Man thrown from bed of pickup dies

FORT WORTH — A man died late Monday from injuries he received when he was thrown from the bed of pickup while trying to weigh down a piece of plywood.

Julio Mendez, 26, of Irving was identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. He died at 7:19 p.m. at John Peter Smith Hospital, the M.E.’s office said Tuesday.

Lt. Kent Worley, fire department spokesman, said Mendez and another man were reportedly headed to a construction site when the incident happened around noon Monday in the 10000 block of Wagley-Robertson Road in far north Fort Worth.

“Obviously they were trying to weigh it down and the wind got up under the plywood, lifted the wood and the two men out of the truck,” Worley said. “They landed on the roadway.”

Lt. Dean Sullivan, a police spokesman, said good Samaritans aided the injured men until help arrived.

Worley said the men — one of whom suffered head trauma and the other possibly abdominal injuries, in addition to multiple fractures — were taken to area hospitals by helicopter ambulance.

The other man was in critical condition at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, Sullivan said.

Sullivan said an investigation is ongoing.

“We have not made a determination as to whether any charges will be filed at this time,” Sullivan said. “Texas drivers hauling loads of materials are required to secure those materials so that they don’t become dislodged and scattered about the roadway. It’s probably ill-advised to try to secure them with persons. A tarp or a strap is a much better mechanism.”

of course this is a sad story, the loss of life is terrible.  But if you don’t believe in evolution, I dare you to take it up with Mr. Mendez

yeah!!

Have a good day, and think if the wind never blew.  It would alway smell good unless you farted

Russell Simmions is a douchebag

****Not really because a douchebag actual goal is to clean something up****

He was on CNN AM and he was saying that it is okay for the Rappers to use that n, w/h, and b word.  But the radio and tv waves shouldn’t deploy it.  I will put the video up soon maybe.

Betty Winn is kinda hot. 

 

CHETRY: And joining us here in the studio right now is hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons, the author of “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success.”

You are very excited about your new book this morning. What is it, top 10 on Amazon.

RUSSELL SIMMONS, HIP-HOP PIONEER: Top 10. It’s number, I think, six, and it came out today. So I’m very excited about the response to the book.

CHETRY: What did you — you say it’s a culmination of everything you learned in your life. Tell us some of the highlights.

SIMMONS: Well, the books is about accessing the power in you through connecting to your core. The unity inside all of us that allows us to — we talk about these laws of attraction, all these secrets, but the secrets are only good when you know the highest self. And the book is about using that to attract whatever it is you want in the universe. And so I’m very excited about it. It’s got tremendous insight. It’s not my own insight only. I mean, whatever’s in the Bible, and the Koran, the Torah and Yoga Sutras is truthful. You know, it’s not something that is — lots of time people forget. And to remember these truths, you know, the fact that you have the power to get whatever it is that you imagine, and that’s what the book’s about.

CHETRY: How did you get what you wanted out of life? Because You really are a success story with not only your background in hip- hop, but also moving on into clothing and yoga even.

SIMMONS: Well, the film, and television, and financial service and jewelry companies, and all these companies, the imagination is God itself, and the fact is hard work, dedication, focus and faith allow you access to everything. And so I believe even when you don’t know the laws of attraction, you’re operating under them. So that truth is something that’s discussed quite a bit in the book, and it’s tremendous success so far.

CHETRY: Absolutely, top 10 on Amazon, it is, “Do You!,” by Russell Simmons.

Let me ask you about this, because you also in charge of the Hip- Hop Action Network. You talked about coming up with a standardized way to clean up some of the lyrics in rap music. You want words like the ‘b’ word, the ‘n’ word and hos to be out of songs that young kids are listening to.

SIMMONS: No, I think that the artists deserve to write and paint a picture of society, whatever that picture is. Sometimes it’s offensive, but they deserve to write to express themselves. The suggestion is that on the airwaves, we clean these words up. In other words, Snoop even said he doesn’t want his mother and children to hear those words. He’s an adult artist. And the pictures that we paint of our society, just like your news shows, are not always pretty. The fact is we live in a misogynistic, sexist, racist and violent society. The rappers are certainly not as sexist as their parents. They’re not as violent as the choices that we make with government. They’re not as homophobic certainly as the previous generation. And they would never talk about racist subjects, because they’re not as racist as their parents.

But the records that are truthful are reflections of our sad truth. And that truth, it needs to be looked at and we need to change it. We need to change — in other words, the reflections of the dirt are good, but breaking the mirrors will not help us and, so it’s very important that we recognize. When Camron said the code of the street — the other day he was on “60 Minutes.” And it was a horrible story. Whoever skewed it so poorly. He said it was the code of the streets not to talk to the police. The disconnect between police and community is something we have to work on. He didn’t say it was a code of rap.

