Columbus Short can’t catch a break it seems, mainly because Columbus Short doesn’t know how to act. And I’m not talking about his acting on television, I’m talking about acting in real life.
Short managed to get himself arrested over the weekend because he went to a bar Friday in Dallas, Texas, to celebrate 4th of July. But instead of paying for his drinks like everyone else, Short tried to leave the bar without paying his bill.
He was of course met by security and he played the race card, accusing them of confronting him because he was black.
Undercover cops tried ending the fight between security and Short, just to have the drunk former Scandal actor turn on them. Witnesses to the confrontation told TMZ that short was “like a dog with a bone who wouldn’t let go.”
In his weekly address, President Obama commemorated Independence Day by noting the contributions and sacrifices from individuals throughout the history of this country — from our Founding Fathers, to the men and women in our military serving at home and abroad.
First of all, the pastor has a gun! I’m still having a hard time figuring out why a man of God, a follower of Christ, has a gun.
But I digress!
Donald Frazier noticed an intruder in his home. The 69-year-old pastor grabbed his gun and went to investigate. That is when he came in contact with 30-year-old Daniel Durham in his back yard. The two struggled and the stronger Durham took the gun away from Pastor Frazier. Frazier pleaded for his life but he was killed with his own weapon.
Frazier’s wife saw the struggle.
Another example of a good guy with a gun dead at the scene!
Let’s play a guessing game. Remember when a Republican candidate dissed half of America by putting down #the 47%?”
Who said these words?
“I see something that frankly doesn’t surprise me, having been on Ways and Means Committee: 47 percent of all Americans pay no federal income tax. I’m guessing that most of you in this room are not in that 47 percent — God bless you — but what that tells me is that we’ve got almost half the population perfectly happy that somebody else is paying the bill, and most of that half is you all.”
“I submit to you that there is a political strategy to get slightly over half and have a permanent ruling majority by keeping over half of the population dependent on the largesse of government that somebody else is paying for,”
Wrong. I know you said Mitt Romney, but this quote is not the infamous Romney quote from his failed 2012 run for the presidency. This quote was said by Bob Beauprez, a Republican candidate for governor in Colorado.
He claimed a woman in Time Square attacked him simply for taking pictures, then Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony Show went on Twitter and began a barrage of racist and violent tweets calling the woman, who happens to be black, all sort of names including “whore”, “bitch” and “slut.” And those are the ‘decent’ names, compared to the other names he used.
According to tweets from Anthony, the woman and the “5 blacks” that joined her are “animals” who “prey on white people”:
Patrick Reilly, the Senior Vice President of SiriusXM issued the following statement on Friday, confirming to Buzzfeed that Anthony was in deed fired.
SiriusXM has terminated its relationship with Anthony Cumia of the Opie & Anthony channel. The decision was made, and Cumia informed, late Thursday, July 3 after careful consideration of his racially-charged and hate-filled remarks on social media. Those remarks and postings are abhorrent to SiriusXM, and his behavior is wholly inconsistent with what SiriusXM represents.
Here are just some of the tweets from Anthony Cumia that got him fired!
Sirius decided to cave and fire me. Welcome to bizarro world. Fired for shit that wasn’t even on the air & wasn’t illegal. So, who’s next?
Just hours after small forward and free agent Carmelo Anthony met with the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Knicks had their own meeting with the player and offered him the most any team could – a five year contract worth $129 million, according to ESPN Sports.
If Melo accepts the offer, he would be one of the highest paid players in the NBA. The meeting ended with no word from Carmelo on whether he would accept the offer.
The Lakers are offering Carmelo $98 million for a 4 year contract, the highest offer they are allowed to make.
Accepting the Knicks offer would equal roughly $25.8-million a year for the NBA star, compared to around $24.2-million from the Lakers. With a little over $1 million a year difference, Melo’s decision on where to play rests more on the potential of winning a championship than the finances.
Newsday is repotting that a federal indictment accuses the state Senate’s No. 2 Republican of lying about a job he secured for his son at a law firm with an “inflated salary” partly paid by an Albany lobbying firm.
Tuesday’s indictment accuses Sen. Thomas Libous (R-Binghamton) of promising a partner of the Westchester law firm that it would have to “build a new wing” to take care of all the business the firm would receive if it hired Libous’ son, Matthew.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accuses Sen. Libous of promising to steer the business to the law firm and getting an unnamed lobbying firm to pay $50,000 a year to the law firm to help fund Matthew Libous’ salary and perks including a Range Rover vehicle.
Matthew Libous was indicted Tuesday on six counts of charges related to tax evasion
On its 50th anniversary, everyone’s praising the Civil Rights Act that passed a bipartisan Congress back in 1964. Even Rand Paul had some good things to say about it. But if today’s Congress was given that opportunity to do something big, as big as voting on that bill, what would be the outcome?
Congressman John Lewis, a man who has carried the scars of a life-long struggle for civil rights, used this 50th anniversary of the law to share some unbelievable truths – that the Congress of 2014 is so partisan, so divided, that something as important as the Civil Rights Act would not even be brought to the floor for a vote.
In a tweet, Congressman Lewis said this;
And the congressman is absolutely correct. Today’s Congress – specifically the Republicans – is presently on pace to be the least effective Congress in the history of this country. They have said and demonstrated time and again, that making the president fail is more important than making the country succeed. They have lied, called him childish names with ugly racial undertones, multiple threats of impeachment and now a threat to sue the president by the Republican House Speaker, John Boehner.
These so called leaders have failed time and again to take up any of the president’s proposal, failed to agree on a single jobs bill and even failed to keep the government open, a basic requirement and part of their job description as laid out in the constitution.
If these people couldn’t agree to keep the lights on in Washington, passing a major bill like the civil rights act of 1964 is way above their qualifications.
The showdown happened on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, and it featured host Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham.
Ingraham presented her idea that the way to deal with the immigration problem is to have mass deportation, “not by the hundreds, not by the dozens, by the thousands.” “That,” she said, “means entire families, not just the father or mother, but we keep families unified by deporting all people who are here illegally.”
O’Reilly pointed out the insanity of her statement, calling it “draconian,” and he informed the conservative talk show host that if the Republican party followed her advice, they would be doomed for years to come.
“I do believe that if you do mass deportations … that the Republican Party would become obsolete, that it would ensure Hillary Clinton’s election in 2016 because demographics don’t add up… “If you do that kind of a draconian action … mass deportation would be draconian, it would be,” O’Reilly said.
Ingham accused O’Reilly of peddling the argument of the left, and used the example of Mureitta California, where dozens of people stood in the roads blocking three buses filled with immigrant mothers and children from preceeding to processing centers.
“I think what you saw in Murietta, California, was not something that we should say should not happen in the United States,” she said. “No one wants people to spit on each other, I don’t agree with that, but the people saying ‘Oh no, you won’t do this to our community, you won’t do this to our wages, you won’t do this to our public schools,’ where do the people get satisfaction? Where do they go?”
O’Reilly maintained that if Republicans took such actions, the party would be destroyed. Then Laura chimed in with this gem.
“The Republican Party has done a good job at destroying itself by not standing up for the American worker. They’re not standing up for the regular people.”
The recovery continues as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 288,000 non-farm jobs were added to the economy in June, lowering the unemployment rate to 6.1%
The report states the jobs growth was widespread, especially in professional and business
services, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and health care.
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