According to the latest rumors, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are finished. Expanding upon that rumor is another interesting claim: that Jolie had an affair with Lady Gaga.
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Jolie is openly bisexual, and Lady Gaga is a rumored hermaphrodite who has insinuated in the past that she might be open to getting down with both girls and boys.
It's Angelina Jolie so by definition there is some hot involved, but it's also Lady Gaga so there is a little "ick" factor in there also. Throw in the way the Cleveland Leader makes her sound like a freak performing in the Cirque de 'Soleil and it comes off as a little disturbing to me.
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Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta.
The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s -- stands in central Jakarta's Menteng Park, a short walk from the US president's former elementary school.
Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian and 55,000 people have joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed.
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Members of the "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park" group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia.
"Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.
To be fair, he only lived there for a while after his mom married some guy and dragged him there when he was a little kid, and I don't think he ever had Indonesian citizenship, so it's not exactly like he owes them much of anything. Plus, it's not like he asked to have the statue put up.
On the other hand, we were told repeatedly by certain people (*cough* "Grown-up Barry" *cough*) that the fact that he had lived in a certain Muslim country (*cough* Indonesia *cough*) would endear him—and by extension, the rest of us—to Muslims around the world.
What I'm trying to say is that if you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go grab a schadenfreude-flavored pudding cup.
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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Posted by: alexthechick at January 27, 2010 09:10 AM (8WZWv)
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Anyone who looks up to a politician as an idol or hero is going to be let down. And sometimes it's funny to get to see it happen.
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Posted by: coaster at February 03, 2011 11:42 PM (tnKMK)
Kind of like President's Day but more Boomy
That American Saint, John Moses Browning, was born on this date in 1855.
In a just world, today would be one of America's biggest holidays with Saint Browning giving all the good boys and girls .45ACP and .50 BMG rounds with the day's festivities ending with the Shooting of the BAR.
I'm off to send some 235 grain projectiles down-range at high velocity using two of the finest slayers of enemies of America, the 1911 and .45 ACP, that he invented.
Posted by: Dick Stanley at January 23, 2010 05:08 PM (eGsC1)
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^Well he's more of a national saint and religious holidays usually have some sort of gift giving.
Speaking of which, my friend went to Prague for work in December and saw one of the coolest holiday traditions, I just saw his pics about an hour ago.
Saint Nicolaus, an angel and the Devil stroll around town together. The Devil tries to scare kids and if they don't run away they get stuff from the angel and Saint Nick.
That's just cool. None of that pansy ass "Have you been a good little girl or boy?" It's "Do you have balls? Well do ya punk?"
If you're a small country in the middle of fucking Europe you better either have balls or lick them. Or be France and do both.
Posted by: Veeshir at January 23, 2010 07:07 PM (22Mpp)
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I celebrated with 200 rounds of .45acp through my 1911, 150 rounds through my CZ 75b, and 250 rounds through my Ruger MK III .22. The acp was for Browning, the rest was for me.
Posted by: Elliott at January 23, 2010 07:55 PM (bYTjt)
Credit where credit is due
I am not a Sanjay Gupta fan. For the most part, I find his "reporting" to be deserving of the scare quotes. From what I've seen, he's yet another one of those RUN RUN EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU types.
Having said that, I give him credit for this. He was reporting in Haiti when a bunch of doctors left a group of patients. Gupta took off the reporter hat, put on the doctor hat and tried to do the best he could to care for the patients. He's getting kudos for that and both he and his crew should. They did the right thing.
I am trying very very very hard to give the benefit of the doubt to those who left but I'm finding it hard to do so. Yes, Haiti is, basically, in a state of anarchy. Yes, there are very legitimate concerns for safety. But I cannot begin to conceive of walking away and letting other people die if I were responsible for their care. Hell, I'm not a doctor, I don't even play one on the internet, and I can't imagine leaving in that situation.
Good for Gupta. This is one of those situations where objectivity and the like should go flying out the window. Damn it, Jim, he's a doctor, not a reporter and he did the right thing.
