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Archive for August, 2006
Islam Means Misogyny
Aug 31st
Yet another reason that Islam hates women. If Muslim Women are even allowed out of the house unescorted, and if they can find their way to the beach since they are not allowed to drive, maybe they can lounge in the sun in the new “Bathing Burka.”
From Reuters here:
An unusual type of swimwear is standing out on Turkish beaches this summer — Islam-inspired swimsuits — which buck the trend of the past 100 years for swimsuits to get smaller.
Turkish businessman Mehmet Sahin has designed what he says is the world’s first Islam-inspired swimsuit and sells head-to-ankle bathing gear to devout well-heeled Muslims, including the wives of Turkey’s leading politicians.
His brightly-colored women’s swimming costumes look like shiny track-suits with stretchy hoods, while the racier models are like catsuits with a separate overall to cover the curves.
These costumes are a throwback to the type of swimwear worn before Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman invented and wore the first one piece swimsuit in 1906. She was arrested in the United States in 1907 for wearing the one piece suit that showed her arms, legs and neck.
Notice how the article tries to draw a moral equivalent between how muslim women are treated today with how women were treated in the United States a century ago? The difference is that in the United States, our society has PROGRESSED. Anywhere where Islam has power, the nation is quickly REGRESSING toward a goal of 7th century lifestyle and behavior.
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Loading ...You’ve Got Questions? We’ve Got Pink Slips
Aug 30th
My wife and I were strolling along the street the other day window shopping and we passed a Radio Shack. She wondered aloud “When will Radio Shack go out of business?”
I replied, “They are working on it.”
Radio Shack fired 400 people today. By Email. Burn.
From the AP here:
FORT WORTH, Texas – RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.
Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”
Derrick D’Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, said he had never heard of such a large number of terminated employees being notified electronically. He said it could be seen as dehumanizing to employees.
I remember when Tandy used to own Radio Shack. It was cool. You could go in and buy rawhide and a CB radio at the same time.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Lexis-Nexis Hacker, On Bond, Robs Cars
Aug 30th
As a followup to this story here, a hacker named Justin Perras, who cautioned me about “Angering the Internet Gods” when I wrote about him last, was busted in Fairhaven, Mass for breaking into cars and stealing stuff. He was a member of a small ring of thieves that specialized in stealing stuff from cars and then selling the items at a pawn shop.
He was still awaiting trial for his hacking against Lexis Nexis and for swiping data from celebrity phones, including Paris Hilton. He was identified by a photograph from an ATM in which he attempted to retrieve cash with a stolen ATM card. Part of the condition of his release was a 25,000 dollar bond and to agree not to use a computer, nor commit a crime. Many of the items he was stealing from the car were computers, which he used.
From Perras’ Hometown Paper, the SouthCoast Today here:
Justin Perras, 20, one of the suspects Fairhaven police arrested last week in connection with a string of vehicle break-ins, has a federal court case pending for his alleged role as part of a group that breached LexisNexis data in 2005, gaining access to personal data for more than 310,000 people. Members of the same group allegedly hacked into Paris Hilton’s cell phone in 2005, stealing contact numbers and racy photographs. One of Mr. Perras’ friends, a juvenile, pleaded guilty to the hack.
Fairhaven Police Chief Gary F. Souza said he heard from the Secret Service shortly after his officers arrested Mr. Perras.
“From what we understand, one of the conditions of his release is that he wasn’t supposed to be playing with computers,” he said. “And apparently he was, with the stuff that was stolen.”
While he awaits trial, Mr. Perras was released from federal custody. According to court records, the conditions of that release required his payment of a $25,000 bond.
He was ordered to surrender all travel documents and forbidden to use the Internet or commit any other crimes. Court records say he was supposed to maintain his residence at 116 David St. in New Bedford unless travelling to federal court in Florida, although the Fairhaven police list his address as Pembroke Avenue in Acushnet.
Chief Souza’s department first encountered Mr. Perras in surveillance photographs obtained at 3:56 a.m. July 31 by an ATM on Rockdale Avenue, in New Bedford.
In the photo, Mr. Perras has his shirt pulled over his nose and mouth and was using a stolen ATM card, Chief Souza said.
Like New Bedford, Dartmouth, Acushnet and Rochester, Fairhaven has been struggling with more than a hundred robberies with one common feature the crooks simply opened unlocked cars and pilfered the cash, laptops, iPods and other items left inside.
