Weirdness on the Web: cheating

Showing posts with label cheating. Show all posts

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Texas Lawmaker Rigs the Law... for HIMSELF!

Want to rig the game? Get elected
By BUD KENNEDY

The Texas Legislature is supposed to help us.

But instead, one lawmaker, who is also the leader of the Texas Conservative Coalition, is just helping himself.

Faced with losing his Gulf vacation home because it now stands on public beach, East Texas state Rep. Wayne Christian crafted a last-minute rider allowing him and a few neighbors to rebuild and defy a 50-year state law.

Generally, Texas beaches belong to Texans. If you build at the beach’s edge, then you take the risk of a Hurricane Ike moving the beach.

Yet Christian, a Republican representing Nacogdoches and Center, rewrote Texas law so he and a handful of Crystal Beach neighbors — but not folks on Galveston Island or anywhere else along the Gulf — could keep their homes.

Basically, the guy rigged the law for himself and Crystal Beach.

Christian had already earned a much-deserved place on the Texas Monthly "Ten Worst Legislators" list released Friday.

The magazine criticized him for trying to tinker with Travis County prosecutors’ power over ethics investigations and for defying a bill ending stealth campaign ads.

MORE...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Another American Idol Controversy

Surprise, Surprise. It wouldn't feel like American Idol unless there was some major scandal going on... I guess. Here is the most pertinent fact: Kris Allen is the American Idol and all the disappointment felt by disappointed Adam Lambert fans (myself included) can't change that one fact. So you get over it, remember that the runners-up in this contest have gone on to huge careers and realize that Adam's probably working on his CD even as you read this.

Be like Adam and wish Kris well and hope for the best for the new Idol.

Now, on to the scandal which it is for certain does not personally involve any actual contestant but does involve unethical and possibly illegal behavior on the part of one major American company and sponsor of the American Idol program. That would be AT&T.

From the Los Angles Times:

Published reports have raised questions whether AT&T, a program sponsor, may have violated "Idol" voting rules at two pre-finale parties thrown for Kris Allen, the Arkansas crooner crowned winner last Wednesday. Partisans of Adam Lambert, the runner-up, have generated stormy online protests about alleged voting improprieties that could have thrown the outcome.
AT&T confirmed that its employees handed out phones to party guests in Arkansas and then offered pointers on how to text votes. The reports said the workers also briefed guests on how to "power-text" multiple votes at once, which would have been a violation of "Idol's" rules.
The fracas has embarrassed AT&T, which has for years gotten repeated shout-outs from "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest in exchange for its paid sponsorship.
In a statement, the company said its workers were "caught up in the enthusiasm of rooting for their hometown contestant."

You can read the rest of the L.A. Times article here.

So AT&T handed out over 1,000 phones and instructions on how to "power text" multiple votes for Kris Allen. And the voting was open for several hours.

One of the comments on this news story mentioned, "Someone with a phone with free service, sending 10 texts at a time, could have send thousands of texts over those four hours."

Another comment: "Sending out 10 at a time? You could do that in five minutes. I have an iPhone, which does not do blanket texts (that I've been able to figure out). It takes less than five seconds to send a text, times four hours, times 10. I'm no math whiz, but I have a calculator. At five seconds per text, that's 12 per minute, times 60 = 720 per hour, x 4 = 2,880 per four hours, x 10 = 28,800. Going at a moderate pace, one person could easily send 30,000 votes."

Another comment: "i just want to say, all the hype about phones messing up, the count/vote was wrong, whatever happened! NOTHING HAPPENED!!! yes Adam had followers but Kris had his followers plus Matt followers started following Kris when he left and Danny G followers started following Kris when he left... so basically KRIS got all of the other votes. The folks following the RB kind of a genre were going to follow that genre, they were not going to switch to rock, so Kris picked up alot of people who were voting for other contestants. Adam only had the rockers who were voting for him and maybe Allison. Leave it alone.. KRIS won and Adam will move on doing something anyways."

And the last comment: "All of this suspicion began not because Adam Lambert fans were grumpy but because Arkansas newspapers and politicians gloated that 38 million votes came from Arkansas--and then the story was withdrawn because: 1) Arkansans realized that this was embarrassing, not something to be proud of; 2) AT&T didn't want to reveal that Idol "voting" is ridiculous--a cash cow for AT&T but not in any way a true representation of American opinion."

The following avatars came from a very entertaining website called, "Vote For the Worst" and they always have great Idol gossip:

Monday, May 25, 2009

Where are the tabloids when you need one?

This HAS to be a blind item (for now) but the scandal will erupt fairly soon, I would think, now that this freak's youngest child just graduated from college and is on his own. None of the man's children need him for financial reasons. It's time to tell the truth about Daddy Dearest.

What magnitude of scandal would it be for the tabloids to discover that an author of quasi-spiritual self-help books on how to make a successful life for yourself actually failed in his multiple marriages (oh yeah, there's that) not due to his "personal drive for success" as he now claims but instead, had more than one wife kick him to the curb because of his perverted sexual desires and his obsessive need to pamper his penis in every way possible?

Yep. Wife Number One gave him the boot when she caught him ogling her daughter with carnal lust oozing from every pore of his body. Oh, she'd known about his inability to be faithful and his adulteries for a while but back in that day, wives put on the stoic face and tried to make the best of things for the sake of the children. It would be precisely for the sake of an innocent child that Mr. Self-Help got the boot from Wife Number One.

Wife Number Two found out it was one thing to be the mistress boinking another woman's husband but it was a whole different game when Mr. Self-Help stayed utterly true to form and continued his lustful ways by cheating on her. Gee, ya think?

If a human being has even one brain cell left in this era of AIDS, then they surely know when they have sex with another human being, they are also having sex with every person that person has ever had sex with and all the people they've had sex with and on and on. So... when one partner is unfaithful to another partner, they have robbed their partner of all choice in the matter of risking their own lives. That is unforgiveable.

Your wife or husband or other significant other's life is on the line when you decide swapping body fluids with somebody else is a perfectly fine thing to do.

So after a marriage filled with Mr. Self-Help swapping the sloppy stuff with who-knows-how-many skanks, Wife Number Two finally decided her own life was worth saving. And who did she turn to for advice and assistance? Ha ha, you got that right. Wife Number Two went to Wife Number One for help. And Wife Number One had plenty of help to give her.

Now Mr. Self-Help is on Wife Number Three who most likely is aware of the horrible mistake she's made but isn't quite at the stage where she realizes her only sane option is to dump the pig. Perhaps it will be Wife Number Three who calls ringy-dingy to the tabloids. It is not clear whether or not she knows she has a support-group-in-waiting in Wives One and Two. Now, there's a tabloid's dream scandal: all three wives, with all their documented proofs and recordings and photographs, making their case before the American public.

I don't think those religion TV shows will be too thrilled one of their popular guests may just be the living human embodiment of the devil they claim to despise.

Well... we'll see.