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*The Associated Press is reporting that Whitney Houston publicist, KristenFoster has confirmed that the singer is dead at age 48.
Developing
http://www.eurweb.com/2012/02/breaking-news-whitney-houston-is-dead-at-48/
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Wow, that is sad.
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I usually can't stand pop music but I certainly recognize talent when I see it. That girl was The Voice, she owned the 80's. Untouchable, she really was in a class all her own.
I totally blame the drugs. Too bad, 48 is way too young for anyone to depart this earth.
R.I.P. Whitney, thank you for the awesome voice.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1QmeEdFOSc[/youtube]
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(http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/whitney_houston2011-with-mic-med-wide.jpg)
*The Associated Press is reporting that Whitney Houston publicist, KristenFoster has confirmed that the singer is dead at age 48.
Developing
http://www.eurweb.com/2012/02/breaking-news-whitney-houston-is-dead-at-48/
RIP
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Have to agree with FB on this one--I would think it was drugs that did it. Even ESPN interrupted their college basketball coverage to report it.
RIP, Whitney.
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My very first CD was her first album. My boyfriend at the time bought a CD player and let me have it.
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Such a beautiful voice and face. EXTREMELY talented. She should have never gotten involved with that Bobby Brown f'n idiot.
RIP, Whitney. :(
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Such a beautiful voice and face. EXTREMELY talented. She should have never gotten involved with that Bobby Brown f'n idiot.
RIP, Whitney. :(
Started
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Ended up
(http://images.starpulse.com/news/bloggers/17629/blog_images/whitney-houston.jpg)
So very sad. :(
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Wasn't she with Costner in "Bodyguard" ?
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Wasn't she with Costner in "Bodyguard" ?
Yes.
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My very first CD was her first album. My boyfriend at the time bought a CD player and let me have it.
Freaky, my boyfriend from high school just sent me a text about Whiney Houston. I haven't spoken to him in years. He said it made him think of me.
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Better living through chemistry.
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Started
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Ended up
(http://images.starpulse.com/news/bloggers/17629/blog_images/whitney-houston.jpg)
So very sad. :(
Wow, she sure looks older than 48 in that second picture. It's so sad. RIP. She had so much going for her, what a shame to waste it on drugs.
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The illusive promise of drugs.
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Pics of her from last night. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2099347/Whitney-Houston-emerges-nightclub-looking-worse-wear.html) Looks like she was pretty messed up.
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When she was good, she was really good.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llFZT6CTXz8[/youtube]
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Mother goose,
There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
When she was good, she was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.
No disrespect intended for the dearly departed. RIP.
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It was still okay to wave an American flag in 1991, we must have crossed nadins rubicon since then.
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She really was 1 of the best singers ever. I know she's responsible for doing drugs, but there are a lot of people with blood on their hands by enabling her, she should've been forced into long-term therapy.
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This is very sad news. One of the best singers of the 80's and certainly not the first singer to go early from drugs. I liked her music just wouldn't call myself a fan. RIP Whitney, now all your troubles are past.
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So sad. Prayers for her soul. :( :(
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When she was good, she was really good.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llFZT6CTXz8[/youtube]
Indeed she was.
Audio quality varies from video to video, for some reason the audio on the one I posted was better but the overall video you posted was the better of the two.
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There have been some truly great performances of our National Anthem over the years but this particular rendition by Whitney Houston was considered by many to be among the very best. It came at a time when the nation was still healing from the Viet Nam era and the military was up until the Gulf War still looked upon with disdain by a large segment of the public which was wholly not deserved. Our troops did what they were sent to do and were winning in southeast Asia. They were left in the lurch by pandering politicians. At that time Kate Smith was probably regarded as being most associated with the National Anthem. Before her the previous generation had Marion Anderson but in her time she would never be given the credit she was due in the America of the 1930's. Anyone who heard her voice though in their parlor over the family radio before television existed would be moved and recognize that they were hearing a standout but likely not realize she was black.
http://youtu.be/mAONYTMf2pk
Whitney Houston in her prime during the 1980's enjoyed a massive wave of popularity which transcended all of America, no matter who you were everyone liked Whitney with no labels attached to her, just appreciation of raw talent for what it was, beautiful. Everyone appreciated such a great talent despite the fact she was female and black, that never entered the equation. She was just Whitney and she was awesome.
