A few of my favorite things

Behold amazing images from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Another Republican anti-gay rights lawmaker by day, gay-hooker-loving tranny by night

Washington state Republican lawmaker resigns amid gay sex scandal

A Republican state legislator resigned Wednesday amid revelations that he had sex with a man he met at a pornographic video store while in Spokane on a party retreat.

The move comes days after state Rep. Richard Curtis insisted to his local newspaper that he was not gay and that sex was not involved in what he said was an extortion attempt by a man last week.

But in police reports, Curtis said he was being extorted by a man he had sex with at a hotel room in Spokane, where Curtis was attending a GOP retreat. The other man, Cody Castagna, 26, contends Curtis reneged on a promise to pay $1,000 for sex.

The police report states that Curtis allegedly wore women’s clothing, red stockings and “a black sequined lingerie top before engaging in a sex act at the store. He continued to wear them throughout the night under his clothing,” the paper reported

Curtis is married and has children, according to his legislative Web site. Elected to the state House of Representatives in 2004, he voted in 2005 and 2006 against a bill that granted civil rights protections to gays and lesbians, and in 2007 voted against a bill that created domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Both measures eventually passed the Democratic-controlled state Legislature and are now state law.

HOW MUCH LONGER CAN CLOSETED REPUBLICANS KEEP THIS UP? I feel bad for them, though I'm glad when their hypocrisy is exposed.

Anti-Gay Church hopes God can cover 10.9 mil tab

I blogged on these fruit loops before. Looks like they finally got slapped for their insane hate-in-the-name-of-god bullshit.

From CNN.com

Church ordered to pay $10.9 million for funeral protest

Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania, sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.

Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags."

The church and three of its leaders -- the Rev. Fred Phelps and his two daughters, Shirley Phelps-Roper and Rebecca Phelps-Davis, 46 -- were found liable for invasion of privacy and intent to inflict emotional distress.

Snyder claimed the protests intruded upon what should have been a private ceremony and sullied his memory of the event.

The church members testified they are following their religious beliefs by spreading the message that the deaths of soldiers are due to the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.

Their attorneys argued in closing statements Tuesday that the burial was a public event and that even abhorrent points of view are protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and religion.

The judge said the church's financial statements, sealed earlier, could be released to the plaintiffs.

Members of the group sang "God Hates America" to the tune of "God Bless America."

Snyder sobbed when he heard the verdict, while members of the church greeted the news with tightlipped smiles.

Human species 'may split in two'

FROM BBC NEWS:

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology.

People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

Race 'ironed out'

But in the nearer future, humans will evolve in 1,000 years into giants between 6ft and 7ft tall, he predicts, while life-spans will have extended to 120 years, Dr Curry claims.

Physical appearance, driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility, will improve, he says, while men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.

Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features, he adds. Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.

However, Dr Curry warns, in 10,000 years time humans may have paid a genetic price for relying on technology.

Spoiled by gadgets designed to meet their every need, they could come to resemble domesticated animals.

Receding chins

Social skills, such as communicating and interacting with others, could be lost, along with emotions such as love, sympathy, trust and respect. People would become less able to care for others, or perform in teams.

Physically, they would start to appear more juvenile. Chins would recede, as a result of having to chew less on processed food.

There could also be health problems caused by reliance on medicine, resulting in weak immune systems. Preventing deaths would also help to preserve the genetic defects that cause cancer.

Further into the future, sexual selection - being choosy about one's partner - was likely to create more and more genetic inequality, said Dr Curry.

The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine.

"While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is a possibility of a monumental genetic hangover over the subsequent millennia due to an over-reliance on technology reducing our natural capacity to resist disease, or our evolved ability to get along with each other, said Dr Curry.

He carried out the report for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.

Live Long, and... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

A new procedure allows people to now do what Captain Kirk did when posing as a Romulan in Star Trek... GET VULCAN EARS! These are real patients.When asked by the media for a quote on this trend, Science Officer Spock said "Are they fucking nuts???? But anyway... um... is that brunette available for Pon Farr next year? She's HOT!"
See the illogical results HERE.

Marie Osmond - Fallroom dancer

No reason, just funny. She makes an awesome THUMP when she hits the ground. Looking at the first 30 seconds of the clip she must have been mixing Cocaine, Diet Coke and Pop-Rocks.

When Rupert Murdoch controls all the news you see, hear and read, you can thank this prick.

