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New Video - Beyonce Super Bowl Performance

info@livesmackmedia.com (Ebony Jones) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:20:51 GMT

Beyonce once again left the haters with their mouths open last night. Her performance was so hotttt that half of the lights in the place burned out trying to keep up with her shine. Anypopitlikeitshot, peep the video after the jump.

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I love how Michele and Kelly gracefully collected their fat check for poppin' out of the floor for a 5 second performance. I don't know why folks hate on this. They know damn well if Bey was to wave a check in front of their nose to be her stage decoration they would trussed up and gussied up in thigh high boots faster than you can say Rush Card. Just sayin'.

Georgia Gun Nut Found Shot To Death

webmaster@digitalrealmz.com (ChiMeng Chang) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:06:11 GMT

Poetic Justice??! Rabid Gun Nuts of America believes "More Guns = Less Violence!" This fractured belief is if I have more Guns, I will be able to defend me, my family and my home. Well, 32yo Keith Ratliff of Georgia is one of those gun nuts with a housefull of guns at his disposal. And not one of them was able to keep him alive - someone put a bullet to his head.

CARNESVILLE, Ga. — Keith Ratliff loved guns. He built his own rifles. He kept bullets in his car’s cup holder. And on the rear window he slapped a sticker of the Starbucks Coffee mermaid firing two pistols.

“I ♥ Guns and Coffee,” it read.

Mr. Ratliff’s passion for firearms made him something of a celebrity on the Internet, where he helped make scores of videos about high-powered and exotic guns and explosives. His YouTube channel, called FPSRussia, became the site’s ninth largest, with nearly 3.5 million subscribers and more than 500 million views.

But last week, the authorities said, Mr. Ratliff, 32, ended up on the wrong end of a gun. The police in northeast Georgia found him dead at his office on Jan. 3, shot once in the head. He was surrounded by several guns, but not the one that killed him. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is treating it as a homicide.

“We are interviewing people of interest, but we have not named a suspect,” said the Franklin County sheriff, Stevie Thomas. “We are not ruling out any options.”

The news, coming amid a national debate about gun control, rippled across the blogs and social networking sites where his videos were popular. Tributes on Facebook and Twitter came from fans stunned that such a well-armed expert had not been able to defend himself.

“For him not to pull out that gun and try to defend himself, he had to feel comfortable around somebody,” his wife, Amanda, told a television channel in Lexington, Ky., where he used to live. "Either that or he was ambushed."

Mr. Ratliff recently moved from Kentucky to Carnesville, a city of 540 people that is 80 miles from Atlanta. He opened a business that made and repaired firearms, and was licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the authorities said.

He was last seen alive at 7 p.m. on Jan. 2, the police said. The next night, the police found him dead inside the business, FPS Industries. Link

Oh the irony! Having all this arsenal to defend oneself and it did him squat!
Sorry to say this is sad but not surprising and I have no sympathy for Keith Ratliff.
It is people like him that enabled the culture that led to the Sandy Hook shooting.
This also reminds me of the gun-toting soccer mom who's husband unloaded 6 bullets into her. She was a strong gun advocate and she carried her firearm like a clothing accessory in public and at the school where her children attended. Her gun did not protect her.

Keith Ratliff, the gun-toting soccer mom and the mother of the Newtown shooter had many similarities. All produced and embraced a culture in which it is encouraged and empowering to have military-style weapons.

No one deserves to be murdered for owning lots of guns but when you advocate that the freedom of owning militia-type assault firearms and ammo outweighs the rights of children to live free from lethal violence, then don't expect decent "liberals" like myself to weep for you.

So, as the saying goes - "Live by the Sword ....... "

Drunk & Subdued On TransAtlantic Flight

webmaster@digitalrealmz.com (ChiMeng Chang) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:25:19 GMT

A TransAtlantic Icelandair flight from Iceland to New York became an internet sensation for this drunkard. A 46yo passenger (no name released) drank ALL his duty-free liquor and became "unruly". He had to be duct taped and gagged onto his seat. Now we know what happens to fat, drunk and stupid onboard!

A passenger who became unruly after allegedly drinking too much alcohol had to be taped to his seat on a trans-Atlantic flight, witnesses and authorities said.

A startling photo of the subdued man ended up on a blog run by New York businessman Andy Ellwood, who said he received the picture from an acquaintance who witnessed the incident.

“My friend was on the flight and he sent me the photo because we like to trade travel war stories,” Ellwood told NBC News.

His friend did not want to be identified or talk with the media, Ellwood said, but he recounted the story to him in detail.

The passenger “drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Iceland to JFK yesterday,” Ellwood wrote in his blog post.

