I've been buttfucked by BoA (who hasn't?), but this just beats all.
http://bigrobby.com/random-musings/screw-bank-of-america.html

Email it, tweet it, post the fuck out out of everywhere you go. This is just fucking insane.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4306275

Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair has been killed, a source has confirmed to ESPN.com.

McNair, police said, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head in downtown Nashville, News Channel 5 in Nashville reported.

McNair played 13 seasons in the NFL, 11 were with the Tennessee Titans. He played his final two years with the Baltimore Ravens, retiring after the 2007 season.

Damn, Air McNair is gone. RIP

I've been reading haters on the internet all morning. What these ladies have managed to do, is just downright astounding in their careers.



Serena Williams Cruises to Wimbledon Victory
By LIZ ROBBINS

The Williams family dream, developed about 20 years ago on the courts of Compton, Calif., littered with broken-glass, has played out on every major championship surface since. On the Fourth of July, Serena and Venus Williams, the American superstars and the only real standard bearers of women’s tennis, slugged it out on the hallowed grass of Wimbledon’s All England Lawn Tennis Club.

After all the anguished cries and pummeled forehands between the pair, their 21st meeting and their fourth meeting in the Wimbledon final, ended with but a muted celebration. Serena Williams, the younger sister by 15 months, steamrolled big sister Venus, 7-6 (3), 6-2 to win her third Wimbledon championship.

She smiled and dropped to the grass, but was not gloating with Venus on the other side of the net in resigned defeat. Venus’s final backhand sailed plaintively into the net, as Serena captured her 11th major championship title with unrelenting force. It was her first Wimbledon championship since 2003.

A five-time Wimbledon champion, Venus had not dropped a set during these Wimbledon championships, but suddenly Serena won the first set tiebreaker with an off-balance topspin lob that left Venus flat-footed at the net.

Serena, 27, was pumping her fist, her body language and her racket all screaming for victory. Venus, 29, usually the more quiet and contemplative of the pair, only seemed to retreat further within herself. Serena never stopped in the second set, breaking the all-time sister tie.

“She had an answer for everything. She played the best tennis today, so congratulations,” Venus said in the trophy presentation.

“I don’t think the loss has set in yet, because I’m still smiling.”

I don't know how old it is, but I just saw this commercial and it cracked my shit up!



I can't blame ol' dude... that's what I thought she meant too!

*eyeroll*

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid95680.asp




The Westboro Baptist Church clearly knows no boundaries.

Members of Fred Phelps's fundamentalist church are planning to picket the funeral of late pop icon Michael Jackson, according to the group's website. The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The controversial group is well known for picketing funerals of those who have died of HIV starting in the early 1990s, eventually moving on to services for public figures, and military personnel.

Staples Center was the space that Jackson was using to rehearse for his upcoming 50-show concert, which was to start on July 13 in London, according to MTV.

This is just disrespectful and evil. I don't even understand what they're protesting, they're just rebels without a cause. Since they're already outnumbered, let's just hope the crazed MJ fans band together and take them out.

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supposedly it's an unknown lifeform in a sewer. someone call Mulder. please.

Debbie Rowe!

http://www.accesshollywood.com/debbie-rowe-confirms-she-will-seek-custody-of-children-with-michael-jackson_article_20082

Debbie Rowe will fight for custody of her two children with Michael Jackson, according to KNBC Los Angeles reporter Chuck Henry, who spoke to the pop star’s ex-wife on Thursday morning.

Henry, who said he had a “long conversation” with Rowe, confirmed the woman’s plans to pursue custody of Prince Michael I, 12, and Paris Jackson, 11.

“She told me, ‘Yes I am stepping up… I have to.’ She will try for custody of her children,” Henry said. “And she was still very much grieving this morning and has been, she says, for the last week over the death of Michael Jackson.”

Additionally, Rowe told Henry that she plans to take action to keep Joe Jackson away from his grandchildren.

“She also said she would seek some kind of restraining order if that was necessary to keep Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father, away from the children,” Henry recounted.

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Add this to Joe challenging the will. I have a bad feeling that Mrs. Jackson will be joining her son sooner than we think. SMH.

High Heels For Babies....

I couldn't see Michael Jackson's face in the clouds yesterday but I think I do now:



Oh wait: that's a Keebler elf. Hold on...

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Go out on THIS:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/us_sears_tower_ledge

Seriously, how many of y'all'd venture out onto a glass balcony at the TOP of the Sear's Tower?

ENJOY!



Peep the "Off The Wall" album in the background, on the couch.

The young man had to be rushed to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The wound was disinfected to cleanse it before he was given a bed in an observation ward.

"This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man's sexual performance.

"Using a pair of nail clippers must have caused excruciating pain, even if he had had a few drinks beforehand."

