KIM KHARDASHIAN’S QUEST TO BECOME ATTORNEY IS REAL.....STOP HATING

KIM KHARDASHIAN’S QUEST TO BECOME ATTORNEY IS REAL.......STOP HATING:

I SUPPORT KIM’S JOURNEY TO COMPLETING HER LEGAL APPRENTICESHIP & PASSING THE BAR.

KIM IS USING HER FAME, PRIVILEGE & VOICE TO HELP FREE WOMEN LIKE CYNTOIA BROWN AND IMPOVERISHED YOUNG MEN.

DON’T HATE HER JUST BECAUSE SHE’S BEAUTIFUL.

KUDOS TO YOU KIM.


Post Sources: TMZ, Youtube


**** KIM KARDASHIAN
I WANNA BE A LAWYER.... Celeb Attorney Says She's Got the Chops!!!


Kim's attorney, Shawn Holley, tells TMZ ... Kim's been authentically interested in the law for a long, long time and adds she's truly interested in being a justice warrior.

Kim Kardashian wants to take the law into her own hands ... by becoming an attorney, and she's aiming to get it done within 3 years.

Kim revealed her legal aspirations -- saying she's actively studying to be a lawyer -- in a Vogue profile. She's not attending a law school, but she does have a master plan to take the bar exam by 2022. 

In order to prepare for that, she has begun a 4-year apprenticeship at a San Francisco-based law firm ... which she got started last summer with support and consulting from Van Jones and attorney Jessica Jackson.

Her reason for embarking on this difficult road ... Alice Marie Johnson.

As you know ... Kim played a huge role in getting the ex-con released early by lobbying President Trump and even showing up to talk to him face-to-face.
Well, turns out that experience had a bigger impact on Kim than some might've expected. She says, "I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, sh*t. I need to know more."

Kim adds, "I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair. But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It’s never one person who gets things done; it’s always a collective of people, and I’ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society."

Interestingly enough, Kim's been told in the past by her own attorneys that she's got the chops to be a real deal attorney. Looks like she's taking that to heart. Of course, she'd be following in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian.

For the record ... Kim does NOT need to go to law school in order to become a licensed lawyer. She just needs to pass the bar, which she's studying to do right now. Good luck!!!

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***** State-by-State Guide to Law Apprenticeships:


Here is some basic information about eight states’ rules for bar admission for apprentices. Please see each state’s bar admissions rules for additional details and information on how to register as an apprentice.

California: California’s complete bar admission rules are at this link.  Requires 4 years of study in a law office, at least 18 hours per week, 5 hours of direct supervision, monthly exams, bi-annual progress reports to the CA State Bar. Supervising attorney must have 5 years of active law practice in the state.
Vermont: Vermont’s updated bar admission rules are at this link. See Rule 7 [previously Section 6(g)(1)]. Requires 4 years of study in a law office. Supervising attorney must have 3 years of experience. 

Virginia: Virginia’s complete Law Reader Program rules are at this link. Requires 3 years of law office study, 40 weeks per year, 25 hours per week, with 3 hours per week of direct supervision by attorney. Supervising attorney must have at least 10 years of experience. Note that the apprentice may not be employed by or compensated by the supervising attorney.

Washington: Washington’s complete bar admission rules are at this link. The Admission to Practice Rule (APR) 6 Law Clerk Program requirements can be found here. Requires 4 years of employment in a law office, an average of 32 hours of work/study per week, 3 hours per week of direct attorney supervision.  Supervising attorney must have 10 years of experience. Apprentices must pay an annual fee of $1,500. Note that the apprentice must be employed by the attorney.
States requiring some law school, but not the full three years:

Maine: Maine’s complete bar admission rules are at this link.  See Rule 10(c)(5).  Maine requires at least two years of law school study, followed by one year of study in a law office.
New York:  New York’s complete bar admission rules are at this link. See Section 520.4.  New York requires at least one year of law school. The remaining law study may be done in a law office, so long as there is an aggregate of four years of law school study and law office study.

