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“The Cosby’s Reunite”

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The cast of the 1980’s hit television sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’ attended the TV LAND Awards 2011, held at the Jacob Javits Center North in NYC last night.  And yes it looks like Tempest Bledsoe is bleaching her skin.

The 37-year-old married ‘A Different World’ star Darryl Bell (Ron). Maybe she’s trying to be his complexion?

Thankfully, Cosby TV daughter Keshia Knight Pulliam, 32, (who played Rudy), posing right with TV sister Sabrina LeBeauf (Saundra), is a beautiful Nubian sista who clearly takes prides in her African heritage. By the way, does Sabrina look hawt for 53, or what?

Looks like Mr. Cosby is aging gracefully….

While Ms. Ravon Simone is all slim and grown up now.

Here’s the entire cast on stage but it’s missing Phylicia Rashad., either that or she’s cut out of this photo.

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“Unless There’s A Patent On Chicken N Waffles”

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Nobody owns it!!!!

IHOP, the internationally known pancake giant has added “chicken and waffles” to their varied food menu. But according to Carl Redding, owner and proprietor of Reddings Restaurant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “They’re selling soul food without the soul”.

Chicken and Waffles “use to be” one of Reddings signature dishes when he owned and operated Amy Ruth’s in Harlem, New York over a decade ago.

Chef Redding feels IHOP has set chicken and waffles back 70 years because they’re marketing a cheap dish at a cheap price.“You’re supposed to perfect the dish, not diminish the quality or taste, but that’s what IHOP has done,” says Redding. “You can’t sacrifice quality to undercut the market”.

According to Chef Redding he’s supposedly selling the real thing while IHOP is selling juicy chicken tenders with crispy Belgian waffles that are thick and dry, with no authenticity or historical allegiance to the African-American experience.

IHOP is a global breakfast chain that has long since branched out to ride the wave with its competitors; and has now joined the competition of so many other restaurants besides Reddings, who’ve added “chicken and waffles to their menus.

Kevin Hezekiah, who owns and operates Bayonne’s Chicken & Waffles in Bayonne, NJ also has chicken and waffles on his menu as well as Roscoe’s in Los Angeles and Sylvia’s soul food restaurant, the famed Harlem dame, who’s put her famous soul food on the map! And I’m sure there’s so many other restaurants who’ve done the same.

So in my opinion, there are no originators just duplicator’s…

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“No Deal: Government Shuts Down At Midnight Tonight”

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All nonessential government services — including the processing of IRS refund checks – will cease at the stroke of midnight tonight. The government shutdown will throw millions of people out of work temporarily.

The budget talks between the White House and the Republicans have failed, and now the government shutdown that everyone is dreading looms large.

Troops who protect our homeland will not get paid; social security checks will not go out; libraries, museums, courthouses, city parks and recreational centers will all be shut down. The trickle down theory will go into effect as most major cities are cut off from government funding.

Americans are venting their frustration on networking websites. A facebook group is organizing an event to dump garbage on House Speaker John Beohner’s front lawn. Boehner is the Republican house speaker who is stuck in the middle of this mess.

In the meantime, Obama, 49, and his family will travel to Williamsburg, VA today to unwind and get in a little rest and relaxation.

The FAA has established a no-fly zone over Williamsburg that will remain in effect until the Obamas leave for DC on Monday.

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“School Shooting In Brazil Leave 12 Kids Dead”

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A crazed madman walked into a Rio de Janeiro middle school in Brazil on yesterday and massacred 10 girls and two boys. As the crazed madman lined the students up against a wall he yelled “I’m going to kill you all”.

The killer has been identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 24, a former student at the school, who arrived with two guns at 8:30 a.m and told staff members he was there for a lecture before he opened fire. The meyhem and chaos had the students running for their lives.

The gunman also had a white bedsheet and a suicide note that read “virgins should use it to wrap his naked body.”

“I must be seen as an authentic and faithful follower of God and there must be prayers at my grave asking God’s pardon for what I did so that Jesus will grant me the sleep of death for eternal life,” the note said. He added that, “he wanted prayers said over his grave.”

“We believe he was a psychopath,” said Assistant Police Chief Roberto Sa.

Simone Gold, 41, a hairdresser in Astoria, Queens said, she moved to New York eight years ago because the violence in Brazil is a big problem.

“One of the reasons I came to the U.S. was lack of safety,” she said. “I lived two years in Rio de Janeiro and I would never know if my kids would come home alive from school.”

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“FBI Release New Files In ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Murder”

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The FBI is now revealing, that rapper Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace was killed with “very rare” metal-piercing, German ammunition that could help unlock his 1997 murder, which is still unsolved.

The 359-page cold case file released under the Freedom of Information Act says, bullets that were used to kill the rapper, are sold exclusively at two distributors in the U.S., one in California and one in New Jersey.

And according to the feds, the same ammunition was later found in the home of rogue Los Angeles Police officer David Mack, along with a “shrine” he had erected to Tupac Shakur. Mack was later busted for bank robbery shortly after Wallace’s death.

Investigators wrote they were unaware of any tests conducted to connect the bullets, and never matched the ammunition found during the search of Mack’s home after the bank robbery, with the bullets used to kill Biggie.

But a retired LAPD cop testified about Mack’s Tupac Shakur shrine in 2005 and his theory that Mack used his police expertise to help hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight order Wallace’s hit, as payback for Shakur’s unsolved murder six months earlier.

Both Mack and Knight have denied any involvement in the hail of gunfire that killed Wallace, 24, as he sat in a vehicle on a Los Angeles street.

LAPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment as their probe is continuing.