According to the Chicago Tribune April 22nd article, The US Supreme Court put new limits on police officers searching your vehicle. In a surprise, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers can only check your vehicle if weapons are potentially in reach of the suspect, or if there is reason to believe the car contains evidence related to an arrest.

This was of light of an incident that happened Tuscan, AZ. Rodney Gant was arrested for driving on a suspended lisecense. The officers found a gun and cocaine in his jacket when they searched his vehicle. He was then convicted on drug charges. The Arizona Supreme Court throw out the evidence on grounds that the search of the car without warrant was unreasonable.

Did you hear that! Those are the only reasons that officers can now search your car under the new laws. So don't let an officer ever tell you that he or she can search your vehicle for other reasons. That is a direct violation of your constitutional rights! Go out into your respective communities and let everyone know, so that they can now understand their rights!

British scientists, according to the Chicago Tribune, announced today that two planets have been found that are similiar to earth.  One is call Gliese 581e, which is a small rocky planet.   A second planet, conveniently named Gliese 581d is in the prime habitual zome for life.  The article went further to state that scientists now use a "holy grail" technology in exoplanet research to locate potential planets similiar to earth. 

That sounds very eerie to me! Who in the hell is to say that researchers haven't already gone to these places, via temporal portals?  I do not see how any technology determines a potential for a planet to have life. This is another ploy setting us up for the ultimate visitation from extra- terrestrials.  I predict within five years we will see new lifeforms discovered by researchers!

Man I am so tired of throwing together projects for the kids to work on, just because we have the big wigs coming for an event.  It would seem this is a common thing, and when no one comes to visit the kids act a fool and play all day long, I mumbled angrily to myself.  Been running around all day trying to get the kids to work on various things and they refuse to do as told! And than this braud wants me to lie and pretend that everytying is okay.  She really got her nerve!

That was the other day.  Today as follows:  Sam wants to have a meeting with you today, to discuss some comments you made.  Oh Ok, let me finish up on this project I am working on with Tavarus.  After, about ten minutes I went to the director anticipating new drama.  And I was not disappointed!  Within tw seconds she reminded me what a poor job I was doing.  Yet she reinterated how I should be on my "best behavior" to impress the money that was coming to the center.  I reassured her that I would do my best to make her proud.  Little did she know, the unraveling of her fortunes would soon begin. 

Well she be damned!  I've been running around here for weeks, anticipating my conference trip to Mexico.  Come to find out, I aint going!  Can you believe this?  This crazy broad has done lost her mind!  I am sitting here thinking about what is the attire, and the schedule for the conference (which is next week by the way).  So I go up to ask her my concerns, and she just cooly tells me not to worry about such things for I was not going.  I'm like, what do you mean?  She has the audacity to tell me that she informed me at last week's meeting that only Shanice and Curtis would be going, due to budget constraints.  (Budget constraints my ass, this lying ass bia, I'm thinking.)   I proceed to tell her that there was no notification that I was not going, and it's real bogus how this whole situation has gone down.  She proceed to say its a directors decision which she can make.  I state whatever and just walk away

Once again I have been fooled to believe that everything was going okay.  You try to do your job and keep a positive attitude on things, and hell seems to always find you.  No matter what!  I know this is ridiculous how life can not be peaches and cream.  I really should not be shocked about this at all!  Oh well I will just keep on going until God says otherwise!

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"I really appreciate you guys," Mrs. Hell sobbed.  "I remember when this was just a summer program, and we were open for only a few months.  (Skinting her eyes so that tears could come out.)  This is the first year that our doors have been open all year long.  That's why I am sending all of you all to Mexico for a training workshop on computers.  This will help you develope your skills.  As a model I've traveled all over the world, and have seen many places, so there is no need for me to go.  I know without you all here at WYTEC, the center would be unable to run smoothly (still trying to sob).  It has been a hard struggle to make it here, for God has brought me this far."

I was thinking wow, maybe she can be nice after all.  I could have misjudged her.  One can never know a person until they see their raw form.  Or is this just an act.  Perhaps she deserves an academy award for her labors.  I guess time can only tell.

Yeah, that's how it all began, as I took a moment for a deep and long sigh. Ahh hugghhh!  I'm tired on reflecting about my earlier days here at Hell Tech.  My head started to hurt, as my face was beginning to frown in disgust.  Let me clock back in to reality.  Which leads us to the current time period April of 06.'

Today, Mrs. Hell is being honored as a distinguished woman in Chicago by the mayor.  Lucky us we get to go downtown for a dinner gala.  I'll give her props for being a Black woman making it in America.   Yet one should be more humble and thankful through her thoughts and actions.  Plus, if the mayor knew how much work the staff did, and that it was a collective effort, how much honor should be really given to her?  We all should be right in front on staqge with her.  For without us, there surely would be no organization.  You should see her face, looking like a cheetah, beaming from ear to ear, for she loves to get accolades and be in the spot light.  All of teens are asked to accompany us for this fine occasssion, so she can "show" them other distinguished women.  In other words show off! I still aint gone hate.  It just kills me how lies and deception sometimes are a stepping stone to get ahead, go figure.

