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indians burn richard gere in effigy 2007-04-17 00:23:00 yeah, i would burn gere in effigy too, but not because he kissed someboy, but because i had to sit through the pain that was chicago, autumn in new york, the jackal, chicago, red square, did i mention chicago?Angry protesters in cities across India burned effigies of actor Richard Gere on Monday after he showered Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty with kisses at an AIDS awareness event, officials said.Right-wing Hindus burned effigies of the 57-year-old Gere in India's entertainment hub of Mumbai and organised street rallies in the capital New Delhi one day after Gere's public display of affection, seen as taboo here."This is against Indian ethos... Don't touch our women," the demonstrators screamed in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.Similar protests erupted in other cities like Benaras, Bhopal, Kanpur and Indore, with demonstrators demanding an apology from the silver-haired Hollywood actor, PTI said.At an AIDS awareness function in New Delhi on Sunday,
why vote for him? cause you loved him in "baby's day out" 2007-04-19 04:07:00 it's almost finally official...there's another republican presidential candidate...and it's, the guy from die hard II and law & order? (yeah, he was an actual senator in there somewhere, too)well, fred thompson is (supposedly) running for president...the non-fictional president. as if the republican field wasn't funny enough already...maybe he can give varmint-shooting mitt romney some acting tips on how to at least act like a hunter.Fred Thompson's top cheerleader on Capitol Hill -- Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn. -- said Wednesday that the former Republican senator's entrance into the 2008 presidential race is a matter of when -- not if.Wamp offered his assessment that Thompson is going to jump into the presidential race after the Law & Order actor met at the Capitol Hill Club with 50 to 60 House Republicans. Read more:loved
articles of impeachment to be filed on cheney 2007-04-18 04:10:00 ...not that it will get anywhere, but still, it's by far the best news in the papers today. kudos to rep. kamikaze kucinich, even if he's still polling under the margin of error. Read more:filed
gonzalez testimony recap 2007-04-20 14:38:00 of all the comments and news and shumertastic coverage of the gonzalez kabobing yesterday in the senate, my favorite was a comment made by cnn's suzanne malveaux:"One prominent Republican describing the testimony this way, as 'clubbing a baby seal.'"
d.c. a step closer to full voting rights! 2007-04-20 14:30:00 and who said congress never does anything worthwhile? it only took them 200 plus years to get around to it. score one for pelosi. it will surely not be signed into law by the president, but at least it's a fight worth having. all in all, this is great news, especially if it means i get to see more of eleanor holmes norton on tv (esp. the colbert report); she's fantastic.The people of the District of Columbia moved a step closer
Thursday to gainingvoting rights they have been denied for more than 200 years.But the legislation passed by the House on a 241-177 vote faced a veto threat from the White House, which said it was unconstitutional.The bill would permanently increase full House membership to 437, giving the largely Democratic half-million residents of the district a seat and adding a temporary at-large seat for Republican-leaning Utah. The House has consisted of 435 seats since 1960.The bill now goes to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Senate Republican leader Mitch M
wait a tick, by that logic.... 2007-04-22 09:30:00 ok, so this guy was trying to protest something imaginary (left-wing media bias) outside the white house correspondent's dinner. i get it. but i think he has chosen a very, very poor sign (aside from misspelling al qaeda, that is). i mean, isn't he equating the white house with al qaeda? does that mean he thinks the president is like bin laden?
studio 60 parody 2007-04-22 09:07:00 well, studio 60 is kinda back on nbc...not the actual show, but conan o'brien is at least parody
ing it... and doing a damn fine job of it with studio 6a on the 6th floor of rockefeller plaza. "yes, celine dion. that bitch is canadian!""do you have any idea why this bear is masturbating?"pure genius.
