In a statement, Jackson’s publicist confirmed the news that the singer became a new mom.
“Janet Jackson and husband, Wissam Al Mana, are thrilled to welcome their new son, Eissa Al Mana, into the world,” her rep told ABC News. “Janet had a stress-free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably. No further details are available at this time.”
Janet and her husband Wissam Al Mana, married hack in 2012.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States… and the mobsters he apparently associate with.
Donald Trump rang in 2017 at a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Joseph Cinque – reportedly a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks”.
Cinque, a longtime acquaintance of Trump’s, can be seen grinning on stage as the president-elect reads off a list of accomplishments he intends to achieve in office.
In a video of the speech, which was obtained and published by the Palm Beach Daily News, Cinque, wearing a tuxedo, claps and cheers loudly – even pumping his arms in the air when Trump pledges to repeal the Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act. On Trump’s other side, a man awkwardly holds what appears to be a gilded statue of a bald eagle.
They say the media has a “liberal bias,” Well Pat Robertson never got that memo as he consistently use his media platform to preach the gospel of the Republican party.
I’m wondering if it is possible to broadcast an episode of Pat Robinson’s show without Robinson wandering into the land of Republican politics and how Republican policies would save this nation. In an episode that aired January 3rd, 2017, Robertson assured his audience that God will finally be able to save America with the election of Donald Trump.
“Nothing is impossible,” Robinson said, while having a chit-chat his co-host. “This last election was a blessing of God. He delivered this nation from chaos, and He’s gonna do something for Israel, He’s gonna do something to the United States.”
Robertson then goes on preaching Trump’s message that because of his election, “we will all be rich!”
“We’re gonna see a time of extraordinary blessings.” Robinson said, “So this is a time to be happy and to get with it.”
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He brags that he is a billionaire, that he has over $10 billion in assets and in the bank. Yet, the man who also brags about hiring the best people and making the best financial decisions, cannot get his act together long enough to figure out a way to pay his very first hires in his upcoming administration.
Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) told a Buffalo area radio station: “Mr. Trump held a fundraiser down in New York City a few weeks back and did raise some money, but they have – I would use the word – ‘struggled’ to raise the private funds needed to pay these individuals who are working on behalf of the taxpayers but not being paid by the government.”
Of course, Trump could tap into his many billions to pay his team instead of letting this story come out. But I’m guessing there is a reason we never saw his taxes, like, he is probably not a billionaire and cannot afford it. It wouldn’t be the first lie he told.
Over the weekend, the iconic “Hollywood” sign in Los Angeles was changed by someone armed with four tarpaulins.
The genius – or someone high on weed… and I’m not implying that weed smokers aren’t geniuses, some even argue that smoking the plant brings out the genius in them, but back to the story – climbed the ladders leading up to the letters on Mount Lee was captured on security footage around 3am Sunday morning. He succeeded in hanging the tarps over certain sections of O’s in Hollywood to change the letters to E. The resulting word? “HOLLYWeeD.”
Genius I say.
The new year always begins with so much hope and this year is no different. I hope that my friends will be healthy and happy. I hope that we can solve some of the country’s big problems and more of the little ones. I hope that we can come together as a nation and a world and finally realize that we’re all in this together and that the deaths and atrocities are a stain on the human race. I hope that I can be a better person, a better friend, a better spouse, a better parent, and a better teacher.
But hope can only get you so far. At some point, you have to fight for what you believe in and for what you want done. On that point, this will be a year of fighting. Fighting for justice. For the right of everyone to have a healthy body, a healthy mind, and a full stomach. For the right to exercise the vote. For the right to free speech. For a free, quality education. For economic growth that begins to close the gap between wealth and not-so-wealthy. For clean air and water. For facts.
There will be challenges as soon as this week because Congress will begin moving towards legislation that will ultimately strip 20 million people of their health insurance. The assaults on Medicare and Social Security are sure to follow as will the foreign policy meanderings that will be endemic to an administration that only sees raw power as worthy of respect.
The good news? That we will turn our attention and energies to fighting for what we believe in. That’s what this year will be about. More people voted against the agenda than for it. Never forget that.
And have a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year.
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He is the president-elect, so he obviously has access to briefings inaccessible to the rest of the world. But on “Tuesday or Wednesday,” Donald Trump said he will reveal information he learn in these secret briefings to the rest of the world.
Still doubting the United States Intelligence Community on Russia’s hacking into the US election process, Trump spoke to a handful of reporters outside his Palm Beach, Fla., club, Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump.
“I just want them to be sure because it’s a pretty serious charge,” Mr. Trump said of the intelligence agencies. “If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong,” he added, referring to intelligence cited by the George W. Bush administration to support its march to war in 2003. “So I want them to be sure,” the president-elect said. “I think it’s unfair if they don’t know.”
He added: “And I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”
When asked what he knew that others did not, Mr. Trump demurred, saying only, “You’ll find out on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
I’m sure Russia will be listening.
