Okay guys here's the latest scoop....
Legendary singer Etta James has lost her mind! Etta expressed to her audience at a Jan. 28 concert her feelings about Beyonce's rendition of her world famous song "At Last" at President Obama's Inauguration. Etta's exact words were "I tell you that woman that he had singing for him, singing my song, I'm going to whup her ass" WOW! I mean that's all I got to say. Now if you don't already know, Beyonce portrayed Ms. James in the movie "Cadilac Records" and in my opinion, I think she did a pretty great job. Personally I'm a total sucker for all of those legendary, classic, old school singers, but I must admit I am a little put off by Ms. James' tirade. If someone_ especially one of today's most well-known international superstars feels that you are so awesome that they want to pay homage to you and sing one of your songs and you turn around and say that you want to_ as Ms. James so eloquently put it_"whup her ass" well my friends that's a whole other level of disrespect. I mean come on, Beyonce' did a great job singing that song, but no one is as good as the original. I think someone needs to tell Ms. James that she can calm down because Beyonce' still can't rock it like her!! As if ranting about her displeasure with Beyonce' wasn't enough, Etta also went on to refer to President Barack Obama as "the president with the big ears." Yeah okay Ms. Etta, get a life!! Either accept the fact that people actually do still see you as iconic or go back to your retirement home and wait for the next bingo game. This incident was completly ridiculous and just another attempt for Ms. Etta to get a few more minutes of exposure for herself. Now I love Etta's music and think that she is a fantastic artist, but all I have to say is.... GET IT TOGETHER SWEETIE!!
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
1st Black Attorney General Sworn in.
ERIC HOLDER has been confirmed as the nations 1st Black Attorney General.
WASHINGTON – Eric Holder has been sworn in as the nation's attorney general, the first African-American to fill the job. Vice President Joe Biden administered the oath to President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Justice Department.
Biden said the department, under Holder, would return to a past standard of "no politics, no ideology. Only a clear assessment of facts and law."
Hundreds of department employees packed the hallways and stairways to welcome Holder. To loud cheers and applause, he pledged to remake the department by "taking it back to what it once was and always has to be."
Holder was confirmed Monday evening by a 75-21 Senate vote, with all the opposition coming from Republicans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder has won confirmation as the first African-American attorney general, but he'll have little time to consider his role in history as he decides which Bush administration counterterrorism policies to reverse.
For starters, the new attorney general will learn the secrets of the Office of Legal Counsel, whose lawyers justified the use of controversial interrogation tactics and even declined to provide Bush administration documents to internal Justice Department investigators.
Holder will inherit a Justice Department wracked by Bush administration scandals over politically inspired hirings and firings. He has pledged to restore its reputation.
Holder also will play a major role in the future of terrorism detainees.
President Barack Obama, in a major policy shift, signed an executive order to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. He also created a special task force to review detainee policy; Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will serve as co-chairs.
That panel will look at options for apprehension, detention, trial, transfer or release of detainees and report to the president within 180 days.
Holder promised senators he would review why career prosecutors in Washington decided not to prosecute the former head of the department's Civil Rights Division. An inspector general's report last month found that Bradley Schlozman, the former head of the division, misled lawmakers about whether he politicized hiring decisions.
Another key question facing Holder is whether to reverse former President George W. Bush's order that three of his former top aides — Karl Rove, Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten — should not testify before Congress about firings of U.S. attorneys. Rove and Miers were former aides when Bush gave his order.
If Obama reverses Bush's policy, it would create a new legal issue: whether a former president's order against testifying would still be valid.
The Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program is certain to come under Holder's scrutiny.
After a lengthy and heated debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks, Congress last year eased the rules under which the government could wiretap American phone and computer lines to listen for terrorists and spies.
Holder promised one senator that he would re-examine a ruling by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey that immigrants facing deportation do not have a right to government-provided lawyers. Holder said he understands the desire to expedite immigration court proceedings, but added that the Constitution also requires that proceedings be fair.
There also could be changes in conducting warrantless surveillance.
Holder's chief supporter, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said the confirmation was a fulfillment of Martin Luther King's dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.
"Come on the right side of history," said Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Recent Mother of Octuplets expects Oprah to Pay $2 Mil for an Interview
Here’s how London’s Times Online is reporting things:
THE single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2m (£1.37m) from media interviews and commercial sponsorship to help pay the cost of raising the children. Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert after it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 below the age of eight. Although still confined to an LA hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer, who presents Good Morning America.
And here’s more on the mother:
Nadya Suleman, who describes herself as a “professional student” living off education grants and parental money, broke up with her boyfriend before the birth of her first child seven years ago. The identity of the octuplets’ father remains unknown, but local reports suggest they were conceived with frozen sperm donated by a friend she met while working at a fertility clinic. He is the father of her twins, born two years ago
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