Stew of News -- Showbiz

OK, so I'm beyond behind today. It's already tomorrow! Still, I don't want to totally blow everything off, so, just as I intended this morning, I'll post the Stew.

Perez Hilton punched by Black Eyed Peas manager

When Perez Hilton was allegedly assaulted on Sunday night by the manager of Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and didn't get an immediate response from police, the famed celebrity blogger felt he had only one place to turn: the Internet, the LA Times reported Monday.

"When the police are taking their time and not coming, I am freaking out, I took to Twitter," Hilton explained on his website. "Because I was in shock and I felt helpless. That was my very public cry for help."

Oh, brother...so much drama...

Hilton said the dispute started during a dress rehearsal for the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto Saturday when Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie approached the blogger about his recent criticisms of the band's new album The E.N.D. After the ceremony on Sunday, will.i.am confronted Hilton at a nightclub. The altercation led to the band's manager, Liborio "Polo" Molina, allegedly hitting Hilton, the LA Times, EW, AP, TMZ, HLN and everyone else reported.

Above: Perez Hilton sporting a black eye and a tear after his altercation with Molina, on the left.

"I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards," Hilton tweeted at about 1 a.m. PDT Monday. "I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke."

Well, he probably was, though he tends to...you know...kinda, sort of blow things out of proportion.

By the morning, will.i.am had posted a video on his website Dipdive denying the charge and accusing Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, of seeking attention. Hilton posted his own video in response, an 11-minute-plus tirade full of tears and profanity in which he specified that he hadn't been directly assaulted by will.i.am, but by Molina, according to the reports.

Molina, 36, reportedly has been charged with assault and will have his first court hearing on Aug 5. In an interview with the LA Times on Monday, a lawyer for Hilton said the blogger is planning to sue "at least" Molina.

Courtroom drama!

"It's going to become a civil matter as quickly as I can type," attorney Bryan Freedman said. "This is certainly about showing Mr. Molina and will.i.am that violence is not the answer." The attorney said it "seems pretty apparent" will.i.am encouraged the altercation.

Hilton has increasingly become the subject of news lately, most notably when he asked then-Miss California USA Carrie Prejean for her view on same-sex marriage during the Miss USA pageant telecast in April.

Brown avoids jail time for beating Rhianna

R&B singer Chris Brown stroke a plea deal today that will keep him out of jail for the brutal beating of girlfriend Rhianna in February.

The fact that Brown will come out of this without spending a single day in jail is pissing off a lot of people, among them CNN's Nancy Grace, who's never better than when she's outraged about something. Kudos to Nancy.

Brown plead guilty to one count of felony assault in the beating (to a pulp) of Rhianna. He entered his plea right before a preliminary hearing in which Rhianna was scheduled to testify. Oh...

According to the terms of the plea agreement, instead of facing a sentence of up to five years in prison, he got five years probation, 180 hours of community service (a.k.a. taking out the trash), domestic violence counseling, and an order to stay away from Rhianna by at least 50 yards. WTF?

Jon and Kate are separating and heading for divorce--duh

Media outlets seeking ratings are calling it a "bombshell" and "shocking news." Are you fucking kidding me?

That was the "big" announcement about "their lives" that was revealed during tonight's episode of Jon & Kate plus 8, the TLC reality series that follows the Gosselins and their set of twins and sextuplets.

How is that news? News would be that they're reconciling, don't you think? News would be Kate showing up with long, curly, red hair extensions. News would be Jon actually talking...uttering more than one sentence at a time.

Photo: The good old days...

Kate said they're doing it in the name of "peace"; Jon said it's because they can't be "cordial" to each other. Kate claims that Jon is very angry with her and won't even talk to her about the decisions he's making. Jon claims...what did he claim? Did he even say anything?

If they aren't talking, how the heck are they reaching agreements about separation and divorce? Lawyers and agents, I suppose. Who would've thought...

I feel bad for everyone involved, especially the kids. Yet, at least they're a big bunch and they have each other. Perhaps that will compensate for the lack of presence of one parent or the other.

I'm sticking to my theory: it all went south when Jon got more hair and Kate turned up with less. Hair alterations = marriage alterations, if you ask me.

