Elizabeth Taylor: No More Surgeries For Me

I always was a fan of Liz, although the peak of her career was before my time. One of my favorite movies, Giant, stars her, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his last film before he died in a car crash.

Its well worth picking up the DVD of one of the finest movies ever made directed by George Stevens.

From The National Enquirer:

After more than a hundred operations in the past 25 years, Hollywood icon Liz Taylor says finis!
The superstar, 78, has reportedly told friends and family she won't go under the knife any more no matter how much pain she's in.

Taylor who's been in poor health most of her life after falling off a horse in National Velvet has already been rushed to a hospital 3 times this year.

Liz's long list of surgery included having both hips replaced and five operations on her back. Medical problems for the Suddenly Last Summer star have also included a brain tumor, skin cancer, diabetes, pneumonia, seizures and a stroke.

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Did Erykah Badu Go Too Far in Window Seat Video?

Did she go too far?


Hmm, group think, huh?

A person who is a afraid of expressing themselves for fear of being ostracized by the wider public?

Oh, really?

You mean like when a Black person dares to be a Conservative and refuse to go along with the rest of the sheep and vote for the Democrat Party because they’re supposed to?

I think Erykah is on the money here. Ya’ll better recognize.

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Sharpton, Jackson, and Lee: The New Overseers on the 21st Century Plantation

Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, the White men who managed plantations for Slave-owners were known as the “Overseers”. They often at times used cruel methods to keep Black slaves in-line and doing the Master’s bidding. These cruel men, who were Democrats by the way, did not hesitate to utilize Bullwhips on the backs of slaves to make an example of what happens to a slave that was disobedient.

It was a very effective tool to maintain slavery and keep the cotton coming in!

Today, the plantations are gone. The Bullwhips are put away in the barn. But, the Overseers remain and have different color faces. And the enslavement of African American minds is as strong as ever.

These new Overseers are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Sheila Jackson Lee. Their task is to continue to foster the perception that White Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and all Republicans are racists.

Instead of using Bullwhips on the backs of slaves, they tell lies and distort the truth to keep African Americans mentally enslaved so they can continue to support the Democrat Party at the rate of 95% and up.

If a Black person dares to question the status quo of support for the Democrat Party, they are immediately ridiculed and shunned by other African Americans as “sellouts”. “Uncle Tom’s”, “handkerchief heads”, “Oreo cookies”, or trying to be “White”.

Who needs Bullwhips anymore?

The new Slave-owners, the Democrat Party, no longer need cotton, but they desperately sure need the votes from the progeny they enslaved in the first place.

If you think President Barack Obama is the head of the Democrat Party, think again. Ask billionaire and White man George Soros who really yields the power behind the scenes.

Brothers and Sisters, when will you break the chains in your minds?

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Boehner Rebukes Obama Offshore Drilling Plan

You can’t say that President Obama didn’t learn about triangulation from Bill Clinton.

Here Obama is attempting to give the appearance of reaching out to the other side by proposing an issue that is not part of his party’s platform in a cynical attempt to peal off some Republicans to his side.

However, John Boehner is calling the presidents bluff.

The Hill reports:

President Barack Obama's plan to allow expanded offshore oil and gas exploration won rebuke from the top House Republican on Wednesday.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president's plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for exploration.
Obama's decision "continues to defy the will of the American people," Boehner said in a statement, pointing to the president's decision to open Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters, while leaving Pacific and many Alaskan waters largely closed to exploration.

"It's long past time for this Administration to stop delaying American energy production off all our shores and start listening to the American people who want an “all of the above” strategy to produce more American energy and create more jobs," the House GOP leader added. "Republicans are listening to the American people and have proposed a better solution – the American Energy Act – which will lower gas prices, increase American energy production, promote new clean and renewable sources of energy, and encourage greater efficiency and conservation."
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KILI TAIFA CUP 2010 LAUNCHED! TAKING TANZANIAN SOCCER TO GREATER HEIGHTS

David Minja, TBL Marketing Director, official unveils the new look for KILI TAIFA CUP 2010...looking on is Kilimanjaro Premium Lager Brand Manager, George Kavishe..







