+”black people” +”spit” +”sidewalk”-”face”???? Really?

While perusing Stuff Fly People Like, I came across this foolishness.

According to heelarious.com, those would be “extremely funny, completely soft, fully functional high heel crib shoes for babies 0-6 months“.

Yeah, you read that right.

High.heel.crib.shoe.

WTF?

They even have a bunch of styles to choose from:

Am I the only one who has an issue with this???

For those of you on WordPress, have you ever looked at some of the things that were searched and led people to your blog?  Every so often, I have to laugh at what I see.  Today is one of those days:

Please note the highlighted area.  WTF?  Who just searches for “twisted taco pole dancing“?  Oh and I googled the same phrase, and why is my blog the third site that matches????  Aye, Dios mio!

I’m using the term “parents” loosely because these two did not deserve to be parents at all:

HOUSTON — Autopsy results were completed on a six-month-old baby boy found in a southwest Houston motel freezer, but the cause of the death is still pending, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

Crystal Sosa, 25, and Dezmond Dewayne Blake, 28, were arrested after police found the baby’s body in a zipped-up duffel bag inside the freezer in a room at the InTown Suites, 3000 state South Highway 6, on Friday.

The child, identified as Devin Blake, had been in the freezer for about a year, officials said.

The medical examiner has not yet been able to determine of the child died of natural causes, as the mother claimed.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Sosa makes her living as a prostitute. The affidavit also states that both Sosa and Blake are heavy drug users.

Sosa told police she came home and had a heated argument with Blake. During that argument, she noticed the baby was not reacting to the noise.

Sosa checked the baby, who was lying in a crib on his back with a bottle in his mouth. Sosa said he was dead.

Sosa said she wanted to call 911, but did not because she said both she and Blake were drug users, one child had already been removed from their custody, and because of her personal history with the police.

She said they wrapped the body in a blanket, put the corpse inside a gym bag, and put the bag in the freezer.

Sosa said she and Blake continued to use the freezer for ice and frozen food items, such as pizza.Blake and Sosa are charged with felony tampering with evidence. However, the charges could be upgraded.

Bail was set at $50,000 each. Sosa and Blake are due back in court on Tuesday to have an attorney assigned.

The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office completed an autopsy on Sunday, but the cause of death was still pending. The results may be known as early as Tuesday. [Source]

…that when someone needs you to do something for them, they wait until the last possible minute to ask you to do it THEN they get mad because you have other plans???

I’m just sayin’ though, you knew you needed my help 24 hours ago, you should’ve called then and I might not have planned something and been able to help yo ass out!

Don’t call me 30 minutes AFTER you needed me to do something frustrated and pissed because you are in panic mode.

So my office recently moved from the first floor to the sixth floor of my office building, meaning I now have to take the elevator.

Why is it that some people look back when they are getting on the elevator to see if anyone else is coming, but then when they see someone they scurry onto the elevator and hit the ‘door close’ button?  What was the point of looking back and giving me eye contact????  Just don’t look back.  That makes me so mad, especially when I’m close enough to the elevator that it’s almost as if you closed the elevator door in my face!  Bastards!

Taken from cbsnews.com:

Dad Kept Daughter In Cellar 24 Years

Austrian Police Say Elderly Man Held Daughter Captive, Allegedly Fathering Several Children By Her

VIENNA, Austria., April 27, 2008

The outside of the house in Amstetten, Austria, where a 73-year-old man reportedly kept his daughter captive in the cellar for 24 years. DNA tests are being conducted to verify charges that he fathered several children by her. (AP Photo/Helmut Stamberg)

A woman has told police that she was held prisoner in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered at least six children.

Lower Austria police said in a statement that the 42-year-old woman, identified as Elisabeth F., had been missing since Aug. 29, 1984. She was found by police in the town of Amstetten on Saturday evening following a tip.

Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told reporters that the 73-year-old father, identified in a separate police statement as Josef F., had been taken into custody.

In a chronology of events outlined in a statement, police said a letter written by Elisabeth F. had apparently surfaced a month after her disappearance asking her parents not to search for her.

Police said that, during questioning, Elisabeth F. told them her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11. Police said she alleged that he sedated, handcuffed and locked her in a room in the cellar on Aug. 28, 1984 in the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten.

During the 24 years that followed, she said she was continually abused by her father and gave birth to six children, the statement said. In 1996, she said she gave birth to twins but one died several days later because it was not appropriately cared for; police are investigating. Josef F. had then apparently removed the corpse from the cellar and burned it, the police statement said. It was not immediately clear if the twin who allegedly died was included in the police tally of the number of children.

On Sunday evening police said investigators found the area where the woman had been held captive along with three of her children.

In an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF, Polzer said the area had “several” rooms and a “very narrow” hallway.

Police found it after Josef F. gave them a code to unlock a hidden door, Polzer said.

On its Web site, ORF reported that the rooms also were very narrow and at most 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) high.

Police picked up Elisabeth and her father on Saturday close to the Amstetten hospital after they received a tip.