The surveillance photo was one of the first breaks in the case. Fairhaven police sent it to local media, and received a flood of tips. Eventually, those led to the arrests of Mr. Perras and a New Bedford couple who allegedly worked with him on the break-ins.
I wonder if Justin Perras took my earlier advice and got his soap on a rope?
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Aug 30th
Okay, granted this is a marketing stunt by a security company, but its a pretty cool stunt, and one that I think may be worth paying attention to. Many cellphones that integrate with corporate email such as Blackberry, Treo and Windows Mobile may keep data on the flash that was supposed to be deleted. This data can be recovered with the right tools, and could expose information that you would certainly wish to keep protected.
From the AP here:
WASHINGTON – Don’t tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adultery.
One married man’s girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.
“So,” she wrote, “I’ll talk to u next week.”
“You want a break from me? Then fine,” he wrote back.
Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290.
The guys who bought it now know his secret.
The married man had followed the directions in his phone’s manual to erase all his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn’t enough.
A company, Trust Digital of McLean, Va., bought 10 different phones on eBay this summer to test phone-security tools it sells for businesses. The phones all were fairly sophisticated models capable of working with corporate e-mail systems.
Curious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.
The other phones contained:
- One phone surrendered the secrets of a chief executive at a small technology company in Silicon Valley. It included details of a pending deal with Adobe Systems Inc
- One company’s plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract.
- E-mails about another firm’s $50,000 payment for a software license.
- Bank accounts and passwords.
- Details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker’s utility payments.
The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages a stack of printouts 8 feet high.
You should ensure that your data is completely wiped before selling it or giving it away. Or you can do what my brother tends to do quite a bit- lose it over the side of the boat while deep sea fishing.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...AT&T Screws Its DSL Customers
Aug 30th
It seems that AT&T left a vulnerability on one of their webservers that allowed hackers to peek inside its online database and steal credit card information on about 19,000 of its customers who purchased DSL routers at its online store.
From Reuters here:
Hackers broke into one of AT&T Inc.’s computer networks and stole credit card data and other personal information from several thousand customers who shopped at the telecommunication giant’s online store.
AT&T said it was notifying “fewer than 19,000″ customers whose data was accessed during the weekend break-in, which it said was detected within hours.
The company said it immediately shut down the online store, notified credit card companies, and was working with law enforcement agencies to track down the hackers.
“We recognize that there is an active market for illegally obtained personal information,” Priscilla Hill-Ardoin, AT&T’s chief privacy officer, said in a statement.
“We will work closely with law enforcement to bring these data thieves to account,” Hill-Ardoin said.
AT&T said it would also pay for credit monitoring services to assist in protecting the customers involved. The data theft involved people who had bought DSL equipment for high-speed Internet access.
Out of all of these types of stories I have reported, this one is unique in that AT&T noticed the breach quickly and stopped the compromise in progress. They immediately turned to law enforcement to deal with the data theft. Also, the Privacy Officer is well-versed about the underground market dealing with stolen identities and credit cards.
While I criticize AT&T for having weaknesses in their public-facing infrastructure, I applaud AT&T for having a well-rehearsed plan to identify and eliminate the threat and to contact law enforcement in a short timespan.
More often than not, companies do not have such a plan or it has not been exercised to ensure that similar breaches are quickly and effectively contained.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The Maryland Renaissance Festival
Aug 30th
My wife is a very huge fan of the Maryland Renaissance Festival. And that pretty much makes me one now by default, although I still shake my head in disbelief that people enjoy getting dressed up and pretending it still the time before hygiene, refrigeration and electricity.
The Maryland Renfest is probably one of the best in the country, and it will be open every weekend through October. They have beautiful wooded acres of land and very cool architecture like the “Rosie’s Posies” house below.
My wife is urging me to get my own costume too, and Im being a bit curmudgeony about it. No more jeans and sneakers for me, she keeps insisting. She was in full Renfest Garb (and she was really stunning too), and she wants me to play along and wear a costume too so she wont feel goofy being the only one of us dressed up.
I got the baggy pants on Sunday. They are forest green. Maybe I can blend into the Maryland woodlands. I need a shirt and boots and I’ll be set.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a blast when I go to Crownsville, MD, like I did this past Sunday. The food was great. Gnawing on a roasted turkey leg is one of my favorite things. The beer was really good. The mead? A little too dry and clear for my taste, but I drank that too and liked it! There were dozens of craftsmen and artists selling their artwork and pottery, and the actors and performers were outstanding entertainment.
