Man drops cinderblock on newborn because he couldn’t afford to keep her
A northeastern Pennsylvania man was arrested and charged with killing his newborn daughter by dropping a cinderblock on her head because he and his girlfriend couldn’t afford another child.
According to police, Christopher Fitzpatrick’s girlfriend began experiencing labor pains while the couple and Fitzpatrick’s 11-year-old sister were inside a grocery store on May 28.
“Have this f*cking baby,” Mr. Fitzpatrick, 20, allegedly told Jennifer A. Barrise, 28. “I just want to get rid of it. I gotta do what I gotta do.” Barrise asked him twice if he intended to kill their baby, but she never received a response.
The three returned to their car in the parking lot of the grocery store where Barrise gave birth to an apparently healthy baby girl, who landed on the floor of the car. None of the three touched the crying baby.
Later that day, Fitzpatrick took the baby to his job, a lawn care business, where he dropped a cinderblock twice on the baby’s head. Fitzpatrick and Barrise already had a 1-year-old boy together. She reportedly had 5 other children by different men.
Kanye West – Mama’s Boyfriend
If you’re a regular on my blog then you know I often write about men (like R&B crooner Usher) who didn’t successfully navigate through the Oedipus Complex stage of their childhood psychosexual development (age 4-7).
Freud’s definition of Oedipus Complex is “the childhood desire to sleep with the mother and to kill the father.” “The father” is represented by any male who stands between the boy and his love object (the mother).
This new track by Kanye West could have been written by Usher. According to Miss Info, “Mama’s Boyfriend” is a leftover from Kanye’s critically acclaimed album, My Dark Twisted Fantasy.
“Mama’s Boyfriend” is a classic illustration of a man still struggling with overcoming feelings of sexual desire for his mother.
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Plaxico Burress plans to fight for gun control
Disgraced former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress attended a news conference yesterday in New York to announce he would work as a spokesman for a gun control organization.
Burress, 33, was released from a NY prison on June 6 after serving 21 months on a weapons conviction. Plaxico accidentally shot himself in the thigh with a concealed handgun inside a packed nightclub on November 28, 2008. He was subsequently convicted of criminal possession of a handgun and given a 2 year sentence.
Plaxico announced yesterday he will work together with the National Urban League and Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Plaxico’s wife, Tiffany Burress, accompanied him to the press conference at the National Urban League in NY.
Burress said he will be mentored by NBA great Magic Johnson and retired NFL football coach Tony Dungy, who also attended the press conference yesterday.
He said the door is closed on a possible return to the NY Giants organization, which suspended him without pay following the shooting in 2008. Burress filed a grievance with the NFL union to get his $1 million signing bonus that the Giants withheld from him.
“To think that a player could carry a loaded gun into a nightclub, shoot himself and miss the rest of the season but get to keep his entire signing bonus illustrates one of the serious flaws in the current system,” said Giants co-owner John Mara after Burress won the grievance.
“I’m eager and excited about the next step, not knowing where it will be,” said Burress. “I’m dedicated to change and just being a better person.”
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Obama: ‘My family is fine with just one term’
U.S. Barack Obama sees the writing on the wall; he seems at peace with the fact that he will be a one-term president.
In an interview that aired this morning on NBC’s “Today” show, the President said his wife and daughters aren’t “invested” in him being president and they would have been fine if he had decided not to run for re-election.
The president senses that he will lose key red states in the upcoming 2012 election — states that are crucial for his re-election. Mr. Obama has come to terms with the fact that he will be ousted from the White House, most likely by the leading frontrunner Mitt Romney.
The former Massachusetts Governor and six other Republican candidates lined the stage at the primary season’s first Republican debate on Monday in New Hampshire where Romney said, “Anyone on the stage would be a better president than President Obama.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann officially announced her candidacy at the GOP debate on Monday. She said her first goal as president would be to repeal ObamaCare.
Among the Republican candidates onstage was former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose campaign staff quit on him last week.
Gingrich seemed to suggest that Muslims should be treated like Nazis and Communists if they seek positions with the federal government.
Man shot after being forced to perform oral sex on gunman
A Louisville man is being held on multiple sex charges after police say he forced another man to perform oral sex on him before shooting him.
According to wlky.com, 19-year-old Anton L. Malone was arrested after forcing his male victim to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint behind the Jefferson Community & Technical College building in Louisville, KY around midnight Friday.
Malone attempted to sodomize his victim but was unable to finish the act, according to a police report. He then forced the man to perform oral sex on him again, this time to completion.
Afterwards, Malone shot the victim twice in the left leg. Malone is charged with three counts of first-degree sodomy and one charged of second-degree assault.
Obama says he’d resign if he were in Weiner’s shoes
U.S. President Barack Obama said he would resign if he were in NY Congressman Anthony Weiner’s shoes.
Obama said Monday that Weiner’s behavior — sending vulgar photos of himself to at least six women on the Internet — was “highly inappropriate” and that Weiner had embarrassed himself, his wife and his family.
Obama stopped short of calling for Weiner’s resignation, and he doesn’t have the power to fire Weiner. But Obama said Weiner “should probably step back” if he couldn’t perform his job duties effectively.
Obama made the statements during an interview for NBC’s “Today Show” on Monday.
A White House spokesman called the media frenzy surrounding Weiner “a distraction from the important business that this President needs to conduct and Congress needs to conduct.”
Weiner has stubbornly refused to step down despite calls from fellow Democrats to resign. About 20 of Weiner’s constituents rallied in front of his office calling for his resignation on Monday.
The embattled congressman took a leave of absence on Friday to seek unspecified treatment for an unspecified problem. Weiner most likely suffers from narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), which is very difficult to cure.
Jennifer Hudson Spotted Out & About
Jennifer Hudson was spotted arriving at the NY studio where ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ is taped to promote her new sophomore album, I Remember Me. It was announced today that Hudson signed a $1 million book deal to write a weight-loss memoir that is due to be released in January 2012. Jennifer claims to have lost 80 lbs with the Weight Watchers program. Book publishers initially hesitated to sign Hudson to a book deal because she refused to write about the tragic murders of her mother, brother and nephew.
Last Friday, Hudson fell ill with severe stomach pains while performing during ABC’s Good Morning America concert series in NY. She was rushed to the ER where she was reportedly treated for food poisoning and released.
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