Marvin, give us some guidance please!
Ronin sent this to me this morning and just like I imagine it will do to you, it turned my day sideways. So I decided to turn to Marvin to get some answers.
Girl, 12, allegedly raped at El Cerrito school
Michael Cabanatuan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
(12-14) 18:43 PST EL CERRITO — A 14-year-old boy was charged Monday with raping a 12-year-old girl in the stairwell of an El Cerrito middle school, and the principal and vice principal have been placed on administrative leave while police and school officials investigate the alleged crime.
El Cerrito police will focus their investigation on the alleged sexual assault, while West Contra Costa Unified School District officials look into how such a crime could have occurred on the Portola Middle School campus during the school day, officials said.
How could this happen during the day? More importantly, what was going through this young mans head? (allegedly, since we do not have all the facts…) Why didn’t this happen when we were going to school, since we had a lot of the same stimulations that they have now? (like video games, rated R movies, Playboy and Hustler, which I could buy at the corner liquor store)
The boy allegedly raped the girl about 2:40 p.m. Thursday at the school at 1021 Navellier St., police Cmdr. Michael Regan said.
The stairwell was empty because class was in session, he said. The two students, who apparently know each other, had passes or reasons not to be in class, he said. He declined to discuss other details of the alleged assault.
This is the only reason why I preach wait until all the facts are known. In my heart of hearts, I am hoping that they knew each other, wanted to get down and were caught by the other student. She panicked and she came up with the story. Chances are that isn’t the case, but in a bad situation, that would make it better, only in the sense that she wasn’t violated. Age of consent with children is a slippery thing, but at least IF she made the choice, then it obviously isn’t the same as having that choice ripped away from you.
Another student who entered the stairwell and witnessed the incident reported it to a school resources officer, Regan said.
Police arrested the suspect at his home in Richmond about 8 p.m. Thursday. He was booked into juvenile hall in Martinez and charged Monday with rape and false imprisonment.
Of course, he had to be from Richmond. I bet the local news will do their best to highlight that fact. Now, I know I did it, but that is out of the loathing that I had of the media to do it. I guess I beat them to the punch. But, Ronin and I are from Richmond, and our boys never did something like this…
I go back to the parents, but I blame the system too. If parents were in control of their children and showed them love, respect, and the fear of the belt, then this ish wouldn’t happen. This is one time that I am not kidding. Watch the first two minutes and see what I mean.
My mother was a single mother and things worked out. Why? It wasn’t just luck. It was that the block looked out for me and raised me when my mother or family wasn’t around. If I was over Ronin’s house and we were outside playing and we did something, then the Hills (his neighbors) would come outside and scold us, or give us the hand to the backside, and then would take us home to face another beating. There was no debate, you had to right to speak or a phone call. It made me wise to not doing things that led to a beating.
Parents can clearly go too far. There is such a thing a child abuse. But, if you are getting whipped on your @$$ and legs for something you did, I bet you wouldn’t do it again, or you did the calculus and decided that the beating was worth whatever you did. Either way, justice had been served. We need to get back to that, but the block aint the same. People are not looking out for each other like they did just twenty years ago.
Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the school district, said principal Denise VanHook and assistant principal Matthew Burnham had been placed on paid administrative leave, in keeping with a district policy adopted after the recent gang rape outside Richmond High School’s homecoming dance.
“The purpose is to allow an investigation to take place,” Trujillo said.
I don’t know either administrator, but what is sending them home going to do? It’s not like they are trying to cover it up. The Richmond High Administration did not try to cover it up either. Do you really think that they are going to be in the way? They may have connections to students that can HELP solve the crime.
Investigators will look into why the students were not in class, what plans existed to supervise them, and why those plans were not followed.
“We’re shocked that this could have happened during school hours,” Trujillo said.
VanHook, reached at home Monday night, said she could not comment, and that she had not been apprised of the investigation’s findings or progress.
“I’m in the dark as much as you are,” she said.
E-mail Michael Cabanatuan at mcabanatuan@sfchronicle.com
I think that we are all in dark….Marvin, prey for us…This is the ish that gets me mad, and feeling helpless. What could we do to stop this from happening again?
