October 17, 2005

New Orleans Thug Becomes Katrina Hero

The Times-Picayune devoted Sunday's front page to the story of 20-year-old Jabar Gibson who was kicked out of high school and has been committing felonies ever since. In his own words, Gibson says, "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a lot of times." A prudent observer would have predicted that his future had been pretty well set. But Jabar Gibson's life changed dramatically because of Hurricane Katrina.

Gibson stole a school bus, loaded it with 60 of New Orleans' poorest residents, the youngest a week-old infant and the oldest 59, and drove to Houston. Gibson was the driver of what has become known as "the renegade bus" that was the first to arrive in Houston with Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

From NOLA.com:

Gibson acknowledges he stole the bus, although in what has become Katrina lingo, he "commandeered" it to rescue himself and his neighbors. While the storm's floodwaters ultimately did not advance into Algiers, there was no way of knowing that in the chaotic Tuesday morning after the storm. Water was filling up the east bank, Mayor Ray Nagin was on the radio that afternoon predicting several feet on St. Charles Avenue, and panicked residents crossed the bridge to the West Bank, telling tales of impending doom.

"The police was leaving people behind. I had to pick up people on the bus. The police didn't want to do nothing. We stepped up and did what we had to do," said Gibson, who declined to say more because he since has agreed to a movie deal that prohibits interviews.

So, one day Gibson is a street criminal with a regularly revised rap sheet and, the next day, he's under contract in the movie business. I foresee also probably a book deal, a television movie, and appearances on daytime and late-night talk shows. Who knows? Gibson may well end up being a motivational speaker.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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October 13, 2005

Open Sandcrawler Hatch

All the other big blogs do it, why not this one?

Open thread, go ahead and beat each other up in the comments.

One caveat.

Comments containing the words "Harriet" and/or "Miers" will be summarily deep-sixed. So will any comments containing the words "Scott Baio" and "goat."

Have at you!

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October 12, 2005

British Sex Survey

A survey of British men found that they thought about having sex 20 times daily. Unfortunately, the same survey found that they had sex approximately once a week. So, there are 140 simulations for every actual performance. With so many rehearsals, one would imagine that each performance is a classic.

On the other hand, the survey found women thinking of having sex a mere six times daily, 42 times per week. Nevertheless, they are twice as busy as men in actual performance, with two actual love-making sessions per week.

As a simple math problem, I haven't figured it out. Assuming essentially equal numbers of men and women in Britain, how in the world can men average having sex once a week while the women average twice a week?

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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October 11, 2005

40 Year Old Virgin Reviews The 40 Year Old Virgin

"C" at Way Off Bass admits the un-admittable in the process of reviewing The 40 Year Old Virgin: he is a 40 year old virgin. No, I haven't seen the movie yet, but after reading his review I think I sort of have to.

So, why am I writing this post after I swore off blogging for the time being? Because such self-revealing, brave, and honest writing is rare in the blogosphere. Go give it a look.

Ok, yes I'm blogging but this kind of post takes seconds.

And if you're a single-gal, in the Los Angeles area, Mormon, who is into poetry, doesn't mind geeks, and looking to get married, I can recommend no one better than "C" to ask out on a date. It's a start.

And once the two of you do get hitched, for the love of all that is holy, please help "C" out with his, er, problem....

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October 10, 2005

The Evolution of News

The New York Times, then and now. Click on the thumbnails for a larger image.

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October 04, 2005

Is Harriet Miers Really SNL's Rachel Dratch?

You be the judge:

Is this Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers or is it Rachel Dratch in an SNL skit?

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Is this Rachel Dratch or is this Harriet Miers guest hosting on SNL with Andy Richter and Lindsay Lohan?

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Tough call, but this would explain a lot......

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September 28, 2005

Spotted at Cindy Sheehan Rally

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Fake but accurate courtesy Filthy Allah via DSM. Original here.

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September 23, 2005

An Evening With President Bush

Hello America, I'm Larry King. My guest tonight is President Bush who is with us to talk about emergency preparedness and the federal government.

Mr. President, I noticed that the federal agencies have managed to respond much more quickly to Hurricane Rita than they did to Hurricane Katrina. Is that because they learned their lessons during Katrina? Or is it possibly because of the firing of Michael Brown?

President Bush: Well, Larry, I really don't think it's either. We just wanted to get there faster this time. After all, I can't let all those innocent people get killed right there in my home state. I might decide to run for Governor again.

King: So you're saying that you have more sympathy for the people caught in Hurricane Rita?

