Here is what she said:

Mark Wahberg’s claim that he would’ve been able to single-handedly over-power the 9/11 terrorists and prevent a plane from crashing is completely “disrespectful” … so says the widow of one of the REAL heroic victims who RUSHED THE COCKPIT on that fateful day.

TMZ spoke with Deena Burnett-Bailey – whose husband Thomas Burnett phoned her from that fateful flight saying, “I know we’re going to die. There’s three of us who are going to do something about it.”

Boy, I didn’t think there was much they could do to Two and a Half Mento make it seem more unappealing to me. I mean, there’s so much about it that I don’t want to see — Jon Cryer being literally any other character than the one he played in Pretty in Pink; that kid, whatshisname, being, I don’t know, some annoying kid who earns $300,000 per episode; or Ashton “If I Hadn’t Married Above Me I’d Barely Be Able to Afford a Trucker Hat, Yet I Still Can’t Keep My Dick in My Pants” Kutcher.
Oh, but this week the show featured the return of Jenny McCarthy. Hey, former Playmate and noted autism loudmouth Jenny McCarthy! Well, then! That totally changes everything! In fact, let me run to my TiVo right now … just to make sure this show never, ever accidentally gets recorded, because nothankyou.

Apparently Two and a Half Men has been experiencing some dwindling ratings lately, possibly because people are finally emerging from theirSheen-induced haze and realizing what a piece of crap this show is, and as a result, the network dragged Jenny back on to reprise her role as Sheen’s recurring gold-digger ex-lover. Not that Charlie’s on the show anymore, but that wasn’t a problem for CBS—they just had her shacking up with Kutcher instead.

Yeah. Ashton Kutcher and Jenny McCarthy. Two not so great tastes that … taste half-great together?

It seems to me that McCarthy coming back on the show is a ploy by CBS to appeal to longtime viewers. You know, the folks who are doing their level best to give this Kutcher thing a chance, but miss that extra special something Sheen brought to the table. (Namely: large amounts of cocaine. Oh, and tiger blood.) I’m guessing this will be the first of many guest appearances on Two and a Half Men as the network scrambles to get every last drop of milk from their cash cow. Charlie may be gone, but McCarthy brings a bit of nostalgia that might help folks remember when they actually liked the show.

In other words, McCarthy is the shark, and Two and a Half Men is taking a giant leap. Four episodes in, they’re already scrambling to boost ratings back to the inexplicable millions they once had, but my bet is that they’ve got nowhere to go but down. Will McCarthy eke out a few more paychecks in her role as Courtney? I’m sure she will if she can, since her recent acting roster has pretty much been limited to the made-for-TV Santa Baby 2 in 2009.

Hey, Its Julian Assange at a OWS Rally in London in a Mask

The Occupy London Stock Exchange collective, which is supported by UK Uncut, said a Facebook page on the protest had attracted more than 13,000 followers, with more than 5,000 confirmed attendees.

Laura Taylor, a supporter of the so-called OccupyLSX, said: ‘Why are we paying for a crisis the banks caused? More than a million people have lost their jobs and tens of thousands of homes have been repossessed, while small businesses are struggling to survive.

‘Yet bankers continue to make billions in profit and pay themselves enormous bonuses, even after we bailed them out with £850 billion.’

Another supporter, Kai Wargalla, said: ‘This is a people-powered movement protesting against the increasing social and economic injustice in the UK.

‘We want to stand with the 99% – the overwhelming majority who value people over profit.

‘We want to make our voices heard against greed, corruption and for a democratic, just society. We stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, protesters in Spain, Greece and the Middle East who started this movement.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049486/Global-protests-Occupy-London-Stock-Exchange-takes-City.html#ixzz1axXyrvhu

Governor Deval has decided to use taxpayer money to provide them with a tent and electricity, which is totally the wrong thing to do.  Let them freeze.  The cold weather would have driven them back to their homes where they belong and where they can protest the right way with letter to representatives and senators without making a menace of themselves.

The AFL-CIO supports the movement and says that Wall Street sits on corporate profits without creating jobs, and they speak of Corporate Greed.  There is no such thing as Corporate Greed.  If they are talking of corporate malefeasance than address that.  As a business or corporation one must make the most amount of money possible to create jobs and to expand.  Can you imagine anyone making a product such as  Iphone or Ipad and saying that they don’t want to make the most amount possible for it.  That’s business 101, and should go straight to business school if you don’t understand it.  For one thing, businesses need working capital which is a cushion of cash during lean times, which many companies are using right now.  Otherwise, how is a company going to survive for generations.  When you audit a company, you determine its ability to be a going concern.  If you think that a company is not going to last, that is in the audit report which eventually affect the stock price.  How then can you possibly lower your price on a product or say that perhaps you only want to make half the profits you are making now and expect to compete.  Business is very difficult and very competitive and the only way you are going to survive is by being the best at what you do, and to this you need Research and Development, which means hiring engineers and researchers.  Companies would not be able to do this without making as much money as possible.

