Thoughts, American Idol Opry Night, Dance/Stars 09 First Elimination, Book Review-Killer Dogs, TV-Celeb Apprentice 09 and "Chopping Block" review.
In thoughts this week, the Bad Buy of the Week is actually a chubby female. The Good Guy is, surprise, a Republican who showed some gonads.
Also, time for some serious cute, with a visit to a pet store caught on video.
Much more.
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ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" 09 had the first dancer eliminated this past week.
Find out the dancer every contender wants to get hurt, the dancer that surprised everyone with an amazing comeback and finally, Melissa Rycroft's parents decide to show up!
All with pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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It was Grand Ole Opry night and a good time was had by all in American Idol 2009.
Carrie Underwood returned, and not a single contender sang anything that sounded like a genuine country/western tune.
With pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.
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Here's a book Review for Aphrodite Jones' true crime book-"Red Zone".
For Marjorie Knoller is an idiot, married to an idiot, and when idiots raise killer dogs, innocent people like Diane Whipple die horrific deaths.
The amazing behind the scenes story of the San Francisco dog mauling case.
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We catch up on Trump's rather lackluster 2009 Celebrity Apprentice. Tom Green goes home but we learn things about his testicles we'd didn't need to hear.
Also, a review of the very odd copycat of every cooking show on TV, NBC's "Chopping Block".
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Like most of America, I’d heard of the story of the San Francisco woman killed by two rare breed dogs called Presa Canarios. This incident caused citizens across the fruited plains to discuss and argue the merits and concerns of having dangerous dogs in populated areas, indeed even owning them at all.
While most Americans were familiar with pit bulls, Dobermans and other dogs considered dangerous on some level, the Presa Canario was a relatively unknown breed.
This book is the inside story of Robert Noel and his wife, Marjorie Knoller, two of the weirdest and possibly stupidest people to populate this planet. Take two rather stupid people, add a couple of dangerous, vicious and unpredictable dogs and you have a disaster looking for a time and place to happen.
Which happened to be an apartment complex in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco when the dangerous elixir finally came to fruition. Diane Whipple was innocently returning to her apartment after a trip to the grocery when she was attacked by Noel and Knoller’s two Presa Canario dogs and was killed by the severity of the wounds the dogs inflicted.
As I recall the debates raged as defenders of pit bulls assured their friends that it is not the DOGS that are the problem, but rather the owners. Many declared that such dogs should perhaps be banned and this horrible incident added the new breed of the Presa Canario to the roster of dogs considered dangerous.
Indeed if the common wisdom that it is the dog OWNERS who are the problem rather than the dogs, Noel and Knoller re-enforce this stereotype more than any other fact.
Noel and Knoller are both lawyers and God help us that folks of this sort somehow got a law degree. These two mockeries of defenders of justice loved to file court cases on behalf of criminals in the jails and as a clock is right twice a day, sometimes they won.
At some point these fine judges of humanity got involved with a prisoner Paul Schneider, who ran a dog breeding operation from within the walls of his prison. These two lawyers and Schneider, along with various other persons involved with this criminal managed to obtain and raise Presa Canario puppies, all for the Aryan Brotherhood, that quasi-Nazi organization of white supremacy. The ultimate goal of the entire scheme was to sell Presa Canario dogs to Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations which would consider having such a dog to be an asset to the activities of such groups.
Two more self-centered individuals than Noel and Knoller do not exist on this earth. When Diane Whipple lay dying from the wounds inflicted on her by Knoller’s dogs, all Marjorie Knoller could do was usher her dogs back into her apartment, not even calling for help for Whipple.
Neither of these two fine attorneys even queried about Whipple’s wounds, whether she survived or died, until they were informed by law enforcement personnel.
This book gives intriguing looks into the mindset of Noel and Knoller, plus insights into other “normal” people somehow pulled into this crazy scheme by a prisoner. It was the perfect storm that would lead to the inevitable, the death of an innocent by the crazies involved in this whole thing.
Jones also delves into the personalities of the prosecution, the victim, the politics of the trial until the very unusual decision by the judge to overturn the second degree murder conviction by the jury. This weird ruling allowed Marjorie Knoller to get out of jail after serving a short two year sentence for her heinous disregard of the helpless Diane Whipple, who would be forever dead.
I was pleased to learn that after this book was written, the stupid ruling by the judge in this case was overturned and the jury’s verdict of second degree murder would stand.
Marjorie Knoller was originally sentenced to four years in prison on a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter, after a judge threw out the jury's second-degree murder conviction in 2002.
Superior Court Judge James Warren said at the time that there was not enough evidence that Knoller knew her two Presa Canarios -- each weighing about 100 pounds -- would kill. One of the dogs, Hera, is pictured above.
Knoller served about half of her sentence and was paroled in 2004, later moving to Florida. But the California Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that Warren interpreted the murder statute too narrowly and said that a judge must reconsider the more serious conviction.
Last month, Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard reinstated the second-degree murder conviction. She sentenced Knoller Monday morning. Dennis Riordan, Knoller's attorney, said his client plans to file an appeal.