Not often, perhaps once in a generation or so there comes along a true standout and usually out of nowhere despite the mainstream trends to rise above and captivate everyone. That was Whitney Houston. She not only earned her Emmys, she ran away with them and created such a gap being that pop music is so regimentally contrived and controlled from inside the industry to create sameness and control the market. She blew the lid off of it.
There have been but few other examples in modern music history which have had such a profound effect. Elvis Presley. What was there before Elvis? Jimi Hendrix. It has been said, and rightly so that there are but two eras in rock guitar, everything before Jimi and everything after.
Whitney Houston did that with vocals, to all genres. She didn't set the mark, she stepped up to the mic and turned it on its head.
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I wonder how "whack" she thinks crack is now... :thatsright:
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I gather Jennifer Hudson has been tapped to do a tribute to Whitney at tomorrow night's Grammys. It would be a nice touch if Dolly Parton could sing her "I will always love you" that Whitney covered so magnificiently. Then someone should jump on stage and insist that Bobby Brown be charged as an accessory to murder.
RIP Whitney.
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I'm sorry, but I have ZERO sympathy for her!! Doing drugs is a choice, NOT a disease, like cancer, that can't be helped. Folks, she did this to herself!! It IS a loss of a talented individual, but it's ALL on her !!
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Whitney Houston was found dead in her hotel room today.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dies-at-48/
Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died, Fox News confirms. She was 48.
The Beverly Hills Police Department responded to an emergency call at the Beverly Hills Hotel Saturday, Lt. Mark Rosen, of the Bevery Hills Police Department said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dies-at-48/#ixzz1m9Xkduor
This is incredibly sad on many levels. When I first heard her, I was in my early 20's; she was barely out of her teens. Her voice was magnificent, and I thought she would easily be up to Ella Fitzgerald's talent by, well, now. Beauty, eloquence, and one hell of a voice. Even Kevin Costner had something going with her during the movie they starred in together, but she was definitely a deserved queen.
Of course, that all changed with the marriage and subsequent problems with Bobby Brown, along with the drug use. I'm not one that likes to bemoan lost opportunities of others, especially celebrities whom are a dime a dozen. But whatever mental problems that Whitney had (and she MUST have had some being married to that #$#^#@ a**wipe Bobby Brown) were easily surpassed by her talent.
But years of abuse, drugs, and Bobby did not allow her to develop as she should have. And as much as I'm saddened by her death, and from the gifts of song she gave the world, I will always remember that if she had the right motivation and support and, frankly, real love, she would have become the greatest female vocalist of all time.
R.I.P., Whitney.
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Bobby Brown helped quite a bit. For every addict there are a number of enablers.
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She worked very hard to be where she is today.
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So talented, so troubled.
Rest in Peace.
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Bobby Brown helped quite a bit. For every addict there are a number of enablers.
From what I've heard, he was on a reunion tour with his band from the 90s last night, New Edition, and he had to leave the stage from crying his eyes out.
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The true libs never miss the most inappropriate occasions to advance their liberal agenda.
In this case, the tragic death of Whitney Houston to legalize drugs, just the absolute absurdity of it...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/02/12/epic-fail-whitney-houston-dies-and-tony-bennett-calls-drug-legalization (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/02/12/epic-fail-whitney-houston-dies-and-tony-bennett-calls-drug-legalization)
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Well if rumors are true and she drowned............I didn't see that one coming.
Whitney Houston Prescriptions Found Possible Drowning
No illegal drugs have been found in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died -- at least not yet -- but prescription drugs were present, and it's possible the singer drowned in the bathtub ... TMZ has learned.
Sources tell us ... when EMTs arrived Whitney's body was already removed from the bathtub so it will take an autopsy to determine if she OD'd, drowned or died from some other cause.
