¡VIVA OBAMA OBAMANOS! President has won Re-Election to be the 45th President of The United States of America!
Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time.
Supporters of President Obama reacted to results at an election night watch party in Chicago.
In defeating Mitt Romney, the president carried Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin, a near sweep of the battleground states, and was holding a narrow advantage in Florida. The path to victory for Mr. Romney narrowed as the night wore along, with Mr. Obama winning at least 303 electoral votes.
A cheer of jubilation sounded at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago when the television networks began projecting him as the winner at 11:20 p.m., even as the ballots were still being counted in many states where voters had waited in line well into the night. The victory was far narrower than his historic election four years ago, but it was no less dramatic.
“Tonight in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back,” Mr. Obama told his supporters early Wednesday. “We know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come.”
Mr. Obama’s re-election extended his place in history, carrying the tenure of the nation’s first black president into a second term. His path followed a pattern that has been an arc to his political career: faltering when he seemed to be at his strongest — the period before his first debate with Mr. Romney — before he redoubled his efforts to lift himself and his supporters to victory.
The evening was not without the drama that has come to mark so many recent elections: For more than 90 minutes after the networks projected Mr. Obama as the winner, Mr. Romney held off calling him to concede. And as the president waited to declare victory in Chicago, Mr. Romney’s aides were prepared to head to the airport, suitcases packed, potentially to contest several close results.
But as it became increasingly clear that no amount of contesting would bring him victory, he called Mr. Obama to concede shortly before 1 a.m.
“I wish all of them well, but particularly the president, the first lady and their daughters,” Mr. Romney told his supporters in Boston. “This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.”
Hispanics made up an important part of Mr. Obama’s winning coalition, preliminary exit poll data showed. And before the night was through, there were already recriminations from Republican moderates who said Mr. Romney had gone too far during the primaries in his statements against those here illegally, including his promise that his get-tough policies would cause some to “self-deport.”
Mr. Obama, 51, faces governing in a deeply divided country and a partisan-rich capital, where Republicans retained their majority in the House and Democrats kept their control of the Senate. His re-election offers him a second chance that will quickly be tested, given the rapidly escalating fiscal showdown.
For Mr. Obama, the result brings a ratification of his sweeping health care act, which Mr. Romney had vowed to repeal. The law will now continue on course toward nearly full implementation in 2014, promising to change significantly the way medical services are administrated nationwide.
Confident that the economy is finally on a true path toward stability, Mr. Obama and his aides have hinted that he would seek to tackle some of the grand but unrealized promises of his first campaign, including the sort of immigration overhaul that has eluded presidents of both parties for decades.
But he will be venturing back into a Congressional environment similar to that of his first term, with the Senate under the control of Democrats and the House under the control of Republicans, whose leaders have hinted that they will be no less likely to challenge him than they were during the last four years.
The state-by-state pursuit of 270 electoral votes was being closely tracked by both campaigns, with Mr. Romney winning North Carolina and Indiana, which Mr. Obama carried four years ago. But Mr. Obama won Michigan, the state where Mr. Romney was born, and Minnesota, a pair of states that Republican groups had spent millions trying to make competitive.
Some supporters in Chicago reacted to the announcement that President Obama had won Michigan.
Americans delivered a final judgment on a long and bitter campaign that drew so many people to the polls that several key states extended voting for hours. In Virginia and Florida, long lines stretched from polling places, with the Obama campaign sending text messages to supporters in those areas, saying: “You can still vote.”
Neither party could predict how the outcome would affect the direction of the Republican Party. Moderates were hopeful it would lead the rank and file to realize that the party’s grass-roots conservatism that Mr. Romney pledged himself to during the primaries doomed him in the general election. Tea Party adherents have indicated that they will argue that he was damaged because of his move to middle ground during the general election.
As he delivered his brief concession speech early Wednesday, Mr. Romney did not directly address the challenges facing Republicans. His advisers said that his second failed quest for the White House would be his last, with his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, standing as one of the leaders of the party.
“We have given our all to this campaign,” said Mr. Romney, stoic and gracious in his remarks. “I so wish that I had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead this country in a different direction.”
