Xinhuanet.com :: Tom Cruise Admires Jack Kevorkian's Work..?

You know, you know, you know.. Back when Tom Cruise's couch jumping ordeal on Oprah's occurred, not to mention the Scientology angle, I didn't have much Internet online access, let alone a functional 'puter so I pretty much just had to leave it go..

The whole thing was frightening to ever so silently bear witness to, though, in that one imagines loyal fans following however he may lead just because of the magnetic draw he has on people.. Human Nature will be what it will be, and the desire of so many to be around celebrities regardless will, too..

But.. this..... shtuff that crossed these Fingertips today.. Oy, freaking vey..

To set it up, part of what comes into my inbox is regular searches on that dreadful phrase, "assisted suicide" along with "right to die".. Today's I happened to open in a timely manner.. Whoohoo.. This is what I found:

[Celebrity photog] diplomatically saved the day by explaining that Cruise really meant the doctor's campaign for the right to die and assisted suicide.

The very first thing that came to Mind as I read that teaser..? Oh, please, say this is not going to show Tom Cruise, with his record on mental health and Scientology already, somehow being referenced as interacting with or about Dr. Jack Kevorkian..?! Leaky pipes, be dogged.. This lead I had to follow..

• Celebrity photog: Be nice, don't push, say 'please'
  www.chinaview.cn; 2008-06-13 10:08:09

The rest of the blurb went something like.......

[Veteran celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan] tells the story of introducing assisted suicide advocate Jack "Doctor Death" Kervorkian to Tom Cruise at a party. According to McMullan, Cruise had no idea who the euthanasia advocate was, but didn't hold back with the enthusiasm.

I really love your work, he quotes Cruise as saying. And Dr Kervorkian looks at me like 'what'?

The photographer diplomatically saved the day by explaining that Cruise really meant the doctor's campaign for the right to die and assisted suicide.

Just break my Heart, why don't you.....

For so, so many years, Tom Cruise, because of the Old Time Rock And Roll scene in Risky Business, held a fond, fond memory spot in my Heart.. Not because of the adorableness of the scene and, well, YOU know, but because multiple times a day for years, I'd hear that song playing at the Whale Bowl as Tokitae and Makani "duked" it out as to who was the audience favorite..

As a (still) treasured Mockingbird once told me as we gazed out over the Flipper Lagoon, it was such a very magical place and time, those days out there.. Old Time Rock And Roll, by default, brought Tom right along with..

But now.......

Sheesh, golly, gee, Tommy.. Break my poor little Heart.....

Cyber hugs from Talking Rock..

Celebrity Privilege :: Allen Iverson's $6.2 million lawsuit over a $2.2mil house..

Don't know how anyone else sees it, but, from up "here in the hills" ( :wink: ), these kinds of lawsuits are really starting to burn my britches when those who need real accountability for Lives genuinely destroyed are regularly blocked from being able to do the same..

'Nuff said (for the moment).....

Cyber hugs..

Up for telling Ted Nugent where to pluck it..?

Ted Nugent's the latest to cross my inbox as supportive of Dr. Uncouth, assisted suicide, legalization, and everyone staying out of it because it is, in his so many words, not a threat to vulnerable populations..

Sic 'em.. :wink:

Whoops, almost forgot..

Dear Ted Nugent:

Well spoken from your Ivory Tower of Celebrity Privilege.. When it comes to speaking about the slippery slope from these Shoes, YOU need to listen a little bit more as to why people fear.. people like you who don't even pretend to try to understand but who rant on and on from self-important possible positions of power to change the iffies on this Life-affecting debate..

Grrrin.. You said it yourself, Ted, when you said: "I would love to know who thinks he or she has any right to tell family members or loved ones just how, when or if they can compassionately end their suffering and meet their maker."

THAT'S what we're trying to tell people like you.

Right now, these types of decisions are being made not based on Love and Compassion but instead are being made based on how much trouble persons of all disabilities are to others.. Making it any more legal, any easier than it already is ups the verticality of that "slippery slope" we all speak of these days..

Shaking your head in retort..? (Can feel the residual disturbance in the air waves from here..)

'Splain to me, then, what was the excuse Ashley's parents, of Ashley's treatment fame, gave for why they violated her womanhood, her human rights, her Life's dignities.. Because it convenienced them, because it made things easier on them..

Whether or not you'd ever admit it publicly now, you and I both know there is no way in H-E-Double-Toothpicks the Ashley treatment parents are the only ones pulling this kind of cr#p on my extended family of friends..

'Nuff said.

Reference - Waco Tribune-Herald :: Ted Nugent: When my time comes, Big Brother, butt out, Ted Nugent, Sunday, July 01, 2007..

Celebrity Privilege :: Paris Hilton released from jail already..

Just now got a Yahoo! news alert saying that Paris Hilton has already been released from a Los Angeles County jail.. And I'm genuinely surprised, WHY..?

Saw a piece about her whining on some wee hours entertainment program just a few hours ago.. Never crossed my mind she'd get away with it..

Celebrity privilege.. Unbelievable dadgum nauseating celebrity privilege..

Sigh.......

Oh, yeah, PS forgot to mention that, bless her little heart, she will be confined to her home, i.e. her mansion.. Advocacy op in the form of a discrimination lawsuit for anyone who does not receive the exact same treatment forever more into the Future..

PPS.. If Paris sincerely had Life-affecting mental health issues concerning her incarceration, does not the Los Angeles County jail system have responsible mental health care services upon demand in place at this time..? Are jail systems in this day and age still so dehumanized they do not get that facing one's wrongs in a cold, hard jail cell does a little something to even the very strongest of Minds..?

A personal observation slash prediction: Documented triple digits die here in Georgia under very questionable, DOJ-intervening circumstances, and nothing hits the biased media circuits save for the generous front page coverage the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) has consciously elected to regularly provide.. Yet let a rich, whiny brat celebrity worm her way out of a judicially issued jail sentence, and it will be clogging, inundating my inbox from all directions for days..