Whitney Houston Remembered at Funeral in Newark
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(AP) –Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston’s powerful voice once wowed her congregation, the biggest names in entertainment sang along with the choir to remember the pop superstar at her hometown funeral Saturday.
“We are here today, hearts broken but yet with God’s strength we celebrate the life of Whitney Houston,” the Rev. Joe A. Carter told the packed New Hope Baptist Church after the choir behind him sang “The Lord is My Shepherd.”
Mourners including singer Jennifer Hudson and Houston’s mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, stood, swayed and clapped along in the aisles as gospel singers BeBe Winans and the Rev. Kim Burrell joined with pop stars like Alicia Keys in paying tribute to the 48-year-old pop superstar who first began singing in the Newark church.
“You wait for a voice like that for a lifetime,” said music mogul Clive Davis, who shepherded Houston’s career for decades.
Others were more mournful; singer Ray J., who spent time with Houston during her last days, broke down crying. His sister, singer Brandy, put her arm around him. Cissy Houston and Houston’s daughter, 18-year-old Bobbi Kristina, clutched each other in the front of the row. Toward the end of the service, Bobbi Kristina and Ray J. embraced at length and spoke. Others gathered near the front of the church and hugged each other.
Actor Kevin Costner, her co-star in “The Bodyguard” that spawned her greatest hit, remembered a movie star who was uncertain of her own fame, who “still wondered, `Am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Will they like me?’”
“It was the burden that made her great and the part that caused her to stumble in the end,” Costner said.
Filmmaker Tyler Perry praised Houston’s “grace that kept on carrying her all the way through, the same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts. She sang for presidents.”
Stevie Wonder and Oprah Winfrey were among the biggest names gathered to mourn Houston, along with Hudson, Monica, Brandy and Jordin Sparks – representing a generation of big-voiced young singers who grew up emulating her. Houston’s voice, a recording of “I Will Always Love You,” was to close the funeral.
Houston’s cousin Dionne Warwick presided over the funeral, introducing speakers and singers and offering short comments about Houston between them.
Houston’s mother was helped by two people on either side of her as she walked in and sat with her granddaughter and other family to begin the service. Houston’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown, briefly appeared at her funeral, walking to the casket, touching it and walking out. Security guards said Brown was upset that he would have to sit separately from the people he arrived with, and left. A Brown representative didn’t immediately comment.
Mourners fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston’s casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, “Whitney, Whitney, Whitney.”
Close family friend Aretha Franklin, whom Houston lovingly called “Aunt Ree,” had been expected to sing at the service, but she was too ill to attend. Franklin said in an email to The Associated Press that she had been up most of the night with leg spasms and sent best wishes to the family. “May God bless and keep them all,” she wrote.
A program featuring a picture of Houston looking skyward read “Celebrating the life of Whitney Elizabeth Houston, a child of God.” Pictures of Houston as a baby, with her mother and daughter filled the program.
“I never told you that when you were born, the Holy Spirit told me that you would not be with me long,” Cissy Houston wrote her daughter in a letter published in the program. “And I thank God for the beautiful flower he allowed me to raise and cherish for 48 years.”
“Rest, my baby girl in peace,” the letter ends, signed “mommie.”
The service marks one week after Houston, one of music’s all-time biggest stars, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel in California. A cause of death has yet to be determined.
To the world, Houston was the pop queen with the perfect voice, the dazzling diva with regal beauty, a troubled superstar suffering from addiction and, finally, another victim of the dark side of fame.
To her family and friends, she was just “Nippy.” A nickname given to Houston when she was a child, it stuck with her through adulthood and, later, would become the name of one of her companies. To them, she was a sister, a friend, a daughter, and a mother.
“She always had the edge,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said outside church Saturday. “You can tell when some kids have what we call a special anointing. Aretha had that when she was 14. … Whitney cultivated that and took it to a very high level.”
A few fans gathered Saturday morning hours before the service as close as they could get to the church, some from as far away as Washington, D.C., and Miami. Bobby Brooks said he came from Washington “just to be among the rest of the fans.”
