There was inspired (or just dumb luck) casting. David Cassidy,Meatloaf,Gary Busey,Lisa Rinna,Dionne Warwick, Martlee Matlin LiL Jon and John Rich and others injected much needed life into the stale reality show.

2012 Celebrity Apprentice Cast

Clay Aiken- Michael Andretti-Tia Carrere- Adam Carolla-Lou Ferrigno-Debbie Gibson-Teresa Giudice-Victoria Gotti-Arsenio Hall-Penn Jillette- Lisa Lampanelli-Dayana Mendoza-Aubrey O’Day-Dee Snider  George Takei- Paul Teutul, Sr.-Cheryl Tiegs- Patricia Velasquez

On Sunday’s season’s premier, it was the men vs the women.  The task was sandwiches, the team that generated the most money for charity, got to go to bed early.

The men’s team “Unanimous” picked  Paul Teutul, Sr. of “American Chopper to be project manager. The woman’s team, “Forte”   Venezuelan actress and fashion model Patricia Velasquez volunteered to be project manager.   Paul set the bar high saying he wanted to raise a half a million dollars for his charity “Make a Wish” . Patricia’s charity is the  Wayuu Taya Foundation.   Which ever team  had the best sales received the other teams cash.

On the men’s team Penn Jillette worked his assets off  juggling fire outside, inside Clay Aiken was aggressively asking for cash inside.  As the milk separated, the take charge people rose and the other followed.   Paul is old school, his  no coddling-tell it like he’s see’s didn’t wear well on some of  him team.

Meanwhile, the ladies were having their own issues.  Victoria Gotti, and Teresa Guidice spent time of their cells , as their teammates worked.  Victoria Gotti (John’s daughter) is the woman they seem to fear.   Lisa Lampaneilli worried about finding a horse’s head in her bed,.  While everyone on her team was making sandwiches, Victoria got there when she felt like it….(no one said a word)

Despite his Jilllette’s best efforts, the restaurant grew quiet.   Across town, the women were kicking ass, with people paying thousands for their sandwiches  At one point Russell Simmons with 10 grand in hand, wanted a vegan sandwich..  With all the sandwiches pre-made,  Victoria and Cheryl sprang into action and chich ching,  Mr Simmons had his sandwich.

La Don, told the teams to bring their best sandwich to the Rachel Ray Show, the winning team would get a bonus. The winner would be revealed in the board room.

Listen and Learn

With Paul saying he had the connections to make the half million dollars happen, the rest of his team turned their cells off .    Some of the women called their connections.   But most have seen the show and were saving their high roller connections, for another day.

The Board Room

The board room is where it all  happens,betrayal, ego and honor,  where dog eats dogs  Your favorite celebrities doing what ever it takes to live another day.   Forget the tasks and the whispers, its the board room!   While the show and its format has grown stale, the board room still entertains. Its the room where you can watch your favorites squirm.

Who is the weakest player?   Patrica, the project manager said,  former Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza was the hardest worker and said supermodel Cheryl Tiegs and Victoria Gotti were the weakest players.   Of course you know M’s Gotti wasn’t gonna sit there and be silent. But Patricia  (she ain’t scared of no Gotti) pointed out how late and distracted she was… (take dat Gotti!)

On the men team,Paul called Penn Jillette the teams “MVT”( most valuable teammate)  and George (Star Trek)Takai and Arsenio ( “yes! where the hell has he been!) Hall the  weakest player.  Mr Takai did not have his stun gun and didn’t appreciate Paul calling him meek , and defended himself to the Trumpster!

Rachael Ray, liked the men’s sandwich and the men received a $35,000 bonus….

The women raised an impressive $126,000 the most ever in the history of  CA.

How so nevah! the men raised $367,000.  Including one check for $305,000 from one of Paul’s friends.  Nearly a half a million dollars goes to Make A Wish!      (don’t mess with Paul)

Time for one of the ladies to go home…… singer Debbie( Shake Your Love) Gibson picked Cheryl to go home. Actress Aubrey O’Day picked M’s Gotti.  Actress and multi-Grammy winner Tia Carrere (trying to be a bad ass) volunteered herself to go into the final board room meeting-”el stupido”  (not smart as the Trumpster has a good memory) and said she wanted M’s Gotti gone as well..

