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--The Mississippi native also recited the oft-told story of her grandmother, a servant in 1950s Mississippi, whose hope for young Oprah was that she'd "get some good white folks" to work for someday. "I regret that she didn't live past 1963 and see that I did get some really good white folks - working for me," Winfrey said.
--"My integrity is not for sale, and neither is yours," Winfrey said
--"Do not be a slave to any form of selling out."
--"Many of you may be wondering what you will do with this education. Don’t worry, relax, you’re in good hands, because God’s got your back."
--"I speak of what is possible, and I am a symbol of what is possible"
--"The TV executives told me it was too much, I was too big, I was too black, I was too emotional."
--"They said 'we think Susie is a good name,'" Oprah recalled, "I said 'I think I will keep my name.'"

Salud!

Christopher is dead...

but at least he's not "Johnny Cakes"...

and I think we all miss Adriana.

The Wrath of Dee Snyder

One Twisted Sister!

New York

NO, NOT THAT ONE!!

New York City!

The Shepherd and friends in a car on Saturday…(sunset looms).

We’re waiting to make a right hand turn because an Asian girl is crossing the street. Waiting at the light is a car full of Puerto Ricans….windows down, music blaring, flag hanging from the rearview mirror…you know the situation. Basically a car full of Yankees fans.

An eerie silence falls on New York City…

Just in time to see one of the guys in the car stick his head out and yell to the young Asian woman crossing in front of their car,

“I like yo’ big ass head!”

There's A Shooter!! GET DOWN!! (Psych!)

Staff members of Scales Elementary School in Tennessee staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. The mock attack was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park. "We got together and discussed what we would have done in a real situation," the principal said but the situation "involved poor judgment."

During the last night of the trip, staff members convinced the 69 students that there was a gunman on the loose. They were told to lie on the floor or hide underneath tables and stay quiet. A teacher, disguised in a hooded sweat shirt, even pulled on a locked door. After the lights went out, about 20 kids started to cry, 11-year-old Shay Naylor said. "I was like, 'Oh My God,' " she said. "At first I thought I was going to die. We flipped out."

"The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.

The parents of the sixth-grade students are outraged.

Good Cop. Bad Cop. (…or really cool cop?)

A police officer will avoid criminal charges despite admitting he took marijuana from criminal suspects and, with his wife, baked it into brownies.

"If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real bad," said City Councilman Doug Thomas.

The department's investigation began with a 911 call from Sanchez's home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.

"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."

Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.

What Did You Eat For Breakfast?

MORTAL KOMBAT!

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Sweet Love

Like only Arnold can...

Little LuLu,

...pay the bills with this guitar.