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Rocknation's JournalWon't somebody please think of the children???
Bristols young son Tripp was apparently sleeping in the back of the Hummer limo at the time, blissfully unaware of intoxicated mommys raging fists of fury.
Alone? Or being babysat by the chauffeur -- that would be better than nothing. And was Sarah's son there, too?
Somewhere out there, a Hummer limo driver is sitting on a gold mine. Call TMZ, sir. Be a patriot. Call them now.
LOL, but not a chance. Call it the Donald Sterling Principle: Since McKennas Paving sponsored the party, it was a workplace function. The employee who went to the press did so without their permission and presented the company in a bad light, so the McKennas did have the right to fire him. The chauffeur would be in the same boat if he blabbed.
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Lets REALLY be honest: Miley is a slut-GAMER
she's in the business of being slut shamed!Miley is a very good country singer -- so why ISN'T she one? Because her record label wanted a big-bucks video pop-parazzi tart of their own, and she accepted the job. You call it artistic license? I call it slut-GAMING, as invented by Miley's grandmother Madonna thirty years ago. You dress like a clown, act like a slut, sing as an afterthought, subsist on the resulting controversy -- and if anyone dares to call you on it, you accuse them of being an anti-feminist pearl-clutching slut-shamer.
Your record label makes more money off you than their other "serious artist" acts, and the only down side is that you're forced to invest more and more in your visual style than your artistic substance. But by supporting your right to "control your sexualization," your fans and media parasites retain their right to ogle you -- until you do something so outlandish they HAVE to dump you, or they trade you in for a younger model.
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For my parents' generation, it was discipline, not abuse -- and "everybody did it"
because it was considered "normal" and "proper" child-rearing -- spare the rod and spoil the child, the Good Book says.
My parents (Mom mostly, Dad was only called in for major infractions) would qualify as abusers by today's standards, I suppose. But it's a moot issue anyway, because it didn't work on me. I came to resent not being physically punished as the only reward of "being good" -- it's sparing positive reinforcement that "spoils" a child. And since my parents' brand of discipline also proved to me that might makes right, I came to derive more pleasure in getting revenge against authority figures than trying to appease them.
I know Peterson is barely 30, and I hope I'm not being unfair, but I do think he should have known better. Reacting to all child rearing situations with anger and physical force has long since been disproven. If he'd done just a little basic research, he would have known his son is at least a year away from truly grasping the concept of taking turns, and just cutting off access to the toy would have worked better.
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2014 9/11 Day Memorial Film Festival
Introductory remarks byJon Stewart.An opening short subject by fellow DUer Symbolman:
And the feature presentation:
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Ice Bucket Challenge Video Update
It's the Bon Jovi ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Video 4-Pack -- singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist Dave Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, and guitarist Richie Sambora all in one video for your convenience! (Also available as a MP3).
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An absolute moral outrage -- HOW DARE THEY
charge $16.99!
But seriously, folks, here's the backstory:
The NFL Buffalo Bills football team is for sale. Rock star Jon Bon Jovi has always wanted to own an NFL team -- he owned the Philadelphia Soul arena football team for a while. Amid rumors that he's ready to retire from making music, he has partnered with Larry Tanenbaum, owner of the Tornoto Maple Leafs hockey team, and Edward Rogers III of the Toronto-based Rogers media conglomerate.
The key word there being "Toronto."
Buffalo New York and Toronto Ontario are 100 miles apart around the western rim of Lake Ontario, and Buffalo Bills fans are VERY nervous about the team being moved if Bon Jovi and his Toronto-based partners succeed in buying it. They're so nervous, in fact, they've organized a Buffalo Fans Alliance and gotten the band's music banned from local venues and radio stations. Why? Because they rightfully suspect that Jon would be running the team in name only: While Jon's net worth is estimated at 350 million dollars, Tanenbaum's is at $1.78 billion and Rogers' at $7.6 billion: their AVERAGE net worth exceeds Jon's a dozen times over.
