An anti-drug Republican lawmaker has been charged with drug possession in upstate New York. Anti-Drug Lawmaker Arrested And Charged With Drug Possession Via WLWT reports: Assemblyman Steve Katz was charged after a Thursday morning traffic stop, according to a report by the Albany Times Union. Police said the 59-year-old Katz was driving 80 mph on a toll road near Coeymans, N.Y. State troopers said they smelled marijuana and found a small bag of the drug. Katz serves on the Assembly’s Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee and its Higher Education Committee. The Times Union reported that Katz voted against a bill that would have legalized medical marijuana last year. Katz ran unsuccessfully for state Senate last year. SMH!! Wait a minute, we find it hard to believe he was stoned and driving 80MPH. Now, if they popped him for under the minimum speed limit…
6?!?! Cotdamn… Father’s Letter To Gay Son Goes Viral Via Yahoo! A letter written from a dad to his gay son Nate is going viral on the Internet because of its simple, hopeful message of love. “I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me,” it reads. “The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class. We are out, like you now. I’ve known you were gay since you were six, I’ve loved you since you were born.” He signs it “Dad” and finishes with a post script: “Your mom and I think you and Mike make a cute couple.” The letter was posted on the Facebook page of FCKH8.com, an organization aimed at empowering youth through its snarky, gay-positive T-shirts, videos and activist campaigns. Fans often send in photos of inspiring items, from cakes topped with “I’m gay!” to jack o’lanterns carved with “FCKH8.” “We get a lot of crazy stuff, so I almost didn’t look at it,” FCKH8.com founder Luke Montgomery told Yahoo! Shine about the letter, which was emailed to them by Nate, a Michigan high-school student. But when he did read it, he said, “I cried.” Pretty touching, but could you have known about your gay son or daughter from such a young age without ever bringing it up? Or even asking?? Image via fckh8/Shutterstock
At this point, no one really knows if Lil Wayne is dead, alive or both . According to TMZ, he was read his last rites after suffering severe seizures but those reports were quickly disputed by close friends, family and even T.I. Either way, Wayne seems determined to die in his prime (like everyone on this list) and that’s heartbreaking. Here are the ten music legends who died from a drug overdose. Take a look.
They want this to be the first thing in your mouth in the morning. Sexcereal Claims To Improve Sexual Health For Men And Women Via TorontoSun It’s a new product getting lots of attention and it’s made in St. Catharines, but we can’t tell you where. Welcome to the somewhat uncomfortable world of selling Sex Cereal. The brainchild of a Toronto businessman, Sex Cereal is quickly rising to fame after making an appearance on CBC’s Dragon’s Den just before Valentine’s Day. Peter Ehrlich came up with the concept while walking through a vegan food fair. The lightbulb went off and the idea of a cereal with different recipes for men and women was born. “Sexual health is so important,” Ehrlich said from his office in Toronto. “I wanted to create something $exy and fun in the health food industry because nothing is. Everything is very serious.” Ehrlich used nutritionists to formulate two separate recipes that are supposed to improve the sexual health of men and women in different ways. Surely there are $exier and more fun breakfasts than this, but we digress… At about $12 a bag, Sex Cereal isn’t cheap, but Ehrlich said there’s a reason for that. “The ingredients are quite rare,” he said. “I wasn’t creating a cereal for the sake of shock value. I know scientifically it had to be the real thing, but the real thing is expensive.” HIS Ingredients Rolled oats, wheat germ, water, chia seeds, black sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, blueberries (sweetened with apple juice), cacao nibs, goji berries, bee pollen, maca powder, camu camu, coconut sugar HER Ingredients Rolled oats, oat bran, sunflower seeds, water, flax seeds, chia seeds, soy protein, cranberries (sweetened with apple juice), goji berries, cacao nibs, almonds, ginger ground, maca powder, coconut sugar By the numbers 45 … serving size in grams 190 … calories in cereal for men 200 … calories in cereal for women 300 … grams in each bag 12 … MSRP in dollars Any interest in chowing down on this get-it-on granola? Image via SexCereal
She sho loves herself some country lovin’! Britney Spears has a new boo she’s been spotted out with. Via USWeekly reports : The pop star and former X Factor judge stepped out with rumored boyfriend David Lucado in Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday, March 14, and the pair seemed to be very much enjoying each other’s company. The singer, 31, looked giddy as she and Lucado made their way to the Forever Bella tanning spa, their second tanning trip together this week. Spears showed off her toned figure in a patterned spring green halter dress and sky-high wedges. She topped off her look with a pair of aviators — much like Lucado, who similarly kept things casual in a maroon Virginia Tech T-shirt, shorts and grey sneakers. “He’s a good boy. He’s from a good family,” a family source tells Us of Virginia native Lucado. “David grew up on a farm. He does alright. He’s into restoring old cars.” The source adds that Lucado is “really down-to-earth” — something Spears seemed to appreciate during their daytime date. “She was happy and smiling and she rarely smiles, but yes, she looked happy,” an eyewitness at the tanning salon tells Us. “Her bodyguard was there too and walked them in, opening the door for them.” The pair spent 25 minutes in the shop before heading to their next spot, the Four Seasons Westlake. There, the duo played ping-pong at the lounge, where Spears is a regular. “Britney was really good,” the onlooker said. “They were having a fun time together but there weren’t any PDAs.” The twice-divorced mom of two hasn’t been single long. Spears and agent Jason Trawick, 41, announced their split back in January. “Jason and I have decided to call off our engagement,” the “Scream and Shout” singer told Us in a statement at the time. “I’ll always adore him and we will remain great friends.” Well go head Britney get ya groove back! This broad loves her a regular azz white man don’t she? FameFlynetPictures
