This morning is going to be about basketball, since I am in a bball state of mind this morning. I am moving into week two of the basketball season as a coach, and we have our first game in two weeks. It will be a little different not calling the plays and making the sub pattern, but I am getting use to being number two in charge.
As a coach, we stress the never say quit attitude in our players. Dwight Howard questioned the heart of his team.
Brian Schmitz of the Orlando Sentinel: “As if the loss to a reigning lottery team wasn’t bad enough, Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard said it appeared his team “quit” during the dreary proceedings. ‘We haven’t had a game like this in a long time. We’d miss shots and guys would hang their heads,’ Howard said. ‘I don’t think we should quit in a game. Seems like, as a team, we shouldn’t quit.’ It’s one thing for the Magic to be routed by the Oklahoma City Thunder 102-74 on Sunday night at Ford Center. It’s another thing for Howard to suggest the Magic (5-2) retired early against a team that is improving, but one that won just 23 games last season. Howard showed no anger. He was singing some song as he sprayed a cloud of cologne. Nobody turned over a table in the middle of the room that offered chicken and mixed vegetables. ‘It doesn’t seem to bother anybody in the locker room,’ Coach Stan Van Gundy said.”
Now, I guess Dwight seemed happy because he was thinking about this…That might make you not want to quit as well. SportsRadioInterveiws provides the highlights.
You have my vote Mary...
And then on a far more comical note, her relationship with Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard:
“Yeah, Dwight and I met at LAX. I was like, you’re a basketball player, and he was like, I’ve seen you at Magic games, so he recognized me from games. I used to always get written up when I went to games for causing distractions and stuff.”
After a brief digression to talk about her nails, Carey continued on about Howard:
“Dwight’s a cool guy. For a month, we like talked on the phone, and he was always trying to give me prayers to get me out of porn and give me Bible verses to read. So then, I was going to go visit him when I was in Orlando, but I went over to this other guy’s house instead, Chris Kirkpatrick from N’Sync.
This is the guy you are sexing up? Really? Then that gives the rest of us a lot of courage to know that this douchebag is soaking up the panties...BTW Nice coat Joesph....where can I get the technicolor dreamcoat look?
And then Dwight started calling, and calling, and calling me, because he knew I was with Chris Kirkpatrick, so eventually at 3 in the morning, Chris was like don’t answer Dwight’s calls. I get a text from Dwight at 3 in the morning – I’m outside Chris’s house. I’m like oh my god, what do I do? I was like, I got Dwight here and I got Chris in the other room and I’m talking to them back and forth. So finally I had to just pull Dwight in the bathroom and tell him he needs to go home. I was like I’m really sorry, I really like you, but this isn’t the time or place.
Two things strike me reading this account. One, why are you outside dude’s house. If you are with him, then you continue to sleep, or have sex or whatever you were doing at three in the morning.
Two, why did you pull Dwight into the bathroom? I am usually thinking that something freaky is going to happen when I am in the bathroom with someone of the opposite sex, especially when she pulls me in there. Just like Shock G said, ” I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom”…
Open wide for the favor train!...I would think that Dwight would have a bigger...."sandwich", I mean he is seven feet tall...Plus, only 6.25? I thought that is normally 100 in the strip clubs...
When I pull him in the bathroom, he pulls his pants down, I was like, whooa. Yeah, and so I ran and started screaming…
You are a porn star. You should not be so shy. According to IMDB, you were in the following classics.
5 Guy Cream Pie 5 (2003) (V)
Kick Ass Chicks 41: Vaginaterians (2007) (V)
Lick My Balls (2005) (V)
Asses in the Air 4 (2002) (V)
So, I am thinking that you have seen a guy’s private parts before. You were in Being Ron Jeremy (2003), so you saw the hedgehog’s goods. Spare me shock and indignation.
What you talkin bout Willis?
Well if it wasn’t for the Chris thing at the time, I really liked Dwight and maybe I would have furthered this. But I was at the guy’s house I was dating so it was inappropriate. So he totally thought he totally offended me. So I saved – he and I used to talk on instant messenger, on AOL – so he was apologizing; sorry, that was out of character for me, blah blah blah. I saved all the instant messages and I’ve been putting them all in a book. So I’ve got a lot of evidence. I’ve got an evidence file.”
Listen here to Carey with Carmichael Dave on KHTK in Sacramento
Damn playa, she got your business all out on the internet…and maybe that is the reason that all apologies should be done in person.
Someone played Top Chef with Padma Lakshmi and made a baby!
October 1, 2009
So, Padma is preggo and my man Sal Rushdie is NOT the father. This might be a job for Maury….
Who wouldn't beat this up? If no, you must be a male who is gay, since a lot of straight women would sex her up too...