In April last year a leading brain surgeon used a £30 DIY drill to carry out a successful operation on a fully conscious patient.

Henry Marsh used a Bosch PSR960 cordless drill because he did not have his normal equipment on him.

But Mr Marsh had to use the drill because he was on a trip to Ukraine in Eastern Europe to help people let down by a vastly inadequate health system.

Halfway through the operation to remove the tumour from Marian Dolishny's head, the power ran out.

Thankfully the neurosurgeon, who normally practises at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south, London, was able the complete the operation and save a life.

If you were paying any attention to the "This Week in Blackness" Live Blog you realize that we here at "TWiB!" We'rent exactly in love with the 2009 BET Awards. Well, if anything can get Elon off his ass to shoot another episode it would HAVE to be this. The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present episode 2 of season 2 of "This Week in Blackness." Enjoy.

(Any subscriptions and ratings of the video would be So appreciated - Since, well, we won't be seeing this on BET anytime soon hehe, I will be a starving artist FOREVER)

MTO WORLD EXCLUSIVE: R. KELLY BUSTED FOR HAVING 17-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND ... POLICE RAID HIS CHICAGO HOME SEARCHING FOR THE TEENAGER



Media Takeout's report:

July 01, 2009. MediaTakeOut.com has an EXPLOSIVE new report for you. R Kelly is being investigated by the Illinois police for committing statutory rape.

Here’s what’s going down. MediaTakeOut.com EXCLUSIVELY spoke with a CONFIRMED person close to R Kelly and here’s what they told us:

A day before [R Kelly] left for his South Africa tour) about 8 police squad cars pulled up at his front gate. One of the officers, in a loud, commanding voice, yelled: "This is the police. Open up this gate at once. We have a search warrant".

Source

UPDATE: Chicagoist report:

Rumors are spreading fast today about R&B singer R. Kelly. Media Take Out is citing unconfirmed reports of a police raid at Kelly's home in connection with a charge of statutory rape involving an alleged 17-year-old girlfriend. However, we put a call in to the Olympia Fields Police Dept. this morning and an OFPD spokeswoman told us, "All rumors are completely false information. There is no investigation into R. Kelly at the present time. We have been fielding calls for the past three days."

Source

Taken from: ONTD It is mediatakeout so....

Simply put, I prefer Facebook over Myspace. Myspace is fine, in fact I have a budding page there that I'll be expanding for my business very soon. Still, Facebook annoys me less and has more of a 'grown folks' feel to me. Less glitter and unicorns, as it were. My best friend thinks I'm insane and that the two are exactly the same. Thoughts?

ok, so the BET awards....

WAIT WAIT WAIT before you scroll!!

I didn't watch the original airing, i was either at work or uninterested. So i was flipping through some of it that came on tuesday night. And I thought I had seen in pictures (blackcelebkids.com) that wayne's daughter and her girl group danced on stage during wayne's song. The comments were that the song was too vulgar yadda>3 but I didn't know what song it was. So when it came on at the end of the show I made sure to watch his performance and see how the girls danced. I thought it was strange that the more I watched, I didn't see the girls. I thought I was just mistaken and that they were in an earlier part of the show but in the last few seconds I noticed a huge block at the back of the screen (where the stage was) was blurred out. And I thought to myself "what could they possible be blocking out on their own stage? was somebody flashing? Surely i would've read about that somewhere. Did someone hold up a vulgar sign??" So i rewound it and thought it was people, with a flash of pink. And then they went to an Arial shot of Wayne and the other guy walking off stage and i notice there are several people walking with them who i never saw during the performance, one of which is wearing a bright pink tutu, which I remember from the pictures one of the little girls in the group was wearing.


So you mean to tell me that nobody had any idea that any of those underage girls would be on stage that night?? Nobody was backstage going "wait, y'all come away from the stage, we're about to start a performance", they just pranced out there on their own while the girls daddy is singing about the girls he wants to sex up?? and where is her mother??!!! oh that's right...

But blackfolk what I'm here for, since BET grew some passive-agressive balls and edited the girls out of the show, I need a clip of the four girls dancing along to the song. help me out!

2nd request! I'm making a new post because they're so different. This is for my comic strip junkies.

There is an old strip, or it might be a cartoon, i'm not completely sure. All I know is that it was most likely black and white. And it had two little white kids in it (the next person to say calvin and hobbes gets bust in the mouth!), most likely brother and sister. The boy had just round circles for eyes and I think some spikey straight lines as hair. The girl had hair that hit her shoulders and I think it curled outward. I have googled as many things as i can think of but the right cartoon isn't coming up. It could possibly be an old cartoon, like maybe from the 40's or 50's?

