Posted in December 28th, 2009
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Americans have been vilified and conditioned to believe that they are the worst polluters on the planet. The USA has the assignment; worlds whipping boy for any and all environmental abuse on the earth. Somehow it’s all our fault that 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities are in China. None of the top […]
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Posted in October 26th, 2009
San Jose, CA- Four San Jose police officers are on paid leave for the beating and tasing of an unarmed Vietnamese man. Officers Kenneth Seigel, Steven Payne Jr., Jerome Smith, and Gabriel Reyes were involved in a brutality incident against 20 year old student Phuong Ho, all of which was caught on cell phone video […]
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Posted in October 16th, 2009
The legislation California Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law recently is widely known to restrict the actions of paparazzi and penalize the organizations that purchase photos taken illegally.
But what is less understood is the strong language the California Legislature used in the wording of the bill. The following are quotes from the text of the new […]
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Posted in October 13th, 2009
Well, another week and more news on the Peer Abuse front. This week, its great news and involves someone finally taking a group of bullies by the horns.
In California, there is a serious problem with the paparazzi who try and do what they can to get photos of celebrities without their consent. When I say […]
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Posted in August 5th, 2009
Today’s news that former Congressman William Jefferson, was convicted of bribery and racketeering, among other things, comes as no big surprise. Several things are worth revisiting regarding this former “big wheeler” and the support he was given by the House leadership. Most people will remember the media coverage and uproar that occurred as a result of the […]
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Posted in July 1st, 2009
Unless the California legislature finds a way to balance the state’s budget today (July 1st) everyone who receives money from the state, state employees, contractors, welfare recipients, etc., will receive IOUs in their pay envelopes instead of money. Why? Because the California Constitution requires (demands) a balanced budget every year.
Why the state budget got out […]
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Posted in May 29th, 2009
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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it.
Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the mainstream […]
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Posted in May 24th, 2009
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To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country to join your little Republican booster club. Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says. No doubt, we’re […]
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Posted in May 23rd, 2009
California- Seems Sandra Cantu’s murderer Melissa Huckaby is in some more trouble regarding the little girl she is suspected of poisoning back in January and now an adult male. It has been reported she poisoned an adult male back in March. What? So we have now murder, rape, lewd and lavicious acts, suspicion of arson and […]
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Posted in May 20th, 2009
Oh joy! Lori Drew is back in the news. Hearing her name tends to make my blood boil. However, it gives me something to blog about and express my feelings about her. This time, there is a delay in her case as the defense filed to dismiss the case. Excuse me? Did they say dismiss? […]
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Posted in May 18th, 2009
Well, like many Americans on Friday night, I sat down and watched the NBC special about 70’s icon Farrah Fawcett and her battle with cancer. It was a 2 hour long documentary that included watching Farrah go through some of the hardest times in her battle with anal cancer. Plus, the support of Alana Stewart […]
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Posted in May 17th, 2009
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I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries.
This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama win, […]
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Posted in May 16th, 2009
Tracy, California- I have found a news report from Sacramento that sends shivers up my spine. Due to the gag order in this case the source of this report could not go into detail regarding the report. The source said that during the investigation of trailers in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park while Sandra […]
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Posted in March 2nd, 2009
Yreka California- Monday morning at 4:30am an intruder went in to the home of 3 year old Francis Collins and abducted her. Francis is 3 ft tall and 30 pounds and she has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen in a tie dye shirt. Her abductor is Cody Kaplin a 22 year […]
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Posted in February 16th, 2009
Why Naomi of 90210 is not a Bully
In the 1990’s, I was a fan of the show Beverly Hills 90210. I watched it in college and during most of the decade. So, when a new 90210 came this season to the CW, I watched some of it as it had some of the old characters […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2009
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A couple of months ago, a physician in California who refused to perform in vitro fertilization (aka “IVF”, aka “Testtube baby”) on a lesbian was taken to court and sued for “discrimination”.
He contended that doing IVF on single women was against his religious beliefs, but lost the case on the basis of discrimination laws.
