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General Discussion / Mitt Romney Is Using This Joke To Make Fun Of President Obama

« on: October 13, 2014, 08:56:51 AM »

Mitt Romney Is Using This Joke To Make Fun Of President Obama


AP/Rick Bowmer Mitt Romney has a reputation for being somewhat robotic, but in his recent appearances on the campaign trail he seems to have added humor to his arsenal.
According to a National Journal report, Romney launched a zinger at President Barack Obama while campaigning for GOP Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst on Sunday.

Here is Romney's joke in full:

President Obama went to the bank to cash a check and he didn't have his ID. And the teller said you've got to prove who you are.

He said, "How should I do that?" She said the other day Phil Mickelson came in, he didn't have his ID but he set up a little cup on the ground, took a golf ball, putted it right into that cup so they knew it was Phil Mickelson. They cashed his check.

And then Andre Agassi came in. And Andre Agassi didn't have his ID either. He put a little target on the wall, took a tennis ball and racquet – hit it onto that target time. We knew that was Andre Agassi so we cashed his check.

And she said to him, "Is there anything you can do to prove who you are?" And [Obama] said, "I don't have a clue."

And she said, "Well, Mr. President, do you want your money in small bills or large bills."

Romney, a two-time presidential candidate, has repeatedly insisted he is not looking at another bid for the White House. However, the Romney 2016 speculation has nevertheless increased as he ups his political activity ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / BBC Documentary 2014 Notting Hill Carnival EP:1 Who Started It

« on: September 08, 2014, 11:07:29 AM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/nDhUpmgyYvc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/nDhUpmgyYvc</a>

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / New Dance Craze Called Soak It Soak It!

« on: August 02, 2014, 03:01:02 PM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/GctRhqI7mlA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/GctRhqI7mlA</a>

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Vybz Kartel

« on: August 01, 2014, 04:08:23 PM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/hpNhzMWjVVM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/hpNhzMWjVVM</a>

he is going crazy in jail for this vid

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General Discussion / Queen Orders Prince Charles to Divorce Camilla Parker-Bowles

« on: July 08, 2014, 10:48:20 AM »

Queen Orders Prince Charles to Divorce Camilla Parker-Bowles, The End of More Than 3 Decades of Love Affair - Reports
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/558152/20140707/prince-charles-camilla-parker-bowles-divorce-duchess.org#.U7wffvldXd0

Recently celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary, royal couple Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall is allegedly going to have a divorce by the Queen's order. Reportedly known for swinging random threats at the royal family, Prince Charles was told by Queen Elizabeth to go ahead with the divorce and to stop pacifying his alcoholic wife, according to the July 14th print edition of Globe Magazine.


The Duchess of Cornwall is reportedly furious that the Queen prefers to give the throne to Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, if she decides to abdicate her post next year. So her plan is if she is not going to be queen then she could lock down a $350 million divorce settlement by threatening the palace to divulge family secrets.


But the queen has no intention paying the Duchess a dime and declared Charles' wife a disgrace and want her gone. "She also summoned Camilla to the palace and had a nifty chat with her, telling the duchess that she's a complete disgrace and that the family needs to be rid of her," Celebdirty Laundry reports.


Romantically involved for more than three decades before they decided to make it official, Charles and Camilla tied the knot on April 9, 2005 and reports indicate that Charles public perception improved since he married Camilla. "The public perception of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has certainly improved with the passage of time," according to Robert Jobson, author of "The New Royal Family: Prince George, William and Kate, The Next Generation" on his interview with Today.


"But their wedding and the hard work both have put into their royal duty since those dark days has, in my view, transformed their public image," Jobson added.


Now living on his grandmother's former home, the Castle of Mey, Prince Charles is paying £2,000 a week to stay there while other visitors are paying £50,000 a weekend. "The charge... reflects that we do not have any fishing or shooting at  the castle, and that the Prince brings his own staff," Ashe Windham, of the Mey Trust, which runs the property, told Daily Mail.

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Football / 2015 Under-20 FIFA World Cup Thread.

« on: June 21, 2014, 07:24:47 AM »

CFU Men's Under 20 Teams Prepare For Battle


Twenty-one teams from across the Caribbean are ready to contest the biennial Caribbean Football Union (CFU) 2014 Men’s Under-20 tournament scheduled to start on Wednesday, June 25 in five countries.

