Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Oscars weren't Nearly PC Enough!—The New York Times
“Race-Obsessed and Fanatical About Sniffing Out Oppression Wherever It Does Not Exist, the Mad-Dog Diversity Enforcers of 42nd Street Spit on the Oscars with a Vehemence Extreme Even for Them”
That’s the newest headline at Crimes of the Times, a blog devoted to “Exposing the Criminal Liberal Bias of America’s Newspaper of Record.”
Citing Salon, of all places, Crimes blogger Artur speaks of the middle-aged and older white men who dominate Hollywood:
True, but all whites increasingly avoid movie theaters. Just the other day, a non-white immigrant friend pointed out to me that blacks have made movie theaters no-go zones over much of the country. I figured that my friend was referring to all of the vicious, racist assaults of white patrons. But no, it’s more basic even than that, covering stuff like blacks shoving whites in line, while waiting for tickets or snacks, and of course, shouting their heads off during the picture.
At some point, theater operators stopped enforcing basic manners, where blacks are concerned. And influential blacks, like writer Esther Iverem, responded over 20 years ago to their own “brothers’” and “sisters’” uncivilized behavior by going to movie theaters in white areas—and then venting their spleens against whites!
By Nicholas Stix
“Race-Obsessed and Fanatical About Sniffing Out Oppression Wherever It Does Not Exist, the Mad-Dog Diversity Enforcers of 42nd Street Spit on the Oscars with a Vehemence Extreme Even for Them”
That’s the newest headline at Crimes of the Times, a blog devoted to “Exposing the Criminal Liberal Bias of America’s Newspaper of Record.”
Citing Salon, of all places, Crimes blogger Artur speaks of the middle-aged and older white men who dominate Hollywood:
The Academy Awards emanate from a closed universe of movie industry insiders, who are overwhelmingly rich white guys over age 50 (in the real world, one of the demographic groups least likely to go see movies in the theater).
True, but all whites increasingly avoid movie theaters. Just the other day, a non-white immigrant friend pointed out to me that blacks have made movie theaters no-go zones over much of the country. I figured that my friend was referring to all of the vicious, racist assaults of white patrons. But no, it’s more basic even than that, covering stuff like blacks shoving whites in line, while waiting for tickets or snacks, and of course, shouting their heads off during the picture.
At some point, theater operators stopped enforcing basic manners, where blacks are concerned. And influential blacks, like writer Esther Iverem, responded over 20 years ago to their own “brothers’” and “sisters’” uncivilized behavior by going to movie theaters in white areas—and then venting their spleens against whites!
By Nicholas Stix
Friday, February 24, 2012
Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown is Addicted to Drugs, and Desperately Needs Rehab—Whitney Houston Family Source
Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown arrives at Whigham Funeral Home for a private viewing for her mother Whitney Houston on February 17, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey. (Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)
The grave site of singer Whitney Houston and her father, John Russell Houston Jr., in the East Ridge section of the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. (Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)
The poor kid was screwed before she was even born. Her mother was already a junkie when she was pregnant, and it would be a miracle if Bobbi Kristina wasn't born with drugs in her system.
Mother and daughter, undated
Note that the Chicago Tribune writer below, Andrea Reiher, sounds more like a Houston groupie than a reporter:
During the same period in 2005, maybe even the same day, at 41 years of age, but looking more like 60
Whitney Houston's family: Bobbi Kristina should be in rehab - report
By Andrea Reiher
1:46 p.m. CST, February 20, 2012
Chicago Tribune
A source close to the family of Whitney Houston tells TMZ that the family members think 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina needs to be in a rehab facility as soon as possible, but that they are waiting until after the funeral to tell Bobbi.
Houston “had to delay 24 hours a concert in Barcelona because of gastroenteritis,” February 2005. I never heard of anyone getting gastroenteritis from a crack pipe.
The sources say Bobbi has fought substance abuse for the past three to four years and the family thinks she needs to get professional help in a live-in treatment facility, particularly in light of Whitney's alleged use of alcohol and prescription drugs in the weeks leading up to her death.
The sources also say, though, that they are not putting pressure on Bobbi Kristina right away, as she needs time to grieve her mother's passing.