The results were more a matter of voters giving Mr. Obama more time than a second chance. Through most of the year slight majorities of voters had told pollsters that they believed his policies would improve the economy if they could stay in place into the future.
Mr. Obama’s campaign team built its coalition the hard way, through intensive efforts to find and motivate supporters who had lost the ardor of four years ago and, Mr. Obama’s strategists feared, might not find their way to polls if left to their own devices.
Up against real enthusiasm for Mr. Romney — or, just as important, against Mr. Obama — among Republicans and many independents, their strategy of spending vast sums of money on their get-out-the-vote operation seemed vindicated on Tuesday.
As opinion surveys that followed the first debate between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama showed a tightening race, Mr. Obama’s team had insisted that its coalition was coming together as it hoped it would. In the end, it was not a bluff.
Even with Mr. Obama pulling off a new sweep of the highly contested battlegrounds from Nevada to New Hampshire, the result in each of the states was very narrow. The Romney campaign was taking its time early Wednesday to review the outcome and searching for any irregularities.
The top issue on the minds of voters was the economy, according to interviews, with three-quarters saying that economic conditions were not good or poor. But only 3 in 10 said things were getting worse, and 4 in 10 said the economy was improving.
Mr. Romney, who campaigned aggressively on his ability to turn around the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, was given a narrow edge when voters were asked which candidate was better equipped to handle the economy, the interviews found.
The electorate was split along partisan lines over a question that drove much of the campaign debate: whether it was Mr. Obama or his predecessor, George W. Bush, who bore the most responsibility for the nation’s continued economic challenges. About 4 in 10 independent voters said that Mr. Bush should be held responsible.
The president built a muscular campaign organization and used a strong financial advantage to hold off an array of forces that opposed his candidacy. The margin of his victory was smaller than in 2008 — he held an advantage of about 700,000 in the popular vote early Wednesday — but a strategic firewall in several battleground states protected his Electoral College majority.
In Chicago, as crowds cheered for Mr. Obama his supporters erupted into a roar of relief and elation. Car horns honked from the street as people chanted the president’s name.
“I feel like it’s a repudiation of everything the Republicans said in the campaign,” said Jasmyne Walker, 31, who jumped up and down on the edge of a stone planter in a downtown plaza. “Everybody said that if he lost it would be buyer’s remorse — that we were high on hope in 2008. This says we’re on the right track. I feel like this confirms that.”
'THE BEST IS YET TO COME': OBAMA LAYS OUT VISION FOR SECOND TERM
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.
Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.
I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time. By the way, we have to fix that.
Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone, whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard and you made a difference.
I just spoke with Governor Romney and I congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it's only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future. From George to Lenore to their son Mitt, the Romney family has chosen to give back to America through public service and that is the legacy that we honor and applaud tonight.
In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Governor Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward.
I want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years, America's happy warrior, the best vice president anybody could ever hope for, Joe Biden.
And I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago. Let me say this publicly: Michelle, I have never loved you more. I have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in love with you, too, as our nation's first lady.
Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes you're growing up to become two strong, smart beautiful young women, just like your mom. And I'm so proud of you guys. But I will say that for now one dog's probably enough.
To the best campaign team and volunteers in the history of politics - the best. The best ever. Some of you were new this time around, and some of you have been at my side since the very beginning.
But all of you are family. No matter what you do or where you go from here, you will carry the memory of the history we made together and you will have the life-long appreciation of a grateful president. Thank you for believing all the way, through every hill, through every valley.
You lifted me up the whole way and I will always be grateful for everything that you've done and all the incredible work that you put in.
I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly. And that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics that tell us that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or the domain of special interests. But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym, or saw folks working late in a campaign office in some tiny county far away from home, you'll discover something else.
You'll hear the determination in the voice of a young field organizer who's working his way through college and wants to make sure every child has that same opportunity.
You'll hear the pride in the voice of a volunteer who's going door to door because her brother was finally hired when the local auto plant added another shift.