The competition will be divided into five groups (1, 2, 3, 4 & 5) and is slated to run from June 25 to August 4. The games will be hosted by Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Aruba and Curacao.

The final round is set for September 10 -19 in Trinidad and Tobago, where the host will be joined by Jamaica as the other prequalified team. The complete this exciting round of eight will be the five top teams from each group and the best overall second placed team to contest the 2014 championship.

This tournament is the official qualifier in the Caribbean Zone for both the CONCACAF Men’s U-20 Championship and the 2015 FIFA Men’s U-20 World Cup.

Source:
http://www.cfufootball.org/


http://www.cfufootball.org/index.php/latest-news/9431-cfu-men-s-under-20-teams-prepare-for-battle

Groups

Group A  - Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, Jamaica, Aruba, United States and Guatemala.

Group B - Mexico, Cuba, Canada, El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti.

Fixtures

FRIDAY JAN. 9 (Jamaica National Stadium).
15:00   ARU   VS   PAN
17:30   USA   VS   GUA
20:00   JAM   VS   TRI

SATURDAY JAN. 10 (Montego Bay)
15:00   MEX   VS   CUB
17:30   HON   VS   SLV
20:00   HAI   VS   CAN

SUNDAY JAN. 11
15:00   TRI   VS   ARU
17:30   PAN   VS   USA
20:00   JAM   VS   GUA

MONDAY JAN. 12
15:00   CAN   VS   MEX
17:30   CUB   VS   HON
20:00   SLV   VS   HAI

WEDNESDAY JAN. 14
15:00   GUA   VS   TRI
17:30   ARU   VS   USA
20:00   JAM   VS   PAN

THURSDAY JAN. 15
15:00   SLV   VS   CAN
17:30   MEX   VS   HON
20:00   HAI   VS   CUB

SUNDAY JAN. 18
15:00   PAN   VS   TRI
17:30   GUA   VS   ARU
20:00   JAM   VS   USA

MONDAY JAN. 19
15:00   CUB   VS   CAN
17:30   SLV   VS   MEX
20:00   HAI   VS   HON

WEDNESDAY JAN. 21
15:00   PAN   VS   GUA
17:30   USA   VS   TRI
20:00   JAM   VS   ARU

THURSDAY JAN. 22
15:00   CUB   VS   SLV
17:30   HON   VS   CAN
20:00   HAI   VS   MEX

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / ASAP FERG Petit Valley

« on: June 07, 2014, 03:28:01 PM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/RDGuKUzt51k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/RDGuKUzt51k</a>

http://www.largeup.com/2014/03/31/aap-ferg-heads-back-to-trinidad-with-petit-valley/

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / YouTube Pranks Vids

« on: June 06, 2014, 08:53:39 AM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/zq7sipKfxoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/zq7sipKfxoo</a>

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Other Sports / Crawford to face Gamboa

« on: May 07, 2014, 07:11:32 AM »