Sources: HLN, LA Times, EW, TMZ, AP, My Twisted Mind
Copyright © 2009

Man sings Eminem songs while stabbing family

Michael Miller with wife Adreana, 10-year-old daughter Valerie and 4-year-old son Brian. (My FOXPhoenix).

Monday would not be Monday without at least one strong contender for the Sick Fuck of the Week award, and here we have a pretty twisted one.

Police say that 29-year-old Michael Miller stabbed his wife, 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, killing the first two and injuring the boy with 11 stabs, My FOX Phoenix reported.

Miller, of Glendale, Arizona, tucked his son into bed the night before, and said a prayer together asking God to keep them safe. The next morning, May 30, he was calm as a cucumber when he told a 911 dispatcher, "I just killed my family with a knife. All of them. All three of them."

Miller told detectives he was possessed when he saw wife Adreana Miller as a demon, and that just before stabbing her at 4 a.m.he started screaming lyrics from an Eminem song that go, "Here comes Satan, I'm the anti-Christ, I'm going to kill you."

Get the violins ready for court. I bet he's yet another product-of-divorce sick fuck who learned to be possessed, see demons, stab and sing while as a result of his parents' divorce.

Miller said that when the kids awoke to their mother's screams, he stabbed them too, noting he stabbed his son Brian the most because he loved him the most.

Is this for real? This is almost too perfectly wicked to be true...a Law & Order SVU episode in the making.

The hellishly possessed Eminem wanna-be then rolled a cigarette, said another prayer, and called 911.

"They woke up, I was threatening my wife with a knife and my kids came out, and I killed my wife and actually both my kids," he said calmly. When the 911 dispatcher asked him, "Are you sure you're not dreaming Michael?" he said, "I'm positive."

At this point it seems to me that these insanity pleas waiting to happen are nothing but the norm--the crazier, the more normal. What would be insane nowadays is straight-forward murder--no red paint on the walls after choking every member of your family, no acid baths, no mutilating and cooking someone you owe money to, no setting people on fire for not answering the phone, no singing Eminem songs while stabbing a family to death, no microwaving of babies.

If I were planning on going for an insanity plea, I would walk up to someone and shoot them in the head. No bells and whistles. What could be crazier than that?

Sources: BNO, FOX, My Twisted Mind
Copyright © 2009

Techonolgy wins in Iran, revolt continues...

Neda Agha-Soltan has became an icon of Iran unrest after she was shot and killed during a protest in Tehran this weekend. (Photo is a still from a YouTube video that captured her last moments before dying.)

All eyes and ears are on Iran, and for the first time it's not because of the award-winning coverage of the media.

Technology has turned average citizens into reporters and photojournalists whose real-time correspondence can be seen and heard throughout the world on computer screens, blackberries and cellphones via text messaging, blogs, emails and social network websites such as Facebook and Twitter. This steady stream of manic reports and images has made every person on the other side of the source an eye witness to these events.

The value of Twitter, a fun and "cute" website set up to enable friends and strangers to be in constant, instant communication with each other and to entertain them in the process, shoot up at rocket speed when it became the news source this weekend, with so-called tweets flowing at a rate of dozens per second, hundreds per minute.

Without these reports, news networks such as CNN would've been lost in the aftermath of the June 12 presidential elections, when confronted with increasing violence stemming from clashes between protesters and security forces the Iranian government banned foreign press coverage of the events.

Well, it didn't work.

Rather than decrease exposure, the communication blackout increased it by encouraging people to seek out information rather than wait for the media to feed it to them.

Without technology in the hands of ordinary people, the world would've never learned about Neda Agha-Soltan (right)--a 26-year-old woman described by family and friends as a "beam of light,” a music and travel lover but never an activist--shot by militia during a rally whose death was captured by a cellphone camera, the graphic images disseminated throughout the world turning her into the movement's first martyr.

Neda Agha-Soltan has become an icon of Iran unrest. In less than a minute, amateur footage shot using a cellphone and later posted on YouTube for all to see, shows Neda bleeding and dying after being hit by a bullet on the neck. This is one of many examples, possibly the most powerful yet, of civilians' ability to document and report events inside Iran despite government restrictions on foreign media as well as Internet and phone lines. (Getty/Handout)

What now?

