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Mary J Blige's husband took a punch to his face after Blige thought he was flirting with a waitress at her record release party on Tuesday, the NYPost reported.
"She turned to him and was screaming, 'You're not going to ruin my night,'" according to the report citing a witness.
Blige's husband, Kendu Isaacs, was then escorted out of the club following the incident and Blige left soon afterwards.
Buddy has some explaining to do. Maybe he meant to give her a $10 bill instead of a $100. Let's not forget yall, Mary was a one time D-boy back in her Jodeci days.
Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach has been fired over allegations from prominent ex football star and ESPN analyst Craig James. Supposedly, Leach subjected his son to humiliating isolation on two occasions because of his injury. Disputes then ensued over the details and the motivation behind said allegations -- ex-players rushed to the coach's defense; James and his father were apparently bitter over his lack of playing time; the purported "electrical closet" turned out to be the size of a garage; a doctor swore Leach inflicted no harm --
As for the helicoptor dad Craig James, it's hard to imagine his own career will remain unscathed. While it's hard to criticize a father for looking out for his son, he's put himself in a very uncomfortable situation. An ESPN analyst -- a purportedly objective college football commentator -- just got a prominent college football coach fired. Will viewers take him seriously now when he critiques a coach's judgment? Will coaches of the games he's covering even speak with him? ESPN won't fire James for being a concerned parent, but it could certainly relegate him to Tuesday night MAC games for the foreseeable future.
I guess it's true. Some people do have that much power. Just think though! All Leach had to do was keep his job until Dec. 31st and he would have received a $800,000 bonus. This story has more twist,turns, and allegations than R. Kelly trapped in the closet series. Why nobody told me R. Kelly made 22 parts to Trapped in the Closet. ME----->SMH!
DETROIT -- Sarah Thomas made history at the Little Caesars Bowl on Saturday, becoming the first woman to officiate a bowl game when she worked the matchup between Ohio and Marshall.
Sarah Thomas worked as a line judge in the Little Caesar Bowl.
Thomas is one of five women officiating in major college football, but Little Caesars Bowl spokesman Tim Moore said she was the first to draw an assignment for a Bowl Subdivision postseason game.
Four Quadruplets Get Accepted Into Yale!
DANBURY-- The Crouch quadruplets, who have distinguished themselves at Danbury High School and in the community with their individual talents and strengths, have been accepted into Yale University.
This may be the first time in memory that a set of quadruplets was accepted to the Ivy League school in New Haven. Click here to read more.
...SEXTING! No, "not I," said the dog! What happen to the days of passing a note with the boxes...do you like me? Check YES, NO, MAYBE. Gone are the days of "Hide and Go Get It," one of my favorite neighborhood games (shout out to East 22nd St.).
The new thing is texting, which is cool although a little impersonable. But the new generation had to take it a step further with SEXTING. In fact, a study says that 6 percent of those as young as 12 have received a racy text. Thirty percent of 17-year-olds who have cell phones say they have received "sexting" photos or video messages, according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Eight percent of 17-year-olds say they have sent such sexually suggestive images. Among teens ages 12 to 17 years old, 15 percent say they have received nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging on their cell phones, while 4 percent say they have sent such photos. Among 12- and 13-year olds, 6 percent say they have received "sext messages."
Thus far, sexting has sparked national debates because of legal, emotional, and moral issues after a 13 year old Florida girl committed suicide after she used a cell phone to send a topless photo of herself to a boy she liked who then shared it with those at schools and a neaby high school.
Electronic devices such as cell phones, ipods, mp3's and host of others should not exist on a middle or high school campus. You shouldn't have to call your 8 year old on a cell phone to say where are you? Here is a perfect reason why cell phones should be illegal on a high school campus until the final bell rings. See 8 second video below! You tube should be wrong for allowing video's like this other one to be posted as well. Reach one, teach one...we have to start now.
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The former is only skin deep. Any definition or search engine may tell you that it’s having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight. In my opinion, it also delights sin, tactful relationships, and friendships. You can be the prettiest thing on the outside but if you don’t have a heart of gold, than your “woman or man’s worth” is worth nothing.
The latter is a state of extreme happiness. Joy and peacefulness. You know most people never find it. Some are only able to get a glimpse before it’s taken or given away never to return. Others don’t care for it or at least pretend on the outside they don’t. But they do!
Together it’s Beautiful Bliss.
A few of my blog followers always ask me, what do you really think? Beautiful bliss to me is religion, family, school, work. I pray for safety and the health of my family, friends, and those who breathe the same air as me. I’m able to do the work that I do because of the education that I received and the knowledge that continues to be impressed upon on me.
Beautiful bliss to me is also music. It doesn’t matter to me matter who sings or raps the song because the most important thing is how the rhythm, and not the lyrics, make me feel. It’s not about the dance that accompanies the song; it’s about the person dancing.
Beautiful bliss is life. And each moment we spend judging others or yearning for what we don’t have (and what they do have), it takes away from their happiness. What about your happiness you ask? Well, you may have to intrinsically find it in someone else’s to realize and appreciate yours.
One for the basement (sing it with me)….“You know it gets no better than this, it’s like sunshine on a rainy day it’s like a high could you take me away…take me away, away…it’s a beautiful day…”
When is a bet not a bet? A week ago while the New Orleans Saints were on the verge of loosing to the Redskins, a fan decided to Facebook (FB) his friends saying if the Saints came back to win, they could all come over and shoot up his 60 inch flat screen TV...not only did they shoot up his TV, but they set the YouTube world on fire when he posted the actual video. Buddy actually predicted that he was going to get a 1 million YouTube hits, I'm just not sure this was the smartest way to go about it! Let's not even talk about all of the laws being broken in this video. I can only imagine what would happen if the SAINTS actually win the Super Bowl.
MIDWOOD, N.Y. (WPIX) - Two female teachers in Brooklyn have been reassigned after they were reportedly found naked inside a school classroom last month, PIX News has learned.
A 33 year old French teacher and a 29year old 29 married Spanish teacher, were busted by a school janitor who caught the "undressed" instructors allegedly sharing a kiss in the empty classroom at James Madison High School during a Nov. 20 assembly. (Read More)
Does anyone else have a problem with the way the media reported this story (see video)? Almost as if it was a celebration (kids in the background and such). I'm thinking they could have attempted to put a positive spend on this situation? Maybe, maybe not!
There is no doubt in my mind that these two teachers are smart. But somethings are better off done in a private setting. So if this is going on in the high schools, I do not want to think what the students are doing.
