Tila Tequila Convinces MTV She Stands for Empowering Women

How buzzworthy - Female Empowerment? Tila Tequila? Over the summer Tila Tequila encouraged her army to attack blogger, Nikky Raney, whose only flaw was blogging objectively about "Miss Tila" and her shenanigans. Now, working as an MTV VIP looking through MTV posts it is seen that Tila has done a Yoko Ono cover to the song "Walking On Thin Ice.

The kicker is what MTV writes within the blog post before posting the video:

We have to give Tila credit for empowering and encouraging women not to tolerate an abusive relationship. Tila said she recorded the song "at a time when my life was complicated and I was emotionally drained." Of the video's violence and abuse, she said, "The video was created in a way where the woman isn't just the victim; she is also a survivor. I want women to see that you can get out of an abusive relationship and hopefully do it BEFORE something horrible happens to you or your partner. I am hoping that people can see that this video doesn't promote or glorify abuse; that in fact, it is promoting change and strength."

The music video will not be included within this blog post, because that would be an insult to Yoko Ono - who originally sang this song.

Although there are personal ties related to why the video won't be posted and within this blog post - it is still a fact that over the summer Tila Tequila was not empowering but insulting. Attacking a 20 year old girl and having her "Tila Army" attack her again and again. The hate mail and the e-mails received from "Miss Tila" were enough to make it unbearable to even go onto Twitter. So, no, the girl who coined the phrase "Piggy Raney" and posted lots of blog posts attacking other celebrities and hating on Rihanna (yes, Tila shows no remorse for what Rihanna went through and always insults her) is not someone who should be commended for female empowerment. The post has gotten a few comments, and it's unsure as to how many views the video has gotten.

Since I no longer go to Tila's personal "celebrity gossip blog" which I have been told is now just a TILA TILA TILA TILA TILA promotion blog I don't know what she has written in regards to the MTV endorsement, but I felt as though I was obligated to write this blog post after what I had to go through this summer with her. I have not watched the music video.

TMZ took Tila's blog off their blog roll after what she did; it was minutes after she posted a blog post bragging that she was on TMZ; unknowing that Zennie62 Media was also.

Oh, this brings back some not-so-fond memories, but that's what got me known on this blog. So this post is a bit of a throwback for me.

UCubed Creates ‘Marching to Madness’

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UCubed Creates ‘Marching to Madness’

Washington, D.C., March 10, 2011 – Citing today’s state and local unemployment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Ur Union of Unemployed (UCubed) has created a March Madness-like graphic to bring the grim statistics to life.

“We’re predicting a lot more ‘upsets’ in this tourney – between 25 to 29 million,” said UCubed Executive Director Rick Sloan. “Today’s local unemployment release serves as further proof that state governments and Congress must focus less on destroying good-paying jobs and more on putting jobless residents back to work.”

The “Marching to Madness” unemployment brackets are the latest installment of UCubed’s aggressive ad campaign on Facebook meant to draw more attention to the national jobs crisis. Users are being asked to fill out the unemployment brackets, ranking the city they think is suffering the most. On Friday, March 18, 2011, UCubed will fill in the brackets with actual rankings from the BLS.

“America’s jobless, along with the rest of the country, have for the past few weeks watched the assault Republican governments in Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri and other states are afflicting on hard-working Americans,” said Sloan. “They can’t help but wonder: How does this put me back to work? It doesn’t. Not only will it ultimately send more hard-working folks to the unemployment line, it’s also part of the GOP’s larger strategy to completely ignore and distract from the more pressing issue affecting our country at this time – jobs.

“The jobless want to go back to work. And they want to go back today. The time to create a national jobs agenda is now.”

See UCubed's ad campaign on Facebook.

Ur Union of Unemployed, or UCubed, is a community service project of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) designed to assist the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans, and to provide them with a structure that allows them to take advantage of their growing numbers. For more information, visit Ur Union of Unemployed.

Go to http://www.unionofunemployed.com/blog/uncategorized/ucubed-creates-marching-to-madness-unemployment-brackets/ and hit the "LIKE"

Newsweek is Officially TheDailyBeast.com

Just received the newest issue of Newsweek in the mail and up on top of the header for Newsweek is a little link that says THEDAILYBEAST.COM - which has never been there before. It is now official. Newsweek.com is no longer in existence and Thedailybeast.com is the new site.