(CNN) — “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi is pregnant with her first child, her publicist confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Kim Kardashian, Mel B. and Holly Madison have a mouth full of meat….to bring attention to PINKS
September 20, 2009
Kim K. is always looking to expand her brand. I really don’t know what it is, outside of attention seeking whore, but, if you include her family then we can include love them loving black athletes.
Just wait....I will have something else in my mouth...
Kim Kakes was not the only piece of eye candy on stage. Holly Madison, the cast away chick from Hef was there too…
This isn't the first time you have seen something this big in my mouth...
Stars honored with signature hot dogs at new Planet Hollywood eatery
By Melissa Arseniuk (contact)
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 | 12:19 p.m.
Scott Harrison/Special to the Sun
Three women who can get it...
Being a celebrity in Las Vegas has its perks: Stars are immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds and given coveted keys to the Playboy Club. Others, meanwhile, are recognized in other ways. With namesake hot dogs, for example.
Pink’s Hot Dogs honored Holly Madison, Kim Kardashian, and Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown last night during the opening of its first Las Vegas location at Planet Hollywood. In return for the trio’s participation and patronage, the popular Hollywood-based hot doggery named three signature dogs in their honor.
“Peepshow” starlet Madison described her dog as “naked.”
Holly Madison was on hand to help open up Pink’s Hot Dogs Friday night at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
That is how you usually are, so why not have your hotdog the same way?
“It just has ketchup on it,” she said. The headliner walked the red carpet and posed for photos alongside Brown and Kardashian between her two Friday night showings of “Peepshow.”
Lucky for the public appearance-savvy star, her place of work, aka the revue stage, is just inside the casino on the mezzanine level.
Brown, who did a three-month stint with “Peepshow” when the show debuted earlier this year, didn’t have much time to chat with reporters last night – but she did have time to chow down on a double serving of dogs.
“I had two hot dogs!” she announced, sounding half proud and half horrified. It should be noted, however, that despite what was a not-quite-healthy dinner, the former Spice Girl still looked stunning last night, wearing a skin-tight ensemble.
Eddie, your loss...Mel, holla at ya boy...I might even give up my one hot dog rule for you....
While Brown lives in the U.K., both Kardashian and L.A. transplant Madison are fans of the Pink’s Hot Dogs location in Los Angeles.
Pink’s has been serving up hot dogs from the same location, on North La Brea Boulevard just off Melrose Avenue, since it opened in 1939.
“It’s good, when you’re done with the club and you’re in Hollywood and you want a hot dog,” Kardashian said, adding, “I think it’s very cool that they’re opening one up here in Vegas.”
The 28-year-old reality TV star said the flagship location is so popular, the line to get one of the signature dogs can be longer than the one to get into L.A. hotspots like The Roger Room or Mi-6.
“That line is hours long,” Kardashian complained.
I am a man of my word....no, she isn't advertising the goods....or is she?
Never one to be shy, the “Keeping up with the Kardashians” star didn’t hold back with her demands last night.
She said she was hoping to snag “a free, like, cut the line pass” in return for her appearance.
“I’m hoping this will seal the deal for me,” she joked.
Kardashian’s namesake hot dog shares no resemblance to the well-endowed brunette, or the kind of hot dogs she fixes herself.
She and her sisters cut their hot dogs into small pieces and draw ketchup smiley faces on them at home. Meanwhile, the Kardashian dog at Pink’s Hot Dogs has no ketchup on it at all.
“Mine is a BLT hot dog with a little bit of guacamole on it,” she said, assuring. “It’s good, it’s really good.”
You are use to having things in your mouth aren’t you? That was mean. But, I don’t really have anything else to say? I just thought of something. Would Khloe, (since Ronin has her naked in the post below) eat here, since it’s meat and that probably led to some torture? (If you know what hot dogs are, you would agree with me)
In addition to Madison, Kardashian and Brown, Pink’s has also modeled hot dogs after a handful of other well-known personalities, including Martha Stewart (a 10-inch hot dog with relish, onions, bacon, chopped tomatoes, sauerkraut, and sour cream); Ozzy Ozbourne (a spicy Polish hot dog topped with nacho and American cheeses, grilled onions, guacamole, and chopped tomatoes); and Rosie O’Donnell (a 10-inch hot dog with mustard, onions, chili and sauerkraut).
What are they trying to say about Rosie?
L.A. times columnist Patt Morrison and L.A. Philharmonic Conductor Gustavo Dedamel have also been honored with namesake hot dogs: A veggie dog with guacamole, chopped tomatoes and chopped onions; and a 10-inch hot dog with guacamole, American and Swiss cheeses, fajita mix, and jalapeno, topped with tortilla chips, respectively.
Note: Pink’s Hot Dogs once operated hot dog carts inside Planet Hollywood, back when it was the Aladdin, but this weekend’s opening marks the first storefront in Las Vegas for the franchise.
