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Breaking News: Michael Jackson's Death Ruled A Homicide

The L.A. County coroner's office has ruled Michael Jackson's cause of death a homicide according to anonymous sources. This clears the way for manslaughter charges to be brought against Michael's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray.

D.E.A. agents are investigating Michael's personal physician Dr. Arnold Klein. They have served search warrants on an area pharmacy where they believe Klein filled prescriptions for Jackson. Dr. Klein introduced Michael to his assistant Debbie Rowe, whom Michael later married and fathered children with.

Michael Jackson Died From Lethal Levels of Propofol-according to court documents

L.A. County coroner's officials found lethal levels of the powerful anesthetic propofol after examining Michael Jackson's body, according to a newly unsealed affidavit accompanying a search warrant unsealed today in Houston.

According to the search warrant, Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, told LAPD detectives that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks. He had been giving Jackson 50 milligrams of propofol every night using an intravenous line, according to the court records.

But Murray told detectives that he feared Jackson was forming an addiction and began trying to wean the pop star off the drugs. He lowered the dosage to 25 milligrams and mixed it with two other sedatives, lorazepam and midazolam. On June 23, two days before Jackson's death, he administered those two medications and withheld the propofol.

On the morning Jackson died, Murray tried to induce sleep without using propofol, according to the affidavit. He said he gave Jackson valium at 1:30 a.m. When that didn't work, he said, he injected lorazepam intravenously at 2 a.m. At 3 a.m., when Jackson was still awake, Murray administered midazolam.

Over the next few hours, Murray said he gave Jackson various drugs. Then at 10:40 a.m., Murray administered 25 milligrams of propofol after Jackson repeatedly demanded the drug, according to the court record.

Although Murray acknowledged to police that he administered Profofol, authorities said they could find no evidence that he had purchased, ordered or obtained the medication under his medical license or DEA tracking number. However, police detectives saw about eight bottles of Propofol in the house along with other vials and pills that had been prescribed to Jackson by Dr. Murray, Dr. Arnold Klein and Dr. Allan Metzger.

Other drugs that were confiscated in the search included Valium, Tamsulosin, Lorazepam, Temazepam, Clonazepam, Trazodone and Tizanidine. They also found Propofol in Murray’s medical bag. Murray told detectives that he was not the first doctor to administer the powerful anesthetic to Jackson.

Murray has already acknowledged obtaining and administering propofol to Jackson the morning that he died. In an interview with police, Murray told them that he left Jackson alone under the influence of the medication to make telephone calls to his Houston office and family members.

When he returned, he discovered Jackson was not breathing. He performed CPR, and one of Jackson’s staff members called 911. The 50-year-old pop star was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center, where he was later declared dead. Much of the investigation has focused on propofol — a drug typically administered by anesthesiologists during surgery — and whether Murray’s decision to give it to Jackson as a sleep aid outside a hospital setting reaches a level of negligence required for an involuntary manslaughter charge.

She should have auditioned for the Wire

Miranda Tozier-Robbins was sentenced to three years' probation and 240 hours of community service after her conviction on one count of misdemeanor peeking. Tozier-Robbins snuck onto Britney Spears' property and looked through windows in an attempt to see the star. She was found not-guilty on the charge of misdemeanor trespassing.

The woman claims she is making a paparazzi documentary and says she wanted to show the efforts paps go through to get their pictures. She says she chose Spears because it "might as well be someone I'm interested in." Mmmkay.

Miranda is looking a little rough in those photos. She is scaring the sh*t out of me with those eyes. I'm telling you, she would have made a convincing cast member on The Wire.

Tameka maintains she is innocent

Tameka Foster Raymond took to Global Grind to maintain her innocence against charges she plagiarized last week's article on the plight of dark-skinned Black women in America. I found it interesting she took to Global Grind to blog her defense when the original article was published on Huffingtonpost.com. Huffinton Post has declined to release a statement until further investigation into the charges. My guess is they wouldn't have her back.

