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DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Hak-Shing William Tam
Hak-Shing William Tam, secretary of the Christian Evangelical Group called American Return to God Prayer Movement and official California Prop 8 Backer, testified as a hostile witness yesterday in the lawsuit to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage.
Hak-Shing William Tam
In a piece published today on the galvanizasian of Bay Area Chinese evangelicals in opposition to same-sex marriage, the NYT discussed Tam’s testimony,which was solicited by plaintiff’s attorneys to prove the success in passing Prop 8 was “born of virulent homophobia.” Though Tam refused multiple requests for an interview, the Times highlighted a selection from one of his widely-distributed Web essays, which basically argues that “acceptance” of homosexuality kicks off multiple slippery slopes to mass destruction.
From NYT:
“In a macro environment in which homosexuality is gradually accepted as being normal, child molesting by gays is gradually being viewed as normal in academia. Children who were subjected to sexual abuse only know to socialize with other men through sex. When they grow up, they would do the same to other children by molesting children of the same sex. Therefore, gay people grow in numbers even as most of them do not have children of their own.”
On the stand, his tone did not waver. HuffPo commented on some of his testimony:
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Filed under: Always Do Your Homework, American Return To God Prayer Movement, Chinese Christians, Envangelical Groups, Hak-Shing William Tam, Hostile Witness, Ignorant Fools, Lawsuit To Overturn Prop 8, Lawsuits, Pedophilia, Prop 8, Prostitution, Same-Sex Marriage, Stupid People, Testimony, The Internet Is A Strange Place, This is Bullshit
An Open Letter From DISGRASIAN To Shawne Merriman
Hello Shawn,
Not a merry man
Okay, we don’t know you. We’re not your big sisters. But if we were your big sisters–whoo boy, this “conversation” would be the 9,473,665th epic, painful, terrifying, soul-sucking Hardass Asian Sister lecture of the month, not just one kindly open letter on a blog.
We read today that you are finally suing your former fiancée, Tila Tequila–your part of the fallout for a boom-and-bust engagement that erupted in alleged violence and went down in internet flames. To be clear, we don’t and likely will never know what went down between the two of you that ugly night. Continue reading An Open Letter From DISGRASIAN To Shawne Merriman
Filed under: Athletes, Bad Choices, Batshit Women, Crazians, Defamasian, Domestic Violence, fiancees, Gossip, Hardass Asian Siblings, Innocence, Intentional Interference With Contract, Lawsuits, Legal Double Standard, Lies, Linebackers, People To Avoid, Scandals, Shawne Merriman, Tiger Woods, Tila Tequila, Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition
Guess It’s Settled: Miley Was Just Smiling With Her Eyes, Really Really Hard
It was announced today that Lucie Kim’s $4 million dollar lawsuit against Miley Cyrus–which we knew in our hearts she would never win–was thrown out by Los Angeles judge Robert Sohigian today.
Fierce. Fierce!
Sohigian “was not convinced Cyrus had violated a state law protecting citizens from discrimination by businesses,” and tossed the case without so much as a stern talking-to about social responsibility, the significance of buck-teef and slit eyes, or a verbal list of things that toothy, chubby-faced Disney troll-models should not do…especially in front of cameras.
So it’s likely that what Cyrus will take away from this experience is a big, fat PHEW! And a cheerful reminder that when you’re famous, you can do really stupid, shitty, racist crap and never, ever be sorry for it.
[AFP: Judge Dismisses Miley Cyrus 'slant eyes' suit]
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Thanks, Jasmine and Kelly!
Filed under: $4 million Lawsuit, Annoying Things Celebrities Do, Apologies, Bad Judgment, Fuck 'Em All, Lawsuits, Los Angeles, Lucie Kim, Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Chink Eye, Miley Cyrus is a Disease, Miley Cyrus Lawsuit, Not Sorry, Robert Sohigian
DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Rosemary Port and the Internet’s Anonymous
By now you’ve probably heard the story: Former model Liskula Cohen, 37, subpoenas Google in January, in pursuit of a defamation suit “concerning her appearance, hygiene and sexual conduct” against the anonymous author of a Blogspot site called “Skanks in NYC.” The blog features only five posts with photographs, all devoted to calling Cohen a “skank,” “hag” and “ho.” Cohen ultimately wins in court, and Google is forced to fork over the IP address and email of the anonymous blogger, identified as Cohen’s acquaintance, Rosemary Port. A media frenzy ensues.
