Gladys Knight and The Pips. William Guest on the left passed away.
He was a part of an iconic group. He lived a great life. William Guest the backup singer for Gladys Knight passed away on Christmas Eve. His death hits the news wires and World News Today wants to send our condolences to his family.
Guest was an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, he was Gladys Knight's cousin.
Following his stint with The Pips, he and fellow Pip Edward Patten formed Patten and Guest Productions, and following Patten's death in 2005, he continued to manage artists though the Crew Entertainment company he formed with members of Patten's family.
Guest died on December 24, 2015 of congestive heart failure in Detroit, Michigan, his home for fifty years. He was 74 years old
William Guest.
Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1967) and "Midnight Train to Georgia" (1973). The longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers.
Gladys Knight & The Pips are multiple Grammy and American Music Award winners, and are inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
A documentary about the school to prison pipeline.
Al-Jazeera English released on YouTube a video that you might take some interest in.
The video talks about the school to prison pipeline. It talks about young teens getting into trouble during their peak of puberty. They send teens to the iron college if they become perennial interns.
Many urban schools are now taking a zero tolerance on misbehavior.
Fault Lines documents Houston Independent School and the strict Texas laws in which even minor offenses for truancy could land a student into prison.
We must end the school to prison pipeline.
The Christmas holiday has been relatively light on stories. The political season takes a break for the most part. The agitators in the junk food media are off. So there's nothing much for them to agitate the public about.
The candidates are celebrating with their families.
We take the time to send our condolences to the victims of yesterday's tornadoes in the Mississippi delta. People in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee faced some dangerous storms.
President Barack Obama declared a national emergency in the areas.
Some powerful EF4-EF5 tornadoes managed to plow communities.
The city of Memphis has one of the largest FedEx terminals. The shipping company faced a huge setback because of the weather. They are trying to finish up Christmas deliveries.
I'm here today to talk a little bit about me. I am from Dayton, Ohio, and work a full time job in the area. I am often considered reclusive at best. I'm an introvert. A loner. The guy in the back of the class. The guy that everyone could get along with but keeps to myself.
Seriously, I am a human being before everything else.
Anyway, I contribute a lot to the blog and post most of the stories I happen to find off the internet.
I'm thankful to S. Baldwin for giving me an opportunity to help grow her blog to greatness.
As we close out the year, I want to be thankful that I am alive. I am also thankful this dreadful year is going to be over. I am grateful that things are going to get better.
I don't care what people think of me personally. Rest assured that I want to keep my head up and move forward into the new year.
The former Walmart driver was served in the accident that seriously injured famed comedian Tracy Morgan. The accident ended up killing his friend Jimmy Mac (aka. Jimmy McNair).
The trucker Kevin Roper denied guilt in the accident. He was riding his rig on 24 hours of no sleep.
He ended up blazing through a construction area on the New Jersey Turnpike. The trucker didn't pay one bit of attention and ended smacking up the hummer limousine which Tracy and Jimmy Mac were in.
The comedians were coming from a gig in New Jersey and they were on their way to Baltimore when this jumped off.
The trucker is now facing some time in the iron college. Now the vehicular homicide charge could carry up to 20 years in the iron college. Given that Roper may have had many run-ins with law enforcement from reckless driving, he will be barred from driving for the rest of his life.
Walmart had to choke out a lot of money to the family of Jimmy Mac and Tracy Morgan.
The former trucker got served. Kevin Roper was found guilty in the death of Jimmy McNair and severe injury of Tracy Mogran.
They cannon fired Roper and many other drivers who failed to follow their standards of safety.
Roper's failure to take a rest break ultimately led to this tragedy.
Congress passed strict rules when it comes to commercial driving.
Roper must have ignored that when he believed he could finish the task in 30 hours without at least an 6 to 12 hour sleep break.
Roper is from Alabama and he's now being held in county lockup. His sentencing may come before the end of the year.
World News Today send our prayers to Tracy Morgan. We wish him well on his journey to recovery.
Violence doesn't take a break. A boy was shot in Dayton, Ohio.
In my community, the junk food media is reporting on an incident in which a two year old boy was shot by an unknown assailant. The boy was a passenger in a vehicle that was hit by a hail of rounds.
The vehicle would crash on a local Dayton, Ohio road.
The victim is listed in critical condition. The Dayton Police are seeking information to why this senseless tragedy.
It's not something I take pride in discussing. It callous and disgusting that a man would shoot an innocent child.
The victim's father may have been the intended target.
The shooting happened on a busy road called Gettysburg Avenue near the intersection of James H. McGee Boulevard.
World News Today sends our prayers to the family of the victim.
It's unfortunate on the eve of Christmas, gun violence never takes a break. It's the stuff that keeps on going and of course, the U.S. Congress will look the other way.
"Though I am not against interethnic relationships as a rule, I do think people should be careful. The possibility of anomic behavior from people who consider you “other” is something all women being propositioned by men outside their culture should be aware of."- Nicole Lasher of IronWynch
Dazed look on killer's face. Woman plows into innocent tourists.
The junk food media released the name of the suspect involved in the intentional run over of tourist on the Las Vegas strip.
Lakeisha Holloway is facing a court date. She is being charged with murder. The charge could carry her LIFE in the iron college. The 24-year old woman plowed over 44 people while she had her daughter in the backseat of her ride.
The victim who died upon impact was a mother from Buckeye, Arizona.
Jessica Valenzuela was a 32-year old mother of three. She and her husband were in Las Vegas celebrating the 10-year old anniversary.
Jessica's husband and family describe her as "fantastic stay-at-home mother" who had started attending Bible study classes at church, having moved from Colorado in July. "I only met her a couple of months ago, but she was definitely faithful once she started coming, and I knew she was a believer," the First Southern Baptist Church's pastor tells NBC News. "She seemed to be a very sweet lady."
Oregon woman kills mother of three.
Holloway drove on the sidewalk at 45 mph.
Holloway a transplant from Portland, Oregon must have feel on hard times. But that gives her no damn reason to take it out on everyone. She got served with murder with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident, and child endangerment.
Holloway is innocent until proven guilty.
Holloway now shows an ounce of remorse.
World News Today sends our condolences to the family Jessica Valenzuela.
Papa Smurf realized that something, something! Something, something just ain't right!
The Republican candidate has taken a nosedive. He's now in the single digits while the new flavor of the month Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) rose to the second spot. The Carson campaign had suffered some major setbacks after the three previous debates. Carson is pretty novice on foreign policy.
The Paris and San Bernardino tragedies brought the issue of terrorism to the forefront.
Carson is also got a lot of holes in his wallet and pocket. He's spent most of the $$$$$$$$ he's earned during the campaign.
Now Carson is ready to do another brain surgery on his staffers. His campaign manager may be the first sucker fired out the cannon.
With less than six weeks til the Iowa Caucus, Carson has to do some serious rebounding or else take an "L" and move on.
Carson's buddy conservative agitator Armstrong Williams assures that "everything is good" and "you have nothing to worry about". But many political insiders believe Carson may eventually bow out.
The Republican insurgents are giving the establishment a headache. They believe the overheated rhetoric could turn away potential voters.
The candidates have taken this hard right stance on most issues.
Extended Holidays Business Hours at Kmart for Christmas are not paying off as one of the employees admitted that they should not be open with extended hours as they do not have enough business to sustain what they have let alone extended business hours
Insurgent Ted Cruz fires at the Washington Post when they took aim at his daughters. Cruz is with his wife Heidi and daughters Catherine (left) and Caroline (right).
Now I am not a fan of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his bombastic campaign for president. The insurgent lawmaker has relatively no accomplishments since his introduction to the senate in 2013.
He's been nothing more than a gadfly to the Republicans. The conservatives love his "in your face" approach when it comes to taking on Washington.
But his "in your face" approach has made it harder for Republicans to support him. They believe that Cruz and Donald Trump could spell disaster.
But given the atmosphere in the junk food media, it's not an easy road for a perennial running Hillary Clinton. So far she's leading against most candidates. Clinton is still having slow support from many of the progressives. Many progressives view Clinton more negatively after the fiasco with Bernie Sanders and previously then Barack Obama.
