Kanye West Has Angered 2 Presidents Including George Bush

Kanye West has pissed off two presidents-Who's next?

Ya gotta love Kanye West. The man is constantly finding ways to make noise and stay in the spotlight. If he’s not bum rushing the stage to spark drama with pop singer Taylor Swift, he’s releasing 30 minute cryptic movies (Runaway) that have no real meaning, but has everyone talking like it does. Sometimes we absolutely love him. Other times he makes us cringe, but that’s Kanye.

One person who is absolutely not feeling Kanye is former president George Bush. In his recently released memoirs ‘Decision Points‘ Bush notes that he took issue with Kanye West asserting he didn’t care about Black people during the Hurricane Katrina relief telethon.

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He said he was deeply disgusted and that it was the lowest moment of his Presidency. He said its one thing to have someone disagree with his policies, it’s another thing to call him a racist. Teasers for Bush’s remarks about Kanye have been running in promos for his upcoming appearance on the Today Show where host Matt Lauer will air their conversation.

When I first saw an obviously angered Bush make his remarks the first thing that went through my mind was Kanye West did a damn good job and I need to give him props next time I see him. I also noted that President Bush looked like he really wanted to have a fair one with the upstart rapper. I thought about it some more and concluded that Bush may have name dropped Kanye to get some publicity for his book. We saw this with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wife calling Anita Hill demanding an apology after 20 years. Certainly Kanye dissing George Bush can’t be his lowest moment. Many in higher places have said and done worse.

George Bush looked like he was ready to knock Kanye out when describing his reaction to the rapper's remarks about him hating Black people

Kanye dissing Bush was his lowest moment over 1-Getting his facts wrong about the Iraq War? 2-Leaving office with a 20% approval rating? 3-Having shoes thrown at him? 4-Having entire books released about his gaffes and inability to pronounce words? Really? C’mon son. Bush can’t be serious.

I know I’ve said worse over the airwaves about the former President especially when he routinely putting Black men to death as Governor of Texas. I’ll never forget his callousness when Shaka Sankofa was put to death Hell I think President Barack ‘Bi-partisan’ Obama has said worse when he rightfully laid blame at Bush’s feet for the tanked economy.

But in any case, Kanye is in his crosshairs. he took issue with being called a racist. I guess Bush was looking at the fact that he gave more money and resources to Africa than any other President. Ok I’ll give him that..But his lack of actions during Katrina cancelled that out. Also, our country the good ole United States needs to be given a lot more back to the mother land.

Memo to George Bush: The Truth Hurts

Memo to Kanye West: Get your knuckle game up, that Bush boy looks like a scrapper.

With that being said, Kanye may also have to watch his step around President Obama who after viewing Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift, remarked to news reporter Terry Moran of CNBC in an ‘off the record’ remark that Kanye West was a jackass. Not sure if President Obama ever apologized the way he did when he called the Cambridge police ‘stupid’ for arresting his friend Skip Gates. In any case Kanye has done what no rap artist has ever done, got two Presidents pissed off enough to talk about him. I wonder if he’ll do a song about it or if he’ll step up his presidential piss you off game and say something to anger Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter or Bush Sr

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Health Care Reform Seen As Opportunity By Walgreeens, Is GOP Listening?

GOP pay attention: Walgreens likes Heath Care Reform.

During Walgreens, Thursday's Analyst Report, Walgreens' President of Pharmacy Services, Kermit Crawford, said that Walgreens "Sees Health Care Reform...as an opportunity." Crawford said that Health Care Reform will bring 32 million new people into the system, and "as we learned with Medicare, they will use it," he said.

Before Crawford spoke, Walgreens President And CEO Greg Wasson said that the retailer brings in 6 million health care users each day. Crawford added that Walgreens observes that Heath Care Reform will make it harder to gain access to physicians because of the demand, and Walgreens sees itself as well-positioned to fill that demand hole.

This is important news because GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner, soon to become Speaker of The House Of Representatives, said that the repeal of Health Care Reform was an objective.  On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives went from Democratic Control to Republican Control, as the GOP controls 235 seats, versus 195 seats for the Democrats.

