Richard Gere and Wife Carey Lowell Call It Quits!

This is not shocking at all, what is shocking is that it lasted as long as it did. Richard Gere and his wife of 11 yrs call it quits. Apparently the 2 have been living apart for some time, but have decided to end the marriage now. Some media reports are blaming it on the fact that Richard is a Buddhist and home body and his wife Carey Lowell, former Assistant DA on the original Law and Order. Personally, I think they are both gay and have been each other's "cover ups". And now, one of them has a new lover and wants to end it so that they can marry this new person. Only time will tell if I am correct. hahahahaha

Bartender Murdered After Night of Binge Drinking With Friends

This is really shocking and so senseless. Cori Desmond was a bartender down in Southern California and after getting off work on Valentine's Day, a Saturday night in 2008, she went to the BAC Bar to drink with friends and party. This was a fatal mistake that Cori would not live to regret. First let me say that NO ONE has a right to take another person's life. But if you get drunk and go walking the streets at 2:30am in the morning, you are just asking for trouble in my opinion. Especially, if you are a female. I am a dude and it only took one time for me to learn that no good happens after dark. I had just left a bar in San Francisco and it was like 2am or so. I was walking to the bus stop so that I could go to the Transbay Terminal and catch a bus back to Oakland when a woman walking by asked me for money and I said "fuck you bitch, I don't have any money for you" then out of no where this dude steps out of the shadows of this building and grabs my arm and says, "give her some money mother fucker". So I kicked him in his groin and broke free of his grip and ran the fastest I have ever run in my life. Luckily for me, by the time I reached the corner of the next block, a bus came and I jumped on it and got away. I was just 19yrs old and I could have become a statistic, like Cori. Thank God I didn't.
But getting back to Cori, on that fateful Saturday night, when Cori left BAC Bar she had a blood alcohol content of 0.35; nearly 5 times the legal limit of 0.08. Now that explains why she walked past the dark street where she had parked her jeep, but it does not explain why she didn't call a cab and go home. Or call her dad to come and get her. So Cori walks another couple of blocks past her car to another bar where a friend of hers worked but was denied entry because it was after 2am and that was that bar's policy not to allow anyone into the bar after 2am. I don't understand, why Cori didn't text her friend and tell her she was coming or text her friend and say, hey, I'm outside your bar tell them to let me in or come out and get me? But it probably wouldn't have done her any good, because her friend had already left work. However, if she had texted her friend, she would have texted her back and told her she was at home amd to come on over or something. Anyway, shortly after Cori was denied entry to the bar where her friend worked, she was attacked and murdered in the street, by a guy who had been drinking at the BAC Bar where she had just come from. The police call it a stranger killing, but I think otherwise. I think this guy Tony Lopez Perez was a regular at the BAC Bar and Cori was definitely a regular there and maybe he had developed a crush on her. She was not an employee of that bar, but she often would help temd bar with her friends at the bar. There is just something about bar tenders, that makes them very sexy and alluring. And I think that is why Tony Perez followed Cori out of the bar and waited for the right moment b4 he approached her and subsequently attacked and killed her. He then put her body in his SUV and went home and went to bed with his live in girlfriend Tiffany Ware. The next day, Tony goes to work and then after work he wraps Cori's lifeless body in black trash bags and drives up in the San Bernadino Mountains and dumps her body down a ravine like a bag of trash. So cold! He then goes and buys a bunch of cleaning items and details his car. Which was very strange to his girlfriend, Tiffany, because he had NEVER done it before.
So the police exhaust all clues and have no suspects and the case goes cold. But Cori's dad is not having it. So he keeps the case alive in the media and buys space on several billboards in the area where his daughter was last seen asking for tips from the public. One of those billboards was near Tony and Tiffany's apt. So 8 months after the murder Tiffany calls in a tip to police, giving her bfs name as a possible suspect in the case. So now police are looking for Tony Perez, but there are thousands of them in Southern California. Several more months go by and Tony trades in his Dodge Durango for a Ford Expedition when he had just 2 car payments left on it, which again sent up red flags to his girlfriend. Who trades in a late model car with 2 payments left for another late model car with many payments on it? Then on a trip to the San Bernadino Mountains, with Tony, he stops and points out an area on the same road where Cori's body was found, and laments to his gf ,"I wonder if that is where they found that girl's body?" Again, red flags go up to Tiffany about Tony. First of all they've never taken a trip to the mountains b4 and why would bring up the fact that this is where they found a dead body on top of it. So again, Tiffany calls the tip line and this time she speaks directly to one of the detectives working the case. And this time she agrees to meet with him in person. She does and subsequently, she tells the police about the white durango her bf traded in and all of her other suspicions about Tony's strange behavior since the murder. Tony is subsequently brought in for questioning. At first Tony denies having met or seen Cori that night. Then he says he may have whistled at her when he saw her walking down the street. Then he says he found her unconscious in the street under a street light. Then he says he found her dead under the street light and he just panicked because he was drunk and he thought he would be blamed for her death. And that's why he moved her body. So the police take him to the street where he claims he found her and re enacts the event. And during that re enactment, when one of the detectives lays on the ground, and Tony is showing them how he shook Cori and tried to wake her up, Tony grabs the detective by the throat and starts choking the detective. Which surprises the detective. Next they take Tony to the spot in San Bernadino Mtns where CorI's body was found and have him re-enact how he dumped her body down the ravine, and that is where he finally admits that he killed her. Tony is subsequently convicted of Cori's murder and is now serving 25yrs to life for it.
So the moral of this story is, 1. don't get stinking drunk and wander down the streets at 2am in the morning, 2. if you do get drunk at 2am, call a cab and go straight home or call a friend or parent to come get you. 3. Nothing good happens after dark! (Statistically, many bad crimes happen between 11pm and 5am. ) 4. The year is 2013, NOT 1813, LOCK YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS! DO NOT GET DRUNK AND WALK THE STREETS AT NIGHT! USE COMMON SENSE WHEN YOU GO OUT PARTYING OR OUT TO DINNER. DO NOT TWEET YOUR LOCATION  EVERY SECOND OF EVERY MINUTE.