Essentially the […]
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Posted in January 17th, 2009
Long Beach, CA.- A missing couple most likely fell off of a cruise ship between Long Beach Califonia and Mexico. The 90 year old man and his 79 year old wife have yet to be found. There names and residence is being with held until notification to the families. The couple was aboard a Carnival […]
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Posted in January 5th, 2009
As the holidays are finally over, I am finally able to start getting back into the swing of things after two weeks of being away from blogging and all things Peer Abuse. Now, I am finally able to catch up and boy and figured a continuation of the Rock of Love Charm School scandal involving […]
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Posted in December 31st, 2008
Real Housewives, Orange County version:
Nice Guy Jeff Beitzel Passes Away
Who’s Throwing Stones?
It’s season four of Housewives with two new additions: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi and Lynne Curtain. Curtain replaced Lauri Waring Peterson after Peterson opted to drop out of the show when her son was arrested for drug possession.
The storyline surrounding Gretchen has her dealing […]
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Posted in December 28th, 2008
What would you do if you bought a box of crackers and when you opened it you found an envelope with $10,000 all in $100 bills? Would you keep it or do the right thing and turn it in to authorities?
First of all I can’t imagine getting that lucky but Sandra Rogoff sure was. On […]
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Posted in December 22nd, 2008
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One day a man was in a car wreck, and lay inside his car. The engine was ominously smoking, suggesting it might burst into flame.
A doctor passed by, thinking: I have no experience in emergency care, I have no medicine with me, and if I remove him from the car I could be sued, since […]
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Posted in December 18th, 2008
Monday morning, I was pointed in the direction of an article online concerning Sharon Osbourne, the matriarch of the Ozzy Osbourne family and reality television star Megan Hauserman who has been on various shows such as Beauty and the Geek and others. Both were recently on a Vh1 show called Rock of Love Charm School […]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
John Edwards Affair/Scandal:
Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey
John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter and daughter, Frances Quinn, are back on the East coast. After money man, Fred Baron, passed away October 30, Hunter’s hush money payments have stopped and she was forced to trade ritzy Santa Barbara for a more pedestrian setting: New Jersey.
It’s the […]
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Posted in December 14th, 2008
Two Original RHOC Gone:
Quinn Fry’s Disappearance
Lauri Waring Peterson Also Gone
It’s a new season of Real Housewives of Orange County and another of the original ladies, Lauri (Waring) Peterson, has bid goodbye while one wonders: what happened to Quinn Fry?
The new season has a new “housewife”: 30-yr-old Gretchen Rossi, a blue-eyed blonde babe. According to […]
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Posted in December 13th, 2008
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In describing the Taliban’s destruction of the two colossal Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001, The Wall Street Journal noted:
History has accustomed us to the persecutions that intolerance exercises on those persons whom it intends to subjugate and to the destructions inflicted on the monuments that represent their beliefs and convictions. … The case of […]
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Posted in December 10th, 2008
Over the weekend my wife and I had the pleasure of attending incoming California State Senator Rod Wright’s (pictured) swearing-in Inglewood. While serving in the Assembly from 1996 to 2002, Rod was a pioneer of child support and family law reform in California and the nation.
One of the interesting people we met at the ceremony […]
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Posted in December 1st, 2008
In the aftermath of the Lori Drew trial, I have been reading bits and pieces online as time has permitted. This trial made me think of a few things over the past several days about internet safety, the realities of social sites and other odds and ends pertaining to the internet. I stumbled across this […]
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Posted in November 29th, 2008
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There has been a low-grade terrorist war in the US that gets little attention, and the shadowy group has attacked again. Several cars have been firebombed, and an animal rights group is behind the attacks.
Don’t expect much publicity about the attacks, because the attackers are so called animal rights protesters, a group beloved of the […]
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
Political Correctness Claims Another Victim:
Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Had Been Held for 40 Years
“Racist” children celebrate Thanksgiving by “dehumanizing” American Indians
In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty-year history of kindergarteners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four people who complained […]
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Posted in November 24th, 2008
[ABOVE: Megan Meier’s Mom, Tina Meier]
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. ~Clarence Darrow, 1936
We wondered, will there finally be “justice” for Megan Meier in a Los Angeles Federal courthouse and the Lori Drew MySpace trial, as prosecutors rested their case Friday.
It was November of last year that […]
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