Come on people!
Are you freaking kidding me?

Michael Vick who went to jail for being the leader of a dogfighting ring, was just released from jail after serving only 18 months of his 23 month sentence at Leavenworth.

Not only was his sentence a mere slap on the wrist, but he has once again signed up with Nike as a spokesman. Nike dropped Vick back in 2007, but they recently changed their minds and struck a new deal with him. The amount Vick that will receive from Nike has not been disclosed.

To make matters even more sickening, Vick will have his own eight part television series called the “Michael Vick Project” which will come out in 2010. The project will be produced by DuBose Entertainment,( Vick’s production company) MV7 Productions and Category 5 Entertainment. It will air on BET.

A snippet from Msnbc.com  about the show:

“The tentatively titled “Michael Vick Project,” a “docu-series,” not a reality show per se, will spotlight his comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles and also delve into his back story, from his difficult childhood to his 2007 arrest for running a dog-fighting ring, according to the L.A. Times.”

 
WTF?
Why would Nike and BET do business with someone who was guilty of animal cruelty? This means he will STILL be profiting from dogfighting in the long run.

But guess who else is behind this project?

According to the LA Times,

The project has the support of the Eagles, the NFL and former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, who has acted as Vick’s mentor since his imprisonment, say the producers. Also on board, they say, is the Humane Society, which has enlisted Vick in its battle to end the widespread abuse of dogs in the inner city.

What is this about Vick working with the Human Society? What does “enlisted Vick in it’s battle to end widespread dog abuse” mean exactly?

According to Humane Society president, Wayne Pacelle, who met with Vick while he was in Leavenworth, Vick is supposed to work towards getting young kids to cease any involvement in these activities by appearing in public service announcements.

No word lately about this particular project. I just don’t think these PS announcements will go over too well with the general public. They just may come off looking like a skit from Saturday Night Live in my opinion.

And unless Vick is volunteering his own time, donating funds from his new show and shoveling sh*t out of dog pens at the local pound, I am not convinced at all that he is a changed man.

They confiscated more than SIXTY dogs from Vick’s place when they broke up his dogfighting ring. Apparently BET and Nike have very short memories. And I presume that coach Tony Dungy is only concerned with getting Vick back on the field.
It was Roger Goodell, who suspended Vick indefinitely. Kudos to Goodell!

 
Thank goodness 22 of these poor pitbulls went to Best Friends rehab sanctuary in Utah.

National Geographic has a TV show called DogTown, which spotlighted Vick Dogs.

Meet Denzel, Just One Of Many Of Vick’s Victims

And Georgia, Another One Of Vick’s Victims

Of course the pictures above of Denzel and Georgia show their battle wounds from their fighting all healed. But their scars are still very visible on their faces as well as in their eyes.

Anyone who supports Vick, will be supporting someone who was guilty of a very cruel and brutal pastime.

The short time he spent in jail, was simply not enough. And although he has a three year probation, which requires him to wear an electronic monitor and to work a $10.00 an hour construction job. Again, not enough. 

Many people are not able to find a job these days. I’m sure that they would love to have that job in this economy. But instead, they give the job to a convicted animal abuser.

If the “Michael Vick Project” goes through, I hope the show goes over like a fart in church.

I sincerely doubt that Vick has proven ANY remorse what so ever by serving his cream puff jail sentence. And it sounds like these new deals with BET and Nike may have been struck during his jail time, since they are going to happen relatively soon.

So that means he sat and jail and wheeled and dealed about making MORE money as soon as he got out. And again that money will be made from him telling his story about his tough childhood and his arrest for dogfighting. Therefore profiting from dogfighting once again.

I don’t know who I am more disgusted with…
Vick the dick, the justice (?) system, or the other a-holes who are awarding him with continued wealth and fame. 
JUST DISPICABLE!

The only reason why I gave Vick ANY mention at all, was to spout my outrage. I can only hope that people will choose to send Vick a message by not supporting him in any way shape or form.

So write to Nike and BET and tell them how you feel about them hiring a man who operated a dogfighting ring and who not only had the dogs trained to kill each other, but then put money down on watching the dogs tear each other apart.

Tell BET he should not profit from telling his story. And tell them if this show does go through, that any money made from this series should go straight to the Best Friends dog rehab where his dogs were sent.

And as far as Nike goes…
If they insist on using Vick for a spokesperson….
Then Vick should set up some sort of deal with Nike. They can either have a percentage of their sales go straight towards animal rehab, or they can deposit a percentage of his pay right into the Best Friend’s bank account.

