her of something and she's claiming that she doesn't know what she's accused of. This is disgusting. I pray that they find the girls who did this.

6/02/2009

News: Segregation Still Exists!

Every year around the middle of springtime, maybe later, high schoolers prepare for their proms. Of course we all know that prom night is what most of us looked forward to that whole school year, and you knew that you were going to have a great time partying all night with all of your friends. Never once does it cross our minds that we could be could be seperated from our friends simply because of our race. It's something that the kids now take for granted becauseat least 99% of them have never had to experience anything like this. But in one small county in Georgia, this very same scenario has been occuring for decades, even now.

Just south of Atlanta, sits Montgomery County, which consists of several small towns that have populations no more than 2500 each. At Montgomery County High School, there is only 54 students in the senior class, and these kids are experiencing segregation at it's best.

Believe it or not, on May 1st, at the town community center in Vidalia, the white students had their prom; and on May 2nd, the black students had their prom at the same exact place. Same school, same event, same place; But still seperated because of their race.

Yes this is 2009 and our schools, churches, restaurants, etc... have all been desegregated for decades, but the small minded whites in Montgomery County still want things seperate. In Montgomery County, two-thirds of the population is white. Since 1971, when it's schools were integrated, Montgomery County still continued to hold seperate proms for their black and white students. The funny thing is... these people truly believe that proms such as these are "traditions" and they don't want them to change. Luckily for a few of the other towns, some of the smarter people have chosen to opt for change and adopt the ways of the modern world of today.

Last year, in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the towns first integrated prom at Charleston High School. Unfortunately, despite his success, and notoriety, Freeman's offer was quickly shot down by the white parents, but dully embraced by ALL the students. What ended up happening? The white parents held their own "private prom". This exact situation is the reason why HBO has decided to do a documentary called "Prom Night in Mississippi,” which airs on the network in July.

The senior proms held by Montgomery County High School students — referred to by many students as “the black-folks prom” and “the white-folks prom” — are organized outside school through student committees with the help of parents. All students are welcome at the black prom, though generally few if any white students show up. The white prom, students say, remains governed by a largely unspoken set of rules about who may come. Black members of the student council say they have asked school administrators about holding a single school-sponsored prom, but that, along with efforts to collaborate with white prom planners, have failed.

According to Timothy Wiggs, the outgoing student council president and one of 21 black students graduating this year, “We just never get anywhere with it.” Principal Luke Smith says the school has no plans to sponsor a prom, noting that when it did so in 1995, attendance was poor. Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents. “Most of the students do want to have a prom together,” says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living with her black boyfriend. “But it’s the white parents who say no. … They’re like, if you’re going with the black people, I’m not going to pay for it.” “It’s awkward,” acknowledges JonPaul Edge, a senior who is white. “I have as many black friends as I do white friends. We do everything else together. We hang out. We play sports together. We go to class together. I don’t think anybody at our school is racist.” Trying to explain the continued existence of segregated proms, Edge falls back on the same reasoning offered by a number of white students and their parents. “It’s how it’s always been,” he says. “It’s just a tradition.”

1/14/2009

Man Kills 2 Year Old Son So He Doesn't Have To Pay Child Support.

I pray this sick son of a *&^%$ burns in hell for this!!!

A Louisiana man, who said his son had been kidnapped by gunmen, is now behind bars charged with his child’s murder. Police say Danny Platt confessed to killing his two-and-a-half year old child. Danny Platt said he was under a lot of pressure. He apparently owed his estranged wife $4,000 in back child support. But there were no signs of stress when the 22-year-old father, accused of killing his 2-year-old son over the child support debt, went to pick up his little boy for a weekend visit, his mother said Sunday, according to CBS13.com.

On Friday, several hours after her son, Ja’ Shawn, left, Daniella Powell received a phone call. It was Platt. He said their son had been kidnapped and quickly hung up. Powell called back in disbelief. She said her husband gave different accounts of the kidnapping. She asked if he had called police. He said he had, but when she called authorities, they hadn’t heard from him.

Police said Platt made up an elaborate story about his son being kidnapped by three men armed with AK-47 rifles late Friday night. Platt eventually confessed to the killing, telling authorities he “would kill either his wife or his child before he paid child support,” Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Saturday. Later, he led police to the boy’s body.

