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New Birth Crowns Eddie Long as King

lovelyti — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:15:12 +0000

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BEYONCÉ STANS LIED, MAYOR PARKER NOT BACKING BEYONCÉ MONUMENT IDEA

lovelyti — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:34:02 +0000

In announcing plans for a fundraising venture that would include construction of some sort of monument to Houston native Beyoncé Knowles, Armdeonce Ventures’ Marcus Mitchell indicated last night that there was official civic support behind the project.

“We’ve gotten support from the city of Houston, from the mayor,” Mitchell told Fox 26 reporter Kristin Kane. “We’re waiting for a very nice letter from the mayor right now.” But if Mayor Parker sends him one, the letter may not include what Mitchell is after.

Janice Evans, a spokesperson for the mayor stated this:

“Fox is wrong. The City of Houston is not behind, working with or having anything to do with an effort to build a monument honoring Beyonce.” To soften the blow, she adds, later: “But we doheart Beyonce and her music.”

Smh @ these STANS, they straight up lied to the local news -_-

Twitter is now restricting user content in certain countries

lovelyti — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:45:07 +0000

This screen shot shows a portion of the Twitter blog post of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012,

in which the company announced it has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country …

source: (Reuters) – Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in specific countries,
renewing questions about how the social media platform will handle issues of free speech as it rapidly expands its global user base. Until now, Twitter had to remove a Tweet from its global network if it received a takedown request from a government. But the company said in a blog post published Thursday that it now has the ability to selectively block a Tweet from appearing to users in one country.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.

Twitter gave as examples of restrictions it might cooperate with, such as “pro-Nazi content” in France and Germany, where it is banned. It said even with the possibility of such restrictions, Twitter would not be able to coexist with some countries.
“Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there,” it said.
“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” Twitter wrote.
In the interest of transparency, Twitter said, it has built a mechanism to inform users in the event that a Tweet is being blocked.

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first sopa then pipa now acta?

lovelyti — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:20:16 +0000

megaupload shut down

ACTA

more ACTA info:

Obama sued

Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe

lovelyti — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:04:38 +0000

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Re:Helpless Asian Man Attacked by 7 Others

lovelyti — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:31:01 +0000

*Update*.. arrests have been made after this video circulated
“names of the 7 posted below:
WESLEY WU – grey hoodie, main kid attacking the man, deleted facebook. EASLEY WU – big puffy jackey with fur hood, blue striped adidas pants RAYMOND PALOMINO – white guy with no mask TODD RAMOS – grey and black hoodie JOHNNY LI – blue hoodie and blue snap back on DANNY HUI – dressed in all black”

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SOPA opponents gaining momentum Wikipedia to join blackout

lovelyti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:24:55 +0000

source: redtape
UPDATED Jan. 16, 3:15 ET — Opponents of controversial federal anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA seem to be picking up steam. Supporters of the legislation in both houses of Congress appear have backed off, the Obama administration has expressed concerns with the legislation, and an Internet blackout slated for Wednesday is picking up supporters.
A House subcommittee was slated to prepare the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, for a vote later this month; the Senate had planned a vote on the companion bill, PIPA (The Protect IP Act,) even sooner. Now, it appears both votes will be delayed.
SOPA opponents are rallying around an effort to call attention to the legislation by convincing Web sites to “go dark” on Jan. 18, and display only a simple message of protest on a black background. On Monday, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that his website will go dark for 24 hours starting at midnight ET Tuesday, following the lead of other high-profile promised blackouts. Reddit.com will go black from 8 a.m.- 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The hacker group Anonymous also encouraged others to join in the 12-hour blackout, and garnered a lot of attention with its Twitter post using the hashtag #BlackoutSOPA.
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Meanwhile, several signs point to SOPA legislation hitting some serious speedbumps. On Saturday, a statement issued by White House cyberczar Howard Schmidt, and other administration technology officials, threw cold water on SOPA’s anti-piracy efforts.
“Our analysis of the DNS filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cybersecurity and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online,” says the response, referring to SOPA’s proposal to allow law enforcement officials to blacklist Web sites — cut them off from U.S. users — that allegedly encourage piracy. The response, posted at WhiteHouse.gov on Saturday, does not take a position on SOPA, but it cautioned lawmakers that the administration will opposed anti-piracy efforts that might increased censorship.
“Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small,” the memo reads.
In Congress, supporters of the legislation have recently indicated they are open to changing their proposals.
Late Friday afternoon, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), said he planned tone down enforcement powers that would be granted by the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). A new version would not include the most controversial provision, which would have enabled federal authorities to “blacklist” domains that were alleged to be involved in distribution of pirated content, effectively cutting portions of the Web off from all U.S. users.
“After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision,” Smith, one of SOPA’s chief backers, said in a statement. “We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign websites cannot sell and distribute illegal content to U.S. consumers.”

These are two very frightening pieces of controversial legislation, SOPA and The NDAA they both go to stop our Constitutional Rights without the approval from Americans, just as the Patriot Act was adopted WITHOUT public approval or a vote just weeks after the events of 9/11. #WAKETHEHELLUP

Drake Has His Security Team Confront The Tattoo Artist Who Called Him A Goofnugget R&B Dude

lovelyti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:14:56 +0000

Remember the crazy Drake stan that got his name tattooed across her entire forehead? Well, in an interview after a photo of the tattoo went viral, the L.A.-based artist behind the ink-work called Drake a “goofnugget R&B dude” and “the softest motherf**ker in Hip-Hop.”

