Posted May 31st, 2009 by CG
A long, long time ago was a time when I actually thought Oscar winner (Slingblade) Billy Bob Thornton, was a cool dude. I don’t feel that way about him anymore, in fact, I think he’s a bit of an “a-hole” and that the day has arrived for Thornton to begin paying the price for his “a-holishness.”
Yeah, I know buddy, “a-holishness” isn’t a word, but it’s my blog and I decide what can and cannot be published in my blog.
When Billy Bob was in Canada backing up the dope-smoking Willy Nelson, he kind of went on a “bash Canadians” campaign, choosing to make observations about Canadians that most musicians looking to break into the Canadian market wouldn’t make. You know, like Canadians were spineless and easy to please.
Billy Bob didn’t use those exact words, but Canadians, especially his now former fans, knew exactly what he meant when he likened Canadians to “potatoes and gravy“.
Yeah Billy Bob, Canadians aren’t that stupid, and they let you know it didn’t they buddy boy? It didn’t take you long to tuck your tail behind your legs and get the “eff” out of dodge once you realised how much “in over your head” you were, when you decided to take on concert ticket-buying Canadians
It’s been a couple of months since Billy Bob got a little too mouthy for the likes of Willie Nelson and the Canadian audiences Nelson was playing for, but it hasn’t been forgotten.
So I hear Billy Bob has a daughter that has been busted in connection with the death of a toddler that was in her care.
I don’t know all the facts yet, but I am going to assume that 29-year-old Amanda Brumfield has quite a temper and like her father is easily frustrated, and that when the toddler started to get on her nerves, she lost it and accidentally killed the kid.
Remember readers, I’m just assuming here, I ain’t saying that’s what happened. It isn’t a stretch though, to think that’s what might have happened, right?
You know what they say about that apple and that tree don’t you?
There is little doubt in my mind that “Bad Santa” doesn’t have it in him to kill somebody, and I’m not surprised to hear that one of his children has been charged in the death of another human being.
I’m actually surprised that Billy Bob himself hasn’t been charged with such a crime yet, not that I don’t think that day is coming, what with Billy Bob’s temper and odd kind of personality and all that other baggage he carries with him.
It’s only a matter of time before Billy Bob does something stupid enough to get somebody killed.
The spawn of Billy Bob, at least in my opinion anyway, isn’t going to be much different then their maker when it comes to common sense, civility, decency, and all those other goodies that are that are supposed to make us respectable and productive human beings in society.
As far as I’m concerned, any kid of Billy Bob’s has the potential to kill or be killed. The fact that Brumfield, the daughter he spawned with his first wife Melissa Gatlin, has been charged with murder is proof of that.
Just so you know, last October Amanda called 911 to report that the 1-year-old girl she was babysitting had hit her head, and needed medical attention.
Now there are many ways as to how that fatal injury could have occurred, but I’m thinking Amanda lost it control, couldn’t handle the situation so to speak, and she got a little rough with the child.
I don’t think she intentionally went out of her way to kill the baby. I’m just saying that in a moment of frustration, a moment her father would be all too familiar with himself, Amanda lost it and now the kid is dead.
As for Billy Bob, I don’t feel sorry for him in the least. He’s getting out of what he has put into his daughter’s life, nothing but grief and misfortune.
It really sucks to be Billy Bob these days doesn’t it?
TMZ: Woman Charged In Baby’s Death Is Actor’s Daughter
I wasn’t fussy about The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and I definitely think that clown was on that show for way to too long, and then along came Jay Leno. As far as I’m concerned, Leno was the better of the two late night talk show hosts though I think, Johnny will always be considered a legend, a title he aptly earned and deserves. Not that Leno couldn’t be a legend of course.
So now, Conan O’Brien has taken over and you know what I think about that, “Can you say death knell?” Yeah that’s right, replacing Jay Leno with that moron Conan O’Brien is the beginning of the end of The Tonight Show. I give it two more years’ tops, before the peacock network, NBC, pulls the plug.
Having said that, the one and only time I have ever spoken of Jay Leno in Crooked in Canada is going to wind up this blog article with the 10 most memorable moments of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Hugh Grant-’What were you thinking?”
