O.G. Grammy Grams! British Grandmother Sentenced To The Death Penalty For Smuggling Drugs Into Bali Via Huffington Post An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death on Tuesday for smuggling yayo worth $2.5 million in her suitcase onto the resort island of Bali – even though prosecutors had sought only a 15-year sentence. Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, wept when judges handed down the sentence and declined to speak to reporters on her way back to prison, covering her face with a floral scarf. She had claimed in court that she was forced to take the drugs into the country by a gang that was threatening to hurt her children. Indonesia, like many Asian countries, is very strict on drug crimes, and most of the more than 40 foreigners on its death row were convicted of drug charges. Sandiford’s lawyer said she would appeal, a process that can take several years. Condemned criminals face a firing squad in Indonesia, which has not carried out an execution since 2008, when 10 people were put to death. A verdict is expected in the trial of Sandiford’s alleged accomplice, Briton Julian Anthony Pounder, next Tuesday. He is accused of receiving the drugs in Bali, which has a busy bar and nightclub scene where party drugs such as yayo and Ex pills are bought and sold between foreigners. Two other British citizens and an Indian have already been convicted and sentenced to prison in connection with the bust. The folks in Bali are definitely part of the “Not-Fawkin’-Around-Crew”. In its verdict, a panel of Denpasar District Court judges concluded that Sandiford had damaged the image of Bali as a tourism destination and weakened the government’s drug prevention program. “We found no reason to lighten her sentence,” said Amser Simanjuntak, who headed the judicial panel. Can you imagine if America was executing people for drug offenses??? Clearly this woman broke the law, but hopefully she can get out of the death penalty sentence and just serve time. Image via AP
I don’t read W Magazine, but apparently they have some Oscar issue where they take semi-erotic pics of the Oscar Nominees, which makes sense since we all like erotic, and the Oscars are in february….it just makes totaly logical sense…so much sense that I wonder why every magazine isn’t doing an Oscar issue…because Hollywood is the most important thing in America….idiots. Here’s the list of girls…. MARION COTILLARD IN RUST AND BONE CARMEN EJOGO IN SPARKLE DREE HEMINGWAY IN STARLET ELLE FANNING IN GINGER & ROSA KERRY WASHINGTON IN DJANGO UNCHAINED AMY ADAMS IN THE MASTER FREIDA PINTO IN TRISHNA KEIRA KNIGHTLEY IN ANNA KARENINA JESSICA CHASTAIN IN ZERO DARK THIRTY MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD IN SMASHED DREAMA WALKER IN COMPLIANCE NICOLE KIDMAN IN THE PAPERBOY Here are the pics….
Barbara Palvin is the heavily marketed 19 year old Victoria’s Secret model they kidnapped from Hungary with a promise of the American dream, a green card, and that they won’t kill off her family provided she delivers the half nakedness on camera….at least that’s how I like to think their world works…and evil underbelly of trading tits… She’s posing for her local Cosmo…looking all tall and elegant and lovely….like someone who’s really made it and who we’ve been watching make it from the start….and I’m not just saying that cuz Bieber had sex with her….cuz I don’t believe Beiber has sex with girl….or cuz she’s lead Selena Gomez to badly sing what she probably considers an oldie “Cry me a River – By Justin Timberlake”….in what I like to think of as a continuation of them toying with the youth of America…pretending that their was actually something more than a marketing plan behind their teen love… Whether it is real or not…this Palvin Character is a solid upgrade….and I am glad she’s part of it….cuz it means we get to look at more of her….
