Beverly Hills real estate investor George Saadian has been ordered to pay his soon-to-be ex-wife, Kathrin $2.4 million in damages after cheating and contracting herpes, which he promptly spread to her. Herpes really is the gift that keeps on giving!
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Postal Worker Secretly Films Customer's Racist Rant
Things got ugly when a black mail carrier refused to take back a letter he'd delivered to a lady in Hingham, Mass. She went on a racist rant and slapped him. He secretly taped it all on his cell phone.
The argument in the video is sparked by a certified letter that the mail carrier delivers. The woman has signed for it, but decides she doesn't want it because it's addressed to her husband, not her. But the mail guy won't take it back. Things go sour when she calls him a "Fucking n*gger thief." She quickly qualifies: "I'm not prejudiced but right now I'm getting real pissed off." Then everything she says afterward is so racist it would make George Wallace blush. Finally she slaps him. Just your normal day on the mail route. Except really, really racist.
The video was uploaded in two parts on October 11th by youtube user hugsonamic, who purports to be the mail guy and claims he was fired over the incident:
This woman is outrageous — I am still waiting for US Postal Inspection Service to investigate this matter. it has been a year since postmaster fired me for this racist lady, and Hingham court let her go free, no trial.
He promises "More videos are yet to come." But these two might be enough. It's already been picked up by a handful of blogs, and dozens of Youtube comments are calling for blood, including one that reads, ominously: "4CHAN FIND HER!!"
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Racist Mailman Hater Placed Under Police Protection
Erica Winchester, the racist, Volvo-crashing rageaholic caught on tape berating and slapping a postal worker, has been placed under police protection from the Internet rage machine. Meanwhile, the mail carrier she abused speaks out.
Police in Hingham, Mass. say Winchester has received harassing and threatening phone calls since the video went viral earlier this week, and "because of the attention this has gotten in the media, we feel she needs to have protection." Hopefully they're all black cops.
As Winchester hunkers down and tries to throw prank callers off by pretending her house is a pizza parlor, more details are emerging about that fateful encounter on October 13th, 2009. The mail carrier who was the target of Winchester's tirade is 47-year-old Hugston Jean, and in an interview with the Hingham Journal he said Winchester actually gave him permission to film her on his phone. "When I picked up my cell phone, she said she did not care if I videotaped her." This is clearly a woman who doesn't understand how the Internet works.
When Jean told his bosses at the post office about the incident, they notified the police who say Jean declined to press charges against Winchester at the time. But after seeing the video, police decided to charge her with assault and battery and committing a hate crime anyway, and to dismiss the charges after a year if she didn't get in any more trouble.
In the caption to the original YouTube video, Jean claimed he was fired from his temporary position as a mail carrier because of the incident. The US Postal Service now denies this: "Let me assure you that the employee's job status has nothing whatsoever to do with the video," said a spokeswoman. But Jean told the Hingham Journal he was fired because the USPS "did not want to get involved in this assault."
Clearly the USPS just needs to find a video of Jean being racist, post it to YouTube and this whole thing will straighten itself out.
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Mexican Cartels Hiring Pre-Teen Hitmen
Mexican drug cartels are allegedly hiring hitmen as young as 12 years old to kill rivals and, failing that, random people — "maybe a construction worker or a taxi driver" — one kid, "El Ponchis" says on a cartel video.
Mexican police are looking for a boy, thought to be about 12, nicknamed "El Ponchis" (the Cloak) who allegedly kills people for the Beltran Leyva cartel. This comes after the arrest of another boy, thought to be about the same age, for working as a hitman for the South Pacific cartel outside of Mexico City. Here's the video (in Spanish) of El Ponchis "confessing" to murders for which he was paid $3,000 each, followed by a photo montage of other kids posing with guns and corpses:
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Is This the World's Worst Nursing Home?
Police in California are trying to figure out how a 94-year-old woman wound up locked inside a walk-in freezer in her swanky nursing home, Silverado Senior Living. Silverado is best known for a former employee who's serving life for torture.
The Los Angeles Times reports that 94-year-old Mollye Fischer last month was found in the freezer after staff noticed that one of the residents was missing. They "eventually" found Fischer, she was hospitalized for exposure, and she is now "back at the community safe and sound." An old person wandering into a freezer in a home that specializes in dementia might not sound so crazy, even if said home charges upwards of $70,000/year for someone to live there. But it's impossible to overlook the home's past employee/resident relations issues. For instance, take the case of Cesar Ulloa:
The freezer incident comes less than a year after Cesar Ulloa, a former caregiver at Silverado, was convicted of torture and elder abuse and sentenced to life in prison. In an emotional trial, co-workers recounted shocking assaults against residents, many of whom were too dementia-ridden to call for help.
