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Saturday, February 14, 2009

how cool is this?



Richard Wilson's Rotating Wall (From 2007)

the point of this story is NOT what religion

these people were. it's to point out the VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (which transends all religions, all colors, all classes, all sects, all countries). and please. SECOND DEGREE MURDER?

Man arrested in wife’s beheading
Authorities say suspect is founder of cable TV network for Muslims


msnbc.com and NBC News
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A suburban Buffalo man who founded a cable TV station to promote better understanding of Muslims in the U.S. has been arrested on charges he beheaded his wife.

Orchard Park police arrested Muzzammil Hassan, 44, on Thursday for investigation of second-degree murder, The Buffalo News reported.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Her body was found at his business, Bridges TV........

Friday, February 13, 2009

i love salma hayek

what a kick ass woman!



(Salma Hayek cross-urses in Sierra Leone)

yipppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeee

it's a start.

House Judiciary Committee Calls for Federal Investigation of Sheriff Arpaio's Abuses


Frank Sharry

We couldn't be happier to hear that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee released a letter today calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct a federal investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's enforcement tactics. .................

...........Thankfully, Chairman Conyers, and other members of the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives, will be able to catalog the range of abuses he has heaped on the residents of Maricopa County and will hopefully bring long-awaited justice against a man who doesn't appear to understand the word. ...................

i have been using the f word a LOT lately

well, i HAVE to. there is just so much it pertains to. take THESE FUCKWADS FOR EXAMPLE. the country is near in ruin (through NO fault of barack obama). well, no on is blameless. i fault democrats for not growing any whilst king george fiddled as rome america burned.

fuck them. we have OTHER things to worry about. what a bunch of jealous, petty, evil-hearted asswipes

Unrest in Tennessee: House GOP chairman joins suit to overturn Obama's presidency
John Byrne
Democrats say GOP congressman joining suit is 'from Mars'
A Supreme Court decision apparently isn't enough for Tennessee lawmakers in the House.

Despite the fact that the Court rejected an effort to contest President Barack Obama's citizenship in a case earlier this year, four Tennessee lawmakers are still pushing a legal action to force the president to turn over his birth certificate and other documents to prove his citizenship.

It also comes after Obama posted a copy of his birth certificate on his campaign website.

Tennessee Republican congressmembers Eric Swafford, Stacey Campfield, Glen Casada and Frank Niceley have agreed to join a Russian immigrant in California's case against Obama -- which contends he's not eligible to be president, the Tennessean's Theo Emery reported Friday. Casada is the chairman of the House Republican caucus.

Ironically, the House chairman said his action was intended to quell discussion on the issue.........

hmmmmmmmmm

a rose a streamin' pile o' shite by any other name IS STILL A FUCKING STEAMIN' PILE O' SHITE

Blackwater Picks A New Name: It's Xe
NPR.org, February 13, 2009 · Blackwater Worldwide is abandoning its tarnished brand name.

Blackwater officials said Friday its family of two dozen businesses will now operate under the name Xe, pronounced like the letter "z."

The decision comes as part of an ongoing rebranding effort that grew more urgent following a September 2007 shooting in Iraq that left at least a dozen civilians dead.

Blackwater President Gary Jackson said in a memo to employees of the North Carolina-based company that the new name reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private security.........

Blackwater to change name to 'Xe'
Associated Press
......................The parent company's new name is pronounced like the letter "z." Blackwater Lodge & Training Center — the subsidiary that conducts much of the company's overseas operations and domestic training — has been renamed U.S. Training Center Inc., the company said Friday.

The decision comes as part of an ongoing rebranding effort that grew more urgent following a September 2007 shooting in Iraq that left at least a dozen civilians dead. Blackwater president Gary Jackson said in a memo to employees the new name reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private security.

"The volume of changes over the past half-year have taken the company to an exciting place and we are now ready for two of the final, and most obvious changes," Jackson said in the note...............

this is HORRID

although i just checked amazon for myself (since i do a LOT of shopping there myself) and there is NOTHING coming up when i type in the word 'rapelay' (thank the goddess for that one). what sort of sick fuckers INVENTED this 'game'? don't they have sisters and mothers and aunts and wives and women friends? hurting women, assaulting women, raping women are NOT games.


