Some of you People Really Scare me. Cedric was Robbed!

I was going-to copy and paste some of the comments that I've seen on other sites & blogs about the Lisa/Cedric problem, but instead-of humiliating other bloggers and blog-readers, I'll just paste here what The LA Times had to say about it. It pretty much says what a LOT of you are saying:

"He cast himself as the victim: It was Lisa who woke him up and made him go to the gym with her each morning. It was Lisa and her husband, Ken, who dragged him around as though he were a companion like Jiggy the dog. He was used by them, then thrown to the curb, or so he claimed.It made me wish NeNe Leakes from Atlanta could have made a cameo to set it straight. He mooched off the Vanderpump family. He lived in their home. He drove their cars. And he was 37 years old, still living as a child. Shameful!"-LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/02/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-reunion-coming-together-after-all-the-drama.html#more

Here's a screen-shot of a poll that was taken today:

http://acepolls.com/polls/1184209-tell-me-whose-side-are-you-on

I don't dislike Lisa and Todd Vanderpump at all. In fact, personally, I thought that the Vanderpumps, along-with Adrienne & Dr. ?, managed to make it through the season virtually unscathed. And maybe that is the problem.  Even-though I respect them, they are wrong. If they did not compensate Cedric properly when he left their home, they took advantage of him. Starcasm.com re-capped Part II of the reunion, and they have a video and some quotes:

"...he called them and asked to meet. When they showed up Cedric asked for something they “weren’t prepared to give him” ...
He also complains that he only got compensated in “flowers and puppies” for the work he did for Ken and Lisa..."-Starcasm http://starcasm.net/archives/84085

What did Cedric ask-for? If he was only paid in flowers and puppies, aside from what he earned while he was on the payroll at their restaurant, I'd say they owe him at least the going-rate for live-in domestic help for however long he lived with them. I guess they weren't prepared to give him any cash?
As a comparison, the blog, I Saw Your Nanny.Com (here), has a pretty regular Saturday feature called, CL-WTF?, where readers report, and comment on recent Craigslist postings throughout the country. The reason I use it as a comparison is because many times, people try to dangle "FREE ROOM AND BOARD", as payment for domestic work.
Responses are made directly to Craigslist, to the would-be slave-drivers who post the advertisements. Comments about WTF? are also made on the I Saw Your Nanny blog, comment-space.
I know it seems a little off-topic, since Cedric was not a nanny, but HUMAN TRAFFICKING is a big problem, all over this world, AND in the USA. The professional Nannys and domestics who keep an eye on the Craigslist postings, and discuss the wages and working conditions for live-in domestic help, have a lot of light that they shed on this problem.Even-if Cedric was living in the lap-of-luxury, he deserves compensation.
Cedric's main job for Lisa was not child-care, but he is definitely, "live-in" help.
What was Cedric's job-title? I know that it was supposed to be a cute running-joke. "Permanent Houseguest", pest, Cato Katlin. ha ha. Was Cedric a Care-Taker? A Companion? Assistant? Personal-Trainer? Man-in-Waiting? Butler? Houseman?
Another fact that many people seem to be including as a generous "gift" from Lisa & Todd to Cedric, his immigration costs to Beverly Hills, probably reveal a guarantee and promise of employment. I don't think that we grant Visas for "permanent house-guests". There are responsibilities that visitors and employers promise when they immigrate.
We have laws in this country to protect citizens, and visitors. One of these laws is the  Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. I found a refrence to this law on the Wikipedia page devoted to Indentured Servitude, (which is of course illegal in the USA). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

"unlike slaves, servants could look forward to a release from bondage. If they survived their period of labor, servants would receive a payment known as "freedom dues" and become free members of society....

Current legal status 

Article 4 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (passed in 1948) declares such servitude as illegal, but only national legislation could rectify that illegality. In America, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 extended servitude to cover peonage as well as Involuntary Servitude"-Wikipedia

