The pile of money spelled B-R-O-K-E. That's really classy, 50....make fun of the real situation.
The Daily Mail reports that the 40-year-old rapper also lost a legal battle with his ex-business partners over a failed headphone deal and was slapped with a $17 million judgement in that case.
According to his Chapter 11 petition, Fifty claimed he had assets between $10 to $50 million but that his liabilities were in the same range.
Last month, he filed documents in the bankruptcy stating he only had $16 million in assets.
However, it appears appraisers checked into it all - and found his assets total over $64 million and that he only has liabilities totaling more than $36 million.
In addition, 50 Cent's current monthly income is $184,000-plus. The appraisers also valued his home goods to $131,000 including $49,000 in jewelry alone.
Appraisers found he has over $10 million in checking and stocks as well as his various G-Unit and other business' which are worth over $44 million.
His bankruptcy claims have come into question by Judge Ann Nevins, who is concerned over his actual need for bankruptcy and has asked for him to explain a series of photographs he posted to social media.
Today is his former rival Ja Rule's birthday. Ja Rule (born Jeffery Atkins) was born on February 29. He turns 40 years old today. I wonder which day would he celebrate his birthday on the off years!
I bet you money that Ja isn't sweating over money!
No disrespect to Chris Rock, I choose to not watch the 88th Academy Awards show. I am not interested in that stuff. I don't find no interest in watching entertainers show off their dresses, their new relationships, their new baby bumps or the social media buzzing about what happened.
I tend to be very reclusive when it comes to the social media and what people do. I get jealous of people bragging about their successes. Hollywood is a part of that.
Many others who struggle to get acting roles are often shunned because of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, political and disability. Some say it's the talent that judges you!
But given that some of the most critically acclaimed movies being shunned, I figured that I wouldn't watch this regardless. Even if a Black comic who addresses racial issues hosted it, I find no interest in awards shows. I just going to summarize it and give an honest take to what happened.
The country's most notorious racial agitator splashed this on his conservative Criagslist today.
Chris Rock's performance at the Academy Awards was good. I mean it was brutally honest. It opened up a discussion to why no person of color being nominated for an Oscar for a second time in a row.
The comedian's monologue and skits were so funny and yes really straight to the point.
The junk food media was talking about it all morning. They were picking apart every skit. They had praised Rock for being upfront about the Academy Awards being inclusive.
He took on #OscarsSoWhite.
He took jabs at fellow comedians such as Kevin Hart.
He took jabs at Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. The Smiths were boycotting the event after Jada took to the internet to protest the nomination. She and Spike Lee became the most visible faces of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
Leonardo DiCaprio won an Academy Award for the first time.
"What happened this year? People went nuts. Spike [Lee] got mad. Jada went mad. Will [Smith] went mad. Everyone went mad!" Rock said about all the celebs wanting to protest the Oscars. "Jada said she's not coming. I was like, ‘isn't she on TV show?' Jada's gonna boycott the Oscars? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties. I wasn't invited!"
People gasped and laughed at the joke. But when Rock when back to monologue, he sympathizes with Jada and Spike Lee's grievance.
"Her man Will was not nominated for Concussion. I get it. You get mad. It's not fair that Will was this good and didn't get nominated. You're right," he said. "It's also not fair that Will was paid $20 million for Wild Wild West!"
Chris opened his monologue with a jab at the montage that played at the beginning of the show, featuring all the movies the Academy is celebrating during the show.
"I counted at least 15 black people in that montage!" he laughed. "Well, I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White Peoples Choice Awards."
"You realize if they nominated hosts, I wouldn't even get this job. Y'all be watching Neil Patrick Harris right now….I thought about quitting. I thought about it real hard. But I realized, they're going to have the Oscars anyway. They're not going to cancel the Oscars because I quit," Rock reasoned. "And the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart!"
Rock was also quick to point out that a lack of diversity among nominees has always been a problem, long before this year's Oscars.
"Why this Oscars? It's the 88th Academy Awards, which means this whole 'no black nominee' has happened like 71 other times. You gotta figure it happened in the ‘50s, in the ‘60s...and black people didn't protest. You know why? Because black people had real things to protest at the time. Too busy being raped and lynched to care about who won Best Cinematographer. You know, when your grandmother is swinging from a tree, it's hard to care about Best Documentary Foreign Short."
"This year, things are going to be a little different at the Oscars," he promised. "This year in the In Memoriam package, it's just going to be black people who were shot by the cops on their way to the movies."
He also had a pretty easy solution for getting more nominations for black actors.