The public outcry for democracy, justice and freedom has not been silenced despite the government's efforts to crush the masses of people that have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest the election results they claim were rigged to declare incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner.

The question, for me at least, has been, will it make a difference? Will their efforts to call attention to their cause spark long-term change in Iran or just lead to more of what we have already seen? How long before they give up? If the uprising produces nothing but more violence, why continue to put their lives in danger?

And danger is what they're facing everyday in Tehran--ongoing protests, rallies, fires, clashes, batons, rocks, tear gas, opposers, supporters, riot police...more violence and chaos.

I wonder if there's a point of no return, and if they have reached it.

A tanker would end this. But now that Iran knows a ban on foreign press coverage is useless, would it unleash such military force on its people while the world watches?

A leaderless revolution with many captains

Earlier today, one of the CNN anchors said he's been in contact with a 19-year-old young woman in Iran who has been sending him messages and photos via email. Soon after she was on the phone live from Iran.

The girl reportedly was badly beaten Saturday but returned to the streets today.

Below are some of her statements, some paraphrased and some in quotes, most of which were replies to questions from the anchor.

• When asked about beatings she said: "I have been beaten so many times...and this time it doesn't matter...I just want to help my brothers and my sisters...". She said she saw an old woman and three others being beaten at a bus stop by Basij (Iranian militia) who were telling them to leave, "but the old woman said this is her country...and she's waiting for husband to pick her up and would not move...they beat her and three others."
• About Neda, the woman who has become the symbol of this movement, she said she tried to go to the memorial but police stopped her. She added that people are chanting: "We don't want you to kill another Neda--we are all Nedas today."
• When questioned about a 5-year-old boy who was hurt by the Basij, she said they "hit him with motorcycle...a woman over him was crying for help and we went to help her but police would not let us."
• Regarding whether or not she thought the elections were a success, she replied: "I don't know why they make a fool of themselves because everyone knows...everyone took part in this election because we don't want Ahmadinejad to be president...that's why we all went out...we wanted Mousavi to be our president."
• When asked why she kept going back and risk being beaten again or worse, she said: "because I think it's my, um, responsibility, because many of my friends are in this situation, then I stay at home I worry about my friends other women other boys that are hit, then i think maybe I should go and help them."
• To a question about what she and others say to the police who beat them, she replied: "If you're Iranian you should not beat your mother, your brother, your sister."
• Regarding the role of women in the protests she said: "If you want the truth, I think that women are more than men...the women are all together...they are so more than men...the women, they don't have a chance to express themselves to say that we're important in the future of our country...and now we can play a role...it's a good chance for us."
• And, finally, when asked how she feels about the current state of affairs in Iran, she replied: "I'm absolutely optimistic because history has taught me that every revolution is fought like this...some people die, but nothing stays the same forever...this is how revolutions are...unfortunately we don't have a leader, and that's not good."

At the end of the call, she thanked the anchor for listening to her.

Former Crown Prince Pahlavi on Iran

Former Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Former Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi said Monday the protests in his country were supported by much of the military and clerical establishment and could end up bringing down the entire Islamic government.

Pahlavi, who has sought an end to the Islamic regime since his father was deposed in the 1979 revolution, said he had sources within the military and intelligence that were ready to switch sides, with some refusing to carry out orders to suppress the protests.

"It's almost a revolutionary climate," an at-times teary-eyed Pahlavi told reporters in Washington.

He said "a movement" was born on June 12, the day the presidential elections were held.

"It is not Islamic or anti-Islamic, it is not for capitalism or socialism, nor any other ideology or specific form of government. It cares little about historical squabbles before its birth. It is about the sanctity, even more, the sovereignty of the ballot box. It may not succeed immediately. It may have ebbs and flows. But, let me assure you it will not die, because we will not let it die," he said.

He noted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sealed his own fate by backing Ahmadinejad.

"A week (after the elections), the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic decided to stand erect as a dam in front of this movement, sanctioning theft of the ballot box and flagrant fraud, all in the name of Islam," he said.

"It was an ugly moment of disrespect for both God and man. It will not stand. The citizens of Iran will not stand it. And at the end, he will not stand."

Pahlavi, who was exiled from Iran and now lives in the U.S., warned that a failure of the protest movement would encourage more "extremism" in Iran and urged foreign governments to not fall for the "foreign interference" trap the Iranian regime would use to further crush human rights.

