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If you are a basketball fan, Christmas was our day. there were FIVE GAMES on in one day. And for the most part, we were able to watch basketball from 9:00am until 9:30pm. And the only game that shouldn’t have been played being the Clippers against the Suns. The Clippers??? Who the hell wants to watch the Clippers? But I digress. the featured game of the day was the Los Angeles Lakers against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Lebron against Kobe. Shaq back in Los Angeles. The two teams the league has been trying to wish into the finals. But it wasn’t the game that will be remembered by those who saw it. It is the fan revolt. Laker’s fans, used to getting BULLSHIT CALLS, especially at HOME, were mad because the refs let them play. And to show their displeasure, they threw the five-away foam fingers and some water bottles onto the floor . But what seems to have been missed in all of this is the FACT that the picture on the fingers is a GANG SIGN for Los Angeles!
I didn’t really look at the fingers as they were raining down from the stands. I was just GITTY that the Lakers were getting DEALT WITH, at HOME, on CHRISTMAS, for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE. It was a day later, after seeing the picture did I see the Gang Sign on the foam fingers. Here is a picture of the sign. The first picture is the original picture. The second picture turns to foam finger “right side up” so you can see EXACTLY what I am talking about. And here is the proof that this is an OLD SCHOOL gang sign for Los Angeles.
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I don’t know if this was a new promotion or what. What I do know, after working with at-risk gang members for over 5 years, is what the different gang signs mean. And that includes gang signs that are local, statewide, or national. And the the picture on the foam fingers passed out to thousands of fans, was indeed a gang sign!
I’d love to know what the thought process was in deciding to try and pass off a gang sign in a Los Angeles Lakers game promotion. And I would love to know which person, who surely didn’t create the hand sign themselves, decided to promote the Lakers as a gang. Either way, the past can’t be changed. And the fact remains, the Lakers got DEALT WITH on Christmas and the Promotion that had a gang sign on it went terrible wrong!
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To put it bluntly, I’m sick of hearing or seeing Chris Brown. He’s a BITCH and a COWARD. And now he has the AUDACITY to complain about Rhianna going on 20/20 and talking about the night he BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HER ! It is OBVIOUS that he still hasn’t learned a DAMN THING from this incident and still thinks the world revolves around him. It is OBVIOUS he hasn’t learned a DAMN THING from the Domestic Abuse classes he is supposed to be taking. It is OBVIOUS the so called “spiritual advise he is going to seek” isn’t helping one bit! And it is even MORE OBVIOUS that he is still an abuser. Because by saying that the “incident should stay between us“, he is using the same language and exhibiting the same behavior as an abuser.
Hey, I understand that people make mistakes. And I understand that everyone should be given a second chance. But that chance is only given when that person is TRULY SORRY. I have yet to see any real remorse in any interview he has done. He always looks like the “class nerd” whose lab experiment went ACCIDENTALLY wrong. Like the kid in class who had a “bad idea” and says he will never do it again. All the while, he has his fingers crossed behind his back. He sounds like Eddie Haskell from the “Leave it to Beaver show” talking to Mrs. Cleaver and telling her “what a pretty dress she has on.” Even when he is giving her praise, you always think there is “something under his sleeve! Almost every word looks like he has been standing in front of a mirror saying it over and over again. Practicing the right inflection in his voice. The right pause or eyebrow raise. All those interviews seem to happen to try and rehabilitate his reputation. And not what is should be. To take full ownership of what he has done!
And now he is saying what happened that night should stay between him and Rhianna. WHY? So HE won’t look bad? So he can get his “life back?” And his donation of concert proceeds to Domestic Abuse Centers seems hollow and another way to make himself look good. If he wouldn’t have put his hands on Rhianna in the first place, none of his problems would have happened. He is almost trying to make it sound like HE is the VICTIM! But it isn’t working.