We hope that if Bobbi Kristina needs help that she can get the help that she needs. Her mother died far too young.
Singing a duet with Kelly Price less than 48 hours before her death, February 9, 2012
[Previously, on Whitney Houston, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”;
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston”;
“Hosts of KFI’s John & Ken Show Suspended for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquistas Demand Termination; Prosecution to Follow?”
“Whitney Houston Singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991): Did She Set the Standard?”;
“Whitney Houston’s Family Refuses to Invite Her Ex, Bobby Brown to Her Funeral Service, Then Invites Him, but (Says Brown) Harasses Him, Until He Walks Out”;
“Whitney Houston and That Ragged Old Flag: Fallen War Hero Eric T. Burri’s Father Protests N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s Sacrilege”; and
“Whitney Houston: N.J. Town’s Mayor Just Says No to Gov. Chris Christie on Flag Sacrilege.”]
Posted by Nicholas Stix
Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown arrives at Whigham Funeral Home for a private viewing for her mother Whitney Houston on February 17, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey. (Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)
The grave site of singer Whitney Houston and her father, John Russell Houston Jr., in the East Ridge section of the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, N.J. (Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images)The poor kid was screwed before she was even born. Her mother was already a junkie when she was pregnant, and it would be a miracle if Bobbi Kristina wasn't born with drugs in her system.
Note that the Chicago Tribune writer below, Andrea Reiher, sounds more like a Houston groupie than a reporter:
We hope that if Bobbi Kristina needs help that she can get the help that she needs. Her mother died far too young.
Whitney Houston's family: Bobbi Kristina should be in rehab - report
By Andrea Reiher
1:46 p.m. CST, February 20, 2012
Chicago Tribune
A source close to the family of Whitney Houston tells TMZ that the family members think 18-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina needs to be in a rehab facility as soon as possible, but that they are waiting until after the funeral to tell Bobbi.
Houston “had to delay 24 hours a concert in Barcelona because of gastroenteritis,” February 2005. I never heard of anyone getting gastroenteritis from a crack pipe.The sources say Bobbi has fought substance abuse for the past three to four years and the family thinks she needs to get professional help in a live-in treatment facility, particularly in light of Whitney's alleged use of alcohol and prescription drugs in the weeks leading up to her death.
The sources also say, though, that they are not putting pressure on Bobbi Kristina right away, as she needs time to grieve her mother's passing.
We hope that if Bobbi Kristina needs help that she can get the help that she needs. Her mother died far too young.
[Previously, on Whitney Houston, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”;
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston”;
“Hosts of KFI’s John & Ken Show Suspended for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquistas Demand Termination; Prosecution to Follow?”
“Whitney Houston Singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991): Did She Set the Standard?”;
“Whitney Houston’s Family Refuses to Invite Her Ex, Bobby Brown to Her Funeral Service, Then Invites Him, but (Says Brown) Harasses Him, Until He Walks Out”;
“Whitney Houston and That Ragged Old Flag: Fallen War Hero Eric T. Burri’s Father Protests N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s Sacrilege”; and
“Whitney Houston: N.J. Town’s Mayor Just Says No to Gov. Chris Christie on Flag Sacrilege.”]
Posted by Nicholas Stix
Thursday, February 23, 2012
They’re Burning Books in Berlin… Again
By Nicholas Stix
Book Burning in Berlin: National Socialists Then; Racial Socialists Now
May 10, 1933
“DEUTSCHLAND SCHAFFT ES AB” (GERMANY GETS RID OF IT) – 2012 Book Burning
A tip ‘o the flaming torch to Steve Sailer.
By Nicholas Stix
Book Burning in Berlin: National Socialists Then; Racial Socialists Now
A tip ‘o the flaming torch to Steve Sailer.
Monday, February 20, 2012
That Ragged Old Flag: Did Whitney Houston Deserve to Have All Flags in NJ Flown at Half-Mast? Fallen War Hero Eric T. Burri’s Father Protests Gov. Chris Christie’s Act of Sacrilege
Army Specialist Eric T. Burri died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq
A flag at half-mast in Newark, NJ, as per the order of Republican Gov. Chris Christie, February 18, 2012
Did Whitney Houston die for her country?