There was once a time when TLC was called The Learning Channel….when sensationalized garbage like staged reality shows about the plastic surgery obsessed wives of plastic surgeons who think they are god…living in vapid hollywood…creating scary fucking creatures…..who look like fucking science experiments….and one of them….keeps her labia in a jar….kinda like some of you creeps….but a little weirder….since she doesn’t use it for sex…or a memory of the one time you saw a vagina….she keeps it as a reminder of a meaty pussy that was… What the fuck TLC….what are you trying to learn us here….that you like making money and catering to retard America like shit like Honey Boo Boo and trash like this….our world is fucking doomed…seriously…
So MTV did a show called Teen Moms…and this one is one of the scandalous, dirty bag, white trash cunts that instead of getting an abortion like a normal pregnant teen, decided to have a baby cuz it is like playing barbie, and she never had Barbies, cuz based on her faucet, daddy wasn’t around and mommy was too busy sucking dick to make enough money to get decent non-dollar store, made in china, contaminated with poison toys….and luckily for her…this is America…and in America…having a ghetto teen pregnancy can make you famous…like having a ghetto sex tape when you’re an irrelevant LA rich chick can make you a 100,000,000 dollars a year….like being a trash can human bar tender in the shittiest of places in America…can turn you into Snooki….. Our world is fucked…and here is Teen Mom Janelle showing off her 7 week baby bump…cuz having a baby worked so well for her the first time. All I see is future criminal.
Manti Te’o has spoken out about the Lennay Kekua death hoax , as it’s now been verified that the Notre Dame linebacker was never dating a Stanford student by that name last year. But the Heisman Trophy finalist is denying reports that he played a role in duping America, instead releasing a statement that says he fell victim to someone on the Internet. “This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her,” Te’o said. “To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone’s sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. “It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother’s death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life. “I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been. “In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was. “Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I’m looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft.” Are you buying the athlete’s story? Do you believe Manti Te’o was the victim of a hoax? Yes, the poor guy! No, he was in on it! View Poll »
Celebrating The Birthday Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today we celebrate the birthday of historic Civil Rights Movement pioneer and one of the most highly regarded leaders ever to grace the pages of American history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. While many of the very things that Dr. King fought tirelessly against are still alive and well in America today, African-Americans in every right from entertainment, to politics, to sports, to every day citizens have made amazing progress that won’t soon be overlooked. So today in honor of Dr. King, who would have been 84 years old today, let’s take a look at just a few positive African- American milestones throughout the various industries the last 5 years that would not have been possible without the leadership, perseverance, and influence of this great man.
In case you guys missed it, the 2013 Miss America was crowned over the weekend, and Miss New York won. Apparently the competition had McKayla Maroney as an official judge this year, which I don’t really get. What does a 17-year-old Olympic gymnast know about beauty pageants? I mean, I guess she’s an expert on flexibility and all, but I have years of experience judging girls in bikinis, I do it for a living! All I’m saying is, think about it for next year. » view all 12 photos Related Articles: McKayla Maroney Teaches The Dougie Gymnast McKayla Maroney’s Teenage Legs Maria Menounos & McKayla Maroney Are Not Impressed McKayla Maroney Is Sweet Girl , FameFlynet
Allyn Rose will participate tomorrow night in the Miss America pageant. Win or lose, however, the Miss DC has a far more important agenda to take care of following the event: she is scheduled to undergo a double mastectomy. The 24-year old is doing so as a preventive measure to reduce her odds of developing the disease that took her mother, grandmother and great aunt. “My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant,” Rose said Wednesday. “If there’s something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I’m going to be alive.” The University of Maryland student plans to show off her roller skating talents during the annual event and then heed the advice of her father, who broached this idea two years after his wife passed. Rose’s mother was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of 27 and Allyn – who does NOT carry the “breast cancer genes” BRCA1 and BRCA2 – says she doesn’t want to wait to find out if she’ll follow tragic suit. If she wins tomorrow, she hopes to serve as a role model. “I’ve been thinking how powerful that might be to have a Miss America say, ‘I might be Miss America but I’m still going to have surgery. I’m going to take control of my own life, my own health care.’ So I guess it’s up to what happens on Saturday night.”
