What an idiot … According to WESH , James Irvine was busted on his way back home: A Palm Coast man is charged with child neglect after sheriff’s deputies said he left a pit bull to baby-sit a 10-month-old while he went out drinking. James Irvine, 41, was arrested about 12:30 a.m. Saturday. According to investigators, the baby’s mother left Irvine in charge while she went to work. The woman told investigators when she got home, Irvine was trying to get in the garage door and admitted he’d been at a bar. Officials said Irvine told the baby’s mother the baby wasn’t alone, because the pit bull was watching him. The dog was sitting outside the room, the door was shut and the baby was crying. SMH. How stupid can you be? Images via facebook
Both ladies came correct for a Hollywood celebration honoring women in Entertainment. The pair were there giving props to other successful Ladies in the business who have made a difference through mentorships, leadership, and positive roles. Hit the flip for more and let us know who you think pulled off the classy shade…
There’s a new Sheriff on Wall Street , and she’s not going to take any bull from the shady CEO’s that have been ripping us off! According to The Huffington Post , Senator Warren’s seat win means she’ll rule and regulate the same people that spent millions to campaign against her: Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It’s a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations. Warren knocked out Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts in the most expensive Senate contest of 2012, with Wall Street spending heavily to beat Warren, a former Harvard law professor. Sources also told HuffPost that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be named to the panel. Warren’s ascension to the panel gives her influence over regulators and the industry that non-panel members don’t enjoy. Congratulations Senator Warren. Images via WENN
There’s a new Sheriff on Wall Street , and she’s not going to take any bull from the shady CEO’s that have been ripping us off! According to The Huffington Post , Senator Warren’s seat win means she’ll rule and regulate the same people that spent millions to campaign against her: Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It’s a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations. Warren knocked out Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts in the most expensive Senate contest of 2012, with Wall Street spending heavily to beat Warren, a former Harvard law professor. Sources also told HuffPost that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be named to the panel. Warren’s ascension to the panel gives her influence over regulators and the industry that non-panel members don’t enjoy. Congratulations Senator Warren. Images via WENN
Aren’t you just wondering who else ranked in under him… Forbes released their list for the Top 10 Overpaid Actors In Hollywood and, other than Eddie topping the ranks at numero uno, you may actually be surprised who landed up on there: #2–Katherine Heigl #3–Reese Witherspoon #4–Sandra Bullock #5–Jack Black #6–Nicolas Cage #7–Adam Sandler #8–Denzel Washington #9–Ben Stiller #10–Sarah Jessica Parker Denzel!?!? For real tho? Forbes gave their reasons for Eddie landing at number one and they didn’t hesitate to name all of his box office flops: Poor Eddie Murphy desperately needs a comeback. Remember back in the day when he was so funny on Saturday Night Live and in movies like Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop? His voice work has helped make movies like Shrek and Mulan tolerable for adults, and even his family-friendly movies, like Norbit and Dr. Dolittle, were good for some chuckles. But lately, Murphy’s career has just collapsed. Imagine That, A Thousand Words and Meet Dave were colossal flops. Last year’s Tower Heist, which was supposed to be something of a return to form for the comedian, failed to wow at the box office, earning $153 million on an estimated budget of $75 million. (In order to even come close to turning a profit, a movie has to earn twice its production budget in ticket sales, plus the millions spent on marketing.) Murphy then backed out of hosting the Oscars, which didn’t help his reputation.His string of flops lands Murphy at the top of our Most Overpaid Actors list for 2012. We estimate that for every $1 Murphy was paid for his last three films, they returned an average of $2.30 at the box office. Ouch! Images via tumblr/WENN
We always thought effin’ for tracks was for girls who couldn’t sing. But we guess we figured Rita Ora all wrong. After the RocNation bust down was busted out on Twitter we decided to look into some folks she’s been linked to, and were amazed to find many of the guys have professional ties to the singer. So it turns out that tip we got a few weeks back about Drake being spotted dining out with Rita might have been less about a remix than it was about a ride on his… Hit the flip to find out who else shorty was supposedly creepin’ with.