Melissa Arseniuk writes about Las Vegas entertainment and celebrity events. She can be reached at 702-948-7823 or by e-mail at melissa.arseniuk@lasvegassun.com.
Pinks is tight…
L.A. hotspot....
We’ve all seen too many headlines about juries rewarding absurd compensation for people caught in stupid situations. The latest to cross my path came from Smyrna, TN. According to the Chatanoogan:
Jury Orders Ruby Tuesday To Pay $10 Million After Patron Served 19 Beers
posted August 29, 2009
A jury in Rutherford County has returned a $10,035,000 verdict against Ruby Tuesday, Inc., in a lawsuit arising from a 2005 incident at a Ruby Tuesday in Smyrna, Tn.
In August 2005, a Ruby Tuesday bartender served a patron the equivalent of 19 beers in a two-and-a-half-hour period, with no food, Chattanooga attorney Joe DeGaetano said.
The attorney said, “The extremely intoxicated patron then perpetrated a vicious and unprovoked attack on the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Dan Maddy. Mr. Maddy, an innocent customer, suffered severe lacerations to his face and chest as a result of the attack.
The proof at trial further showed that Ruby Tuesday’s chief risk management executive steadfastly maintained that the bartender who served the 19 beers to the obviously intoxicated patron did absolutely nothing wrong, and that the company never fired, suspended, or otherwise disciplined the bartender.”
The trial began on Tuesday. The verdict on compensatory damages came down on Thursday afternoon after the jury was out about three and a half hours. The verdict on punitive damages came down on Friday afternoon after the jury was out about two and a half hours.
The plaintiff’s lawyers were Mr. DeGaetano of the DeGaetano Law Firm and George Nolan of Leader, Bulso, Nolan & Burnstein, PLC, in Nashville.
Who looks at this place and thinks "damn, I'm fin to get trashed here tonight!"?
It’s no secret that your boy E loves the sauce. Ask any members ofthe Too Old Crew and its extended family and you’ll be regaled with a litanny of “E acting a drunk fool” stories. I would, however, like to think that even I am not foolish enough to drink 19 beers at a Ruby Tuesdays and attack some random dude. Heck, I don’t think I could drink 19 beers in that span (or, much of any span) of time and still be standing. This dude apparently downed over an 18-pack in less than 3 hours. I would say that’s pretty darned impressive. What I still fail to understand is how this dude getting sauced up and beating some other guy down makes Ruby Tuesdays liable to the tune of 10 milli. I don’t know about any of you, but I would probably let some drunk fool one-time me for that kinda loot. This story also shows you how, with the right legal team, and an assemblage of morons in the jury box, you can strike it rich. So get out there, America, act a fool. And maybe, just maybe, you can convince a jury to put you on easy street for being in the right place at the right time.
Reno 911
June 19, 2009
You might be thinking that I am going to talk about the show.
Well, you would be wrong. We went to Reno because we had an emergency all caused by the movie, The Hangover. Run, don’t walk to see this movie, especially since it motivated us to get in the car after viewing and drive to Reno, since Vegas was a little to far to do with E having to work the next day. Ronin was unable to get off work, so he could not join us.
Who has not been here? If you have not, then you have not had enough alcohol...
The Reno portion of the trip was a good time had by all. Since it was a quick trip, not a lot happened, but let’s break it down.
1) Reno road construction. This sucked and caused us to lose a lot of time on the road. Up near Truckee, there is a lot of road construction that forces the lines to merge into one lane. The signs are not well designed, so you might miss them, especially since they are on the left hand side of the road. This is why it pays to read this blog, or other blogs, like this one on Road Construction
Our main route over the Sierra Nevada, Interstate 80, is currently undergoing major work in several places between the Nevada state line and Colfax, CA. I just drove that stretch at night and it was not fun. In many places, work is going on 24/7, giving motorists no relief from delays and detours. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has set up a website specifically for these projects called GetAcross80.com. It’s a real good idea to have a look before leaving Reno on westbound I80. Truckers are especially advised to check this site for extra restrictions applying to big rigs.
The website is extremely helpful, and I didn’t find out about it until we were driving past an Amber Alert sign with the info.
2) Mid Week Gambling
Some of the best times to play poker. The only advice that I would have for tournament players is to call the poker rooms early and find out if they are having their tournament. You cannot count on the information that you find online or in pokerplayer or cardplayer magazine. Love the publications, but the places are somewhat shady. I went here first for the 7 o’clock tournament, only to find out that they were not going to have it today. 
Since we got into town about 615pm, that meant that all the other 6pm tournaments would be a non starter. So, we went to SONIC for some food
We had accommodations here at the Atlantis
What the picture doesn't show is that the black marble is where there is a whirlpool tub, and there is a sitting room with a full sized bar and TV. The one thing is that they need to step their TV game up. It was a few 25 inch TV's.
