Keep an eye on the kids in your life as more teens have been tryin’ to play this ‘game’. According to The Huffington Post , it has dangerous consequences : Detroit doctors report that some area teens are partaking in dangerous trend: a “chemical game of chicken” that can result in permanent damage to their bodies. In the game, which is called the “salt and ice challenge,” teens burn their skin by applying ice to a layer of salt on their skin and holding it for as long as possible. CBS News reported that adding salt can drop the freezing point of ice as low as 0 degrees Fahrenheit, resulting in severe injuries to the skin, including frostbite. WDIV reports that injuries related to the “salt and ice challenge” have been seen in Detroit recently, with teens coming to the emergency room with first-, second-and third-degree burns from the dangerous game. Dr. Ryan Shear of Botsford Hospital in Detroit said that in extreme cases, the damage could affect muscles, fat and bone, leading to permanently impaired range of motion. Shear told WDIV that he personally has treated three or four teens for “salt and ice challenge” burns in the past six months. He added that untreated burns — such as ones purposefully hidden from parental view — can increase the risk of infection. The “salt and ice challenge” made headlines in June after a Pittsburgh boy burned a cross onto his back playing the game with his brother and friends. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the boy’s severe, blistered injuries required drug treatment with a lotion that had to be applied four times a day for months and prevented him from swimming or going outside shirtless for the summer. How stupid bored can these kids really be?? Images via tumblr
Django Unchained will not be making filmmaker Spike Lee ‘s year-end top 10 list nor any other list for that matter because he says he won’t see it. The outspoken Red Hook Summer director said the slavery-centered feature by Quentin Tarantino may deal with the topic in a manner that is less than respectful. In an interview with Vibe magazine, Lee said: “I can’t speak on it ’cause I’m not gonna see it. I’m not seeing it. All I’m going to say is that it’s disrespectful to my ancestors to see that film…” [ Related: Quentin Tarantino Wants You To Feel The Inhumanity Of Slavery In ‘Django Unchained’ ] Lee was quick to add that he is only speaking on his own behalf and stopped short at a full condemnation, but said America’s dark history in slavery was not akin to the story portrayed in a film like Django Unchained . “I can’t disrespect my ancestors,” he said. “I can’t do it. Now, that’s me, I’m not speaking on behalf of anybody but myself.” Lee had commented earlier via Twitter alluding to the film, according to Yahoo U.K.: “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.” Lee took on Tarantino when Jackie Brown hit screens, criticizing the plentiful use of the n-word, which also is uttered throughout Django Unchained / “I’m not against the word. And some people speak that way,” he said. “But Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made – an honorary black man? I want Quentin to know that all African Americans do not think that word is trendy or slick.” [ Sources: Vibe via Yahoo U.K. ]
A career of playing righteous bad-asses in Pulp Fiction , the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the Marvel superhero movies has made Samuel L. Jackson one of the highest grossing actors of all time. Which makes his decision to play Stephen, the calculating and merciless right-hand man of plantation owner Calvin Candie ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Jackson’s most daring acting choice yet. Fans of the actor who see Tarantino’s spaghetti southern, which opens Christmas day, in the hopes of seeing Jackson in a Jules Winnfield -style role are in for quite a surprise. The 64-year-old Jackson originally wanted the role of the film’s titular hero, but when he learned he was too old for the part, he took the role of one of Django’s main antagonists and set out to make him, as he says in the interview below, ” the most reprehensible negro in cinema history.” Although it’s hard to imagine, Jackson told Movieline that he was initially depicted as even more villainous in earlier cut of Django Unchained , but that Tarantino “sanitized” Stephen in the editing room. Jackson also talked about his desire to reprise Mace Windu in Disney’s reboot of the Star Wars franchise and his frustration with America’s refusal to confront its history with slavery. Movieline: Stephen is such a complex character. He manages to be a villain, a slave and a father figure to Calvin Candie. There are also parallels between Stephen’s relationship to Calvin and Django’s relationship to Dr. King Schultz. Was all of this in the script? Samuel Jackson: It’s always been in the script. When Quentin and I were talking about it, he was saying that they were mirrored relationships