"Honey Gate", German Company Indicted on Buying Chinese Honey and Passing It off as Korean Honey

Americans consume more honey than anyone else in the world, nearly 400 million pounds every year. About half of that is used by food companies in cereals, bread, cookies, and all sorts of other processed food. Some 60 percent of the honey is imported from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and other trading partners. Almost none comes from China. After U.S. beekeepers accused Chinese companies of selling their honey at artificially low prices, the government imposed import duties in 2001 that as much as tripled the price of Chinese honey. Since then, little enters from China legally.

There is a German Company called ALW (named after its founder Alfred L. Wolff Company) and it imports honey from around the world and sells it to other companies here in the USA for manufacturing. The scam is in the buying of honey that originates in China and importing it to India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mongolia, and South Korea and then filtering it and relabeling it from Chinese honey as the country of Origin to one of the ones I just named. I am so glad that US Customs agents were on their J O B and got suspicious about six shipping containers that were destined for ALW customers and that arrived from China but were labeled Korean White Honey. And they alerted authorities of the deception. And that is what sparked this investigation back 2006. Yeah! Personally, I don't think I want to consume honey that comes fro China. Honey is partially digested plant nectar that is regurgitated from Bees and Bees use it as a food source in the winter when other food sources are low. I once saw a news story that incorrectly stated that honey is Bee saliva, well that's not 100% true. hahahahaha Anyway, a couple of Jr Executives at ALW and the CEO of ALW along with a Chinese honey broker have been indicted in this case which is an $80 million dollar food fraud case according to Assistant US Attorney Andrew Boutros in Chicago. This is the largest food fraud case in US History, to date.

Chinese Beverage Companies Buy Rotten Fruit to Make Juice!