It's obvious why Tanenbaum needs Rogers: he doesn't have the additional operating capital that would be needed. It's obvious why Rogers needs Tanenbaum: he doesn't have Tanenbaum's experience in running a major league sports franchise. It's obvious why Jon needs Rogers and Tanenbaum: As a "mere" millionaire, he won't have ANY operating capital to contribute once he puts up his share of the franchise fee (the current bid is alleged to be $1.2 billion) which would require converting every cent of his net worth into to cash and paying off all his debts. But why do Tanenbaum and Rogers need Jon? As far as the Bills fans are concerned, Jon is to be the American crowbar with which his partners will pry the Bills out of Buffalo, since he wouldn't have the money or the power to stop them.
There's a lease deal where the Bills would have to stay through the 2020 season. But it would be easy to run the team into the ground by then: All the "Toronto Brothers" would have to do is cut Jon off financially. Between that and his "inexperience" as an NFL team owner, his partners would be left with no recourse but to "replace" him and restore the franchise's financial viability by moving the team to Toronto!
Thus, the T-shirt. While Jon may be too starry-eyed to see what his partners have the potential to do to him (ironic much?), I think it makes him more like a innocent babe in the woods than a genocidal dictatorial despot. And since his entire band are public figures, I think a visit from the FBI is in order: a $16.99 price tag is a crime indeed!
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If the late Mister Macho McBadAss had utilized a little anger management
by staying in his car, he and Stewart might have been able to settle things over a beer.
Better quality video:
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Singer sued for being too mediocre and unattractive for Pink cover band
Bonfante a lawyer who brags...about drumming on tour for Michael Bolton and...'80s glam-metal band Saraya says...that McLafferty and the other band members are subpar musicians...McLafferty was "a mediocre vocalist at best..." And as for her look, he claimed: She didnt look the part, or at least contribute to the overall aesthetics of the band.
...He told his collaborator, Rik Nevone, he did not want (them) in the act. But when Nevone went ahead with her at a small gig on Long Island under the name Funhouse after Pinks fifth album Bonfante filed the suit against the members of the act for allegedly ruining his Pink band scheme...
McLafferty who...fronts a band called edibleRed says she never heard of Bonfante before the suit...(She)...was paid only $75 for the gig...The really insulting part is he said I would harm the public because I cant sing and Im too unattractive to front this kind of a band, she told The Post..."I get to fight this for the next two years, according to my lawyer...Im going to be broke, and hes going to have a hobby. She has filed a countersuit, seeking to have Bonfantes claim quashed and recoup damages...
If Bonfante is of the opinion that Nevone ran off with and permanently ruined his idea, that's one thing. But his filing against the rest of the cover band (but not the drummer who replaced him!) borders on judicial malpractice -- you'd think a lawyer would realize that his opinion of the band is completely irrelevant.
Even worse, I think Collette is being exploited in another way.
She's not the only one being sued -- indeed, it's Rik Nevone who should be the "star" of this drama. But I suppose it makes for a "better" story to make Colette's "ugliness" the primary focus. From her crowdfunding page:
Although my age was never mentioned in the lawsuit, the press decided to make an issue out of it. I make it a point to mention I am 40 years old in interviews because I LOVE BEING 40 and I hope more performers will embrace their age instead of hiding behind a "showbiz age" like I once did for years.
From XoJane.com:
I agreed to perform one show at Napper Tandys in Milford, NY on April 26th. At our final rehearsal, there was a potential understudy/replacement observing the show. She looked exactly like P!NK. I was excited to help bring this band to the next level and possibly transition to a new singer...
As if on cue, a man entered the room with 3 very large stacks of paper. One for me, one for Rik and one for Jon, the guitarist...
But to her credit, Collette's making the most of being misogynized -- right down to selling "Justice For Collette" T-shirts!
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MTV got to be too much about television and too little about music
Because it was music you saw, you started seeing too many good videos of less-than-good songs. Looks became more important than talent, forcing MTV to subsist on constantly reinventing itself visually -- why do you think Madonna became its patron saint? The beginning of the end was when the VJs, most of whom had actual backgrounds in music, were replaced with "personalities," which culminated in the Village Voice describing the MTV News host (a veteran Rolling Stone reporter) as being "the only person MTV hired because he had a brain." So it was doomed right out of the gate.
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