Hate it or love it? Beyonce Shows Off Her Body In Shape Magazine Look-at-me Bey is back in action and showing off her bangin’ bawwwdy in the latest issue of Shape Magazine. Bey Bey had her bronze-colored Carter-Knowles cakes and tightly toned abs on blizzy blast for the recent Shape photo shoot while sporting a few two piece outfits and a one piece bathing suit. Kinda hard to believe little Blue Ivy had mommy Bey’s stomach bulging out just barely a year ago riiiiight? Hit the flip for a few more behind-the-scenes flicks from the photo shoot, along with the latest candids from the Mrs. Carter vault.
Surprise! You’re on candid camera d-bag! Jimmy Carter’s Grandson To Come Forward As The Man Who Leaked The Mitt Romney 47% Rant Via HuffingtonPost Bill Clinton won the presidential election for Barack Obama. But it wasn’t his masterful Democratic National Convention speech or the advice he offered the president’s reelection campaign. Clinton, it turns out, inspired the man who filmed Mitt Romney’s infamous and game-changing 47 percent comments. HuffPost has agreed to withhold the name of the surreptitious filmmaker until he breaks his silence on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” Wednesday evening, followed by an appearance on HuffPost Live Thursday morning. In interviews over the last several months, he laid out his thinking before and after Romney’s speech. The man, who tended bar for a company that catered to a high-end clientele, had previously worked at a fundraiser at a home where Clinton spoke. After Clinton addressed guests, the man recalled, the former president came back to the kitchen and thanked the staff, the waiters, the bartenders, the busboys, and everyone else involved in putting the event together. He shook hands, took photos, signed autographs, and praised the meal — all characteristic of the former president. When the bartender learned he would be working at Romney’s fundraiser, his first thought was to bring his camera, in case he had a chance to get a photo with the presidential candidate. Romney, of course, did not speak to any of the staff, bussers or waiters. He was late to the event, and rushed out. He told his dinner guests that the event was off the record, but never bothered to repeat the admonition to the people working there. One of them had brought along a Canon camera. He set it on the bar and hit the record button. Jimmy Carter’s grandson, James, took the brunt of the public publicity for making sure that the tape was serviced to all the national media outlets. Might have to give James Carter and his soon-to-be-named friend a hood pass. Barry-O ‘preciates y’all playa! Image via AP
The thickummms in Mississippi said ‘miss us with that slimmy trimmy bs’ and have passed a bill to keep restaurants from forcing them to be more healthy. Via NYDailyNews reports : Lawmakers in Mississippi — the most obese state in the nation — have overwhelmingly approved what they’re calling the “anti-Bloomberg bill.” It would ban communities from requiring restaurants to post calorie counts on menus or limit portion sizes, as Mayor Bloomberg tried to do with his proposed ban on large sodas. Also forbidden: any local rule banning toys from being distributed with kids’ meals. The governor is expected to sign it. Its author, state Sen. Tony Smith, owner of the Stonewall’s BBQ chain, which serves dishes like the Lil’ Piggy, said government has no business telling people what they cannot eat. “If we give government a little more control of our personal rights – where does it stop?” he said. Smith told the Daily News that Bloomberg‘s proposed ban on large sugary sodas in New York helped give impetus to his legislation. He said Bloomberg’s rule – which was written to attack obesity – doesn’t make sense. If customers “want to supersize, they’re going to figure out how to do it, whether that means buying two or whatever,” said Smith, whose restaurants only service sodas 20-ounces at a time, a serving size that Bloomberg‘s ban would outlaw. Smith‘s bill – which says nutritional requirements should only be decided at the state level – sailed through the Mississippi legislature with broad bipartisan support, overwhelming the arguments of a small group of opponents who said that local governments should be allowed to make their own rules. Smith said Mississippians trust the market to respond to demands for healthy food. “For a lady, if all you can buy are black shoes, well, that doesn’t go with every dress you may have,” he said. “Hey, if you want to buy baked fish, fine, I love it. But if I want fried fish, that’s my right.” SMH. Leave it to Mississippi — the state where ignorance is always bliss. Don’t get us wrong though — we agree that people have a right to be just as fat as they wanna be. Shutterstock
Remember this racist bloody British douchelord??? Well his sorry azz was finally fired for his unacceptable antics!!! Via DailyMail UK: A police officer who said that a black man looked like a monkey has been sacked, Scotland Yard said today. Metropolitan Police constable Kevin Hughes, who was based at Newham, was cleared of racially-aggravated offences in November, but has now been dismissed for gross misconduct, the force said. Hughes and fellow constable David Hair were both cleared of using threatening words or behaviour to cause alarm and distress and of racially-aggravated harassment at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in November. Hughes, of Brentwood, Essex, admitted saying a black man looked like a monkey, while Hair was said to have told a black woman colleague he thought she was going to ‘rant’ about overtime and not do any because she was ‘going home to cook bananas’. The two officers were alleged to have used abusive language about black men while they were on patrol. The court hearing was told they referred to each other at ‘Auntie’ and ‘Uncle’ in a sing song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ accent. On other occasions Hughes said black people were like chimpanzees or Neanderthals. In his defence Pc Hughes claimed he was merely discussing evolution. Chief magistrate Howard Riddle said that while Pc Hughes’s language was ‘unacceptable and offensive’, it did not amount to a criminal offence. And he said that while the insulting nature of Hair’s comment seemed obvious to many, he did not think it was to him. Hair was said to have been ‘mortified’ when Hughes suggested his comment could be taken as being racist. Whatever. Sayonara sukcker!!!!
