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(CBS) Ten Americans charged with the abduction of 33 Haitian children remain behind bars Monday morning in Haiti.

Now, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports, the volunteers from a Baptist church in Idaho are not getting along and are speaking out against their leader, Laura Silsby.

On a tape of the arrest of the Americans 10 days ago acquired by CBS News, the nine other Americans in the group – most from two Baptist churches in Idaho – are seen holding the Haitian children, some just infants.

The group is shown being questioned in a Haitian police station after being sent back from the Dominican border, which they tried to cross, allegedly with improper documentation for the children.

Back in Port-au-Prince, Laura Silsby, the leader of the 10 Baptists from the United States, is being lectured by a Haitian official: “We understand all the good feelings you could have, all the good intentions, but there’s a way to do it,” a man tells Silsby.

While the interrogation was being conducted, outside in the hallway, many of the 33 Haitian children found in the missionaries’ custody were crying for their mothers – crying to go home.

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It is heartbreaking to see little children so shaken up! They were crying for their parents. They wanted to go home. How dare Laura Silsby exploit the parents desire to protect their kids by deceiving them into thinking their children would have a better life with a “big house” & a “swimming pool” etc. She’s deceptive and dangerous! This was all about her and how she could make money selling little children. Laura is lying to the authorities from the beginning by claiming most of the children’s parents had died during the earthquake when she had just deceived some of these children’s parents with a bald-faced lie. Laura Silsby is claiming she did not understand the rules of the Haitian government? Taking someone against their will or without proper authorization is called kidnapping! Did she think the Haitian government would not see through her lies? Laura Silsby deserves just punishment!

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I Plead Da Fif News: Rapper Eve has been linked to a multi-million dollar money laundering investigation centred around her on/off boyfriend Teodorin Nguema. Nguema, the son of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea, is under observation by authorities for a number of money transfers made between several U.S. bank accounts. Read more here.

How Low Can You Go! How Low Can You Go! How Low Can You Go!! News: But that hasn’t slowed the would-be dancers lining up to apply for the $350 permit to work in the city’s 19 clubs, Atlanta police say. Among the usual aspiring actresses and dancers, there are more college students, single mothers trailing toddlers, health and office professionals and even a few age-defying grandmothers — all looking for well-paid work in a city with unemployment above 10 percent. Read more here.

BREAKING NEWS: Being A Good Parent Helps Keep Your Kids From Getting Fat!! SHOCKING!!! News: A new study finds three household routines lower the risk of obesity in children: having family dinners, getting enough sleep and limiting weekday TV time. Read more here.

Health News: Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those under 25, California researchers reported Monday. Surprisingly, the age of the father plays little role in the likelihood of the disorder unless the mother is younger than 30 and the father is over 40, according to the analysis of all births in California in the 1990s. Read more here.

Those Uppity N—–s Are Bringing Their Expensive Taste To The White House News: Since bringing their well-documented high-end appetites to the White House, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have broken new gourmet ground by inviting in a steady stream of the nation’s top culinary talents. It’s an experience the chefs say they consider a career achievement. Read more here.

Happy Monday WSY family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. Here’s your Monday dose of Maxwell…

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Jamie Foxx
Garry Marshall

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Topher Grace
Jewel

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Ashton Kutcher
Emma Roberts
Carter Jenkins

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Jennifer Garner
Héctor Elizondo
Steel Magnolia

Clip from Last Week’s Show

On Feb 18th at 8pm, WeeSeeYou will host a chat with author Leon Dash to discuss his Pulitizer prize winning series “Rosa Lee’s Story”. In preparation for our chat, we invite all of our posters to read (or read again) the saga of Rosa Lee Cunningham (click the banner at the top of the page for info on Professor Dash as well as the links to each part of this award winning story). For the next week, we will again discuss our own views of the issues involved in the life of Rosa Lee Cunningham and what, if anything, can be done to prevent the Rosa Lee Story from becoming the norm in our communities.

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Good Morning WSY Fam!  In honor of love and “loving,” I’ll be rocking Mr. Marvin Gaye all week long.

Let’s kick off the week with a cut dedicated to those New Orleans Saints who proved “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough!”

Here is “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” featuring Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell.

From Wikipedia:

“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” is an R&B/soul song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell for the Tamla (Motown) label. The song became a hit a second time in 1970, when a cover by fellow Motown artist Diana Ross became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

The original 1967 version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” was a top twenty hit. According to record producers, Terrell was a little nervous and intimidated during recording because she hadn’t rehearsed the lyrics. Terrell recorded her vocals alone with producers Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol, who added Gaye’s vocal at a later date.^[1] “Ain’t No Mountain” peaked at number nineteen on the Billboard pop charts, and went to number three on the R&B charts.

This original version of “Ain’t No Mountain”, produced by Fuqua and Bristol, was a care-free, danceable, and romantic love song that became the signature duet between Gaye and Terrell. Its success led to a string of more Ashford/Simpson penned duets (including “You’re All I Need to Get By“, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing“, and “Your Precious Love“).

The Gaye/Terrell version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and is regarded today as one of the most important records ever released by Motown.

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The WEESeeOurPicks Superbowl Pool

Congratulations to Carolinagirl and Barry (oops, recused)!  In honor of your achievement, a contribution to Haiti Relief will be made in your name and you will be officially inducted into the WEESeeOurPicks Hall of Fame (coming in March).

The WEESeeOurPicks NFL Edition
Season Champions

Congratulations to Carolinagirl & LisaM for accurately picking nearly 90 correct games over the course of our abbreviated season!  In honor of your achievements, you will both be officially inducted into the WEESeeOurPicks Hall of Fame (coming in March).

