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'Golden-Voice' Man Credit's God for Redemption
The Ohio Homeless man with a golden voice explained Friday how a YouTube video transformed his life, bringing in multiple job offers for announcing work. Just days ago, footage shot by The Columbus Dispatch showcased Ted Williams' voice and made him an overnight sensation. It even led to a reunion with his 90-year-old mother Julia Williams. Watch the video here . In an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning America" Friday, mother and son recognized God as the source of Williams' redemption....

When The Nanny Mentality Goes Beserk
In Ipswich, England, the once World’s Fattest Man, a former postal employee, is suing the National Health Service for allowing him to become so obese. The 50 year old man asked for help at 30 stone(a stone equals 14 pounds), but feels he received poor advice from a medic in 1996 who advised him to ride his bike more often. He is also complaining that at 64 stone, he asked to see an Eating Disorders specialist, he feels he was wronged by being sent to a dietician; Consequently, he blames th...

Overnight Open Thread
ONT rarely delves into the base political topics that the “lesser” contributors of the blog attempt to do during the daylight hours, but tonight we’ll bow to the circumstances and dip our balls in salute to a great stateswoman… A Farewell to Nancy: A grateful nation thanks you for your public service, Ms. Pelosi. More glowing tributes and heartwarming moments below the fold... Worst Domain Names Ever: So I was hanging out in/strapped to the bed last night watching tv when a commer...

The inheritance of obesity: Thanks, Dad
THAT a gestating mother’s environment can have a permanent effect on the physiology of her offspring is well established. The Children of Dutch women who were pregnant during the “Hunger Winter” of 1944, for example, suffer much higher rates of Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease than those born a year or two earlier. Similar observations in other famines, together with experiments on rodents, suggest this is an accidental consequence of an evolutionary adaptation to f...

Homeless Video Star Offered Movie Role
(NewsCore) - Global sensation Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the pitch-perfect voice, has been offered a role in a Jack Nicholson movie, Entertainment Tonight reported Thursday. The 53-year-old Ohio man has been flooded with job offers after showcasing his pitch-perfect voice in a YouTube video recorded by a Columbus Dispatch reporter. He is currently weighing up an offer as an announcer for NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and was offered a commercial stint recording an ad for Kraft Macaroni & Ch...

Conservative talk radio weekly recap: Jan 3-7
My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and video highlights from the week in conservative talk radio. Top stories include: Who got called "the Larry Flynt of talk radio" by Alec Baldwin? CLICK HERE for more. PLUS: Glenn Beck's latest hire -- former HuffPo CEO Betsy Morgan! -- grants an intriguing if jargon-stuffed interview to Forbes , explaining why she made the switch:The other thing I’ll say is it was very deliberate in the Press Release to talk about The Blaze...

Police's homeless murder appeal
Police have appealed for help in tracking the last hours of a Homeless man found murdered in Swansea city centre. David Michael Alan Williams, 26, was found outside the Iceland Supermarket in St David's Square at 0400 GMT on Friday, 7 January. Two men are still being questioned. Det Supt Burke, of the South Wales Police major crime investigation team, said Mr Williams was hmoeless and sleeping on the streets of Swansea city centre. "We are also appealing to anyone who saw any persons i...

Pic of the day: Obama in 2013
This week's big story was the Homeless man with the golden voice: <object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="https://www.YouTube.com/v/pR4DBMh_v0c&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.YouTube.com/v/pR4DBMh_v0c&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="applicatio...

Ex-wife: 'Golden voice' no help with kids
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Ted Williams, a Homeless Ohio man whose "golden voice" has given him a second chance, did little to help raise his Children, his ex-wife says. Patricia Kirtley told the New York Daily News she raised their four daughters and even had her sisters take in children he had with another woman. "We survived," Kirtley, who is partially blind, said Thursday in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. "My children are survivors. They know if we get a little bit that God provides we make it...

Cold weather kills more in northern India
LUCKNOW, India - Nearly two dozen more people have died due to cold weather in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute firewood and blankets to the poor. Ram Mohan Srivastav, a government official in worst-hit northern Uttar Pradesh state, said Saturday that at least 22 people had died there over the past three days, pushing the death toll from two weeks of near-freezing temperatures to 63. At least 10 people have died from the cold in the capital, New Delhi,...

Advice To Golden-Voiced Ted Williams: Listen To Your Mom
What is this? Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who's gone from the streets of Columbus, Ohio, to nationwide fame this week because of a Columbus Dispatch video, made another appearance on NBC's Today Show this morning — this time with his 90-year-old mother Julia. As we've reported, they were reunited yesterday (after 10 years apart, not 20 as previously thought). Today, they talked about his years of Drug Abuse, petty crime and Homelessness and the shame they brought o...