3) Food in Reno: Sonic is a place that they REALLY need to have in the Bay Area. I wonder what the franchising fees are for a SONIC, because most people that I know that have tried SONIC, would eat it here in the Bay if they had it. So, this was a win, while we waited to play some cards some where.
4) Which led us to my favorite dive gambling spot, the Cal-Neva.
They had a 10pm small single table tournament that we played for fun. The people there were among some of the worst players that I have seen sit down at a table and talk about poker ever. They talked like thy had played a lot, but they were the loosest calling and raising stations I have ever seen. One woman routinely played second and third pair to the river and sounded shocked every time you lost. I can still hear her say, ” Oh you have that Ace again? Darn…” as she would fold her hand into the muck. So, E and I must have crushed it out, right? Of course not. I finished fifth and E finished third. The first hand, I got all my chips in with pocket aces preflop. The guy who finished second called me with King Ten offsuit. It was a sign of things to come. I won that hand, but lost plenty others to random trash. By the end of the rebuys, I was finally eliminated with pocket Kings preflop against Queen ten, and he hit a straight to finish me. The people who finished 3,4, and 5 were the best players at the table. Yet, we went home with nothing. The other funny thing that happened was that the guy who won suggested a chop that would include third place getting their money back. At first, the guy who finished second (who was the chip leader by a lot) agreed, and then he was like forget it. E almost finished in the money attempting to hang on through big blinds hitting. At one point they were all in with the D-bag who didn’t want the split and the eventual winner (lets call him Rube) showing down pre-flop and it was a monster hand for Rube that D-Bag chased him down and got him on the river to win the hand. The next hand E had to go all in and was finished.
Too bad that it isnt like this artists redering...
5) Drunk Bowling. It’s 12:30 am and too early to go back to the suite and not drunk enough for the strip club, we decide to go bowling, since there is an alley right on Virginia St, going back to the hotel. Of course, they are closed, so we head out to the Grand Sierra to go bowling
We get two games of bowling in, where I bowl a 70 and then a 108 versus Erik who bowls a 135 and then a 138. During this, we have a glass, then a pitcher of beer. Around 2am, I tell Erik, that I am ready to go, since I am going to play in a few hours at Harrah’s and their morning poker tournament. This is a tournament that has a place in my heart, since I have been playing there since 2005 and won a few tournaments there. Erik decides that he needs one more drink for the road. We stop at a bar in the Grand Sierra to get him a drink. I am standing behind Erik, since I am not going to get anything to drink. While I am waiting, this older black gentleman turns to me and says,
” Could you not stand behind me? I have been stabbed in the back before.”
Now, I wasn’t standing behind him, but what do you say to that? I just nodded and took another exaggerated step away from him and past Erik. After a minute or so, he turns and apologizes to me. I offer to buy him a drink and he will not hear of it and buys me a drink.
6) Harrah’s Tournaments for Poker.
Still have my 05 WSOP Harrah's shirt
You should play here. I am going to play here for sure the next time that I am in town. Two dealers in the tournament remembered who I was. the crazy thing about that is that I have not been to Reno in at least a year to play cards. But, they knew things about me that made me know that they remembered. They knew/remembered where I lived and what my profession was. One remembered my name, the other didn’t, but impressive nonetheless.
Trying to wake Erik up for this tournament was pointless, so I went and played by myself. The tournament is fun, the dealers get out a lot of hands per level and the competition was decent. I finished 5th again, and it paid out to four places.
Another reason to play is that they have satellite tournaments for WSOP seats. Unfortunately for me, they were starting on the day that I left for home, continuing all this weekend. They had a 33 dollar tournament, with the top two or three getting entry into the weekend 330 dollar tournament, with the top prize being a 10k seat at the main event.
7) Drive Home
Our third party member, Sandra drove us home. I got to doze a little while she navagated us home safely. All in all, it was a great use of 24 hours. Plus, go see the movie. Mike Tyson is great for his minimal screen time (5< minutes)
This is the reason that I do not complain about the food or service inside the restaurant or to the wait staff.
There is a rare occasion that I would complain about the food. I went to Alioto’s in San Francisco, at Fisherman’s Wharf.
The place has a long history and it caters to seafood, being on the wharf. I am one of those types that attempt to have the special of the place that I go to. Just like I am not having the chicken at Harris
(because it’s a steak house in SF that is one that I go to when I am looking to be catered and want a good cut of meat) I am not going to Alioto’s to have steak.
So, when I looked at the menu, I decided to have a swing at the seafood pot pie, since it seemed homey and comfort style food.
