Too bad Mittens snubbed the kiddie town hall …he may have gotten more votes! Mitt can’t even fool the “little people” today! According to The Grio : It’s a landslide for President Barack Obama — at least among people too young to vote. Nickelodeon’s Linda Ellerbee said Monday that the president captured 65 percent of the vote to beat Republican Mitt Romney in the network’s “Kids Pick the President” vote. More than 520,000 people cast online ballots through the children’s network’s website over one week earlier this month. Since it began in 1988, the kids have presaged the adults’ vote all but once, when more youngsters voted for John Kerry over George W. Bush in 2004. Obama answered questions submitted by Nickelodeon viewers for a special earlier this month. Romney didn’t participate. Images via WENN
Will you be watching tonight? President Obama And Mitt Romney To Square Off In Final Presidential Debate With 2 weeks until election day and the race to the White House as close as its ever been between President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney , tonight’s final presidential debate could very well give one of the candidates the lead needed to claim a victory in November. via NBC News With fifteen days left in a deadlocked presidential contest, ninety minutes on Monday night could prove pivotal. When President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney meet in their third debate tonight in Boca Raton, Fla., it will be their final chance to show a side-by-side comparison to millions of Americans in an election that appears to be teetering delicately in the balance. The candidates have faced off primarily over domestic issues in their two previous encounters but tonight’s debate, moderated by CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, is supposed to focus on foreign policy and the next president’s role as Commander-in-Chief. Meanwhile in Mitt-world , word on the street is that the GOP goons are continuing to do all that they can to keep minorities, women, and anyone else most likely to vote democrat as far away from the polls as possible. So pay attention, get to the polls, and don’t let anyone block your vote ! Images via WENN
Harvard better expect an open letter from Bey very soon… Harvard Tells Black Girl Can’t She List Jay-Z As A Role Model Via BusinessInsider : Back in 2005, a Harvard freshman filling out a profile for an on-campus recruiting program listed Jay-Z as her business role-model. Chanequa Campbell was promptly called into the Office of Career Services and told to name someone else. “It’s not appropriate. I don’t think people will respond well to this,” the career counselor told her. Campbell, who grew up seven blocks from Jay-Z in Brooklyn and idolized the drug-dealer turned rapper turned entrepreneur, refused to name someone else. She argued with the career counselor awhile longer, finally offering as a small concession to use her role model’s given name, Sean Carter. “I know his resume,” Campbell told me. “He made most of his major respect—Wall Street respect—since ’04.” Seven years later Campbell, who ended up getting kicked out of Harvard, still gets upset telling how Harvard didn’t respect the businessman from her community. “Most of Jay-Z’s songs, if you understand his vernacular, he’s telling you how to be cool, how to be good at life,” Campbell says. “He’s promoting things of content, things to aspire to. He mentions Warhol, he mentions Basquiat. He mentions people you’ve never heard of. He brings this light to our normal conversation.” Hov hangs out with Barack Obama and parties with Warren Buffett. He trails only Sean “Diddy” Combs on the Forbes’ list of Future Hip-Hop Billionaires. If either makes the cut, he will join the short list of currently only five black billionaires in the world. Did Harvard get it wrong? Can rappers be role models too?
This is just sad… Pregnant NYC Woman Stabbed Just One Day Before Wedding A woman who was eight months pregnant was found stabbed to death Saturday in her apartment, the day before her wedding, police said. According to Huffingtonpost : Vindalee Smith, 38, was found on the floor of her apartment in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn with a gaping wound in her neck. It wasn’t clear how long she’d been dead before the body was discovered by her landlord. Her unborn child did not survive. There was no sign of forced entry, and no weapon was recovered, police said. Investigators are looking for a possible suspect. They interviewed her friends and family, and spoke to her fiance. “I can’t even begin to imagine who would want to do that,” her friend, Sybil Samuel, told local newspapers. “It would be the devil, to kill a woman with a child in her stomach. They killed two people.” Smith had four children in their teens and 20s, friends said. A baby shower had been planned for Saturday evening, followed by a small wedding Sunday. Friends told reporters that Smith had met her fiance about a year ago. Smith was a devout Seventh-Day Adventist and attended New Dimension Church, where she was supposed to get married. Congregation members were concerned when she didn’t show up for morning service. “She was always on time_ always the first person at church,” Tyler Harrigan told the Daily News of New York. “When the news came to the church, the whole church broke down. We started to bawl. All the children were crying.” What an incredibly sick and evil crime. May mother and child rest in peace.
