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Crime is expected to go up due to the current recession:
The last time stocks on Wall Street fell hard, in 1987, crime was exploding, and the city saw historic highs in murders in the following years.
Before that, the fiscal crisis of the 1970s helped lead to the abandonment of neighborhoods, failing schools and startling crime rates: robberies built through those years to a high in 1981, when there were 107,495 of them, for an average of 294 a day. (Last year’s total reported robberies, 21,787, was the lowest figure in modern history.)
“Every recession since the late ’50s has been associated with an increase in crime and, in particular, property crime and robbery, which would be most responsive to changes in economic conditions,” said Richard Rosenfeld, a sociologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Typically, he said, “there is a year lag between the economic change and crime rates.”
Bush, McCain, Wallstreet, and some other folks have really done us in. SMH
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It’s about time Maxwell brought his fine ass back on the scene. Here he is performing at Radio City Music Hall with opening act, Jazmine Sullivan. She is thicker than a snicker and ain’t nothing wrong with that.
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Tameka Foster comments on Usher’s latest video “Trading Places“:
A risque portrayal of seductive role reversal, the video shows the 29-year-old singer in compromising positions with a lithe, lightly dressed video vixen who unabashedly woman-handles a boxer-clad Usher.
Although little is left to the imagination, Foster Raymond, who is expecting the couple’s second child, stands by her man. “My husband is a consummate artist and entertainer,” Foster, 37, told ESSENCE.com. “This video is strictly entertainment and was made for his fans. I am clear that he is a sexy man and looks amazing in this clip. I support my husband in his endeavors.”
It’s been alleged that the video had to undergo several edits before being deemed appropriate for television. Most can’t recall Usher ever appearing so sexually aggressive on-screen during his bachelor days. Many blogs have hand-slapped Usher for his overt display of affection and question whether a married father and founder of a nonprofit youth foundation should conduct himself a bit more conservatively. Ironically, some of these same naysayers crucified him for choosing to be an honorable family man by marrying the mother of his child, whom he’s repeatedly defended.
Perhaps Usher has decided to remind the masses of his sex-symbol status by force-feeding the fantasies of his female fans. Whatever the reason, the public court has apparently ruled that one of ATL’s finest is damned if he does take a stand as a family man, and damned if he doesn’t.
What they should have done was have Usher do this same video with Tameka (instead of a “lithe, lightly dressed video vixen”) wearing the same outfit in the photo above. Now that would have been pure comedy.
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Police have made an arrest for the murder of NFL player Darrent Williams.
Police have charged a suspect in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, who was gunned down on New Year’s Day 2007. Willie D. Clark, 25, was indicted Wednesday on 39 counts, including first degree murder, attempted murder, assault, crimes of violence and a weapons violation, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey told the Associated Press. Clark is in federal custody in a separate case. He was long considered a “person of interest” in Williams’ slaying but is the first suspect to be indicted. Williams, a former Oklahoma State standout, was 24 yrs. old when he was shot and killed while riding in a rented limousine early on Jan. 1, 2007, after leaving the Safari Club - a Denver nightspot.
The Williams Family can now put some closure to this long ordeal. We really hope that murderer, Willie, was doing it very big at clubs all over Denver because with those 39 counts, it is highly unlikely he will ever be able to go to a club again, let alone stay outside of a cell past 8:30pm. SMH
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Livesteez reported today that the folks over at TMZ spotted McDonald’s:
A TMZ employee said she ordered a Happy Meal from an L. A. McDonald’s restaurant Wednesday and the box she received promoted former Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick. TMZ executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere says he was surprised to see a convicted felon associated with Happy Meals that are normally distributed to kids, and called McDonald’s for an explanation about the box. The box was stamped underneath with a 2004 copyright, and featured NBA player, Vince Carter wearing a Toronto Raptors jersey, (his former team), and U.S. soccer player Mia Hamm.
McDonald’s does the Heisman on that ho and swiftly distance themselves from Michael Vick when you…
“We apologize for any confusion caused by the inadvertent distribution of a Happy Meal box that is four years old. As your web site pointed out, this Happy Meal box is from 2004, so it does not reflect any current partnership with Michael Vick. We take the messages we share with our younger customers seriously, and have since corrected this isolated incident.”
Why are they acting like Michael’s face being on the box will instantly make kids want to break puppies’ necks??? All the kids know is that there better be five nuggets in there and all hell is gonna break loose if they don’t have the toy they want in that box.
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Here is Forest Whitaker campaigning in Michigan for our Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Remember people, if you have not yet registered to vote, and you live in a state where the deadline has not passed, please do so today.
The deadline for NY is October 10th. Click HERE to register to vote for change in the state of New York today!!!
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Lil girls are scrapping more and more over boys. One little wheffah busted the other girl’s face all the way up with some old school brass knuckles out in Killer Cali:
A dispute over a boy prompted a teenage girl to beat a romantic rival with a pair of brass knuckles, leaving the victim with broken bones and her face permanently disfigured, police said Wednesday. “They both looked like All-American girls, which was surprising to us,” said Lt. Jeff Pinney. “Usually you see brass knuckles used by gang members, not young girls.” He said Lynsie Elizabeth Caldwell, 18, of Hemet was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon, infliction of great bodily injury, mayhem and torture. She was being held on $525,000 bail. The attack occurred Aug. 31 at a party where Caldwell encountered the 17-year-old victim, police said. “These two had a dispute for the last several months over a boy,” Pinney said. “So Caldwell finds the victim at the party, produces the brass knuckles and proceeds to pummel her repeatedly even after she was down.” The victim suffered facial fractures, a broken nose and numerous lacerations requiring stitches, Pinney said. “It’s amazing to me that they still sell brass knuckles,” Pinney said. “They are illegal to possess, but are still sold at specialty shops.”
Hemet is as gritty a city as any in North Dakota. Do you think the boy is going to give her some play when she gets out from serving a torture sentence?
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The Sexiest Woman Alive, Halle Berry, lauched her new fragrance in New York.
“We call Halle my second baby,” she said, “because that’s really all I’ve been working on for the past two years.” Throughout the process, the actress insisted on being involved in just about every aspect creating the fragrance, from doing scent tests to helping design the bottle itself — and made sure that the woody oriental included two of her most-loved notes. “I was mixing two fragrances, a fig and a mimosa, and putting them in a bottle and carrying them around,” she says. “That was my flavor of the moment.” And it’s a flavor she hopes men will appreciate as much as women. “I want women to feel that their partners, that special person, thinks they smell beautiful, thinks that it’s simple enough that they can ingest it all day, every day. That’s what Gabriel said,” she adds, of her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s take on her signature scent. “He said it smells like that — he better be right!”
Let’s hope for Halle’s sake that her little K-Fraud has equally good taste in women and perfume.
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Tyson Beckford was trying to get with a broad?!?:
At the opening of Megu restaurant’s club M Tuesday, Beckford was flirting with Victoria’s Secret model Noémie Lenoir. “He was playing with her hair and stroking her back,” said a witness who overheard the male mannequin purring, “Come on, give me a kiss.” Beckford - who left alone that night - had celebrated Lenoir’s birthday at Mr. West Lounge last week, but her rep told us, “They’re just friends.”
In case you missed Tyson and his little scarf swag, click the last thumbnail for a refresher…
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