I shared my personal story as a dark skinned woman in
America, an experience that parallels millions of other Black women.
Regrettably, this other author has no copyright (or patent) on the Black female
experience. While I’m delighted to discover there is a new book with a similar
theme available I only wish the author would have embraced our commonality as
sisters in this struggle rather than opt for such a defamatory public recourse
via a disreputable gossip writer. Approach is everything. Plagiarism is a
serious implication that I’m extremely disheartened and insulted by. If this
author can produce the same references in her book that I made to Alek Wek, poet
Khalil Gibran, an experience in Brazil, disparaging public comments surrounding
living as a “dark skinned” woman as well as scrutiny regarding her marriage to
an R&B singer then perhaps she should seek legal counsel to handle this
matter with the proper protocol.
Lastly I want to express my sincere
gratitude to Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, Susan Taylor, Khalil
Gibran, Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston, just a few
renowned authors who have touched on this similar subject and who I have indeed
read and been inspired by.

Do the police ever help you look for your cell phone?

Lindsay Lohan recently had a meltdown at a New York deli when she lost her beloved cell phone. After paying for items in the deli and leaving she realized her phone was missing and called in the New York police to help her find it. I'm not going to go into her bi-curious breakup, her racist statements, or alleged drug use. I will simply ask you if the police have ever helped you look for your cell phone?

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Beyonce talks career and reproduction with the Poles

Beyonce covered the September issue of Polish magazine Zwierciadlo. The magazine article lauds her rise to fame saying "whatever she touches is a success." The author states she has sold over 75 million records, is discreetly religious with no vices, and has spent years devoted to the same man the golden Oscar statue. To her credit, Beyonce big ups her mother's clothing line House of Dereon and says she has confidence in her father's intuition and business acumen. As for hubby Jay-Z, Beyonce says she wants to have children in 10 years. 10 years! That would make her a first-time mom at age 37 (or 47 depending upon whom you believe).

Those messy Jackson references crop up again when the author contrasts Beyonce's career with a comparison drawn in a 2004 Rolling Stone cover article. Rolling Stone author suggests Beyonce has dark-skinned Halle Berry beauty you know Bey didn't like that with growing musical talent in the style of Janet Jackson (NOT!). Zwierciadlo reverses this saying Beyonce is now the superstar, not Janet Jackson.

The Polish are sadly misinformed if they think Janet Jackson is no longer a star, but sincere congratulations to Beyonce for expanding her global presence. Julius is probably thinking they should have vacationed in Poland instead of Croatia.

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How about some dark rum instead of whiskey?

Crticism and anger over the decision to release convicted Libyan terrorist Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi has prompted a call for Americans to boycott Scottish products including whiskey and to avoid travel to Scotland. Scotland's economy receives billions of dollars from tourism and whisky; if successful, this boycott could prove devastating in this current global recession.

A website promoting the boycott, boycottscotland.com states "The actions of the Scottish government are inexcusable. A man who is responsible for the mass murder of 270 innocent civilians must be held accountable for such a cold blooded and ruthless act. Unless the Scottish government rescinds this decision to release al Megrahi, and if the British parliament continues to avoid intervening in the matter, we urge all Americans to protest this action by boycotting the United Kingdom and Scotland in full."

Al Megrahi is the only person convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland which killed 270 people. He has been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer; Scotland released him for humanitarian reasons to live out his final six months of his life in his homeland. Al Megrahi received a hero's welcome upon his arrival in Libya.

Canings, killings, and Cash for Clunkers

The Malaysian state of Pahang has postponed the planned caning of 32-year-old mother of two, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, until after Ramadan. Kartika is accused of drinking a beer at a hotel in December 2007. Malaysia, which has traditionally espoused a moderate Islamic stance, is currently experiencing a rise in fundamentalist Islamic political and social influence.

The manhunt for reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins has ended in Hope, British Columbia, Canada. Jenkins was the prime suspect in the murder and mutilation of his ex-wife, model Jasmine Fiore. Jenkins is thought to have killed Fiore and extracted her teeth and cut off her fingers to hinder identification of her body; investigators ultimately had to identify her by the serial numbers on her breast implants. Jenkins apparently hung himself with a belt from the shower rod of a motel.