After being busted for getting down and dirty with prostituted Divine Brown, the wealthy and famous actor was asked, “What the hell were you thinking?” to which he responded, “I did a bad thing.” The joke is ; what did he mean, was Divine the bad thing, or was it the act in his car itself?
Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. President to appear on the show
It has been described as surreal moment, but his appearance on the show certainly proved what many political pundits were thinking about America’s first African-American commander-in-chief, “that he was better suited to be running the show at the Screen Actor’s Guild rather than the United States.”
Californication
With a little bit of “schtick” and bikini-wax shots, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that California governor Gray Davis would be terminated, and that he was throwing his hat into the political ring. As Californians and the rest of the world now know, the “Kindergarten Cop” is now running that state into the ground. Good on Ah-nuld.
Stroker Ace aka The Bandit
Kids’ game-show host threatens to hit Burt Reynolds in the side of the head with a coffee mug. The look on his face clearly indicated that the “Cop and a Half” wanted to rip Marc Summers face off.
Brad Pitt
Promoting his movie “Spy Game“, the man women drool over, did a little door knocking and offered to clean their toilets and help them with their own personal needs when it comes to their “plumbing problems“, if you know what I mean. You have to see the footage.
Fire
Bobcat Goldthwait, while discussing his movie career, loses it and sets a chair alight.
Signals Crossed
Gilbert Gottfried and Jay trip over each other’s lines. It turned into a “Who’s on First?” routine with mismatched cue cards.
Bobbing for Bass
Canadian comedian Tom Green stumbles upon some ice fishermen and asks if anybody ever sticks their head in the hole. He promptly sticks his head in not once, but two times.
Wrestling with Wynona Judd
After the country singer finished her performance, Leno got a little physical with her and buckled under her weight, sending Judd flying, and he stumbled on her head.
The Deer Incident
A young deer decides to, um, give Jay a hummer maybe.
You can see all the videos of these funny moments here.
Psychotic Little Dickhead Deserves To Die, Executions Would Save California Money
I don’t care if Phil Spector revolutionized the music industry with his musical genius or not, he’s still a killer, and as far as I’m concerned, he should have ordered put down by the judge who locked him up for 19 years after Spector was found guilty in a second trial for murdering B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.
If California governor Arnold (The Terminator) Schwarzenegger wants to help California out of the economical crisis that effed up state is in, maybe “his state” could start executing anybody and everybody convicted of murder and rape.
Think about it Arnie, how much is it costing California taxpayers to house convicted murderers like Phil Spector and Charles Manson? With both of them in the ground, think of the taxpayer money you are saving Arnie.
Spector Sentenced to at Least 19 Years
Russian child protection authorities rocked up to a filthy apartment door in the Eastern Siberian city of Chita after concerns were raised about the care of a 5-year-old girl.
Imagine their surprise when they entered the apartment and found a little girl on all fours barking like a dog.
It didn’t take much to convince the child protection officers that there was something definitely wrong with that picture and they quickly removed the child from the home.
The AFP newswire service is reporting that the little girl, who was supposed to be taught life skills by her the relatives she was living with, was actually being raised by the pet dogs living in the cramped and filthy apartment with her.
The girl, who the police cruelly nicknamed Mowgli, a fictional character in the children’s story (The Jungle Book) by Rudyard Kipling, was never allowed outdoors and the only way she could communicate was by barking.
She did understand Russian however.
You know, this is really sad, and the relatives of this poor little girl need to be held accountable big time. This is more than just child abuse, and I know if it were mean investigating this case, I would be throwing the book at the relatives who were supposed to be raising this child.
It makes me sick to my stomach that adults could do this to any child let alone this one, and I hope the criminal investigation Russian police have opened, makes the girl’s relative more than just a little accountable for their disgusting and neglectful actions during the first 5 years of the child’s life.
Personally, I think the lot of them need to be shipped off to a Siberian prison and forced to do hard labour. Not for just a couple of years either.
I’m thinking they should serve 2 years for every year the child has been on this planet.