The bottom of EVERY SINGLE PAGE under the page number is a link to thedailybeast.com. Every single page. And the Daily Beast Logo is everywhere.

And then there's a NewsBeast title. Pretty sure Zennie62 Media came up with that one first.

What has happened to Newsweek? The Daily Beast has taken over.

There will be a video to accompany this blog post posted as soon as it has finished loading on Youtube.

Keene State Adventure

There have been a lack of blog posts from blogger Nikky Raney - the reason for this is the lack of Internet while spending time on Spring Break, but there are many videos which are interesting and will be worth watching. The videos were taking with the FLIP CAM that Zennie sent for Zennie62 Media vlogs.



Enjoy seeing what this college girl was up to when she wasn't blogging. She was getting a good use and getting practice with the Flip cam!

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, what about Tina Fey?

Media Bistro reports Julianne Moore will be portraying Sarah Palin in HBO's adaptation of the book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

Tina Fey spent a lot of time on Saturday Night Live portraying Sarah Palin, and it is a bit more realistic that Fey looks like Palin more than Julianne Moore does - when thinking about who would play Sarah Palin in a movie Tina Fey would be the first to come to mind, but maybe this role calls for someone a bit more serious and it would be difficult to take Sarah Palin seriously in a movie if Tina Fey was the actress, but in all honesty: it's hard to take Sarah Palin seriously when she is Sarah Palin - so good luck trying to make her look better.

Media Bistro reports:

Anybody wish they picked Saturday Night Live veteran Tina Fey? Heilemann and Halperin interviewed more than 300 people to write Game Change (2010). The book had three parts: part one covered the Democratic primaries, part two looked at the Republican primaries, and part three examined the race between Barack Obama and John McCain.

Getty Images. Moore & Palin

The Washington Post has a bit of a light-hearted piece called Julianne Moore: Five things she won't do in her role as Sarah Palin
The five things include being on camera naked, having a sexual performance, overdosing on pills, having a British twin and uttering the phrase, "Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski." All of the aforementioned are things that the actress has done previously in her roles from Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Short Cuts, As The World Turns and The Big Lebowski.

Time Magazine online also begins its article asking: "We wonder what Tina Fey thought when she found out she wasn't playing the part."

Its more in-depth article with Time's blog Tuned In writes:

Another burning question: is Moore's Alaska accent better than the Boston Southie one she put on for 30 Rock? Speaking of which, might she pick up some coaching from Palin-impersonation veteran and 30 Rock producer Tina Fey? And who will fill out the rest of the cast, whose lead characters will presumably (if it hews to the book) include John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary (and presumably Bill) Clinton and John (and presumably Elizabeth) Edwards?

This is bound to be very interesting. Good luck to Julianne Moore - maybe it's good giving Fey a break. It will be interesting to see who will be cast as Barack Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, etc.

99ers Implore HELP - bombard Boehner, Media Non-Stop NOW

NEW PLAN: 99ers must implore HELP and bombard Speaker Boehner & media non-stop now - continuing until such a time as the 99ers bill (HR589) passes the House.

With the shenanigans in Wisconsin last night, it is easy for Americans to feel their wants and needs are insignificant in the wake of the greedy, corrupt politicians - but never fear: WE MUST FIGHT ON & FIGHT HARDER.

We cannot survive on nothing and those who are fortunate enough to land a job are discovering that paying gig is not enough income to even sustain a life of poverty. [See: Democracy Dead in Wisconsin as US Jobless Claims at 20 Million Annual Pace ]

Even as Peter King (NY Congressman) wastes precious time and energy on his useless and controversial hearings on "radicalization" within the American Muslim community, the US unemployment exhaustees continue to suffer devastating poverty those in Washington choose to ignore.

However, according to the article by Crew of 42 yesterday, Lee + Scott Ask Boehner for Meeting on Unemployment Help:

Reps. Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott asked for a meeting with Speaker Boehner and reminded the new GOP Speaker and Majority Leader Cantor of unemployment in their states (OH, VA and MI) as they did so.

