Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 3rd, 2012
Good morning!
T.J. Holmes, former CNN anchor, pulled over in Atlanta, tweets: ‘Driving while black ain’t no joke’
Holmes, who left CNN in December 2011, will launch a new show on BET on Oct. 1.
The television personality tweeted a picture of a cop car in his side mirror with the caption “Driving while black ain’t no joke.”
Holmes did not mention that one of the officers who pulled him over was black.
The 34-year-old did say, however, that one of the officers, though he did not specify which, struggled to give an explanation for why he was pulled over.
“This is a damn shame. Officer is literally stumbling over his words trying to explain why he stopped me,” Holmes tweeted.
Holmes returned to the micro-blogging site minutes later, telling his nearly 50,000 followers that the officer said he “wanted to make sure [Holmes] had insurance on the car.”
TJHOLMESPICS/VIA INSTAGRAM
T.J. Holmes tweeted a picture Monday morning of a cop car in his side mirror with the caption “Driving while black ain’t no joke.”
“I kid you not,” Holmes added.
With the experience behind him, Holmes jokingly said that he “managed to avoid jail time,” but also added that the experienced has “soured” him on Atlanta police.
“Still pissed beyond words right now,” Holmes concluded. “But Lord knows I’m not the only this will happen to today.”
Holmes, who left CNN in December 2011, will launch his new show, “Don’t Sleep!” on BET this October.
The show will feature “smart, biting social commentary on significant issues important to African Americans” that “mainstream media tends to disregard,” according to BET.
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Readers: Holmes is correct. Unfortunately he isn’t the only one this will happen to. I am out early this morning. Blog me your thoughts on this or whatever…and have a great Saturday.
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August 3rd, 2012 at 8:27 am
It is amazing how easy it is to get a bunch of white people to amass for the purpose of depriving some race, or group of equal rights.
When I hear that 600,000 of my race rallied to a a Chick a fil to back the anti equal rights of gays to marry. It reminded me of the picture my parents have celebrating a similar rally they attended protesting blacks going to Georgia’s State Universities.
I once asked my parents why they felt that people whose taxes paid for those schools to exist shouldn’t be allowed to attend.
The asked me to leave their home and not to return until I could be more mannerly. This from people who admitted spitting on and slapping “uppity niggers” who marched to attend the University of Georgia.
I have since returned home. But nothing has changed. My parents and most of their friends, relatives and associates believe the same way. I mean these people actually believe they are better because they are white.
Carol
August 3rd, 2012 at 8:36 am
To Lose Weight…Eat More—And Other Proven Ways to Drop Pounds
There is a science to weight loss, but the facts often are obscured by the myths. For example, the calories-in, calories-out theory says that for every 3,500 calories you lose, you drop a pound of fat.
If you follow this logic, a 150-pound woman who reduced her daily caloric intake by 100 calories (the amount in less than one cup of reduced-fat milk) for 10 years would give up 365,000 calories—and would weigh only 46 pounds!
Despite what you’ve heard, calories are not all that matter…they’re not all the same…and the government’s dietary guidelines are not effective for weight control.
What really works…
Eat more to lose weight. It’s true. People who consume more food gain less weight than those who cut calories—but only as long as the calories come from the right foods.
Example: When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania compared the effects of higher- and lower-calorie diets, they found that people who ate more lost 200% more weight.
A diet high in high-quality foods (such as protein-rich seafood, nuts and seeds and nonstarchy vegetables, such as celery, asparagus and salad greens) increases satiety, the ability of calories to fill you up and keep you full.
The same foods are less likely to be stored as body fat than, say, processed foods, and they’re more likely to be burned off with your normal metabolism.
People who eat less to lose weight usually fail because the body interprets calorie restriction as starvation. For self-protection, it hangs on to body fat and instead utilizes muscle tissue for energy. Up to 70% of the weight that people lose on a low-cal diet actually is muscle tissue, not fat.
When we eat more—but smarter—we are satisfied…eat only the number of calories that we really need…and provide our body with an abundance of nutrition. This enables us to sustainably burn body fat.
Focus on protein.
Protein is a high-satiety nutrient that triggers the release of hormones that send I’ve had enough signals to the brain.
In a University of Washington study, participants were allowed an unlimited amount of calories as long as 30% of those calories came from protein. Result: They consumed 441 fewer calories a day—without feeling hungry.
Protein is less likely to be converted to fat. When you eat an egg omelet or a chicken breast, about one-third of the protein calories are burned during digestion…another one-third are burned when the liver converts protein to glucose (a process called gluconeogenesis).
