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Living in New York City with Brooklyn-bred rapper husband Jay-Z, Beyonce really has no real need for a car. So she just obtained her driver’s license for the first time even though she turns 30 years old next year.
But “texting while driving” must not have been in the DMV handbook because Beyonce was ticketed for the offense by a NYC cop who didn’t recognize the 16-time Grammy Award winning singer and actress.
But unlike most drivers who receive traffic citations, Beyonce can easily afford to pay her $100 fine. She is No. 1 among the 12 Best Paid Celebrities under age 30 by Forbes magazine for the second consecutive year. She raked in $87 million between June 2008 to June 2009.

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While the economy continues to suffer because millions of Americans are unemployed, TV talk shows and news programs focused on a single job loss in which a black government official was forced to resign for nationwide attention on making racial comments about a white farmer.

The Obama administration shamefully got involved in the fiasco caused by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart who posted an edited video of U.S. Department of Agriculture director Shirley Sherrod’s “racist” comments in March expressing a hesitancy to help a white man save his farm. Because of the national uproar from conservative media and Tea Party members, Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack acted on pressure from the White House and asked Sherrod to resign over the comments.

But it turns out Breitbart edited the video of Sherrod, which didn’t show the whole story. In the video taped in March, Sherrod explained how her childhood dream was to move North after growing up in a racist, discriminatory rural environment in Georgia, but she decided to stay in the South to help bring change for Blacks after her father was discriminated against and then killed by racists when she was 17 years old. So she was conflicted when a white farmer looked down upon her while asking for her help saving his farm, 24 years ago before she worked for the USDA. Because of the farmer’s cavalier attitude and her memories of racism and discrimination, Sherrod decided to go through the motions of helping him but soon realized her mission should be to help poor people and not just Blacks, so she give her full effort and saved the white farmer’s land. The white farmer and his wife have come forward to say Sherrod is a “good person” and “no way in the world” is she a racist.

Here is the full version of the infamous video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP banquet in March.

With egg on their faces by letting a conservative make a mockery of them, President Obama and Vilsack have apologized profusely to Sherrod and offered her job back. Meanwhile, Sherrod is giving a nationwide tour on countless talk shows to tell her story and still hasn’t decided whether to return to her job.

But who cares if Sherrod lost her job or whether she takes it back?

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, from low-paying gigs to top-dollar positions. Instead of focusing on this one person that a conservative spun into the spotlight to create enough chaos to distract from the hate-spewing tea party movement, Obama and the TV programs should discuss solutions to help millions of displaced workers get back on their feet to help jolt our economy out of a depression-like recession.

Helping millions of people gain employment is a much better use of time and does more good than chastising or applauding a misquoted individual government employee.

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I don’t want to gross people out, but I heavily rely on Tylenol during my monthly menstrual cycle to eliminate cramping.
So imagine how I felt on a recent grocery shopping trip when I looked at the empty Tylenol shelves and the store manager told me the over-the-counter drug had been recalled. Luckily, it wasn’t my time of the month for a couple weeks to give me time to find an alternative pain medication.
I was unaware of Tylenol’s original recall in January because stores still carried it on the shelf. The latest Tylenol recall includes 21 lots of over-the-counter medicine, including Tylenol Extra Strength, Benadryl Allergy and Motrin, in countries, such as the U.S., Puerto Rico, Fiji and Jamaica. Tylenol’s products are being recalled because of consumer complaints of a musty, moldy odor tied to a chemical that doesn’t meet FDA standards.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare has posted comprehensive information on each of Tylenol’s recalled medication on its web site, and here is a complete listing of the recalled Tylenol meds and the affected countries.
Meanwhile, I have found Bayer to be a worthy replacement until Tylenol remedies its defects. I wonder how parents of infants and toddlers are coping since Children’s Tylenol and Motrin are part of the recall.

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It was heart-warming to once against witness history with my oldest son by my side. We stayed up until midnight Sunday to watch CNN’s coverage of the House of Representatives landmark vote, 219-212, to pass major health care reform and to see President Obama’s victory address in the White House’s East Room.
A year earlier, my son, my mom and another family member walked miles from our hotel and braved the winter cold in front of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. to witness Obama be sworn in as the first black U.S. president.
Obama, whose presidential campaign slogan was Change We Can Believe In, said this is what change looks like, and he credited Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (pictured to his left above) for helping to close the deal.
Democrats in the House had 15 minutes to come up with the 216 votes needed to approve health care reform Sunday night. My son, who’s 16 and follows politics more than me, predicted it would take just two minutes because Pelosi and other key Democrats had already gotten 216 verbal commitments before the vote. But the vote didn’t reach the magical 216 until the timer ticked down to 1:45 remaining.
Health care reform will enable the estimated 30-40 million uninsured in the U.S. to obtain health care coverage. Insurance companies will no longer be allowed to turn applicants away for pre-existing conditions and put caps on how much will be covered over a person’s lifetime. Plus, small businesses will have to provide coverage to employees, and all Americans will be required to carry health insurance, just like the law that requires all automobile owners to have car insurance. These and many other changes will take place in the next three months to six years and will be funded through higher taxes on wealthier Americans.
This is the first major health care reform since Medicare and Medicaid was passed in 1965 to provide coverage for older Americans, the disabled and the poor. The latest health care reform will provide coverage to all children and anyone who has been shunned by insurance companies because of health issues or because they just couldn’t afford it.
The House had already agreed to pass health care reform last year, and the Senate followed up with its own reform bill earlier this year. But the bills had to be merged in order to officially pass reform, and Obama and the Democratic Party appeared to face a losing battle to outraged Republicans to get a unified bill.
So using a tactic of former President George W. Bush, Obama urged the Democrat-controlled House to vote on approving the Senate’s bill so that he would be able to sign health care reform into law, and then the two branches of Congress can iron out the differences later, which is considered reconciliation.
Obama is expected to sign the new health care reform bill by Tuesday and then Congress will tweek the bill and vote on the changes, and my son and I will be tuned into CNN to continue to watch history in the making.

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President Barack Obama has tried to reach across the aisle like popular Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, but it has caused his image to suffer.
By trying to compromise with his Republican opponents instead of taking advantage of the Democratic Party’s majority in Congress, Obama is viewed as being ineffective at getting his key initiatives passed, particularly health care reform.
If President Obama took advantage of his majority, he would be viewed as a socialist, which Republicans have already accused him of.
Obama is hosting a health care summit Thursday to get both sides to support his failing health care initiative. Health care reform bills have been passed in the House and the Senate, but a final version has yet to cross Obama’s desk because of uproar from Republicans and their followers and the president’s desire to reach a compromise.
I think Obama should follow the example of another Republican president, George W. Bush. Bush, the last U.S. president, used the Republican’s former edge in Congress to push through his initiatives, including three major tax cuts, and then he tried to reach compromise later in a process called reconciliation.
So Obama should be more like Bush when it comes to getting his way. He would get more done and be more respected than his idiotic predecessor.

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Can you believe killer whales actually do kill?
Seaworld park visitors witnessed it firsthand when veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed during a routine with the whale named Tilikum on Wednesday at the Orlando theme park. An eyewitness said the trainer was jerked underwater by her ponytail while introducing the whale and explaining what the crowd would be observing.
It’s not the first time this whale has killed someone. The whale was involved in two other murders.
But respected celebrity animal expert Jack Hanna, in an interview on CNN, said the whale shouldn’t be blamed for either killing. He said that when an animal kills a trainer, such as Brancheau and murdered crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, it’s because of human error.
But animal rights groups have said that killer whales and other marine mammals have no place in theme parks because they are denied their natural instincts.
Well, this killer whale successfully followed its instincts and sadly killed a well-respected trainer.

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It’s funny how some white people have expressed to me that President Barack Obama isn’t black.
They have told me that he’s half white, which is true considering his deceased mother is Caucasian. A white co-worker even told me that he heard Obama is only an eighth black, which I explained is impossible with the president’s deceased father being a full-blooded, dark-skinned Kenyan from Africa.
Regardless, Obama is considered black by the one-drop standard of our country’s forefathers and the old Jim Crow laws that treated blacks like second-class citizens before the Civil Rights Act was passed in the 1960s.

Now many blacks, especially the elderly who suffered through the Jim Crow segregation, have more reason to celebrate President’s Day because Obama is the first official black president of the United States of America, a feat that many blacks thought they would never witness in their lifetimes. And it doesn’t make blacks racist for wanting to celebrate President Obama’s historical achievement.
Racism is treating another race as an inferior, and Obama has tried to take care of all races of Americans through a half dozen stimulus bills and efforts to pass health care reform to cover the estimated 50 million without insurance.

Any American can be proud to have the Harvard-educated Obama represent the U.S. View a photo tribute to President Obama’s critical first 100 days in the Oval Office.
President’s Day is celebrated on the third Monday of February to honor past presidents, especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who have birthdays in February.
And some historians have speculated that Lincoln, who passed the law that freed blacks from slavery, was a black man because of the one-drop of African blood rule and former presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge also have been accused of hiding their African heritage.

But regardless of whether the other presidents were black, Obama deserves the distinction of being the United States’ first black president because he is proud to be a black man and he is an attentive husband to his black wife and their adorable black daughters who they are raising to be proud of their African heritage.

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It’s no secret to Michael Jackson fans that he was very generous to the needy and sick children.
In 2000, the King of Pop was crowned King of Charity by the Guiness Book of World Records for donating more money to charity than any pop star. He donated to 39 different organizations, including Camp Ronald McDonald, Juvenile Diabetes Association and Make-A-Wish Foundation. He also had his own charities, such as Heal The World and Heal The World Kids.
And of course, MJ co-wrote the chart-topping, Grammy Award winning charity song “We Are The World” with Lionel Richie in 1986.

Dozens of legendary singers lent their voices to “We Are The World” to provide hope and to encourage everyone to “start giving” to charity and make the world a better place for every human being because “we are all part of God’s great big family” and by giving “we’re saving our own lives”.

There’s no doubt that Michael Jackson would be helping out in Haiti, where a massive earthquake left at least 100,000 dead and millions homeless last week, if he had not died from a doctor-induced drug overdose in June.
Michael and his pop star little sister Janet Jackson were reportedly supposed to perform in Haiti in 2008, and former U.S. president Bill Clinton praised Michael during a summer trip to Haiti following the King of Pop’s death.
Janet Jackson is actively seeking donations for the victims in Haiti through her Twitter page. She tweeted “$8 can feed a child for a whole month” and gave three options for giving.
- Call 1-800-HELP-NOW
- Text “Haiti” to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross
- Text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to Haitian American hip hop star Wyclef’s Yele Haiti non-profit organization.

Michael Jackson would be proud to know that his sister is stepping up in his place along with many other celebrities, such as George Clooney, Diddy, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and supermodel Gisele Bundchen. U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged $100 million toward Haiti relief.
But Michael Jackson would say that it shouldn’t just be left up to celebrities to help in the Haiti crisis. This is a world issue and everybody should chip in whatever they can, even $5, $8 or $10.
In MJ’s This Is It movie, he stated, “Everybody says, ‘Oh they’ll take care of it. The government will intervene.’ But it starts with us.”
Say what you want about his personal life, but Michael Jackson would be right there in Haiti lending a hand because he believed in loving each other and doing what you can to help your fellow man, even if the person is in another land.

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