A Florida woman thought it would be nice to get her son a Nintendo DS for his birthday, so she went to a local Wal-Mart and got one. When he opened his gift, he got an unwelcome surprise. A Chinese-language newspaper and a bundle of rocks, disguised as a Nintendo DS machine.
Needless to say, the [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Wal-Mart and Nintendo scam Florida customers.
Posted in Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Wal-Mart on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scams: Borack and Associates, P.A.?
Posted in Pop Culture, Scams, Telemarketing, news, rant, tagged Borack, Borack & Associates, Borack and Associates, P.A. on April 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A very good friend of mine has been receiving what I could only classify as harassing phone calls. He’s been getting them for a long time now, and I was looking at the Caller ID. It says “Borack & Associates”, and lists a phone number “321-422-5986″. When I say these are harassing phone calls, in [...]
Jackie Chan was apparently right.
Posted in Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, politics, rant, tagged China, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, Taiwan on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jackie Chan made some disturbing comments about “too much” freedom, at a private business meeting. He talked about Chinese industry producing horribly lackluster products. He discussed the tainted baby formula, which sickened hundreds of Chinese babies. He discussed how “chaotic” Hong Kong and Taiwan are.
For those who don’t know, Hong Kong and Taiwan tend to [...]
Miss USA not the first time for Perez Hilton’s fraud.
Posted in Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged Carrie Prejean, Mario Armando Lavandiera Jr., Miss California, Miss USA, Perez Hilton on April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After discovering the fraud surrounding Perez Hilton’s involvement with the Miss U.S.A. pageant, I’ve been digging a little deeper.
Perez Hilton, actually Mario Armando Lavandiera Jr., of Cuban descent, has quite the history of lying in the efforts of self-promotion. I mention his Cuban heritage, because he has claimed at one point to be the “first [...]
Perez Hilton disgraces himself on television.
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, Religious Extremism, TV & Film, news, politics, rant, tagged Carrie Prejean, Miss California, Miss USA, Perez Hilton on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We all have fundamental rights in this country. That right is the freedom to hold whatever beliefs we like. This is true, especially, when those beliefs are not shared by others. We have the right to those beliefs, and no employer may take administrative action against us, based upon our personal beliefs. That is the [...]
Fox News: Kelly’s Court fabricates Hulk Hogan quote.
Posted in Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged Fox, Fox News, Kelly's Court on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Normally, I watch Kelly’s Court, a Fox News TV show, and enjoy it, to some extent. Today, I watched a clip based on Hulk Hogan’s recent interview where he claimed to ‘understand’ O.J. Simpson. Yes, he claimed to understand, or ‘get’ O.J., and how he could snap. That is what he said. Anyone can google [...]
Ashrita Furman. Everything that is *WRONG* with the Guinness Book.
Posted in Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, rant, tagged Ashrita Furman, Furman, Guinness on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ashrita Furman, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, managed to get himself in the Guinness Book, again, by assembling a bunch of people who read a poem in different languages. He learned how to read the poem in Zulu, otherwise he probably wouldn’t have gotten the record.
Yeah. They hand out records for everything, these days. Not [...]
My take on the ‘Tea Party’ thing.
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, TV & Film, news, politics, rant, tagged protest, Tea, Tea Party on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By now, most people are aware of the nationwide protests against government, themed similarly to the ‘Boston Tea Party’ protests centuries ago. People everywhere are opposed to massive government spending, and the threat of an increase in taxes which may likely follow. People are angry. People are angrily adorning themselves in teabags. No, seriously, they [...]