Hendrix Sex Tape?

Check it out: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/CelebSnapshots/popup?id=2858140

Major Columbian Drug Lord Killed

Miguel Angel Mejia killed while wearing a U.S. military uniform by Columbian Police: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_drug_lord;_ylt=AqgzQ.P2FfyanSn0GoM1XcRvaA8F

Most Atrocious Nazi Doctor Believed Still Alive

Aribert Heim, guilty of some of the gravest atrocities of the Holocoust, believed to be still at large. There is a $485,000.00 reward for his arrest: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_eu/nazi_hunting

Forgotten Hostages

Brutally treated U.S. hostages, trapped in a tropical dungeon in Columbia all but forgotten by Bush: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1735671,00.html

Grateful Dead Donates Archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz

From Yahoo Music News:

"The massive stash of memorabilia, documenting the band's journey from its Haight Ashbury-influenced inception in 1965 to the present, will be housed within the University Library's Special Collections, in an area to be specially designated "Dead Central."


http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/59624418

Blonde? Tired of Blonde Jokes?

Here's a playlist from Yahoo Music Blogs of songs about blondes. Cool idea: http://new.us.music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/8338/songs-about-blondes

The 25 Worst Rappers of All Time

From Yahoo Music Blogs: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/2977;_ylt=AmD6utGJDAFFYBDrun9ULnPRwSUv Including the expected jabs at Vanilla Ice and others but also Elvira, Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks, Shaquille O'Neal and more.

Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots in Jail

Stone Temple Pilots frontman gets 8 days for a DUI: http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/59691972

From Yahoo News: "The on-the-wagon, off-the-wagon musician also received four years' probation, was fined about $2,000 and was ordered to take part in an 18-month alcohol program. It could have been much worse, though—he was originally looking at a possible year in jail for DUI with a prior conviction."

Roger Waters Pig Escapes at Coachella

The 2 story high animal just floated away: http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/59714609 it was adorned with anti-war graffiti and an endorsement of Sen. Obama. $10,000.00 reward and 4 Coachella tickets for life for anyone who can return the pig to Waters.

30 Jailed in China for Tibet Riots

Including several monks; from Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

Afghan President Warned of Assassination Plot

President escapes, others, including some of the attackers, killed; from Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

U.S. Adoption of Vietnamese Children Rife With Corruptoin

Babies are being bought, families pressured to give up children; over 40 agencies close. From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7371862.stm

Police in Mozambique Killing and Torturing at Will

Amnesty International report from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7372433.stm

Prisoner Sues Jail for Starving Prisoners

The man lost 40 pounds, says prison food is to blame. From the BBC, (but the case is in the U.S.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7370362.stm

U.N. Meets to Address Growing Global Food Crisis

From the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7370484.stm

Truckers Protest Gas Prices in Washington

Hundreds roll into the Mall. From the AP:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-truckers29apr29,1,4141781.story

Roger Waters at Coachella

From the "LA Times":

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-coachella29apr29,1,3727843.story

Call Girl Who Contributed to the Fall of Gov. Elliot Spitzer Sues "Girls Gone Wild"

For $10 million...

From the AP:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiYsf9j2n6Qg8Icr1LLWM-XNVwrgD90B6SBO0

Supreme Court Upholds Indianna's Controversial Voter ID Law

Does the law place an unconstitutional burden on voters?

From the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washington/29scotus.html?hp

Richie Sambora Could Face DUI/Child Endangerment Charges

They haven't released his blood alcohol level, so it could even be 2 felony charges.

From Yahoo News:

"...(Atty.)Salerno adds that in his 15 years of practice he rarely comes across a DUI case with a child in the car.

"Surprisingly, these cases are not common," the attorney says.

Sambora is already back on tour with Bon Jovi, performing tonight in Dallas. He is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment May 7."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080415/en_music_eo/5acd9407_b2af4ddc_a86f_0f930f40637c;_ylt=AllWuat6UMS9d0UURoDyPSKVEhkF

Danny Federici, E-Street Organist and Keyboardist Mourned

From Yahoo News:

"After taking a leave of absence from the band in November to focus on his treatment, Federici last performed with Springsteen and the others March 20 in Indianapolis. Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale and Saturday in Orlando have been postponed.

