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12:31 am - Bernie Mac dies

Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.

Bernie Mac, 50, was nominated for a Grammy for "The Original Kings of Comedy."

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"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Mac's brand of comedy caught flak when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.

Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama's campaign.

But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.

"Wherever I am, I have to play," he said in 2002. "I have to put on a good show."

Mac worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South Side. He began doing standup as a child, and his film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans comedy "Mo' Money" in 1992. In 1996, he appeared in the Spike Lee drama "Get on the Bus."

He was one of "The Original Kings of Comedy" in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience.

"The majority of his core fan base will remember that when they paid their money to see Bernie Mac ... he gave them their money's worth," Steve Harvey, one of his co-stars in "Original Kings," said Saturday.

Mac went on to star in the hugely popular "Ocean's Eleven" franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

Comedian Carl Reiner, who also appeared in "Ocean's Eleven" and its two sequels, said Saturday that he was "in utter shock," because he thought Mac was improving. "He was just so alive. I can't believe he's gone," he said.

Reiner told KNX-AM in Los Angeles that other comics had talked to the audience as Mac did on "The Bernie Mac Show," but "he took it to a new level."

"It was such a popular show because of his bigger-than-life persona," Reiner said.

His turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005's "Guess Who" topped the box office. It was a comedy remake of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" with Mac as the black dad who's shocked that his daughter is marrying a white man.

Mac also had starring roles in "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."

The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.

The series about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending "race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion -- and cool."

In real life, he was very much like his character on that series, his daughter, Je'niece Childress, told The Associated Press on Saturday.

"He was the king of his household," Childress said in Chicago, describing Mac as "a loving grandfather" to her daughter, his only grandchild.

"The Bernie Mac Show" garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac.

"But television handcuffs you, man," he said in 2001. "Now everyone telling me what I CAN'T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, 'Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?"'

He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his "The Original Kings of Comedy" co-stars, Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer.

Chicago music producer Carolyn Albritton said she was Bernie Mac's first manager, having met him in 1991 at Chicago's Cotton Club, where she hosted an open-mike night.

"From very early on, I thought he was destined for success," Albritton said Saturday. "He never lost track of where he came from, and he'd often use real life experiences, his family, his friends, in his routine. After he made it, he stayed a very humble man. His family was the most important thing in the world to him."

In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS' "Late Show" that he planned to retire soon.

"I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city's South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.

In his 2004 memoir, "Maybe You Never Cry Again," Mac wrote about having a poor childhood -- eating bologna for dinner -- and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.

"I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy," Mac said in 2001. "I decided to try to make other people laugh when there wasn't a lot of things to laugh about."

"Woman believed in me," he wrote. "She believed in me long before I believed."

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02:04 am - Shia LaBeouf Is A Big Pussy

Here's that video. His douche friend should have hit him harder. So Shia LaBeouf has issued an apology for the above video via his spokesenabler. Oh, who cares? It's not like it's going to affect his career. He's a white man. You have to do something really effed up to destroy your career if you're a white man. Like be a black woman and flash your tit at the Superbowl. That chick STILL hasn't recovered what she lost.

"The videotape that is currently being circulated is several years old and captures Shia playing a game among friends in which he uses a derogatory word toward a friend," LaBeouf's rep tells me exclusively. "He regrets having used the word in any capacity and is very embarrassed that this footage is being seen by anyone," his rep said in a statement.

It doesn't look THAT old.

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03:09 am - Fox Calls Michelle Obama A "Baby Mama"

Fox News had commentator Michelle Malkin on to talk about how Barack Obama's wife Michelle has not been the victim of unfair conservative attacks, and as she was speaking the network displayed the caption seen above: "Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama's baby mama!" The term "baby mama" is, of course, slang for the unwed mother of one's child (married ones usually just called "wives"). This is sort of like when Anderson Cooper of CNN misused the term "boo," except vicious and racist instead of adorable and funny. It also follows incidents in which Fox asked whether Michelle Obama did a "terrorist" fist-bump with her husband and in which it circulated unsubstantiated rumors that she used the term "whitey" in a speech once. Whoops! Fox News has "accidentally" injected another crazy defacto allegation about the Democratic presidential candidate's wife into the mainstream dialog. Disingenuous semi-apology to follow shortly.

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10:52 am - Newsflash: Women are big fat liars!

Or an old entry from the Shit We Already Knew File.