This is prob the lowest blow Zimmerman and his crew have made to date! Showing us he’s willing to do pretty much anything, George’s racial-profiling azz is going to question Trayvon’s character by using his school and SOCIAL MEDIA records in court. SMH According to CNN : A Florida judge has ruled that Trayvon Martin’s school and social media records can be handed over to the defense team of his alleged killer, George Zimmerman, despite the efforts of the slain 17-year-old’s family to keep the information private. The decision, made Friday afternoon by Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, could prompt the Miami-area schools Martin attended to provide documents that may include his grades, attendance and any disciplinary action. But Nelson also ruled that Zimmerman’s medical records must be given to prosecutors, though she stipulated that she must first review the material to determine if anything should be removed. The decisions came just hours after Martin’s father made a plea to the court not to disclose his son’s records. “I think it’s wrong that we attack the victim,” said Tracy Martin. “Our first priority shouldn’t be to assassinate the character of the victims and make dead children seem as though they’re the perpetrator.” If you were on trial, would you try to dig up dirt too or would you be able to respect that the young man you ‘accidentally’ killed can’t defend himself? Images via twitter
She ended up being the fall-guy in a 55-member charity identity theft ring. According to The New York Post : A young UJA-Federation clerk apologized and wept as she was sentenced to at least six years in prison for selling the personal financial information of donors, including billionaire investor Ira Rennert and former AIG CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. Tracey Nelson, 25, had worked three years processing donations for the noted Jewish charity, Manhattan prosecutors said. But she moonlighted as a key player in a 55-member identity theft ring that stole the financial information of some 1,000 victims, they said. A search of Nelson’s home had turned up hundreds of copies of checks and credit card numbers of UJA donors, prosecutors said. Nelson sold the donor information to others in the ring who used it to order duplicate credit cards or to create and then plunder dummy accounts in the donors’ names. Amazingly, Nelson, who is the mother of a young boy, filed for and collected several unemployment checks after UJA canned her last year — even though she’d been tossed in jail. The checks were quickly halted when the authorities caught wise, officials said. “She thought she was entitled to them,” in jail, her lawyer, Raymond Castello, explained to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Analisa Torres. “I am saddened and remorseful for my past actions,” Nelson said at the sentencing, directing her apology to the judge, her family and “the people of UJA.” “My problems started because of my financial needs and wanting to better myself,” said Nelson, who had pleaded guilty to grand larceny earlier this month. UJA-Federation authorities have stressed that no donor suffered financial losses in the massive scam. “If there was any doubt that identity theft is a serious crime, today’s sentence removes it,” District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a written statement. “When individuals abuse a position of trust for personal gain, they cause financial damage to banks and deprive victims of their good credit, their time and their peace of mind,” he said. Banks and credit card companies were the real victim of the ring — eating more than $2 million in losses as they reimbursed those whose identities were stolen, prosecutors said. SMH Images via NYPost
The latest issue of Jet has Kerry on its cover… and the actress talks about politics and her tv show Scandal . When asked about why she’s voting for Barack…“Who is in the office impacts everything from what you eat, education, who you love and where you live…so many others have put their lives on the line to help us to gain these rights to vote, and for us not to use that ability is an insult to history.” And her view on black women’s strength…“For Black Women it has never been a luxury to not being anything else but strong.” The issue hits stand October 22nd. Images via Jet
RihRih’s dad let the world know he still loves him some Chris Brown. Claiming that “everyone adores Chris” and that he’s a “super guy” in this week’s Life & Style mag, we wonder what kind of father would easily forgive a ‘man’ who assaulted your own daughter. Oh wait, that’s right; Rihanna’s dad has a violent history too. SMH According to Celebuzz: Rihanna‘s father would like his daughter to marry Chris Brown – despite the R&B star beating her up three years ago. Ronald Fenty has more than forgiven the bad boy for his assault and is now hoping he asks for her hand in marriage. “Whatever makes her happy. I hope one day she will get married,” he told Life & Style. “Everyone adores Chris; he’s a super guy.” Why does he have so much love for the star? “The family loved Chris Brown before they even met him,” Fenty continued. “I always thought he was extremely talented. He always gave me great respect.” Rihanna, 24, and Brown, 23, began dating in 2008, but their relationship ended when he brutally assaulted her one year later. However, the two have seemingly rekindled their romance after Brown broke up with girlfriend Karrueche Tran at the beginning of October 2012. Outspoken Fenty has made controversial comments in the past regarding his famous daughter. In addition to speaking out about her love life, he has also passed judgement on her figure. In March 2012, he admitted to Heat magazine he would tell the Bajan beauty if she had put on weight. “I actually thought she was a little fat, the last time I saw her,” he said. “But when I saw her at this year’s Grammy’s, I thought she was back to her normal size. “I used to joke with her, Robyn (Rihanna’s first name ) you’re getting too fat.” Let’s give him the Dad of the Year Award. Nothing better than a father who encourages you to get back with your abuser and triggers your low self-esteem. Images via twitter/WENN
Her family’s tryin’ to act like they don’t know anything about it but her bedsores and infested apartment prove that she wasn’t being taken care of. A team of rescuers had to tear down a wall in the apartment she lives in with her family and kids just to get her out! According to the Daily Mail: A 500-pound woman is recovering in hospital after she was found lying in her own waste covered in bedsores and maggots. The unidentified woman, 41, had to be extricated from her Detroit apartment by a team of experts and taken to St John Oakland Hospital where she will remain in intensive care for the next two days. She lived at the home with her husband and four children. Now questions are being asked about why no one did anything to help her sooner. The family revealed she has been bed ridden ever since a 2011 car accident which left her with a smashed pelvis. The woman was on some kind of state assistance, which may have been cut off, according to a preliminary investigation, officials said. The apartment showed signs of a bio hazard, insect infestation and was deemed uninhabitable after a fire crew removed a wall in order to rescue the woman, according to The Detroit News. Her children – two toddlers and a teen – have been turned over to the care of an aunt. The house has been sealed with the belongings inside. Police spoke to the woman’s husband – who has also not been identified – who said he tried to help her. Crying, he said: ‘I love her and it was hard, and it was just me. And I just did the best I could for so long.’ Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green revealed he also spoke to the children and sister and said an investigation is underway. ‘Obviously, there was a failure somewhere for this lady to get the care that she needed.’ Looks like her hubby’s best wasn’t too good for her OR their dayum kids!!! Images via WJBK
