A handicapped man and his wife entered Disneyland one day in November 2009 and were thrilled about riding the world-famous attractions.More »

Hello Kitty

Two people tied to an Anaheim business must pay nearly $80,000 for violating copyright protections on Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse products, OC Weekly has learned.More »

See the update at the end of this post on Disney canceling a 2013 Suzy Favor Hamilton appearance in Anaheim.

ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 20, 1:08 P.M.: Suzy Favor Hamilton, a three-time U.S. Olympic runner who appeared in a Nike commercial, reportedly spent the last year doubling as a $600-an-hour escort for a Las Vegas service that sent her to clients in Sin City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. So what does this have to do with prudish Orange County? Well, it was advertised "Kelly," Hamilton's alter ego, would be available for hire here Aug. 30-31. Hamilton remained in Anaheim Sept. 1 to promote and Sept. 2 to run in the Disneyland Half Marathon.

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Walt Disney: Rules are rules, baby!

Walt Disney Company officials fired employee Garrick Pietro for three times failing to alert them in advance that he wasn't going to work before his 5 a.m. shifts in 2008.

Though prior notice was clearly required by company rules--rules that also state three violations would result in termination, Pietro sued Disney for disability discrimination in the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Orange County.
 
According to Pietro, he was targeted by callous company officials because his failure to obey policy hinged on him being diagnosed with the beginning stages of prostate cancer.

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See the update at the end of this post on Disney's response and five surprising allegations from Boudlal v. Disney.

ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 13, 9:17 A.M.: At 10:30 this morning, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the law offices of Hadsell Stormer Richardson & Renick are scheduled to announce "a lawsuit against a major media and entertainment company on behalf of a Muslim former employee, fired for wearing the hijab headscarf at work." But the identity of the players has already been leaked: the Walt Disney Co. and Imane Boudlal, a former Grand Californian hotel restaurant hostess who was first told to remove her hijab and, when she refused, to wear a hat over it.

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Mao: Government officials know best so just quietly obey and go shop to create tax dollars for more lethal police actions and generous pensions

It's a historical fact that the biggest threat to the citizens of any nation isn't outsiders but their own government's police and military--the folks with all the guns, arrest powers and unwavering insistence that their own violence is committed only as a means to peace.

For proof, glance at the history of Iraq, Russia, Syria, Rwanda, Cambodia, Iran, Angola, Bosnia, Egypt, Vietnam, China, Ghana, France, North Korea, Sudan, Italy, Myanmar and on and on.

At various times in its history, United States government agents too have made portions of this nation an abusive police state.

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Pringle: Goofy

Anaheim, oh dear, Anaheim.

You've had to endure the insufferable Curt Pringle, Harry Sidhu and the Rams.

Lately you've watched your city literally on fire as cops clash with outraged residents alarmed over continual evidence of police brutality and hoodlum antics.

How bad are things now in Anaheim?

Well, Disneyland--the city's largest enterprise and one that should have mastered the art of winning free, positive advertising decades ago--has tripped over its own slick publicity machine.

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You'll see all kinds of folks at the Disney resorts in Anaheim: really fat people, others who wish they were as skinny as the really fat people, and grandmas (generally fat) faking disabilities so they, their wheelchairs and their families (generally fat) can cut to the front of long Disneyland and California Adventure lines.

Now, thanks to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, some of those folks may wind up on Segways. God help us.

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Don't touch the premature mercandise

Accused pimp Eric Lamar Wells and his girlfriend Tonisha Alecia Moore, who is also a prostitute and the mother of his child, are in federal custody today for allegedly using the Internet to sell the sex services of two, unrelated minor females, ages 14 and 17.

Federal records show that last month on-the-ball police busted the scheme that operated in Anaheim, Scottsdale, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Las Vegas when officers spotted the 14-year-old girl leaving a CVS drug store by herself and walking near Disneyland. 

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​A woman is suing Disneyland and the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County in Superior Court because she claims her back was injured by a Disney employee dressed as Darth Vader and doing battle with a bird during the 2011 AIDS Walk Orange County at the Anaheim resort. If the incident had happened during a lunar eclipse, I would have received a bonus for most random things in one blog post.

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