Compare this to what happens when you eat bread or other starchy foods. About 70% of those calories can be stored as fat.
Recommended:
Get one-third of your calories from protein—in the form of seafood, poultry, meat or nonfat dairy, such as plain Greek yogurt or cottage cheese.
Don’t neglect fiber.
This isn’t new advice, but most people still don’t get enough fiber—or understand why it helps.
The fiber in plant foods isn’t digested or absorbed. Instead, it takes up space in the digestive tract…and makes you fill up faster and stay full longer.
This is why you will feel more satisfied when you eat, say, 200 calories worth of celery instead of 200 calories worth of candy.
The celery takes up about 30 times more space.
You don’t have to “count” fiber grams. As long as you get about one-third of total calories from nonstarchy vegetables (discussed previously), you’ll get enough.
Don’t believe the claims about grains. Whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, brown rice and other grains will not help you lose weight.
Reason:
The calories in grains are aggressive, which means that they’re more likely to be stored as fat than the calories that you get from protein or nonstarchy carbohydrates.
Grains—even whole grains—are rapidly converted to glucose (blood sugar) in the body. The rapid rise in glucose is followed by an equally rapid drop-off. This stimulates the appetite and causes you to crave more calories.
Also, fast-rising glucose is hard for the body to handle. It responds by attempting to rid itself of glucose—by storing it in fat cells.
Eat fat.
It’s true that fat has about twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates, but that would matter only if the calories-in, calories-out equation had anything to do with weight loss—which it doesn’t.
Decades ago, doctors encouraged Americans to consume fewer calories from fat.
Result:
The average person got heavier, not leaner. Experts now agree that people who consume more fat are no more likely to be overweight or obese than those who eat less—if anything, the people who eat less fat are more likely to gain weight.
Recommended:
Get about one-third of your calories from fats, including olive and canola oils (monunsaturated fats that lower your risk for heart disease) and the fats in meats, poultry and fish.
Drink a lot of green tea. You will naturally burn more fat when you drink more water. If you get much of this water in the form of green tea, you will do even better.
The polyphenols in green tea are among the healthiest antioxidants ever discovered. These compounds, along with the caffeine in tea (about one-fifth the amount in coffee), increase fat metabolism.
If you drink decaffeinated tea, you still will burn more fat than you would just by drinking water.
Recommended:
Between five and 15 cups of green tea daily. For maximum efficiency, put all the tea bags you need for the day in hot water.
Let the tea brew for a few minutes, and then drink the tea through-out the day like iced tea…or put it in the microwave if you prefer hot tea.
Source: Jonathan Bailor, a health-and-fitness researcher based in the Seattle area, who analyzed more than 10,000 pages of academic research related to diet, exercise and weight loss for his book The Smarter Science of Slim: Scientific Proof, Fat Loss Facts (Aavia). http://www.TheSmarterScienceOfSlim.com
August 3rd, 2012 at 8:45 am
Hafa adai Michelle, thanks for thinking of me. It is always a pleasure to be acknowledged by you. My email inbox usually alerts me because everyone seems to feel that they need to tell me that you mentioned me.
Thanks to all of you. But Hello, folks, I read her blog every day, too. (-:
Anna
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:14 am
This is just an example of the type of woman that would support the republican party. Take a look at her boyfriend. Only a woman stupid enough to support a party that write laws to control women like they were animals.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jealous-tennessee-man-allegedly-smacks-girlfriend-a-pic-guy-facebook-page-mitt-romney-article-1.1126074
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Mitt Romney should campaign more in Tennessee: a jealous resident of the Volunteer State confronted his girlfriend over a picture of a man on her Facebook page — and had no idea it was the GOP presidential candidate.
Lowell Turpin, 40, was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault last week following a violent confrontation with his live-in girlfriend over what he thought was a pic of a romantic rival on her Facebook page, police said
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That picture speaks for itself.
Harriet
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:26 am
waaaaaaaaa i’m black.waaaaaaa i’m gay. waaaaaaa i need special treatment waaaaaaaa. waaaaaaaa feed me. waaaaaaaa i don’t have a job give me money. waaaaaaaaa give me a place to live. waaaaaaa. take care of me, waaaaaaaaaaa. GET OVER IT.
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:29 am
“I question if it really happened at all ,all we have is this guys word for it and what is his word really worth ? To me absolutely nothing.”
I agree. This dork doesn’t make up a very good story that sounds authentic. It sounds like something a high school kid would fabricate, which is probably the case since this jerk is on about the same mental level as a teenager.
These black talking heads on t.v. would be literally annihilated in any race war they are trying to start, so it would behoove them to stop agitating.
