Former pop singer Denise "Vanity" Matthews passed away.
A bit of sad news happened to hit the junk food media. Singer/actress Denise Matthews best known as Vanity passed away in California after fighting sclerosis. That along with peritonitis and kidney disease was the contributing factors to her death.
Prince groomed this young Canadian singer named Denise Matthews. She would call herself Vanity and help build a group. The group Vanity 6 recorded their only album by the same name. The album is credited for the successful singles "Nasty Girl" and "Drive Me Wild".
Vanity would end up going solo. She end up releasing the albums Wild Animal and Skin on Skin with the hits "Pretty Mess", "Mechanical Emotion" and "Under the Influence".
Vanity would also take up a gig in acting. She appeared in the movies The Last Dragon, 52 Pick-Up and Action Jackson.
During her rise, she fell victim to the "Rock Star Lifestyle". She was addicted to crack cocaine and heroin. She would end up having kidney failure and for the remainder of her life she would undergo peritoneal dialysis five times a day.
She had dated Prince, Adam Ant and Bill Idol. She also was engaged to Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue.
She had a brief marriage to Anthony Smith of the Oakland Raiders. That marriage ended after he got caught up in a murder. Smith is serving LIFE in the iron college.
After a night of binging on crack cocaine, she suffered a nearly fatal renal failure.
That near death experience made her realize that her life was spiraling out of control. In the late 1990s, she would end up becoming a born-again Christian and gave up her Hollywood and music career.
She would become a Christian motivational speaker and renounced the name of Vanity.
Vanity was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. She was born of Polish, Jewish, German, African American, Hawaiian and Native American ancestry.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Denise "Vanity" Matthews.
Congratulations to Kendrick Lamar on snatching five Grammy's. Also he took home the best rap album at the 58th Grammy Awards.
To Pimp a Butterfly is the best rap album. No question.
It received a nomination for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album at the 58th Grammy Awards. Its singles "i" and "Alright" both won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
The song "Alright" earned nominations for Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song, its visuals for Best Music Video and "These Walls" received a nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
To Pimp a Butterfly was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
By January 2016, the album had sold 788,000 copies in the United States.
Performing Bad Blood from 1989 album.
Congratulations to Taylor Swift for winning the night as well. And also managing to fry the ego maniacal rapper/rap producer/celebrity agitator Kanye West.
She scored a huge win for her album 1989.
Taylor Swift won the Best Album of the Year award and she clapped back at Kanye West after he went into his diva mode. West made the remarks that he created Taylor's career. He promoted that line in his Life of Pablo album. The album was released last week. The two are back feuding again.
I managed to catch the last few minutes of the Grammy Awards. I normally hate watching award shows because I believe these things are boring.
Also Meghan Trainor, The Weeknd, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, D'Angelo and many others took home a Grammy. Also former president Jimmy Carter took home a Grammy as well.
Congratulations to them all for their hard work.
World News Today also send our condolences to the family of DJ Big Kap. The rap pioneer passed away on February 3rd, 2016. I just found out about his death.
Another woman! Could President Barack Obama pick Attorney General Loretta Lynch to become the next Associate Justice of The Supreme Court?
The news today is the president won't exercise a recess appointment to the Supreme Court.
The president warned Republicans that he will take measures necessary to get a nominee confirmed to the Supreme Court. In due time, the president will pick a potential candidate who will face an uphill battle in the U.S. Senate.
The first African American woman could be nominated to replace the late Antonin Scalia. Some legal analysis signal that the president could choose his Attorney General as the potential nominee for the Supreme Court.
Loretta Lynch, the current Attorney General is floated around in the media. She was the first Attorney General in U.S. history to have a unprecedented hold on her confirmation. It took over 104 days before the Senate confirmed her with the slimmest of votes.
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), then Majority Leader warned Republicans that the "nuclear option" will happen if they continue to stall the president's nominees.
The SCOTUS blog signaled that Lynch is a "very serious choice" for the Court.
Many in the junk food media speculate who's going to be the pick for the Supreme Court. We have no clear name in the listing. But rest assured, the Republicans are adamant against any nominee President Barack Obama picks.
Married woman posted on social media that she was single. She was trying to bait singles into supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Although she didn't steal information from the singles, her actions are examples of what the FBI warns about online dating.
