Saturday, 14 January 2012
Friday, 13 January 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Casey Anthony Baby Killer
Newly released court documents detailing Casey Anthony's jailhouse conversations with two psychiatrists reveal Anthony's unusually calm demeanor as she spoke about her daughter's death and her accusation that she was molested by her father and brother.
In one deposition, psychiatrist Dr. Jeffery Danziger
recounted his "puzzlement" with Anthony's "nice, sweet and pleasant
demeanor" as she sat behind bars as the prime suspect in the death of
her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie Anthony. Anthony, 25, was acquitted last summer.
"Her demeanor, the best way to say it, is she was calm, cooperative and
pleasant as if we were discussing someone who had a parking ticket," Danziger said in an April 7, 2011 deposition.
He notes that she was in a good mood, reading books, sleeping fine and had a good appetite.
"No feeling of guilt, not hopeless," he said.
"This is someone who is sitting in jail. Her child is missing, presumed
dead," Danziger said. "While she had not yet been charged with murder,
obviously, she's charged with crimes and is being accused by the whole
world in the disappearance of the child. You would expect that that
would provoke some measure of distress."
Danziger was taken aback by her reactions and imagined himself in her position.
"If my child was missing and I was in jail and being accused of it, I
probably wouldn't eat or wouldn't be cheerful and wouldn't be able to
read," Danziger concluded.
The second psychiatrist who interviewed Anthony, Dr. William Weitz, also noticed her lack of emotion over Caylee disappearance.
He noted Anthony's "complete separation of emotion and affect from the various questions that she's asked to respond to."
"She seems detached from a lot of her feeling and emotion, even in
times that one might expect they'd be more reactive and intense," Weitz
said.
Weitz said that her reactions could be construed as defense mechanisms,
possibly related to her accusations of years of sexual abuse from her
father George Anthony and her brother Lee Anthony.
In her interviews with the doctors she detailed accusations of sex abuse that were mentioned during her murder trial.
She said her father molested her from age 8 to 11 which Danziger
recorded as "disgusting, demeaning, intercourse, oral, everything."
Although the father stopped when she was 11 or 12, she claimed her
brother Lee molested her from age 12 to 15. "Sometimes wake up to him or
wake up bro over my head or unclasped. Wake up once his hands on my
chest," the doctor read from his notes from the interview with Anthony.
She claimed that her father assaulted her again when she was 18. "Tried
to fight back when I was older. I'm not a big person," the doctor quoted
her as saying.
Referring to her calm during the jailhouse interviews, Weitz said in his
deposition, "Clearly, Miss Anthony has adopted survivor behavior as she
advanced into adulthood, and she exhibits extreme sensitivity in areas
related to her family interactions, most specifically with father and
brother."
Weitz said that Anthony's behavior could be the same in both the
scenario that she killed Caylee and in the scenario that she did not
harm her daughter.
Full article at Yahoo.com
Comments: I am absolutely certain that she killed her baby. I truly doubt she was molested and raped by her family members. Its a big injustice to the court system, but, apparently cases like these happen often and the verdict is usually the same. I hope her career is ruined and she lives among the rats.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - Drug Kingpin
EXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker" Tuesday. The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a boost from Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, who said she believed in Guzman more than in the government.
It was the latest in an odd series of encomiums for Guzman, who was included this year on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City issued a statement saying three of Guzman's alleged associates had been hit with sanctions under the drug Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets. The two Mexican men and a Colombian allegedly aided Guzman's trafficking operations.
[Related: Sinaloa gang ramping up meth in Guatemala]
The statement quoted Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, as saying the move "marks the fourth time in the past year that OFAC has targeted and exposed the support structures of the organization led by Chapo Guzman, the world's most powerful drug trafficker."
Guzman,
who escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a laundry truck and has a
$7 million bounty on his head, has long been recognized as Mexico's
most powerful drug capo. Authorities say his Sinaloa cartel has
recently been expanding abroad, building international operations in
Central and South America and the Pacific.
Comments: Pretty sweet title. I wonder how he lives his life, though he is a fugitive, I can only imagine that he lives like a king in Mexico and its corruption. I think the $1 billion net worth is underestimated, with all the drugs they traffic and other illegal business they run tax free, he has got to have more.
It was the latest in an odd series of encomiums for Guzman, who was included this year on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City issued a statement saying three of Guzman's alleged associates had been hit with sanctions under the drug Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets. The two Mexican men and a Colombian allegedly aided Guzman's trafficking operations.
[Related: Sinaloa gang ramping up meth in Guatemala]
The statement quoted Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, as saying the move "marks the fourth time in the past year that OFAC has targeted and exposed the support structures of the organization led by Chapo Guzman, the world's most powerful drug trafficker."
Comments: Pretty sweet title. I wonder how he lives his life, though he is a fugitive, I can only imagine that he lives like a king in Mexico and its corruption. I think the $1 billion net worth is underestimated, with all the drugs they traffic and other illegal business they run tax free, he has got to have more.
Little Dog to Big Puppy
This is my 1 year old dog from when he was 5 weeks. Hes a Staffordshire Terrier mixed with something skinnier and hyper. He shits all over my floors, brings in mud everywhere, and I couldve bought a nice car with the money ive spent on him. Hes good for spooning.
Woman claims Hotel gave Drunken Man her Key
A New York business woman is suing Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Worldwide, claiming staff at one of their hotels gave her room key to a
drunken man who allegedly sexually assaulted her in her bed.
The staff did not ask him for any identification or proof that he was in fact Fournier’s husband, according to the lawsuit. He then proceeded to her room and tried to molest her. She awoke, grabbed a housecoat, and ran screaming from the room.
Comments: What is the proper way for a hotel to make sure that the wrong person is not given the right key? Ive been to hotels and all they ask is what room number im in or for my name and they provide the keys. Its a pretty easy way to get into someones room. I would advocate for the hotel to take pictures of guests, but many go to hotels for the privacy and anonymity. Anyone have any suggestions on how a hotel can keep track of who can be provided a room key to a room without taking pictures? They can ask for photo ID, but if a person has been locked out of their room, then they have no way of providing that. A person can also be escorted up to their room, but many at high dollar hotels would not be a fan of having to be escorted up to their room and then required to show photo ID once in.