Informed sources tell us ... Beverly Hills cops -- who were still searching the room at the time this story was posted -- found various pill bottles. There was no evidence that Whitney was drinking alcohol in the room.
link (http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-prescription-drugs-drowned-dead-dies-bathtub-body/)
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Her rendition of the National Anthem before the Super Bowl in '91 is the best I've ever heard. I even bought it on iTunes a while back. Every time I hear it I get goosebumps. RIP Whitney.
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This is my favorite song of hers....You Give Good Love
When I hear it memories come flooding back.
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Everyday a thousand Americans die early because of drug abuse. Yet the girl in Detroit who died of a drug overdose at age eighteen today and the fifteen year old crackhead who died in Alabama yesterday go unnoticed because we care mostly about those who provide us entertainment. This is wrong. In America the death of any American should be equal to that of any other American.
And we, by collectively overlooking the sins of our entertainers, enhance their destructive behavior.
May God have mercy on the soul of the girl in Detroit and the boy in Alabama and Whitney Houston.
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Everyday a thousand Americans die early because of drug abuse. Yet the girl in Detroit who died of a drug overdose at age eighteen today and the fifteen year old crackhead who died in Alabama yesterday go unnoticed because we care mostly about those who provide us entertainment. This is wrong. In America the death of any American should be equal to that of any other American.
And we, by collectively overlooking the sins of our entertainers, enhance their destructive behavior.
May God have mercy on the soul of the girl in Detroit and the boy in Alabama and Whitney Houston.
"Every day in Rome, Romans die suffering, yet it goes unnoticed by the people. Once a favored gladiator is fell on the floor of the Colosseum, they mourn as if they've lost a family member."
...and it'll go on like that for the rest of time. You act like it's an American problem.
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24/7 Whitney is dead....I might me slow but I ain't that slow...it's getting tiresome.
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http://news.yahoo.com/whitney-houston-died-prescription-drug-alcohol-combination-tmz-091916898--abc-news.html
Whitney Houston Died of Prescription Drug, Alcohol Combination, TMZ Reports
After second thought, I say legalize drugs. Let drugs do to liberals what the law says we can't.
Some people are alive only because it's against the law to kill em.
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Everyday a thousand Americans die early because of drug abuse. Yet the girl in Detroit who died of a drug overdose at age eighteen today and the fifteen year old crackhead who died in Alabama yesterday go unnoticed because we care mostly about those who provide us entertainment. This is wrong. In America the death of any American should be equal to that of any other American.
And we, by collectively overlooking the sins of our entertainers, enhance their destructive behavior.
May God have mercy on the soul of the girl in Detroit and the boy in Alabama and Whitney Houston.
All deaths are not equal to every person. My brother died of an overdose July 2008 from methadone. His wife's methadone that she was suppose to be taking for extreme pain. His overdose wasn't news because no one knew who he was except his family and friends. I remember the next day watching people go about their day as if nothing had happened. I wanted to scream..."Don't you know that MY BROTHER just died!?!". His death meant more than any famous person or quite frankly yours could ever mean to me. So you or Whitney Houston, as an American, do not affect me as much as my brothers death. It all depends on how much someone cared for the person.
Telling the world of his death wouldn't have helped a single person. People would say, "This is news how?" and go about their lives as if nothing happened. It is human nature to care more about your own than someone you don't know. Entertainers touch our lives, some more than others, some even for the worse. That is why this is national news and not the death of a crackhead in Georgia or quite frankly my brother.
With that being said, the media always overdoses on these types of stories. Michael Jackson's was the worst.
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http://news.yahoo.com/whitney-houston-died-prescription-drug-alcohol-combination-tmz-091916898--abc-news.html
After second thought, I say legalize drugs. Let drugs do to liberals what the law says we can't.
Some people are alive only because it's against the law to kill em.
You probably missed my Tony Bennet post.
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24/7 Whitney is dead....I might me slow but I ain't that slow...it's getting tiresome.
