Friday, September 18th, 2009
Nice gallery of Robert Frank photos from a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dammit, Kanye.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Bizarre news blooper. The co-anchor’s face is the best part. Also, the anchor himself as a Fred Willard-like quality. Only unintentionally. At least I think it’s unintentional.
An Aussie’s take on the Rep. Joe Wilson kerfuffle.
Ohio officials botch execution, will try again. The article mentions the botched electrocution of Willie Francis in the 1940s. Gilbert King wrote a great book on Francis. Very much recommend it.
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I was curious to see what this airport that John Murtha feeds looks like, however Google has painted out most of the airport.
Re the Aussie’s take: He begins by saying that he doesn’t fully know or understand the American political culture. We can stop there. Wilson’s outburst wasn’t wrong because it was rude, it was wrong because it was far ruder than we usually are.
You keep f@(king that chicken, Radley. You’re doing a great job!
Sorry, but I couldn’t help it.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551760,00.html?test=latestnews
My two daughters are both in college now (one National Merit Finalist and one National Merit Semi Finalist–yeah I’m proud), but my wife and I have a few (ten?) pictures of them as little kids playing in the tub together. Oh horrors, I probably even bathed my daughters when they were too young to bathe themselves, and yes, I washed all of their parts. I expect a knock at my door any moment–no, wait…it will be a no-knock.
What I find interesting is that everyone focuses on the intimate-relations-with-a-chicken comment… what about the part during the women working out in the last half of the clip with comments like “Hey, lookin’ good up there”. Perhaps these were intentional comments? Seems weird, but I don’t mind since it made me laugh out loud.
Darryl-that was kind of funny but mostly sad at the same time because of how true it was. Btw, congrats on raising two awesome daughters!
Should botched executions equal a get-out-of-death-free card?
http://kyleconspiracy.blogspot.com/2009/09/playing-lotto-with-death.html
NEWSFLASH!
Kanye West just interrupted the Patrick Swayze funeral to claim that Michael Jackson had the best funeral of the year!
Now back to your regularly scheduled program….
SNL had Kanye knocking a “World’s Best Grandma” cup out of an elderly lady’s hand and then screaming at her “Now, let me tell you about MY grandma…!”
“But those same Dems who are shocked (shocked!) by Joe Wilson’s behavior are right now allowing a tax cheat to pull the nation’s purse strings.”
I still do not get why outrageous behavior requires exclusivity of attention. Can’t both of these things be bad simultaneously? I don’t think a whiff of hypocrisy invalidates a legitimate beef.
If Republicans would police their own ranks for bad behavior, like lionizing segregationists in the 21st century and stuff, I’d give them, and maybe even Joe Wilson, more of a pass. They don’t, no pass. Has anyone in recent history interrupted a speech by the president in the halls of congress? Isn’t that a douchebag move? Why are these people so angry that the outbursts come now? You don’t think racial bias fuels the hate even a little? Srsly? They hated on Clinton pretty hard too but I don’t remember anyone shouting him down in the halls of congress.
What the Aussie seems to not realize is that this air of “civility” is nothing more than a way to keep the status quo over the long term.
The two party system must perpetuate itself and the only way to do that is to never go too far, never to be “uncivil” in “debate” or “politics.”
It’s that simple.
I’ve just started a new steak restaurant called Legitimate Beef.
It’s right next to Legal Seafood.
Imagine this scenario…
Two veteran cops from Hawaii, one of them a 20 year SWAT officer, go to Las Vegas to participate in the 2009 Nevada Police and Fire games.
They rent a van, buy a pipe, and decide to smoke a bowl.
Local cops approach the van while they’re inside getting baked. The visiting cops flee, leading to a short car chase.
They eventually ditch the van and try to escape on foot until one is tackled and pepper sprayed.
The penalty?
Administrative leave while the department does its own internal investigation.
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090918_Officers_charged_in_Vegas_pot_case_put_on_leave.html
The department declined to answer another press inquiry as to whether the administrative leave is paid…meaning it probably is.
“If we can’t stop this, we can’t stop anything.”
Mmm hmm.
It’s hard to stop the water from swirling down the bowl once you’ve pushed the lever.
“Keep fucking that chicken!”
My stomach hurts!
Priceless — the expression on the female co-anchor. Her eyes expanded to saucers!
MyFoxNY.cock!!!
Does Ernie Anastos have a chicken fetish?!
I hope his female co-anchors get combat pay!
Darryl, I sent the same link to Radley, complete with naked baby video. I’m even ballsy enough to link to naked baby here.
Although, Radley, if you’re concerned, feel free to de-activate the link or delete this comment.
I hope those parents win their suit.
PW,
I’m sure it is admin leave with pay. But it has to be otherwise it would constitute a punishment prior to the investigation.
I also noticed that charges are pending so they didn’t get a pass in that department either which is refreshing. Charges may be felonies too.
Oatwhore- I think Barely Legal Chicken would be more appropriate.
And maybe that newscaster just gave you a new slogan
#18,
“I’m sure it is admin leave with pay. But it has to be otherwise it would constitute a punishment prior to the investigation.”
Not if you establish the standard that investigations that find no fault result in back pay plus interest, while if fault is found the leave remains unpaid. But that would make sense.
Sorry, one more and I’m done:
“You keep fucking that chicken, San Diego!”
I had a lot of respect for John Murtha when he publicly stood up to Bush and declared he was against the Iraq War. He was willing to take the heat, and did so with dignity. Now…I don’t know.
And yeah, if Obama thinks one guy yelling “You lie!” is bad, he ought to see the House of Lords (or the House of Commons) in session. No holds barred, gents!
It wasn’t a botched execution. They just couldn’t find a usable vein on the guy. The execution wasn’t attempted.
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#23 Michael,
Yes it was. Putting the needle in is part of the process of killing.
This is an example of why lethal injection is a bad idea. The aim is to give the illusion of being humane. But physical pain is not the only source of suffering. The long preparation of the victim is a source of suffering and lethal injection is the worst method of execution in terms of preparation of the victim. The aim of lethal injection is to hide the appearance of violence, both from the killers and the watchers. That is its aim is to facilitate self deception on their part.
If you are going to kill a prisoner you should not triy to make it easy on yourself. Do it by a means that is quick, certain, requires little preparation or skill and preferably is obviously violent. A bullet to the back of the head would seem to be the obvious way. If you insist on avoiding the sight of blood use axphyxiation with an inert gas. Put a breathing mak on them and connect it to a nitrogen tank.