Note: Cheryl said she brought in big money, Patricia basically said, I don’t think so bitch. I know who and what…which silenced Cheryl.

Patricia brought Cheryl and M’s Gotti to the board room.   Cheryl looked like she was about the fall apart and in the end the former supermodel was the first fired.

A tearful Cheryl said “She didn’t seem to mind anyway,saying  it wasn’t really a good fit for her”

The Supermodel found her Mojo on Wendy Williams

After a tearful departure, the supermodel struck back on “The Wendy Williams Show”  Saying she wanted to show America a different side of the Celebrity Apprentice.    In firing her, (instead of M’s Gotti)” Trump was trying to protect his own head with that move”

“I’ve built 12 companies in my life” I’ve been on the cover of Time magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world.  I’ve worked with teams all my life, but  I’ve been nice and I’ve been kind. I wanted to bring something to “Celebrity Apprentice ” to let America know that you don’t have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to challenge”

Someone really likes herself

Last season’s Celebrity Apprentice (hope he cut NeNe Leakes a Big Check) was a must see.  This year cast including another Bravo Housewife  Teresa Giudice, is a wait and see.  Perhaps, Teresa will flip the table in the board room.

Cityfella

A few days ago, my friend Elizabeth posted an item to Facebook. I wanted to comment but held back, though not exactly because I had plenty of work to do. Instead I sent her a text: “Sometimes do you want to say something or post something or like something on FB, but then you think of all those unanswered emails and texts and silence yourself, so people won’t see you ‘wasting’ time when you could be responding to them?”

“Sometimes?” she replied.

“It’s called Twilt, that feeling,” I answered, laughing, having coined the term on the spot.

Twilt (n): the particular brand of guilt or self-reproach that results from posting, liking or commenting on items on Facebook or Twitter while simultaneously not responding to emails, text messages, phone calls or other types of personal communication with the knowledge or anxiety that the specific message senders will notice your public offerings and question your lack of private ones. Twilt, while related, is not the same as the guilt that results from general Internet-specific procrastination such as browsing blogs or online shopping, which, though it may result in its own brand of self-disgust, generally has no public shame component.

Hell, I’m a man, when it come to size we  want the biggest.   It’s like a car, yes a six cylinder  is adequate and it will get the job done-how nice.  But we want the HEMI, eight cylinders of rumbling power.  Sure, its gets 2 miles to the gallon and you’ll need a  small business loan to buy gas.   It’s about pride, power and glory!  (excuse me, as I wipe a tear from my eye)

No man runs up to your car and say’s ooh, you have six?    It’s damm man, you got a friggin HEMI!

SO UNDERSTAND AND RECOGNIZE!   I can’t buy a 46, my fragile male ego wont allow it.  My children have fifties,   Heck, my daughter has a forty something in her bedroom.

I want immediate blindness, as you enter my postage stamp of an apartment, you’ll need sunglasses.  I want ooooh’s .   I wanna hear, oh its so big! (so few of us hear that without uncontrollable giggling)     Look at that picture!

“I wanna say to my clearly envious visitors , ohhh its nothing, just something to watch the news”

Last fall, a friend invited a few of us to watch the 49er’s in 73 inches of half time wonder. The TV was one of those rear projection TV‘s from the rent a center.  The TV sucked big time, the  picture looked blurry, from the side, so we had to sit in a small section of the sofa to properly see the TV, there we where crammed, on this small section of this large sofa, unable to reach for snacks or drinks.    No one returned during the playoffs.

Lawd, I want one of  the larger, LCD,LED or Plasma… with a good bright and sharp picture. and if you can delivered  it before the Oscars or NBA playoffs  it would be appreciated…

and remember,  ooohs and ahhhs……

See Lawd, Double! Double!  if I get anything smaller, my kids will snicker, please…its about HONOR!

