Wednesday - July 06, 2005

Fingernails On The Blackboard

Normally, I don’t comment on the so-called “sensationalist” stories that the mainstream media just loves to cover in excruciating detail. Take Michael Jackson .... please. Just kidding. I maybe spent a total of ten seconds watching news of his recent trial before I changed the channel. The ditzy “Runaway Bride”? Ditto. I figure the MSM will bore you all to death with these stories, which are to real news what a bowl of grits are to real nutrition.

Usually Fox News is pretty good about not driving us crazy with this crap but lately they have been piling on with all the rest. Case in point: the case of the missing Natalee Holloway who went partying with a bunch of strange kids on a small Caribbean island and wound up .... gone. Nobody knows where. Dead? Maybe. Off on a fling on another island? Maybe. Who knows. The Aruban government is trying to investigate this case the best they can, even calling in help from the “mother country”, The Netherlands.

Now to the point of this post .... I want the poor girl’s mother to just SHUT THE F**K UP AND GO SIT DOWN! I have a good idea how she feels but, dammit, this woman is starting to get on my nerves, like fingernails on the blackboard. She has pressured Alabama Senator Richard Shelby to pressure the Aruban government. She has made a complete ass out of herself on Fox News nearly every night during O’Reilly’s show and Greta van whatsername’s show. Somebody please put this woman out of my misery.

One final note: I’m from Alabama and I know this high school in Birmingham where this teenager went to school and I know the neighborhood where these kids live. This is pure upper-crust society in B’ham and folks there are used to getting their way. Need I say more ....?

To make a long story short, the people in Aruba are also getting fed up with this woman ....

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - A latent but growing resentment here became evident for the first time when more than 200 people, some wrapped in Aruban flags, said they were incensed by statements made by the mother of a missing American teen.

Those assembled outside the colonial courthouse in this Caribbean capital Tuesday night said they fear their tiny island nation is falsely being portrayed as not doing enough to find Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who vanished May 30 on a graduation trip with her high school class.

Two brothers, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, who had been held as suspects were released Monday for lack of evidence. In a brief and tearful statement Tuesday, Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee’s mother, accused Aruba of letting guilty people free. “Two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter,” she said.

“These criminals are not only being allowed to walk around among the tourists and citizens of Aruba,” she said, but there were no limits on where they could go.

The protesters took umbrage with those statements.

“Respect our Dutch laws or go home,” read one sign. “Innocent until proven guilty,” read another. One suggested the missing girl might not be dead but partying in Brazil or nearby Venezuela. There were complaints that some American television coverage unfairly depicted the island, which depends overwhelmingly on tourism, and as being crime- and drug-ridden.

Though poverty is widespread in the Caribbean, Aruba has an unemployment rate of less than 1 percent and one of the higher standards of living. And it has few worries. Tourism and a major refinery bring in the money. Diplomatic and defense needs, such as they are, are provided by the Netherlands.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/06/2005 at 10:41 AM   
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