December 31, 2006

Volume 56

Hands down one of the best looking men out there, Tyrese, in this great, attractive suit. TyReses Pieces, you look great:

Actress Cate Blanchett looking stunning in this unusual dress:

CELEBRITY Flashback Pic

"Vision Of Frizz Ease"

Ooh ooo ahhhh/
Treated me kind/
Sweet Frizz Ease/

Just kidding. This style was hair today, gone tomorrow. But it was working. Mariah, where did the curls go? You and that flattening iron are getting too close. Just kidding. Your hair looks good either way. 

CELEBRITY Look A Likes

Singer Chante Moore	Singer Ciara
Basketball Player Allen Iverson	Rapper LL Cool J

CELEBRITY Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Angelina and Brad take a ride in India:

Angelina in her role as goodwill ambassador meets with officials in India:

US Weekly Outs Britney On Drugs

Last month in the Column I wrote that Britney looks high. This month, US Weekly, Britney's favorite magazine (LOL) did an article on a witness seeing a drug store in her purse in the ladies room. They claim it was a stash of painkillers and anti-depressants. 

Sorry, but with the way she's been looking whacked out, I believe it's something far stronger than prescription drugs.

Paris Beaming Up In Public Again

Fighting Over Jay-Z

Jay-Z frequently displays a misogynistic attitude, which is not cool. I can understand if it were Tyrese they were fighting over or something. Then I would have helped them.  

Ref Aisha: And in this corner we have the award winning Destiny’s Child mic hogger and lead DC back up singer recruiter, Beyonce. And in this corner, we have the award winning Bajan in the spray on clothes that borrowed Jay-Z, Rihanna. OK ladies, I want a clean fight. No hair extension pulling, no fake eyelash pulling, no acrylic nail pulling and no brick throwing. Got that. Break!

Rihanna Beats Beyonce At Billboard Awards

Rihanna beat out Beyonce, among others, for the best female artist award at the Billboard Music Awards. She walked away with the award that Beyonce’s dude Jay-Z helped her win. So yea, Jay-Z caught a frying pan that night.

To be fair, Rihanna did have the better year though, with her album having been on the charts longer, beating Beyonce's fall release.

He hasn’t stuck to moral Bible guidelines in guiding his daughters careers. It went from wholesome to salacious overnight…and it still didn’t’ work.

She is no longer America’s sweetheart. Some of the things they are promoting now are not Christian, even in the basic sense of it being decent. It’s all about skimpy clothes and sex now.  

It’s time for the family to have a talk with God via prayer and refocus on what is important in life. You’ve strayed from where you started, selling out to Hollywood, thinking it would spell greater success, but it hasn’t.  

The O.J. Simpson murder trial was talked about frequently in the 90’s. Recently, it was dredged up again in the form of a now scrapped book and TV special titled “If I Did It.”

I remember a joke a comedian made on BET’s Comic View many years ago where he stated O.J. would get out of jail and write a book called “How I Did It.” Is this where the idea for the project came from.

The book and TV special O.J. Simpson was planning on releasing through Fox News and its publishing affiliate, Regan Books, was cancelled due to public backlash. The book speculates how he would have committed the double murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her boyfriend, Ron Goldman, if he had done it.

While I'm not convinced O.J. committed the murders, due to the evidence having been tampered with, I thought the project was in poor taste. They should have let sleeping dogs lie.

This was not the way to clear one's name, as the victims are dead and trying to recreate their murders in this manner was disrespectful.

Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch - what kind of nasty news operation is this man really running that it is openly violating standards of decency, morality and international law. This is way beyond unacceptable at this point.

Rupert Murdoch was severely slammed over this project and deservingly so. The levels News Corp stoops to at times is appalling. They constantly show poor taste and a great disregard for the truth.

I myself was defamed by one of his outlets, Roger Friedman on the Fox News site, and had my privacy invaded by another of his tabloid news units, The Sun Newspaper/Newsgroup Newspapers, who I reported to the Met Police, with one of their editors having since been arrested for invasion of privacy in snooping on the Royal Family read about it here

So pardon me if I didn't cry for Murdoch when he got his teeth kicked in over the O.J. "If I Did It" debacle. As I wrote in the Column months ago regarding Murdoch's conduct, in my literal prayer that God brings back around to him and his family the type of public abuse he and News Corp. so frequently dispenses to innocent people, so he can experience what he and his unethical corporation continually does to others, you reap what you sow.

