- Clearly, seeing the final performances of a confirmed pedophile is something a lot of people feel the need to do. If not, Whack-O Jack-O (a.k.a. The King of Freaks, Michael Jackson) would not be adding a whopping 40 additional "final curtain call" concerts at London’s O2 Arena in addition to the original 10 he had scheduled. Tickets for those 50 went on sale and sold out in little over four hours Friday. Showing that there is no shortage of people who value wildly overrated musical acts/sick pedophiles who like to dress up chimps and keep them as pets. thousands of losers began lining up Wednesday for a shot at ducats when they went on sale at 7 a.m. on Friday. There was actually a limit placed on sales of four tickets per household at a cost of up to $105 for general admission. Worse still, some poor suckers paid as much as $1,100 for VIP tickets, or approximately $1,100 too much. All told, around 750,000 tickets were sold, but perhaps some people lining up for tickets were smarter than they might appear. See, some tickets have already appeared online for resale, with one person seeking $35,000 for VIP tickets to the opening show on July 8. If that’s your play, if you’re not actually looking to go to the show yourself and are simply looking to turn a nice profit off the King of Pedophiles, I salute you. Fact is, this is a great opportunity for would-be scalpers. A few weeks ago, the K.O.F. announced would do 10 shows at London's 20,000-capacity 02 Arena, but the demand of idiots who clearly don’t know bad music when they hear it forced the addition of 40 more dates, extending Whack-O Jack-O’s run through February. Losers like Ayesha Obi may have been among the first in line at the O2 to get a ticket, but many more desperate losers didn’t get one and will pay through the nose for a seat inside that arena. Just listen to Obi’s pathetic comments and imagine thousands of pathetic losers like her without a ticket, willing to pay 500 percent value for tickets - or more. "I was hoping to just get the opening night. Any good seats would've been fantastic. But front row? I'm over the moon. I'm very happy. Very proud. Really pleased," blubbered a tearful Obi. Just imagine how happy she’d be if she knew what good music really sounded like and got a chance to hear it. The only part of this equation that has me excited is that the single most overrated career in the history of music - narrowly edging out Prince - will soon be over and we won't be subjected to any more terrible Whack-O Jack-O album’s like his last release, "Invincible," published in 2001. The end is near, true fans of good music, so hang tough and we’ll get through these final few traumatic months together……
- The various lists of rich people that Forbes magazine puts together have never interested me much. Why should I care which software mogul has the biggest bank account or which real estate magnate has amassed the biggest fortune? None of those individuals are chipping me off so much as a nickel, so whether they’re worth $10 billion or $20 billion, I don’t give a rat’s arse. However, if Forbes is going to start including known drug kingpin in their lists, I might have to change my mind. Who can’t get down with seeing Bill Gates and Warren Buffett alongside wanted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera on Forbes magazine's world's billionaires report as "self-made" billionaires? Just because Loera escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 doesn’t mean he should be excluded from this list. Escaped felon on the run or not, he heads the powerful Sinaloa cartel and makes enough bank to rank 701th on Forbes' yearly report with an estimated fortune of $1 billion. Too bad bureaucrats like Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora can’t see the brilliance of including Loera on the list. Mora showed his true stick-in-the-mud self by expressing outrage at the list and saying that Forbes' calculations on Guzman Loera's fortune are “speculation. I will never accept that a criminal could be recognized as someone distinguished, even if it is by a magazine like Forbes," Mora said. You may not want to recognize him, Ed, but Forbes does and I support them 100 percent. Loera is showing the kind of can-do, entrepreneurial spirit that makes for a successful businessman. He’s presented with a laundry list of challenges - all sorts of local and national laws to break, imprisonment, being a wanted man on the run - and Loera is overcoming them all. He’s successful enough to be listed alongside business legends like Gates and Buffet, so stop begrudging him his success. He makes a whole lot of people here in the United States happy by supplying cocaine to feed their addictions. Like it or not, Forbes can include anyone they want on their list and I for one am glad they did……
- Jim Cramer and CNBC were trying to help their case by having the ranting, raving "Mad Money" host appear on Thursday night's "Daily Show" on Comedy Central to face off with fake news funny man Jon Stewart…..I think. As you probably know, Cramer and the NBC family of networks have been on a crusde against Stewart since he dared to take them to task for what Stewart viewed as their "cheerleading" of corporations at the heart of the nation's current economic crisis. I love Stewart’s show because he provides a hilarious look at topical news issues, but Cramer took great offense when Stewart ripped his recommendation of Bear Sterns stock just one week before the lending giant collapsed and cost millions of investors their life savings in the process. Stewart was right, but that didn’t stop Cramer from going on other NBC network programming - including the “Today” show - to rip Stewart. Stewart fired back, producing not one, but two separate clips of Cramer hawking Bear Sterns on his show, one just about a week before the company’s collapse and the other several weeks prior. The two traded jabs for the first few days of this week, with Stewart mocking Cramer’s NBC image-rehab tour with a Viacom “tour” of his own, popping up