Suzannah B. Troy calls the S.E.C to ask date Steve Rattner ruling

I called the S.E.C and was transferred to consumer affairs and advocacy -- my IPhone 4 kept cutting out but the woman answering the phone was kind and SANE so I had no problem finally leaving my name and number.  I left a detailed message and I wait for a call back.  Stay tuned....

I explained I am a blogger and activist and I cover a lot of issues re: Mike Bloomberg and corruption and  I read Steve Rattner pleaded the 5th over and over but the newspapers never give a date as to when the S.E.C. is going to actually rule on whether Steve Rattner is going to be banned three years or not.

If so this is highly unusual and sends a very powerful message.  For people who don't understand what is the S.E.C.  think of them as the police, the NYPD of  all kinds of trading on exchange -- stocks, bonds, etc.

Rattner is king Mike Bloomberg's money manager and he urged Mike Bloomberg to run for a third term because both Steve Rattner and Mike Bloomberg do not respect limits of any kinds and perhaps they and the Bloomberg gang had investments and real estate deals, etc. that would greatly benefit if king Mike was in office.

The issue for me also is that it was a conflict of interest for Steve Rattner to be involved in pension fund investments and in the Vanity Fair issue with Lady Gaga on the cover the article on  Ratter says that Cuomo regretted giving Rattner immunity from going to jail -- he got a 12 million dollar fine instead ---Cuomo regretted giving Rattner immunity because he found Rattner less than forth coming and the deal was no jail if he would speak up.  The S.E.C. found Rattner even less talkative pleading the 5th more times than Mike Bloomberg has run for mayor.

Right now people are not paying attention to this or the fact that Mike Bloomberg's appointed representes on the Charter Commission have give city council members a third term with out the people of New York voting on term limits again!

Democracy has been flushed down the toilet here in NYC by Mike Bloomberg again....last year denying us a referendum and now again preventing us from voting on term limits with an immediate impact of either yes or no but mystically the term limits vote won't be in the hands of New Yorkers again for quite awhile thanks to Mike Bloomberg and his friends and more and more people are saying Bloomberg and gang including 3rd term city council continues to throw democracy away for big hefty wheeling and dealings.   When Mike Bloomberg talks about the mosque by the WTC site and democracy it is hard to take him seriously because he has yet again pushed through 3rd terms for city council with out allowing New Yorkers a say and people are asking how great are his business dealings in Dubai and talk is he is expanding....

Mike Bloomberg and Steve Rattner are slick talkers -- Steve isn't lately pleading the 5th over and over to the S.E.C. but for most New Yorkers the word on the street is Mike Bloomberg and smoke and mirrors.

The question is will the S.E.C. clear away some smoke and forth some truth and accountability that will hurt Mike Bloomberg as much as Steve Rattner because Rattner manages billions of Mike Bloomberg's private empire and if he is busted by the S.E.C Mike will have to shift that money yet again.  Rattner shifted it out of Quadrangle because he thought Quadrangle would take the fall and not him. Steve Rattner was wrong.  If Rattner is wrong again the money will once again half to be shifted but Steve Rattner can't touch the money and handle it for 3 years if the S.E.C. bans him and the book he had ghost written bragging how he supposedly saved the auto industry might not make The New York Times best seller list or be plugged by The New York Daily News even though I have read and heard Steve Rattner is also good friends with owner of these papers and managed their money as well.

USC AD Pat Haden Acts Like Wimp In Treatment of Reggie Bush

USC traded a warrior athletic director for a wimp. While some alums (ok, a lot of USC alums) didn't like Former USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett's bedside manner, there was no question where he stood: with USC.

By contrast, where new USC Athletic Director Pat Haden stands is not exactly with USC and all the players who made it what is it is, but with making USC and himself look good at the expense of the USC player when it suits him, in this case USC and New Orleans Saints Running Back Reggie Bush.

 That kind of behavior reveals that Haden is, in the opinion of this space, two-faced and spineless.

High school football players should take Haden's opportunistic behavior as a clue and avoid attending or playing for USC. You could be the one USC uses to gain millions in revenue, only to disown you when the weather of public opinion goes bad. Is that what you want?

As a Cal Alum it's fun to watch USC go through its problems, but we all know its meaningless if USC continues to beat the crap out of Cal on the gridiron. Reggie Bush was part of those at times lopsided wins against Cal that helped sell USC season tickets, hats, jerseys, and those silly "We are number one" finger hands. USC made millions of dollars from Reggie Bush, yet fails to stand behind him in his and its  darkest hour.

