Why are these Black women alone?

I wonder why sometimes when I see some black woman who are a tri-fecta (they are attractive, have income and a prosperous career), that they are content on being alone. They have made up their minds that nothing is wrong with waiting for Mr. right. The concept makes sense, I mean why settle for something less than what you think that you deserve. So lets look at it from this point of view. Some of these women have been in and out of relationships for years now because he does have fit the criteria that she had set fourth, and she is not willing to settle !

Now this is a bright ideal that I came up with, if you can look pass the oblivious, height, weight or income you may have an opportunity to find happiness. Lets face it no relationship is perfect and even if you find that perfect one on paper, income, looks and he wants the same thing as you do, is their a chance he still might have faults? So you spent your whole life waiting for this peach and in reality he really is a lemon. Do you kick yourself for waiting for so long or do you try to make lemon aide and keep on,keeping on?


Maybe from my point of view as a man I really can relate to what they are saying and why they are saying it. Maybe if these women lower their bar, so that some of these good men can get to them, they may have a chance for love. Then again if you keep looking for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, you may never find it, and you will still be alone!

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Invictus, will win an oscar or two

The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

This movie Invictus was everything I expected and a little more. From the minute I started watching the movie I forgot that I was watching Morgan Freeman and kept thinking Nelson Mandela. The deep and conceptual thinking of Mandela made me respect him even more as the story unfolded. The precision placement of the music made you want to cry one minute and stand up and cheer the next moment. Clint Eastwood has done it again with his vision to see a story and make you feel it, from beginning to end. Matt Damon was equally impresses as the Francois Pienaar.


I maybe going out on a limb, but after what I saw my words should be etched in stone that this movie will win at least 2 Oscars. One should be for best Actor and Best Director, of course I would not be surprised to see it win more! Make some time and see this one you will be glad that you did. 4 stars ****
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Husband dies on the day of wife funeral

Husband dies on day of wife's funeral

Stan and Mary Trueman on their wedding day.

February 27, 2002

I saw this story about a husband who could not live after his wife had died. I was touched that a man loved his wife so much that he literally will himself to die. You see in today society we live our life by the minute. It very seldom that you see a marriage last 5 years, then again 50 years is inconceivable! If only the world we live in today knew what this kind of love is, it would be a better place.

A DEVASTATED husband collapsed and died on the day of his beloved wife's funeral.

Tragic Stan Trueman died yesterday (Tuesday) as his wife Mary's body was being taken to Stockport crematorium on a horse drawn carriage.

The 76-year-old, who lived with his wife for 50 in Lower Bredbury, had been too sick to attend her funeral. He died at home.

Animal lover Mrs Trueman, 74, spent much of her life caring for animals so it was a fitting send off when her coffin was carried by the horse drawn carriage.

But daughter Mary Wood, who lives on the Bridgehall estate, was devastated after hearing the awful news her dad had died.

She said: "He was really poorly yesterday so we were expecting it. But for it to happen on the same day as the funeral was a real shock.

"He was diagnosed with liver cancer five weeks ago. When they both knew how ill they each were, they seemed to give up."

Mary's mother's coffin was carried on a 100-year-old carriage made by famous Birmingham carriage maker John Marsden. It was pulled by two horses used in the recent funeral of Reggie Kray.

Both the horses and the carriage were specially brought up to Stockport for the day from Cambridgeshire.

The coffin was collected at Unsworth's funeral directors in Bramhall before it was taken to St Joseph's Church on St Petersgate and then down the A6 to Stockport Crematorium.

Mary is now planning an identical funeral for her father - also an animal lover.

She said: "It was a beautiful ceremony and I want exactly the same for my dad because he was also a horse fanatic and loved everything old fashioned. We want to give him exactly the same send off."

Mary added: "The horse drawn carriage was my father Stanley's idea. He was a very old fashioned person who loved tradition so I organised the funeral on his behalf.

"This is the way my mother would have wanted her funeral. She lived for her family and was a devoted animal lover who sponsored horses at the Redwings stables in Norfolk."

Mary's family asked that flowers were not given at the funeral and instead asked for donations to be made to the Redwings stables.

Chris Unsworth, of Unsworth funeral directors in Bramhall, said: "Passers-by bowed and took their hats off as a mark of tribute."

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The 6 Month Rule will never work!

That's right some women believe that you should wait at least 6 months before they have sex with a man. I believe that you should never waited longer that a month?

Why a month, to find out if you are compatible in bed??? Does that sound shallow to you? Lets look at it from this point of view, they have great conversation look good and you have waited a year to find out they are a dude in bed.