"If you want black people every year at the Oscars, just have black categories, like 'Best Black Friend.' And the winner for the 18th year in a row is Wanda Sykes!" Rock quipped, before finally turning serious. "What I'm trying to say is, it's not about boycotting. We want opportunity. We want the black actors to get the same opportunities as white actors. That's it! Not just once."
Chris Rock brought on Girl Scouts to sell cookies to some of the entertainers. That drew high the biggest applause of the night.
Well I heard that Leonard DeCaprio finally got his Oscar for the performance in The Reverent. From the days of being a teen actor, Leo has dreamed that day would come. He was nominated over five times and never earned an Oscar for them. Today, he is finally an award winner.
Leo's is a devoted environmentalist who believes that the time is now to get things done about climate change. And yes, he devoted his Oscar to those who struggled for this opportunity.
Vice President Joe Biden was there in attendance. He had an opportunity to introduce Grammy award winning/Oscar nominated singer/actress Lady Gaga.
Vice President Joe Biden gives message to America about sexual abuse.
Biden was pressing the audience to address sexual abuse on college campuses. This was a prime issue among the vice president and President Barack Obama.
“Despite significant progress over the last few years, too many woman and men on and off college campuses are still victims of sexual abuse,” the Veep told industry power players and the tens of millions watching on TV. “Tonight, I’m asking you to join millions of Americans including me, President Obama, the thousands of students I’ve met on college campuses and the artists here tonight to take the pledge.”
“The pledge says I will intervene in situations where consent has not or can not be given,” Biden said. “Let’s change the culture, we must and we can change the culture.”
Lady Gaga’s performance of the performance of Best Original Song nominee “Til It Happens To You” from the documentary The Hunting Ground.
Whoopi Goldberg was mistaken for Oprah Winfrey by Total Beauty.
She performed the song with victims of sexual and child abuse.
Total Beauty did the digital dash. Of course, they couldn't tell the difference between Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.
Goldberg is an Oscar award winning actress who is the host of The View. The beauty brand company noticed that Whoopi is heavily tattooed. They expressed surprise that the person who they thought was in the photo, talk show host and actress Oprah Winfrey, had tattoos.
They said: “We had no idea @Oprah was #tatted and we love it.”
Social media went brutal on Total Beauty. The Independent reports that the hashtag “ThatsNotOprah” quickly went viral.
The mix-up prompted anger and frustration on twitter, with one user saying: “Are you fucking kidding me?!? The ONE black woman at the #Oscars and you fuck it up.”
Many people also took to social media to jokingly post pictures of white actors and deliberately name them incorrectly.
Total Beauty quickly went to social media to apologize for the error.
We’d like to apologize to Oprah and Whoopi, as well as everyone we’ve offended. It was our error, and there are no excuses. We’re sorry.
Goldberg will likely address this controversy on The View as well as her former friend who turned into a conservative agitator.
Washed up actress Stacey Dash puts her two cents into the Chris Rock performance. The actress who is also political commentator came onto stage shocking many in the audience. People didn't even recognize her. She was a part of the Rock skit for "minority outreach".
"I cannot wait to help my people out," Dash announced to a baffled audience. "Happy Black History Month!"
The reaction, both in the live audience where even Oscar nominated/Grammy award winning singer The Weeknd was like "What the fuck!"
While many panned her for even showing up, Dash basically laughed it off. "When they added ME to increase the diversity, I'm sure many Black people rolled their eyes. I'm not 'Black enough', they say. But guess what? I've heard that all my life. I would rather be a free thinking Black than a cookie cutter Black who thinks and votes---just like all my friends".
Well here's a clue for the "Clueless". Dash, you're the cookie cutter and you're baked!
Anyway when the Nielsen ratings come out, we'll find out if the viewership is high or low!
Three young men were murdered in cold blood. The junk food media calls it a local story. The men were Muslim-Americans.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES!
It happens in my own backyard. I mean there was a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. A pastor was gunned down by his own family member. The terrorist was arrested without any incident.
A Virginia officer who was sworn to duty one day earlier was gunned down in Woodbridge. The terrorist was an Army staff sergeant who had clearance at the Pentagon. The terrorist murdered his wife after a domestic dispute. The suspect was arrested without any incident.
Now as expected, the agitators in the junk food media are going to discuss these tragedies. I mean it's common that the first thing that comes up is the fact the terrorists were "NICE GUYS".
The terrorists had run-ins with law enforcement or never had a criminal history. The terrorists were experiencing some issue. It could have been a dispute between family, friends or community.
These shootings have gotten major attention in the junk food media.
Well in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the city is mourning the death of three men who were killed execution style. These three Muslim-American men were murdered in a neighborhood a few miles from downtown.