Of course I hope public outrage nixes both deals before they can ever happen.
But if they go through, Vick should have to redeem himself by having his money go to abused animals.
Although as far as I’m concerned, he can never be redeemable in my book.

No Animal Should Ever Have To Endure This Torture

They say Karma is a bitch, and I hope it catches up to Vick real soon.

During a press conferece  in Venice, actor and perpetual bachelor, George Clooney kept totally cool when he gets an unusual question from an admirer in the crowd. He didn’t seem surprised, nor were his feathers ruffled when the man proclaimed his love for George and said:

“George! Take me! Choose me, Please! Please choose me George!  May I kiss you please? Just one kiss!”

For a minute there I thought I was watching a scene from a Borat movie.

Clooney’s reaction was classic. He remained cool, calm and collected and totally owned the moment. He told the buff admirer:

“It’s hard when you take a big chance and it really doesn’t work. It’s always embarrassing when you take one real swing for the fences and it just falls flat. It’s a good try though!”

Yep, he stayed cool as a cucumber, continued cracking jokes and interestingly, complimented the man’s tie adding:

 ”There’s little ambulance on its way here. You stay there, we will get back to you.”

He was obviously dissing the man’s package size.

Then when someone from the Daily Mail gets up to ask him a question, George quips:

Take your clothes off before you answer this question.

I think George meant before you ASK this question, but we all know what he meant.

Personally, I think Clooney rather enjoyed the little (no diss intended) distraction and always seems ready to crack some jokes.
So to you Mr. Clooney…I take off my hat — that’s it though. I promise!

Save Money – Live Worse, ALWAYS.

Two top stories on CNN right now feature the greatest place to buy the crappiest of crap in crapdom. Don’t get me wrong, I am forced to spend my stimulus checks at Walmart too, but I am not happy about it. Over the years, after discovering how sub-par many of the products are and how much of the merchandise comes from China (virtually 90% based on my expert analysis) I have been going to Target more and more. Plus, Target has a better level of customers. Think I am being a snob – read this:

“People of Wal-Mart,” a gag started by two 20-something brothers and their buddy to share crazy pictures with their friends, has gone viral. Promoted largely on sites like Digg and Funny or Die — and linked ad nauseam on Facebook and Twitter — the site picked up enough traffic to crash its servers on Wednesday.

“I’m still baffled — I really am,” said Andrew Kipple, 23, one of the creators of the site, who said his team was frantically working Wednesday to add enough server space to handle the surge in traffic.

Photos on the site, sent in by viewers all over the United States, frequently feature overweight people wearing tight clothes, bizarre hairstyles (with versions of the short-in-front, long-in-back “mullet” leading the pack) and fashion crimes ranging from furry leg warmers to miniskirts that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination.

So what inspired these two brothers to take their keen observation of the cultural phenomenon to the web? Hot messes of course:

Andrew and his brother Adam, 25, said they thought of the site after a visit to a South Carolina Wal-Mart where they saw a woman they believed to be a stripper, wearing an obscene T-shirt and leading a toddler in a harness. Around the next corner was a man with a beard reminiscent of the rock band ZZ Top.

“It’s kind of like the light bulb went off,” Andrew said. “We get the e-mails already from people who are like, ‘Why didn’t I think of this?’ We just happened to be fortunate enough to have the ability to actually follow through on it.”

While not every Walmart is as culturally rich in inappropriate attire and poorly executed hairstyles, the ones in the rural/and or southern parts of the country seem to attract an inordinate number of misfits. Cheap, poorly made goods in a consumer obsessed society is bound to have side effects and there’s no good reason we shouldn’t poke fun at these folks, many of whom live in very secluded little segments of this great country. Despite the internet’s ubiquity, there are still people who think a mullet, a wife beater and white socks and dress shoes is a fashion “do.”

So, VIVA WALMART!

Now, the bad Walmart News.

But wait, there’s more…

For as long as I have been following the celebrity aspect of Scientology, there has been something I have been unable to put my finger on about Tom Cruise. On one hand, he is handsome, successful, charismatic and talented. Yet on the other hand, even his most exuberant proclamations of amorous devotion are met with a flurry of side-eyes and smirking skepticism. Even Tom Cruise must scratch his head wondering “what’s a guy gotta do to get some respect?”