"Your governments have insisted that they would not interfere in Iran's internal affairs. I applaud that," he said. "Any such attempt will give the tyrants the excuse they need to paper over their own differences, and target every man struggling for freedom as a foreign agent. But that is not all they do. They are painting every statement in defense of human rights as foreign interference, benefiting from the confusion between the two."

"It is vital that the free world not fall for such cruel cynicism in the name of realpolitik," he added.

He said that Moussavi, who was part of the 1979 revolution, would soon have to decide whether he will seek a complete overhaul of Iran's regime.

"You can't at the same time hold allegiance to the regime and at the same time hold allegiance to the people," Pahlavi said. "This is no longer tenable."

If you ask me, I believe we won't be seeing Ahmadinejad any time soon because an assassination attempt is all but sure the moment he steps on any street of Tehran.

Sources: CNN, My Twisted Mind; Pahlavi story: mostersandcritic,PR Newswire
Copyright © 2009

457 people arrested during Saturday's clash in Iran

Iranian state radio says that 457 people were arrested in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran on Saturday, AFP reported late Sunday.

Source: BNO News

Bizarro World: Billionaire gets advice 'from above'

Shari Arison (Photo Israel Sun)

We must indeed be living in a New Age when Shari Arison, Israel's richest woman and controlling shareholder of the country's second-largest bank, announces she has visions and receives messages "from above."

Well...isn't that what financial empires always look for--visionaries?

Arison reportedly set off an uproar in Israel after she revealed that information in an interview with Channel Two broadcast late on Saturday. An uproar? It's not like she claimed to see burning bushes in the stock market...did she?

"I get a picture, I can feel it. If it's fire, I feel like I'm burning. If people are dying I feel pain," she confirmed in an interview with Reuters.

Nevermind.

The Israeli-American Arison along with her brother inherited billions of dollars from her late father Ted Arison, who founded Carnival Corp, the world's biggest cruise ship operator. According to Forbes magazine, she's ranks at No. 109 among the world's 1, 225 billionaires in 2008 with a fortune of $5.2 billion. She is the controlling shareholder in Bank Hapoalim and controls Housing and Construction, Israel's biggest construction company.

Arison stressed that her visions do not interfere with the running of Hapoalim, in which she has no active role. (Is that good or bad?)

"The bank is managed very professionally, there's a chairman and a board and everything is done according to law. It's not my visions that run the bank, that's ridiculous ... there's nothing to be worried about," she said.

What's ridiculous? That she would have such visions, that her visions would run the bank, that she would tell the world about them, or that she would expect the public to believe her visions have nothing to do with how she runs her businesses and finances?

Shares of Hapoalim, Israel's second-largest bank, rose 1.6% on Sunday. Well, maybe people are more willing to embrace faith vs science in these uncertain economic times.

"When I talk about a vision in business I am talking about you can have a profit, you should be professional but you can give added value," Arison said.

Say what? I lost you there, my friend.

The central bank declined to comment on Arison's remarks and said she has not been contacted by them since the interview was aired. Yeah, they must loving this one.

She said these visions are meant to help lead the world elsewhere (where?). To this end, she is releasing her first book this week, entitled "Birth - When the Spiritual and the Material Come Together," which details her journey both spiritually and in business.

Oh...this is all about the book. There had to be a reason for her to come out with revelations about revelations.

Arison said the messages do influence her personal decisions regarding her assets. In the book she tells how she was on the verge of selling Housing and Construction when she received a message not to sell "because with this company I could a make a difference with sustainable building," she said.

How is that "message" any different from what a savvy businesswoman would tell herself when evaluating a deal?

Arison said she would not consider at this point selling her stake in Hapoalim or any of her other assets and is looking to invest in ventures in the fields of clean air and clean energy (not unless she gets word "from above" telling her to consider it). She already has set up a company to invest in clean water projects.

She begins the book with her premise that the world is "collapsing" because of broad-based greed. The emphasis of the book is that every individual has to take responsibility for making the world a better place.

I wonder how much of her $5.2 billion she uses to make the world a better place, though she's known in Israel for her philanthropy.

