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"I sure miss being commander in chief of such fine men and women"
Sigh...Sigh...Sigh! STFU!
Take your pick - it doesn't take Columbo to unravel the mystery here, because there is no mystery. Rich, famous married men get involved with younger women all the time. It's gone on so long there is probably a handbook somewhere describing the rules of engagement for these kind of relationships.
A handbook McNair and Kazemi obviously didn't read.
"The irony of this whole thing, at least to me, is that McNair probably was killed with one of his own guns, a weapon he was often found with in his car while the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. That instant access to a gun that he thought would keep him safe is very likely the reason he is dead today."
All I can say is Wow. Was wondering where she got the gun.
Brown Man I found your comment quite intriguing. How about a little Sunday afternoon debate on why men cheat. Steve Harvey says because they can. This incident should be a wake up call especially to older men/younger women. This was apparently fun and games to McNair but to this mentally fragile young woman it very serious. She had not learned that time passes, wounds heal, news stories die, there will be other men who are not married. The embarrassment of getting caught in the car with "The Steve McNair" as apparently toooo much for her fragile mind to bear. So why not just take yourself out and let him live to deal with the wife and family? No, after they got caught he had to fess up that he wasn't leaving his wife/family for her. She new where the gun was. RESULT=she popped him and her.
Which brings me to the bigger question of your statement above. I do think its prevalent regardless of the responsibilities that a man has, the "dog" factor is always there. But, If OLDER men, whether rich or poor, know they have all of this responsibility,why keep doing it, not knowing what Pandora might have in her box?
What I don't understand is why men don't just get divorced. What the hell is the point in being married if you always steppin' out. Just be single with a 'baby mama' If you gonna be a ho, just be one.
Don't put a woman thru marriage just to step out. And in this case, step out and get shot dead.
DAMN.
Yeah, and you know what? Since McNair had not broke the law, he was allowed to go home in a taxi. I bet that girl was madder than hell. She now had a police record and McNair was telling her. 'what's the problem, I bailed you out' NAW, I ain't leaving my wife and kids for you!
GF was steamed. Afterall, this woman had so few friends that she called her EX boyfriend to come and get the car!
Wonder what type of shyt he was saying after picking up her vehicle. Cause it sounds like SHE broke it off, not him. She was going to be with McNair, she thought. Her exBF probably broke it down for her and then she confronted Steve. Including telling her she wouldn't be able to get jobs with that DUI. She was hotter than a hornet, I bet.
McNair, probably told her he didn't give 2 shyts about that vehicle. He probably wanted to sell it right then, rather than let it be traced back to his ass. I wonder why he didn't just put the title in her name to begin with.
Well, it had only been 4 mos. Maybe, he planned to but couldn't initially when he purchased it. Don't know what was going through his mind to leave such a paper trail.
That paper trail is probably what made her believe she actually meant something.
This 20 year old girl was in love with a man who never intended to leave his wife/fam. After she realized that when the DUI STORY came out in the news and he had to tell her that the affair had to go bye-bye I'm not leaving my wife, she popped him.
"it was probably leased thru the end of the fling".
Myth, you are making a LOT of sense.
I don't think she was in love. How you gone be in love with some man that FREQUENTs the restaurant you work at with HIS FAMILY?
She was a user, that had been USED and couldn't stand that she had been played by a BLACK man! You know those folks ALL think they better than us, your having money, just mean you prey for their schemes. She never thought SHE was being played.
She wasnt a user, he was a liar. The lies were exposed when the arrest hit the news. He probably said "I don't know her other than as a waitress at the Pancake House."
Nothing worse than a woman scorned Whiterose. (Betcha they found a bullet hole thru the penis)
I ain't a fan of Toni Braxton, but "Love woulda brought him home that night"
That's what I mean. Why get married in the first place? If you don't respect the concept, just don't do it. I mean, what does it mean to be a husband?
Does $ and ego make you that stupid? The condo, the car, the readily accessible guns?
Apparently, it does.
I don't know how long he's been married, but if he was willing to step out on his wife and 4 kids with a 20 yr old, methinks that somethin wrong was goin gon in the first place, they tried to work it out, but in the process, he moved out and started spending time with another chick just to figure things out. it's not like he wanted to be with her, but she was more his jump-off until he worked things out with the wife.
