Going a bit too far
In Bloomfield Hills, MI (a suburb of Detroit) a judge sent three kids to live in a juvenile detention facility. Doesn't seem unusual until you hear their transgression. The three, siblings aged 15, 10 and 9, refused to talk to their father. Refused to sit down to lunch with him. Refused to have a relationship with him.
While the media spin on the story makes it seem worse than it is, it is still a miscarriage of justice. To tell a 15 year old boy who claims to have seen his father hitting his mother and causing her pain that he will be stuck in juvenile detention until his 18th birthday is reprehensible. Even if the judge relents in September, the damage will be done. This boy and his siblings will have spent weeks upon end without access to their mother. One of the judge's orders was that the mother is not allowed to visit her children.
This is ridiculous. You shouldn't bar any parent from visiting their children unless they've been accused of neglect or child endangerment. Even then they should be entitled to supervised visitation of some sort. To tell a son he won't get to see his mother for the entire period from age 15 to 18 boggles the mind.
Update: As of Friday, July 10th, the judge released the three kids so they could attend a two week summer camp at the request of their father. What will happen after camp has yet to be determined.
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Bruce Bochy, manager of the San Francisco Giants is being a jerk by leaving Clayton Kershaw off of the NL All-Star roster. Why do I say this? Because Kershaw is the reigning MVP and Cy Young Award winner. He's only the 11th pitcher in history to win both awards in the same season. Of the other ten, only three weren't named to the All-Star roster the following season. Vida Blue is one of the three but he was holding out for a better contract that year and wasn't eligible to play in the All-Star game. Why Roger Clemens was not on the roster in 1987 is a mystery to me as he won his 2nd straight Cy Young Award that year. In 1993 Dennis Eckersley's stats and performance fell off sharply although he did save 36 games, off from 51 the year before.
Bochy chose one of his own, Madison Baumgartner over Kershaw. That's the norm, but when we're talking about someone who won both of the "big" awards the prior year, that changes things. It's a serious diss to Kershaw. He says it doesn't bother him but it isn't the first time Bochy has snubbed the Dodger great.
Considering that the Dodgers haven't managed to get to a World Series since 1988, it may be a long time before a Dodger manager can get some payback. Meanwhile, Kershaw tossed a 5-0 complete game shutout on Wednesday evening, striking out 13 (7 of them caught looking). Was he motivated by the snub from Bochy? I think he was.
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Random Ponderings:
There's no reason for Facebook to be suggesting people to me as friends when we have no friends in common, and these people happen to be my clients and/or coworkers. It's way too intrusive.
Bill Cosby was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. Now a non-profit that works to prevent sexual assault is calling on the White House to strip him of the award. That's not appropriate, just as the call to take his star off the Walk of Fame in Hollywood is wrong. Those awards are given out for specific achievements. Character might be a factor in choosing to make the award, but once given, that should be the end. I'm not defending the scumbag, he almost certainly assaulted and drugged those women.
Someone needs to tell Scott Disick that getting some isn't an excuse for missing your daughter's 3rd birthday. Or any other birthday prior to your kid graduating college.
The old J. C. Penney's at the old 3rd Street Mall in Santa Monica was a three story building that had an elevator operator back in the day. An elevator operator for a three-story building's operator sounds as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
The FBI is now saying that Dylann Roof shouldn't have been able to buy the gun he used in the murder of nine people in that church shooting in Charleston, but a clerical error allowed the purchase to go through. All the gun control laws in the universe won't stop anything if preventable errors cause this type of system failure. Then again Adam Lanza didn't need to go out and buy a gun to murder 26 teachers and children at Sandy Hook Elementary. He just used one his mother had purchased legally.
I want to see a Karaoke Battle between Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lawrence where both sing only Cher songs. That would rock.
I saw this on Kitchen Nightmares. Fast forward to around the 27 minute mark. This just imploded. You can read the Yelp Reviews (very mixed, great and awful) here: Amy's Baking Company
The reason I mention it is that I saw a news item that says they're closing their doors, but it has nothing to do with the bad publicity from 2013. Yeah, right.
Kudos to the police officer in a small town in Kansas who went to Walmart to give a citation to a woman and her 15 year old daughter for shoplifting. He wrote the citation but then paid for the necessities they had tried to steal. They're homeless and the single parent family of mom and six kids are living out of a car. Very generous of him.
The "trade Puig/fire Mattingly" talk is hotter than ever in Los Angeles. Meanwhile they lead the West by 5.5 games and their two best pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke are performing at their best. Kershaw threw a complete game shutout in his last start and Greinke went eight scoreless innings on Thursday night to run his current streak of scoreless innings to 35 and 2/3rds. Puig may be a clubhouse cancer but is it time to give up on his extreme potential as a player now?
Kid Rock can talk about the "Southern Pride aspects" of the Confederate Battle Flag all he wants but it's still a symbol of hatred and racism. So if he wants to fly that symbol at his concerts, he should be prepared for the criticism.
Note to Jeb Bush - You can't work longer hours. An hour has only sixty minutes in it and you can't change that.
Omar Sharif has died at the age of 83 from a heart attack. It was revealed recently that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. When I hear his name I think of this shot:
Panavision created a special 482 mm lens for the shot of Sharif riding through the desert toward Peter O'Toole that's never been used since this was filmed. It's an amazing work.
I'm still shaking my head over something one of the "reporters" at TMZ said on their show today. There was speculation that Beyonce and Jay-Z were buying the rights to the Confederate flag to prevent it from being displayed and someone asked "why don't the Jews buy the rights to the swastika" to which this asshat actually replied "the Jews are too cheap to put up the money." Will anyone complain? Doubtful.
I'm blown away by the fact that Gene Simmons of KISS is a major comic book fan. He knows the real names of Bob Kane and Stan Lee. That's awesome.
While the media spin on the story makes it seem worse than it is, it is still a miscarriage of justice. To tell a 15 year old boy who claims to have seen his father hitting his mother and causing her pain that he will be stuck in juvenile detention until his 18th birthday is reprehensible. Even if the judge relents in September, the damage will be done. This boy and his siblings will have spent weeks upon end without access to their mother. One of the judge's orders was that the mother is not allowed to visit her children.
This is ridiculous. You shouldn't bar any parent from visiting their children unless they've been accused of neglect or child endangerment. Even then they should be entitled to supervised visitation of some sort. To tell a son he won't get to see his mother for the entire period from age 15 to 18 boggles the mind.
Update: As of Friday, July 10th, the judge released the three kids so they could attend a two week summer camp at the request of their father. What will happen after camp has yet to be determined.
* * *
Bruce Bochy, manager of the San Francisco Giants is being a jerk by leaving Clayton Kershaw off of the NL All-Star roster. Why do I say this? Because Kershaw is the reigning MVP and Cy Young Award winner. He's only the 11th pitcher in history to win both awards in the same season. Of the other ten, only three weren't named to the All-Star roster the following season. Vida Blue is one of the three but he was holding out for a better contract that year and wasn't eligible to play in the All-Star game. Why Roger Clemens was not on the roster in 1987 is a mystery to me as he won his 2nd straight Cy Young Award that year. In 1993 Dennis Eckersley's stats and performance fell off sharply although he did save 36 games, off from 51 the year before.
Bochy chose one of his own, Madison Baumgartner over Kershaw. That's the norm, but when we're talking about someone who won both of the "big" awards the prior year, that changes things. It's a serious diss to Kershaw. He says it doesn't bother him but it isn't the first time Bochy has snubbed the Dodger great.
Considering that the Dodgers haven't managed to get to a World Series since 1988, it may be a long time before a Dodger manager can get some payback. Meanwhile, Kershaw tossed a 5-0 complete game shutout on Wednesday evening, striking out 13 (7 of them caught looking). Was he motivated by the snub from Bochy? I think he was.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
There's no reason for Facebook to be suggesting people to me as friends when we have no friends in common, and these people happen to be my clients and/or coworkers. It's way too intrusive.
Bill Cosby was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. Now a non-profit that works to prevent sexual assault is calling on the White House to strip him of the award. That's not appropriate, just as the call to take his star off the Walk of Fame in Hollywood is wrong. Those awards are given out for specific achievements. Character might be a factor in choosing to make the award, but once given, that should be the end. I'm not defending the scumbag, he almost certainly assaulted and drugged those women.
Someone needs to tell Scott Disick that getting some isn't an excuse for missing your daughter's 3rd birthday. Or any other birthday prior to your kid graduating college.
The old J. C. Penney's at the old 3rd Street Mall in Santa Monica was a three story building that had an elevator operator back in the day. An elevator operator for a three-story building's operator sounds as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
The FBI is now saying that Dylann Roof shouldn't have been able to buy the gun he used in the murder of nine people in that church shooting in Charleston, but a clerical error allowed the purchase to go through. All the gun control laws in the universe won't stop anything if preventable errors cause this type of system failure. Then again Adam Lanza didn't need to go out and buy a gun to murder 26 teachers and children at Sandy Hook Elementary. He just used one his mother had purchased legally.
I want to see a Karaoke Battle between Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Lawrence where both sing only Cher songs. That would rock.
I saw this on Kitchen Nightmares. Fast forward to around the 27 minute mark. This just imploded. You can read the Yelp Reviews (very mixed, great and awful) here: Amy's Baking Company
The reason I mention it is that I saw a news item that says they're closing their doors, but it has nothing to do with the bad publicity from 2013. Yeah, right.
Kudos to the police officer in a small town in Kansas who went to Walmart to give a citation to a woman and her 15 year old daughter for shoplifting. He wrote the citation but then paid for the necessities they had tried to steal. They're homeless and the single parent family of mom and six kids are living out of a car. Very generous of him.
The "trade Puig/fire Mattingly" talk is hotter than ever in Los Angeles. Meanwhile they lead the West by 5.5 games and their two best pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke are performing at their best. Kershaw threw a complete game shutout in his last start and Greinke went eight scoreless innings on Thursday night to run his current streak of scoreless innings to 35 and 2/3rds. Puig may be a clubhouse cancer but is it time to give up on his extreme potential as a player now?
Kid Rock can talk about the "Southern Pride aspects" of the Confederate Battle Flag all he wants but it's still a symbol of hatred and racism. So if he wants to fly that symbol at his concerts, he should be prepared for the criticism.
Note to Jeb Bush - You can't work longer hours. An hour has only sixty minutes in it and you can't change that.
Omar Sharif has died at the age of 83 from a heart attack. It was revealed recently that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. When I hear his name I think of this shot:
Panavision created a special 482 mm lens for the shot of Sharif riding through the desert toward Peter O'Toole that's never been used since this was filmed. It's an amazing work.
I'm still shaking my head over something one of the "reporters" at TMZ said on their show today. There was speculation that Beyonce and Jay-Z were buying the rights to the Confederate flag to prevent it from being displayed and someone asked "why don't the Jews buy the rights to the swastika" to which this asshat actually replied "the Jews are too cheap to put up the money." Will anyone complain? Doubtful.
I'm blown away by the fact that Gene Simmons of KISS is a major comic book fan. He knows the real names of Bob Kane and Stan Lee. That's awesome.
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