For those of you who dont know, starwood hotels and resorts worldwide make millions or billions off their hotels. They are an upscale hotel if every country, here in the US it costs a minimum of $180 (before taxes at the right time) and usually average $400/night for the lesser rooms. I have always wanted to stay in one so I joined starwood hotels mailing lists, but have yet to see any offers which fall in the affordable ($120-$140/night) range.
As for the legitimacy of her story, some details which she claims “hotel gave drunken man her room key” dont seem legitimate. This may have been due to poor management, but I would assume management would have apologized profusely and more than compensated her for the error. She also claims that she left her career and went back to New York seems outrageous, though I am not a female nor have been sexually assaulted by a drunk man, it would seem like an extreme measure to move back to New York from Helinski, Finland?
Here is a map of Finland since I know most of you dont know where it is located.
Alison Fournier announced the suit
today at a news conference with women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred.
According to the suit, Fournier was in her locked room in Hotel Kämp, a
hotel operated by Starwood Hotels in Helsinki, Finland, on the night of
Jan. 15, 2011 when she was sexually assaulted. The man, who was
“visibly intoxicated,” had undressed, slipped into her bed, and
proceeded to grope her naked body, the suit says.
Fournier, who is represented by
Allred and the New York firm Cuti Hecker Wang LLP, is suing the company
for negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress for an
amount to be determined at trial.
Fournier was traveling to Helinski
for work and said that she specifically chose a Starwood hotel because
of the company’s reputation.
“Starwood is the go-to brand for
business travelers and I expected a certain level of security from their
hotels,” Fournier said in a statement. But instead of security,
Fournier said she found susceptibility. According to a release that
Allred sent out, a man approached Fournier the night of the incident,
expressing a sexual interest in her. According to Allred, Fournier had
made it very clear that she was not interested in him and retreated to
her room to get away.
That same man, according to the suit, later went to the front desk,
said that he was Fournier’s husband, and obtained a key from hotel staff
to her room.The staff did not ask him for any identification or proof that he was in fact Fournier’s husband, according to the lawsuit. He then proceeded to her room and tried to molest her. She awoke, grabbed a housecoat, and ran screaming from the room.
“To this day, I still suffer from
the memories of that night and I am still not able to put it behind me,”
Fournier said. She said that, because of the incident, she left her
career and moved from New York to be closer to her family. The suit
alleges that there is no indication that Starwood has taken any action
to investigate the incident at Hotel Kämp or to disassociate itself from
the Finnish hotel.
In a statement given to ABC News by Starwoods Hotels and Resorts, Worldwide, the company said it is investigating the incident.
“The safety and security of our
guests is our first and foremost priority. It is company-wide policy to
ensure proper identification is shown and verified before distributing a
key to a registered guest’s room,” the statement said. “We are taking
this allegation seriously and are working with the hotel in question to
understand the facts and any breach of security that may have
contributed to this very unfortunate event. “ Allred said the case is
representative of a bigger problem than a personal assault, because
women, particularly businesswoman, have a right to feel safe when
traveling and staying at well known hotels.
“Business women have a right to
safety and security and especially need that safety and security when
traveling abroad,” Allred told ABC News. “They are particualrly
vulnerable when traveling alone. Starwood’s negligence, misconduct and
reckless disregard for the safety of Ms. Fournier has led to devastating
and life changing consequences for her. … They need to be fully
accountable and make sure that this never happens again.”
Taken from Yahoo.comComments: What is the proper way for a hotel to make sure that the wrong person is not given the right key? Ive been to hotels and all they ask is what room number im in or for my name and they provide the keys. Its a pretty easy way to get into someones room. I would advocate for the hotel to take pictures of guests, but many go to hotels for the privacy and anonymity. Anyone have any suggestions on how a hotel can keep track of who can be provided a room key to a room without taking pictures? They can ask for photo ID, but if a person has been locked out of their room, then they have no way of providing that. A person can also be escorted up to their room, but many at high dollar hotels would not be a fan of having to be escorted up to their room and then required to show photo ID once in.
For those of you who dont know, starwood hotels and resorts worldwide make millions or billions off their hotels. They are an upscale hotel if every country, here in the US it costs a minimum of $180 (before taxes at the right time) and usually average $400/night for the lesser rooms. I have always wanted to stay in one so I joined starwood hotels mailing lists, but have yet to see any offers which fall in the affordable ($120-$140/night) range.
As for the legitimacy of her story, some details which she claims “hotel gave drunken man her room key” dont seem legitimate. This may have been due to poor management, but I would assume management would have apologized profusely and more than compensated her for the error. She also claims that she left her career and went back to New York seems outrageous, though I am not a female nor have been sexually assaulted by a drunk man, it would seem like an extreme measure to move back to New York from Helinski, Finland?
Here is a map of Finland since I know most of you dont know where it is located.
Why DEA helped Colombian Drug Traffickers Launder Cash
Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, working
with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in
drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain.
The covert activities were undertaken as part of an operation to
infiltrate and prosecute a major Colombian-Mexican narco-trafficking
organization moving cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and the United
States.
The documents “describe American counternarcotics agents, Mexican law enforcement officials and a Colombian informant working undercover together over several months in 2007,” Thompson reported. “Together, they conducted numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cash—and escorted at least one large shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Dallas to Madrid.”
The documents “show that in 2007 the authorities infiltrated” the operations of an accused major Colombian cocaine trafficker, named Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, Thompson wrote. Poveda-Ortega, also known as the Rabbit, “was considered the principal cocaine supplier to the Mexican drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva.”
Leyva was killed in 2008 in a shootout with Mexican naval forces. Poveda-Ortega was arrested in Mexico City in November 2010.
The Mexican government documents include testimony from a DEA special agent “who oversaw a covert money laundering investigation” into Poveda-Ortega, Thompson reported. The documents form part of the file supporting a Mexican Foreign Ministry extradition order for Poveda-Ortega from last May 2011.
The United States, however, has declined to indicate whether Poveda-Ortega was extradited to the United States, Thompson writes. A Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney similarly told Yahoo News Monday that the department is “not in a position to comment on the specific matter.” The Drug Enforcement Agency defended the undercover operation in a written statement given to Thompson. “Transnational organized groups can be defeated only by transnational law enforcement cooperation,” the agency wrote. “Such cooperation requires that law enforcement agencies — often from multiple countries — coordinate their activities, while at the same time always acting within their respective laws and authorities.”