In celebration of Jay’s birthday , DJ Lissa Monet and 2 dopeboyz released a tribute mixtape ’4Jay-Z’ . We’ve already downloaded the free, 68-track joint and, hate him or love him, it’s pretty dope to take a journey back down memory lane. Since Reasonable Doubt, Sean Jay-Z Carter showed us anything is possible. With a long lasting relationship with the art of story telling, there is no doubt that Jay-Z is one of the best rappers of all time. With every album that he releases, Jay-Z gives the world an opportunity to evolve, a picture frame of perspective, a different way of seeing life and a new instant fashion, business and social culture trend with each music video. As with all her tribute mixes, DJ Lissa Monet once again provides listeners with the raw emotion of Jay-Z’s live shows to his forgotten features along with contributions of thoughts and words from his friends and colleagues. “This 4 Jay-Z mixtape isn’t really about the hits, because we can play Jay-Z hits all day, its essentially about the lyrical versatility and growth of an artist who wasn’t ashamed of where he came from and wasn’t afraid to push boundaries do the impossible and keep people thinking.” ~lissa monét download + share + enjoy Happy Birthday Mr. Carter. Images via lissamonet/2DBZ/tumblr
Maybe she meant Ike and Tina…. Rihanna Compares Relationship To Whitney Houston And Bobby Brown Rihanna and Chris Brown have been rumored to be back together for months, and these days it’s almost certain the entertainers are a couple once again, but according to new reports Rihanna’s view of their relationship is more than a little alarming. Via HuffingtonPost reports: HollywoodLife reports that Rihanna has been telling friends that her romance with Brown reminds her another famous couple — Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. A source revealed to the website that Whitney and Bobby’s song “Something In Common” perfectly describes her feelings for Chris. “Their relationship is like the early Whitney and Bobby day. Ri was watching Bobby and Whitney’s “Something In Common” video the other day and said ‘This is just like Chris and me. For real though, that’s the type of fun we having right now. I love Whitney. She was my girl. Can’t nobody do it better than her,” the source told HollywoodLIfe, adding that you can see her relationship with Chris is “real love … like ain’t no bullshi**ng. The s**t is magical and it’s real.” Of course the comparison between the two couples is rather unsettling if it’s something Rihanna is romanticizing. The 24-year-old “Diamonds” singer was brutally beaten by Brown in 2009, and Whitney and Bobby’s relationship was not without its own violence. In 2003, Bobby was charged with misdemeanor battery for hitting Whitney and reportedly threatening to “beat her azz.” RihRih and Breezy deserve each other, can we just let them happen? However, comparing your love life to Whitney and Bobby’s disastrous marriage might not be the best idea. We all know how that ended…
He was stationed in South Carolina when his wife signed their unborn daughter over to a family of seven in Utah…SMH. According to The Daily Mail , the couple was having marital problems before 31-year-old drill instructor Terry Achane left his then pregnant wife for his new position. His daughter, whom he wanted to name Teleah, was given to Jared and Kristi Frei; and they’re fighting a judges order so they can keep ‘their’ daughter. Terry Achane says that he and his wife, Tira Bland, were having marital problems not long after learning she was pregnant in 2010, leading to her decision and his now spiraling struggle today despite a judge ordering the girl returned to him last October. The now ex-husband says Ms. Bland had suggested having an abortion or giving their child up for adoption – fearing she would end up as a single mother – but he said no, encouraging their daughter’s birth. It was just months later in February of 2011 that Mr. Achane found himself sent to Fort Jackson in South Carolina for work, believing he’d leave and come back a new dad. Ten days after his move, however, his wife gave birth to a premature baby and signed away their child before cutting all contact with her husband. Sent to live with Jared and Kristi Frei, who had spent the last few years struggling to naturally expand their family of five children, the baby found herself in the city of Spanish Fork. We knew that we were not done having children, but after years of sudden infertility and several miscarriages … we discovered somewhere down the line that Kristi had advanced endometriosis, and would not likely conceive or carry another child again,’ the Frei family write of their struggle in a blog aimed at raising money for their court battle. Turning to adoption, in early 2009 the Frei family grew their family by one more with a baby boy named James. Desiring to add one more child – ‘a close, similar sibling’ for James as they write – they found Mr. Achane’s daughter, whom they named Leah. ‘Since that eventful day, we have, as a family, come to know that this dream was a righteous desire blessed to fruition by God, and that Leah would be that child – and yet, little did we know the challenges and trials that awaited us in finding and fighting for this little girl,’ they write. The adoption agency, Adoption Center of Choice told the new family that Mr. Achane wasn’t aware of his daughter’s placement with them and he would most likely contest it if he had found out. The Tribune reports that Ms. Bland had given the adoption agency Mr. Achene’s former address in Texas for contact, knowing full well at the time that he was not living there. Kept in the dark throughout this with months of being unable to