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Oprah’s OWN loses a staggering $330m as industry insiders predict it will be axed within a year

What else would anyone expect? ABC was happy to unload Oprah, who was getting less than a one share in the ratings on a major broadcast network. People have grown weary of her vapid self indulgence and watching Oprah being duped by authors that are less than honest about their backgrounds.

Then when you factor in the fact that in 2008 she turned her back on the woman candidate for president of the United States in favor of the half black man, she showed that she was more of a black activist then a woman’s rights advocate. JD

Oprah’s OWN loses a staggering $330m as industry insiders predict it will be axed within a year

The losses at Oprah Winfrey’s troubled cable channel are approaching a staggering $330 million, according to a report over the weekend.

Industry insiders believe the channel – the Oprah Winfrey network (OWN) – will not last another year unless they come up with a hit show and make a dramatic turnaround.

Though ratings have seen a slight insurgence thanks to interview program Oprah’s Next Chapter, it has stumbled since the get go with ratings of just 308,000 daily.

It is believed shows which do not feature the chat show queen herself are not popular with viewers.

Discovery, which partnered with Winfrey to launch the network and has been underwriting its costs, has invested nearly $600 million in it since 2008, according to an extensive report in Businessweek magazine.

Since it started on the air in January 2011, it may have lost as much as $330million, according to the magazine.

David Zaslav, the chief executive officer of Discovery Communications who talked Oprah into the idea of OWN, is famously impatient with money-losing operations within his company and insiders say he will not put up with the aiing network’s losses for much longer.

Winfrey appeared before advertisers two weeks ago to ask for more time, telling them: ‘I am in the climb of my life. I am climbing Kilimanjaro.’
Although she doesn’t risk losing a lot of money from the channel’s failings, Oprah’s reputation is at stake.

Over her 39-year career, The Oprah Winfrey Show had as many as 12.5 million viewers. O, The Oprah Magazine had more than two million subscribers. And her Internet site, Oprah.com, draws more than three million unique visitors a month.

Her image as the most successful TV star of her generation is on the line.

E-mails to OWN and Oprah’s production company, Harpo, were not returned yesterday.

In March i was announced that Rosie O’ Donnell’s talk show The Rosie Show had been axed by the network after only six months.

It debuted with 500,000 viewers but within days fell to half of that.

The TV stars both released statements, with Rosie saying she ‘wished the show was able to attract more viewers.’

She added in a statement: ‘I loved working with Oprah in the amazing city of Chicago. I was welcomed with open arms and will never forget the kindness of all I encountered.’

In a statement, Oprah Winfrey said: ‘I thank Rosie from the bottom of my heart for joining me on this journey. She has been an incredible partner, working to deliver the best possible show every single day.

‘As I have learned in the last 15 months, a new network launch is always a challenge and ratings grow over time as you continue to gather an audience.’

However, just a week after they released these statements, it was reported the pair were not even on speaking terms because Rosie was

unhappy with the way the press release was worded announcing her show was being unceremoniously dumped.

In February, the media mogul came under fire after she made a controversial bid to resuscitate ratings on Twitter.

Competing for viewers on the same night as this year’s Grammy Awards, she took to the micro-blogging site to ask her 9.2million followers: ‘Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Nielsen box.’

The tweet was deleted, Ms Winfrey said, ‘at the request of Nielsen’, which prohibits clients from attempting to influence ratings.

A backlash of comments followed, with several Twitter users accusing the mogul of ‘being desperate’.

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Stuffing Recipe

I have been asked a lot of times how I became such a good cook. Its a fairly simply answer. My father used to tell me when I was a boy to go help my mom with dinner. I could never understand why me, the only boy in the family, had to go help my mom with dinner.

One day I objected, and my father told me “All of the great chef of the world are men, and there is no self respecting Italian man that is not a better cook than his wife.”

This must be a popular line back east in Brooklyn, because I have heard it repeated in several television shows and movies.

Anyway, this morning a friend of mine called me and asked me how I make my Thanksgiving stuffing because it was so good. I said I would post it here and that they would have to read it off my site. She thought I was kidding so here it is.

2 eggs.

2 stalks of celery.

1/2 a cup of brown or white onion, minced.

2 cloves of minced garlic.

1 cup of diced mushrooms.

1 bag of stuffing mix of your choice.

using a frying pan or electric skillet, heat a small amount of olive oil or margarine, (I prefer olive oil) and mix in celery, onion, garlic and mushrooms.

Add garlic salt and Saute’ until veggies are browned.

Mix stuffing mix and two eggs in a large bowl, beating eggs into stuffing mix. The eggs help bind the mix into a loaf, so sometimes an additional egg is needed, depending on the size of the eggs, and the bag of stuffing mix.

Take browned veggies and mix into the stuffing mix and eggs.

Once mixed, take your cleaned bird and in the cavity, spread out a sheet of cheese cloth, forming a bag in the cavity for the stuffing to go into. Stuff the stuffing into the cavity and onto the cheese cloth.

The cheese cloth is formed into the cavity like a bag. This makes it incredibly easy to remove the stuffing when the bird is done.

Once done, using a pair of tongs, grab cheese cloth and remove from bird. Remove cheese cloth and what you have is a beautiful loaf of stuffing that everyone I have served it to loves. Enjoy. JD

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Kim Kardashian Files for Divorce from Kris Humphries

Kim Kardashian Files for Divorce from Kris Humphries

There are some positives that came from the marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. First, look how many people made money off of their wedding. How many people were employed by it? It also let us all get a glimpse into how vapid and self centered the wealthy are. JD

Just 72 days after their $10 million wedding, Kim Kardashian plans to file for divorce from Kris Humphries on Monday, a source confirms to Us Weekly. The reality star also confirmed the news to Ryan Seacrest. “Yes kimkardashian is filing for divorce this morning,” Seacrest tweeted. “I touched base with her, getting a statement in just a few minutes.”