Former DEA agent Robert Mazur, who posed as a money launderer in a similar undercover DEA investigation targeting the banks supporting the Medellin drug cartel, said such undercover operations are necessary and legitimate. Covert drug stings are critical, he says, in lining up evidence to successfully prosecute the top command and control figures of organized crime cartels. “This is a law enforcement technique that has been used for decades,” Mazur told Yahoo News in a telephone interview Monday. “If we were to embrace the concept that these undercover money laundering operations shouldn’t be conducted because in a small way, they for a brief period of time create a short term benefit for the criminal, we would be doing criminal organizations around the world the greatest favor they could get. We would be closing door to one of the most effective methods available to attack what law enforcement calls the command and control of these global organizations.”
The organizations targeted in these intricate DEA stings “are not people selling dime bags of crack on the street, but people trying to create terrorists states around the world,” continued Mazur (Mazur, who retired from the DEA in 1998, has recounted his experience infiltrating the BCCI bank accused of money laundering for the Colombian drug cartel, in a book, The Infiltrator.) Mazur also disputed any comparison between the undercover DEA case exposed by the Times Monday and the recent controversy over “Fast and Furious,” the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) program that allegedly put guns in the hands of Mexican drug gangs.
“I would never agree in any circumstances say it’s worthwhile to put 2,000 weapons in the hands of criminals,” he said. “Each of these operations needs to be professionally managed and individually scrutinized. This one, from what I read, is very common place, and I don’t see anything in there that disturbs me in the least.” Recent DEA undercover operations have led to the apprehension and successful prosecution of two major global arms traffickers, including the Russian-born, so-called “merchant of death” Viktor Bout, who was convicted in November on four counts of selling anti-aircraft guns and other weapons to Colombia’s FARC rebels; and the Syrian-born “Prince of Marbella,” Monzer al-Kassar, who was sentenced by a New York court in 2009 to 30 years in prison
Taken from www.yahoo.com
Comments: I dont understand why this is news, we’ve been doing this for years. We have been helping criminal organizations in order to
1) to protect the citizens of a country
2) to take down the enemy we are helping
3) to help fight a bigger enemy
The first example though used several times throughout history are Romans paying off barbarian tribes to protect its borders. The Romans also held this deal when Ghenghis Khan and Kublai khan came roaming in from Mongolia. It was also recently used in the war in Afghanistan to keep warlords from attacking American Convoys/Nato Convoys.
The second example is used by spies throughout centuries, but also in the 1900s to infiltrate the Mafia ranks in the likes of Al Capone. Law enforcement has to be able to be undercover within the enemy ranks to gain vital information. We were able to get the 5 hostages back from FARC rebels in Colombia a few years ago by using spies, bribes, and deceit. Without this influence, those hostages may still be living with their captors today.
The third example was used many times during the hellenistic times, Greek states warred with each other through several centuries and it was only until King Alexander the Greats father united them all that they stopped fighting. However, they came together when Persia attacked with King Xerxes as shown in “300″. Indian Iroquois tribes came together to try to fight off white settlers, many civilizations recognize a common enemy and will put aside their own quarrels for sake of life preservation.
The documents “describe American counternarcotics agents, Mexican law enforcement officials and a Colombian informant working undercover together over several months in 2007,” Thompson reported. “Together, they conducted numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cash—and escorted at least one large shipment of cocaine from Ecuador to Dallas to Madrid.”
The documents “show that in 2007 the authorities infiltrated” the operations of an accused major Colombian cocaine trafficker, named Harold Mauricio Poveda-Ortega, Thompson wrote. Poveda-Ortega, also known as the Rabbit, “was considered the principal cocaine supplier to the Mexican drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva.”
Leyva was killed in 2008 in a shootout with Mexican naval forces. Poveda-Ortega was arrested in Mexico City in November 2010.
The Mexican government documents include testimony from a DEA special agent “who oversaw a covert money laundering investigation” into Poveda-Ortega, Thompson reported. The documents form part of the file supporting a Mexican Foreign Ministry extradition order for Poveda-Ortega from last May 2011.
The United States, however, has declined to indicate whether Poveda-Ortega was extradited to the United States, Thompson writes. A Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney similarly told Yahoo News Monday that the department is “not in a position to comment on the specific matter.” The Drug Enforcement Agency defended the undercover operation in a written statement given to Thompson. “Transnational organized groups can be defeated only by transnational law enforcement cooperation,” the agency wrote. “Such cooperation requires that law enforcement agencies — often from multiple countries — coordinate their activities, while at the same time always acting within their respective laws and authorities.”
Former DEA agent Robert Mazur, who posed as a money launderer in a similar undercover DEA investigation targeting the banks supporting the Medellin drug cartel, said such undercover operations are necessary and legitimate. Covert drug stings are critical, he says, in lining up evidence to successfully prosecute the top command and control figures of organized crime cartels. “This is a law enforcement technique that has been used for decades,” Mazur told Yahoo News in a telephone interview Monday. “If we were to embrace the concept that these undercover money laundering operations shouldn’t be conducted because in a small way, they for a brief period of time create a short term benefit for the criminal, we would be doing criminal organizations around the world the greatest favor they could get. We would be closing door to one of the most effective methods available to attack what law enforcement calls the command and control of these global organizations.”
The organizations targeted in these intricate DEA stings “are not people selling dime bags of crack on the street, but people trying to create terrorists states around the world,” continued Mazur (Mazur, who retired from the DEA in 1998, has recounted his experience infiltrating the BCCI bank accused of money laundering for the Colombian drug cartel, in a book, The Infiltrator.) Mazur also disputed any comparison between the undercover DEA case exposed by the Times Monday and the recent controversy over “Fast and Furious,” the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) program that allegedly put guns in the hands of Mexican drug gangs.