Exclusive: Amazon selling rape simulation game

By Gary Fennelly
A game that involves the player stalking victims and then raping them in a virtual world is being offered for sale by online retailer Amazon.com, the Belfast Telegraph's website can reveal.

The shocking 'rape simulator', Rapelay, is set in Japan and carries a sickening game description on the Amazon website. An MP said last night that he plans to raise the issue in Parliament.

Reviews by gaming websites have expressed horror at the basis for the game.

One website review describes "tears glistening in the young girl's eyes" as she is attacked in graphic detail.

Players begin the game by stalking a mother on a subway station before violently raping her. They then move on to attack her two daughters described as virgin schoolgirls.

Players are also allowed to enter 'freeform mode' where they can rape any woman and get other male game characters to join the attacks.

Pregnancy and abortion are listed as 'key features'. One review said: "If she does become pregnant you're supposed to force her to get an abortion, otherwise she gets more and more visibly pregnant each time you have sex.

"If you allow the child to be born then the woman will throw you in front of a train!" ..........

ah, i just read further down the story and found this:

.......................Update

After being contacted by the Belfast Telegraph Amazon today removed the webpage (still viewable here from Google's cache). A screenshot is also available at this location. The company would not comment on the item or say why it had been offered for sale through their website.........


original story found on boing boing

the revolution will NOT make you look five pounds lighter

it's good* to know


racism is alive and well AND COMFORTABLE in america! god(dess) bless us (and fucking deliver us from the evil that IS us)

Keeping whites and colors separate: The "U-Washee"


Filed by: Bil Browning

Racism is ingrained in the Midwest; we've normalized it. Take, for example, my earlier post on Tony Zirkle, the Hoosier Republican congressional candidate who spoke at a dinner honoring Hitler's birthday. (He also publicly advocated for racial segregation.) Zirkle lost, of course, but the fact that he had no problem publicly stating his racism - without thinking that others would object - shows just how commonplace overt racism can be here

One of the best examples is the "U-Washee" in Richmond, Indiana. The laundromat is, literally, built on racist stereotypes of Chinese people and no one gives it a passing glance. It's 1940's era cartoon stereotype mascot, what Margaret Cho calls "feng shui hong kong fooey font," and the extra "ee"s at the end of words in the business's name and posted notices all combine to form one hellish timewarp into a past America most areas have forgotten but we tend to accept as typical - and no one utters a peep.........................

picture from bilerico

*and when i say 'good' to know, you all know i'm being facetious, right?

from the aclu

a document proving (as if we needed FURTHER proof...well some like that asshole bishop who denies the holocaust are sticking their heads in the sand on this one as well) THE UNITED STATES TORTURES PEOPLE

Unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death
Stephen C. Webster
The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of "abusive" behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths.

The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request, contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was tapped to conduct a comprehensive review of Defense Department interrogation operations. Church specifically calls out interrogations at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan as "clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance."........

temporary 'judge' roger craik

is a steamin' pile o' shite

what did he do? a (grown) woman who was raped when she was 12 was testifying against her alleged attacker. she started freaking out on the witness stand (which believe me i CAN understand). the judge got pissed at her and tossed her in the can. thereby in my opinion assaulting her AGAIN

Judge locked up rape case witness

An alleged rape victim, who was locked up for trying to flee court when she was giving evidence, has made a complaint against the judge.

Temporary judge Roger Craik had the 43-year-old woman, who cannot be named, arrested and held in cells overnight.

The rape charge, which related to an alleged incident in the 1970s when the woman was 12, was eventually dropped.

The Crown Office said it had received the woman's complaint and would look into the case.

Young girls

Judicial public information officer Elizabeth Cutting said no complaint relating to the matter had been received by the Lord Justice General, the head of the High Court of Justiciary.

The accusations relate to the case against George Cummings, who was convicted last week of sexually abusing two young girls almost 40 years ago.

Mr Cummings, 69, was found guilty after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.....