“Just to celebrate her life, not just her death,” said Brooks, “just to sing and dance with the people that love her.”
Others were more entrepreneurial, setting up card tables to sell silk-screened T-shirts with Houston’s image and her CDs. But only the invited would get close to the church; streets were closed to the public for blocks in every direction. But their presence was felt around the church, with a huge shrine of heart-shaped balloons and personal messages that covered the street corner around the church entrance.
Houston’s death marked the final chapter for the superstar whose fall from grace while shocking was years in the making. Houston had her first No. 1 hit by the time she was 22, followed by a flurry of No. 1 songs and multi-platinum records.
Over her career, she sold more than 50 million records in the United States alone. Her voice, an ideal blend of power, grace and beauty, made classics out of songs like “Saving All My Love For You,” `’I Will Always Love You,” `’The Greatest Love of All“ and ”I’m Every Woman.” Her six Grammys were only a fraction of her many awards.
But amid the fame, a turbulent marriage to Brown and her addiction to drugs tarnished her image. She became a woman falling apart in front of the world.
Her last album, “I Look To You,” debuted on the top of the charts when it was released in 2009 with strong sales, but didn’t have the staying power of her previous records. A tour the next year was doomed by cancellations because of illness and sub-par performances.
Still, a comeback was ahead: She was to star in the remake of the movie “Sparkle” and was working on new music. Her family, friends and hard-core fans were hopeful.
The funeral is for invited guests only. Houston is to be buried next to her father, John Houston, in nearby Westfield, N.J.
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neverending
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:09pmWhere were all these people who supposedly cared so much not doing something about it and reaching out and helping her before the drugs and alcohol took her life. Words are cheap!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:29pmGood question! I’m sure most of the people she was surrounded by were inablers, if not encouragers of the lifestyle and addiction. Can’t speak about the family, but her celebrity friends were partying with her right before she died. Now they are saying nice things about her and making excuses for her being at the birthday party. If birthday girl cared so much about her best friend, Whitney, then why didn’t she skip the party and take Whitney home? There will be more birthday parties, but only one “best friend”. Guess thats not where her priorites were at then. Now it’s too late and all the nice words mean little in the grand sceme of things…………………
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:39pmThey were “hangers on” in life and are the same in her death … I noticed that Jesse Jackson was front and center .. and then I turned it off.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:55pmGee, it’s unfortunate that seeing Jesse Jackson “turned” you “off”. Besides, he never did anything but sit and stand –and be present. Perhaps he was dissapointed for that –?
It was a beautiful service in so many ways.
>Hearing and seeing Kevin Costner was (even) better than ANY character role he played.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:08pmHolywood Gods… never die…
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:40pmmove along here, nothing to see.
Report Post »Get over it and DONT put the flag at half mast. That is for people who died in service.
She did not she died in a bathtub due to drugs. Sorry the truth hurts.
GulfPeg
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 4:52amThis was a “conscience appeaser” for all of those people at her “going home celebration”, who did nothing to help Whitney with drugs. What took the cake was “she loved the Lord”. If she did, she wouldn’t have done drugs!
Report Post »hcerrito134
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 10:51amI couldn’t agree more with you, I know of people that spent hours in front of the TV watching her memorial, and CNN gave all that coverage.How about covering our SOLDIERS memorial?They gave
Report Post »to this country way more than she did.Shame on those people that idolize this people that,knowingly throw their lives away.A disease by choice.
getalong
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:06pmDid anyone else notice the hateful glare on Jessie Jackson’s face. When Whitney’s sister came up to speak accompanied by a man who seemed very concerned about supporting her while she spoke, Jackson remained seated instead of giving up his seat so that the man could be closer to Whitney’s sister in case she needed support. Jessie Jackson is the most arrogant racist piece of **** I have ever come across (tied with communist Al Sharpton). Why was he sitting right next to the podium – could it be he wanted to get as much of the spotlight as possible. It made me sick when he did not even move for the man so that he could be closer. It revealed his true character! And what the hell was he so angry about?