“I would never agree in any circumstances say it’s worthwhile to put 2,000 weapons in the hands of criminals,” he said. “Each of these operations needs to be professionally managed and individually scrutinized. This one, from what I read, is very common place, and I don’t see anything in there that disturbs me in the least.” Recent DEA undercover operations have led to the apprehension and successful prosecution of two major global arms traffickers, including the Russian-born, so-called “merchant of death” Viktor Bout, who was convicted in November on four counts of selling anti-aircraft guns and other weapons to Colombia’s FARC rebels; and the Syrian-born “Prince of Marbella,” Monzer al-Kassar, who was sentenced by a New York court in 2009 to 30 years in prison
Taken from www.yahoo.com
Comments: I dont understand why this is news, we’ve been doing this for years. We have been helping criminal organizations in order to
1) to protect the citizens of a country
2) to take down the enemy we are helping
3) to help fight a bigger enemy
The first example though used several times throughout history are Romans paying off barbarian tribes to protect its borders. The Romans also held this deal when Ghenghis Khan and Kublai khan came roaming in from Mongolia. It was also recently used in the war in Afghanistan to keep warlords from attacking American Convoys/Nato Convoys.
The second example is used by spies throughout centuries, but also in the 1900s to infiltrate the Mafia ranks in the likes of Al Capone. Law enforcement has to be able to be undercover within the enemy ranks to gain vital information. We were able to get the 5 hostages back from FARC rebels in Colombia a few years ago by using spies, bribes, and deceit. Without this influence, those hostages may still be living with their captors today.
The third example was used many times during the hellenistic times, Greek states warred with each other through several centuries and it was only until King Alexander the Greats father united them all that they stopped fighting. However, they came together when Persia attacked with King Xerxes as shown in “300″. Indian Iroquois tribes came together to try to fight off white settlers, many civilizations recognize a common enemy and will put aside their own quarrels for sake of life preservation.
Food Disorder
Many celebrities throughout history have been known to have food
disorders (whether they admit it or not). Lindsey Lohan is reportedly
going through a food disorder(atleast she is looking like she is and
many top models are known to have food disorders from anorexia to
bulemia. Anorexia is simply starving yourself from eating while Bulemia
is a more extreme case of eating extreme amounts then puking it all
back up (it is one of the 1000 ways to die). If you think you may have
some kind of eating disorder, then ask yourself this, am I starving
myself? am I eating alot then throwing it back up on a regular basis
without any medical reason? If the answer is yes, then you probably do
have one. Dont be ashamed, many people in life go t hrough it, some
recover, others dont. Just so you know, it never looks sexy.
Ramen!
Ramen, not talking about Top Ramen, or oodles of noodles like the
East Coast calls it or Maruchan. I am talking about real authentic
ramen that is not made in 2 minutes. When you visit 808 Hawaii, you
will find a large array of Ramen shops, some of them name Sumo Ramen,
Curry House, to Gomaichi. Due to the high population of Japanese
immigrants and tourists, theyre all over town in Honolulu, Pearl City,
Waipahu, and sometimes on the same block much like the starbucks
franchises.
Ramen itself is a soup base with noodles and is really tasty, filling, and are relatively healthy. They come with a base soup and thick noodles. They run anywhere from $5.00(Pearl City) to $25.00(Waikiki) at higher end restaurants. Their flavors run from spicy to garlicky to soothing medicinal.
They can be served with Gyoza in the pot or as a side dish. I also traveled to Kumomoto Japan and tried their curry there. It was amazing, in comparison to Hawaiis Ramen, I dont think it tasted any better, but had some different spices. It wasnt like Hawaiis Ramen was ground beef burrito compared to Mexicos Burritos made out of steak. Comprende?
So keep in mind this is a soup you definitely dont want to miss. You can go back and tell your friends you had legit Ramen soup.
Ramen itself is a soup base with noodles and is really tasty, filling, and are relatively healthy. They come with a base soup and thick noodles. They run anywhere from $5.00(Pearl City) to $25.00(Waikiki) at higher end restaurants. Their flavors run from spicy to garlicky to soothing medicinal.
They can be served with Gyoza in the pot or as a side dish. I also traveled to Kumomoto Japan and tried their curry there. It was amazing, in comparison to Hawaiis Ramen, I dont think it tasted any better, but had some different spices. It wasnt like Hawaiis Ramen was ground beef burrito compared to Mexicos Burritos made out of steak. Comprende?
So keep in mind this is a soup you definitely dont want to miss. You can go back and tell your friends you had legit Ramen soup.
Quick Tasty Ham Turkey and Onion Sandwich
So the other day I was hungry and rummaging through the refrigerator,
didnt want to spend too much time cooking. I saw some ham, turkey,
onion and bread and decided, hmm if I grill these it might taste good.
So I grabbed some white onions and cut them
I took out the frying pan, added some vegetable oil, and turned the heat to Medium High. When the frying pan got warm enough I threw on the turkey, ham and onions. Also, I forgot to mention I had some bread (wheat) and threw that in the toaster. When it was all done, I threw on a dab of mayo and it tasted delicious. The onion added a good aromatics with the ham and the crunchiness of the bread. Its a nice healthy little snack you can eat that will satisfy your cravings for a bit. Eat it with a side of doritos and ice tea.
The next time youre hungry use these ingredients, try experimenting with grilling tomatoes, eggs, bacon, and adding cheese too. Much like that delicious sandwich in spanglish.
Oops, that might also be delicious but I was talking about the sandwich below.
So I grabbed some white onions and cut them
I took out the frying pan, added some vegetable oil, and turned the heat to Medium High. When the frying pan got warm enough I threw on the turkey, ham and onions. Also, I forgot to mention I had some bread (wheat) and threw that in the toaster. When it was all done, I threw on a dab of mayo and it tasted delicious. The onion added a good aromatics with the ham and the crunchiness of the bread. Its a nice healthy little snack you can eat that will satisfy your cravings for a bit. Eat it with a side of doritos and ice tea.
The next time youre hungry use these ingredients, try experimenting with grilling tomatoes, eggs, bacon, and adding cheese too. Much like that delicious sandwich in spanglish.
Oops, that might also be delicious but I was talking about the sandwich below.
Flagrant Fouls from School Yard Bully Basketball Game
http://youtu.be/K6v-bW6wxoY
Parents said “Hes a tough kid” about Connell (Wash.) High’s Cole Vanderbilt
Comment: He isnt tough at all, just a schoolyard bully who has no class who probably cant open a jar of pickles. Hes lucky the others played by rules while him and his parents didnt feel the need to. If you ask me the parents are just as responsible for encouraging these actions. In the article it says his coaches even knew about it, it looks like they should also get fired, what kind of unsportmanslike conduct are they encouraging on that team? Just another schoolyard bully who is nothing anymore.
