The AP is reporting that a second Nigerian man has been taken into custody today aboard a jetliner in Detroit after locking himself in the bathroom. The incident took place aboard the same Northwest flight that was attacked Christmas Day.

What is going on with security at Northwest Airlines?…and why are Nigerians trying to attack our people?

How are terrorist on the “DO NOT FLY” list getting on these planes, and foiling the supposedly impregnable airline strip search security?

President Obama…security in America is slipping…remember the White House party crashers?

What gives?

This same flight was attacked on Christmas day!

A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaeda’s instructions, set off an explosive device Friday in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit, federal officials said.

Source…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/us/28terror.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/26/2009-12-26_father_of_umar_farouk_abdul_mutallab_nigerian_terror_suspect_in_flight_253_attac.html

E! Online News is reporting that troubled actor Charlie Sheen threatened his wife with a knife during their Christmas day holiday on Saturday in Aspen,Colorado.

It wasn’t a very merry Christmas for Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller. The “Two and a Half Men” star was arrested today, December 25, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado after Brooke accused him of shoving her. Police responded after a 911 call was made at 8:34 AM.

When cops arrived, they arrested the 44-year-old star for felony second degree assault, felony menacing and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.

Cops say all three charges are coupled with a domestic violence component.

Sheen’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, says, Do not be mislead by appearance. Appearance and reality can be as different as night and day. It would benefit everyone not to jump to any conclusion.

The actor has since been released on bail, but will have to return to appear before a judge in the upcoming days. Story developing…

The police had reported in a very vague way, that a “weapon” had been used during the domestic abuse assault by Charlie Sheen on his current wife, actress and real estate executive Brooke Mueller. The knife is the reason for the added charge of felony menacing by the Colorado State police, given that the crime was committed in Aspen,Colorado.

There are rumors spreading on the internet that claim that both of the Sheen’s were tanked out of their mind on alcohol, and that Charlie was not attacking her, but that he was defending himself from an attack by Brooke.

This is an excuse that a lot of men have used to no avail in these post O.J. Simpson murder trial fallout. In every state in the Union, even if a woman is beating a man down, it is almost guaranteed, via arrest statistics, that the male will be arrested, and incarcerated as the aggressive party.

The best that could happen for the man, is that his wife is arrested simultaneously with him, if that is his story, and  if the evidence is somewhat there to support it. It’s just like family custody court…if you are a man, prepare to be screwed mistreated and abused,… even if the woman is the actual offending party in the matter.

Solution…do not be a man!!!…I am just kidding, I love being a man….lol!

My advice to all men, is if you find yourself in an altercation with your wife or significant other…if she is the aggressor, simply turn away and sprint out of the room, and separate yourself from the situation.

Just hold the temper and fisticuffs, and see her in court.It is the best thing to do.

The bad part here is that you should also call the police on her immediately, and try to be the first one to do it, or, just like what happened to Charlie here…

Cancel Christmas!!!!

Read the full story here….

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b159682_source_sheens_domestic_dispute_weapon.html

The holiday season got off with a blast in the face for Kendu Isaacs, the husband of Mary J. Blige, who got punched in the face by Mary, and then beat down by her brother at her record release party at club M2 Tuesday night.

The singer slugged Isaacs, drawing blood, after she thought he was flirting with a waitress and some of his favorite video vixens.

The fisticuffs started after Isaacs had Mary’s brother removed from the V.I.P. section of the club, in favor of the video models, whom he was also spotted flirting with.

“She turned to him and was screaming, ‘You’re not going to ruin my night,’ ” our witness says. “They got up in each other’s faces before her brother tried to separate them, at which point she shoved the guy aside, pulled back and popped Kendu in the face.”

Isaacs was subsequently physically removed from the club, and Mary left shortly thereafter.

Read the full story here, from the New York Daily News…..

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/12/24/2009-12-24_mary_j_blige_i_was_just_stopping_brawl_between_my_husband_kendu_isaacs_and_my_br.html

Kendu checking his text messages like Tiger and Chris Brown…He needs to be texting Mary!!!

KENDU LOOKS AWAY AGAIN!!!…Man, you got Mary J. Blige,…you need to stop!!!

The Colorado man who carried out the balloon boy hoax choked back tears as he apologized for the stunt, before a judge read out his punishment for the hoax.

Richard Heene has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

I think he needed a little time-out to reflect on his crime.

I am wondering what effect this will have on his kids. It will be a different kind of Christmas gift for them…free from dad for a few months…

So ends the saga of the Balloon Boy!!!

