Lisa Nowak, former NASA Astronaut sentanced for attack on her rival: The things that love make us do…
November 11, 2009
Damn, what a difference a professional photograher makes!
The things that we do for love have no boundaries. This morning, on the way to work, I was listening to Angela Yee in the morning on Sirius Radio. She has Saigon, who was being put on blast because of his attempts to get at some video model.
To me, this is no big whoop. We, as men have done a lot of things to get the box. We have driven all hours of the night, flown across country to get the box. I once drove to Iowa from Minnesota to get the panties (and it was worth it and I would do it again…) and I am not ashamed of that. We do what we have to, to get satisfaction.
Meet Lisa Nowak 46, a mother of three. Seems innocent enough, but the Guardian has the story of the tragic triangle love affair that led to this court case.
A former astronaut charged with confronting a romantic rival in an airport parking lot after driving 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando pleaded guilty today to an attack on a romantic rival.
One thing about the story that I find somewhat hilarious is that Lisa was wearing a diaper, so she wouldn’t have to make any pitstops along the way. Stopping for gas is okay, but a potty break is out of the question.
It's okay now that I am an elected official....right?
Lisa Nowak, a Navy captain, pleaded guilty to felony burglary and misdemeanor battery. She originally had been charged with two felonies — attempted kidnapping and burglary — along with misdemeanor battery.
Nowak confronted her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman, in the parking lot of Orlando international airport in February 2007 after driving from Houston.
Shipman had begun dating Nowak’s love interest, former space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein.
What this story doesn’t add is some of the backdrop that drove here to act a little crazy.
Nowak and Oefelein had a three-year affair before he left both her and his wife for Shipman. Nowak learned of this when she found copies of emails, many lodged as evidence, including one sent by Shipman when Oefelein was on board the shuttle Discovery.
Now, she found out about the affair and clearly lost her mind.
Wearing a wig and trenchcoat, Nowak followed Shipman to the parking lot and tried to get into her car, then attacked her with pepper spray. Shipman was able to drive away.
Police arrested Nowak a short time later in the parking lot near a trash can where she was seen getting rid of a bag. In Nowak’s bag police found a steel mallet, a knife, a BB pistol, rubber tubing and several large garbage bags.
I guess you have to look good for your court appearance. Shipman is in the background of this shot
“Almost three years later, I’m still reeling from her vicious attack,” Shipman told the judge after Nowak’s plea, holding back tears. “I know in my heart when Lisa Nowak attacked me, she was going to kill me.
“I believe I escaped a horrible death that night,” Shipman said. An appeals court ruled last year that diapers, latex gloves and other items found in Nowak’s car could be used as evidence in a trial that had been scheduled for next month, but her six-hour police interview after her arrest could not. The court said investigators took advantage of the former astronaut, who had not slept for more than 24 hours, coercing her into giving information.
Nowak, 46, is a married mother of three. She flew on the space shuttle in 2006, but was dismissed from the astronaut corps after her arrest and has since been on active duty at a Navy base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Oefelein, 44, also was forced out of Nasa and now lives in Alaska with Shipman.
Well, at least love in one case won out. But, they all lost, since they were all kicked out of NASA when the story broke. I would have to put Lisa in the category of women not to date. But, hopefully, she learned that attempting to keep it real, can go wrong….horribly wrong.
Why I hate Twitter: Are you offended by Meghan McCain’s picture showing her cleavage?
October 16, 2009
Congrats! Instead of being known for your father being a war hero and a senator, you will be known as the big rack daughter of Senator McCain, who was silly enough to post a lot of skin on Twitter....
because the real question is “Why aren’t you butt-A$$ nekkid like all the other wannabe internet stars?”
Glad to see that you are keeping busy on facebook and twitter! Hope that is an American beer, not some foreign swill....Buy American (unless its Newcastle and its not....)
You had to know that the things that you tittered, I mean tweeted about were going to be a story. Now, I am clearly not the modesty police, but if you didn’t want the Twin Towers to become a story, then why are you displaying them so prominently? Its like you want someone to____________ (fill in the blanks in the comments) clearly look at how large your rack is. I am a fan, and I have been a fan. But, please, stop being so butt-hurt about it. The person who posted the picture is YOU.
Jokes will never end....
Grow up. You have to be responsible for your actions. Would you send your grandmother a picture with your boobies all hanging out? Probably not…
Again, this is why you should not use Twitter...plus, pantsuits? Is that a rip on Hillary?