According to the police statement, Josef F. had freed Elisabeth and two of her three children from the cellar, and had told his wife that she had come back to them. The third child in the cellar, Kerstin F., was found unconscious on April 19 in the apartment building where the grandparents live, along with a note from Elisabeth asking that she be taken care of. She was then hospitalized.

Police said Elisabeth F. appeared “greatly disturbed” psychologically during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her that she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be cared for.

One of her children, identified as 19-year-old Kerstin F., is currently hospitalized in Amstetten in very serious condition.

Police said three of the children were registered with authorities and lived with the grandparents.

According to the police statement, Josef F. and his wife, Rosemarie, had told authorities they had found those children outside their home in 1993, 1994 and 1997, each time with a note from the mother. In the first letter, Elisabeth F. had apparently said she already had a daughter and son. In another letter, she said she gave birth to another son in December 2002, according to the statement.

The other three children were apparently held captive in the cellar with their mother, Polzer told reporters in broadcast remarks.

“Elisabeth F. taught them how to speak,” Polzer was quoted as saying by the Austria Press Agency.

The agency quoted police as saying Josef F. has been arrested but had not confessed.

The agency also quoted Gerhard Sedlacek, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in St. Poelten, as saying that the surviving children — three boys and three girls — are aged between 5 and 20.

DNA tests are expected to determine whether Josef F. is the father of the children.

Sunday’s developments are reminiscent of the case of Natascha Kampusch, which shocked Austrians less than two years ago.

Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna on her way to school in March 1998. She was held for the next 8 1/2 years by Wolfgang Priklopil, who largely confined her to a tiny underground dungeon in his home in a quiet Vienna suburb. Priklopil threw himself in front of a train just hours after Kampusch’s dramatic escape on Aug. 23, 2006.

3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting

So I was over at Babs’ spot (as always) and she was talking about her name issues. I, too, have serious name issues (among other issues! LOL) My biggest name issue — names that are too “creative.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for different names, but it seems like people (black and white, celebrities and common-folk) are getting too carried away. In my opinion, some of these names are setting the children up for failure.

As bad as it is, some of the names give away their ethnicity. Having worked in HR before, I know that sometimes a name can make the difference between getting a job and getting your resumé thrown in the trash. Wrong or not, I will admit that I may have looked at a name on a resumé and immediately thought that I wouldn’t hire that person if I was the hiring manager.

Celebrities

Yes, little Apple is a cutie-patootie NOW, but what the hell am I supposed to do with calling a 60 year old, grandmother of two Apple? Not a good look. Celebrities seem to get a pass for the nonsense they name their children, simply because they are rich and famous. Nu-uhn, not in my book! I mean, the only thing that celebrity kids don’t have to worry about (most times) is money/having to get a J.O.B! After reading the following list, I’m convinced that most celebrities need to be bitchslapped! One thing they do differently from common-folk is they try to make the whole name some cute and catchy phrase. See what I mean:

• Audio Science (Parent Shannyn Sossamon)
• Aurelius Cy (Parent: Elle MacPherson)
• Blue Angel (Parent: The Edge from U2)
• Indian August (Parent: Casey Affleck)
• Memphis Eve (Parent: Bono from U2)
• Moxie Crimefighter (Penn Gillette)
• Phoenix Chi (Parent: Melanie Brown aka Scary Spice)
• Pilot Inspektor (Parent: Jason Lee) WTF????
• Poet Sienna Rose (Parent: Soleil Moon Fry) Did you really expect her to have a child named Katie???
• Reign Beau (Parent: Ving Rhames)
• Saffron Sahara (Parent: Simon LeBon)
• Starlite Melody (Parent: Marisa Berenson

Please believe these names are off the wall, but they are NOT the worst.

Urban Names

Now I know there’s a chance that I’m going to offend someone, but I’m really not worried about that.  Urban/hood names need to stop! RIGHT NOW!  There is no reason for all of the damn apostrophes and the “big letter-small letter-big letter” thing.  All of the extra letters and syllables…yup, they need to go too!  Here are some extreme examples.  Half of them sound like diseases or prescription medicines and the other half?  I can’t begin to figure out how to pronounce them!

• Ark’taveon
• Au’shyiah
• Al’javion
• A’quavionta
• Ah’Justice Armagedon (We got a first and middle name for this one…thanks, I think?)
• A’Shaunda’ya
• Ang’Aaliyah
• BriJourne’
• Cor’tilleous
• Con’Tyjus
• Chamyl’leon
• Che’Lajhia
• CarDaizeon
• D’nieja
• Ce’calvion
• Da’Quaylin
• Dakayjanai
• Don’Quez
• De’Priest
• Da’Variria
• Damillion
• Elijahwon (I hope this wasn’t after Hakeem Olajuwon)
• Err’imanhi
• E-Mireyon’
• G’Yainna
• GaBereion
• J’Coryn
• Jah’Myri
• Ja’Kyrick
• Jakkerak
• Ja’QwaVis
• Jazme’yonnah
• Kaliatanese
• Mi’Uhon
• Min’Tajah
• Ni’Javious
• Na’Chauncia
• Onterrio
• Othevious
• PhaDaidreana
• R’Careous
• R’Khyzon
• Synomious
• Tethavias
• Teohni
• Ti’veon (Is that like TV on??)
• Vaalyque
• VaNivea
• X’Zayveon
• X’Zorion
• Zy’Kavious
• Zhaquavious

Now I know that was a long list, but that wasn’t even half of what I found.  I didn’t even acknowledge the “Qs”!!!