Indeed.
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Indeed.
For sure. I just change the radio station or TV channel. If that's all that's on, I turn everything off. I never liked her to begin with.
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She worked very hard to be where she is today.
I loved this woman's voice and I don't think I have heard a more beautiful rendition of the nation's anthem. But I share your sentiment, it seems like she had to really work hard at destroying her life when the easiest thing would have been to simply express her God given talent.
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I loved this woman's voice and I don't think I have heard a more beautiful rendition of the nation's anthem. But I share your sentiment, it seems like she had to really work hard at destroying her life when the easiest thing would have been to simply express her God given talent.
+1 Schade. I for one, am sick of the "poor rich drug addict that hasn't done anything for 15 years" cry fest. As my wife said "her sales are going to go through the roof" Someone is making money.
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Not only is Tony Bennet trying to advance a big lib agenda, at the expense of the dearly departed, but now the queen of huffpuff is jumping on the bandwagon
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2012/02/13/arianna-huffington-drug-war-war-our-own-people (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2012/02/13/arianna-huffington-drug-war-war-our-own-people)
One sidenote, would a rich, famous entertainer be a "Minority" ?
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http://news.yahoo.com/whitney-houston-died-prescription-drug-alcohol-combination-tmz-091916898--abc-news.html
After second thought, I say legalize drugs. Let drugs do to liberals what the law says we can't.
Only problem with that though is they'd become much more accessible, you'd have a wider population becoming dependent on illicit drugs, in turn they'd lose their jobs, and either hit people over the head to rob them or become more dependent on the Government to take care of them. Tony Bennett and Ron Paul are idiots to even think of supporting something like this.
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Only problem with that though is they'd become much more accessible, you'd have a wider population becoming dependent on illicit drugs, in turn they'd lose their jobs, and either hit people over the head to rob them or become more dependent on the Government to take care of them.
And increase firearm sales for the law-abiding citizens.
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i heard sony jacked up the price for whitney songs and albums 30 mins after it was announced she died.
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i heard sony jacked up the price for whitney songs and albums 30 mins after it was announced she died.
Good for them. Any true fan of Whitney's should have already had all her music. :-)
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Aaaaannnnnddddd...the Whitney jokes are already out.
Not going to repeat them here, you probably already heard them or have a general idea.
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Aaaaannnnnddddd...the Whitney jokes are already out.
Not going to repeat them here, you probably already heard them or have a general idea.
What's 6 inches long and didn't get sucked for Valentines Day?
Whitney Houston's crack pipe.
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What's 6 inches long and didn't get sucked for Valentines Day?
Whitney Houston's crack pipe.
Day-um. :lmao:
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What was Bobby Brown's greatest hit?
Whitney Houston.
(I'm so going to hell.)
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Recordkeepers are still trying to determine which was Whitney Houston's greatest feat: six Grammys in 14 years, or trying to do 6 grams in 14 minutes.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:o
All y'all are so wrong.
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(http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/silly-bitches-only-i-can-do-that-much-cocaine.jpg)
Winning! H5!
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OK...you owe me a new keyboard....I lost my Mt Dew when I saw this one :)
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now her doctors are getting in trouble
looks like another michael jackson trial coming
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now her doctors are getting in trouble
looks like another michael jackson trial coming
How do you spell, I-DON'T-CARE? One fewer druggies in this world.
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How do you spell, I-DON'T-CARE? One fewer druggies in this world.
As she sings her greatest hit....
"...and I-I-I-I will always love DRUGS."
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Honestly, who was talking about Whitney Houston last week?
Now she's popular again after making the transition from mainstream to underground. ::)
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RIP...what a shame. Gotta be careful with the drugs, they will get you every time.
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Apparently the coroner has released a preliminary cause of death. He says she was Waiting to Inhale. :hyper:
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Whitney Houston is now starring in a new film called "The Bodybag". :lmao:
Houston, we have a problem.
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Ouch.
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Whitney published a book just before her demise:
"Bathtub Snorkeling Tips and Tricks"
(my own creation, TYVM.....)