Parents said “Hes a tough kid” about Connell (Wash.) High’s Cole Vanderbilt
Comment: He isnt tough at all, just a schoolyard bully who has no class who probably cant open a jar of pickles. Hes lucky the others played by rules while him and his parents didnt feel the need to. If you ask me the parents are just as responsible for encouraging these actions. In the article it says his coaches even knew about it, it looks like they should also get fired, what kind of unsportmanslike conduct are they encouraging on that team? Just another schoolyard bully who is nothing anymore.
Texas Boy Shot after bringing gun to School
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Rev. Jorge Gomez was counseling worried
parents and frightened students late into the night the day police
fatally shot an eighth-grader brandishing what appeared to be a handgun
inside his South Texas school. The parents said their children weren’t
eating, some were running fevers, and needed to talk to someone.
The death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez has shaken this neighborhood along the U.S.-Mexico border, where parents already burdened by economic woes and street gangs are now faced with explaining the tragedy to their children.
Making it especially hard: It remains unclear to his parents and investigators why Jaime — a drum major who danced in his church’s annual religious festival, stayed out of gangs and had two parents who closely watched him — could swerve off course and bring a weapon to school. The weapon, police later determined, was a pellet gun.
His parents have lamented police for their actions Wednesday, saying they could have taken non-lethal action. But there was broad agreement among law enforcement experts: If a suspect raises a weapon and refuses to put it down, officers are justified in shooting to kill.
Brownsville interim Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez defended his officers, saying the boy pointed the pellet gun — which was black and resembled a real gun — at police and repeatedly defied their commands to put it on the floor.
Rodriguez said the preliminary autopsy report showed the boy was shot twice in the torso. Family members initially thought he was shot in the back of the head, but that wound turned out to be a cut from a fall.
“It really doesn’t change anything at all,” his father, Jaime Gonzalez Sr., said after being told of the preliminary autopsy results at the vigil for his son. “If it is a wound from his fall, why shoot him at all? Wound him. Do something else. Use another method.”
In a recording released Thursday of the 911 call from the school, the assistant principal says a student in the hall has a gun, then reports that he is drawing the weapon and finally that he is running down the hall.
Police can be heard yelling: “Put the gun down! Put it on the floor!” In the background, someone else yells, “He’s saying that he is willing to die.”
Before police arrived, school administrators had urged Jaime to give up the gun. When officers got to the school, the boy was waiting for them, Rodriguez said.
Moments before he was killed, Jaime began to run down a hallway, but again faced officers. Police fired down the hallway — a distance that made a stun gun or other methods impractical, Rodriguez said.
If the situation had involved hostages or a gunman barricaded in a room, police might have tried negotiations. But instead, Rodriguez stressed, this was an armed student roaming the halls of a school.
The two officers who fired have been placed on administrative leave — standard procedure in police shootings. Rodriguez expected them back at work soon.
Jaime’s father has said he didn’t know where his son got the pellet gun. Police believed it was a gift, and a friend of the boy’s said Jaime told her that but she didn’t know who gave it to him.
*Full article can be found here. http://news.yahoo.com/texas-school-shooting-many-questions-loom-234525229.html
Comments: How can the parents be outraged when their son brings a gun (a pellet gun is still a gun and able to shoot and kill) to school and the police shoot after repeated requests for the boy to disarm himself. I can only imagine the rumors which ran rampant throughout the night at the school, much like how the parents believed that he was shot in the back of the head due to some blood. Though I feel sorry for the family’s loss, the parents have no right to be angry at the police when he brandished a lethal weapon and refused to disarm. Though there we see many cases of corruption among the ranks of the police, I doubt many of them had to desire to shoot and kill a child.
The death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez has shaken this neighborhood along the U.S.-Mexico border, where parents already burdened by economic woes and street gangs are now faced with explaining the tragedy to their children.
Making it especially hard: It remains unclear to his parents and investigators why Jaime — a drum major who danced in his church’s annual religious festival, stayed out of gangs and had two parents who closely watched him — could swerve off course and bring a weapon to school. The weapon, police later determined, was a pellet gun.
His parents have lamented police for their actions Wednesday, saying they could have taken non-lethal action. But there was broad agreement among law enforcement experts: If a suspect raises a weapon and refuses to put it down, officers are justified in shooting to kill.
Brownsville interim Police Chief Orlando Rodriguez defended his officers, saying the boy pointed the pellet gun — which was black and resembled a real gun — at police and repeatedly defied their commands to put it on the floor.
Rodriguez said the preliminary autopsy report showed the boy was shot twice in the torso. Family members initially thought he was shot in the back of the head, but that wound turned out to be a cut from a fall.
“It really doesn’t change anything at all,” his father, Jaime Gonzalez Sr., said after being told of the preliminary autopsy results at the vigil for his son. “If it is a wound from his fall, why shoot him at all? Wound him. Do something else. Use another method.”
In a recording released Thursday of the 911 call from the school, the assistant principal says a student in the hall has a gun, then reports that he is drawing the weapon and finally that he is running down the hall.
Police can be heard yelling: “Put the gun down! Put it on the floor!” In the background, someone else yells, “He’s saying that he is willing to die.”
Before police arrived, school administrators had urged Jaime to give up the gun. When officers got to the school, the boy was waiting for them, Rodriguez said.
Moments before he was killed, Jaime began to run down a hallway, but again faced officers. Police fired down the hallway — a distance that made a stun gun or other methods impractical, Rodriguez said.
If the situation had involved hostages or a gunman barricaded in a room, police might have tried negotiations. But instead, Rodriguez stressed, this was an armed student roaming the halls of a school.
The two officers who fired have been placed on administrative leave — standard procedure in police shootings. Rodriguez expected them back at work soon.
Jaime’s father has said he didn’t know where his son got the pellet gun. Police believed it was a gift, and a friend of the boy’s said Jaime told her that but she didn’t know who gave it to him.
