Whitney Houston Dead
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Well, I suppose it's better than self-loathing.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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The ones that really get's me are the people who proudly announced that "I've learned to forgive myself"...
In my personal experience the folks who announce this like it's some sort of accomplishment weren't the types to ever blame themselves for anything in the first place, so this really wasn't much of a sacrifice....
In my personal experience the folks who announce this like it's some sort of accomplishment weren't the types to ever blame themselves for anything in the first place, so this really wasn't much of a sacrifice....
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There was a man who said once, "Love your neighbour as yourself." He had figured out that loving one's neighbour as much as one should, required loving oneself first.
His name escapes me at the moment, but I hear he was a pretty smart guy.
His name escapes me at the moment, but I hear he was a pretty smart guy.
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Jesus Christ Scooter, I can't think of his name either. That's going to bother me all day now. Thanks.
Personally, I don’t believe in bros before hoes, or hoes before bros. There needs to be a balance. A homie-hoe-stasis, if you will.
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Ha! The mother in law has spent the last decade trying to "find herself". Books, DVDs retreats, taking herself off on her own, diets, you name it she's tried a different one each week.Lord Jim wrote:The ones that really get's me are the people who proudly announced that "I've learned to forgive myself"...
She hates it when you point at her and say; "that's you, you're there."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Like these wankstains on reality TV shows who describe their experience as a "journey"... 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Matthew 7:1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
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In other news, Whitney Houston is still dead.
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LoCa, if we stop judging around here, this place will be quieter than the campus of Gallaudet College...
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/showbiz/h ... index.htmlNewark, New Jersey (CNN) -- Singer Bobby Brown made a brief and dramatic appearance at ex-wife Whitney Houston's memorial service on Saturday, leaving abruptly after being told that his entourage couldn't sit together, police sources told CNN.
He arrived with several people and was apparently emotionally distraught, with red eyes and head hanging as he walked up the aisle of the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. He approached Houston's casket, past it and back down the aisle.
On CNN's live video feed, Brown was shown standing out front of the church soon after the service began. He was not seated with family, friends or other celebrities at the front of the church.
"My children and I were invited to the funeral of my ex-wife Whitney Houston," Brown later said in a news statement. "We were seated by security and then subsequently asked to move on three separate occasions. I fail to understand why security treated my family this way and continue to ask us and no one else to move. Security then prevented me from attempting to see my daughter Bobbi Kristina.
"In light of the events, I gave a kiss to the casket of my ex-wife and departed as I refused to create a scene. ... I will continue to pay my respects to my ex-wife the best way I know how," the statement said.
Describing what happened at the service, the Rev. Al Sharpton posted on his Twitter account: "I am at Whitney's funeral. I spoke with Bobby Brown trying to calm him down and not distract from the services. Today is about Whitney."
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Hey there, people, I'm bobby brown
They say Im the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
Im dressin sharp 'n I'm
Actin cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work 'n maybe later I'll rape her
Oh God I am the american dream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An I'm a handsome sonofabitch
I'm gonna get a good job 'n be real rich
They say Im the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiney
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
Im dressin sharp 'n I'm
Actin cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work 'n maybe later I'll rape her
Oh God I am the american dream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An I'm a handsome sonofabitch
I'm gonna get a good job 'n be real rich
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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LOS ANGELES — The singer Whitney Houston, who was found dead in her hotel room on the eve of the Grammy Awards last month, accidentally drowned in a bathtub, the Los Angeles County coroner said on Thursday. Cocaine and heart disease also played a role in her death, the coroner said.
Ms. Houston, 48, was found submerged in a bathtub in her suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Feb. 11 and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The coroner’s announcement ends a month of speculation over the cause of Ms. Houston’s sudden death. She had publicly battled drug and alcohol abuse for years, leading many people to suspect that drug use had led to her death.
The autopsy revealed that a host of prescription and illegal drugs were in her system when she died — cocaine and marijuana; Xanax, which is usually prescribed for anxiety; Flexeril, a muscle relaxant; and Benadryl, an over-the-counter antihistamine.
