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Oh, the crazy things that happen when you start to look people in the eye! He had a big smile and looked like a pirate: Sinewy body, shaved head, a goatee, and hoop earrings. Sexy as hell. He started asking me a LOT of questions, and of course I gave him my phone number. Shall we see if he calls?

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Via LOLFed: ManBirdPig has hit CitiFRAUD Citibank.
(I’m not really this meanspirited, but GAWD, funny pic, non?)
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Cynthia McKinney definitely has the SPARK: Look at what it did to her hair!
I still voted for her.
Daily Kos is the #1 Kontrolled Ops “liberal” website. If you’ve lurked there you’ve probably noticed that the site is staffed primarily with Israel-Can-Do-No-Wrong-And-If-You-Prove-Us-Wrong-Ur-An-Anti-Semite” types.” Boring and predictable, and although I have an account there I’ve moved on to the Wild West of the internet where people are able to write more freely without having TPTB and Megaphone Minders shut them down for speaking the truth.
While the rest of the world was watching round-the-clock coverage of Governor Sanford’s wayward peen or Michael Jackson’s demise, former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, 20 other activists and her boatload of humanitarian aid were highjacked by Israel in international waters. Ms. McKinney described it as “an outrageous violation of international law” as the boat was on a humanitarian mission and was not in Israeli waters. On the other hand, the Israeli military said the boat was trying to enter Gaza illegally. As of Sunday morning Ms. McKinney is still in a cell block in Tel Aviv with other women detained for much of the same: Trying to enter Gaza “illegally.” Radical women with humanity on their minds.
One may won ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there fire two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
The legality or illegality of the actions on both sides is debatable in a nitpicky kind of way but the splitting of hairs detracts from the point of this admittedly political gesture: Civil disobedience by definition involves breaking laws when such laws result in an injustice being done. Isn’t the larger crime the Israeli siege against, and the collective punishment of, the Palestinian people? According to Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies 96 percent of Gaza’s population of 1.4 million is dependent on humanitarian aid for basic needs. The denial of food and medicine to people is a war crime, is it not? What possible benefit can be derived from an increasingly impoverished, unhealthy, densely crowded, and furious Gaza alongside Israel?

Here was the first comment on the post at Kos about Ms. McKinney’s most recent incarceration for trying to bring toys, medicine and building supplies to the beleaguered Gazans: “She broke Israeli law protesting. She’s in an Israeli jail as a result. So?” Lincoln Deshain had something to say about that:
Maybe some have taken the final stance that she is just a grandstanding troublemaker with a tremendous ego. Now how much of that is truth, or media projection and portrayal? Thats a question only to be answered by those who know her personally, which I don’t. But I have seen her work. The lady is fierce. She doesn’t need to do half of the things she undertakes. She could just as easily have protected her career and sat back like the rest of the Washington wallfowers. (She might still be a congresswoman today if she had.)
It isn’t as if these things she has done, the places her convictions have taken her have placed her in a good light. She’s Madame Wildhair, who ran for as the Green Party candidate. She doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut, and she doesn’t know her place. She probably went over there to cause trouble, and to seek publicity for some kind of ‘comeback tour’ to save her political career, right? She probably went over there with all those other ambassadors and the convoy of ships full of humanitarian aid just so she could get back on TV and wriggle her way back into our hearts, right? Obviously by giving this any attention, we’re just encouraging her bad actions . . . (snip)
. . . Now she will be released. But this is a far cry from chaining yourself to a tree in hope that a TV camera might show up. And I don’t like to see the kind of Kraft Easy Math i’m seeing here where the rule of law is assumed to be correct, even in an area where we KNOW the opposite is true, with contextual basis stating otherwise, just because you’re a little annoyed by Cynthia McKinney. I think it does her a disservice, and the people she went over there with, and of course the Gazans who we’ve all but forgotten about now that Peace has broken out all over the Middle East.
There’s a collective habit that weak-minded people fall into: Dismissing the protests of individuals who go against the grain, or challenge the conventional wisdom put forth by the dominant culture. Martin Luther King was once considered a wild eyed radical, was followed by the FBI and disparaged mercilessly by our so called ‘objective press’ after he came out against the Vietnam war–at a time when the Democrats couldn’t even primary in an anti-war candidate.
Going a back a little bit further in history, Henry David Thoreau was visited in jail by Emerson, having been arrested for protesting the Mexican American War by refusing to pay taxes. Emerson, incredulous, asked Thoreau, “Why are you in here?”
Thoreau, equally incredulous, replied, “Why are you out there?”
You don’t need to like Cynthia McKinney or her tactics. You don’t need to agree with her. All I ask is that you SEE her: Madame Wildhair has the Spark. She has IT. Maybe it’s something you never had, or something you had once upon a time and lost. Maybe you still have it, that spark of liberty that will make you do and say outrageous things in the face of the overwhelming odds against you, because some things are just right, and some things are just wrong, and no unjust law is going to prevent you from taking a stand.
- African Proverb
And that my dears is your sermon for today. I return you to your round-the-clock coverage of Sarah Palin’s incoherent resignation. Oh, and Michael Jackson: ZOMG Did He Fake His Death?