Food stamp use has more than doubled among New York City residents since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002. Food Stamp Use In NYC Doubled Under Mayor Bloomberg Via DailyCaller reports: Spending on food stamps increased more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2012 — from $1.28 billion to $3.44 billion, the Independent Budget Office of New York City revealed in data released Thursday. IBO spokesman Doug Turetsky attributed the expansion to a more aggressive outreach effort by Bloomberg than his predecessor Rudy Giuliani’s administration, the New York Post reported Friday. Known for his hardline stance against sugary beverages, Bloomberg did attempt to prevent food stamp recipients from using their benefits to purchase soda and sugary beverages in 2010 — with a proposal for a two-year pilot program to see if the restriction would help to alleviate obesity. The Agriculture Department rejected the proposal calling it “too large and complex” to oversee, the New York Times reported in 2011. New York City’s expansion has been less than the rest of the nation — which has seen the program’s cost double in President Obama’s first term and quadruple from 2001-2011. Participation reached a record high in December — the most recent data month available — with 47,791,996 people enrolled in the program. IBO’s report also revealed that the number of residents on public assistance has decreased and the number of disabled New Yorkers receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits has remained steady. Discuss…
Food stamp use has more than doubled among New York City residents since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002. Food Stamp Use In NYC Doubled Under Mayor Bloomberg Via DailyCaller reports: Spending on food stamps increased more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2012 — from $1.28 billion to $3.44 billion, the Independent Budget Office of New York City revealed in data released Thursday. IBO spokesman Doug Turetsky attributed the expansion to a more aggressive outreach effort by Bloomberg than his predecessor Rudy Giuliani’s administration, the New York Post reported Friday. Known for his hardline stance against sugary beverages, Bloomberg did attempt to prevent food stamp recipients from using their benefits to purchase soda and sugary beverages in 2010 — with a proposal for a two-year pilot program to see if the restriction would help to alleviate obesity. The Agriculture Department rejected the proposal calling it “too large and complex” to oversee, the New York Times reported in 2011. New York City’s expansion has been less than the rest of the nation — which has seen the program’s cost double in President Obama’s first term and quadruple from 2001-2011. Participation reached a record high in December — the most recent data month available — with 47,791,996 people enrolled in the program. IBO’s report also revealed that the number of residents on public assistance has decreased and the number of disabled New Yorkers receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits has remained steady. Discuss…
Black defendants facing trial in Houston, the death penalty capital of America – are more than three times as likely to face a possible death sentence than whites , new academic research has revealed. Black Prisoners More Likely To Get Death Penalty Than Whites Via The Guardian reports: The study, by a criminologist at the University of Maryland, exposes the extent of racial discrimination inherent in the administering of capital punishment in Harris County, the ground zero of the death penalty in the US. The county, which incorporates Houston, Texas’s largest city, has carried out 116 executions in the modern era – more than any entire state in the union apart from Texas itself. Professor Raymond Paternoster of the university’s institute of criminal justice and criminology was commissioned by defence lawyers acting in the case of Duane Buck, a death row prisoner from Houston whose 1995 death sentence is currently being reconsidered by the Texas courts. Paternoster, whose report is based on the latest quantitative methods, looked at 504 cases involving adult defendants who had been indicted for capital murder in Harris County between 1992 and 1999 – the period during which Buck was charged for murdering his former girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and a man called Kenneth Butler. Paternoster whittled down that pool to 20 cases that most closely echoed that of Buck’s own in terms of the factors involved in the crime that were likely to incur a death sentence. He found that of the 21 men, including Buck, seven out of the 10 who were African American were sent by the Harris County district attorney for capital trial, compared with just one of the five white defendants. “The probability that the district attorney will advance a case to a [death] penalty trial is more than three times as high when the defendant is African American than for white defendants,” Paternoster writes. He adds: “The disparity by race of the defendant, moreover, cannot be attributed to observed case characteristics because these cases are those that were most comparable”. The habeus petition chronicles the long and controversial history of the death penalty in Texas, particularly in Harris County. Though the county has a black population of 19%, African Americans represent almost 50% of the people detained in its jails, while 68% of the past 34 executions to emerge from the area involved black inmates. What do you think of the latest study? Shocked?
