Posts Tagged “OJ Simpson”
- Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in Denver Monday night that "I love this country", and that she
  and presidential nominee Barack Obama share America’s basic values and beliefs in a dream of a better future. She did not admit, as some wild claims have suggested, that she is the love child of Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey…
- What’s left of Tropical Storm Fay continued to rain down from Georgia to Louisiana, which for some is a welcome relief from months of drought conditions, while Florida residents begin to mop up the over 30 inches of rain that fell along the central Atlantic coast. Are we sure NASA hasn’t come up with a giant sponge that could collect it from one place and squeeze it out somewhere else?
- Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted Monday that all foreign soldiers must leave the country by a specific date in 2011, and that there would be no legal immunity for American troops. After being briefed on the situation, Vice President Cheney was reportedly muttering something about "regime change" and "where’s my rifle?"…
- An Alabama initiative proposal to effectively prohibit gay couples from adopting was cleared by state officials to appear on the state’s November general election ballot. The initiative would require only married couples to adopt, and the state currently prohibits gay couples to wed–it’s that kind of shrewd thinking that has kept values in The Heart Of Dixie just as they have been for years…
 A Las Vegas judge has refused to delay the start of the trial of O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping. The Juice actually had nothing to do with the delay request–he’s anxious to get started and really hoping he can drive the same level of insane media interest in whether he could possibly be as stupid as it appears that he is…- An Air Force researcher has found that a series of mishaps involving robotic warplanes are occuring because of operator error, due to the drones being controlled by increasingly inexperienced crews. I understand this problem can be quickly remedied, providing enough PS3 and XBox 360 consoles can be acquired quickly enough…
Tags: Air Force, Alabama, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Flor, Florida, gay marriage, Iraq, Louisiana, Michelle Obama, OJ Simpson, Tropical Storm Fay
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- Saturday’s wedding of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush’s daughter Jenna was "all we could hope for", said the president. The First Family reportedly loves the groom, the weather was ideal for the ceremony, and Dick Cheney left all his firearms at home…
- The cost of a first-class postage stamp goes up to 42 cents today–but if you purchased "Forever" stamps since they were introduced a year ago, they will be honored without additional postage. I understand a bunch of those were sold over the weekend–there’s plenty of folks hoping to avoid rate increases "forever"…
- Hillary Clinton continues to campaign, currently in West Virginia where she is expected to get a big victory, largely to help convince superdelegates that she is the more worthy opponent of John McCain than Barack Obama would be. It’s uncertain at this point exactly who else believes that besides her…
- Attorneys in a civil rights suit filed by a group of black employees against The Secret Service have submitted several emails degrading to blacks that were circulated within the agency, which they say is evidence that the Service has a discriminatory atmosphere. This could certainly have an interesting conclusion should a certain African-American find himself in the Oval Office…
- Families of two boys who developed symptoms of autism after receiving flu injections containing a mercury-based preservative will sue the federal government for damages. A verdict for the families would suggest autism may not be heriditary, but caused by external factors–and someone for parents to blame besides themselves…
- A one-time crony of O.J. Simpson has written a book claiming that the Juice admitted to him that he did kill ex Nicole Simpson Brown and Ronald Goldman, and that he helped his former pal be acquitted of murder charges by suggesting how to bloat his hands so they wouldn’t fit those now-notorious gloves. I think this deserves exactly what that literary gem If I Did It got–the closest incinerator…
Tags: autism, Barack Obama, Forever stamps, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, OJ Simpson, President Bush, superdelegates
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- Mariah Carey’s music is getting plenty of publicity these days, and now her new movie Tenessee will get its share as it debuts tomorrow night at the Tribeca Film Festival. If she shows up for the screening, she’ll get more attention than festival founder Robert De Niro–and he won’t even mind…
- British police are investigating claims that Amy Winehouse assaulted a man earlier this week in London, with tabloid reports saying she punched out another guy, trashed a bar and smoked drugs on the sidewalk outside. Once again we discover that sobriety and fame can be so fleeting…