Take a drink haters, Obama is here to stay
This is another reason why you should hate Twitter. People say s*&t that you really can’t come back from. Then, they feel the need to send out more tweets to clarify what they said in the first 140 words.
If they hate on Al Gore and his warning about global warming, then you know that they are going to hate on Obama
Why does everyone feel as though their job is to kritik the winners of the Nobel Peace prize? Who ever wins it, just congratulate and move on. you don’t see people politicking for the award, the people in Norway come to a conclusion and then they announce it. But, everyone is a critic. At least some people take the time to do their homework. Crooked I of the rap collection Slaughterhouse voices one reason to award it to Obama.
way to big up the president....
Some in the hip-hop industry agree with the choice, including Slaughterhouse’s Crooked I. Once he heard the news, he sent a big shoutout to Obama for the honor, via his Twitter profile (@TheRealCrookedI).
Then, followed up, asking people to do some research before judging our current president.
“Why are people h8′n on my guy for this prize?” Crooked I asked. “Obama travels around THE ENTIRE WORLD PROMOTING PEACE.. Do sum research before u judge his worthiness.”
Agreed and agreed. Being the President of the U.S. comes with some perks. People are looking up to the new leader, especially compared to the last guy.
Asher, how do you make a hit record? "I dunno...sound like Eminem?"
Asher Roth voices dissent to the awarding the prize to President Obama.
Others, though, don’t agree with it at all. Rapper Asher Roth — known mostly for his hit single “I Love College” — wasn’t feeling the decision, asking how could a man win “the peace prize by just talking sh**.”
Now, Asher, while you love college, maybe you should have gone to class and studied a little bit harder. Once people got onto your haterade, you sent out another one, to try and protect your limited fan base. Spend more time making your point, then you wouldn’t need to make further clarifications.
He followed up with a tweet (@AsherRoth) clarifying his statements, explaining that the disagreement is about the actual prize more than Obama being chosen for it.
“Has nothing to do with ‘Obama’ and everything to do with the ‘Peace Prize’ — change starts with us, the people — who’s gon wake up first?” Asher said. “Seek truth.”
Asher also added: “I’m all for ‘hope’ and ‘progress,’ but people have been dedicating their lives for peace — actions speak louder than words — my opinion only.”
According to the rapper, change doesn’t come from the upper levels of the hierarchy, but from the people.
“I think change starts at the basement level — change starts with us, the people — we’re being manipulated,” Asher said in response to one follower.
Why didn’t you start with the comment, this is not about Obama? Because IT was about Obama and you don’t have the stones to back up your comment. When people put your feet to the fire, you backed off. You can’t take back what you tweeted, since the internet saves everything….focus less on trying to make a statement and more time on your music….
But it doesn’t stop with rappers….athletes have to get in on the foolishness.
Rashad McCants: Im next to win the nobel peace prize!! Twitter.com
Why don’t you be next to become an all star? or have a job? or how about keeping your girl?
keep the picture, since Lamar is beating up the box now, doing what you could not do... Nice Kobe face with the chin and all...
You currently suck at basketball, and your girl is with Lamar now, having married him after seeing what you are working with. You are not going to win a damn thing, now get a job and get back into the NBA and leave Twitter alone, unless you are tweeting about getting a job and not being broke.
Someone played Top Chef with Padma Lakshmi and made a baby!
October 1, 2009
So, Padma is preggo and my man Sal Rushdie is NOT the father. This might be a job for Maury….
Who wouldn't beat this up? If no, you must be a male who is gay, since a lot of straight women would sex her up too...
(CNN) — “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi is pregnant with her first child, her publicist confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
It is funny the things that you can remember from your middle school sicnece class. If memory serves ( like an edition of the Iron Chef) Saturn is the 2nd largest planet that is 6 planets away from the Sun.
Saturn is also the name of a car company.
The Saturn Car Company can only wish that they were that big and powerful, like the planet. For now, it looks as though they are done.
GM to shut down Saturn after Penske walks away
By KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and TOM KRISHER
DETROITGeneral Motors Co. said Wednesday it would shut down its Saturn division after an agreement to sell it to Penske Automotive Group Inc. fell apart.
The Bloomfield, Michigan dealership headed by auto racing magnate Roger Penske walked away after it was unable to find a manufacturer to supply vehicles to it after a contract with GM runs out in 2011.