I dug in and started to enjoy the various tastes in the pot pie. About halfway through the pot pie, I discovered a fish bone in the pot pie. Fish has bones obviously, but they shouldn’t appear in my pot pie. I continued un-detoured and the next bite, there was another bone. After attempting one more bite and and coming up with another bone, I finally complained to the waiter. Before I could get to the waiter, the hostess stepped in. I told her of the complaint and that I was done with this and she should go talk with the sous chef about it. She tried to assuage my complaint by informing me that fish have bones…
I kept my composure and remembered the recent Food Network shows. I calmly told her that the person in charge of doing the fillet was not very skilled if I was coming up with that many bones. She finally walked away. I felt the need to say what I said, especially since I was not having any other course that could be tampered with.
The bottom line was that she was attempting to be flippant, but the meal was free, so I got mine…this woman was not so lucky
Clarendon County (WLTX) – A Clarendon County waitress is accused of shooting a customer at the restaurant after the two had a dispute.
Yakeisha Ward, 29, is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill.
She is smiling, which tells you she attached no value to the customers life. It might be because she has a shitty job.
An early morning run for breakfast at the Waffle House on Paxville Highway in Manning turned terribly wrong for Crystal Samuel.
“I thought I was gonna get me an All-Star,” says Samuel. A popular meal on the menu. “Grits, sausage, toast, eggs and a waffle,” says Samuel.
NOW WITH FREE ANGIOPLASTY!!!
She didn’t get what she came for. Instead, she says while she waited for her order, her friends started eating. That’s when Samuel says she was told they couldn’t eat from carryout trays inside the restaurant.
Get out! That is what was going on…you got your food now please leave.
“I said what is your fuss about. I said we haven’t paid for our food. She (Ward) said well you all got to leave. How you want us to leave and we ain’t paid for the food yet,” says Samuel.
Why are you complaining? If you got food AND you haven’t paid, isn’t the only one who will be mad is the person telling you to leave?
That’s when it got ugly. Samuel says she threw a waffle at the waitress. “I did actually throw some food but it didn’t hit her,” says Samuel. “That’s when she (Ward) jumped across the counter and we got into it,” says Samuel.
You had to be ready to get into some funk. You thought that because she was at work, that she wouldn’t “keep it real”..
Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett says the altercation continued outside where he says Ward got a gun from her car and a gun magazine from her trunk.
“It’s poor judgment on her part trying to settle this matter with a weapon. either way she had time to think about what she was doing when she was walking to her car,” says Garrett.
Investigators say Ward’s gun discharged during the altercation. They say a bullet fragment struck Samuel in the arm.
“Deputies were close by when they rolled up in the parking lot the victim and the suspect were still engaged in a fight,” says Garrett.
Before it ended, authorities say Ward struck the victim in the head with the gun.
“She got the last lick,”says Samuel. Meanwhile Ward has bonded out of jail. On Tuesday afternoon, News 19 found her inside the Waffle House where the incident happened.
She declined to talk to us on camera but says she got out of jail after paying $500. As for Samuel, she has only one thing to say about Waffle House. “bad customer service,” says Samuel.
Investigators say it appears that Ward’s gun was legally purchased.
Let this be a lesson for not running your mouth, or throwing food like its a food fight.
“You won’t believe what Tia told me…Officer Ricky..!!!!” Rick Ross is a cheap bastard
April 30, 2009
How and more importantly why did this chick get with Officer Ricky?
This is how you get your hustle on.
We all know that 50 KILLED Rick Ross. There is only Officer Ricky now. Tia Kemp, his babys mama begins to spill the dirt on William Roberts. The truth comes about about Officer Ricky and his pettiness.
I looked at my watch, it was 4:30pm on January 21, 2009, the day I had been waiting to come for eight months. It was the day of the deposition in the child support case I had filed against the father of my third son, William Leonard Roberts Jr. also known as the big-time rapper (not the notorious drug dealer, don’t get them confused) Rick Ross.
Here is the story of the “Real” Rick Ross. William, I would be ready to make a deal with Ricky Ross for stealing his life story. Just because you call yourself something, doesn’t make it true. Countless times here at Too Old, we tell you, “Gloss is to be earned, you don’t get to make it up yourself….” A nickname is something that someone else bestows on you, you don’t get to make one up and hope it sticks, which is what William did. Wiki breaks it down…
I wouldn't want to fuck with this man. Even now, I do not doubt he could have me or you killed with a phone call
Ricky Donnell Ross (born May 3, 1960), also known as “Freeway” Ricky Ross , is a drug trafficker best known for the “drug empire” that he presided over in Los Angeles, in the early 1980s.[1] The nickname “Freeway” came from Ross owning several properties along the Harbor Freeway.[2] During the height of his drug dealing, Ross claims to have made “2-3 million dollars a week”.