Wow, this is just so disgusting I think I threw up in my mouth a couple of times while reading this story on Yahoo News. Two Chinese Beverage companies are accused of buying rotten fruit to make juice and cut production costs. China Huiyuan Juice Group, Ltd and China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co Ltd are the 2 companies in question. The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is running the investigation but so far did not find any rotten fruit when they made inspections at the 2 companies. Duh! They knew you were coming and got rid of it! Hello! I am just shocked that a company would do that to their consumers. Rotten fruit is going to make rotten tasting juice! EWWWW!!! If I ever bought a juice and it tasted funny, I would NEVER buy that brand of juice again.DUH!! That's a no brainer! There are just too many brands on the market to mess around and deal with a bad tasting one. Brisk for example, makes some really good fruit punch and lemonade. There is also, good day orange drink which tastes just like Tang to me. There is also, Tang, Walmart has that in stock always. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. hahahaha I think I'm going to have to take China off of my "bucket list". They seem to have way too many food problems lately and they also still have way too many diseases over there also. Sigh!

Don't Go See The Butler, It is MOSTLY LIES!

Now I love a good movie especially when it is based on real life events. Sometimes those are more interesting than the completely fictional Hollywood movies. However, in this case, The Butler which was purported to be based on the life of Eugene Allen, who worked as a butler in the White House under several presidents. The only true life fact is just that, he was a butler and worked in the White House for 34 years. Every thing else in the movie is 100 % FICTION! He was married, but NOT to an alcoholic wife. He did have a son, but his son was NOT a militant criminal type. Eugene did quit being a butler, but did not quit because of a dispute with President Regan over apartheid. Personally, I think working at the White House under all of those Presidents is a good enough story to tell. Albeit a little boring, you can only tell so many funny anecdotes about Presidential late night snacks of tuna on whole wheat with pickles , yellow onions and peanut butter. hahahaha So I will NOT be going to see this movie. It is a bunch of bullshit! I think I am just tired of seeing black people being serving rude ass white people. And suffering daily indignities at the hands of their racist employers.

This Is Still 2013 Right?

Okay, I was watching the my local news last night and I saw a story on there that really just pissed me off!!! It was about these 2 sisters, both well into their 50s and they were traveling back home to Southern Calif from visiting relatives up north. And they had just gassed up at a Gas station and then went next door to a KFC/A&W restaurant. While in the restaurant, someone jumped into their minivan and drove taking their 2 Yorkies along with it. What pisses me off is that first of all, they left the keys in the ignition. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is STILL 2013, right? Why on earth would you leave your keys in the ignition with the doors unlocked and go inside of a business more than 20 feet from your car? You might as well as just put a big old sign on the car and say TAKE ME! I feel sorry for them that their dogs were taken, but I feel MORE sorry for the dogs because it is 100% the sister's fault! If you want to be lazy and stupid, you don't deserve to own dogs. That is $4,000.00 right out the door. And another thing is, on the video, you can see them being followed by another car from the gas station to the KFC. The other car did not get gas. It follows them to the gas station, then waits for them to fill up and then follows them to the KFC. You have to be vigilant at ALL TIMES when you are out. There are too many desperate people out there looking for opportunities to rob or harm you. WAKE UP PEOPLE! Stop giving thieves and killers free range into your homes and cars. LOCK YOUR DOORS, TAKE YOUR CAR KEYS WITH YOU AND STOP BEING DUMBASSES!

Former WBC Heavy Weight Champ Ken Norton Sr Dead at 70

Ok this is shocking and a bonafide mystery. But former WBC Heavy Weight Champ Ken Norton Sr died yesterday from an undisclosed cause in a Vetran's Hospital in Las Vegas Nevada. He was just 70 years old. The mystery is the cause of death. I've read a couple of articles on his death and even checked Wikipedia.org but no cause of death is listed. I wonder why? Ken was one of the greats too, he even beat the legendary Muhammed Ali in 1973 in split decision fight. He was awarded the WBC heavy weight title in 1978 when Leon Spinks refused to fight him and fought Muhammed Ali instead. He is survived by his children. Rest in Peace Ken.