New Ignition Lock Laws Aim to Foil Drunk Drivers

via Yahoo

CHICAGO – Motorists convicted of driving drunk will have to install breath-monitoring gadgets in their cars under new laws taking effect in six states this week.

The ignition interlocks prevent engines from starting until drivers blow into the alcohol detectors to prove they’re sober.

Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska and Washington state began Jan. 1 requiring the devices for all motorists convicted of first-time drunken driving. South Carolina began requiring them for repeat offenders.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been conducting a nationwide campaign to mandate ignition locks for anyone convicted of drunken driving, claiming doing so would save thousands of lives. But critics say interlocks could lead to measures that restrict alcohol policies too much.

Users must pay for the fist-sized devices, which in Illinois cost around $80 to install on dashboards and $80 a month to rent; there’s also a $30 monthly state fee. And they require periodic retesting while the car is running.

Karl Lagerfeld defends fur industry saying ‘beasts’ would kill us if we didn’t kill them

via Telegraph UK

The Chanel supremo said it was “childish” to even discuss the issue of wearing fur in a world where eating meat was normal.

German-born Lagerfeld, 75, a contemporary of the late Yves Saint Laurent, said that he did not himself wear fur. But he defended the practice, saying there was “an industry who lives from that”.

Hunters in the north “make a living having learnt nothing else than hunting”, he said, “killing those beasts who would kill us if they could.”

Animals should be killed “nicely” if at all possible, said Lagerfeld, who admitted to being queasy about eating meat.

“I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive,” he said.

He concluded: “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”

Peruvian Woman name “Virgin Mary” gives Birth to Baby name “Jesus” on Christmas

via Reuters

LIMA (Reuters) – Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru’s state news agency said on Friday.

The baby’s father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians compared him to Joseph the Carpenter in the Bible.

“Two thousand years later the story of Bethlehem is relived,” read the headline about the birth in El Comercio, the main newspaper in Peru, a predominantly Catholic country.

The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital.

“A few days ago we had decided to name my son after a professional soccer player,” the father said. “But thanks to a happy coincidence this is how things ended up.”

U.S. Governors Seek $1 Trillion Federal Assistance

via Reuters

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Governors of five U.S. states urged the federal government to provide $1 trillion in aid to the country’s 50 states to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure as states struggle with steep budget deficits amid a deepening recession.

The governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin — all Democrats — said the initiative for the two-year aid package was backed by other governors and follows a meeting in December where governors called on President-elect Barack Obama to help them maintain services in the face of slumping revenues.

Gov. David Paterson of New York said 43 states now have budget deficits totaling some $100 billion as tax revenues plunge.

[video] LMAO -Last Minute Travel to Brazil

LMAO. Found this over at Thisis50.

DMX Loses Arizona House

No big deal. That house was a nothing but a problem and he needs a fresh start when he gets out. So please fellow bloggers stop posting the mugshots we have did it enough last year.

via Sixshot

DMX’s Arizona home is reportedly under foreclosure and has been put up for sale by a local bank.

The realtor selling DMX’s home, Andrew Wheeler, revealed to AZFamily today (January 2) that the home was left unprotected and in shambles after it was raided for the second time by authorities in May 2008.

Wheeler divulged that the house’s doors and windows were blown during the raid and it made it easy for thieves to enter the house.

Wheeler claims various items were stolen including DMX’s quads.

“I think people showed up, walked into the house and took what they wanted,” Wheeler said.

The Arizona home appeared in DMX’s reality show which aired on BET in 2006. The Yonkers bred rapper paid $600,000 for the house in 2003 and the bank has put it up for sale for 429,000.

DMX is currently in an Arizona jail awaiting sentencing on charges of animal cruelty, identity theft and drug possession. The rapper plead guilty to the charges last week and is expected to serve at least 90 days behind bars.