The Muslim-American community and many religious leaders are upset that the junk food media isn't spotlighting this horrible tragedy.
The shooting on Lewis Street in Fort Wayne didn't get notice until now!
This incident happened on Wednesday night. This was before the Republican debate and the Kalamazoo terrorist shooting on Thursday. Kalamazoo is 123 miles from Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne's public safety director Rusty York told a local ABC affiliate, 21 Alive, that there was “no reason to believe this was any type of hate crime, or focused because of their religion or their nationality whatsoever.”
He even noted that the house, rented out by a landlord who lives elsewhere, had become a place where young men of African descent often got together for parties.
The Fort Wayne Police Department did not offer The Huffington Post any additional comment about the suspected motive on Sunday.
Hamzah Sharif, the imam of the Islamic Center of Fort Wayne, did not mention a possible motive in a Facebook message about the young men’s funeral. He instead lauded the presence of the town’s other communities of faith at the service.
“All of [the] Fort Wayne community showed unity and solidarity against violence and stood together to pray for the three young men along with their families,” Sharif wrote.
Ahmed Abdelmageed, director of experiential education at Manchester University’s college of pharmacy in Fort Wayne, acknowledged that the deaths were an especially painful blow for Muslims, but warned against assuming it was a hate crime.
“‘Execution Style’ and the word ‘Muslim’ have certainly been forever ingrained in the minds of American Muslims and they trigger painful images of 3 beautiful souls lost for simply being Muslim,” Abdelmageed wrote on Facebook. “I caution however that the reason does not appear to be related to them being Muslim.”
The Klan is on the rise. The anti-Black, anti-Immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric from Republicans has become recruitment tools for White extremists.
But the incident comes amid a wave of anti-Muslim incidents in the wake of the November terror attack in Paris, increasing the possibility that the triple killing was motivated by prejudice.
Some people, many of them other Muslims, took to social media to question law enforcement’s contention that the crime was unrelated to the Islamic faith of the victims, and to call for an investigation of the killings as a hate crime.
The victims Mohamed Taha Omar, Adam K. Mekki and Muhannad A. Tairab were found in a house with slugs in their heads.
The Fort Wayne Police and the FBI are certain this event wasn't a "gang related situation". They don't know if its either a "hate crime" a "murder-suicide" or a "terrorist attack".
What we know, it's a mass shooting and I don't know who the shooter was! The FBI is actively searching for the persons involved in this horrible tragedy.
Hence forth the blame game.
Who deserves the blame in the death of three Muslim men killed in Indiana?
Obviously I know what happens when I place a poll together. I expect someone to blame entities other than the shooter. The shooter deserves the blame for this.
The junk food media doesn't often cover every controversy and selective outrage is noted among the latest topics de jour.
World News Today send our condolences to the families of Mohamed Taha Omar, Adam K. Mekki and Muhannad A. Tairab.
U.S. Army sergeant kills a first year officer on her first night.
Now as another tragic gun shooting happened in Virginia. This one involved an Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon. The terrorist murdered his wife and an officer who worked for the Prince William County police department.
The terrorist named Ronald Williams Hamilton murdered his wife Crystal and then went into combat mode and aimed at three officers. One officer who was hit was Ashley Guindon, a first year rookie. Ashley was a Marine combat veteran who started as an intern for the police department.
Matter of fact, she was sworn to duty a few days ago. This was the officer's first shift on Saturday night.
The terrorist killed his wife Crystal Hamilton and a Virginia officer.
The Associated Press and Washington Post report that the terrorist is suspected of killing his wife and the officer in his home in Woodbridge, a city about 25 miles from Washington, DC.
He faces capital murder and this charge alone in Virginia carries the PILL KILL (DEATH SENTENCE). Matter of fact, he will automatically face a court martial. The terrorist is innocent until proven guilty.
"We ask for everyone's thoughts and prayers as our department deals with this tragic loss," the Prince Williams County police department released to the press.
The other officers were injured were Jesse Hempen and David McKeown. They were treated for their injuries and will survive the shooting.
Of course, the problem that is missing from the equation is the fact that this terrorist had mental issues or was the "NICE GUY" with a gun.
Terrorist held on capital murder of an officer and his wife.
A domestic dispute lead to the police encounter. The suspect prepared for their arrival. He used his military training and quickly took to action when the officers approached his door.
He shot that officer at a pointed angle where it hit her in the neck. That injury alone killed her upon impact.
Of course, since the victims were White and the suspect was Black, here comes the goddamn blame game.
Who deserves the blame in the death of a Virginia police officer?
