The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics 83 to 79 in perhaps the most dramatic game in NBA Finals history. But even more dramatic was the after-game-seven celebration in LA, as riots broke out and taxi cabs were set on fire.
This video below, posted at CitizenTube.com, shows the scene just a reported two blocks from Staples Center where the NBA game was played:
According to The Associated Press, 38 people were arrested for "public intoxication, vandalism or inciting a riot."
Between that and the New York City rap riot, I wonder what's going on at times.
Friday, June 18, 2010
The 49ers Santa Clara Stadium issue: an interesting email
On June 8th 2010, election day, and the same day of the Angry Luxor Cab Driver incident, the San Francisco 49ers scored and important and this blogger thought impossible victory in getting Santa Clara County to give the go-ahead to build the 49ers new stadium.
But in the wake of the victory, knifes are coming out from all over because of the very valid claim that Santa Clara can't afford to pay their share for the stadium. This email, the name withheld, and which will be expanded on in the coming weeks, is telling:
As I say, stay tuned...
But in the wake of the victory, knifes are coming out from all over because of the very valid claim that Santa Clara can't afford to pay their share for the stadium. This email, the name withheld, and which will be expanded on in the coming weeks, is telling:
Hi Zennie,
Re: your interview with Mr. (Don) Perata and that both of you were surprised that the 49ers won the stadium vote. I live in Santa Clara and I'm on the board of the grassroots organization that was opposed to the stadium subsidy.
If you want to know how they won, you can contact me. They spent >$4.1 million on a saturation campaign of misinformation to tell the voters that the stadium won't cost residents anything. We have a mayor and 4 city council members who campaigned heavily for the 49ers, and our schools superintendent and entire school board did too.
All of their names, faces, and titles appeared repeatedly in campaign materials.
We've had a virtual media blackout here on what the true costs of the stadium are, because both the SJ Mercury and the Santa Clara Weekly wanted the stadium so badly, they were both unwilling to make a fair presentation to the voters of the costs, loss, debt, and risks. The TV news was just as bad or worse. The Chron was better, but not many people here subscribe to the Chron compared to the SJ Merc, and the Weekly is delivered for free to every house in the city.
Then the 49ers conducted a TV, Radio, and mail saturation campaign with misleading information
(no cost to residents, no general fund impact, no new taxes for a stadium-ever, etc.).
The 49ers took away our right to vote on a city charter change by going to Sacramento.
They took control of the ballot language through the initiative process and thus we had a ballot with no cost disclosure other than $40 million in RDA funds. The remainder of the $444 million that Santa Clara and its agencies are responsible for was not included on the ballot. In CA, there is no law that requires financial disclosure on city ballot measures like there is on state ballot propositions. The 49ers paid big bucks to an attorney who specializes in - wait for it - initiatives!
I'm sure he knew that if they wrote their own initiative they could control the language and not disclose costs, as well as not be subject to CEQA challenges.
If your interested in the real story of what happened here, contact me. I've tried for months to get print or broadcast media to tell the truth about what's been happening here, but all of the print and broadcast media are too concerned about their relationships with the 49ers to write about what really happened.
As I say, stay tuned...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Bergdorf Goodman NYC by Suzannah B. Troy
The staff at the men's store Bergdorf treated me like gold so I had to stifle my activism and behave myself when Arnold made his presence felt... I have to add I was dressed in a men's under shirt less than attractive baggy shorts and they treated me like I was wearing an Armani suit. I was impressed. I can't say that for Barneys. Barneys staff are nice but with attitude and some are not nice.
Way back when I thought Arnold was a super hottie but now I know he was steriod user, cheater and rumored to be a sexplotier. From what I have heard using a term for his anatomy called the helmet....
In my opinion he is just gross. He is a lot older than me but like so many celebrities -- Holly woo woo types he has had everything done to turn back the clock. I can't tell you how badly I want to run up to him and video tape him as I asked him about California's budgetary crisis! I did yell at Mike Bloomberg from the steps of City Hall, "Oust the king!" and king Mike gives me the thumbs up. But Bergdorf's men's department is not City Hall!
The people including youngsters got excited when they saw Arnold but not as excited as he got by their attention....it is clearly still a high for him -- the attention....
His idea of the American dream is to cheat your way to it and marrying a Kennedy was like getting a Cadillac.