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 1:27pmSlow-down-please for a minute. We all have had experiences with people we know & like or love. A very dear friend of mine had a “demon on his back” most of his life,alcohol. Visited him one time to catch-up on our news & something kept bothering me & didn’t know what it was at the time. A year later, after a phone call I made to him to see how things were going & after that call, I went to his home unannounced & he opened his door & he was crawling on his knees, his hair was shoulder-length & his white-skin was actually black from filth(when sober,a well-dressed-man) His home was filled with garbage (Hoarders A&E) & he had glass-jars filled with urine around his chair.He told me not to tell his family. I went home & called a daughter of his & she came(100 miles) & did not have a clue & confessed she was told by her dad over the phone, everything is ok..she was busy in her life so she felt very guilty..but her dad was convincing. The other daughter took over & her contacts were able to get her dad some help despite yrs with her dad’s drinking(she stopped contact with him for years because of her children, his grandchildren) & did the right thing. I don’t know now-a-days his fate because both daughters don’t respond to my occasional contact. Oh well!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:01pmWhile flipping through the channels, I just happened to catch T. D. Jakes and Kevin Costner giving their eulogies. I thought they were both very nice. I’m pretty much not interested in what the others might say. Especially Jessie Jackson. I can’t imagine any of the other celebrities saying much I would be interested in. Costner is a notch or two above the rest, as celebrities go, and his stories and memories of Ms.Houston were humorous and touching. Jakes message was predicably biblical and comforting. I like to hear him preach too.
It is very sad to know that a beautiful little Christian girl grew up and her life transformed in the negative way it was through bad influences, choices and addiction. Then her life to end the way it did. These only two messages I heard at the funeral were beautiful and appropriate. Thats all I need to hear about the funeral and don’t care who else showed up, except the family.
Report Post »MarcusFL
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:19pmLike you, I dont care what Jesse has to say. Some way, some how he will bring race into this service. His mug always does.
Notice how everyone (except Jesse) stood up when her bodyguard finished speaking!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:35pmNope!….I missed that. Not suprising though. I’m sure that what Costner had to say outshined anything Jackson can come up with. So he would be indignant because he was outshined by a white boy.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:01pmKevin Costner was genuinely gracious –he stopped, and shook Jackson’s hand.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:56pmAfter doing some more important stuff, I was walking by the TV, which was on mute, and noticed funky old Al Sharpton was there too. They seated him off to the side. At one point, after the service, I noticed him walking around in circles in the middle of the street outside by himself, looking for a ride. I got a laugh out of that!….. No gold limo for Al?……. Pretty funny!
Report Post »ENIGMA28724
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:58pmOh, please spare us the broadcast on national tv of another celebrity that died apparently by their own vices. I feel sorry for the family and friends, but more sorry for the families of our American heroes who died protecting us. You don’t see any national coverage of their funerals unless the wack-job church group shows up to demonstrate. Thankfully the Patriot Guard people have reduced their effectiveness.
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 9:27pmAnd just where was her family that supposedly cared so much for her that they let her get hooked on drugs and die in a bathtub in a hotel room?
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:50pmBLAZERS! Can we stop with the black/white hatism? PLEASE?????? We are all people, valuable, even if imperfect, but equal in the sight of the creator. What ever THAT is. Can we not honor THAT and STOP the petty bickering?
RIP Whitney.
Report Post »MarcusFL
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:39pmAll people love Whitney. No one except Jesse will bring race into this.
Just watch and see. I hope i’m wrong but I doubt it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:44pmPeople aren’t supposed to notice that the place where racism is alive and well is in the minority communities? Sorry but most of us got over the whole “race” thing long time ago .. but are tired of being accused of it anyway.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:18pmI hear ya ADIL….rip Whitney & God bless
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:22pm*..Adnil
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:03pmJesse did NOT speak.
>This was Whitney Houston’s funeral service.