Now of course you could terminate the relationship but since you have invested your time and effort you tough it out.

Now Murphy Laws always knows how to throw you the right person at the wrong time and that's where cheating comes in.

Here is the solution if you found out in a week that he or she was a dude you can cut your losses and move on!

Unfortunately we do not live by the same ideals and views that our parents and grandparents live by. So the six month rule sounds good on paper but realistically speaking it only works if you actually found Mr or Ms right. If not you may have wasted your time.

Remember work fast but move slow!

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Lock his ass up!

A So. Fla. Man Asked Cabbie For A Ride To Memphis, Then Refused To Pay

A South Florida cabbie was tricked into making a 20 hour trip from Miami to Western Tennessee over the weekend. And he ended up getting stiffed, not getting a penny for his efforts.

CBS4'S Stephen Stock spoke with the cab driver victim by telephone and his colleagues on the streets about getting shorted on a very long trip.

From 7 at night to 4:30 in the morning, 6 days a week for 29 years Jean Desir has driven a taxi on the streets of Miami.

Despite two robberies, one at gunpoint, and countless riders who've stiffed him on fares, this past year has been toughest of all economically.

"This year has been really really hard," the 54 year-old said, "really hard."

That's what makes the story of Desir's fellow taxi-driver so tough to swallow this holiday season.

Police say Miami resident Luciolo Perez convinced a cabbie from Flamingo Taxis to drive him to Memphis, Tennessee. That's a 20 hour cab ride to the middle of the country.

Then police say Perez stiffed the driver of $3,000 in cab fare, plus expenses such as gas and meals, which the cabbie paid with his own credit card.

CBS4 News spoke by phone with the cab driver, who drove this taxi half way across the country and back.

His name is Lelis Almeira.

Almeira refused CBS4's request for an on-camera interview, saying he was tired frustrated and angry and, "I just want to put this incident behind me."

"(The money came) out of his own pocket," said Almeira's colleague at Flamingo Taxi, Joel Lubin.

That's why Flamingo Taxi dispatcher Lubin is angry too. He said that a scam such as this hurts drivers especially hard, given the tough economic times they've suffered through this year.

"He didn't have to do it," Lubin said. "He spent all his money for the expenses. He put everything for meals on his credit card expecting to get paid."

CBS4 reporter Stephen Stock asked: "And this happens?"

"This happens," Lubin said. "He's kind of lost faith in humanity. And I don't blame him."

"We ain't going to promise something we don't have," said the woman in Memphis whom Perez had traveled to visit, Nellie Rose.

Rose insists she didn't have the money and made that clear to Perez.

"I don't know why the cab driver and him came on (to Memphis).That's between them," Rose said.

Memphis police arrested Perez and charged him with theft over $1,000.

Now, in addition to trying to find $3,000 in cab fare, Perez must find enough money to bond out of jail.
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Getting paid for tripping over your own son

Well after running across this Stella Awards web site I must admit that I was curious to see more of these outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head and wonder what was the jury thinking but better yet what was on the attorney's mind when this lady limped into his office and told her story that amazed the lawyer so much that he said that we can win this case! Please be advise that this was not number one but number 7, damn.

7TH PLACE :

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Now maybe i am not understanding all of what this case is really bringing to the table. I have a bad ass little kid that is running around the store and I tripped on him and fell, then broke my leg because of my brat! Maybe I missed it does anyone else see anything wrong with this crap? I would have tossed the lawyer and her out of my court room!

Whats next, to sue a company because they did not tell you, you could get excessively drunk if you drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels? I think I smell one coming!
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The Stella Award Winner, Mrs Merv Graziniski

So you don't know what the Stella Awards are? Do you remember back in 1992 when a 81-year-old, Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased. You remember..... she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that - right?

Well not only did she get burned but she sued Mc Donalds for 1.5 million and won. So that is where the Stella Awards came from... So now when ever someone does something bone headed action sues and wins then they are in line to receive the world famous Stella Award!

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

The ideal that some individuals have won these Stella Awards because they got paid for their own mistakes blows my mind. So picture this, that a person actually was driving along the highway and put the cruise control on and got up and walked away from the wheel. Now it was not enough that they brought that hell on themselves when they crashed that vehicle, but then they decided that they could sue the manufacture for not being clear in the owners manual... Now that is not the straw that broke the camel back, but finding twelve jury men and women that agreed with the notion is unreal. Some people manage to hit the lottery in their own way, she hit the lottery just by being a dumb-ass, a rich dumb-ass that is!

