A federal judge has dismissed the racial discrimination claims in a lawsuit filed by a former employee against Paula Deen, the celebrity chef’s representative said Monday.
The former employee can’t claim to be a victim of racial discrimination targeting African-American workers because she is white, U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. ruled. “At best, plaintiff is an accidental victim of the alleged racial discrimination,” Moore wrote.
Other aspects of the lawsuit, including sexual harassment and abusive treatment, are still pending.
“We are pleased with the Court’s ruling today that Lisa Jackson’s claims of race discrimination have been dismissed,” Deen’s representatives said in a statement to CNN. “As Ms. Deen has stated before, she is confident that those who truly know how she lives her life know that she believes in equal opportunity, kindness and fairness for everyone.”
Soulja Boy has a lot in common with Alec Baldwin — not that he’s as talented, but he’s definitely as disrespectful on American Airlines, because the renegade rapper got booted from an AA plane after causing a pre-flight scene.
Just like Alec, Soulja was on American Airlines Friday when the flight attendant took the mic and told everyone to sit the f**k down. Soulja, who was standing and walking the aisles, didn’t follow the command.
Just like Alec, a flight attendant approached the rapper and repeated the order and explained the consequences if he didn’t obey.
Just like Alec, the rapper blew her off.
And just like Alec, he was “removed” from the plane.
Unlike Alec, Soulja was actually contrite, telling TMZ, “It was a bad night and me and the flight staff didn’t see eye to eye. In hindsight, I’m extremely sorry for all inconvenience caused to the passengers and employees of the airline.”
Unlike Alec, Soulja probably will not get a Capital One commercial because … well, you know — he’s Soulja Boy, right?
Here’s the information on the upcoming event, as presented on their website.
I am proud to announce that the Realm of Kentucky is hosting a Cross Lighting in the Louisa/Yatesville area. One of our members owns around 10 acres and has been nice enough to host the event. The event will be open to members, family of members and people who have met local leaders that are interested in joining.
The event will be held September 14, 2013, which falls on a Saturday. We do not expect trouble since the event is held on private property. There will be tons of food, fun and of course, the Cross Lighting. We are placing the Cross on a hill on the property which should be seen from a very far distance!
No drugs of any sort are allowed. Donations are not expected, but are welcomed. Please see Kentucky’s Grand Dragon James Roberts for more information about the event.
She is horrified that someone as powerful as Oprah would make up such a story. In an interview with a Swiss newspaper, the clerk said:
“I don’t know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful, and I am just a shop girl.
“It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag,” the woman said.
“I didn’t hurt anyone. I don’t know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV. … If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don’t understand it. … I spoke to Oprah Winfrey in English. My English is OK but not excellent, unfortunately. … I didn’t know who she was when she came into the store. That wouldn’t have made any difference if I had.”
The happiest moment of their lives turned tragic when the new father took a gun and killed himself on Sunday, moments after his wife gave birth.
The man, who was 32 but otherwise not identified, was in a private room with his wife at Willowbrook Methodist Hospital in northwest Houston on Sunday afternoon when he turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger, police said.
Witnesses reported hearing what sounded like arguing coming from the room before the gun went off, local KHOU-TV reported.
The man was declared dead after being flown to another hospital, Memorial Hermann, officials said.
With just under a month remaining before the New York City Mayor Democratic primary, Anthony Weiner released his first television ad last night, denouncing “powerful voices” who oppose him.
The ad, in which Weiner speaks directly to the camera, is a clear effort to counter several weeks of bad press that have dogged his campaign.
“Look powerful voices have made it clear from the very beginning they didn’t want me to win,” he says in the 30-second spot. “But this isn’t about what they want. They’ve gotten their way for far too long.”
“If you give me a chance, I will fight for you and your family every single day,” he continues
A growing number of Catholics in Fresno, California believe that a tree outside St. John’s Cathedral is weeping God’s tears.
“When you say ‘glory be to God in Jesus’ name’ the tree starts throwing out more water,” parishioner Maria Ybarra told KGPE-TV. Ybarra was the first person to feel the drops of liquid, which began falling from the Crape Myrtle tree on Wednesday. As news spread, more and more people gathered under the tree to pray. “I said my prayer and asked the Lord to give me a miracle cause I’m really, really sick,” Rosemarie Navarro said.