If I were you, I'd pray to God above that He doesn't fully return to you and yours the foul invasion of privacy your papers continually engage in at the expense of innocent, unsuspecting members of the public. You know, like the criminal wiretapping, hacking, stalking and printing the illegally obtained details of people's private phone calls, cell phone messages and computer data in your papers for all to read. You're criminals.

Like the depraved, perverted and ghastly Roger Friedman of the Fox 411 gossip column, Clive Goodman and Victoria Newton of Newsgroup Newspapers and Page Sixx of the New York Post. All people on your pay roll willfully violating international law, while you sign their checks knowing what they're up to. People who got so insane and arrogant that they wiretapped and hacked the Royal Family of Britain and passed the content around among themselves. That says it all.

The Goldman Family

O.J. and ex-wife Nicole

One thing we do know based on 911 calls is that there was a problem in that household regarding domestic violence with O.J. beating his former wife Nicole. That was the subject of a police case.

Faye Resnick

It seems to me many people profited from the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Nicole's friend Faye Resnick did two books, Mark Fuhrman used his notoriety from the case to write a book and Cato the houseguest, used the case as a stepping stone to a career in Hollywood.

Mark Fuhrman

Changes Since The Trial

The restaurant Ron Goldman worked in, where Nicole had her last meal, Mezzaluna, has been bought and renamed Pete's Cafe.

TV Miss USA, Rosie v. The Donald

Miss USA

Miss USA is currently embroiled in controversy for getting drunk, doing cocaine and kissing Miss Teen USA. Wow, talk about sign of the times.

Miss Teen USA

I saw her press conference recently apologizing for what happened. Well, I say give her another chance. She is clearly sorry for what happened and if she can clean up her life, then I say good for her. Redeem the day.

I have a relative that has struggled with drug abuse for years and it ruined his life, diminished his genius IQ and destroyed his potential. No one wants that for themself, but it's a bad side effect of that lifestyle.

I've seen firsthand what that lifestyle can do and God bless anyone who can get out of it.

This is what I was talking about in the Column a few months ago, though, regarding Hollywood and the music industry pushing these attitudes that women must be as wild as possible.

In the last couple years, there has been a discernable, incredible pressure on girls and women to be completely wild to be popular. So many girls are buying into that now and it's hurting them badly. You can't live like that for long and it not blow up in your face.

The entertainment industry feeds people these standards on a regular basis, via twit girls (Paris, Lindsay, Britney and the other skanks) and bad examples in movies, not caring about the havoc it will wreak on people. They know kids are watching these women and other bad examples the industry sets, but they don't give a rat's butt. They think it's cool, edgy and punk rock, when it is completely destructive.

Those girls aren't sorry for the bad examples they set. They think their lives are so cool, yet, remarkably they look so miserable and suicidal most of the time. They look like zombies in their pics. You sure don't look like happy people.

People feel sorry for the contrite, not the ones advertising that lifestyle like walking billboards for destructive behavior.

They have girls believing they should be bi-sexual, getting drunk and doing drugs. A lot of girls and women are struggling with these problems now and it is a lot to deal with emotionally with some of them committing suicide. No one can live like that for long with out it destroying them. The body wasn't meant for that kind of abuse.

The best thing you can do for yourself is pray and get help.

You tell some in the entertainment industry that and they get all angry and say you are trying to ruin their fun.

Is dying young fun?

Is overdosing and permanently losing your soul, as your last act on earth was in sin without repentance, fun?

Is harming innocent people via drug or alcohol induced accidents on the road fun?

Is going to jail for crimes you committed while high fun?

Is having to pay huge sums in financial restitution to victims fun?

Is losing all your money and belongings to drug use fun?

What I don't like is some, not all, celebrities and public figures promoting that drug crazed, drunken lifestyle, not caring who's watching.

If you have an addiction you are struggling with, fine, you sort that out and get help, but don't promote promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse to the public. You never know who's paying attention and may end up with a dependency based on something you said or the poor example you set through your actions.

I've noticed that a lot of people who get on drugs do it because someone simply offered it to them and they thought it was something they could control - but in the end they couldn't. They didn't think it was a big deal, but it was.

They say it makes them feel good and high. But clearly, when that high is over and they need it more and more, it turns ugly.

A lot of entertainers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on drugs, losing their money to something that doesn't last.