But as dumb as they are I’d be willing to bet they think they could win out over superior numbers and a vastly armed opposition, because Obama would order the military to ally with them.
But they would not. The military and police would break along lines of race aswell.
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:31 am
“I agree. This nigger doesn’t make up a very good story that sounds authentic. It sounds like something a high school kid would fabricate, which is probably the case since this jerk is on about the same mental level as a teenager.”
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:32 am
What about guessing, when you see the driver bent over 1/2 way into the front passengers seat, the rap music so loud it can be heard 3 blocks away, and those spinning rims on the 20 inch low riders.
Then once the driver steps out his drawers are down around his nuts? Man you know you got a minotity then ha ha just chjillin. Yea we had to call in the ethnic make up of the driver also, but whose gonna know what you report and what happen is the truth? I always did my calls 50/50 so I was in compliance. 1/2 whities & 1/2 darkies.
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:33 am
Perhaps he should move to Phoenix, Arizona supposedly they only pull you over there if you are brown.
August 3rd, 2012 at 9:34 am
About a 1/2 mile from where I live a black nightclub opened up. The police were out every day it was opened pulling over cars with blacks. After about a year it got burned out.
It was across the street from a grocery store and I went by there all the time. I never saw a police car there before the nightclub opened and I haven’t seen a police car there since.
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:27 am
Carol, I’m from Georgia also. The biggest and most read thing is The New Nation News(NNN) Reporters Newsroom.
http://www.nnnforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=6be3d246a0e1f7e32ed5adbcce2c2260&t=243833&goto=nextnewest
It is non stop racism. My family reads it and chuckles the rest of the day on the racist “cuties” provided for their entertainment.
The topics are astounding for the sheer volume of work put in to making the point that the white race is in danger in the US. My all time favorite is Religion and White nationalism.
Susanne
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:28 am
It isn’t cool for people to be pulled over for no reason. White folks don’t have to deal with bs like that so they wouldn’t know!
If he didn’t break any laws he shouldn’t have been pulled over period point blank!!!
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:30 am
Did they snatch it off the white n*gga and ask “where’s the crack, cracka”?
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:31 am
Rashida, I agree. Most will never get it. One of my white friends along time ago was riding with me and they pulled me over and asked him if he was ok?
After he told them yes, then they asked him why he had that on his head. He had my stockin cap on his head lol. I was like this is normal. That next day him and his dad went and filed a police report on the officers though.
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:31 am
This mess happens all day everyday! I know this, if every white male in America was guarenteed to suffer the same fate, this practice would have ceased years ago. Just like the NYC stop and frisk nonsense!
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:34 am
I don’t care how far we’ve come, how rich we get, what “inner” circle or “elitist” we rub elbows with, our 20,000 square foot mini mansions we own, what car(s) we drive, what private schools our child(ren) attend, how many zeros are on the end of our bank accounts, shoes, clothes jewelry, or, the status we THINK we have to make US feel, we’ve “arrived” the WHITE MAN is always going to see us as inferior.
Including the broke, stank, tobacco chewing, four teeth having, John Deere hat wearing, Wrangler jean with suspenders, backward talking inbreeding ones! #FACT!!!!!!
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:36 am
I’m just glad he wasn’t the brother that came out. Lemmon is okay but TJ is delicious for sure!
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:37 am
isn’t that the truth, Rufus. And people are talking about, make it a law so this or that can’t/won’t happen, but if that happens then the officers will just have their lies ready; unsafe lane change, not stopping for a pedestrian, speeding, running a red light, music too loud, not using turn signal, etc.
Changing laws doesn’t change the way black people are looked at and treated in this country; it only sends “them” back to the proverbial drawing board, to find other ways to harass, hold down and hold back, lock up for life, or murder “legally”.
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:46 am
Understand exactly what he is saying. I live in okc and got pulled over by Two cops saying that my windows were too dirty…. FYI THEY WERE NOT DIRTY AT ALL
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:49 am
Whoever told him to “get over it” needs to be punched in the mouth. Just because the KKK isnt burning crosses in front of people’s homes and completely destroy black communities( Rosewood) and getting away with it… doesn’t mean racism is “over”. The truth is this is only going to get worse.
Most white people believe that because we’re no longer in shackles or segregated by law… everything is okay. Some white people actually believe that theyre the race whose being attacked and are at a disadvantage for being white.
And I am starting to meeting more blacks who share the same views as whites. I say keep speaking out. If someone does something to offend you, speak up.
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:50 am
“I’m not a racist” is the new “segregation forever!”
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:52 am
(True Story) After my divorce, I celebrated by buying myself a Mercedes E320. Well, I sing and, coming home from an engagement, I was pulled over.