Port: Still hiding?
Dizzying, isn’t it? And fascinating. Even though we live on and in it, sometimes it’s easy to forget that the Interwebz is still a rather young entity, and we’re only just starting to understand the power–both positive and negative–of this vast, largely anonymous space.
Inevitably, people have landed on both sides of this matter. And though a court did side with Cohen when she initially pressed Google, we’re likely see the saga shift legal momentum with respect to Port’s suit (perhaps “all the way to the Supreme Court”), for months.
The Web being a maze of aliases, handles, social identities and passwords, it’s only natural for us to revel in the freedom of its virtual invisibility cloak. After all, stalking an ex quietly on Facebook is much easier than hunting the fucker down at his neighborhood haunts. Pay-as-you-go online porn is effortless compared to walking behind the partition at a dingy, outdated video store. Discussion boards for personal problems are sometimes more accessible and helpful than group therapy. Who would sniff their nose at a buffer for the stuff we’re not so proud of?
But anonymous Internet flaming, which we see so often on blogs, YouTube, social networks and message boards, is the e-quivalent of pulling a shirt over your head, running over to somebody, kicking them in the mouth, yelling, “You’re a fat asshole, you fucking fat asshole!” and then taking off down the street. Afterwards, one person’s still bleeding, and their attacker–a total chickenshit–has already moved on.
Or, as Maureen Dowd cited in NYT’s Opinion section:
“The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,” says Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic. “The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.”
It’s simply impossible to respect this brand of cowardice, at least for us. Recently, some anonymous shitbag lamely slammed DISGRASIAN for being “BOOORRINNG” on The Roast List. Every comment posted in reply was also anonymous (save for a dude named “RelentlessX”, who’s probably either a huge fan of Avril Lavigne and the Pussycat Dolls, or this guy). To be honest, it’s hard to dignify criticism from phantoms: Er… um… we guess we’re sorry we don’t impress a bunch of dickless, spineless, St. Martin’s Guide-less, anonymous pussies. Perhaps they’re just not our demo? Our demo probably gets laid more.
We at DISGRASIAN don’t have a legal position (Sorry Mom, still not going to law school!) on Port’s anonymous mudslinging, but we do have an opinion. And we’re posting it here:
Rosemary Port’s worst anonymous words may have been: “How old is this skank? 40 something? She’s a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank.” Not only is her prose a hot mess, but she didn’t have the nards to stand behind them. We couldn’t care less that a model loves snorting crack while wearing uncooked bacon and at the center of a bukkake circle (Don’t they all? Hee!), if the person telling us can’t stand up while saying so.
That’s an opinion, like it or not. We’re not only willing to state it, but sign our names behind it.
Mine is Diana Nguyen.
[Times UK: Unmasked Blogger Rosemary Port to Sue Google for $15m]
Filed under: anonymity, Bloggers, Chicken Shits, Cowardice, Defamasian, Dickless Dudes, Google, Invisibility Cloaks, Lawsuits, Liskula Cohen, Models, Pussies, Rosemary Port
Some Pageants Don’t Pay
As a former Miss Little Saigon USA 2000 pageant mega-loser, I feel I can speak with some expertise on the matter of beauty pageants for Vietnamesers, staged in Orange County.
My god, how it pains me to admit publicly that I speak on this subject from a place of experience. But I do–and my experience (Listen, I swear this is not sour grapes talking) was just plain sketchy: backstage cheating, suspicious fraternization between contestants and judges, dubious scoring techniques, the works.
I would never contest that these contests are fair. But I must say, when I learned that last year’s Miss Vietnam USA (a different pageant, I think?) just waged a lawsuit against the organizers for allegedly flaking on her $10,000 cash prize and defaulting on the payments for her prize Mercedes, I immediately sided with her. I also thought:
Damn. These pageants way more fucked-up than I imagined.
And those, my friends, are two sentences I never thought I would hear myself, uh, think.
[Softpedia: Miss Vietnam USA Sues Pageant for Withholding Payment]
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Thanks, G Scott! Uh–do better, TMZ.