IF Bush Is To Return Heisman, USC Should Return Its Revenue

For Pat Haden to get on The Dan Patrick Show and trash Reggie Bush, basically asking him to give back the Heisman Trophy he so rightfully won, was shameful, horrible, and funny.  Shameful because of how USC's athletic business benefitted from Bush' performance. Horrible, because Former USC Head Coach and Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll gets off scot free, and is allowed to enjoy the fruits of his USC success with none of the headache that came with the Bush scandal. Funny, because both Hayden and Carroll are allowed to get away with this murder of Reggie Bush by the media.

Constant readers of this space who have a nervous twinge about race are certainly waiting for a mention of it. To appease them, of course it looks like Reggie Bush as the modern black slave who toiled for a university, apparently did what was asked of him (which is the rub) and is now being told by that same institution he can't even step on campus.

USC says its filing an appeal to the NCAA sanctions. Under Mike Garrett, that looked like a serious effort; under Pat Haden it looks like a joke.  For Haden, that appeal should be reflected in an expressed willingness to fight for all that is USC. Instead Pat Haden wants to look good for the public and throw Bush under the bus, which is like saying "We're not going to appeal to the NCAA and we were wrong. See how I'm treating Reggie? I'm trying to make up, NCAA!"

That's awful.

If Pat Haden had any spine at all, he left it on the playing field a long time ago.

Montana Fishburne Playboy Photo Test and Kim Kardashian Influence

Montana Fishburn

According to TMZ.com, Laurence Fishburn's daughter Montana Fishburne is really trying to get out from under the large shadow cast by her father and in a big way. First there was the porn film and then we have the Playboy Photo Test.

The photos, which were reportedly done before anyone knew about the sex tape she made, reportedly feature full frontal nudity. According to The New York Daily News, the photos did not meet Playboys standards for publication. (What were they?)

TMZ.com claims Montana Fishburne is trying to follow Kim Kardashian's path to fame. But doesn't that mean she uses Twitter? If so, it's hard to figure out which Twitter account belongs to Montana Fishburn. It is TheRealChippyD or just plain old Montana Fishburn? If it's the former, her tweets are protected, which is very un-Kim Kardashian-like. If it's the latter, she'd better start tweeting more often than she does.

And on the matter of being Kim Kardashian-like, Montana Fishburne said this:

"I've watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape by Vivid," Fishburne said in a press release." I'm hoping the same magic will work for me. I'm impatient about getting well-known and having more opportunities and this seemed like a great way to get started on it."

No kidding. Still no word from her father Laurence Fishburne.

Stay tuned.

Elin Nordegren clueless Tiger Woods was cheating? by Suzannah B. Troy

Elin Nordegren says she had no idea that Tiger Woods was cheating. This is hard to believe considering rumors that he was a player before he even married her and that was allegedly not a  secret.   If I was interviewing her I would have asked her were than any clues before you married him of this kind of behavior?  Where you aware that he was a womanizer or sexually promiscuous?   I don't believe she was asked these questions.

Tiger Woods with the help of his friends and I use the word "friends" loosely because they all profit big time from his friendship and the kind word is "enablers"...yes, the kind word choice... yet Tiger Woods behavior was so outrageous including all the phone calls and texting it is hard to believe Elin Nordegren had no idea and did not see one red flag.

With an guy in a position of power and with a high sex drive the only way to prevent him from cheating is to be with him all the time and or get a GPS for his well you fill in the words.  If you noticed your husband has a high sex drive and he is not spending time with you but is away a lot  wouldn't you ask him, hey honey what are you doing about your lusty  libidinal impulses even out of curiosity?  I don't believe Elin Nordegren is lying but I do believe she too was in denial not just Tiger Woods.   Tiger Woods was in denial that he would ever get caught.  Woods treated his many mistresses like sub-humans and he still does not get that or take responsibility for his lousy treatment.  But that being said, no one except those involved including Tiger Woods enablers could imagine how crazy out of control Tiger Woods was like a bad cheap XXX porn movie....unreal.

I do believe completely Elin NOrdegren has suffered greatly and the toll it took on her body and health.  I had a very different situation but very disturbing violating experience and I had all the same symptoms including hair loss, weight loss, insomnia and I am sure a lot of women experiencing traumatic events identify no cheating husband required to suffer those symptoms.