I've said it time after time, love is complicated. It's hard for some to find the right one. I've took to posting a long rant about dating and social media. I've dated some of the worst of the worst on social media dating websites.
I won't mention their names. I wish them well.
Well once again, it's Valentine's Day and a lot of single Americans are hoping to find the right one.
Some are finding it harder to settle down.
I am almost certain to give up on relationships. I am so tired of wasting my time dating women who take advantage of me. I am the dreaded "NICE GUY" who will end up always in the "FRIEND ZONE".
I am not looking for the "FRIEND ZONE" and I am not looking for the "HIT IT AND QUIT IT".
But I am certainly willing to place my bets on millions of singles rushing into relationships. The social media websites that attract singles, OKCupid, eHarmony, POF, Badoo, Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel, Match.com, MeetMe and Christian Mingle see a spike around the week of Valentine's Day.
The nice guy is always assured heartbreak.
Of course, scammers are seeking the opportunity as well.
Did you know that two Bernie Sanders supporters created profiles to lure men into supporting the Democratic candidate's campaign?
Two women were banned from Tinder because they were swiping right on guys who were interested in them. When conversation began, the first thing came up was Bernie Sanders. The Sanders campaign denounced the women and told supporters to not deceive people.
Haley Lent and Robyn Gedrich were banned from the social media website after they played games.
This woman who posed as a single tried to bait singles into supporting presidential candidates.
They were participating in a "political spamming" scam. They intentionally were trying to fool men into relationships only to encourage them to support Sanders.
Of course, they didn't follow the rules of the website and they have since apologized for their behavior (of course the death threats also came too).
These two were examples of what the FBI warns about online dating. The FBI released a bulletin about the dangers of online dating.
Tinder "match" looks like a model.
These criminals—who also troll social media sites and chat rooms in search of romantic victims—usually claim to be Americans traveling or working abroad. In reality, they often live overseas. Their most common targets are women over 40 who are divorced, widowed, and/or disabled, but every age group and demographic is at risk.
Here’s how the scam usually works. You’re contacted online by someone who appears interested in you. He or she may have a profile you can read or a picture that is e-mailed to you. For weeks, even months, you may chat back and forth with one another, forming a connection. You may even be sent flowers or other gifts. But ultimately, it’s going to happen—your new-found “friend” is going to ask you for money.
So you send money...but rest assured the requests won’t stop there. There will be more hardships that only you can help alleviate with your financial gifts. He may also send you checks to cash since he’s out of the country and can’t cash them himself, or he may ask you to forward him a package.
So what really happened? You were targeted by criminals, probably based on personal information you uploaded on dating or social media sites. The pictures you were sent were most likely phony lifted from other websites. The profiles were fake as well, carefully crafted to match your interests.
Tinder "match" wants you to Kik it with them.
In addition to losing your money to someone who had no intention of ever visiting you, you may also have unknowingly taken part in a money laundering scheme by cashing phony checks and sending the money overseas and by shipping stolen merchandise (the forwarded package).
In another recently reported dating extortion scam, victims usually met someone on an online dating site and then were asked to move the conversation to a particular social networking site, where the talk often turned intimate. Victims were later sent a link to a website where those conversations were posted, along with photos, their phone numbers, and claims that they were “cheaters.” In order to have that information removed, victims were told they could make a $99 payment—but there is no indication that the other side of the bargain was upheld.
While the FBI and other federal partners work some of these cases—in particular those with a large number of victims or large dollar losses and/or those involving organized criminal groups—many are investigated by local and state authorities.
We strongly recommend, however, that if you think you’ve been victimized by a dating scam or any other online scam, file a complaint with our Internet Crime Complaint Center (www.ic3.gov).
Before forwarding the complaints to the appropriate agencies, IC3 collates and analyzes the data—looking for common threads that could link complaints together and help identify the culprits. This helps keep everyone safe.
Here are some tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of an online dating scam. Recognizing an Online Dating Scam Artist
Your online “date” may only be interested in your money if he or she:
Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;
Professes instant feelings of love;
Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;
Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;
Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or
Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).
One way to steer clear of these criminals all together is to stick to online dating websites with nationally known reputations.
Republicans threaten government shutdown over Obama's pick to replace Antonin Scalia.
