OBAMA FAIL: Obama Caught In Another Lie
After a week of lying and covering up his tracks, a leaked internal White House memo shows that Barack Obama did indeed go behind the backs of Americans to carve out a deal with the big pharmaceutical companies.
This is the same Obama who promised during his campaign to use the power of the government to drive down the costs of drugs to Medicare recipients. According to the memo, Obama agreed to protect the pharmaceutical companies from Congressional efforts to bargain for lower prices for drugs or to import lower priced drugs from Canada. Please read that last sentence again and let it sink in.
In return, the big drug companies agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs to taxpayers and Medicare recipients over the next 10 years. That’s $10 billion per year that the big drug companies don’t mind coughing up because they stand to make hundreds of billions more per year from the outrageously high prices of drugs.
OBAMA FAIL: Obama’s Approval Ratings Dips To New Low
According to the daily Rasmussen tracking Poll, Barack Obama’s overall approval ratings fell to 47% on Thursday — the lowest ever recorded for Obama.
The poll reflects the deepening concerns of the American people over Obama’s tone deaf campaigning for health care reform, which he now deceptively calls health insurance reform.
Americans are also worried about Obama’s reckless spending and they fear his trillion dollar health care reform bill will add to the national deficit, which is forecast to be 4 times higher this year than it was last year.
Obama will spend more this year on the war in Afghanistan than Bush spent on the entire Iraq war.
LA Times: Doctor Left Jackson Alone To Go Make Phone Calls
According to the LA Times, Michael Jackson’s physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, left him alone in a bedroom after starting an infusion of a potent sedative so he could go make phone calls.
Leaked details from Jackson’s autopsy report shows that Dr. Murray gave Jackson an IV infusion of Diprivan (Propofol) a short acting drug used in hospitals to induce anesthesia on patients undergoing inpatient and outpatient procedures.
The troubled doc, who has been identified in court records as a suspect in Jackson’s death, returned to the bedroom to find the 50-year-old Jackson unresponsive and not breathing. Jackson was later pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center after suffering respiratory and cardiac arrest.
Murray, 51, told police he felt comfortable giving Jackson Diprivan and leaving him alone to make calls on his cell phone because Jackson had previously taken the drug as a sleep aid for a decade with no problems. Murray told police he spoke with his family members and office staff in Houston while Jackson slept in another room.
Police sources had earlier said Murray fell asleep in another room in the rented 10-bedroom mansion after giving Jackson the drug.
This news contradicts online reports that Murray delayed calling paramedics for 30 minutes because he couldn’t find a working phone inside Jackson’s rented Bel Air mansion on the morning of June 25.
A source close to the investigation into Jackson’s untimely death told the LA Times that there was a “limited amount” of Diprivan in Jackson’s system. And that the presence of other prescription drugs in his system along with such a limited amount of the sedative could complicate prosecution of Dr. Murray.
Celebs Out & About
Rapper Jim Jones took a bath (in his own sweat) at a charity basketball game in NYC yesterday. Thank God we only have to imagine what he smells like. Did you know that when a rapper is arrested all his tattoos must be well-documented on his booking sheet so he can be easily identified in case he’s found dead in a ditch somewhere? Source
Singer/songwriter Keri Hilson performed in Japan today for MTV Vibration’s ’09 concert. Wouldn’t it be great if Keri could actually sing and dance to help boost the ailing recording industry? If you recall, Beyonce and her entourage fled Japan in tears a couple of days ago after an earthquake hit registering a 6.6 on the Richter scale.
Photo: Splash News Online
MORE Celebs Out & About pics after the break!
Police Arrest Gunman In Vernon Forrest Murder
The city of Atlanta can breathe easier today: Charman Sinkfield, 30, the suspected triggerman in the shooting death of champion boxer Vernon Forrest, was arrested last night by U.S. Marshals. As the city slept, Sinkfield was booked into the Fulton County jail overnight. He is charged with murder, aggravated assault and armed robbery with a deadly weapon. His first court appearance is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the jail.
Police say Sinkfield is the man seen on a Whitehall Street Chevron station’s surveillance camera exiting a red Pontiac and walking toward the McDaniel Street side to act as look out for Damario Ware, 20, who robbed Forrest as he put air in the tires of his Jaguar.
Moments later, Forrest retrieved a gun from his waistband and chased Ware for three blocks on foot. Forrest encountered Sinkfield in the street outside the Mechanicsville apartments after losing sight of Ware. Sinkfield convinced the boxer that he was not the man who robbed him. As Forrest turned to walk away, Sinkfield shot him 7 or 8 times in the back.
Sinkfield is the third man arrested in the case that made national headlines. Ware is in custody along with Jquante Crews, 25, the driver of the Pontiac. Police believe only 3 men were involved in the crime.
Police received numerous tips from the public naming Sinkfield and Ware after Forrest’s case was aired on America’s Most Wanted. Detectives staked out a home in southwest Atlanta where they knew Sinkfield was hiding out. At around 9 p.m. Wednesday, 12 unmarked police cars trailed a black sedan with Sinkfield in the back seat from Nathan Street to I-20.
The sedan was forced to pull over on I-20 near Hamilton E. Holmes Drive where Sinkfield was taken into custody. He was one of three men in the car. The driver was also arrested on an unrelated incident. At one point, police say, Sinkfield tried to disguise himself with a wig.
Sinkfield has a lengthy arrest record and served three terms in state prisons, including a 2-year sentence for cocaine possession. He was last released from prison in December 2007.
We need a three strikes law in Georgia to keep these repeat criminals off our streets.
T.I. Baby Mama Diss Track – That’s The Way You Want It
*Bumped**
Rapper T.I. totally disses his first baby mama, LaShon Dixon, on this new track titled “That’s The Way You Want It” off the mixtape, “T.I. Live From Forest City Correctional Facility”. T.I., who is doing time for felony gun possession, rips Lashon a new one in this lyrical beat down.
I guess T.I. still feels some kind of way about Dixon taking him back to court for more child support for his sons Messiah Yamajesty, 9, and Domani Uriah, 8.
On the track, T.I. tells LaShon to get a job, and slays her with the ultimate insult about her weight. Now, the question is will LaShon come back with a baby mama diss track of her own?
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I’m in a public tug of war for dough I struggled for,
I owe money for my sons, honey and nothin’ more,
Do much more than average for my sons
And you just ignore, in fact, you can get off your ass and work
If you don’t wanna be f*cking poor
That’s not quite the issue is it?
It’s that we don’t f*ck no more,
That’s ‘sposed to be you who buying houses, picking out decor
That’s ‘sposed to be you in Bentley’s, Fendi and Dior
That’s your problem, just accept it,
You and I are never more
And forever we never will,
Just try your best to deal
I rolled around wit you for years and I regret it still
And well, since you ain’t let yourself know,
You look a mess,
Just let yourself go I guess…
In happier times: Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, left (holding her son Major) and Lashon Dixon, right
America’s Next Top Model Jumps The Shark
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 13 finally jumps the shark with the shortest cast in the show’s history. The chicks in cycle 13 range in height from 5′-3″ (LOL) to 5′-7″. Host Tyra Banks wasn’t joking when they said she had love for the short chicks, but Tyra should stop calling them models and refer to them as model rejects since that’s what they are.
No one in the modeling industry takes this show seriously any more, and this cycle will probably kill off the ratings for good.
After the break is a sampling of the contestants in the new cycle. You can peep the rest of the cast members on ONTD.