But in spite of 25 years of building a career with many highs and very few lows, Tom still has yet to master the skill of connecting with his audience. Sure there are women (now much older) who grew up on his boyish good looks and sexy dance moves (Risky Business anyone?) this however has not translated into that inimitable quality that allows the audience to look into a performer’s soul and feel a sense of mutual connection – the human touch. Even the most glamorous couple in the world, Brangelina, have managed to give us a sense of who they are, however hypocritical and shallow it may be.

Before I became intimately aware of the bizarreness of Scientology, I’d often wonder why an actor of Tom Cruise’s caliber had never won an Academy Award, despite being nominated three times (Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, Born On The Fourth Of July.) Sure you can make comparisons to similarly acclaimed actors who’ve been snubbed, like Leo Decaprio, then again, Leo’s 12 years younger and hasn’t generated close to $5 billion in film revenue. In fact, Tom is the top-grossing actor of all time — AND STILL PEOPLE DON’T CONNECT with the top gun.

I’d been unable to identify whatever that unidentifiable quality that makes Tom Cruise seem so “off” until I read this insightful article at the Sydney Morning Herald. Check it out.

Let’s for a second pretend Tom didn’t dry-hump his career into oblivion by using his religion as a jackhammer on our collective psyches, causing most sane people to recoil from his toothy grin. Let’s pretend Scientology didn’t exist (wow, that felt good.) Would Tom still seem a little strange to the world at large? Maybe.

That’s a hypothetical we will never know, but it would seem that same void of substance that makes Tom seem “off” to the world, is the exact quality which made him a perfect candidate for the perverse mind control techniques Scientology employs. The same technique they use to suck in celebrities, and sadly, unwitting members of the public, who seem all too willing to give up their lives and autonomy to join — not to mention their bank accounts.

As a celeb and gossip writer, I spend an inordinate amount of time psycho-analyzing the personalities, actions and behavior of these famous faces who keep us entertained. In most cases, their pathology is easy to read: mommy and daddy didn’t love them enough, they need more than normal amounts attention to fill their emptiness. There’s the obvious: too much too soon, and of course, some just aren’t that bright, but are fortunately aesthetically pleasing — which may lead to a shallow existence and a stunted spiritual connection to their inner selves and the world around them. And some are just regular folks with a lot of skill at entertaining — hello Tom Hanks!

And then there’s Tom Cruise. An enigma, wrapped in riddle, shrouded in a mysterious cloud of weirdness.

The SMH article stirred me with these two paragraphs which really nail down the essence of what is “wrong” with Tom:

By way of explaining the enormity of Cruise’s star power, Andrew Morton, makes the point that in 1996, Tom Cruise became the first actor to star in five consecutive films grossing over $US100 million at the American box office. His career is commercially unrivalled and over the years he’s slowly but surely won over the critics as well – with one famous exception. Pauline Kael, the New Yorker’s now deceased, but still influential film critic, had no time for Cruise’s dynamically intense screen presence. She panned his acting style as “patented” complaining that it “produces nothing but fraudulence”.

Kael may have been referring to his professional skills but her critique goes to the heart of the unease he induces in such a large swathe of the movie-going public. An emphasis on technique over authenticity may produce compelling – if slightly stilted – dramatic heroes but Cruise appears to apply the same method to the construction of his public persona. There’s something about him that’s not quite right. Tom Cruise comes across as a perfect copy of a human being – but one that lacks the weight of emotional engagement. As Morton describes it, “Those who have interviewed him and even audited him have come away from an encounter feeling that they have been subjected to a performance rather than a personality.” This sentiment is echoed by Ariel Leve in The Sunday Times where she writes that in interviews Cruise “engages but at the same time is disengaged”.

That unidentifiable quality that had eluded me, is quite simply: Tom isn’t real. Not to sound all LRH here, of course Tom’s real, but what we think is Tom Cruise doesn’t even exist. Tom Cruise is essentially whatever he allowed so long ago for Scientology to put into him. It’s as though Cruise wandered into Scientology a hollow shell and allowed this false, nonsensical mumbo jumbo to fill up the empty space. Tom then allowed David Miscavige (leader of the cult) to mold him into the perfect representative of what an ideal Scientologist should be.

I sincerely doubt Tom even knows who he is inside beyond what has been brainwashed into him since joining Scientology. All jokes aside, Tom is a robot, a meatpuppet for David Miscavige to spew the half-baked, barely coherent ramblings of mad man whose sole purpose for creating Scientology was to control and manipulate people.

Tom’s so convincing in his role, because there was nothing there to begin with. Tom was a lost vessel looking for something to fill the void and has never bothered to look deeper or question beyond what he is told.