Shaquille O’Neal shows the spirit of Thanksgiving by paying for the funeral of Shaniya Davis
November 26, 2009
This dude does not have to worry about anything....
Having everything you want and not having to want for anything must be nice. I know its the reason that I continue in the rat race, even though I would rather be at home on the couch. Sometimes, you see stories on the news and you feel motivated to help, or it touches you that something happened. Hey, it is part of the reason why we blog.
When you know the story is truly horrific, can be just the tonic for action. each person should try to do what they can. You don’t have to be a big baller to help, although if you are, you should do more. Shaq would qualify as a big baller. A lot of the things that Shaq or other celebrities/athletes do don’t get the press. We want the salacious details, the embarrassing gaffes that they make. For some, it makes them feel better about their own miserable life when they see someone else down in the dumps. This time, we want to celebrate people doing good, especially on Thanksgiving. Shaq showed how to be thankful for what you have…
Whip them into shape Shaq! Shaq clearly has a soft soft for kids, since he is just an oversized one himself
Shaq pays for N.C. girl’s funeral
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed.
Shaniya and her father, Bradley Lockhart. How did this guy get involved with a crackhead mother? My heart goes out to him.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player was touched by the stories he saw and got in touch with the family to see what he could do to help, a spokeswoman for O’Neal said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Andrew King, former coach of the San Jose Aquatics is a reason that castration should be brought back….
November 21, 2009
While we joke about badbadteacher.com, the things that are happening there are no joke. Okay, some of it is, but that is due to the stupidity of some people. For the most part, there are clear cases of abuse that are happening here. I go to the site to laugh at the misfortunes of others. You can occasionally make the argument of the ages are relatively close, most the time it is an easy eye test to say, Damn, that’s sick. Here is one of those stories.
Hopefully, you will have to change your name to Andrea, because they wear you out it prison
A former swim coach who pleaded no contest to felony child molestation impregnated one of his victims when she was 14 years old and was investigated in two other areas before he finally was charged in San Jose this spring.
The girl, who lived in the East Bay, had an abortion and never told anyone until she was interviewed by police earlier this year as part of the case here, according to court documents released Thursday.
I don’t need to read or hear anymore of the story to know that under the prison is too good for this guy. I don’t think that prison should be about torture, but that would be okay if it happened to him. He clearly has a problem, in that he is a pedophile, but that is too bad and he should have gotten himself some help.
Andrew King, 61, former head coach at San Jose Aquatics, who often worked with elite swimmers hoping to make the Olympics, remains in jail in lieu of $3 million bail. He awaits sentencing on charges that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life.
Jamie Harley, King’s attorney, did not return a phone call Thursday. She previously has declined to discuss the case. King is next due in court Dec. 18.
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Ray Mendoza is seeking the maximum term for King — 42 years — and argues in court documents submitted Thursday that King has demonstrated “a clear pattern of pedophile behavior” during the 31 years he molested the girls he coached. The pattern was so clear and so consistent that King should not be a candidate for probation, Mendoza said in pre-sentencing documents.
“He got to be free his whole adult life,” Mendoza said outside the courtroom Thursday. “He should have been held accountable a long time ago.”
The documents, some of which were released earlier, detail King’s long history of child molestation and his preference for girls 10 to 17 years old. He gave them gifts, dinners and rides; he told victims they were special, asking most of them to marry him. And while he was in a position of authority and trust, he threatened to end their swimming careers if they told anyone.
That seems about right. Keep him healthy, so he can live long enough to understand the hell his victims went through.
“Unfortunately, King fell through the cracks in the system: Two law enforcement investigations and suspicious conduct observed by swim coaches, parents or boards who did not adequately supervise the defendant,” Mendoza wrote in the documents.
“The red flags should have gone up when King was only massaging girls behind closed doors,” Mendoza said, “traveling alone with girls to away meets, taking girls to dinner, sailing on his boat and buying them gifts. The warning signs were everywhere.”