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Coroner: Dr. Dre’s Son Died From Overdose of Heroin and Morphine

With all this talk of The Detox album people have forgotten that Dre just lost his son and is probably still grieving. How selfish of we, to not remember this tragedy.

via People

Dr. Dre’s son, Andre Young Jr., died from an overdose of heroin and morphine, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday.

“This case has been closed, it’s been ruled an accident due to morphine and heroin intoxication,” coroner spokesman Larry Dietz told PEOPLE. The drug test results had been pending for four months.

Young, 20, was found unresponsive by his mother, Jenita Porter, 40, in their Woodland Hills, Calif., home on the morning of Aug. 23.

Paramedics pronounced Young – who was remembered by friends as an optimistic young man – dead at the scene.

Porter told investigators that her son had been out with friends that night, and she recalled hearing him snoring around 5:30 a.m.

“Dr. Dre is mourning the loss of his son,” the rapper’s publicist Lori Earl previously said in a statement. “Please respect his family’s grief and privacy at this time.”

Will Smith is King of the Box Office in 2008

Can wait to see what he does next. Even more amazing is that his son is probably going to be even better and bigger than him.

via Huffington Post

NEW YORK — No name on the marquee was more pleasing to theater owners in 2008 than Will Smith, according to a survey of movie exhibitors. Smith, star of “Hancock” and “Seven Pounds,” was voted the star who generated the most box office revenue for theaters in an annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co.

Smith is only the second black actor to be chosen in the Quigley poll, which since 1932 has asked movie exhibitors to vote on the 10 stars who brought in the most business. Sidney Poitier topped the poll in 1968.

Smith’s superhero summer blockbuster, “Hancock,” grossed $228 million. “Seven Pounds,” currently in theaters, has pulled in a somewhat lackluster $39 million in two weeks.

Following Smith, in order, were Robert Downey Jr. (“Iron Man,” “Tropic Thunder”), Christian Bale (“The Dark Knight”), Shia LaBeouf (“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”) and LaBeouf’s “Indiana Jones” co-star Harrison Ford.

The top 10 were rounded out by Adam Sandler, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig.

Last year’s winner, Johnny Depp, who didn’t have a film released this year, didn’t make this year’s poll, nor did seven-time winner Tom Cruise.

Anne Hathaway (“Rachel Getting Married”) was voted the top “star of tomorrow” along with Chris Pine of “Bottle Shock.”

[video] Lil Wayne’s ‘What’s G’ Gatorade Commercial

Source : Nahright

If you would have told someone a couple of years ago that Lil Wayne would be doing Gatorade commercials they would have laughed you out of the building.

WTF? Donatella Versace Does St. Barts(pics)

Source: X17online.com

This woman obviously has some serious issues.

[video] Andressa Soares Dances on Stage

via DGG

Anyone who’s followed STREET KNOWLEDGE knows that we’ve been consistently following the career of this young lady, so what better way to tap off the New Year than to supply you with some live footage of Andressa in action. With so much hate and war in the world, if there was more Andressa’s on the scene, man just wouldn’t be able to find the time to involve themselves in no frivilous squabbles, word!  Viva La BRAZIL!!!

[download] Dj Green Lantern Monster Mash 3

The homie Swift sent this over for your listening pleasure. Enjoy and be sure to visit Thatshiphop.com and subscribe to their newsletter. Shouts to DJ Green Lantern.

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Fox News Airs “Magic Negro” Message On New Year’s Broadcast

I should never be surprised at how Fox News continously get away with their racist practices in covering Barack Obama. Somebody should have caught this before it aired and deleted it asap. F*ck all the racists at Fox News and this mighty giant will fall one day. Shouts to Think Progress for catching this and letting the public know.

The RNC Want Bush’s Head on a Platter

via Washington Times

So Georgie’s gone SO ballistic he’s even ticked off his own party, who now want his head on a platter

EXCLUSIVE:

Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing “socialism,” underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush’s administration.