The Ugly

These parents need to be burned with an iron like Penny on Good Times!  Just look at this madness:

• Bamboo (Parent: Big Boi from Outkast)
• Bow-Ty (Parent: 50 Cent) I really hope this is wrong…
• Fifi Trixibell and Peaches Honeyblossom (Parent: Bob Geldoff)
• Jermajesty (Parent: Jermaine Jackson)
• Messiah Ya’Majesty (Parent: T.I.)
• Poppy Honey and Daisy Boo (Parent: Jamie Oliver)
• Rumer, Tallulah Bell and Scout (Parents: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore) What is with these people setting up multiple children???
• Puma and Seven Sirius (Parent: Erykah Badu)
• Tu (Parent: Rob Morrow) Read: the child’s name is Tu Morrow WTF???
• Tryumph and Whizdom (Parent: Jayson Williams)

Now, I don’t have any kids yet, but please believe that when I do have kids, I will be sure to think about how the name I choose will affect their lives.  I hope you will do the same!

Thanks, from your unborn children…

Taken from cnn.com:

YORK, Pennsylvania (AP) — A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother’s boyfriend, and new charges are expected, police said Tuesday.

Darisabel Baez was pronounced dead late Monday at Hershey Medical Center, police Lt. Ron Camacho said.

The girl’s mother, Neida E. Baez, 19, called for an ambulance Sunday, saying her boyfriend, Harve L. Johnson, had brought the unconscious child to her, limp and wet from an attempt to revive her in a bathtub, a police affidavit said.

Johnson acknowledged beating the girl with a video game controller but did not say why, police said. Baez said Johnson had abused the girl in the past and said she heard the girl scream after Johnson beat her Sunday, according to the affidavit.

Johnson, 26, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and other counts.

Baez was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Detective Dana Ward said Baez was charged because she did not intervene or try to get help for Darisabel.

Camacho said that because of the girl’s death, new charges would be filed.

Johnson and Baez remained in custody Tuesday. His bail was set at $200,000; hers was $25,000.

Ok, what the hell is going on with people these days.  I’ve seen more random stories of child abuse in the last month.  I can’t imagine a little girl acting so bad that you have to beat her to death with a game controller.  A.game.controller.  What kind of man are you?  Wait, you aren’t a man, you ain’t shit in my eyes.  I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his life.

Here are a few observations that I made after another entertaining evening of television:

• As addictive as Flavor of Love is, no one should be surprised by the coonery that is Flavor Flav.  Flav has always been pretty coontastic…just turn to MTVJamz and it’s Yo! MTV Raps tribute.  I caught a vintage performance from Flav and the rest of Public Enemy and this fool was wiggling around like his leg was broken and changing his sunglasses every 3 seconds.  Granted that he was under the influence back then, but it’s probably still in his system today.
• ANTM really needs to stop showing Saliesha’s “My Life as a Covergirl” during commercial breaks.  She is boring and talks like she has no interest in modeling at all.  I agree with Babs on this on: “I think she is ready for the Chadwicks of Boston catalogue!”
  
• I love watching the Real World, but is it just me or are the seasons getting worse as the years go on.  Like I’m not thrilled about this Hollywood cast…but I am shocked that there are THREE black people this season! (Yeah ole girl in the blue dress is black!) (However what the hell is up with homegirl’s hair???)
• Though it wasn’t on last night, The Real Housewives of New York is the greatest show ever!  I wish it came on everyday!  (Thanks KRF for putting me onto this show!)

How crazy was is that a tornado hit downtown Atlanta last night????

I hope that everyone was safe and uninjured…

The quote of the whole video: “You’re not even supposed to be driving, yo! You’re not even supposed to be driving!”

How the hell do I wake up to cold rain and hurricane force winds? I don’t need a coat during lunch…and there are flurries when I am about to go to sleep…

Damn this Atlanta weather!

T-Pain, the coonery needs to stop.

NOW.

Have you heard about this???

An American couple is raising money to build a theme park in Haiti where visitors get to be slaves for the day…12 hours to be exact. Because that sounds like good times!

Tourists, who chose to participate, will be given traditional African clothing and then be KIDNAPPED, CHAINED and FORCED to march to a slave ship in a mock crossing of the Atlantic. After their “voyage,” the slaves will then be sold, tortured and forced to work on a plantation. (Again, I say WTF?) Towards the end of the 12-hour day, visitors will re-enact the slave rebellion that led to the establishment of Haiti.

Here is a link to the website for Memory Village. There is a breakdown of all of the different areas of the theme park.

Now I heard about this a few days ago and I’m still baffled. Like I’m all for museums like the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC where you get an idea of what Jews went through…but I don’t know about this one. I totally see where the couple is trying to go with this, but at the same time, I think the execution is all wrong.

What do you think? Would you pay for the “experience”?