A tentative deal for Saturn was announced on June 5. Penske was to get Saturn’s 371 dealers and promised to retain the 13,000 Saturn employees. The proposed price was never disclosed.
This marks an ignominious end for the brand that was supposed to revolutionize the way small cars were built and sold in America. GM Chairman Roger Smith first unveiled Saturn in November 1983, but the project was slow to develop and the brand did not officially launch until 1990. GM put more effort into making higher-profit SUVs and Saturn languished, never making money.
What happened to Total Confidence? I guess Penske didn’t have it in Saturn. Now, what do dealers do with the cars? If you were trying to trade one of these models in, do you take it? Or, do you rip them off with what you give them for it?
They just buried dude in the backyard...hilarious movie...
Sales did spring up in 2006 and 2007 when gas prices rose, but then plunged along with other segments of the market last year. GM put the unit on the block this year as it battled the financial crisis that caused it to eventually file for bankruptcy.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson said in statement that Saturn and its dealership network will be phased out.
“This is very disappointing news and comes after months of hard work by hundreds of dedicated employees and Saturn retailers who tried to make the new Saturn a reality,” Henderson said in a written statement. Penske’s announcement “explained that their decision was not based on interactions with GM or Saturn retailers.”
Now, the commercial about losing your job and car are not so funny now. Mr. Smith, what’s for dinner?
Shares of Penske fell $1.92 or 10 percent to $17.26 in after hours trading. They rose $1.32, or 7.4 percent to $19.18 in regular trading Wednesday.
Penske said it negotiated with another manufacturer to make Saturn cars, but that company’s board of directors rejected the agreement.
Penske spokesman Anthony Pordon would not identify the other manufacturer.
GM had agreed to keep building the Saturn Aura, Outlook and Vue models through 2011. After that Saturn would have to come up with its own products.
Without another supplier in place before the deal was signed, Penske couldn’t run the risk of taking on Saturn, Pordon said. It takes several years to design new vehicles or engineer foreign vehicles to meet U.S. standards. Penske would risk having no products to sell once the GM contract expired.
“There’s a pretty long lead time,” Pordon said. “You’ve got to try to time this so as the supply of one ends and the other one comes on board.”
Pordon said there is little if any chance that the talks could be reopened.
GM said Saturn vehicle owners can still go to their Saturn dealer for service and would be able to go to a certified GM dealer for service once Saturn dealerships are closed.
It had been expected that GM would announce the completion of Saturn’s sale to Penske in the coming days.
The news left many of the 371 Saturn dealers across the country stunned and fearful of being left with nothing to sell.
“I find this hard to believe,” said Carl Galeana, owner of two Saturn dealerships in suburban Detroit. “Everyone’s been saying we’re right at the goal line.”
Galeana said he’s heard nothing yet from GM or Saturn, but if the plan is to phase out the brand and cut the products, he’ll have to come up with another options.
“I assumed if you’re at the goal line, those things would have been figured out,” he said Wednesday. “We’re going to try to put some plan Bs in place at this point.”
Galeana said he’s concerned for his employees and still hopes the deal can be resurrected.
“It’s tough out there, but we’ll keep fighting. That’s all we can do.”
Saturn featured the iconic tag-line “a different kind of car company.” GM’s hope was that Saturn would attract younger buyers with smaller, hipper cars to better compete with Japanese imports. It built a new plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, devoted to Saturn production.
Despite a cult-like following that drew thousands to annual reunions in Spring Hill, the brand never made money for GM. The factory stopped making Saturns in 2007 and currently builds only the Chevrolet Traverse crossover. Today, Saturn production is scattered at plants across North America.
In the late 1990s, Saturn took a back seat as GM focused more on high-profit pickup trucks and SUVs. Then in 2006, car buyers began to find Saturn’s new models more appealing. But after a good year in 2007, sales dropped 22 percent last year as the U.S. car market withered.
GM has been trying to sell Saturn since earlier this year as part of its turnaround plan.
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AP Auto Writer Bree Fowler in New York contributed to this report.
Well Saturn, you can join my other favorite production cars that do not exist.
Remember Spencer for Hire? My man Hawk drove this...but white.