While we're talking about HUMAN TRAFFICKING, I guess this is a good time to bring another Real Housewife of Beverly Hills into it. Camille.
What does Camille have to do with this? Plenty. Starting with the fact that Camille was herself, a product in the Human Traffic market. The story of Camille's employment with prince jefri (Googled© here) , (I spit when I type his name and under-capitalize out of disrespect), has been widely reported. Camille may not have complained publicly, but other American women including at least one former Miss USA, have sued the harem/pimp for being held captive as a, "sex-slave".
Maybe that's why Camille doesn't have any unpaid, "help", but she sure has taken a lot of flack for having, "PAID FRIENDS". Even Andy Cohen  on WWHL was pressured into asking Camille about having her friends on the payroll.-THAT, has become another running-topic this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
The HBO show Entourage,  pretty-much validates the reality of the Hollywood habit of paying your friends to work for you. It may be a little embarrassing or awkward for both parties, but its a lot better than NOT-PAYING your friends to work for you.
And finally, as far as Camille is concerned, being a wife in a "Community Property" state, with no pre-nup, and proud of it, she  is looking-forward to being awarded a great deal of the money that was earned by Kelsey. Why? Because the law recognizes the value and worth of a spouse's contribution, even-if that contribution is mostly the "domestic"-kind.
(*and yes I have to mention an aside here. New York Real Housewife Ramona's demented warped statements  have gone unchallenged for three seasons about how her mother stayed in an abusive marriage because she didn't have, "her own money". Ramona's mother had plenty of her own money because she was legally entitled to her marital assets-yet Ramona gives this dangerous incorrect advice every season.When you broadcast material about "Real Housewives", you are responsible to answer to the Housewives Homemakers Union and I'm calling you out on this again Bravo.)
Here's a snip from a Q&A interview that Cedric did with Wet Paint:

"Did you go with them when they moved to Beverly Hills?
No, no. Not at all. They lived in the South of France. I lived in London. So I’d never lived with them before. When they asked me if I wanted to come here, I jumped at the opportunity, because I’d always wanted to come to America. I thought it would be a great opportunity, and I didn’t want to miss it. And plus, I am very fond of them, so I accepted."-Cedric

Did Cedric really, "blackmail" and/or attempt to extort money from the Vanderpumps? Or did he simply ask for what he was entitled-to?  The story is that he threatened them with selling personal information or something like that to the media. The way that I heard it sounded more like he mentioned that he was aware that he could possibly make some of the money that he needs to live, now that he is looking-for another place/job, by doing media interviews.
If he came-across as threatening, than that would be wrong. But is it extortion to ask for what you deserve and need? Of course it isn't! And aside from some catty personal opinions about Lisa's, "ego", I haven't seen ANY, "juicy secrets" about the Vanderpumps attributed to Cedric, and he really doesn't need to take that approach.
Lisa and Todd, really should pay the man at least the going-rate for minimum-wage for domestic live-in help, for the time that he lived with them. And from all of the articles that I've read, he did not live with them for 15 years as mis-reported, he lived with them for less than two years.
I get that Lisa feels bad about what happened, but that she is being very careful to keep her loyalty and prioritys where they should be. I think that Lisa feels guilty, AND SHE SHOULD! Personally, I am aghast that Todd and Lisa are getting nothing but public support for this situation. If Cedric took this to a lawyer, I don't see how he could lose. Maybe Lisa & Todd should ask their attorney what their responsibilities are?
Make sure to tell him/ or her, that:

• You asked Cedric to come to the US and assisted with his immigration with whatever that entails
• He was not an independent contractor, since you controlled his time by waking him up etc.
• He was a live-in employee
• He left/was asked to leave/was terminated and asked to be compensated
• This request was treated as a threat
• The public and media were encouraged to humiliate this man for asking for compensation, and Cedric has been denied his rights by intrinsically implied misrepresentation of his rights.
• Although it has nothing to do with it, Cedric is considered a minority in the US, (homosexual), which may afford him some additional protections in considering the termination of their arrangement.

So-let me get this straight. This season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, we learned that you will be mocked and interrogated if you are wealthy and you pay your friends a salary, or money, for their time and help, but if you drag them into a foreign country, and then toss them out when you're finished with them, without adequate resources to live, you will have our support and righteous indignation at how ungrateful this, "freeloader" , (meaning="free help"), has been. Did I get that right? 'Cause that's what it looks like to me. Yes that is my idea of sarcasm. And its a rhetorical question so don't bother answering because I've already seen what a lot of you have to say about this and I think it scary.

More FAKE Reality

But this time, its dangerous! 
(click photo for shocking detail view)Has anyone seen Suzanne Somers pimping-out her latest money-maker? I have. She was on the Rachel Ray show last week, and also spent some time with Hoda and Kathie Lee.
Since I've been researching this topic after seeing what she REALLY LOOKS LIKE (click here & scroll-down)
-thanks to MTO, (MediaTakeOut.com), and a feature-story on INSIDE EDITION

http://www.insideedition.com/news/5674/recent-appearance-of-suzanne-somers-sparks-criticism.aspx

The INSIDE EDITION story was generated, in my opinion, by a cover-story done this week by The NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Since its still on the newsstands they don't have the story online, but this is the teaser:

