Oakland Has Street Food Too.
Check out some of Oakland's Street Cart Scene
That's right. Bacon S'mores
MMMMMM. Bacon.
"That's That!"
The Wurst Of Times
This guy is definitely the coolest guy in the world!
I will totally admit that this guy is cooler than me.
Look who made it as a screen cap! NBC Bay Area report on Street Food
Look mom, I'm on TV!
Check out the segment on NBC Bay Area.
This is SOOOOOOOOO LMFAO Funny.
Revenge, Facebook Style: Brother 1, Sister 0
Article written by: Andre Sanchez
Posted on: December 22, 2009
I’ve been laughing for the past 3 minutes about this. SoJones family, if your sibling gets on your very last nerve and you have some juicy blackmail material on them, what do you do?
The picture below explains everything, but let me tell you what happened in short:
Chris hides beer in his bedroom (we assume he’s underaged). Sister snitches on him. “asian parents are [f*ing] strict” as he explains, and they subsequently ground him for three months.
Infuriated and looking to get back at his sister, Chris subsequently discovers her very graphically detailed notes entitled “My hook up list” which describes her goals and aspirations for getting down with 10 different individuals, some of whom are crossed off aka “mission accomplished”. So what does dear brother do with this scandalous material?
He of course scans and posts it on his Facebook account. Tags hella people on it, including named “targets” who quickly find and comment on.
Click pic to enlarge.
Pee-wee is Back Bitches!
Pee-wee Herman's big comeback
By MIKE CIDONI, Associated Press Writer Mike Cidoni, Associated Press Writer – Fri Dec 11, 9:28 am ET
LOS ANGELES – The star may be Pee-wee, but his new live stage show is absolutely huge.
"The Pee-wee Herman Show," opening next month in downtown Los Angeles at Club Nokia theater, cost millions to mount. It boasts 11 actors, 20 puppets and marks the show's first production since 1982.
So, why now?
Wow! I'm glad that I have unlimited texts!
Photo courtesy of KTVU
A father's $21,917.59 phone bill
For some, $21,000 covers college tuition or helps buy a house. Unfortunately, for an unemployed father from Hayward, this is the amount he owes Verizon. According to Ted Estarija, his 13-year-old son racked up those surreal charges after being added to the account. Estarija claims he had asked Verizon to place limits on the son's plan, reports KTVU.
"This is not completely his fault, I put more blame on Verizon than anybody. They shouldn't allow this to happen."
Estarija's story, while extreme, is a familiar one. Other consumers have been slapped with heart attack-inducing bills. In Denver, a girl's 10,000 texts cost (OMG) $4,756.25. She was, like, grounded for life and her dad smashed her phone. A Portland family was dumbfounded by a $20,000 bill. An infuriated young woman showed her $14,062.27 bill on YouTube (see video below), while a Canadian man was told he owed ... $83,000.
Estarija is trying to console his son who he says was devastated by the bill. Verizon is apparently working to resolve the issue soon.
Watch the full KTVU report here.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_id=53359&tsp=1#ixzz0ZPT4E5Ni
Mayor of Sac Gets Robbed in SF.
San Francisco really represented today by robbing former NBA All-Star and current Mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson. Nice move San Francisco, nice move.
Is it a little bit of kharma for his steals in the NBA? Ok, sorry that was lame...
Read Entire Article Here: http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2008/writers/paul_forrester/03/12/johnson.mayor/t1-johnson2.jpg
John Minus Kate Plus 8 Sounds Better To Me.
TLC's 'Jon & Kate' is soon to be 'Kate Plus Eight'
NEW YORK – "Jon & Kate Plus 8" will soon be simply "Kate Plus Eight." That's the word from the TLC network, who announced Tuesday that its hit reality show is adapting to changes in the Gosselin household, which has been disrupted by the split up of Kate and Jon.
The renamed "Kate Plus Eight," which begins Nov. 2, will continue to chronicle the lives of the Gosselin kids (5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins) but will also focus on Kate's role as a single mother.
