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Update on Rayon McIntosh

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The mother of Denise Darbeau, hospitalized since last Thursday says that her daughter was just a “fun loving” 24 year old who now has memory loss and could have permanent brain damage. Darbeau and her girlfriend, Rachael Edwards, unknowingly ordered and received a double whopper beatdown from McDonald’s employee, Rayon McIntosh.

Following a verbal altercation which Darbeau sealed by slapping McIntosh in his face, the two women — perhaps fantasizing themselves to be Thelma and Louise — then charged behind the counter to confront the cashier. Apparently, the scriptwriter forgot to give the female duo their desired ending and did not give McIntosh a copy of the script, because he responded as any normal person does when threatened, he snapped; er I mean he defended himself. It wasn’t pretty. And I am certain it wasn’t the ending that Thelma and Louise had in mind.

McIntosh’s mother said her son was just trying to get his life together. That is a statement with which many of his supporters agree, regardless of his past. Many also reiterate that he was not out in the street robbing people and looking for trouble — he was working. McIntosh is still being held on $40,000 bond and has a December 2 court date.  Rayon McIntosh Defense Fund. 

 

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McIntosh to McDonald’s “I’m not lovin’ it!”

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Greenwich Village McDonald’s cashier, 31 year old Rayon McIntosh, was having an ordinary day before customer Denise Darbeau hauled off and slapped him.

Reportedly, Darbeau began cursing McIntosh after he questioned the authenticity of a $50 bill she handed him. Attempting to add injury to insult, after slapping McIntosh, Darbeau ran behind the counter as her friend, Rachael Edwards jumped over it. That’s when McIntosh delivered a super sized Mac attack by grabbing a metal rod and beating both women like he was tenderizing beef. The incident was captured on a cell phone camera by another customer.

Let me be perfectly clear when I say that I do not condone a man hitting a woman, but I also feel that any woman who throws the first punch against anyone, and especially against a man — unless she is Laila Ali — she had better be prepared for an a** whipping.  That is apparently what both women got. One of them was left with a fractured skull and broken arm, the other suffered cuts. McIntosh was fired.

Judging from word of mouth and comments on various blogs, a number of people believe that McIntosh was wrongly fired by McDonalds when he was obviously defending himself. He had no way of knowing whether the bold women would pull a knife or gun.

Some people are also upset over the fact that a few stations including CNN did not initially show the slap rendered by Darbeau, choosing instead to edit that portion out of the video. They showed only the footage of McIntosh striking both women with the rod.

Before the incident McIntosh was just another Mickey D employee trying to earn a living. The fact that he was also a convicted felon, who had served 10 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter in 2000, apparently became an issue only after the incident which resulted in his being fired and locked up again; this time on charges of felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

He is currently being held under $40,000 bond. McIntosh has the support of his father and many people in cyber space. The incident has also prompted Facebook fans to create the Rayon McIntosh Defense Fund. Darbeau of Queens and Edwards of Brooklyn, both 24 years old, were reportedly drunk at the time and both were charged with menacing, trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Set the video below to full screen, closely watch the cashier and see what set him off.

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It’s About Time

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Boomers, is it me or has time been speeding up significantly since we crossed that threshold into middle-age (albeit years ago)? I’m not talking about the typical Monday through Friday workweek that skips two days and then starts again before you even realize that there was a weekend in between. I am talking about years advancing faster than a PowerPoint presentation on automatic timing. Do you follow me? Well, I’m glad you do, because you know what they say about misery. Come take at trip with me down memory lane, and I’ll show you what I mean about fleeting time. 

There I am, a scrawny, four year old girl, clogging around in a long skirt and mother’s old high heel shoes, and playing grown up with my miniature dolls who live inside their tin doll house. There was no Pre-Kindergarten back then, so I am enjoying my last year of freedom before starting school.  I wish I could tell you that my childhood was spent doing exciting things like children of affluent people do, but my family was poor and we didn’t roll like that, so let’s get back to my own monotonous history.

Moving forward a few years, you’ll see that I have

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Michael Jackson’s Children — Who Are They Really?

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Considering the countless millions of Michael Jackson fans out there, I know that this subject will touch a few raw nerves, but I am going to raise it anyway. 

Since MJ’s unfortunate death, we have seen more of his children than ever before. And I will bet my collection of Jackson 5 albums that I am not the only person who – whenever I see Paris, Prince (Michael, Jr.)  and Blanket on TV – wonder whose children are they? Not only do the three of them look nothing like MJ, the siblings don’t even resemble each other.

When I told a friend that I was writing a post about MJ’s children, her immediate response was, “Leave them alone. They are wonderful, healthy children. When the children are older, they may begin asking themselves, ‘Who are my biological parents? How did I get here?’ In the meantime, people should just leave them alone.”  Spoken like a true Jackson fan. Well, I too am a fan, but one with a very inquiring mind.

According to whomever you choose to believe, MJ’s children were born of

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Naked Pregnant Celebrities on Parade

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Boomers, do you remember back in 1968, when the musical Hair made its debut on Broadway, and there was much to-do about the nude hippies in the finale of Act 1? The show’s nudity was a first for Broadway.

Over time, naked celebrities and nude scenes in movies and other public venues has become so prevalent that it is boring. Perhaps that is why, in 1991, photographer Annie Leibovitz and Vanity Magazine got creative and decided to one-up things by putting a seven month pregnant Demi Moore on the magazine cover.  Since then, pregnant celebrities have been jumping on the Lamaze bandwagon to go with the flow.

African American actress Nia Long is now following the trend of Demi Moore, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Erykah Badu,Tia Mowry and a growing list of other celebrity women who, while in advance stages of pregnancy, bare their

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