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They were European doctors. Maybe they take a different oath there. Here, we view our oath as a binding covenant with our patients. I am to risk my life if necessary. For most of us, that never occurs. Recently, for a lot of us the H1N1 pandemic was a terrible unknown. Some of us were reluctant to work around these patients and return to our families at the end of the day for fear of bringing the germs home. We did so anyways, although with a little excess careful masking and gloving and gown changing. We discussed this in the cafeteria today. Unanimously, all docs here agreed. The Belgians were wrong on moral grounds. The danger was real but the patients come first. I doubt you would see an American team abandon their charges. At least I hope that to be the case.
Posted by: checkers at January 18, 2010 08:53 PM (6v/TB)
Is there something in the water? Like maybe meth?
This is a bit of local blogging so forgive me for that.
Very very very condensed background - I live in the NE PA area. Most of you may only be vaguely area that there's an enormous corruption scandal in Luzerne County right now. So far, three judges have been indicted and removed from office and there have been a whole bunch of other people pleading guilty for kickbacks. There are allegations of case fixing. It's an utter disaster, complete and total disaster. The public, quite rightly, assumes that the "justice" system is anything but.
So. That's the background to explain why I just flailed and gaped over this.
This guy was specifically appointed by the PA Supreme Court to come into Luzerne County to hear cases since the Court is so backed up. What does he do? Apparently, choke his wife.
What the fucking hell! Seriously, if Grisham wrote a novel with this stuff in it, his editor would laugh him out of the building.
I know a lot of people think this will be the death knell for the Times, but will it? The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist, all charge for content and seem to be doing OK.
This change probably will have a major effect on news bloggers however. That loss of content will leave a major hole in a lot of blogs content, and if the Times is successful and other papers follow suit that whole will just get bigger.
If that happens what will develop to fill the void? Or will the news blog die?
Althouse asks the relevant question, how many page views will the Times lose because of this? How will that affect their advertising rates?
If it was me I would hire some web page design gurus to develop a system that won't allow a blogger to cut and paste unless they accept an ad from one of the Times' paid advertisers to be embedded on the blog. That seems like the best possible solution. They could even develop a profile system so that Pro-life bloggers don't end up with Planned Parenthood. They could also develop an associates program so if you accept more than the minimum ads then you get a cut of the sales. (I know that's capitalist crazy talk)
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Years ago I cancelled my free nytimes.com account & paid for a subscription to wsj.com - it was worth it.
Posted by: Lazy at January 18, 2010 11:48 AM (/Kj6n)
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Full disclosure, I work in the online newspaper industry. The recent shift to paid content that the papers are trying out is just plain old dumb. It's a dinosaur model based on the print product. "We charge for the paper product, so it makes sense to charge for the online product. After all, we wouldn't want to compete with our print content."
What they don't seem to understand is, even if THEY don't compete with their print content, everyone else on the internet does. Realistically, you can charge for content if your content is: a) high demand (i.e. porn. folks will pay for nekkid pictures) b) unique (if you can't get that content anywhere else, folks will pay for it, e.g. NFL livestreaming games) c) if all your competitors are charging for it (premium cable channels work like this, but I can't think of a single example on the internet)
What the newspapers fail to realize is no one NEEDS to go to them for the content. What news does the NYT put out that you can't get from CNN or Fox or MSNBC or any other news source? For free? If you hit a registration wall at NYT or LA Times, you can just go somewhere else and get the same news.
"But the WSJ has paid content, doesn't that prove you're wrong?" Not at all. What you're paying for at WSJonline is NOT the news content, but the editorial content. Which, I will point out, is both right leaning AND high demand. Nationally, people subscribe to the WSJ less for the news content (though that does occur amongst industry insiders on Wall Street) for that editorial content. You cannot get those editorials any other way (they're not nationally syndicated). Right now, the NYT (as well as the LA Times, and just about every other national paper) is very hard left leaning. And just as left-wing radio doesn't work, neither does national left wing editorializing.