President Bush: Why heck yes. Didn't you hear my interview with Wolf Blitzer? And not only did we manage to get rid of all the Negroes, but did you know that New Orleans was filled with fornicators? That's a biblical word for people having sex. And according to my buddy Jerry, we can't let people do that. As a matter of fact, I'm going down to Florida next week to have a talk with my brother about why he evacuated all those homosexhuals from the Keys. Why he let the perfect opportunity to rid his state of most of the rif-raf slip straight through his fingers. more...

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September 16, 2005

Danes with Disabilities Sex Program

(Denmark) The Danish government has launched a program which pays prostitutes to have sex once a month with disabled people.

The program has created some contentiousness, particularly from Danes that don't get taxpayer-funded hookers. The argument is that every Dane deserves free whores, not just the disabled.

My take is that this is a clear case of discrimination.

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September 15, 2005

America Doesn't Want You Either, Gwyneth

Gwyneth Paltrow would feel much more at home in Europe where sophisticated and nuanced discussion of America boils down to clever cowboy metaphors and deep analysis about arrogant empires falling, you know, eventually.

We concur. Move to Europe Gwyneth Paltrow. You'll fit in better.

Globe and Mail:

Yes, well, I went to Spain in an exchange program at 15, and I've always been drawn to Europe. America is such a young country, with an adolescent swagger about it. But I feel that I have a more European sensibility, a greater respect for the multicultural nature of the globe. And it's a strange time to be an American now....

I feel like we're really in trouble. I just had a baby and thought, 'I don't want to live there [America].' Bush's anti-environment, pro-war policies are a dis. . . ." Well, you can guess the rest.

And don't come back. At least, not until you get a boob job. I mean, she even looks like she could be a European star--but not an American.....

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September 14, 2005

Apprentice Contestant Alla Wartenberg Is Ex Stripper Who Inspired Death Row Inmates Killing Spree: Image Gallery

Alla Wartenberg scandal and photo gallery here. more...

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September 13, 2005

Dave Chappelle: I'm back, b*tch!

Dave Chappelle is back, only this time he's not funny.

AP

Comedian Dave Chappelle, who walked away from his hit TV series earlier this year, said working in front of smaller audiences is more his speed. Chappelle sold out 10 shows at a northern Kentucky club and said doing standup is "like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people."...

Chappelle has said he was unhappy with the direction of his show. His decision triggered reports that he had mental or drug problems, which he denied. "It was a little weird," he told the newspaper. "It felt like some of the stuff was real tabloid, like raw speculation. "It was like stuff I would normally buy and believe," he added, laughing. "I just took it as a learning experience. It was like becoming a public person and learning all the responsibility that comes with that."

Yeah, I didn't like the direction either. Not enough Rick James humor in season two. And season three would have been much worse. Not alot that is funny about Elijah Muhammed or Malcolm X.

We miss the funny Dave. Come back soon.

Hat tip: James Joyner

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September 12, 2005

Apprentice Star is Ex-Escort

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Who is the real Alla Wartenberg, one of the stars of the upcoming season of NBC's Apprentice? A video of her Apprentice audition can be seen here. According to her official website, the 31 year old immigrant from the Soviet Union is a self made multi-millionaire, owns a chain of upscale day spas, and is a real-estate tycoon. However, The Smoking Gun has learned that Ms. Wartenberg was once a Las Vegas stripper who went by the name of 'Ecstasy' at an upscale gentleman's club.

The mother of three was also doing $40 lap dances at precisely the time her biography claims she was starting her day spa business. Can you say happy ending?

Additionally, Alla Kosova, as she was then known, was the kind of dancer who you could pay to spend the entire evening with you--you know, an 'escort'. Eventually, one of her clients--or 'Johns'--became so infatuated with Alla Wartenberg-Kosova-Ectasy that it led to the murder of two Oregon women and a California man. The two women were lesbian lovers.

Kosova's usual MO was to tell her 'dates' that she wanted to marry them. Her 'regular' took her literally and in two robberies gone bad trying to get more money to spend on 'dates', Robert Acremant ended up killing three people. Acrement is now on death row in Oregon.

Wartenberg-Kosova admitted in court documents, though, that she was just using Acrement for the money but that there were never any 'intimacies' between them. Right. We believe you Alla, honey!

Seems to me that she'll fit right in at Donald Trump's house. Alla Wartenberg gallery below. Hat tip: Dummocrats more...

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Bush to tour New Orleans

According to CNN, Bush took Sunday to perform his first tour of New Orleans. When asked if he thought that it would be disrespectful to the 9/11 victims to visit New Orleans on this day, Bush was quoted as saying "What 9/11 victims? Is that how many I managed to kill down here?"

Of course a stunned press asked him to elaborate on his remarks, he simply stated "We thought it was time to take out the trash. Maybe that'll teach them no-good negros about not voting Republican."