"I am aware of fact that in Israel there's a lot of cynicism, a lot of opposition ... I was very much aware that coming out with this book and my visions would create the same thing, cynicism and objection, until people understand."

At least she gets it.

She said two years ago she got a message that there would be an economic crisis and people would go crazy. (Is it crazy that I find that funny?) But after years of seeing catastrophes she now believes the world is moving towards a better future.

"For the past year I've been seeing peace and happiness," she said. "I don't know when that will happen. I know I have a role to tell people ... Everyone has to make it happen."

Well, things are bound to improve at some point...they always do...and then they turn to shit again.

It's the circle of life--right?--and we don't need a burning bush to tell us that.

Sources: Reuters, My Twisted Mind
Copyright © 2009

Obama to N. Korea: 'our military is fully prepared'

President Barack Obama sits for an exclusive interview with CBS News' Harry Smight. (CBS photo)

All last week we heard that North Korea is preparing for a long-range missile test next month, possibly launching a rocket in the direction of Hawaii.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News' Harry Smith, scheduled to air on The Early Show Monday, Obama said his administration and the U.S. military are fully prepared for any contingencies and that the international community is united against N. Korea's provocative actions (bullying).

During the politically correct interview, there was no mention of tiny dicks.

Below is an excerpt:

Harry Smith: North Koreans have basically said that their intention is to fire a missile toward Hawaii on or about the 4th of July. Secretary Gates has said there has been a military adjustment and to watch out for something like that happening. But beyond the sanctions and beyond the isolation that has already been tried, what has to happen to get North Korea to at least act like they're part of the community of nations?

President Obama: Well, first of all, let's be clear. This administration--and our military--is fully prepared for any contingencies. And-

Harry Smith: Is that a warning of a military response?

President Obama: No. It's just we are prepared for any contingencies. I don't want to speculate on hypotheticals. But I do want to give assurances to the American people that the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted in terms of what might happen. More broadly, I think the international community has spoken.

When you've got Russia and China as well as South Korea and Japan, the United States, the entire Security Council--saying unequivocally that North Korea has violated international law, that--and, and is willing to impose tougher sanctions -

Harry Smith: They're still defiant, though.

President Obama: Well, [what] that sends a signal, though, is of a unity in the international community that we haven't seen in quite some time. And one of the things that we have been very clear about is that North Korea has a path towards rejoining the international community. And we hope they take that path. What we're not going to do is to reward belligerence and provocation in the way that's been done in the past.

The N. Koreans will probably wipe their butts with anything Obama--or anyone--says, or use it against him somehow, as bullies do.

There's unity in the international community now, but where the rubber meets the road, who do you think will get stuck fighting these fuckers on its own?

Source: CBS News

More votes than people in Iran

Left: Guardian Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei (PressTV)

Iran's Guardian Council has admitted that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of the people eligible to cast ballot in those areas.

We heard this one before, and if it's true...well, there can only be one reason...

Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, who was speaking on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Channel 2 on Sunday, made the remarks in response to complaints filed by Mohsen Rezaei, a defeated candidate in the June 12 presidential election.

"Statistics provided by Mohsen Rezaei in which he claims more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 170 cities are not accurate, the incident has happened in only 50 cities," Kadkhodaei said.

However, he said that although the vote tally affected by such an irregularity is over 3 million, "it has yet to be determined whether the amount is decisive in the election results."

Three of the four candidates contesting in last Friday's presidential election cried foul, once the Interior Ministry announced the results, according to which incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner with almost two-thirds of the vote.

Rezaei, along with Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, reported more than 646 "irregularities" in the electoral process and submitted their complaints to the body responsible for overseeing the election: the Guardian Council.

Mousavi and Karroubi have called on the council to nullify Friday's vote and hold a new election. This is while President Ahmadinejad and his Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli have rejected any possibility of fraud, saying that the election was free and fair.

Moussavi reportedly is telling protesters: "The country belongs to you. The revolution and the system is your heritage."

Meanwhile, an analysis of the elections by academics in the U.K. further add to doubts about the authenticity of the results.

Below is a report published by London-based The Times.

Claims that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election was rigged have been bolstered by an analysis of the official results by British academics In the conservative provinces of Mazandaran and Yazd, the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters, the survey by researchers from the University of St Andrews and Chatham House, the London think-tank, found.