- Rihanna may be getting her next hit song from Sinead O’Connor, who says she’s been asked to pen a tune for her based on some backing tracks already put together. Sinead is a great songwriter and I’m sure it’ll turn out wonderfully–just as long as she doesn’t convince Rihanna to shave her head to sing it…
- Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax evasion charges. What a coicidence–he’ll be handy for filming the upcoming sequel Blade Behind Bars…
- Tom Cruise will be returning to The Oprah Winfrey Show next month to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his break-through role in Risky Business. It’ll be great–Oprah’s had her couches super-reinforced this time…
- Reports this week that O.J. Simpson was interested in appearing on Celebrity Apprentice have been addressed by both NBC and Donald Trump, with reps for both in unison–he was never considered and never will be. It would have made for great drama–wondering if the Donald would fire him, or be too afraid the Juice would slit his throat…
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Donald Trump, IRS, Mariah Carey, OJ Simpson, Oprah, Rihanna, Tom Cruise, Tribeca Film Festival
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- Hillary Clinton has pointedly challenged Barack Obama to agree to new primary elections in Michigan and Florida, saying it was "wrong, and frankly un-Americcan" to not have the two states’ delegates seated at the Democratic Naitonal Convention. I’m pretty sure she’s talking about Hillary Clinton delegates…
- The Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana murder conviction because the prosecutor excluded black jurors in a case where the defendant was black. This was the prosecutor who called this his "OJ Simpson case"–and it looks like he used about as much good sense as Judge Lance Ito did…
- Space shuttle Endeavor’s long mission at the international space station continues with another space walk tonight, in order to test a caulking gun and adhesive goo to see if it will be able to repair damaged thermal tiles on the shuttle. If there’s any time left, the crew plans to visit the MTV satellite to figure out where the videos went…
- Wal-Mart plans to combine an existing location with a failed Sam’s Club space outside Albany to create the chain’s biggest US store–a 260,000 square-foot, two-story facility that is at least 25 percent bigger than their typical "Supercenter". I wonder if departments at opposite ends of the store are in the same zip code…
- Visa went public yesterday, and its record-setting IPO rose 28 percent in first-day trading to give the credit card issuer a market value of around $45 billion. Now that’s what I call a credit crunch…
- On the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq yesterday, President Bush defended our actions there, saying, "The United States of America is safer." If he means from wasting our money on housing, feeding, educating and caring for our poor, he’s exactly right…
Tags: Barack Obama, Democrat, Endeavor, Florida, Hillary Clinton, International Space Station, Iraq, Louisiana, Michigan, NASA, OJ Simpson, President Bush, primary, Supreme Court, Wal-Mart
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- OJ Simpson stood in a Las Vegas courtroom in shackles yesterday, listening to the judge berate him for "arrogance or ignorance or both" for violating terms of his original bail agreement. She doubled his bail, told him to go back to Florida, and probably demanded he call her every day to report if he had gotten any smarter…
- The FDA will rule today that children under 2 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies because "serious and potentially life-threatening side effects can occur." You definitely don’t want your toddler jonseing for a Robitussin fix…
- Proposed Coast Guard regulations would require ocean-going vessels entering the Great Lakes to flush their ballasts beforehand in order to keep dangerous foreign species out. We’re talking terrorists with gills and fins here…
- The city of Durham claims it should be dropped from a lawsuit filed by the three ex-Duke lacrosse players wrongfully accused of rape, saying the plaintiffs are trying to put taxpayers on the hook for the mistakes of prosecutor Mike Nifong. I think Nifong’s hook is plenty big enough for a lot of elected officials there…
- The 80-year-old head of a Georgia megachurch, who as a defendant in a 2006 sexual harrassment suit brought by a former female employee testified that she had been the only woman outside of his marriage with whom he’d had sex, admitted he had lied under oath when it was revealed he was the biological father of his brother’s son. OK–I’m trying to count the number of Commandments he’s broken, but I’ve run out of fingers…
- A pair of identical Nebraska twins recently earned identical perfect scores on the ACT college entrance exam–only the third time it’s happened in a decade. I really hope these two aren’t, you know, connected at the brain stem…
Tags: Coast Guard, FDA, Nebraska, OJ Simpson
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