The economic and environmental stimulus program Cash for Clunkers is scheduled to end tonight at 8pm. You had better hurry to push, pull, or drag your clunker to the dealer today to get up to $4500 credit towards the purchase of select new vehicles.

This is Why They Don't Take Care of Us in the Emergency Room

If that's your boyfriend-he wasn't lass nite!

Where's security?

Roxanne, Roxanne Has Warner Bros. Pay For Ph.D

The '80s icon scored a smash hit at age 14: "Roxanne's Revenge," a razor-tongued response to rap group UTFO's mega-hit "Roxanne, Roxanne." The 1984 single sold 250,000 copies in New York City alone, making Roxanne Shante (born Lolita Gooden) hip hop's first female celebrity. She blazed a trail followed by Lil' Kim, Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah - although Shante didn't share their success.

After two albums, Shante said, she was disillusioned by the sleazy music industry and swindled by her record company. The teen mother, living in the Queensbridge Houses, recalled how her life was shattered and they stopped paying her royalties. "Everybody was cheating with the contracts, stealing and telling lies," she said. "And to find out that I was just a commodity was heartbreaking."

But Shante, then 19, remembered a clause in her Warner Music recording contract: The company would fund her education for life. She eventually cashed in, thanks to the dean at Marymount Manhattan College, Marguerita Grecco arm-twisting the label, earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell to the tune of $217,000 - all covered by the label. But getting Warner Music to cough up the dough was a battle.

"They kept stumbling over their words, and they didn't have an exact reason why they were telling me no," Shante said. She figured Warner considered the clause a throwaway, never believing a teen mom in public housing would attend college. The company declined to comment for this story.

Dr. Shante, 38, runs an unconventional therapy practice focusing on urban African-Americans - a group traditionally reluctant to seek mental health help. She also offers $5,000 college scholarships each semester to female rappers through the nonprofit Hip Hop Association.

Now there's at least a lifetime movie in here somewhere!

This is for those of you who have dreamed of being on top of Marilyn Monroe

An unnamed widow has removed her husband from his burial plot at Westwood Village Memorial Park and Cemetery and put the spot up for sale on eBay; the plot just happens to be directly above the crypt of icon Marilyn Monroe. The cemetery is also the last resting place of Rodney Dangerfield, Don Knotts, Natalie Wood, Donna Reed, and Jack Lemmon.

Girl Stop!

She need to quit!

The hottest bootleg on the planet

Tickets for the documentary of Michael Jackson's tour preparations This Is It will go on sale September 27th. The movie will have a very limited engagement--two weeks only--in worldwide theaters starting October 28th. AEG Live handed over over 100 hours of footage shot over 2.5 months to Sony Pictures. Sony has pleged to have the film ready for its October release date.

"As we began assembling the footage for the motion picture, we realized we captured something extraordinary, unique and very special," director Kenny Ortega said. "It's a very private, exclusive look into a creative genius' world...This Is It may go down as the greatest concert that no one got a chance to see...with this film, we get a rare portrait of Michael as he prepares for his final curtain call and what I believe was going to be his master work." Michael passed three weeks before his concert was to debut in the O2 Arena in London, England.

Owens family gets leg up on Hitler

The family of track and field legend Jesse Owens viewed the world championship long jump final yesterday from the same VIP viewing box where Adolf Hitler watched the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 73 years ago, Owens demolished Hitler's claims of Aryan supremacy by become the first U.S., track athlete of any race to win four gold medals; Owen's victories came just three years before the outbreak of WWII. Much to Hitler's chagrin, Owens became fast friends with German long jump champion Luz Long; Long's family also watched yesterday's competition from the VIP box. The organizers of the competition paid tribute to Owens all week, but the ultimate tribute came when African-American Dwight Phillips jumped 8.54 metres to win the long jump gold yesterday. Phillips won the event in the 2004 Olympics and the world titles in 2003 and 2005.