*Full article can be found here. http://news.yahoo.com/texas-school-shooting-many-questions-loom-234525229.html
Comments: How can the parents be outraged when their son brings a gun (a pellet gun is still a gun and able to shoot and kill) to school and the police shoot after repeated requests for the boy to disarm himself. I can only imagine the rumors which ran rampant throughout the night at the school, much like how the parents believed that he was shot in the back of the head due to some blood. Though I feel sorry for the family’s loss, the parents have no right to be angry at the police when he brandished a lethal weapon and refused to disarm. Though there we see many cases of corruption among the ranks of the police, I doubt many of them had to desire to shoot and kill a child.
Colombia is preparing to hand over to U.S. officials a Dallas
teenager who was mistakenly deported after she ran away from home more
than a year ago, the South American country’s foreign ministry said in a
statement Thursday night.
Jakadrien Turner will be turned over to diplomatic officials Friday so she can be transported to the United States, the statement said. But the foreign ministry did not say when — or how — that will happen. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota is working with Colombian authorities but cannot provide additional details “due to privacy considerations,” said a U.S. State Department official who asked to remain anonymous per department policy.
Jakadrien somehow wound up deported to Colombia after U.S. authorities mistook the girl, who lacked identification, for a Colombian national. Family members said Thursday night that they were thrilled at the news that the 15-year-old would be returning home. “It’s a giant step. I’m relieved, but I won’t be completely relieved until I get her in my arms again,” the girl’s mother, Johnisa Turner, said. “A weight has definitely been lifted.”
Grandmother Lorene Turner said U.S. Embassy officials called with the news that her granddaughter would be turned over to U.S. officials. “When I heard those words I didn’t hear nothing else. I flipped out. I can’t wait,” she said. But Jakadrien’s family was still demanding to know why immigration authorities deported the teen — a U.S. citizen with no knowledge of Spanish — and why they simply took her at her word when she gave them a fake name.
The teen’s family had been searching for her since she ran away in the fall of 2010. Her grandmother scoured Facebook looking for the girl, viewing Jakadrien’s friends’ pages for any information. “There’s no words,” Johnisa Turner told CNN of the ordeal. “It hasn’t been easy at all.”
The Colombian Institute for Family Welfare confirmed Thursday that Turner is in its custody, is pregnant, and entered the country as an adult. The institute said Colombian authorities learned about the case a month ago. After Jakadrien went missing, the family managed to track her to Houston, where she worked at a DJ club under a different name. They tried to get help from authorities there, to no avail.
Then, to the family’s surprise, they learned their teenage daughter was in Colombia, partying with men and smoking marijuana. They later learned from a detective that Jakadrien was pregnant. How Jakadrien got to Colombia is a mystery to the family. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency maintains she was arrested in Houston for theft and told them she was an adult from Colombia. The agency says authorities believed her story because she maintained her false identity throughout the process. They handed her over to an immigration judge, who ordered her removed from the country.
“At no time during these criminal proceedings was her identity determined to be false,” the agency says. It says criminal database searches and biometric verification revealed no information to invalidate Jakadrien’s claims. The family’s attorney, Ray Jackson, says it doesn’t make sense. “They dropped the ball,” he said.
He says the immigration agency took Jakadrien’s fingerprints but failed to match them to the name she gave. The name matched a woman wanted by Interpol, Jackson says, so they “shipped her on through.” The agency says it is taking the allegations very seriously and is “fully and immediately investigating the matter in order to expeditiously determine the facts of the case.” For months, family members said they frantically searched for signs of the missing teen.
Jakadrien had run away once before, two weeks earlier, her mother said, and Jakadrien told her the family didn’t give her enough freedom. Her good grades at school had dropped off, something Turner blamed on the normal problems of teenagers. In addition, Jakadrien’s grandfather, her mother’s father, had recently died.
Turner said she contacted Dallas police, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Dallas transportation authorities. Nothing ever came of it, she said.
Grandmother Lorene Turner said she then started following Jakadrien’s best friend on Facebook. She eventually tracked her granddaughter to Houston, where she worked at a club under the name Tika Cortez. Johnisa Turner said she saw Jakadrien’s face on the marquee on her birthday. “Oh my god,” the mother said when she saw it. “Is this really happening? Is that my child?” A picture on Cortez’s Facebook page further confirmed for the family that the girl with the different name was their daughter. The picture had been taken of Jakadrien with her grandmother. Though her grandmother had been cut out of the picture, her hair still showed on the edge. Her mother said she told Dallas authorities what she had found.
Then, Jakadrien’s Facebook page suddenly said she was in Colombia. The family later learned she had been arrested in Houston for shoplifting, but they say they had no idea how she wound up in Colombia after the arrest. The family’s concerns grew when the detective told them that Jakadrien is pregnant, her mother said. Johnisa Turner said she believes her daughter was coerced along the way, with someone promising her something that led her to maintain a fake story about who she is.
Jackson says he believes something more sinister is going on.
“There has to be something behind this 15-year-old girl ending up in Colombia, besides the fact that ICE dropped the ball,” he said. “Of all the nicknames … to pick one that’s of Latino descent, for that to be a name that sticks and gets you deported, that doesn’t make sense.”
Pictures of Jakadrien in Colombia showed her sitting on men’s laps smoking marijuana, her grandmother said. But Jakadrien, she said, seemed to be reaching out for help, listing on Facebook the names of everyone at parties, perhaps so she could be traced.
Jackson says he doesn’t believe Jakadrien was trying to fake her way out of the country by using the false name throughout the process.
“I don’t buy that she had the wherewithal to be able to bamboozle the government,” Jackson says. “You know, kids are scared when they get around authorities. … To think that you could bamboozle them to create a new identity, it just doesn’t make sense.”
Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that Jakadrien first arrived in Bogota after she was deported on May 23.
The ministry said it was investigating what sort of verification its consulate in Texas requested before giving the girl an expedited provisional passport as part of deportation proceedings, and how Jakadrien received work authorization for training at a call center as part of the government’s “Welcome Home” program.
Attorneys with the program made a sworn declaration in front of a notary with “inexact information” that allowed her to receive work papers, the foreign ministry said.
“Those lawyers are no longer providing services to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the statement said.
The teen was placed in a protection program by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare on December 1 after officials learned of her situation, the foreign ministry said.
All said and done I cant believe the parents are trying to sue the authorities. She continuously lied throughout the whole process and without any form of Identification otherwise, could they reasonably think otherwise?
