Did Chris Henry kill himself?
According to one of Chris Henry’s neighbors, the Cincinnati Bengals receiver told the mother of his three children that if she proceeded to drive away, he was going to kill himself.
From ESPN:
Neighbor Lee Hardy told WLWT-TV and The Cincinnati Enquirer that he was working in his yard when the truck left the driveway. Hardy said Henry was yelling that he needed to talk to the woman behind the wheel.
“He said, ‘If you take off, I’m going to jump off the truck and kill myself,’” Hardy told the newspaper.
The first 911 tape was from an unidentified woman who said she was following a yellow pickup truck.
“It’s got a black man on it with no shirt on, and he’s got his arm in a cast and black pants on,” she told a dispatcher. “He’s beating on the back of this truck window. … I don’t know if he’s trying to break in or something. It just looks crazy. It’s a girl driving it.”
So much for Henry turning his life around. Whatever that means. It sounds to me that he was still doing stupid things. Jumping into the back of a pickup truck, shirtless, beating on the back window. On Monday the high in Charlotte, North Carolina was only 48 degrees. I have to believe that’s not optimum weather for taking a ride in the back of a moving pickup truck, especially when you’re not wearing a shirt.
Health care reform is scarier than terrorism
Republican Representative Virginia Foxx from the fifth district of North Carolina spoke on the House floor and said that we have more to fear from health care reform than we do terrorists. Watch it:
If she said that not having access to quality, affordable health care was more of a threat than some radical Islamic fundamentalist hiding in a cave in Pakistan, I might actually agree with her. She didn’t say that. She’s not telling people to be afraid of not having access to quality health care, she is telling people to be afraid of health care reform because it will somehow infringe on our freedoms.
I don’t really understand people that actually encourage others to be scared. As an elected official, she really should be doing the complete opposite.
Star of ‘Notorious’ movie seen at movie theater shooting
Police in Greensboro, North Carolina had to evacuate a multiplex theater after someone’s gun went off in a theater hallway. The person who was shot was taken to a nearby hospital. The theater was showing Notorious, the movie about the The life and death story of rap artist Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), on multiple screens.
According to Greensboro police, Jamal Woolard, the actor that played the part of Notorious B.I.G., was at the theater at the time of the shooting. Why would he even be there? It was not the movie’s premiere.
It is kind of ironic that the actor that played the part of Notorious B.I.G. would go to a movie theater that was showing Notorious and a shooting would take place. It would be like if Mark Hamill went to a showing of Star Wars and a lightsaber battle broke out.
Jetliner crashes into the Hudson River, everyone survives
A U.S. Airways Airbus 320 taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York and flying to Charlotte, North Carolina crashed minutes later into the frigid Hudson River. Everyone survived. The passengers and crew, over 150 people, were able to get out of the jet and into boats long before the jetliner sunk.
Honestly, I thought stuff like this only happened in movies. Bad movies to be exact.
It’s still too early to say what exactly caused the crash, but they’ve all but ruled out terrorism. That is unless birds can be terrorists. One of the engines may have ingested a flock of birds.
The pilots are true heroes.
Sikh man told to remove his turban because he was in the United States of America
United States citizen and North Carolina resident Gary Khera was told while trying to make a monetary donation to a local mission that he would have to remove his turban. Khera practices the Indian religion of Sikhism. Sikh men do not shave or cut their hair and they always were a turban in public.
Khera was told by the in-take director, “Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States.” Quite understandably, Khera refused to remove his turban. He was then told to leave.
He wasn’t able to even give the planed donation.
There are reasons the South has a certain reputation. This is just one of those reasons. Even if the people at the mission had no clue about one of the world’s most practiced religions, it’s obvious this man is wearing this turban for a reason. It’s not like he was wearing a Dale Earnhardt hat. These people at the mission acted extremely ignorant.
Sounds like to me that the entire staff of the mission needs to sit down and watch Bend it Like Beckham. Not only is it a good movie, they would learn a thing or two about Sikhism. [Channel 5 WRAL]
Jesse Helms is finally dead
Finally there is justice in the world. Jesse Helms, that racist old coot from North Carolina is finally not breathing the same air as the rest of us.
His hometown newspaper, The News & Observer, published a joke of an obituary that failed to truly capture the level of absolute racism this man practiced. They described him as “cantankerous” and wrote that “Helms could be the picture of the courtly Southern gentleman“. As if there is anything cantankerous or gentlemanly about hating folks because of the color of their skin.
Not that they failed to mention the Helms’ racism. They wrote:
Although Helms denied he was a racist, his work in the Senate often seemed at odds with the interests of blacks.
Well now, isn’t that putting it rather nicely. Helms was one of two senators for the state of North Carolina, Helms represented many black people. So when his work in the Senate was “at odds with the interests of blacks”, it was at odds with a good many of his own electorate. The very people he should have been representing.
That’s not democracy.
Mount St. Mary made the NCAA tournament?
Nearby Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball team will play Coppin State — also from Maryland — tonight in a pre-NCAA men’s basketball tournament game in Dayton, Ohio. The two schools are located only about 50 miles from each other. Why go all the way to Dayton to play? If you’ve never been to Dayton, your lucky. It’s a poor man’s Cleveland, only not as fancy or pretentious.
The winning team then goes on this Friday to play the #1 ranked team in the nation, the North Carolina Tar Heels. It gets better; The game will be played in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I wonder who the crowd will be rooting for.
I was listening to the Dan Patrick show yesterday and he was asking callers where some of the so-called “mid-major schools” were located. When he asked about Mount St. Mary, it never even occurred to me that it was the same Mount St. Mary located in nearby Emmitsburg. I wouldn’t even call them a mid-major. It’s a small Catholic school located north of Thurmont where I used to work. I would sometimes listen to games on the radio when I was work.
It was either that or country music.
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