Now, imagine how this conundrum applies to a guy like John Travolta, a man who clearly has a soul and an identity, but who appears inexplicably trapped in a world he can’t seem to find an escape from.

Mind-boggling.

The Late Jasmine Fiore and Her Alleged Murderer Husband, The Now Late Ryan Jenkins

Reality show, Megan Wants A Millionaire has been officially cancelled. The show which was taped last year, had seventeen millionaires trying for the chance to be picked as a love interest for reality show ditz Megan Hauserman. Megan was previously on Rock of Love, Beauty and the Geek and I Love Money, AND Charm School. She is known for being a giant biotch and in her own words, aspires to be a trophy wife, which was why she was looking for a millionaire.

Ryan Jenkins, picture circled above, was one of the seventeen millionaire contestants. Megan and her “special needs” dog Lilly, starred in the show, but this season’s episodes ended abruptly when Ryan, whose net worth was two million dollars, became a suspect in his wife’s murder. Huh?

Let me explain…Ryan was one of the final contestants in Megan Wants A Millionaire. And of course as you know, these shows are taped WAY in advance, so when you see the show on TV, it is MONTHS after the filming for the show has already wrapped. After the shows filming was over, Ryan met and married Vegas model/actress Jasmine Fiore who he met in a Vegas casino. They married TWO DAYS after they met. Obviously Megan did not pick Ryan as the winner, and boy did she ever dodge a bullet.

Ryan also had trouble with the law this past June after a domestic violence incidence with his wife Jasmine, resulting in a misdemeanor count of battery. Too bad they didn’t hold on to Ryan when they had him. The two reconciled and were headed for a trip to Vegas for a poker game and checked into the L’Auberge Del Mar hotel. Ryan was seen checking out the following morning ALONE. The next day Ryan reported that Jasmine was missing. It was the last trip Jasmine ever took.

Jasmine’s badly beaten and crushed nude body was found strangled and stuffed in a suitcase with her fingers and teeth removed. The suitcase was found in a dumpster in Buena Park Ca. It is assumed, the cutting of her fingers and removal of her teeth was an obvious attempt to thwart off discovering Jasmine’s identity, but that ended when she was identified by the serial numbers on her breast implants. At the risk of sounding crass…and I don’t mean any disrespect, and I apologize in advance — but I guess fake boobs are good for something after all.

Jasmine’s mother said that the couple had argued frequently and Ryan was jealous of Jasmine’s ex-boyfriends. That jealousy unfortunately reared its ugly head in a huge way and ended a 28 year-old’s life.

Authorities said Ryan was headed to Canada where he was born. From an earlier snippet from Eonline,when this story was first unfolding:

Sheriffs in Washington’s Whatcom County, the northernmost, border-sharing county in the state, found Jenkins’ car near an empty boat trailer at a marina. They also had a report of a man of his description arriving by boat in another nearby location, from which they believe he walked across the border.”

But then the tides turned and the manhunt ended when Ryan was found dead in a hotel room. I hate to say karma is a bitch…as I say it in SO many of my articles… but if the shoe fits….

More from Eonline:

The manhunt for murder suspect Ryan Jenkins is officially over. Canadian police found the former reality star dead in a hotel room this afternoon, E! News has confirmed. 

Authorities have not yet released an official cause of death, but police say the 32-year-old died of an apparent suicide. He reportedly hanged himself.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police found his body in a motel room in Hope, British Columbia, a town 84 miles east of Vancouver.

The death ends an international manhunt for the Megan Wants a Millionaire finalist, who fled to his native Canada on foot last week.

“The sadness of all this is that Mr. Jenkins will not be standing before an Orange County jury for his crime,” Buena Park Police Lt. Steve Holliday said in a press conference last night.

The manhunt for murder suspect Ryan Jenkins is officially over. Canadian police found the former reality star dead in a hotel room this afternoon, E! News has confirmed. 

Authorities have not yet released an official cause of death, but police say the 32-year-old died of an apparent suicide. He reportedly hanged himself.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police found his body in a motel room in Hope, British Columbia, a town 84 miles east of Vancouver.

The death ends an international manhunt for the Megan Wants a Millionaire finalist, who fled to his native Canada on foot last week.

“The sadness of all this is that Mr. Jenkins will not be standing before an Orange County jury for his crime,” Buena Park Police Lt. Steve Holliday said in a press conference last night.

“Megan Wants A Millionaire” was immediately yanked after only a few episodes aired. And of course it was before you can find out who Megan picked. Ryan was slated to go on the third season of I Love of Money, and then that show was also canceled.

