Obama's Fried Chicken

seriously

are they serious

OBAMA'S FRIED CHICKEN

SMH

anyway here is the article via "The Daily News":

NYC's 'Obama fried chicken' restaurants ruffle feathers

BY Sarah R. Kaufman, Benjamin Peim and Carrie Melago
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Friday, April 3rd 2009, 2:43 PM

Giancarli for News

Sign atop Obama Fried Chicken and Pizza at 110th St. Nicholas Ave.

Two city fast-food joints are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken - and the new names are ruffling some feathers.

Eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new President's last name on their awnings recently.

And some passersby are cringing, saying the name change plays into old racial stereotypes.

"Why name it that? Just because Obama is black, they're going to put his name on a fried chicken place in a black neighborhood?" said Akilah Nassy, 16, outside the Brooklyn store.

"If it were [Republican candidate John] McCain, nobody would make a McCain fried chicken place."

Several weeks ago, S&T Fried Chicken on St. Nicholas Ave. in Harlem formally renamed itself after the country's first black President.

And last week, Royal Fried Chicken on Rutland Road in Brownsville, Brooklyn, did the same.

Staff at both eateries say the names are meant to pay homage to the new President, not offend customers or capitalize on his popularity.

"Basically, the owner loves Obama," said Mohammad Jabbar, 33, manager of the Brownsville store. "He loves him seriously. He supports him."

Some customers in Brooklyn said it didn't matter what the owners' intentions were - the new President's name shouldn't be there.

"They think because they throw up Obama's name, black people are going to come in more to get fried chicken," said Seth DeVries, 28, a roofer from Brownsville.

Beyond the racial overtones, some critics found it distasteful that a business would try to make a profit from a historic election. "You see a lot of that in this area - slapping Obama's name on businesses to make money," said Khayeen Adams Sr., a furniture store employee in Brooklyn.

In Harlem, the reaction was very different. Business was brisk, and few customers seemed offended at the restaurant, which placed a portrait of the First Family near the cash register.

However, student Skyler McCrimmon, 17, thought the name might be more appropriate "if it were a fancy restaurant."

And Alphonso Brown, 52, joked that naming a business after a politician could be problematic.

"Right now, Obama's popular, but if his ratings go down, maybe they'll change the name again," he said.

cmelago@nydailynews.com

ttyl 4.6.08

Are You Serious???

Do The Ricky Bobby??

Are you kidding me?? ugghh

WHERE IS THE REAL MUSIC??



ttyl 4.6.09

Halle Berry on Ellen

So Hurricane Chris decided to make a song about the one and only Halle Berry

Its cool song and when Halle went on Ellen to promote her perfume

They brought up the song and Ellen made Halle make her do her own dance and here is the video:



I love Ellen lol

ttyl 4.4.09

Smoke Jumpers- My Flow So Sick (Chris Brown Diss Song)

"My flow so tight and my beat so sick,Chris Brown should get his ass kicked"

ttyl 4.4.09

T.I. has been sentenced to 1 year and a day in jail

Here is the article from cnn.com:

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Rap star T.I. was sentenced in Atlanta federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, has mentored at-risk students as part of his community service.

The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, reached the terms of the sentence in a plea agreement with prosecutors last year.

"I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to others," Harris said at his sentencing.

"In my life, I have been placed in the worst-case scenario and had to make the best of it," he said. "Most often, things I have learned have been from trial and error. I knew no way to protect myself than to arm myself."

He was dressed in a gray suit and black shirt and tie.

Harris, 28, also was sentenced to some property forfeiture, supervised release for three years after his prison sentence, 365 days of home confinement and 1,500 hours of community service. He has already served 305 days of home confinement and 1,030 hours of service.

He also must undergo DNA testing and drug counseling, cannot own firearms and must submit to reasonable searches and a financial audit. Watch the rapper's interview with CNN's T.J. Holmes »

Former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young spoke on behalf of Harris, comparing black-on-black violence to the Ku Klux Klan decades ago. Young said he regarded working with Harris not so much as a chance to help him but more as "an opportunity for him to help me."

"We hit it off immediately," Young said. "It was a grandfather type of relationship."

Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Baptist Church also spoke in support of Harris.

Harris will be taken into custody no earlier than May 19.

The plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique, allowed the rapper to remain out of prison for a year while he performed community service.

In that time, he mentored at-risk students at 58 schools, 12 Boys & Girls Clubs, nine churches and many other nonprofit organizations, according to court documents.

Young said he and Harris went to a hospital for paraplegics in New York.

"He heard the testimonies of guys in their 50s and 60s who talked about being shot back when they were 16," Young said. "A perfect example for me in my ministry, and that wouldn't be possible without the willingness of this court to try new things."

Meanwhile, the rapper has released his sixth CD, "Paper Trail," which has sold close to 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The multiplatinum rapper also has starred in the MTV reality show, "T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go," which chronicles his efforts to shave years off his sentence by completing his community service. The show features him talking to schools and community groups "about how to avoid the trouble he now finds himself in," according to the network's Web site.

Harris' fall from grace was sudden and dramatic, played out on the streets of his hometown of Atlanta in 2007.

That year, Harris had starred in the film "ATL" and could be seen in Chevy commercials with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Harris had been named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers, banking an estimated $16 million in 2006.

Then he was arrested in October 2007 in an Atlanta parking lot hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip Hop Awards.

Harris was caught in a federal sting after his bodyguard-turned-informant delivered three machine guns and two silencers to him, prosecutors said.

The rapper had provided the bodyguard with $12,000 to buy the weapons. Harris was not permitted to own any guns, however, because he was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges -- possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute -- in Cobb County, in suburban Atlanta.

For his court hearing Friday, Harris' attorneys submitted more than 100 letters from officials who thanked him for his community service since the weapons arrest.

One of the letters was from Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who said Harris did an "outstanding job" talking to a group of teenagers about not breaking the law.

"If only one young person in that courtroom listened to Mr. Harris -- and I believe they all did -- we are all better for it," Sears wrote. "He was honest, humble and inspirational."


ttyl 3.27.09

I Wanted to Do Hoodrat Stuff With My Friends

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