Before one of his swimmers at San Jose Aquatics contacted police this spring, prompting his arrest, King had been investigated twice before on child molestation allegations.
Both times, in Contra Costa County, and in Oak Harbor, Wash., he was not charged, never even questioned.
In 1988, a 17-year-old girl reported to a counselor at Monte Vista High School in Danville that she had had sexual intercourse with King several years before. The counselor contacted the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department, which scheduled an interview with the girl, her counselor and an investigator.
The girl “said she just recently realized how wrong it was of (King) to take advantage of her, and she was having an extremely hard time dealing with it,” according to a 1988 Sheriff’s Department report.
According to the report, the abuse started when King and the girl went to dinner “and made out.” The next day, King called her at home and said, “Now we’ll make love.” The girl rode her bike to the swim coach’s apartment “behind the Elegant Bib. He provided her with a ’sponge’ for birth control that he already had purchased.”
Although the situation with King prompted her to give up swimming, the girl told the investigator she really missed the sport but “can never go back.”
The girl said she did not want her parents to know. Neither did she want to prosecute or have King contacted. The investigator complied and suspended the case.
A spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department did not return a call seeking comment about that case.
The woman who investigated the case has retired and could not be reached for comment.
I don’t want to violate the woman and her privacy, but she was so twisted by this sick bastard, I can understand that she just wanted it to go away. Now, he will and he can’t hurt anyone else.
“The sad fact is that King could have been stopped years ago, sparing other victims from King’s sexual desire,” Mendoza said in the report submitted to the court Thursday.
“Coach Andy had enjoyed 61 plus years of freedom at the expense of children and their families. In this case the court should impose a sentence to ensure that the defendant, age 61, will never be allowed to harm children again,” the report said.
He wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else...and it teaches a great lesson
What comes around, goes around….Valley Swim Club files for Bankruptcy on the heels of denying entry to Blacks
November 16, 2009
and keeping out blacks even earlier!
Karma is a straight up B!%#h, isn’t it?
A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Valley Swim Club president John Duesler sent an e-mail to club “friends and families” Friday saying the board of directors had voted to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week, The Philadelphia Daily News reported.
Duesler wrote in the e-mail that many would blame the Read the rest of this entry »
Steve McNair and side pieces are still in the news…Damn, can’t you let a dead dude rest?
October 6, 2009
Don’t people know that it’s wrong to speak ill of the dead?
By Kate Howard, The Tennessean
A property management company has filed a claim against former Titan Steve McNair’s estate for back rent on a West End apartment he began leasing in October.
McNair was the co-signer for a condo on Parthenon Avenue near Centennial Park, with his cousin, Raymond White, as the primary renter. But once the 12-month lease was finalized, the electricity was turned on in the name of a young woman, according to public records from Nashville Electric Service.
Mail and utility bills for the condo had been going to 26-year-old Adrianne Hobbs. Gianikas Property Management has asked McNair’s estate for $1,750 in rent, late fees and pet damages for the condo, which was vacated last month.
Rent was late in June and was never paid in July, according to court filings.
McNair was shot and killed July 4 in a condo off Second Avenue. Police have ruled that McNair was murdered by 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, who then killed herself. The two had been dating, and police said Kazemi was distraught over catching McNair, who was married, with another woman.
Side piece Sahel Kazemi, who murdered McNair and took her own life...obviously during happier times...
Steve, Steve, Steve…if other people learn from this horrible tragedy, then while we would have lost a great leader (and not so great husband) but gained something from his death. DON’T BUY YOUR SIDE PIECES ANYTHING! This is where it started (that and keeping it in his pants) to go sideways for him. had he just been clear that this was some late-night smash time, then she would not have gotten so clingy. It is a lot easier to separate from that, then it is to make a commitment to someone by buying them things…
She told friends she had seen another woman leave the condo off Second Avenue and followed her home. That woman was not Hobbs, Metro police spokesman Don Aaron said.
“The person who I am aware of, who believes that she was followed by (Kazemi’s) Escalade, is a different individual and lives elsewhere,” Aaron said.