He has been booked on a charged of first-degree murder, reports CBS13. On Saturday night, as he was being led to jail in handcuffs, Platt said he was under a lot of pressure and acknowledged killing his son, but disputed the slaying occurred solely over the debt to his estranged wife.“I’m sorry about killing my baby,” Platt told reporters. “I had a whole bunch of reasons.” Powell said Sunday the two never had any violent fights and Platt wasn’t going through any emotional problems.

“He knew what he was doing. He killed my 2-year-old son,” she said. Powell said her son’s body was found in a plastic bag at a park. She and her family were busy preparing her son’s funeral arrangements. “I don’t have money for anything. We are trying to come up with it now,” Powell said. Police said Saturday in announcing the arrest that Platt hadn’t seen his son in quite some time. Powell said Platt had taken the boy trick-or-treating on Halloween, but acknowledged they hadn’t spoken for a couple of months. However, she didn’t think it was odd Platt wanted to spend the weekend with his son. Ja ‘Shawn was excited about seeing his father, she said. “He went to the door and said, ‘Daddy’ when he came to pick him up.”

12/17/2008

National News: You Can't Have No Cake Dammit!

Don't know if you all heard about this but these are truly signs of the times when a couple get's denied a birthday cake from a grocer. The full story:

The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, (well geeee that explains it) was denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry i-net postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend.

"I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past," Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.

"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change," the 35-year-old continued. "They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did." Uhhh okay Heath... but aren't you the same dude who requested that a swastika be put on a cake a few months back? So whose in denial here?

Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate." The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell.

"If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he asked.

The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April. Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name." He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated. Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.

He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently. "Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."

10/08/2008

Guess What This Guy Told His Students The Word CHANGE Stood For?

This dude is a 7th-Grade teacher in Floriday. On Sept 26, he decided that he wanted to talk politics with his young students. And how did he begin his lecture for that day? By writing the campaign slogan for the Democratic Presidential candidate of C.H.A.N.G.E. on the dry-erase board as an acronym. Seems harmless enough right?

Not this time.

Angry parents in the northwest Florida community of Marianna began calling and coming up to Marianna Middle school in protest to get this man fired. For what you might ask. Well... because when he explained to the children what the word "CHANGE" stood for, this is what he said:
Come Help A N*gger Get Elected!

The Marianna Middle School teacher, Greg Howard, is now serving only a 10-day suspension after writing that disgusting acronym on the board in front of these young and impressionable children. Naturally, many parents want the 17-year teacher fired. The seventh-grade social studies teacher’s class has 17 White students, six Black students and one Asian student.

When the incident first occured, Howard was only suspended for that day and without pay, but that was elevated to the 10-day punishment. He must also write a letter of apology to students. “We feel like the punishment is sufficient,” Larry Moore, superintendent of the Jackson County School District, told The Detroit Free Press. “We did not feel he had to be fired.” NAACP officials say they will reserve their actions in the case until their investigation is complete. Audrey Wad, who has nieces and nephews at the school, didn’t need any more information before expressing her outrage. “To me, it’s hurtful,” she told the Free Press. “The idea that he would impose his political opinion on the children is wrong to me. That’s where he crossed the line.”

I agree. Someone in a position such as his knows better. Whether you like Barack Obama or not, you keep that opinion to yourself when you're teaching. Let the students express how they feel, but you stay out of it. There is no place for attitudes such as his in our schools in charge of teaching our children how to begin to construct their adult lives. No SUH!!! His ass needs to be bounced right out the front door!!! Square biz!

9/21/2008

Beware Of The Beyonce Virus

An online search for Beyonce along with several other celebs such as Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Angelina Jolie, Mariah Carey, Jessica Alba, and Rihanna, could end up infecting and destroying your hard drive, thanks to computer hackers who use their names to plant viruses into computers.

According to new data from computer security company McAfee, fans who go looking for info or photos on these stars have an 18 percent chance of having their computers infected with a virus or harmful hacking programs.

Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee’s Product Development & Avert Labs, tells Reuters: “Cybercriminals employ numerous methods, yet one of the simplest but most effective ways is to trick consumers into infecting themselves by capitalizing on Americans’ interest in celebrity gossip. Tapping into current events, pop culture or commonly browsed sites is an easy way to achieve this.” These viruses which embed themselves in the celeb photos or web pages, can not only be harmful to your pc's or laptops, but they are also used to obtain personal information about the user.

9/11/2008

She Came To Cheer... So Why Won't They Let Her?

