This drugged driver broke down weeping for forgiveness in court — and then prosecutors played the jailhouse recordings
An Oregon man who wept as he begged the man he left blind and seriously injured for forgiveness during his sentencing was busted after prosecutors played jailhouse recordings in which he laughed at his victim, the Bend Bulletin reports.
In 2016, Richard Rose went to a party where he took Xanax and cocaine, which prosecutors say they have photos of him consuming. Police found marijuana, cocaine, Xanax and ketamine all in his system. He was already in diversion treatment for a prior DUII arrest.
Rose later crashed his Ford Explorer into a pickup truck driven by Terry Neil, who broke almost every major bone, suffered kidney failure, strokes and was blinded as a result of a medically induced coma.
“My life ended that day,” Neil told the court. “It’s just taking me a long time to die. I guess I’m too stubborn to give up.”
Rose wept and begged for forgiveness from Neil in court.
“I am so sorry for the pain that I have caused you and your family,” he said. “I am not the child I was three years ago. I beg you to please forgive me.”
But his own grandfather wrote a letter to the court calling him a “manipulator” who sold cocaine.
And prosecutors lent credibility to that by playing jailhouse recordings made at Deschutes County jail in which he referred to his passenger as a “snitch” and suggested his defense try to prove his victim’s vision was too poor prior to the wreck to be driving.
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This Is What Really Happens When Someone Wins A Game Show
Bright lights. Beads of sweat. A patient host. An in-studio audience of hundreds; a television audience of millions. A ticking clock and a small fortune on the line.
It is in this tense moment that game show winners are born. The game show, like television itself, has its roots in America and for the most part remains a uniquely American experience—the drama, the pageantry, the average “everyman” getting a shot at the big time. Game shows can spend every afternoon with us like an old friend, or explode into our lives with the dramatic brevity of a shooting star. It was as soon as Regis Philbin was about halfway through reading the final question and Kevin had a chance to see it on his screen. His eyebrows pop up and he gasps in what was likely a physical manifestation of the flurry of synapses going on in his head. “I know this!” Kevin said aloud, and within seconds of announcing his Final Answer the confetti fell, the crowd roared, and Regis introduced America to the latest, and biggest, winner of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
“My thoughts as Regis announced I won was NOT slipping on a Plexiglass floor now with confetti on it—so I moved gingerly,” Olmstead tells us of the immediate aftermath of that moment. After a hearty handshake hug with Regis, Olmstead carefully ran over to his mother and wrapped her in an embrace as confetti continued to rain down and the Millionaire theme blared over the cheering studio audience. As the cameras continued to roll, Kevin made his rounds accepting congratulatory hugs and high-fives from the production crew, reveling in a moment unlike any other. Adam Holquist, an electronic musician from Pennsylvania, was trailing on his first ever Jeopardy! appearance when he pulled out a come-from-behind win in Final Jeopardy. But for Holquist there was not much opportunity to bask in the warm glow of victory on the Jeopardy! sound stage; “there’s only about 10 minutes between each game, so there’s not a lot of time to savor, unfortunately,” he says…..
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Kanye West’s latest controversy involves a photo of the late Whitney Houston’s drug-filled bathroom
Kanye really needs a BLACK woman in his life to pull him back down to earth. The only woman that could do that was his dear mama
Original article written Thursday, May 24, 2018
File this under the mysteries of Kanye West.
The rapper selected an eerily familiar photo for the cover of a new album that he produced, Pusha T’s Daytona. It shows the late Whitney Houston‘s drug-filled bathroom, and was featured on the cover of the National Enquirer in 2006.
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And, as Pusha T explained on the Angie Martinez Show Wednesday, West was the driving force in that decision. After all, they had already selected something else ahead of the album’s Friday release. “He changed my artwork last night at 1 a.m. He wasn’t feeling it,” Pusha T told Martinez. “[Originally], the artwork — it was pictures that we all agreed on. He picked the photographer, I took these pictures, I was like, ‘Yo, these are fresh.’ I picked all of these pictures out, he had a little edit to it, how he wanted the actual grading of the picture to look. Picked the picture, great, we look, boom, boom, boom, it’s good.”