This sounds like it could have gotten worse. If Sahel “Shooter” Kazemi KNEW OF this other person, I am glad that she didn’t shoot her up too. Suicide after killing someone else is such the cowards way out…
A former employee at the property management company says McNair had been coming to the office each month and paying the $1,000-a-month rent personally for the Parthenon Avenue residence.
The electricity in Hobbs’ name was disconnected Aug. 7, according to records from the Nashville Electric Service. It is unclear how she knew McNair.
Before we go jumping to conclusions, what if the woman was the side piece of the cousin (or even better yet, what if she was the girlfriend?) yeah, she would have come forward, but maybe all the notoriety scared her off. Now, they have your name too…
“As far as we knew, McNair gave (White) the keys, and we thought (White) moved in,” said Stephanie Burch-McMahan, who managed the apartments until earlier this year. “It wasn’t until a couple months later, we discovered there’s no male person living in the apartment.”
Phone numbers for White have been disconnected, and he could not be reached for comment. A call to his attorney was not returned Tuesday.
‘We let it go’
Someone saw a woman walking a puppy in the pet-free condo, and the manager said she sent a letter to White. There appeared to be only women’s items in the apartment, Burch-McMahan said, and other residents of the apartment complex told management they’d seen only McNair and a blonde woman coming and going.
“If there had not been for (McNair’s) celebrity status, we would have called and said, ‘Who is this person living here?’ ” she said. “We knew if we confronted him about it, it would create a lot of awkwardness, so we let it go.”
That is what being famous gets you…a lot less questions. Steve and others need to know that handling your business out in the open will get you caught up, even if some people are willing to hide it. All these people thought that they were bulletproof….
Burch-McMahan, a fan of McNair, said she was at first disheartened at the circumstances of McNair’s death, but she considers him a kind and generous person and doesn’t want to judge him now.
“Maybe losing an icon like Steve means we are being asked to re-evaluate what we will accept and expect from relationships, and be conscious of the pain and destructiveness that infidelity causes,” she said.
Sound a lot like Joey, doesn’t it?
The smile seems forced, but i bet he loves his job!
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Hobbs could not be reached Tuesday. A reporter spoke with her in July at the West End condo, but she said she didn’t know McNair and she had no comment.
Her friend Valerie Skelton identified herself as White’s girlfriend and said she herself lived in the condo. She said she had moved in a few months before McNair’s death. Skelton also did not return a phone call or e-mail Tuesday.
Valerie on the left, Adrienne on the right
Steve, please tell me (through a dream or however the dead contact the living) that you were not smashing either of these two women. I am hoping that it really was your cousin, his girl and her friend…
Gary Rubenstein, the attorney representing Gianikas Property Management, said mail had been coming in Hobbs’ name, and Skelton applied to be added to the lease nine days after McNair’s death. Rubenstein wasn’t sure who was living there.
Because White was the primary lessee, the company intends to pursue payment from him. But they still filed a claim against McNair’s estate because there is only a limited amount of time to do so, Rubenstein said.
Sharks smell blood in the water. You are going after the dead for your money? Let the man rest.
He said he has been in touch with White’s attorney and any payment they get from White will be deducted from their claim against McNair.
Rose Palermo, who represents Mechelle McNair in the probate case, said she has no information about the claim and can’t comment. Steve McNair did not leave a will.
American Express also has filed a claim against his estate for $44,000, and Magee General Hospital in Mississippi has filed for about $287.
Crime case officially isn’t closed
Though Metro investigators ruled the deaths of McNair and Kazemi a murder-suicide on July 8, they have not officially closed the case or made the case file public. It’s unlikely they will do so until the conclusion of the federal case against the man who sold Kazemi the gun, Aaron said.
Adrian Gilliam Jr. has been charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun after the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms traced the gun that killed the pair back to him. He told Metro police he sold Kazemi the gun for $100.
“The Metro Police Department’s investigation is parallel with the investigation by the federal authorities,” Aaron said. “In fact our officers have been very much involved in the federal case as well as the murder-suicide investigation. As far as the very thick case file, I suspect that is going to be not made public until the federal matter is resolved.”
