Morning Glory: Gia Wright *NSFW*
I found the beautiful Gia Wright‘s Twitter page on Twitter.com yesterday, which means Twitter is useful for some things.
If you think you’ve seen Gia before, most likely you have. Her lovely face has appeared in your favorite rappers videos, in movies (Road Trip), and magazines such as Playboy and The Source.
And now she’s on Sandrarose.com as my Morning Glory! This one’s for the fellas, so ladies please resist your instinctive urges to hate on the sister for no reason at all.
She’s doing what God put her on earth to do: to pretty up the place a little.
The Top Ten Most Valuable Blogs in America
24/7 Wall Street has comprised its 2nd annual Top 25 most valuable blogs in America based on the price the acquirer is willing to pay for the online property.
The blogs are all owned by single individuals (corporate-owned blogs were excluded). There are no black-owned blogs on the list. Remember that the first number is what the blogs are worth.
1. Gawker.com, including online properties, $300 million.
Owner Nick Denton also runs other blogs including Deadspin, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker. Combined, the blogs have 23 million unique visits a month with an ad CPM of $20 pushing the total annual income to $60 million.
2. The Huffington Post, $112 million.
Arianna Huffington’s blog employs a small staff of underpaid writers and unpaid contributors. Her blog is ranked first among all blogs on the Technorati 100 with hundreds of link backs. Average CPM per page is about $10 with annual income of $16 million.
3. Perez Hilton, $44 million.
Former publicist Perez Hilton’s blog started out as ParisHilton.com but he changed the name under the threat of a lawsuit. His average CPM per page is $6 with a total revenue of $6.2 million a year. Perez claims to run the blog all by his lonesome, but we know that’s not true.
4. Drudge Report. $42 million.
Matt Drudge’s blog is my home page. That’s the first site I see when I boot up my computer every morning. The site carries about 9 million unique visits a month with a CPM of under $5 and income of $6 million a year.
5. TechCrunch. $32 million.
Techcrunch has a staff of 30 which drives 4 million unique visits per month to the site with eighteen million page views monthly. Revenue is less than $3 million annually.
BET Hip Hops Awards Lands Rapper Lil Boosie in Prison
The last time we saw Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, he was posted up in premium seats at the BET Hip Hop Awards with his daughter. We all wondered aloud, “isn’t he supposed to be in prison?” It turns out we were right.
A Louisiana judge also saw Boosie, real name Torrence Hatch, chilling at the BET Hip Hop Awards when he was supposed to be at home on house arrest. The judge revoked Boosie’s house arrest and ordered him to begin serving his 4-year sentence immediately.
Some of these rappers are about as smart as a bag of rocks.
Beltway Sniper Executed
John Allen Muhammad, otherwise known as the beltway sniper or DC sniper, was put to death last night in Virginia. The 48-year-old mastermind of the DC sniper attacks was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m.
In a tense 3 weeks in 2002 that terrorized the residents of Virginia and Maryland, Muhammad and his teenage sidekick Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, went on a shooting spree killing 10 and wounding 6.
Muhammad would later admit that the sniper attacks was a plot to kill his ex-wife and end a bitter legal struggle for custody of their 3 children.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine refused to intervene in the final hours after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the sniper’s final legal appeal.
Muhammad’s family members and relatives of the victims gathered to watch the execution. He had no last words before the lethal mixture of sedatives, muscle relaxer and potassium stopped his heart and respirations at 9:06 p.m.
Muhammad was sentenced to death following his capital murder conviction in the slaying of Dean H. Meyers, 53, at a Prince William County gas station on Oct. 9, 2002. His accomplice, Malvo, now 24, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2003.
Iran Brown was 13 when he was shot on October 7, 2002 outside Benjamin Trasker Middle School by Lee Boyd Malvo who fired an assault rifle from the modified trunk of a Ford Crowne Victoria driven by John Allen Muhammad.
UNBELIEVABLE: Obama Makes Excuses for Fort Hood Shooter!
In a sit-down interview with Jake Tapper of ABC News last night, Barack Obama actually makes excuses for the terrorist who shot and killed 12 of his fellow soldiers! Obama seems to be blaming the military for this guy’s actions.
Tapper asked Obama asking what separated the Fort Hood shooting from acts of terrorism. In response to the question, Obama struggled to distance Nidal Hasan’s actions from terrorism despite the fact that all signs point to the fact that he was a terrorist!!
From RealClearPolitics:
“Well, look, we — we have seen, in the past, rampages of this sort. And in a country of 300 million people, there are going to be acts of violence that are inexplicable. Even within the extraordinary military that we have — and I think everybody understands how outstanding the young men and women in uniform are under the most severe stress — there are going to be instances in which an individual cracks. I think the questions that we’re asking now and we don’t have yet complete answers to is, is this an individual who’s acting in this way or is it some larger set of actors? You know, what are the motivations? Those are all questions that I think we have to ask ourselves. Until we have these answers buttoned down, I’d rather not comment on it.”
So when Obama says “a larger set of actors” does he mean the military is to blame for this guy going rambo?
When the white Cambridge officer arrested his friend, Obama called the officer “stupid.” But Nidal Hasan gets a pass because he was stressed out!? He didn’t even go off to war yet! How was he stressed Mr. Obama?
I wonder if Obama would have felt the same way if the guy wasn’t a Muslim extremist? Obama seems to be apologizing to Hasan for the military stressing him out. Is he going to visit the shooter in the hospital and apologize to him personally!
You can watch the video here.
Shaunie Divorcing Shaq Again
Cleveland Cavalier’s Shaquille O’Neal’s wife is filing for divorce again. I wonder if this has anything to do with Shaq impregnating Gilbert Arenas’ fiancee?
TMZ has learned Shaunie filed legal papers yesterday in L.A., even though the couple lives in Florida. The petition says although Shaunie is filing for legal separation, she intends to file for divorce. She lists “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for separation.
We’re told Shaunie pulled her kids out of school in Florida several days ago and they are with her now in L.A.
Why, you ask, would Shaunie cross the county to file in L.A.? Well, a spouse generally does a lot better in the spousal support department here in California. Shaunie is asking for both spousal and child support — though she did not specify an amount for either.
Did Alicia Keys Design Her CD Cover to Throw Shade On Rihanna’s ‘Illuminati’ Cover?
Alicia Keys’ new CD cover is all over the Internets and it’s interesting that she looks like an angel on her cover compared to Rihanna’s ‘illuminati’ S&M covers.
Was this by design? Will either CD cover affect record sales?
I’m willing to bet Rihanna’s album will do better than AK’s only because Rihanna has more worldwide reach and a hardcore fan base.