In one case, a former employee said she saw Ulloa leap off a dresser and land with both knees on a man's belly. In another case, Ulloa was accused of using one wheelchair-bound resident's arm to hit another resident suffering from dementia, encouraging the two to fight.
Again, the freezer incident could have been an accident. But even if it is, and there was nothing shady or Fight Club-esque going on with employees, this really says something about a nursing home that charges a whole lot of money to care for people.
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Why Does the Pope Hate the Internet?
I don't hate the Pope. Hell, I hardly even know him. Couldn't pick him out of a crowd of old German dudes wearing mitres and carrying jewel-encrusted wands. So why's he going around shit-talking people who use the Internet?
Today, Pope Benedict XVI warned that the Internet is making young people lonely and confused:
"A large number of young people... establish forms of communication that do not increase humaneness but instead risk increasing a sense of solitude and disorientation," Benedict told a Vatican conference on culture.
Oh no, His Holiness did not just say that. You know what else makes young people lonely and confused? Catholicism. Have you ever met someone more internally conflicted than a young devout Catholic? (I think the millions of 13-year-old Catholic boys desperately trying not to masturbate would agree.) Actually, you've probably never met a young devout Catholic, because they spend all their time in the confession booth, praying and going to church instead of engaging in fun leisure activities like premarital sex and Bocce.
That's not the only beef the Pope has with the Internet (and, by extension, me.) The Pope also said that the Internet was "blurring the boundary between truth and illusion." Hahaha. Have you ever read your own Bible, Pope? At least on Wikipedia if a drunk person writes a bunch of made-up stuff about magic ghosts someone else will eventually come around and correct it.
Listen, The Pope, I don't go around writing pithy blog posts about minor Catholic doctrinal changes; you should not be making declarations about the Internet. Perhaps some day I will start an Internet-based religion, or you will launch a Pope-based gossip blog. (VaticanWag?) Then—and only then—will we meet as equals on the field of battle. In the name of the Facebook, the Link and the Holy Foursquare, Amen.
(Catholic priests could not be reached for this article because they were too busy planning their big exorcism conference in Maryland. Because demonic possession is real, unlike everything on the Internet.)
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Cool It Doc Slams Inconvenient Truth ‘Alarmists’
Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg travels the world as he shares his ideas about global warming in Cool It.
The world is not coming to an end due to global warming, and even if it were, there’s not much you could do individually to change the planet’s course.
In a nutshell, that’s the message served up in the first half of Cool It, a new documentary about Danish environmental writer Bjørn Lomborg that slams Al Gore for resorting to scare tactics in An Inconvenient Truth.
Based on Lomborg’s book The Skeptical Environmentalist, the PG-rated Cool It argues that changes in consumer lifestyle choices — though embraced by celeb-activists like Ed Begley, David Duchovny, Cheryl Crow and Laurie David — don’t actually do much to soften the blows of a steadily changing climate. According to the documentary, if everybody on the planet bought a Prius, the switchover would only reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 0.5 percent.
Directed by Ondi Timoner, who last turned her camera on pioneer/provocateur Josh Harris in We Live in Public, Cool It eventually gets around to presenting Lomborg’s own environmental prescriptions.
Scientists — or at least the ones he favors in this movie — can improve the world’s overheating problem.
To mollify fossil-fuel-driven environmental damage, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and elsewhere advocate geoengineering measures that include “artificial volcanoes” and ocean-wave-based energy systems. Others outline an “urban cooling” plan that would reduce global warming by painting rooftops and streets in reflective white.
Ondi Timoner directs Cool It.
An ex-Greenpeace member, Lomborg has irked many of his former colleagues for debunking what he considers “alarmist” rhetoric extrapolated from flawed logic.
Cool It has a grand old time mocking environmentalists’ sky-is-falling hyperbole, and Lomborg proves to be a charismatic tour guide when he gets out of the classroom and engages scientists in their laboratories to learn about fresh takes on global warming.
But when Lomborg — presented much of the time in full lecture mode — takes to the blackboard and scratches out figures numbering in the billions of dollars as estimates for what it would cost to make recommended fixes, one wonders if his largely untested propositions truly carry more weight than the doomsday extrapolations proffered by Gore and company.
As for those in a hurry to fix the planet, Lomborg can’t resist a parting shot: “Many well-meaning people and world leaders seem to want to be remembered for spending lots and lots of money for doing virtually no good.”
Cool It opens Friday.
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