Johnny Cash: That Ragged Old Flag
February 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Dad of fallen Michigan soldier burns N.J. flag to protest Houston tribute
By Steve Pardo
The Detroit News
75 Comments
Wyoming, Mich. - A Michigan man whose son was killed while on patrol in Iraq in 2005 burned the New Jersey flag on his outdoor grill in protest after learning flags in that state were ordered flown at half-staff for the death of Whitney Houston.
John Burri said lowering of flags should be for those who have given their lives for their country.
"It was a slap in the face. It cheapens the meaning of lowering that flag," said Burri, 60. "They're watering down the meaning of a hero."
Burri traveled to Flags Unlimited in nearby Grand Rapids and bought a New Jersey flag - just so he could burn it.
"It was $12.95 and it was the best money I ever spent," he said.
He purposely slammed it in his trunk and drove it home but at first passing through a veteran's memorial park in Wyoming where there's a brick with his son's name on it, in his honor.
"I didn't do this to offend the people of New Jersey," he said. "If I did and you're offended, I'm sorry. But I did this because it was wrong and it was to show the governor (of New Jersey) how wrong this was."
His son, Army Specialist Eric T. Burri, died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq. Burri, 21 of Wyoming, just south of Grand Rapids was killed when an improvised explosive device went off near his vehicle in Baghdad. Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered flags to be lowered on June 15, 2005 for one day in honor of his service.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was criticized for his decision to order flags to be flown at half-staff. In published reports on Wednesday, he defended his decision. Christie said Houston was a "cultural icon" who was as source of pride to New Jersey residents.
Granholm absorbed criticism of her own in 2003 after she decreed that flags be lowered for every Michigan soldier killed in the line of duty. Defenders of the U.S. Flag Code said she went too far. The national flag code, adopted in 1942, says the flag shall be flown at half staff by order of the president " … upon the death of principal figures of the United States government and the governor of a state, territory or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory.
At the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs website The flag should be flown at half-staff when directed by the president or the governor.
President George W. Bush in 2007 signed into a law a bill named after a Michigan soldier killed in Iraq that requires federal facilities to observe a governor's decree for flags to be flown at half staff to honor slain soldiers.
The bill was named after Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks, a 22-year-old Rapid River man killed July 8, 2006 in Ar Ramadi after an explosive device went off near his vehicle during combat operations.
Then-U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, said he learned of "uneven respect" in areas of the state when it came to lowering flags by a governor decree. The legislation would "ensure consistency in how we honor fallen heroes," Stupak said in 2007.
spardo@detnews.com
(313) 222-2112
[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this story.
Previously, on Whitney Houston, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”;
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston”;
“Hosts of KFI’s John & Ken Show Suspended for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquistas Demand Termination; Prosecution to Follow?”
“Whitney Houston Singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991): Did She Set the Standard?”; and
“Whitney Houston’s Family Refuses to Invite Her Ex, Bobby Brown to Her Funeral Service, Then Invites Him, but (Says Brown) Harasses Him, Until He Walks Out.”]
A Different Johnny Cash Performance: 1990, at Star Spangled Branson
Thanks to Hippekuln!
Army Specialist Eric T. Burri died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq
A flag at half-mast in Newark, NJ, as per the order of Republican Gov. Chris Christie, February 18, 2012 
Johnny Cash: That Ragged Old Flag
February 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Dad of fallen Michigan soldier burns N.J. flag to protest Houston tribute
By Steve Pardo
The Detroit News
75 Comments
Wyoming, Mich. - A Michigan man whose son was killed while on patrol in Iraq in 2005 burned the New Jersey flag on his outdoor grill in protest after learning flags in that state were ordered flown at half-staff for the death of Whitney Houston.
John Burri said lowering of flags should be for those who have given their lives for their country.
"It was a slap in the face. It cheapens the meaning of lowering that flag," said Burri, 60. "They're watering down the meaning of a hero."
Burri traveled to Flags Unlimited in nearby Grand Rapids and bought a New Jersey flag - just so he could burn it.