I still feel sorry for the poor sap who thought he was doing some woman a favor by getting here a gun for protection and not he is caught up too…
Rockies pull sleight of hand to beat Cardinals
September 30, 2009
the definition of a motley crue
This was first said by the famous French poet Baudelaire in an unusual short story about meeting the Devil and having a grand old time.
Elle ne se plaignit en aucune façon de la mauvaise réputation dont elle jouit dans toutes les parties du monde, m’assura qu’elle était, elle-même, la personne la plus intéressée à la destruction de la superstition, et m’avoua qu’elle n’avait eu peur, relativement à son propre pouvoir, qu’une seule fois, c’était le jour où elle avait entendu un prédicateur, plus subtil que ses confrères, s’écrier en chaire:
«Mes chers frères, n’oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas!»
He did not complain in any way about the bad reputation he enjoyed all over the world, assured me that he himself was the person the most interested in the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that he had only been afraid for his own power one time, and that was the day when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit:“My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!“
“Le Joueur généreux,” pub. February 7, 1864; translation by Cat Nilan, 1999¹ (emphasis mine)
Still, we shouldn't use instant replay
http://rockiesphotos.blogspot.com/2009/09/amazing-catch.html
Is the blog of a pretty hard core Rockies fan. They have pictures shot of the game detailing the “catch” made by Clint Barmes to end the game.
DENVER — The Catch might not have been a catch after all.
Clint Barmes returned from a day off in the mountains with his family Tuesday to learn that doubt had been cast upon his sensational game-ending grab that cinched the Colorado Rockies‘ victory over the St. Louis Cardinals 48 hours earlier.
Barmes
The second baseman’s tumbling catch of Ryan Ludwick’s one-out flare to shallow right field, followed by his strike to first base to double up Albert Pujols and seal the NL wild-card leading Rockies’ 4-3 win was immediately termed “the defensive play of the year” by manager Jim Tracy.
However, a fan, Craig Welling, posted images on his photo blog from his vantage point in right field, and one of the shots clearly showed the ball on the grass for a split second as Barmes rolled over.
Craig, some people are questioning whether you are a Rockies fan, but if they actually look at your blog, there is no question to where your loyalties are placed. I bet that you just uploaded your pictures with no further thought on what you saw.
Barmes’ body blocked television angles as well as those of professional photographers.
So, did he make the catch or not?
“When I popped to my feet, the ball was in my hand,” Barmes said. “I never said I caught it clean.”
After the game, Barmes said he thought he made the catch but that it happened so fast, he wasn’t sure.
Barmes said Tuesday that all he knows for sure is that the ball bobbled around his body as he tumbled.
“Once I was heading down, the ball bounced off my glove,” he said. “I felt it hit my chest. I’m reaching for it, trying to battle to catch it before it hits the ground. At that point, it happened so fast, my knee hit [the ground], I flipped, I knocked my hat and my glasses off, scratched my forehead. I come up and the ball’s in my hand.”
Now Barmes knows he didn’t make the catch. After the game, when faced with evidence, just man up and point out the obvious that you didn’t make the catch, but put forth full effort to make it happen.
Right fielder Ryan Spilborghs immediately hollered at him to throw to first base to double up Pujols, who, like Julio Lugo at third base, had run on contact.
First-base umpire Sam Holbrook ruled it a catch, and the throw to first ended the game.
“It’s not like I’m sitting here trying to play it off and try to cheat them out of an out or whatever,” Barmes said. “I honestly thought that I caught the ball at the time. … I wish I could say I’m good enough, my hand-eye coordination is good enough, as I’m rolling that fast and I’m in full-speed and I hit the ground rolling that I can react and try to pick a ball up on the ground.”
Spilborghs, who had the best view of the play, was coy when asked Tuesday whether the Rockies got away with one.
“It was a good play, that’s all it was,” he said. “It doesn’t really matter because the play’s over.”
But did he see the ball hit the ground?
“It’s more fun not to say whether I did or I didn’t,” Spilborghs retorted.