Crawford to face Gamboa
Story Created: May 6, 2014 at 9:06 PM ECT
Story Updated: May 6, 2014 at 9:06 PM ECT
 Although lightweight world titleholder Terence Crawford has been a professional fighter since 2008, he has never fought in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. But that will change when he makes his first defence there against Yuriorkis Gamboa in a meeting of two of the most skilled boxers in the business.
Crawford will face Gamboa on June 28 in the main event of an HBO-televised card at the 18,300-seat CenturyLink Center in Omaha. “It’s been a real long time coming,” a pumped-up Crawford told ESPN.com yesterday after the bout was finalised.
“I’ve been looking forward to it since I turned pro. There’s a lot of support here for me, a lot of people always asking me when I’m gonna fight here. We got the fight here now and everyone is excited about it. It’s gonna be a big opportunity for me to fight in Omaha and be successful with a victory over the likes of Gamboa.”
“I was looking at the lightweight picture and I think this matches the two best lightweights in the world,” Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who promotes Crawford, said. “I believe the winner legitimately establishes himself as No. 1 in the weight class. The other thing that appeals to me is that we are doing this fight —a real high-class fight —in the heartland of the country and, hopefully, this can help bring back interest in boxing in a significant part of the country, where they don’t get too many big fights.”
The fight will be only the second world title bout in Omaha history. In 1972, 15 years before Crawford was born, Joe Frazier defended the heavyweight championship against Omaha’s Ron Stander at the Civic Auditorium and knocked him out in the fifth round to retain the title.
Crawford (23-0, 16 KOs), 26, won his 135-pound world title by unanimous decision on March 1 when he travelled to Ricky Burns’ home turf in Glasgow, Scotland and put on a boxing clinic to win by clear unanimous decision.
Gamboa (23-0, 16 KOs), 32, a 2004 Cuban Olympic gold medallist now based in Miami, defected and turned pro in 2007. He unified two world titles at featherweight in 2010 with a decision win against Orlando Salido but has only fought four times since while also being implicated in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal.
Gamboa has not fought since June 2013, when he outpointed Darleys Perez in Montreal to win a vacant interim lightweight belt in his debut in the division. Initially, Gamboa, who is promoted by rap star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, was going to return to the junior lightweight division to challenge titleholder Mikey Garcia this summer, but Garcia priced himself out of the bout and Crawford was the next logical opponent.
“This fight is just as good, maybe better than Garcia-Gamboa,” Arum said. “We just couldn’t live with Mikey’s financial demands. A lot of it was fueled by other people, who told him that Gamboa was getting $1.5 million and he was only getting US$750,000, which was ludicrous and wrong. But we made a good fight here. Gamboa does have a lot of power, but like most Cuban fighters he’s very cautious and a very good boxer. Crawford is superb boxer.
“I really believe we will see some fireworks, because Gamboa has a tendency to get dropped and with the crowd, it will be a very boisterous and exciting atmosphere. The fact that there hasn’t been a marquee fight in Omaha since 1972 is amazing. This will be huge.” said Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti, “You’re not going to see your traditional rock ‘em, ‘sock ‘em kind of fight. With these guys and their skills, speed and boxing ability will probably dictate the winner. Stylistically, it’s more of a chess match, more speed and boxing but the kingpin at 135 pounds will come out of this fight.”
Crawford said he has followed Gamboa’s career for the past several years and never thought he would fight him, but he happily accepted the challenge.
“I look at this fight like it’s high risk, high reward,” Crawford said. “Earlier in my career, I looked at him as a great fighter and never thought I’d be fighting him, but now that we’re here it’s a big opportunity for me. We’re both gonna be in there and both of us will stick to our game plan and fight a good fight.”
As for the potential distractions of fighting at home, Crawford said he would have no problem with it. “There are distractions everywhere you go,” he said. “When I went to Scotland everyone was talking about the crowd and if that would be a distraction. It wasn’t. I just have to stay focused and get the job done.”

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Football / Our 2015 Under 17 & Under 20 teams

« on: April 29, 2014, 01:01:19 PM »

Any news on these teams ? Are they in training ?

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Trinbago, NBA & World Basketball / Racist Donald Sterling tells girlfriend V. Stiviano not to bring black people

« on: April 26, 2014, 03:39:45 PM »

http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/racist-donald-sterling-girlfriend-v-stiviano-black-people-audio/227349


HMMM should fans boycott clipper games ?

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General Discussion / Trinidadian Father beats his son

« on: April 26, 2014, 08:16:31 AM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/K_T_xMjMHw8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/K_T_xMjMHw8</a>

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Bang em Smurf takes Trinidad James on tour

« on: March 29, 2014, 04:56:19 PM »

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What about Track & Field / Carifta trials

« on: March 09, 2014, 12:38:24 PM »

Raheem Chambers wins U17 at Carifta Trials

this guy ran 10.28

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General Discussion / Florida loud music trial: jury fails to reach principal murder verdict

« on: February 16, 2014, 04:38:21 PM »

Florida loud music trial: jury fails to reach principal murder verdict
Richard Luscombe in Miami

Michael Dunn guilty of attempted second-degree murder over shooting of black teenager Jordan Davis in dispute at gas station


A jury has declared that it could not reach a decision on whether a Florida man, who shot dead a teenager in a dispute over loud music, was guilty of murder or had acted in self defence.

The judge in Jacksonville declared a mistrial on the first-degree murder charge on Saturday, although the jury convicted Michael Dunn on three lesser counts of attempted second-degree murder, and shooting into an occupied vehicle. Dunn could face a sentence of between 20 and 60 years.