"It was $12.95 and it was the best money I ever spent," he said.
He purposely slammed it in his trunk and drove it home but at first passing through a veteran's memorial park in Wyoming where there's a brick with his son's name on it, in his honor.
"I didn't do this to offend the people of New Jersey," he said. "If I did and you're offended, I'm sorry. But I did this because it was wrong and it was to show the governor (of New Jersey) how wrong this was."
His son, Army Specialist Eric T. Burri, died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq. Burri, 21 of Wyoming, just south of Grand Rapids was killed when an improvised explosive device went off near his vehicle in Baghdad. Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered flags to be lowered on June 15, 2005 for one day in honor of his service.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was criticized for his decision to order flags to be flown at half-staff. In published reports on Wednesday, he defended his decision. Christie said Houston was a "cultural icon" who was as source of pride to New Jersey residents.
Granholm absorbed criticism of her own in 2003 after she decreed that flags be lowered for every Michigan soldier killed in the line of duty. Defenders of the U.S. Flag Code said she went too far. The national flag code, adopted in 1942, says the flag shall be flown at half staff by order of the president " … upon the death of principal figures of the United States government and the governor of a state, territory or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory.
At the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs website The flag should be flown at half-staff when directed by the president or the governor.
President George W. Bush in 2007 signed into a law a bill named after a Michigan soldier killed in Iraq that requires federal facilities to observe a governor's decree for flags to be flown at half staff to honor slain soldiers.
The bill was named after Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks, a 22-year-old Rapid River man killed July 8, 2006 in Ar Ramadi after an explosive device went off near his vehicle during combat operations.
Then-U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, said he learned of "uneven respect" in areas of the state when it came to lowering flags by a governor decree. The legislation would "ensure consistency in how we honor fallen heroes," Stupak said in 2007.
spardo@detnews.com
(313) 222-2112
[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this story.
Previously, on Whitney Houston, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”;
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston”;
“Hosts of KFI’s John & Ken Show Suspended for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquistas Demand Termination; Prosecution to Follow?”
“Whitney Houston Singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991): Did She Set the Standard?”; and
“Whitney Houston’s Family Refuses to Invite Her Ex, Bobby Brown to Her Funeral Service, Then Invites Him, but (Says Brown) Harasses Him, Until He Walks Out.”]
A Different Johnny Cash Performance: 1990, at Star Spangled Branson
Thanks to Hippekuln!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
KFI AM 640 Suspends John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, Hosts of The John & Ken Show, for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquista Media Thugs Demand Pair's Termination; Could Hosts Land in Jail?
John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of WFI AM 640's The John & Ken Show
Reconquistas demanding that John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of WFI AM 640's The John & Ken Show, be silenced, October 13, 2011
By Nicholas Stix
My title exaggerates only slightly. Increasingly, white men are being imprisoned merely for offending racist blacks.
[Previously, on both Whitney Houston, and white men who have been jailed for offending blacks, at WEJB/NSU:
“O Canada!—Modern Show Trials”;
“Report from Occupied America: Free the Mizzou Two!;
“There’s Your Dialogue on Race: Three White Louisiana Men Convicted of a Hate Crime for Hanging a Dead Raccoon from a Flag Pole”;
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”; and
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston.”]
Houston in early 2005; 41 years old, but looking more like 60
* * *
Radio Hosts Suspended After Calling Whitney Houston “Crack Ho,” “Bag Lady”
February 17, 2012 9:20 a.m.
CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBS) – Two of the Southland’s most outspoken radio personalities will go silent all next week after making controversial remarks about the passing of Whitney Houston.
KFI AM 640 suspended John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of the “John and Ken Show,” for “making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston,” it said in a statement Thursday.
“Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind,” the station said.
According to audio posted online at UrbanInformer.com, the hosts called the late singer a “crack ho” who was “cracked out for 20 years” and left looking like a “bag lady” after she “blew through” her fortune.
Houston, circa 2011, with hair extensions
The popular on-air duo even asked “It took this long?” when discussing her untimely death. [N.S.: “Untimely”?]
Kobylt said in statement that he and Chiampou “used language that was inappropriate” and they “sincerely apologize” to their listeners and to Houston’s family.