I hope the state sues her for falsifying information then charges the family the plane ticket and fees it cost to deport her. Another sleazebag family trying to make a quick buck
Jakadrien Turner will be turned over to diplomatic officials Friday so she can be transported to the United States, the statement said. But the foreign ministry did not say when — or how — that will happen. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota is working with Colombian authorities but cannot provide additional details “due to privacy considerations,” said a U.S. State Department official who asked to remain anonymous per department policy.
Jakadrien somehow wound up deported to Colombia after U.S. authorities mistook the girl, who lacked identification, for a Colombian national. Family members said Thursday night that they were thrilled at the news that the 15-year-old would be returning home. “It’s a giant step. I’m relieved, but I won’t be completely relieved until I get her in my arms again,” the girl’s mother, Johnisa Turner, said. “A weight has definitely been lifted.”
Grandmother Lorene Turner said U.S. Embassy officials called with the news that her granddaughter would be turned over to U.S. officials. “When I heard those words I didn’t hear nothing else. I flipped out. I can’t wait,” she said. But Jakadrien’s family was still demanding to know why immigration authorities deported the teen — a U.S. citizen with no knowledge of Spanish — and why they simply took her at her word when she gave them a fake name.
The teen’s family had been searching for her since she ran away in the fall of 2010. Her grandmother scoured Facebook looking for the girl, viewing Jakadrien’s friends’ pages for any information. “There’s no words,” Johnisa Turner told CNN of the ordeal. “It hasn’t been easy at all.”
The Colombian Institute for Family Welfare confirmed Thursday that Turner is in its custody, is pregnant, and entered the country as an adult. The institute said Colombian authorities learned about the case a month ago. After Jakadrien went missing, the family managed to track her to Houston, where she worked at a DJ club under a different name. They tried to get help from authorities there, to no avail.
Then, to the family’s surprise, they learned their teenage daughter was in Colombia, partying with men and smoking marijuana. They later learned from a detective that Jakadrien was pregnant. How Jakadrien got to Colombia is a mystery to the family. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency maintains she was arrested in Houston for theft and told them she was an adult from Colombia. The agency says authorities believed her story because she maintained her false identity throughout the process. They handed her over to an immigration judge, who ordered her removed from the country.
“At no time during these criminal proceedings was her identity determined to be false,” the agency says. It says criminal database searches and biometric verification revealed no information to invalidate Jakadrien’s claims. The family’s attorney, Ray Jackson, says it doesn’t make sense. “They dropped the ball,” he said.
He says the immigration agency took Jakadrien’s fingerprints but failed to match them to the name she gave. The name matched a woman wanted by Interpol, Jackson says, so they “shipped her on through.” The agency says it is taking the allegations very seriously and is “fully and immediately investigating the matter in order to expeditiously determine the facts of the case.” For months, family members said they frantically searched for signs of the missing teen.
Jakadrien had run away once before, two weeks earlier, her mother said, and Jakadrien told her the family didn’t give her enough freedom. Her good grades at school had dropped off, something Turner blamed on the normal problems of teenagers. In addition, Jakadrien’s grandfather, her mother’s father, had recently died.
Turner said she contacted Dallas police, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and Dallas transportation authorities. Nothing ever came of it, she said.
Grandmother Lorene Turner said she then started following Jakadrien’s best friend on Facebook. She eventually tracked her granddaughter to Houston, where she worked at a club under the name Tika Cortez. Johnisa Turner said she saw Jakadrien’s face on the marquee on her birthday. “Oh my god,” the mother said when she saw it. “Is this really happening? Is that my child?” A picture on Cortez’s Facebook page further confirmed for the family that the girl with the different name was their daughter. The picture had been taken of Jakadrien with her grandmother. Though her grandmother had been cut out of the picture, her hair still showed on the edge. Her mother said she told Dallas authorities what she had found.
Then, Jakadrien’s Facebook page suddenly said she was in Colombia. The family later learned she had been arrested in Houston for shoplifting, but they say they had no idea how she wound up in Colombia after the arrest. The family’s concerns grew when the detective told them that Jakadrien is pregnant, her mother said. Johnisa Turner said she believes her daughter was coerced along the way, with someone promising her something that led her to maintain a fake story about who she is.
Jackson says he believes something more sinister is going on.
“There has to be something behind this 15-year-old girl ending up in Colombia, besides the fact that ICE dropped the ball,” he said. “Of all the nicknames … to pick one that’s of Latino descent, for that to be a name that sticks and gets you deported, that doesn’t make sense.”
Pictures of Jakadrien in Colombia showed her sitting on men’s laps smoking marijuana, her grandmother said. But Jakadrien, she said, seemed to be reaching out for help, listing on Facebook the names of everyone at parties, perhaps so she could be traced.
Jackson says he doesn’t believe Jakadrien was trying to fake her way out of the country by using the false name throughout the process.
“I don’t buy that she had the wherewithal to be able to bamboozle the government,” Jackson says. “You know, kids are scared when they get around authorities. … To think that you could bamboozle them to create a new identity, it just doesn’t make sense.”
Colombia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that Jakadrien first arrived in Bogota after she was deported on May 23.
The ministry said it was investigating what sort of verification its consulate in Texas requested before giving the girl an expedited provisional passport as part of deportation proceedings, and how Jakadrien received work authorization for training at a call center as part of the government’s “Welcome Home” program.
Attorneys with the program made a sworn declaration in front of a notary with “inexact information” that allowed her to receive work papers, the foreign ministry said.
“Those lawyers are no longer providing services to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the statement said.
The teen was placed in a protection program by the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare on December 1 after officials learned of her situation, the foreign ministry said.
All said and done I cant believe the parents are trying to sue the authorities. She continuously lied throughout the whole process and without any form of Identification otherwise, could they reasonably think otherwise?