If Mike Bloomberg had simply showed me his plans to tear down our historic neighborhoods and make them into bad xeroxes of Dubai also causing mass displacement as well as endangering our lives I would have fought against him from the get go.
I don't want king Mike or steroid Arnold in The White House and it took all my self control to not run up to Arnold with my iphone and nail him on the massive budget crisis in CA governor and put his response on YouTube.
The gracious and golden treatment by the staff of Bergdorf helped me to find some impulse control.
Besides TMZ showed Arnold and his wife living beyond large in Hawaii as the budget crisis looms larger than New York's which is hard to believe.
Arnold is not as smart as Mike Bloomberg and at least Mike did not use steriods to make his fortune but both do not belong serving the people.
Arnold vacations in Hawaii and Mike in Bermuda as the budget crisis grows like a giant axe about to drop on people's jobs, cuts and closing that people have not yet begun to understand.
Miley Cyrus will not press Perez Hilton, but ABC's The View drops ads
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Perez Hilton, put the photo up for view via a Twitter link, then took it down after a hue and cry from the Internet grew rapidly. The problem is Perez Hilton broke a rule that you don't show sexually revealing photos of a minor. Miley Cyrus is 17 years old, which, even if she's a mega star, puts her in minor status.
While Miley Cyrus and her parents Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus say they will not press charges, Perez Hilton's actions caused ABC to drop ads for The View tv show from his blog at PerezHilton.com. What Perez either did not know, or forgot was that it's one thing to show Miley Cyrus doing something sexually suggestive fully clothed, it's way out of bounds to show her in a state that goes too far. Miley wasn't doing anything in the way of performing a "pole dance" or grind dancing with Adam Shankman as reported here:
PerezHilton's blog is worth so much money, a reported $20 million, you'd think he doesn't need to stoop to such actions as the Miley Cyrus dress stunt, but he did it.
But now that The View is off Perez' blog and it's lost an estimated $28 million in value in just two years, perhaps Perez Hilton will reconsider his actions.
Perez Hilton's blog worth $20 million or $32 million or $564?
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First, just how much a blog is worth is a controversial subject because the methods used to estimate it are all over the place. While Perez Hilton was offered $20 million for PerezHilton.com, it was worth $32 million in 2009 and $48 million in 2008.
But if you use Technorati.com's blog value app, Zennie62.com is worth more than Perez Hilton.com. Zennie62 is http://zennie2005.blogspot.com, which is valued at just over $10,000; Perez Hilton's blog clocks in at $564, and that's it.
Obviously the Technorati.com blog value app has some problems. It's based on estimated link value, and not on any assumption or information on ad value. Zennie62.com as of this writing has no major add because I have not shopped it around for sponsors. With that, it's cool to know it's worth five figures, but it's throwing off fairly good monthly revenue from Google Adsense via YouTube alone. Also, our overall stats are more impressive than a $10,000 value would imply. I'd add a zero for $100,000.
(And that's just one blog; there are 102 blogs in the Zennie62.com network.)
As Douglas A. McIntyre writes at 24/7 Wall St, the blog that produced the Perez Hilton estimate of $32 million, a blog is worth what a person will purchase it for. But even with that fact, what Perez Hilton's blog is valued at has dropped a almost $30 million between 2008 and 2010. That should give Perez Hilton pause, but not so much.
Consider that today there's an estimated 126 million blogs and that in 2008 there were 112 million blogs; so between 2008 and 2009, a gigantic 14 million more blogs were added to the blogsphere. What that means is less natural market share for all blogs, PerezHilton.com included. That should translate to less value. There are more blogs competing for add dollars than ever before.
As I've said before, the best answer is for media companies to buy large chucks blogs. Apparently Avid Life Media is doing just that.
Koman Coulibaly: USA Slovenia World Cup ref blasted on blogs
Koman Coulibaly moved from being the most hated man on Twitter for Friday, to the most hated man in the blogsphere.
Coulibaly, the World Cup Soccer referee, well-known in Africa before today's match pitting the USA v. Slovenia, erased from official record a goal scored by USA player Maurice Edu off a free kick by Landon Donovan that would have given the USA a 3-2 lead with just about 4 minutes remaining.
