Oh, for the love of #@$!$!!
J-Lo's Mom Hits Atlantic City Jackpot
Guadalupe Lopez, 58, of New York, was playing Wheel of Fortune at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa when she hit for $2,421,291.76 just before 8 p.m. Saturday, according to the casino.
Like she needs it. (Yes, I'm jealous...)
It was divine intervention
"I have a great devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and had just looked up at the $2 million and said a little prayer to her when I hit the jackpot. Our Lady really looks out for me. When I won, my knees started shaking and I started yelling and screaming."
Grrrrr! Yes, religious devotion = gambling winnings. Like Our Lady didn't have more important things to do than reward the mother of the world's brattiest pop star.
Found
Missing girl's remains found
Toronto — In a tragic end to the mysterious disappearance of nine-year-old Cecilia Zhang, the little girl's remains were identified Sunday, the police said.
Damn. Just damn...
Her body had been found in a Missisauga ravine on Saturday
That ravine is on the path I used to take to work 4 years ago. I still drive by there every once in awhile. It's hard to believe there's such a secluded spot in the overdeveloped mess that is the GTA's west side...
They later spent two days northwest of Toronto canvassing patrons of a Tim Hortons doughnut shop...
a block away from where I used to work just last year...
It is a different thing entirely when it happens this close to home.
At first I thought that the worst thing for her parents would be just not to know - their child neither dead nor alive, birthdays coming one after the other with their daughter remaining a constant ageless nine years old in their minds - now I'm not so sure...
Hopefully the police have enough of the answers already, and are just not saying, while they lay in wait to trap the bastard that left her there, dead.
I hope he resists arrest. I hope the first few bullets are painful. I hope the last one that finishes him isn't immediately fatal, but leaves him lingering for a couple of days in agony...just before his journey to rot in hell (I may not believe in much, but I do believe in a hell for child-killers, oh yes I do!)
I can hope a lot of things...
Virgins
OK, I have to ask this question.
What's the deal with all the virgins?
In all seriousness, my version of paradise would include women that have experience and technique. After the first virgin (or five) give me someone a little more ahem, professional.
Then again, if I lived with 8th century medical technology at my service, maybe the STDs professionals would earn in such an environment may put me off of them...
How gullible are these suicide idiots anyway?
Coke Adds Cancer
Things get worse with Coke
So now the full scale of Coke's PR disaster is clear. It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it "pure" and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for "taste profile"; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide - which is not a problem - into bromate - which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre).
When everyone started this whole bottled water crap twenty years ago I was dubious. Paying for water? The stuff comes out of taps for free (OK we do pay municipal fees...)
But it's so much purer and cleaner and it comes from mountain streams and blah blah blah...
Bull.
That Coke would be so brazen and misleading is shocking in and of itself. That a company that's usually associated with the best of American marketing could be so incompetent in its execution of strategy is what really shocks me.
Now the question I'm asking: Is this an isolated incident or is this how the North American supply of Dasani is produced?
The Coke web-site talks about "added minerals."
Hmmm.
Not the time to be funny
A victory for appeasement. A victory for cowardice. The Spanish people demonstrated today that they have no courage.
Originally I was going to be flippant. I was going to paraphrase Basil Fawlty with the "amazing they ever got an armada together" line, but then thought better of it.
I have no damn idea what they're going through.
I have no right to judge their pain. Remote-viewing via CNN does not give me a share in the tragedy, just like it didn't on 9/11. I watched the towers fall live, but I wasn't in New York, I didn't breathe the dust or hear the rumbles...Bali, Madrid - these are still places on TV to me.
Let's be honest. Spain electing socialists was not good for anyone, especially them. Apeasement historically has never been an effective policy choice. Show fear in front of a rabid dog and you get mauled. Badly.
In response to being targeted, the Spaniards have chosen to put down the sword and leave the battle. Terrorists have now been able to mess with an election in a Western democracy successfully. The ballot-box has now been superceded by terrorist bombers.
Many recognize the dangers of this. It's not like these terrorist fucks need encouraging.
The scary question is who's next. 2004 is a big election year isn't it?
Espionage or Idiotage?