• Four more provinces recorded turnouts close to 100%.

• To achieve the official results in 10 of the 30 provinces, the ultra-conservative President must have carried all the new voters who did not cast ballots in 2005, all the votes that went to his centrist rival Ali Akbar Hasemi Rafsanjani and up to 44% of the votes that went to reformist candidates.

• Those provinces include ones dominated by ethnic minorities who seldom if ever vote conservative. “The numbers from Ilam, Lorestan and Hormozgan almost defy belief,” said Thomas Rintoul, one of the researchers.

• Lorestan is home to Medhi Karoubi, the most liberal of the four candidates, who won 440,247 votes (55%) there in 2005. Official figures suggest he won only 44,036 (4.6%) this time.

• “The analysis shows that the scale of the swing to Ahmadinejad would have had to have been extraordinary to achieve the stated result,” said Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian Studies at St Andrews.

• The figures also challenge the notion that Mr Ahmadinejad’s victory was due to the massive participation of a previously silent conservative majority and that he was particularly popular in rural areas.

I bet Ahmadinejad's usual ear-to-ear smile is slowly fading. Perhaps now he'll stop attributing the violence on Tehran streets to "traffic violations"...though given his self-deluding skills, I doubt it.

So what if Iran were to hold new elections and Ahmadinejad wins "again," will the protesters rest?

Source: BNO News, PressTV, TimesOnline

Sick Fuck of the Week

Hell Fire Evil Night graphic from layoutsparks

Not surprisingly we didn't see that many sick fucks in the news this week, given the attention given to Iran. As a result we have three nominees:

• A 33-year-old woman in Houston answered her front door only to be set on fire by his boyfriend, who was angry because she didn't answer her phone. Woman set on fire in Houston posted June 15.
  
• A 36-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison, though eligible for parole in one year, for biting his 6-year-old son's toes as a way to discipline and punish him. Turns out he was also into biting his 10-month-old daughter's buttocks, too. Father sentenced to prison for biting son's toes posted June 17, and
• A 29-year-old mother and 70-year-old grandma in New York who set their 6-year-old child on fire during a voodoo ritual. Mother, grandma burn child in voodoo ritual posted June 18

And the winner of the Sick Fuck of the Week award is....

...the sick fuck who set his girlfriend on fire.

Uriel Vargas Alvarado, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in the attack, which took place last Sunday at 11:35 p.m. However, Houston police believe he has fled to Mexico.

A coward...how unusual...

The victim, Juana Patricia DeLeon Hernandez, 33, a single mother of two boys, is in critical condition, and doctors estimate she has less than a 20% chance of survival. She suffered fourth-degree burns (fourth?! I thought third was the worst...holy crap) in 70% of her body, including deep burns to her upper abdomen, after she was doused with gasoline and set ablaze.

Investigators said she received 14 calls on her cell phone from Alvarado’s cell phone in the three hours leading up to the attack but none after the attack. Neighbors who tried to help her by smothering the flames heard her say, “Uriel, my boyfriend, burned me because I didn’t answer the phone, and he’s jealous,” according to court records.

What's up with jealousy-prone people? Yeah, yeah...I know they're insecure, have low self-esteem, blah, blah...so what? Why don't they set themselves on fire to end their own misery? Oh, that's right...because it's always someone else's fault--one of the hallmarks of a true sick fuck.

A witness told police she had seen this dirtbag with Hernandez many times around the apartment complex and identified a photograph of the sick fuck as the boyfriend.

The couple had dated for at least three months. All this for a three-month relationship. How much do you want to bet he was terrible in bed?

Yo, Uriel! As is customary with all sick fucks, our wish for you is that you will run into some other sick fuck who will do unto you as you have done unto others. Happy BBQ!

Congratulations to Sick Fuck of the Week
Uriel Vargas Alvarado from Houston

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Teens held over attacks on Romanians in N. Ireland

Left: Broken glass lies next to a house in Belfast after an attack on a Romanian family. (AFP/Getty Images)

Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the alleged attacks last week on Romanians in Belfast, Northern Ireland, police said.

The teenagers, aged 15 and 16, were arrested on charges of provocative conduct, CNN reported. The 15-year-old also faces charges of intimidation, police said.

