Scott Baio Found Dead In El Segundo Apartment

El Segundo, CA - Scott Baio is reportedly dead after being found in his apartment near El Segundo according to reports from the Hermosa Beach Fire Dept. An investigation has already begun because of the nature of Scott's body. Hermosa Beach Police refuse to comment on the investigation and refuse to confirm that it was Baio that they found in his apartment this afternoon. No details have been released as to cause of death. Baio was found unresponsive at 2pm this afternoon according neighbors who came to help after a frantic house-cleaner was heard yelling in the street.


Bloggers nationwide are speculating foul play because of a possible explosion (per NBC) and many months of death threats concerning Baio's political views according to US Magazine

In 2007, Baio married his longtime girlfriend Renee Sloan. In July 2007, he told E!: Entertainment Television's Ted Casablanca that they were expecting a baby girl in December. Initially pregnant with twins, Renee lost one of the babies at 11 weeks gestation.heir daughter, Bailey DeLuca Baio, was born in November 2007, 5 weeks premature. The family has started the Bailey Baio Angel Foundation to provide financial support to other families who are dealing with metabolic disorders.

Recently,Baio was also in the Emmy award winning comedy series Arrested Development as the madcap Bluth family's serious but overpaid lawyer, Bob Loblaw. He took over the role of the clan's legal counselor from former Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler in four episodes: "Forget Me Now", "Notapusy", "Mr. F", and "Making a Stand". In August 2006, Baio was formally invited by the AIA Actors Studio to discuss his professional experiences as a working director in television and movies. He talked about his own acting career plus his recent forays into writing, directing and producing.

Baio was the co-host of the VH1 reality show Confessions of a Teen Idol, in which former teen idols attempt to resurrect their careers.
In 2009 he played a cameo in the videoclip of the song Wrong Hole by DJ Lubel along with the artist, and young actress Taryn Southern.

Los Angeles County Morgue has not released any information confirming death or as to cause of death as of 4pm PST.

Santa Clarita Student Turns 22 Despite Slow Economy

Changing Birth Certificate and Notifying Friends Just Too Difficult

Santa Clarita, CA (via CHN) - Twenty-one year old Arielle Korn had a difficult choice to make this past week as her 22nd birthday approached, have her regularly scheduled birthday or postpone it for 6 months to a year until the economy turned around.

"Its primarily about the gifts," said a disgruntled Korn. "Ive been monitoring GDP pretty closely and I suspect that investment on birthday gifts for me will be down 6-8% year over year," she added.

Korn, who believes that the July jobs report came at the worst moment possible has been carefully monitoring her friends spending habits on Facebook and determined that she will likely get 14 confirmations, 8 no shows, and 277 maybes for her upcoming birthday dinner at The Claim Jumper. "People realize that I want to eat for free; with White House Economic Adviser Christina Romer resigning yesterday... well, lets just say that is not the sort of birthday spending confidence that you need going into my birthday dinner," says Korn.

Ms. Korn ran a cost analysis benefit equation of changing her birthday to January 15th but the uncertainties of a double dip recession has Oppenheimer Fund Manager Skip Froberg nervous. "The idea that corporate profits alone can carry us into an increase in consumer birthday spending confidence isn't supported with the data," revealed Froberg. "Until we get 2-3 solid job reports in a row, birthday spending for Kamikaze shots and custom cakes with clever genitalia frosting designs are going to be depressed for another 2-3 quarters at minimum," concluded Froberg.

Korn's mother indicated via email that changing her birthday would create confusion among relatives and could result in a clusterfuck of missed payouts from Grandma Bata. My best advice, sayed Korn's mom - "Find a sugar daddy, even if it's just a one nighter... have you met Seth Champi?"

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A Lesson To Environmentalists: A Republican From Alaska?

ANCHORAGE— He was Alaska's 2nd and 8th Governor, a self made millionaire, and the man who oversaw oil discoveries in Prudhoe Bay. He laid the groundwork for the huge trans-Alaska oil pipeline and later in life rallied against 'locking up' the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling.

So why should today's political class and environmentalists take notice of this seemingly staunch Kansas born conservative? The answer: Walter Hickel was a pivotal force in America's 1960-70's environmental movement and has had more success protecting America's resources than any person at Greenpeace.

Seems a bit suspicious and it should. That may be why hard left Democratic Senators Walter Mondale and George McGovern joined the Sierra Club in heavy testimony against Hickel's 1969 nomination by President Nixon to serve as Secretary of the Interior; a post that would have him leave his Alaskan Governorship in mid-term.

Hickel (pictured, right, with Nixon in 1969) went to work immediately and built a resume that the Sierra Club could only dream of (that is - assuming the Sierra Club dreamt of tough but sensible regulation). He did so with an even hand that allowed domestic resources to be utilized while imposing strict safeguards on oil rigs. He backed a multitude of new laws that finally put liabilities directly on oil companies for on and off-shore drilling spills.

Hickel immediately imposed stringent cleanup regulations on oil companies and other water polluters after a Union Oil rig explosion off the coast of Santa Barbara created havoc just 5 days after he took office. He later fought to save the Everglades from being destroyed by developers and advocated for making Earth Day a national holiday. Sound like a Republican from Alaska?

The Secretary's term was cut short after being fired by Nixon following his criticism of the force being used against students and protesters during the Vietnam War.

But Hickel's mark had been made, he was part of an administration that founded the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) along with broad based clean air and water legislation. The Everglades was spared from plans that would have made it one of Americans largest population centers. The Big Cypress National Preserve was officially set aside by Nixon in 1972.