Former QB for Ravens, Titans Shot in Nashville
By Mark Maske
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Former Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair, known for his prolific passing and on-field toughness during a 13-year NFL career, was shot and killed in Nashville, police said yesterday.
McNair, 36, and a woman were found dead in a condominium complex, a Nashville police spokesman told reporters gathered near the property. Investigators had not yet drawn any conclusions about the circumstances of the shooting, said Don Aaron, the spokesman.
Police identified the female victim as Sahel Kazemi, 20. Authorities said she had one gunshot wound to the head, that McNair was shot several times, and that a pistol was discovered near Kazemi's body. Autopsies are scheduled for today.
Kazemi was charged with driving under the influence after being stopped early Thursday in a vehicle registered to her and McNair, according to authorities.
Earlier yesterday, police had declined to identify the female victim but had indicated that it was not McNair's wife, Mechelle.
"I don't have any answers for you now as to what's happened, who's responsible, what the circumstances are," Aaron said.
No one had been arrested for the shooting, said Aaron, who indicated that investigators were questioning visitors to the complex to see if they had any information.
"We are saddened and shocked to hear the news of Steve McNair's passing today," Titans owner Bud Adams said in a written statement released by the team. "He was one of the finest players to play for our organization and one of the most beloved players by our fans. He played with unquestioned heart and leadership and led us to places that we had never reached, including our only Super Bowl. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family as they deal with his untimely passing."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
How can you see 2 dead folks and NOT call the police?
Since McNair had multiple gunshot wounds I will not be surprised if the autoposy reveals she was pregnant.
She might not have been preggers, but something made her go beserk, that had to do with pride&dignity.
What I pictured was that the back of the sofa was to the door or facing a wall perpendicular to the door...where you can't see the folks on the sofa or in front of it but simply the back of the sofa.
Even if McNair was on the sofa, if you are shot in the head isn't your neck cocked at an odd angle in death? Like a newborn, that can't hold it's head up? I wonder how she approached McNair was she sitting next to him..and just shot him point blank in the head, if so why all the multiple shots...did the headshot come last?
It also sounds odd, that at first they couldn't find the gun, then they found it 'near' her? Sounds like tampering...
RIP Air McNair. You were one of the greats.
I'm tired of people dying.
It was a murder-suicide, which is why he was shot multiple times and her only once in the head. That she was his 4 month GF, that he had just purchased her an Escalade. We know it was only 4 months old cause she remained friends with the ex-BF, and he said they broke up 4 mos ago. In fact, when she was stopped for the DUI, McNair was in passenger and couldn't drive either, soooo she called the ex-BF and he came and took possession of the vehicle and McNair of course paid for both to get bailed out. She also told her neighbors that her BF purchased the Escalade for her.
Anyhoo, supposedly she was some waitress in some restaurant chain.
Ain't that nothin? Guess McNair needed a vehicle to ride around in with her, eh? One that costs more than her salary could afford.
Now, isn't this a mess...McNair had four kids and had a reputation of being a great Southern gentleman and family man...he was from MS....but guess he couldn't resist that white stuff and now he is dead!
And done left his wife and kids with all the shame of his philandering and all the unseemly circumstances surrounding his death. Hopefully, his affairs were in order and the kids and her have the financials to cushion the grief and pain and to have a solid future without financial woes. Wonder, how fast she will sell that Esacalade.
I just wonder where a 20year old woman got a gun and just why she shot him, supposedly she knew he was married when she hooked up with him. Maybe, not.
The shooter was a white woman?
Where you been under some rock?
The world is not changing so fast, that black folks aren't still niggers to folks who just got off the boat!!
Cuban,Lebanese,Iranian, Argentinian, DON"T MATTER...they immediately get the WHITE ENTITLEMENT when it comes to how they are going to treat AA's.
It ain't MY paradigm. It is VINTAGE AMERICAN racism!!
If so, there is no such thing as white period. Everybody on the damn globe are descendents of the African continent.
Otherwise, sociologically in America, she was WHITE, with all the benefit of the doubt and entitlement it brings with it..
