Eddie Murphy took to Twitter, hus only tweet to introduce his brand new reggae singke, Red Light. The single features Snoop Lion.
Close your eyes as this song plays and I’m sure you’ll think it’s Bob Marley.
Author: Ezra Grant
I'm just tired of the lies and nonsense coming from the GOP, so this is my little contribution to combat the nonsense!
I knew this was going to happen. But I didn’t think the nuts in the Republican party would come up with this.
Remember that newly released photo showing president Obama with his foot on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office? Well the theories coming from the Republicans are many. But the most outrageous one I’ve heard so far is this: the president is sending a secret foot message to the Muslim world.
This explanation comes from our usual nuts at WorldNetDaily. In a post discussing the photo, Andrea Shea King explained that Muslims consider showing the bottom of one’s shoes as a sign of disrespect, so Obama’s action was a secret sign of support to the Muslim world.
How many of our fellow countrymen thought the same thing when viewing this official White House photo (by Pete Souza) of the president with his shod foot firmly planted upon an historic American treasure – the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office?
Is it possible I might have misinterpreted this photo, which played prominently on the Drudge Report site last Sunday? Is it possible President Obama had a White House photographer release this official image to the world to send a wordless message of support to the Muslim Brotherhood, Arab street and Islamic community in general? To convey his disdain and disregard for all things traditionally American? It is, after all, common knowledge that the Arab world considers the bottom of one’s shoes the ultimate sign of disrespect. And it’s not the first time he’s done it.
Like Right Wing Watch reports, “Republican presidents from George W. Bush to Gerald Ford were also photographed with their feet on the Oval Office desk,” so maybe they too were sending secret foot messages to Muslims.
(AP) — The lawyer for a black U.S. woman whose claim against a black boss’s N-word rant brought a $280,000 jury award says she hopes the case teaches society something.
“It’s the most offensive word in the English language,” attorney Marjorie M. Sharpe said Tuesday.
A jury sided with 38-year-old Brandi Johnson against the boss, Rob Carmona, in a case that explored a word that is a degrading slur when spoken by whites but at times is used affectionately among blacks, even in the workplace.
Johnson said she hopes the word now “won’t be tolerated no matter what your race is.”
Carmona, a 61-year-old black man of Puerto Rican descent, had testified that he was dispensing tough love. “I come from a different time,” he said in court Tuesday.
He had tried to defend his use of the word, saying it had “multiple contexts” in the black and Latino communities, sometimes indicating anger, sometimes love.
Johnson had recorded his March 2012 tirade about inappropriate workplace attire and unprofessional behavior, and it was played for the jury.
She said she cried for 45 minutes in the restroom afterward.
“I was offended. I was hurt. I felt degraded. I felt disrespected. I was embarrassed,” Johnson testified.
In a statement, the organization Carmona founded, STRIVE East Harlem, said it was disappointed but was exploring options, including an appeal.
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This Woman Eats Dog food for a Living
It sounds barking mad but one woman is so confident in her company’s brand of dog food she even EATS the dog’s dinner – to make sure it tastes just right.
Human taste tester Lucy Postins not only samples every individual ingredient that goes into the food but even chows down on the final product too.
British Lucy, 38, insists on all the recipes being made in a human food facility instead of a pet food rendering plant, and then tests for the likes of flavour, aroma and colour which is an indication of freshness.
Her company The Honest Kitchen was the first pet food manufacturer to achieve a ‘human grade’ rating from the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) which means the final product is legally allowed to be described as ‘human grade’ on the product labels
After taking the summer off to direct a movie in the middle east, Jon Stewart returned to his day job on Comedy Central last night and did what he does best – deliver the news of the day, better than most so-called “news organizations.”
There was a small issue of a red line that needed addressing.
The man who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade before one escaped and alerted authorities has been found dead and is believed to have committed suicide, a prison official said.
Ariel Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, located south of Columbus in central Ohio, JoEllen Smith, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction spokeswoman, said early Wednesday.
Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 10:50 p.m.
He was in protective custody because of the notoriety of his case, meaning he was checked every 30 minutes, but was not on suicide watch, Smith said. She said suicide watch entails constant observation.
Castro was also watched closely in Cuyahoga County Jail in the several weeks after his arrest and before his case was resolved by a guilty plea, with logs noting his activity every 10 minutes. He was taken off county jail suicide watch in early June after authorities determined he was not a suicide risk.
Oklahoma City Thunder guard DeAndre Liggins has been jailed on domestic abuse complaints, according to Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office records.
He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail. He is being held on complaints of domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and domestic abuse in the presence of a minor, a jail official said.
Oklahoma City police were called at about 4:40 p.m. to the 2300 block of NW 180th near North Pennsylvania Avenue. An official police incident report is not yet available, Lt. Arthur Gregory said.
“From what I understand it was a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship,” Gregory said. “And I don’t know who the child was, if it was theirs, her’s or his.”
Liggins averaged 1.5 points and 1.4 rebounds in 39 games with the Thunder last season, his first in OKC. He is on a non-guaranteed contract for the upcoming season. Training camp begins in late September.
Police in Florida are investigating a Sunday shooting that left a 35-year-old woman and her 1-year-old daughter dead.
The Herald-Tribune reported that Sarasota police responded to a 911 call at around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday morning and discovered that 35-year-old Sarah Harnish had died of a gunshot wound. The woman’s 17-month-old daughter, Josephine Boice, later died at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Police said that the child’s father had gone for a ride on his scooter and returned to the sound of gunfire. Detectives concluded that the mother shot the child and then herself.
“Investigators are still trying to piece it all together,” Sarasota Police spokesperson Genevieve Judge told the Herald-Tribune. “We’re treating it as a shooting investigation and a death investigation.”
Authorities had not released information about the type of handgun or a motive for the shooting
And he swears his trip has nothing to do with requesting the freedom of Kenneth Bae, an imprisoned missionary whose health has deteriorated recently.
The former basketball star Dennis Rodman returned Tuesday to North Korea, where he plans “to see my friend” Kim Jong-un, the dictator whose country until recently was threatening to annihilate the United States with nuclear weapons.
Mr. Rodman said in Beijing that he was planning a five-day visit to the North but played down speculation that he would try to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American Christian missionary who has been jailed there since late last year after being detained on North Korean soil.
“I’m not going to North Korea to discuss freeing Kenneth Bae,” Mr. Rodman, a Basketball Hall of Fame member, told Reuters in a telephone interview. “I’m just going there on another basketball diplomacy tour.”
Professor Noam Chomsky says even with congressional approval, an attack on Syria without UN support is a war crime.
“As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world,” Chomsky told HuffPost in an email.
Chomsky recently traveled to the region to learn more about the Syria crisis, and his comments there led some to believe he was open to military intervention if negotiations failed to produce peace. “I believe you should choose the negotiating track first, and should you fail, then moving to the second option” — backing the rebels — “becomes more acceptable,” he said.
But his comments to HuffPost indicate that he remains opposed to any military action that came without U.N. approval.
“[T]hat aggression without UN authorization would be a war crime, a very serious one, is quite clear, despite tortured efforts to invoke other crimes as precedents,” he added.
New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, his wife Chirlane (right) and son (left) sporting that now famous Afro, shows off their moves at the West Indian Day Parade.
Labor Day Parade in Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn New York is one of the biggest, if not the biggest parade in the nation. The event usually pull participants and onlookers from all over the world.
But the parade is also known primarily as a West Indian event, with millions of people representing just about all the Caribbean islands. And with that fact, the parade is known to attract politicians seeking office.
And Anthony Weiner was there. No, not the Anthony Weiner you know. No, this Anthony Weiner was apparently born in one of the West Indian islands. From his accent, I cannot really tell which island he’s from, but it sounds Trinidadian.
Can you tell?