Well, here we are brown nosing with the uppity folks.  A bunch of snobbish people trying to be more than they really are.  Here comes this crazy salesman.  I should know, Ii use to do same thing.  "Hey check out this fine product"  What I tell you. "No thanks,"  I tell him sending him on his way.  Soon later, it's picture time with the mayor, and we all run up to the stage.  Damn, we got seperated, well at least the director is in the first picture.  Before the camera snapped with me standing right next to the mayor, like a bat out of hell the director crashed the party pushing me and a teen out the way, yelling "I'm the woman of the hour." Just to get another picture next to the mayor.  The kids and I talked about her like a dog on the bus ride back.  Oh well I'll just chalk her ignorance to the game.  For some are just born ignant and is beyond help.

Lifestyles Report...Hair scare

 By Debbie Norrell

 

A little over a year ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about ingredients
in hair care products used by African-Americans possibly leading to breast
cancer. I was selected because I am a 15-year Breast cancer survivor.
I agreed to do the interview. However at the end of

The taping I didn't know anything more about the study than before the

Cameras started rolling.

 

Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance

Writer Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a feature

On the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we still

Did not have a list of the products. Battle gave me the list that didn't

Make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studio's

Promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have seen

The stories on television or read about this issue in the paper and they

Want to know which products to be concerned about.

 

However I wanted to give you more so I went to the Internet and looked for
articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one entitled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines Environmental Suspects (update Spring 2005).

 

The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new

Center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in African-Americans

Under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much breast cancer as do white

Women.



 The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based
cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care
products and other personal products regularly used by African-American young
women and their mothers.

 

More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair

Care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for higher

Cancer rates in this population. I've started to carry copies of the list in

My purse but we're going to share it with you right here. The list

Simply says: The following is a list of products that have previously been

Found to contain hormones:

 

Placenta Shampoo

Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner

Placenta revitalizing shampoo

Perm Repair with placenta

Proline Perm Repair with placenta

Hormone hair food Jojoba oil

Triple action super grow

Supreme Vita-Gro

Luster's Sur Glo Hormone

B & B Super Gro

Lekair natural Super Glo

Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E

Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine

Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner

Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO>

Hask Placenta Hair conditioner

Nu Skin body smoother

Nu Skin Enhancer

 The majority of
these products contain placental extract, placenta,
hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and
director of the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory
that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of
breast cancer.

 

Davis also says, "most
cases of breast cancer are not born, but made

And the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her
lifetime, the greater

Her risk of breast cancer."

 

We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair

And our bodies and demand that more information about our health is

Shared.

 

Ladies and gentlemen beware.

(Email the columnist at debbienorrell.Com.)

HOW TO HANDLE A HUSBAND

A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on the beaches
in Montego Bay , Jamaica .

Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town.
People would say, 'What a peaceful & loving couple'

The local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their
long and happy marriage.

The Husband replied: 'Well, it dates back to our honeymoon in
America ,' explained the man.

'We visited the Grand Canyon, in Arizona , and took
a trip down to the bottom of the canyon, by horse.
We hadn't gone too far when my wife's horse stumbled
and she almost fell off.

My wife looked down at the horse and quietly said, 'That's once.'

We proceeded a little further and her horse stumbled again. Again my
wife quietly sai d, 'That's twice.'

We hadn't gone a half-mile when the horse stumbled for the third time
my wife quietly removed a revolver from her purse and shot the horse dead.

I SHOUTED at her, 'What's wrong with you, Woman! Why did you shoot the
poor animal like that, are you *%&#@$ crazy!?'

She looked at ME, and q uietly said, 'That's once.'

And from that moment..... we have lived happily every after.'

May this encourage you always.....

 
Don't spend major time with minor people. If there are people in your life
that continually disappoint you, break promises, stomp on your dreams,are
judgmental, have different values and don't give their backing during
difficult times...that is not a friend. 
 
To have a friend, be a friend. Sometimes in life as you grow, your friends
will either grow or go. Surround yourself with people who reflect values,
goals, interests by their lifestyle. 

When I think of any of my successes, I am thankful to God from whom all
blessings flow, and to my family and friends that enrich my life. 
Over the years my phone book has changed because I changed for the better.
At first you think you're going to be alone, but after a while new people
show up in your life that make your life so much sweeter and easier to
endure. 
 
Remember what your elders used to say, 'Birds of a feather flock together.
If you're an eagle, don't hang around chickens: 

Chickens Can't Fly! 
 
I love the Lord and thank Him for all that he does in my life, therefore,
I'm sharing this with you. Yes I do love the Lord. He is my source of
existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning each and everyday......
Without Him, I would be nothing. 
 
Without Him, I am nothing but with Him I can do all things. Phil 4:13 
 
Be Positive - Be Progressive -
Take the time to make a positive difference in someone's life. 
 
Walk by faith 
 
Not by sight 
 
Receive God's blessings!

In the year 2008, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States , and said, 'Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. 

Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans'

He gave Noah the blueprints, saying, 'You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights.' 

Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark.

'Noah!' He roared, 'I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark ?'

'Forgive me, Lord,' begged Noah, 'but things have changed. I needed a building permit. I've been arguing with the inspector about the need for a sprinkler system. My neighbors claim that I've violated the neighborhood zoning laws by building the Ark in my yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the Development Appeal Board for a decision. 

Then the Department of Transportation demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark 's move to the sea. I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it. 

Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go!

When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group sued me. 

They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodations were too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space.

Then the EPA ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood. 

I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed to hire for my building crew.

Immigration and Naturalization are checking the green-card status of most of the people who want to work. 

The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience.

To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species. 

So, forg ive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark. '

Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow stretched across the sky.  Noah looked up in wonder and asked, 'You mean you're not going to destroy the world?' 

'No,' said the Lord. 'The government beat me to it.'