"You couldn't help but miss Danny's presence," former Los Angeles Times pop-music critic Roger Hilburn told the paper Thursday, referring to a Springsteen concert he attended last week in Anaheim, Calif. "Without him, the band was not whole."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080418/en_music_eo/e470b61026ff_4284_b581_79efccedeaa9;_ylt=AmEgxiSeDHuBHLw5y6cRpnaVEhkF

Oh "Please, Please Me" A Computer Game Based on the McCartney Divorce

http://news.yahoo.com/s/launch/20080325/en_launch/58768162;_ylt=AhZQqCXJg2kjios7DlHg4wOVEhkF

I'm not even going to comment on how stupid that is.

Some Things Shouldn't Be...and if They Be, They Shouldn't Be on Craigslist

A woman actually advertised on there for a hit-man to kill her lover's wife. That's about as intelligent as the guy who called the cops while being robbed during a drug deal. I mean, murder and drug dealing are clearly not intelligent things to begin with but Jesus.

From Yahoo News:

"The defendant asked two of the respondents via e-mail to "eradicate" the victim and provided the victim's name, age and employment address. In one correspondence, she said she was looking for "silent assassins" and offered to pay $5,000 to kill the victim, who was not identified by the court."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080419/us_nm/craigslist_assassin_dc;_ylt=Ai5msoJmUIDk3PEhyqsYUYBvzwcF

Here's a clue: Craigslist is not 'silent'.

Seriously, she's obviously nuts and when you read the story you see it even more clearly. It appears to have been mostly an on-line relationship/was long distance - even more insane.

Speaking of Jail, Rapper Foxy Brown is Out

After serving 8 mos. From Yahoo News:

"Brown...was sentenced in September 2007 to a year in jail for violating the terms of her probation after she was accused of hitting a woman with a cell phone. She was on probation for an August 2004 attack on two manicurists at a Manhattan nail salon. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in the 2004 incident."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_en_mu/people_foxy_brown;_ylt=Ar1bEPKQMmDRX_FB8NYQggFvzwcF

That's a long time to be in jail for nails man. No seriously, it seems like a long time for fighting. However, I don't know how badly she hurt the people. Ain't the wild west anymore, can't go around beating people up 'cause they make you mad. But still, 8 mos? Does anyone know what amt. of damage she did?

Deathbed Confession Frees Innocent Man Jailed in Chi for 26 Years - Man in Sri Lanka Unjustly Jailed for 50 Years

From the AP:

"Two attorneys recently revealed that their former client, Andrew Wilson, admitted to committing the crime that has sent Logan to prison, but attorney-client privilege had kept them from coming forward.

"Wilson's death last year allowed the attorneys to unseal an affidavit stating that Logan was not responsible for the fatal shooting of security guard Lloyd Wickliffe at a McDonald's restaurant in January 1982.

Dale Coventry, one of the attorneys who signed the affidavit, said Friday night that he hopes prosecutors will acknowledge they went in the wrong direction with the case."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_re_us/the26_year_silence;_ylt=Ag0Vob3N..y_1dyEjgd.tqBvzwcF

I understand attorney client privilege, but how could those guys live with themselves knowing that? How about attorney client urging to do the right thing? Anonymous tip anyone?

Jesus, 26 years in Cook County Jail - "Only innocent man in Shawshank..." indeed. And the family still had to come up with $1,000 bond.

And in Sri Lanka, from Yahoo News:

"Arrested for killing his father late one night in 1958, James was ruled mentally ill by a judge, sent to an asylum for the criminally insane — and forgotten.

Decades after his doctors pronounced him cured, he remained trapped in a criminal justice nightmare. The hospital could only release him to the prisons authority. The prisons authority could only pick him up under a court order. The courts never called for him because they couldn't find his file.

Most of his relatives abandoned him, believing he was crazy.

James never stood trial, never even had a bail hearing, yet he spent 50 years of his life a prisoner."