and by the time Django and Schultz got to Candyland they would have developed the relationship that Calvin and I have always had. Theirs is more mentor/mentee. And ours is more father/son. But it’s still the same kind of relationship. Your character turns out to be the power behind the throne at Candyland. Yeah, I’m the brains at the plantation. I know what’s going on and I’ve been around longer. And Calvin is not the brightest candle in the room. As I said earlier, I’m the Dick Cheney of Candyland. Given what this movie has to say about slavery and how reprehensible your character is, did you have to think twice about taking this part? Not at all. When I read the script, and realized I wasn’t Django and then who Stephen was, I was like, okay, we’ve seen Uncle Toms, we’ve seen slaves, we’ve seen Stepin Fetchit, but we never seen this guy. And the potential for him to be the most reprehensible negro in cinema history is there. I think you succeed there. It’s in the film, but like Quentin says, we’re also talking about things that you don’t see. There are scenes we shot that aren’t in the movie in which I do some things that are way more reprehensible than what you actually see on screen.” Such as? Well in that scene where Django’s hanging upside down, and I give that speech. There’s a whole other section of that speech that goes on where I torture him. ” I burn his nipples off with a hot poker. I do all kinds of shit to him in that scene that would have just made people go, ‘ Ahhhhh!” Just for fun? There’s another scene we shot where, when Django first gets to Candyland, he and Stephen have a physical altercation. I show him to his room, and I say something to him and he slaps me down. He actually puts his hands on me. I’m supposed to be old and weak, so I don’t do anything. He puts his foot in my chest and he says all this shit to me about how fucked up I am and kicks me out of the room. He kicks me in the ass and kicks me out of the room. And from that point on, I’m on his ass trying to figure out what’s up. So there’s that, and I do some other things to some other slaves that are in the house that you actually see me do on the screen. I say shit about them, I reprimand them and do shit to them. So, Stephen is a detestable character who could have been much more detestable. Quentin sanitized Stephen a bit. What’s interesting about this movie is that it’s very entertaining and, yet, I had quite a visceral reaction to the scenes of brutality involving slaves. Yeah, they’re horrific. The guy sitting next to me walked out. Oh did he? And didn’t come back? No, he didn’t come back. And I got the impression that Tarantino wants moviegoers to really feel the brutality of those scenes. It’s not an easy time. You know, every time people do a movie about slavery, you don’t see that kind of shit. You might see a person get whipped, or you might see somebody get dressed down or shackled or whatever. But, you know, human life was cheap to those people. If you did something wrong, an example was made to make sure that whoever saw [the punishment] knew this is what could happen to you. We’ll cut your foot off. We’ll cut your hand off. You know, they used to take pregnant women — take one of them, cut her belly open, drop the baby out and just stomp it to death in front of all the slaves. Good lord. Just to let them know: I own you. I can do whatever I want with you. Like Leo says, “I can smash your brains out if I feel like it.” As a poorly informed white guy, by the end of the movie, I certainly felt like I had a greater understanding of why there’s so much lingering anger over that period in American history. Yeah, because we’ve been avoiding really talking about it. Okay, so you fucked over the Indians, and you gave them their land back and tax-free casinos. You fucked over the Japanese. You interred them during World War II and then you turned around and you gave all of them some money. Well, after you fucked us over, we didn’t get the 40 acres and a mule. You look at us every day and go, “Fuck y’all.” When the subject of reparations is raised, everybody goes: “Well, I didn’t have slaves. Those were my ancestors. Get over it.” Well you didn’t ask those other motherfuckers to get over it. Why do we got to get over it? When I was in Liverpool doing Formula 51 , that port was one of the first places slave ships stopped on the way over here. And there are huge shipping buildings that used to be shipping corporations and all of them have these slave faces painted on their facades. And people there told me, “Well, you know, there was a lot of slave trade here and this [city] was built on the blood of slaves. So we have their faces on the buildings.” And then they had a big apology ceremony while I was there. They owned up to their responsibility and their part in the slave trade. America has never done any shit like that. Do you think it would help or is too little, too late at this point? Fuck no. We’re past all that shit. There’s also been quite a bit of discussion in the media over the number of times that the word “nigger” is uttered in the movie. There was no other term for who we were. They weren’t talking about African-Americans and Negros. That was the name. That was it. How do you feel about white people using the word, for example in a pop-culture context. I’m kind of over it. I grew up hearing it. I grew up in Tennessee during segregation, so it was something that was screamed out, of course. When people ask me, ‘What’s the first time you were called nigger?’ I say, probably some time in my house when I was like one or two years old . So, I can look at a person and tell what their intent is, and I deal with it that way. I deal with it in context. Your performance as Stephen is full of surprises beginning with the moment that you first appear onscreen. What is your favorite scene in the movie? My favorite scene is not in the movie. Seriously? What happens in it? My favorite scene is the one in the barn where I explain to Django [who’s been captured and suspended upside down] what the problem was between him and me: He put his hands on me, and nobody has ever touched me in my life. I explain that I’ve been on this plantation 70-odd years and I’ve seen all kinds of shit done to niggers: hanging, drowning — Some of that does remain in the movie. And after I run through this litany of all this horrific shit that gets done to slaves, I say, you know I ain’t never been touched, and your black ass shows up and slaps me down. I’m doing this because you put your hands on me. Can you see any reason to empathize with the character you play? He’s a product of his environment. His grandfather did that job. His father did that job. He’d never been in the fields. He was raised to be Calvin Candie’s right-hand-man and because he’s in that position, not only can he read and write, he writes the checks. He runs the plantation. He makes sure the cotton gets picked. He is the king of a 75-mile radius world, and he knows that if he steps foot outside that, he’s just another slave in the South. So why wouldn’t he want that? As far as he knows, that system has worked all his life. Plus the white people on the plantation take orders from him. What better world could he be in? You’ve been pretty vocal about your desire to reprise the role of Mace Windu in one of the new Star Wars movies that Disney is making. Has the studio talked to you at all? I’m campaigning. They haven’t approached me yet. I’ve been putting my feelers out there, and I’ve got all my people on Twitter talking about it. So hopefully they’ll hear it and whoever’s writing the story will, you know, write me in as an Obi-wan Kenobi hologram ghost, or maybe even I can fuckin’ show back up with one hand. He is a Jedi. Right, and Anakin lost his arm in Episode II . Yeah. I’m down with that. I’m totally down with it. And I think they are going to need characters that audiences are familiar with to get [the franchise] going in a direction where people will feel comfortable and familiar with what’s going on. They just can’t bring in a whole bunch of new Jedi — no way. Read More on Django Unchained: Samuel L. Jackson Says He Burned Off Jamie Foxx’s Nipples In Cut ‘Django Unchained’ Scene Quentin Tarantino Says Slavery Still Exists Via ‘Mass Incarcerations’ & The ‘War On Drugs’ Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Jessica Simpson’s new commercial for Weight Watchers takes a new angle, you know instead of doing the Jennifer Hudson and actually losing weight, they’ve decided to promote her as losing 50 pounds, even though that was baby weight and 12 of those pounds were a kid and another 30 of those pounds was water retention…..because I guess they want to get their money’s worth as she’s trying her hardest to back peddle and get out of the contract…without having to pay them back…by getting knocked up…. This is what you call a rich person’s strategy to get motivated to lose weight, it’s like “If I buy that treadmill, I’ll use it”…only the endorsement worth millions of dollars version….but instead of leaving it in the corner of the basement to hang laundry off of…bitch has to get lawyers to find the loopholes to remain fat…. This strategy of “Hey Fat America, I’m Like You, But thanks to Weight Watchers, I’m in Control, but Still FAt”….making Weight Watchers come across as being a company that keeps you fat, but gives you a point system to gauge just how fat you are….I ate 400 points in cake yesterday…today I’ll eat 390….making fucking moves to a better life like I was Jessica Simpson… Unless, this is all a joke, and Weight Watchers was like, let’s make Jessica Simpson into a viral video, since she mocked our agreement like a redneck hick mocking an interracial couple….all toothless and inbred…you know make a mockery of her for 2,000,000 dollars we can write off as an advertising expense….because revenge comes in all forms….