You'll hear the deep patriotism in the voice of a military spouse whose working the phones late at night to make sure that no one who fights for this country ever has to fight for a job or a roof over their head when they come home.
That's why we do this. That's what politics can be. That's why elections matter. It's not small, it's big. It's important. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy.
That won't change after tonight, and it shouldn't. These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty. We can never forget that as we speak people in distant nations are risking their lives right now just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter, the chance to cast their ballots like we did today.
But despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America's future. We want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers. A country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation, with all the good jobs and new businesses that follow.
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. We want to pass on a country that's safe and respected and admired around the world, a nation that is defended by the strongest military on earth and the best troops this - this world has ever known.
But also a country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war, to shape a peace that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human being. We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America, open to the dreams of an immigrant's daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag.
To the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the nearest street corner. To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president - that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go - forward. That's where we need to go.
Now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely, about how to get there. As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It's not always a straight line. It's not always a smooth path.
By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won't end all the gridlock or solve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward. But that common bond is where we must begin. Our economy is recovering. A decade of war is ending. A long campaign is now over.
And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you've made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.
Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together. Reducing our deficit. Reforming our tax code. Fixing our immigration system. Freeing ourselves from foreign oil. We've got more work to do.
But that doesn't mean your work is done. The role of citizens in our Democracy does not end with your vote. America's never been about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government. That's the principle we were founded on.
This country has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military in history, but that's not what makes us strong. Our university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.
The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for come with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism. That's what makes America great.
I am hopeful tonight because I've seen the spirit at work in America. I've seen it in the family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors, and in the workers who would rather cut back their hours than see a friend lose a job.
I've seen it in the soldiers who reenlist after losing a limb and in those SEALs who charged up the stairs into darkness and danger because they knew there was a buddy behind them watching their back.
I've seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from every party and level of government have swept aside their differences to help a community rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm.
And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.
I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own.
And I know that every American wants her future to be just as bright. That's who we are. That's the country I'm so proud to lead as your president.
And tonight, despite all the hardship we've been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I've never been more hopeful about our future.
I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight.
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
America, I believe we can build on the progress we've made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.
I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.
And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.
Thank you, America. God bless you. God bless these United States.
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And Mitt Romney gave a very heart felt concession speech!
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UMMMMMM Where is Stacy Dash when you need her????......LOL
Girl you must be somewhere with egg on your face!
Congratulations Mr President and now les get to work and MOVE FORWARD!
Denzel Washington Gets Sexy For "The Hollywood Reporter"
In the November 2012 issue of The Hollywood Reporter, veteran actor Denzel Washington reflects on his entry into Hollywood in 1982 with "St. Elsewhere" and reveals how he's remained relevant for over 30 years. And with his film Flight already getting critical acclaim, there indeed more from Denzy to come. Here are the highlights:
On not giving into "Hollywood vices" during his career:
In a 1986 article with Essence, he said, “I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me — spiritually and financially.” He's amended that statement recent to say he only semi-given up drinking.
On spirituality in his life:
Denzel says he reads the Bible daily and is currently reading the Psalms. He enjoys Psalm 56, which contains the line: “Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; the fighting daily oppresseth me.”
On Hollywood's and roles for Black women:
He says Hollywood is much tougher for black women than black men. “And the darker the woman, definitely. But then it’s all relative: The 40-year-old whatever-color woman says, ‘Well, you know, the 30-year-old is getting all the jobs.’”
On supporting President Obama
He gave the Obama campaign $2,300 four years ago and he says he was invited to play basketball with the President but didn’t because “my knees are shot.”
On letting his mother call the shots:
He says he brought in his mother, Lennis, to negotiate a deal with Harvey Weinstein when they couldn’t come to terms for Denzel’s directing debut, Antwone Fisher. He said his mother did the deal with Weinstein’s.
On gay marriage:
“I have my own beliefs, and I keep them to myself.”
On Tony Scott, who had directed five Washington films, committing suicide Aug. 19.