When campaigning for the nomination, the candidates swore they'll never attack the children of a candidate. But for the junk food media, nothing is off limits.
Pathetic.
The Washington Post had to do damage control when they released a political cartoon featuring Cruz with two little monkeys. I guess the monkeys were Catherine and Caroline. Those are the senator's two young daughters.
Cue the outrage.
For one thing Cruz is Hispanic. Depicting him and his daughters as monkeys is pretty damn racist!
The person who drew the comic will probably be placed in the freezer or fired out the cannon once the heat increases. But it's become a rally cry for Cruz to raise campaign cash.
Cruz raised a $1 million from it.
Cruz called it a "tasteless attack". He said that you can say whatever the fuck about him. But you best not talk about his kids!
"My daughters are not FAIR GAME," he wrote on social media and in his fundraising emailer. "I'm sickened....I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this."
Fool, please. You know that being the President of the United States is going to be a job for the patient. Barack Obama faced an onslaught of attacks from the people like you.
When has there been ever a time the junk food media been easy of the families of a political candidate?
His wife was brutally criticized by those agitators in the conservative media for being "an angry Black woman". They don't see her as an accomplished mother, wife, business executive and volunteer.
Think about last month when The Daily Caller obtained a Snapchat photo of Malia Obama attending Brown University and she's viewing a game of beer pong. Or the Republican staffer who took to social media to attack the appearance of Malia and Sasha Obama during the 2014 pardoning of the turkeys.
And who can't forget the conservative Craigslist reporting that the junk food media scrubbing a story about Malia and a few her friends heading out of country. The story being leaked caused the Secret Service to end Malia's vacation early.
Ted, you better get used to it. The junk food media has no shame in what it does.
Matter of fact, the freedom of speech assures this type of trash to be published.
Critics probably splashed this nonsense on their screen savers.
The president heads off to Hawaii for his family vacation. His vacation will be like always a working one. And even though our friends in the agitating media are on vacation, their sidekicks are in session.
As you know, the president gives the nation a recap of his seventh year. In his yearly wrap up he announced that he will do more to take on the Islamic State. He will try to pass reforms to curb the ongoing gun violence. He said that he will try to end his last year in office on a good note.
He did an interview on NPR. Steve Inskeep asks him about the legacy and the rise of the insurgent Donald Trump. Here's the part that got the conservatives attention.
STEVE INSKEEP: And you mentioned Donald Trump taking advantage of real anxieties in the country but that the anxieties are real. Some of that anxiety, as you know, focuses on you, Mr. President. And I want to set aside the politicians for a moment and just talk about ordinary voters. Do you feel over seven years that you've come to understand why it is that some ordinary people in America believe or fear that you are trying to change the country in some way that they cannot accept?
OBAMA: Well, look, if what you are asking me, Steve, is are there certain circumstances around being the first African-American president that might not have confronted a previous president, absolutely. You know, I think ...
INSKEEP: I don't know if that's all of it.
OBAMA: I'm sure that's not all of it ...
INSKEEP: It's not all I am asking, anyway. You could answer it anyway you want.
OBAMA: Well, you are asking a pretty broad question. I don't know where to take it, so if you want to narrow it down, I can. If what you are suggesting is is that, you know, somebody questioning whether I was born in the United States or not, how do I think about that, I would say that that's something that is actively promoted and may gain traction because of my unique demographic. I don't think that that's a big stretch.
But maybe you've got something else in mind.
INSKEEP: Years ago you made that remark, you were much criticized for saying something about people clinging to guns and religion. This is before you were even elected president. And although you were criticized for the phrasing of that, it seemed to me that you were attempting to figure out, what is it that people are thinking, what is it that's bothering people? Now you've had several more years to think about that.
OBAMA: Well, keep in mind, Steve, I was elected twice by decent majorities. So the fact of the matter is that in a big country like this there is always going to be folks who are frustrated, don't like the direction of the country, are concerned about the president. Some of them may not like my policies, some of them may just not like how I walk, or my big ears or, you know. So, I mean, no politician I think aspires to 100 percent approval ratings.