The cocaine contributed to her death, according to the coroner’s announcement, which did not provide further details. Atherosclerotic heart disease was also listed as a contributing factor. No trauma or foul play is suspected, and the full coroner’s report is expected to be released in the next few weeks.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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I don't suppose the other stuff actually helped. But as per norm....The autopsy revealed that a host of prescription and illegal drugs were in her system when she died — cocaine and marijuana; Xanax, which is usually prescribed for anxiety; Flexeril, a muscle relaxant; and Benadryl, an over-the-counter antihistamine.
The cocaine contributed to her death, according to the coroner’s announcement
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Given her 20 years of cocaine use, I'm not surprised she had cardiac issues.
Absent the MJ/cocaine, the mix of Xanax, Flexeril and Benadryl + hot bath = risk of accidental drowning.
I can't see why she'd be on all of them at once except that she was clearly still drug dependent.
Very sad.
A few hundred people die in the bathtub in the US every year; 80% are very young children, and most of the 20% are older folks and folks with seizure disorders.
Interestingly, I did a search online for bathtub drowning statistics, and one source showed stats by country for 2004:
linky
Japan shows almost 3500 bathtub drownings, with the US being next highest at 317. WTF?!? Do Japanese mothers leave babies unattended in the bath on a regular basis, or are they covering something up by listing so many deaths as bathtub drownings?
I read a report in a criminal journal recently that one reason the murder solve rate in Japan is so high is because government officials list many deaths that are likely murder but without obvious suspects as other causes, to artificially inflate public confidence in the police.
Absent the MJ/cocaine, the mix of Xanax, Flexeril and Benadryl + hot bath = risk of accidental drowning.
I can't see why she'd be on all of them at once except that she was clearly still drug dependent.
Very sad.
A few hundred people die in the bathtub in the US every year; 80% are very young children, and most of the 20% are older folks and folks with seizure disorders.
Interestingly, I did a search online for bathtub drowning statistics, and one source showed stats by country for 2004:
linky
Japan shows almost 3500 bathtub drownings, with the US being next highest at 317. WTF?!? Do Japanese mothers leave babies unattended in the bath on a regular basis, or are they covering something up by listing so many deaths as bathtub drownings?
I read a report in a criminal journal recently that one reason the murder solve rate in Japan is so high is because government officials list many deaths that are likely murder but without obvious suspects as other causes, to artificially inflate public confidence in the police.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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The rate of crime solving in Japan is very high because Japanese criminals are "expected" to confess when confronted and the Japanese police are very good at making sure this expectation is clearly understood by the criminals. No kidding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world ... wanted=all
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Pressed by Police, Even Innocent Confess in Japan
SHIBUSHI, Japan — The suspects in a vote-buying case in this small town in western Japan were subjected to repeated interrogations and, in several instances, months of pretrial detention. The police ordered one woman to shout her confession out a window and forced one man to stomp on the names of his loved ones.
Shibushi was rocked by an inquiry into allegations of vote buying. More Photos »
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Toshihiro Futokoro, left, Yasuyoshi Fujimoto, center, and Sunao Fujiyama were all arrested and pressured to fabricate confessions about buying votes in Shibushi. All three were acquitted of the charges. More Photos >
In all, 13 men and women, ranging in age from their early 50s to mid-70s, were arrested and indicted. Six buckled and confessed to an elaborate scheme of buying votes with liquor, cash and catered parties. One man died during the trial — from the stress, the others said — and another tried to kill himself.
But all were acquitted this year in a local district court, which found that their confessions had been entirely fabricated. The presiding judge said the defendants had “made confessions in despair while going through marathon questioning.”
The Japanese authorities have long relied on confessions to take suspects to court, instead of building cases based on solid evidence. Human rights groups have criticized the practice for leading to abuses of due process and convictions of innocent people.
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http://www.chinalawsociety.com/admin/ew ... 1011427404...