SOURCE-

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-balloon-boy24-2009dec24,0,2155885.story

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/balloon-boy-parents-acted_n_400119.html

Vets in New York have reportedly diagnosed the first known case of H1N1 Swine Flu in a dog.

The LA Times reports…The virus has been found before in other pets, including at least three ferrets, several cats and pigs and a cheetah named Gijima at a wildlife preserve in Santa Rosa.

A couple of the cats died, but most of the animals recovered.

Full story here-http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-swine-flu-dog23-2009dec23,0,2022503.story

They say we should not be alarmed by this alarming development. Reportedly it is a “rare” occurence.

What do you think? …how are we going to get the dogs and cats to wash their hands?

I am kind of concerned, lots of dogs around here!….

Brittany Murphy, the actress who rose to stardom in “8 Mile” died Sunday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be natural causes, a Los Angeles County coroner’s official said.

I met her during our first season on King of the Hill…it was fun watching her rise to stardom.

Rest in peace Brittany Murphy…

More details to come.

Follow this story here…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/20/brittany-murphy-dead-dies_n_398576.html

A Milwaukee city school teacher has assaulted a little first grade African-American girl in front of her class, by aggressively cutting off her French braids because she wanted the child to stop playing with her hair!

What is more surprising about this story is that her mother calmly went to the school to discuss the assault on her child, and when the teacher became indignant, she quietly left the classroom, to discuss the matter competently with the principle.

That is a good thing, and a good example for us all,…especially me. I commend her in her measured approach to this assault on her daughter’s hair.

I say this because, I probably would have handled it differently.

I remember a situation that happened to my brother, when he was in elementary school.

Apparently, the principle at his school, had taken it upon himself to spank my brother with a paddle, for some minor infraction, and to top that off, he was spanked in front of his classroom.My brother was in the third grade, and this was the late 60’s, not that long after black people had received our civil rights.

My dad , upon learning of this news, rushed to the school, that was not too far from our house, and immediately began a violent beat down of the principle, because he was upset over what he saw as a physical attack on my brother.

It was a traumatic situation for all involved, but no one was incarcerated  for any of it, the principle was reassigned,and I believe that my father got his point across.

My dad became a neighborhood legend for that beat down, and people still talk about it to this day.

Now, this assault on little Lamya Cammon, has similar overtones.

Lamya has a french braid hairstyle, quite nice I must say,…and she has a lot of beautiful beads that adorn her braids, and they dangle. Being a 7-year-old child, Lamya would twist twirl and fidget with the beads, like a little kid would do.

Lamya Cammon...teacher assaulted her and cut off her hair

The teacher, having a bad day, asked her to stop playing with her hair, and Lamya probably did not at the level that satisfied the teachers demands.

Lamya Cammon says the teacher called her up to the front of the class at Congress Elementary, took a classroom scissors and snipped the beaded braid that frames her face.

“I went to my desk and cried. They was laughing.  She threw it away.” Cannon said.

The teacher also went on to ridicule Lamya, and mocked her by telling her …..”now you can go home and tell your mother I did it”….and…”what you going to tell your mom now”… just to taunt her.

Cammon’s mother,Helen Cunningham, is furious. She went to the school and confronted the teacher, and she was able to keep her composure, unlike the approach that my father employed.

“I said, ‘Well, you know, you cut a lot of her hair off.’ And she was like, ‘Well, I do apologize.’ She said, ‘But I was frustrated,’” Cammon’s mother, Helen Cunningham, said.

Frustrated?…a first grade teacher at a public elementary school will be frustrated from time to time, because that goes along with the territory of teaching little kids.

I would hope that the teacher could source some patience and professionalism, and above all, keep their hands off of the children. There is no school district that I know of in America, that continues to spank children as a disciplinary action.

I find it highly inappropriate for any teacher to lay their hands on a child in their class, and in turn the students have no right to disrupt the class or physically abuse anyone there.

The teacher should have called Lamya’s mother, way before she resorted to cutting off her hair.

A report from Chicagonow.com states that… the teacher may face disciplinary action, but has not been removed from the classroom.

When the District Attorney’s Office said there were not grounds for criminal charges, police issued the teacher a $175 dollar ticket for disorderly conduct.

Ironically, the teacher received that weak punishment, but Lamya  has been moved to another class which separates her from her school friends, that she has bonded with for the past 2 years.

I call for the dismissal of this unnamed teacher, and I believe that if spitting at someone is a felony assault, then cutting ones hair , a physical crime, is far worse than that.