If that's the case, then the GOP's not listening to American Business, or the American people, for that matter. If the GOP succeeds, which given Democratic control of the Senate, is doubtful, their efforts will harm Walgreens ability to grow and damage its new business model.

Stay tuned.

Lil Wayne Released From Prison

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There have been different news sources reporting that Lil Wayne has been released from prison, and there are some news sources that are reporting that his jail release is delayed. It could be wise to trust the most credible source when dealing with this - and figure out which one has the most accurate information based on the sources given.

Since there are more that state he is out of jail that is what this post will focus on.

Access Hollywood reprints an Associated Press article posted at 9:07 a.m. on November 4, 2010 (it is currently 9:23) that states New York City jail records show that after eight months Lil Wayne has been released for "good behavior."

Also known as Weezy, he started his sentence in March after pleading guilty to attempted weapon possession. The sentence was to be yearlong.

At 9:15 a.m (this is all ET) People online reports that Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., Lil' Wayne's real name, will be celebrating his release this sunday at a Miami strip club.

Yesterday MTV was reporting that according to Drake Lil' Wayne would be out today - but Drake, although he was correct, is probably not the most credible source who would be the best to obtain that information from.

Let's all hope that Lil Wayne stays out of jail, and maybe he'll produce some songs talking about his life in prison and how it has changed his view of life.

San Francisco Giants Parade And Celebration Draws 1.7 Million To SF

The San Francisco Giants Parade day was an unofficial holiday that, according to a very good but unofficial source, drew 1.7 million people to San Francisco's Market Street and City Hall Plaza.

To put that in perspective, San Francisco's population is about 800,000 people (808,976 in 2008 according to the US Census); that means over double that was dumped onto the City's streets for a wonderful day.

People took the whole day off and, after the parade and celebration, stayed in San Francisco and walked along the Embarcadero, shopped, ate and drank. It would not be an unrealistic picture to assert a low estimate: that almost $105 million was spent in San Francisco, and on merchandise, food and drink, taxi cabs, and whatever miscellaneous items - that's just about $5 per person. That's it.

And it was a hot, hot day, with women wearing shorts, short-shorts, and in a few cases thongs.  It was a day when the smell of weed filled the air, and no one cared, (making this blogger think we need to split California into two states).

It was a day where everyone was happy.  Everyone.  You don't see that every day in your life.  It made the week of celebrating The San Francisco Giants World Series victory so much the better and fittingly added an exclamation point to the Monday bizarro World of celebrations:



Incredible.

Nancy Pelosi Has Decisions To Make

As reported previously, Nancy Pelosi is now going through a lot evaluation of her career and her role in Congress now that she is no longer speaker of the House of Representatives. Pelosi was the first woman to serve as speaker of the House.

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USA Today reports about the different choices that Pelosi could potentially make. Pelosi could return to be the leader of the Democratic minority, but as reported previously her last predecessors resigned after no longer being speaker.

Pelosi could choose to retire, and at the age of 70 no one would hold it against her.

After her four years as speaker of the House it may be difficult to imagine being put into a role with less authority and control.  Of course she was re-elected to be apart of the House by her supporters in san Francisco.

ABC News has an exclusive interview with Pelosi where she tells that she has no regrets. It'll be interesting to see her next decision.

Demi Lovato Update

E! News is reporting that Demi Lovato is not at a rehab center, but she is at an undisclosed location getting help. Giuliana Rancic introduces the exclusive interviews with her family and friends.

Lovato's father says that there's no truth to the cutting or weight related issues, but Lovato's former co-stars seem to disagree and think that she may have been involved with both.

The exact reason for Lovato's "hospitalization" is for physical and mental exhaustion.

Sean Duffy From 'Real World: Boston' Wins A Seat In The House

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MTV's hit reality TV show "Real World" is known for putting seven strangers in a house to live together and have fun. Usually reality tv shows will hurt someone's career - since there's lots of drinking, hooking up, etc. However, Sean Duffy from 'Real World: Boston' has just won one of Wisconsin's seats in the House of Representatives.

Duffy was in 1997's season of Real World and is now married to former Real World star Rachel Campos who was on 'Real World: San Francisco.'

Duffy was cast as the token conservative on that season of the Real World and now he has given credit to his past reality tv show experience in helping him advance in his political career.