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West then insisted on spending $85,000 of his own money for the snapshot. West was adamant: “This is what people need to see to go along with this music,” Pusha T said.
The image that West shared is slightly different than the original photo. For one, the beer can has disappeared in the Daytona version.
Houston, 48, died Feb. 11, 2012, in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where she was staying for the Grammy Awards. The coroner’s office determined that she died by accidental drowning, but cocaine and heart disease contributed to her death.
The “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” singer began using drugs in her early 20s, according to People. She checked into rehab multiple times throughout her short life.
Just last month, singer Lorde got backlash after she shared a photo of a bathtub with the caption “And iiii will always love you.”
She later apologized: “Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “I’m so sorry for offending anyone — I hadn’t even put this together, I was just excited to take a bath. I’m an idiot. Love Whitney forever and ever. Sorry again.”
A few of West’s followers disapproved of his use of the photo, but he’s used to that sort of thing.
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Rachel Dolezal Charged with Felony Theft for Welfare Fraud, Facing Up to 15-Years in Prison
You wanted to be Black, but you lost your Becky privileges; was it worth it?
#BlackTwitter will throw the party of the decade knowing that Rachael might be going away, for a long time.
The faux-Black former NAACP chapter president has been accused of 1st Degree Theft by Welfare Fraud, Perjury in the 2nd Degree, and False Verification for Public Assistance.
Rachel, now legally known as Nkechi Diallo, is facing up to 15-years in prison.
via KHQ:
Because Dolezal changed her name, we’ll be referring to her as Nkechi Diallo. According to court documents, Diallo illegally received $8,747 in food assistance, and illegally received $100 in childcare assistance. Total restitution, according to the documents, is $8,847, allegedly stolen from August 2015 through November 2017.
The investigation into Diallo’s alleged theft started in March 2017 when a DSHS Office of Fraud and Accountability investigator received information that Diallo had written a book that got published. The investigator said he’d heard Diallo say she was getting public assistance, but also knew that a typical publishing contract included payments of $10,000 to $20,000.
Watch some of Lovelyti’s video on Rachel here:
Rachel Dolezal Goes on a media blitz~ She isn’t A BLACK hero she’s a LIAR
Rachel Dolezal has a reality tv show in the works & she is NOW claiming to be Bisexual
Black Twitter Drags Rihanna For Saying Rachel Dolezal Is ‘A Bit Of A Hero’
Woody Allen’s son defends him, says mom Mia Farrow abused all her children
The sad, sordid saga of Woody Allen and the Farrows Who Loathe Him moved to a more toxic level Wednesday: One of his sons with Mia Farrow reiterated that Allen never molested his 7-year-old daughter, and added that Farrow physically and emotionally abused all her children for years.
Moses Farrow, 40, a professional family therapist, posted on his blog a lengthy essay, “A Son Speaks Out,” declaring again what he’s said before: That Allen did not abuse his younger sister and Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, in August 1992 at Mia Farrow’s Connecticut home.
“Given the incredibly inaccurate and misleading attacks on my father, Woody Allen, I feel that I can no longer stay silent as he continues to be condemned for a crime he did not commit,” wrote Moses Farrow, who was adopted by Farrow from South Korea in 1980 and later was co-adopted by Allen.
“I was present for everything that transpired in our house before, during, and after the alleged event,” Moses wrote. “Now that the public hysteria of earlier this year has died down a little and I have some hope that the truth can get a fair hearing, I want to share my story.”
His story is that there was no time when nor any place in the house where Allen, now 82, could have spirited Dylan away to molest her. Farrow, enraged by Allen’s affair with another of her adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Previn, now 47, had instructed Moses to keep a close eye on Allen.
“Along with five kids, there were three adults in the house, all of whom had been told for months what a monster Woody was,” writes Moses. “None of us would have allowed Dylan to step away with Woody, even if he tried.”
Having failed to persuade authorities to charge Allen with a crime at the time, Farrow and their daughter, now 32, plus her biological son with Allen, Ronan Farrow, 30, have been trying to damage Allen and his movie career by other means, mostly through jeremiads in the media and via social media.
