So we all know about the website set up by the White House encouraging Americans to voice their opinion on matters important to them. Any petition that garners 100,000 signers would, according to the White House, get an official response.
The petition to deport Justin Bieber has already passed the 100,000 signatures requirement. So if you’re a fan of the misguided entertainer or if you call yourself a “belieber,” then maybe it’s time to start worrying.
Or maybe not.
I’m not sure what to make of this, but here is a video of Vin Diesel, a big time Hollywood star currently playing a major role in the Fast and Furious series, “dancing” to Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” and Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love”… and he did this act for 7 freaking minutes!
I know he was aware that the camera was on, cause the guy is actively playing the role of someone being filmed, looking into the lens of the recording device and singing… YES SINGING! Diesel then posted the video on his Facebook page for the world and all of his 63 million fans to see.
I’m just doing my small part in bringing this video to the world.
I have no other words for this one. Watch!
I have no words, except… Jay Z is a very lucky man…
Carry on…
In 1986, when Muhammad Ali Jr. was 14 years old, his father, the greatest boxer alive, picked up the teen for a visit.
“We got in the car, and I said I needed to stop for something to eat,” Ali Jr. recalls. “By the time I came back out, he was gone.”
Ali Jr. called his father’s new wife, Lonnie, and said, “Daddy left me up here. I don’t know why he left me.” She said she’d tell him as soon as he arrived home.
“He turned the car around and came back to pick me up,” Ali Jr. says. “I said, ‘Daddy, why did you leave me?’ He said, ‘I kind of forgot you were in the car.’ ”
Ali Jr. remembers it sadly, the moment when his dad’s Parkinson’s became apparent.
“That was the first time I actually realized something was wrong with him,” he said.
Now 41, nearly destitute and living in the dangerous Chicago neighborhood of West Englewood, Ali Jr. fears his father has now forgotten him for good — and the boxing great’s wife, Lonnie, is keeping him from even saying a proper goodbye.
“If I saw my father right now, I’d say I love you, I miss you, and I want you to see your grandkids,” says Muhammad Jr., who lives in a two-bedroom hovel he shares with his wife, Shaakira, and two children, Ameera, 6, and Shakera, 5.
“I wished before my dad got really sick, I could have had that father-son relationship, but that’s impossible now. I wish I could have made up for lost time. But it doesn’t break my heart anymore. It’s been broken so many times I’m used to it by now.”
Muhammad Jr. was born in 1972 in Philadelphia to Ali, then 30, and actress Belinda Boyd, who was 17. Muhammad Jr. can’t remember ever enjoying a family meal together. Mostly, his grandparents raised him, as his father was busy boxing and his mom was acting in films.
He grew up with three sisters — Maryum and twins Jamillah and Rasheda — but when they were infants, Ali began an affair with Veronica Porsche, who became his second wife in 1977.
The kids still saw their dad, and Junior fondly remembers those days as an extended family.
“My father used to do magic tricks. He’d have a handkerchief that he’d make into a cane; he’d then make it disappear. His card tricks were really good. He was such a comical person. My father liked to wear masks and scare people. He liked to have people on the edge of their seats.
“We used to go to Pennsylvania where he had a training camp, and he’d do tricks on stage. We all went. It was all the family, including my stepsisters Leila and Hana. We’d get on the Bluebird Winnebago bus and go up to see him,” Muhammad Jr. says.
“We stayed in log cabins, ride horses, watch him train, jump ropes and eat all the time as a family. He had a great cook.
“But I never went to any boxing matches apart from one when he fought Leon Spinks, and I just remember he kept on smiling even though he was getting hit a lot.
“He never wanted me to be a fighter. He said, ‘Don’t get into it if you don’t know what you’re doing, as it’s dangerous.’
“I used to see him all the time when I was a child. He made sure he was there, would get all the siblings together, and never kept us a secret from each other. I was proud of my daddy. Fame and fortune meant nothing, I just saw him as my daddy.”
But being Muhammad Ali Jr. had its pitfalls. Although his dad was conquering the world for a third time in 1978, his son was battling on the playground.
“You may think having Muhammad Ali as your dad is great, but I had problems. People wanted to pick fights. School was hell. They wanted to see if I was like my father. I’d get bullied all the time. Girls would only get with me because of my father, not because of me. Nothing was as it seemed. I didn’t know who really loved me. People just used me so they could get a glimpse of my dad. Some people didn’t like it that my dad was black or didn’t go to war. We had to fight all his battles.