Bullshit. I call bullshit on you Ryan. IF you saw he made the catch, then come out and verify it and don’t leave him hanging. But, if you know he didn’t make the catch, there is no reason to carry on with the facade of the catch.
Barmes even held a news conference Tuesday before the Rockies faced the Milwaukee Brewers so that he didn’t have to talk about the play over and over with individual reporters.
“You look at my quotes on Sunday, I never once said I for sure caught the ball. I said, ‘All I know is whenever I hit, I rolled, the ball was not in my glove, it somehow was in my throwing hand when I came up and I finished the play out of reaction,’” Barmes said. “I went and looked at the replays and I saw two, slowing it down frame by frame and I couldn’t tell. And so, I just assumed it worked out great — the ball, I caught it clean.
“And obviously today showing up, the picture showed that I didn’t.”
Even if baseball had instant replay for these types of situations, the call wouldn’t have been reversed because there was no video angle that conclusively showed the ball had hit the grass.
“The bottom line, like a lot of the guys in [the clubhouse] said, we got the win and that’s all that matters,” Barmes said.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
I guess this is like the old racing adage, if you aren’t rubbin, it aint racin…
Where is that damn AFLAC duck when I need it?
Swiss Police detain Roman Polanski…attempting to curry favor with the United States?
September 27, 2009
YOU! Bring me all your young women...
People have a strange fascination with Roman Polanski. We almost seem forgetful of the fact that this dude was is a criminal and a criminal that should be forced to serve his time. But, because of his talent, we want to give him a pass. well, fate finally kept up with him. E!Online explains here what happened.
Accepting a lifetime achievement award may have been the blunder of a lifetime for director Roman Polanski. Relatively speaking, of course.
Upon arriving in Switzerland to receive an honorary award at the Zurich Film Festival, the 76-year-old director was taken into custody by local authorities on a U.S. warrant related to his 1977 statutory rape conviction, and is in custody at the Swiss Justice Ministry while plans take shape for an extradition hearing.
The girl was thirteen…shouldn’t that be enough said? Here is the wiki entry which explains the crime.
In 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, became embroiled in a scandal involving 13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now known as Samantha Geimer). It ultimately led to Polanski’s guilty plea to the charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.[25]
According to Geimer, Polanski asked Geimer’s mother if he could photograph the girl for the French edition of Vogue, which Polanski had been invited to guest-edit. Her mother allowed a private photo shoot. According to Geimer in a 2003 interview, “Everything was going fine; then he asked me to change, well, in front of him.” She added, “It didn’t feel right, and I didn’t want to go back to the second shoot.”
Geimer later agreed to a second session, which took place on March 10, 1977 at the Mulholland area home of actor Jack Nicholson in Los Angeles. “We did photos with me drinking champagne,” Geimer says. “Toward the end it got a little scary, and I realized he had other intentions and I knew I was not where I should be. I just didn’t quite know how to get myself out of there.” She recalled in a 2003 interview that she began to feel uncomfortable after he asked her to lie down on a bed, and how she attempted to resist. “I said, ‘No, no. I don’t want to go in there. No, I don’t want to do this. No!”, and then I didn’t know what else to do,” she stated.[26]
Geimer testified that Polanski performed various sexual acts on her, including oral sex, vaginal intercourse, and anal sex.[27][28][29] after giving her a combination of champagne and quaaludes, a sedative drug.[30]
All I can think of when I read and her this is to think about the ending of the movie KIDS.
These were some buckwild kids....
If you have not seen this movie, it was one that changed my behavior and reinforced smart thinking. (Plot summary here)The E!Online story continues…
“We were unaware of any extradition being sought and separate counsel will be retained for those proceedings,” Polanski attorneys Bart Dalton, Doug Dalton and Chad Hummel said in a statement.
Swiss officials say they will not release Polanski, a French citizen, until the extradition process is complete (or has been firmly denied). The Chinatown director fled the United States in 1978 before he could be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in California.
Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with a minor and was told he would be credited for time served and avoid further jail time. Apparently fearing the judge would renege on the plea bargain, he fled the country in 1978 and has technically been a fugitive from justice ever since.
