Saturday, April 30, 2005

Applause for Senators Feinstein and Talent

U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jim Talent (R- MO) are demonstrating that politicians from opposing parties are capable of setting aside partisan differences in order to promote the welfare of the USA.

RUNAWAY BRIDE

Georgia bride-to-be fabricated abduction story

A Georgia woman, who was found in New Mexico early Saturday and who said she had been abducted, admitted today she had made up the story because she was nervous about her upcoming wedding, police said.

Thank, God, she's alive and well. That said ...
Why did she lie?
I wondered why anyone would abduct an adult woman without demanding ransom.
Why did the groom make demands on the 2nd polygraph?
Did the media make this worse?
FOURTEEN bridesmaids and SIX HUNDRED guests?!?
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Why is that funny on tv but not in real life?
What must her family be thinking (besides relief that she's alive)?
What must the groom be thinking?
Why did I find the groom suspect (because I did)?
Will they ever get married?
Why do we even care?

Speaking of Abducted Brides

She needs to at least pay a HEFTY fine ... if not do a little time.
This woman has tied up significant law enforcement resources in the metro Atlanta area -- resources needed to solve REAL crimes -- or (we can only hope) prevent a few.

Friday, April 29, 2005

Beckham’s Beauty Secrets

OK, this is fluff, but amusing fluff.

David Beckham, British soccer star and hubby to fomer Spice Girl Victoria (aka Posh Spice), is really into beautifying himself.

David Beckham has revealed details of his beauty regime - including moisturising, eye cream and manicures.

He's a real metrosexual guy...the kind who would have fit right into Sex in the City.

She [Victoria Beckham] said: "David is very much a new man, totally in touch with his feminine side. He loves having his face and nails done."

He also plucks his eyebrows and has spray-on tans, and famously wore pink nail polish at the christening of Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian.

Wow, pink nail polish...I wonder what his mates on the team think about that?

The footballer also regularly changes his hairstyle and says his biggest regret was when a dye temporarily left it black.

The England captain also boasts that his wife says his best feature is his bottom. "She likes it because it's firm," he said.

Well, she sure wouldn't be praising it if it was saggy!

Honestly, as much as many male American celebrities annoy me, you sure don't hear them bragging about slathering on eye cream and painting their nails. If they do any of that, they do it in private...except for (the aging) members of KISS.

You especially wouldn't hear our sports stars telling all about how their wives help them moisturize after a hard day on the field (although we might hear about the wives helping them to shoot up steroids). Can you imagine someone like A-Rod raphosizing about the relaxing benefits of a facial? He'd be laughed right out of the bullpen.

He may be in touch with his feminine side, but Beckham is no pantywaist when it comes to protecting his reputation in the tabloids. He and Victoria are taking legal action against a former nanny for selling the tabs a story about their floundering marriage, which of course they deny. (Supposedly the nanny was paid £300,000 for the story.)

It's only a matter of time before we hear about a facelift and tummy tuck.

WHATABOUTERY

THELMA & LOUISE Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Scenery

A CLASSIC RECYCLED: [H]e bides his time, does not respond forcefully, a least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.

And We Wonder Why No One Knows Anything!: Maybe if Bush would go around saying things like, "That's so hot," or, "You're fired!" or, "The tribal council has spoken," while dressed like a gangsta rapper, the other networks would think twice before cutting his press conference off at the pass.

JEFF GANNON IN THE ADVOCATE: I wonder if those same bloggers will be attacking the Advocate for presenting me as something less than completely despicable.

Have Bra, Will Travel: For the price of your bra, you may receive a FREE Bacaro Jazz t-shirt. Your bra will then be hung up on the ceiling next to all the other bras of ladies (or crossdressers) like yourselves who wanted a unique Venice souvenir. Strip Twister Anyone?

Reader Participation Friday Top 10 Best Looking Celebrities: We want your opinion on your 10 Best Looking Celebrites. They can be from TV, Movies, Music, Sports or anywhere.

Clinton Causes Catholic College Chaos…not

Good for the Catholic Church! The college that wanted to honor Hillary Clinton was dropped by the Church and can no longer be considered a Roman Catholic institution. What's the big deal you ask? Since Catholic doctrine teaches that abortion is murder, what Marymount Manhattan College did would be like Yeshiva College honoring a person who supported Nazis exterminating Jews.

Sgt. Akbar Sentenced to Death

Sgt. Akbar, convicted of killing fellow soldiers in a grenade and rifle attack while awaiting orders to invade Iraq, was sentenced to death.

Good.

Freakin’ Friday Softcore Surfin’

Gives a fresh meaning to the term 'Adult Education.'

