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Joe Jackson to File Suit Against MiJac’s Physician. Well this comes as a surprise. Not. Michael Jackson’s father is planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Conrad Murray, the late pop star’s doctor. Murray pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a Los Angeles court, after being accused of administering Propofol to Jackson minutes before his death in June 2009. Brian Oxman, Joe Jackson’s lawyer, told TMZ the family is seeking “an unspecified amount of punitive damages, economic support, loss of championship and loss of consortium.” Joe Jackson will be the only named plaintiff.
You are so desperate for money it is so avious to everyone private and public. Sit the hell down, and
shut the FK….up. Be proud of what your family has accomplished in your life time. Too bad so sad,
you didn’t make preparations for later in life, and look to your kids to take care of you, oh well…………….
two tears in a bucket fuck it.
Prince Must Pay Irish Promoter $3M for Cancelled Gig. A judge in Dublin has ordered Prince, 51, to pay $2.95 million to Irish concert promoters for canceling a 2008 concert at the last minute. High Court Justice Peter Kelly said Friday he was making the total damages public because Prince has yet to pay anything to Dublin promoters MCD Productions Ltd. in their confidential settlement reached Feb. 26, reports the Associated Press. Kelly ruled that Prince had signed a contract to play Dublin’s 82,300-seat Croke Park in June 2008, but pulled out without explanation just days beforehand, after 55,000 tickets were sold. Kelly said Friday his order was specifically against Prince, not his agents from the William Morris agency, who were absolved of liability. MCD, Ireland’s biggest concert organizers, said it had paid Prince half of his demanded $3 million fee up front, another $950,000 to book Croke Park for the night, advertised the concert aggressively and refunded all 55,000 tickets. During last month’s court hearing, William Morris agent Marc Geiger testified that he rarely spoke to Prince directly and found him one of his toughest clients to understand or nail down. Geiger said he told Prince of the fury that the singer was causing MCD owner Denis Desmond during a rare face-to-face meeting in Los Angeles on June 3, 2008. He quoted Prince as replying, “Tell the cat to chill. We will work something out.” Prince did not testify at last month’s hearing. If the Artist Formerly Known as a Symbol doesn’t pay up soon, MCD lawyer Maurice Collins said he may pursue the money using a more powerful European Enforcement Order. All of this follows news this week that Prince owes over $450,000 in state taxes to Minnesota.
Prince you got the money quit playing, and pay the man.
Bush Wipes Hand on Clinton After Touching Haitians? George “damn damn damn” Bush just cannot get it right. He is so crazy that even after he leaves the White House he can’t stop making a fool of himself. It appears that on his own time, he’s even more ridiculous. During relief efforts in Haiti where they shook the people’s hands and offered some sense of hope, he turns to Clinton and what looks like a tap to say, “Okay man, we’ve done what we’re going to do here, let’s go!” Turns into a swipe all the way down Clinton’s arm. If he has to speak on it, he’ll probably say, “It was just a joke man! Someone’s hand was a little too sweaty or something, so I gave Clinton the ‘dirt’ touch. Get it? Like the poot touch? Awww, forget you if you can’t take a joke.” He just seems to be this kind of dummy to me
Mathew Knowles – You Are the Father. The DNA test results are in and it is now confirmed that Beyoncé’s dad Mathew Knowles is also the father of a baby delivered by his mistress Alexsandra Wright, reports TMZ. Wright filed a paternity suit in October and Matthew was temporarily ordered to pay monthly child support payments of $8,200 for their son, Nixon. The two are reportedly in the final stages of working out a permanent child support settlement. Matthew had been married to his wife, Tina Knowles, for 29 years before she filed for divorce in Dec. 2009 . Alexsandra claims she and Matthew carried on an affair for 18 months.
Now let’s all admitted we know that he should know, go on back home to Tina. Act like you have
some sense. Happy Meal’s only last for so long, like chinese food, gone an hour later. But………a
home cook meal last a lifetime. Think about it darlin…………..you still love Tina.
Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.
Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?
For much of the last forty years, ever since America “fixed” its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, “When are African Americans finally going to get over it?
Now I want to ask:
“When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that “Election Spurs Hundreds’ of Race Threats, Crimes” should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in “Bombingham,” Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than “talk the talk.”
Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.
Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.
But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we’re back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we’ve proven what conservatives are always saying — that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.
But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to “assassinate Obama.”
Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, “How long?”
How long before we white people realize we can’t make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?
How long until we white people can – once and for all – get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?
How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?
How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?
How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?
How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?
I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?
How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?
How long before we start “living out the true meaning” of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that “red and yellow, black and white” all are precious in God’s sight?
Until this past November 4, I didn’t believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don’t believe I’ll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.
‘Odds’ Against Paige Miles on ‘American Idol’. Her fate was pretty much sealed after she finished her rendition of Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds” on Wednesday night. “American Idol” contestant Paige Miles was booted off of the show last night, just missing the round of top 10 who will participate in this summer’s “Idol” tour. Miles, who suffered from laryngitis last week, struggled to find any of the right notes on Tuesday’s episode featuring Billboard No. 1 songs. Randy Jackson called her performance “honestly terrible.” When host Ryan Seacrest announced that Miles had received the lowest amount of votes, Simon Cowell told the 24-year-old Florida native that she would not be singing for the chance to be saved by the judges, as they’d already unanimously decided to send her home. “It’s not working,” he told Miles. “I don’t want to give you any false hope here. It’s the end.” So what did Miles have to say for herself? “I had a lot of health issues going on out here…bad song choices and things like that, but I still had a blast, and it was a great learning experience.” Miles wisely chose not to sing “Against All Odds” for her farewell performance, instead revisiting Free’s “All Right Now” from top 24 week. Meanwhile, Usher will mentor the “Idol” top 10 next Tuesday (Mar. 30) for an R&B/soul themed performance night.
Washington Wizard Doesn’t Feel Like Playing? The Washington Wizards have had a less than stellar season…well less than stellar last few seasons. But, one shining star for the team has been Andray Blatche. The 24-year old starting forward, according to Yahoo! Sports, has been averaging 12 points per game and nearly 30 minutes on the floor. But for some strange reason, Tuesday night he got tired and slowed his game to a halt. Wizards Coach Flip Saunders ended up having to bench Blatche after only 7 minutes 31 seconds in the game. Saunders said he had to snatch Blatche to the side because he didn’t want to listen to him or his staff. He got to the point where Saunders claims Blatche said he “just didn’t want to play.” This is a recession! Do you know how many 24-year old talented ballers are working at McDonald’s, never went to college and can outplay a lot of NBA players? Get it together Blatche! But in Blatche’s defense, he says he never said he didn’t want to play. He said, “I wouldn’t have sat with a heat pack waiting to go back in. I would’ve unlaced my damn shoes and sat there.”
Uh Oh. Health Care Reform Bill Hits Snag. Back to the House. The remake of the nation’s health-care system has hit a parliamentary snag in the Senate, and appears likely to be headed back to the House for one final vote before becoming law, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. The legislation makes a handful of changes to the sweeping health bill signed into law by Mr. Obama on Tuesday, including bolstering government subsidies to help individuals purchase health insurance and closing a politically unpopular gap in prescription drug coverage under Medicare, the health insurance for seniors. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Republicans have found two “minor” provisions in the bill that are likely to be subject to procedural challenges on the floor, and ultimately struck from the legislation. If successful as expected, the Republican challenges would modify the bill, requiring it to be sent back to the House for consideration again.
Obama Will Triumph — So Will America
By Frank Schaeffer
Before he’d been in office one year President Obama lost the support
of the easily distracted left and engendered the white hot rage of
the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and
ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-
old, former religious right wing agitator, now progressive writer
and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader)
this unlikely Obama supporter — are sticking with our President.
Why? Because he’s shown he will succeed by slow, calm and steady…staying the course.
We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of
him as a great, good and uniquely qualified leader.
Obama’s loyal supporters will be proven right. Obama’s critics
will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged
at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst.
The Context of the Obama Presidency:
Not since the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second
World War and the Depression has any president faced more
adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more
bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial
integration has any president faced a more consistently short-
sighted and willfully ignorant opposition — from both the right
and left.
As the President’s poll numbers have fallen so has his support from
some on the left who hailed him as a Messiah not long ago;
those lefty web sites and commentators that were falling over
themselves on behalf of our first black president during the
2008 election.
The left’s lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling “prophecy”–
snipe at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and
then pretend you didn’t have anything to do with it!
Here is what Obama faced when he took office– none of which was
his fault:
# An ideologically divided country, to the point America is really two countries
# Two wars; one mishandled from the start, the other unnecessary and immoral
# The worst economic crisis since the depression
# America’s standing in the world at its lowest point in history
# A country misled into accepting the use of torture on prisoners of war
# A health care system in free fall
# An educational system in free fall
# A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions
(about which the Bush/Cheney administration and Republicans had done
nothing)
# An impasse between culture warriors from the right and left
# A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally
irresponsible Bush administration.
And these were just some of the problems left for Obama to deal with
when he came into office!
“Help” from the Right?
What did Republicans and the religious right, libertarians and
half-baked conspiracy theorists (what Republicans
were reduced to by the time Obama took office) do to “help” our
new president (and our country) succeed? They claimed he
wasn’t a real American, didn’t have an American birth certificate,
wasn’t born here, was secretly a Muslim, was white-hating “racist”,
was a secret communist, was the Anti-Christ, was the reincarnation
of Hitler and wanted “death panels” to kill the elderly!