The kicker - his father wasn't murdered. And there are others like James, still lost in the shuffle.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_re_as/sri_lanka_forgotten_prisoner;_ylt=ApXAKesL7.ofmInA.JHci2pvaA8F

Rising Fuel Costs =Rising Food Costs

Soon we won't be able to get to work to earn the money to buy the food we can't really afford even after working. And it's not just in the U.S., as an earlier post reflects. Even if you're a mad dictator, what good does it do to dictate a country of starved people? I am failing to see any of the logic here. Oh, forgot, a few people get really, really rich, that's right. And starving, desperate people are easier to control. Yea, that must be the general idea.

From the "Christian Science Monitor": http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0418/p01s01-usec.html

Good Cop, Bad Cop and a Really Stupid Criminal

This cop saved a pet-store owner from an attacking python and saved the snake too.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_fe_st/odd_python_attack;_ylt=An9smN0eBa20UtJBlteMffSs0NUE

This cop passed out inside a Mercedes while trying to steal it's stereo, (under the influence at the time): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_fe_st/odd_sleepy_burglar;_ylt=AhR1eNO3oWvMxlEOilXv26AuQE4F

And a drug dealer called the police to report a robbery during a drug deal. Now that takes a certain kind of mind, (this, indeed, is your brain on drugs): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_fe_st/odd_drug_dealer_robbery;_ylt=AmkxQ0Lb1eI.NNaFVwgaFjIuQE4F

Here Comes Big Brother

And to quote my friend who sent me this link, "you don't even want to know about the holding company"

FBI in WVA wants scans of everybody a la Gattica to fight 'terrorism'. Read and be concerned about your civil liberties, as though you weren't already...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/04/fbi.biometrics/index.html

To Catch A Theif...In This Case Was Simple

A man unknowingly deposited stolen rare coins not only in the bank his victim worked in but right into his hands.

Talk about instant karma getting you...

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1519195220080415

Former President Carter Defys Israel and Meets With Hamas

From Reuters:

"Carter has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas' top leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Syria, and for describing Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as "a system of apartheid" in a 2006 book.

"Carter, who brokered Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor, Egypt, signed in 1979, met Israel's ceremonial president Shimon Peres on Sunday but was shunned by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other policymakers.

"Shaer told Reuters he met one-on-one with Carter and they discussed efforts to broker an unofficial truce between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1464259420080415

Italian Porn Star Running for Office

And she's using her 'assets' for PR; might work... http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1080561820080411

"Political Silly Season" Good One Barack

He was accused of being elitist. They can't come up with anything real to diminsh him because he's bad-ass. So the opponents grab for straws...as I said in a poem once, "like a suicide with second thoughts grabs for air..."

Seriously guys, he's not elitist. He spent his career representing those who otherwise have a hard time being heard. He's under the gun:

"Obama has come under fire by opponents after he told an audience in San Francisco last week that economic problems led voters in some small towns to become "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion" as an outlet for their frustrations."

Well, they do. His opponents must not know what people in small towns can be like. Hey, isn't that elitist?

This is Too Disturbing - 8 Year Old Divorcee

In Yemen, poverty drives some families to this gruesome solution. Fortunatly, in this case, the marriage was terminated. From Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1515757520080415

Kentucky Fried Weed?

Police find pot in an order of fried chicken: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/16/chicken.marijuana.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Regrettably, the extreme humor of police being handed such an order by accident is absent. A guy did, however, think that would be the best place to hide it when he got pulled over. Wrong answer. For some reason, didn't think of hiding the ecstasy in his pocket.

Sounds like stoned reasoning to me...fried chicken, paranoid about one thing yet forgetting another...creating an otherwise avoidable search-umstance...

And it seems to have been, police said they pulled him because they smelled weed coming from the car.

X-Ray Vision Sans Superman

A new camera can see through clothes. Already in use in London.

So how did they come up with this one? From CNN: "The technology stems from British astronomers' work in studying dying stars. Astronomers use T-ray cameras to see through dust and clouds in space."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/16/camera.england/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Way too much much weird stuff is emerging in the name of anti-terrorism. Think of what a bizzarre world we're going to be living in when all these new gadgets become commonplace.

Thou Shalt Not Eat Green Eggs and Ham

At least not the eggs. More than six or seven times a week anyway.