CHETRY: Getting back to lyrics and getting back the images that young kids are seeing, these guys are their role models. Nelly is their role model. When they see the images of women in bikinis and the guys with diamonds, is the focus on the materialistic and the sexual when maybe it should be on something else for the kids?

SIMMONS: What hypocrites we are. The idea that that a bikini is new or that the sexism that we exude — do you watch “Cops” and every time you turn it on somebody is beating their wife? Do we ever discuss the misogyny in our society in a meaningful way. My last chapter in “Do You!” we did discuss to tell the truth to power. Lots of times the sophisticates are so good to rationalize their existence when they bomb the innocent people or when they enslave…

(CROSSTALK)

CHETRY: We’re getting away from the topic right now, because — the Hip-Hop Action network brought it up, right? You guys are saying you want to clean up these songs on the radio.

SIMMONS: Well, I think that the public airwaves and people who are listening to mainstream radio and television deserve to hear language that they expect; they don’t need to hear these words.

CHETRY: Right.

SIMMONS: I don’t believe that because we don’t want children to hear bad words or because we’re afraid of children watching the news, that the news shouldn’t come out. So I respect and protect the artist and the First Amendment rights, but at the same time I’m always concerned about what children, my children, hear.

CHETRY: Right. So do you feel like you’re straddling a tough line right now, in terms of the hip-hop community?

SIMMONS: No. I don’t think the artists care one bit. It’s not about the artists; it’s about corporate responsibility.

CHETRY: So you’re saying it’s on the shoulders of the corporations and the radio stations to edit those out, but there’s no onus on the artist to maybe think twice about what they’re saying.

SIMMONS: They all should take personal responsibility, but throughout society every — always the poets have been under fire for telling the truth. And just because we’re all a sheep. Poets look inside in our conscious of the hypocrite critical behavior of the adults, and especially the young ones here, or the powers that go to work that are rigid and don’t listen to themselves or their own hearts. Poets listen to their own hearts, and they tell you the truth when you have dirt. And the dirt offends you, but it’s your dirt.

CHETRY: So do you think of things like the ‘n’ word, the ‘b’ word and ‘hos’ as poetry?

SIMMONS: Oh, I think that they’re the reflections of our reality. And the ‘n’ word is in so many great American classics and the poetry. These are a description; these are paintings. They have a right to use — they have poetic license. They’re supposed to use whatever words inspire them or tell the story they’re telling, and we’re supposed to protect those rights.

But at the same time, we should protect the ears of the young ones and the people who don’t — are not interested in that language or anything. In fact, if you don’t like a rap record, you don’t have to buy it. But if you turn on the mainstream airwaves and you don’t like some of the words. There are seven words that we can’t use. I’m suggest that the hip-hop community go ahead of your mainstream shows, where you use the ‘b’ word and the ‘h’ word, on every other mainstream channel. We’ll take the lead. We’ll take those words out of our lyrics for radio and television, and then maybe you can clean up the “Ellen Degeneres,” all the mainstream shows. I didn’t mean her only , but everybody says “bitch” on television. But we want to take it out of our words because we know the pain of the African-American community.

CHETRY: All right, well, that’s the first time we used it today on AMERICAN MORNING.

SIMMONS: Today.

CHETRY: That’s right. SIMMONS: But you used “ho” earlier. You did. I heard you.

CHETRY: As a quote.

SIMMONS: All right. Well, we want to get those words out of mainstream radio and mainstream television.

CHETRY: And it’s because someone is in trouble today for calling a group of women and minority police officers the ‘h’ word.

SIMMONS: Yes, but the thing is, the rappers never exude — in fact, they’re the best thing we have for race relations. When you turn on MTV you see this great immigration. When Run got on MTV there were no blacks at all, except Michael Jackson, so…

CHETRY: Yes. And we do watch his show, “Run’s House.” I know it well.

Russell Simmons, we are out of time.

SIMMONS: Thank you so much.

CHETRY: You got more time than you thought you were going to get, though, today.

SIMMONS: “Do You!.”

CHETRY: Author of “Do You!.” Yes, it’s the 10 right now on Amazon.

And, Russell, thanks for stopping by. You’re always fascinating to talk to, for sure.

SIMMONS: Thank you. Thank you so much.

I do beleive that the media should not replay comments like Imus made, it wasn’t a big deal till they showed it a gazillion times.  I talked to like 5 people, and none of them listen to the Imus show.  Wouldn’t have been as big as it was if they wouldn’t have replayed it.  It wasn’t right what he said either.

Oh, My Goodness

Someone posted their phone number on You Tube.  What an amazing idea.  Benn there done that on collegehumor.com