Showing posts with label Leona Helmsley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leona Helmsley. Show all posts

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What should be done with the Helmsley billions is to set up an independent foundation which would funnel money to animal shelters all over the country.

The PETA and HSUS bastards should never see a dime of the Helmsley fortune. They aren't in the business of animal welfare but to abolish animal domestication.

The nutjobs in the comments note the Center for Consumer Freedom, of which the writer of the op-ed is a representative, is an industry "front" group. Whoop-dee-doo. So that automatically makes PETA and HSUS reputable.

Horseshit.
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This weekend is the annual shindig of the Nutroots Nation, formerly called Yearly Kos after the king of the nutroots himself, Markos Moulitsas. It'll be the same old shit, different state.

Of course organizers were going to pick Austin. Did anybody expect them to pick any other place in Texas?
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Josef Fritzl's family has gotten a new home.
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Miscellaneous News.

Leona Helmsley's billions may literally go to the dogs.

Her beloved Maltese, Trouble, got just a tiny fraction of her fortune.
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In one of the most graphic instances of how great our health care system is, an ignored psychiatric patient died on the floor of a New York hospital.

Hospital officials said that on June 20, the day after Ms. Green died, the hospital took action against staff members responsible for her. The director of psychiatry, the doctor on duty and the director of security at Kings County were fired, said Ana Marengo, a spokeswoman for the Health and Hospitals Corporation. She said two nurses and a security guard had been suspended pending union-mandated hearings.


Of course the video of the death is all over the internet:



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The Delaware House of Representatives passed a resolution protecting those with severe brain injury, mentally disabled, or have impaired consciousness.

This is in response to the case of Lauren Richardson, a 24-year-old in the middle of a case where her mother wants to kill her through dehydration and starvation, while her father wants to keep her alive.
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Miscellaneous News.

A Sparks, Nevada, couple is selling some behind-the-scenes footage of the 1961 film, The Misfits, filmed in northern Nevada.

It will be auctioned off Saturday at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
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Trouble won't get as much money as Leona Helmsley willed him, but he will still be set for the rest of his life.
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Del Martin, 87, and partner Phyllis Lyon, 84, became the first gay/lesbian couple to marry in San Francisco.

Both are well known in the lesbian rights movement, and Martin especially I remember from some her writings about battered women.

Martin was actually married to a man for four years and divorced him. Martin has one daughter. She kept his name. Her maiden name is Dorothy Taliaferro, and she was born in San Francisco. I wonder if she is related to KGO talk show host Ray Taliaferro.
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Obits.

The Queen of Mean's rule is over: Real estate developer Leona Helmsley, 87, has died of heart failure.
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Crater Lake National Park Photos 1

 Here are a few pictures I took at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon today, including a couple of them from the historic lodge: