Eli Porter is the begining of the end of Rap Music

this is ridiculous as every part of it is sooper stupid funny …

i dont know what to think …. SMH

 

The Youth Crime is on a Rise in Chicago and New York

By Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; A02

CHICAGO — Chavez Clarke, 18, had spent this past Saturday taking catch-up classes so he could graduate on time. As he left a South Side high school that afternoon, he was fatally shot, in broad daylight and in plain view of other students. His death marked a grim end to a week when police and school officials had stepped up their efforts to combat a spike in killings of public school students.

The day before, an eighth-grader at a North Side school was shot and killed.

In all, 20 Chicago public school students have been fatally shot so far this school year — seven in March alone — compared with 24 the year before, said spokesman Mike Vaughn. Including those who died in non-gun violence, 22 students have been killed this year, and 30 last school year. School officials could not provide precise figures, but said that killings had increased markedly over past years.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Chicago public school students from four high schools gathered downtown to protest the violence and to call for more gun-control measures, with the school district sanctioning their absences and supplying buses, the Associated Press reported. Twenty empty school desks, each representing a fallen student, were set up in front of the James R. Thompson Center, which houses state offices.

A well-known anti-violence crusader on the South Side, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, had also planned a community rally Tuesday, and said St. Sabina Catholic Church will offer rewards for information about the killings.

In response to the increased violence, Chicago police have been increasing their presence at schools and have begun monitoring live pictures from 4,500 school security cameras.

When students returned from spring break on the day after Easter to Richard T. Crane Technical Preparatory Common School on the West Side, they were met by a heavy police presence and parent escorts. Since the March 7 gang-related killing of Ruben Ivy, 18, a block from the school, many students had stayed home, fearing retaliatory violence. Ivy was allegedly shot by a 15-year-old resident of a nearby public housing development, where about 120 Crane students live.

“It seems a lot safer now,” Devinity Reynolds, 16, said Friday morning, as at least eight patrol cars and a paddy wagon lingered around the school. “I hope they do this for the rest of the school year.” Officers stood on the sidewalk as parents in fluorescent yellow city-issued vests, emblazoned with the words “walking school bus,” met students at bus stops near the school and escorted them inside.

In February, Mayor Richard M. Daley proposed stepped-up state and federal anti-gun legislation and promoted the city’s program to pay people to turn in illegal firearms, which collected more than 6,000 weapons last year. The mayor also moved up the city’s curfew for those younger than 18 by half an hour (to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 p.m. on other days), and city officials held a summit on teen violence March 22.

But police spokeswoman Monique Bond and school officials say recent media attention and public outrage over the killings are calling attention to a chronic problem that is not necessarily worse than usual.

“While one shooting is always too many, the aggravated batteries and gang shootings involving juveniles are actually down this year, compared to years past,” Bond said. “There are just too many guns out there.”

Despite the killings of Ivy and Clarke, school spokesman Vaughn said few shootings have taken place near school grounds during school hours.

“It’s very rare weapons are found in schools, and we’ve had declining numbers of fights,” he said. “Students will say the one place they feel safe is school.”

But Gary Slutkin, executive director of the anti-violence group CeaseFire, challenged that assertion.

“Violence in the schools is ongoing,” Slutkin said. “It’s not just the deaths. It’s the kids beaten until they have seizures. It’s the fights on buses with bats and knives. These kids have grown up around violence. By age 20, 40 to 70 percent of kids have personally witnessed a shooting.”

CeaseFire places mediators known as “interrupters” directly in schools and violence-plagued neighborhoods to try to defuse gang and personal conflicts before they become violent. The program lost $6.25 million in state funding last year and cut its staff as a result.

“We’re fire-fighting, pulling our staff from place to place, instead of pushing things down in schools and keeping them down,” Slutkin said. “Instead of having a handle on Crane, we had to come to Crane after the fact.”

 NewYork Crime also Rising

By MURRAY WEISS, Criminal Justice Editor

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly

April 3, 2008 –

Murders, rapes and robberies have jumped citywide so far this year, statistics released yesterday show.

But the news isn’t all bad – despite the sharp upturn in these categories, overall crime continues to fall, although by a scant 1.2 percent, thanks to dips in assaults, burglaries and car thefts.