So what did VH1 have to say about all this?

VH1 was quoted by the Washington Post:

 ”Ryan Jenkins was a contestant on “Megan Wants a Millionaire” — an outside production, produced and owned by 51 Minds, that is licensed to VH1.”

Hmm, so who didn’t do their homework here? I guess 51 Minds has some explaining to do? One has to wonder just how indepth these background checks were of the seventeen contestants prior to the show? Just because you are a millionaire doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be fully screened. The name Phil Spector comes to mind.

Or perhaps 51 Minds is off the hook, especially if Ryan had no prior history of violence. Seems odd though that this would be the first time that he ever lashed out at a woman. People like this usually have a history of abuse. I wonder if any other cases of abuse will come forward and shed more light on his past. It’s also possible he could have hired an accomplice. A man with his financial means could very easily have done so. It’s also being reported this gruesome story will unfold further, as more evidence is brought forward concerning one of Ryan’s cars.

So where is Megan in all this? 

Did the producers of 51 Minds put her in harm’s way? I’d say so. She probably had to sign all sorts of waivers before doing the show, so they would not be liable for anything, but this case is certainly frightening and has highly unusual circumstances, and if she has the right lawyer, as they say…. contracts are made to be broken.

So perhaps Megan will become a millionaire herself now via a lawsuit?  If not for negligence by the producers for putting her in harm’s way, but perhaps financial loss? She must have lost out on a butt-load of cash from the royalties from the show? And there will also be no reunion show. This has also put a big dent in any residuals that she would have received from the show marketing, like photos or appearances with her newly selected millionaire. Maybe VH1 had a spin off show on the horizon for Megan’s life with her new millionaire. Maybe it’s still forth coming. After all she did pick someone. But who?

Yeah.. I know how fake all this reality stuff is, and only one couple in the history of reality shows has ever stayed together. Fans are probably wondering what will happen. I am not sure how all this works, but it seems like there is a lawsuit in there somewhere.

Although this women makes me cringe, and as much as I can’t stand her with her shallow ideals and the way she speaks with EVERY one of her “S’s” overly enunciated until it sounds like steam escaping – which hurts my ears — I wouldn’t wish any harm to anyone.

Looks like Megan made the right choice in not picking Ryan. Which is why Megan is still alive today and thankfully her dog Lilly still has her Mommy to care for her. Perhaps Megan can now pursue her dream of helping “mentally challenged dogs”, which is what she said she would do with the winnings if she won the “I Love Money” show that she was previously on. She has of course, lost that chance. 

Megan once mentioned that her adopted dog Lilly jumped out of her arms when she was puppy and fell and that the fall could have contributed to Lilly’s state of mind today. Megan has said that she also jumped out of her mother’s arms when she was a baby. Hmmm… that explains a lot.

Megan has had troubles with many women in the past, including Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy. The two got in an awful tiff over a lousy comment that Megan had made about Sharon’s ”Prince of Darknesshubby. Even before then, Sharon was not too tickled with the likes of Megan. When Sharon hosted Charm School, she was quoted as saying:

“”She does have a pretty damn good body, but no f***ing brain. Her brain is between her legs.”

Yikes… Well maybe Megan is some how humbled by this experience. Perhaps she has learned that money is in fact the root to all evil? NAH!!

Alex Da Silva of TV’s So You Think You Can Dance fame, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting four of his students in his two homes over the last six years.
The charges that were brought up against Da Silva made me cringe. There is a total of eight felony counts. Four counts of forcible rape, two counts of assault with intent to commit rape and two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object. Are you freakin’ kidding me?

Da Silva is 41 years old. Let’s hope that this abuse has not been going on for a longer period of time. It is always possible that more students may come forward. With Da Silva arrested, other students may now have the courage to speak up. It really makes my blood boil when I hear of any cases of abuse like this. But when it involves any sort of teacher or mentor, it enrages me even more. The thought of students being victims of someone they trust AND someone they are paying, is just horrendous. Not to mention the pain and suffering that these victim’s families and friends must endure. I wonder if Da Silva promised these poor students fame and fortune.

The bail was set at on over 6 million dollars, and when this trial comes up, if found guilty, Da Silva can face life in prison. I hope he gets what’s coming to him and that he doesn’t get a slap on the wrist like SO many rich or famous people do.

Eonline reported:

So you think you can come up with an alibi?