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On the subject of suspect interrogations and confessions, some Western researchers in their observations of features of the Japanese criminal justice system have noted that the vast majority of suspects confess to the crimes of which they are accused. American researchers apparently find it intriguing that confession plays such a central role in Japanese criminal cases and show interest in the Japanese state of affairs, where suspects are told that unless they confess and make atonement for their crimes, they probably will not be readily accepted any longer by their loved ones or by society in general, and thus confess if they are given enough time to contemplate that thought. Joseph Hoffman has focused on the notions of "truth" in the American and Japanese criminal justice systems and notes some distinguishing differences in the Japanese perspective. Namely, in Japan, there is a unique sense of confidence or conviction that the truth eventually will be found as long as the quest for that truth is not abandoned, and on that basis the prevailing view is that one is justified in pursuing the truth through exhaustive investigations and questioning. By contrast, in the U.S., Americans themselves share a historically rooted distrust of systems of government and -- perhaps relating to the intellectual trend of the latter half the 20th Century toward rejection of the very notion of objectivity itself -- apparently have virtually no cognitively based faith in the criminal justice system's ability to always uncover the truth. In the U.S., truth tends to be spoken of in terms of "legal truth" or "jury-based truth," not "factual truth." Accordingly, the differences between Japan and the U.S. on the subject of confessions draw our attention to a cultural difference that stems from a fundamental divergence in attitudes toward the notion of "truth" itself. Studies have also compared Japanese and American laws in theory and practice with regard to the right to remain silent.
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Strange people, the Japanese.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world ... wanted=all
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Pressed by Police, Even Innocent Confess in Japan
SHIBUSHI, Japan — The suspects in a vote-buying case in this small town in western Japan were subjected to repeated interrogations and, in several instances, months of pretrial detention. The police ordered one woman to shout her confession out a window and forced one man to stomp on the names of his loved ones.
Shibushi was rocked by an inquiry into allegations of vote buying. More Photos »
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Toshihiro Futokoro, left, Yasuyoshi Fujimoto, center, and Sunao Fujiyama were all arrested and pressured to fabricate confessions about buying votes in Shibushi. All three were acquitted of the charges. More Photos >
In all, 13 men and women, ranging in age from their early 50s to mid-70s, were arrested and indicted. Six buckled and confessed to an elaborate scheme of buying votes with liquor, cash and catered parties. One man died during the trial — from the stress, the others said — and another tried to kill himself.
But all were acquitted this year in a local district court, which found that their confessions had been entirely fabricated. The presiding judge said the defendants had “made confessions in despair while going through marathon questioning.”
The Japanese authorities have long relied on confessions to take suspects to court, instead of building cases based on solid evidence. Human rights groups have criticized the practice for leading to abuses of due process and convictions of innocent people.
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http://www.chinalawsociety.com/admin/ew ... 1011427404...
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On the subject of suspect interrogations and confessions, some Western researchers in their observations of features of the Japanese criminal justice system have noted that the vast majority of suspects confess to the crimes of which they are accused. American researchers apparently find it intriguing that confession plays such a central role in Japanese criminal cases and show interest in the Japanese state of affairs, where suspects are told that unless they confess and make atonement for their crimes, they probably will not be readily accepted any longer by their loved ones or by society in general, and thus confess if they are given enough time to contemplate that thought. Joseph Hoffman has focused on the notions of "truth" in the American and Japanese criminal justice systems and notes some distinguishing differences in the Japanese perspective. Namely, in Japan, there is a unique sense of confidence or conviction that the truth eventually will be found as long as the quest for that truth is not abandoned, and on that basis the prevailing view is that one is justified in pursuing the truth through exhaustive investigations and questioning. By contrast, in the U.S., Americans themselves share a historically rooted distrust of systems of government and -- perhaps relating to the intellectual trend of the latter half the 20th Century toward rejection of the very notion of objectivity itself -- apparently have virtually no cognitively based faith in the criminal justice system's ability to always uncover the truth. In the U.S., truth tends to be spoken of in terms of "legal truth" or "jury-based truth," not "factual truth." Accordingly, the differences between Japan and the U.S. on the subject of confessions draw our attention to a cultural difference that stems from a fundamental divergence in attitudes toward the notion of "truth" itself. Studies have also compared Japanese and American laws in theory and practice with regard to the right to remain silent.
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Strange people, the Japanese.
yrs,
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yrs,
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