What THE fawk is wrong with this guy ?! Ted Nugent Responds To Hugo Chavez Death According to TMZ reports : Ultra-conservative freedom-loving Republican rock star Ted Nugent has three words for the dead former President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez — “ADIOS MO FO.” Nugent — a staunch anti-Communist — tells TMZ, “All dictators, tyrants, slave-drivers and despots should die ASAP. Let freedom ring.” Chavez died yesterday following a battle with cancer. It makes total sense Nugent would hate the guy — Chavez was an outspoken anti-American who has long criticized America’s foreign policy. During his political career, Chavez also allied with the Communist government of Cuba and the Socialist governments of other Latin American countries. In sum, Chavez pretty much embodied everything Nugent hates about extremist left-wing politics. Ok fine, we get it. Ted hates everyone that isn’t a gun-totin’, gay-hatin’, church-goin’, American. But “Adios, mo-fo”?? There are likely some people who will take offense to his choice of words. Even those that hated Chavez might give him a Chelly-O side-eye . Image via AP
ABC Reports : This Jan. 20, 2007 photo shows Marco McMillian, 34, a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., who was found dead on the Mississippi River levee Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 between Sherard and Rena Lara, Miss. Authorities say the case is being investigated as a homicide. Jarod Keith, McMillian’s campaign spokesperson, told The Associated Press McMillian’s campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi. As of now, McMillian’s death is not being investigated as a hate crime. abc
Clive Davis puts Whitney’s past relationships on blast in his new tell-all book… Clive Davis Tells All About Whitney Houston’s Past Relationships Via The Grio reports: In his book, Davis described the chapter about Whitney Houston, as “without a question the most difficult chapter” for him to write. He talks about how he discovered Houston at 19-years-old and was there throughout the ups and downs of her career. In his book, Davis addresses rumors that plagued Houston’s early career of her having a lesbian relationship with her former assistant Robyn Crawford . “I really saw her in brief relationships with men. I do write that she did have an interim relationship with Jermaine Jackson when he was separated,” Davis said. “I know that she went out with Eddie Murphy for a while until she married Bobby Brown. I only knew of Robyn as her assistant, someone she grew up with, since she was a teenager. I just knew the heterosexual side of Whitney.” Since Houston’s death a year ago, the media has tried to point the finger at who enabled the six-time Grammy winner’s drug addiction. “I don’t believe it was Bobby Brown,” Davis revealed. “I think they did have a co-dependent, unhealthy relationship with each other. But I would never point to him. I have no idea who her enabler was.”
It’s about dayum time! The folks at the census bureau have finally realized nobody is using the term Negro anymore — especially if they’re Black or African-American. Via NY Daily News reports : After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels “black” or “African-American”. The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau’s racial statistics branch, said in an interview. He pointed to months of public feedback and census research that concluded few black Americans still identify with being Negro and many view the term as “offensive and outdated.” “This is a reflection of changing times, changing vocabularies and changing understandings of what race means in this country,” said Matthew Snipp, a sociology professor at Stanford University, who writes frequently on race and ethnicity. “For younger African-Americans, the term ‘Negro’ harkens back to the era when African-Americans were second-class citizens in this country.” First used in the census in 1900, “Negro” became the most common way of referring to black Americans through most of the early 20th century, during a time of racial inequality and segregation. “Negro” itself had taken the place of “colored.” Starting with the 1960s civil rights movement, black activists began to reject the “Negro” label and came to identify themselves as black or African-American. For the 2010 census, the government briefly considered dropping the word “Negro” but ultimately decided against it, determining that a small segment, mostly older blacks living in the South, still identified with the term. But once census forms were mailed and some black groups protested, Robert Groves, the Census Bureau’s director at the time, apologized and predicted the term would be dropped in future censuses. When asked to mark their race, Americans are currently given a choice of five government-defined categories in census surveys, including one checkbox selection which is described as “black, African Am., or Negro.” Beginning with the surveys next year, that selection will simply say “black” or “African American.” In the 2000 census, about 50,000 people specifically wrote in the word Negro when asked how they wished to be identified. By 2010, unpublished census data provided to the AP show that number had declined to roughly 36,000. We say Hallelujah! We’s free of that old Jim Crow terminology. How many bets somebody is gonna call Permed Up Al over this to protest? LOL.