The school system has made statement about budget cuts causing mounting frustrations on the teachers, as a rationale for the assault.I say that if this is the case, then that school system should be taken over by the feds, so that they can put in place some competent oversight of the school system, and to hire some professionals to teach the children there.

As it stands now, Lamya has received the short end of the stick,and I have to wonder that if she was not black, then this  assault on a child by a teacher would be an even bigger story, with the appropriate charges, not this non-charge, being levied on this rogue teacher.

I see that for $175.00, which is the fine for a disturbing the peace ticket in Milwaukee, that the teachers there can physically assault and abuse our children at will.

I believe that my father’s approach, although not as refined as some would prefer, got more effective results from the school system, and served as a better deterrent than $175.00…which, even in these times of recession, still is not a lot of money.

I want the mother’s out there to comment on this case. What would you do if this were your daughter?….regulate the situation like my father….or what?…I do not think this minor fine will serve as any deterrent for this form of physical humiliation and assault on a little girl, to happen again.

Sources…

http://blogs.bet.com/news/newsyoushouldknow/frustrated-teacher-cuts-students-hair/

http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11677405

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/message-from-montie/2009/12/seven-year-old-lamya-cammon-gets-hair-cut-off-by-milwaukee-teacher.html

Today I woke up to the news that one of my African-American broadcasting heroes, Bryant Gumbel, is recovering from a bought with malignant lung cancer. Gumbel is 61 years young, and his presence in the broadcasting community has had a major impact for several years.

I call him a pioneer, because Bryant broke into the national media at a time when it was not too popular to have a black man in a leading position on the TV news, or even in Sports news, although more likely than not, African-Americans were dominating all of the popular American sports the moment we were allowed to compete against non-black athletes.

USA Today reports that…Gumbel was among the first announcers to cross over from sports to general entertainment. After working as a reporter and studio host for NBC Sports, he became an NBC Today show host. In recent years, he’s returned to TV sports including working as the NFL Network’s first play-by-play game announcer although he hadn’t previously called football games…

Bryant Gumbel defeated all of his competition to rise to the esteemed position as lead Host on the ”Today” show, on the NBC television network. He is credited with promoting Katie Couric and for mentoring current ”Today” show host Matt Lauer throughout their careers.

It is unclear to me if Bryant was a regular smoker of cigarettes, but he is known to enjoy a celebratory cigar from time to time, but there is no evidence that any of that is the cause of his cancer battle.

One does not have to be a smoker to develop lung cancer, but it is usually at cause for the disease.

Bryant Gumbel announced Tuesday morning that he had cancer surgery two months ago to remove a malignant tumor near his lung. The subject came up during a live taping of the  ”Live! with Regis and Kelly,” where Bryant is filling in this week for co-host Regis Philbin,who is undergoing hip replacement surgery, Gumbel brought it up to explain why he could not dance with co-host Kelly Ripa.

Needless to say, Kelly and the audience were stunned. Bryant said that he kept it away from his staff and close relationships, but he did tell his immediate family. The broadcaster is notoriously private.

The former ‘Today’ show anchor says he had a tumor and part of his lung removed two months ago.

He states that  he is seeing his surgeon next week.

“I’m hoping they greenlight me to play golf again,” he said.

http://wp.me/pEzT2-kk

Senator Harry Reid was correct to say that the Republican’s are resisting Health care reform much like the Democratic senator’s that were resisting the abolishment of slavery, prior to the Civil War.

They want us to not have health care, so that the majority of us will die off quickly and they are committed to our death from disease.

I applaud Senator Harry Reid, who is only speaking the truth, to those that already know that they hate us, as much as they loved slavery.

I am glad that Bryant has the financial ability to provide health care to his family and himself,and I encourage all men to go seek the highest level of medical care you are able to receive, even if you have to go to a free clinic.

Your family and future may depend on it.

Sources-

http://bossip.com/188206/bryant-gumbel-on-the-mend-after-cancer-surgery/

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2009-12-08-bryant-gumbel-lung-cancer-surgery_N.htm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/bryant-gumbel-cancer-anno_n_383844.html

From Baghdad comes a sobering report that a coordinated series of attacks in Baghdad killed more than 127 people and wounded hundreds on Tuesday. Five separate attacks created the worst wave of violence to strike the Iraqi capital in more than a month.

It is the third time in four months that a coordinated wave of bombers has defeated Baghdad’s security and dealt a blow to the Iraqi government’s claims to have made the country’s streets safer.