David Minja, shaking hands with TFF Frederick Mwakalebela at the launch of KILI TAIFA CUP 2010




Mwakalebela to George Kavishe....HAYA SASA, WAZEE KAZI IMEANZA...na mwaka huu UNDER 20 wapo ndani ya nyumba, mshindwe wenyewe...

George Kavishe- tukishindwa sisi ataweza nani? wazee wa kilele sisi bwana...hehehehe






26 regions...6 centres....tuwe wazalendo jamani...Iringa mpoooooooooo? Mwanza jee?

Ilala mnachukua kombe na mwaka huu? chapa ilaleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

tukifika robo fainali naomba tuanze kuongea kwa hela...Kilimanjaro lazima tutatisha....

Je, Wewe mkoa wako wa nyumbani vipi? mmejinoa kisawasawa?


LETS GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Ex CBO Boss Douglas Holtz-Eakin Explains Depth of Fiscal Deception in Obama Care Law (Radio Interview)

Radio America at WorldNet Daily interview with Douglas Holtz-Eakin describes how the numbers don’t add up in ObamaCare the way President Obamaand the Democrats claim they do.

The devil in the details more than emotional hopes for a Utopian idea of healthcare for everyone in Bamazuela.

Radio Interview
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The Rush To Sit Down

"You ever find yourself cussin' under your breath in the public restroom stall at work or somewhere, when you've tried to do your part at being sanitary by using one of these before you do what you gotta do......only to have that sh*t cave in from the water weight on the flap before you sit down? Mess around, and despite all your efforts, end up with half a butt cheek on the cold seat anyway? That sh*t pisses me off!!!"

Random question outta nowhere, I know, but whatever, it's honest.

Speculated Anatomy Of A Homie

I'll never understand why the shirt has to be THAT big and the pants have to hang THAT low. Better hope a pit bill, not to mention 5-0 aka Cops don't go after his ass. Tryna to run with pants on like that, nigga ain't gettin' too far.

Bruh, you will be going DOWN!

SideBar ~ But, on the contrary . . . Why do I give some sexy, "Thug Boy" with a nice, tight, sexy, ASS a pass . . . Dayuuum, I'm all confused!

She Did A Upgrade

"So word around the Internet [via Honeymag] Kelis has a new man, [Sanaa Lathan's ex] Chicago Bear Adewale Ogunleye. Nothing exciting about that, right? Yeah, but it's what else people are saying that's got folks talking.

According to an old email received by the Necole Bitchie [that she disregarded till now] Kelis and Wale be on the hunt for a third tale!

A few weeks ago on Friday November 12th, Kelis was in Chicago with NFL baller Adewale Ogunleye, she solicited a hottie from Scores stripclub to participate in a threesome with her and Wale."

SideBar ~ Girl' just contact Mel B. aka "Scary Spice" and her husband, they always down. . . Not to mention Mel B. is MUY CALIENTE!

I CAN'T WIFE A PORNSTAR

In the end Reggie just couldn't wife a chick who's a porno star. (But, really Reg-E-Reg . . .Kim-Kim, just got hemmed up in a private session...I'm just sayin').

"Reggie Bush ultimately dumped Kim Kardashian because of her 2007 sex tape with then-boyfriend Ray J, a source close to the couple tells X17online exclusively.

According to source, "Reggie's mom just could not get over the fact that Kim had a sex tape. Reggie and his family are very conservative, and he told Kim that a marriage is never going to happen between them because of the tape." This is something that Kim's family has known for years, especially sisters Khloe and Kourtney.

Although Reggie did break up with Kim, the split wasn't because he cheated with January Gessert as it's been widely reported. X17online has learned exclusively that January "has been messing with Reggie's assistant for over 6 months." The day January was photographed leaving the the NFL running back's New York hotel, "she was really there to see his assistant, not Reggie."

