The red zone, that is. Yesterday Britney Spears not only had to call in the police to help her navigate through the paparazzi swarm, but she also had to deal with them giving her a ticket for illegal parking. After shopping at the Levi’s store for about a half hour, Brit came out to her usual pap scrum, but the bodyguard was having none of her usual dithering and posing…he took her by the hand and basically dragged her through the crowd to her car. Unlike some sites, I don’t think he was too rough…sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
In all fairness, though, I don’t know who was driving, Brit or the bodyguard, so I’m unsure who’s at fault for the parking thing.
In other Brit news, the motion to make her case Federal is much ado about nothing:
However, a judge ruled that Mr Eardley had no right to move the case in a ruling that means the signer is still not allowed to run her own life or have custody of her children Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, 17 months.
District Judge Philip Gutierrez wrote in a report: “Mr Eardley had no authority to remove the case from state court. He is neither a party nor a defendant.”
In a written declaration, Eardley said he was hired by Britney Spears on February 12, and had spoken to her on several occasions.
The last time they talked, Eardley said the phone was taken from her and the number was disconnected.
But Spears was already under her father’s conservatorship at the time and the California court had already appointed her an attorney.
Gutierrez ruled Britney Spears had no authority to hire Eardley.
Yes. Like I’ve said before, that’s one of the points of a conservatorship…you are not in a position to make your own decisions, for whatever reasons, and someone else has to make them for you until you are. Britney can’t hire anybody. She is just going to have to make the best of things for a while…and it looks like whatever daddy is doing is working, since she has had two visitations with her kids now.
Hopefully, once her medications are all correct, she’ll realize that this really is for the best right now and let things continue as they are. It isn’t permanent, so she just needs to settle down and take a step back and realize it’ll all work out if she just quits fighting it.
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
Reuters - The Polish prosecutor's office is
investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland
where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have
used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser
said on Friday.