Well, I was sent on my way but was pulled AGAIN in less than 7 miles. Long story short, I hadn’t had my car 1 month and was pulled over FIVE TIMES!!!!! I finally had enough of that sh!t and logged a complaint.
As I think back I came to the realization that you can be male or female but if you’re BLACK and driving a decent car, sooner or later YOU WILL BE PULLED!!!!
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:57 am
Hello everyone. I had just moved to Texas from Maryland. But I’m orginally from Mississippi. So that following weekend my wife, my twin boys and I drove from Texas to Mississippi on I-20 in a minivan with Maryland state tags.
Everyone from the south knows the state troopers in Louisiana don’t play. Going through Louisiana I have my minivan set on cruise control of 65 mph, but the speed limit is 70 mph.
I’m driving in theo right hand lane on I-20 and the Louisiana state trooper sitting in the median of the highway looks at me passing by and see that I am driving while being black.
He rides behind me for about half a mile going 65 mph and put the blue lights on; pull me and family over. Now this is the tripped out part right here.
I got my lincense out waiting on the state trooper to approach the minivan and looking at him in my side mirror to get out of the car. Once he gets out of his car, then he tells me to get out of my minivan.
Then he got my lincense and ask me where I’m traveling to. I told him Mississippi. Then he ask was the minivan registered in my name? I told him yes.
Then he ask me to go back to my minivan and get my registration paper. So once I gave him the registration paper the state trooper didn’t look at it at all.
Then he starts looking through my back window of my minivan and saw my twins bike. The state trooper then ask are those bikes and clothes back there? I told him yes.
So I ask him a question. Officer why did you pull me over? Then immediately I ask the officer, I thought the speed limit is 70
mph? The officer said the speed limit is 70 mph.
Then the state trooper said I didn’t pull you over for speeding, I pulled you over because you had Maryland state tags. Then he let me go and said have a nice day.
Now this is my harrassment truth of; “Driving while being black in America.”
August 3rd, 2012 at 10:58 am
Hell, try driving a damn brand new ESCALADE EXT, Platinum……These mothaf*ckas HATE my BLACK asz!!!!
August 3rd, 2012 at 11:00 am
Us light skinned folks do love our lovers darker, it’s only dark guys who generally go for white chicks don’t mean to sway from the subject but I needed to point that out.
August 3rd, 2012 at 11:01 am
This is just so REAL and it happens more than we will ever know. SMDH! A woman friend of mine got stopped for no apparent reason and, of course, the cop GAVE A LAME EXCUSE!
August 3rd, 2012 at 11:02 am
this happen to my like three times. This one white pig pulled me over and didn’t even come up with any reason at all.
August 3rd, 2012 at 11:49 am
Hafa adai.
LONDON (USA TODAY) — Ricardo Blas Jr., Guam’s 481-pound entry in the unlimited weight class of judo, earned his island nation’s first Olympic judo victory Friday.
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Choking Danger for Dogs: Toy Balls
Dogs that enjoy retrieving balls and carrying them around in their mouths sometimes get those balls lodged in their throats.
When that happens, there isn’t time to get to a veterinarian’s office—the dog is unlikely to survive more than three to five minutes if its airway is not cleared.
The best solution is prevention—select toy balls large enough that they can’t fit in the dog’s throat, yet small enough that the dog can carry them in its mouth. Tennis balls often are too small for large breeds.
If your dog does get a ball lodged in its throat, first try to open the dog’s mouth and reach a finger behind the ball to pull it free.
Do not attempt to grip the ball from the top if you cannot get a finger behind it—that’s more likely to push the ball farther down the throat than pull it out.
If that fails, pick the dog up if it’s small enough to lift, turn it mouth-end down and give a few shakes. If the dog is too large to pick up, lift up its back legs, tilting the dog forward.
If that too fails, try the Heimlich maneuver. While standing behind or over the dog, reach under its belly with both hands and find the last rib with your thumb.
Position your hands just past the end of the rib cage, make a fist with one hand, wrap your other hand around this fist, then give a quick jerk inward and upward, into the abdomen. Use enough force to lift the back end of the dog up off the ground. Repeat several times if necessary.
Source: Robert L. Ridgway, DVM, a veterinarian currently employed by the Orange County Animal Services in Orlando, Florida. He previously served in the US Army Veterinary Corps, where he headed the Department of Defense Military Dog Veterinary Service at Lackland Air Force Base.
He is author of How to Treat Your Dogs and Cats with Over-the-Counter Drugs (iUniverse).