Aside from the sex tape, source claims Reggie had other reasons for separating from his reality star girlfriend: "Reggie is surrounded by a bunch of his single friends. He wants to be a party guy, hang with the boys and date other people."
As for how Kim feels about her ex now: "She's still crazy about him. If she didn't have the sex tape, she could have been Mrs. Bush."

SideBar ~ Dayuumm that sucks. . . We all make mistakes... Yet, do we always have to keep payin' for them?

LOOK WHO'S MY DADDY

Two-year-old Durell Babbs Jr. is the offspring of singer Tank a.k.a Durell Babbs. In all, Tank has four children.


SideBar ~ A cutie just like his Daddy!

Eryka Shows Off Her Birthday Suit

DIARY OF A BROKEN HEAR-TED WOMAN...

Who has not gone through it before? Yes...a broken heart...Unless you tell you have never loved...or experienced being loved...How long will it be before I can get through my daily routine without feeling the wave of pain sweep over me, without sensing that knot in the pit of my stomach, without dwelling on what went wrong?

Is there a point in asking yourself what went wrong? why? so you can evaluate the situation, and plan for a better future? what the f*** for? I mean why would you prepare yourself for another broken heart..so I can know how to get over it...NO SUCH THING..

Yes, I am bitter..Yes, I am angry..Yes, I feel betrayed, Yes I feel used..A broken heart can cause such an intense reaction that many of us feel our lives have been completely stripped of meaning.

I don't enjoy work anymore...My friends are boring, and see, its even harder because I had abandoned them when I was with him..well not really abandoned..but you know what I mean, when you get into a routine with your partner, your friends sorta get out of the picture...

Have you been so broken hearted you felt like it was actual physical pain in your chest?

And Everybody keeps saying to me, don't worry sweetheart, you will be fine..." Time heals all wounds " over the years, same f***** B****** is what we have all heard ...don't they mean, in TIME YOU WILL FORGET HIM/HER???

Its too painful to get into what happened when...and so today, I shall end here...

p.s...I have cried me 15 rivers and everytime I ask myself, is it worth it..oh heck...TIME right...

Lets see how I feel tomorrow...thank you for giving me a chance to vent it out

POSTED FROM THE DIARY OF A BROKEN HEAR-TED WOMAN.

Is It Your Intuition Or Your Imagination?

FOR THE LADIES- men u can read on too..

As women, we have come to rely on our intuition to help steer us away from danger. We feel confident that what we perceive to be true is reality. Through our intuition, we are able to sniff out a lie. We know when something is “not right” or is out of sorts and it causes us to protect ourselves when we encounter negative situations. In short, we use our intuition to come to conclusions about what “is.”

We have become so comfortable with relying on our intuition that we often fail to see when it ceases to be a gift and instead becomes a curse. In relationships, we can get so caught up in the feeling that something is amiss, we lose sight of the purpose of our intuition and instead focus solely on the stories that we create; and these stories are often created as a result of past hurts. Sometimes, things are not as they appear and it is our misinterpretation of what we believe to be intuition that becomes the catalyst for negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors that can damage our relationships.

What would be possible if instead of reacting, we choose to take a step back and think about what it is that we really want? Is it to be reassured? Is it to avoid disappointment? When we act on what we think we “know” under the guise of following our intuition, we create tension that leads to breakdowns in communication. Instead of drawing our partners nearer to us, it drives them away. It creates the very thing that we are seeking to avoid.

We have all heard the saying, “the truth always come to light”, but when we hold so tightly to our beliefs about what is absolutely true based upon a story that we have conjured up, we can’t see the difference between protecting ourselves and causing unnecessary drama.

source- black girl

SCARFACE BACK???

It's been a little over a year since rapper Scarface quit retired from music and dropped his last album. But now, he has announced he is releasing an independent mixtape and is looking to get back into the game.