The right is scrambling for an offense. The sudden death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has become a political football. The conservative justice died in Texas yesterday leaving the Supreme Court in limbo. Republicans are demanding the president hold back. They don't want him to nominate a justice. They rather have a new president take control of the situation.
President Barack Obama said that he will nominate a person to fill the position. Republicans are signaling a fight in the Senate.
Once again the Republicans threaten to shut down the government because they fear the wrath of elites and conservative agitators in the junk food media.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are threatening filibuster if Obama nominate anyone to the Supreme Court.
Check it, the Republican Party got to booing John Dickerson when he corrected Cruz at the debate.
Cruz boldly said that Ronald Reagan appointed his third justice, Anthony Kennedy in 1987. It was true that he appointed the nominee, but the fact it was 1988 when he was confirmed. It was confirmed during an election year. Cruz was dishonest in that point.
President Barack Obama is going forth to pick a nominee. And he dares Republicans to stop him.
Cruz did pause and stare down Dickerson which led to the audience booing. Yes, Cruz told something that was false but it didn't stop him from making his platitude speech.
This is a lose/lose for the Republicans. The Supreme Court decisions that conservatives favor could be in jeopardy of being struck down.
The president may nominate a moderate.
The Republicans can stall a nominee but it will backfire. The Democrats will sabotage the Republican if he makes it to the White House.
This game is getting old.
Republicans are proving themselves to be quite inept.
If Donald Trump or Ted Cruz should become the Republican nominee, the party could face a bitter defeat. I know that the moderates and non-partisan Republicans are going to sour on the two bombastic candidates.
If I was a Republican, I would be ashamed. I would be ashamed that these candidates have no clear strategy when it comes to solving problems.
CBS will host this latest train wreck with the Republicans.
I am so done with debates and these clowns. They have no real idea on how to solve problems. All they can pull out their asses is.....platitudes.
Heat is being felt on the stage. CBS News hosts John Dickerson and Major Garrett along with Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal host this debate in Greenville, South Carolina.
The six candidates running for the Republican nomination already got a jilt in the system. With the death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, Republicans will have no choice but to address what's going to happen with the court.
I am going to be clear that the Republicans are desperate.
What pisses me off, is the platitudes being spoken by the Republican candidates. They offer no real solutions to fixing this country.
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, John Kasich, and Jeb Bush square off with the gloves off and feelings hurt.
Of course, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and liberalism will be hammered by the candidates.
If you're watching the debate, get some Advil. Also if you're playing the drinking game, look for the same shit and same name drops.
It was learned today that the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had passed away. He died one month shy of his 80th birthday. He was 79 years old.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Justice Antonin Scalia.
A New Jersey native, Scalia was then a lawyer, a professor and a mentor. He mentored presidential candidate and current senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).
He was of Italian-American heritage and is the father of nine. He was married to Maureen McCarthy, a woman Scalia found love after having a blind date.
Scalia was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986, he served as one of the longest serving justices in the Court. He was known for his colorful and yet controversial stances on many issues brought to the Court.
Scalia said that the day will come when monumental change could occur. But as an originalist he wanted to keep things the way is was. He shown that type of actions when he became the influential decision maker in the District of Columbia v. Heller case. That stripped localities from issuing gun bans in the communities. The gun owners cheered that as one of the Court's biggest gun rights decisions.
Scalia was in West Texas. He apparently passed away of natural causes. He was a featured speaker and guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of the town of Marfa.
He was attending a private party at the ranch. When he didn't arrive for a breakfast gathering, a bell hop went to the room and found his body.
The U.S. Marshals are investigating the ranch to make sure that issues there didn't result in negligence.
The nation's court is hanging at the balance.
Conservatives praised the justice for taking the ground on issues such as abortion, gun rights, tort laws and gay marriage. His death is a huge blow to the conservative movement.
Matter of fact, they feared this could happen.
Scalia's death has far-reaching implications for the Court and a set of major court cases are set to come down. One in particular deals with Affirmative Action. The Fisher v. University of Texas case was going to be a monumental decision. President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration were brought up in the court. A split decision will void the case. The Republicans also threatened to bring Obamacare back into the Court.
President Barack Obama and members of Congress as well as the candidates had chimed in on the passing.