In answer to the protesters thinking corporations are greedy, what about the athletes of the country trying to be the best.  Can you tell them to swim only half as fast or to run more slowly.  Ironically, companies being less competitive is what will cut jobs and not companies being more competitive.  With less money in their bank accounts, corporations will start laying off employees or start hiring freezes.

I think some of the original malice had to do with the Kercher family that just wanted someone to blame and sit in jail.  As they put it, they didn’t want Meredith to be forgotten.

Now Amanda, is free and will be going home to Seattle.  She will study law and work for Amnesty International.  I am sure she will have the pick of any law school with her abilities in language and philosophy.

The best-selling author and journalist had seen his fair share of crime scene photos and police reports in his day. He’d even experienced the Italian justice system firsthand while researching Italy’s infamous unsolved serial killings for his non-fiction book, “The Monster of Florence.”

From what little Preston knew about Meredith Kercher’s death in the Perugia apartment she shared with Knox, it seemed to him an “open and shut” case.

Then, he heard the name Giuliano Mignini, the assistant prosecutor leading the case against the University of Washington student studying abroad.

Preston met Mignini in 2004, when the prosecutor questioned him in connection with the “Monster of Florence,” a case involving the gruesome murders of eight couples between 1968 and 1985. Preston said the encounter spooked him to the point that he decided to leave the country out of fear that he falsely might be implicated in the grisly murders.

The case also left its mark on Mignini, who was convicted and received a 16-month suspended sentence for abusing his office over law enforcement tactics – such as the wiretapping of offices — in the “Monster of Florence” investigation. Mignini is appealing the conviction, but the allegations were still fresh when he was assigned to Knox’s case in 2007.

Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted in 2009 of murdering Kercher and sentenced to prison. But many, including Preston and Knox’s family, believe the case was flawed from the start by shoddy police work, sloppy evidence handling and a prosecutor under pressure to secure a conviction.

Knox has appealed her sentence based in part on the forensic evidence used to convict her.

A court ordered retesting earlier in 2011 of a knife found in Sollecito’s apartment with Knox’s DNA on the handle and Kercher’s DNA on the blade, Perugia prosecutors said. The sample, however, was so small that forensic scientists investigating Kercher’s murder were not able to double test it in accordance with international forensic science norms, which Knox’s legal team says raises doubts about its validity.

DNA analysis may boost Amanda Knox appeal

The forensic experts revealed their findings Wednesday, saying that while they agreed Knox’s DNA was present on the knife handle, tests for Kercher’s DNA were unreliable.

“There is no conclusive scientific evidence regarding the nature of the blood,” forensic professors Carla Vecchiotti and Stefano Conti said in a 146-page report.

The second piece of evidence under scrutiny is a metal clasp from Kercher’s bra. Forensic scientists in the investigatory phase determined that Sollecito’s DNA was present on the metal clasp. But the clasp was not collected until nearly six weeks later, prompting Knox’s defense to question whether the sample may have been contaminated.

The forensic experts agreed in part, saying that investigators did not follow “international inspection procedures and protocols for gathering and presenting evidence” in testing either the knife or the bra fastening.

Mignini insists that the evidence led to Knox and Sollecito, and that a just verdict was reached.

“My conscience is clear because I did what I believed I had to do. That was my conclusion,” he told CNN. “When a magistrate asks for a guilty verdict, he does not do it cheerfully, quite the reverse. Because they are two young people. I see their families, their suffering and I realize. But I do it because it is my duty to do it.”

The Perugia public prosecutor’s office built a case against Knox and Sollecito based on several other factors, Mignini said. Knox’s odd behavior — public displays of affection between her and her boyfriend, which were caught on camera, while investigators searched her home — didn’t sit well with Mignini or Italy’s court of public opinion. A “clouchard,” or homeless heroin addict, said he saw the couple near the apartment the night of the murder. Furthermore, a window in the villa was broken, in what prosecutors interpreted as an attempt to fake a robbery.

There was the DNA evidence and Knox’s written confession, in which she said she was in the home that night and falsely implicated as the killer her boss, Patrick Lumumba, who was later exonerated.

Italy’s highest court eventually deemed the statement inadmissible in the couple’s criminal trial, but left room for it to be used in a successful defamation claim brought by Lumumba against Knox. The two trials ran concurrently, and the confession was eventually heard in the civil case by the same jury that convicted Knox in the criminal case.