He explains that he never really left the craft, just the business and sees the opportunity to come back to the fold with his new stuff. He says:

"I love music, I eat, sleep and shit music. I always wanted to drop a mixtape on my own. So I just said, 'Let's drop an independent mixtape.' I feel that I should be an adult and musician and pioneer - that's what they call me. I feel that I need to move on to another stage with the way I deliver my music to the public. I got a lot of shit and I'm using about three per cent of what I know about music. I'm not using it all. I'm music. I can play that shit long enough for a real musician to catch it and feel me, where I'm going, and we make magic like that."



MMHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!1

LUDA COULD BE KNOCKING AT YOUR DOOR...

If you live in Dallas, D.C., New Orleans, Orlando or New York, you might get a little southern hospitality nudging you to fill out your 2010 census form.

Atlanta-based rapper Ludacris has signed up with the U.S. Census Bureau to encourage people to fill out this year’s forms to ensure the 2010 population count (especially the African-American numbers) is as close to accurate as possible.

“I look at our communities now and I see many empty lots, closed clinics, dilapidated schools and an overall breakdown of social services for the poor and elderly,” Luda says. “Today is a day for change.”

Now if only our local artists could actually participate in stuff like this...would have made a whole lotta difference..

VAN DE SAAR- SIMPLY THE BEST.....

Van de Saar, kamanda mwenyewe...




Him in action...




Van De Saar with his adorable Wife..



Van der Sar is married to Annemarie van Kesteren. The couple's wedding ceremony took place at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, on 20 May 2006.The couple have two children: a son, Joe, and a daughter, Lynn. J


Yeah, we deserved it...



Edwin van der Sar (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Manchester United. He is the Netherlands national football team's most capped player of all time.

Van der Sar started his senior career with Ajax and remained there for nine years before moving to Italian club Juventus and then to England, first to Fulham and then to Manchester United. He is one of the few footballers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different teams, having won it with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008, the latter where he was named UEFA Man of the match; he also won the UEFA Cup with Ajax in 1992. Van der Sar was named Best European Goalkeeper in 1995 and 2009, spanning the fourteen-year period between his first and second Champions league victories.

Van der Sar moved to Manchester United on 10 June 2005[4] for a reported fee of £2 million, although the exact transfer fee was undisclosed.[5] Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considered him the best goalkeeper to play for the club since Peter Schmeichel.

On 5 May 2007, his penalty save helped assure a 1–0 triumph over Manchester City in the Manchester derby. The following day, Chelsea's failure to beat Arsenal at the Emirates ensured Manchester United's ninth Premier League trophy and Van der Sar's first. He was also named to the 2006–07 PFA Team of the Year.[7] Three months later, he was a catalyst in Manchester United's 16th FA Community Shield victory, as he saved three consecutive penalties in a shootout after Manchester United and Chelsea played to a 1–1 draw at the end of regular time.[8]

The 2007–08 season was Van der Sar's best season since his arrival; he had several great performances despite a niggling groin injury. He would help United secure their second successive Premier League title on the final day and win the Champions League by saving the final penalty of the shoot-out from Nicolas Anelka.[9]

Van der Sar signed a one-year extension to his current contract with Manchester United on 12 December 2008, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2009–10 season.

On 27 January 2009, Van der Sar helped Manchester United set a new club and Premier League record for consecutive clean sheets – the club's 5–0 win over West Bromwich Albion meant that they had gone 11 games and 1,032 minutes without conceding a goal, beating the previous record of 10 matches and 1,025 minutes set by Petr Čech in the 2004–05 season. He then broke the overall English league record in the club's following game four days later, beating the previous record of 1,103 minutes, set by Steve Death of Reading in 1979.


Finally, on 18 February 2009, Van der Sar further extended the record to 1,302 minutes, and in doing so, he broke José María Buljubasich's single-season world record of 1,289 minutes, set in the Chilean Clausura in 2005.[13][14] His clean sheet record ended on 4 March, when he made an error allowing Peter Løvenkrands of Newcastle United to score after 9 minutes.