I don't think the global audience that consumes People Magazine and celebrity news will share my skepticism.  As I blogged yesterday, I do believe this People Magazine due out this Friday will outsell the Sandra Bullock People.    Most people will be very sympathetic to Elin Nordegren who went from an au pere to a mega-millionaire but I am not sure many women would want to trade places with her.  Elin Nordegren will come out on top and doing this was a smart and shrewd move on her part because people thought she would be silent as part of paid legal agreement like some of Tiger Woods mistresses.   Tiger Woods paid his mistresses for silence but not his wife so very shrewd and powerful.

The children are the victims and just because the parents are divorced doesn't mean this is the end for the kids but in fact this will haunt the kids always unless they are given a lot of therapy and tools to deal with the long term aftermath.

Sweet and touching quotes from Elin and Sam but I can't help feeling this will impact the children in long term ways.    I know one symptom of dealing with my parents crumbling marriage and divorce was serious weight gain.  How about 50 pounds so not a good sign that Sam offers her Mom food to comfort her....I am glad that both Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods will have to take parenting classes.  I wish they made parents take these classes before they have children.

"I wasn't crying, but I was thinking and was sad. Sam came up to me, put her hand on my cheek and said in Swedish, 'Mommy, where is your boo-boo?' "

"I smiled at her and said, 'Mommy's boo-boo is in her heart right now, but it will be better,' " Elin recalled. "She looked at me and said: 'Can Sam kiss and make it better? Or maybe popcorn will.' "

Ashley Bell Wins Acclaim For The Last Exorcist

Ashley Bell stars in a movie that's getting a surprisingly high level of buzz and all because of her performance. Eli Roth's The Last Exorcist should be expected to do well at scaring people, but not such that it's already showing signs of becoming a cult classic hit.

Roth is known for making low-budget horror movies that gross multiples of their cost, and has done so repeatedly.

But given the buzz for Ashley Bell (her name is the number one most searched Google Trend as of this writing), The Last Exorcist looks to be a blockbuster.

The thing everyone's talking about is that Ashley Bell does her own stunts. Some of her work is evident in this trailer:



The last scene in the trailer is all Asley Bell. Reportedly no special effects were used.

Wild.

Oakland Mayor's Race: Sierra Club Forum Has Excellent Turn Out

Don Perata's first Oakland Mayor's Race Forum

A full turn out for the Sierra Club Forum saw Former Senator Don Perata make his first appearance in an Oakland Mayoral Forum.

Thanks to New Media, this blogger learned that Larry Lionel Young Jr. was surprisingly polished candidate for someone who's campaign started late and is stil not really visible. Perhaps the TV cameras will help.

Marcy Hodge has to ask if she's really taking this who deal of running for Mayor of Oakland seriously beyond filing, because she did not participate in the forum.

One person observed that Don Perata was a "major thud," as was Joe Tuman, which is hard to believe, but apparently my source expected more detailed responses from both of them. Terrance Candell was said to have performed much better than my past criticism would imply for future forums.

Greg Harland was said to have done "OK," and thoughtful on environmental issues, though my source's view of Harland is entirely clouded by his dislike for Harland's position on cutting police salaries. Don Macleay was given higher marks for presentation than in past forums.

Unfortunately, Councilmember Jean Quan, again, attacked Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan. For some reason, Jean has to publicly demonstrate some kind of annoyance with Rebecca that's goes beyond logic in a campaign.

I was also told that Arnie Fields was there "in body only," and that's about it. I'll have to take that up with Arnie directly.

Many of the candidates had their groupies; Kaplan's headed over to her sports policy talk event afterward, or at least many of them did.

In all, it was the first forum of the Oakland Mayor's Race to include Don Perata.  To which we say, "What took you so long."

Developing... Stay tuned.

Kat Stacks will do anything for attention By Nikky Raney

Kat Stacks is famous for exposing all the hip hop and rap artists that she has had sexual relations with. She is known for "putting them on blast" and publicly releasing their phone numbers over the internet asking those who are watching to harass them.

Courtesy of The Insider

Stacks is only 20-years-old, but she is always bragging about how drunk she is. She also has a son, but she doesn't spend much time with him.

She is known for her loud mouthed posts and her constant profanity. She prides herself on how many celebrities she has slept with and makes sure that everyone else is aware.

Earlier this summer she was slapped at a bar by a friend of one of the rappers she had slept with. This was caught on Youtube.

Her most recent action is a video she posted while she was in Soulja Boy's hotel room. While he was in the shower Kat video taped Soulja Boy's stash of cocaine. To prove she was really with him she hides the camera while having a conversation with him in his car, and then again when they are laying on the bed with one another.