“I was shocked by his death. I’m still shocked. If you had given me a list of 25 people, I don’t think I’d have picked him. You don’t know. You just don’t know. You don’t know what’s inside a man’s head.”
Read more at The Hollywood Reporter magazine on newsstands.
Nelly Celebrates 38th Birthday In Vegas With T.I.
In an early celebration for his 38th birthday, Nelly hit The Bank Nightclub in Las Vegas with his boy T.I. who’s wife Tiny was there as well.
He showed off his cake for the night, which had a poker theme.
Then performed a few of his hits including “Country Grammar, ” “Ride Wit Me,” and “Hot in Herre,” and was also joined by T.I. for a few songs.
After wrapping up his party, Nelly gave a shout out to all those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Hip-Hop & Education: Questlove To Teach NYU Course On ‘Classic Albums’
Something positive in hip-hop!
According to Hip-Hop Wired:In addition to being the musical brainchild behind The Roots, who are also the house band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson will be adding another job title to his lengthy resume
Quest will be joining Universal Music Enterprises vice president of A&R Harry Weinger to co-teach a course titled ‘Classic Albums’ at the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts this Spring semester. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two-credit course is said to touch on albums such as Sly & The Family Stone’s Stand! & There’s A Riot Goin’ On, Aretha Franklin’s Lady Soul, Led Zeppelin’s IV, Prince’s Dirty Mind, Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique.
“[?uestlove] really does represent this hybrid figure in the music industry at this point, this person who is a musician, has social media abilities, is an archivist, has an incredible music mind, and really understands the history of music in a way that you would previously only expect from music journalists,” said Jason King, associate professor of recorded music and head of history and criticism at the Institute. “So it’s exciting to have him in this position doing something that in many ways comes naturally to him.”
Questlove joins a number of Hip-Hop heads including 9th Wonder, Bun B, and Swizz Beatz that have taught classes at prestigious universities.
50 Confirms He Is No Longer A Member Of The Money Team, Selling Items
50 Knows he is an ass! He confirms on Twitter that he is no longer a member of the Money Team and to top it all off, he is selling all the things he has accumulated while being BFF’s with Floyd..
Check out his tweets inside.:
WOW… Curtis. This reminds me of Waiting to Exhale when Bernadette sold all of John’s sh*t for a dollar.
SADNESS: Blacque member Natina Reed was living in motel at time of her tragic death in car accident
Tragic RnB star Natina Reed had been living in a extended stay motel when she was killed in a car accident last week.
She was just 12 miles from the $45 per night StudioPlus Atlanta Peachtree Corners extended stay motel in Norcross, Georgia, when she was knocked down last Friday according to the police incident report.
Gwinnett County authorities are still seeking information to help explain the accidental death of the 32-year-old, who was a popular member of the 1990s girl group Blaque.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, her family is planning a press conference in the city to discuss the case, according to attorney Christopher Chestnut’s office.
Investigators are still trying to determine why Reed was in the roadway and whether she was crossing or walking alongside it.
She was wearing dark clothing in an area that had no artificial lighting, according to the incident report.
Other than the driver, who was not charged, and a passenger in the car, there do not appear to be any additional witnesses.
Living in motel: Natina Reed was staying at an extended stay accommodation just 12 miles away from where she was killed
Gwinnett police spokesman Sgt. Rich Long said: 'It’s kind of a dark lit area. There is not really anything in that area that’s open at that time of night, that would be any kind of a draw to a person up there.
Police said toxicology reports are pending and are standard in fatal accidents.
It comes after the likes of Brandi, Jordin Sparks and Gabrielle Union lead the celebrity tributes to R&B singer Natina Reed who tragically died in a car accident on Friday.
'Last night the world was changed forever, life will never be the same... she was my sister,' singer and former Blaque bandmate Brandi Williams wrote on her Twitter page.
Shamari also paid tribute to her former bandmate, tweeting: 'My world as I know it has forever changed. Until we meet again, may you find comfort in the arms of an angel. I love you Natina.'
Natina was just 32-years-old when she was hit by a car in Atlanta, Georgia, dying almost instantly.