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Hopefully The Saints Won’t Need Those Peyton Manning Voodoo Dolls The Vendors Are Selling In Miami News: The New Orleans Saints will be designated as the “visiting team” for Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida. The NFL alternates between NFC and AFC teams every year….The Colts were designated as the road team when they won Super Bowl XLI three years ago. Read more here.

*Wearing Tin Foil Hat* They Got All The Folks They Needed Injected With A Tracking Device News: If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report Friday that for the fourth week in a row, no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. cases have been declining since late October. Read more here.

This Would Explain Some Of The Behavior From The Teabaggers News: The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests. Read more here.

Jesus, Please Take The Wheel News: An explosion at a power plant in Connecticut has killed multiple people and an unknown number of people are injured. Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown, tells The Associated Press the explosion occurred at 11:17 a.m. Sunday at the Kleen Energy power plant there and portions of the building blew away. He says 50 workers were in the section of the power plant where the explosion happened. Read more here.

Happy SuperBowl Sunday WSY family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. Don’t forget to live chat with us on Miranda’s Super Bowl thread. If you can’t see the Meebo chatbox, go to meebo.com and sign in and look for the WSY Super Bowl chat room. Hope to see you there! Here’s your Sunday sip of Sade….

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I’m embarrassed….I’m embarrassed because she’s too stupid to be it herself. What the hell is this? 3rd grade? Writing on your hand?? Seriously??

The way she’s staring, she can’t even read her own handwriting…maybe someone else had to actually write the answers for her.

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In honor of Black History Month

Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator, Author, and African American Civil Rights Leader

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Born in South Carolina to parents who had been slaves,and she had to work in fields at age 5. she took an early interest in her own education. With the help of benefactors, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa. When that did not materialize, she started a school for black girls in Daytona Beach. From six students it grew and merged with an institute for black boys and eventually became the Bethune-Cookman School. Its quality far surpassed the standards of education for black students, and rivaled those of white schools. Bethune worked tirelessly to ensure funding for the school, and used it as a showcase for tourists and donors, to exhibit what educated black people could do. She was president of the college from 1923 to 1942 and 1946 to 1947, one of the few women in the world who served as a college president at that time.

From Wikipedia

Shirley Ann Caesar (born October 13, 1938, Durham, North Carolina) is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades. A multi-award winning artist, with eleven Grammy awards and seven Dove awards to her credit, she is known as “The First Lady of Gospel Music”.^[1]

Beginning her career at the age of 13 in 1951, ^[2] Shirley Caesar has recorded over forty albums, exploring her gift and spreading messages of faith. She has participated in over 16 compilations and three gospel musicals, Mama I Want to Sing, Sing: Mama 2 and Born to Sing: Mama 3.

Her credits also include a series of commercials for MCI Communications and several awards for her recordings. She has won or received 11 Grammy Awards, 13 Stellar Awards, 18 Doves, 1 RIAA gold certification, an Essence Award, McDonald’s Golden Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP Achievement Award, SESAC Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. According to Soundscan, she has sold 2.2 million albums since 1991.^[3]Pastor Shirley has made several notable appearances including the televised Live from Disney World Night of Joy, the Gospel According to VH1, a White House performance for George Bush, and a speech on the Evolution of Gospel Music to the US Treasury Department

“Yo Mack, I Don’t Even UNDERSTAND How They Didn’t Understand You In That Mary Joint!” “Yeah, I Know, Man.” “Kick That Ol’ Robotic, Futuristic, George Jetson, CRAZY JOINT!!” News: We could one day be spending our holidays in a gigantic vertical airship that floats thousands of meters above ground if a design concept becomes reality. The Aircruise is a radical new design that promises to accommodate guests in a 265-meter tall hotel that could float above city skylines or over dramatic landscapes according to its designers at Seymourpowell. Read more here.

*Sigh* Mom! Blogging Is Sooooo Three Years Ago!! News: Blogging by teenagers and young adults has dropped by half over the past three years as they turn instead to texting and social networking sites such as Facebook, a new study shows. The study released this week by the Pew Internet and American Life project also found that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter, a surprising finding given overall popularity of the micro-blogging site. (Side note: I’m glad I was ahead of the curve on that Twitter mess. I always thought that shit was corny.) Read more here.

J-O-B-S Jobs Bitches!!! News: The unemployment rate in the U.S. unexpectedly dropped to 9.7 percent in January and manufacturers added to payrolls for the first time in three years, which may provide a spark to revive the rest of the labor market. Read more here.

Democrats Are Really Starting To Get On My Last Damn Nerve News: For a moment, President Obama’s pledge to keep fighting for major health care legislation got personal on Thursday night as he told supporters at a fund-raiser about a former campaign worker in St. Louis without health insurance who had died of breast cancer….But the president’s remarks, at the fund-raiser for the Democratic National Committee, seemed altogether detached from the legislative realities on Capitol Hill, where dejected Democrats have been casting about for a way to salvage the health care bill. Read more here.

Jesus, Please Take The Wheel News: A ninth-grade student was in custody Saturday and charged with murder after he allegedly shot a classmate in the back of the head at their northern Alabama middle school, authorities said. The shooting happened during a class change around 1:45 p.m. Friday at Discovery Middle School in Madison, just west of Huntsville, police said. Read more here.

POTUS News: President Barack Obama on Saturday appealed to fellow Democrats and rival Republicans to back a plan to use $30 billion in bank bailout funds to help small businesses. Read more here.

Happy Saturday WSY family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. I’ll be out traveling most of the day, so I won’t be in. Hope you all enjoy the 80s Baby Saturday jam….

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