Secret Service Probe Bullet-Riddled Image of Obama on Cop’s Facebook Page

A bullet-riddled photo of President Barack Obama posted to a cop’s Facebook page has attracted the attention of the Secret Service.

The picture on the facebook page of Peoria police sergeant Pat Shearer depicts seven young men, four of them holding automatic weapons, and one displaying a black t-shirt with an image of Obama that is bullet-riddled and slashed.

According to published reports, a citizen alerted the Secret Service to the image which has since been removed from Shearer’s Facebook page.

“Any time information like this is brought to our attention we have to conduct a follow-up,” Max Milien, spokesman for the Secret Service, said, according to AZcentral.com.

“We understand an individual’s right to free speech but we also have the right to speak to the individual to determine what their intent is,” Milien added.

Read more…

Swizz Beatz Unmasked As Content Pirate Kingpin

Music producer Swizz Beatz, who is married to musician Alicia Keys, is on the run from federal prosecutors, according to the Associated Press. Beatz, real name Kasseem Dean, 33, is listed as the CEO on the website of the Hong Kong-based file sharing website, Megaupload.com, which was shut down by feds today.

The Associated Press reports:

The indictment accuses the company of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, one day after websites shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart the online piracy of copyrighted movies and TV programs.

Yesterday, Swizz Beatz was unmasked as the CEO/owner of the world’s largest file sharing website by the NY Post, which alleged that Beatz got some of his celebrity friends to appear in a star-studded promotional vehicle for Megaupload.com.

High powered celebrities such as Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kanye West, Floyd Mayweather, Serena Williams and others are seen happily promoting the illegal service in the video.

Read more…

Rihanna agrees to lift restraining order against chris brown

According to EOnline.com, Rihanna has had a change of heart.

She has agreed to approve chris brown’s request to lift the restraining order barring him from making contact with her or approaching within 300 yards of her.

brown’s attorneys filed an aplication with the courts asking a judge to lift the restraining order and amend it to a level one – citing his inability to attend awards shows.

While Rihanna has requested that the order be dropped to a level one—meaning that they can have contact as long as Brown doesn’t annoy, molest or harass her—and Brown attorney Mark Geragos has been informed of her approval, Geragos still needs to go to court to have the order officially modified by a judge.

But according to an industry source, it’s the Grammy people who don’t want brown in attendance this Sunday for the reasons that were stated in this post.

Still, Rihanna’s change of heart means the industry will lift its unofficial blacklist that was imposed on him after he beat Rihanna to a pulp prior to the Grammy Awards in 2009.

But will the fans have a change of heart and accept brown again? I highly doubt it. chris brown has not changed. He is still an immature little boy who feels entitled to do and say whatever he wants.

I agree with my source who says age is not an excuse for bad behavior — especially at 21. “People are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan who are younger than him.”

How Not To Send a Cease & Desist Letter

As I’ve told you bloggers in the past, receiving a Cease & Desist/take down order via email is not legal unless a physical copy is also sent via certified mail.

Most celebrities and their high powered legal mouth pieces think you don’t know that. So they’ll try you in the hope that the email by itself will be sufficient enough to scare you into taking the post down fast.

Celebrities with substantial personal wealth at their disposal arrogantly believe that most bloggers are broke and we don’t know our rights. Celebrities think money is power when, in reality, it is not. Knowledge is power, and without it you are defenseless.

Necole B’s Attorney Sends Bogus C&D Order

If you’ve been following the drama between myself and celebrity blogger Necole Bitchie, here’s the latest. The shook blogger took a gamble yesterday and had one of her attorney buddies send me a bogus cease & desist email ordering me to remove all posts pertaining to one “p/k/a Necole Bitchie (Miss Bitchie).” They didn’t even put her real name in the letter. What kind of foolishness is that?

Actually, the C&D was a photo scan of an actual letter that I’m guessing they intend to send through snail mail, though I doubt I’ll get it.