Allen has always denied he abused his daughter, and her claims and that of her mother’s were investigated by Connecticut authorities decades ago. Their conclusion: Nothing happened. Allen has never been charged.
“Mia reached the end of the legal runway after it was determined that the abuse never occurred,” Moses wrote. “But trial by media thrives on the lack of long-term memory and Twitter requires neither knowledge nor restraint.”
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Tomi Lahren’s Water Bottle Assaulter Will NOT be Charged :[]
The woman who threw a glass of water at Tomi Lahren will not face criminal charges, and she actually has Tomatoe to thank for that … partly.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the act of tossing water at Tomi is not harmful enough for cops to bring charges or open an investigation on their own. We’re told Tomi herself — or her mom, who was also hit with water — would need to file a police report.
Watch some of your favorite Lovelyti videos on Loud mouth Lahren:
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Stacey Dash & Tomi Lahren GO OFF on Jesse Williams~ He’s A Plantation Slave
Charlamagne The God Gives Himself #DOTD For His Tomi Lahren Twitter Drama FOH?
Sources close to Tomi tell us that’s not going to happen … so no charges will be coming.
As we reported … the conservative Fox News contributor was having brunch with her mother at a Minneapolis bar last weekend when a woman chucked the water at her unprovoked.
The incident led President Trump to tweet out vocal support for Tomi, saying everybody is with her.
We’re guessing this doesn’t apply to the water thrower … even if Lahren is letting her off the hook.
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3 women arrested after using bathroom in restaurant claim racial discrimination
Three women are accusing a Georgia restaurant of racial discrimination after being arrested for allegedly taking too long in the bathroom.
WMAZ reports Brittany Lucio, Asia’h Epperson and Erica Walker asked to use the restroom at an Atlanta-area restaurant called Houston’s on Mother’s Day last week. A shift manager claims they were in the bathroom after the restaurant closed at 10 p.m. and, when they refused to leave, asked a police officer who was working security at the restaurant to escort them out.
A police report says the security officer found the women on their phones inside the restroom, ignoring his request to leave. When he grabbed Lucio by the wrist and said “Let’s go,” she pulled away and shouted “Get your hands off of me!”
The situation worsened from there; the officer says Lucio threw a punch, hitting his mouth. He asked Houston’s staff to call 911 for backup while restraining Lucio and Walker outside the restaurant.
Epperson, a former “American Idol” contestant and “Greenleaf” actress, began recording the incident on the phone, showing the officer pinning one of the two women down on the ground.
WSB-TV reports all three were arrested when additional officers arrived, and booked in Fulton County Jail. Lucio was charged with criminal trespass and felony obstruction; Walker and Epperson were charged with criminal trespass.
Lauren Pozen WSB@LaurenPozenWSBThese women were charged with a crime after they say a Houston’s security guard assaulted them. At 5, why they have the support of @Tip and what the security guard says led up to this.
Epperson told WSB-TV on Tuesday that she plans to take legal action against the Atlanta Police Department, claiming the officer lied on the police report. The restaurant was open and “full of people,” she said. They were in the restroom less than 10 minutes, including using a phone to give an Uber driver directions to pick them up, she added.
“We weren’t doing anything wrong. We were never asked multiple times to leave. That is a lie. We are moving forward very rapidly with this matter things will be handled legally,” Epperson said in a statement.
Epperson, 29, was a semi-finalist on “American Idol” season 7 in 2008. She also notably played Felicia in the 2015 movie “Straight Outta Compton” about N.W.A. rappers Ice Cube, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre.
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Trump on NFL protesters: ‘Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country’
You knew this was coming: President Donald Trump, whose fiery comments on NFL protesters last year inflamed his populist base, spoke with satisfaction Thursday morning about new rules that sharply restrict pregame protests. Speaking to Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade, Trump expressed approval that NFL owners “did the right thing” by requiring players on the field to stand.
“I don’t think people should be staying in the locker rooms, but still I think it’s good,” he said. “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem, or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country. You have to stand proudly for the national anthem.”……….