She posts the video onto Youtube and exposes Soulja Boy's drug problem. She is two-faced in the way that during all this she convinces Soulja Boy that he should trust her and that she really does care about him.

Soulja Boy tweets:

Kat is very popular on Twitter and once tweeted, "Who do I have to f*** to get verified?"

Some of her most recent tweets include:

IHateKatStacks: "Dear Wives, if Hoes didn't exist your marriage would be over."
IHateKatStacks: "I hate n***** who DM me to retweet them something but they never asked before if i was still alive smh F*** YOU"
IHateKatStacks: "The only man that could ever get to me is my babydaddy SMH & he knows that, that's why I don't open the text messages I just delete them"

Tweets courtesy of The Urban Daily

This girl craves this attention, and she keeps getting it. Even now in this blog post. Eventually these celebrities will learn their lesson and stop sleeping with her, because they should realize that it will most probably lead to their number being leaked and a rant from Kat Stacks.

The most recent video is below of her showing how Soulja Boy is a "druggie." The video is not the official one she posted - it was taken from another source who had re-posted it.




If that doesn't work click here

Oakland Mayor's Race: CBS Poll Of Likely Voters Leaves Out Info

Senator Don Perata

Seeking to help define The Oakland Mayor's Race, KPIX Channel Five elected to conduct a poll of 591 "likely voters" in Oakland.

The poll, of which this blogger has not seen the actual questions but may square with anecdotal reports, says that Former Senator Don Perata got 41 percent of 1st choice votes, Oakland City Councilmember Jean Quan got 26 percent of 1st choice votes, and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan got 14 percent of 1st choice votes.

The other candidates combined earned 12 percent of 1st choice votes.

When asked for a second choice those who picked Kaplan went Perata, and those who went for Quan picked Kaplan. But the CBS report never mentioned the 3rd choice results.

What this means is that CBS has some weird interest in not mentioning the names of the other candidates. In other words, their poll reporting is either sloppy, lazy or fixed.

Why in hell would Channel Five have any interest in the Oakland Mayors race to the degree of conducting a poll? It's not as if they pay property taxes here.

Congrats to Don Perata for being ahead, but the Channel Five poll and its reporting is not to be trusted.

Oakland City Council Race: Pat Kernighan Sends Hot Email About The Race

Councilmemer Pat Kernighan 

Just about an hour ago this blogger posted the news of Oakland City Council District Two  (Glenview, Chinatown) Candidate Jennifer Pae picking up a valuable endorsement in the form of Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson.

In the blog post, I offered the view that perhaps the backing of Carson "may be the beginning of the end."

May.

Even with that, and with the overall tone of communicating that Pat was in a battle, I got this hot email from Councilmember Kernighan:

Zennie,

Perhaps you are jumping to conclusions about the "beginning of the end" for moi. Would you like to report the facts that I have the endorsements of Attorney General Jerry Brown, Supervisor-elect Wilma Chan, Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker and Council President Jane Brunner, among others? Do you know that the leader of every NCPC and neighborhood group in my district supports me because I have worked hard every day for the past five years advocating for the needs of their neighborhoods and delivering results? While Ms. Pae was running around hustling endorsements this spring, I was working 60 hours a week doing the job I was elected to do. Why don't we let the voters decide.

Pat

As I wrote back to Councilmember Kernighan, that's a great point, I'll print that. And so I did.

But I remind her and everyone that I'm a blogger; thus I write my view of the World and in a media-and-Internet-friendly way. I'm not, nor do I wish to be, a journalist. However, I do insist on giving everyone running for office in Oakland their platform within this space. 

I have never refused anyone who has asked to be included here.

In closing, Pat's far from dead, but it's worth reminding her that she should not say she's not dead yet, because the last time that was said was by "The Black Knight" in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. And we know what happened there...




As stated, this is going to be interesting. Gotta like that Pat's fiesty.

Marin General Hospital To Sue Sutter Health On Thursday

Marin General Hospital

Breaking news.  

The nasty and long-running feud between The Marin Healthcare District and Sutter Health is allegedly going to spill into the courtroom (court location not known at this time) tomorrow, Thursday, when the attorneys for Marin General Hospital are scheduled to announce they will file a lawsuit against Sutter Health for its management of the hospital since 1995.

According to sources, James J. Brosnahan of the Morrison and Forrester law firm (and who, if I'm not mistaken, was at the same birthday party for U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tony West this blogger attended in 2009) will announce the lawsuit on behalf of the publically elected Marin Healthcare District Board of Directors.