Above image is of the FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a loyal "Bushie" for years and is now trying to fast-track the further easing of regulatory laws which would allow a single company to own both a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city. This would be a great boon for those who find profit and power in controlling all the news you see, hear and read.

If approved, the new rules could take effect as early as this December. The FCC DOES NOT need to ask you for permission to do so. Americans do not get to vote on this.

This is something they tried to do a few years ago when another loyal Bushie and Colin Powell's son Michael (I recall listening to Howard Stern tear him a new one on the air in 2003 or so). At that time, millions of Americans mobilized, wrote letters to Congress and the FCC to do something about it, and there’s this landmark lawsuit called Prometheus v. FCC that blocked it. Of course, if such a thing happens again, the Supreme Court is very nicely set up to do Bush's will.

Martin’s push to rewrite existing rules was revealed by North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan (Democrat) during a Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday. But Senator Dorgan vowed to put up a fight and said, "If the chairman intends to do something by the end of the year, then there will be a firestorm of protest, and I am going to be carrying the wood,” he said.

Martin leads a body of 5 FCC Commission (3 are republican, at least two are nominated by George Bush.)

These are their faces:

Feel like complaining? Hey try to bitch directly to the FCC. They may ignore it but it feels good to go on record.

CLICK HERE

"Yesterday my Mormon neighbor threw away her son's Dumbledore Halloween costume."

Above was a posting on a web site I stumbled on. Oh the insanity.

On the flipside, here's what the blog I Watch Stuff said about the "controversy"...

Harry Potter author JK Rowling announced the character of Dumbledore was gay. In response, my roommate said, "No shit. The whole fucking thing is gay."

At least we can settle the "Is he gay" thing.

BANGKOK, Thailand - David Copperfield has canceled upcoming shows in Southeast Asia following an FBI search of his Las Vegas warehouse and a casino theater where he regularly performs.

"His management sent an e-mail to organizers Sunday to inform that his shows will be postponed indefinitely," Kittiyong Achawaphong of RSi Dream Entertainment said Monday. The company organized the 51-year-old magician's shows in Thailand.

Copperfield was also scheduled to perform in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore in the coming weeks. The cancellations came after FBI agents conducted searches in Las Vegas last week following allegations that Copperfield "forced himself" on an unidentified woman.

Associated Press

From Russia With... ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?

"FATHER OF ALL BOMBS" tested in Russia.

Apparently Putin isn't above getting into a pissing contest with America for "dumbest superpower". For reasons completely inexplicable, Russia is spending time figuring out new and exciting ways to obliterate in even more astounding ways. They are proud to announce the successful test of a vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs."

"Test results of the new airborne weapon have shown that its efficiency and power is commensurate with a nuclear weapon," Alexander Rukshin, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff, told Russia's state ORT First Channel television.

Pictures showed what looked like a flattened multi-storey block of flats surrounded by scorched soil and boulders. "The soil looks like a lunar landscape," the report said.

"The main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shockwave and an incredibly high temperature," the reports said. "All that is alive merely evaporates."

The report said the new bomb was much stronger than the U.S.-built Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- MOAB, also known under its name "Mother of All Bombs." "So, Russian designers called the new weapon 'Father of All Bombs'," it said. Clever! LMAO! LOL! ROTFL! It seems the US has been having fun with these sort of bombs in our Middle East romp, and Russia wants to keep up.

Here's the kicker, folks:

Rukshin said: "At the same time, I want to stress that the action of this weapon does not contaminate the environment, in contrast to a nuclear one."

Hahahahaa... Heeeheeee.... YOU TURNED THE LAND INTO A LUNAR FUCKING LANDSCAPE! THIS WOULD ONLY BE ENVIROMENTALLY ACCEPTABLE ON.... I dunno... THE MOON????????

Now they will feel okay with dropping these bad boys under the reasoning that they arent creating nuclear fallout, so it's okay. Nuclear fallout is the only thing that's kept us from using more nukes up until now.

We will not stop until we have turned this planet into a desert. Luckily we'll have less fallout to contaminate our ashes.

The "Miss USA is a twinkie" post.

What kind of self-respecting blogger would I be if I didn't post this?



Okay, so she's dumb as a stump. She's FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. Aren't we expecting a little much to ask them to think deep thoughts?

There is nothing more powerful in this world than a beautiful white woman. It's our most valued commodity, for better or worse. I mean, this chick will never have to pay for a drink in her life. The world is her oyster. Does she really need intelligence TOO??? Can us poor smart but ugly people have something to call our own? Of course we can. How else can we snicker at her and tell ourselves how morally superior we are for being average looking but killer at Photoshop.