"Get more details in this week's issue of The ENQUIRER. Plus: Suzanne Somers' bizarre new face!"-National Enquirer

THE ENQUIRER of course has been following Ms. Somers for years, and my trip to their search-engine to find this story was not wasted. They did a feature in 2009, predicting a trip to Canada to undergo a plastic-surgery procedure called the, "Stem-Cell Facelift" . According to that article, the plan was for Somers to beautify herself with this procedure, and then sell it on various news-like outlets including Larry King. And THAT! is why I opened this item with the word, dangerous.
Although King is retired now, his show aired-on CNN, a, "NEWS" network. Note the hideous photo at the top- Somers is posing her deformed face & legs in front of a CNN backdrop.
And what happens when Somers appears on CNN, and other, NEWS, and "REAL"??? television programs like Rachael Ray, and Kathy and Hoda? What do they discuss? How GREAT Somers looks! How Beautiful! When in REALITY-they are sitting there talking-to a deformed MESS.
And WE are supposed to run-out and buy the book that tells us how to look exactly like they PRETEND she looks!
Well-I have a feeling that the jig is up. The tables have turned, and the new story is "What happened to Suzanne Somers?". But only because someone decided that enough is enough!
And it must have been pretty recently too. When I saw Somers on Rachel Ray just last week, the party-line was still being towed.
Apparently, the resentment towards Somers has been going-on FOR YEARS. She's frequently seen hawking her latest health or beauty product on TV-Shopping channels, but lately, she's switched channels. So-it could be a professional grudge.
But the Internets have been abuzz for years with complaints about Somers's controversial health & medical advice to women. And in another quote from The ENQUIRER, the TRUTH behind the profitable THIGH-MASTER product that Somers sold, as an alternative to lipo, is revealed:

"SUZANNE SOMERS CAUGHT IN PLASTIC SURGERY LIE!

By ALEXANDER HITCHEN

Suzanne Somers has been caught lying AGAIN about how she keeps up her youthful looks, downplaying that plastic surgery played a part in her age-defying appearance.

During an interview with Larry King on Oct. 14 to promote her new book, the 60-year-old fitness queen and former star of "Three's Company" was caught fibbing when King asked her if she'd had any "work done."

Suzanne credited her youthful appearance primarily to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy — a regimen she dubs "the juice of youth."

"No, this is a real face," Suzanne told King. "This is a hormone face."

When pressed further, Suzanne finally admitted to having undergone Botox treatments, which she referred to as "fillers."

"Everybody does that," she said.

But in February 2001, The ENQUIRER photographed her leaving a plastic surgery clinic after having liposuction.

Suzanne originally said she was at the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills to have a cancerous mole removed — but she was later forced to admit that she had undergone lipo.

Now Suzanne is coming under fire for misleading women in her new book..."-The Enquirer

I've also found comments posted online referring to the most serious accusations about Somers and her breast cancer treatment advice & claims that she was diagnosed with cancer herself yet chose to seek alternative treatments. The accusations claim that in REALITY, Somers had the very treatments that she advised other women diagnosed with cancer to refuse.
Somers has published numerous successful health & beauty books with copious medical credentialing, giving her work the appearance of being-on the cutting-edge of medical science.

She also sells snake-oil treatments on her own website, advising that women buy HER products instead-of what their own doctors recommend. And no I will not provide the link-Don't go there unless you want to look like the photo up-top!

The fact that Somers has chosen to be a Charlton is one thing. That the mainstream media would go-along with it and fawn over her beauty, when they are sitting right in front of hideous deformity they can see with their own eyes, (and what WE cannot see due-to Photo-shop© and camera tricks), is criminal in my opinion.
And don't forget the Make-up artists! Copied & enlarged here is a 2009 photo from celebitchy.com that I clicked-on to enlarge because I thought something about the earring looked weird. Then I noticed that it appears that she has glued tiny pink rhinestones onto her LIPS! Obviously a trick to make her lips appear to sparkle? And yeah-I also think those peepers are colored contact lenses. They look just like the ones that Claudine, Dina Manzo likes to wear. Something about them reminds me of the Michael Jackson, "Thriller" lenses-maybe the, "fake"-part?

Herpes or Swarovskis?

I've mentioned that Somers first came to my attention recently while on her media-blitz with Rachael Ray, (who again, complimented ad-nausea Somers beauty), and I suspect that the two of them have some sort of business partnership. While researching this topic, I couldn't help but notice how often the two names were linked together. In my opinion, Ray has done nothing to enhance herself by affiliating with Somers, and, (again in my view), she has damaged her reputation beyond repair.