* Wyoming: Unfortunately Wyoming updated their bar admission rules in 2015, eliminating the law office study program. Until then, Wyoming required 1 year of law school and 2 years of a law study program, or 2 years of law school and 1 year of a law study program to be eligible to take the state bar exam.
And the very limited circumstances in which law office study is relevant in West Virginia:

West Virginia: A person who has attended 3 years of law school at a non-ABA-accredited law school in a state where attendance at such school would make the person eligible to take the bar exam in that state may become eligible to take the West Virginia bar exam by doing an additional three years of law office study.The updated rules (as of January 1, 2013) are in Rule 3.0(a)(2)(a) at this link. Note that, as of July 2014, the Rules for Admission to Practice Law on the West Virginia Judiciary website have not been updated. If you read the old rules on that site, you could conclude that West Virginia requires no legal education whatsoever (thanks to the confusing appearance of the word “or”).

DONALD TRUMP IS A MEDIA GENIUS, HE WON'T BE FIRED

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DONALD TRUMP IS A MEDIA GENIUS, HE WON'T BE FIRED:

Attention Liberal Mainstream Media networks, which includes FOX NEWS!

Go ahead and continue to Attack DONALD TRUMP.

TRUMP is a Media King, who knows how to use the Media to his Advantage.

Bashing TRUMP only makes him Stronger and more Popular.

And it's FREE ADVERTISING!

So raise your hand if you believe DONALD TRUMP is indeed a Media GENIUS who won't be Fired anytime soon.

Post Sources: Washington Post, YouTube

Caylee Anthony's Death Exploited For Florida Tourism Dollars? Yes!!

Little Caylee Anthony Is Dead! Can We All Agree On That Fact?

She Was Murdered By Her Young, Very Selfish, Biological Mother Who Obviously Did NOT Want To Be A Parent Anymore Because Caring For Caylee Apparently Interfered With Her Busy, Partying Lifestyle.

I Repeat Caylee Anthony Is Dead! Murdered By Her Biological Mother!

NOT Intentionally Murdered But Murdered Nonetheless.

So Can Anyone Please Explain To Me Why Little Caylee's Death Is Being Exploited By The State Of Florida For Tourism Dollars??

While Its True Caylee's Mother, Casey Anthony (Premeditated, Cold-Blooded Child Murderer) Is Legally Entitled To A Fair Trial & The Right To Defend Herself, I Still Cannot Understand Why The State Of Florida Appears To Be Using This Trial To Attract Tourists & Bring In More Revenue.

I'm NOT Speaking Up Of Excessive Media Coverage, Although That Too Is Unfair Because If Caylee & Casey Were BLACK Such Media Coverage Would NEVER Have Occurred.

Instead I'm Speaking Of Regular Tourists Or People Visiting Florida Just For The Sake Of Hoping To Sit In On Casey Anthony's Trial, As If She Were Some Kind Of Celebrity Versus Being A Premeditated, Cold-Blooded Child Murderer!

Instead I'm Speaking Of Nosy Florida Residents Lining Up Outside Of The Courthouse Each Day This Trial Takes Place, Waiting & Hoping To Catch A Glimpse Of Casey Anthony: Premeditated, Cold-Blooded, Child Murderer As If She Were Paris Hilton!

Casey & Her Parents Are Probably Hoping To Use Her Trial To Snag A Movie Or Book Deal To Help Pay For Legal Fees And....

To Hopefully Later On Have Casey's Trial Or Guilty Verdict Thrown Out On A Legal Technicality.

Considering Casey's Unstable, Troubling Behavior I Will NEVER Understand Why Little Caylee's Grandparents Didn't Fight For Legal Custody Of Caylee.

Perhaps Neither Of Caylee's Grandparents Wanted The Responsibility Of Raising Caylee Just As Casey Did NOT.

Attention Mainstream Media & People Everywhere:

Casey Anthony Is NOT A Celebrity!

Casey Anthony Is NOT Mentally Ill!

Casey Anthony Is NOT Crazy!

Casey Anthony Is NOT Physically Sick!

Casey Anthony Was NOT Sexually Abused By Her Father or Brother!

Casey Anthony Is NOT A Victim At All!!

