Rapper Remy Ma will marry while in NYC jail

Rapper Remy Ma Plans NYC Jail Nuptials

NEW YORK (AP) - Rapper Remy Ma isn’t letting jail derail her wedding plans. The Grammy-nominated artist aims to marry her fiance, fellow rapper Papoose, at the city’s Rikers Island jail while she awaits her sentencing for shooting a friend she suspected of stealing $3,000, lawyer Ivan Fisher said.

“They’re much in love,” Fisher said. “They’re very committed to each other, and they had intended to marry one way or another.”

Remy Ma, whose real name is Remy Smith, was convicted last month of assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion in the July 2007 shooting after a party at a Manhattan nightclub.

The 26-year-old performer is being held without bail until her sentencing, set for April 23. She faces the possibility of up to 25 years in prison.

About 200 weddings are performed each year at Rikers Island, which offers chaplains and chapels, said city Department of Correction spokesman Stephen Morello. Only two guests will be permitted, and the couple won’t be allowed to wear rings with protruding gems.

Remy Ma was nominated for a Grammy as part of the Terror Squad for the 2004 hit “Lean Back.” She also has recorded with rap stars Busta Rhymes and Eminem.

Papoose’s “Born To Win” was featured on the top-selling football video game “Madden NFL 06,” and the music magazine Rolling Stone named him one of its “10 Artists to Watch” in 2006.

The Brooklyn rapper, whose real name is Shamele Mackie, also attracted attention with a track called “50 Shots,” in which he vented his anger about a fatal 2006 New York City police shooting of an unarmed man who was hours away from getting married.
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Skytel stored ‘text messages’, ya busted!!

Ignorant, arrogant idiots Kwame and Christine chose to pitch woo using the one texting system that leaves a permanent record

The mayor apparently picked it himself.

Do text messages disappear — like oral conversations — or are they permanently logged somewhere for potential retrieval — like e-mail usually is?…[Detroit Mayor Kwame] Kilpatrick and [his former Chief of Staff Christine] Beatty testified last summer in a whistleblower trial that arose from a lawsuit filed by two police officers alleging they were fired for investigating claims Kilpatrick used his security unit to cover his extramarital affairs.Kilpatrick and Beatty denied any sexual or romantic ties in 2002 and 2003. But the Detroit Free Press said in a story published Thursday that it examined 14,000 text messages on Beatty’s city-issued pager from those years and found many examples….The city’s text messaging service is provided by Mississippi-based wireless company SkyTel.SkyTel’s devices employ a technology called Narrowband PCS, including two-way paging, that “rose and fell” in the mid-1990s, according to David Chamberlain, a wireless analyst with Scottsdale, Ariz.-based In-Stat.

Chamberlain said SkyTel’s device is more akin to e-mail than to text-messaging, and messages are stored. While mainstream technology has since moved to SMS or Short Message Service technology, some corporations and governments have stayed with wireless services like SkyTel.

textually.org | March 11, 2008 | Texts expose yet another politician’s indiscretions

Just how do authorities get text messages?In the case of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who allegedly sent sexually explicit text messages to a top aide, records were archived by a private company that he, as mayor, authorized to handle the city’s messaging system. It became part of the subpoena process of a lawsuit…….text messages are routinely erased by the wireless phone companies, generally within a few days of being transmitted.Verizon, Sprint and AT&Tall insist there are no stored volumes of text messages out there.

Don’t use Skytel Kwame……..use a cb

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, com’ on!!!

Dear Kwame,

I heard, and I read the reports my brotha; it’s all over the place!!

Listen to this Kwame, I know we met only briefly in Detroit a few years ago.

I learn certain admirable things about your challenging public life.

Black America is being torn apart by hip hop’s  images, and it’s lifestyle.

   Kwame, you are ‘Hip Hop’’s Mayor’ ,  don’t go out as  a coward. 

You  have choices, which a lot of men pray for. Even right now, they would

trade places with you. But no, you don’t appreciate your gifted position.