Dunn, 47, shot Jordan Davis, 17, during the altercation at a Jacksonville gas station in November 2012, sparked by the youth’s refusal to turn off music blaring from the vehicle he was in with a group of friends.

The case re-ignited the debate over Florida’s self-defence and gun control laws seven months after neighbourhood watch leader George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering another unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in a fight at a Sanford housing estate.

The failure of the jury to convict Dunn on the principal murder charge was a blow for the prosecution team led by state attorney Angela Corey, which was heavily criticised for its failure to secure a conviction against Zimmerman.

The prosecution must decide whether to order a new trial on the first-degree murder charge.

Dunn said he feared for his life after seeing Davis point a shotgun at him and was then forced to fire when the teenager charged at him, swearing and threatening to kill him.

But although police never found a weapon, and a medical examiner said she believed the youth was lying on the back seat of the vehicle when he was shot, not outside it, the jury of seven women and five men, who deliberated for four days, could not agree whether Dunn was guilty of first-degree murder.

State attorney Erin Wolfson had outlined a scenario in which Dunn simply “lost it” because he was “disrespected by a mouthy teenager”, fired 10 shots into the SUV then fled to a nearby hotel with his
girlfriend where they ordered pizza and spent the night watching movies.

During his own testimony, Dunn said he was “crazy with grief” when he learned of Davis’s death and spent the night vomiting in his hotel bathroom.

Key evidence included a medical examiner testifying that Davis was probably lying on the back seat of the SUV when he was shot, not outside the vehicle and charging towards Dunn as the defendant claimed.

Prosecutors also rounded on several inconsistencies in Dunn’s testimony, particularly that his fiancée Rhonda Rouer told the court that he never told her he had seen Davis brandishing a gun. And they
pointed out that Dunn and Rouer drove two and a half hours to their home in Satellite Beach, Florida, the morning after the shooting without calling the police, even though he knew by then that Davis was dead.

Dunn’s lawyer, Cory Strolla, said during closing arguments that his client had no duty to retreat under Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws and instead had every right to use deadly force to defend himself.

The confrontation took place on the evening of 23 November 2012, at a Gate gas station in Jacksonville when Dunn and Rouer, who had attended the nearby wedding of his son, were on their way back to their hotel three miles away and decided to stop for wine and snacks.

Dunn pulled his car into a space to the right of the teenagers’ red Dodge Durango, and according to Rouer’s testimony, complained that he “hated that thug music” when they heard the loud thumping bass of the rap coming from the vehicle.

Dunn, during his testimony, said he thought the music was “ridiculously loud” but denied calling it thug music. “I’d call it rap-crap,” he said.

He said he asked the boys “respectfully” to turn the music down, which he said they did at first. Then, he said, the volume went back up again, with Davis shouting profanities at him and pointing what he
thought was a shotgun at him.

“I saw sticking above the window sill about four inches of a barrel. It was thick enough to my eye to be 12 gauge, maybe 20,” he said. “I’m looking at the guy in the rear passenger seat. I saw two young men with menacing expressions.”

Dunn insisted that he remained calm and polite throughout the confrontation, retrieving his 9mm pistol from his glove box and firing only when Davis emerged from the SUV’s rear door, swearing and telling him he was going to kill him.

His arrest the following day came because an eyewitness took note of his car’s tag number although Dunn said he was on his way to inform a friend, a federal agent, when detectives in Jacksonville called.

John Phillips, the Davis family attorney, rejected that. “He killed Jordan Davis and never cared to call the police. If we were waiting on the time it took for Mr Dunn to return to the scene or call the police, the clock would now be ticking 447 days,” he said.

Davis’s family settled a civil lawsuit against Dunn and his insurance company last year for undisclosed sum.

Since her son’s death, Davis’s mother Lucia McBath has worked as a spokeswoman for the anti-gun violence group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and has spoken before the US Senate. His father Ronald Davis has addressed Florida’s House of Representatives.

Barry Slotnick, a lawyer who defended so-called subway vigilante Bernie Goetz after he shot and wounded four would-be muggers in New York in 1984, told the Guardian before the verdict that despite the verdict prosecutors had learned from mistakes made in the Zimmerman case.

“Regardless, they did a much better job of presenting the case to the jury,” he said. “There are mixed opinions about Stand Your Ground but nobody has the absolute right to shoot and kill or injure somebody
without a reasonable belief that their own life or safety is in danger.”