Forget the fact that Jamie Burns was recruited to come to Dallas' SMU (Southern Methodist University) to cheer from the field, but has now been told that she can only cheer from the sideline. Her doctors have cleared her medically, and her mom has said to let her daughter do what she was recruited for.

Her coach informed her on Friday that she can do nothing more than clap on the sidelines because she wears a pacemaker for an irregular heartbeat, and her condition is not covered by SMU’s insurance.

"Cheerleading has always been my life," Burns said. "I've always pushed myself to get better at tumbling, jumps, everything."

Burns' cardiologist sent releases stating that she’s good to go, and she even signed a waiver of liability, promising not to sue the Dallas-based university if she were to fall sick or get injured. But Lori White, the vice president of student affairs, said that isn’t enough.

"It's not only the liability for this individual student," said White. "For example, if she's at the base of a pyramid and something were to happen to her and she collapses, then she may also injure other students," she said.

Burns can keep her cheerleading scholarship, SMU says, but she’ll have to give up her acrobatic moves.

"It's not right," Burns said. "If they didn't want me to cheer to begin with, then they should have probably said that at the beginning and not gotten my hopes up as far as they have now. I feel like I'm being cheated for no reason. There's nothing wrong with me."

Although I understand where the school is going with this from a safety and liability stand point, but if she and her family fully understand the ramifications of what could happen if she get's out there and things go wrong, then so be it. I know it sounds cruel but it's the truth. If she was given a scholorship to cheer, let her do what she loves!

8/08/2008

Man Accused of Plotting To Assassinate Barack Obama

We need to pray for both of our candidates, not just Obama. People are crazy and will stop at nothing to get what they want.

A man was being held in Florida on Thursday on charges he told classmates at a training seminar that he would kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama if he is elected, according to a law enforcement official and court documents. The threats came just days before Obama was scheduled to visit Florida and were made by a person discovered to have ammunition, a handgun and other weapons, authorities said.

An affidavit filed by a Secret Service agent in U.S. District Court claims that Raymond Hunter Geisel, of Marathon, Florida, threatened to "kill, kidnap and cause bodily harm upon a major candidate for president of the United States, that is, Senator Barack Obama." A search of Geisel's vehicle and a hotel room in Miami, where Geisel was attending a bail bondsman training class, found a 9-mm handgun, ammunition that included armor-piercing and rifle bullets, police-style emergency lights, body armor, a machete and two canisters of tear gas, among other military-style items, according to the document.

Agents say that classmates of Geisel reported that, between July 25-28, Geisel used a racial slur toward Obama and said "if he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself." A classmate said that, one day after class, she also heard Geisel say "that he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president's head."

Obama made several campaign stops in Florida on Friday, a day before federal agents arrested Geisel at a Holiday Inn Express in Miami. During an interview with the Secret Service, Geisel said he couldn't remember whether he threatened Obama and the president, but told agents that "if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he would simply shoot him with a sniper rifle." He later said that comment was a joke, the agent said in the document.

Geisel also said he has post-traumatic stress disorder, which affects his memory, and had once checked himself into a psychiatric institution for treatment. The affidavit, signed by Special Agent Charles R. Adie, said Geisel "generally provided no excuse" for why he had the weapons and other items — claiming that he collects some of them, that the handgun was for target practice during the bail bondsman course and that he uses the machete and a hatchet for cutting through brush in Maine, where he lived most of his life before moving to Florida in January.

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen T. Brown ordered that Geisel be held in jail until his trial, calling him a danger to the community and a risk to run away before his date in court. The judge noted that Geisel lives on a sailboat, is unemployed and has no strong ties to the Florida area.Geisel is scheduled to appear in court on August 18. If he has been officially indicted by then, he would enter a plea. If not, it would merely be a preliminary hearing on the charges.

7/31/2008

News You Need To Know...

If you're a Sprint/Nextel user and you've been wondering how to get the hell up out of your contract, then I've got some good news for you. In an one of the most significant legal rulings in the tech industry this year, a Superior Court judge in California has ruled that the practice of charging consumers a fee for ending their cell phone contract early is illegal. THAT'S RIGHT! And if you live in Cali and you have Sprint/Nextel, then their violating the law by not allowing you to end without any fees.