If you are referring to specific strains in the Republican Party that suggest that somehow I'm different, I'm Muslim, I'm disloyal to the country, etc., which unfortunately is pretty far out there and gets some traction in certain pockets of the Republican Party, and that have been articulated by some of their elected officials, what I'd say there is that that's probably pretty specific to me and who I am and my background, and that in some ways I may represent change that worries them. But that's not to suggest that everybody who objects to my policies may not have perfectly good reasons for it. If you are living in a town that historically has relied on coal and you see coal jobs diminishing, you probably are going to be more susceptible to the argument that I've been wiping out the economy in your area.
It doesn't matter if I tell them actually it's probably because natural gas is a lot cheaper now so it doesn't pay to build coal plants. If somebody tells you that this is because of Obama's war on coal, well, you know, that's an argument you may be sympathetic to. And that's perfectly legitimate. So as I said, you asked a pretty open-ended question. I think you were being a little coy in how you asked it.
INSKEEP: I'm trying to give you room to answer.
OBAMA: No, I understand, but what I'm saying is that I think that there's always going to be, every president, a certain cohort that just doesn't like your policies, doesn't like your party, what have you. I think if you are talking about the specific virulence of some of the opposition directed towards me, then, you know, that may be explained by the particulars of who I am.
On the other hand, I'm not unique to that. I always try to remind people that, goodness, if you look at what they said about Jefferson or Lincoln or FDR — finding reasons not to like a president, that's, you know, a well-traveled path here in this country.
One in particular was the rise of the insurgency. The insurgent candidates running for the Republican nomination have gotten a whole lot of media coverage.
Donald Trump is by far the biggest focus of the elections. His fiery rhetoric has sparked a flame in the conservatives. The conservatives are playing upon the fear of a Browner nation to win this election.
Conservatives believes the president plays the race card. Here's an example of the conservative Craigslist posted yesterday.
Macy Gray releases a politically charged holiday song. It dings Donald Trump.
Macy Gray released "All I Want for Christmas" on iTunes this month. The song is pretty awesome if you're a progressive and want Congress to get President Barack Obama's agenda done.
The song pretty much takes a stance on issues that are considered hot potatoes in the junk food media. Cue the conservative outrage.
Here's the lyrics. Read it carefully and then peep the commentary below.
[Verse 1]
All I want for Christmas is a whole bunch of stuff
But anything that you can buy me won’t be enough
Because everything I’m hoping for is intangible
Like free health care and gun control
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
[Verse 2]
Santa Claus stop by the ghetto too
And bring lots of opportunity with you
Bring the day the government will realize We’ll all be happier when it’s legalized So immigrate, stop the hate, let’s educate The more we do, the less we will incarcerate 7 billion people just below the moon
And if we come together, oh, the things that we could do
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
[Interlude - Kids Talk]
What do you want for Christmas?
I just want peace for everybody on earth
What about you?
I want hope for everybody
Tayjon?
I think I want homes for the homeless
Alina?
I want water for everybody
Yaay
[Bridge]
All I want for Christmas is to have a chance So please take care of the environment Take Mr. Gore seriously And do what you can to stop global warming No matter what they say, Barack you did real good
I hope that your successor
Does the things he or she should That Mr. Trump, he’s an entertaining guy But let's face it, really is he qualified?
[Pre-Chorus]
If you wanna make the world a better place
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
If you wanna peaceful world for Christmas day
Say alright (alright) alright (alright)
[Chorus]
Christmas is here
I know what I want this year
Presents and toys are fine
But I got bigger things in mind
Santa can you swing more love? More peace?
Because that’s what everybody needs
Come save the world with me
You see that she's taking a dig at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Macy Gray also wanted the country to recognize climate change. She said that President Barack Obama's agenda is good.
Many conservatives will blast the song for being "liberal indoctrination" and "Hollywood elitists" talking down "real Americans".
Macy Gray is well aware of the outrage that will follow her.
She doesn't care about the criticism. Her job is put out songs for her fans. I am certain her fans will be happy to hear it.
Conservatives will get even more outraged. She did the song called "B.O.B.". The song talks about that little thing that keeps women in their vibe. If you want to know what I'm talking about. Click here.