Other acts from the world of R&B were quick to pay their respects with Monica tweeting: 'RIP Natina Love u Always!! Prayers going up for your son Tren & @kurupt_gotti'
Singer and actress Jordin Sparks wrote of her sorrow for the loss of Natina via her Twitter page: ‘When The Last Teardrops Falls’ by Blaque is still one of my favourite songs ever. RIP Natina. :( '
Gabrielle Union added on her page: ' #RIP #Sad #BringItOn.'
The Gwinnett Police Department said the driver of the vehicle which hit Reed called 911 at 10:30 PM on Friday night.
They added that she was pronounced dead at Gwinnett Medical Centre 29 minutes later.
A press release relayed that Reed 'was in the roadway on Lawrenceville Highway near Hamilton Road when struck.'
Police say the driver 'was determined to be not at fault and there are no charges pending.'
Natina also appeared in the 2000 film, Bring It On, in which she played cheerleader Jenelope.
She was a protégé of the late Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, who died after crashing her car.
Reed has a 10-year-old son, Tren Brown, whose father is rapper Kurupt who paid his own tribute on Sunday evening.
'Myself and Tren, Natina's son, would like to thank everyone for their love and support during this tragic time,' he said. 'This is a tremendous loss to our family. Natina was a great person and I wish everyone had the opportunity to meet her and know her as I did.'
D.L. Hugley vs Kola Boof
In a recent interview regarding his new book, 'I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes Is Ruining America', D.L. Hughley explained his dislike for women, Black women in particular, which caught the eye of infamous Black feminist Kola Boof.
Needless to say it did not end well...
What got Kola riled up was D.L. explaining this entry from Chapter 17 of his book:
"Being a dad to daughters is very different from being a dad to sons. The dangers are different and the way they listen to you is different. I'm sure every father feels the same way that I do about his daughters. I love them, but I don't like them. Who likes women?"
D.L. tells NPR,
“I've never met an angrier group of people. Like black women are angry just in general. Angry all the time. My assessment, out of, just in my judgment, you either are in charge or they're in charge, so there's no kind of day that you get to rest (ph).”
Kola also wrote a blog about it. What to read it? Click here.
Is Nene Leakes Considering Taking Gregg Back?
On the last season of Real Housewives of Atlanta, we watched Nene Leakes try to move on from her divorce with husband Gregg. We watched her date a little, and even get more involved in her work. This season starts off as a bang with Gregg wanting to make his way back into Nene’s heart.
In this Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 5 sneak peak Gregg makes nice with his estranged wife. Gregg tries desperately to win Nene back and get back into her good graces. She talks to him about moving to Los Angeles to tape “The New Normal” and he instantly wants to know what is going to happen with “them”.
“Of course Gregg wants me back; I’m doing a lot of things,” Nene says in her confessional, “We always had a great relationship, and it was very difficult during the time we weren’t together so I’m open to it.”
Could Nene and Gregg have a chance at repairing their 15 year relationship? Tune in to this season of R.H.o.A to find out!
100 Wounded After Suicide Bomber Drove A Jeep Full Of Explosives Into Catholic Church In Nigeria
According to NBC News:
A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least five people, wounding nearly 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more, officials said. The bomber drove a jeep right inside the packed St Rita’s church, in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, in the morning.
“I cannot tell you how many casualties, but there were many. The heavy explosion also damaged so many buildings around the area,” said survivor Linus Lighthouse, saying he thought there had been two explosions in different parts of the church. Other witnesses and the police said there had just been one bomber however. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Kaduna said that five people had been confirmed killed, while 98 people were receiving treatment for wounds at two local hospitals.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed similar attacks in the past and has attacked several churches with bombs and guns since it intensified its campaign against Christians in the past year. One wall of the church was blasted open and scorched black, with debris lying around. Police later moved in and cordoned the area off.