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Football / Joseph Minala: Lazio respond to false age claims of teenager

« on: February 13, 2014, 07:49:04 AM »

Joseph Minala: Lazio respond to false age claims of teenager
BBC sport





http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26162408

Lazio have threatened legal action against those who have questioned the legitimacy of the age of their 17-year-old Cameroonian player Joseph Minala.
The Italian side stated that his birth certificate is "absolutely legitimate".
Lazio added:  "We reserve the right to take action against those responsible for the protection of the good name of the company and the footballer."
The midfielder also issued a statement via the club's website denying he told an African website he was 41.
He said: "I have read the alleged statements posted on the website senego.net in which it says I confessed my real age which was different to what was stated in my [official] documents.

"They are false statements that have been attributed to me by people who do not know."
Minala joined the Rome club last summer and recently played for them in the Viareggio Cup youth tournament.
Italian journalist Max Evangelista, who reports on Lazio's youth team, said any suggestions the player was 41 were "unbelievable".
He said Minala had scored five goals and made six assists this season for Lazio's youth team, who are the holders of the national title.
"He is a very reactive player. You could never say he is 41," he told BBC World Service." When you are surrounded by players running like devils around you, in my opinion it is very tough to be 41. He runs, he is fast. It is unbelievable news, that is why Lazio felt the need to deny it.
"He was in an orphanage for a couple of years in Cameroon, then he had to face the situation here by himself. It is a controversial story because the face of the player is not that of a 17-year-old guy.
"On his face there is sign of his previous life, which was not a happy life. That is it. Period. There is nothing else that makes you think he is 41.
"He is a kid with the head of a kid. He only wants to play football as he did on the road years ago barefoot. That is the only thing he is focused on and being a talent because he is a talent."

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / trini dance off competition at guanapo

« on: January 28, 2014, 03:43:28 PM »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/c-jU5l33ljg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/c-jU5l33ljg</a>

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Toppa Top 10: Ten Trini Rappers Besides Nicki Minaj

« on: January 03, 2014, 04:58:46 PM »

Interesting

http://www.largeup.com/2012/04/03/toppa-top-10-ten-trini-rappers-besides-nicki-minaj/

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Gols Galore Trinbago Style / Ricardo John

« on: December 08, 2013, 06:48:42 AM »

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / The story of lovers rock - for the oldtimers

« on: November 14, 2013, 07:38:24 AM »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0WkiKUxWKds" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/0WkiKUxWKds</a>

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Football / Rundell Winchester Thread

« on: November 13, 2013, 07:38:24 AM »

http://www.socawarriors.net/component/joomleague/player/38-2013-14-t-t-pro-league/179-central-fc/2373-rondell-winchester.html

Time to keep updates on this youngster  he deserves a thread

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Soca 2014

« on: October 25, 2013, 08:40:25 AM »

 love this old time beat remake

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General Discussion / Greatest Wedding Proposal Trinidad and Tobago

« on: September 26, 2013, 11:58:09 AM »

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General Discussion / Beetham residence protest the killing of Christopher Reaves on Sunday night.

« on: September 02, 2013, 06:59:42 PM »

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General Discussion / ILP Walkabout in Laventille

« on: September 01, 2013, 03:31:05 PM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/e7UrvcFo0jQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/e7UrvcFo0jQ</a>

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Billy Ocean: 'Rastafari Is My Anchor'

« on: August 26, 2013, 10:00:35 AM »

Billy Ocean: 'Rastafari Is My Anchor'
British music legend says faith keeps him grounded, but admits his parents would “freak” if they knew he was a Rasta!
Written by Davina Hamilton
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/billy-ocean-rastafari-my-anchor


SOME ENTERTAINERS choose drugs, others choose alcohol – Billy Ocean chose Rastafari.


Having found fame in an industry with many perils, the legendary British singer says that Rastafari became his “anchor,” keeping him grounded, not only in his career, but in his life.

“Being in the public eye, I believe you need to have something as an anchor,” says the 63-year-old star. “That’s what Rasta is for me. Rasta isn’t just about growing locks. It’s about the study of Jesus Christ – His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie.

“Rasta has taught me more than the church ever did. It taught me that the Bible is deeper than what it tells us from cover to cover. It teaches us that His Imperial Majesty is more than just an emperor – he is Jesus Christ.”