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Public Health insurance option

A public health insurance option (public insurance option or public option for short) is a proposed health insurance plan that would be offered by the U.S. federal government. In Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), and its predecessor H.R. 3200, it will be a Qualified Health Benefit Plan competing with similar private insurance plans in an Internet based exchange or market place, enabling citizens and small businesses to purchase health insurance meeting the minimum federal standard. Persons covered by other employer plans or by state insurance plans such as Medicare will not be eligible to obtain coverage from the exchange and therefore cannot obtain this form of federal health insurance. The federal government's health insurance plan will be financed entirely by premiums without subsidy from the Federal government. ^[1] The plans stated in the Senate HLP Committee and H.R. 3962, the two that contain clauses establishing a public insurance option, require the repayment of "seed money" to the Treasury over a ten year period.^[2]

I don't know if I agree with this public option ideal, but one thing that I do know is that millions of people are running around this country without health insurance. The word for today is to bring the cost of health insurance down. Conservatives seem to believe that if we can have open competing of insurance companies across state lines, it would drive the cost of insurance down. Reality is that we have needed this years ago... I personally believe that if their was a true regulation on the health cost across the board that insurance could be affordable for everyone. What good does it do to make $50,000 dollars a year and you can not afford to provide insurance for your family. When a man has to make the decision to eat or have insurance, and he choose to eat, when does some one step up and say wait minute that is not right.

Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, anything less than that needs to be changed, by any means possible!

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More Teachers are getting caught having sex with teenage boys!

What gives that so many woman are willing to throw their lives away to have sex with teen age boys. At one point in time it was very rare for this kind of thing happening. Now these women are so bold as to have sex on the school grounds in parked cars.
Now it seems that once every 2 or 3 months you hear about another woman who got caught-up and she is looking like a fool! Many of these women are very attractive and it leaves me saying wow. Maybe society has changed to allow women to think that this kind of behavior is the norm now.
What ever the case the problem, it is becoming more open and apparent. I just have to ask is their no shame?

Gov Mark Sanford wifeJenny has filed for divorce

South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sandford a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, announced today she is filing for divorce months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman.

"This came after many unsuccessful efforts at reconciliation, yet I am still dedicated to keeping the process that lies ahead peaceful for our family," Jenny Sanford said in a statement. A spokesman for her husband, governor Mark Sanford, had no immediate comment.

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Why Choose A Hard Money Loan

Why do most people chose a Hard Money? Actually because they can not obtain traditional financing. Generally speaking there are two types of financing that a person can obtain obtain Prime and Subprime.

First, all loans Prime or Subprime needs ICE (Income, Credit and Equity) to get approved and to close. So What is a Prime Loan? This is a loan that offers the best rates and situations for the borrower who falls into the category of having a credit over 675, income and equity. He basically fits all guidelines of that lender.

A sub-prime lender is one who made loans to borrowers who did not qualify for loans from mainstream lenders. Some were independent, but most were affiliates of mainstream lenders operating under different names. I use the past tense because at the time of the most recent revision of this article, virtually all sub-prime lenders had disappeared.

Although there is no single, standard definition, in the United States subprime loans are usually classified as those where the borrower has a FICO score below 640.

So now comes the question what is a hard money loan? Hard Money loan is a specific type of asset-based loan financing through which a borrower receives funds secured by the value of a parcel of real estate. Hard money loans are typically issued at much higher interest rates than conventional commercial or residential property loans and are almost never issued by a commercial bank or other deposit institution. Hard money is similar to a bridge loan, which usually has similar criteria for lending as well as cost to the borrowers. The primary difference is that a bridge loan often refers to a commercial property or investment property that may be in transition and does not yet qualify for traditional financing, whereas hard money often refers to not only an asset-based loan with a high interest rate, but possibly a distressed financial situation, such as arrears on the existing mortgage, or where bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings are occurring.

Many hard money mortgages are made by private investors, generally in their local areas. Usually the credit score of the borrower is not important, as the loan is secured by the value of the collateral property. Typically, the maximum loan to value ratio is 65–70%. That is, if the property is worth $100,000, the lender would advance $65,000–70,000 against it. This low LTV provides added security for the lender, in case the borrower does not pay and they have to foreclose on the property.

A hard money loan is a species of real estate loan collateralized against the quick-sale value of the property for which the loan is made. Most lenders fund in the first lien position, meaning that in the event of a default, they are the first creditor to receive remuneration. Occasionally, a lender will subordinate to another first lien position loan; this loan is known as a mezzanine loan

or second lien.