One would think that would be obvious. But maybe not.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0838511920080409

Will the "God-Particle" Really be Discovered Soon? One Physicist Says Yes

"GENEVA (Reuters) - British physicist Peter Higgs said on Monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible --

"The 78-year-old's original efforts in the early 1960s to explain why the force, dubbed the Higgs field, must exist were dismissed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

"Today, the existence of the invisible field is widely accepted by scientists, who believe it came into being milliseconds after the Big Bang created the universe some 15 billion years ago --"

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0765287220080407

May the force be with you.

Hunger a Serious Problem in Hati

As feul and food prices skyrocket...

From Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN10381363

Saudi Arms Inquiry Could Re-Open

"A bribery investigation into the biggest arms contract in British history..."

From Telegraph.co.uk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/nsaudi310.xml

The Dali Lama Supports Both Olympics and Protests

I concur. Sort of. I'm not so into this China thing but think the Olympics in general should be supported. Between the Devil and the deep blue sea...

From the "New York Times":

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/world/asia/11dalai.html?ref=asia

The New Orleans Jazz Fest Jams On

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g88eM2TJEKn9mIUIhj8QuiK_HjTw

Bob Dylan Awarded Special Music Pulitzer Prize

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49803-bob-dylan-awarded-special-music-pulitzer-prize

Iran Announces Installation of More Centrifuges at Uranium Enrichment Plant

From "Voice of America News":

http://voanews.com/english/2008-04-08-voa53.cfm

Barack's Dialogue with Petraeus at Senate Hearing

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on Iraq
CQ Transcripts
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; 6:20 PM

From the "Washington Post":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802607.html

Hundreds of Olympics Protestors do, Indeed, Turn out in San Francisco

From the "San Francisco Chronicle":

"Today, my voice is the voice for thousands of people whose voices cannot be heard," said Altekruse, a Berkeley resident who was forced by the U.S. government to sit out the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He did compete, however, eight years later."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/08/BAAS101V1O.DTL&tsp=1

And Meanwhile, What it's Like in a Tibetan Community in China in the Aftermath of Protests There

It's just a lose-lose situation. This is so sad.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLKPEuKzyCdjJvF3NMiK9Tbakt1QD8VT6BVG0

Bush Moves to Force Vote on Free Trade With Columbia

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/07/israel.threats/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Now he's one who does not know to watch his speed when driving that train...

From CNN:

"...Bush said he signed a letter giving Congress 90 working days to vote on the agreement, which would allow goods to move between the United States and Colombia without being taxed.

"Bush said the agreement would "advance America's national security interests in a critical region" and "strengthen a courageous ally in our hemisphere," as well as help the U.S. economy...

"Bush said he decided to force Congress to take up the measure because "need for this agreement is too urgent; the stakes for our national security are too high to allow this year to end without a vote."

You know, this is just not cool. The President forcing Congress to bend to his will isn't my idea of a Democracy.

Check Out What's Going Down With Israel and Iran

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/07/israel.threats/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

God help us if they start...you've just got to read this one. I can't even go here right now.

And Speaking of Upcoming Torch Protests in San Fran...Tibetan Protesters Arrested for Scaling Golden Gate Bridge

Three members of Students for a Free Tibet scaled it Monday after 4 were arrested there, being called a likely precursor to torch Wed.

From CNN.com: "China has come under international criticism because of its crackdown last month on protesters calling for democratic freedoms and self-rule in Tibet and neighboring Chinese provinces.

"Chinese authorities have denied those allegations. U.S. and other Western leaders have called on China to provide civil rights and freedoms to those in Tibet and to enter peaceful discussions aimed at resolving the crisis"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/07/bridge.protest/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Olympic Torch Relay Meeting With Protests

Due to China's human rights record: http://sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=olymp/news/BON4143314.htm 25 Protesters in London arrested for trying to extinguish the flame. It was finally put out by officials in Paris. Protesters have been following the mythic journey since March 24. Will be in San Francisco on Wed., more protests expected of course.

I don't know... the whole thing just makes me sad really. On several levels. I agree on the protest side re. China, at the same time, the Olympics are ... well, I mean they're the Olympics and it's the legendary torch. That is the way to make the biggest point, however, and I was not at all pleased with the blocking athletes from speaking on issues (see older blog)...

"What a world, what a world.", as the Wicked Witch of the West said as she melted. And to quote a song, seems the whole worlds' going to hell in a bucket baby and I,at least, am not enjoying the ride.