Great Condom Commercial

It’s slightly taboo but still funny and actually kinda cute …. lol

Woman Faces 15 Years In Jail For Cutting In Line At Walmart

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. – Walking hand in hand with her mother, Hester, 24-year old Heather Renae Ellis, trudged grim-faced into the Stoddard County Missouri Justice Center for a pre-trial hearing Wednesday afternoon. The former pre-med student faces four felony counts and possibly fifteen years in prison that stem from a January 2007 arrest after allegedly “cutting in line” at a Kennett, Missouri Wal-mart.

Pastor Nathan Ellis says of his daughter, “She’s fighting for her life. this has been an outright attempt to destroy her future and assassinate her destiny and I’m proud of her for the fact that she’s standing on truth.”

But, confronted with a change of venue in the nearly three year old case, Ellis and her family did not have to come alone to the small ultra-conservative Southeast Missouri community of Bloomfield…where her trial is scheduled for November 18th.

Members of local civil rights groups from neighboring Sikeston and Cape Girardeau joined forces with a representative from the St. Louis ACLU and the Memphis chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in quietly demonstrating their support for Ellis.

Harry Howard, of Sikeston opined, “We’re just wondering how we can get more support. Not only the area, but state-wide and nationally to get more sounding board for people who don’t have a voice. There’s so many cases.”

Reverend Mongtomery asserted, “This is without question an injustice. We see that and our concern beyond that is the Klu Klux Klan is trying to intimidate the family. But, we’re gonna stand with them as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and try to get as much support as we can.”

The change in venue could prove to be one of the toughest any African-American defendant could ever face. Located fifty miles north of Kennett, Bloomfield’s black population measures less than one percent of it’s two-thousand residents. Statistics from the Missouri Department of Justice indicate the county’s judicial system is considered one of the strictest in the state in terms of convictions and sentencing. A reputation those in the area, both black and white, openly fear.

Deborah Young, President of the Cape’s NAACP exclaims, “This is a very tough place to play ball. You will see injustice in all of her glory right here in the Boothill of Missouri.”

However, it would seem a comfortable setting for Dunklin County District Attorney, Stephen Sokoloff, to dominate the proceedings as he did during the twenty-minute hearing on Wednesday. With cameras barred from the courtroom, Sokoloff told Judge Joe Satterfield he has now turned over all discovery evidence to Ellis’ new attorney, T.J. Hunsacker, including video tapes from the Wal-mart, Sokoloff has insisted in the past, will definitely prove Ellis is guilty of the allegations. Sokoloff also provided a motion to exclude some of the defense witnesses in the case.

After the hearing, Sokoloff would only respond, “No, I don’t comment on anything prior to trial. I let the evidence speak for itself. I think it’s inappropriate to be discussing those things.”

Under orders from attorney Hunsacker, Ellis did not given an on-camera interview. However, she did participate in a prayer ceremony at the end of the hearing with family and supporters.

The power of prayer…..Heather Ellis… may now very well…. need to believe in.

TWEET THIS: #votelola4vj

This beautiful girl (who is also a friend of mine) needs your help and support.

Lola Plaku is in the running for the 2009 Much Music VJ search. She got her profile approved late in the game and she needs all the votes she can get since she has to play catch up to the rest of the submissions. And I believe she can do it – especially with YOUR help.

PLEASE take the time to go to the website: http://vj.muchmusic.com/gallery/3743#gallery watch her posted video and vote for her!!! ALSO … if you are on Facebook, please join her group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27473380472&ref=mf

She deserves this.

Much appreciated and loads of love,
Corprah xo ♥

Race Baiting 101

I got this in an email this morning and I wanted to pass it along:

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Lou Dobbs is using his platform on CNN to revive paranoid conspiracy theories about whether President Obama was born in the U.S.¹ While the question was put to rest long ago, Dobbs is pretending that this extremist nonsense is a legitimate national conversation.

Intentionally or not, he is stoking the fires of racial fear and paranoia in the same way that the McCain/Palin campaign did when they cast Obama as “not one of us.”² Even after being called on this, Dobbs refuses to stop.