Hard money lenders structure loans based on a percentage of the quick-sale value of the subject property. This is called the loan-to-value or LTV ratio and typically hovers between 60 and 70% of the market value of the property. For the purpose of determining an LTV, the word "value" is defined as "today's purchase price." This is the amount a lender could reasonably expect to realize from the sale of the property in the event that the loan defaults and the property must be sold in a one- to four-month timeframe. This value differs from a market value appraisal, which assumes an arms-length transaction in which neither buyer nor seller is acting under duress.

Below is an example of how a commercial real estate purchase might be structured by a hard money lender:

65% Hard money (Conforming loan)
20% Borrower equity (cash or additional collateralized real estate)
15% Seller carryback loan or other subordinated (mezzanine) loan

Hard Money is a term that is used almost exclusively in the United States and Canada where these types of loans are most common. In commercial real estate, hard money developed as an alternative "last resort" for property owners seeking capital against the value of their holdings. The industry began in the late 1950s when the credit industry in the U.S. underwent drastic changes (see FDIC: Evaluating the Consumer Revolution).

The hard money industry suffered severe setbacks during the real estate crashes of the early 1980s and early 1990s due to lenders overestimating and funding properties at well over market value. Since that time, lower LTV rates have been the norm for hard money lenders seeking to protect themselves against the market's volatility. Today, high interest rates are the mark of hard money loans as a way to compensate lenders for the considerable risk that they undertake.

Commercial hard money is similar to traditional hard money, but may sometimes be more expensive as the risk is higher on investment property or non-owner occupied properties. Commercial Hard Money Loans may not be subject to the same consumer loan safeguards as a residential mortgage may be in the state the mortgage is issued. Commercial hard money loans are often short term and therefore interchangeably referred to as bridge loans or bridge financing.

Commercial hard money lender and bridge lender programs are similar to traditional hard money in terms of loan to value requirements and interest rates. A commercial hard money or bridge lender will usually be a strong financial institution that has large deposit reserves and the ability to make a discretionary decision on a non-conforming loan. These borrowers are usually not conforming to the standard Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or other residential conforming credit guidelines. Since it is a commercial property, they usually do not conform to a standard commercial loan guideline either. The property and or borrowers may be in financial distress, or a commercial property may simply not be complete during construction, have its building permits in place, or simply be in good or marketable conditions for any number of reasons.

Some private investment groups or bridge capital groups will require joint venture or sale-lease back requirements to the riskiest transactions that have a high likelihood of default. Private Investment groups may temporarily offer bridge or hard money, allowing the property owner to buy back the property within only a certain time period. If the property is not bought back by purchase or sold within the time period the commercial hard money lender may keep the property at the agreed to price.

Traditional commercial hard money loan programs are very high risk and have a higher than average default rate. If the property owner defaults on the commercial hard money loan, they may lose the property to foreclosure. If they have exhausted bankruptcy previously, they may not be able to gain assistance through bankruptcy protection. The property owner may have to sell the property in order to satisfy the lien from the commercial hard money lender, and to protect the remaining equity on the property.

From inception, the hard money field has always been formally unregulated by state or federal laws, although some restrictions on interest rates (usury laws) by state governments restrict the rates of hard money such that operations in several states, including Tennessee and Arkansas are virtually untenable for lending firms.

Hard Money Mortgage loans are generally more expensive than traditional sub-prime mortgages. However all mortgage loans are not necessarily considered to be a high cost mortgage. Generally a hard money loan carries additional risk that a borrower is aware of. Rather than selling the property a borrower will opt to keep the loan and if a lender is willing to assume some of the risk by offering a hard money loan.

The rate is not dependent on the Bank Rate. It is instead more dependent on the real estate market and availability of hard money credit. As of 2008 and for the past decade hard money has ranged from the mid 12%–21% range[1]}}. When a borrower defaults they may be charged a higher "Default Rate". That rate can be as high as allowed by law, which may go up to or around 25%–29%. Some private lenders will collect a prepayment penalty and some will not.

Points on a hard money loan are traditionally 1 to 3 more than a traditional loan, which would amount to 3 to 6 points on the average hard loan. It is very common for a commercial hard money loan to be upwards of four points and as high as 10 points. The reason a borrower would pay that rate is to avoid imminent foreclosure or a "quick sale" of the property. That could amount to as much as a 30% or more discount as is common on short sales. By taking a short term bridge or hard money loan, the borrower often saves equity and extends his time to get his affairs in order to better manage the property.

All hard money borrowers are advised to use a professional real estate attorney to assure the property is not given away by way of a late payment or other default without benefit of traditional procedures that would require a court judgement.