Alex Da Silva, who up until this past season was So You Think You Can Dance’s go-to salsa, mambo and Argentine tango choreographer, was arrested at his North Hollywood home this morning on a bunch of sex-crime charges involving four different women he tutored.

All told, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office charged the 41-year-old dance instructor with eight felony counts: four counts of forcible rape, two counts of assault with intent to commit rape and two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object.

Da Silva is currently being held on $6.2 million bail and, if convicted on the charges, could face life in prison.

According to Deputy District Attorney Rosa Alarcon, who works within the bureau’s Sex Crimes Division, the alleged assaults were committed against women ages 20 to 26, all of whom are dancers, and all of whom met the choreographer through his self-taught instructional classes.

The incidents all took place between August 2002 and March 2009. Da Silva worked as a choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance between 2005 and 2008.

We’re guessing his feet are anything but happy right about now.

Da Sleazo’s career doesn’t have to be over though. He can still carry on with his love for dance if sent to prison. I am sure there are plenty of inmates that would love to trip the light fantastic with him at a place where the tables can turn and the predator will then become the prey. Seems only fair to me.

Perhaps they will send him to the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines.
After all, the inmates at that center have been busting a move there for some time.

But that would be WAY too kind of a sentence for the likes of Alex Da Sleazo. I think a place a little farther South with a muy caliente climate would suit him better, where he can be among his own kind.
Everybody sing… Feeling HOT HOT HOT!

A heaping helping of the crazy sauce, with a side of WTF? garnished with a spoonful of “SAY WHAT?

Just watch this and it will explain everything.

I blame TMZ for this nonsense. No one in their right mind would give this woman spare change, let alone the time of day, but alas, those gutter-dwellers were there slurping it all up with a spoon.

To make a long story short, this crazy bitch claims that Michael Jackson is the biological father to Connor Cruise, Tom Cruise’s adopted son, and she, Claire Elisabeth “I AM F*CKING INSANE” Fields Cruise is his mother. She also claims he and the three Jackson children were conceived using some kind of “technology” that does not include all known forms of conception. Immaculate perhaps.

Alright, we all know this loon is smoking the tainted stuff, but what bothers me most about all this MJ “biological” parental feeding frenzy nonsense is the how it may be affecting Michael’s kids. Don’t they deserve to grieve and live in relative harmony? Does no one have these kids best interests at heart? I mean every day some whackadoodle comes forward saying they are the biological parent to Michael’s kids. Did we learn nothing from Anna Nicole’s death?

Is the world getting crazier? What’s next, alien invasion? Just kidding Xenu, just kidding.

(courtesy of MK)

Maria Shriver, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I have always referred to as Skeletor, is having her annual Women’s Conference in Long Beach Ca. this October.

She has asked John Travolta and Kelly Preston to attend the conference and participate in a panel entitled “Grief & Resilience”.  The panel will also include Elizabeth Edwards and Susan St. James, who’ve all lost teenage sons in tragic accidents. This is the first interview that Travolta and Preston have agreed todo since the death of their son this past December. It was recently reported that Travolta was too distraught to promote his latest movie, so perhaps this conference will help them come to terms with their son’s death a bit.

I am not going to get into my personal views which are shared by many about the death of their 16-year old son Jett. Let’s just say the circumstances surrounding his death are beyond questionable and it left many very important questions unanswered. Most especially, that their Scientology beliefs have a lot to do with unscientific unproven methods which they used in the treatment of Jett’s condition while he was alive and their stance on psychiatric drugs.

Some of the unanswered questions are, why would they hire two untrained men to care for their special needs son, why weren’t these two people questioned or interviewed yet, what was the reason they flew to the Bahamas to have a sixty person party when their son was having grand mal seizures, and why was there such a the quickie autopsy? There are many other unanswered questions surrounding their son’s death, but these are top on MY list.

Travolta did admit that his son was autistic in a police report, even though he previously said that his son had Kawasaki Syndrome. But according to the National Enquirer, this past June, he told the police his son was autistic:

 ”On Monday 29 December 2008 I travelled to Grand Bahama Island. I was accompanied by my wife Kelly Preston, my son Jett Travolta, my daughter Ella Travolta, Eli Wheaton, Jeff Kathrein and others. We stayed at town houses at Old Bahama bay, Grand Bahama. My son Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and he was autistic.