“When he became unruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers subdued him and tie(d) him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted off the flight by police when it landed.”

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey confirmed the incident. Link

At the end of the day, this drunken bastard was not charged! Why? The other passengers would decline to come forward, they were "reluntant to talk".

Pffft, these other passengers must NOT be Americans!

So, now we can add another +1 to the million uses of duct tape!

World 'Nut' Daily Named Michele Bachmann: Woman Of The Year

webmaster@digitalrealmz.com (ChiMeng Chang) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 02:42:11 GMT

Well among Guns, God and Anti-Gay conservative circles, Michele Bachmann is their heroine. But down here on Earth, the rest of us sane Americans sees her as a miserable loon! The conservative blog, World Net Daily (WND) has named Bachmann as their Wackjob Woman of the Year.

At the end of the year, many magazines and websites will post their idea of person of the year. Time Magazine ran with US President Barack Obama, GQ has Chris Hemsworth, and apparently even North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has won that distinction. But wait, from the dark corner of World Net Daily comes their choice for man, or rather woman of the year, Michele Bachmann:

For her extraordinary dedication to America’s founding principles and steadfast defense of the Constitution, WND has named Rep. Michele Bachmann 2012 “Woman of the Year.”

Of course they must be referring to a different America than the one we learned of in civics class. But, this is not all, as they also said:

Bachmann is a gutsy, pro-life fiscal conservative who dared to vote against raising the debt ceiling. She’s a God-fearing, gun-loving advocate of tax cuts and domestic oil drilling – and has proven to be one of Obamacare’s worst nightmares.

Worst nightmare huh? An ineffective legislator who spent so much time campaigning for president last year that she almost lost her seat in congress. For some reason I don’t think the president was quaking in his boots. But WND was not finished, and to continue what they had to say:

WND’s “Woman of the Year” award is presented to the woman who “did the most to represent goodness, womanliness, perseverance and character” and “had an impact on wider American, and global opinion.”

One must wonder how the writer of this kept going with a straight face. Link
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/gop-rock-star-named-woman-of-the-year/

No surprise!

Like Fox News, WND is not real journalism, they are a joke. They are strongly and politically right wing and defenders of the conservative god-fearing agenda. Completely bias and bigotted!
Their viewpoint is to link the ills of society (such as hurricanes, terrorism, diseases and mayhem) on the "moral depravity" of America. They would explain the ultimate root cause of death and destruction are gays, abortion and non-Christianity.
They also fuel the whole Obama conspiracy theory that he was not born in the US "birtherism".

The Southern Poverty Law Center calls WMD "Outrageous", their version of reality is "unique", antigovernment “Patriots,” anti-gay activists, white nationalists, Muslim-bashers, conspiracy theorists, end-times prophets and ultraconservative hardliners.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/fall/world-nuts-daily

So, maybe it is an honor for Bachmann to receive such acknowledgement since she too toots the same horn as WND. The rest of us sees a BATSHIT CRAZY NUTJOB group giving an award to another BATSHIT CRAZY nutjob!

Sign of the Apocalypse - Kim Kardashian Pregnant by Kanye West

info@livesmackmedia.com (Ebony Jones) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:39:28 GMT

Queen of the Golddiggers, Kim Kardashian has grabbed the ultimate attention sloring gold ring, she's got herself knocked up by Kanye West. Cue 24 hour coverage and spin off reality show of her gestation in 4, 3, 2...

Move over, Baby New Year, and make way for Kimye Jr.

Yes, indeed, Kim Kardashian is pregnant with Kanye West's baby!

E! News has confirmed with the Kardashian family that Kim is expecting her first child with the rapper. But it was West who already spilled the exciting news to a few hundred concertgoers.

During his Atlantic City show on Sunday night, West decided to announce that Kim was expecting to all his fans.

And the congratulatory tweets have already begun for the future parents.

"Congrats to Kim and Kanye. Happy for both of them... bit.ly/YE4Uzh," Russell Simmons tweeted, while the Kardashians all showed their joy for the newest member of the family. "Im a happy girl !!!!!!!!! Wowza! Oh BABY BABY BABY," Kris Jenner tweeted.

Khloé Kardashian Odom wrote, "Keeping secrets is hard with so many family members! Especially when you are so freaking excited!!!!! LOVE is everything!!!!" Kourtney Kardashian also went to Twitter with, "Been wanting to shout from the rooftops with joy and now I can! Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!"

Kim is about 12 weeks pregnant.

Hmm...isn't this chick still married to someone else?

Congrats to her soon to be ex-husband, Kris Humphries, he dodged a bullet. My condolences to Kanye. You sir have just signed up for a life sentence of Kris Kardashian and all things tacky and attention sloring!