Now with all that information, the two reasons that people choose hard money loans.

1. Temporary Financing

2. They need Immediate financing .

3. They can not obtain traditional financing.

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Mindy Lawton makes a new claim that she slept with Tiger

Mindy Lawton, a 34-year-old waitress, claims to have had a year-long affair with Tiger Woods filled with regular sex in a range of locations. The Daily Mail writes that the pair met in the summer of 2006 at a diner where Lawton worked.

According to Lawton, Woods is quite the lover. He is "very well endowed" and "knows his way around the bedroom. On a scale of ten I would give him 12," she tells News of the World. Lawton's sister, Lynn, adds that Mindy described their sex as "extremely good."

Woods was fond of sleeping with her in numerous locations -- from parking lots to the shower to the garage -- but the golfer refused to have sex in his bedroom.

Lawton also says that Woods has a particular passion for the color red, which he is known to wear on Sundays at golf tournaments. But according to Lawton, that isn't the only place he enjoys the color:

Who cares? It does not matter if it was one or 30 the point is he did it and nothing is going to change.

Tigers woods action created a reaction

They say for every action creates a reaction. Who would have known that when the National Enquirer’s made a allegations of Tiger Woods affair with Rachel Uchitel, that the action of reporting would cause a reaction of violence by Elin Woods? So then the action that was created by Tiger Woods Created a action by the National Enquirer, who had to report that juicy gossip, who then created a action of arguments by his wife, which created a reaction by Tiger to storm out of the house at 2:30 am and hit a fire hydrant which caused a reaction from his neighbor to call the police because of the wreck. This then created an action by his wife to go out side and bust out the window and drag her unconscious husband from the SUV. Now this action by the wife created a reaction by the police who was curious as to where was Tiger woods going at 2:30 am? Now the police action created a reaction in the media about by his wife and this Rachel Uchitel that maybe just maybe she was his mistress. Now Rachel Uchitel action was to deny, deny, deny, and when she finished giving an interview deny some more. So her action created a reaction from other girls who decided to tell all! So from other women action of kiss and tell, Rachel Uchitel reacted, and begin to tell all.

Now Tigers actions created a reaction from his wife he wants the pre-nup rewritten. Also the reaction from the wife cause a reaction from Tiger to undergo
intense therapy to improve the once perfect marriage.

The action is now that you created this mess, the only reaction you should have now is how am I going to fix it!

Popthatzit is making acne popular!

I found this website today called popthatzit.com and was shocked, that it is dedicated to the repulsive of things, popping a zit! Ugh, maybe I am strange but to be honest, who would think that millions of people can not wait to see who has acne next.

Acne occurs most commonly during adolescence, affecting more than 89% of teenagers, and frequently continues into adulthood. In adolescence, acne is usually caused by an increase in male sex hormones, which people of both genders accrue during puberty.^[2] For most people, acne diminishes over time and tends to disappear—or at the very least decrease—after one reaches one's early twenties. There is, however, no way to predict how long it will take to disappear entirely, and some individuals will carry this condition well into their thirties, forties and beyond.^[3]

Aside from scarring, its main effects are psychological, such as reduced self-esteem^[5] and, according to at least one study, depression or suicide.^[6] Early and aggressive treatment is therefore advocated by some to lessen the overall impact to individuals.^[5]

I found this product and it helped me considering that I was not a teenager any more "After I incorporated several of your suggestions into my daily life I have seen a REMARKEBLE difference in my acne! 6 weeks into the program and I was left with not a pimple on my face. Not only did it clear my face but it completely cleared my blackheads and helped remove the dark spots. If you are tired of the day in and day out battle with acne" Click Here!.

I was fortunate that I did not have severe acne, but every now and then I do get boils. So what is a boil? A boil is a localized infection deep in the skin. A boil generally starts as a reddened, tender area. Now I found one thing in particular that helps with getting rid of a boil. The first thing is you could go to a doctor like the young man in the video did and let a doctor lance the boil and squeeze that crap out. I know for a fact that it hurts like heck, and that's not high on my solution list. The second is quite simple and not as expensive, its called campho phenique. Dip a Q-tip into the campho phenique, apply it to the infected area then cover the area with a band aid. It generally take 2 days but you will see a significant reduction in the boil. Hey, don't take my word just look at the video again and again and if you like pain; go that route!

