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Man arrested for streaking during Heat game after rapper Rick Ross publicly offers $10k

Man arrested for streaking during Heat game after rapper Rick Ross publicly offers $10k | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it
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FBI: New Jersey mayor arrested for allegedly hacking website tied to recall effort

FBI: New Jersey mayor arrested for allegedly hacking website tied to recall effort | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site...

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Senate Democrats fighting for "Paycheck Fairness Act" pay their own female staffers less than their male counterparts

Senate Democrats fighting for "Paycheck Fairness Act" pay their own female staffers less than their male counterparts | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

A group of Democratic female senators on Wednesday declared war on the so-called “gender pay gap,” urging their colleagues to pass the aptly named Paycheck Fairness Act when Congress returns from recess next month. However, a substantial gender pay gap exists in their own offices, a Washington Free Beacon analysis of Senate salary data reveals...

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Slick Willy: Bill Clinton smiles for the camera — flanked by porn stars [PHOTO]

Slick Willy: Bill Clinton smiles for the camera — flanked by porn stars [PHOTO] | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Bill Clinton sure knows how to have a good time, as evidenced by a photo taken Wednesday at Monte Carlo’s “Nights in Monaco” event. On the left we have Tasha Reign, whose credits include “Baby Got Boobs 8″ and “Farm Girls Gone Bad.” On the right is “best new starlet” award winner Brooklyn Lee, who also won the Adult Video News award for “most outrageous sex scene” for her work in “Mission Asspossible.”

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Will the Miami Heat struggle without Udonis Haslem and Chris Bosh?

Will the Miami Heat struggle without Udonis Haslem and Chris Bosh? | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it
After a Game 5 that saw a few vicious flagrant fouls, the NBA has suspended Miami Heat power forward Udonis Haslem for Game 6 of the team's best-of-seven series against the Indiana Pacers , and he will be sorely missed...
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RIAA Sues Defunct Music Downloading Service ‘LimeWire’ For $72 Trillion

RIAA Sues Defunct Music Downloading Service ‘LimeWire’ For $72 Trillion | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

“An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877,” Judge Kimba Wood states in documents filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.


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Uncle Luke's Got Some Memorial Day Weekend Advice: Stay Outta Miami Beach!

Uncle Luke's Got Some Memorial Day Weekend Advice: Stay Outta Miami Beach! | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

"This is a public service announcement to all the African American visitors coming to Miami Beach for Memorial Day weekend. There are a few things you need to know when you cross over the causeways to party in the city that doesn't really want you there, but wants to take your money. Here are the new rules you will have to abide by unless you want your black ass to end up in Dade County Jail..."

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Memorial Day Police Shooting Victims Are Suing Miami Beach

Memorial Day Police Shooting Victims Are Suing Miami Beach | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Remember last Memorial Day weekend on South Beach? Yes, that was the one when Miami Beach cops unloaded more than a hundred rounds into the car of Raymond Herisse, a Palm Beach resident police say tried to run them over on Collins Avenue. Not all those bullets hit Herisse, though.

 

At least five innocent bystanders were hit in the melee. A year later, they've still gotten no answers from Miami Beach about what happened or who's to blame. So just before this weekend's parties get started, the group has filed a pair of lawsuits against the city for negligence and "reckless disregard for human life..."

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Bill Murray: "Facebook makes you hate people you already know. Twitter makes you love people you've never met."

Facebook makes you hate people you already know. Twitter makes you love people you've never met.
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Via @bill_murry on twitter: "Facebook makes you hate people you already know. Twitter makes you love people you've never met."

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Charlie Sheen may have been the buyer of Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl ring

Charlie Sheen may have been the buyer of Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl ring | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Lawrence Taylor’s Super Bowl XXV ring sold for $230,401 last week, and it may have been purchased by someone whose fame (and drug-fueled personal escapades) exceed L.T.'s...

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Finally, some news that helps restore my faith in humanity: ‘American Idol’ Posts Lowest-Rated Finale Ever

Finally, some news that helps restore my faith in humanity: ‘American Idol’ Posts Lowest-Rated Finale Ever | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Given that American Idol had been tracking 30% lower than last season, this is not a surprise, but last night’s finale from 8-10:07 PM delivered a preliminary 6.1/18 among adults 18-49. It is projected to go up to a 6.3 rating in the finals, which would still be down 32% from last season’s finale to post the veteran reality series’ lowest-rated closer ever — including the first cycle, which aired in the summer. In total viewers, Idol drew 21.5 million, according to Fox projections, also an all-time low for an Idol finale. The steep year-to-year declines follow a rise for last season’s finale, the first with Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler as judges, vs. 2010...

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Miami Beach Police Union Rep: "We Have Arrest Quotas EVERY Memorial Day Weekend"

Miami Beach Police Union Rep: "We Have Arrest Quotas EVERY Memorial Day Weekend" | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

The chief of Miami Beach Police is insisting that his officers do not have a 2,000-arrest quota this Memorial Day weekend. But the department's union vice president tells Riptide that he witnessed a major announce the quota at an officer roll call -- and that his department has such quotas every year during the predominantly-black party weekend on South Beach...