Cityfella

Two activists, including Safe Ground Sacramento president John Kraintz (right), protest lack of access to clean water and sanitation for the region’s homeless individuals  at City Hall.

The disbanding of Tent City 2, threats with Tasers, no access to clean water or sanitation, a dramatic rise in illegal-camping citations—Sacramento’s homeless individuals say they’re under attack. And according to new reports by Sacramento County rangers—and even the United Nations’ Council on Human Rights—they aren’t exaggerating.

In January, for instance, the county’s chief ranger reported that citations for illegal camping shot up nearly 2,000 percent in 2011 over the previous year. County spokesman Zeke Holst explained that most of these citations occurred near Discovery Park and eastward along the American River.

Beginning last October, city of Sacramento police officers began regularly joining county rangers on patrols of this area. This has resulted in a considerable upswing in the number of $221 illegal-camping tickets: 33 were issued between July and September of 2011, but then 332 were issued between October and December. The report notes that only 29 citations were issued in 2010.

Chief county ranger Stan Lumsden says the huge increase in written citations is “basically the difference between doing [one’s job] and not doing it,” adding that staff finally has the time to enforce the no-camping ordinance and that it’s not a new “crackdown” against homelessness.

Meanwhile, homeless advocate John Kraintz, president of Safe Ground Sacramento, told the city council on January 24 that campers who were ejected from the former Tent City 2 site near North 10th Street are now being threatened with Tasers.

“This business about using Tasers to influence people on the river,” Kraintz told city council, “this is not a good plan.”

Both city and county officials insist Tasers are not being used against homeless persons. “We don’t threaten people with Tasers,” city of Sacramento Sgt. Andrew Pettit told Sacramento News and Review. He says officers are instructed to only display or “arc” their Tasers if there is a combative or physical threat, or during riot or crowd control.

County rangers, meanwhile, only recently were given Tasers, on February 1, according to spokesman Holst. Their policy for use is similar to that of the city police.Either way, Kraintz said there needs to be a de-escalation of patrols and citations. “They’ve got nowhere else to go,” he reminded.

The international community, meanwhile, has taken notice. A United Nations representative who visited Sacramento last year sent a letter this past week to Mayor Kevin Johnson’s office. It condemned homeless living conditions, arguing that homeless people are “increasingly being criminalized” and urged the city to provide access to 24-hour public-restroom facilities and clean water (see “Cruel, inhuman, degrading,” SN&R Frontlines, March 17, 2011).

Johnson spokesman Joaquin McPeek insisted that “no one is more frustrated” than the mayor when it comes to homelessness in the city. “Our community has made incredible strides in the past few years by moving over 2,300 individuals into permanent housing,” he stated. “But there’s more we need to do.”

The U.N. report describes how one Safe Ground homeless man, “Tim,” engineered a sanitation-waste system for fellow campers. Each week, he collected “bags full of human waste, which varied in weight between 130 to 230 pounds, and [hauled] them on his bicycle a few miles to a local public restroom” for disposal.

This past Tuesday morning, after the report’s release, more than a dozen homeless persons marched in light rain to City Hall for a protest and press conference. They chanted “sanitation, not discrimination” and also brought along “Tim’s” makeshift toilet: an 8-foot-tall tent with a plastic seat inside along with a mountain bike with metal baskets filled with bags for human waste.

Safe Ground’s Kraintz reminded that his organization has offered to pay for clean water and sanitation. But city leaders have rebuffed him, including Councilman Steve Cohn, arguing that the encampment was not sustainable or clean. “But there’s still the sanitation problem. There’s still the water problem,” Kraintz said. “They’re still making a mess all over the river.”

By Nick Miller/Sacramento News and Review

Fun facts about the Buick Excelle, China‘s best-selling car:

• The Excelle is actually three different cars: the Excelle, Excelle GT and Excelle XT.

• The Excelle is based on an old Daewoo design. It’s been on the market for years. Buick sold 253,514 in 2011, making it China’s best-selling car.

• The Excelle GT is very similar to the Buick Verano and sold 96,725 cars. It went on sale in January 2010. Buick sold 96,725 Excelle GTs.