“It meant my grandparents sheltered me a lot. Dad didn’t know, as he wasn’t around every day. I felt in some ways like I never had a childhood.
“I’d say my father was good and bad. The reason I say that is because my father never really spent time with me. Whenever we had time, he spent it with his daughters rather than me. Even in the only picture I have of all the family together, they’re all wrapped close, and I’m far out to the left. I felt like the outcast. I still do,” Muhammad Jr. sobs.
A gay artist from Russia has created a flipped image in response to the controversial photo of Garage Magazine’s white, female editor-in-chief sitting on a “black woman” chair.
The Russian editor-in-chief of Garage magazine, Dasha Zhukova, came under fire for an editorial photo showing her seated atop a chair designed to look like a black woman with a belt around her waist and thighs and her legs up in the air.
The photo, which offended many, began circulating on Monday, Jan. 20, which was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Zhukova eventually apologized and called the decision to appear with such a racially insensitive piece of art “regrettable.” She also reasoned that designer Bjarne Melgaard’s actual intent was a “commentary on gender and racial politics.”
But, some did not find the apology sufficient.
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Justin Bieber has been arrested for allegedly drag racing in Miami Beach, Fla., and driving under the influence, the Miami Beach Police Department confirmed in a press conference.
Police said 19-year-old Bieber was arrested Thursday just after 4 a.m. on Pine Tree Drive and 26th Street. According to police, he was driving a yellow Lamborghini while under the influence of marijuana, prescription pills and alcohol.
Officers saw two cars racing at 4:09 a.m. Thursday, with two vehicles apparently used to block the area off, Miami Dade Police Chief Raymond A. Martinez said during a press conference. He says the second car was a red Ferrari, and that driver, R&B singer Khalil Sharief, was also arrested. Both cars were towed.
The singer was booked at Miami-Dade County jail, the Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to FOX411. His bail was set at $2,500, and the star’s mug shot was released, showing him smiling for camera.
The pop star was stopped by police because his car was going nearly double the speed limit in the residential area, and when a police officer approached the singer the officer “smelled a strong odor of alcoholic beverage” coming from the Biebs’ car, Martinez told reporters. According to the arrest report, Bieber’s eyes were bloodshot and he had “a stuper [sic] look on his face.”
Thicke was in Paris over the weekend partying with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. But this pretty young thing captured and Blurred the lines of Thicke, as he seemed to have had too much fun with the unidentified woman.
The singer uploaded a snapshot of 13-year-old Rocco Ritchie boxing on Friday night, with the offensive epithet used in a hashtag accompanying the photo.
“I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the ‘n-word’,” she said in a statement issued on Saturday.
“It was not meant as a racial slur. I am not a racist. There’s no way to defend the use of the word.”
Madonna’s comment was swiftly deleted from her Instagram account after some of her 1.1 million followers berated her for using the hashtag “#disnigga”
She later re-posted the same photo on Instagram, with a defiant (and largely unprintable) new caption that began: “Ok, let me start this again.”
On Saturday afternoon however, Madonna deleted the post entirely, and instead released a statement through her publicist, saying “forgive me”.
“It was all about intention,” she continued. “It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white.
“I appreciate that it’s a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression.”
Besides Rocco, Madonna has three other children, including Lourdes, David and Mercy. Her two youngest were both adopted from the African nation of Malawi.
The star came under fire earlier this month for posting a separate picture of Rocco on New Year’s Eve, in which he and his friends posed with bottles of alcohol.
Madonna responded: “No one was drinking, we were just having fun!
“Calm down and get a sense of humour! Don’t start the year off with judgement!”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama turns 50 this week, and she isn’t ruling out future use of plastic surgery or Botox.
The first lady tells People magazine in an interview hitting newsstands on Friday, her birthday, that women should be free to do whatever they need to do to feel good.
Mrs. Obama adds that she doesn’t imagine resorting to plastic surgery or Botox but that she’s also learned to “never say never.”
The first lady has never missed a health checkup, including a mammogram or Pap smear, and has had a colonoscopy.