Captain Ed is reporting on John Kerry's strange policy gymnastics.
no one has been able to substantiate a recent meeting between John Kerry and any foreign leader. Since Kerry isn't elaborating, we can assume one of two things: either Kerry is lying, or Kerry is telling the truth.
If he is telling the truth about consulting with "unnamed foreign leaders", the word "traitor" wouldn't be too far off the mark. Seriously. They used to shoot people for "communicating" with foreign powers. Quite rightly, too.
I'll bet the Republicans are quaking in their boots...This is the best guy the Democrats could find? I thought they could at least pick someone that would at least wait until he got into a full engagement with the dreaded Republican enemy before shooting his own foot off first.
And a year ago I thought Dubya wouldn't have a chance...
Pass the Tequila, Sheila
Sheila Copps has lost her riding nomination.
In a way I'm kind of sad. Sad in that way that Nixon-haters were sad when they no longer had Tricky-Dicky to kick around anymore. Sad the way the foaming at the mouth "Bush is evil" spouters will be sad when W finally calls it a day...
For me, a private Canadian citizen with no political or media ties - I'm just some guy with a blog...Sheila Copps has epitomized the arrogant, know-what's-better than you, your money is my money to spend as I damn-well want kind of politician that is still able to boil my blood with her latest self-promoting whines. I'm going to have to find some other idiot to hate and spew my venom upon.
Of course, now that her wittle feewings are hurt she's falling back on her tried-and-true methods for dealing with setbacks: Blame other people.
The political damage was palpable as the once-loyal Liberal footsoldier cast blame on party brass and Prime Minister Paul Martin's own circle for manipulating the process.
"When the party takes sides, that's a problem," she said. "When the leadership selectively uses the rules to massage an outcome, that's a problem."
"When the party takes sides, that's a problem," she said. "When the leadership selectively uses the rules to massage an outcome, that's a problem."
Yes, it's all a conspiracy because no one would want to get rid of her in her own riding, would they?
Ms. Copps confirmed Sunday she's received offers from ridings in B.C...
NOOOOOOOOOOO! So I wanna move out west and Sheila wants to follow us? She's really trying to make this personal...
and Quebec to seek the Liberal nomination there. But she said first she wants to get some sleep and talk to her family before making any decisions.
Go to Quebec. Please.
"I guess the other [option] is to hear the message which seems to be fairly loud and clear from the current Liberal government that I guess they don't really want me in Ottawa."
Translation: WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
So now I'm SYMPATHISING with Martha? Can the apocalypse be far off?
Damnit I never thought this day would come...
I'm actually quite disturbed by Martha Stewart's conviction. Maybe it's just me, but did they actually have a case against her?
Stewart was convicted of obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and lying to the U.S. government, after the jury found she wasn’t being truthful about the circumstances of the sale of about 4,000 shares of ImClone stock
So they get her on the periphery, based on her conduct during the investigation, but not for the actual crime itself? Hmmmm.
Well, that's easy to understand. I mean actually proving an Insider Trading charge is always a circumstantial exercise at best. Much easier to lean on someone and then watch for the slightest omission or fib...
A related article has details on what the jury was thinking.
And it appears they were trying to send her a message she couldn’t have heard any other way. “Maybe it's a victory for the little guys who lose money in the market because of these kinds of transactions,” explains juror Chappell Hartridge about the verdict.
Who is this freakin' "little guy" I keep hearing so damn much about? I know that Arthur Carlson was the "big guy", so they must mean either Herb or Les... So this "little guy" is blaming Martha for the cycle of fear and greed that blows every would-be speculator out of the water at the end of the speculative bubble that was the roaring 90's.
Stewart refused to take the stand in her own defence, which she was under no obligation to do. But the jury took notice of the omission. “I would have liked to have heard from her,” Hartridge admits. “I would have loved to have heard the other side of the story.”
Wonderful this "presumed innocent" thing isn't it? So they assume that because Martha doesn't get herself in harm's way by opening herself up to cross-examination in court she must be hiding something...