What I did over summer vacation...

So I've been asked where the hell I've been this month...

1. Was completely slammed at work and started to look like hell. Seems that working 18 hour days for three months has an effect on your face, meaning it looks like tuna fish. So I cut out everything that wasn't absolutely vital. All I did was work work work (and cruise celebrity blogs for updates on Britney Spears... I just can't look away).



2. I did actually take the family on vacation. We went to Washington DC. Saw dinos at the Smithsonian. Saw George Washington's dress jacket. The Bill of Rights. Hope diamond. Some art. You know the deal.



3. MOST IMPORTANT: I was having trouble finding stuff to actually bitch about! Karl Rove... GONE. Alberto V05 Gonzales... GONE. Republican Senator caught in sex scandal (as opposed to Democratic Senator)... when everything is going right for a change, what is there to bitch about?

A Clinton win is a two for one sale?

My wife thinks that having Hilary win would give us the added benefit of having Clinton back. I tend to think of the Bill Clinton years as a collection of missed opportunities. Would President Clinton #2 really be that great? I'm not so sure. I do give Bill a lot of credit for having the charisma to keep his female supporters in spite of his cigar fun. Above is a graphical representation of the Clinton/Clinton presidency as many see it, I assume. Personally, I don't think Hilary would even let Bill use the toilet in the White House, much less affect policy.

ADDED September 13: It appears that polls recently taken suggest that if she actually looked like above photo, her poll numbers would increase by 50%.

It's Armageddon. Bruce Willis better get an MBA quick.

I don't really have any idea what this guy is going on about but, supercilious Brit that I am, I enjoy seeing American financiers get flustered about the state of your economy. They really do take it all so seriously.

Maybe they should a leaf out of the French worker's manual and take 10 weeks holiday a year to learn to chill out about it all.

Massachusetts must feel like a hungover 23 year-old girl the morning after a one-night stand.

Mitt Romney's been working hard to shed the "of Massachusetts" part of the "Former Governor of Massachusetts" bullet on his resume. For example, from his web site:

"The U.S. Supreme Court would see more conservative justices under a Mitt Romney administration, the former Massachusetts governor told an audience at the McKelvie Middle School last night.

"'I will tell you that this is a watershed point for the Supreme Court,' Romney said. 'And I will appoint justices like Roberts and Alito and Scalia . . . and Thomas.'

Has anyone else thought it odd that Mitt Romney was somehow able to swoop into one of the most liberal states in the union, romance her, make eye contact, give her an expensive dinner at a swank nightspot, then got her drunk and fucked her sport-sex-style in a calculated resume builder move for his presidential bid? It's almost like he said... governor of a state... CHECK! Now let's shed those liberal statements and grab them bible-belt Republicans with one liners like 'We should DOUBLE the size of Gitmo!'

The next morning, Massachusetts wakes up and in the cold light to realize Mitt was all ready gone without so much as a note, realizing she just did "the deed" with everything she actually loathes.

It must have been the cheap wine and the expensive suit.

Make up your own mind about Mitt HERE

I can't bear to blog about Gonzales... let's just let Stewart do it.

Daily Show: thanks for suffering through the latest in Bush/Gonzales bullshit, cause my eyes bleed when I look at his face. What a joke. Can anyone support this administration? Is it only the militant wing of the GOP left?

Is a good-looking president more important than a good president?

While at the gym a little while back, I met a lovely retiree named Sylvia. We chatted a little (as people at the gym who don't feel like being at the gym do) and somehow got onto politics. The Republican presidential debates were the night before. Going though the list of candidates, she was quite taken with Mitt Romney.

"He looks good, doesn't he? Very presidential."

And he certainly does. You can see him sipping brandy with Putin, giving the State of the Union, and would look dashing while threatening North Korea.

But it that the most important thing? In the age of television, we tend to choose our Presidents more like we pick a prom king (or now, queen). At the very least their "look" is an important part of the equation. Does he look the part? Does he look good in a suit? How's the hair; full with a trace of grey on the sides? Tall? How are the jowls? Maybe it's all a throwback to the alpha male syndrome. Maybe we want a leader who looks like he could kill a wolly mammoth and feed the tribe. Anyway, I'm not trying to make any specific judgements over these runners here, just saying let's not rule anyone out based on looks. We can always give the short guys a milk crate to step on when they get behind the podium.