However, the damage lasts. It kills brain cells, prematurely ages you, wrecks your skin, damages your teeth, damages bodily organs, affects your job performance/career and wreaks havoc emotionally. You don't need that.

If you've not tried drugs, spare yourself the heartbreak and leave it alone. It's not worth the trouble it causes. You'll have a lot more brain cells and money.

If you have tried drugs, the best thing you can do for yourself is pray and get treatment. You don't have to announce it to the world if you don't want to, but no matter what age you are, do your best to regain your life and sobriety.

Rosie Weighs In On Miss USA

Rosie, being the troublemaker she is, weighed in on the whole thing, slamming Miss USA and the Donald. She really went too far with what she said. Trump has announced he is going to sue her for slander and defamation. As a reward for attacking him, Trump let the cat out the bag that Barbara Walters can't stand Rosie.

Rosie, leave the girl alone. She said she is sorry and she's gonna get help. What more do you want from her than that.

You know, for a liberal, you sure are uptight. When a Christian tells you that, just know you've got problems.

I told you in the Column last month, Rosie, and I'm going to tell you again, get some Midol. Would the good people over at Midol send her a case, already.

SPORTS The Heat Beat

Angelina Jolie v. Madonna   

"Madonna should first adopt code of ethics"

The wealthy white woman swept down upon the beleaguered African nation and emerged bearing a baby boy named David Banda. Her attention guarantees he will grow up with every privilege available to the super-rich. He'll only miss out on a few key things, like his birth father and other relatives, his homeland and his native culture.

The nation in question, Malawi, is one of the poorest in the world. Like many other women in such countries, David's mother died shortly after childbirth. His father relinquished him to an orphanage because he could not care for him alone. Typically, Malawi does not permit adoptions by nonresidents, but officials have made an exception in Madonna's case.

Now if you were such an official, and you knew anything at all about Madonna, would you let her take any baby or child from your country? Doubtless she has enough financial and celebrity power to overwhelm Malawi authorities. But as for any sign of moral decency or dedication to humanitarian values - well, the pop star who has generated a vast fortune by endlessly exploiting her sexuality has yet to display these.

Madonna fans cheer her on, stating that surely David's life will be much improved by having the singer as a mother. Even David's father originally thought so. But then he had second thoughts. According to the BBC, Banda said, ''I was never told that adoption means that David will no longer be my son . . . If I was told this, I would not have allowed the adoption."

Banda and his family thought Madonna would take David away for a few years, educate him, then return him to his family. This was not Madonna's plan. The adoption is now being disputed by human rights groups and may not be finalized. One can hope and pray it will not be.

I have a few questions for Madonna and the other celebrities who view themselves as rescuers of children such as David Banda:

If you're so interested in the well-being of children such as David, how about donating half of your fortune to well-managed charities?

If you'd like to adopt needy children, why not consider the many children currently available for adoption through the U.S. foster care system? Or, now that you live in England, consider available children there.

*What are your credentials for being an adoptive mother, aside from stupendous wealth? Are you willing to submit yourself to the same exhaustive scrutiny most adoptive parents go through before receiving their children?

International adoption can be a wonderful thing, but it is also full of ethical pitfalls. This is particularly true with a celebrity such as Madonna, for whom the rules may be stretched or overlooked. David's father may not have understood the terms of the agreement, something that happens too often with illiterate parents forced by extreme poverty to look for any measure possible to save their children's lives.

If Mr. Banda wants his son back, I hope Madonna will do the right thing and return the child, complete with a generous allowance. Then she will begin - but only just - to look like the kind of person who deserves the privilege of adopting a child." -Saint Louis Tribune

Madonna Endangering The Public...Again

Bodyguard: I'm not going to prison for this nut!

"Hey, Madonna, where's the fire?"

Since arriving in New York on Monday to promote her new children's book - and defend her adoption of a 13-month-old urchin from Malawi - the Material Mom has been acting like a speed freak.

She's ordered her chauffeurs - one a retired cop whose brother is a state senator - to leave the paparazzi in the dust.

As a result, the drivers are breaking every rule - using fake police lights and flashers, zooming through red lights, making illegal U-turns and burning rubber on major thoroughfares.

In fact, Post reporter Marianne Garvey watched Madonna's drivers zip through 40 red lights in four days as startled pedestrians shook their fists in anger.

One driver, who identified himself only as Abel, explained, "Some days she gets in back and says, 'Abel, I don't want to be followed' - and I know what to do."

"She enjoys this," he added. "She likes it when we do bad things."