Even though this judgement is tentative, it orders Sprint Nextel to pay customers $18.2 million in reimbursements and, more importantly, orders Sprint to stop trying to collect another $54.7 million from California customers (some 2 million customers total) who have canceled their contracts but refused or failed to pay the termination fee. HOT DAMN!!! Does this mean that that -ish get's erased off my credit??? Well hell yes it does!

While an appeal is inevitable, the ruling could have massive fallout throughout the industry. Without the threat of levying early termination fees, the cellular carriers lose the power that's enabled them to lock customers into contracts for multiple years at a time. And while those contracts can be heinously long, they also let the carriers offer cell phone hardware at reduced (subsidized) prices. AT&T's two-year contract is the only reason the iPhone 3G costs $199. If subsidies vanish, what happens to hardware lock-in? Could an era of expensive, but unlocked, hardware be just around the corner? It's highly probable.

Of course, the carriers aren't going to take this lying down. Early termination fees are seen as critical to business, so carriers are expected to look for ways to reclassify the fees (such as by calling them "rates," part of the arcane set of laws that covers the telecommunications industry). The industry is also pushing for the federal government to step in and claim oversight over the early termination fee issue, which would invalidate any state ruling. The FCC is generally more tolerant of such fees, though Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed a plan whereby the fees are decreased the closer you are to the end of your contract.

The FCC may also buy the argument that, since carriers are nationally based (and consumers can use their phones anywhere in the country), that a single policy should apply across the nation, rather than creating a patchwork of legislation that could lead to confusion and chaos caused by having 50 different policies.

Is the early termination fee dead? Not yet, but it's looking a little haggard.

7/26/2008

Nike Pulls Dunk Ads

If you know sports like I do, then maybe you'll see it like I do. I don't see anything wrong with this ad. It's "in your face" advertising... so to speak! This picture right here, happens every damn day to players in the basketball arena. So, what's so wrong with this ad? Critics say, it's homophobic. That it is feeding into the homophobic views.

If you look up the word homophobic, it says : irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals.

It's a freakin Nike ad for pete's sake! Why do people read so much into everything nowdays? I don't understand. So are you going to stop players from dunking in someones face in games and start calling the play "foul" because of it's "homophobic" intension? No... I highly doubt that. So why critisize Nike for something that has been happening for years?

Nike previously defended the ads, but said it would withdraw them as quickly as possible "to underline our ongoing commitment to supporting diversity in sport and the workplace," The Oregonian reported. The ads were created by Portland's Wieden+Kennedy agency and titled "That Ain't Right," "Isn't That Cute," and "Punks Jump Up." One ad showed a basketball player dunking over another. The crotch of the player dunking was planted firmly in the other player's face. The ad sported a large tag line: "That Ain't Right." Earlier, Nike had said the ads were "based purely upon a common insight from within the game of basketball — the athletic feat of dunking on the opposition, and is not intended to be offensive." Nike also reiterated its "history of supporting athletes regardless of their sexual orientation." Nike has been praised by gay-rights advocates for supporting a 2007 Oregon law banning discrimination against gays in work, housing and public places.

7/17/2008

Theives Steal 995 Gallons of Gas!!! Damn Where Was I At?

I know you guys can tell it's a slow day in the entertainment world because I'm blogging about something that I HATE to even think about... GAS PRICES!

I was over at CNN.com reading and happened upon this story about some thieves in Lehigh Acres, FL stealing 995 gallons of gas! DAMN!!! Where was I at when this was happening. Anyways, the theives somehow rigged the gas pump to where they went in to pay for a couple of dollars worth of gas, but ended up pumping $4000 worth. Even after the thieves left, customers were still getting the gas at whatever price the bandits paid because the pump was still rigged.

These folks were brazen enough that they commited this crime in broad daylight at a Circle K gas station. What tipped authorities off, and I'm still wondering about this, is that customers who had come and gone, started calling in saying that they filled up their tanks for $15! Sooooooo, now that's a problem? Are you kidding me? Why would you call in? Come back and get more gas before you do that. Damn! Damn! Damn! I hate to say it, but you know they had to be white (no offense to my white readers)... you know black folks ain't that damn savvy to know how to do something like that. Well, I take that back, I'm sure there are some of us nerds out there that know how, or even someone who is familiar with working on those machines. This was obviously an inside job because the crooks hit the pump where they knew the camera wouldn't hit it, and they knew which buttons on the machine to disable. Either way, it's been fixed, but with the way the ecomomy is going, I'm sure this ain't the last we'll be hearing of situations such as this one.