• The Excelle XT hatchback is a lot like the Opel Astra. It debuted in June 2010. Buick sold 38,075 last year.

• Westerners call the cars Excelle — pronounced “Ex-cell-uh” — but the models’ Chinese names are quite different.

• The Excelle’s name transliterates as “Kai Yue.”

By:Mark Phelan-Detroit Free Press

Stingy with the “hookup”

And we’re not talking money (that is unless you loan them money all the time and they can’t do the same). The frenemy is actually stingy with resources and help that most friends wouldn’t mind offering. For instance, you have a colleague who is looking for an assistant, and you know that your friend, recently laid off or unhappy, is looking for a new opportunity. While it might not be your first thought, it should be a thought to hook your girl up with the contact, right? Well, the frenemy has all of that in her Barney bag but doesn’t feel like sharing. Sharing is caring! But a frenemy doesn’t want you to find yourself doing more or better than them. If you even have to ask if they can slide you someone’s email or to talk to someone who could help you get where you hope to be, then that should send off some warning signals and flares in your mind.

They need to know everything about you and only you…

The frenemy seems to be a private individual. When you find out things are going on in their life, you hear it from a third party or they tell you later than they tell everyone else and might even give an excuse as to why they did so in such a tardy manner. But the craziest thing of it is that they seem to feel the need to know everything that’s going on with you. Your success, your failure, who you’re “talking to,” and what you’re up to. What’s that about? Maybe it’s done to be critical, maybe they’re just nosey, or maybe, just maybe… they’re looking to one up you.

Mimic or try very hard to do better than you

Ever have that friend who seems to have an unspoken beef with everything you accomplish or do and wants to do the same or better? Yeah, girl, that’s probably a frenemy. Your “girlfriend” is on a some Single White Female doing-the-absolute-most-stuff and is trying to get the style you’ve got, the friends you made outside of her, and can’t seem to let you be happy basking in the realm of a major feat, relationship, or whatever, without trying to compare her success to your own. Seems like ‘ol girl isn’t trying to see you on top of the world, even if only for a few moments.

Lack of support emotionally

You know when you tell someone something that is really eating at you, and instead of seeming compassionate or having some deep, clutch advice for you when you need it, they have a random reaction you didn’t see coming? Whether it’s making you look irrational about your worries, blaming you for drama you didn’t think you caused or just being indifferent, the way they come at you is often puzzling. They don’t always have to sing “Lean on me” or something like that when you’re feeling down, but if they don’t seem to care for real (and you’re not one who complains all the time about everything), or they find some sort of entertainment or amusement out of your issues…I think we all know that’s not right.

Bad communication of course

You might have a frenemy on your hands if small disagreements turn into huge issues with her. I’m talking so huge in her mind that she stops talking to you for an extended period of time and starts talking bad about you to other people, possibly even to some of the friends in your circle. I think a strong friendship, like most relationships, thrives on good communication. And while you might have your ups and downs, you shouldn’t feel like a friend will throw you under the bus everytime they don’t get their way and talk about you behind your back whenever there’s a misunderstanding.

You realize the need to keep them at an arm’s length

While you have your friends that you confide in, call during dreary moments and check up on often, you might have a frenemy on your hands if she’s the one you like to hang out with just occasionally. In simple terms, you like to deal with her in small doses. She’s great to party with or shop with–you know, the fun surface stuff. But when it comes to trusting her with all the ins and outs of your issues, that’s not happening. She hasn’t proven herself to be the most down-to-ride girlfriend, but she’s cool in other ways. It’s like your party friends versus your real friends. You know who to call for a good time, but you also know who to call when you need someone to stand by you–NOT her.

They like to play with your feelings, but want to play sensitive too…

Think of the Sheree and Marlo Hampton fight on Real Housewives of Atlanta in a way (although we know they didn’t get along at all). A frenemy is good at leaving you out of the loop or not inviting you to certain things in the hope of being the center of attention with no problems.  However, when they’re not the first person you think to call to go outfor dinner or to come to an event with you, their feelings get hurt! Talk about dramatic. How can you be picky in inviting a person to things and then have a conniption fit when they so something similar, but don’t do it out of spite like some folks? Yeah girl, keep an eye on that one. She’s crazy.