Walkouts and Protests happening at UC Berkeley over budget cuts….Those who fail to learn history…
September 24, 2009
At least they are not here to stop Memorial Stadium from getting a facelift
Budget cuts in CA are no joke right now. Friends that I have that are working at public institutions have mandatory time off right now. People are being forced to work four day workweeks, in order to make the budget balance.
I thought that education was the key to a good life, but if you are a student and you can get the classes that you need to graduate, it become a catch-22. The classes that are the prereqs for other classes are filled and the ones that you need are not available because you don’t have the first one in the sequence.
(09-24) 15:47 PDT BERKELEY — Thousands of UC students marched through downtown Berkeley and the area around campus this afternoon, staging a sit-down protest and blocking traffic as part of a demonstration against cuts to the university budget and proposed fee increases.
The unscheduled march started at the end of a two-hour rally on Read the rest of this entry »
How NOT to be a Player: Orly Taitz, Leader of the “Birther Movement” loses it on MSNBC
August 4, 2009
People will not leave president Obama alone and just allow him to govern. First and foremost, let me wish our President a Happy Birthday! The 2 old crew wants to wish the first black man a proper b-day. We will gift wrap a 40 oz. and some newports
But seriously, Here is your gift… Orly Taitz, your biggest annoyance, wanted to wish you a happy birthday as well. She wanted to send a gift to brighten your mood.
Get someone better at photoshop while you are at it… After all this, if that is the best you can do, you have lost before it began….
Maybe we are getting closer to the Esquire age if this dude is on the cover...This must be his I am about to get shit done suit and tie combo...
They call him the big dog, but I thought that was in reference to all the skirts this dude chased in office. Now, on the serious note, this is how you throw around presidential clout. See how he did it after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Ignorant Bloggers, Shut the Hell up! I can handle my own biz...I got my shit on lock
The one thing that I have learned in blogging is that it really isn’t much different than the print media. Everyone is trying to break a new story and then proclaim that they are the one to listen to. Here is a snippet of a story posted at the New Agenda yesterday
But as Hillary’s poll numbers continued to rise, something rather strange started to unfold: Hillary went missing. She gradually became less and less of the spokesperson that our country so surely needed on international issues. There was barely an utterance of her name in the media as President Obama and Vice President Biden trekked around the globe working on international affairs. Until finally last week the blogosphere started to ask: Where’s Hillary?
Now, the blogosphere that you are talking about it is a story that YOU wrote last week that was baseless in merit. The commenters on the story pointed out how 1) Hillary had surgery on a broken elbow when you were crying about her presence
Here is your health lesson for today. Forget looking for Waldo, where the humerus? Oh yeah, it's your blogs...
Since she slipped and broke her elbow last month, Clinton has been forced out of the limelight, canceling two foreign trips and undergoing intense physical therapy.
and 2) a simple check of her calendar on the website would have sufficed to figure out where she was and what she was doing. Stay classy with the writing…
But, because of a story that people attempted to make a self-fulfilling prophecy, Hillary actually came out and answered your absurd post, designed to agitate for agitation sake
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday rejected suggestions she had been sidelined by President Barack Obama, her rival for last year’s Democratic presidential nomination.
With media reports swirling that Clinton’s influence has been usurped by the National Security Council, the top U.S. diplomat insisted she played an important role in crafting the foreign policy agenda.
“I really stay focused on the work that I do. I broke my elbow, not my larynx. I have been deeply involved in the shaping and implementation of our foreign policy,” she told reporters.
“I don’t really pay a lot of attention to what is said,” Clinton said of several commentaries speculating she was being sidelined.
So here is the thing. You really can’t have it both ways. Should we look up to Hillary Clinton for the tremendous strides that she has made, (and will continue to make) or should we look down upon her because she has allowed herself to be used by the big bad Barack Obama for a tool of his worldwide plan for domination?
I want Hillary to be worried about her work and not about what view you think that she should be making. She is doing her job and I commend her for it. She is damned if she does respond to the alligations, since I bet the next story is how Obama MADE her come out and say those things because he is the great puppetmaster.
If she doesn’t respond to the silly allegations, then you would hold it up as a sign that the President is holding her hostage for some yet to be named nefarious plan. I wonder if you are going to talk about this, New Agenda? This seems to be right up your alley. Obama appoints a woman for Surgeon General. You spent three sentences on this, a real story, and over a thousand words on a story that isn’t one. Maybe that is why the movement isn’t moving in the right direction….just a thought.