Polanksi’s camp filed a motion this year to have the decades-old case dismissed, a motion that his now fortysomething victim supported, but L.A. Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza insisted Polanksi appear in person to make his case. The filmmaker said he had no plans to return to these shores, ever.
Switzerland has a limited extradition treaty with the U.S., so…we’ll see.
L.A. District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said that her office learned of Polanski’s travel plans last week and alerted Swiss authorities, who picked him up at the airport.
(Originally published Sept. 27, 2009, at 9:16 a.m. PT)
a classic beauty whose life was ended too early....
Now, this dude had a traumatic experience happen to him with the death of his wife Sharon Tate and many others at their home while he was out of town, but this doesn’t excuse him. I am fine with him coming back over here to at least stand trial for the crime/finish his sentencing. Polanski married Emmanuelle Seigner in 1989 and had kids. What would he think if someone tried to have sex with his daughter when she was 13? Hopefully, he comes quietly and does the right thing….
Vince Young steps up for Steve McNair’s kids….this is why I rep BLACK QB’s!
September 17, 2009
Vince celebrating....and the way we should celebrate hom now, even if you are a Trojan fan...
Vince,
All people want to hear about is your failures. I want to big up you for your actions…It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day matters in your own personal life. Vince, your personal life has been in the news too much.
Shirtless, sweaty with a bunch of dudes throwing back the bottle of Patron is not a good look Vince...
Lord knows you have problems. Remember when people thought that you were suicidal?
Don't let the stress of life and work get to you....
It was just work….and you were eating wings. Just because you don’t have your phone, people got spooked. This became another story that people fed on. You might even state that it is the curse of this…
At least you got paid for this.....I have it for the 360 too...
But, like any normal black man, you persevered. You are still getting paid and the racist formerly known as Kerry Collins will either say something that we get him mangled, or will just get old. You will be a starting QB in the league again, if not for the Titans, then another team.
People are not talking about Steve McNair anymore. (except us) We use this tragic loss of life to get advice to others, including President Obama. They should talk about him more….he did a ton to help the communities that where he lived. Once the story died and people moved on, there was still his family to think about. They lost a father and a provider.
Vince, if only for a day, good job stepping in…
ESPN.com: NFL [Print without images] Thursday, September 17, 2009 Young surprises McNair’s sons
ESPN.com news services For one day at least, Vince Young stepped up to try to fill the void for the late Steve McNair’s two young sons, the Tennessean reported Thursday. Young surprised 11-year-old Trenton and 5-year-old Tyler on Wednesday by showing up at their house and taking them to their school’s “Dear Dads Breakfast” at a local restaurant.“
Those are my boys. I wouldn’t say it was to pay anyone back; it was just out of love. Steve would do it for me. He pretty much did it for me when I was growing up. I have a history with the boys and I want to do anything I can. I am their big brother. ” – Vince Young
“Those are my boys,” Young told the Tennessean. “I wouldn’t say it was to pay anyone back; it was just out of love. Steve would do it for me. He pretty much did it for me when I was growing up. I have a history with the boys and I want to do anything I can. I am their big brother.” Julie Dilworth, admissions director at St. Paul Christian Academy, lauded Young’s actions. “It was a great, great gesture,” Dilworth told the Tennessean. “All the kids had been talking about the dads’ breakfast and [Trenton and Tyler] were wondering what was going to happen with them. “They were thrilled … the boys came to school with huge smiles on their faces.” Young had a close relationship with Steve McNair, even before the latter was drafted by the Titans four years ago. He attended McNair’s football camps when he was young. McNair was shot and killed July 4. Besides being there for McNair’s sons, Young gave other kids at the school jerseys and autographs. “It was a surprise, and just to see the excitement on their faces, it’s a great feeling,” Young told the Tennessean. “We had a good time eating pancakes. I had an omelet. “Overall they are doing cool, doing good. Just talking to their mom, I think they are going to be all right. I am always going to be here for them, always.” McNair also had two older teenage sons.
I see you Vince and I know it was out of love. The same love he showed you coming into the league.
