Chris Tucker Loses $6 Million Home

“Smokey, Smokeyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!” We all know and love him, rather it’s a line from Friday or Rush Hour Chris Tucker has made us laugh. But with his $6 million mansion in Florida in foreclosure the laughs have come to a surprising halt.  Tucker currently owes more than $4.4 million to the bank! His beautiful 10,000-sq-ft 5 bedroom, personal spa, pool & basement shaped like a pirate ship Mansion on the waterfront of Lake Apopka near Orlando is a thing of the past for the 39yr old Tucker. The Circuit Court in Lake County reports show an $11.5 million IRS lien on the home to collect income taxes from Tucker. Tucker has yet to speak out about the foreclosure but apparently the $25,812.50 monthly mortgage payments are too much for the crowd fav….

 

-Sunny D

Bank Of America New $5 Debit Card Fee

I love my bank, and with the exception of being in New Orleans, I always know I’ll be near one. But that happy mood come 2012 will be changing! Starting next year Bank Of America will begin a MONTHLY $5 fee for all debit card users.  Doesn’t matter if you swipe your card for a $1.00 candy bar or a new $500 couch,debit or credit, you’re being charged $5 (a month)!Now there are a few exceptions, people who don’t use their debit card at all, usage of ATM’s, and certain premium customers don’t have to worry.  BOA isn’t alone either; Wells Fargo will be testing a $3 debit card fee in Nevada, Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington beginning Oct. 14th and JP-Morgan Chase announced they too have a $3 charge test underway in Wisconsin. I don’t know about you all but I don’t like the idea of paying to spend my own money there are enough bank fees as is! If Bank Of America was in my college town I’d just go to the ATM and stop this rant. Now I know some of you may be thinking ohhhh Sunny D it’s just $5. Well as a broke college student, I speak for us all when I say that $60 a year fee can “kick rocks”! Oh yeah I’m going ol school and ordering a book of checks!

Sunny D

Death Row Last Meal for Texas Inmates NO MORE

This past Thursday many Americans were in an uproar about Troy Davis but he wasn’t the only man executed last week. On Wednesday 9/21/11 Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. To quickly fill you in Brewer, a white supremacists chained the black James Byrd to his pick-up truck and drug him to his death (A modern day Emmit Till case). We all know of the infamous “last meal” inmates are granted prior to their punishment. Well Brewer did not eat his order which led a state senator to file a complaint this past Thursday to end this meal practice. What exactly prompted this complaint? How about Davis’s order: two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a large bowl of fried okra can’t forget the ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, a pound of bbq with a half-loaf of white bread (guess wheat was too brown), a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers. Despite his dreadful crime and my stance against capital punishment I couldn’t help but giggle and say HELL NAW! But officials did’nt find his stunt so funny, keep in mind he did’nt eat any of it! Sen. John Whitmire wrote, “It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim.” I disagree with his reasoning for doing away with the meal privilege in Texas. The prison industry is a business, a wealthy one at that generating billions of dollars so they do have the money. Looks to me a case of humiliation and one last F! YOU from Brewer. The result….”Effective immediately, no such accommodations will be made. They will receive the same meal served to other offenders on the unit.”-Whitmire

 

 

 

 

 

 -Sunny D

 

 

 

 

 

France Bans Burqas & Fines Muslim Women

Saskya Vandoorne of CNN Paris released an article addressing the France law banning Burqas. Beginning late last year France passed a law banning face covering material. For some the first thought may be “so” but for many Muslim women this is a direct aim at their culture, religion and values. Hundreds of women are being stopped by police due to this ban. Thursday one woman was fined 120 euros ($162) for wearing the Burqa. CNN reports show Hind Ahmas purposely wore her face coverings in order to receive the punishment so she could take her case to higher courts. “I am happy to be fined, since I can now take this to the European Court of Human Rights…It’s not about the amount of money I have to pay. It’s about the principal…I am fighting to be able to walk freely in the street.”-Ahmas She is not the only woman to be fined since the law has been in place and a group called, Don’t Touch My Constitution came to the courthouse with a check to pay the fines of the women. I found this issue very interesting; if you all remember a few weeks ago I posted an article about American Fear of Muslims and the results of a shocking poll. One of which showed 50% of Americans would be uncomfortable with a woman wearing a Burqa. Apparently the USA isn’t the only nation suffering from this plight of fear. I too agree with the notion that this law is in violation of Human Rights. Many women stated they would only remove the coverings to prove their identity to security or pick up their children from school. Another stated, “You allow women to walk around half-naked but you don’t allow Muslim women to cover their body?” Another in the article spoke of how she was divorced and her choice to wear her coverings had nothing to do with a man. What the French gov’t has to say? Well they claim it will help the Muslim women blend into society. In reading about this topic and watching news reports on youtube I saw many western people’s comments that disturbed me….

“muslim beliefs are plain pathetic and arrogant women who wish to subject themselves to a full on Burqa must be either ugly or stupid!”

“Wearing Burkas is also a kind of terrorism.These are the mother of terrorism. Even muslims beard should be baned.”

“If they want to wear their body tents they are free to return to more suitable countries.”

“lol fucking funny…Muslim talking about freedom and democracy 😛

-Sunny D

Troy Davis

Tonight at 7pm Troy Davis will be executed. Since 1989 Davis has become one of the most famous people on Death Row, why? Well despite a lack of physical evidence, no murder weapon ever being found 7 out of the 9 witnesses recanting  or contradicting their testimony his execution is still going as planned. I hate to do it but I’m going to pull the “race card”. Davis, a black man was convicted of the murder of a Savannah, Georgia police officer.  The murder weapon wasn’t found but ballistics were traced to another shooting that Davis would also be charged with. Many people are angry even wanted Obama to intervene but Obama as president does not have the authority to do so due to state laws. Capital punishment is so controversial. Who are we to kill someone and what about those who are innocent? It just isn’t fair if you ask me. Davis has “dodged” execution since 2001 with different Supreme Court hearings and appeals but the fight is over. Coming after the famous Casey Anthony trial its baffling to see how in one case a white woman with overwhelming evidence walks free while a black man is killed. This reminds me so much of the movie Chicago….wait hear me out. All of the women in jail for murder were honestly guilty except for one woman! Ironically she was the only one put to death while the guilty women went free due to their play on “hyping” up their case playing the role. This is bigger than Troy Davis it’s a matter of Capital Punishment right or wrong?

-Sunny D