This is Tasteless even for Anna Nicole Smith; Sells Dead Son’s last pictures to Pay for Funeral

File this one under the category, you have got to be kidding me and WTF. This actually leaves one speechless.

 It is being reported that Anna Nicole Smith has sold the last known pictures of her son to the tabloids. Get this … and the reason is … in order to pay for his funeral expenses. RIGHT, sure it was.

Distraught former Playboy Playmate ANNA NICOLE SMITH was forced to sell photos of her son DANIEL taken the night before he died in order to pay for his funeral expenses. The family portraits were taken in a hospital room in the Bahamas two days after the birth of Anna Nicole’s daughter and hours before her 20-year-old son was found dead.

Forced to sell? What this woman has no money? How much does a funeral cost these days? This actually goes beyond tasteless even for Anna Nicole Smith.

Photo agency Getty Images sold the photos to US publication In Touch for $400,000 (GBP222,000) after a fierce bidding war.

a source tells American publication Us Weekly that the devastated star sold the pictures in order to pay for her son’s funeral. The source says, “She needs the money.” (Contact Music)

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Daniel Smith Death: Who Says Caribbean Islands Do not want to be the Next Aruba? The Bahamas Do Not

What is the affect of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Aruba thought is was just going to go away. Seems more that it is on the minds of many. The mysterious death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel Smith, has caused the Bahamas to fear a hit to their image, similar to what has happened in Aruba. What do The Bahamas fear? PANTS, otherwise known as “Post Aruba Natalee Tourism Syndrome”. The high profile and undetermined death of Daniel Smith have some worried in the Bahamas that people may get the wrong idea and image of the Bahamas. The end result would be to suffer the same fate as Aruba, a sever drop off in tourism. Aruba wonders why the continue to see a perpetual, unending slide to their tourism? Wake up Aruba, you have made it to the worldwide lexicon of being the poster child island for missing and pathetically investigated crime. Think you are going to recover by throwing marketing dollars at the problem? Hardly.

Scott criticized the Bahamas’ head coroner, Linda Virgill, for labeling the death “suspicious” last week and saying that her office knew the cause of death before toxicology tests were complete. “Unless she’s psychic or God, unless the pathologists know the cause of death, how does she?” asked Scott, adding that some in the Bahamas worried the highly publicized case was affecting the island chain’s image. “We are all aware of what happened in Aruba. We are all aware of what happened to Natalee Holloway,” he said, referring to the high-profile disappearance last year of an Alabama teen. “We don’t want that to happen in this jurisdiction.” (Pioneer Press)

 Smith Death Sparks Scandal in Bahamas

“The fact of the matter is, the investigation surrounding this thing must be thoroughly done, it must be seen to be thoroughly investigated in any event,” he said. “You have to follow everything.”

Fears of missteps in the investigation have led some to worry aloud about the islands’ image overseas, and to comparisons with the much-criticized investigation into the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Authorities there have arrested nine people in her disappearance and released all of them for lack of evidence.

“We are all aware of what happened in Aruba,” Michael Scott, a Bahamian attorney for Anna Nicole Smith, said on Thursday. “We don’t want that to happen in this jurisdiction.” (Wilmington Star)

Evil Wal-Mart Testing Low Cost Generic Drugs

Wal-Mart, the store that the left has been demonizing quite regularly, has announced a test program in the Tampa Bay area to sell certain generic drugs. The pricing, 4 dollars for a 30 day supply. And they are hoping to get as many as 291 drugs added to the list that will sell for the the low 4 dollar price.

In a statement, CEO Lee Scott says the world’s largest retailer intends to “take the program to as many states as possible next year.” On average, generic drugs tend to cost between $10 and $30 for a month-long supply.

What is great about this is that Wal-Mart is the one company with the strength to force changes in how drug prices are charged. This program which is slated to roll out throughout Florida by the end of January and then across the country in 2007, is ground-breaking to say the least.

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Melinda Duckett Prime Suspect, Police Confirm that Melinda Duckett Wrote MySpace Threats

Police provided an inventory list of items removed from Melinda Duckett’s home during the search warrants. There were 15 items in total including the following:

• swab of something taken from an unknown stain on the hall wall in her apartment
• blue towel with unknown stains
•  top sheet from a bed with “blood-like stains,”

Authorities are also confirming that Melinda Duckett wrote and posted the threatening MySpace messages. Read the full story at Missing and Exploited.

Democrats Pelosi & Charlie Rangel doing their Best Animal House Impersonation to Hugo Chavez

A day after President George W. Bush was called a “devil” by Venezualian President Hugo Chavez, we witness some rather interesting comments. The actions of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and NY Representative Charlie Rangel can best be described as an audition for a remake of “Animal House”. The comments from both Democrats don’t sound all that much different than below from the 1978 movie cult classic, Animal House.

(Otter)

[Watching Flounder take abuse at ROTC]    Listen here

Otter: He can’t do that do that to our pledges.

Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.

(Boon)

In retrospect, being called a devil is rather tame compared the the insults, barbs and nasty comments made by Democratic leader toward President Bush both in America and overseas. As Michelle Malkin  stated, Dems to Chavez: Don’t insult Bush, that’s our job!

Charles Rangel’s comments were as follows: (full statement from Rangel’s website)

 RANGEL: AN ATTACK ON BUSH IS AN ATTACK ON ALL AMERICANS… ‘You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president, do not come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our Chief of State’…

Now listen to Charlie Rangel say pretty much the same thing. Animal House II may be in his future. Isn’t this the same guy who said the following?

But there was nothing inadvertent about a quip from Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), second-most senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“Well,” Rangel said. “I really think that he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all; it shows that, in this great country, anybody can become president.”

Nancy Pelosi’s lines were pretty much from the same memo and called Hugo Chavez “a thug”.

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