CAPTIONS AND PHOTO CREDIT top of this post---> MEDIA TAKE-OUT http://mto.mediatakeout.com/45513/more_plastic_surgery_horror_stories_what_the_freak_did_suzanne_somers_did_to_her_face_warning_-_contains_frightening_images.html?image=51294

Are we Being Played?

Just for the record, Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Kelsey Grammar is getting a little too much publicity?

OK-there's a Hollywood divorce. But why advertise all of it? And why the heck is Kelsey, (supposedly in my opinion), rushing into another marriage and continually making a big deal out of when this hush-hush wedding is going to happen? Does anybody really care that much? As much as it's being shoved-down our necks?

As far as I can tell, ALL of is a big publicity stunt! I bet that Camille was in on it from the beginning-to make her role on Housewives more interesting, to make them both appear more interesting and controversial.

I think that its back-firing. Kelsey is being over-exposed in my opinion, and while I would normally not change the channel when a Frasier repeat comes on, its almost at the point where I would change the channel out of annoyance with all of it.

These statements and quotes that we keep seeing are being churned-out by Camille & Kelsey ultimately. And once again, there are children involved, and this makes them stinky parents in my opinion.

I'm also getting the feeling that we are supposed to hate Camille. She's just so unlikeable with a shady past -like Danielle Staub. Even-if Camille has some despicable qualities, there is just no way that Kelsey gets any points for the way that he has been behaving publicly. Again-why do we have to hear about his upcoming wedding every other day? This entire saga reminds me of the misdirection that we were prompted to believe with the Jersey Gals. Danielle was pushed on us as the, "villain", while meanwhile Teresa & Joe, (and the rest of them too!), have some big secrets to hide.

As far as the Beverly Hills Housewives, I have to say that Taylor/Shana/Ford/Hughes/Armstrong.....whatever she wants to call herself, and her con-artist husband look like the most mysterious out of that bunch, from what I've been seeing posted on Stoopid Housewives. And she seemed so quiet!

Lisa & Adrianne are both too smart and too wealthy to let this show make them look bad. And if Kim was trying to revive her career, well she has Kyle to thank for dragging her into the mud. Neither one of those sisters did themselves a favor by agreeing to be on this show. If I had a bitch of a back-stabbing sister like Kyle, I think I'd be using substances just to deal with it. Hopefully, Kim's problem isn't that serious because it would be sad if she slinked-off with the reputation that RHWOBH left her. I don't know how heavy the competition is for Kim in the acting world, but I do think that Disney owes her a part.
Kyle may have ruined her chances there?

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Project Ladybug Preview Updated Financials

We're still waiting for the state of New Jersey to update its Charity Database (link) for Project Ladybug.
as-of right now, the most recently reported figures are still from 2008.
I can report that despite an Administrative slap on the wrist and a fine (here), Project Ladybug is, "In good standing", with the state of New Jersey, and all required financial information has been submitted as far as I can tell.
Unfortunately, I am not sure if this is information for 2009, or 2010, but I did call for the most recent information, which according to the NJ Department of Community Affairs should be uploaded to its database within, "about a month", because it is their busy season, Project Ladybug's (http://www.projectladybug.org/) updated financial information reports that: 33% went to Fund-raising, 24% to management, and 43% went to programs.
Project Ladybug has been branching-out to different hospitals, and honoring pediatric cancer patients by naming funds after patients in the new branches. The Sloan Kettering fund (Facebook page link here), is named after Julien Collot, a little boy who has been fighting cancer and sadly he lost his fight last week.
Donations to Project Ladybug can be made directly to the hospitals that Project Ladybug is affiliated with-but I'm not sure how that works.
The Chicago chapter kicked-off officially this past December, and they are planning a big Spring fund-raiser in April.

Another Mystery Solved--Who Would'a Thunk THIS?

If there were a poll,"Which Housewife is the biggest PHONY, GRIFFTER, FAKER, POSER, CON-ARTIST...?" I'm sure that we could have quite the debate.
Teresa & Joe? The entire Beverly Hills gang? Kim Z.?
Its so hard to choose!
But the question has been answered, and it is NONE OF THE ABOVE!
Thanks to some hot-tips, and research, (with promises of more on the way), STOOPID HOUSEWIVES has revealed the identity of the MOST FAKE REAL HOUSEWIFE (answer here), (and its the LAST one that most of us would have guessed!)
Wow. I can't wait to hear more about this.
*Updated to add: Stoopid Housewives gives credit to Real Faux Housewives, (here) , for unearthing this gem.