I know some people will think that’s a little bit harsh, but what they put this little girl through is far worse, and believe me if it was left up to me, they would serve a hell of a lot longer than 10 years a Siberian prison. Lucky for them I don’t have a say in the matter.
I don’t know what is going on in Russian, but by all appearances (and I’m not basing my opinion on this one incident) the Russian people are as cruel as they are drunkards, cannibals and bullies.
The two clowns running the country, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin need to pull their heads in and clean up what is going in their own Russian backyard before they start meddling in international affairs.
Russia is, and always has been, a very effed up country. When it comes to the social infrastructure in that country there really isn’t one, especially when it comes to children.
Russian authorities, those that make the laws anyway, spend way too much time bullying their way around the planet (and to think they accuse the U.S. of the same thing from time-to-time).
They are too busy trying to take what isn’t theirs, and meddling in international affairs while they ignore the Russian children of tomorrow, the future of Russia.
Russian children are being left to fend for themselves against the cruelty from those who are supposed to love, nurture, and prepare them for life.
You know what, on second thought, I think somebody should put a bullet between the eyes of the people who were supposed to be looking out for this child’s best interests. Anybody have an effin’ problem with that?
Child raised by dogs found in Russia
Good-looking strippers are a dime a dozen. They can be found anywhere on the planet there happens to be a strip club, and there are a lot of strip clubs on this planet, with plenty of surgically enhanced exotic dancers shaking some of what their mamma gave them. They’re making a shitload of cash doing it too, anywhere from a few hundred dollars a night to a few thousand dollars a night, and to top it all off their audience is a market of cashed up gents in the market for a trophy girlfriend, not that I consider strippers trophy girlfriends, Dita Von Teese being the exception.
In Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, way up there in Alaska, one such stripper didn’t think the kind of money she was making (a thousand dollars a shift) was enough, and in her devious little mind, set about to supplement her income by spreading her legs for three men, two of which she promised to marry.
If the story Dateline NBC turns out to be true, the stripper who in my opinion is a killer now, should pay a very high price for the lengths she went to get that financial security she so desperately wanted and would kill for.
Her victim saw it coming.
Kent Leppink was shot in the back and in the face, in what was clearly a murder motivated by insurance money, but the suspects in this story, stripper Mechele Hughes and John Carlin III, are denying having anything to do with Leppink’s murder.
The police don’t have much to go on. They have three bullet casings and two sets of footprints where Leppink’s body was found, and then there’s the million-dollar life insurance policy that named Hughes as the beneficiary, who by the way was engaged to marry Leppink while dating another man, Scott Hilke.
That insurance policy was apparently a wedding gift from the soon-to-be bride’s father. Some wedding gift huh?
The beneficiary on that policy was changed unbeknownst to Hughes before Leppink’s death. Apparently, he changed the beneficiary after he became concerned about his soon-to-be wife’s extra-curricular activities with Hilke and the aforementioned John Carlin.
At the time of Leppink’s death, a copy of the change of beneficiary form on his million-dollar life insurance policy was found in his pocket, along with a receipt for a package he sent to his parents, and a name: Mechele Hughes.
Police interviewed Hughes, Carlin but got nowhere, even though Leppink’s parents were in possession of a letter that pointed the finger of blame for his murder at Hughes, Carlin, and Hilke. According to the letter, the murder victim wanted to bring Hughes down. He called it payback for taking his life, and he wanted his parents to make sure Hughe’s paid for their son’s fatal demise.
For the next 10 years, the investigation didn’t advance very far, and the case went cold before some new evidence peaked the investigator’s curiosity, John Carlin’s son was never interviewed, something about him being a minor an his father having to be present during any interview the police wanted to have with him. Fair enough, but there is no statute of limitations on murder, and police eventually find themselves in Seattle interviewing John Carlin IV. That was in 2005.
During the interview investigators leaned heavily on Carlin IV, intimating that withholding evidence and committing perjury as it relates to their murder investigation, could put him in jail. Apparently, that tactic worked for them because a grand jury assembled in Anchorage, Alaska.