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Flooded Miami Roads May Lead To Costly Auto Repairs

Flooded Miami Roads May Lead To Costly Auto Repairs | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Some drivers in Doral and Hialeah may learn an important, and expensive lesson, in the next couple of weeks. After Tuesday and Wednesday’s torrential rains, many got stuck on flooded streets thinking they could make it...

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Knicks J.R. Smith Arrested On South Beach

Knicks J.R. Smith Arrested On South Beach | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it
New York Knicks player J.R. Smith was arrested in Miami Beach late Thursday night. Miami Beach police said Smith was arrested on a bench warrant for not having a valid driver’s license...
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After Wall-To-Wall Coverage For Two Months, MSNBC Primetime Makes Zero Mentions Of Trayvon Martin Case After Pro-Zimmerman Evidence Surfaces

After Wall-To-Wall Coverage For Two Months, MSNBC Primetime Makes Zero Mentions Of Trayvon Martin Case After Pro-Zimmerman Evidence Surfaces | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

In March and April, MSNBC’s primetime hosts ran with nearly wall-to-wall coverage of the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. They regularly suggested that the lack of national interest in the case was worthy of outrage. Last week, when an avalanche of new evidence favorable to George Zimmerman came to light, MSNBC’s primetime lineup didn’t just bury the story, they didn’t mention Martin or Zimmerman once the week that news broke according to media monitoring service TV Eyes...

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Sign of the times: Pink Slips at Sesame Street

Sign of the times: Pink Slips at Sesame Street | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

EXCLUSIVE: About a dozen people were laid off today at the Sesame Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street. In 2009, Sesame Workshop laid off over 60 of its then 355 employees as the company was hit hard by a fall-off in donations and licensing revenue from the bad economy...

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Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: NBA ignoring aggressive fouls against LeBron and D Wade

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: NBA ignoring aggressive fouls against LeBron and D Wade | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

At the morning shootarounds, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra accused the Pacers of more than a dozen hits to the face of Miami's players — "Some of the tomahawk variety" — in the nine games between them this season. "The league doesn't have a problem with hard fouls to our two main guys (LeBron James and Dwyane Wade). … Some have drawn blood. They don't have a problem with it, so we don't have a problem with it," Spoelstra said...

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Our tax dollars at work: Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood

Our tax dollars at work: Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it
Ever wonder how much of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA?
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First Steve Jobs, then the TV remote control inventor now RIP "Mr.Oreo": Man Who Invented Oreo Filling Dies At 76

First Steve Jobs, then the TV remote control inventor now RIP "Mr.Oreo": Man Who Invented Oreo Filling Dies At 76 | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Heaven just got a little more stuf. Sam J. Porcello, the food scientist credited with inventing the Oreo cookie's creamy, pasty, stick-together filling, died last week at age 76...

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Penn Jillette: "Voting For Lesser Of Two Evils Always Leads To More Evil..." (VIDEO)

Penn Jillette: "Voting For Lesser Of Two Evils Always Leads To More Evil..." (VIDEO) | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

"I believe that voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory will always leads to more evil. If you actually believe that Romney is a fabulous candidate, then you should vote for him, I don’t. Most of the stuff I disagree with Obama on I also disagree with Romney on," Penn Jillette told Sean Hannity last night...

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Miami New Times: 'How Do You Know If You're a Real Miamian?' Take this test and find out...

Miami New Times: 'How Do You Know If You're a Real Miamian?' Take this test and find out... | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Ever notice how New Yorkers have such strong opinions about what makes a person a "real" New Yorker? (The answer: you have strong opinions about what makes one a real New Yorker.) The phrase "Real New Yorker" has 802,000 Google results. The phrase "Real Miamian" nets just 347 results.

 

We're a transient, melting pot of a city, sure, and it's hard to define our people, but we thought we'd try to establish some basic requirements for 305 realness. Take our test to find out if you're a "real Miamian." Don't take it too seriously though. No real Miamian would...

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Former HS Football Star Brian Banks Spent 6 Years in Prison for Rape He Didn’t Commit

Former HS Football Star Brian Banks Spent 6 Years in Prison for Rape He Didn’t Commit | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

"Victim" Wanetta Gibson lied and feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against Long Beach schools...

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New 'Dark Knight Rises' footage revealed in TV spots

New 'Dark Knight Rises' footage revealed in TV spots | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

The first TV spots for The Dark Knight Rises has debuted online and it features all-new footage from Christopher Nolan's Batman finale...

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Miami Heat's Dexter Pittman suspended 3 games, Udonis Haslem 1 game for fouls

Miami Heat's Dexter Pittman suspended 3 games, Udonis Haslem 1 game for fouls | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it
Udonis Haslem has been suspended one game and Dexter Pittman suspended for three games by the league for fouls in the Heat's Game 5 win...
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Secret Service agents fired over Colombian prostitute scandal fight back: Claim their actions consistent with long tolerated behavior

Secret Service agents fired over Colombian prostitute scandal fight back: Claim their actions consistent with long tolerated behavior | The Billy Pulpit | Scoop.it

Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes.

 

The agents are arguing that the agency is making them scapegoats for behavior that the Secret Service has long tolerated, a charge that Director Mark Sullivan may have to address when he appears before a Senate committee Wednesday. He has not spoken in public about the controversy, but according to his prepared testimony, he plans to tell Congress that there was no breach of operational security...

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