
Posted on 27 October 2011. Tags: annum, idris jala, man in the street, rainy day, sarawak, scandals
Like many Malaysians, Sarawakians are shocked at the lavish lifestyles of Prime Minister Najib Razak and wife Rosmah Mansor. both have been in the scandal sheets of late over a series of spending-related scandals. These included a RM24 million diamond ring, abuse of power in scheduling an official trip to match a personal engagement, plus [...]
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Posted on 20 October 2011. Tags: african descendants, darryl james, game, peculiar institution, ugly history
By Darryl James *No other people in the world have the ugly history with a nation as African descendants with America. We were once property and instead of becoming truly free, we allowed ourselves to be duped into a game of make believe, pretending to be free, but having none of the intrinsic mobility as [...]
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Posted on 18 October 2011. Tags: income gap, private sector employees, representative study, retirement state, social security payments
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College just released an analysis entitled “Comparing Wealth in Retirement: State-Local versus Private Sector Workers” to determine the wealth effect in retirement from 1996 to 2006 for former public employee versus the private sector workers at age 65, after adjusting for workers with similar characteristics of education and [...]
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Posted on 16 October 2011. Tags: black baby, black man, black men, man 100, ugly sister
By SOP newswire2 (”) There is no doubt that I am a black woman, I am probably what is considered to be a real black woman, kinky haired, so called now described type 4 with no real curl pattern with which to classify it as good hair. I am hearing this term again and again, [...]
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Posted on 14 October 2011. Tags: ash and dust, ben casey, cannes film festival, conversant, o briens, vignettes
The Tree of Life: Blu-rayIf all one knows about Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is that it was awarded the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, watching it at home could either be a tremendously exhilarating or hugely bewildering experience. a highly personal project, the movie has been gestating in his mind [...]
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Posted on 19 September 2011. Tags: breakout, cheer, contest judge, mama, nyt, wildcats
“you ain’t got no alibi! you UGLY!” I just love that cheer from WILDCATS (1986) starring Goldie Hawn. I like the entire movie, but that’s another topic. The reason I brought this up is I found some work I’d first written from waaay back when. I hated to call my own baby manuscript ugly, however, it [...]
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Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: mtv, thegame
Keeping details to a minimum, contributing producer Mars said Game is solely focusing on the music. “Me and Game was in the studio yesterday,” Mars revealed. “We did two songs. That’s coming along crazy. We’re going to have no features: It’s just him rapping. no name dropping, no little things people say is cliché about [...]
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Posted on 13 September 2011. Tags: full time, heck, motor city madman, notch, ted nugent
Ted Nugent with Derek St. Holmes Photo by James & Maryln Brown Notes from the music beat …Ted Nugent makes no apologies for being “a huge, unstoppable fan” of his own music.Heck, Nugent doesn’t apologize for much of anything, does he?but it’s that love for the songs, Nugent says, that has brought Derek St. Holmes, [...]
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Posted on 12 September 2011. Tags: heck, lyrics, no apologies, photo, spirit, ted nugent
Ted Nugent with Derek St. Holmes Photo by James & Maryln Brown Notes from the music beat …Ted Nugent makes no apologies for being “a huge, unstoppable fan” of his own music.Heck, Nugent doesn’t apologize for much of anything, does he?but it’s that love for the songs, Nugent says, that has brought Derek St. Holmes, [...]
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