They called for his assassination through the not-so-
subtle use of signs held up at rallies and even a bumper
sticker quoting Psalm 109:8. They organized “tea parties” to sound
off against imagined insults and government in general. They
gathered to howl at the moon. They were led by insurance industry
lobbyists and deranged (but well-financed) “commentators” from
Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh.
Utterly discredited Roman Catholic bishops teamed up with
utterly discredited evangelical leaders to denounce a president who
was trying to improve conditions for the poor, the environment, to
diminish the number of abortions through compassionate programs
to help women and to care for the sick! But in Congress the Republican leadership knew only one word: “No!”
In other words the reactionary white, uneducated, crazy far
right, combined with educated neoconservative war mongers, religious
right big business shills, libertarian Fed Reserve-hating gold bugs,
gun-toting crazies, child-molesting acquiescent “bishops”, frontier loons
and evangelical gay-hating flakes…they all found one thing to agree on
and rally around: their desire to stop a Black man from succeeding
at all costs!
“Help” from the Left?
What did the left do to help their newly elected president? Some of
them blasted the President because they disagreed with the bad
choices he was being forced to make regarding a war in Afghanistan.
Choices he’d inherited from the worst president in U.S. history!
Others stood up to proclaim the President’s economic policies
“failed” before the President even instituted them! Others said
since not all gay rights battles had not been won, they’d been
“betrayed”! (Never mind Obama’s support of the gay community is
stronger than any American President in history.
Never mind that he signed new laws against hate crimes!)
Those who stood weeping with beatific emotion on election night 2008
turned into an angry mob, declaring their “disappointment” the world
didn’t change the moment Obama took the oath of office!
And the legion of young new voters was too busy texting to pay
attention to how the media was making President Obama look like
Hitler or Evil incarnate.
The President’s critics, left and right, had one thing in common:
impatience laced with no sense of history (let alone reality).
Then of course there were the snide, white, know-it-all commentators
and talking heads who just can’t imagine that maybe, just maybe they
aren’t as smart as they thought they were and certainly not as smart
as a Black President. He hadn’t consulted them so he must be wrong!
The ideological ideas of Obama critics’ defined their idea of reality
rather than reality defining their ideas. Meanwhile back in the reality-
based community – in just 12 short months — President Obama scored
victories that went unreported on the evening news:
#Continued to wind down the misbegotten war in Iraq (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Thoughtfully and decisively picked the best of several bad choices
regarding the war in Afghanistan (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Restored America’s image around the globe (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Banned torture of American prisoners (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Stopped the free fall of the American economy (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Put the USA squarely back in the bilateral international community
(But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Put the USA squarely into the middle of the international effort
to halt global warming (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Stood up for educational reform (No, that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Won a Nobel Peace Prize (Not even that was good enough for his critics, who lambasted him for the honor)
#Moved the trial of terrorists back into the American judicial
system of checks and balances (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Did what he’d promised to do to start the slow, torturous and almost
impossible process of health care reform that 7 presidents had
failed to even touch (But that wasn’t good enough for his critics)
#Responded to hatred from the right and left with measured good
humor and patience (not good enough for his critics)
#Stopped the free fall of job losses (Not even that was good enough for his critics)
#Showed immense personal courage in the face of an armed,
dangerous far right opposition that included people who showed up at
public meetings carrying loaded weapons and carrying Timothy McVeigh-inspired signs about the “blood of tyrants” needing to “water the tree of liberty”. (That got no praise from his critics)
#Showed that he could not only make tough military choices but
explain and defend them brilliantly (Not even that was good enough for his critics)
Are these what you would call “disappointing” accomplishments — IN ONE YEAR! I think not.
Who has actually failed are Americans who can’t see the beginning of a miracle, right under their noses. Who failed are the ideologues of the
left and right who began hoping this President would fail so they could be proven correct in their dire and morbid predictions.
Who failed are the movers and shakers behind our obscenely dumb news cycles who have turned “news” into more stupid entertainment for an entertainment-besotted, gossip crazed society.
But here’s the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the
help of his “supporters” on the left and despite his hate-filled Republican detractors on the right!
The Future Looks Good
After Obama has served two full terms (and he will), after his
wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on
all fronts — with a uncanny and calculating eye to achieving success (and he will), after the economy is booming and new industries
are burgeoning (and they will), after the naysayers are proved
wrong: let the record show that not all Americans panicked and jumped
ship at the first sign of a storm.
Just because we didn’t get everything we wanted in the health care
bill, and his first year in office…not all of us are giving up! Some of
us are staying the course. And we will be proved right.
PS. if you agree that Obama is shaping up to be a great president,
please pass this on and hang in there! Pass it on anyway to ensure
that his “report card” gets the attention it deserves.
PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS
BOB HOOVER