SEE Crime Stats For Your Precinct (PDF)

The NYPD figures show murders are up 24.7 percent, from 89 during the same period last year to 111.

Rapes jumped 13.8 percent, from 324 to 369. Robberies rose 4.5 percent, from 4,595 to 4,803.

The jumps in murder and robbery are particularly alarming to top brass and criminologists because these categories are viewed as “bellwether” crime indicators – and the Big Apple in recent years had been bucking upward national crime trends.

The new figures show shootings are up 17.5 percent, from 217 to 255. The number of victims reached 286 from 260, a 10 percent rise, even as Mayor Bloomberg continued to wage a national campaign on gun control.

“In the short run, the NYPD will bring the number down, as they have in the past, by shifting officers to the problem areas,” predicted Thomas Reppetto, author of “NYPD: A City and Its Police.”

“But there is a limit,” he cautioned, referring to issues surrounding the paltry police starting salary that contributed to the shrinking NYPD ranks, from a high of 41,000 in 2001 to 36,000 this year.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne noted the department is fighting its own successes spanning 16 years, with murder and overall crime at 45-year lows.

“In many, if not most, instances, where there are increases, they still represent significant decreases even from just two years ago,” Browne said.

Serious crimes are up in 32 of the city’s 76 police precincts and Commissioner Ray Kelly has doubled the number of rookies in high-crime “impact zones.”

Staten Island showed the largest increase in overall crime, with a 25.6 percent jump.

The borough’s three precincts registered increases from 15 percent in the 120th, in the St. George section, to 40 percent in the 123rd, in Tottenville.

The NYPD has already dispatched dozens of additional cops to the island to tamp down the surge.

The Bronx had an overall uptick of 2.9 percent, with the Hunts Point section accounting for the rise with a 33 percent jump. Southern Queens showed an increase of 1.46 percent, spurred by 15 percent jumps in precincts in Jamaica and the Rockaways.

By comparison, northern Queens led the precincts showing a decline in crime, with a drop of 8.6 percent.

The remaining police borough commands each showed declines ranging from 3.9 percent in Brooklyn South to Manhattan South’s scant 0.65 percent drop.

Americas new drug

Jenkem, known by Fox News as “butt hash“, is an old meme turned fresh thanks to a sheriff’s bulletin plagiarizing this very article.

Jenkem, invented by Pickwick of Totse, is a drug popular with nigras and american middle schoolers. The increasing popularity of the drug is shocking in America, where far more desirable substances are available at far lower a cost (at least mentally). This increase has been partly attributed to the success of Chocolate Rain, whose lyrics explicitly refer to the practice and social effects of jenkem abuse.

We’re not sure what they’re inhaling down in Collier County, Florida, but here’s the bizarre “information bulletin” prepared by the local sheriff’s intelligence bureau about a purported “new drug” favored by the kids. It’s an inhalant called “Jenkem,” and causes hallucinations and a “euphoric high.” Of course, as the bulletin notes, Jenkem users dislike its sewagey taste, which can last for days. That’s because Jenkem’s active ingredients are urine and fecal matter, hence its street names like “Butthash” and “Fruit from Crack Pipe”. We’ve tried to speak with the bulletin’s author, Lieutenant Al Ganich, but he has not returned TSG calls. Perhaps he’s realized that his “CONFIDENTIAL” September 26 report–which is authentic, according to a sheriff’s official–may be itself full of shit. Ganich’s alert reminds us of a New York Fire Department memo from a chief who also apparently never heard of

Collier County Sheriff’s Office

Criminal Intelligence Bureau

Sheriff Don Hunter

3301 E Tamiami Trail, Bldg J

Naples, FL 34112

Lieutenant Al Ganich

CIB (239)793-9279

Fax (239)793-9124

Bulletin # 07-067

Date: 09-26-2007

Page 1 of 1

This information is being furnished for Law Enforcement purposes only and should be handled as CONFIDENTIAL. The dissemination of this material without

the consent of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Intelligence Bureau is strictly prohibited. The purpose of this bulletin is for officer safety and

awareness.

Information Bulletin

New Drug – JENKEM

On 09/19/07 Cpl. Disarro received and email from a concerned parent regarding a new drug called

“Jenkem”. The parent advised their child learned about this drug through various conversations with

several students at Palmetto Ridge High.