Obama will nominate a person to fill the vacancy. It will be certainly a fight with Republicans in the Senate. They have the majority. They can hold the nominee or call a vote to reject the nominee.
Already putting out a statement, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that the next president will fill the vacancy. The Republicans will pull bullshit moves to hold back Obama's nominee.
But eventually they'll have to vote on it.
It also makes them vulnerable to Democrat charges that the Republicans can't govern. Democrats warn Republicans that denying Obama a nominee will result in "payback" if a Republican wins the White House.
Republicans are in a situation where they have a no win situation. They can't deny the president his Constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice. They are allowed to run the clock out on the nominee. The Democrats can also force a vote on the floor.
Republicans are going to be fucked regardless of what they do!
We will keep you informed on this developing story.
While most mass shootings go unnoticed, a school shooting always seem to bring attention to the rise in gun violence. Last year over 33,000 Americans lost their lives to gun violence. I can assure you that over 2,500 people have lost their lives to firearms this year alone. And its not getting any better.
Okay, there was a tragic shooting at Independence High School in Glendale. Two girls were killed. This happened to be a murder-suicide. The motives of the shooter are unknown but I have that feeling that bullying or spurn relationships were the cause of the event.
The 10th graders at Independence High School in Glendale had single gunshot wounds and a weapon was found near their bodies, police said. A suicide note was located.
A shooting was reported just before 8 a.m., when the first classes were scheduled to start, said Officer Tracey Breeden. Officers found the girls under a covered patio.
Murder suicide over lover being spurned.
"Although the investigation is not complete, investigators working the case say evidence found at the scene leads them to believe that one female took the life of the other female before taking her own life," police said later Friday.
According to police, detectives learned the girls were close friends, and appeared to be in a relationship.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office will make a final determination of the cause and manner of death. Police did not identify the girls, as Dorothy Dutiel and May Kieu, both 15 years old.
I don't know who shot the victim.
World News Today send our condolence to the victim of this senseless tragedy.
The biggest player in hip-hop turns to television. Dr. Dre is working on a television program.
The good doctor rolling up a fat sack of the Chronic and he's going to smoke it.
First things first! World News Today want to wish Dr. Dre a happy birthday. The media mogul has a birthday on February 18th. Well wishes to him.
The junk food media is reporting that Apple is working on a television show based of his upbringing. It will be exclusively streamed on Apple TV and its going be called Vital Signs.
While details of the show are still unknown, it's going to have some major A-listers involved.
Besides Dre, longtime video director Paul Hunter is taking a piece of the action. The executive producers Aaron Ginsburg and William Green and Robert Munic (of Empire fame) were hand-picked by Dre to write all six episodes.
No word on when the show will debut. Dr. Dre is tight lipped on leaks.
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine were involved in making Beats Audio a success. Iovine resigned from Interscope Records in order to take a role in Apple Music's streaming service. Dr. Dre managed to sale his shares for over $3 billion.
He is the world's richest rapper. He released his "final" album Compton: The Soundtrack on Aftermath Entertainment. The album sold nearly 600,000 copies.
He also scored a big payday when the blockbuster movie Straight Outta Compton made nearly $1 billion in ticket sales.
Also Apple Music has signed on DJ Khaled, Drake and Future to the stream their exclusives.
Future's EVOL album released last Friday managed to score 174,000 units placing him once again in the Number 1 spot. This would be his third album in which he hit the top. Also the third in less than a year.
Pathetic Republican candidate Jim Gilmore bows out.
Never had a chance.
The little engine that couldn't...!
Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has officially dropped out the Republican race. Like anyone would have noticed. So it seems now that there's six in the race.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson remain. It's a matter of time before the field narrows down even more.
If you're looking for candidates that scored below the zero, turn to Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum and Gilmore. I almost had to contain myself from laughing and busting a gut.
Gilmore is a dork just like Santorum but he's just as pathetic. He reminds me of that Zippy comic strip. Ziggy is a colorful and positive character. Gilmore is just an awful piece of shit who should just crawl back under a rock.
Gilmore is a perennial candidate for president and senate. He thought the media would give him a chance.
Nope. He's gotten less media recognition than most of the underlings who ran for the nomination.
Jim Gilmore reminds me of the Tom Wilson's Ziggy comic strip.