Desirée Glapion Rogers is in the news

Desirée Glapion Rogers is an American public relations executive. In November 2008 she was selected by Barack Obama's office as the White House Social Secretary for the incoming administration, the first African American to serve in this function.^[1][2] Rogers was born on June 16, 1959 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the daughter of the late Roy Glapion and his wife Joyce. Her father was the former director of sports for the New Orleans Public Schools and a member of the New Orleans City Council. Her mother ran day-care centers. She has one brother, Roy A. Glapion, a businessman who is active in civic life in New Orleans.^[3] Her family is of Louisiana Creole heritage.

Rogers graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans in 1977.^[4] She earned a Bachelor's degree in political science from Wellesley College in 1981.^{[5] [6]} Rogers earned a MBA from Harvard Business School.^[7]

After graduate school, Rogers married John W. Rogers, Jr. and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she began her career.^[8] They had one daughter together.^[7]

Rogers was named twice as queen of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, a Mardi Gras krewe dating back to 1916. She was first queen in 1988. Her father was instrumental in leading the krewe from a dwindling band of fewer than 100 black men in the early 1970s to a robust, financially healthy and racially integrated krewe by the 1990s. Glapion served variously as finance chairman, president and chairman of the Zulu board. In 2000 Rogers reprised the reign in honor of her father, who died in 1999. Rogers' mother, Joyce Glapion, now retired, was also active in Carnival. ^[21]

Rogers is an Obama family friend. Her former husband is John W. Rogers, Jr., Obama's Inaugural Co-Chair, who was also a former teammate of Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson on the Princeton University basketball team. Rogers' brother and mother still live in New Orleans.

Rogers is a survivor of breast cancer, following a diagnosis in 2003.^[3]

According to an interview last year with The HistoryMakers, an African-American oral history project, Rogers' favorite saying is "laissez le bon temps rouler."^[8]

Sons of Anarchy season

Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the Vice President of the club who begins questioning the club and himself. Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008 on cable network FX. Its second season debuted on September 8, 2009.

The show's first season averaged 5.4 million viewers weekly making it the network's most successful show since Rescue Me.^[2]

Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, as well as the other members of the local Sons of Anarchy charter, their families, various Charming townspeople, and the various rivals and associates who undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises. Sons of Anarchy follows the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle gang most closely, but also heavily features a number of ally and rival gangs such as the Mayans, 1-9ers, Nords, True IRA and a white separatist group called the League of American Nationalists (LOAN).

Regular characters in season one were (in order credited) Charlie Hunnam as Jax, Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow, Mark Boone Jr. as Bobby Elvis, Kim Coates as Tig, Tommy Flanagan as Chibs, Johnny Lewis as Kip 'Half Sack' Epps, Maggie Siff as Tara and Ron Perlman as Clay.

Regular characters in season two are (in order credited, additions are in italics) Charlie Hunnam as Jax, Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow, Mark Boone Jr. as Bobby Elvis, Kim Coates as Tig, Tommy Flanagan as Chibs, Ryan Hurst as Opie, Johnny Lewis as Kip 'Half Sack' Epps, William Lucking as Piney, Theo Rossi as Juice, Maggie Siff as Tara and Ron Perlman as Clay.

Major supporting or recurring characters include Drea de Matteo as Jax's ex-wife Wendy Case, Sprague Grayden as Opie's wife Donna Winston, Dendrie Taylor as Luann Delany, Kurt Sutter as incarcerated club member Big Otto, David LaBrava as Happy, Dayton Callie as Charming police chief Wayne Unser, Taylor Sheridan as Charming deputy police chief David Hale, Glenn Plummer as San Joaquin County sheriff Victor "Vic" Trammel, Ally Walker as ATF agent June Stahl, Jay Karnes as ATF agent Joshua Kohn, Adam Arkin as LOAN boss Ethan Zobelle, Henry Rollins as LOAN muscle A.J. Weston, Mitch Pileggi as Nords boss Ernest Darby, Emilio Rivera as Mayans boss Marcus Alvarez and Tom Arnold as porn producer Georgie Caruso.

Titus Welliver appears midway through season two as Irish gun kingpin Jimmy O.^[3]

Kenny Johnson formerly from The Shield also makes an appearance in late season two as a member of the Sons of Anarchy's Tacoma chapter

How did this happen?

WASHINGTON – A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

The White House released a photo showing Michaele and Tareq Salahi in the receiving line in the Blue Room with Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in whose honor the dinner was held. Obama and Michaele Salahi, a candidate for Bravo's "The Real Housewives of D.C.," are smiling as she grasps his right hand with both of hers and her husband looks on. Singh is standing to the Obama's left.