Right now, that racial extremist Bill Cunningham is making light of controversies in Kansas, Ohio, and Virginia. Instead of blaming the shooter, the racial extremists would fault the president and #BlackLivesMatter for the shooting. Cunningham and other racial extremists would deliberately make the race of the suspect an issue.
Cunningham is a notorious race baiter who has a radio program in Cincinnati. He also has a syndicated talk show on many CW stations. He's rewarded for spewing hate.
The conservatives are now hyping up Black on Whatever violence. The incidents in Kansas, Ohio, and now Virginia have gotten much attention because the suspects are Black.
No mentions of the Kalamazoo terrorist by Bill Cunningham or Colin Flaherty. No mentions of the Klan clashing with protesters in California. Three people were injured by a stabbing. One of the Klan members had a pointed flag pole. That Klan man stabbed three and one gotten critical injuries.
No mentions of the execution style murders of three innocent Muslim men in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
No mentions of the murder-suicide and police shooting in Washington state.
Yeah, you never hear that in the news. It doesn't fit the narrative.
World News Today sends our condolences to the families of Crystal Hamilton and Ashley Guindon.
We also send our condolences to the victims of gun violence mentioned and not mentioned by the junk food media. We condemn the agitators who exploit these tragedies for political blame.
Tragedy in Dayton, Ohio. A pastor of a local church was gunned down by his own brother. The Dayton Police and FBI are investigating the suspect and trying to pen a motive.
Of course, we obviously assume it was a domestic violence dispute but given the mass shootings in the United States, I have to conclude any event that involves firearms as an act of terrorism.
This terrorist Daniel Schooler murdered his brother Pastor William Schooler at Sunday service today.
Terrorist held in lockup on capital murder.
The St. Peter's Missionary Baptist Church was the site of the fatal shooting. The church is on the southwestern tip of Dayton in the Highview Hills neighborhood.
The family of the victim knew that this terrorist had mental issues. They believe that terrorist had a feud with his brother. Willaim Schooler was shot at point blank range at his private office.
Schooler was a former Dayton Public Schools Board of Education member.
Friend and fellow community leader Ronnie Moreland, director of government affairs for the Community Progress Institute, said Schooler was the current president of the Baptist Ministers Union in Dayton. “He had deep roots in the community,” Moreland said. “He was a beloved leader. It’s hard to put into words what has happened.”
The terrorist had run-ins with the law. Most of the issues included drug abuse and firearms.
The terrorist was arrested without incident at the scene by Dayton Police and taken to the Montgomery County lockup. Detectives plan to meet with Montgomery County prosecutors in the coming days to discuss formal charges.
This could carry the PILL KILL (DEATH SENTENCE).
The terrorist is innocent until proven guilty.
The Blame Game......Obviously we know where I'm going with this!
Who deserves the blame in the death of an Ohio Pastor?
World News Today send our condolences to the family of William Schooler.
Pro-confederate lawmaker Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) endorses Donald Trump. Sessions's endorsement is a blow to the Ted Cruz campaign.
Just when you thought David Duke was a horrible endorsement.
Here comes two Republicans who have a notorious history of supporting White extremism. Matter of fact, the Ted Cruz presidential campaign was hoping for these endorsements. But it turns out to be a "HUGE" endorsement for the media mogul.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Maine governor Paul LePage have both came out and endorsed Donald Trump for president.
Sessions has a staunch opposition towards immigration. He ended up making this endorsement today and it stings. Especially against Ted Cruz, his fellow senator who once was the darling of the insurgency. The insurgency is not into Cruz and Sessions's endorsement of Trump is blow to the campaign. Session is pro-confederate and is a leading advocate towards stripping the safety net from the poor.
LePage is pretty much another bigot for the record. This year he attributed the rising deaths to heroin to Black criminals immigrating to his state with the boy.
These endorsements are a sign of how the Trump campaign is destroying the party. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson are trying to reach out to minority voters. Trump is reaching out to disgruntled White people who were disappointed with Republicans inept offensive against President Barack Obama.
Matter of fact, Trump has tapped into the extremist wing of the party. The party that advocates the notion that "black mob violence" exists. That immigrants are "criminals", "dope pushers" and having "anchor babies" by the boatload.
On GOP Sundays, Trump won't disavow the endorsement from Duke.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) resigns from the DNC. She formally endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
GOP Sundays are sure interesting. Donald Trump is the headliner of the day. On all the networks and CNN, Trump will get a lot of airtime given the GOP debate and Super Tuesday. If Trump sweeps the primary, he will become the presumptive nominee.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) also got some fair time on the air. Of course, the agitators are asking about his failure to secure the Black vote after the South Carolina primary loss. The candidate is telling the junk food media that you shouldn't count him out. He's working to win states that Clinton is struggling in.