Here are a few examples of people who might NOT make the cut these days based on the exteriors:

Bad teeth. Really bad. Plus he looks slightly femine. May be soft on terror. Plus Ann Coulter would tag him a "faggot" within a week.

A cripple? No way.

And you thought Kerry was too craggy? This dude looks like he got hit by a garbage truck.

Hmmm... I wonder how many people died of leprosy today...

Ever ask yourself that question? What about today's prison growth? Illegal immigrants crossing the border? The exact temperature of the Earth?

Wonder no longer. Thanks to the genius of poodwaddle.com, you can find out! They cleverly tie into several resources to get the data, and it's disturbingly addictive to watch.

poodwaddle.com

Thanks for this one Chris!

Why didn't somebody tell me Kucinich's wife was this SMOKING HOT???

I don't think I am shocking anyone with this: MEN ARE JUDGED BY WHO THEY ARE SLEEPING WITH. That said, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democratic third-tier candidate for president, NEEDS to put his 29 year-old tongue-pierced wife Elizabeth front-and-center. Dennis seems like a solid guy, he's says the right things, voted for and against the right things, and has the right attitude. On the down side, he looks like a garden gnome. In the world of political celebrity, looks matter, sorry to say. Blame JFK. But, like the concept that you can smoke coal out your ass but "carbon offset" that amount by planting trees or whatever, Dennis can use "gnome-offset credits" by getting this woman out front.

Dennis, Please accept this rough concept for your next poster (above).

No need to thank me... thank YOU. You give geeks everywhere hope.

Is it just me or does Gravel and Kucinich have a whole Jack Klugman/Tony Randall thing going?

Show of hands: who watched the YouTube/CNN debate? That many huh. Too bad, cause I thought it was great. I think any approach that differs from the status quo is good. They had YouTubers publish questions and used those to keep the Democrats off-balance. They will do the same to do the Republicans shortly.

What shocked me was Dennis K... did everyone know hot hot his wife was (yes, I'm obsessed)? He could offset his gnomey look by putting her more front and center. You have to hand it to a guy that can look like that but marry someone who looks like THAT. If he can pull that off, he can do anything. He's got my vote.

Gravel is also wonderful, as always. This guy has been around too. It's too bad he comes off like an angry Grampa, cause he's done a lot, including sticking it to Nixon with the "The Pentagon Papers", which is all but forgotten.

But them both on a ticket and you'd have the Odd Couple of American politics. Bet they'd do quite a good job too.

How do you measure up, part two...

Another interesting quiz which determines your party affiliation. This one takes a little more work and thought, but it got it right for me. Go Nader 08! :-/

http://www.3pc.net/matchmaker/quiz.html

Thanks again Chris.

How do you measure up?

Ever wonder exactly what you "are" politically? From my experience if you are 100% sure you are a "liberal" or a "conservative", chances are you're in the minority. If you want to take an interesting (and fast) quiz to determine what a computer thinks of your political leanings, here's a great little quiz:

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

Here's how I turned out. Pretty much as I imagined myself.


Thanks to Chris (Technology and Human Interaction Blog) for this as well as his always interesting and thought-provoking point-of-view.

Thank Goddess It's Friday. I'm exhausted.

Have a good weekend everyone. Thanks for visiting.

Go get "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"... if you want to meet Satan.

You've been warned by the psycho bitch from Jesus Camp. The truth is stranger than fiction.

ExxonMobil Proposes Burning Humanity for Fuel if Climate Calamity Hits

No, not really (in public anyway), but "The Yes Men," a group of activists who infiltrate corporate organizations and events by pretending to be powerful people, claimed it was so during a presentation on June 14, 2007.

In what must be their best scam, they took the stage and promoted "Vivoleum", a energy resource created from dead humans.

As noted on Wikipedia:

The project, called Vivoleum would work in perfect synergy with the continued expansion of fossil fuel production. The oilmen listened to the lecture with attention, and then lit "commemorative candles" supposedly made of Vivoleum obtained from the flesh of an "Exxon janitor" who died as a result of cleaning up a toxic spill. The audience only reacted when the janitor, in a video tribute, announced that he wished to be transformed into candles after his death.

Here's a clip from the actual presentation:


The youtube clip above misses the tribute video of the person who became the candles, so here it is:


Thanks to Bill Moyer's Journal for reminding me about these dudes.

SOURCES:
YESMEN.ORG, indybay.org, Wikipedia