Report Post »Adorno
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:29pmActually, no, they cannot help themselves. To all the laws of physics that govern our universe, add the following: (story about black person) + (Blaze reader) = racist comment. It never fails. If the story happens to be about Michele Obama, the value of the racist comment increases exponentially. If it’s Allen West or J.C. Watts, the value of the racist comment is zero. Go figure.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:47pm@ Social Justice Trolls.
Report Post »Yes it is sad that Whitney died/killed herself. Ok. Done. Now, really, explain how a city in the once great state of Jersey has Thugs say a truce is on? Your education system, your educators, your social dole system, your provided for hoods, public assistance is the way of life aside from the thug life yo. These are in effect your people that now allow you for one day and one day only to travel through a “free” city without jacking, shooting, robbing and yo just being crazy yo? Job well done. Stellar work. Your kids good enough to go to school in Trenton or Cherry hill or Atlantic City? You are the essense of everything that smells really bad in anything social or anything justice-you. Feel might, feel powerful, cite your social justice poop, then walk on into the projects and test it on the real people it effects. You suck. Send picks and no body armor, yo. Read the NJ article I posted just for your enjoyment and explain it to me so I can understand how you have to have a victim to even exist in your little world? Please, enlighten…
SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:03pm@ the trolls
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02/on_day_of_whitney_houstons_fun.html
Explain it in plain English. We could get all mathy and say that 120% of these vote a certain way, but that is a whole different can of worms for your small mind to comprehend. Start with the article, define which thug is not produced/covered/enabled in your utopia.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:25pmFor all of you boo hooing over Whitneys death, i give you this thought, tell me the last time you saw people mass mourn the death of just 1 American soldier from the current wars? Come on, im sure someone can find a news article where all of hollywood, and the music world and the lovers of such,are just wailing over the death of a brave young person, who gave their life,so Whitney Houston can make millions, do drugs and die,and be the “perfect
Report Post »icon for kids to look up to, makes me sick.And anyone crying over the addict,is just flat out pathetic……
Rational Man
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:41pmAnyone who thinks every life is not precious to God, especially a wayward sheep of His flock,“ is just flat out pathetic”.
All honor due our military heros aside………….
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:56pm@Rational Man.
Report Post »I feel no pity, or remose for those who, no matter what the struggle,get it all,become wealthy and famous,and piss it all away,while almost every soldier out there just wants to do their duty,and for some, it costs them there lives.Flame me all you want for not having “religious” compasion, i believe in God, and worship him in my own way, w/o the help from you,or any religious affiliation.
abbygirl1994
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:23pmPeople keep talking about the pain she had.but they don’t say what the pain was. In her best days I marveled at her voice… but it was short lived.. When she married Bobby Brown.. I wondered what the devil does she see in him.. his music was the complete opposite of hers.. she was beautiful ad he was homely as sin.. Then we all heard about the drugs.. the fights. When they had a tv show I saw what the ravages of drugs had done to this beautiful woman. I had hoped when they divorced she would make a comeback, but it wasn’t to be! I hope she rests in peace.. I disagree with some of the stuff but she was still human.. who like all of us had ghosts she died with them.. hers tormented her and she could not overcome them.. many of us can but some never do!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:07pmKevin Costner’s words can most likely be found on line.
> He knew Whitney…..he (certainly) humanized…..and he honored her.
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:17pm@ITSJUSTTIM,
Is that a racist remark,about it all coming out in the wash?
Surely you saw that coming,were you baiting me
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:16pmOk, so I did not read the story—I have had my fill of this crap all week whenever I turn around. I just want to know if the Blaze had overwhelming feedback to please, please stream the Whitney funeral. Somehow, I don’t see that happening. Most likely the opposite. Just curious why they are doing it.
Report Post »I am very worn out with the idolization of the drug addicts and pedophiles and that the media demands we pay homage to them.
She used to sing beautifully. She could have used it for good, but instead she destroyed her voice, her life, and most important, her daughter’s life. She had the money and all the opportunities available to her and she CHOSE not to do anything about her life. Her self importance was staggering, as are many that desire to be and who are in the spotlight.
