Norwood, Reed in Local Runoff for Mayor
Yesterday it seemed that Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood had far outpaced her opponent Kasim Reed in the polls. But this morning Atlantans awoke to the news that the two candidates were once again hitting the campaign trail just hours after vote tallies placed them in a runoff with each other.
According to the AJC: if elected mayor, Reed said he would first focus on “starting to put more police officers on the street to secure our city. We’ve got to turn the tide of violence in Atlanta. We’ve got to recognize that we have an organized gang problem in our city.”
Asked about the prospect of being the first white mayor of Atlanta in a generation, Norwood said, “I have said all along that this is about uniting Atlanta.” But voters I spoke with yesterday aren’t too sure about Norwood or her plans for Atlanta.
Atlanta has always touted itself as the urban entertainment mecca of the South. But all of that is expected to change if Norwood takes office. Urbanites fear that Norwood, who is a Buckhead resident, will lower taxes in her posh Buckhead neighborhood while raising taxes outside of the perimeter where most urban blacks migrated after the Olympics.
According to the AJC, both candidates appeared before daybreak on WSB-TV, with Reed saying that he and Norwood “have run a high-road, high-minded campaign, and it’s going to be left to us to make sure we do not divide this city during this very important election.”
People, please get out and vote for Kasim Reed for Mayor. It is vitally important that we get out the vote! As the legendary Sam Cooke once said, a Change is gonna come. But it might not be the change we want or need after 36 years of black mayorship in Atlanta.
Speaking of promised Change that never quite materialized, we learned yesterday that Barack Obama decided not to bother watching the elections returns. Instead, he watched an NBA basketball game.
We’re not surprised that he wouldn’t be interested in watching the returns after a GOP sweep in NJ and Virginia that shined a harsh spotlight on Obama’s political weakness.
Why Are Children Being Vaccinated Against H1N1 Without their Parents Consent?
Conspiracy theorists are jumping all over the news about “mix ups” involving the H1N1 vaccines. According to online reports, school children across the country have been vaccinated against the swine flu virus without their parents consent. This is not as innocuous as it sounds.
Every school nurse knows she can’t administer as much as a single Motrin to children without parental consent. So how could this “mistake” happen?
Isn’t it interesting that in July, Obama’s US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, signed a decree granting vaccine makers total immunity from any lawsuits that may arise from “Swine Flu” vaccine “mix ups” such as these incidents?
And why does the CDC suggest only children be vaccinated when adults as well as children are coming down with the flu?
Read more on the web
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http://wcbstv.com/health/swine.flu.nyc.2.1281183.html
Another City Student Gets Flu Vaccine By Mistake
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New Music: Young Dro – I Don’t Know Y’all
Young Dro’s new video for his latest track titled “I Don’t Know Y’all” featuring cameos by actor/comdian Mike Epps and Grand Hustle resident comedian Lil Duval. LOVEs it!
Rihanna and Her Hair Out & About in NYC
Rihanna was spotted in NYC last night on her way to 40/40. We all hate her hairdo, but remember she’s a style icon who’s way ahead of her time. The hairdo will just take some getting used to.
Photos: INF DAILY
Shyne Speaks On Arrest, Deportation From the U.S.
In a press conference at a school in his native Belize yesterday, rapper Shyne, who legally changed his name to Moses Michael Leviy, spoke to students about avoiding the mistakes that helped to derail his promising rap career.
Leviy visited Wesley College, a school he briefly attended in 1993.
“As Shyne, I think they want to hear what I have to say and what I do have to say is not, ‘listen man I am on a gangster roll.’ No listen, look what gangster roll got me. Look where it led me. And I am not telling you what to do because I am not a preacher and I am not everybody’s father but I am exhibit A of what’s going to happen if you don’t stay in Wesley College, you dig. If you don’t go to that sixth form, if you don’t try to go to the university you’re going to spend the rest of your life in the cooker or you’re going to be in the grave. That is what this is about.
This is not about any type of romanticizing. No, this is about me, this is about them, and hopefully them learning from me that listen, I don’t want to make the mistakes that he made but if you do make a mistake you can transform that mistake. That is what a mistake is, not continuing to hit yourself in the brick wall but understand this is a brick wall, I ran into it, let me tear this wall down, or let me just go a different direction.”
On being deported from the United States after serving 9 years in a NY prison:
“Listen people sell tens of millions of records outside of the States. Quite frankly the Euro is stronger than the dollar right now. So I will make far more money in Europe and in Japan and throughout the world than I would make in the States.” Read more…
Kate Gosselin Sinks To New Low, Blames Herself For Jon’s Bad Behavior
Reality TV mom Kate Gosselin is shouldering all the blame for her husband Jon’s bad behavior in a revealing interview during the TLC special Kate: Her Story.
This is typical of women in abusive relationships — be it verbal, mental abuse or physical abuse, the result is always the same: the woman accepts all the blame for the dysfunction in the relationship.
“I was very hard on him and I would never deny that,” said Kate in the special that aired last night.
“I was wrong to treat him that way,” she added. “Was it good, healthy and wonderful? No. Am I proud of those moments that were captured? No.”
I still wake up every day, and I think the phone will ring,” she whined, her voice cracking, “and it’ll be the old Jon.”
How pathetic. Where’s the part where she talks about how badly he treated her and how he violated their marriage vows?
Why does the woman always bend under the pressure and takes these dogs back? Did she not see Jon on Larry King two weeks ago?
She really needs therapy.
Chris Brown’s Album Should Be Renamed “I’M GAY!” *Updated*
Loyal reader BevG asks the question, is it me, or is Chris Brown the gayest looking guy in hip-hop? Lol.
Edited:
Here’s what Chris Brown tweeted on his Twitter page about all the hoopla surrounding his extremely feminine appearance on his CD cover. He claims he shot that cover in 2005. As if looking gay in 2005 is somehow different from looking gay in 2009.
Expect that CD cover to be jettisoned and re-shot in 4…3….2…
WHO CARES IF MY PANTS R FITTED. its called fashion. IM SO TIRED OF CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE. IM 100% COMFORTABLE WIT MY SEXUALITY.IM A GROWN MAN. MY FASHION ISNT LIMITED TO BAGGY AZZ JEANS AND FITTED CAPS.. i did that in 05. CMON son. HATING IS SO LAME.