The DNA of another man, Rudy Guede, was found in the room and on Kercher’s body. He admitted to being in the villa when Kercher was killed but said an unknown assailant killed her while he was out of the room. He was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to 30 years. An appeals court ruling cut that down to 16 years.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted in 2009 in a trial separate from Guede’s. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. But questions about the quality of the evidence linger among the pair’s supporters.

‘I had fallen into one of my own books’

Preston also thought the evidence against Knox and Sollecito seemed overwhelming. Then, he remembered his own encounter with Italian law enforcement.

He had once been interrogated as part of a murder investigation in Perugia, by none other than Mignini himself. The subject of the inquiry? The so-called “Monster of Florence,” the topic Preston was investigating for his book.

“I felt like I had fallen into one of my own books. Now the funny thing is, I’d written many interrogations in my books — you know, I write thrillers where people get interrogated — I had never understood how brutal, psychologically brutal, an interrogation is. You feel absolutely helpless,” he said.

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Following the discovery of Kercher’s body, Knox was interrogated by police but not by Mignini. Still Preston says the parallels between his interrogation and hers are stunning.

In the days following the incident, Knox went to the police station voluntarily several times to give statements as a witness, or in the parlance of the Italian system, a “person informed of the facts.” In the early morning of November 6, four days after Kercher’s death, Knox said police subjected her to a hostile interrogation over 14 hours at the police station. She claimed investigators struck her and yelled at her, denied her food or water, and caused her to make incriminating statements.

Since Knox was only a witness at the time, the interview was conducted without an attorney and was not recorded. It was conducted in Italian, though Knox had only been studying the language for two months. Knox said a translator was not present, though Mignini disputes this claim. At the end, she signed a statement in Italian saying she saw Kercher enter her room with Lumumba.

‘Imagine’ what would have happened

Knox said any apparent admission to being at the scene was made when investigators told her to imagine what she might have seen if she had been there. She later recanted the statement and the higher court ruled it inadmissible in the criminal trial because the statement was made without an attorney present.

Mignini arrived at the end of the interview. He and police denied Knox was mistreated or forced into making incriminating statements. He also disputed Knox’s claim that the interview lasted 14 hours and that she was not given a translator. (In proceedings separate from the murder trial, Knox was ordered to stand trial for allegedly slandering police in connection with her claims about what happened during the interview. The proceedings were adjourned until November.)

Moreover, he said that as soon as she placed herself at the scene, she went from being a person informed of the facts to a suspect, and the interview was halted because she did not have an attorney.

“I remember two things about how she seemed, two things struck me. First, it seemed as if she had got a weight off her chest. Secondly, it was if she was terrified of Lumumba, he said. “She was crying with relief, that was her attitude.”

Knox, Sollecito and Lumumba were immediately arrested and authorities publicly declared the case was solved.

But, it turned out, Lumumba had solid proof he was at his bar all night and was eventually cleared in the case. About that time, crime scene evidence led police to Rudy Guede.

But Knox’s fate was already sealed, Mignini said.

“She placed herself at the scene of the crime and Lumumba wasn’t there. but Rudy was, according to what emerged later. So, this fact of having accused, in a slanderous manner, Lumumba, is a very important element from the point of view of her position in the case,” he said. “Why did she place herself at the scene of the crime? But she also placed another person there, someone who was absolutely not involved. Why? It is a very significant detail.”

Crime author turned subject of interrogation

To Preston, it sounds suspicious, and all too familiar.

He had moved to Italy in August 2000 in search of inspiration for the perfect thriller. Instead, he found a true crime story more outrageous than any work of fiction he could dream up.

“The Monster of Florence” turned out to be a damning assault on the investigation into the gruesome murders of eight couples in Tuscany between 1968 and 1985.

The victims were all young lovers engaging in sexual acts, mostly in cars, in the hills above Florence. The killer would sneak up on the couple and shoot them, always with the same .22 Beretta, before mutilating the women and removing their genitals.

Preston and Italian journalist Mario Spezi essentially re-investigated the killings, going over crime scenes and reviewing FBI profiles drawn up at the request of Italian authorities. After their research, they believed they knew who the killer was — someone who’d never been arrested by Italian police.

Over the years, police made seven arrests, according to Preston and other reports on the killings, only to learn that the killer was still out there.

When authorities were unable to find the lone killer whom crime scene analysts said was responsible for the killings, they came up with a theory involving a satanic cult.

After that didn’t pan out, Preston says they set their sights on new targets: him and Spezi.

In 2004, Preston says, Spezi appeared on an Italian television show similar to “America’s Most Wanted” and criticized the investigation. Later that year, Italian police raided Spezi’s home, confiscating notes and computer files except for a floppy disc that he stuffed into his underwear, Preston said.

Soon thereafter, Preston said he received a phone call from police and later, a summons to appear in Perguia to speak with Mignini, the public minister of the region. He said he was told he had a right to a lawyer but that because he was not a suspect he did not need one. When he showed up to Mignini’s office, Preston said he asked for a translator but was told it would take hours, and proceeded without one.