Naturally, Drake didn’t take too kindly to the tattoo artist’s insult, and issued a threatening message for the guy:

“The guy who tatted is a f**king a**hole though, I will tell you that. F**k you to that tattoo artist by the way because you’re an asshole for real. You should lose your job and never do tattoos again and I don’t f**k with you and if I ever see you I’m going to f**k you up.”

well being a man of his word, Drake recently confronted the dude in the lamest way possible …. he send a couple of big, burly bodyguards to the guy’s tattoo shop “to give him a STERN warning.”

“Drake sent his security detail into the shop to inform me that ‘nobody is going to hurt Drake in the state of California.’ I don’t remember ever saying I was going to hurt him, but maybe they were referring to his feelings,” tattoo artist Kevin Campbell wrote on his Facebook.

He elaborated a little more the next day via his Twitter:

Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban Bodies in Viral Video identified

lovelyti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:58:18 +0000

The United States Marines Corps say they have identified and interviewed the four men who were seen urinating on corpses in Afghanistan in a viral video that was posted online this week.

The video, which first surfaced online Wednesday morning, and is described as a “recruitment tool for the Taliban,” shows four men in full combat uniform laughing and joking around as they relieve themselves on three dead bodies.

One of the men can be heard saying, “Have a great day, buddy!” as his colleagues laugh, and another jokes, “Golden like a shower.”

According to various published reports, the four men were members of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines out of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where they reportedly showed the video off as some sort of “war trophy.”

So far, the names of the men have not been released, but an unidentified official says that some of the men are no longer members of the military.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called the video “utterly deplorable” and ordered a high-level probe into the incident, which has been condemned by other White House officials and politicians, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who called the soldiers’ actions “inhumane.”

“Those found to have engaged in such conduct will be held accountable to the fullest extent,” said the Secretary of Defense, who advised the commander of western troops in Afghanistan to launch their own investigation.

Hillary Clinton expressed “total dismay” at the video, calling it “deplorable behavior” and “absolutely inconsistent with the standards of behavior that the vast majority of Marines hold themselves to.”

“Anyone, anyone found to have participated or know about it, having engaged in such conduct, must be held fully accountable,” she said.

Though the nature of the charges brought against the men are unclear, desecrating bodies is a crime under U.S. military law and the Geneva conventions.

In response to the growing diplomatic storm surrounding the situation, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Lt. General Curtis Scaparrotti, said in a message to troops Friday that defiling, desecrating, mocking, photographing or filming for personal use insurgent dead constitutes a grave breach” of the laws that are currently governing armed conflict.

But not everyone is so strongly against the video. A prominent anti-Muslim activist in New York, Pamela Geller, who famously opposed the construction of an Islamic center near ground zero, praised the soldiers for desecrating the the corpses of Afghans who she described as “murderous savages.”

“I love these marines. Perhaps this is the infidel interpretation of the Islamic ritual of washing and preparing the body for burial,” she wrote on her blog.

Florida Rep. Allen West, an ex-Army lieutenant colonel, slammed non-military people who are criticizing the four marines seen in the video, saying, “…unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”

CNN contributor Dana Loesche, who also supports the troops and their crude actions, said in an interview with FM News Talk 97.1 in St. Louis, Missouri, “C’mon people, this is war. Do I have a problem with that as a citizen of the United States? No, I don’t.”

Meanwhile, Eugenia Weiss, a military psychiatrist based out of California, suggested the soldiers may have been “stressed” or “pranksters with extremely bad taste.”

Eugene Fidell, who teaches a military course at Yale University, said that the Marines could be sent to prison if a jury of military officers deem it to be an appropriate punishment.

War makes people do sick ass things, when you turn young men and women in to legal killers, these are some of the things that happen.
I’m sure both parties hav done far worst to both sides, during the course of this stupid ass war….it’s sick either way, show some class marines, you’re supposed to be the best of the best!

Rare Horse Fly Named After Beyonce…

lovelyti — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:47:04 +0000

An Australian researcher has named a rare horsefly after Beyonce because of it’s unique golden bottom -_-

From Cisro News

A previously un-named species of horse fly whose appearance is dominated by its glamorous golden lower abdomen has been named in honour of American pop diva, Beyoncé – a member of the former group Destiny’s Child, that recorded the 2001 hit single, Bootylicious.

According to the Australian National Insect Collection researcher responsible for officially ‘describing’ the fly as Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae, CSIRO’s Bryan Lessard, the fly’s spectacular gold colour makes it the “all time diva of flies”.

“It was the unique dense golden hairs on the fly’s abdomen that led me to name this fly in honour of the performer Beyoncé as well as giving me the chance to demonstrate the fun side of taxonomy – the naming of species,” Mr Lessard said.

“Although often considered a pest, many species of horse fly are extremely important pollinators of many plants,” he said. “Horse flies act like hummingbirds during the day, drinking nectar from their favourite varieties of grevillea, tea trees and eucalypts.”

All I can do is laugh, this is the funniest mess iv’e heard all day=D