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Sources: NFL used polling firm to get public opinion on Colin Kaepernick
ATLANTA – Four months into quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s 2017 free agency and heading into intensified criticism from President Donald Trump over player protests, the NFL used a Washington consulting firm to ask Americans whether Kaepernick should have been signed by a team, according to sources familiar with the league’s research.
The poll was conducted by The Glover Park Group, a consulting firm that was co-founded by then-NFL communications chief Joe Lockhart, sources told Yahoo Sports. The data sought by the NFL included fan attitudes about a few high-profile league concerns, including domestic violence, gambling, player protests and player safety. Sources noted that Kaepernick was the only player singled out in the research for specific opinions, which were then compiled and sent to various league officials, including commissioner Roger Goodell and several other high-ranking executives.
The poll could create a significant point of contention in Kaepernick’s collusion complaint against the NFL, raising the question of why the league conducted opinion research with its fan base about the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback. The existence of polling data on Kaepernick could also raise the question of whether the research went beyond high-ranking NFL executives to ownership groups or other team personnel who could have signed the quarterback…….
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It Is Illegal for Donald Trump to Block You on Twitter Just Because He Is a Big Baby Who Can’t Take Criticism Monique Judge
Wow I had to rewrite my thoughts on this artcle. Like many of us do. Or LOTS of us do we read the title and go off just the title and DON’T take the time to READ the good Tea! Read on my tisppers!
Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the political corruption and poor leadership found within the top ranks of the FBI. Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI! #SPYGATE
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2018
A federal judge in New York City ruled Wednesday that the ability to view and engage with Donald Trump on his personal Twitter account is part of our constitutional First Amendment rights, and his blocking people simply because he doesn’t like their criticisms of him is a violation of those rights.
Since his election, Trump has continued to tweet from his personal Twitter account under the user name @realDonaldTrump—despite the fact that there is an official presidential Twitter account that he could use. In July, a group of seven Twitter users who were blocked by Trump after criticizing him on the platform filed a lawsuit against him, arguing that his Twitter feed is an official government account, and preventing users from viewing it is a violation of their First Amendment rights.
According to the New York Times, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York agreed, and she wrote in her ruling that “the speech in which they seek to engage is protected by the First Amendment,” adding that both Trump and White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino “exert governmental control over certain aspects of the @realDonaldTrump account.”
“The viewpoint-based exclusion of the individual plaintiffs from that designated public forum is proscribed by the First Amendment and cannot be justified by the president’s personal First Amendment interests,” Buchwald wrote.
The government tried to argue that Trump uses his personal account in a personal capacity, but Buchwald concluded that he “uses the account to take actions that can be taken only by the president as president.”
Isn’t it funny how the biggest bully on Twitter can dish it out but can’t take it when it gets thrown back at him?
This is the same person who uses his account to attack the media, make claims of fake news and demean journalists everywhere, all in a plot to discredit them so that, in his words, according to prominent journalist Lesley Stahl, “when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”
The one person who should be an example of upholding the Constitution is the main person looking to tear it down and destroy it every chance he gets.
Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University—which joined the lawsuit— served as counsel to the plaintiffs. He told the Times that it’s clear what Trump needs to do now in light of the judge’s ruling.
“The position the Trump administration is taking is that the president is entitled to block people, and that the court lacks the ability to order him to do otherwise,” Jaffer said. Although the judge had not ordered it, he said, “The right thing for the president and his social media director to do would be to log into the president’s account and unblock everyone who has been blocked on the basis of viewpoint.”
We won’t hold our breath waiting for that to happen. This administration doesn’t care one bit about the rule of law. These people think they are above it, as evidenced by the statement made by a spokeswoman from the Justice Department, which is representing the president in the case.
“We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision and are considering our next steps,” she said.
As for the judge, Buchwald did not issue an injunction to force the president’s hand but, rather, is relying on him to do the right thing.
“Because no government official is above the law and because all government officials are presumed to follow the law once the judiciary has said what the law is, we must assume that the president and Scavino will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional,” she wrote in her ruling.
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