Gossip/Speculation: The Missing Turkeys, Carlin, Soros and more

A Little Gossip and Speculation is Worth Some Time for Rumination

George Carlin in Rehab
A celebrity going into Rehab is nothing new. Except a part of me is a bit snarky that it’s George Carlin. As a young woman I always thought this comedian to be one of the most clever, albeit acerbic, comics on the planet.

All of a sudden I turn around and George Carlin’s still a silly hippie liberal when the rest of the world has moved on from the 60’s. It also seems Carlin kept his 60’s drug habit as well.

"I'm going into rehab because I use too much wine and Vicodin," Carlin, 67,whose latest book "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?" is a current nationalbestseller, said in a statement. "No one told me I needed this; I recognized the problem and took the step myself."

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Some Ann Coulter Gossip
Well, actually, there’s not much gossip. Except I saw a query about Coulter on a gossip newsgroup and had to click in. A few responses said Ann was dating a Muslim and was a chain-smoker.

Below, a quote from a poster regarding Coulter.

I live in the DC area. A couple of Republican political appointees I know [low-level types] can't stand her. They think she's plain nuts, both have also said she smokes like a chimney.

I really don’t believe that bit about the low-level Republicans alleged to “can’t stand her”. Liberals maybe can’t stand her, not Republicans.
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Brad and Jen
No information yet on the Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston breakup. Although I’m still not quite over it. Time, yes time will heal my wounds.
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Asked and Guessed. Blind Item Fun
Bernie Kerik’s Love Interest Going Insane
Below, from the NY Post recently. Below it, a guess that makes me smile:

WHICH bigshot recently named one of The Post's "50 Most Powerful Women" is being tormented by her staff? To slowly drive her insane by making her think she's losing her memory, her mischievous minions love to hide her things, especially her Louis Vuitton wristlet . . .

I hope this is Judith Reagan.

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If true, this is so sad

Which rail-thin actress in a current blockbuster controlled her cravings on setby going through cases of zero-cal "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" spray,which she squirted straight into her mouth?

Jennifer Garner?

another guess-Cate Blanchette

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George Soros fails to pay taxes
Thanks to Slick Rich for the following.

From the Turkish Press We really like that bit about promoting “civil society and good governance throughout the world”. I don’t remember asking for his help.

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Soros foundation charged in Kazakhstan with tax evasion
AFP: 12/28/2004

ALMATY, Dec 28 (AFP) - The Open Society Institute of billionaire US financier George Soros has been charged with tax evasion in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, police said here Tuesday.

A spokesman for the tax police, Ruslan Tlemisov, said the institute which promotes civil society and good governance throughout the world had not paid 623,000 dollars (458,000 euros) in taxes.
thanks to slick rich

POP CULTURE STORY OF THE WEEK!
John Conyers and the Missing Turkeys
All week it’s been flying below the national radar but The Wise I had been on the job.

Seems Michigan congress critter, John Conyers (yes the same one who protested the Ohio electoral vote) has lost some turkeys. The investigation, however, continues. Even the vaunted Wall Street Journal has been sniffing around.

A community food bank gave Conyers’ office some turkeys for him to distribute to his needy constituents. It was a win-win, the notion being that Conyers would know who needed help in his district, and it might help garner a few votes.

The suspicion came when a member of the organization donating the turkeys was told about Conyers’ staff going around and offering free turkeys.

The Detroit Free Press did some calling around and was told by Conyers’ spokesbabe, (Grubbs), that the turkeys were all accounted for. Further reading reveals that the former aide, DeWayne Boyd, who helped himself to some of the turkeys, had been fired from Conyers’ staff and has a shady past.

At any rate, no one’s found the missing turkeys as of yet. Something I think is still missing from this story, and it’s just speculation, is the fact that it was Conyer’s office who called and requested the turkeys. Somehow I don’t envision charity organizations just hand out turkeys to congress critters and such.

From The Detroit Free Press :

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A Conyers staff member who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal told the Free Press that Grubbs and her cousin, Conyers' Detroit deputy chief of staff Marion Brown, along with a former Conyers aide, DeWayne Boyd, picked up the turkeys and later gave contradictory accounts of what happened to the birds.

AND…from the Wall Street Journal’s online site:

The Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday that the director of Gleaner's Community Food Bank, Agostinho Fernandes, got worried after a local court worker told a friend that he was offered free turkeys by a Conyers staffer. "