Most females lie "more cleverly and successfully than men" about everything from cheating on their spouses and shopping binges to barhopping and face lifts, according to a new book published this week.

"Women lie as a survival technique, but also to get what they want," Susan Shapiro Barash, author of "Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth About Why Women Lie," told the New York Post.

Barash found that 75 percent of women lie about how much money they spend, while more than 60 percent admitted to cheating on their husband.

Motherhood came in second, followed by sex lies, their kids' accomplishments, love, family, addiction, work and infertility.

Deceit, thy name is woman.

Most females lie more often and more successfully than men about everything.

Women lie to get what they want.

Recently, a New York woman stripped of her secrets on Fox TV's reality show Moment of Truth.

Lauren Cleri, 26, admitted on air she had cheated on her NYPD cop husband and preferred an ex-boyfriend. But she failed a polygraph, and lost $200,000, by answering "yes" when asked if she believed she is a good person.

"It supports many a thesis that women are talented at lying.

Barash interviewed women nationwide who answered her Craigslist ads seeking females to confide what they lie about. Among her findings:

* 75 percent lie about how much money they spend. For instance, they sneak purchases inside their homes after shopping or hide the price tags.

* 50 percent harbor "mixed feelings about mothering." One said, "I look at these children and I crave sleep and free time. They wear me out and make me jealous of working women who have no children, no husbands."

* More than 60 percent cheated on their husbands. A 32-year-old mother conducted her trysts while telling her trusting husband she was working late. Even in asking for a divorce, she continued to lie: "I didn't say I had fallen for another man."

Many women use the gold-digger lie, as a means to an end.

A model romanced a middle-aged married man for the money. After snagging him, she faked her affections: "I say 'I love you,' and don't mean it."

Some lie to cover up taboo behavior like drinking, gambling or Internet-porn addiction or incest.

More than 80 percent believe in beneficial lying. A mom doesn't tell her daughter about her own wild teen years of drugs and sex.

Urban women favor the competitive lie. They lie about money and cosmetic surgery. Her out-of-work husband is a 'consultant.' She embellishes her kids' accomplishments, or downplays their SAT tutoring."

In the lying to yourself category, the book mentions Hillary Rodham Clinton, who as first lady went on TV to blast the Monica Lewinsky scandal as a political attack against her husband. She later acknowledged Bill's cheating.

Others lie because there's too much to lose. Rudy Giuliani's wife, Judith, guarded a secret that she was married twice, and not once, previously. The truth, which Rudy apparently knew, hit the front pages when he ran for president.


---ABG

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02:44 pm - Ralph Nader Doesn't Give A Fuck

Ralph Nader Doesn't Give A Fuck

Did you watch Meet The Press this morning? Wait, were you sleeping, fucking, vomiting or something?

Anyway, Ralph Nader announced that he's running for President… again. So obviously, he's a delusional self-involved dickhead who has destroyed his own legacy with these idiotic vanity runs. But he doesn't care about any of that. After this attempt fails, he should give motivational speeches to other mental patients.

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09:27 am - WTF : Cop Suspended by Houston School District Over 'Ghetto Handbook'

Here's an idea-- if you are really offended by people pointing this out, because it is embarrassing, then why don't you stop talking like that. -- If it's a problem, clean it up, don't sweep it under the damn rug!

HOUSTON —  A school district suspended a police officer as it investigates his distribution of a "Ghetto Handbook" and the three-month lapse before top district officials were informed of it.

The eight-page booklet, subtitled "Wucha dun did now?", was handed out to about 15 Houston Independent School District police officers at a May meeting, district spokesman Terry Abbott said. Officials declined to identify the officer who handed them out, but said he had been ordered to attend diversity training.

A supervisor immediately collected the booklets, Abbott said, but district officials said they didn't learn about the incident until someone complained to the district's Equal Employment Opportunity Office in mid-August.

"This publication was completely reprehensible and HISD condemns it in the strongest possible terms," Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said in a written statement Thursday.

He said he has "mounted a very aggressive investigation."

District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.

The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak "as if you just came out of the hood." It included definitions such as "foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer"; "aks: to ask a question"; and "hoodrat: scummy girl."

The booklet names six district officers "and the entire day shift patrol" as contributors. Abbott said a preliminary investigation has cleared those officers of involvement.

Last year, almost 30 percent of the district's 202,000 students were black and almost 60 percent were Hispanic.

Carol Mims Galloway, president of the Houston NAACP chapter, said the officer who created the book should be severely punished or fired.