Somewhere, Kanye's mother is trying to rise from the grave to slap a bitch. I'm pretty sure the last thing Dr. West wanted for her son was a woman whose main claim to fame is amateur porn, money grubbing and attention whoring. Kim K's success at hypnotizing Kanye into knocking her up with her giant ass is a clear sign that he lost his damn mind after his mom's death.

So congrats to the happy couple, Kim and Kris Kardashian. I'm sure Mommy Kardashian is just overjoyed that she has a pregnancy and a new baby to exploit for money and fame. Bet she is already planning a line of baby clothes and accessories, Karbabyian by Kim.

Philippines Senator Escudero Gets An Annulment

webmaster@digitalrealmz.com (ChiMeng Chang) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:35:19 GMT

Well, isn't this special! Religious hypocrisy is not just in American politics, meet Senator Francis "Chiz" Escudero III from the Philippines. The Philippines is a strong Catholic nation and Divorce is not legal in this country. Senator Escudero stands firm on that belief and so, after 13 years of marriage and 2 kids later, Escudero had his marriage - annulled.

“What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”

At least, not by divorce as far as Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero III is concerned. Even after his marriage to Christine Elizabeth Flores was annulled, Escudero is still against legalizing divorce in the Philippines.

Escudero said that annulment and legal separation provides enough options for couples who wish to end their marriage.

“I’d rather the present laws on annulment be more accessible and affordable,” the senator told reporters on Thursday.

Based on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, of the 57.1 million Filipinos aged ten years and over, one percent or 558,023 were either divorced or separated.

Escudero confirmed his annulment in a television talk show on Monday. He, however, refused to talk further about his relationship with Flores.

No divorce bill is currently pending at the Senate. The House version of the measure is still at the committee level, but the House leadership expressed intention to prioritize it.

The Philippines, whose population is predominantly Roman Catholic, is the only country in the world that has not legalized divorce. Link

So No Divorce for the citizens of the Philippines.
But to be a good Catholic, don't call it a divorce but an annulment. God hates Divorce but gives a thumbs up on Annulments. Try to wrap your head around that!

And of course, in order to get an annulment, it will be quite costly. So the rich and powerful can obtain an annulment easily leaving the poor, the disenfranchised and the non-Catholics of the Philippines to be forced to stay with their chosen spouse.

Here is a good example of the insanity when politics is wrapped around religion (aka. theocracy). And how only the elite and powerful gets to twist these theocratic laws to benefit themselves but not to the citizens of the state.

Hmmmm, this may not be the US but certainly Escudero's politics are aligned with our teaparty Republican politicians!

Kentucky Racist, Danny Hafley, Displays Watermelon Eating Obama Doll on His Property

info@livesmackmedia.com (Ebony Jones) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:22:20 GMT

I guess the little racists can never get enough of this tired old stereotype. Clearly since they can't find any real reason to hate and insult Obama, they go for the standard fallbacks. I'm sure this little display gets all the hoped for hoots and hollers out in Kentucky.

A Casey County man says the life-sized mannequin in his front yard of President Obama holding a slice of watermelon was meant as a joke and not a racist display.

"The way I look at it, it's freedom of speech," said Danny Hafley. "I don't know how other people will take it."

Hafley bought the Obama mask on sale after Halloween and put up the display around the time of November's presidential election.

The mannequin, dressed in a grey suit, clip-on tie and blue-collared shirt, was originally standing in Hafley's yard but the homeowner decided it would look better near the road.

"That's my buddy," Hafley said. "He don't talk. Don't make no smart comments. If I had a dollar for everyone who stopped and took a picture of it I'd be a millionaire."

When asked the reason behind the watermelon, Hafley responded that he thought the figure "might get hungry standing out here."

While several neighbors didn't find anything wrong with the life-sized doll and said Hafley had the right to display it, one anonymous neighbor felt others would find it racist.

"If he wants to place it someplace else that would be fine," said the neighbor. "We don't have black people in this community but I'm sure they travel this road like everybody else does. They could be offended. I don't agree with it."

The neighbor added that the figure originally had a sign asking people to pray that Obama won't destroy America.

This isn't the first time Hafley has made such a display. He pulled off the mask and unbuttoned the suit coat to show a white mannequin with a drawn-on moustache wearing a blue-collared shirt with "Stupidville Police Department' written on the right side. Hafley said he designed it after Hustonville Police Chief Fred McCoy.

"Freddy is what I named him," Hafley said.

Hafley says he doesn't plan on taking down the display until the springtime or whenever it gets him in trouble.

"He's pretty popular," Hafley said. "If he's as popular in Washington as he is here then he's a popular man."