They were scheduled to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday, authorities said Saturday.

The arrests follow last week's attacks on more than 100 Romanians living in south Belfast, in which windows were smashed at their homes, CNN reported.

The families, which included more than 40 children and a five-day-old baby, took shelter in a church after the attacks Tuesday night. Belfast officials then moved the families to the campus of Queen's University while their situation was resolved, according to the Romanian Embassy in London.

Above: A Romanian woman and her child are escorted by police in Belfast on Wednesday.(AFP/Getty Images)

The Romanian ambassador met last week with Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, and Belfast Lord Mayor Naomi Long.

The government officials expressed "deep regrets" over the attacks and promised to try to solve the problem, the embassy said in a statement.

Most of the Romanians told the ambassador they would like to return home, the embassy said.

The families are Roma, a group of people marked by poverty who live mainly in southern and eastern Europe.

They went to Ireland for work, with most of them employed in short-term contracts doing low-paid jobs like washing cars and selling newspapers, according to Vincent Parker, a Sinn Fein party member who visited the families after the attacks.

There's no background, context, in this story, and Romanians can be a pain in the ass...but so can everyone else.

I don't like people messing with gypsies...unless the gypsies have been messing around with them. But that's what laws are for, right? Yet, then again, we all know laws often don't offer solutions, especially the poor.

However, the fact that the attacks were perpetrated by a couple of punks, in my opinion, points to vandalism, retaliation and/or bullying.

In any case, I would love to know more about how the Romanians and Irish are co-existing in this town.

Sources: CNN, My Twisted Mind
Copyright © 2009

Gripping images from Iran

A woman holds her baby, draped in green, during a campaign rally in support of moderate presidential election candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)

A picture on TwitPic shows Mir Hossein Mousavi's supporters marching across a bridge in Tehran. (AFP)

Iranian protesters cover their face from tear gas in Tehran. (Ali Safari/AFP/Getty Images)

Police in riot gear block Mousavi supporters (Focus/Salehi/Rex Features)

A policeman is held back. (Olivier Laban-mattei/AFP/Getty Images)

A supporter of Mousavi holds a picture of a man who had been shot in the previous day's protests over the disputed election. At least seven people were reported killed. (Getty Images)

A woman attends a state-organized rally in a square in central Tehran. (Getty Images)

Warnings, arrests are the order of the day in Iran

Supporters of the pro-reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, demonstrate in Tehran. (Getty)

Following are the latest headlines:

• Thousands of riot police lining Tehran streets Sunday; marches taking place, but no violence reported.
• President Ahmadinejad tells U.S and Britain to stop interfering in Iran's internal affairs.
• Iranian state TV says Iran has arrested members of the Mujahideen Khalq Organization, accusing them of "terrorist" activities.
• Authorities arrest daughter of former President Rafsanjani along with four family members for taking part in unauthorized protest rallies.
• Iranian Fars news agency says Faezeh Hashemi was detained for her own "protection" late Saturday night.
• Iran's police chief warns that it will "decisively confront" any further "illegal activities" after a day of clashes killed at least 19.
• Iran's former president Khatami warns over "dangerous" consequences of banning street protests.
• Iranian state TV says 13 people it described as "terrorists" were killed during clashes with police during Saturday.
• Correcting itself from previous reports, Iran State TV says 10 people were killed during Saturday's protests, over 100 injured.
• Iranian dissident grand Ayatollah Montazeri calls three days of mourning for killed protesters.
• Iran's influential parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani slams election authority.
• Serveral people killed after rioters torch mosque in Tehran according to Iranian State TV.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki said that results of the voting fraud investigation will be announced by week's end.
• UK foreign Secretary says rejects idea Iranian protesters "manipulated by foreign countries"; deplores violence.
• BBC confirms Iran has asked its Tehran correspondent, Jon Leyne, to leave country as the crackdown on foreign media continues.

Source: BNO News

Ahmadinejad shows signs of chronic disconnects

Amid protests against his visit, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University in New York on September 24, 2007. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/AP)

I'm no expert on Iran issues--actually, I'm hardly at expert at anything--and I haven't been following the political career of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but I feel compelled to point something out about him.

He has a really bad haircut. That's a problem, if you ask me.