Fresno arborist Jon Reelhorn told KGPE-TV that there’s a scientific explanation for the falling liquid… the excrement of insects known as aphides or tree lice. “The aphides will suck the sap, the sap goes through the aphid and then it is a honey dew excrement from the aphid and it gets so heavy in the summertime that it will drip down,” Reelhorn said. He also pointed out that other trees on the same street had liquid dripping from them as well.
A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD’s infamous stop-and-frisk practice “violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers”—but didn’t order the NYPD to end the policy immediately.
Instead, federal judge Shira Scheindlin appointed an outside lawyer, Peter Zimroth, to oversee reforms to the policy that would bring it in line with the constitutional rights Scheindlin found it to violate:
These stop-and-frisk episodes, which soared in number over the last decade as crime continued to decline, demonstrated a widespread disregard for the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, according to the ruling. It also found violations with the 14th Amendment. […]
While the Supreme Court has long recognized the right of police officers to briefly stop and investigate people who are behaving suspiciously, Judge Scheindlin found that the New York police had overstepped that authority. She found that officers were too quick to deem as suspicious behavior that was perfectly innocent, in effect watering down the legal standard required for a stop.
Zimroth, a partner at Arnold & Porter and a former prosecutor with the Manhattan D.A., will monitor the NYPD’s implementation of stop-and-frisk and ensure that it is complying with Scheindlin’s orders
A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.”
Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew ordered the name change last week, according to WBIR-TV (http://on.wbir.com/1cDOeTY). The boy’s parents were in court because they could not agree on the child’s last name, but when the judge heard the boy’s first name, she ordered it changed, too.
If this had been President Bush, conservatives would never stop talking about it.
A photo showing a rodeo clown dressed as President Barack Obama at the Missouri State Fair caused a stir on social media Sunday.
The photo was first posted on the liberal blog Show Me Progress. The blog post tells the tale of a Missouri resident, Perry Beam, who attended the fair in Sedalia with his wife Lily and a Taiwanese student Saturday night.
“Just prior to the start of the bull riding event, one of the clowns came out dressed in this,” the posts says, referring to the photo. “The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a bull. The crowd went wild. He asked it again and again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather. One of the clowns ran up and started bobbling the lips on the mask and the people went crazy.”
According to the post, a bull then charged the clown, forcing him to run away “to the delight of the onlookers hooting and hollering from the stands.
I’m now convinced that the game of Golf is a Very Difficult game. For over 10-years, Tiger Woods had made us believe it was as simple as getting up in the morning and tying a pair of sneakers. But, for those of you that play this great game, we know different. Now, it appears that Tiger is facing that fact too.
Although Tiger has won five times in 2013, he has been Major-less since 2008. He has invited the doubters, nay-sayers and media deniers along with the greatest of Monday morning quarterbacks into the fray of questioning the State of his Game. Yes, he’s won five times but Tiger himself has said he measures success by the number of Majors he wins.
Tiger Woods is chasing Jack Nicklaus’ career majors mark of 18 which some had believed would never be challenged but then, a young kid who had won 3-consecutive Amateur Championships prior to turning Golf Professional, sprung onto the scene. Winning his first major championship at the famed Masters Championship in 1997, a New sheriff was in town and ready to take the reins from the beloved Nicklaus. Fast forward to 2008, Tiger is sitting on 14-majors. And this sit is five years long. Just to put things in perspective, Nicklaus too had run into a 5-year slump of winning a major from 1980 – 1986.
There are similarities in these two great golf champions as well from a perspective standpoint. Coming into this week’s final Major Championship of the year, the PGA Championship, Tiger and Nicklaus had the exact number of majors won (14) to major appearances, 63. Jack won his 15th at this timeframe. Tiger didn’t. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing. Tiger is still on a good pace to surpass the great Jack Nicklaus but the window of opportunity is slowly closing.