There's no need to attack a young woman you know nothing about - 'white' or otherwise.
White is a mindset in America. Don't have nothing to do with europeangenes, necessarily. Just like black is a culture and we have black folks all over the color spectrum when it comes to pigment. Same thing with immigrants, don't matter if they have a little melanin, they still have the american white entitlement mindset. Which can't tolerate being dissed by black folks.
McNair, had no business, as a married man pimpin this 20 year old. I don't fault her. I fault him. It still means she was a piece of trash and ass to him. This was all about his EGO.
I know she is a homicidal murderer, who shot a man she had known 4mos, after being 'gifted' with an Escalade.
AND I now know she served him AND his family at Dave&Busters, that the McNair family frequented. So the LebaneseIrianianmiddleeastern heffa KNEW he was married.
I wanna know if she had quit her job. Only to find out he would never marry her and she could only ever hope to be a KEPT woman.
Bet that is what her exBF was telling her that she was nothing but a jockho4anigger
She confirmed what she was when she murdered him and killed herself.
Some folks just can't stand the truth. It is even crazier that mothsmoke didn't get that the woman was white. MiddleEastern is not a race in America, even folks who are Egyptian are listed as caucasian under race on their birth certificates.
Folks just like to really show how ignorant they are at times, by ignoring reality and the hard cold facts.
But what does race have to do with this anyway? Two people are dead and all we know for sure is one was married and the other was his mistress.
He purchased a car for her (it's in both of their names so Mrs. McNair won't be selling it without the consent of the young woman's estate) and apparently lived in the condo at which they were found. Neighbors reported that he was a frequent visitor. So it doesn't seem like he was trying to hide the affair. Her ex also reported that McNair had promised this woman that they would be together forever and that very recently she wanted to breakup with him.
The fact of the matter is we don't know why she shot him or even if she shot him. We don't even know if the McNair's were even still "together." Seems like he spent a lot of "public" time with this woman. He purchased a car and put it in both their names. How do you explain that in divorce court? You don't unless you're not worried. I also found it of note that while he was hanging out with this woman, the wife and kids were in Mississippi for the holiday.
This isn't about him not resisting the white stuff - black stuff can get you killed just as easily. Seems more like a young a girl who fell in love with a charismatic star and ish when all kinda' ways wrong. What kind of "wrong" we'll probably never know.
Period.
And HE was wrong too, it's not just HER fault, he knew he made vows to his WIFE and he was stepping out on her. I guess he thought he was slick. Whatever it was, I hope he thinks it was worth his LIFE. I have no sympathy for either of them.
I don't know what McNair told this young woman about his marital status. What I do know is that one of the two definitely knew what his marital status was. It's pure speculation as to what the other party knew. Just think about how many "grown women who should know better" are duped by married men everyday. It would not be beyond the realm for her not to know. I see it everyday. Fresh faced, young chicas taken in by the sun, sand, night life, laid back atmosphere, and the $$$. Naive, yes and targeted by forces they have never had any experience with before. It is an art form here. All you can do is shake your head and hope they learn a lesson before they encounter the next predator.
Redneck is racist. You do not need to be white to have a redneckracist mentality. Did you think all rednecks were white? They aren't. When you go in to the hood and those people in the corner stores are Iranian or Korean or Chaldean...they treat blacks with the same redneckracism as you find in the South. Now, most black folks get that who live in those areas. They get that these folks that just immigrated here, off the boat, are treating them like niggers. Just totally disrespectful to them as human beings, despite them being the customers they are making money off of.
See middle eastern/Iranian culture, if she is of such heirtage, just compounds that redneckracism. Because they have all these values about family and females as virgins etc. This would make if doubly bad that she was not just defiled but defiled by what all immigrants consider the bottom of the barrel in American humanity..BLACK PEOPLE. It would be bad enough for any man to do that to her, but a BLACK one...o boy, she was truly the lowest,skankho, unsalvageable whore of all. Which is why, in her culture she deserved to die, her own brothers and father would kill her for such so she simply killed herself, rather than shame her family. Because she couldn't handle it.