The bombs detonated within minutes near the city’s main courthouse and the public works and finance ministries. The finance ministry had only recently moved to the site after its main headquarters was levelled by a truck bomb in August.

The President has condemned the bombings and has declared it as another attempt to topple the Iraq government, and to stifle peaceful progression of the nation.

I wonder, as we move our military forces into Afghanistan, how are we going to keep the peace in Iraq,or is this just a sign of what is to come when we evacuate the country…I guess only time will tell.

What do you think?

Read the full article here…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/baghdad-bombings-kill-at_n_383686.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/08/bagdad-car-bombs-iraq

Saturday Night Live presented a hilarious sketch lampooning the ”trangressions” that Tiger Woods admitted to,right before his wife beat him down with an iron golf club. Watch the full clip on Hulu,by clicking the following link-

http://www.hulu.com/watch/113210/saturday-night-live-tiger-woods-accident

In the skit posted here, actor Jason Sudeikis portrayed Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “Situation Room” reporting on a news conference that Woods (played by Kenan Thompson) and his wife (played by host Blake Lively) were holding outside his home.

What happens next is truly a funny take on this sordid affair. That is what comedy is for.

The writers have actually created a skit that Kenan is funny in, and attempts to portray a different character, outside of the same one he always does.Maybe this is the beginning of funny stuff for Kenan to finally be able to do on this show.

Leave it to the comedians at SNL to bring humor to a heavy subject.  Keep up the good work guys,I enjoyed the laugh…

SNL Tiger Woods Skit

If the You tube clip is deleted for copyright issues,then check out the skit attached to the article on the link below…

http://www.examiner.com/x-32213-Memphis-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d6-SNL-Tiger-Woods-skit-See-Saturday-Night-Live-skit-here-video

Breaking News- The lowly Washington Redskins have just almost  defeated the NFL’s leading quarterback Drew Brees, and his 11-0 perfect team, the New Orleans Saints,in a hard-fought battle in D.C.

They definitely gave the Saints all they could handle today. I see the potential in the Redskins to be a great team in the future, and they will give every team they play this year a headache.

The Redskins have had a terrible season,and their coach Jim Zorn is rumored to be on his way out.

The Redskins QB Jason Campbell had a career day, in an effort to bolster the spirits of his team, and their fans.

Overtime is inevitable, barring the amazing from Drew Brees and the Saints.

With the score tied 30-30, the Saints drove down the field in an attempt to gain yardage so they can end the game with a tie-breaking field goal.

They attempted a 58 yard field goal with 3 seconds left in regulation and no time outs left, which they missed.

On to overtime!

Washington wins the coin toss, and you know what that means in professional football…he who wins the coin toss, usually wins the game. The announcers on the broadcast chime in to note that that is what usually happens in pro football, but for some reason this year, the opposite has been happening.

The Redskins decide to receive the football, which New Orleans kicks to them. The Skins start on the 29 yard line.

Campbell makes a torpedo like strike to Santana Moss, who catches it for a first down on the 39 yard line,the drive is on…until a Redskins receiver fumbles the ball, which is recovered by New Orleans.

The announcers words about the overtime periods this season seem almost prophetic. If you are not excited about this game, then you just do not like football.

New Orleans drives down the field to the 2 yard line, and they attempt an 18 yard field goal,which is an easy one for any professional kicker to make.

The Saints come back after being ten points down to win the game by three points,33-30, preserving their perfect record of 12-0 for this season.

The NFL has only one more team with a perfect record this season, and that is the Peyton Manning led Indianapolis Colts.

Truly an amazing game, and exceptional season for the New Orleans Saints.

 Follow more on this story here…

http://www.neworleanssaints.com/Game%20Day/Seasons/2009%20Schedule/Game%2012%20-%20at%20Washington.aspx

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/a-halftime-tie-for-redskins-sa.html

New York must have been jealous of Californians homophobic tendencies when confronted with a vote to legalize same-sex marriage.

Gay Marriage had already cleared one half of the New York legislature, the state assembly. It had the support of Governor David Paterson, and a majority of New Yorker’s, in a recent poll, approved of legalization for gay marriages.

So what happened?

The New York Daily News reports that…After a historic debate that lasted close to three hours, the Senate today rejected a bill that would have made New York the sixth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

The final vote was 24-38. Eight Democrats voted “no” – Addabbo, Aubertine, Diaz Sr., Huntley, C. Kruger, Monserrate, Onorato, Stachowski – while not a single Republican voted “yes.”