Later, CNN's Wolf Blitzer was able to get an exclusive interview with the President and received some elaboration on his remarks.

Blitzer: So, Mr. President, are you stating, for the record, that you are responsible for all of the deaths in New Orleans?
Bush: No, not all the deaths, but if we'd known that police were going to have to start shooting looters, we'd have sure gotten the Army in there quicker so we could have been responsible for a lot more.

Blitzer: Mr. President! That's horrible! But you do finally admit that your criminally negligent environmental policies are the root cause for this hurricane?
Bush: Environmental policies? No. Heck, we sent a space shuttle mission up just a few weeks ago with 100,000 cans of hair spray. We figured dumping that much aerosol directly into the ozone would surely have some sort of adverse effect. But we never dreamed it would start at Category 5 hurricane. This worked out much better than expected!

Blitzer: I see. So were you attempting to do anything specific with your plan of destruction, or just see where it led you.
Bush: Listen when I'm talkin, you dummy. Our whole goal was to wipe out all the poor negros down there. They're voting Democrat in droves and really putting a hurt on us at election time. The only part that really failed was that it came up short and didn't get the Hispanics in Florida at the same time.

Blitzer: So this is all just about getting Republicans elected.
Bush: Of course it is. Why else would we do anything. Do you think we really care about the people we're ruling, er, ah, here to serve?

Blitzer: Well I find all this to be absolutly horrible! I can't believe our government would do such a thing!
Bush: Why not? You people are ready to believe that we started the war in Iraq just because Saddam tried to kill my daddy (which is true, by the way). If you're going to believe the worst about us anyway, we might as well take advantage and just do it.

Blitzer: Well I never...
Bush: You better get used to it. Oh, and I'd stay out of California for about a month. Our earthquake machine is just about finished.

Blitzer: Well, there you have it people. All your worst fears confirmed. The Republicans are evil and are killing people just because they're poor minorities.
Bush: No, because they won't vote for us. Get it right or you'll be next.

Blitzer: This is Wolf Blitzer, signing off.

Originally posted at Conservative Friends.

Update: One of my diligent CF readers has found unreleased photos of Bush visiting New Orleans. These photos only serve to prove exactly how atrocious our President is. We must call for impeachment now!

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September 10, 2005

Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding

Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain", a tale of homosexual love in the mountains of Wyoming, won the Venice International Film Festiva's Golden Lion award today. Once again proving that everything Eric Cartman ever says is always true.

The movie is adapted from a story by Annie Proulx and stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as love-struck cowboys whose forbidden affair begins in 1963 and ends 20 years later. The director described the low-budget indie flick, shot in Canada to save money, as a story of love against adversity. (Reuters).

The AP describes the as being full of sweeping vistas, lonesome men, bucking broncos and smoldering campfires. It also has sex scenes between two men whose lives are changed, disturbed and entwined after being hired to tend sheep for a summer in Wyoming.

As of this writing, it is not known how much pudding is consumed in the film.

Actual South Park dialogue, describing the South Park Film Festival:

Cartman: No dude, independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.

Wenday: No they're not. Independent films are produced outside the hollywood system. They're movies without all the glitch and glamour of Hollywood.

Cartman: Well, you show one independent film that isn't about gay cowboys eating pudding.

Parker and Stone, modern prophets........

UPDATE: Kevin Aylward finds audio of part of the dialogue as well as a very Beavis and Butthead quote to go along with it.

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September 06, 2005

So Long, Little Buddy!

Bob Denver, best known as Gilligan from Gilligan's Island, or possibly as Maynard G. Krebs for the older crowd, has died at 70 years old. We say farewell to an extraordinarily funny man.

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Quote of the Day - Ditto Edition

"Cindy Sheehan could be standing outside nude, wearing only her Birkenstocks, claiming that she is going to invade Bush's house and find evidence of wrongdoing and she wouldn't be able to draw one TV camera today."
Rush Limbaugh

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August 29, 2005

Blog Sabbath Caption Contest

Caption this picture of Rusty at last year's American Political Science Association meeting

Winner will be announced on Monday.

We have a winner!

phin, for:

"After going years without a fatwa Dr. Rusty Shackleford finally suffered a mental breakdown. Dr. Shackleford now resides in the Tattooine Pastures Mental Facility, he can be seen wearing only depends and reenacting his favorite scenes from Star Wars during visitor's hours."

Honorable Mention:

Mr. Venom, for:

"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine..."

Make sure to check next weekend, I may have a picture of Rusty from THIS year's meeting for you to caption.

Muahahahahahaha!

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Making Beautiful Music...

Originally posted at Sacred Cow Burgeres

Via David and Laura

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August 26, 2005

I'm a happy kafir

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