According to international humanitarian law children are to be afforded special protection during international armed conflicts. This includes military occupation such as exists in the Palestinian territories under Israel. Legal protection is provided by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, as well as by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Israel signed the CRC in 1991.
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Mara Carfagna is an extraordinary woman with an extraordinary resume, but nobody seems to care. Never mind how she moved from a career in modeling to a law degree to a career in television to politics (elected) to a ministerial appointment in Italy. The western media only cares about one thing: ZOMG MARA BOOBIEZ 911!!!1!!1!

When Silvio Berlusconi chose the Equal Opportunity Minister AND the Education Minister as stand-ins for his estranged wife at an official function the Western media went apeshit about Berlusconi’s “model escort.” Notice the Education Minister is only mentioned in passing: Since she isn’t/wasn’t a model, nobody is supposed to give a shit about Berlusconi’s second guest. Only Ms. Carfagna matters, because she is the Woman With a Past.
Berlusconi’s decision to invite these two political women to a state event is now added to his growing list of “sleazy scandals.” Moral of the story: Once a sex symbol, you can never ever ever ever be respected or taken seriously. Oh, and some people are just prudes who need to grow up and gain some perspective, because obviously Mara Carfagna has moved on. Isn’t it time we did? I wouldn’t blame Mara for living up to her name: It means “bitter” in Hebrew.

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Quoting from the Sports Illustrated Q&A: Bar Refaeli’s favorite thing to do on a rainy day: “stay in bed and watch movies.“
This video of model Bar Refaeli was ostensibly used to promote an art exhibit? Huh. Was it a porn exhibit? I mean, she’s just exhibiting her body. Hasn’t “Naked Woman on a Bed” been done before? And did they really have to use that clip from”Music To Cut Yourself To?”
I fast forwarded through it, just in case Ms. Refaelli did something interesting, but no. Just a nekkid woman on a bed, hell I can see that every day by looking in a mirror but knock yerselves out I guess. Here’s my question for the Hive Mind, though: Does this digital overshare make you more interested in Bar Refaeli’s body (ahem) of work? Will it make her (more) famous, at least in a “no publicity is bad publicity” kind of way? More generally, does digital oversharing make a person more or LESS interesting, overall?
Or are you just thinking “wait, what did you just say?” because all you can do is stare, and who cares?
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Biden said “Mark My Words.” Well OK then.
It’s been six month since Barack Obama took his oath of office. His test, his “generated crisis,” is due to transpire any moment now. If like me you’re following the web bot project at Half Past Human, what do you think is going to happen? I’m using what I’ve learned from the project to suss out the possibilities:
- We know the neocons are itching to bomb Iran, but the web bots don’t have us going to (or narrowly avoiding) war until wintertime;
- We know the U.S. dollar will eventually be rejected as the world’s reserve currency, but the web bots show this happening next year.
- A drastic water-related (weather?) event is supposed to cause a diaspora, but the event wouldn’t be human-generated . . . Would it?
- We know the derivatives crisis is gonna blow, with the web bots predicting some kind of derivatives-based crisis event peaking in – surprise! - two weeks.
- We know California’s state government is about to go belly up. Any day now.
So, going strictly by temporal markers, I’m thinking the generated crisis is going to be based, even if obliquely, on the financial mess hitting a peak stress point. Mark MY words: If it’s a terrorist incident or rioting (they’re calling this the Summer of Hell or the Summer of Rage for a reason) it will be a false flag distraction which will enable the Powers That Be to suspend business operations and/or declare martial law.
Whatever happens, the trading floor at the NYSE could morph into a vomitorium by midsummer. For those of us smart enough to get out of the stock markets there’s little we can do besides pack our bug-out bags (if we live by the ocean) and make some popcorn for the show.