..................

The woman who made the allegation, who is now 43, struggled to cope in the witness box.

Mr Craik, a sheriff acting as a temporary judge in the case, had her arrested and remanded in custody.

She spent the night in cells at St Leonard's Police Station in Edinburgh.......................

Thursday, February 12, 2009

i'm a vegan


to me, this is one of THE most horrific things i have ever heard of. what the fuck ARE they thinking? i post stuff from peta from time to time on my blogs. however, just to set the record straight, i WAS a card carrying peta member YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS ago. i tore that card up longggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ago. i didn't like lots of what they were doing then and i sure as shite do NOT fucking like what they're doing right now. it's as i said, HORRIFIC
(from feministe)


PETA Racism Goes Into Overload..........

No, that’s not the KKK staging a white supremacy demonstration.

Those are members of PETA, dressed up like the KKK.

Seriously.

“Welcome AKC Members,” read a banner hanging from the table — with AKC crossed out and KKK written above it. Two PETA protesters dressed as Ku Klux Klan members, while other volunteers handed out brochures that read: “The KKK and the AKC: BFF?”

“Obviously it’s an uncomfortable comparison,” PETA spokesman Michael McGraw said.

But the AKC is trying to create a “master race,” he added. “It’s a very apt comparison.”

They’ve made plenty of such racist parallels before, from comparing the admittedly atrocious practice of factory farming to the Holocaust, and animal cruelty to slavery and the lynching of black people...........

love it!

horrible carnage discovered february 5 in minneapolis




blakekelly0

(i found his/her videos from a link at boing boing. it was a kitten video on boing boing. it was good, but i like the carnage video BETTER)

an interesting story

i just happened upon

and by interesting i mean down right effing scary

Report: 'Dirty bomb' parts found in slain man's home
By Walter Griffin
BDN Staff
BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.”

According to an FBI field intelligence report from the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center posted online by WikiLeaks, an organization that posts leaked documents, an investigation into the case revealed that radioactive materials were removed from Cummings’ home after his shooting death on Dec. 9.

The report posted on the WikiLeaks Web site states that “On 9 December 2008, radiological dispersal device components and literature, and radioactive materials, were discovered at the Maine residence of an identified deceased [person] James Cummings.”

The section referring to Cummings can be read here.

It says that four 1-gallon containers of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, uranium, thorium, lithium metal, thermite, aluminum powder, beryllium, boron, black iron oxide and magnesium ribbon were found in the home. ........

i'm sort of speechless

on this one

67 computers missing from nuclear weapons lab
By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer Joan Lowy, Associated Press Writer –
WASHINGTON – The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 67 computers, including 13 that were lost or stolen in the past year. Officials say no classified information has been lost.

The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration outlining the loss of the computers.

Kevin Roark, a spokesman for Los Alamos, on Wednesday confirmed the computers were missing and said the lab was initiating a monthlong inventory to account for every computer. He said the computers were a cybersecurity issue because they may contain personal information like names and addresses, but they did not contain any classified information.

Thirteen of the missing computers were lost or stolen in the past 12 months, including three computers that were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to the memo and an e-mail from a senior lab manager...........

and here i was thinking i was the only one

who felt this way! i can't believe this is one of the FIRST msm outlets to actually come out and SAY something. you would have thought everyone would be saying this. it's the FIRST thing i thought of when i heard about a ram rod.

listen michael phelps is a young man. i would venture a guess 75% (it was more back in the day when i was coming up) of young peeps try a spliff. perhaps just once, but they DO try it. i wonder how many at kelloggs fired one up in the past? don't YOU wonder?

but a ram rod is a GOD among men (not to me i might add). so the lesson is it's NOT ok to smoke a fatty but it IS ok to take steroids, have your testicles shrink and get mean and nasty and be at wicked risk for heart and other health problems? makes sense to me. what about YOU?

oh and ke double l double good hear me when i say this. i DO NOT smoke pot, but guess what? i'm NOT buying your fucking cereal any more just for the principal.

CNN: Double standard for Phelps and A-Rod
David Edwards and Joe Byrne
"Is Michael Phelps getting a raw deal?" asks CNN's Jason Carrol.