“There were rumors up until the wedding and after the wedding,” Seacrest added Monday during his radio show. “Looks like this is true and she is filing this morning (Oct. 31).”

TMZ reports that Kardashian, 31, will not seek an annulment and plans to cite “irreconcilable differences in her filing.”

PHOTOS: Too much, too soon? Kim and Kris’ whirlwind romance

Kardashian’s attorney is celeb lawyer Laura Wasser, who has represented such stars as Britney Spears, Maria Shriver, Angelina Jolie, Ryan Reynolds, and Robyn Gibson.

Indeed, the latest Us Weekly reports of major friction between Kardashian and NBA star Humphries, 26.

The newylweds are “not getting along at all,” one insider said. “Kris is not drinking the Kardashian Kool-Aid, and it’s causing major problems.”

At issue? While Kardashian, 31, juggles her reality shows and multiple moneymaking ventures, the basketball hunk 26, is unemployed thanks to the NBA lockout — and partying up a storm on his wife’s dime.

PHOTOS: Their sexy honeymoon album

The pair wed lavishly in Montecito, Calif. after just nine months of dating. “On some levels,” says a friend, “she feels like she made a mistake.”

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Texas State Senator Chris Harris Asks Illegal Alien “Why aren’t you speaking English?” VIDEO

A big high five to Texas State Senator Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington Texas. Harris had enough balls to ask Antolin Aguirre of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition and was testifying against Senate Bill 9 that would help crack down on illegal immigrants in Texas why he wasn’t speaking English.

Aguirre spoke through an interpreter even though he stated that he had been in the U.S. since 1988.

Two minutes into Antolin Aguirre’s testimony, Harris, a Republican from Arlington, interrupted asking Aguirre’s interrupter, “Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988?” Harris asked. “Why aren’t you speaking in English then?”

That’s an excellent question. You have an illegal alien testifying to a state senate committee about why they should not pass any laws that might punish people like Aguirre for breaking our laws and this rat bastard has the audacity to testify in Spanish?

This guy has been in the United States for 23 years and trust me, he speaks English, but to give Americans yet another slap in the face, Aguirre spoke Spanish. That’s what this all comes down to. He was speaking through an interpreter to insult all Americans.

These people come here and suck off the teat of society and the generosity of our people, yet they have no allegiance to our country.

In fact a lot of Mexicans living in the United States consider the south western United States a part of Mexico. They behave like they are still in Mexico.

Here in So Cali, there are places in the greater Los Angeles area where its hard to tell whether you are in America or Mexico.

It is exactly what senator Harris said, an insult to all Americans that Hispanics speak Spanish while living in America. If I were Senator Harris, I would of had Aguirre arrested and deported. Bob

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G.W. Bush Vs. Barrack Obama and the Media Bias

I found this on a my friend Fred’s website, Admit-One.net. It speaks volumes about the obvious media bias and the incredible level of influence the American media has on the thought processes (I guess thats what one would call the thought process of anyone stupid enough to elect a community organizer president of the United States) of the inept and stupid people of America.

Virtually every point contained in the post below were headline news when GW Bush was president. But be it Obama or any other democrat in the White House and the media almost completely ignores the obvious. That would be that President Obama and his cabinet are nothing more than Captain Courageous and his Ship of Fools. JD

If George W. Bush had doubled the national debt,
which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate,
in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt
again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had criticized a state law that he admitted he never
even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head?

If George W. Bush joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the
United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration,
would you question his patriotism and wonder who’s side he was on?

If George Bush had pronounced the Marine “Corps” like Marine “Corpse”
over and over again in a speech to the Marine Corps would you think
him an idiot?

If George W. Bush had put 87,000 workers out of work
by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling
on companies that have one of the best safety records
of any industry just because one company had an accident would you
have agreed?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a
TelePrompTer installed to be able to get through a press conference,
would you have laughed and said this is more proof
of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled
by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of
TAXPAYER money to take Laura Bush to a play in New York City,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings
of GM stock by 90%and given the unions a majority stake in GM,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense
of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given England’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown,
a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVD s,
when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful
and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England
an iPod containing videos of his speeches,
would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia,
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent
“Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers
with people who cannot seem to keep current
on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had stated that there were 57 states
in the United States, would you have said that he is clueless.

If George W. Bush would have flown all the way to Denmark
to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him,
would you have thought he was a self important, conceited, egotistical jerk.

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro”
in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo),
and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word “advice”
would you have hammered him for it for years
like Dan Quayle and potatoes as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel
to go plant a single tree on Earth Day,
would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okay-ed Air Force One
flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter
in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic,
would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims
throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless
than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a
major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars
who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate
on much of what is happening in America , would you have approved.

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO
of a major corporation, even though he had
no constitutional authority to do so,
would you have approved?

If the Prime Minister of America’s strongest ally, had taken George W
Bush to task, for his irresponsible declaration that his country give up
the land, that helps ensure his nations’ security from the many
surrounding enemy nations, who seek his nation’s destruction, would
you have called him an arrogant buffoon?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant
and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He did all of
this in his first 28 months—so you’ll have twenty months to come
up with an answer.

Every statement in this email is factual and
directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama.
Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable.

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