The Secret Service earlier this week had said the president was not in danger because the Virginia couple — like others at the dinner — had gone through magnetometers. But in light of their close proximity to the president, no such claim was made Friday.

The Salahis were not on the guest list and should have been prohibited from entering last Tuesday's dinner on the White House South Lawn for the prime minister of India, said Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.

On Friday, Sullivan was apologetic in a written statement, saying the agency that protects the president is "deeply concerned and embarrassed" that procedures were not followed.

"As our investigation continues, appropriate measures have been taken to ensure this is not repeated," Sullivan said.

Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin said officers at the checkpoint had a clipboard with names of the invited guests. Even though the Salahis names weren't on it, they were allowed to proceed. The officers should have called either someone on the White House staff or Secret Service personnel before allowing them past the checkpoint, Mackin said.

Earlier, Mackin said the Secret Service may pursue a criminal investigation of the Salahis.

Sullivan said, "The preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list.

"Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely. That failing is ours," he said.

Sullivan said it wasn't good enough that his agency screened more than 1.2 million visitors last year to the White House complex and protected more than 10,000 sites for the president, vice president and others.

"Even with these successes, we need to be right 100 percent of the time," he said. "While we have protocols in place to address these situations, we must ensure that they are followed each and every time."

It is unclear what the couple told officers at the checkpoint that allowed them to go through the security screening. Federal law makes it a crime to knowingly and willfully falsify statements on matters within the federal government's jurisdiction.

"As this moves closer to a criminal investigation there's less that we can say," Mackin said. "I don't want to jeopardize what could be a criminal investigation. We're not leaving any option off the table at this point."

White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the Secret Service will take appropriate action once the review is completed.

"The men and women of the Secret Service put their lives on the line everyday to protect us. They are heroes and they have the full confidence of the president of the United States," Shapiro said.

The Salahis lawyer, Paul Gardner, posted a comment on their Facebook page saying, "My clients were cleared by the White House, to be there." He said more information would be forthcoming.

Several messages left at Gardner's law firm on Friday were not immediately returned.

Bravo Media has confirmed that Michaele Salahi is being considered as a participant in the upcoming "The Real Housewives of D.C." program and on the day of the dinner was being filmed around Washington by Half Yard Productions, the producer of the program.

"Half Yard Productions was told by Michaele and Tareq Salahi that they had been invited to the State Dinner. We took them at their word and filmed their preparations for the event. Half Yard Productions had no part in planning their presence at the event," said Abby Greensfelder of Half Yard Productions.

Photos on the couple's Facebook page they previously had gotten close to Obama. One photo, apparently taken in the days before Obama took the oath of office, shows the Salahis in a group shot with Obama and some of the musicians who performed at an inaugural concert.

Other photos show the Salahis in the empty, glass-enclosed box from which the Obamas watched the concert and, according to the caption, "backstage with the Secret Service at the Lincoln Memorial during the Presidential Inauguration."

Shaquille O' Neal paid for funneral of Shaniya Davis

Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose kidnapping and slaying received national news coverage.

The Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina reported Thursday that the Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the case of Shaniya Davis.



More than 2,000 people attended her funeral Sunday. The girl's body was found Nov. 10 beside a rural road.

Her mother, Antionette Davis, is charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving prostitution. Mario McNeill is charged with murder, rape and kidnapping.

I am so impressed with O' Neal for the effort to help the family after the mother allowed this to happen to her daughter. You have to wonder what was going through the mothers head to allow such an action to take place? but then what about this sick jerk who committed this action. He deserves the death penalty, yesterday!

They called it justice

They called this justice when the Child Support Court sent me a court date that I never received and imposed $700 dollars a month in child support payment. Please understand that my life was forever altered by Tennessee disregard for me being able to support myself. The first time that I received a rude awakening from the Child Support Court; is when they automatically assumed that because I did not show up for my court date that, I did not want to be there! It is funny that if a man does not show up to Court that he automatically elected not to come to Court... Although if a woman does not show up to court she did not receive the paper work and they must refile that court date. That is the crap that they call justice.

I suppose my justice would have been different if I did not have children by two different women in two different states. So imagine my surprise when one judge said that because Tennessee filed first, that the child had first position on taxing my income. Then imagine Indiana saying that because the children were born first, that they had first position on taxing my income. Now my issue is that they both called that justice when they taxed my income without any acknowledgment of each other! As a matter of fact they between the two states they took all of my income left me with a check for $2.45 after I had made $1600 dollars for that two week period.

