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SUBWAY™ SENDS CEASE AND DESIST LETTER TO “FOOT LONG” PERSONALS AD

Humor

By Blogonaut

"You are hereby put on notice to cease and desist from using FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches. You must immediately remove all references to FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches."

Dreaded words to the shoestring entrepreneur/sandwich vendor to be sure, but the now classic Subway™ cease and desist letter sent to a purveyor of an entirely different kind of “foot long”—PRICELESS.

We must confess to some skepticism at the starting gate to the ability of any corporation to trademark the phrase “footlong”—especially after Jonny Keyes' iconic appearance in Behind the Green Door.

But Subway—the sandwich chain—has embarked on a "savage"—even Jonny-Keyesian—campaign to capture and keep all commercial uses of the synonym for, let’s face it, sexual prowess.

And there is no way to trademark™ that.

Read more: Subway Says Other 'Footlong' Sandwich Sellers Violating Its Trademark

LATEST POLANSKI “VICTIM” TRIES TO REKINDLE HER LONG FADED CELEBRITY

Opinion

By Blogonaut

Robert Harris has raised some thought provoking questions about actress, Charlotte Lewis’ retention last week of Gloria Alred and the faded star's international press conference announcing that director Roman Polanski “forced himself” on her “in the worst possible way” when she was “only 16 years old”.

Setting aside the facts that the “actress” (who has not worked in 7 years) chose to come forward with this 1983 tale of “abuse” in a Paris apartment not through a quiet word to Los Angeles prosecutors but to the international media with the same press hog (Alred) who represented two of Tiger Woods’ mistresses, that the age of consent in France is 15, and that Lewis never told the tale before: This is not the first press conference wherein the actress mentioned Polanski. Except then, several years after the year of the alleged assault, the actress gushed about how sexy Polanski is, how she would like to know him “physically” but that he had never laid a hand on her!

Not to mention the fact that the occasion for the press conference was her part in a Roman Polanski film that she accepted AFTER the alleged assault occurred.

That’s right, Lewis is now alleging that Polanski “took advantage” of her “in the worst possible way” in 1983—but the alleged experience was not so traumatic that it prevented her from being directed in Polanski’s 1986 film Pirates.

Not only that, the former Playboy centerfold had this to say about Polanski at the time:

"I found him very attractive. I'd love to have had a romantic relationship with him – and a physical one. You can't help falling in love with him. But he didn't want me that way."

But there’s more, a third version by Lewis.

A profile, titled "Wild Child", clearly written with Lewis' cooperation, appeared in the News of the World on 8 August 1999: "In a no-holds-barred interview Charlotte … confessed how she seduced kinky director Polanski when she was a nubile 17-year-old …"

Meanwhile, Gloria Alred—who is perhaps the single most annoying public figure in the media universe—tersely brushed off a press question if Lewis was “"shopping for a book deal" with: "Next question."

Of course she is.

As for Alred’s motivation: Put up a news camera and Klieg lights and she will come.

Read the full Robert Harris piece in the Guardian UK here.

KEY ENDORSEMENTS GO TO MODERATE AG CANDIDATE STEVE COOLEY

Moderate Republican Steve Cooley has swept California law enforcement endorsements in his quest for California Attorney General.

The District Attorney has been endorsed by the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, the California Peace Officers’ Association, the California Police Chiefs Association, the California Fraternal Order of Police, the California Reserve Peace Officers Association, the Southern California Alliance of Law Enforcement, the Los Angeles County Professional Peace Officers Association, the L.A. Airport Peace Officers’ Association, the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association, and the Los Angeles School Police Association.

The third term Los Angeles County District Attorney has also won the endorsement of the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers.

The San Francisco Chronicle said:

“In Cooley, Republicans would be choosing a seasoned, savvy prosecutor with a solid record of accomplishment who would be formidable against any Democrat in November.”

AG CANDIDATE KAMALA HARRIS HAS WORST CONVICTION RATE IN STATE

Opinion, by Blogonaut

We have made no secret of our view that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, with her anti-law enforcement views (including refusing to enforce the death penalty in all cases—not to mention dismissing provable charges against the drug crazed man on two burglary probations caught by SFPD on our penthouse balcony where he crouched with a knife, duct tape and rope) is a weak candidate for California’s top prosecutor.

While we were across the street grabbing a cup of Joe this cover story in the SF Weekly (a left wing neighborhood paper that would favor Harris as much as any periodical would) caught our eye:

A Lack of Conviction.

Apparently, if you are charged with murder in San Francisco, and decide to roll the dice on a jury trial, with Kamala Harris as the District Attorney you have a 50-50 chance of beating the rap. Even though Harris takes only the strongest cases to trial, and dismisses the rest:

"In the first quarter of 2010, things got worse. During that time, Harris' office secured guilty verdicts in just 53 percent of its felony trials — a remarkable figure, revealing that defendants accused of serious crimes who took their case to trial had an even one-in-two shot at winning an acquittal. By contrast, the most recent recorded statewide average was 83 percent, according to statistics from the California Judicial Council.

"The general decline in felony trial convictions has included more failures in murder cases specifically, according to records released by the D.A.'s office in response to a request from SF Weekly. From January 2009 through the end of last month, according to the records, Harris has obtained murder or voluntary manslaughter convictions for just 11 out of 20 homicide defendants at trial, with the rest acquitted or convicted on lesser charges."

Read the full SF Weekly cover story on Harris' courtroom record.

Read how Kamala Harris does not even know how many SF cops she convicted of crimes!

[That's right, up to 100 SF police officers have been convicted of crimes, and Harris cannot even tell the Chief of Police who those officers are!]

The bottom line is that if those of you in other counties want to step over drunks and drug addicts laying in the sidewalks, and you are against enforcing the laws on our books--like the death penalty for cop killers and serial killers--then Kamala Harris is YOUR cantidate for California Attorney General.

Which is why, no doubt, Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Harris for Attorney General.