Did nobody tell the jury that the government has to make its case on its own? That a defendant doesn't have to take the stand and that this shouldn't be construed as guilt or innocence?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Andrew Cohen at CBS has some thoughts:
In an "Alice in Wonderland" twist of the law, Martha Stewart was convicted Friday of trying to cover up conduct that isn't a crime. She was convicted of being greedy and of being cheap. She was convicted of having a bad memory and of being arrogant. She was convicted of acting scared and using terrible judgment. She was convicted because she played things too cute by half with federal investigators when they asked her about the December 2001 sale of her Imclone stock. She was stupid and today the jury made her a convict.
Martha is actually the perfect target for such a prosecution: Her detractors hate her so much that they will celebrate any misfortune that befalls her, even if the prosecution was shoddy and the evidence sparse.
Her supporters are more concerned with tea-cosies and pot-pourri.
A much bigger OUCH for Martha:
Stewart also will lose her property. The fines imposed upon her are petty cash compared to her assets but the conviction also means that she'll no longer be able to formally control the company that bears her name: Martha Stewart Omnimedia Living, Inc. Like a crime boss, she'll be relegated to trying to run the "family business" from a jail cell, issuing furtive orders like Al Capone or John Gotti.
So you get Martha Stewart Omnimedia with no chance of Martha at the helm.
I'm not a Martha cheerleader, but this scares me. And it should scare you too.
But the biggest and clearest lesson is precisely the one that the feds hoped we all would learn from this case. It is that the government can target anyone, even the most popular and successful among us, and bring about a successful prosecution with even the fluffiest of evidence. There were no victims here. No bloodshed. The world isn't safer today than it was yesterday. Martha Stewart is going to jail because she didn't level to investigators about a telephone call that any investor would love to get and that many investors do get every day in this country. The only difference between her and them is that the feds decided to make an example of her. It worked. She's done. Watch out.
Heads will roll
Via boss fired for Olympian Error
The purge continues. My favourite quote from this loser:
Mr. Pelletier, 69, responded to her accusations by questioning her credibility. "I don't want to be mean, but she's a poor girl who deserves pity, a girl who doesn't have a husband that I know of. She has the stress of being a single mother who has economic responsibilities. Basically, I find that she deserves pity."
Which PR person was asleep and let this slip past them?
An Olympic double-Gold medalist can't deal with stress? "Ooooh, lookit the poor wittle girl who doesn't have a man, because ya know, women can't make it by themselves..." What an asshole.
Mr. Pelletier also suggested Ms. Bedard couldn't get along with her co-workers because Olympic athletes had difficulty adapting to life out of the limelight.
Uh. I'm really trying to think of something biting to say here, but I'm speechless that such an idiotic comment could be made in public by someone who, conceivably should know better. Then again, I could be giving them more credit than they deserve. I mean the "uncredible single mom" tactic had a best before 1970 expiry date.
If they're found not guilty of ripping off Canadian taxpayers [doubtful!] they should at least be fired for being so stupid to make assinine comments such as these...
Mr. LeFrancois also challenged Ms. Bedard's statements."I don't understand these people," he said, referring to the former Olympian. "Do they dream at night? Do they take pills? I don't know."
Ah yes, the tried and true tactic of personally attacking the whistle-blower rather than defending the actual issue.
Ms. Bedard, who now works administering real estate she owns, said she would like her job back.
She should get it.
UPDATE: Paul at Light and Dark has similar thoughts...
Ahnold with nukes!
Schwarzenegger: Let foreign-born seek White House
The Republican governor said anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for at least 20 years -- as he has -- should "absolutely" be able to seek the presidency. A constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, would make that possible.
20 years? Hell, they want to give status to illegal immigrants. How 'bout 20 days?
"Look at the kind of contribution that people like Henry Kissinger have made...
Uh, I don't think Mr.
Considering America's status as the "cultural melting pot" and haven for immigrants I think this kind of law is an anachronism. It smacks of special status for those who from an accident of birth can do something that others cannot. Strange for a country where "all men are created equal."
Then again, it really doesn't matter does it? I mean women and minorites can now be legally elected president, right? How many have been put forward for president? That's right. None.
I hope he's successful.
I really do.
Because then I can move south and become leader of the free world. Muahaha!
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