When the Kazemi family read she killed him too, they were proud! . She 'refused' to be a blackman's whore and her family is not disgraced with their daughters death as a whore to a BLACK man she defended her family name and values. By killing him, she restored their family honor.
Didn't you watch Mississippi Marsala, with Denzel..if not..you need to cause you clearly do not understand East Indians/Lebanese/Chaledeans/Iranian etc. culture.
But no matter how you slice it..it all comes down to entitlement on the basis of white culture.
You may not get that, but maybe if you sit and think on it for awhile you might.
Possibly not, though because you have seriously impaired deductive reasoning...a critical component of critical thinking along with inferential reasoning.
You may want to work on those.
Are you on something!? Did you really mean to suggest that this woman's family is proud that she's dead and killed another person to restore the family's honor!?
Until you know about this woman's particular family and their beliefs, you have no basis for making such a sweeping (outlandish) statement. You have a very facile understanding of these cultures -- and the world in general, it seems.
Please refrain from replying to them.
Your mindset, appears to be too narrow and unexposed to understand what is written.
From the very first post, you have completely misconstrued what I wrote out of some mistaken need to identify with this woman who was used as a pieceofwhitetrashass to satisfy a grown wealthy married man's ego.
Go look up the family and send them condolences if you have so much empathy, to satisfy your compassion.
You seem to have more consideration for a dead unknown woman than you do for the living around you in humid hot weather.
Your bareassed is unable to even grasp how indecent it is to not just go bareassed but to tell the world your odors are a gust of wind away from their poor unsuspecting noses. As if the heat wasn't enough for them to bear already.
Please just quit. Your worldview is to myopic and your reading comprehension is too limited to reply to the posts. Please don't keep trying to misconstrue what I post.
I have not attempted to give a reason for her actions.
Purchasing a car and putting that piddly amount of money in her name, don't mean shyt in the scheme of his total financial picture. That would be like the average person buying tickets to a JonasBros concert.puleeze.
Why in the hell, would a WIDOW, need to explain any friggin thing in a divorce court? You just have everything all twisted and your panties are so bunched tight, you are unable to think rationally. And those Kazemi people WILL have to sell it to give her MRS McNAIR HER money, every single thing in HIS name is HERS now. So, you need to just stop and think about why folks have the LEGAL title of MRS. It is all about property! Divorce don't have shyt to do with this one damn bit, which is why his ass is dead.
O it is VErrry much about not resisting white stuff, white stoopid entitlementminded women, who he told he wasn't leaving hisBLACK wife andBLACK kids for!. Young girl, my ass, in love my ass...charismatic starathlete..BULL!!
She was just another piece of white trashass and realized she wasn't ever going to be more than that, but since he was a BLACK man she shot him dead with her racist,redneck mentality. That's ALL this is. He didn't respect her enough to marry her and she didn't respect his black ass enough to let him live after she gave it up.Her redneck pride wouldn't allow her to live with the thought. Hell, she could of even been preggers! You wanna write a soap...there's the soap for you!
Now, I do not know what your the reason is for your emotional rant, but it clearly does not match the facts.
Ain't that nothin? Guess McNair needed a vehicle to ride around in with her, eh? One that costs more than her salary could afford."
Those two statements sound like disdain for this young woman or in your vernacular "just another piece of ass." And yes, it may be "piddling" money to Mr. McNair, but not to a 20 yr old working at Dave & Busters who after only a few months of dating (maybe even less than that, they were only together 5 mos) is blessed with an expensive car and an upscale condo.
Re the car. Mrs. McNair wasn't a WIDOW when the car was purchased. Reread my post. Clearly, that was written in the context of questioning the nature of his relationship with his wife and why he felt so free to openly be with this woman.
And speaking of the facts: she's not white and frankly, I don't know how many racist, rednecks enter into romantic relationships with high profile black men. My "rant" was not in the least "emotional." I responded to your post because the subtext of your initial post was very clear - you just explicitly stated it in your response:
"O it is VErrry much about not resisting white stuff, white stoopid entitlementminded women. Young girl, my ass, in love my ass...charismatic starathlete..BULL!!
She was just another piece of ass and realized she wasn't ever going to be more than that, but since he was a BLACK man she shot him dead with her racist,redneck mentality. That's ALL this is."
