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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

stephen, don't know if it's THE worst....

but it's sure right up there!


John McCain and The Worst Campaign Ad Ever


Stephen C. Webster


Facing a strong challenge from the political right by way of former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is doing his best to appear as conservative as possible.

Apparently, his best is perhaps the worst, most ineffectual, pandering campaign ad ever — that just happens to carry a message he personally mocked in a national magazine interview only three years ago................


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you just have to say and pray

these are the people whose father or mother dropped on their heads whilst they were babies. that would be the ONLY reason to explain this

Poll: Ten percent of Americans believe environmentalists intentionally caused oil spill
By John Byrne

Fifth of those polled say disaster increases their belief in drilling

Ten percent of Americans believe environmentalists intentionally sabotaged the oil rig Deepwater Horizon off the Gulf Coast according to a poll released Tuesday, apparently as part of a ploy to reduce Americans' support for offshore drilling.

The surprising finding was contained in a poll released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh floated the idea on his nationally syndicated talk show.

Polling director Tom Jensen downplayed the finding in a blog post, arguing that the figure was insignificant. He noted, however, that if "undecideds" were included, the number of Americans who are unsure about or believe the environmental sabotage theory rises to more than thirty percent.//////////

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

i love love love horror movies


but of late, there is a LOT of torture porn out there. that, i don't like (you know the saws and the hostels). that i DO NOT like.

i never heard of this movie. it sounds wonderful AND horrid all at the same time. it sounds like i want to see it BUT after seeing the trailer on youtube (i'm not going to embed it. i don't want anyone mad at me over THAT), i don't think i will see it

The most disturbing movie ever made?

By Breeanna Hare, Special to CNN

CNN) -- If the title alone isn't enough to make you squirm, a brief rundown of the premise for the indie horror movie, "The Human Centipede," certainly will. Any film involving three humans sharing a single digestive tract obviously isn't aiming to be easy on the eyes.

Yet director/writer Tom Six's portrayal of a crazed surgeon who takes his skills at separating conjoined twins and uses them to create his own living human insect has left some critics appalled that it was even created; venerated critic Roger Ebert didn't think his star rating system was even applicable.

"No horror film I've seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than 'The Human Centipede,'" Ebert wrote in his review. "The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and it occupies a world where the stars don't shine."

These kind of reviews -- filled with cautious synopses that often start with "warning, if you have a weak stomach, stop reading" -- is also exactly the kind of thing that piques the curiosity of fans of horror or "torture porn," although "Centipede" is thought to be such a psychologically challenging picture that it's almost outside of that category, said Rachel Belofsky, director of movie festival Screamfest L.A................

magnet (mark davis)


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Bain News Service,, publisher. Queen of Bavaria [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative :..

from the flickr page of the library of congress

walyou is having a give away


for vuzix wrap 310 video specs

why not enter?

Insect collages from both the Butterflies and Insects collections at the NYPL Digital Gallery, circa 1920's.

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give this a read

it's short, funny AND scary


Sarah Palin: “U.S Law Should be Based on the Bible!”


CJ Werleman

Author ’God Hates You. Hate Him Back’ (Making Sense of the Bible)



i didn't always like how he portrayed women



but i sure did know he was one talented artist.


Frank Frazetta 1928-2010

BY The Beat
..........one of the last known public photos of Frazetta, shown in February at a family barbeque in Florida with his daughters and granddaughter...

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Frank Frazetta was born February 9, 1928. His early artistic career consisted of years of exquisitely drawn comics work, including contributions to the EC line of comics, assisting Al Capp on L’il Abner and later drawing several years of the strip, and working with Harvey Kurtzman on Little Annie Fanny.

In the ’60s, Frazetta turned to cover paintings for the thriving pulp paperback industry and created one of the most recognizable illustration styles of all time. His covers for Conan, Tarzan and other rough-hewn heroes created a visceral, violent, erotic yet somehow still nuanced visual style that has been endlessly imitated but never surpassed — Frazetta’s imagery of brawny, relentless swordsmen, seductive, fleshy sirens and hellfire breathing monsters had a gut level impact because it came from the gut — his many followers were just tracing without the passion of the originals.............

this is rather enough now


when is ALL of american going to say FUCK YOU to faux 'news'? it's TIME

‘Fair and balanced’ network: ‘Liberal media helping terrorists?’
By David Edwards


Curious "fair and balanced" minds at Fox News want to know if the "liberal media" is aiding and abetting terrorists. "LIBERAL MEDIA HELPING TERRORISTS?" a large graphic on the screen asked during Fox & Friends Monday.

"Do media outlets like The New York Times aid and abet terrorists by leaking national security secrets," Fox News host Brian Kilmeade wondered.

"Some say, 'Oh, they do that.' Including helping the Times Square bomber plan his attack without being detected," suggested Kilmeade..........