But you know what I liked best about the Renfest? No, not all the well-defined cleavage protruding above tight bodices, although that was plentiful. The best part was the PEOPLE WATCHING! And not just watching visitors play “Drench the Wench” at the dunking booth or totally weak guys trying to hit the bell with the big sledge hammer and missing horribly. No, its the people that are either way too into playing dressup, or its the odd cliques of people who gather together at a picnic table.
The guy below was way into it, but he looked a little authentic. But he was obviously trying to be a “Mage.” I thought they burned people that practiced witchcraft at the stake during the Renaissance? Okay, Merlin was a mage, but that was just the legend of King Arthur, and that was supposed to happen in the Dark Ages. This type of mage has to figure out how many D6′s to roll to launch a fireball.
These two guys below struck me as odd too. One is a black knight and the other is some type of disfigured monk? They were blocking my path back to the Beer Stand.
And finally is the oddest collection of characters outside of World of Warcraft. We have a Goth Angel, a shirtless man and some sort of fox-tailed gent in a smoking section. All of the guys have hair that is really just way too long and no tans to speak of. The topic of conversation? “If hobbits really existed, what continent would they live on?”
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Aug 29th
Sans noticed a large spike in domain name registrations with the keyword “Ernesto” in the past 24 hours. This activity is likely due to hoaxters that are trying to cash in on any pending hurricane related tragedies.
Lots of fraudulent websites were setup in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to solicit donations for the hurricane victims, and some even touted the use of air lifting goods and supplies to the NOLA region.
While Ernesto is going to be a bust as far as hurricanes go, the season is not over yet. There will be other disasters, and where there is misery there are miscreants that will try to separate you from your money.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...CBS to Katie Couric: Take a Lesson From Nicole Richie
Aug 29th
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Take a look at the above photos. See what’s different? Katie looks thinner on the right. The photo on the left is the original, and the one on the right was newly released in a magazine published by CBS, who just hired Katie to take over Dan Rather’s slot on the nightly news.
Now, there are only two explanations for why CBS would want to alter the photo.
1. Katie was unhappy because she thinks she is fat and asked for the picture to be altered.
2. CBS thinks Katie is fat and altered the photo.
If it is number two, and I’m pretty sure it is, then Katie should take note that her new boss thinks that she should shed a few pounds. Because its just too hard to look perky with more than one chin!
Thanks to HotAir and MoonBattery for the story!
Update! Matt Drudge picked up the story today and headlined it on his site. Its confirmed. The Tiffany Network did this without telling Katie about it. So CBS does say that she is too fat. My question is why does any news organization need a photoshop expert on staff?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...God Hates Clowns Too
Aug 29th
I have mentioned before that I hate clowns. I don’t really know where this hatred originated- I think sometime around the age of 12 or so- but I began to realize that clowns aren’t funny. They are creepy and menacing. The only time that clowns would be funny is if a big batch of clowns were attacked by ninjas. Or pirates. Or the ATF storming the “clown compound” with flame throwers.
But in this case, a clown was performing some wierd circus stunt, and there was a fall from a good height, followed by a crushing cage. Children were there to witness this final un-funny clown act.
From the AP here:
Kids Watch As Clown Is Crushed to Death
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — A hot-air balloon caught fire during a circus stunt, killing a clown acrobat as dozens of children watched, police said Tuesday.
The accident happened Monday night as the Royal Russian Circus was performing in Scariff, County Clare, a village in western Ireland. About 100 people were in the audience, most of them children. Police said the clown was a 26-year-old man from Belarus but didn’t release his name.
Witnesses said the man, dressed in a clown outfit, was hanging from a cage suspended by ropes and a hot-air balloon inside the canvas tent. When the balloon exploded in flames, the cage fell on top of the man.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Asian Dogs are Horrible Drivers
Aug 28th
Asian dogs don’t signal, and they have no idea how to check their blind spots. They are often slow and tend to inch their way over into your lane.
From the AP here:
A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
No injuries were reported although both vehicles were slightly damaged, it said.
The woman, identified only be her surname, Li, said her dog “was fond of crouching on the steering wheel and often watched her drive,” according to Xinhua.
“She thought she would let the dog ‘have a try’ while she operated the accelerator and brake,” the report said. “They did not make it far before crashing into an oncoming car.”
Xinhua did not say what kind of dog or vehicles were involved but Li paid for repairs.