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Inflamed CNBC host calls bloggers ‘digital dickweeds’
That’s according to CNBC host Dennis Kneale, who’s declared the recession over, and who went postal on critical financial bloggers Tuesday.
A livid Kneale described bloggers he alleges have dubbed him “irritating,” “unwatchable,” “Beaker,” “super dipshit” and “clueless” and purportedly compare his show to a Saturday Night Live skit.
Zero Hedge has the background and the context. I’m sure that right after his on-air bitchwhine Mr. Kneale announced that Good Times Are Just Ahead, so get back into your pen, sheep! Then he pissed on everyone’s legs and told us it was raining.
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Frozen Limoncello Espresso Martini
Starbucks Coffee Liqueur (or Kahlua)
Limoncello (or Lemon Vodka)
Espresso, brewed
Mix and Freeze

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The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker has never been a fan of Jimmy Choo shoes, but she might be willing to make an exception for the new H&M line!
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Karl Lagerfeld at the premiere of Totally Spies in Paris
Since we’ve been on the topic of Karl lately, I can’t resist posting this photo. Can you just imagine what is going through this narcissistic bagina-hating genius’ head right now? The folks at DListed can imagine such things, but they’re pretty foul over there, so before you go clicking you’ve been warned!
I think someone should have handed these fine ladies a few Cuchinis before they left their dressing room.
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My long term readers know I’ve been to a few major music awards ceremonies. I could have gone to this year’s Black Entertainment Awards Ceremony, if I had begged for it since Andrew always works it, but he would have asked “Why? It’s so lame and boring!” And he would have been right. Via Jezebel:
For the finale, Lil Wayne sang that he wishes he could “fuck every girl in the world” while onstage with pre-teens.
Dude. Um, dude? Weezy, you be (robo)tripping AGAIN? Way to do a tribute to Michael Jackson: By rapping “I like a long haired thick red bone Open up her legs then filet Mignon that pussy . . . “ in front of a bevy of tweenagers, one of them who is reportedly your DAUGHTER. Not exactly an appropriate sendoff for a man who had been accused of inappropriate relationships with children.
My sex game is stupid
My head is the dumbest
No shit, Weezy. Fucking fuckers, the producers should have seen this would be a problem during the rehearsals. Why don’t people THINK?

*Tipper Gore was part of a Congressional wives’ club agitating against violence and sex on TV shows and then in the mid-1980s came Tipper Gore’s famous campaign, abetted by her husband, against explicit rock and rap music.
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. . . especially since so many phallus shaped mushrooms smell like rotting meat! At least this one looks like it has a kittyprint pattern. Hmmmmmmmmmm . . . Reminds me of an old lover from way back when.
Herpetologist Robert Drewes will forever be remembered for his two-inch Phallus.
In the upcoming issue of the journal Mycologia, scientists describe a new species of stinkhorn fungus from Africa, which they christened Phallus drewesii in honor of their expedition leader.
“I am utterly delighted,” Drewes told the San Jose Mercury News, “The funny thing is that it is the second smallest known mushroom in this genus and it grows sideways, almost limp.” [Scientific American]
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