The non-call, call, an assumed offsides penalty that Coulibaly did not verify by a named team or player, and was not explained to the USA team, launched a torrent of outrage that first appeared on Twitter and is now all over the web.
And the blog posts are blistering.
Koman Coulibaly's call "makes it difficult to control one's rage" writes blogger Josh Dean in New York Magazine. Dean, comparing USA Soccer Coach Bob Bradley to the cartoon character Skeletor, blogs, Coulibaly flat out stole the game. His instincts were terrible for the entire 90 minutes, but his decision to disallow the U.S. team's third goal — an easy tap-in by Edu off a beautiful free kick from Donovan — was one of the worst calls I've ever seen in a game."
Will Brinson, writing for AOL's Fanhouse Blog, offers a complete understatement: "Koman Coulibaly quickly had his Wikipedia page defaced following the US v. Slovenia 2-2 draw. Right now, he's not a very popular man in America."
Danny Lopez at the Houston Press Blogs, calls Koman Coulibaly "the Jim Joyce of Soccer", which means, if that comparison is taken to its logical end, we should expect Koman Coulibaly to apologize for the call come Saturday in America.
Jim Joyce is the MLB umpire who took away Detroit Tigers Armando Galarraga's perfect game, then apologized for it a day later.
One can only hope.
Coulibaly, the World Cup Soccer referee, well-known in Africa before today's match pitting the USA v. Slovenia, erased from official record a goal scored by USA player Maurice Edu off a free kick by Landon Donovan that would have given the USA a 3-2 lead with just about 4 minutes remaining.
The non-call, call, an assumed offsides penalty that Coulibaly did not verify by a named team or player, and was not explained to the USA team, launched a torrent of outrage that first appeared on Twitter and is now all over the web.
And the blog posts are blistering.
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| Koman compared to Jim Joyce |
Will Brinson, writing for AOL's Fanhouse Blog, offers a complete understatement: "Koman Coulibaly quickly had his Wikipedia page defaced following the US v. Slovenia 2-2 draw. Right now, he's not a very popular man in America."
Danny Lopez at the Houston Press Blogs, calls Koman Coulibaly "the Jim Joyce of Soccer", which means, if that comparison is taken to its logical end, we should expect Koman Coulibaly to apologize for the call come Saturday in America.
Jim Joyce is the MLB umpire who took away Detroit Tigers Armando Galarraga's perfect game, then apologized for it a day later.
One can only hope.
Tila Tequila Is Obsessed With Perez Hilton - By Nikky Raney
The pot has called the kettle black.
I was working on my blog entry about Skype for the Future of Journalism, but I got a bit distracted and went on Twitter. I received a direct message from one of my favorite followers informing me that Tila Tequila held a contest for her fans/army to make videos protesting "Piggy Perez."
I don't know if anyone remembers back when Tila & Perez their twitter war, but during that time Perez told Tila that he would never write or speak of her again. He has kept his word, but Tila seems determined to get some attention from Perez. She will do ANYTHING she can to get his attention.
And, her latest stunt is just cruel. For someone who promotes positivity and claims that she is not a hater, she seems to be advocating the hatred of Perez Hilton. Especially by continually calling him "Piggy Perez."
"TilaOMG: Posting up winner for PIGGY PEREZ PROTEST CONTEST later today on www.MissTilaOmg.com Piggy going DOWN! xxox"
Wait, what? A CONTEST? Really? She goes so far as to hold a CONTEST? Honestly, I used to have some issues with Perez, and even wrote an editorial about how upset I became when he called himself a columnist, but the more Tila hates on Perez, the better he looks to me. This is because he has NOT spoken of Tila or responded to her in any way, shape, or form. She talks about him on her site on a daily basis and is always saying she will "dethrone" him.
Tila's Rot Spot's most recent entry "Special Pets" by Rotty discusses Tila's attack on Perez Hilton for being a "pedophile" and ends with :
"So even though I am no fan of Perez Hilton I can certainly tell you that if ANYONE should or will be spending time in ol' county it would certainly be Titla Tetwatla!!"
So, I decided that after reading TRS & Twitter I would go to MissTilaOmg.com and see for myself what this whole "contest" was all about.