Perhaps this is one of the dogs that survived the mass beatings and killings in China to prevent rabies.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Muslims Commit Faith Rape on Hostages
Aug 28th
Two journalists from Fox News were kidnapped in Gaza by muslim terrorists. They were finally released, but only after the hostages were put on film renouncing their faith in Christ and accepting child-rapist Mohammed as their Lord and Savior.
The news organizations are saying that the men were released “unharmed.” But I expect that there are deep lingering wounds that these men will carry from having been forced at gunpoint to accept Islam as their religion.
For someone that has a deep spiritual belief in their religion to be forced, under threat of death, to renounce their religion and accept a new one, the experience must be traumatic. Will the victims always have to worry whether or not God is angry with them for their decisions?
Hot Air has all the links and stories here.
Various Palestinian middlemen were used by British agents at the request of the US to bring the Fox journalists home. They worked out a convoluted deal which entailed their public conversion to Islam, an anti-American harangue on air and a six-figure cash ransom paid under the table to Dughmush to fund his terrorist militia s operations in Gaza.
I am coining a new term for forceful conversions: Faith Rape.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Take a Dive on Live TV
Aug 25th
This is a shocking video clip of a woman falling off a platform on live television. Don’t watch it unless you are one of those people like me, who thinks watching someone slip on a banana peel is hilarious. Click the photo or here to see it.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Texas Man Foils Burglary in Britain
Aug 25th
An American man helped foil a burglary 4,589 miles away in northern England after spotting suspects raiding a shop whilst watching a webcam over the Internet.
While surfing the internet and looking at live webcams of Liverpool and other places that the Beatles were known to frequent, a man spotted some criminals breaking into a store. So he called the Liverpool police directly, reported the crime, and the cops showed up and arrested the three men.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Missouri Man Sends Porn Pix of Ex
Aug 24th
Nice little bit of vengeance gets a man 20 days in jail. It seems that a man makes a pornographic website that contains photos of his ex wife. Then he harvests the contacts information from his ex-wife’s PC and mass mails her relatives with a hyperlink to the naughty site.
There is no word on how he accessed the data, whether it was from his wife’s PC at a remote location, or if it was harvested from an old hard drive lying around. She must have done something to piss him off too.
Just another reason to never pose for any photo that you won’t want to apear on the Internet.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Microsoft Launching WindowsMarketPlace
Aug 24th
It appears that Microsoft is launching a new portal site that offers easy ways to find software designed to work with Windows. The site launches in Three Days. I found out about this from a built-in link on the new IE7.
The portal site is broken down into familiar categories such as security, gaming, music and much more. It kinda reminds me of the old Winfiles.Com, but on steroids.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...New Version of IE 7 Available
Aug 24th
Microsoft just released the newest and most stable version yet of IE7. I have not been real happy with the previous versions because of what appears to be lag time for page loads and some simple web pages that do not even display correctly.
To get the latest version, just click the logo.
I will provide an update on how well it does.
UPDATE: Well, so far so good! I’m not ready to ditch my Firefox as yet, but here it looks like so far:
The IE program installs first at a reboot before the shell is loaded. This takes a few minutes. Perhaps it is making fundamental changes to the kernel. After it finishes installing, it reboots the PC once more.
At startup of IE, it goes to the microsoft runonce site and prompts the user to select the anti-phishing option. Most of my previous toolbars seem to work just fine. Those simple websites that would not display correctly? That got fixed in this release. The pages seem to load rather quickly too.
If I run into more problems, I will make a separate blog entry to detail it. But so far, so good.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Stupid Muslim Man Causes Chicago Bomb Scare
Aug 24th
The AP is trying to pass this off as a humorous and funny story, but call me silly, but I don’t think that bomb scares in the airport are funny at all. It appears that a 29-year-old Muslim man packed a penis pump into his carry on luggage to go on a trip with his family to Turkey from Chicago.
When it was X-rayed, he was asked about it because it looked like it may have been a grenade. Because this idiot’s mother was nearby, he didnt want to fess up to the actual purpose of the device. I guess saying he had a penis pump would be embarrassing to his family. But declaring that he had a bomb? That’s not embarrassing at all, is it? Not if you’re a Muslim?
This dolt is facing three years for criminal mischief.
From the AP here:
CHICAGO – Cook County prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately didn’t want her to know he’d packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey. So he told security it was a bomb, officials said.
Madin Azad Amin was stopped by officials on Aug. 16 after guards found an object in his baggage that resembled a grenade, prosecutors said.
When officers asked him to identify it, Amin said it was a bomb, said Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Lorraine Scaduto.
