In the news today...

Damn, I am. I’m sure many of you are aware of the major headlines in today’s news, or at least I hope you do, but you’d know about Toyota’s squeaky clean image being questioned as of late. Today, victims and leaders of Toyota will be testifying in front of Congress. That’s some heavy shit, right there. I never thought I’d see that coming from a goody-two-shoe of the automobile industry. I’m currently watching a testimony given by a victim on CNN. A survivor, Rhonda Smith, of Lexus’ malfunction is testifying with tears, of course. Shame on you, Toyota. Shame on you. I honestly felt like Toyota has been skimping on their handi-work. I’m sure they felt like they were already at the top of their game, especially being proclaimed as the best automobile company to purchase from. So, they got a little lazy with their production. I don’t want to get into the nitty gritty details of this effect and my thoughts on their half-assed production. I’ve already decided that my trust in Toyota is gone. Seeing that they have been cocky and never admitted to any wrong-doings when Rhonda Smith filed a complaint, just shows that they did not handle the situation right away when complaints were being filed. Millions of lives could have been in danger. It’s going to take a lot of convincing to get me to trust them again. But I’ll still buy their Prius, since that’s the only they I feel they have going for them. It is Toyota’s pride and joy, so why not? Well, with the exception of 2010 models. But I'll be looking forward to the 2011 Prius! :P CNN put together a great list of recalls on their site: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/09/toyota.recall.list/index.html

I'm back...

Tiger Woods. Again? CNN and other news outlet are blowing up on this shit again. AGAIN! I was hoping that they'd only cover an hour of material for this. Not an all morning (and maybe all day) thing. Another big let down.

This is NOT cool...

Honestly, who the fuck cares about the White House crashers, Tiger Wood's car crash, or Chelsea Clinton's engagement. Why the fuss, CNN? Why the repeats on stories that DO NOT matter when there are news worthy stories of albinos in Africa being hunted and murdered for witchcraft? Or how human trafficking still exists in America. Apparently, the stupid news media just wants to focus on stories that idiots would rather hear about rather than time sensitive issues of human endangerment. WTF, seriously? Why are there so many repeats on Tiger Wood's car crash - he's alive and well, people! News media should be repeating the stories of human trafficking in America, which is much more of a pressing matter at this time - well, to me at least. Urgh, fuck this shit. Idiots. EDIT: I see that CNN has a whole hour of covering the human trafficking material tomorrow. At 6 in the fucken morning. I can't watch that. I have to get ready for work at that time and try to catch the light rail and make it to work on time to work on my juvenile justice facilities report to give to boards of supervisor down in LA. This is obviously stressful, I can never get what I want. MAJOR URGH.

Weekly Rant

I've been sucked into the Annie Le homicide case and have become irritable at how little updates there has been about the case. Last week, I wanted some sort of a happy ending - actually, a more realistic one. Here is one that I had imagined last week before the tragic Sunday. I figured the professor she was an assistant too was somehow involved in her disappearance since he had canceled class the same time her disappearance was noticed. I had hoped that maybe he kidnapped her since she witnessed something (I haven't yet thought about what that something is yet) that he wasn't supposed to be doing. All I wanted was for her to alive and well. Now I read that a body has been found stuffed into the wall in the basement lab. Of course, it isn't yet confirmed that it's her, but I have this horrible sinking feeling about this. I feel like crap. I'm starting to hate watching the news. That's my weekly rant for the week.