I'm glad to hear that. I don't know if the signature of a Canadian would mean anything but if there's anything that I can sign, as a woman supporting other women's right to decide what happens to their own bodies, I'd be more than happy to. I've had that particular type of ultrasound and it's incredibly invasive.
I live in Canada. Republicans like to label Canada as leftist and even socialist, although they've done that less now that our government is dominated by the Conservative Party. But I will gladly sign the Communist Manifesto while singing 'The Internationale' if it means that I live in a country where the government stays the fuck out of my uterus. I can't believe the women of Virginia, left or right, are taking this quietly. And I can't believe that the Republican Party is still clinging to the blatant, hateful and cruel lie that they are the party of 'small government'.
I am so appalled by this post.
Like so many others, I was really hoping he had died. Oh well, little victories.
The only way this makes sense is if this was a school for the blind.
Why so 'prickly' about being corrected about something you admitted you knew nothing about? You got all your information from a silly website; does it bother you to hear that there's more and better information out there? If I claimed that Gawker was the be all and end of my knowledge on a subject, I wouldn't burst into tears if someone told me I didn't know what I was talking about.
You don't like Sean Penn; fine. I'm okay with that and I'm positive Penn's going to get by as well.
No, you made sense. And I appreciate your comment. My life has been so fortunate and privileged that many times things have been handed to me that others have had to make some horrible choices to acquire. I know Jay-Z isn't the man he once was. But I do wonder if when he's sitting high up in his penthouse, chatting to Gwyneth and Chris, does he look down and think about the people he left in the dirt.
Anyway, this is about Chris Brown. I don't know what Chris Brown feels in his heart. I see a lot of bravado and a lot of posing. He has said that he was raised in an abusive home (and his mother has confirmed that) so I can't help wondering if he realizes that he is part of the cycle of domestic violence that keeps turning and turning and turning. And I wonder how he feels to know that he is the thing he probably swore he would never be.
But I'm so tired of Chris Brown and I'm tired of the shrill yelps screaming for him to be mutilated or beaten to a pulp, as if that would do any good. I'm out.
I thought my point was clear but I'll try to be clearer. Jay-Z might have achieved Favourite Negro Status but that wasn't always the case. He spread poison in his community and helped destroy a lot of lives.
Chris Brown is obviously a very disturbed young man. He's one of thousands of young men who have grown up in abusive homes, who have watched his mother be brutalized and have probably been abused themselves. They often see their mothers return to their abusers again and again. They grow up swearing that they will never treat a woman the way they their mother's were treated, that they will never raise their hands to a woman. Then lo and behold, one day something snaps inside and the whole vicious cycle keeps turning.
I feel sad for Chris Brown and for the girls unfortunate enough to encounter him. It must be hell to look into the mirror and see the monster you swore (as you cowered and wept in fear) you would never be.
But it's easier to join the hyena pack and yowl.
Check out the Spike Lee's documentary 'When the Levee's Broke" for Sean Penn's activities in New Orleans. As for Penn in Haiti, you can read Rolling Stone, the New Yorker and CNN coverage at the time and since.
Or you can believe your website that doesn't seem to have even bothered to do anything themselves.
I think it's an amazing film. Sean Penn and Mary Stuart Masterson are amazing. And Christopher Walken should have won an Academy Award.
Believe it or not, 'Live to Tell' is my favourite Madonna song.
Do you know any crack addicts? Ever lived in neighbourhood run be drug dealers?
Do you know any crack addicts? Have you ever lived in a neighbourhood with drug dealers? How do you 'make up' for that? Like I said, Jay-Z would be the perfect person to take Chris Brown under his wing.
Are you really holding Jay-Z up as an example? The former drug dealer? Jay-Z did more harm to his community than Chris Brown ever could. Sure he gives back now, but whenever I see him at a charity event, I think to myself 'Yeah, you NEED to do that.'
If Jay-Z is up on some kind of high-horse (and that's a BIG IF because a lot of folks are making assumptions), he should be the FIRST one to get his ass off and take Chris Brown under his wing. He needs to show Brown that you can turn your life around and try to make amends after doing unimaginable wrong.
And I'm sure that line is Chris Brown's idea of a joke.
Yeah, I forgot about the smoking. But a little Lysol spray would probably do the trick. And I'm an old too.
Sean Penn has known Naomi Watts for years, longer that Schrieber, and has apparently carried a torch for quite some time even though Watts has always kept him at arms length. And word is that Schrieber has been less than kind to the mother of his children. Maybe his violence had a bit of guilt/hypocrisy mixed in.
When Katrina struck, Sean Penn used his own money to charter a plane and flew to New Orleans. He got a boat and spent days rescuing people that the President of the United States had turned his back on. There are people walking around, spending time with their families because of Sean Penn. And once again, in Haiti, Penn used his own money, filled a plane with supplies and went in there and saved lives. The UN took cholera to Haiti. The millions collected all over the world sit in banks while Haitians live on top of rubble.
I would not want to be Sean Penn's wife/girlfriend/woman/date, although I would fuck him in a heartbeat. Hard. I have no idea why he cares about the Falklands, Maldives, whatever. I think that one thought given to those islands by anybody other than the people/sheep/penguins who live there is a thought wasted. And a life lost for them is a life thrown away for less than nothing.
The film is called 'At Close Range', the song is 'Live to Tell'.
THANK YOU. I get so sick of hearing about how Clive Davis was a 'mentor' to Whitney and a 'father figure'. He might have been all of those things but he was also her BOSS and Whitney made a lot of money for her. Whitney's estate might see a little bit of money from these album sales but Clive Davis is going to see a shitload of money.
And holding a party while your daughter AND cash cow lay dead nearby is obscene.
Wow, I never thought I'd live to see the day when Michael Vick would be held up as an example of 'proper' repentance. Well, I'm sure he'll be glad to get that shrill squealing out of his life.
My heart breaks for your little cousin but are you really putting that on Chris Brown?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you're implying that the Black community is okay with domestic violence, which is completely mistaken. Black people are more than familiar with violence of all kinds. I didn't get the memo that there was a new, violent archetype for Black masculinity. My archetype is my father. I would be willing to bet that the majority of the misguided little girls who THINK they want Chris Brown to beat them aren't Black. I don't know what Usher said, so I can't speak to that, but what were you expecting?
Did you watch the Grammy Awards? Because I did and quite frankly, I was very surprised. That audience made up of Black people AND WHITE people gave Chris Brown a standing ovation. Now it's one thing to give him a Grammy because that's voting in the privacy of your own home. But the people in that audience stood up for him on the anniversary of the evening that he beat another performer black and blue. Not only that, but he performed twice, once with other musicians who didn't seem to have a problem sharing the stage with him. No wonder he thinks he can get away with shit like that stupid tweet. An audience of his peers gave him a standing ovation! There was an audience of millions watching and NOBODY took a second to speak out on domestic violence. Nobody wore a t-shirt. Not even the victim herself. Nothing.
I have no problem in disliking Chris Brown. I don't even have a problem with hating Chris Brown. But if you think that Chris Brown is the beginning and the end, then you are fooling yourself and maybe that's why girls like your cousin think it's okay if their boyfriends hit them.
Fake hair and stolen music?
#1 makes so much more sense if you read the posts below that have the answer. My head doesn't hurt or nothing.
I have never understood why a cool woman like Nicole Richie was with such a lump of flesh. The Australian chick is doing her a favour. And when that Madden creep is finally cut loose, he's going to beg to play state fairs. Lionel Richie isn't Dancing on the Ceiling big but I'm sure he's got enough clout to fuck Madden up.
