Bishop Larry Trotter, the head of Sweet Holy Spirit Church, brought examples of the blunt wraps to church Sunday and spoke against them saying,

“We need to stop people from bringing things and making them available to our children and making them drug addicts….Having this product in mainstream stores is like having drug pushers in our neighborhoods. Blunt wraps are an indefensible product marketed to children and entirely identified with illegal drug use."

Trotter plans to circulate a petition to pass on to politicians in hopes of getting an anti-blunt law in place.

Until then he's calling for local convenience stores to stop the sales of the illegitimately used products.
Ehhh….an anti-blunt law?

Too much or just enough?

½ of the Distant Relatives made a recent stop in Pittsburgh for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America's annual National Keystone Conference.

The Keystone Conference which highlights the cream of the crop in the youth guidance organization, brought out students from across the country to hear messages from Nas, NFL player Bob Lanier and Ne-Yo.
Speaking to the group of 900 students during the 4 day conference, Nas pledged to one day get his high school diploma and the Pittsburgh Gazette quoted him as saying,

“The reality of it is, you need to keep educating yourself, and I wish I had stayed in school.”

Frank Sanchez, the vice president for corporate and partner relationships for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America agrees with Nas' sentiments and told the Gazette that while the students in the Key Club are talented, they also face “significant challenges.”

He commended Nas' speech saying,

"This is an incredible message, to have someone who succeeded so much in their life, but there is still a void.”

The Keystone Club is part of the Boy & Girls club that advocates for leadership in community service. There are about 12,000 members total.

In order to achieve that hefty goal 42-year-old Donna Simpson is trying to eat as much as possible in two years to help her reach her goal weight of 1,000 pounds.

Simpson who wears a size XXXXXXXL in clothes, boasts that she eats large amounts of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.

She now reportedly uses a mobile scooter when she goes out shopping, spends $750 a week on food and can only walk 20 feet without getting tired.

The mother to 3-year-old Jacqueline broke a record when a team of 30 doctors delivered her daughter by cesarean section when she was 532 pounds, making her the largest woman to ever give birth.

She tells the Daily Mail,

“My favorite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go. I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favorite.”

Her husband, 150-pound Phillipe loves her size and is encouraging her new goal.

She currently makes a living owning a website where men can pay money to watch her eat.

Aaaaaaaand we once again can't make this stuff up. SMH...

Think I'll go die now.

“Slaves were bred just like livestock.”

As many stand to pledge allegiance to a flag that is a representation of a land of the free, there are many who fail to realize particular contradictions that revolves around the history of United States.

Making an attempt to retrace his family tree, former NFL player Emmitt Smith came to learn that his ancestors, during the time of slavery, were bred like horses as women were passed down the line.  Even worse, when trying to trace the blood line back to Africa, documentation wasn't readily available, but there were records to trace horses back to Europe showing that slaves were treated worse than animals.

While some call the U.S. the Land of the Free, and others the Land for Those that Can Afford, one thing for certain is that celebration of a country must include highlighting the bad times along with the pleasant times if the country ever has a chance to truly look at the past and try to learn from and become united by it.

Stop ignoring the elephant in the room.

[Check for the second half of the interview after the jump]

The Americans were killed while their child sat uninjured in a car seat in Ciudad Juarez. A third person, a Mexican man, was slain while his two children were injured.

All three were leaving the same birthday party before they were murdered.

This is the first time in years that any of the gangs have staged an attack on U.S. government employees.

The city of Ciudad Juarez has seen an increase in violence as gangs struggle for power in the area that's been known to serve as an entry point for drugs into the U.S.

Nearly 50 people were killed this weekend in Mexico with ties to gang violence.

SMH...gang violence is crazy down there.