Those pushing the resolution, which will come before the Republican National Committee at its January meeting, say elected leaders need to be reminded of core principles. They said the RNC must take the dramatic step of wading into policy debates, which traditionally have been left to lawmakers.

“We can’t be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms,” said Solomon Yue, an Oregon member and co-sponsor of a resolution that criticizes the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Republican National Committee Vice Chairman James Bopp Jr. wrote the resolution and asked the rest of the 168 voting members to sign it.

[pics] JAY & BEE VACA Overseas

Meanwhile on the other side of town...

Note to self: I definitely need a vacation!

Update :[video] Katt Williams GOES HARD on Steve Harvey & T-Pain

Here are some more clips from the show where he states his beefs with T-Pain and more on Steve Harvey. I hope they had a professional crew filming so we can see this

I think I smell the beheading of a “KING” here…is Katt Williams the CROWNed KING of Comedy now? The President Elect of FUNNY?

[pics] HIP HOP’S HOTTEST HONEYS- Kim Kardashian 2009 Kalendar

via RealTalk NY

I remember an episode where she took the flicks for Bush and it ended up in her mother’s clutch who rushed it to stands to get some grands. She hit the ceiling fan and retrieved it only to leak it in the New Year. Clever.

Lil Wayne Narrates Secret Gatorade “G” Commercial

via Woooha

You might have seen these ads running earlier today if you have been watching college football. While we are still securing the actual video of the ad, we can confirm that the subtle “G” TV ad featuring various pro athletes is indeed the kick-off to Gatorade’s new branding campaign. It is also confirmed that Lil Wayne is the narrator of the ad as Gatorade will push their new branding with an emphasis on “attitude,” “hustle” and choice.

As a result, Gatorade will do away with the Gatorade – Thirst Quencher tag line and revamp it simply as Gatorade G. The company lists the reason for the rebranding:

Gatorade G is the same scientifically formulated Gatorade Thirst Quencher that has provided advanced hydration and performance benefits to athletes and active people for more than 40 years. Gatorade Thirst Quencher has a new attitude, and we put the letter “G” front and center on our packaging, along with our iconic bolt. G represents the heart, hustle, and soul of athleticism – and is a badge of pride for anyone who sweats, no matter where they’re active.

We will have the actual commercial for you guys shortly. But hopefully that clears up any confusion as to what this ad is all about.

A genius marketing campaign for Gatorade? Is having Wayne as the new voice of G a smart thing? Vote it on the Trendz Report.

Piggy Banks Fly Off Shelves in Freshly Frugal U.S.

via Yahoo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Recession-wary Americans embraced the virtues of thrift this Christmas, with stores reporting a clear rise in the popularity of piggy banks.

“We have been selling coin banks really well,” said Laura Kellner at Kikkerland Design Inc. in New York City, whose stylish chrome pig is priced at $31.

U.S. savings levels have increased markedly in recent months as households adjust to a yearlong recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

The downturn has shattered house prices and the value of retirement accounts which, in turn, has reinforced the necessity to systematically put funds aside for the future.

Cynthia McKinney: We Lived to Tell the Story: Lebanon Rescued Us

 

via Davey D

Yesterday, we met with the President of Lebanon, the Chief of the Military, and the Interior Minister who all thanked us for responding and risking our lives on a mission of mercy; we profusely thanked them for rescuing us.

What would we have done, stranded out at sea, prohibited from reaching our destination, low on fuel, with a badly damaged boat if Lebanon had not accepted us? Lebanon sent their ships to find us. Lebanon rescued us. Lebanon welcomed us. And we are truly thankful.

It’s official now. We’ve been told that the sturdy, wood construction of our boat, Dignity, is the reason we are still alive. Fiberglass would probably not have withstood the impact of the Israeli attack and under different circumstances, we might not be here to tell the story. Even at that, the report that came to us yesterday after the Captain and First Mate went back to Sour (Tyre) to inspect the boat was that it was sinking, the damage is extensive, and the boat will take, in their estimation, at least one month to repair. Tomorrow, we will bring the Dignity from Sour to Beirut. And now, we must decide what to do and from where we will do it and how we are to get back to wherever that might be.