Shortly after the blast, angry Christian youths took to the streets armed with sticks and knives. A Reuters reporter saw two bodies on the roadside lying in pools of blood. “We killed them and we’ll do more,” shouted a youth, with blood on his shirt, before police chased him and his cohorts away. Police set up roadblocks and patrols across town in an effort to prevent the violence spreading. Another witness, Daniel Kazah, a member of the Catholic cadets in the church, said he had seen three bodies on the bloodied church floor after the bomb. “But still others were taken to the mortuary,” he said. An emergency worker on the scene, who had helped move casualties but was not authorized to give his name, estimated the total number of dead and wounded at around 30.
Diddy’s Aggressive Message To His Haters “Suck My Dictator”
Do you believe that Diddy is working with that much meat? Diddy sent a message to his haters on Halloween throwing up his middle finger and grabbing his “dictator” as he dressed up as Sacha Baron Cohen’s character from the movie “Dictator” for a Halloween party.
” Happy Halloween Bitches, Suck My Dictator.”
Ok Puff….I guess you had too many jokes from the Prince get up…Gurlfreend
Accuser Says Cee Lo Drugged Her
New details from the Cee Lo Green sexual assault incident have surfaced and it is not pretty...
Sources tell TMZ the accuser is claiming Cee Lo spiked her drink with Ecstasy and has him on tape admitting it.
According to the police report Cee Lo took the accuser on a date in July to a sushi restaurant in downtown L.A. and the next thing she remembers is waking up naked in bed with Cee Lo in the room.
After reporting the incident to police the accuser and the cops set up a phone sting and recorded Cee Lo repeatedly apologizing and referencing Ecstasy and explaining how he thought it would help them have an exciting time together.
Sources from Cee Lo's camp tell TMZ the woman contacted them asking for money to make the situation go away before reporting the incident to authorities.
Halle Berry Gets SHEER & SEXY For "Cloud Atlas" Russian Premiere
Her movie Cloud Atlas may not have done too well here in the states, but Halle Berry is surely keeping her promo tour going. And chick is looking fabulous.
Check out her sexy little black sheer dress as she slayed over in Russia for the premiere...
46-year-old Halle Berry hit the Russian premiere of Cloud Atlas Thursday night. She rocked a chevron patterned bodice sheer paneled black leather dress. An chick is looking hotter than EVER.
Halle told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview about how playing 6 very different characters in the movie (like the older Korean man Dr. Orvid) required makeup & styling that made her unrecognizable. Even to her daughter Nahla:
'The real test was that my daughter saw all of my costumes, and loved them, but one day, when I came up to her as Dr Ovid, she looked at the guy, and thought he was probably weird, because of his eye thing,' she said.
'Then when I said, "Hi sweetheart," she had an out of body experience.
'I swear I saw her little spirit leave her body and go to Cleveland. She’s still not over it. It was so terrifying for her, to hear my voice coming out of that man.'
Aww!
What’s going on here? Gucci Mane Puts Nicki Minaj, French Montana & Yo Gotti On Blast
Gucci Mane is not done putting people on blast. First it was Jeezy. Then Keyshia Cole, and Young Joc. The Trap God is clearly not happy as he has set his sights on Nicki Minaj, French Montana and Yo Gotti.
In a recesnt interview with Atlanta’s Hot 107, Gucci was asked about the origin of these beefs. Nicki and French Montana’s beefs were pretty simple. Both had been signed to Deb Antney, both worked closely with Gucci in the early stages of their career and both moved on and never looked back. To Gucci, there was a lack of loyalty.
“When she came to Atlanta she gave me a shout out and said to ‘help me with my career’,” in reference to Nicki, “but at the end of the day, I just think a lot of times you keep it real with somebody, you can’t expect them to keep it real with you.” Gucci adds, “I tip my hat to Nicki for being a hard-worker, but at the same time she know she ain’t keep it real.” Same thing goes for Bad Boy’s Montana, as Mane says, “French Montana knows he ain’t keep it real,” meaning the Moroccan rapper turned his back on him after becoming famous.
In regards to Yo Gotti, his beef was simply based off the date Yo Gotti chose to release his latest project, 10/17, a date Gucci says is reserved for the release of Bricksquad 1017 artists.