The Real Victim Is Little Caylee, Now Living In Heaven With God Because Her Mother Casey, Killed Her Via An Over-the-Counter Medicine & Chlorofoam Overdose So That She Could Go Out Partying One Night Or To Visit A Boyfriend.

Wait A Minute!!!

Has Anyone Forgotten Casey's Trial Is Being TOTALLY Funded With Taxpayer Dollars???

Isn't Florida Governor Rick Scott A Republican?

Aren't Republicans Constantly Whining About Waste, Fraud & Cutting Spending?

Okay So Than Why Is Gov. Rick Scott Allowing The Use Of Taxpayer Dollars To Be Used To Exploit A Dead Child?

A Child Whose Death Is Explicitly Being Used To Help Bring In More Summer Tourism Revenue Into The State Of Florida.

The Thought Of This Practice Is Sickening!!

I Say Casey's Trial Has Gone On Long Enough!

Its Time To Wrap Up This Fiasco.

Time To STOP Treating Casey Anthony (Premeditated, Cold-Blooded Child Murderer) Like A Celebrity Because She Isn't!

Either Throw This Chick In Jail For LIFE Or Sentence Her To Death!

R.I.P. Little Caylee.






Casey Anthony Case: a morbid sensation


Hours before sunrise, they line up on the sidewalk in front of the Orange County Courthouse by the dozens — an interior decorator from Savannah, a true-crime blogger from Illinois, a former Miami International Airport air traffic controller — all hoping for a chance to witness the blockbuster murder trial of Casey Anthony.

Armed with coffee and energy drinks, novels and crosswords puzzles, they sit or sprawl on the sidewalk waiting for 5:30 a.m. when the all-out — and much-videoed — sprint often begins to secure seats in the courtroom to watch a slice of the trial that has both fascinated and repelled the American public.

Often, the first person in line is Brian Maher, identifiable on Internet videos of the Black Friday-like stampede for seats as the guy wearing the distinctive neck brace. He arrives about 3 a.m. each day to vie for a seat, beating out the latecomers who show up at 5 a.m. or so. On Wednesday, the group waiting for tickets to claim about 50 seats available for the public in the courtroom on the 23rd floor included students and tourists, professionals who took a day off from work, along with two journalists from Tokyo there to take in the global saga.

It’s a surreal scene, a voyeuristic tableau, that has repeated daily during the trial of the 25-year-old Orlando mother charged with the murder of her 2-year-old daughter.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I have followed this case for three years, I am fascinated with her life and all the stories she has told,’’ says Tiffany Chaffin, 24, who along with an aunt and cousin traveled 150 miles from Lake City to score seats during the third week of the trial. They arrived in Orlando at 1 a.m. Wednesday, heading to the courthouse two hours later to snag positions 8, 9 and 10 in the line, guaranteeing courtroom seats.

“The whole world is watching this,’’ Chaffin marveled.

The story of Casey Marie Anthony, and her daughter, Caylee Marie, has evolved into a breathless soap opera with tabloid twists and turns, characters brought to life by lies, a phantom nanny accused of kidnapping the child, incest claims, the specter of a death sentence — and a rapt American audience that can’t seem to get enough of the spectacle playing out in Orlando, land of The Mouse.

Further stoking the interest: a blank-faced Anthony herself, who has displayed little emotion during the trial except when graphic details about her child’s remains emerged. She’s charged with first-degree murder, accused of suffocating her daughter with duct tape three summers ago, then storing the body in her car trunk. Her defense team contends the little girl drowned in the family pool.

As the trial enters its fourth week, the madness — delivered by a mass of media covering the trial live — shows no signs of abating. Along with the hundreds who are sufficiently curious to line up at the courthouse each day as early as midnight, millions more have tuned in by television, radio, newspapers, live streaming, blogs and internet chats, willingly held hostage by the coverage. In Orlando, more people watched the trial on three local stations combined than watched one of the Miami Heat/Dallas Mavericks NBA playoff games during prime time last week.

On Friday morning, as nearly 200 people lined up for entry tickets, police had to break up an early-morning scuffle and one woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance when she fell and the crowd of seat-seekers raced past and over her.