E-40 Moves On From Fatburger, Microsoft Stocks

via HipHopDX

E-40 has been the center of controversy recently after a shooting following his Denver concert, but the Bay Area rapper also took some unlikely hits as the stock market crashed this past month.”40 Water” explained to the Los Angeles Times that he had some big loses in his Microsoft stock. “I was sitting there waiting for something, but it just didn’t unfold for me,” said E-40. “Apple, now that’s what I should have got.”

The Bay Ambassador, whose new album is titled The Ball Street Journal [click to read], explained he has been in the financial game for a while. “I first started messing with [stocks] in ’95 or ’96,” 40 said.
But even all this experience could not help the troubled rapper as not only his own personal stocks fell but he was also recently forced to close a Vallejo branch of his chain of restaurants, Fatburger.

[video] US Military Aid Underpins Gaza Offensive

2008 Military Times Poll: Wary about Obama

A Commander-in-Chief needs the faith of the military in order to effectively lead, yet another challenge PE Obama will have to conquer.

via Military Times

When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.

In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama’s lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform.

“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.

For eight years, members of the U.S. military have served under a Republican commander in chief who reflected their generally conservative views and led them to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Now, the troops face change not only at the very top of the chain of command, as Obama nears his Jan. 20 inauguration, but perhaps in mission, policy and values.

Underlying much of the uncertainty is Obama’s stated 16-month timetable for pulling combat troops out of Iraq, as well as his calls to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to allow gays to serve openly in the military, according to survey responses and interviews.

Kathy Griffin On CNN Says…. Knock The D*!%# Out Of Your Mouth!!!!!!!

I saw segments of this last night, and she was definitely on the sauce but I didn’t see this one slip out! Oops!!

[pics] CLOT x Nike 1World Air Force 1

Thinking outside of the “shoe” box, CLOT’s Air Force 1 design cements their place as one of the more innovative and creative collaborators from Nike’s 1World Air Force 1 campaign. As previewed last week, the kicks celebrate China’s Lunar New Year with a dual-layer traditional red motif synonymous for its representation of happiness, luck and prosperity. The special “Chinese Candy Box” design features CLOT imagery on the backside as well as a tray for accessories. Scheduled to release in January.

Sneak Peek: The Watchmen

Hopefully Fox and Warner Bros will get thing worked out because the anticipation for this movie grows each day. Enjoy this featurette and cross your fingers this drops in March. Happy New Year

[video] ZBig Smacks Down Morning Joe

OK, while PE Obama remains mum on what his plans are for Mid East intervention once he takes office on the 20th, one only needs to pay attention to Zbigniew Brzezinski, more affectionately known as ZBig, Obama’s advisor/handler. Here he is on Morning Joe, which his daughter Meka co-hosts. He puts Morning Joe under his armpit for voicing the highly held “belief” that Clinton was to blame for the fumbled Mid-East Peace Process with Arafat.

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[video] Cynthia McKinney vs. Israeli Military

Somebody needs to applaud this sister for always putting herself on the “unpopular” side of the aisle. She was the only one to raise questions about inconsistencies in the official U.S. report about 9/11, she has championed the cause of Katrina victims by exposing the mass slaughtering of “Blacks” by white militia and Blackwater operatives, she spoke for the little person as she campaigned against Barack Obama this past presidential cycle and she has consistently used her seat in Congress to voice the concerns of the voiceless. Now she is in the Middle East lending her eyes and ears to the cause of the Palestinians, who are notoriously voiceless when it comes to stateside media.  This episode she’s her experiencing firsthand the aggression of the Israelis as they attempt to circumvent a medical aid boat that she was riding upon.  I just pray and hope that people are willing to applaud this sister for her courage and conviction, acknowledging that she will throw herself in the fray at the drop of a dime for her fellow man. If that ain’t “public service” I don’t know what is.  On another note, she uses this bully pulpit as an opportunity to call PE Obama to duty. She urges him and his administration to call for restraint on the part of the Israelis. People outside of America can’t help but see any move by Israel as a joint operation, condoned and made complicit by the U.S.  In fact, the New York Post ran an article about how recently delivered U.S. bombs made this atrocity possible. 