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Romney, show your tax returns if you paid them. This could be easily a HUGE PR win for Romney if Reid was wrong. He could them call Dems lairs from here to eternity…
Why not take the win?
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:07 pm
If the people really go out in November and vote in Romney, that will be the biggest mistake. This will be it for this country. It is so evident that the republicans do not care about the people of this country.
The Congress has gone off on a month’s vacation while there is so much work for them to.do. I despair of what will happen if we re-elect a republican Congress and give them the WH and the Senate.
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:08 pm
What good does releasing a name do? Prove that SOMEONE actually said this to Reid? I don’t think that’s so far fetched.
What DOES matter is if it’s a true claim. I’m with the other respondent here,this should be an easy win for Romney if he truly doesn’t have anything to hide.
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Some headlines:
Washington Examiner: Amtrak loses $800 million on cheeseburgers and soda
Fox News: ICE agent says morale is ‘in the toilet’
Patrick J. Buchanan: On the Chick-fil-A front of the culture war
Politico: DCCC apologizes to Sheldon Adelson
Rasmussen: Obama approval drops to lowest of the year, 44%
Make sure you are tuned in throughout the day to the RedState Gathering 2012 Live Feed. Ted Cruz spoke this morning; RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will be later, as will Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. You don’t want to miss any of the action.
John Gizzi has a great feature on Sen. John Thune of the great state of South Dakota. Rumblings of his chances at veep are gaining a little traction this week. Read his story below.
Make sure to read Krauthammer’s great column on Romney’s trip abroad, plus a look at history when it comes to President Obama’s chances of overcoming the terrible job numbers.
Onward and upward,
-Adam
August 3rd, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Easy Way to Ward Off Parkinson’s
If you’re at high risk for Parkinson’s disease, then you probably want to do everything in your power to reduce your chance of getting this debilitating condition.
And now there is something you can do, according to some very exciting research out of Harvard.
This new study suggests that eating a certain type of food may help stave off Parkinson’s and the shaking, balance and movement problems that go along with it.
What’s the fabulous food, you ask?
You’ll be pleased to know that it’s delicious!
EATEN ANY GOOD FLAVONOIDS LATELY?
The study took place at the Harvard University School of Public Health in Boston. A class of nutrients called flavonoids had been shown by previous research to protect certain neurons in the brain from damage and death.
Since Parkinson’s is a disease that affects the nervous system (including the brain and the spinal cord), the researchers decided to see whether eating high amounts of flavonoids and/or eating certain flavonoid-rich foods might reduce the risk for Parkinson’s.
They started by asking subjects to fill out food questionnaires.
They found that men who ate the most flavonoid-rich foods (five or more servings per week) had a 40% lower risk for developing Parkinson’s within 20 to 22 years, compared with those who ate the least (less than one serving of flavonoid-rich foods per week). I don’t have to tell you that that’s a huge reduction in risk.
However, women who ate the most total flavonoids were not at any lower risk, compared with women who ate the least.
But wait a minute, women—there is something valuable for you in this study. Researchers also analyzed the data more closely to see what they could tell about the effect of consuming specific flavonoid-rich foods.
These included all kinds of teas, apples, strawberries, blueberries, red wine, oranges and orange juice.
What they found was that, for female participants, eating two or more servings per week of strawberries and/or blueberries, in particular, was associated with a 22% lower risk of getting Parkinson’s, compared with women who ate the least strawberries and/or blueberries (less than one serving per month).
For men, each of the flavonoid-rich foods mentioned above (not just strawberries and blueberries) seemed to reduce Parkinson’s risk.
POWERFUL PROTECTORS
I asked lead researcher Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, why there were different results for each gender. It could be due to the different ways that men’s and women’s bodies work—such as hormones or metabolism—or it could be due to chance, Dr. Gao said.
Regardless, strawberries and blueberries worked for both genders, with at least two servings per week being associated with less Parkinson’s for both genders. Dr. Gao didn’t study whether other types of berries (such as blackberries and raspberries) would have a similar effect, but he noted that all berries contain similarly high levels of flavonoids, so there’s a chance that they would.
A BERRY GOOD DIET
Future research will need to look at whether eating strawberries, blueberries and other flavonoid-rich foods helps those who already have Parkinson’s. In the meantime, if this study doesn’t make you start eating more strawberries and blueberries, I don’t know what will!
Sources: Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, assistant professor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, and associate epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston.
He is leader of a study that was published in Neurology.
August 3rd, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Damn, where do I start. This blog is all over the place. It also seems that this blog has become a red meat area for the bigots and racists.
Thank god for the Howies, Zen Lills and a few other sensible regulars.
Ira
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