The public obsession echoes big cases from the past — OJ Simpson’s murder case, perhaps, or the trial of Michael Jackson. Yet even without the celebrity factor, the Casey Anthony case has captured the collective psyche, driven as much by contemporary social media as the monstrous details of an accused child killer.

“Once you start to take in the details, then you understand why people can’t look away. You have the horrible death of an adorable little girl, and by nature we are fascinated with human horrors. You have a young and pretty mother and the idea that she would, could kill her child to be free of her — which, in itself, is mystifying,’’ says Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University. “You have imaginary friends and the double life and you have the whole month that the child was ‘missing’ and Casey seems all along to be doing fine. When you stack that amount of weirdness up, along with the ease of getting public information in Florida, and you have a story that takes on a life of its own.’’

Leonard and Renae Freeman arrived in Orlando Monday for a weeklong celebration of their 14th anniversary. But by the next morning, they were standing in front of the courthouse shooting pictures and trying to figure out a way to get into the trial.

“We watch it on television every day and have followed it since we saw the picture of that gorgeous little girl. You saw her face and you cared about her,’’ says Leonard Freeman, a maintenance worker in Tampa. “And then you keep asking yourself, how can someone kill her? Maybe it was an accident but then you have to ask yourself how can someone lie the way Casey Anthony does. It’s hard to let the case go.’’

The couple even ventured 10 miles outside of downtown to see the Anthony family house on Hopesprings Drive, a pale pink home with three signs near the door that read: “Love,” “Faith” and “Hope.” After lunch Tuesday, their persistence paid off. The two got passes for the seats of people who hadn’t returned for the afternoon court session. Testimony at that point focused on an odor from Anthony’s car trunk and the cadaver dogs.

“I wanted to see her personally. I wanted to see her face,’’ says Renae Freeman.

Caylee’s skeletal remains were discovered less than a mile from the family’s east Orange County home two weeks before Christmas. By then, the story was on the national radar: The little girl’s face had been on the cover of People twice and HLN television personality Nancy Grace was hosting a regular show on the latest slivers of news and analysis in the case, even nicknaming Anthony, “Tot mom.” When the trial started May 24, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera and Grace were in the courtroom. About 700 journalists have been credentialed for the trial, including broadcasters for Fuji TV in Japan and a station in France.

A barren downtown lot across the from the courthouse dubbed Casey Town is where news organizations have parked satellite trucks and pitched tented studios, forming a temporary media village cordoned off from the public. The HLN and Turner networks’ two-story compound even has three large windows with views of the courthouse — that’s where Grace’s show airs live. On the back side of the court complex, one television station is broadcasting from the balcony of the Travelodge hotel.

“We planned as if this were a Category 5 hurricane,’’ says court spokeswoman Karen Levey, who researched the high-profile trials of Kobe Bryant and Scott Peterson to help with logistics. “But what we were most surprised by was the public’s engagement. With the amount of social media and live streaming, we assumed that people would stay home to watch, but they want to be here in the courtroom. We have a regular stream of people calling who are planning to come to a theme park and want to get in the trial and others who want to come in for the trial and throw in a day at the theme park.’’

Miami-based NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders has been covering the story for the Today show from the beginning.

“I have been covering grisly crimes in Florida courts for 30 years, from outlaw motorcyclists to pedophile murderers, and this one is seemingly more horrible because it’s incomprehensible that a 22-year-old mother could have murdered her 2-year-old so she can go out and party, as the prosecution contends. It’s hard to grasp that kind of narcissism,’’ says Sanders. “People are captivated by this. Not just people from Orlando or Florida, but across the United States and the world, especially because of social media. Twitter is ablaze with the Casey Anthony trial.”

Casey and Caylee Anthony’s tragic story became public three years ago with a panicked 9-1-1-call from the girl’s grandmother, Cindy Anthony, on July 15 after Casey admitted to her mother the child had been missing for 31 days. Anthony would later tell police that she dropped her daughter off with a nanny and when she returned, they were both gone.