The healthcare district is seeking more than $100 million it says Sutter wrongly took out of the coffers of Marin General. Sutter has said all along that it has followed the agreement between the District and itself which was approved by the court and allowed Sutter to retain the monies during its administration of the hospital.

Nonetheless, some Marin residents have wanted to control the hospital themselves and oust Sutter from management of Marin General. But, many - including Marin's own Grand Jury - have doubted the ability of the publically elected board of the Marin Healthcare District to be able to run the hospital and others have been quietly critical of the leadership of Marin General's new CEO Lee Domanico.

Already, this week, the Marin United Taxpayers Association wrote in a letter to the editor in the Marin Independent Journal that, under Domanico's leadership:

"Here we go again. No kidding, it is business as usual at Marin General Hospital. We now have a similar private board that isn't accountable to the public, like the previous one that allowed $200-plus million to go to Sutter, and big money to exclusive contracts with large doctor groups (oncology, cardiology, hospitalists, radiologists, pathologists, etc.).

"Now we have the same setup that is not transparent to the public, meets in private, and pays its CEO, a public employee until now, $800,000, and the doctors will still get their exclusive contracts because their representatives are on the board. MGH, another Bell, Calif.

"MGH did come back to the public, momentarily.

"On June 30, the transition date, the incumbent directors on the publicly elected board had already arranged to give it away to another private board immediately. That private board can have 49 percent of members with financial conflicts, meaning they can facilitate their own exclusive, expensive deals with the hospital, and the public won't be able to see the sweetheart deals; all paid with revenues from the public hospital.

"Worse yet, they will ask the taxpayers for a $300 million bond and another 30-year contract with this private corporation, to rebuild MGH, with no accountability to the public for what it does, and no lawsuit against the last "community" board members to get back the last, lost $200-plus millions. And just watch these rich contract doctors post office signs touting the incumbents - it's payback time."

There's an old saying: be careful who you chose as your enemy, for they may look just like you.

Stay tuned.

I am going to Burning Man! by Suzannah B. Troy

Well, I wish I was going to Burning Man.   This beautiful woman is going and she took her short blond hair and did a make-over in preparation.  Isn't her hair beautiful?

The woman behind this magical hair make-over is Dana Divine, The goddess maker....

I won't be going to Burning Man and my hair is not in shape to take on extensions but I can live vicariously through this magical woman and dream.   

Anyone willing to babysit my senior citizen handicap cats because I want to jump on a plane asap and go to Burning Man too!

What is Burning Man?   I can't explain but click here and learn or better yet attend...I wish I was going.

Elin Nordegren People better seller than Sandra's by Suzannah B. Troy

The new issue of People Magazine due out this Friday will leave the Sandra Bullock cover in the dust in terms of sales.

Speaking of this Tuesday, Sandra Bullock will be on Matt Lauer's tv show but she won't talk about baby Louis or Jesse James; she will only talk about Hurricane Katrina.

Back to Elin and People....apparently she had a lot to say.  Sad thing is is Tiger Woods still doesn't get it and when asked about her thoughts he said "I feel the same way."  Wake up Tiger.  You are not capable of feeling the same way.  Here is the video of Tiger posted on TMZ.

Elin Nordegren tells people, "I feel stronger than ever."

She does talk about insomnia, weight loss, hair loss and any one going through trauma or mourning a death whether of a person or a marriage can relate.  (I have been through that when I had to leave my home of 20 years and it was not spousal abuse.)  About half of Americans will get divorced and there are plenty more that want out so this caught people's attention but also because Tiger Woods was such a liar and lead such a dark double life so it will be interesting what happens now that he is free to do what he pleases as long as he doesn't jeopardize his relationship any further.  As these kids get older they will need parenting tips about how to deal with kids taunting them about Woods shocking behavior while married to their Mom.

The People Magazine due out this Friday will see like the Iphone4.  Well not as hot as that but it will be a hot item.  People want to hear what she has to say and what she will do.  How about becoming a model for Adidas?

Here is an article from The New York Times about the Elin Nordegren ending her silence.

I would not want to endure what Elin Nordegren did and I feel sorry for the kids.  It is hard to believe she did not lay a hand or a golf club on him.   She has lived the American Dream starting as an au pere and ending up a mega-millionairess.  Good luck and Elin, I just got my nails done.  My nail polish "I am PeaceKeeper" and all the money for Peacekeeper products go to helping abused women....Please do something to help people that are not as lucky as you that can't walk away and take the kids when they need to.

Pride on,
Suzannah B. Troy artist, NYC