Quentin Tarantino probably had a vastly different idea of how the months leading up to the 85th Academy Awards would transpire for him. As he began to promote Django Unchained , he no doubt expected to spend the majority of Awards Season talking about America’s legacy of slavery, about his decision to portray it as unambiguously horrific, and how the peculiar institution has historically been treated in film. That’s how this awards season started, of course. At the beginning of December, Tarantino was explaining that his goal was to make audiences feel, viscerally, the brutality of slavery. Later in the month, he was making the very excellent point that the legacy of slavery continues to this day , in the form of America’s massive prison complex and the war on drugs. ‘Django Unchained’ & The Sandy Hook Shooting Unfortunately, just 10 days before Django Unchained premiered, the massacre in Newtown, CT happened. Making matters worse, in the weeks since Sandy Hook there have been a succession of other mass shootings. (In fact, there was another school shooting Thursday, near Bakersfield, CA). As a result, all anyone is talking about is the influence of violent media on actual, real world violence, and unluckily for Tarantino, the conversation about slavery has been terminated and replaced with nearly constant demands to address the dubious notion that his violent films may contribute to that problem. Perhaps that’s why he’s beginning to lose his shit about the issue. Now generally, Tarantino’s responses to these questions have been measured; he’s made the excellent case again and again that, no, his movies are not responsible for societal violence. That’s changed somewhat since the beginning of the new year. Speaking to NPR on January 3, Tarantino got rather testy with Terry Gross , but that was nothing, compared to his low-temperature freak-out aimed at the U.K.’s Channel 4 news host, Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The Question About Violence In Movies That Shut The Interview Down “Why are you so sure there is no link between people enjoying movie violence and people enjoying real violence?,” Guru-Murthy asked, during an interview that aired last night. Tarantino’s response revealed, like nothing else, that he’s getting goddamned tired of talking about this. “I’m going to tell you why I’m so sure? You’re not asking me a question like that. I’m not biting. I refuse your question. I refuse your question,” he said. “I’m not your slave and you are not my master,” he continued. “You can’t make me dance to your tune. I’m not a monkey. I am saying I refuse.” Tarantino then added, “The reason I don’t want to talk about is because I’ve said everything I have to say about it. If anyone cares what I have to say about it, they can Google me and see 20 years of what I have to say about it.” It’s hard to blame Tarantino for being extremely annoyed with the whole thing. Hell, I’m annoyed with the whole thing. Django Unchained has been unfairly singled out for scorn despite hardly being unique in how violent it is, and one can’t help but feel that the conversation about it has changed less because of a sudden rediscovered concern about how violent his films are, but because people would so much rather talk about something that feels nebulous, like societal violence, rather than talk about something that remains, almost 150 years after being abolished, a very taboo subject. So it’s absolutely appropriate that Tarantino rejects the premise. However, this conversation is happening whether he likes it or not, especially after Django Unchained’ s five Oscar nominations. And outbursts like this are going to make him an easy target for stupid people who think Americans are so impressionable that we can’t watch a fictional depiction of violence without immediately running out to kill our neighbors. (Not to mention rather dishonest people who enjoy stirring up tabloid-levels of moral outrage just for fun.) Falling back on the dodge that he’s already said everything that must be said on the issue is just going to make media-concern trolls even more determined to play gotcha with him — especially when his angry outbursts contain terminology that, considering what Django Unchained is actually about, are rather… unfortunate. So if nothing is going to make the question go away, maybe the time has come for him to figure out a way to change the subject back to what it should be. I keep waiting for someone to ask him what I think is a far more interesting question about violence in America. America has a long history of pretending half the country didn’t start a war that killed nearly a million people just to keep their slaves, The manufacturers of our popular culture also have a history of minimizing just how bad slavery actually was for the enslaved, and of course,there’s also the country’s unwillingness to discuss the continued disenfranchisement and oppression of the descendants of those slaves. Doesn’t that, more than any film ever could, contribute to a national culture that seems terrifyingly comfortable with acts of massive public violence? Maybe, maybe not, but since no one else is asking, maybe it’s time Tarantino said it for them. It might not make the idiotic conversation stop, but it makes for a better quote than the word ‘monkey.’ Ross Lincoln is a LA-based freelance writer from Oklahoma with an unhealthy obsession with comics, movies, video games, ancient history, Gore Vidal, and wine. Follow Ross Lincoln on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter .
