Thrown out on street with $750k??

I swear. These "Hollywish" (almost Hollywood but not quite...just moguls that have money) people drive me nuts. I was reading an article about a Broadway theater owner who divorced his wife (she posted a video insulting him on YouTube). According to the deal made before they got married, she has to leave within 30 days and he will pay her $750,000.

And you know what SHE says?

"I think it's disgusting," she said. "I'm really, really disappointed with the decision."

"basically throwing me out on the street."

Since when is $750,000 "on the street"? I am sure many homeless people (and divorcee's) would LOVE to have that much money. One of my friends had a husband that was cheating on her for most of her marriage and since Ohio is a no-fault state, she really wasn't entitled to much. She was more left on the street that the woman in New York trying to catch a pity party (her YouTube video got 3 million hits by the way).

She CAN move out of New York and $750k if used properly can last a long while. She doesn't need to spend it all on a house, car, and shoes.

Smokers, Aviation, and The Birdie

Smokers

Yes, I do realize you have every right to smoke outdoors. Yes, I do realize the Ohio ban is only indoor. But really, do you have to light up 5 cigarettes right next to me with the wind heading into my face over a 2-3 hour time frame? I was at the Dayton Air Show yesterday and I think that due to the nature of the show and the close proximity to other people, smoking should not be allowed. I was in the front row in the pavilion and there were to men to the left of me (upwind) that had overtaken an empty table and one man smoked at least 5 cigarettes during a span of 2-3 hours. Not only that, but as I said there was a strong wind and I was sitting downwind. I am very sensitive to smoke (even more so now that the smoking ban is in effect) and I had to use my shirt and hands to cover up my nose every time the person lit up. I was going to go back and complain to personnel but on my way I noticed 3 or 4 smokers and I realized it would be a lost cause. I wrote an email to the air show people to suggest making the event non-smoking for the courtesy of the rest of their patrons. People can wait to light up and certainly don't need to stuff MY lungs with half a pack. It's not like I could move as the tables are assigned. They shouldn't have even been sitting there in the first place.

Aviation Truck

Also, there was an Aviation truck that was parked in front of us (past the fence in the performing area) nearly all of the show and since we weren't allowed to stand near the fence, there were some parts of the show we missed completely. The people in the Aviation truck were not working...they were standing and taking photos which was very disruptive. Luckily for the F-22 display, there was someone that came and told them to move. The only thing keeping us there was the F-22, otherwise we wouldn't have come or stayed.

The Birdie

I understand some people aren't able to stay within the speed limits, but seriously, you don't need to stick out your middle finger to say I'm driving too slow. A couple of weeks ago I was doing the speed limit or a little over (speed limit was 55 and I was going 57ish) in a very highly monitored area by police (hence why I was on cruise). A car whizzes by, cuts me off, and the driver sticks out his finger. What on earth was his problem? Maybe he's just pissed that there are speed limits for a reason, because people like him create accidents (did I mention that there was a car on my right side he almost hit to cut in front of me?). URRGH

Buy American....Save Lives

If you know me, you know how adamant I am about keeping money "in the family". In fact the lady at Enterprise Rent-A-Car gave me a weird look when I asked for an American made vehicle for a rental because I (and I quote), "didn't want to die". The way the US government has allowed so much outsourcing is sickening and obviously we import way too much.

For those of you who drive a Toyota, I hope you feel guilty because people died to make your car. Not in an accident. They died because they were overworked.

Labor bureau: Japanese man, 45, died of overwork

By JAY ALABASTER
Associated Press Writer

TOKYO — A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm.

The man who died was aged 45 and had been under severe pressure as the lead engineer in developing a hybrid version of Toyota's blockbuster Camry line, said Mikio Mizuno, the lawyer representing his wife. The man's identity is being withheld at the request of his family, who continue to live in Toyota City where the company is based.

In the two months up to his death, the man averaged more than 80 hours of overtime per month, according to Mizuno.

He regularly worked nights and weekends, was frequently sent abroad and was grappling with shipping a model for the pivotal North American International Auto Show in Detroit when he died of ischemic heart disease in January 2006. The man's daughter found his body at their home the day before he was to leave for the United States.

The ruling was handed down June 30 and will allow his family to collect benefits from his work insurance, Mizuno said.

An officer at the Aichi Labor Bureau on Wednesday confirmed the ruling, but declined to comment on the record.

In a statement, Toyota Motor Corp. offered its condolences and said it would work to improve monitoring of the health of its workers.

There is an effort in Japan to cut down on deaths from overwork, known as "karoshi." Such deaths have steadily increased since the Health Ministry first recognized the phenomenon in 1987.

Last year, a court in central Japan ordered the government to pay compensation to Hiroko Uchino, the wife of a Toyota employee who collapsed at work and died at age 30 in 2002. She took the case to court after her application to the local labor bureau for compensation was rejected.

Think about that the next time you want to buy a foreign made vehicle. It sounds just a bit like slavery.

Chris Henry Needs My Money? WHHAAAT?

Despite making about $2.5 million since 2005 as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, Chris Henry is so broke he wants taxpayers to pay for a record of his trial.

"He's broke," said Perry Ancona, the former wide receiver's attorney said Tuesday, July 8. "He doesn't have any money to pay for a transcript."

I'm sorry but he made his bed and now he needs to sleep in it. He was the one who couldn't get his act straight. He was the one who failed to properly manage his money. Seriously. People like that drive me crazy. He wants US (the people who aren't criminals and know how to pay bills and not spend all our money on stupid crap) to pay for his trial. HAH. I don't think so.

Drive Me Crazy? This could kill me....and you...and the world!

Who is their right mind would do something that "could" essentially blow up the world?

Ah yes. Americans and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). See below.

Posted: May 23, 2008
11:40 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Could the upcoming launch of the world's biggest atomic particle smasher – nicknamed the Big Bang Machine – touch off a cataclysmic event that dooms our planet?

That's the fear of some critics of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which is built to slam protons together at an unprecedented peak energy of 14 trillion electron volts – nearing levels scientists believe were reached in the first microseconds after the "big bang."

The critics have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government and the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, known as CERN, as scientists prepare to bring the collider online in July.

Co-plaintiffs Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho fear that when the collider reaches full power, it could create black holes or strangelets that would grow and eventually consume the Earth.

A black hole is a region of space so dense that light cannot escape its gravitational pull. Scientists have not proved the existence of strangelets, a hypothetical cosmological object containing an exotic form of matter.

Physicists at CERN and similar research facilities dismiss the doomsday claim as nonsense. But Wagner, a former nuclear safety officer who says he's studied physics for more than 30 years, wants the project shelved for four months to allow time for further safety reviews.

Fermilab in Illinois, which has the lead U.S. role in the Large Hadron Collider, also is a defendant in the suit, along with the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, according to MSNBC.

The Justice Department says it will not comment on the case before it files a response next month.

Federal attorneys are not expected to focus on the black hole question. They have successfully handled previous lawsuits by Wagner by narrowing their defense to issues such as claims the government and government-funded scientists have complied with environmental guidelines.

Scientists at CERN hope to see the first low-power proton collisions later this summer or in the fall. The collider will not reach full power – the big bang energies – until next year. By that time the Justice Department hopes the legal issues will be resolved.

OH happy day.