Chuck Todd interviews Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI). The conservative leaning lawmaker announced today she's exiting the Democratic National Committee. She thrown her support to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for the Democratic nomination.
The lawmaker was born in American Samoa, the U.S. territory that has residents fighting for American citizenship. She is the first Hindu woman elected from the state. She is of Indian-American decent and is one of the few active military officers elected to Congress. She is one of the youngest members of the Congress.
Gabbard is feuding with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the current chairwoman of the DNC. They are fighting over the debates and the lackluster excitement of the candidates. Gabbard accused Schultz of being in the tank for Hillary Clinton. She says that the debates were lowered and placed on nights that people aren't watching.
I got an opportunity to hear the two struggling presidential candidates from the Republican side complain about how Trump and the junk food media are shutting them down. All on a network that's pretty damn friendly to them.
Chris Wallace interviews Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his struggling campaign. The two get really into it. Wallace ask the lawmaker about Trump's accusations of him being a liar. Cruz was really pissed when the interview ended. Wallace and Cruz usually had a friendly encounter. But when it came down to hard questions, Cruz will say that it's liberal tactics. Cruz did manage to bring up the White extremists who refuse to support him. The White extremists are throwing their support behind Trump which is showing that the party is inviting dangerous elements into its fold. Not like it hasn't.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) also addressing Trump's attacks on his personality. The Florida lawmaker is now wasting his time going after Trump's personal appearance. He came out with the #NeverTrump hashtag. That hashtag was being swamped by #AlwaysTrump. Rubio went after Trump's horrible tan and his failed business dealings. Rubio even cracked a couple of jokes. It's not working. Trump hit back with splashing water and his makeup to hide the sweat. Also the tag of being a "choke artist" is sticking.
Someone's going to face charges. The ex-girlfriend of the Hesston terrorist is being served with aiding criminal with firearms. The terrorist was killed after he managed to kill three and injure twenty.
The ex-girlfriend of the Hesston terrorist is being served with federal indictment charges. She knowingly gave firearms to a convicted felon. Meaning that could put this woman in the federal time out for up to 10 years.
It seems like Cedric Ford, 38 had a strawman buy his firearms. The 28 year old woman who is the mother of this terrorist's children will face a judge in the coming days.
Sarah Hopkins was served on Friday the charge after she admitted that she gave the terrorist the AK 47 and Glock .40 caliber. She was the person who gave him the restraining order papers.
Josh Higbee, Brian Sadowsky, and Renee Benjamin lost their lives to a cold hearted terrorist.
Hopkins has two children with the terrorist. The feds went to the woman's home to sweep for possible explosives and the motive.
On Thursday, the terrorist was served with a restraining order. He flipped out and drove near his home in Newton. He decided to grab his firearms and try to carjack a woman nearby. He aimed the firearm at point blank range and managed to pop a round into the woman's car. It turns out to barely missed the woman.
The terrorist decided to car jack another person. He aimed his firearm at this guy. He shot him and threw him out the car.
And then the terrorist would return to his job at Excel Manufacturing to let his ex-bosses and co-workers have it.
The victims were named Friday. Renee Benjamin, 30, Brian Sadowsky, 44 and Josh Higbee, 31.
They were killed upon impact.
The law managed to put down this terrorist. The law is trying to determine what triggered him to commit this horrible act.
World News Today send our condolences to the families of Josh, Brian and Renee. They're lives taken away without any circumstances.
Hopkins is innocent until proven guilty. She will face a judge as soon as federal and state charges are released to the junk food media.
Looks like your #Nerdland may be over at MSNBC. It seems like Melissa Harris-Perry abruptly parted ways with the network. The network has primarily been focused on the 2016 presidential race and its given fodder time to covering the campaign rallies of Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
The host says that the network scrapped the show for political coverage. She is not happy about it.
She posted on her official social media page and the websites picked up on it.
Dearest Nerds,
As you know by now, my name appears on the weekend schedule for MSNBC programming from South Carolina this Saturday and Sunday. I appreciate that many of you responded to this development with relief and enthusiasm.
To know that you have missed working with me even a fraction of how much I've missed working with all of you is deeply moving. However, as of this morning, I do not have any intention of hosting this weekend. Because this is a decision that affect all of you, I wanted to take a moment to explain my reasoning.
Some unknown decision-maker presumably Andy Lack (of NBC News) or Phil Griffin (of MSNBC), has added my name to this spreadsheet but nothing has change in the posture of the MSNBC leadership team towards me or towards our show. Putting me on air seems to be a decision being made to save face because there is a growing chorus of questions from our viewers about my notable absence from MSNBC coverage. Social media has noted the dramatic change in editorial tone and racial composition of MSNBC's on-air coverage. In addition, Dylan Byers of CNN has made repeated inquiries with MSNBC's leadership and with me about the show and what appears to be its cancellation. I have not responded to reporters or social media inquiries.