So perhaps someday, if Scientology loosens its death-like grip on its members, all these questions will be answered. Back in 2007, Travolta and Preston were also present at a fund raiser for Narconon Hawaii. Hawaii is Preston’s native home. Narconon is a front group of Scientology as well as and the CCHR (The Citizens Commission On Human Rights), which they both highly support. Sadly, there are many Scientology front groups in which unsuspecting people have given donations to, due to the fact that they had no idea that these groups had Scientology ties. Unfortunately cities and towns who have not done their homework have funded these front group’s programs and continue to fund them with their tax payer’s dollars!

Front groups such as Criminon, Drug Free Marshalls and Second Chance  have all received financial help from tax payer’s money.

Kirstey Alley and Kelly Preston on Right at Psychiatry Protest

The CCHR does not believe that mental illness is a disease and they believe that all aspects of psychiatry are evil and destructive. They are against psychiatric drugs, and launch huge campaigns against the two. But there are many more disturbing facts within this organization. The CCHR has a department called The Office of Special Affairs aka OSA, whose main job is to dig up dirt on critics and psychiatrists and pry into and expose their personal lives and they use illegal means to obtain the information. Their big enemies are psychiatrists, Scientology critics and of course all aspects of the media. They have a Fair Game policy, which is very much alive and in use today — and carried out ruthlessly. Many victims of Fair Game have been brought forward in court, and more will continue.
Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

 ”A person may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed” October 1967 Policy Letter (HCOPL 18 Oct 67 Issue IV, Penalties for Lower Conditions.

Scientology members believe that psychiatry is responsible for the holocaust. They actually have a traveling exhibit called Psychiatry Industry of Death. I kid you not. If you are in the California area, you can go visit the permanant exhibit there. But word of caution, don’t bring the kids. It is not the kind of exhibit you would want young children to see, with all their morbid displays and holocaust pictures. 

From Within The CCHR Exhibit.

Now this upcoming Women’s Conference interview with Travolta and Preston must have Scientology a tad nervous to say the least. Usually all questions are known before hand when it comes to any Scientologist agreeing to an interview. Scientology likes to keep a complete handle on what will be asked and what the answers will be. All as part of the control they have over their members ability to speak freely.

A snippet from the Associate Press said:

“Shriver said she will interview Preston as part of a panel on grief, along with Elizabeth Edwards and actress Susan Saint James, whose teenage sons were killed in accidents. The panel will be the only session not broadcast on the Internet.

“All three of them lost sons. All are at different stages of the grief,” Shriver said.

Although it is doubtful that Scientology will be discussed at all in their interview, I would think the fact that they are talking openly about their continued grief for their son would be a red flag to Scientology. Why? Because Scientology’s beliefs on human emotions, are far from what other people believe in. While most people, doctors, and psychiatrists would agree that grieving is necessary in order to help the healing process begin after a loved one has passed, Scientology looks at grieving as a weakness, and should be handled and audited out on their e-meter, which is nothing more than a lie detector. Cult followers have been convinced that this lie detector can audit out any problems you may have. You may ask how is this possible? Simple. IT’S NOT. But cult followers are willing to fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars for hours and hours of continual auditing simply because they were convinced that this “machine” is one of the answers to all their problems. 

Emeter AKA "The Cans"

So what are Scientology’s views on death? Scientology believes that a person only ”drops their meat body”, and that a person can come back in many different lives several times.  (A little something that Hubbard stole from Buddhism). Scientology has never made a big deal of death, and tries to suppress the normal emotions associated with it. I would imagine that Scientology sent “handlers” to Travolta and Preston right after Jett’s death, to try to keep the PR at a minimum, and to curtail their grief as much as possible. Grieving is a normal emotion and greatly needed (to a certain extent) in order to get on with your life after a tragedy. But grieving to Scientology is a big no-no. Why?

But wait, there’s more…

This is just a brief update to let readers know THEY MUST GO READ this riveting expose on the Church of Scientology and church leader David Miscavige’s violent reign of terror. The St. Petersburg Times did an in depth, scathing and forensic investigation into the cult of the stars.

The Church of Scientology has been a target of this site since we first discovered the Anonymous vs. Scientology video in early 2008. Beginning with the leaking of a Scientology propaganda video featuring Tom Cruise and the simultaneous release of Andrew Morton’s searing unauthorized biography on the film star, Scientology has been under the microscope of several media outlets, as well as the concentrated target of an internet based activist group calling themselves Anonymous.

The past 18 months since this exposure began, cracks have been surfacing within the Church of Scientology and its tightly controlled PR and many who’ve closely watched this unraveling felt certain that this was the beginning of the end of an era of terror, financial and spiritual abuses at the hands of Miscavige and Scientology subordinates.

