Month: April 2014

New Conservative Conspiracy – Chelsea Clinton’s Pregnancy Is a Political Ploy for 2016

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 19, 2014
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He knew what he was about to say made no sense, but the Newsmax conservative host Steve Malzberg went ahead and made his dumb statement anyway.

“Now pardon the skeptic in me,” Malzberg said. “Oh I can see Media Matters, I can see everybody going crazy on me now. Malzberg thinks this was a staged, planned pregnancy?”

“Well, now I’m not saying, when I say staged I have to believe she’s pregnant, if she says she’s pregnant. I don’t mean that they’re making up she’s pregnant. But what great timing! I mean purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely just left up to God.”

“And God answered Hillary Clinton’s prayers and she’s going to have the prop of being a new grandma while she runs for president,” he added. “It just warms the heart, it brings a tear to my eye. It really does.”

To these Republican nut jobs, everything is political.

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Canada Food And Recipes

Yes. If You Really Must Know, This Is A Pizza Cake

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 18, 2014
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This is a six layered pizza “cake” developed by Canadian pizza chain Boston Pizza. The pizza cake is the present leader in an online poll by the chain, to determine what non pizza food they should turn into pizza.

Other creations by Boston Pizza include chipotle chicken and bacon pizza taco and “Pizzaburger” sliders.

This “cake” may be bringing a heart attack to a store near you…soon!

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Entertainment Television

Columbus Short Gives Super Bizarre Interview, Calls Radio Host N-Word And More

Post author By MelodyM
Post date April 18, 2014
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Getting shot in the season finale of a show can really spoil your day and the host and co-hosts of the Tom Joyner radio show found this out first hand when they tried to interview Scandal’s Columbus Short.

Spoiler – Columbus was shot in the season finale of Scandal.

Check out a transcript of the interview below.

Click here for the audio.

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched the Scandal finale, don’t read this.

TOM JOYNER: Good morning!

COLUMBUS SHORT: Good morning sir. How you doing, man?

SYBIL WILKES: How are YOU doing?

Tom: How you doin?

Columbus: I couldn’t be better, man, I’m blessed.

Tom: Okay, so last night did you have your viewing and listening party?

Columbus: Uh, Uh, absolutely I did, sir.

Tom: How did it go?

Columbus: (Laughs) No other than it’s supposed to go. Fantastic, sir.

Tom: You got shot at the end of the show, and I’m thinking ‘Wow. ‘

Sybil: Or did he?

Tom: Or did he?

(Silence)

Sybil: No, that’s a question. That’s a question for you.

Columbus: Can I keep it 1,000 with y’all? I don’t know either. (Laughs)

Tom: OK, because I’m thinking, I’m thinking all right. They shot a lot of endings to reveal that Papa Pope was the mastermind of killing all these people.

Columbus: But you know [inaudible]. But you know when you stop racking your brain, you’ll realize it was only one ending. It was the one ending that was already written. Like Shonda had this whole show written from the top to bottom. [inaudible] She has me written top to bottom.

Tom: So how long ago did you know you were going to get shot?

Columbus: The day I got shot. But I’m lying because I didn’t get shot, nigga, man, I mean, people.

Tom Joyner: Oh, I didn’t mean to upset you, Columbus, I’m sorry.

Sybil: It looked like you were going to, so that’s the problem. I get that. So when you got the script that day, but how long ago was that? When you all got the script and you started filming the last episode. Was that within the last month?

Columbus: It was in the last month and what happened was is the producers came to me at the table read and said ‘You gotta work tomorrow and said ‘This is what you got to shoot’ and I was like ‘What?’ But you know what? It’s a beautiful thing. That’s what makes a great actor from a good actor. That’s the deciphering, the deciphering line.

When you get with people like Joe Morton and Jeff Perry and Kate, Kate, Kate Burton and Kerry Washington and Katie Lowes, they know that we can throw something on you today and tomorrow you can change your whole idea of who you thought you were on the show. And they’ll still show up and still deliver. It’s an incredible thing to be a part of.

Tom: I played your song earlier. It’s a nice song.

Columbus: Thank you, I appreciate that.

Tom: Did you always plan to release a song? Was that in the plan?

Columbus: No, that wasn’t in the plan.

Tom: When were you originally going to release this song?

Columbus: When it was ready.

Tom: And when was that?

Columbus: Right now.

J.ANTHONY BROWN: You just don’t want people talking to you?

Columbus: Hey, Hey, Hey, listen, I’m going to keep it 1,000 with you guys.