He didn’t expect to be there long, but he said he ended up staying for two hours.

The conversation started out cordial enough, he said. Eventually, the questions became more and more pointed. They began recording the conversation while a stenographer wrote down everything he said.

“They’d read it back to me, ‘Is this your answer?’ And I’d say, ‘No, that isn’t quite what I said.’ And then I’d have to rephrase it,” he said. “And at a certain point I realized to my absolute horror that they were narrowing down on me as if I were a criminal and had committed a crime and that they were trying to trap me into confessing.”

He asked Mignini if he was, in fact, a suspect to a crime.

“That’s when Mignini said, ‘Yes. We don’t think it. We know it. We know you have committed a crime. We have the proof. And you are going to confess to it,” Preston said.

According to Preston, the prosecutor laid out everything he was supposedly guilty of.

“They have techniques that could get you to confess to murder. I am not kidding. One of the techniques that they used on me was to ask me to speculate. ‘Oh, well, if Mario didn’t commit the murder… why don’t you tell us, if he had committed the murder — let’s just assume that he had — can you speculate how he might have done it? Can you speculate this? Can you speculate that? Tell us what you think.’ And they get you speculating.”

Preston said he did not sign the statement in Italian that was written for him. Neither he nor Spezi were charged with a crime, but he still thought it best to leave the country in February 2006.

Mignini disputed Preston’s version of events. For one, he says the interview lasted less than two hours. Mignini also said he stopped Preston’s interview when evidence of a crime surfaced and told him he needed to get a lawyer.

He also claims Preston signed the statement that was written for him.

“I challenged some of the things he said and I remember that I let him listen to recordings of some of the telephone interceptions that were made, calls in which he spoke to Spezi, and what he said was not credible,” he said.

“I made the statement, because I had to dictate the statement to my assistant who had to write it down. Preston signed it and so he acknowledged the truth of the statement, because he signed it, he didn’t refuse to sign it.”

Leaks early on in the Knox case from the prosecutor’s office emphasized theories of a sex game gone awry and the possible involvement of a satanic cult. Mignini’s theory of the case still involves a sex game gone awry, but he denied the theory of a satanic cult was ever considered or that his office was the source of those statements.

Prosecutors labeled Knox and her boyfriend the killers and a jury ultimately agreed. But Preston and Knox’s supporters maintain that the theory of the crime was made to fit around Knox and Sollecito, based on thin forensic evidence, regardless of the fact they had Guede — the person whose DNA was found inside Kercher’s body.

“To save face… because they had made this public declaration of guilt of this American and her boyfriend, they had to retroactively link her and her boyfriend to this real killer and claim that all three did it,” Preston said.

Knox along with her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and a third party, Rudy Hermann Guede, were all convicted for murder and sentenced to 26, 25, and 30 years respectively, although Guede’s was later reduced to 16.

One of the convicts testifying Saturday, Mario Alessi, who has been serving prison for brutally beating a 18-month baby to death with a shovel, testified that Guede, the first convicted among the three, had been confessing to him in conversations that Knox and Sollecito were innocent. According to the convict, Guede said he and another friend were visiting Kercher to have sex with her. When Kercher had refused, a fight broke out and in the end Guede’s friend had slit her throat.

Another inmate, Luciano Aviello, alleged that his brother had murdered Kercher while trying to break in to steal a painting stored in the cottage.

The credibility of both convicts was then contested by the prosecuting team who wasted no time to cross examine and show that criminals possessing such history were not the ones to be trusted.

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Although denying involvement in the killing, Guede is so far the individual most relevantly linked to the murder among the three tried due to positive forensics tests of DNA found on and in Kercher’s body matching his own as well as matching finger and foot prints at the crime scene. The reason his sentence was reduced to 16 years was for being the only individual out of the three to say sorry to Kercher’s family for failing to rescue her.

As for Knox, there has been no forensic evidence, except for a knife containing both Knox’s and Kercher’s DNA found in Sollecito’s flat, indicating that she was present in the bedroom Kercher was killed on Nov. 1, 2007.

Knox’s defense team dismissed the knife as valid evidence saying that Knox had used knives to cook in Sollecito’s apartment.

Knox is a college student from Seattle, Wash., who was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when her roommate was murdered. She has denied any wrongdoing.

“I don’t want to spend my whole life in prison as an innocent,” Knox said in May.

DNA tests are being carried out once again on judge orders. According to CBSnews.com, Kurt Knox, Amanda’s father, doesn’t believe new witnesses testifying in favor of his daughter are important to the case. Rather, “it’s more wrapped around … the DNA evidence that’s going to be brought to the trial on the 30th of June.”