First I saw that there were two "Hater of the Week" posts done within 24 hours of each other, and I wonder if I was misinformed. I thought that weeks were 7 days long, and a "something-of-the-week" could only happen once a week. She posts:
"Listen up TILA ARMY! So for the past 5-6 years Piggy Perez has built his career off of talking shit about people, and making their lives miserable and he’s always trying to ruin celebrities careers. For years, he has been sitting on his fat ass talking shit about people who are better then him so he has been SPEWING HATE and DEGRADING celebrities who has never done anything wrong to him. Well guess what? NOW IT IS TIME FOR PAYBACK!!! I am doing this for ALL THE CELEBRITIES PIGGY PEREZ HAS HURT AND KARMA HAS CAUGHT UP TO HIM, because as you all know, Miss Tila reported that Piggy Perez May face up to 15 years of Jail time for posting up Miley Cyrus’ upskirt pictures!!! Seeing how she is still a minor, that is AGAINST THE LAW! Not only is he possibly facing 15 years in jail, one of his BIGGEST ADVERTISERS DROPPED HIM! OUCH! We here at OMG has found out the major advertiser that was advertising on his site was the people affiliated to ABC! WOW THAT IS A HUGE SLAP IN THE FACE! All this drama with Piggy Perez, well I call it KARMA!
Now about my contest. This is going to be FUN and will raise A LOT of awareness in this industry!"
And then there is a cut where she continues to speak all about Perez. I don't understand how she can yell point and laugh at Perez for losing advertisers when her entire site doesn't even have a single advertisement on it. She just made a long blog post a few days prior basically begging for advertisers. The only ads she has are ads for HERSELF.
"Now about my contest. This is going to be FUN and will raise A LOT of awareness in this industry!!! PIGGY PEREZ MUST NOT GET AWAY WITH ALL THAT HE HAS DONE THESE PAST YEARS! From mocking Michael Jackson’s death, to calling my BFF Will.I.Am a “THUG” and a “FAGG*T” yea way to go PIGGY! Ugh! He needs to be blacklisted from Hollywood, as he is already slowly being blacklisted already!"
How on earth is this going to CREATE AWARENESS? Honestly? I know that it's difficult to prove defamation for public figures/celebrities, but I am pretty sure this is Tila openly encouraging others to defame Perez. She claims he is an ADVOCATE for child porn. I am pretty sure that isn't a true statement, and I am also quite sure that she is maliciously attempting to get everyone on board to hate Perez. This is truly sad.
I continued to read on. She claims that this contest is all about FUN... I read on and learned about the rules of this FUN contest:
"OK HERE IS THE FUN CONTEST WE CAN ALL DO:
- MAKE A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF WHY YOU HATE PEREZ HILTON AND WHY HE DESERVES TO SERVE SOME JAILTIME FOR BEING AN ADVOCATE FOR CHILD PORN AND BEING SO UN-APOLOGETIC ABOUT IT!
- IN YOUR VIDEO, YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT ABOUT WHY YOU HATE PIGGY PEREZ AND/OR ANY SPECIFIC CELEBRITY THAT YOU LOVE THAT HE HAS BASHED ON
- YOU CAN ALSO TELL THE WORLD WHY PIGGY PEREZ NEEDS TO GO AWAY AND HIS TIME IS UP!
- EXPLAIN WHY MISS TILA’S WEBSITE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN PIGGY PEREZ!
- YOU CAN ALSO PLUG YOUR TWITTER OR FB OR MYSPACE SO PEOPLE CAN FOLLOW YOU!
- THIS CONTEST AND PROTEST IS TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS PIGGY PEREZ HAS DONE AND THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WILL SEE THIS AND IT WILL CATCH ON AND THE JUDGES WILL START TO NOTICE AS WELL AND HOPEFULLY WILL MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION. PIGGY PEREZ NEEDS TO PAY FOR HURTING CELEBRITIES NON-STOP FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS!!!!!! HE EVEN PICKS ON KIDS! WTF! UNESSESARY!
- ONCE YOU ARE DONG MAKING YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO, SEND ME THE LINK OF YOUR VIDEO! SEND YOUR VIDEO TO: SUPPORT@MISSTILAOMG.COM
- EVERY SINGLE DAY, I WILL PICK OUT THE BEST VIDEO’S AND POST THEM UP UNTIL THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY CAN SEE THAT NOBODY LIKES PIGGY ANYMORE AND THEY NEED TO PUT HIM AWAY!