Josephine Baker Image On Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service released a series of stamps to commemorate honoring vintage black cinema yesterday at a ceremony in Newark, New Jersey. One of the stamps is of the legendary actress Josephine Baker. The US Postal Service, which last year lost a legal battle after refusing to mail postcards with a topless image of US-born chanteuse Josephine Baker, is honoring the late black american with a stamp of her own on Wednesday.

The stamp reproduces a poster from the 1935 French film "Princess Tam-Tam" that featured the sultry star -- this time with her bosom covered -- who emigrated to France where she took much of Europe by storm after encountering racism in her home country.

Josephine Baker was born in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, where she came face to face with discrimination, including in theaters where blacks were barred from sitting in the same areas as whites. After achieving fame in Europe she often returned to the United States to help with the civil rights movement, and joined the Reverend Martin Luther King at the landmark 1963 march on Washington.

7/12/2008

Remembering Iraq Soldiers With 4,116 Mile Run

While the rest of you are chilling by the pool, and hanging with the homies, Jon Bellona and his friends are spending the hottest months of the year running across the entire country, from California to Virginia. That's 4,116 miles — one mile for every service member who has died in Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

One of those soldiers was Bellona's best friend and college roommate First Lieutenant Michael J. Cleary. He died December 20, 2005, when an improvised explosive device, or IED, blew up near his vehicle just 10 days before he was scheduled to return home.

"I was actually running along the New Jersey shoreline looking at New York City, where the Twin Towers used to be, when I came up with the idea for the run," Bellona said. "9/11 was the reason Mike joined the Army.

Running was also a natural way to remember Cleary, who loved to pound the pavement. "He was definitely a big runner when he was in the Army," Bellona said, "even though he smoked about a pack a day!"

"I was a football player in college and never ran," said Rowland Boateng, one of Cleary's best friends from college. "Then spring semester of junior year he took me out [on] this long 7 miles, and since then I've been running."

The journey is called Run for the Fallen. The core group of runners includes some of Cleary's friends from Hamilton College Erin Kavanagh, whom he was scheduled to marry two months after he passed away.

But the group isn't just running for Cleary. "Participating in this run is part of the healing process for us," Boateng said. "This is something that can help all of us who have lost a loved one — a friend, a son, a daughter, a grandchild, a loved one, anyone."

The group started out on June 14, the Army's birthday — better known as Flag Day — right outside of Fort Irwin in California. The military training center is located in the Mojave Desert, one of the hottest spots in the country. The sun was beating down and the pavement was heating up as the runners stretched before the first mile.

"Most people don't know this," Brigadier General Dana J.H. Pittard told the group, "but we are at the same latitude as Baghdad out here."The group ran the first mile together. Most of the runners, including Pittard, stuck around for the second mile. After that, the core group started switching off, relay-style, for the rest of the 26 miles they tackled that day. At the end of each mile the group planted a small American flag in the ground.

"We are also placing placards with information about each service member," Bellona said. "We worked with about 20 schools [to make] them, so that people can learn a little bit about each of the fallen." Each placard is a laminated piece of paper, usually with a photo, that contains some facts about the fallen soldier, Marine, airman or sailor the mile is dedicated to. They are being put up in chronological order of their death.

The group is running across Texas this weekend, and they're encouraging everyone to run a mile in their own towns on August 24, when they plan to finish the run at Arlington National Cemetery. The group decided on their final location when the run was only 4,100 miles long.

6/29/2008

Anti-Obama Sentiments Felt In Orlando Florida

So the folks in Florida are anti-Obama huh? Wow!!! But, who cares really. Get over it already. The dude is the democratic nominee and he ain't going anywhere anytime soon.

Anyways, the reported incident occured at the Orlando City Hall in Orlando, Fl. More than 60 vehicles were spray painted with things like "Obama smokes crack", and other racial slurs. But the kicker, is that the vandals left business cards of supporters of Hillary Clinton. Of course the Clinton camp came right back and issued this statement: "There's no tolerance for this kind of activity in the political process. Hillary Clinton strongly supports Barack Obama and urges all of her supporters to do the same." I refuse to believe that Hillary or any of her people would stoop this low. I know they're still a little bitter, but are we 16?</p>

Black Students At A High School Are Given "Ghetto" Names In A Yearbook.