Read Full Article Here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_jon___kate_changes
Some Kids Just Killed ET!!! =(
Some kids in Panama beat the shit out of ET and killed him... I don't think he's coming back from this one.
I love you ET!!!
The video is creepy.
Read the article here: http://www.ktvu.com/hollywood-vine/20980556/detail.html
RIP Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze was a BAMF in the late 80's and early 90's.
You were a man among boys.
Apparently, too much of the internet is a bad thing in China...
Chinese teen dies at Internet addiction rehab camp
By HENRY SANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, August 6, 2009
(08-06) 07:33 PDT BEIJING, China (AP) --
China is investigating the death of a teenager who was allegedly beaten to death in a camp designed to treat Internet addiction, state media said.
Deng Senshan, 15, died Sunday, less than a day after his parents sent him to the camp in southern Guangxi province, Xinhua News Agency reported.
The case has led medical experts to call for laws regulating centers that treat obsessive Web surfing. Concern over such behavior is so widespread in China, and demand for rehabilitation is so great, that some camps now advertise on television, the report said.
Deng was found vomiting and was taken to a clinic where he died. Fellow students said a teacher beat him, Xinhua reported.
The report quoted the local government as saying several marks were found on the boy's body. It said four trainers from the Qihang Salvation Training Camp in Nanning city have been detained.
Police and government authorities in Nanning could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Controversy over the methods used in addiction-treatment camps led the Ministry of Health to issue a notice last month banning the use of electric shock therapy on Internet addicts at one hospital in eastern China.
Tao Ran, director of the country's first Internet addiction treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing, told The Associated Press that such deaths are bound to happen because few camps employ scientific methods, with most opting for crude military-style discipline.
Tao said 40 percent of those addicted to the Internet suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and find it difficult to obey orders at training camps.
"They are only one-fourth or one-fifth as efficient in their academic life," he said. "Once you put these kids to the training camps or schools, they are bound to have problems with the teachers, because ... they can't be still, while the training is all about keeping still."
Internet addiction is a big problem in China because 200 million Internet users are between the ages of 15 and 35 and many lack self-control, Tao said. Students at high school and college also face enormous pressure from parents to succeed academically.
Tao's clinic has treated about 5,000 Internet addicts since 2004.
Xinhua said the numbers of treatment facilities and addicts treated have soared in the past few years in major cities.
China's National People's Congress has estimated that 10 percent of China's Internet users under age 18 are addicted. Chinese psychologists say symptoms include being online more than six hours a day — playing games or looking at pornography rather than working or studying — and getting angry when unable to get online.
Deng's father told Xinhua his son spent all his time on the Internet. He said he sent his son to the camp after seeing an advertisement on television.
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California Apologizes to Chinese Americans
To be serious for once. Chinese-Americans are finally getting an apology for the past racism during the Gold Rush Era in California. California approved a bill that will formally apologize for the racist laws during that time and also recognize the contributions of Chinese immigrants to the state of California.
During the Gold Rush Era, Chinese immigrants were forced to risk their lives building the Transcontinental Railroad that we still use today. All the while not having the same rights to own property, work in public, or marry whites.
To finally receive a formalized apology can start to bring some sort of closure and recognition to what our great great grandparents went through so that we can have the lives we have now.
California Apologizes to Chinese Americans
By LING WOO LIU Ling Woo Liu
Tue Jul 21, 5:05 pm ET
What's in an apology? Some expressions of remorse are commonplace - we hear them on the playground when kids smack each other on the head, or they land in your inbox after a friend forgets your birthday. It's the grand-scale apologies, it seems, that are harder to come by.
On July 17, the California legislature quietly approved a landmark bill to apologize to the state's Chinese-American community for racist laws enacted as far back as the mid–19th century Gold Rush, which attracted about 25,000 Chinese from 1849 to 1852. The laws, some of which were not repealed until the 1940s, barred Chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. The new bill also recognizes the contributions Chinese immigrants have made to the state, particularly their work on the Transcontinental Railroad. (Check out a story about the Asian-American experience in late[EN]20th century California.)