Carroll reports that marijuana advocacy groups see a double standard between the way that Michael Phelps and Alex Rodriguez have been treated. A photo of Michael Phelps hitting a bong filled with marijuana smoke surfaced last week and has since been a hot topic in the blogging world, talk shows, and even CNN.

The owner of the famous 'Michael Phelps bong' and seven others were arrested in connection with the Phelps' bong photo, and "the local sheriff is still considering pursuing charges" against Phelps. In addition, as punishment for admitting the use of marijuana on the night of the bong photo, he has been suspended by USA Swimming for three months. Finally, Kellogg's has refused to renew Phelps' contract. Phelps issued a full apology for his behavior........

it's good to know

(AND it gives me the warm and fuzzies) our government has no issues with, and forgives all of their trespasses. who? the good ol' boyz of kbr / halliburton of course! why just the other day kbr was awarded a BRAND SPANKING NEW CONTRACT by the pentagon. and believe me, the accusation of bribery was the LEAST of their (kbr/halliburton) worries. (try accusations of rape and murder). so again, i say, it's so wonderful our government can see past all of that turn a blind eye to all of that and HIRE KBR once again. isn't america grand my peeps?


Halliburton, KBR Settle Bribery Allegations
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root have agreed to pay $579 million in fines related to allegations of foreign bribery, the biggest fines ever paid by U.S. companies in a foreign corruption case, federal authorities and the companies said yesterday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice alleged that Houston-based Halliburton and KBR were part of a joint venture that spent $182 million to bribe Nigerian government officials over a 10-year period to win more than $6 billion in construction contracts.

Halliburton, which owned KBR during the time of the alleged actions and spun it off in April 2007, will be responsible for paying all but $20 million of the penalty.

KBR, one of the top U.S. government contractors, pleaded guilty to violating the federal law banning companies from paying bribes to get business in foreign countries. Halliburton did not admit or deny wrongdoing. ......

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

does anyone else remember when bill o'wrongly

was on that cheezy celebrity tv 'news' show? i do
isn't he being a kettle?

ok now. i found where i want to go on vacation


Giant Midwest Mecca of Nerditude in Oklahoma

By Jim Merithew

PAUL'S VALLEY, Oklahoma — If you're a regular Wired.com reader, there's a good chance that collecting action figures topped the list of your future careers when you were a kid … and an adolescent. Let's face it, you'd still do it if you could. Well, Kevin Stark from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, has done it.

Stark is a figurine collector and comic book artist who has become the Action Figure Museum curator.......


The Adult Collector's Bedroom Diorama has more than 6,000 figures, none of which are glued down. That way, the exhibit is living and ever-changing.

Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com

a different (and more thorough) perspective


on the arrest of shepard fairey
(picture from wooster collective)
Was Shepard Fairey Arrested To Embarrass The Mayor Of Boston? - A First Hand Account

For those who know Shepard Fairey, the news of his arrest in Boston, on the eve of his opening at the ICA, came as a big surprise. We were surprised because for well over a week while Shepard was preparing the exhibition, the biggest show of his life, he was the talk of the town. Shepard was everywhere, from the front page of the arts section of the Boston Globe to a highly publicized media event with the Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino.

Remembering that Boston was the same city where the Police had manipulated a promotional stunt for the show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" into a full scale terror alert, we asked ourselves -

If the police wanted to arrest Shepard Fairey so badly, why did they wait so long after the warrant was issued to arrest him? In addition, why would they arrest him on the night of the biggest opening of his life at one of country's most prestigious art institutions?

Last night we spoke with Dave Combs, the publisher of PEEL Magazine, and were amazed to hear that the cops are actually pulled Shep out of a cab to arrest him and that they did it as Shepard was entering the museum parking lot.

This morning Dave sent us a long note about what went down. We wanted share it with you.

From Dave:

The real story about Shepard Fairey's arrest in Boston Friday night is the resulting riot that didn't happen – a riot that the Boston Police Department may have carefully planned to provoke and hoped would happen that evening, but didn't............................