in phony clips from shows like “Dora the Explorer” and inserting himself into a clip from MTV’s uber-vapid reality series “The Hills” to mock Cramer’s own appearances on NBC’s programming to defend his image. Everything came to a head Thursday night, as Cramer agreed to be a guest on Stewart’s show and by nearly every account, the fake news man came off much better than the raving financial wizard. Stewart eschewed the laughs on this night and went right at Cramer, attacking his credibility and lack of accountability for their role in the collapse of lenders who ripped millions of investors off. Cramer admitted being suckered in by promises and claims of executives at these companies, which essentially came off as him passing the buck and trying to point himself as a victim while tepidly admitting some fault. Cramer spent most of the interview backpedaling, coming off as apologetic, yet not so contrite or remorseful. In other words, I’m not going to be rushing to watch Cramer’s show or seek his sage financial advice any time soon. How ironic that Comedy Central, a basic cable comedy network with a full hour of “fake news” shows four nights a week, comes out of this as more credible and respectable than a cable news network that claims to pride itself on being both of those things and ends up looking like neither of them……
- During the NBA All-Star break last month, there was a lot of talk about the mounting financial crisis vexing many of the league’s smaller market teams. Various experts and observers readily conceded that within the next year or so, given the terrible state of the American economy and its effect on the Association, that one or more NBA teams could either cease operations or relocate. That reality may be pressing upon the Indiana Pacers right now, with co-owner Herb Simon saying publicly that says he doesn't want to see the city without his franchise even as the franchise’s bottom line says otherwise. The major issue is the operation of the Pacers’ home venue, Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The building where the team plays its home games belongs to the Indianapolis Capital Improvement Board, and the Pacers have been paying its $15 million annual operating cost. Pat Early, the board's vice president, said the Pacers have informed his group that they no longer can pay that amount, in part because they could lose $30 million this season. To be fair to the Pacers, this problem hasn’t led to them threatening to leave town, but unless they can free themselves of the operating cost of the facility or boost their sagging attendance, the team will face some very difficult choices. "It's possible they could move the team," Early said. "It's possible they could sell the team. It is also possible they could shut the team down. What's not possible is the Pacers losing the kind of money they're losing this year indefinitely.” Simon realizes this, but despite three straight years of increasing financial losses, he’s refusing to even consider abandoning his city like scumbag owner Clay Bennett, owner of the team that used to be the Seattle Supersonics before Bennett and Oklahoma City conspired to hijack them from the Emerald City. “I have no thought of leaving Indiana," Simon said. "Only a thought of preserving the Pacers and keeping them in Indiana. That's the only issue right here.” It’s clear that Simon, who has owned the team with his brother, Mel, since 1983, is a proud man who will not give up on his team or its hometown. He maintains that he and his brother are not asking for any financial assistance from anyone and that their current focus is renegotiating the deal they signed with the Capital Improvement Board 10 years ago. Early said they are in the early stages of renegotiating, but the board maintains that it can't pay the operating cost because it already faces a $43 million shortfall. It’s a said situation because no one appears to be in a position to pick up the operating cost and if no one does, the city and all who use the venue - concerts, tournaments, circuses and similar shows coming through town - would have nowhere to go in Indianapolis, which would hurt the city itself even more. Not the news the NBA wants to hear as it nears one its most anticipated postseasons in recent memory, but there’s no escaping the financial gloom and doom these days………
- Great. Everybody just pile on, join in on the tidal wave of persecution against my boys, the Somali pirates. They’ve seen it all before and they’re used to it being them against the world, so the addition of two Japanese destroyers to the ever-growing coalition of nations banding together to battle piracy in the troubled waters off the coast of Somalia isn’t going to faze these brave buccaneers. Japan Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada, you can ordered two destroyers or two dozen to the waters off Somalia, it doesn’t matter. Those Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers you dispatched today aren’t going to scare the pirates one bit. You wasted your time getting approval for the bill that allows the MSDF to be deployed in piracy-infested waters as needed, because if I’m betting on a winner in this showdown, I’m going to ride and die with my main men, the Somali pirates. They’re crafty, they’re conniving and they’ll do whatever it takes to win. Heck, they captured and released a Panamanian-flagged, Japanese-owned vessel that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in November, at their whim. That release, which took place last month, appears to be the end of the incident that finally spurred Japan to enter this fight. Never mind that these benevolent pirates left the vessel’s 18 Filipino and five South Korean crew members unharmed. The pirates received their ransom, held up their end of the deal and let the ship go. So send your two destroyers with about 400 personnel and eight coast guard officers to these treacherous waters, just know it isn’t going to make one bit of difference…….
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