Van der Sar signed a one-year extension to his current contract with Manchester United on 26 February 2010, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2010–11 season.


YAANI KWA KIFUPI NI MKALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII MNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....SIMPLY THE BEST....na urefu wake pia unamsaidia sana...nina penzi la dhati na yeye..

Jaime Escalante, Inspiration for Stand and Deliver, Dies at 79

Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who inspired the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died Tuesday. He was 79.

Escalante died at his son's home after battling bladder cancer for several years, family friend Keith Miller told The Associated Press.

As a math teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, Escalante completely transformed the school's mathematics curriculum and pushed his struggling students to master advanced math and science courses. At one point, Garfield High School had the fifth-highest number of advanced placement calculus students in the country.
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Make no mistake, Jamie was a fine Conservative!
RIP

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Man Jumps Off Empire State Building Dies

In all my years living in New York, I’ve never heard of this happening. This is really tragic!

From the New York Post:

A man jumped to his death from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building tonight, police sources said.

The jumper, who was in his 20s, landed on the sidewalk by a bank branch on W. 34th Street near Fifth Avenue at about 6:30 p.m.

Police believe he was able to get over the barriers because there weren’t too many people on the deck due to rainy weather.

Jason Beck, 28, of Brooklyn was walking with a friend on the street when the tragedy occurred.
"My friend heard this really loud weird sound," he said. "He turned around and saw someone splattered on the ground."
It’s a miracle he didn’t land on somebody. It’s pretty crowded on that street that time of night.

UPDATE: Huffington Post reports

The Empire State Building jumper has been identified as Yale student Cameron Dabaghi, an East Asian studies major from Austin, Texas.

Dabaghi leaped from the 86th floor of the landmark building around 6:30 pm Tuesday night. According to witnesses, the college junior took a running start in order to clear the barrier on the observation deck.
Dabaghi hit the ground "with a sickening thud" near a Bank of America branch.

A witness on the street told the Daily News that "his body was shattered and his sneakers were scattered on the sidewalk" after the giant "boom" of his impact.

One passerby apparently tried to cover up the gruesome sight by putting his umbrella over the body.

In a letter to the Yale community, Yale College Dean Mary Miller wrote, "We are all deeply distressed by this news."
Dabaghi's sister is also a student at Yale.


Via New York Post

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Sandra Bullock Files for Divorce from Jesse James

A lady can take only so much.

Ask Jesse James.

From The National Enquirer:

As the ENQUIRER reported FIRST Sandra Bullock has decided to file for divorce from cheating hubby Jesse James.
A source close to the couple tells RadarOnline.com now says she has made up her mind and already taken steps toward obtaining a divorce.

As more and more women come forward claiming affairs with the West Coast Choppers star, sources say that Sandra is humiliated and feels that her entire marriage was one big lie.
So far four women have been named as cheating with Jesse. The fourth has now retained Gloria Allred as her attorney and has vowed to keep her mouth shut, raising eyebrows.

Sandra has not been seen in public since alleged lover Michelle "Bombshell: McGee ignited a media firestorm but her rep said today "There are no plans, nor have there ever been any plans, for Sandra Bullock to adopt any of Jesse James' children".

Via National Enquirer

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Mixed Results for New York City's Anti-Poverty Program that Paid $14M to Poor

The New York Post reports:

An experimental anti-poverty program that pays poor New Yorkers for good behavior like getting health insurance and attending parent-teacher conferences has had mixed results. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pilot program began in 2007 and the first analysis was released Tuesday.

In two years, 2,400 participating families were paid a total of $14 million. Payments averaged about $3,000 a year per family. The money came from private donations.

The city said participants improved on several targets. More people established bank accounts and stopped using costly check cashing services. More people saw the dentist.

The rewards had no effect on school performance and attendance for young children or low-performing high schoolers.

The idea was modeled on efforts in other countries.