850 miles of Detroit streets repaved and repaired, etc.,etc.,etc.,..

Don’t destroy yourself. You’ve done enough malady .

 Then again , you gangsta’ , right Kwame? 

   If those Skytel text messages  are ruled inadmissible,  I hope that you can that you , Carlita and your three sons, are no longer bothered by the bad press  from the newspapers and other media outlets.

  To keep it real wit’ you Kwame; I trust NO politician!!

To equate the activities of Eliot Spitzer with your’s, Yep!

Which is the Best country to live in, your view?

Which is the best country to live in, to you?

Prostitution ring ties; N.Y.governor Spitzer apologizes

N.Y. governor Spitzer apologizes after reports of ties to prostitution ring

Last Updated: Monday, March 10, 2008 | 3:51 PM ET

CBC News

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized on Monday for violating the trust of his family and the public, responding to reports that he allegedly had links to a high-priced prostitution ring.

The New York Times first reported the story on Monday afternoon, citing one of Spitzer’s officials.

Eliot Spitzer, shown at a memorial service for fallen firefighters in Albany, N.Y., last October, began his first term as New York’s governor in January 2007. He’s now at the centre of a controversy after an article quoted one of his officials as saying he had been involved in a prostitution ring.
(Mike Groll/Associated Press)

Spitzer did not specifically address news of the prostitution ring and his involvement, speaking only briefly before leaving a press conference in New York City.

“I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family. I have acted in a way that violates my or any sense of wrong,” he said, with his wife at his side.

“I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better,” said Spitzer.

“I disappointed and failed to live up to the standard that I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.”

Charges filed against 4 people: Times

The Times reported that federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed conspiracy charges last week against four people, accusing them of running a prostitution ring that had wealthy clients in Europe and the U.S.

Officials with Spitzer’s administration did not confirm to the newspaper whether the 48-year-old governor was connected to the case reported in the Times.

Spitzer began his first term as governor on Jan. 1, 2007. During his election campaign, he vowed to clean up corruption in Albany.

Before that, he served for eight years as attorney general of New York. He became a national figure for his involvement in landmark cases seeking to protect investors, consumers and low-income workers, according to his election website.

In his role as attorney general, he also prosecuted at least two prostitution rings, according to the Times.

He was best known for his investigations into Wall Street crimes, such as bid rigging and other fraudulent practices, Spitzer’s website says.

PAID for SEX! NY State Governor Spitzer Confession

Today, March 10,2008 this afternoon, NY State Governor apologizes to the public, and to

his family for spending his money at the prostitution ring. He said “I have to build the trust

that my family should have for me.” The Governor knew he was caught so he confessed

on Monday. But, Friday was the day for the arrest of several ring members.

Read this fragmented story: 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 7, 2008

An international prostitution ring that charged wealthy clients in Europe and the United States up to $5,500 an hour for the body of their choice may have lost its high-class veneer with the arrest of four organizers, prosecutors announced yesterday.

Charges were unsealed in Manhattan accusing the four of participating in a prostitution ring that called itself Emperors Club VIP from at least as far back as December 2004, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said.

On its Web site, the company displays photographs of the prostitutes’ bodies, with their faces hidden, along with hourly rates depending on whether the prostitutes were rated with one diamond, the lowest ranking, or seven diamonds, the highest.

A three-diamond prostitute would cost $1,000 per hour, while a seven-diamond prostitute would charge $3,100 per hour, prosecutors said. The Icon Club allowed access to the most highly ranked prostitutes at $5,500 an hour, they said.

Authorities said the defendants arranged connections between wealthy men and more than 50 prostitutes in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, London and Paris.

The defendants were charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws. Two of those charged also were accused of conspiring to launder more than $1 million in illicit proceeds from the prostitution crimes. All four were arrested yesterday.

In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, FBI agent Kenneth Hosey said clients were told they could pay with a wire transfer to the Emperors Club because it would show up on records as QAT Consulting to make it appear to be a business transaction.