“We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision,” said Kobylt.
The hosts, who broadcast their show weekday afternoons, will return to the airwaves Feb. 27.
Kobylt and Chiampou often rail against taxes and illegal immigration. The National Hispanic Media Coalition said last year that it targeted the show’s advertisers to urge them to stop backing the program.
The group said the hosts promote hate speech and appealed to listeners to call and harass an advocate for immigrant rights about state legislation to give financial aid to illegal immigrant college students.
“A temporary suspension is not enough,” Alex Nogales, president and CEO of NHMC, said in a statement. “How many times do John and Ken get to spew their hate, apologize and then do it again after taking off a long weekend? KFI must permanently remove John and Ken from the air. Los Angeles deserves better.”
The pair will be off the air until Feb. 27.
Reconquistas demanding that John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of WFI AM 640's The John & Ken Show, be silenced, October 13, 2011 By Nicholas Stix
My title exaggerates only slightly. Increasingly, white men are being imprisoned merely for offending racist blacks.
[Previously, on both Whitney Houston, and white men who have been jailed for offending blacks, at WEJB/NSU:
“O Canada!—Modern Show Trials”;
“Report from Occupied America: Free the Mizzou Two!;
“There’s Your Dialogue on Race: Three White Louisiana Men Convicted of a Hate Crime for Hanging a Dead Raccoon from a Flag Pole”;
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”; and
“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston.”]
Radio Hosts Suspended After Calling Whitney Houston “Crack Ho,” “Bag Lady”
February 17, 2012 9:20 a.m.
CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBS) – Two of the Southland’s most outspoken radio personalities will go silent all next week after making controversial remarks about the passing of Whitney Houston.
KFI AM 640 suspended John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, the hosts of the “John and Ken Show,” for “making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston,” it said in a statement Thursday.
“Management does not condone, support or tolerate statements of this kind,” the station said.
According to audio posted online at UrbanInformer.com, the hosts called the late singer a “crack ho” who was “cracked out for 20 years” and left looking like a “bag lady” after she “blew through” her fortune.
The popular on-air duo even asked “It took this long?” when discussing her untimely death. [N.S.: “Untimely”?]
Kobylt said in statement that he and Chiampou “used language that was inappropriate” and they “sincerely apologize” to their listeners and to Houston’s family.
“We made a mistake, and we accept the station’s decision,” said Kobylt.
The hosts, who broadcast their show weekday afternoons, will return to the airwaves Feb. 27.
Kobylt and Chiampou often rail against taxes and illegal immigration. The National Hispanic Media Coalition said last year that it targeted the show’s advertisers to urge them to stop backing the program.
The group said the hosts promote hate speech and appealed to listeners to call and harass an advocate for immigrant rights about state legislation to give financial aid to illegal immigrant college students.
“A temporary suspension is not enough,” Alex Nogales, president and CEO of NHMC, said in a statement. “How many times do John and Ken get to spew their hate, apologize and then do it again after taking off a long weekend? KFI must permanently remove John and Ken from the air. Los Angeles deserves better.”
The pair will be off the air until Feb. 27.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Censorship at Fox! Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Reader’s Memory of Whitney Houston as a Violent Diva
Houston in early 2005, at 41 years of age, but looking more like 60
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending.”]
Houston reunited with husband Bobby Brown in 2003, after a separation; she has apparently just had one of her many catfights
One of my readers re-posted the following recollection of the dead singer.
Quote:
This is how I remember Whitney Houston.
I was working with a club band back in the early 90's and the guitar player worked on a backline crew providing sound and monitors for a Whitney tour rehearsal. I was sitting side stage with him when the monitors started feeding back. She grabbed her mic and slung it at his head from about 30 feet away. Clocked him right out and gave him 10 stitches. The other sound guys started heading her way and her "people" got her off stage. Her Management was quick to offer monetary payoff not to sue and report it. She may have been an icon in her genre but pure diva all the way.... This was after getting with Bobby Brown. People who worked production for her before said she was an angel to work with "Pre-Bobby."
http://able2know.org/topic/184504-1
Circa 2011, with hair extensions
I clicked on the link, and found a page commemorating Houston’s life and work. The above-quoted passage had been re-posted by “panzade,” following the introduction below.
panzade
Sun 12 Feb, 2012 01:31 pm
@izzythepush,
You're absolutely correct izzy, though a friend of mine posted an experience he had with her Divainess 20 years ago that shows she had already begun to show her quirky side. [N.S.: Comment from the top followed.]