The apology is the latest in a wave of official acts of remorse around the globe. In 2006, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a similar apology, expressing regret to Chinese Canadians for unequal taxes imposed on them in the late 19th century. Last February, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to his country's Aborigines for racist laws of the past, including the forced separation of children from their parents. Five months later, the U.S. Congress formally apologized to black Americans for slavery and the later Jim Crow laws, which were not repealed until the 1960s. And most notably, in 1988 the U.S. government decided to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps during World War II. Says Donald Tamaki, a San Francisco–based attorney who helped overturn wrongful WWII-era convictions of Japanese Americans: "Part of what a humane society does is recognize past injustices and address them."
The California resolution moved quickly through the state legislature since it was first introduced in February. "It's symbolic to recognize that the state made mistakes," says assembly member Paul Fong, who co-sponsored the legislation with assembly member Kevin de Leon. "These laws reverberate to this date because racism still exists." (Read about a new Asian-American stereotype in TIME'S 1987 cover story.)
Most of the direct victims of the laws in question have already passed away. Fong's grandfather was held for two months at Angel Island, an immigration station near San Francisco that targeted and detained several hundred thousand Chinese immigrants from 1910 to 1940. Dale Ching, 88, arrived at Angel Island from China's Guangdong province in 1937 at age 16. Though his father was an American citizen, immigration authorities detained Ching for 3½ months. "My intent was to try to have a better life, better than in China," says Ching. "But at that time, they didn't want you to get ahead."
How times have changed. In the throes of huge budget cuts, California is wooing cash-flush mainland Chinese tourists to its sun-kissed coastline and world-famous theme parks. So far this year, the state's Travel and Tourism Commission has opened offices in three Chinese cities. In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger toured China on a six-day trade mission to peddle his state's produce, technology and raw materials. China is now California's fourth largest export market, after Mexico, Canada and Japan. In 2008 California exported $10.9 billion worth of goods to China, up 40% since 2005.
With the California bill in the bag, Fong now plans to take the issue to Congress, where he will request an apology for the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only federal law ever enacted to deny immigration based exclusively on race or nationality. Passed in 1882, the law was not fully repealed until 1943, after China and the U.S. became allies in WWII. Given President Obama's decision to appoint Gary Locke as Commerce Secretary and Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, Fong says he's confident of the bill's passage. "As a person of color, President Obama would understand these issues," he says.
Fong does not plan to press for financial compensation for the surviving victims of the state and federal laws in question, despite the Japanese-American precedent. More important than individual compensation, he says, is to help educate younger generations about the mistakes of the past. That said, Fong may ask for funding to help preserve the Angel Island immigration station, dilapidated after decades of neglect. To complicate matters, the station is located within a state park that, along with several others, may be shut down to help balance California's budget shortfall.
Not long after his father helped negotiate his release, Dale Ching joined the U.S. Army and fought Japanese forces during WWII. He went on to become an electronics technician, but after retiring, he began volunteering as a docent at Angel Island in hopes of drawing more attention to that moment in history. "We've been fighting, but nobody would listen," he says. "Finally someone has said sorry."
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Back To School Special.
This is what happens when they drop sex-ed from schools because of budget cuts...
Attack of the Killer Ants!!!
WTF! I would kick an ants ass before it kills me.
Bolivian farmworker killed by ants
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
(07-21) 10:18 PDT LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) --
Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree has been killed by insect bites.
Beni city Police Chief Rolando Ramos says that farmworker Santiago Ortiz apparently had been drinking before sitting down beneath a Palo Santo tree — a type noted for its aromatic wood and for hosting a particularly aggressive sort of ant.
Ramos said Tuesday that when police reached the scene, the man was already dead, but swarms of ants were still crawling across his body.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/21/international/i101814D28.DTL
Jon is Doing Fine Without Kate
No more lame "No Worry Beef Curry" shirts for this guy. He drops the baggage and his true douchebaggery comes to light.
Hanging out with Christian Audigier and his new GF. Forget about the kids and the ex-wife. He's got a life to live now.
All he needs now is to start training for MMA and he'll be the total douchebag package!
I wonder what Kate thinks? LOL!
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