Continue reading “Gee you look swell Mrs. Cleaver!” »
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I’m still shocked that Michael Jackson is dead. It doesn’t seem possible. And when I see the footage of him dancing, literally hours before he died, it seems like a bad dream. And seeing the people come out of the woodworks to try and make money either from his estate of off of him is appalling. Add to that list Joe Jackson. Yup, Michael Jackson’s father Joe, is seeking upwards of $20,000.00 from the estate for “living expenses.” His rationale is that since Katherine Jackson is getting money, he should too! I guess he is trying to get nominated for “Father of the Year” again!
It stands to reason that if Michael wanted his father to have some money, it would have been put in the will. IT WASN’T! So for Joe to now seek money is disgusting. Are we all to think that Michael not including his father in the will was an accident? Are we to believe that Mike forgot that he had a father? Both Michael and Janet have both said that Joe was abusive to Michael. Does Joe think Michael has forgotten that? Does any parent think that a child forgets the person who abused him?
Joe needs to do what millions of senior citizens do. Go collect Social Security and live off of that. He received millions of dollars off of his children. If he wasn’t smart enough to keep some of it for a “rainy day“, so be it. But he shouldn’t collect one thin dime from Michael’s estate. The money that Katherine is getting from Michael’s estate if for the care of his children.
The gravy train unfortunately is gone Joe. And your ticket has expired. Get a job!
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Political LOUD MOUTH Bill O’reilly recently stated that the late Michael Jackson was not a “Black Icon.” His reasoning was that while MJ talked about saving the world, “he spent money lavishly” and that should make any clear thinking American “nauseous.” Since when did o’reilly, lower caps on purpose, become the the arbiter of ANYTHING BLACK?
I can remember getting up on Saturday mornings and while eating my bowl of Captain Crunch cereal, watching the Jackson Five cartoons. And after going through one of their adventures, they would usually sing one of their hits. Which could be considered one of the first “music videos.” At that time, the early 70′s, there were very few shows that featured African Americans of any age. For a Black show to be on tv at all was an event. And the Jackson Five cartoon was on EVERY SATURDAY! And it aired on the network channel so everyone was watching it. That in itself is iconic!
For people of a certain age who were in high school when MTV first came along, we remember watching the channel and seeing few African American artists. And when we did see them, it was usually after 10:00pm. Initially, MTV refused to even run videos by African American artists. It was Michael who broke the “MTV color line” and whose videos aired on MTV hourly! And don’t think for a minute that MTV “made” Michael. He was a star long before MTV came along. MTV brought Jackson into the homes of white teenagers and reminded their parents of the talented performer they grew up listening to and whose cartoon they had watched! I wonder how many kids rode with their listening to Mike? How many parents were able to start a dialog with their kids on important issues, that began by having a mutual like for Michael Jackson’s music? Did MTV create an icon? NO! MTV rode on the coattails of an icon. And that icon is named Michael Jackson!
Continue reading “Pathetic” »
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I’m going to start this post about Octo-mom off by saiying this. I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT HER!!! I don’t care about the story. Yes, the bitch is sorry, triflin, and crazy with two “R’s.” Yes the doctor should have his license revoked for being irresponsible. Yes, Gloria Allred is a “media whore” or the worse kind. Yes, yes yes. Yes to all of it. But there are two things I do care about. The first one is those fourteen children who will grow up to be adults unleashed on the world. And two, the media frenzy that surrounds this whole thing!
I worked for five years at a Teen Drug and Alcohol Treatment center and another two and a half years as a Court Ordered Supervision Monitor. If you don’t know what a Court Ordered Supervision Monitor is, think back to when Brittany Spears was awarded supervised visits with her kids. I was one of those people who did that type of work. No, I never monitored Brittany and her kids. So get that thought out of your head! But I worked with kids and teens in both of those settings and I saw first hand the effects of neglect on their mental health. Like most people, if you feel no one cares about you, you don’t care about them. And that attitude manifests itself in teens and adults acting out in violent ways. Both to hurt others and to hurt themselves. There have been a rash of killings in the last two weeks with males shooting their parents, grandparents, and/or aunts and uncles. Far too many times, the people killed weren’t even family. They were innocent bystanders who happened to cross paths with someone who had a grudge against the world to settle. And they just happened to be in the way.