As I’ve told you bloggers in the past, receiving a cease & desist letter via email is not legal unless it’s sent certified through the mail. So you should not panic when you receive a C&D in this manner. Most attorneys think that sending C&D orders through email should be sufficient enough to scare the pants off of you. But Necole’s attorney obviously is not familiar with me or my blog.

If Kimora Lee’s prestigious 5th Avenue law firm couldn’t persuade me to remove a post about her, what makes this attorney think I’m going to budge on Necole’s post — and she’s a nobody?

Anyway, it’s obvious that Necole’s attorney didn’t even bother to authenticate Necole’s claim that I altered her email that she sent to an industry executive (hey, bloggers can be executives too). For instance, the attorney didn’t ask her to produce the original email so they could check the headers or anything. Had they done that they would have known that she was lying her azz off.

Anyway, I forwarded the foolishness to my attorney because she snacks on bogus C&D orders between meals. If any of you bloggers need a really good attorney, who is Harvard educated and knows her chit, let me know and I’ll pass on her info to you.

EDIT: I forgot to add that putting a legal disclaimer at the end of emails is not legally binding in most states. I thought all attorneys knew that?

Celebs Out & About

Singer Kelis showed off her baby bump at somebody’s birthday party this weekend in L.A. If you recall, Kelis sent her legal goons after us to take down this post. We left it up since she wanted to be a b*tch about it. Until and unless George Bush II (Obama) gets his way and overturns the constitution, we still have a right to express our opinions in this country.
Photos: Wireimage/Getty

Is this really Vivica A. Fox or an obsessed fan? Because if it is Vivica, she’s looking a little Tyler Perry-ish about the face and shoulders. In addition to looking like she’s had yet another nose job, she looks like she bench presses 300 pounds every morning. When are these women going to stop going overboard with the plastic surgery?
Photos: Wireimage/Getty

I’m so tired of looking at these two. It’s obvious they are not a real couple. Kanye is a pillow biter and Amber Rose is a lesbun who likes to strap one on literally and figuratively. Someone who knows Amber personally emailed me to describe what she does to Knaye behind closed doors. Visualizing that scene made my head hurt.
Photos: Splash News and Wireimage/Getty

A dapper Alonzo Mourning and his lovely wife Tracy attended Russell Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Art For Life at the Fontainebleau Hilton hotel in Miami Beach on Saturday (3/14). Mourning plays for the Miami Heat and his wife spends his money, which is how it ought to be.
Photo: Wireimage/Getty

Actress Vivica A. Fox and socialite/reality tv personality Kim Kardashian compared plastic surgery horror stories at Russell Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation Art For Life at the Fontainebleau Hilton hotel in Miami Beach on Saturday (3/14).
Photo: Wireimage/Getty

They said actress Stacy Dash had a nose job and she denied it. Well, here’s the evidence. Only a man-made nose would look like it belonged on Michael Jackson’s face.

Guess Whose Legal Goons Reached Out Yesterday?

So yesterday I wrote a post in which I copied & pasted a conversation between one of Kanye West’s bodyguards (allegedly) and another blogger. Not that I measure my reader’s interest based on comments, but that particular post generated a grand total of one comment.

So what’s the big deal, right?

Within hours, a Cease & Desist letter landed in my email inbox with a thud! It caught me by surprise. Out of all the Kanye posts I’ve written in the past, why would I get a C&D for that post?

Anyway, after receiving the C&D, I hustled back to the Fashionista.com to see if the text was still there. Of course the entire post was completely removed from the server. The Fashionista must have been shook when they emailed her.

But thank God for Google’s cache pages, otherwise I might be left holding the bag like I made the whole thing up myself.

Do I believe The Fashionista manufactured the conversation like certain other blogs sometimes do? No I don’t. That conversation was too intricately woven together to be fake.

Besides that, why would she make it up?

But a better question is, why would the legal goons pick that particular subject to get excited about?

Is it that our combined posts woke up the sleeping Louis Vuitton Gods, who weren’t aware that their shoes were walking out the back door before they had the chance to hit retail stores?

I don’t know that for a fact. I’m just guessing.

Photo: Wireimage/Getty

Next Page »