In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to purchase more than 100 kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent. Ross became the subject of controversy later that year when a series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News brought to light a connection between one of Ross’s cocaine sources, Danilo Blandon, and the CIA as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.[3] The decision in Ross’s case was brought to a federal court of appeals where his sentence was reduced to 20 years. His sentence has since been reduced further for being a model prisoner and he is currently scheduled to be moved to a halfway house in California in March 2009,[citation needed] and to be released on September 29, 2009.[4]
You better be ready…someone is getting out and you might have to answer to higher ups about your “theft…”
AllHipHop.com: You’ve mentioned having spoken to Rick Ross a few times before, what were the conversations about and what did you take from them, as far as his character? Did you ever implicitly say you were not okay with him using your name?
Freeway Ricky Ross: The conversation was basically about him using my name. The first couple of times he talked real cool. I really couldn’t talk to him the way I wanted to because all my phone calls are monitored and I was under investigation at the time. But I told him it would be best that we have a sit down. He [explained] to me how he picked my name and that he definitely owed me. He said that the first thing he did was mention my name on a record. And when he did that people’s ears perked.No I never told him it was ok to use my name. I told him I wasn’t trippin but we needed to sit down and talk. Cause I would never be involved with a Millie Vanilli. I built this name to what it is today to where I can go to any prison in this country and get saluted.
Here is where William really goes sideways and cements the fact that he has a death wish. He goes and calls the REAL Rick Ross a snitch…lol…
AllHipHop.com: You also mentioned the artist Rick Ross going as far as calling you a snitch. Did you see that coming?
Freeway Ricky Ross: Yeah he did an article in the Ozone Magazine. No I never thought he would call me a snitch. That’s a serious jacket to put on somebody. And from what I did,150 soldiers got out of prison. It was cops that was planting drugs on innocent people and I had no problem taking them down. But I can understand why he don’t like cops to go down. (emphasis added by me…because Freeway Ricky Ross made a tight, slick joke…) You can read the rest of this interview here
Now, we are ready to hear the story that Tia is going to tell. She has provided some excerpts of her book about the biggest boss correctional officer in the rap game.
I had started this battle against William 17 months earlier after our tumultuous four-year relationship filled with passion and pain. My lawyer Ileana M. Almeida had spent the last eight months trying to get Will’s lawyer Allan Zamren to make Will do the deposition for the case. They’d canceled two times already so I was surprised that William had finally showed up and was glad we were gonna to get things going. Ever since he’d become a celebrity, Will had been a different person. That mixed with his touring and promotions schedule and the life of a rap star is what made it so hard for anything in the child support case to move forward. His attitude also made things difficult.
William, why you got attitude now? You “make” so much money from dealing weight, how are you not going to break off your kid?
It was a long and frustrating day. From the beginning Will was nervous and uncomfortable and so was I. For over six hours with a short lunch break in between, Ileana drilled Will and she covered a lot of ground. As the day went on the cagier he got. His partial financial records we had been given made no sense and as Ileana asked him to explain certain items, Will would refuse to elaborate. He claimed in his financial affidavit he spent $50 a month on clothing total yet I knew Will was a clothing and sneaker freak, always buying himself and Lil’ Will the newest gear. The baby had new Gucci sneakers every month. Ileana had a list of Will’s charges at the Gucci store, and other clothing stores and brand name chains for thousands of dollars at a time and William would explain that it was his mother and sister using his card to shop, not him. When Ileana asked him about the expense of his custom diamond chains, pieces and jewelry, Will swerved around the questions saying he didn’t buy anything, it was either his boy Gun Play’s jewelry or it was promotional stuff he got from jewelers, that he would swap out. Even the custom diamond piece of his actual face. Who would want to swap that? He wouldn’t say what he paid for one piece of jewelry. The affidavit said Will spent $200 a month on food. I know how that man ate, $200 wasn’t gonna make a dent no matter how much McDonalds he said he ate.
The book sounds like cross-examination 101. She seemingly got you on the ropes. Unless your moms wears XXXXL, then those Gucci purchases are yours. She also kills him on the Mickey D’s line. How is 200 dollars going to get it done? Maybe if you were talking that is what you spend in one session at McD’s. Even if you are one of these…
You still will not be able to come in under 200 a month. So, you just look like a liar, which you are…shame, shame…This is the reason to limit McD’s trips
I bet they are Officer Ricky fans…
I wont actually cop the book, but I will read the hell outta it when I go to a Barnes and Noble…
Mr. Greta Van Susteren is the mastermind behind SarahPAC…
March 20, 2009
Do you know who this guy is…?
No, I am not one of the many AIG execs getting ridiculed...
Neither did I until I started into the lunacy of the many PUMA supporters, and people who are regular posters at the CON-fluence and Ignorant Blues. Here is one of the many comments that got me laughing and the fingers typing.
Carol Says:
March 20, 2009 at 1:43 pmgary – please don’t use the words President and Obama in the same sentence!
CAROL HAKA
First, Carol, respectfully the man is YOUR President, as well as mine. Whether or not you voted for him, the man won. He was sworn in and leads the charge of the U.S. That would be tantamount to me saying, “Hey people, don’t use intelligent and CAROL in the same sentence…”, whether I thought that or not. So, you sites that proclaim Hillary is 44 is up there with this
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Wait, that should say Clinton defeats Obama!