Attending church as a child, the Trinidad-born singer says that if his parents were alive, they would be stunned to learn that their son had embraced the Rastafari way of life, not least because they would reject the Rasta belief that the Messiah is the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie – a black man.

“If my mother and father could see me now, they would freak,” Ocean admits with a chuckle. “They wouldn’t believe it because they still had the slave mentality.

“That’s why I believe in His Imperial Majesty, because for years, the knowledge we [black people] had, always came from somebody else. Knowledge never came from black people. So the idea of believing that Jesus Christ was Haile Selassie – a black man – my parents would never have believed it. But the facts are there. If black people can’t believe that, what are we looking for?”

Ocean also explains that his faith keeps him steadfast when authorities seek to “indoctrinate” society on what he believes to be important issues.

One such matter is gay marriage, which the singer feels people are being “forced” to support. Ocean believes this is wrong.

“Homosexuality isn’t new – it’s been around since [Biblical cities] Sodom and Gomorrah. That’s fine – do your thing. But for people to now try and indoctrinate me that it’s ok for a man to marry a man, I’m sorry, but that is unnatural.

“I’m not against homosexuality. But trying to indoctrinate people with the idea of gay marriage… it has the potential to bring about resentment, because it feels as though it’s being forced on the community. I’m not condemning homosexuals. I’m condemning the authorities for trying to make it [gay marriage] mainstream, and making people feel as though they have to accept it.”

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / EVERYTHING FLOOD OUT CVM JAMAICA ...

« on: August 14, 2013, 12:14:48 PM »

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General Discussion / Mayor Rob Ford Offers Citizens of Toronto Cocaine

« on: August 11, 2013, 08:43:27 AM »

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What about Track & Field / BREAKING NEWS - Baptiste tests positive

« on: August 10, 2013, 08:26:30 AM »

BREAKING NEWS - Baptiste tests positive
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By Kwame Laurence in Moscow
Story Created: Aug 10, 2013 at 9:56 AM ECT
Story Updated: Aug 10, 2013 at 10:01 AM ECT
Kelly-Ann Baptiste has tested positive for a banned substance, and has left the IAAF World Championships, here in Moscow, Russia.
“She has voluntarily withdrawn from the competition and is heading back to her base,” Trinidad and Tobago team manager Dexter Voisin told the Express, today.
Voisin refused to confirm that Baptiste had tested positive. However, a reliable source later confirmed the positive test.
National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) president Ephraim Serrette said his organisation will issue a press release within 48 hours.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Jay-Z attacks Harry Belafonte

« on: July 30, 2013, 01:07:32 PM »

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Harry Belafonte personally bankrolled the entire civil rights movement. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have a right to vote for the Supreme Court to take away. He helped organize the March on Washington, and he cut the check to bail MLK out of the Birmingham City Jail.

Belafonte, in an interview, suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé could do more for charity, so of course there's a Harry Belafonte dis song on the new Jay-Z album.

Here's Belfaonte on Jay-Z in The Hollywood Reporter:

THR: Back to the occasion of the award for your acting career. Are you happy with the image of members of minorities in Hollywood today?

Belafonte: Not at all. They have not told the history of our people, nothing of who we are. We are still looking. We are not determinated. We are not driven by some technology that says you can kill Afghans, the Iraqis or the Spanish. It is all -- excuse my French -- shit. It is sad. And I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is that we should have had such high-profile artists, powerful celebrities. But they have turned their back on social responsibility. That goes for Jay-Z and Beyonce, for example. Give me Bruce Springsteen, and now you’re talking. I really think he is black.

And here's Jay-Z on Belafonte in an interview with his own blog() Life+Times:

I’m offended by that because first of all, and this is going to sound arrogant, but my presence is charity. Just who I am. Just like Obama’s is. Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation, and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You’re the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything he should be left alone…I felt Belafonte he just went about it wrong. Like the way he did it in the media, and then he big’d up Bruce Springsteen or somebody. And it was like, “whoa,” you just sent the wrong message all the way around…Bruce Springsteen is a great guy. You’re this Civil Rights activist and you just big’d up the white guy against me in the white media. And I’m not saying that in a racial way. I’m just saying what it is. The fact of what it was. And that was just the wrong way to go about it.