Joker of the WEEK Nominations

• Nas, Kelis and their entourage - For rocking "N*gger" jackets to the Grammy's. Way to make our ancestors proud during Black History Month. (Sassy also would like to nominate them for Joker of the Month. HAAAA!)

• Barron Hilton (Paris and Nicki's little brother) - For being arrested for a DUI. Aren't they rich enough to have drivers when they are going to get drunk? I mean really.

• David Shuster (MSNBC correspondent) - For being suspended for saying Hillary Clinton "pimped out" her daughter Chelsea during the campaign by having her call superdelegates and celebrities for support. (Funny comment, until he got slammed).

• Flavor Flavor and Flavor of Love 3 Contestants - No explanation necessary.

• Mitt Romney (former Republican Presidential candidate) - For dropping out of the race so that democrats won't win and the country won't surrender to terrorism. Yeah right--I'm sure the 30 or so million dollars of his own money that he spent on the campaign and his sluggish delegate count had nothing to do with his decision to quit.

Happy Voting!

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The Potomac, Chesapeake, Capital Beltway, DMV Primary Is Today!

FINALLY! Maryland, D.C. and Virginia vote today. WOOHOO! I took a great deal of pleasure in voting this morning. And unlike previous years, our primary votes actually matter!

Hopefully pledge delegates (the people) will actually decide this election and not superdelegates, but it's not looking good. The superdelegates idea does not seem very democratic to me, especially coming from the "democratic" party. My understanding is that the superdelegates are basically there as a check to make sure the "people" elect the right person to represent the democrats in the general election. The people know who they want to vote for and they should not be overriden by superdelegates.

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REHAB to the GRAMMYs

Rehab was very good to Amy Winehouse. Her performance last night on the Grammy's (via satelite from London since USCIS denied her visa because she hadn't done enough rehab and you can't just roll up in the US all drug addicted and think US tax dollars will pay for it - check the INS code) WAS EXCELLENT - no stumbling, no falling. She was coherent. A very spirited peformance indeed! You see what happens when you say YES YES YES TO REHAB! Nice shot out to momes who had to drag you to rehab too. Good jolly job Ames!! Right O! (And shout out to the fine back up singer on the left he was working it).

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Grammy Winners and Losers

1. Winner - Carrie Underwood - she was my least favorite idol winner--too dull. But I thoroughly enjoyed the vocals and attitude in her rendition of "Before he cheats."

2. Loser - Aretha Franklin's arms in that spaghetti strap dress....

3. Winner - A. Keys - she looked and sounded great! And the addition of John Mayer during her performance of "No One" = the hotness.

4. Loser - Tina Turner. I know I may be booed on this one. And I enjoyed her overall performance, but I think Tina's age is finally starting to show. When she was 62, she was still shaking it with the best of them. But now, pushing 70, she didn't have the same moves and while enthused, didn't seem quite to know the dance steps. I love you Ida Mae, but not the performance. Beyonce, on the other hand, seemed to respect that Tina was long in the tooth, and bey substantially tamped down her energy. Nice show of respect.

5. Winner - Rihanna's stylist. Her blue Zac Posen dress on the red carpet and her dress while she performed with the Time--on point!!!!!!!!!! Say what you will about her vocals, but girlfriend can dress.

6. Loser - Bebe Winan's stylist. What in the sam hell kind of jacket was he wearing? I couldn't decide whether I was angrier at him for the jacket or ReRe for wearing spaghetti straps during the gospel duet...

7. Winner - The gospel medley--The Clark Sisters, Israel and New Breed and Trinity 5:7. Good stuff.

8. Loser - Amy Winehouse's crack knees. I'm sorry, she should not have worn that dress when she knew she had skinny crack legs. NOOOOOO!

9. Herbie Hancock - Not only for winning album of the year, but for wailing on the piano during the rendition of a George Gershwin classic. Go Herbie!

10. Loser - Beyonce - for having to sit there while Jay won that award with Rih Rih and watch their playful banter.

P.S. Chris Brown's red and white suit - also makes him a loser.

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Nas & Kellis decide to Rock the Grammys

Pubilicity Stunt or plain Stupidity? During Black History Month?



Fantasia and Beyonce both brought their new hair - what do you think?? Let's just leave Beyonce's outfit for another post........





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Ummmm, What?

I love Fantasia--she's my favorite American Idol winner. But....what in blue blazes hell has Fantasia done to her hair? I'm all for experimentation but she looks a bleached, stir-fried beatdown mess/catastrophe.

Her stylist, her friends and family all need to be fired. Boo!

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Joker of the Week Winners

Congrats to Kwame Kilpatrick who narrowily edged out Baha Men lovin' Mitt Romney and suspect Bill Clinton to win Joker of the Week last week and thanks to all of you who voted.

And just when I was starting to compile this week's list of contenders, I ran across a video of Kilpatrick's mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, defending her son's honor telling people "don't let them talk about ya'll's boy." And then she said people fought too hard for this. (insert blank stare). Why thank you Congresswoman. Way to skirt the issue and make this a race matter and not about your son committing perjury, sleeping around and letting down his constituents and those who believed in him. Seeing her put everything into perspective for me...

So I'm going to do something we rarely do at CITC and award this week's Joker prize to the Mother/Son team of Carolyn and Kwame. They earned it!

One amendment - 50 Cent would have been nominated this week after remarking that he was voting for Hillary Clinton, in part because America is not ready for a black president, and they would probably kill him. Shrewd.

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Super Tuesday - Obama and Clinton In A Dead Heat?

We had to post something about Super Tuesday since everyone is abuzz about it (that and the NY Giants victory--Darn I shouldn't have bet on the Patriots. That coach should have went for a field goal in the 3rd quarter! But I digress...).

The polls are showing that Obama and Clinton are in a dead heat! If someone had told me this was going to happen a year ago or even a month or so ago, I would not have believed it. An African American or a woman is going to be the Democratic presidential candidate. Call me a pessimist, but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. But I am thoroughly excited, thoroughly engaged, and sad that I don't vote until next week! I'm on Team Obama, but I know there are a lot of CITC readers and fellow bloggers on Team Clinton.

Who do you think is going to win? Will we even find out during the primaries? Is anyone else semi-obsessed with news coverage of the election but me?

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Chica Salute!

Word is the hard-working chica that is Tyra Banks will be adding a new reality show to her ever growing entertainment empire. In addition, she recently celebrated being on the cover of this month's Essence. Go Tyra!

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A Portrait In Self Hatred

Do you know who that is in the picture? It's not an Asian flight attendant. It's actually Lil' Kim. It's fairly obvious that she's had self-esteem issues from her debut with her ultra sexy almost prostitute like image and lyrics. I won't deny that she had some good beats, but I personally never bought into the idea that she was empowering women by flipping the game on men.

But her physical transformation speaks to deeper problems. I've heard that she had skin complexion issues when she was growing up; and the love her life Biggie ultimately selected Faith Evans as his wife, a much lighter skinned woman and had mistresses like Charlie Baltimore who Kim competed with for his affection. And I think that's why she's chosen the medical surgery, skin bleaching, MJ-esque route to modify her looks. I think it's pretty sad though. She was cute back in the day, and now she just looks like an insecure, troubled clown.

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