Wyclef Spills the Beans on Lauryn Hill Affair

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Ohh la la la la...the Fugees were my favorite Hip Hop group during the late-90's. They brought class, elegance, intelligence, substance, talent and mad creativity to the game.

This was in stark contrast to the one dimensional bling-bling coming from post-Biggie Smalls Bad Boy Entertainment. 

And they were a much welcomed reprieve from the gangster-ism emanating from the Left-coast's Death Row.

Key to Middle-Class: It's The Education, Stupid

As we are steeped in a close and hotly contested presidential election between President Obama and Mitt Romney, the question becomes: Which candidate will best serve the American middle-class?

And we know the middle-class has been economically suffering.

For many poor and working class Americans the question is: Which presidential candidate offers the best policies on realizing the American Dream or transitioning their condition from poverty to middle-class?

And to date, this is the question many in the African-American community are asking.

Romney: America is full of Moochers

Tagg Romney: Hey mom...dad is doing it again!

Willard, Willard, Willard...what is a GOP voter to do?

Mr. Romney -- never one to be described as verbally adept -- as you probably know, has shot himself in the foot again. A foot that is firmly lodged in his mouth. Let's take a gander at what poor (figuratively of course) Mittless has to say about half our country:

The Quote "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Mitt Romney's channels his inner Kanye West

Who could ever forget -- even if we tried hard -- the MTV VMA Kanye West moment. Mr. West, unhappy with Taylor Swift beating out Beyonce, decided to saunter up the aisle, climb the steps and snatch the mic from a very frightened Taylor Swift. Mr West had an announcement that couldn't wait and thus:

West told the stunned star: 'Yo Taylor. I'm really happy for you, I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.'

Mitt: The Multiple Choice Candidate

Mitt, Are fer it or agin it?

Ted Kennedy on Mitt Romney: My opponent is not pro-choice, he's multiple choice.


Ann Romney recently lamented on how Mitt has been unfairly demonized ... it's quite understandable to watch her lovingly stand by her man, however Mitt, the quintessential flipper, is the architect of his demonization.

NFL 2012: BY Greg Gee

It's Heeeeerree!

The N-F-L season opened with upsets -- example, RGIII and the Skins over New Orleans Saints (I'm feeling this kid) -- a trend that will be this year's theme:

Year of the Upset...well, until we get to the Super Bowl -- which will be won by a proverbial powerhouse team.

Anyway, the league will continue the trend since 1996 -- 5 new teams making the playoffs -- meaning 5 teams from last year will be out for the 2012 playoffs.

GOP House Member: Student loans will led to Holocaust

You just can't make this ish up! You just can't.

This Loony Tune GOP party is reaching new highs or should I say lows in plain old fashion stupidity.

It's like a can you top my over-the-top stupidity contest among themselves.

Do they get an extra bonus check for episodes of random lunacy?

Watching/listening to the GOP party these days is like watching an old punch-drunk boxer stammering around in a feeble attempt to find his bearings.

Obama: 2012 Election Clearest Choice in a Generation

 The Democratic Convention in Charlotte, NC was a resounding reminder of what is truly at stake in the upcoming November election.


And on every issue, the choice you face won’t be just between two candidates or two parties.

It will be a choice between two different paths for America.

A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.

Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known.

I am considerably less swept off my feet in 2012 vs 2008, but I am more committed to renewing our contract with Obama/Biden because:

Michael Jackson: Bad 25

August 29th would have been Michael The King of Pop Jackson's 54th birthday. As to be expected, there have been multiple scheduled events this weekend to celebrate and honor his legacy.

 Famed director Spike Lee has filmed a Michael Jackson tribute documentary called Bad 25:

“He’s got the perfect balance and soul and science,” producer Quincy Jones said of Michael Jackson, at the conclusion of their work on the album Bad (read TIME’s oral history: The Making of Bad).