J.Anthony Brown: That’s 2,000 ‘cause you did a 1,000 before so now we’re 2,000.

Columbus: 1,000 covers a lot of gamut. You deposit $1,000 in a bank account, you’re good. No, but really, keeping it completely honest with you guys, I wasn’t even working on my album when we were shooting this. And I started working on it during this process. It happened to speak to the time that I am in my life. Everything that I’m doing in my album and my single. My single is about women who I believe need to feel confident in themselves. To be like ‘Look, this is what God gave you. You want a man, how about you just be confident in what God gave you.’ Stop trying to put on all that makeup. Stop trying to put on all that eyelashes and hair –

Sybil: So does that mean the women that you’re dealing with are not very confident and that you needed to put this out to send them a message?

Columbus: How about every woman is not really confident. How about I’m not all the way really confident. When you know who you are, confidence is a humbling thing to, to, grasp.

J. Anthony Brown: How about you just don’t do interviews?

Tom: How does your wife feel about the song?

Columbus: Uh, I don’t care. How about I don’t care.

J. Anthony Brown: I think I said it best. If you don’t do interviews…. Well, God Bless you, man.

Tom: All right, Columbus. I hope you have a lot of success. And I hope to see you next season on Scandal. Thanks a lot.

J. Anthony Brown: And keep it 1,000.

Tags Columbus Short, Interview, scandal, Tom Joyner

Music

Kidnapped boy sings gospel song to save his life

Post author By MelodyM
Post date April 18, 2014
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Atlanta, Georgia – A young boy’s love of gospel music may have saved his life.

Earlier this month, police say a man kidnapped then nine-year-old Willie Myrick from his southwest Atlanta driveway.

He allegedly drove the boy around for some time before dropping him off unharmed in East Point.

But Willie’s actions during those terrifying three hours are inspiring people around the country.

Willie says he sang the gospel song “Every Praise” until the man let him go.

Thursday evening, community leaders held a meeting in Willie’s honor, celebrating his happy ending, but also telling other parents and children what to do if this happens to them.

In front of a crowded sanctuary at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Willie recounted the moment he was freed from the car. Willie said while he was singing, the man kept cursing and telling him to shut up before eventually kicking him out.

Click here to read the rest of this story on WXIA

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President Obama Continues to Push Republicans on Immigration Reform

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 18, 2014
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The Senate passed their version of immigration reform over a year ago, but House Republicans have failed to address the Senate’s bill or any bill containing the words immigration reform.

On Wednesday, President Obama once again called them out on it.

“Unfortunately, Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeatedly failed to take action, seemingly preferring the status quo of a broken immigration system over meaningful reform,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House.

“I urge House Republicans to listen to the will of the American people and bring immigration reform to the House floor for a vote,” Obama said.

He repeated that plea in a private conversation with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican said.

The Senate legislation, unveiled on April 16, 2013, and passed by the full Senate in June, has remained stalled in the Republican-led House, despite a strong vote by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

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Celebrities

Dave Chappell Has Muscles – PIC

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 18, 2014
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Muscle man Chappell is appropriate. Who would have thunk it!

Time for me to get back in the gym.

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Teacher Fired After Telling Student, “We Don’t Need Another Black President”

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 18, 2014
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The incident happened back in December when an African American student said that he would like to follow in the footsteps of President Obama. The teacher was placed on suspension after telling the student, “we don’t need another black president.”

During a hearing into the incident on Thursday, The Fairfield Board of Education in Ohio voted 4-0 to terminate Freshman science teacher Gil Voigt.

According to the Associated Press, Voigt is accustomed to making such statements and the committee referenced some of these incidents as unacceptable in their recommendation to fire the teacher.

Fairfield Superintendent Paul Otten said in a statement, “The District felt that the evidence was sufficient to support the termination of Mr. Voigt’s employment. The referee recommended such termination, and the board has concurred.”

Voigt taught at the school for 13 years.

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Sports

Slumdog Midfielder: Teenager, 16, whose mother is a prostitute, to train with Manchester United

Post author By MelodyM
Post date April 18, 2014
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Rajib Roy, who shares a single room with his mother and brother in the red light district of Kolkata, West Bengal, is set to play football at Old Trafford after being spotted by talent scouts.

The 16-year-old is one of 11 teens arriving in the UK this weekend to spend two weeks training with Manchester United’s coaches.