Just for the record, domestic violence doesn't know black or white. Wonder if your rant would have been the same if she'd been a 20 yr old black woman? Would she have been vulnerable and taken advantage of or would she be just a piece of ass?
One more thing ... don't worry about my panties. Hot year round where I live and I rarely wear them.
If this chick was a Dave & Buster's waitress and waited on his FAMILY, she knew he was married. Probaby spit in the wife's drink and what not. Probably had a good laugh in the back about how she was doing McNair and the wife was clueless.
There might be something to WRB's theory that she didn't want to live with the knowledge that she was tricking for a black man. Although she wasn't white, white women do lie and do strange things to cover up the fact they were a black man's trick.
No, they sounded like disdain for McNair! He picked up a woman of no means and then didn't wanna ride like he had to with 'her means' soooo,he purchases the Escalade. NONE of that is about her, it is all about HIM!! His EGO. His EGO, that he could BUY what he wanted and she would be GRATEFUL that 'sugardaddy' was rollin her like that! That is all about HIM! Wanting his ego stroked by some TWENTY year old and he is a 36 year old man.
See, you thinking it is about HER is just as dumbass as her and why he is Dead...but then anyone, that lets their ass hang out probably don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and would try to defend this stoopidity as being about themselves.
Just cause you didn't gET that don't go saying I was putting her down. Cause HE was. She was just another piece of ass to STeve! That is the ENTIRE point!! She shot him MULTIPLE times!!
What is it you do not get about being a WIDOW when it comes to property??. No matter when your husband makes a purchase,while he is married it is YOURS too!! His bills are yours and so are his ASSETS! That is the entire point of marital property LAW.
O your post was emotional, trying to defend the indefensible which was McNairs' actions..as that was the point of my post that you replied to.
Look, this is not domestic violence..this is poorwhitetrashbeendumped violence. And as far as your panties go and your need to talk about where there AREN't...it speaks volumes as to why you are trying to defend the piece of TRASH he took up with for SHYTS&GIGGLES.
She got the last laugh on his BLACK ass!!
O and one last thing, I don't give a damn if she was pink, orange or green...the point is she wasn't BLACK!!
Your comprehension of my post seems a bit off so I'm not going to waste anymore time. Oh wait, completely forgot your nom de plume. Had I remembered, I would never have bothered responding in the first place. This could turn into the neverending post, response, etc.
With respect to my unmentionables, you brought 'em up. I was just putting your mind to rest about them being bunched. BTW, I don't wear hoisery either - same reason. Too hot! I'm definitely Not Our Kinda' People, but I do have a lovely set of pearls.
Yes, you did try to defend her. I didn't disparage her. I called it as it was. She was a piece of ass to Steve, nothing more. The problem was she did not understand what she was to him. O it is really clear what the woman meant to him. There is not a whole lot that needs to be added to rich married former athlete with young 20something waitress. It is VERY obvious. There was no vitriol...simply straight up truth.
The problem is some of these hot tailed no panty wearing women THINK they are more than a piece of ass, to these men.
The type of thinking that matches your lack of comprehension of my post which is how this got started. Complete with your trying to assert some respectablityand property ownership on the piece of asses part.
As far as your unmentionables, saying your panties are in a knot, when you clearly misconstrued my point, is NOT the same as you telling the entire world you go BAREASSED.
Keep your pearls for your kind of people. I could give less than a damn. You told us all what you are. Which accounts for why you were attempting to defend McNair's piece of ass.
It's so "VERY obvious" to you -- without any real facts -- what kind of woman Ms. Kamezi was that you feel free to call her everything but a child of God.
And according to you, because I, like so many other women who live in this climate, don't regularly throw on a pair of undies in this scorching heat (and really don't care if you know), "I have told [you] all what [I] am. Which accounts for why [I am] attempting to defend McNair's piece of ass."
Well I tell you what, I will take whatever declasse moniker you have ascribed to me over the attributes you have demostrated thus far. See, whatever I am, I also have the ability to empathize, you'll never find me attacking someone I don't know or passing judgment without getting all of the facts. I'll take these traits over someone who regurlarly dons undies anyday.