Jenkem originated in Africa and other third world countries by fermenting raw sewage to create a gas

which is inhaled to achieve a high. Jenkem is now a popular drug in American Schools.

Jenkem is a homemade substance which consists of fecal matter and urine. The fecal matter

and urine are placed in a bottle or jar and covered most commonly with a balloon. The

container is then placed in a sunny area for several hours or days until fermented. The contents

of the container will separate and release a gas, which is captured in the balloon. Inhaling the

gas is said to have a euphoric high similar to ingesting cocaine but with strong hallucinations of

times past.

Once ingested the onset of the high takes approximately 10 seconds with the most severe hallucinations

happening in approximately 20 minutes. Several articles indicate that the subject immediately passes out

after ingesting the gas then regains a magical/hallucinogenic state within seconds of regaining

consciousness. The high has been described by subjects as a feeling of “being out of it” and talking to

dead people. The feeling of being “out of it” may last for several hours or days.

All subjects who used the Jenkem disliked the taste of sewage in their mouth and

the fact that the taste continued for several days.

Slang terms: Winnie, Shit, Runners, Fruit from Crack Pipe, Leroy Jenkems,

Might, Butthash, and Waste.

 

50 Cent is bad for the Image of Black People

Can this be true. is this racist peice of trash coming from a real place cause us americans are not really aware of how the rest of the world sees us as a people… especially as a race but my opion is that the little jerk has a point. and do feel with a sense of optimism that Barack Obama will renew the publics matter of fact the worlds opinion of us

Obama is set to claim democratic victory

By JACKIE CALMES
March 31, 2008; Page A1

WASHINGTON — Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama’s side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group — just one has so far — before that state’s May 6 primary, several Democrats say.

Helping to drive the endorsements is a fear that the Obama-Clinton contest has grown toxic and threatens the Democratic Party’s chances against Republican John McCain in the fall.

Sen. Clinton rejects that view. Over the weekend, she reiterated her intent to stay in the race beyond the last contest in early June — and all the way to the party’s convention in Denver, if necessary.

“There are some folks saying we ought to stop these elections,” she said Saturday in Indiana, which also has a May 6 primary. “I didn’t think we believed that in America. I thought we of all people knew how important it was to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard and their votes counted.”

Sen. Obama told reporters, “My attitude is that Sen. Clinton can run as long as she wants.”

In earlier eras, the standoff between the two candidates might have been resolved by party elders acting behind the scenes. But no Democrat today has the power to knock heads and resolve the mess. Party Chairman Howard Dean says he was “dumbfounded” at the suggestion by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy Friday that Sen. Clinton should pull out.

“Having run for president myself, nobody tells you when to get in, and nobody tells you when to get out,” Mr. Dean said. “That’s about the most personal decision you can make after all the time and effort you put into it.”

New York Sen. Clinton still hopes that by turning in strong performances in the final primaries, she can blunt the momentum of her rival from Illinois and make the case that she is best-positioned to take on Sen. McCain. With Mr. Dean, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and other party leaders remaining neutral, the question is whether the trend of party figures endorsing Sen. Obama will build enough momentum to tip the race.

The expected move by Minnesota’s Sen. Klobuchar follows Friday’s endorsement of Sen. Obama by Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22.

Both senators had planned to remain neutral, according to party officials, but decided to weigh in as the Democrats’ campaign became more negative and Sen. McCain was free to exploit the confusion looking to the November election.

One North Carolinian confirmed that at least several of the state’s House members would go public in favor of Sen. Obama before long. Meanwhile, elected officials in other states with upcoming contests, including Indiana, Montana and Oregon, are weighing whether to endorse Sen. Obama.

What makes such endorsements significant is that they’re from superdelegates. These delegates — members of Congress, governors and other party officials — can vote for whomever they want at the Democratic convention in August. Sen. Obama has a slight lead over Sen. Clinton in the pledged-delegate count — the delegates won during primaries and caucuses — but neither can amass enough pledged delegates for a majority. That makes the vote of the superdelegates decisive.