Oprah gives $365,000 to ‘Vote However You Like’ Students

Is Oprah the only one who puts her money where her mouth is?

via PH

What a happy holiday for some Atlanta-area students!

The Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta got the attention of the nation when the video above of its students performing a election rap they wrote appeared on YouTube.

Teachers at the school are known to use rapping, dancing and drumming to help students learn.

Headmaster Clark, who taught in one of New York City’s toughest schools and wrote the best-selling teaching book The Essential 55, opened the ATL school last year with proceeds from his book and private donations.

Nearly all of its 80 students are from middle- and low-income households.

Parents pay a small part of the tuition and the rest is paid by donors. It costs approximately $14,000 to educate each student.

Well, the generous Oprah Winfrey can be listed as one of the school’s benefactors.

On Wednesday, Clark revealed to his students that Super O gifted the school $365,000!!

“We teach school all day and fundraise at night,” said Clark. “To have an unsolicited gift come like that is incredible.”

When Clark shared the news with the school community, the children, parents and teachers reportedly erupted in deafening cheers!

The donation will likely go to scholarships for students.

It’s enough to pay for roughly 26 children to attend the school for one year!

In a letter that accompanied the check, Winfrey calls Clark a role model and applauds the “profound difference you’re making with your passion for teaching.”

The check was issued by the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, which gave $4 million to educational programs in 2008.

Oprah rules!

[video] Mikkey Halsted- LIQUOR STORE

After peeping the last video from this cat I said let me see what else is out there and I bumped into this. Since we in the ’09 we gotta refer to these as throwbacks but that’s alright, I caught on late. But as we make our predictions about artists to watch in the New Year make sure you put homey on the last. He is coming with the right combos to separate himself from the pack, keep it up Mikkey!

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TMZ Exclusive: Barkley: All I Really Wanted Was Oral Sex

What woman honestly even would sleep with Charles Barkley without some sort of compensation?

This may be the very best police report of 2008. When Charles Barkley was busted in Arizona early this morning for DUI, he told cops he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to get some oral sex.

According to the officer who wrote the report, “He told me that he ran the stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up the girl I saw get in the passenger seat.”

The officer continues: “He asked me to admit that she was ‘hot.’ He asked me, ‘You want the truth?’ When I told him I did he said, ‘I was gonna drive around the corner and get a b**w job. He then explained that she had given him a ‘b**w job’ one week earlier and said it was the best one he had ever had in his life.”

The report says when Barkley was taken to the station, he told one of the employees, “I’ll tattoo my name on your ass” if he helped “get him out of the DUI.” According to the report, “He laughed and then quickly corrected himself and said, ‘I’ll tattoo your name on my ass’ and then laughed again.”

The report also says officers “found a handgun in the vehicle” which was immediately impounded. The report doesn’t say if the handgun was legal or not, and the only thing that we know for sure was loaded…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! STREET KNOWLEDGE TOASTS TO YOU ALL

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We want to toast all of our STREET KNOWLEDGE readers!  Mazal Tov to everyone who has clicked on this page and armed themselves with information, we thank you for the dedication and the resilience. For us, today(1/1/09) doubles as the 2 year anniversary that our blog has been in existence and we wouldn’t have been able to achieve this monumental accomplishment without everyone’s participation. So, we say thank you and we promise to ramp up our output this year and bring you guys an experience indicative of CHANGE in a BIG WAY.  You are now about to witness the strength of STREET KNOWLEDGE!!!