"It was really a slap in the African-American community's face," said Galloway, who is running for the school board.

"We're paying their salaries with our tax dollars," Galloway said of the district police. "It does reflect on the district."

School board member Larry Marshall said the document was inappropriate, even if it was meant to be a joke.

"These are very racially sensitive times," he said. "It was a huge mistake in judgment."


--- ABG

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08:48 pm - The 20 Most Annoying Songs

The 20 Most Annoying Songs

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10:55 am - Crime, Punishment and the Ridiculous

What you do behind closed doors could land you behind bars.

Sex. We are all interested in it.

"Most laws relating to sex seem to center on restricting non-reproductive sex as a way of controlling 'deviant' behavior." "That is why there are always problems with religion and things like contraception because use of such promotes a 'hedonistic' image of sex."

Whereas in California pretty much anything goes, states like Florida are rather conservative in their view of sex. Practices such as oral sex and cohabitation are illegal under any circumstances.

Is it time laws against practices such as oral sex were repealed? Or are people even aware that such a law exists in 19 states? How can we go about changing such antiquated laws?

"Laws relating to sex crimes are the easiest to change," says an Atlanta attorney. "All you basically need is a public outcry and politicians act soon after."

Interestingly enough, laws relating to sexual conduct undergo the most changes or amendments because so may of them are antiquated and irrelevant. Nevertheless, interest in a particular sex law almost never comes unless someone makes use of it.

ORAL SEX

Oral sex is perhaps the issue that causes the most problems in a legal sense.

Sodomy is legally defined as homosexual behavior in most cases, but in some states its meaning extends to include anything seen as "deviate sexual conduct" and hence unnatural. In states like Kansas, Missouri and Indiana, oral sex is classified as sodomy.

Georgia, the state where the 1996 Olympics Games were held and where without a doubt oral sex was commonplace during that period, the act between two people, even if married, could result in no less than a year and no more than 20 years imprisonment. Let's face it, it is doubtful many were even aware of such a law and since no one was charged for doing it, is such a law even necessary? Can such laws be abused by some to get their own way?

There was a case featured in the November 1996 issue of "Marie Claire" involving an Atlanta wife who tried to have her soon-to-be ex-husband charged with rape. She had persuaded her then hubby to tie her up and later used the bondage as a means of proving that the sex had not been consensual. Her sister came forward and informed the court of the plot against the man, but there was another twist in the story.

Although the man was acquitted on the rape charge, the man was sentenced to five years in jail for having performed oral sex on the woman. He had admitted to that during the course of the case and so he was charged and sentenced under Georgia law.

Laws relating to sexual conduct usually land in a gray area. Even though many may not know such laws exist, such laws are most commonly used in divorce cases or in cases where there is an element of revenge.

"California is liberated. Things like cohabitation, anal sex, S & M, oral sex (heterosexual or otherwise) are not illegal, as long as it is between two consenting adults."

"The only limit to sexual practices in this state is that sex in any shape or form must take place between only two adults, and only two."

So, for those of you who are into orgies or menages-a-trois, you will have to make other arrangements--just like the millions of people who don't practice oral sex in Georgia or Florida.


---ABG

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06:35 am - Fuck Bush

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04:32 pm - WTF: Bush willing to talk Iraq benchmarks ???

President Bush said the White House is willing to discuss with Congress benchmarks for measuring progress in Iraq, and urged Iraqi leaders to move fast on such issues, including legislation to share Iraq's oil wealth and updating the constitution. The president also pledged to veto a bill that would cut off war funding by the end of July.

--- ABG

11:42 pm - WTF ?

NEW YORK (AP) - A health department worker who gave a passing grade to a fast-food restaurant crawling with rats resigned before she could be fired Monday as the health commissioner acknowledged systemic flaws in the city's inspection system.

Cemone Thomas quit hours before city investigators released a scathing report accusing her of "gross dereliction" of her duties by underreporting a rodent infestation at a KFC/Taco Bell in Greenwich Village.

Thomas inspected the restaurant Feb. 22 and didn't cite all the rat droppings, which would have caused the restaurant to fail the inspection and could have forced it to close immediately, inspectors said.

The Department of Investigation report said evidence in the case suggested that Thomas simply couldn't be bothered to do a more comprehensive report because she might have been trying to "avoid the additional time it would have taken for further enforcement steps."

The next day a TV crew captured video of the rats scurrying around the restaurant, dashing on tables and playing with each other, creating a national stir.