He later told officials he’d lied about the item because his mother was nearby and he didn’t want her to hear that it was part of a penis pump, Scaduto said.
He’s been charged with felony disorderly conduct, said Andrew Conklin, a spokesman with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Amin faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
So out of all of the options that flashed through this man’s mind to come up with a good lie to cover up the fact that he had a sexual aid with him in his carry on luggage, he went with bomb? What an idiot.
He could have said:
- Electric Tooth Brush
- Parts for a blender
- Acquarium gear for pet goldfish
- Pieces for blood pressure guage
- Middle Eastern Accupuncture device
Just don’t say bomb. I think he brought the gear along with the intent of causing a bomb scare, and they should lock him away for a very long time.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...IBM Buys ISS for 1.3 Billion
Aug 23rd
Wow, this is a lot to pay for a security company, and in my opinion, about twice as much as what it is worth. ISS, makers of the RealSecure line of Intrusion Detection Sensors that are the bane of many in the Security Industry, have played second and third fiddle to other IDS vendors for a long time now.
SourceFire was up for sale too, and it has a top notch sensor in the Snort brand. Why IBM passed on them and went with ISS is anyone’s guess. Perhaps at the time IBM was shopping, Sourcefire looked like a cinch to go with Checkpoint, but the Sourcefire/checkpoint deal got nixed by the US government because they did not want this technology owned by the Israelis.
From the AP here:
IBM Corp. said Wednesday it will spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc., which performs network monitoring and analysis services for companies.
Buying ISS could bolster Big Blue’s ability to take on what it calls “managed security services” for its business customers. ISS helps guard against data theft and other problems with automated monitoring products and with technical consultants, who would become part of IBM’s vast services arm.
Based in Atlanta, ISS says its 11,000 customers include 17 of the world’s largest banks. The company earned $38.5 million on $330 million in revenue last year; this year’s revenue is expected to surpass $350 million.
And, this is another dagger in the heart of Symantec too, which competes against ISS in the Managed Security Services space. In fact, had Symantec not purchased Veritas and suddenly become engulfed in debt and back taxes, Symantec could have been in a good position to have merged with IBM.
But with its agressive marketing and strong brand recognition, IBM has made a good move to become the leader in the Security Space.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Orion to Take Men Back to Moon
Aug 23rd
It is so cool that NASA is going to send men back to the moon. The name of the capsules that will do that job have now officially been given the name of ORION. The logo is cool too.
From Reuters here:
Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. spaceships that NASA wants to build to carry astronauts back to the moon will be called Orion, an agency official said on Wednesday.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the name about a week early after inadvertently airing on its public satellite television station a message recorded by a space station crew member for future use.
“We’ve been calling it the Crew Exploration Vehicle for several years, but today it has a name – Orion,” station flight engineer Jeffrey Williams said in the message aired on Tuesday.
Orion was the hunter of Greek myth, whose constellation is one of the most easily recognized because of its bright belt of three stars. NASA also borrowed from Greek mythology to name its first fleet of lunar spacecraft, the Apollo series that carried the first humans to the moon in 1969.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Paramount Fires Tom Cruise
Aug 23rd
Tom can go make movies for someone else, but he is not welcome at Paramount. It seems that his erratic behavior over the past year or so has soured him to the studio.
From Reuters here:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Paramount Pictures and actor Tom Cruise called an end to their 14-year production deal on Wednesday as the chairman of the studio’s parent company took a parting shot at the movie star’s off-screen behavior.
“As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal,” Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone told the Wall Street Journal in an interview posted online. “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”
Paula Wagner, the actor’s longtime partner in his movie company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, struck back at Redstone, calling his comments about the three-time Oscar nominee “offensive” and “undignified.”
“Whatever remarks Mr. Redstone would make about Tom Cruise personally or as an actor have no bearing on what this business issue is,” she told Reuters. “There must be another agenda that the studio has in mind to take one of their greatest assets and malign him this way.”
The truth of the matter is that Tom’s contract ran out with Paramount, and the studio offered him a new contract that was considerably less than what he was currently making. So Tom quit negotiating with the studio.
And while you cannot fire anyone over religious reasons in this country, I do think that Tom’s scientology was behind what the studio described as “erratic behavior.” Rumor had it that he threatened to cancel promotions on MI:3 if Comedy Central, a division of Paramount, aired an episode of South Park that criticized scientology. As a professional, you never threaten the people that bankroll you and expect to keep your job.
I think we will soon see the “Out of the Closet” episode of South Park air very soon now that the relationship has ended.
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