Wait, that should say Clinton defeats Obama!
Carol Says:
March 20, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Good News. Greta has disclosed that her husband is advising Sarah Palin.
Hillary, you better be prepared to kick his ass to the curb in 2 years or Sarah will be the next President in 2012!
CAROL HAKA
What don’t YOU losers get? YOU LOST. I mean, I understand why you wait and hope for (wait for it…) PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA to fail, but I am amused at your attempts to cut off your nose in the futile hope that you spite your face. (Go for it, it’s a better look for you PUMAS… that way you would be easily identified for a lack of intelligence.) Before you get up in arms, I don’t really want you to cut off your nose. I want you to be able to smell the roses of winners…
Out of many funny things to talk about, here are the ones that immediately come to mind
1) YOUR CHOICE, Hillary Clinton, chose to ride with my man Barry Soweto Hussein Obama, instead of staying in the senate and raising HELL there.
2) You cant have it both ways. After the appointment, you were overjoyed with her being the Secretary of State, because you said that she would go a long way and become the “FOREIGN POLICY” President. That would seem to help PRESIDENT OBAMA and further his chances of being re-elected. (Forgetting the fact that he beat her once and will be the incumbent and the incumbent wins 95% of re-election races)
So, either she does well and helps Obama, or she does horribly ( which I would never wish) and she has some of the stink on her as well. Are you really saying that you think that she is going to run again, after she stated that she was not going to run again? Or, are you saying that she needs to quit so Sarah can win? (I won’t go into why would she quit in two years, when presidents are decided every four years? Midterms I guess might be an answer, but she resigned from the senate…logic confounds PUMAS…)
Regardless, she (being Sarah Barracuda) can’t win and whoever advises her is not going to get the job done either. Remember when you talked about the victory that Hillary was going to get over YOUR President? What about the victory over McLame and Barracuda? He served them like a 12 course meal from here…
The French Laundry
You talked about the states that were going to go to McLame and that never materialized in a series of PUMAS just being wrong. A broken clock is right twice a day, a PUMA never… here is the answer to the question at the top of the post… (all credit goes to http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/john-p-coale.htm for this infomation…)
John Coale: Coale, a well-known Washington lawyer and the husband of Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, drew national media attention when he endorsed Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid in protest of the way in which Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who he backed in the primary, was treated. Coale, in an interview with the Fix, described himself simply as a “friend” of the Alaska governor but acknowledged that he suggested she start a leadership PAC and helped her navigate through some of the questions surrounding her family that lingered after the campaign. Others familiar with Palin’s political team insist that Coale has far more power than he is letting on — essentially helping to run Sarah PAC….
So Congrats PUMAS, you have found another unethical person to lead your charges. Unlike the PUMA contingent, I like to throw my charges around with a bunch of evidence.
Can you say conflict of interest? Conflict of interest defined…
A situation in which someone, such as an attorney or public official, has professional, personal, or financial interests or obligations and cannot take on certain new business because the prior interest or obligation would make it difficult for that person to fulfill his duties fairly. …
www.millerlawinc.com/CM/Custom/Legal-Definitions.asp
While Greta is spouting her Pro-Sarah rhetoric, her husband is quietly building the political action committee designed to take her to the top? Seems somewhat suspect to me. One thing that I learned early is the “avoidance” of impropriety is key, even if you have nothing to hide. Maybe they have nothing to hide, but why wouldn’t Greta at least mention this in her constant skewering of President Obama? She wouldn’t want to reveal this little nugget of information, because then people could/would paint her with the partisan brush other news organizations or people have been labeled with. This would have an effect on ratings…
Now back to the picture. Again, that is a picture of John Coale, the husband of Greta and a Wahington lawyer. Look at the hi-jinks that they are up to…This is something that I totally find funny. The hubby and wife team of Coale and Van Susteren were found guilty of ambulance chasing: (From http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/john-p-coale.htm
http://www.lawyersgunsandmoney.com/coale.htm
“As of April 1996, Coale, his wife Greta Van Susteren – who is also his partner in a law firm, and the law firm were all the subject of serious bar disciplinary proceedings in West Virginia, whose state bar’s discipline board was seeking to suspend their right to practice law in West Virginia for a year as a result of soliciting prospective clients in ways prohibited by bar rules, generally referred to by the public as “ambulance-chasing”; in Coale’s case, the term seems particularly appropriate because one of the incidents that landed him in trouble was his law firm’s employee allegedly trying to chat up a severely-burned man in an intensive-care unit.”