my 5th grade teacher sister anne marie lied to me 2007-04-22 00:45:00 dateline, vatican city...catholic church says no to limbo (not the game, the afterlife concept). well, great, now i can sleep at night free from the worry about the eternal souls of the unbaptized babies. thanks, joe ratz. Read more:sister
right-wing idiots blame the victims of the va tech shootings 2007-04-21 16:48:00 so basically, it's the students' fault they died cause they didn't rush the shooter or weren't packing themselves? wow...forget simon cowell rolling his eyes, these are the folks really disrepecting the victims.syndicated radio host neal boortz: "I would love to get some psychological or somebody in the business that can answer this question: How the hell do 25 students allow themselves to be lined up against the wall in a classroom and picked off one by one? How does that happen, when they could have rushed the gunman, the shooter, and most of them would have survived?"columnist and foxspert michelle malkin: "Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance. And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense."nathaniel blake of the publication human events: "The students at Virginia Tech should be heartily ashamed of themselves. College classrooms have scads of young men who
sheryl crow bitch slaps karl rove 2007-04-23 05:08:00 so, sheryl crow's doing a global warming awareness tour, and she and laurie david (wife of larry david) stopped into the white house correspondents' dinner...where they got into a debate on global warming with the turd blossom himself, mc rove. david blogged about it saying:In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the American people." To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, "We are the American people."mc rove just got served by the "all i wanna do is have some fun" woman. sweetness. Read more:slaps
maggie brooks library censorship syndrome in action 2007-04-27 23:23:00 yeah, i'm sure these two boys just happened to "stumble" across the book...and the father is so concerned with what his kids might see at a library, maybe he should go with them and be, you know, a parent. oy, that first amendment is really taking a beating lately, and not just in rochester libraries...and that is not a poor maggie brooks related porn pun. but it could be. Fox News devoted airtime today to a lawsuit brought by a father after his sons stumbled across a book on lesbian sexuality in an Arkansas public library.The Bentonville, AR man is seeking $20,000 in damages and the firing of the town's top librarian, claiming his two sons were disturbed after stumbling upon The Whole Lesbian Sex Book in the town's public library.
why is iraq such a mess? no craigslist, that's why. 2007-04-26 22:07:00 after spreading "freedom" and "democracy" to the middle east, some in washington want to spread craigslist
to iraq to help supply iraqis and us armed forces better.The Bush administration...has been "slow and timid" in pointing out ways in which Americans can support troops "and connect with the Iraqi people [the soldiers] are risking their lives to save."...creating "a military craigslist-style" website where units or provincial reconstruction teams could "identify equipment and supplies that would help the Iraqi people."just a thought, from a non-military person, but you might want to get the electricity up and running in iraq first...but then let's not stop with craigslist...how about iraqi match.com?
warrant issued for richard gere's arrest 2007-04-26 17:00:00 dateline, new delhi:a warrant for gere's arrest on charges of acting in an obscene manner in public has been issued. sadly, this was not in response to a public screening of runaway bride. actress (see previous post on he kissed a bollywoodgere being burned in effigy), and it turns out that not only is that frowned upon in india, it's downright criminal. i guess this means that the kissing industry will at least be safe from outsourcing...
john walsh to do his best chirs hansen impression 2007-04-25 22:38:00 dateline, oklahoma city:abc news is reporting....what amounts to fox's take on to catch a predator. i'm surprised it took them this long...Miss America Helps Cops in Sex StingMiss America Goes Undercover in New York to Try to Catch Sex PredatorsLauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators. Officers with Suffolk County's computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager...Nelson, 20, posed as a young teen online and went into chat rooms, where she said men would begin sending her instant messages asking her how old she was and where she lived..."I would say I'm a 14-year-old female from Long Island. Sometimes they would say, 'You're too young, sorry,' which is exactly what needs to happen, but some would continue chatting."It would only take a matter of time before it got pretty explicit."Nelson then arranged to meet the men at a home in Long Island, wher
american mud hut owners hit hard by housing crisis 2007-04-25 00:43:00 ...and the dow reacts by...going above 13,000 for another all-time record? i never took economics, but this seems like some fuzzy math...
congressman hopes terrorists kill peace activists 2007-04-24 05:18:00 on april 17, rep. dana rohrbacher (r-ca) had some choice words for members of the european union parliament’s committee on human rights who were invited guests and witnesses an the house of reps' foreign affairs european subcommittee hearing:Rohrabacher said if European countries did not cooperate with the United States and go along with whatever the Bush administration wanted, they were condemning their countrymen to death by not using extralegal methods to imprison terrorist suspects. When citizens attending the hearing, including members of Codepink Women for Peace and Veterans for Peace, heard Rohrabacher’s statement, they collectively groaned. Then, much to the shock and disbelief of everyone in the hearing room, Rorhbacker said to those who had expressed displeasure at his statements: "I hope it’s your family members that die when terrorists strike."now i realize the bar is set pretty low for u.s. representatives nowadays, but this is simply heinous and abhorrent.
in honor of my days as a paper carrier... 2007-04-30 22:06:00 Common Enemies of the Paperboy, According to the Nintendo Game of the Same Name.BY MAGGIE UTGOFF- - - -Small childrenBreak dancersNonsubscribers, who should be punishedSmall tornadoesThe editor of the paper
, who seems to think staff career moves are appropriate front-page headlinesThe grim specter of death Read more:honor
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oh the dorkdom...old snow patrol video resurfaces 2007-04-29 21:55:00 it's the long-lost version of "spitting games"...for some reason, the record company had erased this version from almost everywhere...but it lives on youtube. that is, until they take it down. again. but until then, let the humming commence! Read more:video
snl parodies dora the explorer 2007-04-29 19:45:00 i now feel that all those days watching dora the explorer with my students are worth something...this is the first time in a long while something on the tv has made me laugh this much (that does not involve sen. ted stevens)
triumph of the jodie 2007-04-29 19:28:00 about damn time someone did a film about riefenstahl...and with clarice starling at the helm, it could be fantastic. but then again, i even liked panic room...Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster will play the leading role of Leni Riefenstahl in a work that is bound to generate immense argument, as it examines the beautiful woman who became Adolf Hitler's favourite director and whose slick propaganda helped the Nazi war machine... Read more:triumph
al gore: global warming's hitler? 2007-05-03 03:37:00 oh, please...two in one night? can someone please remind glen "i'm just saying what everyone's thinking" beck and lou "i hate mexicans" dobbs that you automatically fail in making your point when you compare anything to the nazis. once again, keith complies a great list for the latest list of nominees for 'Worst Person in the World'.The bronze to Oklahoma‘s greatest export, Senator James Inhofe, saying about Iraq and the withdrawal, the whole idea of the weapons of mass destruction was never the issue. The media made that the issue because they knew Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction. Senator James Inhofe on “Meet the Press” August 2002, quote, “our intelligence system has said that we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, I believe, including nuclear. I, for one, am not willing to wait for that to happen.” The man must have friends. Please, somebody tell him, we don‘t throw away the tapes of the old shows.Runner up tonight, CN
mission accomplished...4 years later, not so much 2007-05-02 05:00:00 "today, president bush vetoed a bill that supports our troops and ends the war in iraq that he declared won four years ago." - john edwards'nuff said. i could (and have today) gone on and on about this, but i think that edwards summed it all up nicely. also, the president has now vetoed his first non-we-must-save-the-frozen-embryos-we-were-gonna-throw-out-anyway bill. just sayin.course, now comes the real interesting part...who backs down in this game of government chicken? let the srategeryizing begin... Read more:later
studio 60 return date set 2007-05-02 00:32:00 the last episodes of studio 60 will see the light of pre-dvd day starting on thursday may 24th at 10:00. yeah, this return after may sweeps means the sorkinrific show will almost certainly not be coming back in the fall (or ever), but at least this will save the average tv viewer from a few weeks of er reruns. now that's a public service.
republican debate fun: "it'd...it would be ok." 2007-05-05 21:12:00 yeah, ten rich white men all trying to be ronald reagan. there's some damn sad tv. however, there was one interesting exchange on, of course, abortion. see if you can find the two formerly pro-choicers:Moderator: Starting with you, Governor, would the day that Roe v. Wade is repealed be a good day for America.Gov. Mitt Romney: Absolutely.Moderator: Senator?Sen. Sam Brownback: It would be a glorious day of human liberty and freedom.Moderator: Governor?Gov. Gilmore: Yes, it was wrongly decided.Moderator: Governor?Gov. Huckabee: Most certainly.Moderator: Congressman?Rep. Hunter: Yes.Moderator:Mayor?Rudy Giuliani: It'd...It would be OK.Moderator: Congressman?Rep. Tom Tancredo: After 40 million dead because we have aborted them inthis country, I would say that that would be the greatest day in this country'shistory when that, in fact, is overturned. ...and it's nice to see sen. brownback is brining iraq talking points to other issues as well.
jeff gannon is baaaaaaaack 2007-05-05 05:04:00 wow. when you think of who would be a good spokesman for the the International Bible Reading Association, i bet former gay escort/white house correspondent (cause why can't you do both, really?) jeff gannon wouldn't be in your first million guesses.it's funny because it's true...yesterday's national day of prayer bible reading marathon in d.c., saw the return of hotmilitarystud.com himself. dana milbank of the washington post had a few thoughts:Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in 2005 representing a conservative Web site at White House briefings until it was revealed that he posted nude pictures of himself on the Web to offer his services as a $200-an-hour gay escort.Let us pray for the power to understand how Gannon made his way from HotMilitaryStud.com to the International Bible Reading Association.at least milbank didn't attempt some crude pun by saying, "let us b
if you could have three vetoes...what would you veto? 2007-05-04 14:46:00 so, the president has only seen fit to use his veto power twice in his six-plus years in office. let's recap, the two things the president had to veto were trying to cure alzheimer's and ending the killing of american troops in iraq. now, the president is ready to whip out the veto stamp again for another equally monumental bill that should simply never be law: adding gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law. such dangerous legislation, all three of them.so, using republican logic, the president hates old people, the troops, and gays. but, he's still fond of the internets, as he told some supporters (yes, he still has some) yesterday: “I talk to a lot of families who have got a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in this global war on terror, and they are in constant communication with their loved one. That’s amazing, isn’t it. You’ve got a kid in Iraq who is emailing mom daily, talking about the realities of what he
rush limbaugh sings "barack the magic negro" on his radio show 2007-05-08 01:18:00 yep, the title says it all. you can hear it for yourself here (if you can stomach it). before that awful piece of singing racism, the drug-addled gasbag said of obama:Al Sharpton's real, Snoop Dogg is real, but Barack Obama is not real. He's just there to assuage white guilt. In other words, the only reason Obama's anywhere is because whites are willing to support him because they feel so guilty over slavery...So those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists...So your attempt to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama is worthless because you're just -- you're just exhibiting racism because you know he's not a real black...The only thing that matters is that he's black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. Well, there is white racism out there. Much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.
civil rights lacking at the doj civil rights division 2007-05-07 17:51:00 as if gonzo wasn't screwing up the doj enough, a new report has come out displaying the utter lack of diversity at the justice department's civil rights division. in the civil rights division's criminal section, only 2 of 50 lawyers are black...the same number as in 1978, when the total staff was less than half what it is now. the department's records across several divisions show few or no african-americans or hispanics being hired at all. minorities are more than twice as likely to leave or be passed over for management position. and on top of all that is this staggering statistic: One Justice Department chart revealed that over a six-year period the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had referred 3,200 individual complaints of discrimination to the civil rights division for action. They have resulted in only six lawsuits for race discrimination.6 out of 3200...that 0.1875% for y'all keeping score at home.
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