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Was Arizona Gov Jan Brewer Drunk While Pointing Finger In Obama?s Face?
2012-01-29 06:22:00 Two days ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer shocked the World by showing just how little class and dignity she has when she greeted U.S. President Barack Obama on the tarmac at Phoenix International Airport. Brewer just had to tell Obama she wasn’t sorry for the way she portrayed a conversation they had at The White (Read More...) More About: Drunk , Face
Herman Cain Endorses Newt Gingrich
2012-01-29 05:47:00 Herman Cain , who’s departure from the GOP Presidential Race was most unfortunate given that some of the sexual harassment claims he faced suddenly surfaced after his political star brightened, did today what was no surprise to this political observer: gave his endorsement to Newt Gingrich as the GOP nominee for President. It was no surprise (Read More...) More About: Sister
Occupy Oakland: Protestors And Police Gather For Viral Video Shoot
2012-01-29 04:50:00 Frankly, this blogger’s not sure what the value of these Occupy Oakland protests are, except as yet another viral video opportunity for protestors armed with cameras, camcorders, and camcorder-equipped smartphones. No, I wasn’t in on the action. Why the hell would I want to stand near police, many of which represent the City Of Oakland (Read More...) More About: Video , Viral , Police
On Pastor Rob Bell And The Existence Of Hell
2012-01-28 21:21:00 I happened upon an article in TIME Magazine about 42-year-old Pastor Rob Bell and the idea that Hell may not exist, while watching the Lakers v. Hornets NBA Playoff Game. (The kind of thing I do after a big Easter Sunday meal with my Mom and Godparents ? have a mix of the entertaining and (Read More...) More About: Rob Bell
Heidi Klum Divorces Seal
2012-01-28 19:26:00 Your Ad Here The celebrity divorces just keep on coming, but this one came out of left field for most of us who thought that Seal and Heidi Klum had a perfectly healthy marriage. The duo has four children so that could ensue a potential battle. Klum had her first divorce from her stylist Ric (Read More...) More About: Divorces
Ron Paul Speech Part 1-4
2012-01-28 19:17:00 Here are the first four parts that have been uploaded so far from Ron Paul ’s speech January 27 in Bangor, Maine. Filmed on my flip cam: More About: Part
The Mitt and Newt Show
2012-01-27 20:19:00 Your Ad Here Last night CNN made the mistake of letting Wolf Blitzer moderate the debate. It goes much better when John King or Anderson Cooper moderate. Last night was the Mitt and Newt show. The two just bantered back and forth about personal problems, their finances and personal things between the two of them. (Read More...) More About: Show , Ron Paul , Mitt Romney
Ron Paul Comes to Bangor, Maine
2012-01-27 19:27:00 Your Ad Here I woke up at 7 a.m. and went to the Brick Church in downtown Bangor, Maine with my boyfriend, roommate and some friends. There were over 200 people there (and some dogs as well). We watched as his wife and grand daughter sat down and then a huge applause and standing happened (Read More...) More About: Ron Paul , Paul
Lindsey Vonn Wins World Cup St. Moritz Super-Combined
2012-01-27 18:44:00 Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn has done it again, this time winning the World Cup super-combined event today, Friday. According to the USA Today, Vonn extended her lead over second-place-finisher Tina Maze by 302 points. Vonn has been on a massive rampaging skiing tear since her announced divorce from husband Thomas Vonn. She has seven World (Read More...) More About: Super
Oakland Restaurant Week Ends Sunday, Video Has Almost No Blacks
2012-01-27 16:52:00 This week is Oakland Restaurant Week , where a number of eateries around out town feature $30 dinner offerings – from reports, the participating places are “slammed.” For a good list of participating places, visit http://visitoakland.org/restaurantweek201 2.cfm? Or just watch this video that someone with Visit Oakland managed to make with almost NO black folks in it. (Read More...) More About: Video , Sunday
?Welcome Back Kotter? ?Epstein? Actor Robert Hegyes Passes at 60
2012-01-27 16:35:00 This is sad news for any fan of the shows Welcome Back Kotter and Cagney and Lacey: veteran actor Robert Hegyes passed away at the age of 60, and due to an apparent heart attack. He first hit the American Zeitgeist with his character Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein, a Puerto Rican-Jew, on (Read More...)
Hollywood And Social Media ? Zennie Abraham On Tonya Hall Show 8 AM PST
2012-01-27 10:06:00 This blogger, me, or Zennie Abraham, will be on The Tonya Hall Show yapping about my new favorite topic: Hollywood and Social Media . If you’ve never heard of The Tonya Hall Show, it’s a popular and fast-rising radio program exclusively devoted to social media. I’m losing count, but if memory serves, this will be my (Read More...)
Jeff Fluhr?s New Startup Spreecast.com
2012-01-26 23:12:00 Jeff Fluhr’s a Bay Area entrepreneur and friend who is best known for his first big startup StubHub.com, of which my company Sports Business Simulations, was one of its first and best affiliates. Now, Mr. Fluhr’s launched another new startup that has promise: Spreecast.com. The idea of Spreecast.com is to promote video-based conversations between people. (Read More...) More About: Startup
Joel Young: Judge Grants Oakland?s Jason Overman?s Restraining Order
2012-01-25 17:59:00 Oakland AC Transit Board Member Joel Young is in hot water again, as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge just granted a restraining order filed on Monday against him and by Oakland City Council Aide Jason Overman. All of this stems from an incident at Make Westing Bar at Telegraph and 18th Avenue in Oakland’s (Read More...) More About: Oakland , Grants
Tess Taylor Still Pretty Wild
2012-01-25 17:38:00 Even though E! decided not to pick up a second season of Pretty Wild Tess Taylor has still remained a pretty wild girl. As we can remember in the series which aired in 2010 – Alexis Neiers was part of the Bling Ring scandal and a lot of media coverage focused on that. Alexis went (Read More...)