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Mother Of Fallen Marine Offended By Half-Staff Flag For Houston
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/15/mother-of-fallen-marine-offended-by-half-mast-flag-for-houston/
I don't recall half mast for Michael Jackson or any other celebrity. :mental:
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They might have done it in Los Angeles, but the mayor there is a moonbat and a douchebag.
This is ridiculous. I'd be pissed too.
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Mother Of Fallen Marine Offended By Half-Staff Flag For Houston
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/02/15/mother-of-fallen-marine-offended-by-half-mast-flag-for-houston/
I don't recall half mast for Michael Jackson or any other celebrity. :mental:
I do. But then, I was in the Denver metro area at the time, and Denver/Boulder is just about ate up with moonbat stupidity.
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They might have done it in Los Angeles, but the mayor there is a moonbat and a douchebag.
This is ridiculous. I'd be pissed too.
Chris Christie want's to do it for the entire state of New Jersey.
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Chris Christie want's to do it for the entire state of New Jersey.
Heard on the news his justification was that they did it for Frank Sinatra as well. I dunno. I think it diminishes the message, personally.
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Heard on the news his justification was that they did it for Frank Sinatra as well. I dunno. I think it diminishes the message, personally.
Christie has compared it to flying the flag at half-staff for our troops who have been killed from NJ.
I have changed my mind about Christie. He is not what I want in a "conservative" and a patriot.
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Christie has compared it to flying the flag at half-staff for our troops who have been killed from NJ.I have changed my mind about Christie. He is not what I want in a "conservative" and a patriot.
Then he is no patriot.
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Looks like John and Ken just got a week's vacation for their comments re: Whitney.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/102473/kfi-suspends-john-and-ken-for-whitney-houston-rema
While harsh, still don't see what they said was incorrect. Poor taste, maybe, but not factually wrong.
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But all those comments go squarely against the persona and legacy that Hollyweird and the rest of the entertainment industry want everybody to swallow -- Whitney Houston, while being a stellar singer and actor, was "troubled" and "wrestled with her demons."
Shit like that. :whatever:
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Westboro Baptist Church to picket Whitney Houston’s Funeral
http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-oklahoma-city/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-whitney-houston-s-funeral
Guess who's showing up? :mental:
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Do they ever actually hold a church service ?
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Westboro Baptist Church to picket Whitney Houston’s Funeral
http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-oklahoma-city/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-whitney-houston-s-funeral
Guess who's showing up? :mental:
The bros and sistas are liable to put an ass whipping on them. Better have plenty of cops there otherwise you will see a riot.
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The bros and sistas are liable to put an ass whipping on them. Better have plenty of cops there otherwise you will see a riot.
Wait what do you mean by that
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Wait what do you mean by that
Just what I said.
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Just what I said.
He probably wants it IOW, or more thoroughly explained. As for me, pretty self explanatory, although I can on occasion be quite dense.
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Whitney Houston's funeral has inspired several of Newark's gang leaders to call for a day of calm today to honor the Brick City-born pop queen.
"If anyone out there is gang banging lets show Whitney Houston respect by commiting no crimes on saturday ......No shootings No robbing No car jacking basically no crazy (stuff) let us show some respect she helped alot of people in Nj lets show lov," wrote Johnson,
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/on_day_of_whitney_houstons_fun.html
Just don't do it today, tomorrow's fine
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Just don't do it today, tomorrow's fine
Yeah, double up to catch up, tomorrow.
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Looks like John and Ken just got a week's vacation for their comments re: Whitney.
http://www.allaccess.com/...-for-whitney-houston-rema
While harsh, still don't see what they said was incorrect. Poor taste, maybe, but not factually wrong.
Can't dis the cash cow.
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Whitney now has 15 days "Clean and Sober", and her CD and download sales are skyrocketing.
You go, girl.
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Do they ever actually hold a church service ?
From what I heard is they just want someone to assualt them so they can sue and then pay for their stuff. That is why they just show up at any funeral for no reason.