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Dazzling dribbler: Rajib Roy, 16, from Kolkata, West Bengal, is set to arrive in Manchester this weekend to take part in a training camp at Old Trafford after being spotted by talent scouts

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Rajib is pictured with his few possessions in the family’s single-room home in the Kolkata slum, the largest red light district in Asia, where he grew up with his prostitute mother and younger brother

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Family support: Rajib’s mother Rekha, an impoverished sex worker, helped him along his way to football success by sending him to a local school for children of women in her profession

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The talented teenager caught the eye of United talent scouts at a national tournament for India’s best young players.

Most of the other boys travelling to Manchester this weekend are from well-off families and have the advantage of good schooling and fluency in English.

Rajib on the other hand, has grown up playing barefoot in the squalid streets of Kolkata where he lives in the heart of the largest red light area in Asia.

The Sonagachi suburb is home to 12,000 sex workers and he shares a tiny single room with his mother Rekha and younger brother.

Their cramped apartment also has a poster of Chelsea’s Oscar who Rajeeb idolises because, like him, he comes from a background of poverty in Brazil.

Like most boys in his neighbourhood Rajib has no idea who his father is, and he describes the moment he heard Manchester United had picked him as ‘like a father’s recognition.’

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Humble beginnings: Rajib is pictured with his mother Rekha in the small single room they share in Sonagachi, the suburb known as Kolkata’s red light district, which is home to 12,000 sex workers and their families

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Rajib, who has no idea who his father is, stands in the doorway of his home in the Sonagachi suburb of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, in West Bengal

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Change of scenery: The talented striker learned to play football on these streets in the West Bengal slum he calls home, but is set to swap them for Old Trafford this weekend

Many of his friends have fallen prey to drugs and petty crime but Rajib has some prospects thanks to his natural footballing abilities.

His life changed two years ago when his mother sent him to the local Rahul Vidya Niketan school for the children of prostitutes.

It was set up by the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee whose aim is to improve the lives of sex workers and their families.

Four years ago DMSC founder Dr Samarjit Jana set up a foorball initiative at the school, believing that sport was the best way to integrate them into mainstream society.

Earlier this year striker Rajib was part of the West Bengal team to win the National Slum Soccer Tournament in Nagpur.

Last month he and 30 others from the DMSC were selected to take part in a nationwide school football championship in Goa.

Coaches from Manchester United were watching and they chose 11 boys who will fly to Britain and Old Trafford on Sunday.

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Close to goal: The 16-year-old is one of 11 teens arriving in the UK this weekend to spend two weeks training with Manchester United’s coaches after being spotted at a national tournament for young players in India

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Football for life: Rajib, centre, is pictured with his friends in the Kolkata slum where they grew up

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High hopes: Although he dreams of playing Premiere League football for Manchester United, Rajib hopes that his football talents will help him earn money to put his younger brother in a good school

Among other things they will get a free tour of the world-famous stadium which normally costs £20 – the monthly income of Rajib’s family.

Rajib said: ‘People keep asking me how it feels to be my mother’s son and then achieve something like this.

‘I don’t know how to answer that question.

‘But when my coach told me I had been selected by Manchester United it was like a father’s recognition.’

He added: ‘My mother is a very shy person. She would lock me in my room after lunch so that I could take a nap, but I would quietly sneak out to play with my friends.

‘Last month I was selected along with 30 others to participate in a camp in Goa through a nationwide school championship competition.

‘I arrived late because I took a train from Kolkata. Everybody else took a flight.

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Rajib has been attending the local Rahul Vidya Niketan school for the children of prostitutes, pictured, for two years, which is how he was finally able to play organised football

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The founder of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, whose aim is to improve the lives of sex workers and their families, Dr Samarjit Jana set up the football initiative which helped Rajib win a place at the Manchester United training camp

The teen admits he often spent the little money his mother gives him to buy lunch on watching football tournaments elsewhere in the city.

Dr. Jana said: ‘Rajib’s dream is to build career in football. He wants to play in the English Premier league and his favorite team is Manchester United.

‘One of his other goals is to help his nine year-old brother get into an English medium school so he can develop a better academic career.’

Dr. Jana added: ‘We started a football academy on a very small scale four years ago.

‘It provides training for children of marginalised communities such as sex workers and construction workers.

‘Out of 11 boys selected from this eastern part of India by Manchester United two of them are from our community.

‘There are five million sex workers in India and we are just providing a minority of them, and their families, with a chance.

‘This shows that if you give them the opportunities they have a chance of success and I’m sure other boys will follow them.’