From the beginning, as investigators searched for Caylee, the case and those associated with it — the Anthony family members, the bounty hunter, the meter reader and the babysitter — attracted national attention, led by Grace who kept the case in the public consciousness for the next two years.

“The trial plays out like a classic Greek tragedy with the love and hate dynamics between the grandmother, mother and daughter,” Grace told TVNewser. “In this particular case, you have a physically attractive defendant, articulate, and with great potential, the world at her feet, and now we see her charged with murder of her young daughter.”

Grace’s show attracted 1.1 million viewers in total during its first week of trial coverage.

“Early on, Nancy showed an interest in this case. It just had so much mystery and so many human elements — how a young mother raises her child, how grandparents participate in her life, what happens when they don’t like [the daughter’s] behavior,’’ said Scot Safon, HLN executive vice president and general manager. “On one level, this is about a dysfunctional family but on another you are looking at people who are relatable. And for Nancy Grace, especially since she has become a mother, one of her core focuses has been families and communities meeting their obligation to children and when they fail children.’’

For Brian Maher, otherwise known as “neck brace guy” in the world of the web, the daily trips to the courthouse were about something else: wiling away the time. Vertebrae surgery in April left him out of work as a truck driver five to six months. A bit of boredom and the hype of the case lured him to the courthouse, but it was a video clip of him sprinting for a seat with his neck brace on that brought him his own moment of dubious celebrity.

“I was just trying to kill the time while I deal with my injury but it really is an interesting case,’’ says Maher, who has gotten a seat at least seven times. “If I am not fishing, I am here.”


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Sources: CNN, Miami Herald.com, Google Maps

Casey Anthony: Cold-Blooded Murderer Gains Celebrity Status!!

Yes! Casey Anthony Is A Cold-Blooded, Premeditated Murderer Who Killed Her Daughter Because She Hated Being A Young, Responsible Mother.

Casey Probably Gave Little Caylee Too Much Over-The-Counter Meds Or Chlorofoam So That The Child Would Remain Sleep While She Hung Out ALL Night Partying.

(Many Single Mothers Both Black & White STILL Give Their Young Children Over-The-Counter Meds As Sleeping Aids. Doctors Know But Don't Seem To Care!!)

Upon Returning Home She Discovered The Child Was Dead (From An Overdose), Panicked, Put Her Little Body In The Trunk Of Her Car, Tried To Bury Caylee Someplace But Couldn't At The Time So She Threw Little Caylee's Body Back In The Trunk Of Her Car Where It Laid Decomposing & Smelling, For Several Days.

Casey Than Probably Later Put Some Duct Tape Around Caylee's Decomposing Mouth, Placed Her Little Body In A Plastic Bag & Came Up With A Bright Idea Of Telling The Fake Kidnapping Story To Law Enforcement Authorities & Her Parents. i.e., Gonzalez Woman.

Last But Certainly NOT Least Caylee Dumped Little Caylee's Body In The Location Where It Was Finally Found By A Gas Company Meter Reader.

This Theory Is More Likely Than Not Of What REALLY Happened To Little Caylee!

To Matters Worse, Not ONLY Did Her Mother Obviously LIE For Her Under Oath, But Now Her Defense Team Is Attempting To Get This Narcissistic Chick Off On A Trial Technicality & By Claiming Casey Is Mentally Ill!!

OMG!

UNBELIEVABLE!!

So How Many People Know That If Caylee & Casey Anthony Were Both BLACK, Neither Of Them Would Be Receiving The Same Widespread Media Coverage?

Yet While Her Young Child's Body Lies In A Cold Grave, Casey Anthony (Premeditated Child Murderer) Is Granted Celebrity-Like Status By The National Mainstream Media.

I've Even Heard Rumors She May Soon Be Getting A Book Or Movie Deal!

Ludicrous!

How Stupid Can The American Mainstream Media Be??

Stop Treating Casey "LIAR" Anthony Like A Celebrity & Throw Her In Jail Where She Belongs!

With All Other Cold-Blooded, Premeditated Child Murderers!

R.I.P. Little Caylee.