However, I am not willing to appear on air in order to quell concerns about the disappearance of our show and our voice.
Here is the reality: our show was taken - without comment or discussion or notice - in the midst of an election season. After four years of building an audience, developing a brand, and developing a trust with our viewers, we were effectively and utterly silenced.
Now, MSNBC would like me to appear for four inconsequential hours to read news that they deem relevant without returning to our team any of the editorial control and authority that makes MHP Show distinctive.
The purpose of this decision seems to be to provide cover for MSNBC, not to provide voice for MHP Show. I will not be used as a tool for their purposes. I am not a token, mammy, or a little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, Griffin, or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back. I have wept more tears than I can count and I find this deeply painful, but I don't want back on air at any cost. I am only willing to return when that return happens under certain terms.
Undoubtedly, television nurtures the egos of those of us who find ourselves in front of the bright lights and big cameras. I am sure ego is informing my own pain in this moment, but there is a level of professional decency, respect, and communication that has been denied this show for years. And the utter insulting absurdity of the past few weeks exceeds anything I can countenance.
I have stayed in the same hotels where MSNBC had been broadcasting in Iowa, in New Hampshire, and in South Carolina, yet I have been shut out from coverage. I have a PhD in political science and have taught American voting and elections at some of the nation's top universities for nearly two decades, yet I have been deemed less worthy to weigh in than relative novices and certified liars. I have hosted a weekly program on this network for four years and contributed to election coverage on this network for nearly eight years, but no on on the third floor has even returned an email, called me, or initiated or responded to any communication of any kind from me for nearly a month. It is profoundly hurtful to realize that I work for people who find my considerable expertise and editorial judgment valueless to the coverage they are creating.
While MSNBC may believe that I am worthless, I know better. I know who I am. I know why MHP Show is unique and valuable. I will not sell short myself or this show. I am not hungry for empty airtime, I care only about substantive, meaningful, and autonomous work. When we can do that, I will return - not a moment earlier. I am deeply sorry for the ways that this decision makes life harder for all of you. You mean more to me than you can imagine.
Yours always,
Melissa
It seems like MSNBC is sticking to the liberal agitators of the primetime. Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell are stable for the time being.
MSNBC is turning into strictly news format. After it took a rise in 2013, it sank again in the ratings.
CNN is still cruising in the second place spot. But Fox News is beating the networks in a 2:1 margin.
I've always enjoyed Melissa Harris-Perry's show. What could happen now that she's departed from the network in such a fashion. Will you watch the network?
Hillary Clinton's conservative critics can take a chill. It seems like she's hot! Clinton won the South Carolina primary tonight beating Bernie Sanders 3:1.
While the conservatives were determined to have a fight in the South, Clinton easily beaten a formidable Sanders. I mean this comes a blow to Sanders who was hoping to upset Clinton.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) came out in favor of Clinton last week and provided a ground game for her.
She lost to Barack Obama in 2008 but a huge margin. Now it seems like the Black voters have decided to turn out for Clinton in droves. This was by far the largest turnout for the struggling Democratic candidate. I mean even the Black turnout was bigger than Obama's
Clinton promises to follow the president's policies and take on critics obsessed with Benghazi and her emails. She also stayed on the message of helping the middle class and building bridges and not walls.
The walls jab was aimed at Donald Trump. Trump promises that Mexico will pay for the border fence.
Hillary used her star power to bring out the vote. Katy Perry, Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinksy to urge voters to turnout for her. The mothers of Eric Garner, Dontre Hamilton, Sandra Bland and Jordan Davis came out in support of the former secretary of state.
Clinton frequently emphasized racial justice in her campaign, calling for gun safety reforms after the shooting at a church in Charleston killed nine last June. She called for police to wear body cameras after a white officer shot and killed the unarmed black man Walter Scott in North Charleston in April. Earlier this week, she held a forum with mothers of unarmed young African Americans who have been killed in high-profile acts of brutality.
Clinton's lopsided win provided an important boost for her campaign — and a moment to wipe away bitter memories of her loss to Barack Obama in South Carolina eight years ago. She won the support of nearly 9 in 10 black voters, crucial Democratic backers who abandoned her for Obama in 2008.
During a raucous victory rally, Clinton briefly reveled in her sweeping support from South Carolina voters, hugging backers and posing with them for selfie photos. But then she pivoted quickly to the contests to come.