From:Madame Noir

Before you can catch your breath, or familiarize yourself with the surrounding, there pressure is on.

The Hyundai Store in the Westfield Plaza is a breath of fresh air.  Touch,sit,and feel, questions answered by a knowledgeable staff.    An Auto store in a shopping mall.  Stop by Macy’s, See a Movie,have a meal and buy a car.

If your considering a  Hyundai, the Hyundai Store at Westfield’s Downtown Plaza is your only stop.

(1963-2012) 

Tip your I-pod or Mp3 players to  Jay-Z and Beyonc’e . Like most celebrities they could have made oodles of money selling pictures of their daughter “Blue Ivy Carter” to People or some magazine.  They chose instead to download the picture on the internet for everyone to see.  

“Money Can’t Buy You Class”

Meanwhile back in Sacratomatoville……………

It’s the Bounty Hunter vs the Point Guard 

Leonard Padilla

Vs

 Current Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson

Padilla, announced he will run agaisnt Mayor Johnson for his seat  this fall.

Too Much?

Nicky Minaj at the 2012 Grammy’s

Never 2 Much

Adele

A Record Six Awards

tied the record held by Beyonce for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in a single year.

She was 19,  I was capitvated by her sound . I wanted to know who she was ? Visually,she wasn’t rail thin or pre-packaged. People in the music industry will ask her to lose weight and disapper in a sea of blonde hair, what wont disapper is her voice.(Rumor has it, she has quit smoking) Lets hope she stays curvy,to inspire all the other curvy girls with a dream.

Something tells me….. GOP Candidate Jon Santorum wont be Campaigning in the Village in NYC, K Street in Sacramento, West Hollywood or the Castro in San Francisco.  None of the current GOP Candidates can wrap there hands around Gay Marriage. But no one has been as vocal about it than Jon Santorum .  Listen to His Honorary Florida Chairman. Rev. O’Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center  …

You will Burn in Hell if you laugh at this Poor Man who loses his way- Burn! 

 Chris Brown’s alleged new pick up line: ‘Promise I won’t beat you

Chris Brown has adopted a spine-chilling new pick up line, according to one report.

An unidentified woman tells Us Weekly that Brown alleged approached her in the 54th annual Grammy Awards gift lounge and said, “Can I get your number? I promise I won’t beat you!”

CHRIS BROWN SAYS ‘[BLEEP] OFF’ TO CRITICS

The woman elaborates that Brown thought the words were hilarious.

“He and his friends laughed,” she claims. “One yelled, ‘That’s his new line!’”

Naturally, the line didn’t go over well. The woman says that rather than being titillated, she “wanted to throw up.”

Brown’s rep, however, has dismissed the report. “I’d be surprised if Chris said something that stupid,” the rep said.

In 2009, Brown and then-girlfriend Rihanna had both been scheduled to perform at the Grammy Awards, but backed out last minute. It was later discovered that the two had gotten in a physical scuffle, which landed Rihanna in the hospital. Brown plead guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to six months of community service in addition to five years probation.

Yesterday, Brown unleashed and then later deleted a Twitter tirade against critics who say he shouldn’t have been awarded a Grammy this year because of the incident.

“You guys love to hate!!!” he wrote. “But guess what??? HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now!”

Sources later told Radar Online that Brown didn’t write the tweets himself.

“Brown didn’t Tweet that,” the source claimed. “Someone does his postings to Twitter and when he saw that he ordered it taken down immediately.”

(Page Six)

American Idol is fading- Simon Cowell’s  Guarantee’d Hit the X- Factor didn’t  (he even dumped Paula for season 2. )

People are turning to  this  season.

How did I miss this show!

Betty White is funny,very funny, but she is NO…

cloris,Cloris,CLORIS

“Leachman”

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Step in to the WayBack Machine for Funny

A Zillion people have seen this clip 10 million times

Warning: if you are  seeing this clip for the first time -please remove all food

Thank you Whitney