My favorite headline about this announcement was “Salma Hayek’s husband pledges funds to rebuild Notre-Dame.” It was delightful, like “how cute her lil husband has hobbies.”
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The Catholic Church doesn’t own Notre Dame. The French Government does. There’s no way to insure that. Notre Dame is not just a Catholic Church, it’s not just a French tourist attraction. It’s a work of art, and art has historically been supported by the privately wealthy.
Eh, I think the poverty rate in France is pretty low rn. The government handles that, so there’s not quite the same emergency situation there as in the US.
How do you insure a 850 year old cathedral that is the height of gothic architecture and filled to the brim with priceless art and artefacts? This wasn’t any old church, it would be like insuring the Sphinx or Machu Pichu
Wow, she’s changed a lot. How many eye-lifts do you think she’s had since then?
That’s a strange world you live in, where the only fashion options are “Rainbow Brite” or “25 year old sex kitten”.
You see this kind of apology all the time in court, though. Defendants are forced to apologize, either as a condition of their guilty plea, or as a last-ditch effort to win some leniency from the judge before sentencing. For instance, Allison Mack’s apology from the article earlier today:
Even if they find out the kid isn’t the missing boy I hope he gets the help and care he needs.
It is because you are thinking of it in terms of hard cash. Kylie does not have a billion in cash, in a vault somewhere, gathered from selling lip gloss. The company which she allegedly heads up is valued at a billion. That is if they were to sell shares today, the value of the shares would equal a billion. However,…
With all due respect, what part of “the risk of transmission from someone with an undetectable viral load is ‘negligible to non-existent.’” do you not understand?
because it’s super fucked up to throw someone in jail for not disclosing if they’re stable and undetectable. all of our major health agencies agree that undetectable people cannot transmit HIV to another person. why would we convict someone of a felony for doing something that is not associated with any risk. (aside…
Well you could have just started your post with, “I’m ok with people buying their way into the UC system.” And saved us time from reading your justification bullshit.
It’s just a total coincidence that out of the thousands of institues of learning in the US, his daughter just happens to go to the same one he donates money too. Nope, nothing to see here.
I don’t know your school obviously but USC has a 5 or 6 billion endowment and charges over $200,000 for four years of tuition in addition to receiving a sizable amount of money from the government. Dre’s 70 million isn’t saving them from financial ruin and I think they could afford to say for integrity’s sake a weak st…
That sounds like a good plan, let’s do this going forward.
when rich people hear that we want everyone to get equal access to healthcare, they naturally assume that means they’ll have to suffer the way we do, because they know that their extreme wealth depends fundamentally on our poverty
You go right on ahead and feel bad for her. I’ll be over here figuring out how to keep my bipolar 15 year old alive and hoping against hope that our insurance continues to pay for her new $1000+/month medication. I have no fucking energy to care about some attractive 18 year old with obscenely rich parents. Fuck that.…
I don’t feel bad for her but I think it’s shady and opportunistic as hell that jezebel is making her the face of the scandal when she’s not even one of the people who’s been indicted. She’s just one to the kids whose parents bribed oficials. The criminals are the parents and the network of scammers and coaches who…