Madonna has a right to be wary. She's regularly followed by three paparazzi on bicycles, two on motorbikes and others in three cars. Still, state law specifies that only law-enforcement and government vehicles are allowed to use lights and sirens.

The star's lead driver is Patrick Golden, a retired police officer whose brother is also an ex-cop, State Sen. Martin Golden of Brooklyn. The caravan consists of two enormous jet-black SUVs, a Chevrolet Tahoe and a Cadillac Escalade. Both have black-tinted windows to keep the superstar safe from prying eyes.

The Tahoe, driven by Golden, has a siren and flashing lights. It leads the way while Madonna rides in the Escalade, sometimes accompanied by two bodyguards.

She's hardly the first person to think she owns the road. In February 2004, Mayor Bloomberg ordered the lights and sirens removed from the cars of more than 250 city officials after Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman was caught using her lights and sirens to beat traffic. The penalties range from traffic-violation fines of $375 to $750 to arrest for impersonating a cop. - New York Post

Feedback from ONTD:

1. why is this ****h even still around? madonna fans, what three reasons can you think of to even justify how out of hand and ridiculous this woman is? she makes her fame out of shock value, a holier than thou attitude, and crappy vocals. - [info]ilovemeganm

2. NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRUSTY A** MADONNA. i'll take LiLo & Paris anyday over her. She's done. - [info]punnky_kitty

3. crusty a** LiLo & crusty a** Paris**** - [info]genoworld

4. that's like hopping from out of the frying pan and into the fire. [info]freaky_afronaut

5. In fact, Post reporter Marianne Garvey watched Madonna's drivers zip through 40 red lights in four days Um, isn't that a little bit...dangerous? - [info]kisha

6. Great, all she needs is an "I hit a pedestrian" scandal. That'll make her seem like a very fit mother. - [info]musicpsych

7. WT*!? 40 RED LIGHTS!? What a c****. [info]aurosan

8. Yes, because that caravan is very ~discrete~ Madonna. [info]allmylines

9. shes gonna be the next princess di. [info]not_kosher

10. celebrities make crazy demands all the time. doesn't mean the EX POLICE OFFICER driver can't be like "oooo madge cant do that today! maybe another time!" its his license in jeopardy, it's not like madonna actually ever drives or anything. dude is a moron. - [info]shesalltalk

11. I'm SICK of Madonna posts. At least Lilo and Brangelina are nice to look at. Madonna's just an old vag. [info]kindafunnysad

12. I love that this is her reaction to this whole baby stealing scandal. She's not only too good for foreign adoption laws, now she's too good for good old American traffic laws. [info]somefantastic

13. I hope she gets a really nasty papercut from reading her crappy little children's book. [info]kungpow_meow

14. Go away Madonna. [info]ari6186

15. what a ****h. i want a siren. [info]bionic

"Lachapelle Refuses To Work With 'Nasty' Madonna"

Celebrity photographer/director DAVID LaCHAPELLE backed out of directing the music video for MADONNA's song HUNG UP because she is "nasty" towards employees. LaChapelle, who directed the cult film RIZE about dancers in South Central Los Angeles, chose not to put himself in a situation where he wasn't enjoying himself.

He explains, "I had written the scenario, was paid for the concept. "But after Rize, when I started to analyse what made me happy or not, I understood that she was not the person with who I wished to collaborate.

"She is nice when you are alone with her, but when you work for her, she can be very... nasty. She is with people she employs. I didn't want to be tortured. "I don't have anything against difficulties, but there, that would have been unpleasant. I would not have had fun. There is a part of cruelty in her."  - Contact Music 

"Jordan Blasts Madonna For Her Adoption" 

Jordan has blasted Madonna for using her celebrity status and wealth to adopt.  The glamour model - who has two sons, Harvey, four, from her relationship with Dwight Yorke, and 17-month-old Junior with husband Pete Andre - says she is planning on adopting herself but would not expect special treatment like Madonna. 

The 'Hung Up' singer was granted temporary custody of 13-month-old Malawi baby David. 

Jordan - real name Katie Price - said: "I'd probably want a baby, so I could know them from the very beginning. But I don't know about adopting abroad yet as it's not something I've really looked into. I don't think it's right that just because you're a celebrity and have money you should be able to adopt a baby that easily, particularly when you have people who can't even have kids, who can't adopt or are put on a long waiting list.  Everyone should be treated equally."