It’s one thing to take a wrong turn in life and find yourself at the bottom of a very deep pothole, just about everyone does to some degree. What really matters is, no matter how deep and nasty the pothole, IF and HOW you choose get YOURSELF out.
The phrase ‘worship of false idols’ keeps ringing in my head over the last few years. I found myself admiring people and things and placing great importance on them for the way wrong reasons. Yet as a Christian, I didn’t even recognize it.
There are young kids saying they want to be just like her with the parents smiling benevolently behind them during news interviews….quite disturbing.
auntbea
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:44pmI agree. All that talent, all that beauty, a precious child, enough money to cure the woes of the world…. but it’s never enough, never enough… all these drugged-up dead super stars.
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:09pmThose without sin, cast the first stone. Nuff said?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:29pmWe’ve moved past the “cast the first stone” age. We need boulders now. Don McClean pin pointed the moment we realized it was “bye, bye, Miss American Pie. So sad!!!!
Report Post »getalong
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:27pmI agree. Bobby Brown was a death sentence to Whitney. He took unconscienable advantage of her good nature. I am glad that when he showed up at the funeral with 9 bodyguards he was told to leave. At least she did not have to share her funeral with the likes of him.
Report Post »Patrick Henry
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:00pmGlenn and I and many of our friends were drug addicts! Listen to yourselves. “Judging a sickly person” who never did anything but bring you a voice that your cretator gave her to share with us. Are your lives that bad. What would you be saying to Pontious Pilate in the square, part of that mob. Would you be part of the crucifiction? Whitney loved the Lord but she was unable to love herself and the people around her she had addiction. Addiction is an equal to cancer. We sick people would rather have cancer cause we know we have a chance to kemo it, or cut it out! 5 years of cleaness with me now, but I still have that monkey on my back until the day I die. God did this for me God this for Glenn but some of us die never having our chance that God gave us. I love all of you guys, please say nothing here today if it is not respectfull and ask God to make you peacefull :)
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:11pmAmen.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:13pmamen
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:14pmGod is love. The typical blazer is full of something else, but heartfelt, valiant comment Patrick. Peace.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:49pm@ Tiaformosa
Report Post »You say that like typical white person was on your lips. Don’t be shy.
spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:36pmAmen
>Amen.
Report Post »Adorno
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:35pmWow, dude. Name-drop much?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:00pmShe sure had a lot of relatives. Too bad that not one of them cared enough to stop the drug use. It’s not a family, it’s a cartel.
Report Post »Patrick Henry
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:03pmI bet you are in a perect family God bless you mr knowenall
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:37pmHome schooled all my kids and they all have jobs. Can’t get any more American than that!!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:07pm…And forgive us
our trespasses
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
>As we forgive ourselves, for trespassing against ourselves. No?
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:25pmObviously, Chips, you have never experienced having someone you love addicted to drugs and / or alcohol.
All addicts have people in their lives who try and stop them. Yet, they constantly choose their “substance” over the people they love and who love them. Addicts will step over and around the logs thrown in front of them, trying to head off the inevitable train wreck. Addicts will come to “hate” and avoid the people who love them the most — the people who are trying to save their lives.
Addicts love their “substance” above all. Addicts don’t realize that their “substance” hates them and will kill them too young and sometimes violently, leaving wide paths of broken hearts who tried and failed to save the addicts’ lives.
So, Chips, don’t be so quick to point the finger and accuse! You just don’t know! And, may God allow it to always be so.
Patrick — God Bless You and Glenn! Thank God He Headed You Guys Off, Not Only For Your Sake, But For The Sake Of Those Who Love You. May The Grace and Strength and Peace of Jesus Fill Your Lives, Now and Forever More!
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:44pm@ Patrick
God Bless You and Glenn and Your Friends …….
I didn’t mean to leave off your friends! :-)
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 9:12pmHateful comment. I’m sure that many of them tried. Shame on you for trying to inflict more pain on this loving family. They didn’t ask for their talent. God graced them with it. What are they supposed to do? Hide it?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:59pmAlways enlightening to stop in and get the “Christian Conservative” perspective. Beck must be very proud of this display.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:10pmwell , remember it was glenn that called our president a racist it’s only natural to assume the rest of his flock feel the same
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:34pmSoupy- it would be nice if you could write in complete sentences.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:56pmHead.