The bigger issue: Is it at all possible the House GOP will “find” $16 billion in the budget for unemployment assistance? Whether any deal comes (or doesn’t come) under a pay-for agreement or an emergency designation in irrelevant. The process of this sausage (legislation) actually becoming reality will either be brought into reality by complaining constituents back home or it won’t.

The bottom line is if House GOP members are returning to their districts and hearing the complaints of unemployed constituents on a regular basis that could tip the political scale. That is the only possible way House Republicans would make a way for a $16 billion budget allocation for unemployment assistance. A sure sign of altering political dynamics would be Speaker

Boehner or ML Cantor actually agreeing to a meeting on this issue. With the absence of political pressure and the White House completely absent from involvement on this issue (along with so many others…) a meeting would be surprising. “The unemployment rate does not discriminate…” Lee and Scott reminded Boehner. The unemployment rate in Ohio is 9.2%. In Michigan it is 10.6%. In Virginia it’s 6.4%.

The Huffington Post reported today: The Democrats in the House of Representatives who are pushing for additional jobless aid for the long-term unemployed say they are willing to compromise with Republican leadership on cutting spending from the budget to prevent the cost of new benefits from adding to the deficit.

In a Wednesday letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) wrote, "We want to work with you to identify how best to finance this legislation and ensure its swift passage."

Read the rest of this article House Dems Open To Compromise On 99ers Bill

The full letter to Boehner, Cantor and Rep. Dave Camp reads as follows:

Dear Speaker Boehner,
Majority Leader Cantor,
and Chairman Camp:

Once again we want to express our deep concern for the plight of millions of long-term unemployed workers across the country. Last week’s unemployment numbers reflect the harsh reality that still exists – while the economy is moving in the right direction, too many workers are still looking for jobs.

For every available job opening, there are 4.7 unemployed workers. And many of those workers have been unemployed for a year or longer. The unemployment rate does not discriminate – the challenges that our constituents face in our districts are just as difficult as the challenges that your constituents are facing in western Ohio, central Virginia and central Michigan. We all have a shared obligation to help our neediest and most vulnerable populations in their hour of greatest need.

The letter we sent you last month requested your assistance in extending emergency benefits for long-term unemployed workers who had exhausted their eligibility. In addition, we requested that these benefits be considered under the emergency designation of PAYGO spending rules, a provision that would exempt emergencies from these rules. We are disappointed that you disagreed with our belief that this is a true state of emergency for these workers.

As we outlined in our previous letter, we believe there is a strong moral and economic case to extend these emergency benefits. Economic experts believe that unemployment benefits provide a stimulative impact to our economy by helping to drive consumer spending. So not only is providing these benefits the right thing to do, but it is sound economic policy. To be clear, we maintain our position that this legislation deserves to exempt from PAYGO spending rules under the aforementioned emergency designation, but we are committed to exhausting every possible avenue to pass this bill. Adding an additional 14 weeks to the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program is estimated to cost up to $16 billion.

We want to work with you to identify how best to finance this legislation and ensure its swift passage. We request a meeting with you as soon as possible to discuss alternative ways to address the costs associated with H.R. 589, The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act. We hope that you share our urgent desire to move forward on passing this legislation.

There are dire consequences for millions of long-term unemployed workers who are fighting every day to make ends meet so they can support their families. It is time to get serious about taking care of our long-term unemployed workers who continue to suffer. We look forward to your response and are hopeful that we can meet with you in the near future to discuss the importance of this bill and our plan to pass it. Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.

— Reps. Barbara Lee + Bobby Scott

In my opinion, the Time is NOW for all unemployed Americans to put non stop pressure on the media, the House leadership and every one of our elected officials in our home district offices beginning TODAY and not letting up until we have Obama’s signature on a law that will provide badly needed and long overdue additional UI benefits for the millions of current 99ers and future 99ers alike.

EMAIL CONTACTS:
Dailyrundown@msnbc.com, speakerboehner@mail.house.gov, ed@edschultzshow.com

TWITTER:
@dailyrundown @chucktodd @SavannahGuthrie @maddow @wegoted @theedshow @edshow @alivelshi

For more political contacts see: http://twitter.com/paladinette/politicians/members

For more Media contacts see:

http://twitter.com/paladinette/news-media/members

Lets go people it is time we let them know beyond a doubt that we will no longer be ignored!

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