Before celebrity weaves took a turn for the worst, these ladies did it best. Celebrities Who Had Good Weaves Back In The Day It’s no secret that celebrities have been wearing weaves for longer than most of us can remember. But even though it’s been happening for a while, it hasn’t always been popular. The saying goes that there’s nothing new under the sun, but these trendsetting tenderonis definitely gave life to the track game before it became common. Here’s a look at a few ladies of the limelight who pioneered the weave game early on with some of the most undetectable, natural looking locks we’ve seen.
Get your life get together Breezy! Chris Brown Criticized For Doing Drugs In Ghana Last week Chris arrived in Ghana he reportedly blew off several radio appearances despite being paid $1 million, and got put on blast from the local media for smoking onstage. Via Ghana Celebrities : Ghana based technological company-rLG stands out significantly in Africa with their outstanding but affordable products and immense support for Arts & Entertainment industry in Ghana. Despite the above, the company’s decision to pay Chris Brown an alleged whooping $1 million to be part of the official unveiling of the ‘Hope City Project’ which the latter failed to attend and also stage a mega concert in Accra have been enormously criticized. Many of the decision’s critics have over the few weeks leading to yester night’s concert questioned the corresponding benefits rlg as a brand would derive in giving out such a huge money to Chris Brown. We’ve heard the guys from rlg mention that Chris Brown would promote their brand via appearing at the sod cutting ceremony and also staging the concert. $1 million may not be huge to Chris Brown and he would probably use it to dye his hair but to a young Africa company established in a poor third world country which sometimes goes to seek an equivalent amount in foreign aid, it surely matters. Few hours to the Chris Brown concert, he showed up in Ghana with a frown face. The organizers were supposed to be the ones carrying the frown face since he failed to show up for the all important unveiling and sod cutting ceremony which the President of Ghana (John Mahama) even attended. Chris Brown’s arrival was received with bliss by many Ghanaians of which some tweeted along the lines ‘at least he is here now so let’s go and enjoy his electrifying performance’. He failed to be in the country on time for arranged radio interviews but what can we say? He has our $1 million… On his arrival at the airport, Chris Brown failed to hop into a luxurious Limousine with a fancy dressed chauffeur which was arranged to pick him up with his people saying, ‘he is not keen on Limousines’. According to them, Chris Brown sees Limousines ‘as a ride for prom’, GhanaCelerbrties.Com has learned. Meanwhile, just last month in Hawaii, Chris Brown partied with his girlfriend in a Limo on her birthday, GhanaCelebrities.Com has uncovered. We guess he was taking the piss… His performance at the concert was amazing; he brought his usual electrifying stage craft and energy to Ghana. He performed several of his hit songs with patrons singing along. His great performance which lasted over an hour was characterized with vulgar language which Ghanaians are not used to… Instead of promoting the rLG or throwing in a word or two about the brand, he decided to take the piss again by promoting the use of marijuana when he knows or ought to know this is an illegal substance in many countries including Ghana. Whiles performing one of his songs, he happily asked if there were weed smokers in Ghana and proceeded to say “if anybody’s tripping on you smoking, f**k them”. He pulled out a rolled ‘joint’ and smoked it live on stage… No Ghanaian entertainer dare do this openly in Ghana and go free. The police would have been on him or the crowd would consider it extensively offensive. However, Chris Brown came, did it and flew away! The concert was great but the piss take by Chris Brown leading and during the concert was absurd! Surely, no one pays another $1 million to be disrespected… SMH!!!!!!!!
