The Overweight Lover Is In God’s House Now News: Heavy D, a rapper whose imposing size and crossover success helped make him a major rap star, died Tuesday afternoon at a Los Angeles hospital. According to confirmed reports, the 44-year-old rapper was found conscious on the walkway near his Beverly Hills home around 11:25 am when a 911 call was placed. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. PST. Police are investigating, but foul play is not suspected. Read more here.
Tea Party Republicans Haz A Sad News: The outcomes Tuesday in balloting from Maine to Mississippi included enough wins for Democrats, abortion rights advocates, and labor unions to give a bit of a lift to President Obama and his allies as they look toward the 2012 elections, 12 months from tonight. In Ohio, voters overwhelmingly rejected the law enacted last spring by Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-controlled legislature that limited the ability of public employee unions to collectively bargain. The law also would have required performance-based pay for most public employees and required them to pay 15 percent of the cost of their health care benefits. Read more here.
Tea Party Republicans Haz Another Sad News: Just in time for Thursday’s Supreme Court conference, the Affordable Care Act Tuesday was upheld Tuesday in an opinion by one of America’s most feared conservative judges — Judge Laurence Silberman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, a jurist so gruff he is rumored to make some lawyers cry just by agreeing with them. Silberman is also a conservative icon — Ronald Reagan appointee, friend and sometime mentor to Clarence Thomas, co-chair of the Iraq Intelligence Committee, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Second Amendment hard-liner. Read more here.
Hey Hey, Ho Ho! This High Ass Tuition Has Got To Go! News: Twenty students were arrested Wednesday during a London protest over increased tuition fees, authorities said. The arrests were made on suspicion of public order offenses; offensive weapons; breaching the peace; being masked; and “going equipped,” or possessing equipment used for a criminal purpose, London’s Metropolitan police said. Read more here.
Big Brother Is Watching You News: Most of us really appreciate the benefits of GPS — except when it’s surreptitiously attached to our vehicle by the government. And how would you know? You wouldn’t. That’s the point, of course: Feds and police agencies investigating bad guys don’t want them to know they’re being tracked. But what if you’re not a bad guy? What if you’re just … you? Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday they have reservations about allowing law enforcement to do such monitoring without a warrant. If the federal government wins the case before the Supremes, it would “suddenly produce what sounds like ‘1984,’ ” said Justice Stephen Breyer. Another Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan, said with GPS being able to track a person’s movements 24 hours a day, “that seems too much to me.” Read more here.
Happy Humpday POU family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. Today’s Whining Wednesday track has been postponed so that we can have a mini-playlist to honor the late, great Heavy D. Hope you all enjoy….
