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Okay, so WTFUCK is going on with Bruce Jenner? He's obviously got a thing for plastic surgery but is he seriously transgender? Is he leading up to a sex change operation? The weird thing to me is how famous the guy still is--and kids, let me tell you (as I sit myself down heavily using my cane), I remember waaaaay back when Bruce Jenner FIRST became famous, when he won the gold medal in the decathlon in '76 at the Montreal Olympics. He and Nadia Comaneci became household names, and they were the only two athletes I remember being aware of after those Games. After Nadia every little girl in America was doing cartwheels and roundoffs on her front lawn--aw, the '70s! I remember my friend Sharon swearing to me and our friend Beth that she'd done an aerial (a cartwheel without hands) and we called. her. OUT. ("Nuh-UH! I don't believe you!") I was proud of my roundoffs though, I got air time on them :)
ANYWAY. Bruce Jenner was VERY famous after the Olympics but, although I knew he was an athlete, he was better-known for being kind of a famewhore. You saw him EVERYWHERE--on the Wheaties box, in commercials, in magazines, on TV. I have a vivid memory of me, little kid me, doing a joke for my parents where I would run in slo-mo waving my hands (like an Olympics victory lap), pretend to trip and then pop up again instantly, still waving--and what I was spoofing was his apparent need for attention. (On the other hand being an Olympian is an awesome accomplishment and to the victor go the spoils--if he could make money after spending years training for the decathlon, good for him.) Anyway it is kind of amazing he's still on the front pages literally generations later!
And WTF is up with that Knox verdict?! My jaw literally dropped open when I saw that the Italian legal system had embarrassed itself yet AGAIN. Guys, there is NO EVIDENCE, zip, nada, none that proves Amanda or Raffaele has anything to do with this. But there is TONS of physical evidence, including all kinds of DNA, that prove the drifter with the violent record who tried to leave the country afterward, did it. But by the time you found out about him, you'd already committed to your weird Satanic sex ritual theory--so you went to the drifter and gave him a LIGHTER sentence in exchange for him fingering two people he didn't even know! Come on, guys, simple logic here. Do you really think a couple of kids could thoroughly wipe a violent crime scene of their own DNA, seen and unseen, but leave the third participant's all over the room? Come on, guys. I can't help but feel this is the Italian male ego at work here--they're furious about looking so stupid, they're pissed that their shenanigans in the press and their fatuousness and inept police work led to two innocent kids being railroaded and by God, they will have the last word. They even ADDED time to her sentence! Completely ridiculous. I can't even imagine what she and Raffaele are going through--if I'd been him, I would've left the country as soon as the appeals court pronounced me innocent back in 2011. Now they've gone and arrested the poor guy again.
ANYWAY. Bruce Jenner was VERY famous after the Olympics but, although I knew he was an athlete, he was better-known for being kind of a famewhore. You saw him EVERYWHERE--on the Wheaties box, in commercials, in magazines, on TV. I have a vivid memory of me, little kid me, doing a joke for my parents where I would run in slo-mo waving my hands (like an Olympics victory lap), pretend to trip and then pop up again instantly, still waving--and what I was spoofing was his apparent need for attention. (On the other hand being an Olympian is an awesome accomplishment and to the victor go the spoils--if he could make money after spending years training for the decathlon, good for him.) Anyway it is kind of amazing he's still on the front pages literally generations later!
And WTF is up with that Knox verdict?! My jaw literally dropped open when I saw that the Italian legal system had embarrassed itself yet AGAIN. Guys, there is NO EVIDENCE, zip, nada, none that proves Amanda or Raffaele has anything to do with this. But there is TONS of physical evidence, including all kinds of DNA, that prove the drifter with the violent record who tried to leave the country afterward, did it. But by the time you found out about him, you'd already committed to your weird Satanic sex ritual theory--so you went to the drifter and gave him a LIGHTER sentence in exchange for him fingering two people he didn't even know! Come on, guys, simple logic here. Do you really think a couple of kids could thoroughly wipe a violent crime scene of their own DNA, seen and unseen, but leave the third participant's all over the room? Come on, guys. I can't help but feel this is the Italian male ego at work here--they're furious about looking so stupid, they're pissed that their shenanigans in the press and their fatuousness and inept police work led to two innocent kids being railroaded and by God, they will have the last word. They even ADDED time to her sentence! Completely ridiculous. I can't even imagine what she and Raffaele are going through--if I'd been him, I would've left the country as soon as the appeals court pronounced me innocent back in 2011. Now they've gone and arrested the poor guy again.
