It’s only been five months since Octomom got off welfare, but TMZ has learned the honeymoon’s over for your tax dollars — because she’s back on government assistance.
Sources close to Octo tell TMZ, Nadya Suleman signed up for welfare again this week after her October rehab bills devoured most of her savings.
We’re told the mother of 14 will be getting $1,800 a month for food, $1,000 for emergency cash, as well as Medi-Cal benefits to help with mental heath and dental issues.
According to sources, Octomom only plans to use the welfare money while she gets back on her feet — or on her back.
TMZ broke the story … Octo went on welfare last March, but was able to get off guv assistance in July … the result of a pile of cash she scored from stripping and masturbation porn.
BOSTON — The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever.
Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation’s highest earners.
“People are mad as hell. I’m right there with them,” Amy Kremer, chairman of the Tea Party Express, said late last week, declaring that she has “no confidence” in the party her members typically support. Her remarks came after GOP lawmakers agreed to higher taxes but no broad spending cuts as part of a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff.”
“Anybody that voted `yes’ in the House should be concerned” about primary challenges in 2014, she said.
At the same time, one of the GOP’s most popular voices, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, blasted his party’s “toxic internal politics” after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was “disgusting to watch” their actions and he faulted the GOP’s most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
The creation of SongBooth – an app available from iTunes – by entrepreneur Gregory Lowe II, CEO of LoweKey Media, is taking the “star search” industry to a whole ‘nother level! The app will enable the budding musician to either upload a pre-recorded music video or record a live performance with their iPhone, edit, then share it locally or internationally via social networks like Facebook, SMS, email and eventually Twitter.
Can it get any better!? Hell yaah! – Lowe will soon announce an opportunity for all you musical diamonds-in-the-roughs to compete in, what will be literally, a virtual world-wide competition in March of this year that could net you a single’s deal with Sony Records. Dubbed Project SongBooth, the contest will calculate a winner based on the amount of “likes” an entry receives, including thumbs up from new music heavy-hitters, ”The Thrill’ Miguel (RCA Records) and teen heartthrob Ryan Beatty (OcSkee Entertainment) – both of whom were discovered through online social media themselves. The two will preside as judges for the contest as well as Chuck Creekmore, CEO of allhiphop.com. Stay tuned for my updates on the competition here at ezkool.com.
The SongBooth app, which is absolutely free! is relatively easy to maneuver around in. The videos run virtually buffer free and the app’s operational board consists of a six button application. The set-up screen for SongBooth is visually exciting, complete with a brushed nickel, retro recording mic. A “follow” button is included, allowing you to build up a fan base, who’ll support you now…and later recall – with pride – that they knew you when you sang for your supper, riding back and forth on the no. 7 train from Queens to Grand Central station.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge Knicks fan. I became a fan in the days of Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley and Grand ma, or Larry Johnson as the fans at the Garden affectionately called him. I was never one to miss a game and I followed the team through their ups and downs – and there were a lot of downs.
Yes, I am a huge fan. Now, I even get updates on my cellphone everytime they play.
This season, the Knicks finally found their nitch. They have been on a roll winning more games than they’ve won in recent memory and finally, they have began defending their home court just like the old days. They are once again a winning team and I feel personally responsible for their winning ways.
Why am I responsible for the Knicks winning again? Well it’s simple… I don’t watch them play ball anymore.
Call me superstitious, but I feel that anytime I watch the Knicks play basketball, especially this season, they loose. Take tonight for example. I knew they were playing The Orlando Magic and I wanted to see the game. But because of my luck or lack of, I followed the game on my ScoreMobile app. At some point in the third quarter, the Knicks were up by 8 points. I figured this was a good sign and assumed that they will win. So I decided to watch the rest of the game.
I began watching and immediately, the Magic went on an 11-2 run and led the game. The score when I started watching was Knicks – 69, Magic – 61 with 9 minutes remaining in the third quarter. Three minutes later, the Magic was leading by one point, Knicks 71, Magic 72.