Spike Lee’s Bad 25, which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival tonight, exactly a quarter-century after its Aug. 31, 1987, release, shows the blend of inspiration and acuity that drove these two perfectionists in creating a worthy successor to their epochal 1982 album Thriller. Jackson said he meant bad “in all good will,” and in that sense the movie isn’t bad, it’s baaad — and great.
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My tribute to Michael Jackson is the following post of the entire Off The Wall album. This -- as most of his fans know -- is the first in the trilogy of albums he collaborated with superstar producer Quincy Jones. And to me, this is my sentimental favorite of all three.

MJ happy B-day!

The GOP 2012 Looney Tune Convention in Tampa

The Looney Tunes is an animated cartoon series created and produced by Warner Brothers. The WB cartoons introduced a motley crew of cast and characters that have obtained legendary status.

They featured Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, Pepe Le Pew and many more.

Looney Tune humor is rooted in buffoonery, slapstick, comic irony, wacky antics, self-parody and racial/ethnic stereotypes. In fact, when purchasing the Looney Tune vintage collection series there is a disclaimer that reads:

The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in U.S. society. These depictions were wrong then and wrong today. While the following does not represent Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be to do the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.

GOP Convention 2012 -- Looney Tunes in Tampa:

To anyone not living in the GOP/Tea Party bubble, it was painfully -- albeit comical at times -- obvious that this collection of rabid worshippers have lost the few marbles they had from the get-go.

First up, Rush Porky Pig Limbaugh:

This iconic Loon had the gall to suggest that President Obama was behind Hurricane Issac.

If you’re been paying much attention to the fairy tales of the far right in the past few years, it should come as no surprise that not everyone thinks it was merely a coincidence that the swirling mass of rain and wind known as Isaac appeared on the radar screen just in time to disrupt the GOP’s nominating party and the news coverage of it.

Rush Limbaugh says Obama may have had something to do with it. source

Batter numero dos - Michele Bachmann, AKA Daffy -- and I mean DAFFY -- Duck in drag:

Michele Bachmann said President Barack Obama can't relate to "the common man" because of his extreme wealth, failing to note that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is worth hundreds of millions more.

"President Obama is extremely wealthy," Bachmann said when USA Today asked how someone with "vast wealth" could connect to the American public. "He and his wife have been wealthy for a number of years, and so I think that's really the issue. President Obama is wealthy -- what does he understand about the common man right now?"

According to financial disclosure reports released by the White House in May, the Obamas hold assets worth between nearly $2.6 million and nearly $8.3 million. Romney's net worth is up to $255 million, according to financial disclosure reports. source

We can't forget the confederates in the peanut gallery -- led by good ol boy Foghorn Leghorn:

A black camerawoman who works for CNN said Thursday that she was not surprised to have two people at the Republican National Convention throw peanuts at her and say “this is what we feed animals.”

The two white people were immediately removed from the Tampa, Fla., convention arena by security officials on Tuesday, and their identities weren’t revealed. The camerawoman, Patricia Carroll, wasn’t able to tell definitively where they were from. source

And to add Hollywood tough guy thunder, who is better than Dirty Harry -- a close associate of Yosemite Sam:

He Made Our Day!

Speaking to Invisible Obama last night, in a performance that seemed to have been written by Timothy Leary and performed by Cheech & Chong, Clint Eastwood was able to drive home to tens of millions of viewers the central message of this year's Republican National Convention: We Are Delusional and Detached from Reality. Vote for Us!

The footage of Eastwood rambling and mumbling to his "Harvey"—President Obama—will be played to audiences a hundred years from now as the Most Bizarre Convention Moment Ever. The people of the future will know nothing about Dirty Harry or Josey Wales or Million Dollar Baby.

They will know about the night a crazy old man hijacked a national party's most important gathering so he could literally tell the president to go do something to himself (i.e. fuck himself). In those few moments (and these days, it only takes a few moments—see Anthony Weiner), he completely upended and redefined how he'll be remembered by younger and future generations. source

The GOP Convention disclaimer:

The convention you saw is product of  our time. The GOP may depict some of the gender, ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in U.S. society. These depictions were wrong then and wrong today. While the following does not represent all American views of today's society, this convention was presented as originally created, because to do otherwise would be to do the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.

In the immortal words of Porky Pig: