Usher’s getting his way (again)… and, while we reported that his Tameka’s house had been listed , we didn’t have snapshots of what his estranged-ex was being forced to roll out on. The 12,544 square-foot pad was bought for $3 mill back in 2007 and it boasts 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, 10-foot ceilings, massive pool, in-home gym, 4 fireplaces, a library, and more. Hit the flip for more shots of their spacious crib…
He pulled a knife on his neighbor during the fight too . According to the Express Times , this dude flipped his isht and only got probation: Kyle James Milliard, 22, was sentenced to 18 months of probation for the April 25 assault, in which he punched and shoved Kayla Rainer while she held their 1-year-old baby. Lehigh County Judge Robert Steinberg said Milliard’s lack of a criminal record was a factor in his decision not to impose prison, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Jay Jenkins. Steinberg also considered the defendant’s family support system and steady employment, Jenkins said. Milliard works at the Hop’s at The Paddock restaurant in South Whitehall Township. Milliard could have faced as much as four years in prison for the assault, which occurred at an apartment Milliard and Rainer shared in the 2300 block of Old Post Road. Last month, Milliard admitted he punched Rainer in the arm, slapped her in the mouth and twice shoved her into a wall. Rainer left the apartment after the fight and sought help from neighbor Lewis Gregg, police said. After Gregg went to Milliard’s apartment to confront him, Milliard opened the door holding a knife with a 6-inch blade and lunged at Gregg, leading to a brief scuffle. Gregg was not injured, and Rainer suffered a swollen lip and cut nose, authorities said. The baby’s head hit the wall when Milliard pushed Rainer but was not seriously injured. Mark Merdinger, Milliard’s public defender, previously argued his client brandished the knife in self-defense and dropped it early in the fight. Merdinger declined to comment about today’s sentencing. Milliard said last month he is no longer in a relationship with Rainer. Other charges against Milliard were dropped last month in exchange for the guilty plea, including a more serious felony count of aggravated assault. Does this sound shady to you?? Images via facebook
Wow! This guy has no grasp of reality for the rest of us 47% folks . Mittens just got caught again talking that same isht he was spittin’ earlier this year when he told TOP donors that POTUS won his re-election through the “gifts” he was already giving blacks, Hispanics, and the youth. According to The Huffington Post , Romney’s finance team organized the call to donors: “The president’s campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift,” Romney said in a call to donors on Wednesday. “He made a big effort on small things.” Romney said his campaign, in contrast, had been about “big issues for the whole country.” He said he faced problems as a candidate because he was “getting beat up” by the Obama campaign and that the debates allowed him to come back. In the call, Romney didn’t acknowledge any major missteps, such as his “47 percent” remarks widely viewed as denigrating nearly half of Americans, his lack of support for the auto bailout, his call for illegal immigrants to “self-deport,” or his change in position on abortion, gun control and other issues. He also didn’t address the success or failure of the campaign’s strategy of focusing on the economy in the face of some improvement in employment and economic growth during the months leading up to Election Day. Obama won the popular vote by about 3.5 million votes, or 3 percent, and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks showed that Obama led Romney by 11 percentage points among women and won better than 7 of 10 Hispanic voters and more than 9 of 10 black voters. Romney called his loss to Obama a disappointing result that he and his team had not expected, but he said he believed his team had run a superb campaign. He said he was trying to turn his thoughts to the future, “but, frankly, we’re still so troubled by the past, it’s hard to put together our plans for the future.” Among the “gifts” Romney cited were free health care “in perpetuity,” which he said was highly motivational to black and Hispanic voters as well as for voters making $25,000 to $35,000 a year. Romney also said the administration’s promise to offer what he called “amnesty” to the children of illegal immigrants – what he termed “the so-called DREAM Act kids” – helped send Hispanics to the polls for Obama. Young voters, Romney said, were motivated by the administration’s plan for partial forgiveness of college loan interest and being able to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans. Young women had an additional incentive to vote for Obama because of free contraception coverage under the president’s health care plan, he said. “I’m very sorry that we didn’t win,” he told donors. “I know that you expected to win. We expected to win. We were disappointed; we hadn’t anticipated it.” Romney said he and his team were discussing how his donor group could remain connected and have an influence on the direction of the Republican Party and even the selection of a future nominee – “which, by the way, will not be me.” We’re still looking for that ‘free stuff’ Mittens keeps talking about. We’ll let you know when we find it! Images via tumblr
Did you know Solange told Interscope “Fawk You” so much they just let her off the label? That’s just one of many fun facts we discovered after reading a recent New York Magazine feature on the youngest Knowles sister. Here are a few choice excerpts… On Her New EP True : She is paying for her own EP. She parted ways with her record company, Interscope, after her last album, 2008’s Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, sold poorly. But the split was mutual: She felt trapped, particularly when Interscope tried to block her unlicensed cover of a Dirty Projectors song. “I wasn’t actually selling it. I was just putting it out,” she says. “Lil Wayne was on the same [parent] label, rapping over every single person’s songs on all of his mixtapes, and no one ever complained because I’m sure he just put it out and said ‘Fawk you.’ I was saying ‘Fawk you’ so much that they were like, ‘Well, you don’t have to be here.’” Interscope released her from her contract even though she still owed them albums. Hit the flip for details on her relationship with director Alan Ferguson and her reasons for moving Julez to Brooklyn.