At that point I changed the channel and went back to ScoreMobile on my cellphone.
According to ScoreMobile, the Knicks quickly gained their composure and went on to win the game with a score of 114 to 106. This of course only happened after I stopped watching.
So to all the Knicks fans out there… you’re welcome.
President Obama used his weekly address to talk about the bipartisan agreement between Democrats and Republicans that averted the “fiscal cliff.” He thanked both sides for working together and putting the American people first.
The President also warned that not working together on future problems – like the upcoming debt ceiling – could lead to catastrophic outcome not only for the United States economy, but for the worldwide economy as well.
And as I said earlier this week, one thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they’ve already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. The last time Congress threatened this course of action, our entire economy suffered for it. Our families and our businesses cannot afford that dangerous game again.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) paid a visit to Al Sharpton on MSNBC on Thursday night, criticizing Republicans for their opportunistic approach to the debt ceiling and cuts to government spending. The GOP is using it as “legislative terrorism” to “extract concessions” they wouldn’t otherwise be able to accomplish.
Sharpton pointed to remarks Paul Ryan made in 2011, wherein he said “you can’t not raise the debt ceiling.” He went on to also play remarks from Sen. Lindsey Graham and House Speaker John Boehner, both of whom described the calamitous effects of not raising the debt ceiling and defaulting.
“So, were they kidding then, are they kidding now?” Sharpton asked. “Why the big change?”
Republicans see that it is “a device to extract concessions they would otherwise never be able to accomplish,” Grayson replied. “That’s why it’s legislative terrorism.”
He continued:
They’re using the debt ceiling as a means to cut Social Security benefits, cut Medicare benefits, cut unemployment insurance, cut anything of any use to any ordinary human being in this country simply because they want more money for tax cuts for the rich.
“Holding the economy hostage, I would take from that,” Sharpton remarked, also noting Boehner reportedly told Republicans that he’s through with one-on-one negotiations with President Obama.
“Boehner is a chief with no Indians,” Grayson said. “He’s a weak, weak man, a weak speaker.”
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe,Newt Gingrich had something to say about congressional Republicans’ new threat to damage this nation’s recovering economy – fighting President Obama tooth and nail on the debt ceiling fight coming in a couple of months. Congressional Republicans have indicated that they are willing to shut down the government if necessary, to force President Obama and the Democrats to see things their way. And to this idea, Gingrich said;
“But he also knows — they’ve got to find, in the house, a totally new strategy,” Gingrich began. “Confronting — for example, everybody’s now talking about, okay, now comes the debt ceiling. I think that’s, frankly, a dead loser.”
Gingrich explained that “in the end… the whole national financial system is going to come into Washington by television and say ‘Oh, my god, this will be a gigantic heart attack. The entire economy of the world will collapse. You guys can’t be responsible,’ and they’ll cave.”
The last time Republicans threatened to force a U.S. government default by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, which allows the government to pay out money that congress has already spent, the result was the first credit rating downgrade in U.S. history. Another such debacle would be disastrous, but Republicans see this threat as fair game to extract political concessions.
I’m pretty sure that will be the first and only time we use Newt Gingrich and “words of wisdom” in the same sentence.
Come up with the wittiest, most outlandish repartee between our two beloved political icons and the commenter with the most “likes” will have their dialogue published into the word balloons. Both art and copy will then be re-posted with a credit line for the winner!
CONTEST RULES:
1. No more than 80 characters (including spaces between words and sentences).
2. Colorful, adult language allowed, but keep it G-rated please : )
3. Indicate dialog for Democrat symbol (the donkey) and Republican symbol (the elephant)
4. Winner will be notified via Facebook inbox mail before their entry is published.
5. Winner’s name or tag will be used as a credit line, your choice.
Contest ends January 31, 2013 @10am. Revised art with winner’s copy and credit line will be posted February 1st, after winner notification.
