Vince Shlomi’s ShamWow ‘Love Slave’

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Pictured above is 23-year-old Jennifer Kosinski, a model who worked as a personal assistant for Vince Shlomi — the famous TV informercial pitch-man for ShamWow and Slap Chop — and who has now filed a federal lawsuit against her 46-year-old former boss:

Kosinski moved to Miami Beach, where she became Shlomi’s personal assistant (and lived rent-free in a spare bedroom in his $3.6 million oceanfront South Beach condominium).
Along with cleaning Shlomi’s home, shopping for his groceries, and cooking his meals, Kosinski contends that she also handled customer service responsibilities and had to attend “dinners, parties, and events with him.” For this she was paid $4500 monthly. . . .
Shlomi’s behavior, Kosinski claims, grew more “bizarre and inappropriate.” Though she made it clear that their relationship would remain platonic, Kosinski alleges that a controlling Shlomi pressured her to become romantically involved. . . .
When Kosinski rebuffed Shlomi’s advances, he allegedly called her a “b—-” and a “c—,” specifically because she “would not tell him the ‘secret formula’ that he claims existed for her to like him in a romantic manner.”

“Charlie Sheen just emailed me to say he’s going to have to up his game,” says Ace. What I don’t get is how this apparently successful guy could be such a loser in the romance department. My wife is plenty sexy, and I never even had a $3.6 million oceanfront South Beach condo.

Guess I’d better shut up, before she leaves me for the ShamWow guy.

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.07.11

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TOP NEWS
President Holds Late-Night Budget Talks To Avoid Shutdown

Coming back from his real job of campaigning...

White House meeting includes Senate Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Boehner


Related: Karl Rove on Obama’s Government Shutdown Gambit



Effort Begins To Head Off Gas Explosion At Fukushima Reactor
Nitrogen being injected into Unit #1

Wisconsin Supreme Court Vote Doesn’t Shake Walker’s Resolve
Governor says results only confirm that Wisconsin is a divided state



POLITICS
Number Of Non-white Children In LA Area Declines, Bucking Trend

The headcounting starts being translated into political change

“It’s no longer white flight; it’s middle-class flight,” study author says.
New Jersey Prepares New Redistricting Map In Test Of Latino Political Strength



Obama Turns To Sharpton In Effort To Woo Black Voters

Obama Promotes Energy Policy At Wind Turbine Plant

ACORN Pleads Guilty In Nevada Voter Fraud Case



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Australian Dollar Surges To New High On Jobs Bump
Enron’s Skilling Denied New Trial
Dish Network Expands Its Scope With Blockbuster Win
Most US Stocks Close Higher As Takeovers Outweigh Tech Decline
Motorola Xoom Not Zooming Off Shelves
Online Security: Bad And Getting Worse



SPORTS
Kylie Irving Going Pro Excellent News For Lottery Teams

Duke point guard could be the first choice for many teams

Guard going pro comes as a relief to GMs as many players hold off for fear of NBA lockout

Brady, Manning No-Show At Hearing Hurts Players

Rockets’ Playoff Hopes Take Devastating Blow

Howard, Phillies Lay Beatdown On Mets

Ward’s Shutout Of Red Wings Keeps Hurricanes’ Hopes Alive

Defense Rests In Barry Bonds Trial

Hernandez Takes Tough Loss For M’s As Rangers Remain Unbeaten



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Alec Baldwin Says “30 Rock” Is Ending Next Season

Alec Baldwin

Tina Fey’s contract is also up at the end of 2012, and Baldwin says she’s not coming back either. Also, she’s preggers.

Mariska Hargitay Adopts A Baby

Matt Lauer Leaving “Today Show”

MPAA Pulls “Hangover: Part II” Trailer Form Theaters

“Jersey Shore” Trip To Italy Delayed

Robert Redford Returns To Baseball As Branch Rickey In Jackie Robinson Biopic

Universal Offers Hugh Jackman Huntsman Role In Snow White Movie

Javier Bardem Closes Deal To Star In “Dark Tower” Movies, Mini-series



FOREIGNERS
NATO Accuses Gaddafi Forces Of Using Human Shields
Ouattara Forces Lay Siege To Gbagbo’s Bunker
Portugal’s Caretaker Government Seeks Bailout
Italy Bears Brunt Of Europe’s Immigration Crisis
US Says Iran Meddling In Bahrain



BLOGS & STUFF
National Review: Reid Has Tantrum On Senate Floor Over GOP Continuing Resolution
Neo-Neocon: On Ryan’s Budget, Let The Games Begin
Daily Mail: Pals Claim John Edwards Suicidal At Thought Of Jail
Yid With Lid: Saudis So Unhappy With Obama, They’re Expanding Friendships With PRC, Russia
American Power: Bachmann Says, “We Have A Very Strong Opportunity To Make Obama A One-Term President”


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Pawlenty’s Drunk Campaign Staffer Arrested for Trespassing in Iowa

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Ben Foster, 24, was arrested after he tried to break into a house in Ankeny, Iowa, at 3 a.m. A staffer for the Tim Pawlenty presidential exploratory campaign, Foster was evidently so drunk he mistook the house in Ankeny for the place he was staying — 10 miles away in Johnston, Iowa. Both towns are suburbs of Des Moines.