As for diet and exercise, Mrs. Obama says she doesn’t “obsess” about what she eats but makes sure to include fruit and vegetables.
Her workouts have evolved to include things like yoga that she says will keep her flexible.
Dennis Rodman has made one too many trips to North Korea. He has gotten a little too cozy with the North Korea regime and their ruthless dictator, and the New York service industry is instituting a lifetime on the former NBA player.
The Old HomeStead SteakHouse is advocating the lifetime ban to all its business, and the organization is asking all other service industries to follow suit.
This, according to their Facebook page.
No food — or hotel rooms — for you. Self-proclaimed ambassador to North Korea Dennis Rodman made a living on the basketball court swatting away shots of opponents. Now an iconic restaurant in New York’s Meatpacking District, one of Rodman’s favorite neighborhoods when he’s here, wants the entire NYC hospitality industry to reject Rodman whenever he blows into the Big Apple.
Old Homestead Steakhouse, the iconic meatery on Ninth Ave., wants all restaurants, hotels and nightclubs to sign a statement pledging they will ban Rodman for life. The pledge will be on Old Homestead’s website this week. Anyone in America can sign to show support for the Rodman ban.
“Let him see what it’s like to starve and to sleep out in the cold – exactly what his dictator pal is doing to millions of people. It’s too late for apologies,” said Old Homestead co-owner Greg Sherry.
This is not the first time the Meat Mecca rejected an NBA player. When Kevin Garnett, at the time a Boston Celtic, disrespected Knicks superstar Carmelo Anthony — saying that his wife, LaLa tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios, Old Homestead banned Garnett, who now plays for the Brooklyn Nets, from the restaurant and even put a special entree on the menu for Melo. (Rodman was tossed from Serafina in The Time Hotel after his first trip from North Korea after mouthing off about how great Kim Jong Un is. Rodman is known to frequent high-profile strip clubs when he stays in New York.)
BEIJING – Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, the only foreigner with access to North Korea’s reclusive dictator Kim Jong Un, returned from Pyongyang Monday defending his controversial “basketball diplomacy” there.
Americans and North Koreans “can actually get along,” said Rodman, who apologized he “couldn’t do anything” about Kenneth Bae, a Korean American missionary imprisoned in North Korea.
Rodman will return to Pyongyang in about a month for another game of basketball, he said, following the exhibition game last Wednesday between a North Korean team and a Rodman-led team of a team of ex-NBA players and current streetballers.
The ex-Chicago Bulls forward sang ‘happy birthday’ to Kim before tip-off, and spent the second half sitting beside his “friend for life”, reported to be a Chicago Bulls fan.
Rights groups and U.S. politicians have criticized Rodman for engaging with the North’s repressive regime. While in Pyongyang, he was forced to apologize for comments last week that blamed Bae for his own incarceration.
At Beijing airport Monday, at the end of his fourth trip to Pyongyang over the past 12 months, Rodman said “I’m sorry that I couldn’t do anything”, when asked if had raised Bae’s case with Kim.
Lyndsey Scott
As much as we try to fight it, most people have a very stereotypical image come to mind when they think of coders and software entrepreneurs: pale, unshaven, twenty-something males.
Lyndsey Scott is none of those things. Though passionate about acting, she majored in computer science in college and then went on to become a model for brands such as Victoria’s Secret, Gucci, and Prada.
Despite her success on the runway, Lyndsey never lost her passion for coding. While she chose not to take the traditional route with a software engineering job at a firm in Manhattan or the Silicon Valley, she continued to work on apps in her free time, with projects ranging from an app that lets you learn about and fund youth education in Africa to an app that lets actors and models create professional-looking portfolios with the ease that only an iPad app can deliver.
We first learned about Lyndsey and her surprising workload from her profile on Stack Overflow, a site that lets programmers ask questions about their code and get helpful responses from other members of the community with expertise on specific topics.
She’s something of a celebrity on the site: users gain reputation points for providing helpful answers and the site keeps track of the number of views each profile attracts. To date, she’s gained over 1,000 reputation points and her profile has been viewed over 38,000 times.
Earlier this week, Lyndsey and I had a chat about her modeling and coding careers. Read on for her thoughts on developing for iOS over Android, being a “lurker” on a coding forum, and what it takes to get young women into coding and computers.
Read more: Business Insider