I hope the state sues her for falsifying information then charges the family the plane ticket and fees it cost to deport her. Another sleazebag family trying to make a quick buck
Key Ingredient to a successful Macaroni Salad
Mac Salad – A staple in the Hawaiian Islands
For anyone who has visited the Hawaiian Islands, you should know what macaroni salad tastes like. It comes with one or two scoops on every boxed lunch from Chicken Katsu to Bento boxes for Keiki (children). Every chef and cook swears by their specific recipe whether it may contain a specific brand of mayonnaise (Best Foods, Hellmans) or pasta cooked a certain way. Some will even swear that making macaroni salad outside of Hawaii causes it to taste differently
Living here in Hawaii for the past years now has allowed me to taste several different types of macaroni salads ranged from franchises like The Island and L&L to hole in the wall restaurants. Some have come with green beans(not my favorite) mixed with potatoes(varies the texture), carrots(a must!) or have come with different pasta noodles (Kauai is popular with long noodles). However, after tasting literally hundreds of different types of Macaroni Salad, ive found one key ingredient differentiates a good macaroni salad from a bad one. It did not matter if it was from a mom and pop restaurant or a franchise. The one key ingredient which was often unseen was: Onion. Cebollas, allium cepa the thing which makes your breath smell but also widely purported to hold anti-inflammatory, anticholesterol, anticancer, and antioxidant properties
Yes that one bulb
Makes all the difference in the world. Without it, It makes a macaroni salad taste like youre eating noodles dipped in mayo, with it, the onion gives the right amount of spice and sweetness.
Try the taste test yourself
For anyone who has visited the Hawaiian Islands, you should know what macaroni salad tastes like. It comes with one or two scoops on every boxed lunch from Chicken Katsu to Bento boxes for Keiki (children). Every chef and cook swears by their specific recipe whether it may contain a specific brand of mayonnaise (Best Foods, Hellmans) or pasta cooked a certain way. Some will even swear that making macaroni salad outside of Hawaii causes it to taste differently
Living here in Hawaii for the past years now has allowed me to taste several different types of macaroni salads ranged from franchises like The Island and L&L to hole in the wall restaurants. Some have come with green beans(not my favorite) mixed with potatoes(varies the texture), carrots(a must!) or have come with different pasta noodles (Kauai is popular with long noodles). However, after tasting literally hundreds of different types of Macaroni Salad, ive found one key ingredient differentiates a good macaroni salad from a bad one. It did not matter if it was from a mom and pop restaurant or a franchise. The one key ingredient which was often unseen was: Onion. Cebollas, allium cepa the thing which makes your breath smell but also widely purported to hold anti-inflammatory, anticholesterol, anticancer, and antioxidant properties
Yes that one bulb
Makes all the difference in the world. Without it, It makes a macaroni salad taste like youre eating noodles dipped in mayo, with it, the onion gives the right amount of spice and sweetness.
Try the taste test yourself
Beef Hocks for New Years
It was a beautiful afternoon when I walked into a Cafeteria on the
first day of 2012 (Last New Years Day with the apocalyptic Mayan 2012
Doomsday?) and I saw on the menu “beef hock”. Now I suppose many of you
are wondering what is a “Beef Hock” ? Well it is plain and simple, a
cows foot. At that time however I had no idea, seeing BBQ Ribs or pork
chops displayed, I submitted to my curiosity and ordered the Beef Hock.
Though I held suspicions that an unknown word as Hock matching the MO
as a the foot of my dog could be a cows foot, I went along and grabbed
iced tea and water melon. Once I sat down, I took another look and
dismissed any possibilities of a cows foot and took a bite out of the
tender brown spot. First bite was really salty, but I decided to give
it another shot and took another. After taking it for one more bite, I
couldnt shake the image and taste of eating the underside of my dogs paw
pads (the texture in roughness was the same). Dont try it. Its mostly
fat and if youre a dog lover, I dont know if youll be able to shake the
feeling and smell that youre eating your dogs paw pads.
That is what I ate.
Cows Foot
Beef Hocks freshly cut
Asian Tiger Mom Births Food Devouring Child
Hey Everyone,
I decided to start a blog to share my love for food, traveling to taste foreign foods, and add in my comments or reviews of current events that I read about while I eat. To start off i’m 25, married, 5’7, 158 lbs, and own a car worth about one single rim on a Cadillac Escalade. Life has been great to me and ive had to opportunity to travel alot and try alot of foreign foods. My love for food probably started when I was forced to finish all the food on my plate as a kid. My asian tiger mom always brought up the statement “think of the poor starving children in Somalia” (word for word, this is what she said). And because of this, there were times when I was not able to finish my food, and had to stay until I had devoured it all.
Im sure many of you would say call abuse and that it was inhumane, but I would argue that it allowed me to develop the appetite I have for food today and do not regret my childhood nor how I was raised. It was definitely harsh at times with forced musical lessons and sports, but nothing like many of the problems many children encounter today.
Many people have asked how I maintain my weight with all the calories I consume (I have nicknames like trash disposal, cookie monster, fatty, monster and many more). I do not have a strong clear cut answer but I assume it is due to my high metabolism, genes, fitness routines, and refraining from eating sweets. Fortunately I do not have a sweet tooth as I rarely ate candy, cake, cupcakes as a child as I was not allowed to order desserts at restaurants; only water and entree.
Anyways heres the beginnings of my blog hope you all enjoy.
I decided to start a blog to share my love for food, traveling to taste foreign foods, and add in my comments or reviews of current events that I read about while I eat. To start off i’m 25, married, 5’7, 158 lbs, and own a car worth about one single rim on a Cadillac Escalade. Life has been great to me and ive had to opportunity to travel alot and try alot of foreign foods. My love for food probably started when I was forced to finish all the food on my plate as a kid. My asian tiger mom always brought up the statement “think of the poor starving children in Somalia” (word for word, this is what she said). And because of this, there were times when I was not able to finish my food, and had to stay until I had devoured it all.
Im sure many of you would say call abuse and that it was inhumane, but I would argue that it allowed me to develop the appetite I have for food today and do not regret my childhood nor how I was raised. It was definitely harsh at times with forced musical lessons and sports, but nothing like many of the problems many children encounter today.
Many people have asked how I maintain my weight with all the calories I consume (I have nicknames like trash disposal, cookie monster, fatty, monster and many more). I do not have a strong clear cut answer but I assume it is due to my high metabolism, genes, fitness routines, and refraining from eating sweets. Fortunately I do not have a sweet tooth as I rarely ate candy, cake, cupcakes as a child as I was not allowed to order desserts at restaurants; only water and entree.
Anyways heres the beginnings of my blog hope you all enjoy.
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