Gilmore lost to Andy Martin. Martin is a notorious vexatious lawyer who generates the Obama's a Muslim nonsense. He's a failed perennial candidate who should be sent to the crazy house instead of the iron college. Martin is a notorious birther who is questioning "Canadian" Cruz and Rubio's birth.
Martin is also going after Carson and Trump for being agents for the Israeli government.
Gilmore only got 20 votes in the New Hampshire primary and Martin managed to get 25 votes.
For all those Bernie Sanders supporters who believe he's gotten a blackout, listen to the junk food media giving him his fair share of coverage. Matter of fact, he's gotten more coverage than Ben "Papa Smurf" Carson so far this month.
And in other news, Jim Webb isn't going to run as an independent. Webb failed to win Democratic support. The former Virginia senator was hoping to move the party back to the middle.
He's refuses to endorse Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. I wouldn't be surprised that Jimbo Webbs endorses Beetle Bailey John Kasich or MC Marco Rubio instead of the Democrats.
Actress denounced Ted Cruz after she slut shames her.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got egg on his face this weekend ahead of the debate and South Carolina primary.
The Ted Cruz Campaign was hit by friendly fire. That friendly fire was the definition of irony.
There was a political ad aimed at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in which a group of disgruntled Republicans met at an anonymous meeting discussing their frustrations with Washington.
One of the actresses who gave the line, "Maybe you should vote for more than a pretty face" was named Amy Lindsay.
Amy gave the dog whistle "about them people". The commercial was hard hitting until a person recognized Lindsay. Someone found out that Amy was the girl guys really got a hold on. I mean they really wanted her.
Damn.
It turns out that Amy was a former softcore porn actress. She played in some X-rated movies on Cinemax and HBO. The word got to the social media and Cruz was ridiculed for the decision to run the ad.
Amy who supported Cruz during his run was pissed that the campaign pulled the ad and shamed the her for being a "vile liberal operative" who tried to sabotage the campaign.
Amy was getting some really good airplay on the junk food media. Amy retired from the porn game and is doing minor roles on television. She said that Cruz was foolish for dumping the ad. She said that she would have voted for him but seeing how he reacts to things, she may consider supporting his arch-rival Donald Trump.
Her website and social media spiked a bit after she was outed as the woman who once did a backstroke on a man's....Well you know!
The video is circulating and it's too late for Cruz to call for removal. Many of the people seen it and they're laughing at him for being such a stick in the mud.
The Columbus Police and the FBI are assuring that this incident was isolated but do fear the potential for a copycat could occur. Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch have been notified about the situation and are dispatching anti-terror analysis into the city.
What do they knew about the suspect Mohamed Barry who launched an attack at a Mediterranean restaurant?
Was he inspired by the Islamic State?
Anyway, the whole ordeal is getting MAD play on the conservative agitating websites. It's no surprise that the right will launch into the Blame Obama For This Situation Game.
What went down was this guy who was armed with a machete entering the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli.
If you don't say something, you advocate for these incidents to happen!
No one knows what goes on in the mind of the mentally insane.
The man entered the restaurant and engaged conversation with a few employees. At first he purchased a meal and left. About 30 minutes later, he returns to launch into a carnage.
He had stabbed some of the people and they were seriously injured. Some could survive their injuries.
The man tried to flee into towards Easton. He was stopped at the intersection of Morse and Steltzer.
A man storms the restaurant and attacks people with a machete.
When confronted he would ram into a cruiser and a few cars before his car would be damaged so badly it couldn't move. As the officers ordered the man to drop his weapon, he refused the order and they put the slugs in him.
Barry was pronounced dead at the local hospital. He was of Somali decent. He was being tailed by the feds after his friends and family said he acted differently. He was the "NICE GUY" who owned a Mercedes-Benz and worked a decent job. He had minor run-ins with the law. No potential threat until he traveled overseas.
He traveled to the Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for a vacation. But he may have strayed course into a place where he may have been inspired by extremism.
Barry's actions are the signs of potential "lone wolf" attacks that the Islamic State inspire its followers to commit. They want the followers to go after the soft targets. The soft targets could be a restaurant, a nightclub, a gas station, a school or mall. Those are places where a potential terror threat could occur.