Vote your preference for 'Lusty Lieutenants' at Texas Best Grok.

I thought the thrill was when you tried to pull this whole thing off crammed into a lavatory the size of a shoe box with the faucet jammed into your backside?

I know I've always liked petite women.

Sometimes those Llama Butchers ask some very stoopid questions.

A lot of guys will see this as a too-obvious metaphor. For her sake, I hope that's a Grant folded up.

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Everything You Know is Wrong

Here's an interesting story about one of the most famous photos of the 1970s and how it doesn't show what it has been widely reported to show.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

International Respect For Chickens Day

The group United Poultry Concerns has declared Wednesday, May 4th to be International Respect for Chickens Day.

The group gives suggestions as to what to do on that day. One suggestion is the following:

"Have a We-Don’t-Eat-Our-Feathered-Friends Vegan Party!"

Here is a photo of the group's spokesbird:

More on “I Am Rachel Corrie”

Last week I posted a bit on the play about Rachel Corrie's life being produced by the London's Royal Court Theater.

Here's more on the subject from Tom Gross for the Jewish World Review:

For those who don't recall the story, Corrie was a young American radical who burnt mock-American flags at pro-Hamas rallies in Gaza in February 2003. A short while later she died after jumping in front of an Israeli army bulldozer that was attempting to demolish a structure suspected of concealing tunnels used for smuggling weapons.


Partly because of the efforts of Corrie and her fellow activists in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), the Israeli army was unable to stop the flow of weapons through these tunnels. Those weapons were later used to kill Israeli children in the town of Sderot in southern Israel, and elsewhere.


However, in many hundreds of articles on Corrie published worldwide in the last two years, most papers have been careful to omit such details. So have Rickman and Viner, leaving almost all the critics who have reviewed the play completely clueless about the background of the events with which it deals.

Gross posits at the end of the article (and I agree with him) that the play isn't so much about Corrie, but about "fomenting hatred of Israel." And sadly, it's a sellout in London, there's talk of staging it in America, and a printed version is being prepared for schools.

Anti-Semitism is alive and well.

The Tragedy of Russia’s Collapse

Vladimir Putin was heard to bemoan the disintegration of the old Soviet Union. While there are plenty in academia who would join in that lament, David Brooks is more concerned with the disintegration of Russia:

As the Soviet regime disintegrated, Russian fertility rates fell through the floor, from 2.19 births per woman in 1986-87 to 1.17 in 1999. Birth rates have now recovered somewhat, but they are not even close to replacement levels. According to Eberstadt, Russia currently has about 160 deaths for every 100 births.

The more shocking reason Russia's population is declining is that people are dying younger. Russians are now much less healthy than their grandparents were in 1960. In the past three decades, Russian mortality rates have risen by 40 percent. Russian life expectancies now approximate those in Bangladesh and are below India's.

As Brooks points out, the irony is that this is all happening at the same time that Russia is experiencing strong economic growth. He foresees similar circumstances in China when the totalitarian regime begins to crumble there.

A Tin Ear, Forked Tongue and Memory Loss…

According to Teddy, in a press release from his office this week:

"...top officials in the Administration have endorsed interrogation methods that we've condemned in other countries, including binding prisoners in painful "stress" positions, threatening them with dogs, extended sleep deprivation, and simulated drownings¹."

1. As opposed to the real deal.




DANEgerus has more....

The AP pro-abortion?

The Associated Press has produced a story that makes the AP appear to be pro-abortion.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

European A380 Airbus Lifts Off

The massive, European A380 went on its maiden flight. Largely funded by France, it's positioned as a 'Boeing' killer.

We have a detailed cutaway diagram of the aircraft here.

Lil’ Kim 101

Syracuse University English professor Greg Thomas...will soon be “teaching a course . . . analyzing Kim’s lyrics on the American judicial system” in the wake of her legal troubles.

This report comes from City Journal. And there's more:

As he told the New York Daily News in November: “It’s about her lyricism and the lyrical persona . . . new notions of sexual consciousness, sexual politics in her rhymes, how she deals with societies based on male domination in her rhymes and societies based on rigid gender categories and constructs.” (Phew!) In other words, Lil’ Kim is a hip-hop Virgil guiding students through the wonderful world of Gender/Womyn’s studies—and her Dante is not some Birkenstock-clad granola prof but rather a cool dude known as “G” to his students...

Should we care about such collapsing of the distinction between “high” and “low” art, between timeless, revered text and flippant pop culture? Does it matter that a university has put King Lear on the same plane as “Suck My D--k,” another Lil’ Kim gem?

Yes we should...especially when tuition at SU costs over $23,000 per year.