Even though it’s been five years since Tiger has hoisted a Major championship trophy, he has a number of things on his side. One, he is only 37-years old. Nicklaus had won his 15th at the age of 38 so a bit of encouragement from a parallel standpoint. Also, Tiger is in tremendous shape. He is known for his workout regimen and has a body fat around 1%. He has been through a number of injuries that has slowed him down over the years including knee surgery that placed him on the golf shelf for a season. His personal indiscretion in his marriage also delayed his opportunities not to mention his much talked about swing changes, swing coaches (3), and firing of his long time caddy, Steve Williams. Through it all, he still wins golf tournaments.
Tiger’s main adversary appears to be Tiger. Touching on the swing changes from the previous paragraph, Tiger has gone through four of them. Since his college days at Stanford University which was his original golf swing, his first coach as a professional was Butch Harmon. Butch set him on his pathway to a string of Major wins with a swing that current Masters champ Adam Scott is still using today. That was swing #2. His third swing came from Hank Haney where many questioned why Tiger would leave Butch when he was on such a Major role. Although Tiger won a few more majors with Hank, the golfing world felt that Haney ‘ruined’ Tiger’s swing and game. This was the first time Tiger had gone into any type of win slump. Finally, Tiger has moved on from Haney to now, his new coach, Sean Foley. And with Foley, another swing change, #4.
Golf is a game of repetition, feel, vision, creativity, guts, perseverance, nerves, mental toughness and again, repetition. That is what I believe is hurting Tiger. I recall a commercial with a great golfer in his own right, Vijay Singh. In that commercial where Vijay was on the tee addressing his ball, it was a slow motion shot of him taking his swing. While going through the backswing, he had All of these swing thoughts going through his head. It was like a Pop Up Video with about 20 different things popping into his mind at once. That’s what I think is going on with Tiger. Just watching him go through his routine at approach when he rehearses his swing, he approaches the ball and sometimes does the complete opposite or Double Crosses himself which causes a horrendous shot per Tiger Woods Standards.
Having all of these swing coaches and swing changes places a lot of conflict in the mind and body. Imagine doing something as simple as tying your shoes the same way for years only to have someone else show you a different way to tie them. Then 5-years later, someone comes along and teaches you another way and finally, the latest person comes along and says, “No, he’s a New Way”. Eventually, your mind gets in the way of something that had been so simple in the past. You begin to revert back to the past as opposed to living in the present.
Golf is an amazing game. Watching the pros on TV, I have a brand new appreciation for them and the game they’ve made fun for me, a hacker at best. It’s not easy. Not even for Tiger Woods. Yes, he makes it look easy at times, but it’s not. For four consecutive days, these guys beat this little white ball around the course in hopes of winning the big trophy and a whole lot of cash to boot. A lot can happen in four days which is what makes this game equally challenging. This is another reason I think Tiger will break Jack’s record; Mental Toughness.
I’m a believer in this guy. He’s won 14-majors and about to break the ALL-Time wins title held by Sam Snead for years. Snead has 82-career wins and Tiger is sitting on 79. He is the money leader to date this season, the FedEx leader that awards the winner of the FedEx playoff championship a $10 million annuity at the end of the season and he’s the #1 golfer in the World. Not too shabby to me. After winning five times this year, he’ll get that record next year if he remains healthy. Although that achievement is Huge in its own right, Tiger still has his sights on becoming the ALL-Time Majors leader. And so do we Tiger, so do we.
If you’re a fan of Apple, mark September 10 on your calendar. That’s when the company is reportedly unveiling the next iPhone.
According to All Things D, Apple is hosting an event next month where the company is expected to reveal its latest smartphone.
Naturally, the weeks leading up to the reported reveal have been filled with countless rumors on what consumers can expect from the next iPhone. Rumors range from a lower-cost model to appeal to more consumers to a device equipped with a fingerprint sensor.
The reported event arrives as Apple continues to cede ground to several strong competitors, most notably Samsung and its Galaxy S series as well as the army of devices running Google’s Android operating system. According to IDC, nearly 80% of the smartphones shipped last quarter ran on Android.
However, the introduction of a new iPhone could spark an Apple rebound. “With a new iPhone and revamped iOS coming out later this year, Apple is well-positioned to re-capture market share,” says IDC research manager Ramon Llamas.
Readers, what features would you like to see in the next iPhone?
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