What does this have to do with “Octo-mom“? For starters, there is NO WAY she is going to be able give attention to all fourteen of those children. And that means one, two, seven or eight or ALL of those fourteen children will feel neglected. Regardless of what Grandma and Grandpa do to try and help out, you only get one biological mother. And that attention only she can give. There is no way possible that some of those babies won’t get “lost in the shuffle.” And when he, or she, turns 13, 14, or 15, and is full of rage and anger, who might be the victims? Yup, you and me! While it galls me that this woman is getting a house, childcare, and all of the things that go along with having that many kids, FOR FREE, on OUR DIMES, it might just be an investment in our future safety!
The second thing is the media and the over exposure of this whole thing. I’m sick of all of it. The final straw for me was a picture of people with cameras, obstensibly the paparazzi, actually standing in front of AND HANGING OFF of the car she and some of her children were in. Pardon the pun, but there is something wrong with that picture. Continue reading “I don’t care” »
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DISCLAIMER: Rihanna, even though this picture has been all over everywhere thanks to the GANG MEMBERS WITH BADGES called the LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, I will take this picture down if you asked me to. I apologize baby girl for using it. But I needed to make the point.
It has recently come out that girlfriend beater, chris brown, is going to claim that he beat the, as my mother used to say, “ Stew Beef” out of Rihanna out of self defense! WTF!!! Talk about a MISERABLE, COWARD PIECE OF SHIT! I’d like to think that his “ handlers” translated as the people celebrities hide behind, are responsible for this idea. Because if brown were to pull that PUNK BITCH ASS move , his career would indeed be DONE! This picture doesn’t lie.
There is NO WAY this was a “ self defense” situation. For him to again, paraphrasing my mother, “ fix his mouth” to even utter those words is a joke. Let me show you how this should play out in court.
Continue reading “Brown Rihanna revisited: Oh Bitch, no you Ain’t!” »
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Somewhat lost among the Wallstreet meltdown is the fact that one man, Bernard Madoff, created and ran one of the biggest Ponzi schemes EVER! His victims are not only everyday people who worked their whole lives to save money for children’s college fund and for their own retirements, but they also include people like movie director Steven Spielberg, Hall of Fame Baseball player, Sandy Koufax, talkshow host Larry King, and actor Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick. Zsa Zsa Gabor is also included on this “victim’s list” and is said to have lost between 7-10 million dollars! Also included on the list of victims is his wife, his sons, brother and other relatives! Talk about an equal opportunity criminal. Stealing from your own family. His actions have cost hundreds, if not thousands, of people their live savings and at least two fellow billionaires took their lives in response to becoming insolvent. Translation? They killed themselves because they lost all of their money! One would think that a man that ran a 50 BILLION dollar pyramid scheme would be up under the jail. But that is not the case. Mr. Madoff is under “house arrest” in his penthouse apartment in Manhattan, New York! He went from the penthouse to the penthouse!
I guess this could almost be called the chicken watching the hen house because Madoff was at one time the chairman if the NASDAQ stock exchange. Wouldn’t you know exactly how to find the loopholes if you were once the person who was supposed to close them?
The most galling part of this whole mess is that this man is not sitting in a jail cell. We jail poor people who steal $20.00 video games for months on end before they even get to court. Yet this man who has caused people to committ suicide, is free. And before anyone says he isn’t really “free”, his penthouse is said to be 2 stories high and is worth 7 million dollars. The average jail cell is 8 feet wide, 8 feet high, and 12 feet long. Compared to other criminals who have allegedly committed crimes, Madoff is free. Make no mistake about it!
The failout from the Madoff affair is far reaching. People who recommended Madoff to their friends and family are now being made to feel unwelcome. The people who promoted Madoff and probably lost money also, are being held accountable for what has occurred. For a scheme to have gone on that long, it had to have been well hidden. While it might be unfair to hold the people who gave “street cred” to Madoff, that comes with the territory when you “have someone’s back!”
Continue reading “From the Penthouse to the Penthouse!” »