Gov-elect Brownback helps out at food pantry
Governor-elect Sam Brownback, who until last week was a Kansas US Senator, was among 60 volunteers stuffing food bags at a Wichita food pantry. On Christmas Eve the Republican worked an hour as a Salvation Army bellringer--he regularly volunteers at Homeless shelters, and once went undercover at a Prison. As a Prisoner. Sen. Brownback goes to prison Report from the Bloggers' Conference Call with Sen. Sam Brownback...

January 8: The Week in Viral Videos
From a Homeless man’s golden radio voice to the panda cow, the homophobic USS Enterprise video to a robber armed with a giant stick, watch the buzziest Viral Videos of the week....

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Ted Williams, the Homeless guy from Columbus, Ohio with a golden voice got his life changed by the Internet! A dude with a camera asked him to make good on displaying the “God Given GIft” advertised on his begging sign, and Mr. Williams, a former radio announcer whose life went sour when he turned to Alcohol and drug, delivered. The video was put on the internet, and the whole world got to listen to Ted’s talent. Within a day the Viral Video has been seen over 3 million times, ...

Selective Compassion and the Pathologies of Inequality
© Columbia Broadcasting System Ted Williams kisses his mom, Julia Williams, on The Early Show "We believe in second chances and second opportunities," declared the senior vice president for marketing from the Cleveland Cavaliers. This pronouncement accompanied the offer of an announcing job to Ted Williams, the Homeless man whose "golden" voice and impoverished visage went viral on a YouTube video. Beyond his elevation by the media to visible and viable economic status, Williams became a ...

So Much Unseen
Before Ted Williams hit the viral big time I had the original YouTube video linked on my Facebook page, for I hoped the evolution starkly demonstrated how easy it is to apparently see and classify a Homeless person as unemployable yet be completely blind to their talents and potential. For some reason Epistemology has been branded a “ten dollar word” of intellectual nerds, but it’s simply the process of answering the question how do you know what you know? Many times the answer induces mil

Could NYC Designate Outdoor "Booze Zones"?
Rachel Citron's flickr Public drinking has long been the final frontier for many legal NYers. Marty Markowitz doesn't see why people can't drink on their stoops, and even Mayor Bloomberg has seemed sympathetic to people who want a bottle of Red while watching the Philharmonic in the park. And yet, in this age of magical Homeless people, we still aren't allowed to chug our Four Lokos on a Park Bench in peace! Maybe we can take a page from England: police in Essex are considering creating design...

Ted Williams: My Time with the Homeless Man with the Golden Voice
I met Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden voice who became a viral sensation, in a high-class dope den just before his descent into the world of Addiction. He struck me as one cool dude even back then. By Mansfield Frazier...

Since When are Deadbeat Dads Pop Culture Icons?
By now you've all see the story of the Homeless guy with the great voice, Ted Williams, as he's been making the rounds on television. But for years we've been told what worthless lowlifes deadbeat fathers are. So why all of a sudden the change in attitude? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving people a second or third chance, but let's not overlook the fact the guy is a deadbeat who's left a trail of misery and a broken family. So before we all get all misty-eyed over his shot at redemption, ...

Not to sound like a grump, but...
The story of the you-can't-make-this-up-named Ted Williams, the Homeless man with the golden pipes who has in just a few days gone from the street to media darlinghood, is a lovely one. But the insanity surrounding the multiple offers and the relentless media self-congratulation on giving a hidden gem the exposure warranted by a media that loves a resonant voice disguises the larger problem of Homelessness in this country. Mr. Williams, for all his golden voice, has a backstory that fits what mo...

Gascn faulted for ending training of officers
In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, Mental Health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón on Friday for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a Lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to...

Was John Wheeler murdered, or did he seek shelter in that Dumpster?
A PROMINENT Philadelphia crime sleuth is speculating that the region's high-profile Murder mystery - the shocking discovery of ex-Pentagon official John "Jack" Wheeler III in a Wilmington landfill - might not be a Murder at all. William Fleisher, an ex-cop who co-founded Philadelphia's murder-solving Vidocq Society, said that the discovery of eyewitnesses and Surveillance video of a disoriented Wheeler before he died suggests that the 66-year-old man had suffered a head or brain injury...

Gascn faulted for ending training of officers
In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, Mental Health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón on Friday for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a Lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to...

Cold weather kills more in northern India
A worker covers himself in fabric meant for setting up a tent as he sits on the back of a truck, surrounded by morning fog in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Nearly two dozen more people have died due to cold weather in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute firewood and blankets to the poor. Ram Mohan Srivastav, a government official in worst-hit northern Uttar Pradesh state, said Saturday that at least 22 people had died there over the past three days...

Gascn faulted for ending training of officers
In the wake of two police shootings of mentally disturbed men within a week, Mental Health advocates criticized San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón on Friday for cutting a program that trained officers in dealing with unstable suspects. For nine years, police officers underwent 40 hours of training apiece in how to recognize mentally ill suspects and de-escalate crises. The training was called for under a Lawsuit settlement with the family of a mentally disturbed man whom officers shot to...