Track 22: BET Awards and In The News Today...

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Headphones here to do another post as well as thoughts on everything so far. Just a message to a friend of mine...I'm sorry man, I ain't to come off the way I did while talking to you I'm just feelin' upset in general as well as not feelin' well so I ain't mean to put some weirdness between us...Hope we can hang out soon when I get better and in better spirits...So now on to the updates SHALL WE?!

In the death in Billy Mays, known best for promoting stuff like Oxiclean and KABOOM, the police we're trying to see if the incident where the plane Billy Mays was on blew its front tires which cause a rough landing which in turn cause luggage to fly out of its compartment and one piece had hit Mays in the head but later on claimed to be fine. When he later got home he began feeling a bit groggy and wanted nothing more to sleep. But when the autopsy came back it showed that he had no external or internal injuries on his head but in fact had something he never knew he had which may have been the actual cause of death. The autopsy had reveal that Mays was suffering from heart disease which he never knew he had but they are not ruling this as the official cause of death. He was 50 years old...They have just released the emergency 911 call for Billy Mays with his wife Debbie. It's truly a sad thing to hear...

In Entertainment News, the entertainment world loses another today with the death of Comedian Fred Travalena who has died after losing a seven year battle of cancer at the age of 66. Known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces" died at home in Encino, California, surrounded by family. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2002 and prostate cancer in 2003. Following five years' remission, the lymphoma returned in 2008. He entertained audiences with impressions of celebrities such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bob Hope. He was a regular on the "Tonight Show," with Johnny Carson. Travalena is survived by his wife of 39 years, Lois; sons Fred IV and Cory; daughter-in-law, Kelly; and a granddaughter. (Source: CNN News)

Now personally I have no idea who this man was but again it's all ways sad to hear someone of entertainment has pass but too many of them are being taken away from us within the past week...We lose Ed McMahon last Tuesday, then Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson Thursday, Billy Mays Saturday. It's crazy and truly sad...Condolences go out to Fred's family it's always sad to lose someone especially to disease but he's free of his pain now. So R.I.P FRED TRAVALENA!!

So, off the entertainment topic and into the business world, it is official that Bernard Madoff has been found guilty and sentenced to 150 years in jail which is basically a century and a half as well as to the end of his life. He was charged with being the mastermind of the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever. For those who don't understand the term of "ponzi"- A ponzi scheme is basically a term to call a pyramid scheme which basically mean white collar crimes and money laundering. I must say that this dude deserves every single year of his sentence for scheming thousands of people out of their life savings as well as taking advantage of those who don't understand money especially during this time of recession and our horrible economy so I hope this man rots in jail.

So, in DC the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of white fire fighters encountering workplace discrimination, a divisive case over the role race should play in job advancement. A fire department in New Haven had thrown out its promotional exam because the results showed that no African Americans had passed and wanting to avoid a legal battle. But in fact it was the other way around. I'll bring more on this later but I just wanna say that this was very ridiculous when I first heard because it was a bunch of white men and women with one hispanic but I guess after years of injustice towards us the minorities even whites can suffer to apparently....

Moving to the BET Award, I gotta say that the show overall looked kinda sloppy but of course they had to take an already scripted show, do a complete 180 and turn into a tribute show for the King of Pop sudden passing...The beginning of the show in my opinion did absolutely no justice to the Jackson Five...they sounded terrible and the background singers even worse. But Jamie Foxx was friggin' hilarious especially towards Diddy and all throughout the show. The best dedication to MJ was Neyo with his version of "Lady of My Life". Then Beyonce performance was simply beautiful as well as Jay-Z's performance was simply dope. But overall, it was sloppy but a good tribute so big ups to BET.

I know I was gonna puts some updates about the passing of Michael Jackson but I've got too much to post on this blog so I'll dedicate one to the one and only. So that's all I have so my song ends here and I'll take my bow...

Peace & Love

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