Jordan also claims Madonna's decision has trivialized the whole adoption process and made it fashionable instead of commendable. 

She added: "Pete and I are definitely going to adopt, but not yet.  We'll have more of our own first. And at the moment I think it's becoming a fashion, which I don't like. I respect people adopting, but I don't like that it's becoming fashionable." - EOG 

Madonna Mocked

Madonna was mercilessly mocked and slammed at the MTV EMA's in November. She was called everything from a transvestite to a baby buyer. The insane one was mocked by comedian Avid Merrion and actor Sacha Cohen (Ali G, Borat).

Avid brought a group of dancing little people on stage dressed as babies in diapers (nappies), mocking Madonna's illegal adoption. To top it off, she was snubbed in each award category she was nominated in via falsified record sales:

Madonna Related To The Mob

Ciccone is her last name, which is an uncommon one. There was a William Ciccone reportedly in the mob, who tried to murder the #1 mobster ever, John Gotti. He was immediately beat down by 8 mafia members then shot in the head.

Then there was another Ciccone in the mafia that got mixed up in the Steven Segal shakedown scandal. This Ciccone, Sonny, looks like Madonna's father via a picture that ran in the press recently.

Not to mention Madonna's name has come up in the Pellicano scandal, that involves Anita Busch, which mentioned the Steven Segal and Sonny Ciccone angle, via her lawyer Bert Fields, who frequently employed the privte investigator.

"So Gotti's pal Watts fired five shots into Ciccone's head after torturing him in the basement of a New Dorp sweet shop, law enforcement sources said. Later, when Ciccone turned out to be distant kin of a Gambino capo, the capo apologized profusely to Gotti about his "nut case" relative.

Gotti replied with a magnanimity equal to his mob stature: "Forget about it." It has taken nearly 10 years, but the slaying of Ciccone has finally been linked to Watts." - Gangland News

Gwen Slammed

To all of you that participated in the last minute Gwen Stefani boycott, thank you. Her album did not debut at #1. She lost the #1 to Ciara, placing at #3. In the second week, she fell right out of the top 10. Her sales dropped so much in the second week that a journalist referred to it as unfavorable results for her. Her sales continue to drop as we speak.

Gwen Stefani's new album is being slammed all over the internet. Here's a sampling of some of it. Feedback from ONTD: 

1. WORST VIDEO/SONG/IMAGE EVAR! [info]nimyane1

2. OK Gwen, first of all, The Sound of Music is NOT "cool" and "cutting edge" to sample from, and another thing- you're too damn old to act like you're still in high school.[info]utenafreak

Computer Woes Continue - Mueller's Short $57 million

Gonzales: What computer system?
Mueller: We communicate by pigeons. It's cost effective and environmentally friendly, except when we shoot them for delivering the wrong message.

In the latest slap across the face to the country's citizens, it was revealed this month that after wasting tax dollars on a yet to surface computer system, Robert Mueller is $57,000,000 short and the project is still off track. That is just ridiculous and offensive.

They really think people are stupid and don't know how much this stuff is supposed to cost and how long it is supposed to take. If Congress isn't willing to do anything about it, the citizens have no choice but to complain about the loss of their tax dollars to foolishness. And they are complaining. Google it.

It isn't right. You are entrusted with the people's tax dollars and this is what you do with it. Look how many times he's been warned. Stuff like this is infuriating. It is due to sheer arrogance and incompetence that it has happened and is allowed to continue.

All that wasted money could have gone to Katrina victims or the soldiers or into better protecting the country or paying down the national debt. Just unbelievable! The arrogance of it all.

That's the problem with government - it needs to be fixed. Too many people in it that don't care. Only it in for themselves and to heck with everyone else.

They keep forgetting one key thing. Tomorrow their kids will have to live in the messed up world they are creating today. No amount of trust funds and accounts can fix that.

No amount of trust funds can fix an enemy attacking because Congress allowed incompetence to run national security and permitted bad foreign policy.

They need to get their act together. Just because the country is big doesn't mean you can rely on that. It just means you're a bigger target.

Robert Mueller: What was I talking about again? I lost my focus while talking about "FBI Strategic Focus":

What the "FBI Priorities" checklist shown above should say for Mueller:

11From the Big White Guy site:

Man in painting: What a twit!

"Klu Klux Kramer" - LOL @ the computer generated sign on his shirt. I know I shouldn't laugh, but...

[Photo courtesy of the Film Threat web site]