CNN, which is held in high regard by many Americans and describes itself as the “the most trusted name in news,” is allowing one of its hosts to give legitimacy to debunked, racist conspiracy theories.

Please join us in calling on CNN to dump Dobbs, and ask your friends and family to do the same:

http://www.colorofchange.org/dobbs/?id=2069-290706

For more than a year, folks on the far right have been claiming that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen; that he was born in Kenya, and as a result can’t be president³. This theory has been repeatedly debunked. Not only has the state of Hawaii provided a birth certificate to media organizations several times, there were also birth announcements in two separate Hawaii papers when Obama was born in 1961–for most reasonable people, that would remove any doubt.

Members of Dobbs’ own staff have said they’re uncomfortable with his insistence on pursuing this story⁴, but Dobbs insists on claiming there must be something to it because, “Obama refuses to produce the long-form of his birth certificate.” Other news outlets have refused to give the idea any credence. The head of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, had this to say about the claim: “It’s racist. It’s racist. Just call it for what it is.”⁵

Dobbs and race

Lou Dobbs has a history of attacking immigrants by spouting hateful rhetoric and lies. He once claimed that “the invasion of illegal aliens is threatening the health of many Americans” through “deadly imports” of diseases like leprosy and malaria.⁶ This kind of rhetoric feeds anti-immigrant hate, the kind of hate that leads to horrors like the beating death of Luis Ramirez in Pennsylvania and the shooting death of nine-year old Brisenia Flores in Arizona earlier this year. Dobbs’ rhetoric has led organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to call on CNN to reign in Dobbs in the past.⁷

Now, Dobbs is going after President Obama by giving voice to the same kind of xenophobic rhetoric, stoking the deep-seated fears of angry right-wing extremists who, as CNN analyst Roland Martin has said, can’t accept the fact that their president is Black⁸.

Dobbs may not like Obama, but it’s a real problem for him to use his powerful position as a moderator of discussion about the news to validate a dangerous falsehood that’s rooted in racism.

Several watchdog groups have demanded action on the part of CNN. The head of the SPLC wrote CNN last week asking that they fire Dobbs based on his recent actions⁹. Media Matters and others have launched efforts to hold CNN accountable as well.¹⁰

CNN has the opportunity to live up to its description of itself as the most trusted cable news network. Or it can ignore the problem of Lou Dobbs and communicate something very different: that delivering real news and analysis is not its top priority, and that legitimizing extremist propaganda is an acceptable part of doing business.

Join us in calling on Jon Klein, the president of CNN, to take Dobbs off the air:

http://www.colorofchange.org/dobbs/?id=2069-290706

Vote For K. Hill

I’m imploring my readers to vote for good music and even better Hip Hop.

K. Hill is up against crap competition and yet they’re in the lead as of 7/8/2009 @ 11:18AM EST. Shit needs to change! lol

Please click >here< to vote for his joint “Look What Happens” …. ( MATCH UP #1) is where you vote. It takes little to no time and you do not need to comment or sign up for anything

Thanks, y’all!

I LOVED This Book As A Child ♥

I wish I could find a bigger picture.

This was an amazing book I read back in elementary school (I used to have a copy signed by the author but have lost it over the years) and it dealt with being different and teased and bullied and for whatever reason its lessons ALWAYS stayed with me and I remembered it tonight while talking about a sexy Italian man ( I KNOW how wrong that seems but lol … sue me!)

There’s No Beauty In Nicotine

I quit smoking the week before my best friends’ birthday which was last September. I was only casually smoking at that point but because I would only smoke when drinking and I was going out almost every other weekend, I’d smoke an entire pack of Matinee Slims Extra Milds a night. The odd time, I could stretch my brand the weekend but that was rare. I stopped because my grandmother died of lung cancer (despite never smoking a day in her life) a few months before and after seeing her on her deathbed there was no way I could continue the habit. I DO get urges now and then to smoke and I often tell myself, its just ONE ciggie and while I’ve never had a problem quitting cold turkey in the past,  I don’t even want to social smoke. I actually had a craving today. I didn’t give in and I guess it was meant to be because in my travels around the web I came across these great anti-smoking ads. Check them out: