There is a GOD! Kinkade, that hypocrite fuckwit, being investigated by FBI

[Rabrrrrrr]

WOO HOO!!!!!!! Happy happy day today!! Take that fucker down! He has been successfully sued in the past by owners and collectors. Never trust a fundy Jesus Crispy any further than you can throw him!




The FBI is investigating allegations that self-styled "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and some of his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially, former dealers contacted by federal agents said.

Investigators are focusing on issues raised in civil litigation by at least six former Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery owners, people who have been contacted by the FBI said.

The ex-owners allege in arbitration claims that, among other things, the artist known for his dreamily luminous landscapes and street scenes used his Christian faith to persuade them to invest in the independently owned stores, which sell only Kinkade's work.

"They really knew how to bait the hook," said one former dealer who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. "They certainly used the Christian hook."

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kinkade29aug29,0,...

[Zomby Woof]

1. I read this earlier today

And meant to post it. I immediately thought of your America-hating ass when I read it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I'm hitting alert.

[Zomby Woof]

4. Just for that

I am sending you a Kinkade xmas card signed by Ron Howard.

[KamaAina]

12. Be sure to mail it from Chicago

:evilgrin:

[dolo amber]

3. Oh dear lord my mother's gonna commit suppuku

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

5. Hey, you're dissing Matcom's guy!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. Painter of Light, ass. More like Painter of Crap.

Personally, I feel he should be thrown in jail just to eliminate the sheer amount of crap he thrusts upon the world. But if it takes fraud to put him away, I'm down with that.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[MrCoffee]

8. Fo Shizzle on the crap tip.

[mwdem]

9. I've always said he's the Painter of Shit!

This could be soooo good!

[petronius]

23. I wonder how his 'art' would evolve

after 4 to 6 years in general population...

[Arugula Latte]

26. Ahh. I can just picture warm glow of candlelight filtering through

the prison bars ...

[petronius]

27. Yep, and on the moss-draped cobble-stone walls we see the softly

expressed shadow of Grizzly the One-eyed Biker, heating the tip of his shiv in the candle flame, about to put his brand on Tommy's vanilla-pudding-like ass...

[Arugula Latte]

30. Mmmmm hmmmm. And then in another heart-warming scene,

the shower water flows down the drain like a little babbling brook in the country, Tommy Boy leans over, not to pick a colorful nose-gay of pansy flowers to delight his lover, but to recover the cake of soap he has inadvertently dropped...What's that? Is that Grizzly entering our pretty picture once again?

[petronius]

34. Beautiful, I feel a warming glow...

...at least, as long as I don't look too closely!

[ForrestGump]

35. Grizzly is entering, all right

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.








And, no, I'm not making light of prison rape...well, actually, I guess I am, but I didn't mean to. That's the kind of perversion of our basic characters that the art of Kinkade (and you can't spell 'Kinkade' without including a little Kink) inspires within even the most Christ-like of us. It's sad. A tragedy... :-(

[Richard Steele]

36. It's just like when we settled for nailing Capone on tax evasion!

:applause: :woohoo: :applause:!

[blm]

7. If Kinkade is wiped out, then I MIGHT believe there is a god.

At least, a god that oversees the world of art.

[qnr]

10. Why? What does Kinkade have to do with art?

:evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

11. Well, three cheers for the FBI, then.

I would love to see that swine disgraced. His offal negates and destroys all that matters about art. He's worse than kitsch.

[Elidor]

13. I envision a new masterpiece from Kinkade

A jail cell, the bars all aglow with the radiant light from a christmas tree. The light is reflected off the yellow sheen of the cinderblock walls to illuminate the saintly figure of Kinkade, tricked out in lipstick, eye-shadow, and short-shorts, his teeth all oddly missing, sitting on the lap of a large man with shelving brows and a leering grin, his arm around Kinkade's neck in a pose of ownership. To be titled: Dinner with Mungo.

[Initech]

14. What an asshole!

Hey, Tom... who would Jesus embezzle?

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. The person from whom I purchased where I live had a Kinkade....

in the bathroom, just above the toilet. I thought that was strangely appropriate. Happily, the thing was gone at closing and a far more handsome piece of art now hangs in its place.

[Monk06]

16. Jon Nagy + huge ego + criminal + hypocrite= Kinkade

[tuvor]

17. "Page Not Found"

Could you try reposting that link?

[qnr]

18. Not sure if it is exactly the same one, but here is a link:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kinkade29aug29,1,3660819.story

[tuvor]

28. Thank you, qnr!

Much appreciated.

(By me, anyway. Not so sure if my mother-in-law will concur.)

[qnr]

32. YW, and as for your MIL, well, the old crap is still available if she

likes it :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Thanks - that's exactly it.

I didn't cut and paste very well in my post - didn't realize I'd left off a bit of the URL!

Thanks for posting the correct link.

:yourock:

[qnr]

33. My pleasure - thanks for pointing it out in the first place n/t

[Blue-Jay]

19. ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!!

[GOPisEvil]

20. It is for precisely this reason that I cast a wary eye at anyone who...

...advertises their religion as a selling point. Sorry, but, "I'm a good Christian" makes me want to run fast in the opposite direction. If you're religious, I should be able to figure it out from your deeds.

On edit - couldn't be happening to a nicer guy.

[mwdem]

21. Exactly.

That's why I will never do business with anyone who advertises with that damned fish symbol!

[petronius]

24. Especially when they say things like: "We don't need a written

contract; my Christian word and a handshake will suffice..."

[asthmaticeog]

29. I've more than once been glad I've known these words of Wm. S. Burroughs:

"If you're ever doing business with a religious sonofabitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal..."

[Lisa]

22. thank you, Rabrrrrrr! I had a massive headache today

... and was feeling really bummed out, but when I read this news item, I suddenly felt much better. (Call Kinkade and tell him it's a miracle!)

[RevolutionaryActs]

25. But inside you're weeping... right?

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

37. Maybe he'll get sentenced to prison in Chicago

and do his work-release at an Olive Garden frequented by Ron Howard where they play Billy Joel instead of Muzak. :evilgrin:

[Ellen Forradalom]

38. William S. Burroughs had a thing to say about him

"If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word doesn't mean shit. Not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. I was going to get this for you for Xmas...

So you could wrap yourself in his fart...

[NMMNG]

40. This is beginning to sound eerily like the plot for an episode of

Law & Order CI. They had an episode where a Kinkade type painter was bilking his gallery owners. Hmmm....life imitates art yet again.

[Lowell]

41. He opened a gallery down here

in an area full of real art galleries. It folded a couple years ago and now I think they are selling his crap out of a bait and tackle shop by the bay.