Do the Colts Control the Great Quarterback Game of Luck?
2012-01-25 15:11:00 The Indianapolis Colts have a big decision to make, a decision that could not only affect the future of their own franchise but that of others. The only reason the Colts must decide if Peyton Manning will continue to lead their team from the quarterback position remains purely due to his health. Manning has had (Read More...) More About: Seattle Seahawks , Great , Cleveland Browns , Game , Control
President Obama?s Nationalist State Of The Union Speech
2012-01-25 11:01:00 President Obama ’s State Of The Union Speech was an address that, like the one last month in Kansas, was focused on restoring America’s Economy via not just government investment, but taxes on trade, too. In total, it was a nationalist SOTU, one that called for “nation building” in America, and for Americans of all political (Read More...) More About: President , State of the Union
Oakland Mayor Quan Press Conference On Budget And Redevelopment 2012
2012-01-25 08:37:00 The City of Oakland ’s in a bad spot, and this blogger’s not sure if many people in Oakland understand exactly what’s going on. That’s why it’s important to look at the entire 31 minute press conference featuring Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, and then the two “sidebar” videos that are posted below. Oakland is faced with (Read More...) More About: Press , Press Conference , Redevelopment , Budget
Not Easy to be a Baltimore Ravens Fan
2012-01-25 04:28:00 It is not easy being a Ravens fan. I am a diehard fan, I watch every game, I listen to Baltimore sports radio and I read about them online. My friends and family know about my purple passion, I wear my heart on my sleeve, I support them through thick and thin and I will (Read More...) More About: Baltimore Ravens , L Game , Ray Lewis
NY Times, Washington Post Show Ecuador President Correa?s Corruption
2012-01-24 19:59:00 For those who romanticized Ecuador as a fair, democratic country with solid “freedom of the press” laws, much like America, it’s time to wake up. As I have explained in blog posts and video like this one… Ecuador is a corrupt country, where press freedom is nothing more than fantasy. See these excerpts from both (Read More...) More About: President , Washington , Washington Post , Show
Academy Awards Nominations Announcement Dominates Twitter
2012-01-24 15:43:00 For the first time in the history of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it has a non-Academy Awards night event that has dominated the Twitter Top Trend list. That happened, and is happening, this morning at just after 6 AM PST, as the Academy Awards Nominations Announcement resulted in as many as (Read More...)
Academy Awards Nominations: Nine Movies For Best Picture
2012-01-24 15:21:00 Well, the famous, bombastic music introducing the announcement of the nominees for the 2012 83rd Academy Awards has come and gone, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences President Tom Sherak and Winter’s Bone’s Jennifer Lawrence named the major nominees. Of course, there are some surprises, the first being that there are nine movies (Read More...) More About: Movies , Academy Awards
Academy Awards Nominations Live Stream At Zennie62 ? 5:30 AM / 8:30 AM EST
2012-01-24 10:42:00 The Academy Awards Nominations for 2012 are just four hours away and you can watch them live here at Zennie62.com. There will be a special live stream screen on the upper right of the blog page, and in this blog post above this text. Oscar nominations ballots were sent out to the over 5,700 members (Read More...) More About: Academy Awards , Live , Stream
Journalists and Election Coverage
2012-01-24 00:50:00 The more online media and blogging takes over the less objective journalists seem to be. They seem to be competing with the blogs as well as one another to be the most interesting publication or network. Your Ad Here The most depressing case is Newsweek, which since 2003 had been my favorite magazine. It usually (Read More...) More About: Election
No more 4-4 behind closed doors.
2012-01-23 22:23:00 No more 4-4 behind closed doors. The last time we discussed our two year Oakland City budget, meaning about six months ago, we heard nothing from our city council members for several weeks after the mayor put her proposal forward. Then 4 came up with one plan, and another 4 came up with another plan. (Read More...)
City Of Oakland Budget: No more 4-4 behind closed doors
2012-01-23 22:23:00 No more 4-4 behind closed doors. The last time we discussed our two year Oakland City budget, meaning about six months ago, we heard nothing from our city council members for several weeks after the mayor put her proposal forward. Then 4 came up with one plan, and another 4 came up with another plan. (Read More...) More About: Budget
Oakland News: Richmond Wins LBL Campus Competition, Mayor Recall Update
2012-01-23 18:31:00 Richmond beats Alameda and Oakland for LBL Second Campus After a tough, competitive battle for the right to play host to the long-planned-for second campus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it was announced at 8 AM that Richmond was the winner. Richmond, already location of property and facilities owned by the University of California, (Read More...) More About: News , Competition , Recall
Superbowl 2012: Rematch
2012-01-23 16:48:00 Superbowl 2012 is going to be one that goes down in the books as one of the most memorable. We all remember in 2008 when the Patriots had a flawless season, they had 18 wins going into the Super Bowl to compete against the New York Giants who did not have the same pristine record. (Read More...) More About: Superbowl
Gabby Giffords Resigns
2012-01-22 22:49:00 Your Ad Here It has been a year since Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona. CNN reports that Giffords will be focusing on her recuperation: “”A lot has happened over the past year. We cannot change that,” Giffords, 41, says in a video on her website, speaking in a halting manner. “I don’t (Read More...)
AFC and NFC Championship: New England Over Baltimore, NY Giants Over SF Nin
More articles from this author:2012-01-22 22:07:00 Today the AFC and NFC Championship Games have started and right now, as of this writing, the Baltimore Ravens Joe Flacco just got sacked by the New England Patriots’ Nosetackle Vince Wilfork. I think the Pats will win because the offense has used the same short-passing approach employed during their 2007 season, where the Pats (Read More...) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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