“Gotti was cool, until he turned into a buster…we was cool until this point right here…my main problem with him was he dropped his mixtape on 10/17 like he trying to ride my wave, like he was an artist of mine and we get some kinda money together,” Gucci further says, “On a day when all my label drop their mixtapes on 10/17…why would you drop that on 10/17 and when I call you as my partner you say “I didn’t know you was dropping a mixtape”…made me lose all respect for him, instantly.”
I wonder who Gucci will beef with next? Full interview can be found at Hot New Hip Hop
Hot Shots: Chris Brown Suits Up For ‘Prestige’
Cop a gander of a dapper Chris Brown.
The 23 year old rocks a number of fly suits in a edgy new shoot for Prestige magazine. His feature marks one of the few Brown has done this year in the wake of his team’s ‘minimal talking, maximum music’ approach with his career as of late.
Soundbites and more pics await below…
What are you having the most fun at right now?
Honestly, my day-to-day life is the most fun right now because I get a chance to not focus on “the artist” Chris Brown. Going through the regular things, like going to the grocery store. I’m also running a label right now, so I have different artists, four or five different acts, shooting videos that I’m directing and coming together.
Do you ever get time off?
I kind of have that luxury of being able to hand off my schedule and say, “I need a day off. I don’t want to do this, let’s cancel, reschedule.” I’m more of a CEO with my team. My days off, I hang out with my homeboys and play basketball. I paint, go to parties, listen to music, dance. I just bought a bike, so I like to ride. The cardio is good. Just to ride on the street on the bike, beating the traffic.
You can actually do that without getting hassled?
[Laughs] Yeah, I do. Then maybe a couple of minutes later someone in a car turns around and realises it’s me. “Hey, that’s Chris Brown. What’s Chris Brown doing on a bike?”
Turning to your music: your range is amazing. So many different genres. That’s kind of been your MO from the beginning, right?
Definitely with Fortune that’s the direction I wanted to go, but even with the F.A.M.E. album. What I wanted to do was not set the bar with a certain kind of style. I didn’t want people to say. “He’s just R&B.” Yes, I will sing an R&B song. But then I’ll do a pop song, then I’ll do a song with a country kind of feel, a reggae feel. I always want to be eclectic with my music. I don’t think music has a race. I think music has a soul and it’s just a feeling. What evokes the set of emotions from you is what I try to bring out…whatever flows, whatever I feel, I just write.
Whether they’re fun or super serious, the videos for Fortune are all mesmerising. How involved do you get in the developing the stories and visuals, and the production?
With the comedy videos like “Till I Die” – which I did with Wiz Khalifa and Big Sean – it was like, cool. Let’s have fun with it. Make a crazy video. Being able to direct by myself and have full creative focus and being able to know the cameras – that was the easiest part. The vision is the hard part. Whenever you’re sleeping, you have that dream or that nightmare and that’s your video. That’s how I kind of interpret it. Or whatever I see when I hear the music, whatever vision I see, I put it right onto paper and put it out on the video. Like the video for “Don’t Judge Me” – it was me going into a spaceship. Not to be arrogant when I say it, but I want to be the Steven Spielberg of music videos, to be innovative and young, not to put a bar on it just because of budgetary issues or certain capabilities.
BUT BREEZEY HAS A PROBLEM FOR HIS OVERSEAS TOUR
Irish Band Refuses to Open for Chris Brown
Rihanna may have forgiven Chris Brown for beating the breaks off her ass back in 2009, but the rest of the obviously world has not.
Irish rock band The Original Rude Boys turned down the opportunity to open for Chris Brown at the O2 Arena in Dublin because they don't want to be associated with domestic violence...
Original Rude Boy Sean Walsh tells a local TV station,
"Even though it's a huge opportunity to play in the O2 with a major hip-hop star and a substantial fee was offered, we are completely against Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna... In addition, with our latest single 'Blue Eyes' being about domestic violence, it goes against everything we are about as a band and supporting Chris Brown would send out the wrong message to our fans."
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘Get Up, Stand Up’
On a scale of 1 to “greatest thing I’ve ever seen” this is maxed the F out!!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
EFREM
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