Damn… that is low. Dude is burned to a crisp and you are trying to solicite business? Were you just waiting in the ICU during Greta’s plastic surgery? No, so you had no business there…
Before and After...she must of had a helleva good doctor to correct that crooked mouth that she had, similar to the JOKER. I thought that she talked out of the side of her mouth before, now with her husband, she still can!
“By the end of 1996, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia had ruled that Coale and his wife were both guilty of professional misconduct in such solicitations, stating:
‘Accordingly, we find that respondents Allen, Coale, and Van Susteren engaged in professional misconduct by inducing others to initiate the improper telephone solicitations which we found violative of Rules 7.3(a) and 7.3(b)(1) of the Rules of Professional Conduct.’”
So, someone who has been FOUND to behave in an unethical way is going to be the quarterback of the Sarah Palin campaign? That sounds like good news for Obama supporters, especially since they were sloppy enough to be caught…
To have a pre-empt for people who will argue that they were never charged, the real issue was a question of jurisdiction…remember this is one of the same rationales that the Court gave in the Dred Scott decision.
http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/TopSep96.htm The ruling against the odd couple:
Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Phillip B. Allen, John P.
Coale, and Greta Van Susteren, No. 22700 (W. Va., November 15, 1996)(Albright, J.): ___ W. Va. ___, 479 S.E.2d 317 Reluctantly dismissing ethics charges against out-of-state lawyers for improper solicitation of clients in West Virginia, the Court held that while the evidence clearly supported the Disciplinary Board’s finding that the respondents’ conduct violated the Rules 7.1(c), 7.3(a), 7.3(b)(1), and 8.4(a) of the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Court did not have jurisdiction to discipline them because the misconduct occurred at a time when only persons “regularly engaged in the practice of law” in West Virginia were subject to professional discipline under Article VI, 4 of the West Virginia State Bar Constitution and By-Laws.
So, because they were not REGULAR practitioners or the criminal behavior, the Court didn’t have the ability to levy an adequate punishment…
Finally Coale *likes* to be called an ambulance chaser:
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9510/public.html “I am a pirate,” Mr. Coale said proudly. “I have been described as an ambulance chaser, and I don’t disagree.”
I am okay with it personally… in the words of Michael Jordan, “You reach, and I teach…”
Man vs. Food
March 12, 2009
While the general trend our at the Too Old HQ is to avoid reality TV, we do watch a fair amount of food-related programming. Whether it be Iron chef, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, or Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares, there are plenty of good quality food shows to choose from. One show that has recently garnered our support is the Travel Network program Man vs Food. Each episode, host Adam Richman travels to cities across the nation to take on a variety of eating challenges. Last night we watched a valiant (but ultimately failing) effort to consume a 7lb breakfast burrito at a restaurant in Denver, CO. This got us thinking about other food challenges, and Ronin mentioned the Big Ed Challenge at Green Burrito locations in Southern California. This challenge involves eating three 2.5lb burritos in an hour. While researching the Big Ed challenge, I came across another interesting LA mega-meal. Hawkings Burger (with locations in Compton and Altadena) serves an enormous triple burger. Here is the description I found at Chowhound.com:
The “Hawkins” burger consist of three, one-pound ground beef patties. Each pattie has different toppings. Pattie one has 2 Italian sausages with hot chili sauce and cheese. Pattie two has 2 eggs over easy with chili sauce. Pattie three has 1/2 pound of the best pastrami in town with chili sauce. This all comes on a giant bun with divider pieces of bread in between the patties. The Hawkins burger…
"There's something you don't know about me, Joe Rogan. I smoke rocks..."
I can’t even imagine. We at Too Old love to eat, but this may be too big for any of us….
One of the reasons that I chose social studies instead of English to get my credential in is that I can’t speak English, so why would I want to teach it…? While you take a minute to soak that one up ( I actully passed all the preliminary examinations for acceptance) I did it because I like History, especially US History.
Working now makes me a little sad, as I teach World History. But, teaching World History teaches me that ignorance and racism are everyone, not just centrally located in the States.
This use to pass for humor and an accurate caricature of Blacks in America
The problem becomes when re get overly sensitive and look for racism in everything that we do or see. Race is a problem… Just look at the comments of other stories that deal with race here like this one…
It makes the charge of racism ring hollow when people argue and call this photo racist and make this comparative assessment.
because of course, all blacks like the white meat...
But, this IS RACIST, and will always be racist.
Well, that is why I will just stay at home and collect welfare...
But, on a serious note, this type of ridiculous behavior is still happening in 2009. Black president or not, we still have racists… The Buffalo News proves this point today…
Falls police say woman put up racist sign
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was planning to hang up.
Yes, lady, you are right, this is America. But its 2009 and not 1909, where that would be the sign of the times. The funny thing is that she has seven more signs that she wanted to put up. I wonder what they would have said, if we gave her total and complete freedom of expression?
Don't get it twisted, if you are high yella or light skinned, you are still a nigger to me...