Sure, back when printed newspapers were the major source for news content, people would nationally subscribe to national newspapers. It's why USA Today even exists. But they're getting murdered by the 24 hour newscycle. A print product cannot compete with a cable network or the internet. To make matters worse, rather than post stories to the internet like a TV station would (breaking news is their bread and butter), the newspaper industry is bound hand and foot to their production cycle. I've had publishers scream bloody murder when we've put up time sensitive content for their sites because we "scooped their story" before the print edition went out. "Who wants to buy a newspaper when they already read it online!" That's their frequent complaint. What they fail to realize is that folks will get that news somewhere before the print product is off the press. If they're not getting it from your website, they WILL get it elsewhere and now you've not only failed to sell that paper, but you've also lost that customer to another website.
For internet news, there is exactly one workable revenue stream. It's the banner/popup/interstitial ad that you (as a user) suffer through for all of 10-20 seconds before watching that video you want, or get that webpage to come up. Users WILL tolerate a 10-20 second waste of their time, and some of them might even give a damn about the ad. There's actually money to be made there, it's how TV and radio have ALWAYS made their money. But the newspaper industry is too hidebound to see it. They can only think in their old school terms, and it will bring them to their end even faster than is currently happening.
Posted by: MikeD at January 18, 2010 12:15 PM (FkL60)
Last person that hid Frank family has passed
Miep Gies was from one of the many families that hid Jews from the Nazis in Holland during WWII, Gies was the one who kept Anne Frank's now famous diary when Anne and her family were captured by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camps. Two of the people in the network Gies operated with were also arrested because of the same informant that revealed the Frank family. During the time Gies held the diary, she refrained from reading it, which according to her, saved the writings,
Mixed into the entries were the names of the Dutch helpers, who risked their lives to keep the family's secret.
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didn't read Anne's diary papers. ... It's a good thing I didn't because
if I had read them I would have had to burn them," she said in the 1998
interview. "Some of the information in them was dangerous."
She handed the writings to Otto Frank, who was the only member of the Frank family to survive the Holocaust. Gies was just one of thousands of Dutch citizens to hide Jewish refugees and citizens from the Nazis.
Uh, yeah, we can, watch us. We cannot allow relativist fucktards like Stone to go unanswered, especially now, as the generation that witnessed the horrific atrocities of the Nazi regime age and pass on. I know Hitler's story, I know German history during the time of the World Wars, I know the story of the rise and fall of Nazism, I spent four years learning Western history, and continue to learn more daily, I don't need Stone's "context" to know that Hitler and the Nazi ideology were evil and destructive to their core. We cannot allow moral relativists like Stone continue to undermine the public's ability to make moral judgment, not only because of the destruction it can wreak on our society today, but to honor the heroes like Miep Gies, and the victims like Anne Frank.
More reasons to keep things like history textbooks from years past. To be able to show other people more of the history they keep airbrushing out and over. When new facts come to light, I expect textbooks to change to reflect that. But they are changing things to match movies and popular sentiment, not facts -that's no way to educate anyone. And more reason (as if there needed to be more) to not see any Stone movies.
Posted by: Nicole at January 12, 2010 11:51 AM (Lgaa+)
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Perhaps the saddest thing about Anne Frank is how utterly, astoundingly wrong she was about human nature.
Wake up, folks. She died in a concentration camp. I know play time utopia is a warm fuzzy place where there are no bad people, only bad situations created by greed, but that's not reality.
Posted by: TheUnrepentantGeek at January 12, 2010 12:52 PM (g1cNf)
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Miep Gies hated being consodered a "hero." She thought she did what everyone should do. Her story should be nothing special. Unfortunately it is because evil is so banal.
Posted by: quasimodo at January 12, 2010 12:59 PM (qZDSX)
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I love how Oliver Stone lumps McCarthy in with Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
Posted by: alexthechick at January 12, 2010 01:02 PM (8WZWv)