Much of the complaint traced how law enforcement authorities learned about the business through tape-recorded telephone calls and text messages.

In an affidavit submitted as part of a search warrant application, Hosey asked for permission to raid a Brooklyn location as part of a probe of the Emperors Club that began in October.

Hosey said the defendants had earned more than $1 million illegally through the business.

The agent said evidence included statements from a confidential source and an undercover officer, a review of more than 5,000 telephone calls and text messages and more than 6,000 e-mails along with bank records, travel and hotel records.

 Why would a Governor do thi, was he dumb?

Blogger in prison 14 to 28 years old

Iranian blogger goes to jail for 14 years

Iran, I would run. I have no more respect for Iran or it’s flag.

Iranian blogger goes to jail for 14 years

By Pranam Kolari on Monday, February 28th, 2005 at 7:19 pm.Via WhatsNextBlog. If you thought Mark Jen’s firing at Google was the end. Well, here’s more.

An Iranian blogger, Arash Sigarchi, has been jailed for 14 years. His offense? Criticizing Iran’s arrest of other bloggers.

He was jailed on charges against the state, including espionage and insulting Iran’s leaders, after the 28-year-old criticised the Iranian government and its treatment of web log writers on his own blog.

Bloggers across the web were asked to add a Free Mojtaba and Arash banner to their blogs and contact Iranian government representatives.

More at silicon.com.

Automatic policy adherence - be it for an organization, blogging host or country will have to be addressed soon. This is not to say that policies in effect are right or wrong and have to be followed. But means of verification need to be in place to atleast warn the blogger on possible implications.

The Best ‘content’(?)

I will have content on my web page.

But, just thinking ; everything I write is content. I write content. Even if you don’t sense a bit of Stephen King in this draft.

Well, I’ll write content ‘from now on’. As long as I ‘m not rambling.

What is the best content to increase traffic web page?

Gerry McGovern, web content Guru

I have to say,  Stephan Spenser  of Netconcepts.com,  did a great job with his interview

of Gerry McGovern. This is part of that interview:

Why have you dedicated yourself career-wise to website content? What is so special about that, that it has become your passion?
I always wanted to be good at something. I think someone once said that they had failed their way to success, and I certainly feel like that. There were so many things I found I wasn’t that good at–or that I found that I couldn’t really excel at. However, all along I was–in one way or another–working with content. And when I saw the Web the first time, it looked like this World Wide Web of Content. And it also was this huge opportunity. It was new. It was vast. It still is full of the smell of adventure. And I liked that. So I got up on my horse and headed out West to the new lands that content was building.

There is so much content on the web already. I get stressed surfing the web trying to keep up with the blogs in my industry because there is so much content. It is just exploding. The content is already out of control. Our brains can’t take it. Where is this all heading?
It’s a good question. I’m reading a book at the moment on how the mind works. It estimates that we are exposed to 11,000 bits of information a second, but that we are only conscious of 40 of them. (The word ‘bit’ being a technical measure of information.) Whatever the measure is, we’re exposed to a lot more today that we were 10 years ago.

But I think we’ll be fine. We’re going through a period of flux now as we move from an industrial age society to an information age one. The essence of what we need to know remains reasonably stable, in my opinion. Wisdom is not about volume. Quality does not always come with quality. There are long term trends at play. There are core patterns beneath the hum of noise.

First and foremost, we need to manage the content, not be managed by it. We have to stop being email slaves. Being constantly busy is not productive, and it’s certainly not good management. We need to focus more now on what we’re not going to do, on whose blog we’re going to stop reading this week because they’re repeating themselves. And ironically, in an age of content we need to get out more and talk to people–particularly our customers.

“I will be more mindful of my content focus, how about you?”-Mediashark

I respect America, but……….

Will America ever apologize,  for the dehumanization of black people

during slavery?

Or, is slavery water under the bridge ?

What do you say? Please comment honestly.