Monday, May 10, 2010

they pulled the trailer (faux did) but i saw it


and if you checked out my blog a few days ago YOU got to see it too. OBVIOUSLY it wasn't real and OBVIOUSLY a bunch of 'illegal aliens' ARE NOT GOING TO MACHETE WHITE FOLK into itty bitty pieces.

geeze louise

‘Machete’ trailer recut to blast Arizona immigration law sparks wild ‘race war’ fears

By Ron Brynaert

The tagline for the classic 1972 Wes Craven thriller The Last House on the Left advised the weak of heart: "To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only a movie...It's only a movie.'"

But what happens if the movie is based on a fake trailer, and a second politicized fake trailer is "leaked" to help promote it?

Weeks after putting out an alert about illegal immigrants allegedly plotting armed rebellion with shovels and axes, the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is now concerned about a new film which depicts "an army of machete and AK-47 wielding illegal aliens in a violent uprising."

Last Thursday, Soraya Roberts reported for the NY Daily News, "Don't mess with Robert Rodriguez."

The Mexican filmmaker recut an illegal trailer for his new Mexploitation flick, "Machete," for Cinco de Mayo - as a message to Arizona.............

if it's your b-day............

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monday faux humor 'news' bag o' streamin' LIES LIES AND THE LIARS that tell the lies




Despite conservatives’ claims, 70 percent of Arizona’s Latinos oppose new anti-immigrant law.

By Andrea Nill

Over the past few weeks, right-wing proponents of Arizona’s draconian immigration law inexplicably claimed that the majority of Latinos in Arizona support the new anti-immigrant law. Some examples:

Marco Rubio: Polling has shown that Americans of Hispanic descent in Arizona support this bill just as strongly as the general population does.

J.D. Hayworth: Interestingly, a majority of Hispanics agree that this law should be enforced here in Arizona.

Bill O’Reilly: I’m not buying the fact that Hispanic-Americans en masse are against the law..................

more (and we all know this isn't even the TIP of the iceberg

if i didn't know better (and i am not sure i do), i might start thinking the catholic church is an on purpose breeding ground for pedophiles

And yet another story of an abusive priest shuffled within the church

What the hell is the matter with the Catholic church? They're a bunch of sick people running the show if this is how they think rapists should be handled. Same story, different location.

A rutted red dirt track leads to the "bar," a couple of homemade wood benches in the shade of an old tree dripping with wild mangoes. Within easy reach, there's a yellow plastic jerry can of the fiery palm wine the American priest loved.

A 40-year-old schoolteacher now charges that the Rev. James Tully gave the palm wine to teenage boys to make them more susceptible to his advances.....................

years and years ago

on some talk show (it could have even been merv, i really don't remember or it could even have been ed bradley's interview with her on 60 minutes...), lena told a story. she said 'they' (they meaning the powers than ran show biz) could get her more gigs if she was willing to 'pass'. they could say she was brazilian or some other exotic south american nationality. lena said NOPE. i'm black and that's how it is

lena you inspired and entertained. you were courageous. you were one of the women that went before. you paved the way. i thank you







Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan.

Her death was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley.

Ms. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM in the 1940s because of the color of her skin, although she was so light-skinned that, when she was a child, other black children had taunted her, accusing her of having a “white daddy.”

Ms. Horne was stuffed into one “all-star” musical after another — “Thousands Cheer” (1943), “Broadway Rhythm” (1944), “Two Girls and a Sailor” (1944), “Ziegfeld Follies” (1946), “Words and Music” (1948) — to sing a song or two that could easily be snipped from the movie when it played in the South, where the idea of an African-American performer in anything but a subservient role in a movie with an otherwise all-white cast was unthinkable............


Sunday, May 09, 2010

you may call it church

i may call it CHILD ABUSE



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odd but interesting


the skeleton lake of roopkund

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for your mother's day listening pleasure: sunday with the english beat

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from 10 zen monkeys


The Most Depressing Children’s Books Ever Written


By Destiny

1. The Jester Has Lost His Jingle

"Here I lie, I have a tumor...

And you ask me where's my sense of humor?"


This book was written by a 22-year-old diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, who died just before it was published. Published posthumously, it became a best-seller in 1995, and received a touching afterward by Maurice Sendak. ("I remember the face — the enthusiasm....") .........

i'm not a fan of maher BUT

one must give him props for this one:

Maher on Limbaugh’s oil remarks: ‘You know what, you dipsh*t? Mercury’s natural too’

By Stephen C. Webster

HBO's liberal talk show Bill Maher has never been one to mince words. Last Friday night was no exception.

In the midst of a panel discussion on the massive BP oil spill that's contaminated the Gulf of Mexico in recent weeks, Maher took aim at Republican radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who only days prior whipped up a firestorm of rhetorical controversy by claiming that such pollution is "natural" and will simply go away.

"That's right, a petrochemical stew is very natural to wetlands," Maher scowled. "You know what, you dipshit? Mercury's natural too, but you don't put it in your Cheerios."

Another of Limbaugh's recent and patently untrue statements on the BP oil spill -- that "environmentalist wackos" were to blame for the Deepwater Horizon rig's destruction -- was also met with similar disdain by Maher, who scoffed: "Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty."

During his Friday broadcast, the liberal host also took aim at Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry, who suggested in a recent speech to the global warming denying Chamber of Commerce that the disaster was "just an act of God that happened."...........