I did however have the opportunity to go back to Court only for the judges in both situations lower payment to 500 dollars each. While both judges said that I needed to work a second job, so that I could pay my bills. Although years later the Courts ruled that it was unconstitutional to take all of a person pay check and not leave him anything to live on! What a strange coincidence that the judges call that justice!

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My visions of grander has not even remotely began to materialize. I started working on the Internet to get a residual or passive income coming in. I never knew that there was alot more to this puzzle that I knew absolutely nothing about... I soon figured out that you need to be informed before you go jumping off the deep end. Working the Internet as a network marker puts you in line with several million people just like you who are trying to make an unlimited income too. The reason that I got involved with sales and the internet, was for that reason; that I wanted to make more money than I ever dreamed of. That has been my fuel that keeps me believing that it will happen soon.

The problem that I have found with working the Internet is, that their is no new thoughts or ideals... You just refined the old one's to fit who you are. I have seen several internet millionaires and I figure if they can do it, then I can do it. Lets face it, you need to learn the in's and outs of the business so that you can prosper. This information that I am going to share is worth its weight in gold!

First you need to learn all that you can, read as much material on what ever you are trying to learn.

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FaceBook finally turning a profit

Face book, the world’s largest social network on the Internet, is finally turning a profit, the privately held company said.

The Silicon Valley, California, company, which was started six years ago by a student at Harvard University, said late Tuesday that it had reached a positive cash flow for the first time and also passed the 300-million user mark.

The stratospheric growth in the site’s user base from 150 million at the start of the year, allowed the company to turn a profit earlier than the 2010 date it had previously predicted.

‘This is important to us because it sets Face book up to be a strong independent service for the long term,’ said Face book founder Mark Zuckerberg in a blog posting.

‘We are succeeding at building Face book in a sustainable way,’ he wrote. ‘We are just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone. We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the web.’

The company has close to 1,000 employees and has received $600 million in financing. According to recent web figures, it is the fourth most-visited website in the US.

I never had an opportunity to be a part of Yahoo, Google, My Space, Face book or Twitter. These are Internet juggernauts and they have corner their portion of the internet. Now comes a new kid on the block, People String. So, what exactly is People String? It is a new social media site launched on September 23, 2009. They are making a bold attempt to compete with giants like Facebook by paying anyone and everyone to recruit members and grow its ranks.

People String is also working with companies who want to bypass the advertising giants and pay people directly for looking at their products/services. Quite a novel approach! The more people participate, the more companies will see this as a viable alternative to reaching their target audience.

It can potentially be quite lucrative, for those willing to recruit new members. They will earn a commissions for every person they recruit, get paid per item of advertising they look at, thus getting a percentage of revenues from everyone they recruit for life! For those not interested in recruiting others, the remaining income streams may be more to their liking and more are to be added over time.

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The site is still at the "nuts and bolts stage" right now, but company representatives have assured me that the "lab rats" (as they are affectionately called) are hard at work to turn People String into a popular and fun social media site as membership grows.

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Philip Morris ordered to pay $300 million to smoker

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Florida jury on Thursday ordered cigarette maker Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million in damages to a 61-year-old ex-smoker named Cindy Naugle who is wheelchair-bound by emphysema.

The Broward Circuit Court jury assessed $56.6 million in past and future medical expenses against the company, part of Altria Group Inc, as well as $244 million in punitive damages.

The case is one of 8,000 lawsuits filed against tobacco companies by Florida smokers and their families.

Attorneys for Naugle, the sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, said it's the largest Florida tobacco verdict to date.

"The jury saw her condition," Todd Falzone, who also represented Naugle, said in a statement. "We think that they felt it. She needed to rest for five minutes to catch her breath after making the 7 step walk to the witness stand."

Naugle started smoking in 1968 when she was 20 because she thought they "made her look older." After several attempts to quit, she stopped smoking in 1993 with the aid of a nicotine patch.

She requires 24-hour oxygen and must travel in a wheelchair because walking leaves her exhausted, her attorneys said.

I am not sure what to feel for this woman considering that her life has been restricted to a wheelchair. Now she was the one who put the cigarette to her lips and keep puffing on those death sticks. When did reality kick in 10, 20, or 3o years later? Don't get me wrong, the company should not have put nicotine in the cigarette to keep that level of addiction to the product. Although since they created that monster and now they have to pay the piper. I have a problem with a person getting hooked on a product and then wants someone to pay for their mistake... She created this issue in 1968 when she wanted to look older, now years later she wants someone to pay for her trying to look cute. I am sorry but my compassion level is low for one simple reason, she created her own monster. If second hand smoke was the cause tax the company and make them pay!