Sun 12 Feb, 2012 01:39 pm
izzythepush wrote:
“It's a shame, let's hope she's remembered for her voice.”
hawkeye10 responded,
Being remembered as a cautionary tale of where drugs+self indulgence can lead would be a much better outcome. I have to side with the Christians in the grave who if here would claim that her behavior was an insult to God, her waste of her talent through self indulgence and sin deserving to be condemned loudly and clearly.
"Whitney Houston with Clive Davis Circa 1970." Mistake by ABC News February 13, 2012; pic was more likely, circa 1980. This pic and the one that follows it are the only ones I could find in which Houston looked both attractive and like a real human being, instead of like a plastic mannequin in a wig who had benefited from hours of makeup work, soft focus photography, retouching, airbrushing, and photographic skin lightening. I realize that this was a variation on Hollywood-style treatment, but in her case, it was taken to extremes that not even Hollywood had ever seen. Her fans and the media need to stop promoting the myth whereby she was a stunning beauty. She was a nice-looking girl before she got into drugs; no more, and no less.
* * *
A google search showed that the comment had originally been posted on the Facebook page of the Tampa Bay Fox affiliate, whose censors had since deleted it. The Facebook was initially deluged with comments, but when I checked it, 96 hours after it started posting comments, it had only 50.
Only 50 comments in 96 hours, at a Fox Facebook page? How many comments did they delete?
As a high school senior, 1981
By Nicholas Stix
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:
“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending.”]
One of my readers re-posted the following recollection of the dead singer.
Quote:
This is how I remember Whitney Houston.
I was working with a club band back in the early 90's and the guitar player worked on a backline crew providing sound and monitors for a Whitney tour rehearsal. I was sitting side stage with him when the monitors started feeding back. She grabbed her mic and slung it at his head from about 30 feet away. Clocked him right out and gave him 10 stitches. The other sound guys started heading her way and her "people" got her off stage. Her Management was quick to offer monetary payoff not to sue and report it. She may have been an icon in her genre but pure diva all the way.... This was after getting with Bobby Brown. People who worked production for her before said she was an angel to work with "Pre-Bobby."
http://able2know.org/topic/184504-1
I clicked on the link, and found a page commemorating Houston’s life and work. The above-quoted passage had been re-posted by “panzade,” following the introduction below.
panzade
Sun 12 Feb, 2012 01:31 pm
@izzythepush,
You're absolutely correct izzy, though a friend of mine posted an experience he had with her Divainess 20 years ago that shows she had already begun to show her quirky side. [N.S.: Comment from the top followed.]
Sun 12 Feb, 2012 01:39 pm
izzythepush wrote:
“It's a shame, let's hope she's remembered for her voice.”
hawkeye10 responded,
Being remembered as a cautionary tale of where drugs+self indulgence can lead would be a much better outcome. I have to side with the Christians in the grave who if here would claim that her behavior was an insult to God, her waste of her talent through self indulgence and sin deserving to be condemned loudly and clearly.
A google search showed that the comment had originally been posted on the Facebook page of the Tampa Bay Fox affiliate, whose censors had since deleted it. The Facebook was initially deluged with comments, but when I checked it, 96 hours after it started posting comments, it had only 50.
Only 50 comments in 96 hours, at a Fox Facebook page? How many comments did they delete?
By Nicholas Stix
Monday, February 13, 2012
Frank Sinatra & Ella Fitzgerald: Chopped Liver? (Mid-Late 1950s)
Liberty Weekend American Concert at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, N.J., Independence Day, 1986
Houston "had to delay 24 hours a concert in Barcelona because of gastroenteritis," February 2005. I never heard of anyone getting gastroenteritis from a crack pipe.
Bathroom of a crackhead: Houston's bathroom in 2006