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Chelsea Clinton Announced She Is Pregnant

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 18, 2014
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In a joint appearance with her mom Hillary Clinton, daughter Chelsea made the announcement that she and her husband Marc were expecting their first child this year.

“I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me,” Chelsea Clinton said, according to the Washington Post.

Former president Bill Clinton took to Twitter and expressed his excitement with this tweet:

“Excited to add a new line to my Twitter bio…grandfather-to-be! @hillaryclinton and I are so happy for Chelsea and Marc!” he wrote.

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Featured

Texting Driver Who Slammed Cyclist: I, Like, ‘Just Don’t Care

Post author By MelodyM
Post date April 18, 2014
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Poor Kimberley Davis.

The 21-year-old Australian woman was livid when she slammed into a bicyclist while texting late last year, putting dents in her car. The victim suffered a spinal fracture and would spend the next three months in a hospital, but Davis wasn’t having any of it, The Standard reports.

“I just don’t care because I’ve already been through a lot of bullshit and my car is, like, pretty expensive and now I have to fix it,” she told a responding officer two days after the Sept. 20 collision. “I’m kind of pissed off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don’t agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist. I wasn’t on my phone when I hit the cyclist.”

Davis, of Port Fairy, pleaded guilty on Monday to dangerous driving and was fined $4,500. Police say she used her phone behind the wheel 44 times before running down the cyclist. She called emergency responders but parked more than 300 feet away from the victim and refused to offer him help.

Davis couldn’t contain her sadness after the loss of her license, and she made her woes known on Facebook:

The photo above appears to show that Davis expects to get her license back in May. She won’t — a judge on Monday suspended her license for another nine months.

The wife of the injured cyclist — who got spinal surgery and was told he could have been a paraplegic — said she was deeply disappointed that Davis’ license wasn’t suspended for longer.

Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

President Obama – “Republicans Were Wrong” – 8 Million People Already Signed Up

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 17, 2014
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And still, the Republicans are stuck on stupid! They’re still talking about repealing a law that is helping the economy, and helping millions and millions and millions of Americans! And as they talk about repeal, they have no idea on what to replace the law with if they somehow manage to repeal it.

President Obama announced Thursday that 8 million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, calling the feat a success story that Democrats should “forcefully defend and be proud of” in the face of Republican election-year attacks on the law.

The enrollment figure, revised upward from the 7.5 million signups that the administration had announced earlier this month, renewed hopes at the White House that Democrats will be able to overcome the initial rocky rollout of the health law in the fall as they battle to maintain control of the Senate in the midterms this fall.

“This thing is working,” Obama said at an afternoon news conference. Of the GOP, he added: “They said no one would sign up. They were wrong about that. They are wrong to try to repeal a law that is working.”

The final figure is well above the White House’s initial target of 7 million signups.

Republicans, who have fought the law since it was passed by a sharply divided Congress in 2010, escalated their call for the law to be repealed after the problems with the enrollment Web site, which repeatedly broke down in its first few months. Obama’s job approval ratings dropped, and Democrats worried that the bad headlines would harm the party at the ballot box.

But a buoyant Obama said the better-than-expected enrollment news should convince Democrats to not shy away from embracing his signature domestic achievement.

“I don’t think we should apologize for it, and I don’t think we should be defensive about it,” he said. “I think it is a strong, good, right story to tell. I think what the other side is doing and what the other side is offering would strip away protections for those families.”

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Education Technology

ANYBODY CAN LEARN

SOTW: “I can make an app do whatever I want!”

Alex
3rd grade
Phoenix, AZ

Alex is a 3rd grade “small business owner” on a roll. He has three apps in the Google Play store.

Tell us about your apps.
I got started when I got introduced to App Inventor in class. “Draw” is an app that you can draw things and change colors, take a picture from your gallery, make it the background for your drawing. I thought you might want to make a moustache on your friend. Or you might want to save your work so you could show your friend. The two others are for my Vikings report from social studies.

What do you think computer science will achieve by the time you grow up?
We’ll get things by clicking on an app or phone. Be able to change things at your house without even being at your house. I don’t think flying cars will happen – I mean, it would be cool, but do you really need that?

What are your favorite inventions that use software?
I like MiniClip.com and Minecraft. For learning to code, I like the farmer levels onCode.org, Scratch, and App Inventor 2.

What do you like about computer science?
Computer science has made everything easier. My favorite thing about coding is I can make something on a device that two months ago, I couldn’t. I can make an app do whatever I want it to do!