Filed under: Cash Prizes, Flaking, Fucked Up Shit, Lawsuits, Mercedes, Miss Little Saigon USA, Miss Vietnam, Miss Vietnam USA, Orange County, Pageants Are a Joke, Strange Vietnamese Behavior, Vietnamesers
Pang It, Another Ponzi Scheme!
Danny Pang (at his home in 1997)–the photo was so classic, we couldn’t resist
Remember when we said that stealing from your people is a crime beyond shame? We didn’t think that we’d be using our next breath to chastise one of our own peeps, financial manager Danny Pang of Irvine, CA, for allegedly defrauding investors–many from Taiwan and Orange County’s Yellow Belt–out of hundreds of millions of dollars using a life insurance ponzi scheme.
Look, we’re not even talking about the fact that Pang’s former business partner is suing for $50 million and adding loudly to the Ponzi scheme accusations. We don’t feel the need to mention that he apparently lied to investors about his C.V., saying he possessed degrees that didn’t exist. We’ll ignore the highly irrelevant fact that the 1997 murder of Pang’s ex-stripper wife remains unresolved, and that he has been portrayed in court “as a shady businessman and high-stakes gambler [with evidence of] …ties to Taiwanese mobsters.”
Because even though the S.E.C. has temporarily frozen assets managed by Pang, and officially accused him of Fraud, he may very well turn out to be innocent.
That said: if he doesn’t turn out to be innocent, boy, will we be tearing him a new one.
[SEC Complaint vs. Danny Pang's Private Equity Management Group]
[WSJ: SEC Charges Pang With Fraud (membership req.)]
[LAT: SEC Sues Irvine financier Danny Pang]
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Thanks, Dave!
Filed under: Accusasians, Bad Investments, Beyond Shame, Danny Pang, Lawsuits, Life Insurance, Orange County, Ponzi Schemes, Private Equity Management Group, Stealing From Your Own People, Taiwan
Ooh, Burn on Kim Vo
RUH-ROH, Kim Vo!
Is it true that you colored and set foils in a client’s hair, threw her under the dryer, and burnt the living shiznit out of her cabeza?
From TMZ:
According to a lawsuit filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, one of Kim’s clients — an actress named Carly Steele — came to his Beverly Hills salon for a coloring in January. Things were going fine until Carly claims the aluminum foil Kim personally applied and set under a hair dryer began burning her, causing her hair and scalp “to smoke and burn.”In the suit, Steele claims, “she leapt from the chair” and people tried to remove the foil — but, “they too were unable to remove the scalding and fiery foil and coloring agent which were scorching and sizzling into [Carly's] hair, scalp and head.
YEESH. Dude, that’s not good practice, even when dealing with lesser-known clients. I mean, how hard is this process for you? Aren’t you some kind of “top colorist,” at least according to reality producers? Can you imagine if Gordon Ramsay set a nightmare kitchen on fire while preparing a simple bolognese? My god, you should be better than this!
Just stay away from my head. That’s all I care about. Stay the funk away from my head.
[via TMZ: Actress sues celebrity hairstylist Kim Vo]
Filed under: Bad Hair Days, Burning Heads, Carly Steele, Failure, Foils, Gordon Ramsay, Kim Vo, Kim Vo Should Be Ashamed of His Work, Lawsuits, Nightmares, Ouch, Poor Performance, Whooppsie
DISGRASIAN OF THE WEAK! Miley "Chink-Eye" Cyrus
On February 2, when Miley Cyrus’s lovable gestures first caught our collective chink-eye, we assumed the incident would go down simply: we’d bitch about her massive racist error on our blog, lots of other peeps would do the same thing, Disney would then shit their pants, the little starlet would put her tail between her legs, and ultimately, an effusive apology decorated with heart and star stickers would soon be unleashed upon the PR wire. Something like, “Miley is so sorry to the Asians. Please Asians, forgive us, and continue to spend all of your amazing money on our prefab Disney drivel.”
All we really expected from Miley Cyrus and her owner, Disney, was a perfunctory, predictable apology. Instead, we ended up with two bullshit, quasi-sorry blog statements.
Now that it’s clear Miley isn’t going to make any effort to make things right, one woman has got her own message for Miley Cyrus, and is saying it in legalese:
Angeleno Lucie Kim has filed a $4 billion lawsuit–basically entitling each of the 1 million Asian Pacific Islanders in L.A. County to the minimum amount, $4,000, of a civil case–against Cyrus, to make her pay for the suffering she’s caused us all.