“Tay Tay Shaniqua,” “Crisphy Nanos” and “Laquan White” are some of the fake “ghetto” names placed under photos of African American Students at Charter Oaks High School in a suburb of Los Angeles. A few of the students suspect that the act was a tasteless prank but they, as well as their parents, remain outraged. “A yearbook is very significant and something you always hold on to,” said Toi Jackson, whose daughter, Evanne, is member of the school’s Black Student Union. “When she shows it to her kids she will have to explain why she has the name Crisphy.” The local school board president called the act atrocious and said he has identified the student responsible. To add insult to injury, the school passed out stickers with the correct names for the students to place in the yearbook. For parents of the affected students, that gesture is not enough. They are demanding a full reprint of the yearbook.

That damn school board whould be seeing my face every damn day if that was my child. And to compensate for this embarrassment you give out stickers for kids to place over the names? Give me a break. You know more than half those kids aren't going to put those stickers over the names. That shouldn't even been an option. A full reprint should have been done. No if's, ands or buts!!!

6/13/2008

Oldie: Girl Sues Company For Winning a Toy Yoda

Another oldie, but definitely funny still. This chick, Jodee Berry from Panama City, FL worked at a local Hooters. Berry thought she hit the jackpot when her boss told her that she had won the prize for getting the most beer sales in the restaurant. When she was blindfolded and let out to the parking lot, Jodee was presented with her prize; A Toy Yoda... you know the little green guy from Star Wars. Jodee thought that she was going to win a Toyota car. It's obvious that a Toy Yoda is not the same as a Toyota. Ha ha ha ha. I love the play on words here! Jodee sued her employer. Yeah, I'd be a little pissed too!

6/05/2008

Guiness Inducts Another Record Holder!

Can you believe this chick got into the Guinness Book of World Records for writing the longest post-doctoral thesis ever on an algebraic theory? I hope not, because it's damn sure not the truth. This chicks name is Maxi Mounds and she got into the Book of Records by having the worlds largest fake breasts. Their size, 36 triple M. *Wide eyed stare*... I'm just waiting for her to topple over any minute. I'm just trying to figure out, what would make a person want big ass boobs this damn size? I can't stand mine and I'm a D cup! I'd slit my throat if I had to deal with triple M's. I mean, she ain't a bad looking chick, but she ain't the best looking either, but she's a stripper and we know that they go to extremes like butt injections, collagen in their lips, etc... Her breasts weigh 20 pounds each and they're still growing. The technique that was used in this procedure is called polypropylene string and is banned in Britain and the United States for the dangers that it can cause. How this procedure works is the string that is implanted into the breast, irritates the breast causing the release of body fluids that inflates the affected area even more.
"I’ve seen some pretty funny things happen. Men walking into things and getting slapped by their girlfriends because they were staring too hard." Maxi said.
I wouldn't even be mad at my boyfriend for starring. Stare all you want buddy. Hell touch em' if you want because you ain't eeeeeeeeever gonna get close to nothing like that ever again!

5/22/2008

19 yr old Wins $35 Million Powerball

19 year old Jonathan Vargas got lucky over the weekend. He is now the $35 million richer and that is a really good thing. He's a construction worker and the second oldest of five children. How he picked his numbers for the winning ticket? Simple, his two younger brothers turn 12 and 14 this year, his sister turns 15, his older brother will be 21, and mom just turned 43 earlier this year. The powerball number, "Just a lucky guess" Vargas says. I pray that he does the right thing by the money. He seems like a really good kid. Really humble. He says that he has no real big plans for the money at the moment. He wants to establish a trust fund for his siblings. "You never ask the Lord why you are blessed," he said. "I'm not going to ask the Lord why he put it in my hands."

5/21/2008

Senator Ted Kennedy Diagnosed With A Milignant Brain Tumor

I am a huge Kennedy family lover! I love the Kennedy's, even though their time of greatness was before my time, they still hold a very special place in my heart. U.S. Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy(far right), pictured above with his two older brothers (l-r) President John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy at a happier time in life when nothing seemed to be wrong in the world.
Senator Ted Kennedy (76) was diagnosed today with having a malignant brain tumor. Senator Kennedy suffered a seizure at his Hyannisport, MA compound and was rushed immediately to Massachusetts General Hospital. "Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe," according to a hospital statement. A tumor in that area of the brain could affect Kennedy's ability to speak and understand speech, as well as the strength on the right side of his body. I pray that Senator Kennedy comes back to us in full health and strength. My prayers go out to the family.