It's too bad you can't see beyond the tip of your nose - I bet you've missed out on meeting some great/interesting people and experiences.
It is obvious becasue of the REAL facts, that you choose to give little or no import. FACT..he was married. FACT he was rich. FACT he was too old to be with a 20 year old. FACT he was famous. FACT he pimped her. FACT she was a piece of ass to him. Now, perhaps, I should give you the benefit of the doubt and suspect you are just a youngtwentysomething as well, and too young to understand these facts and how they connect.
Cause you say you are waiting for facts..as if All them facts didn't make sense to you. You try to act like they are VALUE judgments.hahahaha, no wonder you wandering around bareassed...you probably think that means you are open and honest. lol
I never told you what kind of women she was. I told you she was a piece of whitetrash ass to HIM. Got it? She wasn't shyt to him. Don't matter if SHE thought she was, matter of fact, it is pretty damn obvious also, that when he point blank told her she WAS just a piece of ass, she murdered him and killed herself too!
Now, why you feel such a need to defend this woman. I do not care. She knew as a waitress that he and his FAMILY frequented the restaurant she worked in.
That to me is the END of STORY. She KNEW.
So, nothing but WHITEENTITLEMENT made her believe she could 'pull that'. When she found out different, she shot him DEAD.
Your ability to empathize with bareassed women is just another sign of how clueless you are, but then folks always defend folks that act indecent just like them.
My opinion of you is meaningless..it's your opinion of yourself where you felt the need to divulge you are a bareassed women in summer heat who allows her secretions to waft through the air to prove she is her 'own kinda people'
I don't find meeting those type individuals interesting...at all...as they are simple crude, rude and socially unrespectable not to mention totally lacking in dignity & self-respect. You know sorta like trailertrash which is very similar to redneckwhitetrash?
Behavior being touted as you somehow having 'empathy' for bareassedpearlwearingkindapeople.
ugggh
I didn't say it but sure was thinking it!!!!!!
/www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/05/steve-mcnair-killed-what_n_225851.html
LMAO
Whiterose, don't you have to have buying power for someone 16 years younger than you to want to stay with your old azz? Some things just come with a price and she needed/wanted a car.
But you know he did not want to drive around with her in any of his KNOWN vehicles (probably got those EGO plates on 'em).
I think this youngIranianthang thought she was all that, and in her culture a man being 16 yrs older, is very appropriate. Almost, what the family orders.She was more than happy to have him buy her things, she expected it and probably thought it was a sign of respect, vs. her being pimped.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1850783159...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.h...
From WAPO: Number of Black Male Teachers Belies Their Influence
By Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Tynita Johnson had attended predominantly black schools in Prince George's County for 10 years when she walked into Will Thomas's AP government class last August and found something she had never seen.
"I was kind of shocked," said Tynita, 15, of Upper Marlboro. "I have never had a black male teacher before, except for P.E."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
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NONE of us had ever seen that behavior before in a teacher, we found it very fetish-like, even though we didn't know what a fetish was, but then when our parents came up to school for the first PTA conference,having heard their children describe MrGood and his softhands, they came home and told us..back then the polite word was Queer. We just said, OH! OK.
We did not laugh AT him, we liked him, he was a great teacher, we all just knew he was DIFFERENT.
Wow. Your question brought back so many elementary school memories. Sorry for the digression.
I butted heads with both of them because I didn't buy the logic that adults were always right. Plus, I kinda had a fly mouth. :)
1) a student band teacher from middle school
2) driver's ed teacher
But the only time I saw black males at school (besides the student band teacher and the driver's ed teacher) they were the janitors.
Exceprted: Have you ever had a friend who "had" to ask "permission" from a significant other just to hang out with you? I'm not talking about being considerate or checking for previously made plans. I'm referring to giving all power away. They couldn't even determine their own schedule. I've seen women do this and they walk around eggshells trying not to draw a negative emotional response from this person who is evaluating you to find out if you're a "trouble-maker". Meaning that you'd ask a reasonable question and expect a reasonable response. The relationship may never be one specifically abusive but the fear of its loss colors everything the woman does.
Yeah, like I said somewhere else, I have no sympathy for him.