After barfing in a family’s yard and badly frightening their teenage daughter with his early-morning intrusion, Foster has apologized and will be suspended for two weeks from the Pawlenty campaign.

So I’m just going to take this opportunity for a brief message:

HERMAN CAIN for PRESIDENT
Because His Campaign Staff Won’t Barf in Your Yard

Gone, Wisconsin!

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Joan Kloppenburg has declared victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election — apparently winning by a margin of 204 votes — and thus dies whatever hope there had been for the state’s economic and political future.

Gov. Scott Walker and the newly-elected Republican majority in the legislature had begun the only possible reform that could have saved Wisconsin: The disestablishment of the government employee unions that were strangling the state’s economy. Now, with a cleverly orchestrated campaign, the AFL-CIO has replaced state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser with a pro-union hack to block implementation of the GOP’s reform agenda.

What is interesting to note is that, in November, Walker was elected with 1.13 million votes — 52% of more than 2.1 million votes cast.

Now, barely five months later, his election has been effectively undone by Kloppenburg, who won with a mere 740,090 votes, roughly two-thirds of Walker’s November total.

It appears that nearly 400,000 people who voted for Walker in November simply stayed home on Tuesday. With their state’s future on the line, they were MIA.

Thus ends — gone! gone forever! — all hope of liberating Wisconsin from the job-killing government-union stranglehold.

Good-bye, Wisconsin!

UPDATE: Ace is remarkably stoic about the End of Wisconsin, while The Rhetorican foresees a Greece-like future for the Land O’ Cheese.

Could Stacy McCain Ever Use An iPad?

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by Smitty

The fedora. The cigarettes. The coffee. The lucid, well-organized prose that sucks the order out of the rest of his life. The laptop that has been beaten in the ‘rented mule’ fashion.
Stacy McCain, whom I guess I’ve known about three years now, is a man so set in his ways that the ruts of his life look like arroyos. At events like CPAC, other bloggers gather, and a relative neophyte will mention Stacy and wonder out loud if some sort of intervention could be undertaken to, you know, pull him back from the cliff just a little bit. For his own safety. The rest listen patiently, recalling their similar thoughts, mutter, shake their heads in the negative, and continue on. You can certainly tell Stacy from a distance; but you can’t tell him much.
All that may change, though, when he sees this:could_this_be_the_trick
The hipster sexiness of the iPad, combined with the retro-gonzo typewriter body straight out of Ernie Pyle? That would out-gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, I reckon. The idea of walking back the touch screen and instead using a typewriter interface seems pure chindogu, but that’s very much in keeping with Stacy himself. Sure, it’s not the infamous Barbie Cam, but. . .it would run TweetDeck.

Another Daily Libyan Rebels Update: If This Is Wednesday, They’re Advancing

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When last we left the Half-Assed Uprising, the ragtag rebels had retreated from Brega yesterday — some reportedly fleeing all the way to Ajdabiya, 50 miles up the coast — after Qaddafi’s forces laid down an artillery barrage.

Today, the Mighty, Mighty Libyan Rebels have resumed the offensive, according to a recap and update from Reuters:

Libyan rebels regained ground in a new advance on an oil port Wednesday but accused NATO of inaction hindering their quest to oust Muammar Gaddafi. . . .
In their eastern heartland, ill-trained insurgents thrust back westwards towards the contested oil port of Brega, recovering mostly desert terrain lost in a pell-mell retreat from Gaddafi’s superior firepower the day before.
Rebels returning to the tiny outpost of al-Arbaeen, midway between Brega and their frontline town of Ajdabiyah, spoke of rocket duels close to Brega’s port as both sides strived to end a ragged stalemate in the oil-producing state’s civil war.
There was little doubt the rebels had made ground after falling back at least 40 km (25 miles) Tuesday but it was impossible to verify accounts that they were closing in on Brega once again.
There were reports of mortar and rocket battles near the town on Libya’s desolate Mediterranean highway 80 km (50 miles) west of Ajdabiyah. Fighting had resumed at daybreak after government forces were resupplied with ammunition and swung east from Brega, rebel officer Mohamed el-Masrafy told Reuters.
“God willing, we are going to try to enter Brega today,” said rebel Idriss Abdel Karim, but he and various comrades complained of a lack of support from NATO bombers.
“(Government forces) are scared of NATO air strikes but NATO doesn’t bomb anything in the first place,” he said.

So it’s “impossible to verify” whether the rebels are actually making headway against “Gaddafi’s superior firepower” at Brega and, I suppose, a few hours from now we’ll have further confusing and inconclusive reports about the situation.

What we can say for sure is that (a) the Libyan rebels have a low opinion of our NATO allies’ military effectiveness, and (b) Moammar Qaddafi is no closer to being overthrown today than he was yesterday.

Oh, and also (c) Brent crude hit a 25-year high of $123 a barrel.