UPDATE:
Cash isn't king in some schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Elementary- and middle-school students had been enrolled in a bold experiment to effect social change -- where they and their families get cash for meeting various improvement goals. But they usually performed no better than counterparts in a control group that didn't collect a cent, according to preliminary data released yesterday by Mayor Bloomberg.

But money did make a difference when it came to well-prepared ninth-graders who registered better attendance records and Regents scores than those who didn't get paid.

Some of the payouts were substantial: passing a single Regents exam was worth $600.

A small number of families in the program collected more than $10,000 a year after meeting numerous education, health and jobs targets. The average payout was $3,000 a year.

Overall, $14 million went to 2,400 families over two years.

The early results of the three-year, privately funded Conditional Cash Transfers -- modeled on an initiative introduced by Mexico in 1997 and the first of its kind in the United States -- were mixed and far from conclusive.

"The program on the whole did produce some highly encouraging results," said the mayor.

"But it is not the be-all and end-all and it doesn't work in every case."

Families that received cash rewards ended up better off economically, with more reporting having bank accounts, being able to "make ends meet" and having enough food.

Officials said such an outcome wasn't obvious, since families could spend the extra cash any way they saw fit, even if that meant splurging on a flat-screen TV when the refrigerator was empty.

"They're spending the money in ways that are useful to the family," reported James Riccio of MDRC, the private agency evaluating the program.

But the results on the education front were largely disappointing.

For example, students could get $350 for passing the English-language proficiency exam in the fourth and seventh grades.

In both grades, however, those getting cash underperformed those who didn't.

The big bounce came with ninth-graders who did well in eighth grade.

They leaped above the control group in attendance, credit earned and Regents exams passed.

Janis Dudley, a Brooklyn mom who earned $7,610 over two years in the program, said she never had a library card before and after receiving one -- and collecting $50 -- wrote a résumé and got a job with the city.

Her daughter, Qua-neshia Darden, 17, accounted for $3,550 of the haul, including $1,200 for passing all four of her Regents exams.

She's now an honors student at Maxwell HS.

When he launched the program in 2007, Bloomberg said that if it was successful, he hoped to expand it using public funds.

Yesterday, he made no commitment to go beyond a three-year trial.

"Basically, we are going to sit back and see if some of these results are going to be permanent," he concluded. The final study on the results is due in August 2013.

I bet those countries were European socialists democracies.

No doubt this stupid idea came from the warped minds of the Liberal Intelligentsia that thought so little of the dignity and self respect of poor people.

How demeaning is it to one’s character to think that’s it’s acceptable to receive money for activities that should be done simply because it’s the right thing to do.

I was offended by this because it was an attack on self-worth in the guise of government offering a helping “money hand”.

But, it seems the only people surprised by this program’s failure are the very same Liberals who think the lowly poor are incapable of rising above their condition without their help.

These Libs will never learn!

Via New York Post

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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU SAY HMMMMMMM

USHER

TRINA & MISSY

TEYANA TAYLOR, MARIO

SHEMAR MOORE (JUST COME OUT THE CLOSET, BOO)

RUSSELL & KIMORA (Kim-Kim, I'm on the fence with you, but it sounds good!)

RIHANNA AND MELISSA

OPRAH WINFREY & TYLER PERRY (Now Big O, you would have just told us...but TY-TY, BABE!)

DA BRAT

LEE DANIELS (Wait, Mr. Daniels you are already OUT. . . . BUT, I just Love to look at you . . . ME LIKE-E, you!)

KING LATIFAH (I MEAN QUEEN LATIFAH)AND LONGTIME FRIEND/PARTNER JEANETTE JENKINS

KANYE WEST

MC LYTE

Raz B

WILL AND JADA

NICKI AND AMBER

Here’s a list of urban celebs who are believed to be either gay or bi who should come out of the closet to help make this a better world for younger gays who feel alienated in their communities.

SideBar ~ Courtesy of the one and only Ms. "Sandra Rose"!!! (Guess what . . . I luv her!)