Now, lets play a simple game. In this game, the public is going to choose who they should listen to and trust for information. The public can listen to you, someone who is looking for trouble where trouble doesn’t exist, a columnist for the Post editorial section, or an actual foreign policy expert.
Hopefully, you don't need to buy a vowel and you can tell Pat what the answer is...
Forgive me for choosing someone who has actually served in a political role within the Government…
Foreign policy expert Ned Walker, a former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, said it was too soon to judge whether Clinton was being excluded from major foreign policy decisions.
NATURAL RIVALRY
Walker said there was a natural rivalry between the State Department and the National Security Council particularly in the early months of a new presidency.
“Their physical proximity to the president naturally gives the NSC a boost,” said Walker. “It is way too early to count her out.”
You just want a rift to complain to hear your own voice. Why are you advocating for someone who can speak for herself just fine? She has done so when she has felt attacked…she is a grown woman who has the skills to defend for herself.
For its part, the White House rejects suggestions that Clinton is not a major player or that Obama is not listening to the one-time frontrunner he beat in the Democratic Party’s presidential race last year.
“They enjoy a very close relationship. I think the Secretary of State is somebody who the president relies on greatly,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
“The notion that there’s some rift or disagreement is nothing more than silly Washington games,” he added.
Clinton leaves for a weeklong trip to India and Thailand on Thursday and she listed other events in the coming weeks, including meetings in Washington with top Chinese officials and a planned visit to Africa in early August.
“I think I will just do the work and make the contribution,” she said. “I feel very honored and positive about my working relationship with the White House and in my personal relationship with President Obama.”
See, you go girl…Let your work do the talking…
Reading Rumproast this morning, they point to the Betty Cracker posts on the same subject. The New York Times, who Betty quotes in her piece, seems to even be more on point (if that is possible) than my quotes…
Mrs. Clinton is said by her aides to brush off the scuttlebutt about her low profile. They note that she kept her head down early in her Senate career, too.
She professes to be amused, if baffled, by a recent column on the blog Daily Beast in which Tina Brown wrote, “It’s time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa.”
Other foreign affairs experts say the doubts about Mrs. Clinton’s role reflect an unrealistic view of the job of secretary of state, particularly in an era when the White House usually drives foreign policy.
“There’s a reflex assumption on the part of a lot of people that the secretary of state is going to be out there, on every conceivable issue,” said Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state under President Clinton.
After all this, it just baffles me how the New Agenda can keep writing about her low profile. It seems as though she really is giving you and your story the finger.
Where is Russia at? Can you hear me know?
I love Jerry McGuire. If I wasn’t making millions as a teacher, it would have been as a sports agent. The lifestyle and the money that they get is sick. So, when thinking about the reasons why Sarah Palin resigned, we here at Too Old thought that this could be the reason she left…
According to Levi Johnston, it is…for those of you that were living under a rock during this time, Politico explains who he is and what loot the former Governor was talking about…
Levi Johnston told reporters Thursday night that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin decided to resign from office for the money.
Johnston claimed that in December he heard Palin talking about “how nice it would be to take some of this money people have been offering us and just run with it, and saying, ‘Forget everything else.’”
The 19-year-old father of the governor’s grandchild said he believed the factors Palin listed for her resignation were part of the reason, but were not the deciding factors.
Johnston, the former fiancé of the governor’s daughter, said the offers Palin was referring to came from “books, talk shows, whatever, things like that.”
Who would turn on a reality show about a former governor and her family? oh that’s right, Americans would. We already have more than just the Real World, but for the Love of Ray J and Real Chance at Love, a show about two seemingly homosexuals trying to find girlfriends.
But the loot angle is interesting, since we know that famous political figures earn massive dollars at speaking engagements, book signings etc. Levi throws around some figures to chew on.
The 19-year-old father of the governor’s grandchild said he believed the factors Palin listed for her resignation were part of the reason, but were not the deciding factors.
“I’ve seen how stressful this job was for her, and she came home late at night and things like that,” he said. But Johnston added, “I think the big deal was the book. That was millions of dollars.”
Someone is going to get the money, why not him? Even if this isn’t true, it is true. Do you really think that Sarah is not going to write a book? If it is not about the struggles of raising a special needs child ( which would make a bunch of money IMHO) then it will be about the glass ceiling of being a woman and trying to run for some of the highest offices in the land. Arab money indeed…
Deion Sanders, take us to the bridge…