Just like black actors, black QB’s have to stick together. Who will be the one to reach out to Nate Davis?
Tongue in, you are not Jordan...
DJ AM takes the long PM, as in dirt nap…R.I.P. Adam G.
August 29, 2009
amazing that they walked away from that
Sometimes you are the boot, and other times your the ass the boot is kicking….
DJ AM might have felt invincible after walking away from a plane crash that killed everyone but he and Travis Barker from Blink 182. But, we are flesh and blood, susceptible to all types of injuries.
Adam Goldstein, ‘DJ AM’
can't run from the grim reaper
Associated Press
NEW YORK – DJ AM, a Philadelphia native and sought-after disc jockey who became a celebrity in his own right with a glamorous lifestyle, was found dead yesterday at his apartment, which had drug paraphernalia in it, a law enforcement official said. There was no evidence of foul play.DJ AM, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, 36, was famous for past relationships with the reality TV star Nicole Richie and the actress-singer Mandy Moore.He died nearly a year after surviving a South Carolina plane crash that killed four people.
In what may have been his last interview, Mr. Goldstein answered questions from Phrequency.com, Philly.com’s music spin-off Web site. The interview was posted Wednesday.
“I am incredibly excited to be involved in the evolution with Dusk at Caesars,” Mr. Goldstein said, referring to the new nightclub at Caesars Atlantic City, where his last appearance was Tuesday.
Mr. Goldstein grew up in Rittenhouse Square and told Phrequency.com that he visited Philadelphia often.
Dusk released a statement last night: “We are devastated by the loss of Adam Goldstein, our dear friend and valued member of the Dusk family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones. He was a true talent who will be greatly missed.”
Celebrities and fans instantly shared their reactions on Twitter, where “RIP DJ AM” was the No. 1 topic yesterday. His Twitter page is http://twitter.com/DJ_AM
Now, I am not going to tell you to run out to his Twitter page, since he is dead, there are no updates. Some are speculating on the drugs that they found. But, why worry about that? He is gone, and it is a cautionary tale for others…as Whitney Houston said,,,,Crack is wack. NBC New York goes into more detail…
DJ AM, the celebrity disc jockey who publicly acknowledged his history of drug addiction and had filmed a reality show in which he offered to help other addicts, was found dead in his SoHo apartment Friday afternoon. He was 36.
DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was found on his stomach in his bed wearing sweatpants and no shirt. When cops rolled him over, they found a near-empty bag of crack stuck to his chest, a police source told the Daily News today. Police would not confirm to NBCNewYork that the bag of crack was stuck to Goldstein’s body, however.
The New York Medical Examiner’s Office has begun to perform an autopsy on DJ AM, but it’s not known when results will be released, according to TMZ.com. The details of his demise are still unclear, but police sources said investigators are looking into the possibility of a drug overdose, as drug paraphernalia was found nearby.
A crack pipe and multiple bottles of prescription pills, including anti-anxiety drug Xanax, were found in his apartment, law-enforcement sources told the News. Officially, there is no criminaility suspected.
Fighting drug addiction is no shit…people get caught up in that quick….too bad he was like pookie…
It be callin me mann....! That Rock aint nothing to fool around with...
The Taoism (Daoism) of R. Kelly: How Rihanna, Chris Brown and Aaliyah share a connection
August 26, 2009
I was driving home last night after a long first day with the students and a coaches meeting after school at 6. The meeting was scheduled just enough to not really allow me to go home and spend any significant time, without having to leave to come back for the meeting. The meeting was actually okay, because they served dinner (which was just pasta, salad and desert, but it was really good and the desert, which I didn’t have looked outstanding) and they gave us some free gear, which I like, except the part that it looks like we are (New coaching shirt, T-shirts and mock turtlenecks) repping Adidas this year from Nike last year. But, free is free and the gear looks good.
On my way back, I was listening to a mixtape (on CD of course, as who still has a tape player?….even though I still have some actual mixtapes) and on this tape it had the remix of Every Girl, featuring R. Kelly. Here is a sample of his lines… (flip the script for more) Read the rest of this entry »