Makes me feel good to know that the fine, fine Marjorie Knoller will be going back to jail. Couldn’t happen to a more vapid, thoughtless person.
The Fly on the Wall Reveals the Secret Behind the AIG Bonus Kerfluffle
“Mr. President,” the president of the National Association of Lazy Government Bureaucrats said in order to get his idea in front of Obama quickly and completely.
Obama picked lint off of his suit and planned his morning workout just as soon as he got this obligation over with. Big campaign contributors must be given a sober audience, Barack knew this. But this country’s unions were a public relations disaster to be dealt with and giving them what they want for their campaign contributions would not be easy. Obama sighed and turned his attention to Joe Blow, mighty union president.
“You told us that getting that open ballot voting for a union would not be easy and we understand this,” Mr. Blow said, speaking quickly as he had heard that Obama had a very limited attention span.
Obama nodded affirmative. He knew that congress would never vote for eliminating the secret ballot for workers choosing to have a union represent them, no matter how the unions disguised it with their very misleading title of the “open ballot initiative” or whatever deceitful name they conjured up with a little help from Rahm.
Mr. Blow rattled his papers to bring the President back from his reverie. “So okay, using your idea of manipulating the public all the time, I think we have a plan that will help our union members as well as give you some cover for those bonuses for AIG and the other bonuses coming down the road.”
At this comment Obama raised his eyes with interest. Indeed Obama knew that Gerthner had to allow AIG to give bonuses to their executives as they were in legal contracts and even if the matter went all the way to the Supremes, the AIG bonuses would be awarded as a legal contract is a legal contract. Even Obama, who viewed such things as mere annoyances in implementing the social order the country needs, didn’t necessarily want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
“See, unions have a major public relations problem, Mr. President,” Mr. Blow said. Obama raised his eyebrows to the sky because as the President saw it, this was an understatement. No matter how they tried to demonize Walmart, it never worked. Americans get great deals at Walmart and Americans will always be more loyal to their pocketbooks than a bunch of overfed, overpaid union workers. Obama wiped those thoughts from his mind to get on with the matter lest Mr. Blow read his thoughts.
“But we do have lots of membership dues in our coffers,” Mr. Blow softly reminded Obama and the President had to struggle to keep from sighing at that truth.
“Mr. President, we will leak the information that AIG executives will be receiving bonuses to every newspaper in America. THEN,” Mr. Blow said before the President could interrupt, “our members will do everything in their power to keep the issue alive, to inflame the voters, we will make the executives at AIG public enemy number one.”
Obama sat quiet and thought about the idea. “What good will that do?” the President asked. “Gerthner approved those bonuses, half of congress knew about it, Dodd wrote up the exception to the conference rule and put it in at the Treasury and White House behest. Further, what good will inflaming this issue do for your members?”
Mr. Blow sat up tall. He and his fellow union members had worked all week on this matter. They’d even worked it out with Rahm and Stephanopolous. “We need to make the public mad at high paying executives specifically and Wall Street in general,” Joe Blow said.
“Unions are losing the public relations war and we’re taking a page, a few pages really, from your administration. We’re going to work at manipulating and misleading the public. We make the CEOs the enemy, we get cover for your congress and Treas Sec and everyone wins!”
The President sat and thought about Blow’s proposal.
“Mr. President, we even have people ready to picket AIG headquarters, even take bus trips out to the houses of those greedy executives. After a week of AIG greed on the news cycles 24/7, the public will be ready for such action and might even see us, the lowly union folks, as the heroes of the day.”
“We’re going to have to admit that Dodd, Pelosi, hell the congress almost, knew about those bonuses months ago,” the President said, slowly warming to Mr. Blow’s idea but with reservation.
“Mr. President,” Joe said as Rahm instructed him, “by the time the public is inflamed by these bonuses, announcements by Dodd or the Treasury department will fall by the wayside. If we’ve learned nothing from Democratic administrations it’s how to control and orchestrate news cycles. The way I see this, we both win. Unions need to be the good guys if we’re ever going to gain more power over the purse strings of fellows just like those guys at AIG.
The only way we are going to be the good guys is make someone else the bad guys. Much like congress itself did by allowing the theft of public funds by those banks and AIG types with no oversight because congress didn’t do its job. The public doesn’t think about this and why is this? Because none of your news types bother to bring it up. They follow the action and Mr. President, congress and the unions will look like heroes by the time we get done with those fat cats at AIG.”
President Obama folded his hands in a tent like matter and was silent for a minute. He had to hand it to Joe Blow, President of the National Association of Lazy Government Bureaucrats. His idea was sheer genius and just might work.
Natalee Holloway-Don’t Believe
The news flash that the body of Natalee Holloway had been discovered in Aruba passed by the Fox News Screen so quickly I almost missed it.
Of course the body of Natalee Holloway was not found nor will it ever be found.
This is because Urine Vandersloot’s father, a fine father who must be so proud of his son, took Natalee’s body and dumped it at sea. It’s the sort of thing any Dad would do for his beloved son after all.