It was held up and eventually defeated by a sharply divided New York state senate. Although Democrats are in the majority, they lost the support of some of their conservative members. All the Republican state senators voted against the bill.

The New York state senate leaders wouldn’t even allow debate on the gay marriage until now,because there was no actual will by the Senator’s to acknowledge or affirm same-sex marriage.

New York also doesn’t allow civil unions, but has several laws, executive orders and court decisions that grant many of the rights to gays long enjoyed by married couples. What it does not grant is equality, setting up an apartheid like system for gays in New York, and most of our great nation.

This action by the New York Republicans and weak Democratic leaders will reflect what I predict will happen to Healthcare reform in the United States Senate.

Even though we all voted in a majority of Democratic Congressman, there seems to be a naive belief by the Democratic Congressman that if they move toward a middle ground, and compromise with the homophobic racist American freedom hating neocons in the Republican party, that they will be seen as moderate to the Republican voters in their district, which is crazy.

No matter how oppressive the Democrats are to the American’s that voted them in to office, the Republicans still will hate you. You have not impressed nor have you gained any ground with the Republican voters, but what you have done is proven to the Republicans just how much of a hypocrite you really are.

There is no compromise when it comes to personal freedoms, and the freedom of choice.

We all as people have a right to pursue any legal and non-violent form of happiness that we so choose. The fact that same-sex marriage is not legal is a failure of our society.

I am not gay, so if a million gay men and women choose to marry each other, …it will not have any affect on my life at all, other than the fact that I might have to decide on what wedding gift’s I should give to each couple, as I would anticipate attending a lot more weddings.

But any action to stop them, will lead to a slippery slope of amendments to restrict all of our personal freedoms, and that will directly hurt many of us, straight or gay. I am for freedom,I am against fascism.

I say this to my gay Americans out there, these laws that citizens have to vote on remind me of the outcome of some of the very first Civil Rights legislation that was voted on right after the Civil War, and all bills that related to the freedom and full rights for black Americans, were all defeated soundly in both houses of Congress.

The American people, given a chance to vote on freedom, will always vote against it. Republicans are trained from a very young age to vote against their own self-interest, and this legislation is no different.

The ugly cloud of homophobic hatred now stretches out from coast to coast…making California just as bad as the haters in New York.

Call and write all of the backwards state Senators in New York, listed in this article linked here,from the New York Daily News… http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/12/gay-marriage-fails-24-38.html

The State Assembly had earlier approved the bill, and Gov. David Paterson, perhaps the bill’s strongest advocate, had pledged to sign it.

Immediately after the vote, gay rights advocates chanted: “Equal rights now!” Many said they weren’t surprised by the decision. Most, including Paterson, said they at least wanted a floor debate and vote.

Senate sponsor Thomas Duane, a Manhattan Democrat and the Legislature’s first openly gay member, vowed not to give up his life’s goal.

“I’m like a dog with a bone,” said Duane in his closing remarks on the floor, when defeat was becoming clear. “I wouldn’t let go of anyone … Because I don’t give up. I don’t know how to!”

The message should be clear to gay rights advocates, the time for civil unrest is here. New York and California set the pace for the rest of America, so the tactic of using the ballot has ended, and the time is now for civil disobediance…or forget about getting married legally.

Choose one….

SOURCE-

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hRfgezF0Cr4Z-4GqQaP9vio3k_gQD9CBCVJ00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/new_york_senate_kills_gay_marr.html

The AP is reporting that there has been an explosion at a school Sunday in Virginia.Police say eight workers have been injured in the explosion at a middle school in southeastern Virginia.

Newport News Police spokesman Lou Thurston says the workers suffered varying injuries in Sunday morning’s blast at Crittenden Middle School.

They were employees of T.R. Driscoll Inc. of Lumberton, N.C., a contracting company that had been doing repair work at the school for about five weeks.

The cause of the blast is being investigated. Thurston says workers were using propane to heat the tar but no cause has been determined.

Five workers were taken to nearby trauma centers, and three to emergency rooms.

Thurston says the explosion sparked a fire and caused a large wall to collapse in the school’s shop area. Monday classes were canceled.

Recently at the LA Coliseum, the sexy ladies of the Lingerie Football League displayed their ample assets as they discussed strategy to win this years LFL championship title.

They promised plenty of potential wardrobe malfunctions and tight end manuevers…

Click here for more information on this years LFL schedule…

http://www.lflus.com/

…NOW…ONE OF THOSE WARDROBE MALFUNCTIONS…

Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment, about 400 km (250 miles) northwest of Moscow.

