Dee Says: Wouldn't you like to ride?
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Any Publicity Is Good Publicity??????
Obama T-Shirt Sparks Assault, Lawsuit
The designer pictured wearing the shirt. Photo by Fashion Indie Posted July 17, 2008
A 25-year-old New York City graduate student is threatening to sue a T-Shirt designer after being assaulted for wearing one of his designs.
The woman bought a $69 shirt from Apollo Braun's Manhattan boutique that bore the words, "Obama is my slave." When she wore the shirt on Tuesday, four teenage girls accosted her - shoving her, pulling out her earphones, and spitting in her face, according to the New York edition of Metro News.
The unnamed woman is reportedly seeking solace by suing Braun - born Doron Braunshtein - for "all he's got," the designer claims. He, of course, is shirking any responsibility for the incident and says that the shirt reflects the views of "ordinary WASPs."
“For a lot of people, when they see Obama, they see a slave. People think America is not ready for a black president,” the Israeli-born designer said.
“I can’t stand Obama,” Braun says, but claims that it's not because the candidate is black. “That’s the only thing I like about him. He opens the door for other minorities.”
“He reminds me of Adolf Hitler,” Braun explained, adding he does not like the Illinois senator because “he is a Muslim” — a myth that Obama apparently cannot escape.
The designer has sold several other anti-Obama styles from his boutique, including shirts with slogans such as “Jews Against Obama,” “Obama = Hitler” and “Who Killed Obama?”
swiped from bossip.com
Dee Says:Pure Genius!! From A Marketing Standpoint ONLY!!
The designer pictured wearing the shirt. Photo by Fashion Indie Posted July 17, 2008
A 25-year-old New York City graduate student is threatening to sue a T-Shirt designer after being assaulted for wearing one of his designs.
The woman bought a $69 shirt from Apollo Braun's Manhattan boutique that bore the words, "Obama is my slave." When she wore the shirt on Tuesday, four teenage girls accosted her - shoving her, pulling out her earphones, and spitting in her face, according to the New York edition of Metro News.
The unnamed woman is reportedly seeking solace by suing Braun - born Doron Braunshtein - for "all he's got," the designer claims. He, of course, is shirking any responsibility for the incident and says that the shirt reflects the views of "ordinary WASPs."
“For a lot of people, when they see Obama, they see a slave. People think America is not ready for a black president,” the Israeli-born designer said.
“I can’t stand Obama,” Braun says, but claims that it's not because the candidate is black. “That’s the only thing I like about him. He opens the door for other minorities.”
“He reminds me of Adolf Hitler,” Braun explained, adding he does not like the Illinois senator because “he is a Muslim” — a myth that Obama apparently cannot escape.
The designer has sold several other anti-Obama styles from his boutique, including shirts with slogans such as “Jews Against Obama,” “Obama = Hitler” and “Who Killed Obama?”
swiped from bossip.com
Dee Says:Pure Genius!! From A Marketing Standpoint ONLY!!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Bird Chirps, Crickets and Double Boo's...
DEE Says: Top 5 Reasons Why!!!!
1. Only TALENTED artists should be allowed to re-make songs.
2. Dino is PROBABLY spinning in is grave.
3. IM CONVINCED Dino IS spinning in his grave right now.
4. The lead singer is ok, but the rest of em suck....
5. They're f**king wack!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The More Things Change...
11 July 2008
$11M Awarded to Black Residents Denied Water Service for Decades
At the same time the nation is prepared to nominate its first black major presidential candidate, another more basic "change" comes to one predominately black Ohio neighborhood: Running water.
A federal jury awards nearly $11 million to residents of the mostly black, rural Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County, after finding "local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination. ... The money covers both monetary losses and the residents' pain and suffering between 1956, when water lines were first laid in the area, and 2003, when Coal Run got public water."
The suit was filed in 2003 after the Ohio Civil Rights Commission ruled the Coal Run residents were victims of systemic discrimination and had been denied water service for decades. In contrast, just yards up the hill, which is almost all white, wealthier residents enjoyed water service for years. The mostly black and Native American residents in the tiny Coal Run "hollow on the edge of town lived a bit like frontiersmen, keeping drinking water in jugs, collecting rainwater in barrels, even occasionally melting snow from their yards, all because they did not have city water service."
"The water stopped where the black folks started," Saundra McCuen told the New York Times in 2004. "I don't want to use the race thing, but what else could it be?"
Another plaintiff, Frederick Martin, "grew up with nine siblings and shared two tubs of water between them on bath nights when he was growing up. He left Coal Run, built on a former coal mine, in 1970 so his children wouldn't have to endure the same living conditions. 'Today I feel that we are really blessed, to know and to see justice being met,' Martin said. 'And to see, regardless of who we are, there. "
Jury: Black neighborhood was denied water service [AP]
Ohio Town's Water at Last Runs Past a Color Line [NYT]
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$11M Awarded to Black Residents Denied Water Service for Decades
At the same time the nation is prepared to nominate its first black major presidential candidate, another more basic "change" comes to one predominately black Ohio neighborhood: Running water.
A federal jury awards nearly $11 million to residents of the mostly black, rural Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County, after finding "local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination. ... The money covers both monetary losses and the residents' pain and suffering between 1956, when water lines were first laid in the area, and 2003, when Coal Run got public water."
The suit was filed in 2003 after the Ohio Civil Rights Commission ruled the Coal Run residents were victims of systemic discrimination and had been denied water service for decades. In contrast, just yards up the hill, which is almost all white, wealthier residents enjoyed water service for years. The mostly black and Native American residents in the tiny Coal Run "hollow on the edge of town lived a bit like frontiersmen, keeping drinking water in jugs, collecting rainwater in barrels, even occasionally melting snow from their yards, all because they did not have city water service."
"The water stopped where the black folks started," Saundra McCuen told the New York Times in 2004. "I don't want to use the race thing, but what else could it be?"
Another plaintiff, Frederick Martin, "grew up with nine siblings and shared two tubs of water between them on bath nights when he was growing up. He left Coal Run, built on a former coal mine, in 1970 so his children wouldn't have to endure the same living conditions. 'Today I feel that we are really blessed, to know and to see justice being met,' Martin said. 'And to see, regardless of who we are, there. "
Jury: Black neighborhood was denied water service [AP]
Ohio Town's Water at Last Runs Past a Color Line [NYT]
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Takes A Licking...
watch at :50 :51 ish mark for the fall!!!
Dee Says: I think he has an equilibrium problem or needs to wear his seeing eye glasses.
This is the 3rd time I've seen him fall off the stage head first.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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