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Black America needs to deal with the truth about how Bill Cosby viewed a lot of Black Americans . Let's go over the infamous "Pound Cake" speech once more . Richard Pryor's ex-wife was never a fan of Cosby.  There's also the story of when Bill Cosby's daughter accused Mike Tyson of raping her . 

Dad goes to school to pick up daughter, finds out daughter was made to do runs during basketball practice, proceeds to beat the crap out of assistant coach .

In a county in North Carolina, you have conservative prudes rejecting a state grant because the money is going to something remotely sexual (yet educational) in nature... while in California's L.A. a strip club donates money to a Little League to keep it afloat . Which has me thinking; would small government conservatives be so big on getting private sector help if said help came from places like strip clubs?

She says her daughters aren't allowed to ask boys out, and that they have to wait at home until one calls . Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

It's not a holiday for everyone .

Mama birds sure are proactive : By changing conditions within the egg, canary mothers leave a message for their developing chicks about the life they will face after birth. In response, nestlings adjust the development of their begging behaviour. If chicks get a message that they will be reared by generous parents then they beg more vigorously for food after hatching. But chicks that are destined to be raised by meaner parents end up being much less demanding. By attending to messages in the egg, nestlings gain weight more rapidly because they match their demands to the parents' supply of food, and can avoid either begging too little or wasting effort on unrewarded begging.

Wowzers . ROME (Reuters) – An Italian woman who hired two assassins to murder her overbearing father was arrested after the second hitman changed his mind and confessed to the police, authorities said Tuesday. Nineteen-year-old Ilenia Moretti had asked her father Rodolfo for 5,000 euros ($6,756) for a trip to America before using the money to hire a hitman to kill him, apparently with her mother's consent, a police statement said. The teen-ager, from the small town of Luzzara near the northern Italian city of Milan, told authorities she could no longer bear her despotic father's ways. "She said she wanted to bring to an end years of intimidation suffered by both daughter and mother," an investigator said in the statement. The hitman, thought to be a young north African, pocketed the money before going to the police. His confession led police to re-examine details of a previous attack on Rodolfo Mo...

Because she (and Punky Brewster) were/are awesome.

Apparently, parents have stopped caring .

... celebrity mother fail .

I don't exactly believe in a person being punished for the actions or another family member, but you have to question Mike Huckabee's parenting skills when you hear stories like this . Now what does this say about Huckabee as a potential president? Well, in regards to his son's actions, not much...but if Huckabee did go to great lengths to cover up Junior's trespasses, who's to say he wouldn't do that if he fucks up during his first term in office? One quick call to the FBI, CIA or Justice Department and...viola! Problem ignored and averted! Things like this are what some people call "Red Flags."

From MSNBC.com : TAYLOR, Mich. - A woman’s five children were in protective custody after she was charged with offering to let an undercover investigator have sex with her 7-year-old daughter. The 33-year-old woman, from the Detroit suburb of Taylor, was arrested Friday night after bringing the girl to a hotel in Romulus, near Detroit Metropolitan Airport, where she had agreed to meet the investigator, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department said.