Don't know if anyone here is following the case of Troy Davis, but here's an update from Amnesty International:

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court delayed a decision on whether to grant Troy Davis an appeal until after it returns from recess in September. The court's decision (or non-decision) should be taken as a good sign. It gives us hope that at least some Supreme Court Justices may finally be waking up to the strong claims of innocence in this case and want to take more time to weigh the facts.

We are convinced that if the justices agree to hold a hearing and allow all evidence to be weighed, then they will come to see what we have known all along – the pieces just don't add up. When Davis was sentenced to death for the 1989 shooting of a police officer in Savannah, there was an absence of any physical evidence against him. Furthermore, the majority of witnesses who testified against him then, have now recanted or changed their stories altogether.

Troy's case continues to inspire the support of millions of activists and countless leaders speaking on behalf of human rights, including former President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond TuTu.

Our activism has already put the U.S. Supreme Court and Georgia officials on the fence. Now we've got to do all we can these next couple of months to guarantee justice for Troy Davis!

Join the thousands in Savannah, Georgia who are calling for the new District Attorney to reopen Troy's case. Then, forward the link onto everyone you know!

Troy's life continues to be saved because of people like you who take the time to make the difference.


The link is to a simple sign-your-name form--donation not necessary.

in the words of ghostface... "rev. ain't right..."

Apologies if this is a repost, but I did scroll to check.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/cynthia-mckinney-on-board_n_223284.html



GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said.

A statement said the Greek-registered freighter Arion ignored a radio message from the Israeli military saying it would not be allowed to enter Gaza waters and ordering it to turn back.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195888/I-share-home-11-cats--cheetahs-lions-tigers.html

Sharing a bed with your furry friend has taken on a whole new meaning for Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen.

The sanctuary worker shares her South African home with not one but FOUR orphaned cheetahs, five lions and two tigers.

Forty-six-year-old Riana said: ‘I love them all. But they’re a handful.’

Riana bought her first cheetah, Fiela in 2006, after realising the big cats were in trouble and heading for extinction with only 1000 left in Africa.

She left her full time job working for the department of justice - a position she had held for 22 years - and found temporary employment on a game ranch where she could raise her beloved big cat.

But Riana’s real dream was fully realised after she set up the not-for-profit Fiela Funds Cheetah Breeding Project in South Africa to ensure the long-term survival of the cheetah and their ecosystem.( Read more... )

How long till ALF puts out the hit on this "friendly"?

Uh-oh. Looks like someone's going to have to either redefine affirmative action, or they're going to have to s-p-e-l-l it out slowly and carefully for the slow people.

( It's so hard out there for a white guy, y'all. )

IMHO, I wouldn't want to get a job just so I could fill a racial quota (I wouldn't quit if I found out, just to be clear), but I think affirmative action is a necessary evil because people WILL discriminate against someone else because of their race or gender. It's a fact that human beings are assholes. We need stuff like affirmative action to help level the playing the field somewhat. Also, if I'm not mistaken, don't white women benefit more from affirmative action than racial minorities? Or did I pull that nugget of info out of my ass?

Local car commercial with a terrible Obama look-a-like. Sorry for the quality, it's the only vid I could find.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1cD4BOsFig

Please tell me that I'm not the only one watching the premiere.  And please tell me that I'm not the only one who saw a woman 100 lbs. heavier than me just slide into the splits.

LONDON - The perils of international branding have once again been highlighted with the news of Russian gas giant Gazprom's new joint venture with Nigerian firm NNPC -- to be called Nigaz.

While the origin of the name is easily explained -- a conjunction of the words "Nigeria" and "gaz" -- English-speakers seeing the word written down find the brand name has rather different connotations.

Incredulous Twitterers quickly spread the story around, dubbing it a branding fail and prompting a number to suggest Nigaz should adopt a strapline along the lines of "gas with attitude".

It is not the first time that an attempt at creating an international brand name has failed.

Famous examples include the Chevrolet Nova, which failed to sell in South America, where "no va" means "doesn't go".

The Ford Pinto got in to even worse trouble in Brazil, where "pinto" is slang for a small penis. Nameplates were subsequently prised off and substituted with Corcel, which means horse.

A simple translation error meant that a Parker Pen ad run in Mexico ended up promising consumers that it would not "leak in your pocket and make you pregnant", which is at least a more honest promise than Pepsi's "come alive with the Pepsi generation" slogan, which famously ended up as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead" in Taiwan.

Chinese translations are fraught with difficulties -- Kentucky Fried Chicken's "finger lickin' good" managed to come out as "eat your fingers off".

Nigaz will build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm

source:
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/916373/Gazprom-accused-branding-fail-Nigerian-joint-venture-Nigaz/