Why We Can't Stop Watching the Casey Anthony Trial

The Casey Anthony trial may ultimately equal or even eclipse the O.J. Simpson trial, in terms of galvanizing the attention of the nation. Yet, Ms. Anthony was not an athlete or movie star when her trial began. She has no "Dream Team" of famous defense attorneys. What, then, explains the level of attention she is generating?

First, Ms. Anthony represents a brainteaser for many people--a kind of psychological Rubik's Cube. She doesn't fit their preconceptions of a killer. She's pretty. She has a nice smile. She is young. She is female. She is (and this may be unfortunate, but it is true) a white woman and a woman who is not poor. She has no history of violent crime.

Thus, people are looking extremely closely at Ms. Anthony and listening with great intensity to witnesses, her attorney and the prosecutor in this case speak about her. We want to solve the puzzle of how the person we see and about whom we hear might be able to suffocate and dispose of her own adorable daughter.

Unlike Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman convicted in 1995 of murdering her two sons, Casey Anthony offers no clues. She doesn't claim a history of mental illness as a defense. She hasn't confessed to being a killer and blamed it on the darkness that can come with severe depression.

Unlike Scott Peterson, the Modesto, California man convicted in 2005 of killing his wife Lacey and unborn child Conner, there is no lover-in-waiting to "explain" why he murdered. Peterson had met beautiful masseuse Amber Frey and seemed to have wanted a life with her, free from other commitments.

The window onto Ms. Anthony's soul is especially cloudy and draws the nation ever closer, squinting through the glass for any glimpse.

Second, Ms. Anthony, whether a killer or a mother who inexplicably did not report her daughter missing for over a month, is a conduit for buried, forgotten terrors still inside all of us.

During childhood, we were all so vulnerable physically and emotionally, so entirely dependent on the good will of our guardians, that we suppressed the thought that we could be with a mother or father who disliked us, wished we did not exist, or might even be able to act on it. Such fears are, in childhood, unthinkable, and, in adulthood, still locked deep inside us.

Casey Anthony, the pretty, smiling, mother who may well have murdered her daughter is, in fact, every adult's worst, long-denied childhood nightmare.

The chance to see such a woman in captivity, and to ponder what she is accused of, is like going to the zoo to see the rarest, deadliest monster you can imagine, the one resurrected from the deepest recesses of your mind in its most fragile moments. And, what's more, even if she is that monster, she may or may not be freed.

The third reason that Casey Anthony's murder trial rivets so many of us is the hardest to speak of, let alone to admit. Many, many people who experience the joys of starting families, nonetheless recall wistfully what it was like to be unencumbered.

Raising kids is hard work, a lot of it necessarily selfless, and millions of us have thought at one moment or another, "What exactly have I gotten myself into--and why? What would my life be like if I could still just worry about myself."

If guilty, Casey Anthony actually acted on this ambivalence, attempting to rewrite history and free herself to live the life of a single woman, not a single mother. She speaks to a dark corner of the id (instinct) inside so many of us, the part that, happily, relatively effortlessly for most every one of us, yields to the ego and superego (conscience).

These three reasons combined are like three points of a plane: They steady our gaze and serve as the perfect foundation to focus our attention.

And consider this: If found guilty, there will almost certainly be an appeal. If found innocent, Ms. Anthony's every action will remain riveting. Freed, she could leap from the accused killer of her daughter to a reality TV star faster than you can say, "What has become of us?"


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Sources: CNN, Fox News, NY Daily News, Google Maps

Kevin Smith Rants On Being Pegged "Too Fat To Fly" (WARNING: Profanity)

Kevin Smith "Too Fat" To Fly Southwest


Kevin Smith's most famous role is a guy who rarely speaks. But he's got a lot to say -- much of it profane -- after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he didn't fit comfortably into the seat.

"You [messed] with the wrong sedentary processed-foods eater!" Smith, whose next film, "Cop Out," comes out February 26, posted on Twitter.

It was one of many Tweets recounting the actor/director's humiliating expulsion Saturday from the Oakland-to-Burbank, California, flight.

Southwest said in a statement airline officials had called Smith to offer their "heartfelt apologies," but also stated his removal was for the "safety and comfort of all customers."