We will be going over the 3-part expose by the STP Times, but we encourage you to check it out yourself. Also of interest, is Glosslip’s series of articles and first-person interviews with ex-Scientologists on our Glosslip Radio segment at BlogTalkRadio.

More coverage coming soon as we delve deeper into this ground-breaking investigative series.

Wikipedia has shown Scientology the door. Buh-bye Scientology. 

It seems that pseudo-science “religion” Scientology didn’t play fair, (do they ever?) so it was time for Wikipedia to kick the bullies off the playground. Well, sort of.

Allow us to explain.

Of course you can still read about the cult on Wikipedia as their listing has NOT been banned from Wikipedia, but rather Scientology-based IP addresses.

Essentially, the Wikipedia arbitration committee voted unanimously to block IP addresses associated with the cult from editing their site, as they were doing it from multiple IP addresses called sockpuppet and meatpuppet accounts. But like all things on the internet, it’s a little more complicated than that.

This ban got VERY confusing to me once I started reading into Wikipedia’s full decision and all the mumbo jumbo, but we will do out best to explain.

The Huffington Post explains it a lot better that I can:

Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology and its members from editing its site after discovering that members of the church were editing articles in order to give the church favorable coverage.

The move is being hailed as “an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits,” and it is the first instance in which Wikipedia has banned a group as large as the Church of Scientology.

The Register reports:

According to evidence turned up by admins in this long-running Wikiland court case, multiple editors have been “openly editing [Scientology-related articles] from Church of Scientology equipment and apparently coordinating their activities.” Leaning on the famed WikiScanner, countless news stories have discussed the editing of Scientology articles from Scientology IPs, and some site admins are concerned this is “damaging Wikipedia’s reputation for neutrality.”

One admin tells The Reg that policing edits from Scientology machines has been particularly difficult because myriad editors sit behind a small number of IPs and, for some reason, the address of each editor is constantly changing. This prevents admins from determining whether a single editor is using multiple Wikipedia accounts to game the system. In Wikiland, such sockpuppeting is not allowed.

The Wikicourt considered banning edits from Scientology IPs only on Scientology-related articles. But this would require admins to “checkuser” editors – i.e. determine their IP – every time an edit is made. And even then they may not know who’s who.

The case— the fourth Scientology-related dispute on the site in four years — opened in December 2008 and closed Thursday with the Wikipedia arbitration committee voting unanimously to block IP addresses associated with the Church from editing the site.

“The purpose of Wikipedia is to create a high-quality, free-content encyclopedia in an atmosphere of camaraderie and mutual respect among contributors,” part of the decision read. “Use of the encyclopedia to advance personal agendas – such as advocacy or propaganda and philosophical, ideological or religious dispute – or to publish or promote original research is prohibited.”

“Editors who access Wikipedia through an organization’s IP address and who edit Wikipedia articles which relate to that organization have a presumptive conflict of interest,” it continued. “Regardless of these editors’ specific relationship to that organization or function within it, the organization itself bears a responsibility for appropriate use of its servers and equipment. If an organization fails to manage that responsibility, Wikipedia may address persistent violations of fundamental site policies through blocks or bans.”
Read the full decision.

So there you have it.

Scientology is currently in court in France and being charged with:

“Illicit practices in attempts to sell their alleged self-help material. The Church also faces charges of illegally operating as a pharmacy by illegally treating individuals with prescription medications”.

It is rumored that Norway may follow suit. There are also many other suits filed from ex cult members. And a myriad of books of their horrid experiences is expected to follow.

So once again I have to say (and with glee) it looks like Scientology’s days are numbered. KUDOS to Wikipedia for not being bullied, and doing the right thing. It’s a start.

Now if only the US would grow some balls, refuse to have their pockets padded and pay attention to the MOUNTAIN of complaints, videos of protesters getting assaulted, evidence of fair game, ex member testimonies and books that were written and all the reports that were filed with the FBI, then maybe we could declare this a major step.

Truly, I don’t know what the US government is waiting for. I understand these things take time, but with every day that ticks by, it is another day that a Scientology Sea Org member suffers, and thousands of family members miss their children that they haven’t seen in years.

It’s one more day that Scientology bilks it’s members out of more money. It’s one more day that someone gets brainwashed. It’s another day of punishment for someone on the Sea Org’s RPF. It’s another day of exhaustion and going to bed hungry. It’s another day a girl gets forced into aborting her child.

Time is precious, let’s not give the cult one more day to harm people. Let’s not let them trick one more person into buying their “Bridge To Nowhere.”