See this? This is exactly why racism will never die in this country. Never.

This mouth breather has nothing else better to do with his life than to spend a considerable amount of time and energy constructing this shameful display. And what do his neighbors do? Nothing. They shrug. They laugh along. They allow all of the children who see it to internalize the message that being black is less than... that even the President of the United States is inferior, not because of any policies or actions, but just because of his race.

All of the collective silence surrounding this display teaches the local children what place in society black people should hold. As Halfey says in his interview, the Obama dummy doesn't "make no smart comments", or in other words, knows his proper place and doesn't get all uppity. Racists hate an uppity negro.

So once again the racist stereotypes and their underlying hostility, hatred and twisted logic will be taught to another generation. Happy New Year!

New Video - Mya - Mr. Incredible

info@livesmackmedia.com (Ebony Jones) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:10:58 GMT

Mya is still trying to build a lifeboat to get off Irrelevant Island. Take a look at her newest effort, Mr. Incredible, after the jump.

Well, the song is cute and the video actually looks like there was a concept and a budget. Although this is clearly an upgrade from her last effort, it still doesn't grab me. Still makes me yawn. Sorry Mya, go back to the island and sit down next to Christina Milan.

Brandy Is Engaged!

info@livesmackmedia.com (Ebony Jones) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:58:15 GMT

Tis the season to get engaged. Brandy Norwood got engaged to music exec Ryan Press over the holidays. Maybe Brandy and Janet can have a double wedding?

The "Put It Down" singer, 33, is engaged to Ryan Press, her rep confirms to Us Weekly. According to an insider, "They are thrilled and happy and Brandy feels this is so right." Prior to accepting Press' proposal, Brandy had openly expressed her desire to marry the music executive.

"I keep hearing about a ring. People keep calling me, hinting to me about it, but I don't know," she told Sister2Sister magazine in August. "I'm going to be patient and let it happen and just let it be. . . I guess it will happen when it's the right time."

That same month, the singer spoke to Us about how Press had restored her faith in men. "I had given up on love a long time ago. It just didn't seem to work for me, so I was single for a very long time," the Moesha star said. "I stopped looking for love and then I ran into my boyfriend."

She continued, "He just loves me for who I am. I don't have to camouflage anything for him or put on a mask. I can completely be myself and he loves me so much and I love him just the way he is, too."

This will be the first marriage for the "Put It Down" singer, who has a 10-year-old daughter, Sy'rai, with ex Robert Smith.

Congrats to Brandy. She has been working for a while on a comeback, now it seems her music career, acting career and personal life are all coming back to life. Good for her. Maybe all this good fortune for Brandy has something to do with her ratchet brother Ray J taking several seats in the back for a minute? Straight up fuckery does have a way of blocking blessings. Just sayin'.

Fox News: Westboro are Left Wing??!

webmaster@digitalrealmz.com (ChiMeng Chang) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:46:19 GMT

Fox News does what it does best - LIE to their readers! In a recent published article online, Fox Nation tries to align the Westboro Baptist hate group as a Left-Wing cult. And of course, no corrections to their article after hundreds of comments about the "left wing" statement were made at the bottom of the article. Fox News completely ignored those comments. Yes, there is no such thing as journalistic integrity when the truth counters what this "News" organization believes.

Bikers Turn Out to Protect Newtown Mourners from Left-Wing Westboro Cult

Bikers descended on the town of Newtown yesterday and linked arms blocking the hate group protesters of Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals. (Free Republic)

Conservative bikers turned out yesterday to protect Newtown mourners from Democrat Fred Phelps and his Westboro cult from protesting.
The Cochrane Times reported:

Bikers seem to have thwarted attempts by the Westboro Baptist Church to protest the funeral of Newtown, Conn., shooting victim Principal Dawn Hochsprung. Link

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8726

Such deception is abundant with Fox News. Their outrage against anything that is Democrat or Liberal is well known - they will LIE to protect their Conservative brand. They willfully do not believe that modern day Conservatives are racist, hateful nor evil. They strongly believe these attributes reside with the Liberal agenda.

And sadly, their racist, misogynistic, homophobic readers believe everything Fox News spews out - because they are God-fearing Christians. They will have you to believe all the pain and suffering in the world is led by the liberal agenda. They have the ability to separate their deep-seated hate for a black man in the oval office is NOT racism and that they will place racism as a product of the Democratic party.

The Westboro Baptist Church (if you even call this a church) is ultra-right wing fascism! Hatred is their middle name! If you compare some of the ideology of the WBC with the GOP and other racist Hategroup - they are quite inline with each other.

"Fair and Balance" they are NOT!