Back home in Alaska, Hickel would continue his deft handling of both industry and the environment; he won a second Governorship in 1990 (a full 24 years after his first).

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, eulogized Hickel as a visionary.

"A champion of the lands claims of Alaska's Native peoples, Wally left a lasting legacy for generations to follow," she said in a statement. "We've truly lost a giant figure whose leadership greatly influenced Alaska's birth, its present and its future."

A wave of "Oh!" and "Oh, my God" rippled through the audience when word of Hickel's passing was mentioned Saturday morning at the Alaska Democrats convention in Sitka. For all of his accomplishments Hickel somehow avoided partisan politics (perhaps entirely) as he helped build a legacy of protection, respect, and sustainable development in Alaska.

And what of that other famous Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin? Hickel was an early supporter which helped Palin to office. However, after the McCain Presidential run Hickel offered a wise warning, "Palin became the spokesperson for the divisive voices in American politics... she missed a golden opportunity to challenge the rest of the country to adopt the welcoming spirit of the Alaska Frontier and the message of mutual respect," he wrote.

The vision of Wally Hickel: a site for sore eyes that Americans beg to see again.

"I believe this administration finds itself today embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for the attitude of a great mass of Americans -- our young people,"- Walter Hickel, 1970 following the Kent State Massacre that left 4 students dead and 9 wounded.

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How To Boycott Arizona (An Idiots Guide)

Got Your Panties In A Bunch Over the Arizona Illegal Alien Law? Here's What To Do:

Several cities (including San Francisco) and and many groups including 'LA Opinion' (an editorial segment of the LA Times) are promoting a full scale boycott of Arizona. Let's have a quick look at exactly how dumb those groups are and what you can do to join them:

Arizona's #1 crop is lettuce. Stop eating salads unless it is certified 'Arizona free'. Since nearly all lettuce is picked by undocumented workers you will primarily be hurting illegals 1st and the farmers that hire them 2nd. These are exactly the people that the law is meant to constrict.

Beef Cattle and Dairy are Arizona's leading source of farm income. Cease beef eating and milk drinking wherever possible in order to deny Arizona of this income. Again, these segments are heavily dependent on undocumented workers so they will be the ones who are actually laid off and perhaps forced to return to Mexico, Latin America, or other countries of origin.


Stop your travel plans to Tuscon, Flagstaff, and Scottsdale. The Tourism income from resorts, hotels, and restaurants are a major source of revenue for the 'Grand Canyon State'. Just a quick disclaimer: Many of the folks who staff those businesses are undocumented. So, perhaps they wont exactly be living the J-Lo dream after they are laid off.


Copper is AZ's #1 most important mined product (they are the #1 state in copper production). Copper wire never shows state of origin but you can definitely call off all new electrical projects or repairs. Doing so would only impact your local electrician since copper pricing and sales are just as global as crude oil. (But you are welcome to sit in the dark).


A few other products such as space vehicles and guided missiles are designed and built in AZ. So be absolutely certain to avoid all space travel and geopolitical strife in your daily routine.


All in all the boycott should have a much larger affect on moving non-citizens out of Arizona then the law could ever accomplish. So... Boycott? Well, that sounds like the quickest way to bring about the means that Arizona is asking for.

UPDATE April 28, 2010:

Several other websites such as Gawker have begun publishing lists of companies that are based in Arizona. Again the concept is to punish the AZ economy so that the government will have to change its tune. Here is a partial list of companies: Best Western, Cold Stone Creamery, Discount Tire Co, Greyhound, PetSmart, PF Changs, Ramada, Sky Mall, U-Haul and the list goes on.

To boycott or not is the question. The answer: boycotting most of these companies will only hurt the local franchise owner and the people that are employed there. These are your neighbors and maybe even you. BTW, many of those companies are based in Phoenix, Tucson, and Scottsdale - three of the cities that are considering legislative action against the state because they don't share widespread support for the new law.

If you want to punish the supporters of the law then make sure to stop doing business with Jeb's Transmission repair shop in Yuma; it's just a few miles north of the border; Jeb is the guy sitting out front with a shotgun.

Idiots: Do as you will, ignorance is bliss.

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Finally A Great Reason To Raise Taxes In CA!!!

Sacramento: California's three major public pension funds are collectively more than a half-trillion dollars underfunded if their projected investment earnings are adjusted downward to a "risk-free rate," a team of graduate students at Stanford University has calculated.

The report, conducted under the aegis of Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research,Arnold Schwarzenegger's case for an overhaul of the state's pension systems. bolsters Gov.

"The consequences are clear," Schwarzenegger said. "Increasingly large portions of state funding for programs Californians hold dear such as schools, parks and health care will be diverted to pay for this debt."

Schwarzenegger has proposed a broad pension overhaul, including shifting new employees to a new, lower-cost system and raising state employees' pension contributions. With opposition from public worker unions, his plan has gone nowhere.

CalPERS, CalSTRS and the UC retirement system now use a projected "discount rate" on their pension liabilities of 7.5 percent to 8 percent, the same rates as their projections of annual earnings on investments. Critics say those are too high in today's climate.

The Stanford team based its underfunding estimate on a "risk-free" discount rate of 4.14 percent, which results in higher projected liabilities than the systems now portray.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/06/2657531/the-buzz-california-pension-funds.html#mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California#ixzz0kOWqCxmO