Alec Baldwin … Father of the Year (NOT!!!) … Phone Message to Daughter

 Alec Baldwin Telephone Message Ripping his daughter a new one.

 What a troubled individual this man is. Gee I think every girl wants to be called a rude, thoughtless little pig. News flash to Alec Baldwin, maybe that’s why she does what she does to you? Ya may want to get some mental help.

“I am going to come out there for the day and I am going to straighten your ass out when I see you. Do you understand me?

You are a rude thoughtless little pig.”

Alec Responds: “I’ve Been Driven to the Edge”

Isn’t it interesting how people try to blame others for their own issues. Take some responsibility Mr. Baldwin, you have no one to blame but yourself.

 Alec Baldwin swung back at wife Kim Basinger, slamming “certain people” who he says, “will go to any lengths to embarass [sic] me and to disrupt my relationship with my daughter.” (TMZ)

Aruba: More on the Namdar Bribery Scandal

More on the Aruba/Namdar bribery scandal … What a tangled web that always comes back to Aruban tourism at all cost no matter what the price. Ethics be damned, its all about the tourism. So what does it take to get a contract in Aruba?

Amigoe: I was introduced to Effy Namdar 

ORANJESTAD – Tourism-minister Edison Briesen says that he had an encounter with Effy Namdar on August 21st, 2006.  Royal Caribbean International arranged the introduction.  The cruise company wanted an agreement between Aruba and Namdar for the development of the harbour, said Briesen in a press conference yesterday. 

He also admits that he had contact with Michael Williams till September 2003.  The alleged bribery letter was addressed to Williams.  “The contact disintegrated due to problems with his water sport business and an incident with Minister Booshi Wever.” 

However, Amigoe was allowed access to the documents last week, from which it appears that Briesen still corresponded with Williams up till and including December 13th, 2004. 

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The Dana Pretzer Show – Special Guests Larry Pratt, Pete Bollinger, Eric Spinato, Clint Van Zandt and Cheyenne Jackson

Special Guests:

Discussing the Virginia Tech Shooting

• Larry Pratt, Executive Director,  Gun Owners of America
• Pete Bollinger, Police Officer and author of How to Get Hired in Law Enforcement and Fire.
• Eric Spinato, Senior Cable News Producer, we will discuss the Texas Cadet Murder Case and how he feels the VT shootings have been covered in the media
• Clint Van Zandt

And Also:

• Cheyenne Jackson, discussing a special birthday wish for a dying boy and the search for her missing brother.

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Mary Winkler Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter in Death of Husband Matthew Winkler

The verdict is has come in the Mary Winkler murder trial … guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Mary Winkler faces 3-6 years for the murder of her husband.

 A preacher’s wife who claimed her husband abused her was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday for killing him with a shotgun she said fired accidentally as she aimed at him.

Mary Winkler showed no emotion as the verdict was read.

Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction, but the jury settled on the lesser charge after deliberating for eight hours. She faces three to six years in prison but would be eligible for parole after serving about a third of the sentence.

This is hardly the verdict that prosecutors hoped for as they were going after first and second degree murder charges. However, Mary Winkler told jurors on Wednesday a gripping story of physical and sexual abuse that obviously swayed them.

Winkler told jurors in powerful testimony Wednesday that her husband, Matthew, abused her physically and sexually, but she said she did not pull the trigger and the shotgun went off accidentally as she pointed it at him.

The prosecution said it was ludicrous to suggest the shooting was an accident. Assistant District Attorney General Walt Freeland said bank managers were closing in on a check-kiting scheme that Mary Winkler wanted to conceal from her husband.

(One the surface it all seemed so normal)

It seems obvious that the jury felt they needed to punish Mary Winkler as there was a murder yet they also were never going to give her a first or second degree murder verdict that would have carried a sentence far worse that 3 to 6 years. Was it the right thing to do? Was it an accident or more a situation that someone was pushed to the breaking point due to abuse? Or was it as the prosecution stated an effort to conceal a check writing scheme?

Did the jury do the right thing?

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Daily Commentary – Friday April 20th, 2007 – Governor Corzine Actions Created Accident

Dana discusses why:

• Governor Corzine Actions Created Accident