In an attempt to appease PETA and their crazy demands, Gwyneth Paltrow made the mistake of responding. This spring she cashed a fat check to be the new star of Italian brand Tod’s marketing campaign, but predictably PETA was none too pleased when the ads featured a luxurious fur stole. (No mention of the accompanying leather bag, however.)
The award for Backpedaling of the Month goes to her for the following quote:
“That was awkward, and I’m glad you asked, because I do not wear fur at all. It was a daylong photo shoot on a boat near Capri, and there were all sorts of poses with all kinds of clothes—none with fur. During one set-up, a stylist came up from behind and draped a stole around my shoulders. I didn’t pay much attention to it, and when I noticed it was fur I assumed it was fake fur but did not ask, so it’s my fault. I was very surprised when they ended up using that one shot out of hundreds for the centerpiece of the Tod’s ads. I know it’s not a great excuse, but I hope you and your members understand.”
I mean, first of all, it’s freaking Tod’s. They don’t charge that much and do faux. Second, the photoshoot took place in the middle of summer in Capri. A fur stole in 85 degree heat, you’d definitely notice.
But at least she didn’t do some fool thing like donate her paycheck to PETA, so there’s still hope she’s not totally under their self-righteous thumbs.
From yesterday’s New York Times, about a Senate hearing on a proposed government bailout of auto makers:
The chief executives of G.M. and Chrysler said their companies were using up their cash at a rate that could leave them close to insolvency without federal aid.
“Without immediate bridge financing support, Chrysler’s liquidity could fall below the level necessary to sustain operations,” said Robert L. Nardelli, the chairman of Chrysler.
His comments were echoed by G.M.’s chairman, Rick Wagoner, who warned that the rippling impact of the auto industry’s cash woes could put three million American jobs at risk.
Heyyyy — I have an idea for a little bit of “liquidity” these companies can use! How about selling the ultra-luxury private jets the CEOs flew on to get to Washington to beg for money?
From ABC News:
Continue reading ‘Detroit’s Big Three Are “So Poor They Can’t Pay Attention”’
It’s been a few weeks since I slammed Al Gore for “donning a Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, and flip-flops to stand in a snowstorm, sheepishly muttering, ‘Hot enough f-f-for ya, f-f-f-folks?’” Well, if you thought I was kidding, check this out (emphasis mine):
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record…
GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
And why not? Everybody knows global warming is real, so why bother fiddling around with stupid facts and dumb evidence? If anybody questions you, just yell at them for killing the planet until they shut up. It’s been working great so far.
I knew Chuck Norris was enjoying plenty of attention as the star of ChuckNorrisFacts.com (“Fact #1: If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.”), but what I didn’t know is that he’s also a raging hypocrite.
On conservative blogging site TownHall.com, he recently wrote a column about how the 18,000 gay couples in California who had their marriages dissolved overnight are just being whiny crybabies. The erstwhile Texas Ranger spews:
The truth is that the great majority of Prop. 8 advocates are not bigots or hatemongers. They are American citizens who are following 5,000 years of human history and the belief of every major people and religion: Marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman. Their pro-Prop. 8 votes weren’t intended to deprive any group of its rights; they were safeguarding their honest convictions regarding the boundaries of marriage.
Of course, you can’t expect Chuck Norris to play by anyone’s rules, including the church’s regarding the sanctity of marriage. As Defamer summed up nicely:
Yes, and Norris respects those boundaries of marriage, which is why he has already been married, divorced, and remarried, and why he has a daughter he didn’t meet until she turned 26 because she was the result of an extramarital affair. Chuck, Chuck, Chuck: gay people want to have that too! How can you be so unfair to deprive two people who love each other the privilege of ruining marriage from the inside?
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