"Tomorrow this campaign goes national," she said. "We are not taking anything, and we are not taking anyone, for granted."
Sanders, expecting defeat on Saturday, left the state even before voting was finished and turned his attention to some of the states that vote in next Tuesday's delegate-rich contests. In a statement, Sanders vowed to fight on aggressively.
"This campaign is just beginning," he said. "Our grass-roots political revolution is growing state by state, and we won't stop now."
Clinton's victory came at the end of a day that saw Republican candidates firing insults at each other from Super Tuesday states. Donald Trump, working to build an insurmountable lead, was campaigning in Arkansas with former rival Chris Christie and calling Marco Rubio a "light little nothing;" Ted Cruz was asking parents in Atlanta if they would be pleased if their children spouted profanities like the brash billionaire, and Rubio was mocking Trump as a "con artist" with "the worst spray tan in America."
Clinton allies quickly touted the breadth of her victory. Besides blacks, she won most women and voters aged 25 and older, according to early exit polls.
Sanders continued to do well with young voters, his most passionate supporters. He also carried those who identified themselves as independents.
A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders has energized his supporters with impassioned calls for breaking up Wall Street banks and making tuition free at public colleges and universities. But the senator from Vermont, a state where about 1 percent of the population is black, lacks Clinton's deep ties to the African-American community.
While Sanders spent the end of the week outside of South Carolina, his campaign did invest heavily in the state. He had 200 paid staff on the ground and an aggressive television advertising campaign.
Exit polls showed 6 in 10 voters in the South Carolina primary were black, by far the largest proportion in any of the contests so far. About 7 in 10 said they wanted the next president to continue Obama's policies, and only about 20 percent wanted a more liberal course of action, according to exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.
Clinton's sweeping victory suggested South Carolina voters had put aside any lingering tensions from her heated 2008 contest with Obama. Former President Bill Clinton made statements during that campaign that were seen by some, including influential South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, as questioning the legitimacy of the black presidential contender.
This time around, Clyburn endorsed Clinton, and her husband was well-received as he traveled the state on her behalf. She focused on issues with particular resonance in the black community and held an emotional event with black mothers whose children died in shootings.
Clinton's second White House bid lurched to an uneven start, with a narrow victory over Sanders in Iowa and a crushing loss to the senator in New Hampshire. She pulled off a 5-point win over Sanders in last week's Nevada caucus, a crucial victory that helped stem Sanders' momentum.
Clinton's campaign hopes her strong showing in South Carolina foreshadows similar outcomes in states like Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Virginia that vote Tuesday and have large minority populations.
Taken together, 865 Democratic delegates are up for grabs in the Super Tuesday contests in 11 states and American Samoa. Sanders is hoping to stay close to Clinton in the South while focusing most of his attention on states in the Midwest and Northeast, including his home state of Vermont.
Sanders has built a massive network of small donors and has the money to stay in the race deep into the spring. Still, Clinton's campaign sees a chance to build enough of a delegate lead to put the race out of reach during the sprint through March.
Clinton's will pick up most of South Carolina's delegates, widening her overall lead in AP's count. With 53 delegates at stake, Clinton will receive at least 31. Sanders picked up at least 12.
Going into South Carolina, Clinton had just a one-delegate edge over Sanders. However, she also has a massive lead among superdelegates, the Democratic Party leaders who can vote for the candidate of their choice at this summer's national convention, regardless of how their states vote.
Looks like even Drudge couldn't denounce this victory.
That annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity was trying his darnedest to denounce Clinton for playing the "race card". He'll certainly address this issue with that coon Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County.
Congratulations to Hillary Clinton on her victory.
Facebook CEO doesn't like trolling. He laid the hammer on trolls working at his company.
The CEO of the largest social media network lays the hammer on employees. He warned the workers that if you have bias towards civil rights, you have no place with Facebook.
In Menlo Park, California, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told his employees on Wednesday to stop crossing out #BlackLivesMatter with #alllivesmatter.
An internal memo was sent across the company from Zuckerberg acknowledging that employees have in fact crossed out the slogan and replaced it with another.
The memo was posted on a private company announcement page on Facebook and obtained by technology blog Gizmodo.
In the memo, Zuckerberg made it clear that he found the practice unacceptable in another meeting and that he is disappointed that this has continued to happen since then.
There have been several recent instances of people crossing out 'black lives matter' and writing 'all lives matter on the walls at MPK.
"Despite my clear communication at Q&A last week that this was unacceptable, and messages from several other leaders from across the company, this has happened again.I was already very disappointed by this disrespectful behavior before, but after my communication I now consider this malicious as well.
"There are specific issues affecting the black community in the United States, coming from a history of oppression and racism. 'Black lives matter' doesn't mean that other lives don't -- it's simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.
Mark Zuckerberg warns workers not to stifle people posting on the company's wall.
"We've never had rules around what people can write on our walls -- we expect everybody to treat each other with respect. Regardless of the content or location, crossing out something means silencing speech, or that one person's speech is more important than another's. Facebook should be a service and a community where everyone is treated with respect.
"This has been a deeply hurtful and tiresome experience for the black community and really the the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents.
"I hope and encourage people to participate in the 'Black@' town hall on 3/4 to educate themselves about what the Black Lives Matter movement is about."
Two percent of Facebook's employees are black, according to the latest data released by the company. Fifty five percent are white, 36 percent are Asian and 4 percent are Hispanic.
Time reported that the company began an anti-bias course for employees last August to promote diversity.
The terrorist had criminal history with firearms. How the hell did he obtain one?
The mass shooting in Kansas became a topic today when the president visited a Jacksonville plant.
President Barack Obama said that Congress is too afraid of their political futures. He said no matter how many times he addresses this, the lawmakers are still inept to getting reasonable gun control measures passed. He said that he'll do whatever it takes to stop this.
Many in the United States have become numb to the constant mass shootings happening in the country. No other country in the world has this many mass shootings. The United States is by far the leader of gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
It beats terrorism, Ebola, the Zika virus and HIV.
I doubt the Republican governor Sam Brownback, the Republican-controlled Congress and of course the Republican presidential candidates will move the needle forward in trying to curb mass shootings.
They will offer prayers to the victims and use rhetoric that draws hypothetical reactions to how to handle a mass shooting. They predicate the narrative that the president and Democrats are trying to take guns. They will politicize these tragedies for political gamesmanship. The conservatives will automatically claim its a liberal Obama supporter.
Mass shootings are happening everyday in the United States.
The blame game shifts to if the shooter was a Muslim, a Black man and or an undocumented immigrant. They will rally attacks towards the president for not acknowledging the race of the suspect.
But if it's a White person, the conservatives will deflect politics. If the person was a dye in the wool conservative, they'll dismiss it as a tactic of the left.
Then the kookspiracy would say that people who were killed or filmed in emotion are crisis actors.
Matter of fact, if you're a smart person, you wouldn't care about this terrorist's political views or race.
All that matters, this terrorist obtained a firearms to inflict harm among those who want to freely live their lives working for a living.
The terrorist was being served a piece of paper after he had a violate relationship with person he had dated. He had also had a feud with co-workers. He was told to bounce from his job. Then 90 minutes later, he would shoot an innocent driver in Newton. He would travel back to the Excel Lawnmower plant in Hesston to extract revenge.
Some are saying that the terrorist being served a restraining order made him snapped.
The terrorist, Cedric Ford had a criminal record. What the hell was doing obtaining a firearm if he was a convicted felon?
The terrorist grew up in Miami, Florida. He was on probation for a series of convictions in Miami at the time of the shootings. He had a criminal record stretching back to October 1996, when he was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm at the age of 18.
In Harvey County, Kansas, the terrorist was arrested for drug possession, theft, and parole violation.
Other events included a misdemeanor conviction in relation to a brawl that occurred in 2008, as well as several traffic violations in 2014 and 2015. He was also arrested in Broward County, Florida for resisting arrest, battery, and grand theft.
Prior to the shootings, friends and his ex-girlfriend accused him of assault and domestic violence, and issued a restraining order against him. The order was given to him on the day of the shootings and is believed to have been what sparked the event.
They were once colleagues in the U.S. Senate. Republican governor Sam Brownback meets President Barack Obama in Kansas. The president grew up in Kansas with his grandparents for a brief portion of his life.
Three people were murdered along with the terrorist being killed by the law. Over 15 people were injured by gunfire. The suspect had an arsenal of firearms. The most obvious was the AK-47, the most powerful and frequently used firearm in the United States.
A week ago, a terrorist from Kalamazoo killed six innocent people. The former Uber driver was depressed and angry. He would launch an attack on restaurant goers, a father and son at a car dealership and a woman who tried to shield children from the gunfire.
The law managed to catch this terrorist without a single shot fired.
Don't forget about the racial extremists! Jim Hoft, the most dumbest man on the internet and Colin Flaherty, the most racist dick on the internet will exploit this. They're rallying White extremists to prepare themselves against Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims.
By the way, there was another mass shooting in Washington state. Five people including the suspect were killed after a shooting and armed standoff.
World News Today send our condolences to the victims of these senseless tragedies.