Smith, 39, originally purchased two tickets "as he's been known to do when traveling Southwest," the airline noted, but when he decided to fly standby on an earlier flight, only one seat remained. Although he had been seated, he was asked to leave.

"If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement," Southwest said.

I'm Fat

Smith, who played Silent Bob in his "Clerks" movies and who has battled his weight for years -- "I know I'm fat," he confesses -- was given a $100 voucher and arrived in Burbank on a later flight. But he was in no mood to accept an apology.

"I broke no regulation, offered no 'safety risk' (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?)" he tweeted. "I saw someone bigger than me on THAT flight! But I wasn't about to throw a fellow Fatty under the plane as I'm being profiled. But he & I made eye contact, & he was like 'Please don't tell...'"

After landing in Burbank, Smith wrote, "Don't worry: wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised."

Smith added that while the ordeal was embarrassing, his "Jersey Girl training" (the 2004 flop starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez) was helping him cope.

See full article at PEOPLE.com

Sources: People, CNN, Twitter, The Daily Beast, Southwest Airlines

All Women Rock....A Series On Unique Women...Part III....Chaka Khan

Songbird Yvette Marie Stevens aka Chaka Khan, is the third unique woman highlighted in our "All Women Rock" series.

With her funky style, roof bustin' pipes, wild hair, ruby painted lips, hit after hit record....she is undeniably, the one and only Chaka Khan!!

Like Michelle Obama, Chaka also hails from Chicago's South side.

Unlike Michelle who paved her way to success with Education, Chaka took a different path to fame and fortune via the world of Fine Arts.

Proving herself to be a musical prodigy while still a young girl, by the age of 11 little Yvette had formed her first group called "The Crystalettes".

During her high school years, she toured with Motown's Mary Well after joining the Afro-Arts Theater.

Later she decided to change her name to Chaka while working as a volunteer for the Black Panthers Free Children's Breakfast program in Chicago.

Chaka performed with two additional music groups before joining up with Kevin Murphy and Andre Fischer to form the band Rufus. Her last name changed to Khan after she married guitarist Hassan Khan.

1973 was an amazing year for Chaka in that she gave birth to her first child, daughter Milini and debuted her first album with Rufus.

The rest as they say "is history".

As a lead singer for Rufus, Chaka performed showcased her jazzy style of singing with such hits "Sweet Thing", "Tell Me Something Good", "Better Days", "Do You Love What You Feel?", "Hollywood", "Once You Get Started", "Everlasting Love", etc., and helped the band to earn Eight Platinum albums.

She gave birth to her second child, a son named Damien in 1976.

In 1978, she briefly broke away from the Rufus signature sound, by recording her own solo album Chaka, and releasing the hit "I'm Every Woman".

Chaka's next album produced another hit "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me", which went Gold.

A string of additional hits followed: a rendition of Michael Jackson's "Got To Be There", "Ain't Nobody", "I Feel For You", "I'll Be Good To You" a duet with the late, great Ray Charles, etc.,

In 1999 also recorded the theme song for the Children's program "Reading Rainbow".

Chaka who has previously been invited to perform at both Democrat and Republican national conventions, expressed her political affiliation as being more "Democratic-minded".

On December 3, 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree from the Berklee College of Music.

In 2006 through prayer and a Mother's Love, Chaka helped her son Damien win an acquittal by a Los Angeles jury for the accidental shooting death of 17-year-old Chris Bailey.

Chaka active in the Autism community due to several family members affected by the disease, now resides in London, England.

She of course also remains active and forever popular in the Entertainment Industry.

To Chaka a 35-year Singing Sensation, who's won eight Grammy awards and has touched so many lives with her presence, You Rock!!

Chaka performing "I'm Every Woman" with the band Rufus. circa 1982



Chaka performing her hit "What Cha' Gonna Do For Me" with the band Rufus. circa 1982



Chaka performing "Ain't Nobody". circa 1980's




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Sources: Wikipedia, MSNBC, ABC News, ChakaKhan.com, Berklee College of Music, Flickr, Dwight McCann, Youtube, Google Maps