No, Natalee Holloway’s body will ever be found so consider this a warning should anyone make such claims.
Urine Vandersloot roams free. His father is free, damn the man’s a judge of some sort on that lawless island of no pride.
Parents, don’t send your children to Aruba. It’s a corrupt poorly run “paradise”.
His name is Tom McClintock and he’s a forlorn Republican in California. Below he shows us why he should be this week’s Good Guy of the Week.
This week’s Bad Guy of the Week is not a guy at all. She is the daughter of the Republican nominee for President in 2008 and she was involved in a flap involving female conservative types including Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.
If you don’t listen to Laura’s radio show you might know her as she frequently hosts for the Bill O’Reilly show on Fox News.
I’m not sure Meghan McCain knows what dangerous waters she treads but she’s committed all sorts of faux pas against conservative women to whom she cannot, not even with a propane torch, hold a candle against.
John McCain's daughter, who has said how embarrassed she is by having to explain Ann Coulter to her friends. If it wasn't for articulate conservatives like Ann Coulter, both the Republican Party and the country would be in even worse shape than they are now, for there are extremely few articulate Republican politicians who can make the case for any principle. Certainly Ms. McCain's father is not one of them.
I can’t remember enjoying a political flap more than this attempt by the pathetic daughter of John McCain attacking female conservative stalwarts as if she were anywhere near their equal.
Here’s my advice for Meghan…if you are finding yourself having to explain Ann Coulter to your friends, in an embarrassing way as you describe, MAYBE IT’S TIME YOU GET NEW FRIENDS!
What you DON’T do, and what won’t get you any conservative sympathy, is go on that liberal sob fest known as The View and further attack other conservative females.
I understand that Laura Ingraham allegedly said the word “plus-sized” in a sentence about Meghan and hey, maybe it was intentional, maybe not. And of course the beautiful fashion icons such as Whoopie Goldberg will oooh and aaaah over the audacity of one female to make fun of the weight of another. Indeed all the ladies of The View would oooh and aaaah over such a thing, especially when the players involved are of the opposite political spectrum.
For the ladies of The View, dear Meghan, have not said a word about Obama’s gaffe about the Special Olympics and what’s that tell you dear?
To Ingraham’s credit, she didn’t back down or apologize to Meghan.
CNN) -- Laura Ingraham is calling Meghan McCain a "useful idiot" and a "flavor of the month" — the latest salvo in the war of words between the conservative radio host and the daughter of former Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
Besides having once been a sperm cell of John McCain, just exactly what is Meghan McCain’s claim to the bully pulpit of American conservatism? John McCain being, hardly, anybody’s notion of a solid conservative at any rate.
Meghan my dear, if you can’t take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen. Ann Coulter will chew you up and eat you for dinner.
Or I don’t know, maybe you ate Ann Coulter when you give it some thought.
Obama and the Special Olympics
It's the Special Olympics thing.
So President Obama, the President of all things Pop Culture, decides to go on national TV, on the Tonight show. In his mind, and those of his handlers as well as his teleprompter (which has its own web site God bless Americans and their unstoppable humor), a leader is well-served by going before the public as often and in as many venues as possible. Thus we have the King of Pop Culture, The Messiah, He of the Town Hall Forums, American-Idol-pre-empting Press Conferencing, In-Your-Face-24x7 President Obama.
Obama's offhand remark about his lackluster bowling being on a par with the Special Olympics, hey it's the sort of thing any one of us might say as depiction of an activity in which we do poorly. Goodness knows we've been politically incorrected to the point where we all must have duct tape on our mouths lest we blurt a truth that insults SOMEONE on the planet.
But folks, NONE OF US IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!
A President who is, I suggest softly, supposed to represent all of the people, even those precious little heroes who compete in the Special Olympics.
So don't give Obama a pass for this gaffe, a pass in some faux favor of eliminating political correctness run amok. Maybe, just throwing it out there, this is EXACTLY the problem with a President Pop Culture, that an unfortunate slip of the tongue can cause great damage and maybe, throwing it out there again, statesmen who want to be viewed in grand stature do NOT usually guest on talk shows without their beloved teleprompters.
Further, if Obama is going to get a pass, and many liberal pundits have this past week been chiding us for getting all atwitter over Obama's unfortunate comment, than we should too give Presidents of ALL political parties the same pass.
Below, a political cartoon featured on a DEMOCRATIC publication in the 2004 campaign.
Liberals will always show their hypocrisy. Give them time.
“Mr. President, we even have people ready to picket AIG headquarters, even take bus trips out to the houses of those greedy executives. After a week of AIG greed on the news cycles 24/7, the public will be ready for such action and might even see us, the lowly union folks, as the heroes of the day.”
His name is Tom McClintock and he’s a forlorn Republican in California. Below he shows us why he should be this week’s Good Guy of the Week.
This week’s Bad Guy of the Week is not a guy at all. She is the daughter of the Republican nominee for President in 2008 and she was involved in a flap involving female conservative types including Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.
It's the Special Olympics thing.
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