July 15, 2009

July 15, 2009

Madoff sent to prison

Bernard Madoff starts his life today as prisoner 61727-054 at the federal penitentiary in Butner, NC. Madoff's ponzi scheme defrauded investors out of billions and bankrupted Charities. Madoff is serving 150 years for fraud, as well as many other charges. Nov. 14, 2139 is the date he is scheduled to be released. The money is most likely gone and investors are just outta luck. Or maybe he still has it? In that case its possible he could get out of prison alive....granted he use his ill gotten money to freeze his head and put it on some poor unsuspecting person in the future... Good luck to you Mr. Madoff, if I were you I would prolong death as long as possible because we all know where your headed when you die.

Scare on Southwest Airlines

132 people aboard Southwest Airlines flight 2294 were forced to land in Charleston W Virginia when a football sized hole opened up in the plane during mid-flight. The plane was last inspected in January of 2009. All of Southwest Airlines' planes were rechecked causing some delays. This kind of thing seems ridiculous to me. Why was the plane last inspected 7 months ago? Airplanes log thousands of miles everyday and should be checked frequently. Nobody was injured on the flight but I can just imagine what Southwest's response would have been if they were.... "uh we checked it 7 months ago....isn't that enough?"

Sotomayer

Sonia Sotomayer, The supreme court Justice nominee, has gotten herself in some hot water due to a comments made during 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2004 speeches. The line reads along the lines of "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion." This sparked outrage and racism from Republicans. Yes thats right Racism claims by Republicans.... Keep in mind these are the same individuals that called Obama a Muslim as well as insinuated he was not an American, oppose gay rights, and a woman's right to choose. Apparently it was OK to beat and use fire hoses on African Americans in the 60s but she is the racist.... Sotomayer apologized for the comments she made and said they were taken out of context. Her point was that a persons experiences influences how they see the world. This is not a racist remark but rather one that illustrates a belief that she is going to draw on her experience growing up as a minority to make sound decisions. I do not see the harm in that. This is just another tactic by the Republican Party who want things to stay the same so the rich can get richer and the poor get poorer.

NYC Tweet during bank robbery

When your bank gets held up what should you do? well for Annmarie Dooling its tweet it of course. Now to be fair the cops had already been called and she didn't start till after they had the situation in hand. The first tweet was "My bank was just held up - with me in it," Then over the next hour "I'm locked in the bank still ... police just arrived ... they wont let us leave the bank ... i didn't even notice and he was two people in front of me ... can we GO?!" She suffered an assault of fellow tweeters calling her stupid and kill yourself. I find the whole thing just funny. Had this gone on during the actual robbery then I could see the negativity, but after the fact it just comic gold. Twitter is here to stay and as long as its here then this kind of thing is going to go on.....get over it.

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