 The ‘Nevsky Express’ train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed killing dozens of people and injuring dozens more in Tver Region, Russia, on November 28, 2009.

 Four cars derailed.

A bomb attack caused the crash, which killed up to 39 people and injured nearly 130.

The health minister said that the 18 people listed as missing after the incident had not been located in the three car that went off the tracks.

    In August 2007, an explosion derailed the same express train on the same railroad line, injuring 60 people. An investigation into that attack continues, with the main suspect still being sought by authorities.

    The disaster has fueled fears of a rise in terrorist attacks outside Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region. Russia was hit hard by terrorism in the 1990s and the early years of this decade, but there had been no major incident outside the North Caucasus region since 2004. 

Follow story from the source….

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/29/content_12557383.htm

Controversial Los Angeles Laker star Ron Artest is caught up in an investigation of welfare fraud against his sister Latoya Holmes-Ivey.

Police and housing authorities raided the home Latoya Holmes-Ivey and her three children rent at 336 E. Burgess Ave. Wednesday morning.

Holmes-Ivey is suspected of receiving federal housing assistance, as well as other social services, while receiving financial assistance from her millionaire basketball/rapper brother, and not reporting it.

That is welfare fraud, and is a criminal offense.

A tip came from a former CPA that handled Ron Artest financial affairs a Tennessee-based accounting firm called TriStar Sports and Entertainment.

According to court documents, the ex-employee sent an e-mail to the Housing and Urban Development Office in Indianapolis claiming that TriStar, under the direction of Artest, was using one of his bank accounts to pay all of Holmes-Ivey’s bills.

 The man requested to remain anonymous, saying that he could not, in good conscience, fail to report such an ethics infraction.

Ron Artest may want to check the wording in that non-disclosure form that I am certain the former accountant signed, as the accounting firm’s reputation has got to be destroyed by this leak. Confidentiality between their clients is key to their business.

If the former CPA did sign a non-disclosure form, then his disclosure of this information, even if it is to be found true, will be admissible in court, and will be the reason that all charges will be dropped.

 Housing authorities said that if the allegations are true, Holmes-Ivey would have used at least $34,000 in taxpayer money she was not entitled to. According to court documents, the ex-employee sent an e-mail to the Housing and Urban Development Office in Indianapolis claiming that TriStar, under the direction of Artest, was using one of his bank accounts to pay all of Holmes-Ivey’s bills.

 The man requested to remain anonymous, saying that he could not, in good conscience, fail to report such an ethics infraction.

 Housing authorities said that if the allegations are true, Holmes-Ivey would have used at least $34,000 in taxpayer money she was not entitled to.

Note that the investigation and any future charges will be against Holmes-Ivey and NOT Ron Artest. It is the responsibility of the benefactor of Federal aide to report any income or gifts to the Welfare department so they can determine if the individual is actually in need at that time.

The neighbors of Holmes-Ivey said they were skeptical of her, because she used to brag about who her brother was.

“I never understood why she was on assistance because of that, when she told me he was her brother,” said Marcia Taylor. “The people who do need the assistance don’t get it, when the people who don’t need it get a lot of time.”

None of the parties involved were available for any further comments on this matter.

Follow the story here, as well as this trusted source, The Indychannel.com…

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/21726762/detail.html

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a national holiday tradition, and has been so for the past 83 years, and this year the tradition continued.

This year, the parade route returns to its roots with it ending at 34th street right in front of the Macy’s store. This is different than it has been in recent years.

 There is a list of performers that include Katharine McPhee, Jane Krakowski, and we have Spiderman, Kermit and Spongebob floating down the parade route. Ziggy Marley, the son of the legendary Reggae singer Bob Marley, performed a song with his daughter on a float decorated as a pirate ship.

Ziggy Marley and Daughter awaiting performance at Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade today

 Ziggy performed his new song ”It’s Family Time” while holding his daughter in his arms so she could reach the mike…very cute.

Katharine McPhee, sporting her new sassy blonde ‘do, performed her new single “Had It All.” Jane Krakowski performed a Christmas tune. She may play a ditzy spoiled celeb on “30 Rock,” but in real-life Krakowski is quite the songbird.

Teen superstar Miley Cyrus made an exuberant appearance waving to her throngs of excited fans that lined the parade route waiting patiently for the international superstar. She looked great, in light of the bush crash tragedy that killed her long time tour bus driver this past friday. Today was much happier times for her.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade aired on CBS and NBC at noon ET/9 am PT.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING…NOW GO EAT….