Victoria’s Secret Model Erin Heatherton is in St Barths…as all the models were the past 10 days…because I guess the billionaire who owns Victoria’s Secret has a compound they all stay at…..and to everyone’s surprise…she modeled bikinis…because it is her fucking job and that is what she does… I kinda wish the cafeteria lady, or the fat bitchy waitress at the diner, or the evil government worker at the welfare office had this much support, or excitement around showing up to their shitty fucking jobs…..but that just isn’t the world we live in….now is it… TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK
Ke$ha may be disgusting, and not cuz she sings inappropriately timed songs called “DIE YOUNG”…cuz you see there was a mass shooting in Newtown and 20 kids died…and that means we can’t use the word die, or shoot, or anything of the sort…you even have to make Miss America win Miss Universe despite being a monster…cuz if you don’t it means the terrorists have won….she is disgusting because she has a weird face and body and her bad music and bad dancing…that doesn’t deserve to be famous…but is famous thanks to Katy Perry’s proper use of her tits….but for some reason..a reason I call major production in a photoshoot…she almost looks erotic in these pics…and as someone who likes mysteries….especially murder mysteries…when the person murdered fucking sucks….so I figured I needed to share this with you….cuz it’s confusing me…and I need your support…I should, under any and all circumstances, hate Ke$ha and never contemplate sex with her….
Black Communities Not Getting Same Reaction To Gun Violence As Whites Gun violence isn’t that big of a deal when black people are the victims/shooters? According to Washington Post Blog: Young black men kill each other every day. The problem is particularly acute in cities like Chicago, President Barack Obama’s hometown. Yet, I haven’t seen the president or the mainstream media shed a tear over the fact more than 50 percent of America’s murder victims are black and nearly all of those blacks killed – 85 percent- are young men. Nor do we see media or presidential outrage or calls for more rigid gun control laws when young black kids are heinously murdered like we do when the victims are mostly white. Neither words nor God can explain the horrific mass slayings that occurred at Sandy Brook Elementary, Columbine, Virginia Tech University, Aurora and those to come in our future. But why don’t we hear the same pain or calls for tougher gun laws from the mainstream press when Trayvon Martin was killed? Instead, the media immediately turned it into a racially motivated killing of a black boy by a white man. Yet there is often little horror over the alarming rate of young black men who are both perpetrators and victims of these homicides. For years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that the homicide rate among blacks is beyond epidemic proportions. The CDC found as of 2007, “black males age 15-34 were at the greatest risk of death by homicide.” Where’s the societal outrage over the reality that 55 percent of all federal prisoners are black though blacks only account for 12 percent of the population, as Shelby Steele noted here. The double standard the mainstream media shows toward its coverage of black vs. white homicides is beyond irresponsible and dishonest. When black Kansas City Chiefs football player Javon Belcher shot his wife Kassandra Perkins and then killed himself with the same gun, I don’t remember the news media calling for tougher gun laws. Why? Is it okay for blacks to kill? Discuss and read article in its entirety HERE Shutterstock
Glass houses Newt … According to The Huffington Post , Newt put his foot in his mouth…again: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested on Wednesday that the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was tied to godlessness in contemporary American society. Speaking to Brian Thomas of radio station 55KRC, Gingrich reflected on Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Conn., which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults. “When you have an anti-religious, secular bureaucracy and secular judiciary, seeking to drive God out of public life, something fills the vacuum,” Gingrich said. “I don’t know that going from communion to playing war games, in which you practice killing people is necessarily an improvement.” Gingrich urged the national dialogue in the aftermath of the shooting to focus on the problems with America’s youth, who “don’t see their fellow Americans as human beings, but as objects.” He also went after “Natural Born Killers,” Oliver Stone’s 1994 movie about two mass murderers, saying it had no redeeming social value. “How can you possibly justify dehumanizing people to that degree and what do you think it does to young people who watch it over and over again?” he asked. Gingrich is not the first high-profile Republican to invoke godlessness as a possible root cause in the wake of the tragic shooting. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) caught heat for saying the crime was no surprise because America has “systematically removed God” from public schools. Huckabee later sought to clarify his remarks, saying he did not believe increased prayer in school would have stopped the shooting from occurring. “I’m not suggesting by any stretch that if we had prayer in schools regularly as we once did that this wouldn’t have happened, because you can’t have that kind of cause and effect,” he said. “But we’ve created an atmosphere in this country where the only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy.” Sorry…how many mistresses and divorces has this man had again?? Images via tumblr
Westboro Baptist Church and specifically spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper have been besieged by trolls from the notorious hacktivist group Anonymous. As soon as WBC announced plans to picket a vigil for the victims of Friday’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Anonymous retaliated hardcore. Shirley Phelps-Roper so far is bearing the brunt of the group’s efforts. In a video posted to Vimeo by Anonymous, the group vowed: “We will not allow you to corrupt the minds of America with your seeds of hatred. We will not allow you to inspire aggression to the social factions which you deem inferior.” “We will render you obsolete. We will destroy you. We are coming.” Phelps-Roper, a relative of WBC founder Fred Phelps, announced the group’s plan “to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment.” Monday, Phelps-Roper’s handle @DearShirley was taken over by hacker @cosmothegod, who Tweeted a petition calling for the White House to recognize WBC as a hate group. Anonymous also claims to have successfully filed for a death certificate for Phelps-Roper, blocked her social security number and changed her desktop background to gay porn. Via its its @YourAnonNews account, Anonomyous also claimed responsibility for the fact that Westboro Baptist Church’s website was taken down. After people from Anonymous hacked Westboro Baptist Church this weekend, they claimed to have found a trove of information about its members. So far, there has also been no news of Westboro carrying through on its threat to picket the funerals of Newtown shooting victims … but watch out if they do.
Piers Morgan’s “interview” with gun rights advocate Larry Pratt grew increasingly heated and even devolved into name-calling Tuesday night on CNN. “You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you?” Morgan asked Platt. Piers Morgan-Larry Pratt Interview The most, a longtime advocate of more restrictive gun laws, has spoken out strongly in favor of gun control since the Newtown, Conn., shooting Friday. Piers Morgan absolutely went off on guns that day, shortly after 27 victims, including 20 young children, were shot and killed in the horrific tragedy. Last night’s return to the topic ended on an even more bitter note. Morgan hosted Pratt on Tuesday, and the executive director of Gun Owners of America argued that schools would be safer with more guns. Morgan noted America’s “enormous problem” with gun violence and said the U.S. has “the worst rate of gun murder and gun crime of any of the civil countries in this world.” Pratt countered that with the other side of the gun control debate – arguing that laws promote violence because people are unable to defend themselves. Gun bans in other countries, he said, have not lowered crime rates either. Morgan bristled, said that was not true, and basically called Pratt a moron. “It seems to me you are morally obtuse,” Pratt calmly responded. “You seem to prefer being a victim to being able to prevail over the criminal element. I don’t know why you want to be the criminal’s friend.” “What a ridiculous argument,” Piers said. “You have absolutely no coherent argument. You don’t actually give a damn about the murder rate in America.” Morgan ended by calling Pratt an idiot, to which Pratt sarcastically thanked him for the high level of debate; Piers said Pratt is incapable of such a thing. Whose side are you on? Should there be more gun control? YES. Fewer guns, fewer tragedies! NO. It’s unconstitutional and won’t stop anything! View Poll »
