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Hello World,

What day is it? HUMP DAY…LOL…Now that I’ve gotten my corniness out of the way, let’s get on today’s post…I’m always pleasantly surprised when I hear about a celebrity that has chosen to be abstinent…It’s one thing to be abstinent when you live in No Where Ville and raised in the church with very few desirable options anyway…But it’s another thing when you are a bonafide celebrity and have some of the so-called hottest people in your personal circle…

Well, one of my favorite young Hollywood stars Keke Palmer, 20, whose new talk show “The Keke Palmer Project,” will debut on BET this summer, has declared that she is abstinent:

[Sex] is the number one topic in the conversation with these men and I’m like ‘uh no, I do not want to talk about that all the time!’ I do not know why there is so much pressure being built when you are dating someone. It’s like they have a ticking time clock on you. It is not about the time, it is about making sure this is the right person. I always use my Twitter as an outlet. It’s like my therapy. I feel like my talk show will allow me to do the same self-expression. People are going through these same burdens.

My priority is not the sex. I refuse to succumb to my flesh. I will not offer myself up to someone who does not know my spirit.

Read the rest of the interview at madamenoire.com.

In other abstinent news, the Metro Police of Las Vegas claim that premarital sex will lead to death…Below is an excerpt of the article “Metro Police message to young girls: Have premarital sex, risk death” by Bethany Barnes.

Girls who “get promiscuous” can wind up dead.

That was the message behind the Metro Police co-sponsored “Choose Purity” event Saturday at the William Pearson Center in North Las Vegas.

“Choose Purity” aimed to show young girls what can happen when they don’t wait until marriage to have sex, according to Officer Regina Coward, president of the Nevada Black Police Association, who said she’d been asked by her church, Victory Outreach Church, to create a community event to go along with its abstinence message.

So what does Coward say happens? Typically four things: sexual assault, gangs, drugs and prostitution. To read the rest of the article, go to lasvegassun.com.

Any thoughts?

Hello World,

People are always complaining about the lack of quality entertainment or entertainment that the whole family can enjoy, but “Joyful Noise” is a family-friendly, quality movie! So let’s support it!!! Below is the description of the movie from the “Joyful Noise” Facebook page…

Oscar® nominees Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in “Joyful Noise,” a funny and inspirational story of music, hope, love and renewal.

The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old.Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more heat between G.G. and Vi Rose.

If these two strong-willed women can overcome their differences and find a common voice, they—and their choir—may make the most joyful noise of all.

According to the AJC, as the film was shot in Atlanta, my folk from the A will recognize some of our fair city featured in the film….

“Although the movie is set in the fictional town of Pacashau, Ga., it’s pretty easy to spot local landmarks, including the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, where the final choir competition is held, and Howard’s in Smyrna, where Latifah and Parton fuss and flap at each other like a pair of wet hens. Bethany United Methodist Church in Fayetteville plays the role of Pacashau Divinity Church and the Union City/Jonesboro exit sign off I-85 is visible in one highway scene.

Gospel artist Kirk Franklin performs as the director of a competing choir in a loud and funky scene filmed at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City.”

I plan to see “Joyful Noise,” and I hope you do too…

Any thoughts?