Thomas' lawyer did not return telephone messages left by The Associated Press at his office Monday.

A Department of Health spokesman, Geoffrey Cowley, said Thomas was a "superb inspector who made a very serious mistake."

"We really had no alternative but to concur with the DOI," Cowley said.

She would have been canned if she hadn't quit, Cowley said. One of her supervisors was reassigned, he added.

Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said the health department's investigation has revealed serious problems within its inspection system.

One of the problems is in responding to multiple complaints against a restaurant, such as in the case of the KFC/Taco Bell. The health department first received a complaint against the KFC/Taco Bell on Jan. 22. In the complaint, someone said a rat fell from the ceiling as he or she was eating.

And from Dec. 23, 2006, to Feb. 12, 2007, the city received four calls on its 311 telephone complaint hot line about the restaurant, including one in which an employee was apparently bitten by a rat.

The city sent warning letters for each call.

In the wake of the incident, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut said it had asked a leading rat expert to review company standards at its New York outlets.

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07:10 pm - fuck bush

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08:38 pm - Honey of the Moment

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10:04 pm - Honey of the Moment

Good lawd!

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07:28 pm - 8 things losers do on MySpace

ONE

There is NO SUCH THING as a myspace tracker.
it does NOT exist. so quit posting stupid bulletins like
"OH-MY-GOSH this WORKS!!!"
no, it doesnt.



TWO

To the people who have like 25,000 friends,
are you serious?
You're stupid.
Go play in traffic.



THREE

Don't ever post pictures and say
"OMG, I'm so ugly"
"OMG, I'm so fat"
because if you were,
you wouldn't post them.
And if u do ur a freaking mongoloid.



FOUR

Nobody cares about threats over the internet.
Don't try to act hardcore with the keyboard.
Fighting online is like racing in the special olympics;
even if you win, you're still retarded.



FIVE

Quit crying
b/c you're not on someones top 8.
who cares?
ITS MYSPACE!!!



SIX

Who really cares if
I don't accept you as a friend?
MOVE ON!!!
Don't send me another request or message asking
"what's up with you not adding me?"
I don't want you as a friend,
that's what's up fruit!!!



SEVEN

Little 6th graders who have MySpace
and look like sluts, and act like whores
go somewhere else because nobody
wants you here. And Parents
quit blaming myspace for your kid being
a hooker, she was a whore before
myspace, and she'd be a whore without it!
What does that say about your
parenting skills? Think about it!



EIGHT

And if you open a bulletin and it says something like
repost this in 100 seconds or a ghost will rape your dog
tonight,or some dead skinless girl is gonna rape your mom", or God wont love you anymore

QUIT BEING A DUMBASS

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12:07 am - George Bush is a Murderer

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09:11 am - Brandy is a Killer

Brandy was involved in a fatal car accident last month and it was her fault. She was going down the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles on December 30th, but didn't notice traffic in front of her had slowed down. She plowed into the car in front of her. That car hit another car, and then slid into the center divider where it stopped and was hit was by another car. The driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition but died the next day. Brandy wasn't arrested, but police are currently investigating to see if there was a malfunction. I guess technically she didn't break the law, but driving that horribly should be a crime. All she had to do was stop her damn car. It's not like she was navigating a minefield in Iraq or avoiding gunfire. If you looked in her window you probably would've seen her flipping through a cosmetic surgery magazine trying to decide on a new nose.

Current Mood: indifferent

08:33 am - Google and the King Holiday

Props go out to Google for not being a bunch of pussies on MLK Day.



Most of you know that Google changes their logo on the opening page of the Google site for holidays. On yesterday,

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12:48 am - Jamie Lynn Spears has herpes

You know what the difference is between a cold sore and herpes? Here's a hint: absolutely nothing. You know what I had when I was 15-years-old? A driver's permit and my dad's Cadillac. Not herpes! I was too busy making fun of poor and ugly people to be fucking them and giving myself a permanent virus that grows blisters on my mouth. But considering the only role model Jamie Lynn had was Britney Spears, it's a miracle she only has herpes and didn't marry the homeless guy who gave her herpes in the first place.

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08:30 pm - America's Second Choice Club

Having had recently gotten over bronchitis and laryngitis, American Idol Runner-Up, Katherine McPhee is reportedly now healthy enough to make her appointment at the Oval Office to sing for President Bush.

Fittingly enough, it seems then that America's Second Choice will be singing to America's Other Second Choice.

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