reach his wife, Mr. Achane asked a friend to visit her home in Texas who reported that the house appeared vacant. Feverishly calling anyone who may know where his wife could be, while fearing she may have carried out the abortion she once threatened to do, he learned from a family doctor that his wife was no longer pregnant but they could not legally disclose what had happened to the baby. An ounce of relief only came to the horrified man when his wife finally called him in June, telling him she had signed away their baby to the Frei family. ‘I believe she felt guilty at that point because she just made a call out of the blue,’ he said of his ex-wife’s phone call. Once he learned of his daughter’s fate, he immediately tried to track his little girl down but upon contact with the adoption center they refused to disclose any information on her whereabouts. The agency told the court in October that it was standard procedure to not share any information with a father of a potential adoptive child when asked. I am not a very religious person,’ Mr. Achane has since told the Tribune, ‘but thou shalt not steal.’ Speaking of the drawn out legal battle, he said: ‘If they prolong it, that is more time away from my daughter. There are precious moments I can’t get back. … It has been a year and a half now. There is no court order saying they have the right to my child. I just won the case. I want to get my daughter and raise my daughter,’ he said. Judge Darold McDade berated the Adoption Center of Choice’s handling as ‘utterly indefensible.’ ‘Once Mr. Achane contacted the Adoption Center of Choice … to let them know he opposed the adoption and wanted his daughter back, that should have been the end of this case,’ said Mr. McDade. ‘This is a case of human trafficking,’ Mr. Achane’s attorney Mark Wiser told the Tribune. ‘Children are being bought and sold. It is one thing what [adoption agencies] have been doing with unmarried biological fathers. It is in a new area when they are trying to take a child away from a married father who wants to have his child.’ When an attorney for the Frei family contacted Mr. Achane, asking him to consent to the adoption, he said no and demanded his little girl returned to him – to the Frei family’s complete surprise. ‘Over the last 19 months, despite the law requiring that a father show interest in his child and at least attempt regular communication to establish a bond, the father has never shown any interest in Leah other than to hire an attorney,’ the family writes in their blog. Despite the judge’s order to return the child within 60 days, the family now asks that his parental rights granting him custody of her be terminated. They accuse him of abandoning both the mother and baby during her pregnancy and therefore demonstrating no capability for raising the girl. Not going down without a fight, the Freis vow to appeal the judge’s decision, asking friends and family to support their case financially through their blog. They note having paid for ‘two already expensive adoptions (each costing around $25,000),’ with a continuing fight only requiring more money. Their online petition has since raised more than $20,000. A hearing has been set for January 16th of next year on the child’s transition back to her father. We know plenty of good fathers out there that get a bad rap. This family, their supporters who are giving them donations (wtf), and his ‘wife’ should be ashamed of themselves. Give the MAN his daughter back!! SMH Images via facebook
Do you agree? Linda Harvey, a radio host and founder of a Christian organization that opposes LGBT rights , says that ”homosexual marriage is wrong because homosexuality is wrong” and it promotes gay sex with “the very young.” Linda Harvey Claims Gay Marriage Promotes Pedophilia Via Raw Story : During her Monday “Mission America” radio broadcast on WRFD, Harvey struggled to understand last month’s marriage equality victories in Maine, Maryland and Washington. “The homosexual lobby is skillful at manipulating public sympathy by tugging on heartstrings while not telling the whole story,” she explained. “Our side sometimes plays right into their hands by also not telling the whole story, even when we get the chance.” “Until we deal with the core issue — the behavior of homosexuality — it was probably only a matter of time before our side would lose a few races,” Harvey opined. “Homosexual marriage is wrong because two men together or two women is intrinsically disordered, the behavior is unnatural. These aren’t activities that are beneficial or healthy. Homosexual marriage is wrong because homosexuality is wrong.” The radio host continued by warning listeners that there were “significant dangers to our youth” from legalized same sex marriage. “One thing our culture does not want if it wants to survive is to have its youth corrupted and this is happening in oh so many ways now, and homosexuality is one more,” she insisted. “And here’s how it works with homosexuality: since no pregnancy threat exists, some people think there’s no reason to prohibit behavior in the young, even the very young.” “And that’s one of the big reasons by homosexual marriage is wrong: because the young are raised on the mores and traditions of the adults and if same sex marriage is accepted, then children will begin to consider dating and forming relationship in these very different ways; ways that will be very destabilizing to many of them and to our society.” Get this broad outta here! People who have sex with the very young are perverts. Their gender preference is irrelevant. Since most pedophiles are not gay then, according to this logic, straight marriage encourages hetero sex with ‘the very young.’