- TILA ARMY, START MAKING THOSE YOUTUBE VIDEO’S! PIGGY PEREZ NEEDS TO PAY FOR WHAT HE DID AND WHAT HE DID TO MILEY CYRUS AMONGST EVERY CELEBRITY, MAKING LIES ABOUT THEM, HURTING THEIR CAREERS!
SO TILA ARMY OR ANYONE ELSE WHO HATES PIGGY PEREZ, START MAKING YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO’S RIGHT NOW AND STARTING TOMORROW AND EVERYDAY AFTER THAT, I WILL POST UP MY FAVORITE VIDEOS AND LINK BACK TO YOUR PAGE SO MORE PEOPLE CAN FOLLOW YOU! LETS GO! NOW IS THE TIME!"
Is this a joke? Seriously? This has to be a joke. Tila is HOLDING A CONTEST for people to defame and ridicule Perez while at the same time talking about how much BETTER she is than him? Honestly? This is sad. Tila does not care about the pedophile charges - Tila cares that it is PEREZ HILTON.
Miley Cyrus said that she was wearing underwear in the photo that Perez posted, and since Tila has ALSO posted photos of Miley in her underwear.. should she really be doing this?
The ALL-CAPS seems so obsessive:
"EVERY SINGLE DAY, I WILL PICK OUT THE BEST VIDEO’S AND POST THEM UP UNTIL THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY CAN SEE THAT NOBODY LIKES PIGGY ANYMORE AND THEY NEED TO PUT HIM AWAY!"
EVERYDAY? She is going to post a video of someone saying mean things about Perez on her site EVERYDAY? What on EARTH is this going to accomplish. Well, apparently, it is going to accomplish showing "the entire industry" that "nobody likes Piggy anymore."
Honestly.
She is almost 30 years old, and she is doing this?
I can't even understand why anyone would do this.
This contest is not a protest or any way to get awareness of child pornography. This contest is her way to make herself feel like people like her more than Perez.
"TILA ARMY, START MAKING THOSE YOUTUBE VIDEO’S! PIGGY PEREZ NEEDS TO PAY FOR WHAT HE DID AND WHAT HE DID TO MILEY CYRUS AMONGST EVERY CELEBRITY, MAKING LIES ABOUT THEM, HURTING THEIR CAREERS!"
Tila. You have done exactly the same things he has done if not to a farther extent. At least Perez doesn't post all about himself all the time. He actually goes out and does interviews and *gulps* I never thought I would be defending Perez.
"Ok everyone, we can GET THIS FUCKER! START SENDING ME YOUR VIDEO’S NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Seriously? I think that there is a limit as to how many times you can attack someone in a single post. And, for the "TILA ARMY" who reads my posts. I have mentioned numerous times that I do not "hate" Miss Tila. I actually was one of her fans back in the days of "Shot of Love," and I still LOVE her song "Paralyze."
"Change Tila" left a comment to Tila saying:
"Talk shit about celebrities? LIke who? Megan Fox? Paris Hilton? Gaga, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, the Kardashians, etc... the list goes on and on... Oh wait a minute... YOU DO THAT TOO! But guess who he doesn't talk about? YOU! That's because you're not a celebrity. You're a hypocrite. And you know what else? Maybe someone reading this will forward the pictures of young Paris Hilton your posted, as well as the panty shorts you posted of Miley to the D.A., as well as the pics of you wearing next to nothing and videos of you stripping, as well as the info of the main demographic you're targeting... minors!
POW!"
But there are some who agree with Tila. Like the comment posted by "TamaraJadee:"
"what perez did is so wrong. all he ever does is degrade innocent people and ruin their careers. tila is on the celebritie's side because she knows what it's like to go through that. i say perez should go to jail because what he id was absolutely horrible and disgusting. his a theif, a liar, a fake, and a pedophile."
I had to make this blog post; which interrupted my writing of my skype blog post, because it shocked me.
Miley Cyrus isn't pressing charges against Perez, and she sure as hell doesn't need help from Tila Tequila to make Perez "pay for what he did." Miley says that she wants to move on, and that shows that the 17-year-old is more mature than our 28-year-old Mogul.
---Nikky Raney
p.s. you may have missed my latest youtube video where I directly address that I do NOT "hate" Tila.
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