Since the “Super Tuesday” primaries on Feb. 5, Sen. Obama has won commitments from 64 superdelegates and Sen. Clinton has gotten nine. Sen. Obama has a total of 217 superdelegates in his camp while Sen. Clinton has 250, and her margin has been shrinking with each week. Sen. Clinton would have several more in her tally, but they’re from Michigan, and delegates from Michigan and Florida won’t be seated — at least for now — because both states defied party rules and held their primaries earlier than permitted.

“I think that says a lot about just where people are and what they’re thinking,” says former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, an Obama supporter. “And I think the numbers are just going to keep getting better” for Sen. Obama. Counting Sen. Klobuchar, Sen. Obama leads 13-11 among their Democratic colleagues in the Senate.

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Even raising the prospect of a convention fight could backfire for Sen. Clinton by antagonizing the superdelegates she needs. Many superdelegates are on the ballot themselves this year, and the last thing they want is a chaotic convention that plays into the hands of Republicans.

In interviews, some House Democrats said Sen. Obama has the edge in the chamber. They noted that he has proved himself the stronger fund-raiser and has attracted more new voters to the party than anyone in recent memory — both advantages that could benefit other Democrats. They worry that Sen. Clinton’s high negative ratings in polls would incite more Republicans to mobilize against her and the Democratic ticket.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a former presidential candidate and a past party chairman, told National Journal Friday that Sen. Obama’s nomination is “a foregone conclusion” and “enough is enough.” Sen. Dodd has endorsed Sen. Obama.

Mr. Dean, the party chairman, is urging uncommitted superdelegates to take sides no later than July 1, and effectively name the nominee. “If we go into the convention divided, it’s pretty likely we’ll come out of the convention divided,” he said.

Democrats across the board, he said, “are haranguing me to show leadership.” But they’re often partisans for one candidate or the other, he added. Meanwhile, he said he is conferring with other party leaders, including Mrs. Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada; former Vice President Al Gore; civil-rights veteran and Clinton confidante Vernon Jordan; former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo; and Jesse Jackson and his son, Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

“Most of their advice is, ‘Let this play out, let’s get through the primaries,’ ” Mr. Dean said. “And I think that’s right….Voters have to have their say. It’s painful, because that means we’ve got another two months of this.”

Write to Jackie Calmes at jackie.calmes@wsj.com

Beanie Sigel Bout ta go back to the pen

As of March 27, 2008 Authorities have said that Sigel, whose real name is Dwight Grant, gave a false urine sample to probation officials on Feb. 29 and also tested positive five times earlier this month for controlled substances, including Xanax and Percocet.

The former is used to treat anxiety and the latter is typically used to treat moderate to severe pain, but is considered very addictive.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick sentenced Sigel, 34, to three months in prison and one additional year of supervised release, which he is to continue in a drug-treatment program.

Beanie was already serving a six-month term in a halfway house for having previously violated supervised release. Apparently “financial pressure” is the reason Beanie is giving for his failed drug tests. He’s been reported as expressing that the only gets 14 cents per record. And unfortunately his legal situation doesn’t allow him to tour and collect show money.

American idol contestant – Frenchie Davis to have surgery

(AP) Frenchie Davis, the big-voiced “American Idol” contestant who found success on Broadway in “Rent,” will undergo surgery to remove a vocal cord polyp.

Davis said she’s eager to take care of the condition that’s begun to cause tiredness and hoarseness after performances. But she’s apprehensive.

“I’ve talked to other singers who had surgery. One girl said her voice went up. Others’ voices got clearer. I’m just excited to see and a little nervous, of course. It’s still surgery,” Davis told The Associated Press.

Her main concern is the risk of losing her range, she said, but the surgeon has assured her that won’t happen. Doctors had been monitoring the polyp on her left vocal cord; when it grew, they advised surgery to avoid long-term damage.

The condition likely is from overuse and singing improperly, Davis said.

“I was doing eight shows a week of `Rent’ for four years. When I had a break from `Rent,’ I was using it to sing elsewhere,” she said. “Now I need a vocal coach to make sure I’m singing properly so it doesn’t come back.”

The surgery is scheduled for the end of April; recovery will take about a month. That will allow Davis to go ahead with a national tour of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” co-starring “Idol” winner Ruben Studdard. It’s set to begin this fall in New York.

In 2003, Davis was dropped from “Idol” because of a previous appearance on an adult Web site. In contrast, the Fox talent show took no action this season when contestant David Hernandez’s stint as a nightclub stripper was revealed or when racy photos of Antonella Barba surfaced last season on the Internet.

“I guess I had to be thrown to the wolves to afford these other contestants the luxury of being judged on their talent,” said Davis, 28. “I guess that’s what needed to happen.”

It was “interesting,” she added, that she was punished for something she did at age 19.

Proof That He’s Having a Baby

Stated by (AP) An Oregon man who used to be a woman says he is pregnant with a baby girl.Thomas Beatie’s first-person story appears in a recent issue of The Advocate, a Los Angeles-based newsmagazine for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.

According to the story, Thomas was born a woman but decided to become a transgender male and legally changed his sex to male. He had his breasts surgically removed and started bimonthly testosterone injections, but kept his vagina.

Now identifying as male, Thomas legally married Nancy, the story says. The pair wanted a biological baby but Nancy was unable to carry a child. So they decided Thomas would.

“How does it feel to be a pregnant man?” Thomas writes in the article. “Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child . . . I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.”

Before getting pregnant he stopped injecting testosterone, and his body “regulated itself after about four months,” he writes in The Advocate.

One year and nine doctors later, Thomas got pregnant, but the pregnancy was ectopic, and rarer still, with triplets. After surgery, Thomas lost all his embryos and his right fallopian tube.

But the second pregnancy has been a success, writes Thomas: “We are happily awaiting her birth, with an estimated due date of July 3, 2008.

How Rap Is A Good Thing

there was a time in the 1960’s and 70’s were black people were strong and creative and intelligent  and they were a threat to white america …. so they ( and i rather not say who they is ) developed drugs to disrupt the progress of a race and it includes mexicans and asian americans as well …. and it became to difficult to defend their position on top of the social heirarchy so what would be the best thing to do and thats turn them on them selves and fix their gaze on matter that have nothing to do with what we are doing … for example look at basketball yeah a lot of brothas was playing basket ball growing … but they did get an education with it and go on to get good jobs but then as soon as they started to pay out millions in sports …. more of the youth started to dedicate their life to this … with hopes of making lots of money and the millions of people who didnt make it where left with a skill that had no value in the work place … unless you wanted to be a coach …. but the impact of sports was not enough … so in comes rap music where they offered millions of dollars, with nation wide fame and then more and more people flocked to this trend most even dedicating their life to it …. in return developing a skill that is actually useless especially when the content of the music is negative ….. to the point that a whole entire generation is not a threat to economic society … my point is think about how many rappers are doing mixtapes or sellin dope or what ever yaw niggas do, which is in the upper millions of unsigned artist or independent labels … compared to less than 30 actual artist that are making it or who are famous and I dont belive there are more than 30 but my point  is that if all the rappers when into something else like starting a real business or becoming a doctor,  a teacher then where would  society be with 8 million more teachers instead of 8 millions rappers rapping about the same thing ….. which is also why nobody is selling any records ( which is a whole nother blog) but as me being a real business man with a real business ….. i am on the same side as the other people that chose not to name … Because with more rappers rapping and making beats and girls trynna get in videos … there is less competition for me and my company by some young, creative and more intelligent person than myself  ….. which goes with a quote “to let sleeping dogs ly ” hahaha… while the dog sleeps i break in the house and get it all for myself …. God Bless America

Myspace Monday ( I hate to be ignored )

The website myspace is the best place to meet people, when it is based on looks only and yeah alot of times thats not their picture but a picture that was stolen from somebody elses page. but thats a whole nother Blog ….. but today imma talk about sending messages and for me being the guy i attempt to reach out and introduce my self properly to a woman that i think is attractive and maybe im not putting the right stuff in the message but the thing i hate is when i send them a message and they read the message but dont respond and i do understand that some girls have lots of freinds that are trying to do the same thing that im trynna do which is meet in person …. so they might have so many messages that they can only read them and not respond …. but all girls seem to do this so i need some sort of imput on this situation … are these girls playing hard to get on cyber space am i ugly www.myspace.com/shonmartin , or do i not understand proper myspace courtship … i hate to be ignored