Report Post »Yeh, sure, would be good for you to be travelling in Jersey after the truce is over… Better? They love soft hearts and soft minds there. Speak up so they can hear you too. Don’t be all coy and puckered up for no reason now. Go on. Get your “typical white” (Obama) ass on into the hood and speak some truth, yo. Truce cant go on for ever and yes they take EBT for rocks, spliffs, and even shine.
Baikonur
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:59pmRest in peace, Whitney. You brought joy to millions.
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:40pmI love to see God praised at Whitney’s funeral. Sure is better
Report Post »than the anti God stuff we hear everyday.
XdemXrepub
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:17pmYes. He blesses everyone with their own special talents. Whitney, Tebow , everyone.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:37pmway to keep it classy blazers, next time one of your hero addicts falls,like Rush or Glenn make sure to kick em while they are down
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:47pmShow some respect for black history year Head. Smoke a blunt or at least have some Mad Dog 20/20 on your breath when you spew your racist drivel. Question, where did you buy your particular viersion of white guilt at cause I can’t find any anywhere? You preppin and buying it in large quantities huh? Look at Head the racial prepper. Stock up, brotha man.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:52pmsoupy- you are exhibit A here at the blaze for what I call a classless society
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:06pm@Steelhead
Report Post »Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:37pm
‘…next time one of your hero addicts falls,like Rush or Glenn make sure to kick em while they are down’
*****************************
Their hero addicts contribute nothing to the world around them that is lasting and good. They are just pouring gasoline on primitive hate to make a dollar. The buyers love it. The hate makes the Blazers feel alive, righteous, ready to stomp on someone’s face.
tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:09pmSTEELHEAD, all that you need to know about soupandsand comes out in it’s post below “snowflake.”
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:13pm@steelhead aka encinom.
Report Post »Houston was a drug head by choice, she even stated that, and im paraphrasing, “crack is a cheap drug, i to much money to buy crack”.That alone tells me she used drugs, and wanted to,she got hooked and stayed that way, Beck pulled himself out of it, i have no respect for her, she chose her life, and i feel no pity for her death.
Steelhead
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:27pmdrago- (exhibit B). What did Whitney die from? don’t know do you ?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:46pmSTEELHEAD:
Report Post »I got the feeling that you think if a person takes drugs, drives down the road and hits another car headon, that drugs didn’t kill people, it was the crash. WRONG!!!!
drago
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:01pm@steelhead aka encinom.
Exhibit C,drugs found in the bathroom.You see kid, unlike you, i have whats called common sense,it doesnt take much to figure out drugs were involved,and i never stated they are what killed her, moron. Now crawl back into your basement kid.
Oh one question before you go steelhead aka encinom,why is it you never deny you truelly are encinom ?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 2:52pm@ Bakey Boy.
Report Post »What? There is zero hate-I even love you stupid sheep. You understand zero right? I dispise ignorance and socialistic tendancies that lead to nothing but victimhood-or your existance. But hate, nah. No time. You back from NJ yet and the checking into thugdom? Do I smell fear or is that just you hitting the bong again? Don’t be a hater hater. Explain who is giving the truce to who and where, and we can go from there. Yo. Steelheader, you take the name of a fish more noble that you could ever endeavor to be. Tiaformosa-piss off wench-you have to be a pissed off chick with the crap you spew. Get some decent hair weaves and check back in when you do the NJ thing too. Yo. Peace lov out, yo.
tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:02pmAwwww soupy, relax. All that sweetness and love must exhaust you dude ;^)
The editors cleaned away all of your racist tripe. That means that your statements even made theblaze look bad! Some feat :^)
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:05pmI almost forgot tifosa and baikonur are encinom as well, pathetic little pos that he is…….