"McNair and his family frequented the restaurant where Kazemi was a waitress, according employees and patrons of Dave & Buster's in Nashville. Keith Norfleet, Kazemi's ex-boyfriend, told The Tennessean newspaper that McNair and Kazemi met at the restaurant."
D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry Arrested for Stalking
By Matt Zapotosky and Martin Weil
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 10:01 AM
D.C. Council member Marion Barry was arrested last night and charged with stalking a woman after the woman reported that Barry was "bothering her" as the two traveled in separate vehicles in Anacostia Park, police said this morning.
At about 8:45 p.m., a woman traveling near the intersection Good Hope Road and Anacostia Drive flagged down a U.S. Park Police officer to report that a man in a vehicle nearby was stalking her, said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman. That man, Schlosser said, was Barry.
The officer interviewed the woman and Barry, then arrested Barry and took him to the Park Police's Anacostia Station, Schlosser said. There a detective interviewed Barry again, and police charged him with a misdemeanor count of stalking. Barry was released and ordered to appear in court, likely sometime later this week, Schlosser said.
Schlosser declined to identify the woman or specify her relationship with Barry. He also declined to detail what Barry told officers regarding the incident.
Barry's attorney, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., said last night that he had heard a "rumor" that Barry had been detained or arrested. Cooke said he had just returned from watching fireworks and was trying to "find out what's going on."
Barry, a former D.C. mayor, has had a series of brushes with the law during a long career in politics and civic activism. He is currently on probation for tax offenses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
I make less than $9000-a-year and my "cap-and-trade burden" was 4.11% of that. Looks like it will hit the poor harder.
Tax Foundation Figures Produce Misleading and Inaccurate Impressions of Middle Class Tax Burdens
Nouriel Roubini predicts the following:
I don't know why Nouriel Roubini doesn't think unemployment will hit 11% until next year. It will be over 11% this year...heck, just look at the 14-17% unemployment in many of the major producing areas already.
Many people didn't see it coming soon enough, but are now starting to 'feel' and see it, and are basically stuck - A Second Job: The Right Choice for You?
At some point, the entire economic system is going to collapse ... sorta like the WTC did.
(rolls eyes)
Off that....not touching the (alleged) domestic angle, but I'll be glad when Steve McNair goes into the HOF. He was one of the best at the position.
"She barked like a pitbull...Flashed her teeth like a killer...Bought those diamond-bit high heels...And drove 'em down like a driller...Billy Kristol's baby...The Wuss from Wasilla"
Is it skin tone? Is it economic? Is it social?
How do we define blackness? It just seems to me that we tend to define blackness by some stereotypic equivalence?
After we define blacknmess, then we need to set degree's of blackness.
ALL of the above on skin tone/economic/social/stereotypic
100% on the degree of blackness from high "bleached" yellow to pitch black midnight. We need to do lunch.
To me Black is a political/social jargon, it defines NO cultural cradle.
It is like saying south america is latin america, which strip off the native americans, because latino = south europeans, a reference to south european colonialists.
I think afro-americans prefer black or negro to avoid connotations to Africa, a poor and messy continent.
I mean in the USA you see people who never set their feet in Europe calling themselves italians, irish, etc. …
But in the end people want to be accepted, and in many cases by any means. Which i think was the case of MJ.
Was he a victim?
It is important because his attitude sets a precedent (well he was not the first one, but he went to extremes).
If he had the right to do it, or if he did anything Wrong is ot the case.
After all he did Harm no one undergoing plastic surgery.
Do we have the right to judge him?
Hell no!
But we have the right to analyze WHY would anyone do that (if he actually did it, you know to bleach his skin)?
For me it doesn't I mater if you are rich/poor, conservative/liberal, light/dark, natural/processed or intelligent/ignorant. I don't think any of these things define blackness per se, because there are large groups of black folk that fall into each category. However, there is always some group that will define how they want blackness to be and then criticize everyone who doesn't fit into that mold.
Clarence Thomas may not act in the best interests of blacks, but he is still black. Souldja Boy may be a baffoon but he is still black. Does one have more "blackness" then the other? And, if/when you choose the baffoon, please explain why.