At first we thought this legal stunt was absurd, if not detrimental to the cause. But then we realized it teaches us all two very important lessons:
- RACISM COSTS.
- We goofy-faces can be $4,000 richer off of someone else’s ignorance and stupidity. WOO-FUCKING-HOO!!!
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Thanks, Jasmine, Tuyen, and Chris!
Filed under: Lawsuits, Lucie Kim, Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Chink Eye, Miley Cyrus Lawsuit, Racism Costs, TMZ, We Want Our Money Honey
This Could Cut Into Sharon Stone’s "Free Tibet" Donasians
Page Six reported yesterday that NY attorney Ming Hai recently served Sharon Stone with legal papers documenting her intent to sue the actress on behalf of over 1,000 Chinese earthquake victims, for harm by suggesting that the disaster was “karma.”
The price of the damages? A billion.
Damn, Gina. That’s a pretty penny, and perhaps slightly more than she’s made in residuals from Basic Instinct over the last 16 years. We suggest that she pivot her “do-good” fundraising energy and start selling LOTS of auctionable meet ‘n greets with direct proceeds to a “Save My Wretched, Botched, and Lost Face Foundation.” Stat.
Filed under: Basic Instinct Didn't Do Quite This Well, Crotch, Fundraising, Karma, Lawsuits, Losing Face, Ming Hai, Sharon Stone, Sharon Stone Sued By China, We Bet The Dalai Lama Ain't Returning Calls Right Now
The Not-So-Suite Life
Brenda Song, the 20-year old star of Disney’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, is currently trying to sue an L.A. woman for $100k in damages, for allegedly using her head shot in an escort service classified ad (see above).
The accused, Vanessa Sena, apparently pulled Song’s photo from the web and ran the ad with a fake name, “Layla,” along with the tagline: “Hawaiin [sic] beauty. Come get lei’d.”
I have just one thing to say to Sena. Brenda is not HAWAIIN! SHE IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT HAWAIIN! She is Chinese/Thai, as a matter of fact–not HAWAIIN. Do we all look alike to you???
Filed under: Bad Spellers, Brenda Song, Disney, Escort Services, Geeze, Get it Right At Least, Getting Lei'd, Lawsuits, Polynesian Beauty, Race Mixing is Cool, Terrible Taglines, We All Look Alike
So Long, Scrabulous
Scrabulous, the online Scrabble knockoff brought to you by the Agarwalla brothers and our raison d’être, is dead.
After Hasbro (the official makers of Scrabulous) filed a lawsuit against the Agarwallas, Scrabulous was shut down this morning.
And I was just mounting a spectacular comeback against my Scrabulous nemesis, Bill, during which I dropped the bingo “wahines” for 91 points. Fuck. Also, apparently Hasbro’s version of the game sucks. Great.
Filed under: Facebook, Hasbro Blows Ass, Jayant Agarwalla, Lawsuits, Raison D'etre, Rajat Agarwalla, Reasons for Being, Scrabble, Scrabulous, Shut Down, This is Bullshit
Paparazzi Litigasian
Home-wrecking veteran and generally useless tartlet Sienna Miller is suing two media agencies (which account for photo agency Big Pictures and British tabloids News of the World and the Sun) over the snapping and distribution of photos documenting multiple topless frolic-fests with married (now seperated) actor Balthazar Getty.
An official statement from Miller*:
“Yeah, so what, so I’ve screwed a couple of married men! What would you do if you were me? I can’t act, I’m too short to keep modeling, and the only thing that’s ever gotten me invited to the Met ball is my grade-A pussy. I have no shame, okay? I HAVE NO SHAME. I’d be happy to have a camera installed in my vagina. But if people are going to look at my teeny-tiny titties and extra-marital antics, they’re gonna have to pay up for it.”
*not an actual statement from Sienna Miller. Totally fictional. She sucks, though. You already knew that.
Filed under: Balthazar Getty, Broken Homes, Celebrity "Privacy", Lawsuits, Litigasian, Marriage Splits, Paparazzi Whores, People Who Have No Shame, Sienna Miller is Famous for...for...Uh, Topless PhotozzZz
