Entries from March 2008

March 18, 2008

New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s One Sentence Resignation Letter

Thanks to our friends at the New York Times, here’s the one sentence resignation letter that Eliot Spitzer sent to Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, and to Joseph Bruno, President and Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, on March 12, 2008. (see the Times’ coverage).
Mr. Spitzer’s letter reads…
“I [...]

March 17, 2008

March 17, 2008 – A Gathering Storm On Wall Street

The stunning collapse of investment banking firm Bear Stearns over the weekend, and it’s fire-sale purchase for pennies on the dollar by JP Morgan Chase has is just the latest bad news rattling investors’ nerves.
Oil, which crossed the $100 / barrel mark less than a month ago, hit another record high of almost $112 / [...]

March 16, 2008

Amazing Makeovers By Ashley Alexandra Dupré !

Give the girl credit where credit is due.  She has performed a great service for the citizens of New York State.  And while we don’t think too much of her singing, Ashley Alexandra Dupre (a/k/a “Kristen”) is an incredibly talented makeover artist. Here’s actual before and after photos of Eliot Spitzer, unretouched and unedited [...]

March 12, 2008

Introducing Ms. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, a/k/a “Kristen”, a/k/a Ashley Youmans, a/k/a Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro, a/k/a Nina Venetta

Ashley  Alexandra Dupre (from her myspace.com page)
We are a firm believer in the one-name-per-person rule. Two, tops.
Ashley Youmans (birth name)
Ashley Rae Maika DiPietro (legal name change)
Ashley Alexandra Dupre (stage name?)
Nina Venetta (myspace page name)
“Kristen” (Spitzer scandal original identity)
… and that’s just the ones we know about.
In her song, “What We Want”, posted on her [...]

March 11, 2008

Dead Man Walking

Los Angeles (March 11) – New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (see our previous post) has reportedly signed a movie deal worth $75 million. He will play Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn’s character) in Tim Robbins’ remake of his 1995 blockbuster, “Dead Man Walking“. Filming is scheduled to start this Summer in Angola, Louisiana, subject [...]