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:34pmNo doubt she was a Christian. No doubt she was a drug addict either. So someone tell me why Christie had the flags lowered for a drug addict? Makes me sick…A slap in the face to the ones who deserve that honor.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:50pmUm, it may be something to do with the locals, maybe state level too, being a little out gunned. Math there Doggy. Math. Look at who was calling for a gang truce for the festivities and that should enlighten you a bit. Oh, and if you stil have time, look into some of the gang names. Loads of fun. Jersey shore morons or inner city bangers, Jersey is such a swell place to fly over.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:32pmJust had to say it: “No Thanks”
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:16pmIf the next 48 years go as fast as the last 48 years, I’m in big trouble!
Whitney Houston (early Feb 2012)
Report Post »Gary_K
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:10pmWatch Live: Whitney Houston’s Funeral
Why?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:24pmHow come because someone can sing, they think they were blessed by the Holy spirit? Is a song bird such as a Cardinal blessed by the Holy spirit, because it has a pretty sound? I’m afraid not, because blessed is knowing why.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:25pmLook at it as edumacation.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:27pmIf a tiger gets it’s prey, is it because it was blessed by the Holy spirit? Do you feed your children only because your children are blessed by the Holy spirit?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:31pmMoreover, all people can sing, but not all people want to be heard. How many beautiful voices are there that will never be heard? Millions and millions.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:34pmBut singers, actors and the like turn to sex, drugs and affairs, because truly their voice is the only thing getting heard, but not their soul.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:53pmEr, Timmy, it sounds like all the other personalities are fighting for space in your head. Take the other pill with a full glass of water, shake the cheeto’s off your bib, and go outside for a little while.
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:08pmDidn’t watch the video or read the story. Came straight to comments. She was a junkie, now she’s dead. Nuff said.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:07pmAnother drug addict dies. Let’s lower the state flag. Let‘s honor this pillar of society that’s made poor decision after poor decision. Celebrities are the demise of culture. More trash than value.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:18pmWow, is that a quote from the Bible?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:50pm@ Tiaformosa
Report Post »Wow is that template from the Color of Change or Move On. orgy?
snowflake220
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:03pmWhy are there no WHITE folks in the choir? I swore I heard someplace that blacks aren’t racist against whites. So why no whites?
Report Post »VicksVaporub
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:14pmBecause most of them are old enough to remember when black folks weren’t allowed to try on clothes in a department store?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:15pmWell I could tell you why, but that frame of thought would be unorthodoxed, and since your mind in templated for a certain response, that being one way or the other I’ll just leave it alone. Because it would be like trying to ratchet a 1/4 drive socket with a 1/2 drive wrench. But it’ll all come out in the wash.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:18pmAsk the same question about a Big East basketball game.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:37pmNot hard to see that you have obviously never attended a “Black” Baptist Church! It should be no surprise to anyone that there would be NO Whites in the choir…”America is never more segregated than on Sunday mornings!” Why is it so hard to celebrate what ONCE WAS a beautiful American icon? It is a truly tragic story…she had it all…Does not speak well for our nation…But, I prefer to remember her singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. So beautiful and heart felt that it makes me weep! AND…it was the last time it was given the love and respect it deserves!
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:17pmthe question is … why are you here ..soupflake … your favorite show is on the History Chanel right now …plenty of white folk there
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 1:34pm@Snowflake
Report Post »Get VickyVapoRubby to digress into Black Liberation Theology and all the diversity it holds. Lets go into the reparations talk during the Chicago mayoral process and why that may be important. Then, we can stoop to the racial numbers and support of equation and why that is nowhere near racist. Still 90% in the brown community Vicky? How? Fiscal policy right? Obammy bucks equals non racist policies right? Then although there is white trash anywhere, lets get into the prison numbers and those on the dole while being held back by social progressives that actually would have no job without a victim. Poor poor vicky the victim. Piss off wanker.
edsginger
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:58amWhy? This story is repulsive, not worth watching or reading. ‘Nuff said.
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:56amNo thanks,it is an awful sin what she done to herself
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 12:06pmYeah she did do it to herself too. Fame doesn’t feed the things the soul truly craves, and usually makes it even starve faster.
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