Family feud over complexion issues??! Chantel Christie Regrets Talking to Laura Govan The latest episode of “Basketball Wives LA” took a deeper look inside the unstable relationship of Jackie Christie and her two daughters. Habitual line stepper, Laura Govan got into the mix when she got Jackie Christie ‘s daughter Chantel to confide in her about the emotional abuse brought upon on her and her sister Takari at the hands of Jackie throughout their childhood . Chantel discussed the mistreatment, Takari suffered because she was darker and bigger than her. Chantel now realizes that might not have been the smartest of ideas… Bill R. Ware / PR Photos/ Twitter
It’s the weapon of choice for folks who toke on that green yahmean . LLS. Only a weeks past since that icky-sticky even got legalized in Washington state and this woman’s proving some people can’t handle tokin’ that isht legally. SMH. According to kirotv : Police are looking for a 28-year-old woman accused of beating her boyfriend with a marijuana bong. Authorities said the attack happened after a heated argument in Bellingham Sunday morning. The man suffered a cut to his head from the 8-inch-tall glass water pipe. The Bellingham Herald said officers believe the couple had been drinking. The woman fled after the attack and remains at large. We’ll go ahead and assume it was the alcohol that pushed this chick to her breaking point and not the mellow mood-inducing mary jane! Images via shutterstock
The man wanted the cows to move away from his horse feed so he shot them in the face!?!? Makes sense right?? According to NBC2 in Orlando : A Flagler County man is accused of shooting neighborhood cows in the face. Six of the Bunnell cows were shot — two of them badly injured. According to a report from the state attorney’s office, Justin Deloach is responsible for the cow’s injuries. Authorities say the shooting happened late last month. The cows were hit in the face, rump, ribs and shoulders. Deloach claimed he only fired into the air when he said the cows broke through a fence and ate his horse feed. He said he only wanted to scare the animals so they would move. The animals returned their owner, however, bleeding profusely. A veterinarian who examined the cows said the injuries are so significant, the animals’ value is affected. This sociopath really needs to learn how to take his anger out on some dayum hay bales instead of shooting cows! SMH Images via shutterstock/tumblr
Oprah will be making products that come straight from her farm in Maui and trademarks for ‘Oprah’s Organics’, ‘Oprah’s Farm’, and ‘Oprah’s Harvest’ all have applications open. According to The Daily Mail , the potential names will be used for bath soaps, sunscreen, massage oils, hair products, organic salad dressings, and frozen vegetables, soups, beverages, and snack dips. The Oprah empire already includes a television network, satellite radio show, lifestyle website, magazine and even a school in South Africa. Now, it looks like media mogul Oprah Winfrey, 58, is delving into the world of organic products. Several applications to trademark ‘Oprah’s Organics,’ for bath soaps, sunscreen, massage oils, hair products, as well as organic salad dressings, frozen vegetables, soups, beverages and snack dips, were filed late last month according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Organization. Applications for an ‘Oprah’s Farm’ trademark for a beverage and catering service, as well as ‘Oprah’s Harvest’ were also recently submitted – the addresses of which include the Wilshire Boulevard location of Ms Winfrey’s business and the Chicago offices of Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. Her $2.7billion empire also includes a girls’ school in South Africa, as well as hundreds of acres of land in Maui, which include a large farm and a bed and breakfast. A representative for Ms Winfrey told The New York Post: ‘The trademarks were filed for Oprah’s farm on Maui to enable the farm to grow and distribute produce on Maui and throughout the Hawaiian Islands.’ Ms Winfrey, who has spent most of 2012 splitting her time between her new home base since she left Chicago, in Montecito, Calififornia, and New Orleans, where she is starring in a film called The Butler, opposite Forest Whitaker, due out in 2013, topped Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebrities this year earning an estimated $165 million. At age 41, Winfrey had a net worth of $340million and replaced Bill Cosby as the only African American on the Forbes 400. The philanthropist continues to support educational causes, spending over $100million on her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. As of 2012, Winfrey had also given over 400 scholarships to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Between 2004 and 2010 she ranked among the 50 most generous Americans, and according to Forbes, her lifetime giving is estimated at $400 million. What do you think about Oprah’s new gig? Would you buy an ‘Oprah’s Organics’ product?? Images via tumblr
You likey?? Fresh off his 28th birthday this past Sunday, Omarion dropping the latest track, “M.I.A” featuring Wale. Are you feelin’ it? Images via youtube/twitter
When did Cornel West turn into a stunt queen??? Cornel West Calls Obama “Republican In Blackface” Cornel West has made it clear that he feels that President Obama should be more proactive in tackling issues like poverty and the prison-industrial complex. Some African Americans see the professor’s views as divisive, while others say he’s speaking truth to power. Recently in an interview with Democracy Now, West and Tavis Smiley were asked about the president’s priorities, and while Smiley said Americans must encourage the POTUS to be the best he can be, West was much more critical… Via The Root : “I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion—poverty, trade unions being pushed against the wall dealing with stagnating and declining wages when profits are still up and the 1 percent are doing very well, no talk about drones dropping bombs on innocent people. So we end up with such a narrow, truncated political discourse, as the major problems—ecological catastrophe, climate change, global warming. So it’s very sad. I mean, I’m glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama , so that our struggle with regard to poverty intensifies” … The language that Cornel uses about the President of the United States is inappropriate, disrespectful and not specific with words that will give volunteerism to the needs of the people in this country, and just completely outrageous with poor communication through name-calling. It is hate-speech rhetoric and only displayed by those who have a self-centered interest through the priorities that Cornel appears to voice. Do you agree with Cornel West?