Can the Republican Party possibly do more to inflict damage on itself? Is this a cry for help from a psychologically wounded group? Perhaps we should give every GOP member of Congress a gun and watch them shoot themselves in the foot. Or form a circular firing squad.
The honest truth is that we are witnessing the end of an era and the implosion of the party. The election of 2012 signaled the beginning of the end of the conservative era and like most things these days, the decline is coming swiftly and unmercifully. The fiscal cliff deal is emblematic. Denying the Northeast hurricane aid was a public-relations disaster. The worst is yet to come.
Now we get to look forward to two more rounds of economic negotiations on the debt ceiling and entitlement programs. Other writers are saying that these will be fought on more sure-footed GOP ground. I don’t buy that for one second. Having been beaten soundly by the president on the tax issue, they now have little leverage on the debt ceiling or budget cuts.
Think about it.
Most Americans already blame the Republicans for almost scuttling a New Year’s deal and then witnessed first hand the comeuppance of John Boehner at the hands of those frisky Tea Party conservatives. They saw how the party hesitated to even raise taxes on millionaires and how the House abdicated its responsibility and needed to be bailed out by Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden.
And this was the easy deal.
Most Americans, again, do not want severe cuts to their government Medicare and safety net programs, but that’s exactly what the GOP is peddling. And the sheer size of the cuts that will be necessary to achieve Paul Ryan’s aims will ultimately prove to be a disaster for them. I just know that Boehner and Cantor will overstep the mandate they think they have and will also want their pound of flesh from Obama to make up for the just-completed deal.
Likewise for the debt ceiling. The country certainly remembers that it was the right that played brinkmanship with the budget in 2011 and got us a lower credit rating. Just let them do the same thing again and see what happens.
Of course, all of this is predicated on the idea that the president keeps his cool and doesn’t give away more than he needs to in the negotiations. The left is not happy with the tax deal, but really, how much can you push tax cuts for the wealthy? The difference between what he wanted and what he got is miniscule, which is exactly the problem, budget-wise, and Obama still came out a winner. Plus he’s already offered cuts to social programs that the GOP has rejected as too little. He’s in the driver’s seat.
The GOP is still convinced that only their ideas are correct and I seriously doubt that they will come out with specific proposals on how to retire the debt responsibly or which tax loopholes they want to close (which will also be unpopular). So the way I see it, this should be a good season for the president and Democrats.
Today was the first day of school for the surviving children of Sandy Hook Elementary. But instead of being considerate to these kids, their families and the staff of Sandy Hook, this Connecticut news paper decided to put an ad for a gun show and a story about these children on the same page.
I can assure you that this gun show will be a resounding success because of its placement in today’s paper. Guess it’s just business as usual.
What’s the record of the 112th Congress? Well, it almost shut down the government and almost breached the debt ceiling. It almost went over the fiscal cliff (which it had designed in the first place). It cut a trillion dollars of discretionary spending in the Budget Control Act and scheduled another trillion in spending cuts through an automatic sequester, which everyone agrees is terrible policy. It achieved nothing of note on housing, energy, stimulus, immigration, guns, tax reform, infrastructure, climate change or, really, anything. It’s hard to identify a single significant problem that existed prior to the 112th Congress that was in any way improved by its two years of rule.
The 112th, which was gaveled into being on Jan. 3, 2011, by newly elected House SpeakerJohn Boehner, wasn’t just unproductive in comparison with the 111th. It was unproductive compared with any Congress since 1948, when scholars began keeping tabs on congressional productivity.
When it ends, the 112th Congress will have passed about 220 public laws — by far the least of any Congress on record. Prior to the 112th, the least productive Congress was the 104th, from January 1995 to January 1997. Not coincidentally, that Congress also featured a new Republican House majority determined to ruin a Democratic president in advance of the next campaign. The 104th, however, passed 333 public laws — almost 50 percent more than the 112th. The 112th stands alone in its achievement of epic failure.
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