Obama Extends Hospital Visitation Rights to Gay Partners
According to the Washington Post:
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
While Obama is making a good faith attempt to appease gays, this order could backfire badly.
In 1987, while still a nursing student, I took a part time position working in the intensive care unit of a Miami area hospital. A patient in her early 30s had just been brought into the ICU in a coma after suffering a seizure as result of a post-partum hemorrhage. She had just given birth to a baby girl and during childbirth she lost a tremendous amount of blood — too much blood loss to sustain life.
Normally, in a case like this, the doctor would order blood transfusions and the patient would be fine. But this patient and her husband were Jehovah’s witnesses, and the husband made it clear that he did not want the doctors giving his wife the life saving blood transfusions.
Of course we pleaded with the husband to change his mind, to no avail. Because he was her husband, he had every right by law to give her a death sentence. So we had to watch this beautiful young sistah — who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl — die slowly in front of our eyes while her husband walked around the unit with a smirk on his face.
I look back on this sad incident because now Obama is extending that same right to the partners of gay patients who are not married. So theoretically, If you’re gay, you could meet someone next week, and one week later if you’re involved in a car accident that leaves you incapacitated and in a coma, your “partner” of one week could pull the plug on you.
Win a $500 Shopping Spree from The Ludacris Foundation and SandraRose.com!
The Ludacris Foundation and Sandrarose.com are teaming up to take one lucky male winner on a $500 shopping spree!
The private shopping spree will take place next Wednesday, April 21 at a private location in Atlanta. The winner (and his guest) will be invited VIP guests of Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, actress Gabrielle Union and DTP CEO Chaka Zulu.
In addition to new clothes, the winner will be presented with a limited edition Polo Purple Label tie designed exclusively by Ludacris and Chaka Zulu. No expense has been spared in the creation of the fabrics nor in the making of the actual tie.
The fabric will be woven in England, and the tie will be hand made in Italy. The fabric is 100% silk. The tie is black with a slim purple stripe, and an exclusively designed Ludacris Foundation crest jacquard woven into the fabric. A special label which says: “The Ludacris Foundation A Limited Edition of One Hundred” will be woven into the small end of the tie.
The tie will retail for $200. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from sales of the tie will be donated to The Ludacris Foundation. A special card will be created to be included in each tie box that speaks to the meaning of the crest; including the Dove, The Hand in Armor and The Gold Chevron symbols on the crest.
Chaka Zulu, CEO of DTP, has personally purchased 107 of the ties — at a cost of over $20,000 — to present to the entire graduating class of Chicago’s Urban Prep charter school, who have all been accepted to colleges of their choice.
The recession has hit men, blacks and Hispanics especially hard. So we want to do something for a male reader who has recently lost his job, or is currently going on interviews for a new job.
To win, just leave a comment explaining why you should win — or if you’re a female: why you think your husband/boyfriend should win.
The winner will be selected tomorrow, April 16. Special thanks to Jamal Coleman (pictured below) of J. Coleman Presents; and The Ludacris Foundation!
GUESS WHO?
Guess who was pushing up on all the ladies at a nightclub in Atlanta on Tuesday night? My spies tell me this fading NBA great had difficulty getting the ladies to give him 5 minutes of their time! This is Atlanta so you know that’s saying a lot when the females here throw you shade!
Find out who the unlucky dude was after the break!
Put ‘Em On Blast: Club Envy (Orlando)
Grand Hustle is putting Club Envy in Orlando on blast for false advertising.
To my readers in the Orlando area, T.I. and the Grand Hustle family did not authorize this so-called “Comeback Tour” that’s supposed to take place at Club Envy in Orlando on April 29th. In fact, they didn’t know anything about the fake concert until someone emailed the flyer to Atlantic Records to inquire about it.
If you paid for a ticket expecting to see T.I. at Club Envy, call the club at (321) 304-0229 and get your money back.
Celeb Style: Sarah Chapman On Paula Abdul *UPDATED*
Yesterday, I posted this pic of former American Idol judge Paula Abdul wearing funky high heel shoes. I mistakenly thought they were made by Lanvin, which makes the popular $450 sneakers worn by first Lady Michelle Obama and Jay Z.
They are actually Satin pump high heel sneakers, according to Fashionista Sarah Chapman who wrote about the pricey sneaks on her fashion blog. According to Sarah, the Sergio Rossi & Puma collabo retails for $620 at Neiman Marcus, and the reversible Constance Hermes belt retails for $1,000 at the Hermes store.
Former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland arrived at Sydney Domestic Airport today to perform during the Supafest. Other performers include singers Akon, Eve, Sean Paul, Jay Sean and rapper Pitbull.
Update:
Maybe Sarah will tell us what bag, boots, jacket, and cap Kelly is wearing. According to Sarah Chapman, Kelly’s boots are Chanel and her bag is Prada. She’ll have the exact details and pricing in a minute.
Photos: Splash News Online and X17online.com
FanMAIL: Heather Responds
Dear Sandra,
I just wanted to let you know that last night– when we realized what you had posted on your blog– we took down our “Party of Five” blog. This makes us heartsick, and we feel really upset about having to do it. There are many, many people who have written to us over the past three years telling us how important and inspiring our blog has been to them in terms of a whole range of things (including a deeper understanding of inter-racial adoption, education regarding Haiti, conscientious parenting, etc.).
White parents adopting black children, especially, have found the Party of Five blog helpful — in terms of raising cultural awareness, helping to educate about black hair, information about confidence-promoting picture books for young black children, etc. It is for all of these reasons that we had kept the Party of Five blog public even when we moved to a private blog in March. Last night, when we saw what you had posted on your blog — you having selectively chosen the most provocative photos of our children and posted them entirely out of context on your own blog — our hearts just sank. Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of beautiful photos of our children that we have posted over the years, you selectively chose the ones that you did. You did not ask for permission to post those photos in the manner that you did, and if you had asked us we would not have allowed for it. We had never heard of your blog before last night… but then we started getting a lot of strange comments coming in on the Party of Five blog… and it didn’t take long for us to trace them back to your blog post. It is probably hard for you to imagine how upset this has made us. As parents, our children and their safety and security and identity are our absolute number one priority in life. We immediately made the decision to pull Party of Five off the internet so that you — or others — will no longer be able to do what you’ve done to our family.
Chilli On ABC News
ABC’s Darius Brown gets Chili of TLC (top-selling R&B girl group of all time) to confess about her past love, Usher. Will prospects on her new Vh1 show ‘What Chili Wants’ be able to woo her from her past or is ‘Daddy…’ coming home?
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