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“There’s A Time, And A Place For Everything”

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Yet New York schools Chancellor, Cathie Black said her comment regarding school overcrowding was just a joke.

Black said: “birth control would solve the problem” and made the remark last week at a task force meeting on school overcrowding.

Upon hearing estimates that lower Manhattan would need an additional 1,000 elementary school seats by 2015, she said “birth control would really help us.”

Cathie Black is already disliked amongst some of her constituents, city activist and parents., being a former executive at Hearst Magazines and USA Today; many felt she was more than unqualified for the job as New York’s school chancellor.

Black was appointed to the position by New York Mayor Bloomberg and Bloomberg came to her defense following a Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast yesterday. He said, “she has apologized and “won’t make the same mistake again.”

Her spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz says, “she takes the problem of school overcrowding seriously and regrets her “offhanded joke” left a different impression.”

Was the School Chancellor ‘out of place with her remark?’ I’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter?

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“Rat Crawls Up Man’s Leg on New York Train”

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This video must have played on every news channel this morning before 6:00 Am.

A man/passenger is shown sleeping on a train when a rat crawls up this man’s leg and finds his way into the man’s face. Jeffrey Ford shot the video as he rode on the train into Brooklyn and said “This is the reason he never falls asleep on the train.”

News broadcasters were trying to determine the video’s authenticity but from listening to Jeffrey, it sounds all the way real!

The video creeps me out but enjoy watching it if you haven’t seen this already.

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“16 Year Old North Carolina Girl Missing”

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This is Phylicia Barnes, a 16-year-old North Carolina girl who disappeared while visiting her 27-year old step-sister in Baltimore, MD. According to Phylicia’s half-sister Deena Barnes, Phylicia was last seen on December 28 at 2:30 pm when she told her sister she was going shopping.

Anyone who had contact with Phylicia in the hours leading up to her disappearance is considered a person of interest, police said. Phylicia’s sister is of college-age and “she had a lot of friends coming in and out,” police say; which makes the potential suspect pool large and difficult to narrow down.

In the past week, authorities have conducted multiple searches for Phylicia in and around the area of the apartment complex where she was last seen, but so far nothing of interest has been found.

Authorities are now hoping that billboards donated by Clear Channel Communications might help bring some new leads in the case. Billboards, which display Phylicia’s photo and vital information, were put up along Interstate 95 from Baltimore to New York City, police said.

Phylicia is a straight “A” student and is due to graduate early from Union Academy in Monroe, North Carolina.

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“Did Palin Fuel Congresswoman’s Shooting?”

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Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford (pictured here), was shot in the head on Saturday {January 8} at a rally in Tucson, Arizona. 

Witnesses say a young man, in his 20s, ran up and shot the congresswoman “point blank in the head” as she spoke to a couple outside of a Safeway grocery store around 10 am. At least 12 bystanders were shot, 20 wounded and 6 dead, one of them included a 9-year-old girl. 

In the meantime, Congresswoman Gifford’s name was on Sarah Palin’s political hit list. Is this Palin’s way of encouraging violence against all of those representatives who voted for President Obama’s healthcare plan?

Palin’s hit list was removed from her website in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting. Authorities should still however, bring charges up against Palin for igniting violence via her website and her hate fueled speeches.

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“Cast From ‘The Game’ Covers Jet Magazine”

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JET Entertainment Reporter Kelley Carter went on set with the cast of BET’s sitcom “The Game” to get the scoop on what fans can expect from their highly anticipated return to television on Jan. 11.

Everyone in the original cast have come back, including Wendy Raquel Robinson, Pooch Hall, Tia Mowry, Brittany Daniel and Hosea Chanchez.

“Malik is going to go to a really dark place this season. That’s the best way I can describe it,” says Chanchez, who plays Malik Wright.

“The way the writers wrote this character this season, it is definitely, by far, my favorite work.”

I can’t wait!