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The Smoking Gun:
Charles Barkley’s Oral Statements
Ex-NBA superstar told Arizona cops he was racing to get a “blow job”
DECEMBER 31–Following his arrest earlier today for drunk driving, Charles Barkley told Arizona cops that he ran a stop sign because he was in a hurry to pick up a girl who had “given him a ‘blow [...]
Related: CNN’s Rick Sanchez Diagnosed Mentally Retarded In Grade School, Killed A Man In Hit And Run DUI
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Israel’s military campaign in Gaza that began Saturday December 27th has triggered global coverage, some of it notably fair and complete and some skewed and misleading. American reporters in the first days produced a number of stories that [...]
Alright, I was pulling your leg in a satire last time. But not this time. Turns out the truth is worse than my imagineering. But it sure explains a lot. Particularly when you re-watch the Joe the Plumber video after reading the backstory.
Broward Palm Beach News:
Slick Rick
Why won’t those mean, old, [...]
Katzenberg, Spielberg, Geffen
Politico:
Hollywood A-listers spend big bucks to fund inauguration
I spent some time today looking at the list of donors to the Presidential Inaugural Committee and noticed that many Hollywood A-listers have been contributing big money to help pay for Barack Obama’s big day next month.
Among the list of donors: Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Steven [...]
MOSCOW - Russia’s state gas monopoly said it would cut off all natural gas supplies to Ukraine early Thursday after the two sides failed to agree on how much Ukraine would pay in 2009.
The cutoff announced late Wednesday by Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller threatened a replay of a January 2006 faceoff, when a halt in [...]
Times Online:
Naples women go on sex strike over firework injuries
by Richard Owen
Women in Naples are staging a sex strike in an attempt to stop their menfolk from setting off dangerous New Year fireworks which cause injury and even death.
Carolina Staiano, 44, who is leading the campaign, said it has started with twenty women [...]
Abandon the trannies! Fire! Fire!
BANGKOK, Thailand - At least 54 New Year’s revelers died when a fire swept through a packed nightclub in the Thai capital, police at the scene said. Workers counting the bodies told Associated Press photographer Sakchai Lalitkanjankul that about 100 others were injured when the blaze broke out in a building [...]
Obamas to move into Washington hotel this weekend
WASHINGTON - An exclusive hotel just yards from the White House will become a temporary home “suite” home for President-elect Barack Obama and his family when they move to the capital this weekend.
With daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, beginning classes Monday at the private Sidwell Friends [...]
WAPO:
The United States has entered the era of the experiment. President-elect Barack Obama is putting forward an infrastructure program whose plans and price tag are unclear. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson whipped up the Troubled Asset Relief Program to buy up bad mortgage instruments, and, expanding on that experiment, President Bush wants to try extending TARP [...]
Religious Intelligence:
Church of England puts its faith in Al Gore’s investment arm
By: George Conger.
The Church of England’s Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore’s environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith reported that in late September [...]
Like I’ve always said, if you want to know if homosexuality is a perversion against nature, just pull everyone’s pants down and take notice of what’s desigjed to fit where, and why. Gays are ten percenters like alcoholics. They need spiritual help from God as they understand him. It’s a pathology, an [...]
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich introduces former state Atty. Gen. Roland Burris (left) as his pick to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate
Related: Obama And Reid Reject Burris
Tribune Breaking News:
Former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris said this morning that he has no intention of not accepting Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointment to the U.S. Senate [...]
Karen Coleman and her husband, Thomas Coleman, section 8 housing voucher recipients, look out the window of their home in Antioch, Calif., Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. “A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live,” said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who moved here five years ago from [...]
The Sun:
BLACK and white twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya  who incredibly are ALSO twins with different coloured skin.
Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the two-tone miracle after a seven-year gap.
When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple were astonished to [...]
The man is a walking, talking indictment …
Where the hell is the outcry here?
There has been a consistent string of ‘wrong-doing’ by this mouthy man … yet, no calls for him to step down from anything.
Someone?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueller?
CQPolitics:
Rangel Pays Parking Tickets With Campaign Funds
By Jonathan Allen and Richard Rubin
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel [...]
Related: Dems May Not Be Able To Block Blago Pick
Salena Zito’s 44th Estate:
llinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to a replacement to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat today, even as Senate Democrats assured the governor they will block the appointment.
Blagojevich is accused of trying to sell Obama’s [...]
My Kate and her b/f John are playing “Auld Lang Syne” on the living room piano. The “I Love Lucy” marathon on Nick TV is playing in the background. My Sara is on the night shift at the hospital ER, and will no doubt have the ’stories’ to tell about the folks who [...]
Oh, these spoiled, pampered, brainless American/Hollywood “Jews” in name only.
Whenever I hear them spew such anti-Israel bullshit I am taken back to the story of Jesus going ape-shit on such Jews selfishly making money in the Temple …
While I don’t agree with most of what liberal Alan M. Dershowitz usually pontificates, he is one Jewish [...]
Times Online:
Hundreds of Iranian radicals stormed the British compound in Tehran last night, replacing the Union flag with a Palestinian one in protest against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
British officials will be assessing whether the security breach, unprecedented in recent years, was an isolated incident or presages further violent demonstrations.
A hardline Iranian news [...]