Another problem is that he lies--a lot, and in the most blatant ways.

Last week at a presidential debate, Ahmadinejad told CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour that Iran is "the most stable country in the world."

Right.

Could he be that ignorant or is he playing dumb?

Let's not forget this is the same guy who when asked about his country's mistreatment of homosexuals (during his speech at Columbia University in 2007) insisted that there are no gays in Iran--none--and that homosexuality is an American problem.

People in the audience laughed in his face, and the media had a field day with his outrageous remarks.

Whether he's completely deluded and out of touch with reality or he simply chooses to tell ridiculous lies that insult the intellect of others, is hard to say.

Perhaps he believes "I say it; therefore, it is."

Granted, all politicians lie, but Ahmadinejad doesn't even try to make his lies sound true.

Maybe he lacks the sophistication and experience of politicians in other countries who are better at lying, or maybe he doesn't give a fuck about the truth or being caught lying.

So while I lack the knowledge to offer an educated opinion about Iran's political development, common sense dictates that someone who is disconnected to what separates fact from fiction and who shows such disregard for honest or semi-honest communication is not someone one would want as a leader.

Common sense transcends expertise on any subject, if you ask me.

Death toll climbs to over 150 in Iran fallout

According to media and eye witness reports from Tehran, more than 150 people have been killed so far, 19 today, in the aftermath of last week's presidential elections in Iran, with hundreds more injured.

In addition to city-wide chaos, reports of the Basij militia raiding homes and stores and showing up without uniform at hospitals to obtain the names of protesters are spreading via Twitter and YouTube, which has videos of these and other events unfolding in Iran as we speak. Basij militia reportedly is blocking access to embassy to which many are flocking seeking aid.

In unrest unseen since the Islamic revolution swept the country 30 years ago, supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who campaigned on promises of change for Iran, took to the streets after the elections last weekend to protest what they claim was a fraudulent vote count to declare President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner.

On Friday, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insisted the vote count was legit, gave Ahmadinejad his blessing, and ordered the demonstrations to end.

Below are highlights from his speech:

"The result of the election comes out of the ballot box, not from the street."

"The legal structure of the election does not allow any vote rigging. Everyone who was in charge of the elections process confirms this fact — and to do so with a difference of 11 million votes...Sometimes there is 100,000 votes here, 200,000 votes there, or 1 million maximum, then one can question whether there has been some rigging or manipulation or irregularities. But there is a difference of 11 million votes. How could this be rigged?"

"I am urging them to end street protests, otherwise they will be responsible for its consequences, and consequences of any chaos.

"If there is any bloodshed, leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible."

More to come...

Sources: CNN, AP, Twitter

Colin Powell on Iran fallout

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday he's sure Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and President Obama "can handle it" and "will work their way through it," referring both to Iran and North Korea.

Responding to a reporter's question, he said he has bee in touch with all three, noting that they know each other well and that he will continue to be available to them if they wish to talk to him about the current state of affairs.

When asked if he had a message for Clinton, who's recovering from surgery to repair a fractured elbow following a fall earlier this week, he said: "Take it slow--don't push your recovery."

I just caught the end of a CNN live broadcast, so I hope to have more info in a bit.

Source: CNN

Obama to Iran: 'the world is watching'

As if Obama didn't have enough crises to juggle, both domestic and international, he's now being blasted by--big surprise--Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his posse for not showing enough support to the Iran protesters.

Yo! What is he supposed to do? Go into Iran as Bush went into Iraq and "show them how it's done"? Puh-lease.

In my view, if you have nothing constructive to contribute to this, or any other situation, just shut the fuck up. Sorry, but opportunistic politicizing pisses me off.

I'd like to see McCain face and handle half of the crap Obama is facing and managing as president, crap that, by the way, and I don't care what anybody says, was largely brought on by W and his administration's hardheaded, arrogant, stupid, shortsighted policies. McCain would dropped the ball sometime in the first week, if you ask me.

In response to the clusterfuck in Iran today, the White House released the following statement by President Obama:

"The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

Martin Luther King once said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness."

Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton was quoted by AP saying the Iranian government is trying to block modern ideas and freedom.

Sources: BNO News, My Twisted Mind; photo source unknown
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