John Carlin III who by this time had found himself a Russian bride, upon hearing the news that a grand jury had been convened, voluntarily appeared before the grand jury. Scott Hilke testified too. Mechele Hughes who had since married a doctor and was raising a child while doing charity work also made herself available to testify before the grand jury, prepared to answer any questions they might have. Police would eventually surround her house in Olympia, Washington and knock on her door. Her husband Colin answered the door.
He told police that Mechele had told him about Kent Leppink’s murder when they first started dating.
The grand jury issued two indictments. One against Mechele Hughes (now Linehan) and John Carlin III. Scott Hilke was not charged.
The police questioned everybody that knew Mechele, and not surprisingly, the people that knew her now and not then were rising to her defense. Mechele obviously was and still is capable of fooling a lot of people don’t you think?
I don’t know the woman, never met her, but based on what I have learned about her so far, Mechele strikes me as a manipulative kind of gold-digging woman who is very capable of conspiring to commit murder for financial gain, circumstantial evidence or not.
Nothing like a woman using sex to manipulate somebody into committing murder for her.
So the trial begins.
During the trial investigators produced emails that clearly indicate what Mechele was up to. Those emails according to cold case investigator Linda Branchflower, showed Mechele as a manipulator who was conning Leppink, while at the same plotting with Carlin III to kill her fiancée, who she thought was carrying a million dollar life insurance policy that would be paid out to her in the event of his death.
Dateline NBC covered this story, and I must say they did a fantastic job of it. After reading the transcript of their latest coverage of the story, there is little doubt in my mind that the stripper weaved herself quite a little web of passion, deceit and murder for insurance money she thought she was going to get.
Her devious plot is unraveling, albeit ten years later.
Her dead fiancée has begun to get payback from his grave, starting with John Carlin III, who has been convicted of putting three bullets into Kent Leppink, the fisherman who was only looking for a woman to spend the rest of his life with.
John Carlin III denies to this day that he was the shooter, and he predicts that Mechele Hughes-Linehan will walk when her first-degree murder trial raps up. Me, I’m not sure about that. I think she will be found guilty, that the same evidence used to convict Carlin III, some of it anyway, will be enough for the prosecution to get a win against the murderous little bitch.
I don’t think the jury will be fooled by her, whether she testifies on her own behalf, or not.
You can read more about this case here. It is a lengthy read, but it’s a good one. Like I said, Dateline NBC did a good job telling this story, and I’m sure if you take the time to read the transcript, you will agree with me that Mechele Hughes-Linehan is just as guilty for killing Kent Leppink as John Carlin III. She might as well have pulled the trigger herself.
I don’t care what anybody says, but suing a casino because they took advantage of somebody’s gambling addiction is absurd, and while I wouldn’t be surprised if the courts in Australia side with Kakavas, at the end of the day he has nobody to blame but himself.
Cash payments of $30,000 and $50,000 — authorised by James Packer but kept secret from his father Kerry — were occasionally left in gift boxes inside the Crown jet when it picket up Mr Kakavas at Coolangatta airport, just to “get him started”, the court heard.
In his opening address to the Victorian Supreme Court, Mr Kakavas’s barrister Allan Myers QC said casino executives had developed “a scheme to lure” the Gold Coast gambler back to their casino after they discovered he lost between $3 million and $4 million on a short trip to Las Vegas in 2004.
The court heard that casino executives were aware Mr Kakavas, 42, had served jail time for fraud and had a separate charge of armed robbery dropped.
In a secretly recorded conversation with Mr Kakavas, senior executive Richard Doggert allegedly said he “didn’t give a monkey’s” that the NSW Police Commissioner placed an exclusion order on Mr Kakavas in 2000 preventing him from entering Star City Casino in Sydney.
The ban, which should also have been enforced as an interstate exclusion order, was ignored by Crown, the court heard.
Between June 2005 and August 2006, Mr Kakavas turned over almost $1.5billion at Crown’s baccarat tables. His total losses reached upward of $30 million.
The casino denied executives targeted Mr Kakavas. They alleged he had repeatedly pressed the casino to let him gamble there. After 2006, when Crown turned him away, he went on to bet in other casinos in Australia and overseas.
