Posted on 05/18/2005 4:25:38 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
...explaining United States policy on how the military handles the Koran...
Nice to see you!
I thought it was a Tom Jones tune but no, it's Tony Christie.
It's my new favorite song!
I was guessing Tom Jones or Neil Diamond myself...
It wasn't a corporate decision, it was a partisan political decision.
Miss Europe, Shermine Shahrivar of Germany (L), poses during red carpet arrivals for French directors Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's in-competition film 'Peindre ou Faire l'Amour' at the 58th Cannes Film Festival May 18, 2005. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
Shot #2...
Shot #3
I do like the necklace on her friend.
Here we have the winner in the ugliest dress ever category...
And winner of the 'I long to be a clown' contest...
Winner of the 'Scariest plastic surgery outcome' is...
Mickey Rourke!
Mickey's also the winner of 'What your crazy aunt in the attic would wear'!
Oh lord...
New category, 'Hillary hair' and the winner is Tilda Swinton.
Cannes is so much fun.
Have you seen Terri Clark's video ' Girls lie too'? It's a scream.
So she can’t go out tonight again:
Her sister’s sick, she’s gotta baby-sit.
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good excuse.
Now you didn’t hear any of this from me,
But things aren’t always what they seem.
Brace yourself, this may come as a shock to you.
Girls lie too,
An' we don’t care how much money you make,
Or what you drive or what you weigh:
Size don’t matter anyway.
Girls lie too:
Don’t think you’re the only ones,
Who bend it, break it, stretch it some.
We learn from you,
Girls lie too.
We can’t wait to hear about your round of golf.
We love to see deer heads hanging on the wall,
An' we like Hooter’s for their hotwings too.
Other guys never cross our minds.
We don’t wonder what it might be like.
How could it be any better than it is with you?
Girls lie too,
An' we don’t care how much money you make,
Or what you drive or what you weigh:
Size don’t matter anyway.
Girls lie too:
Don’t think you’re the only ones,
Who bend it, break it, stretch it some.
We learn from you,
Girls lie too.
Yeah, girls lie too:
We always forgive and forget.
The cards and flowers you never sent,
Will never be brought up again.
Girls lie too.
Old grey sweatpants turn us on.
We like your friends and we love your mom.
And that's the truth,
Girls lie too.
Yeah that's the truth,
Girls lie too.
No, we don’t care how much hair you have.
Yeah, that looks good!
Comb it over like that.
Oh.
As a redhead myself, let me give Tilda a little tip......honey, before you leave the house, put on your eyebrows.
ROTFL!! She does look a little like Dick Gephardt.
I enjoyed this one from BotW yesterday:
It seems Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee is impervious even to criticism from Rep. Barney Frank. Today's Arizona Republic reports:
Dean, national chairman of the Democratic Party, said Tuesday that he thinks House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has committed crimes that could put the Republican in jail.
DeLay's office fought back with Dean's own words from the 2004 presidential campaign. The former Vermont governor had maintained that even terrorist leader Osama bin Laden should not be pre-judged if captured.
We had forgotten about the bin Laden remark, but we checked and sure enough, we noted it back in December 2003:
"I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found," Dean said. "I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. . . ."
LOL! Oh, that Howard is a scream!
Joke-telling genitals don't get free-speech protection in Michigan!
A penis that tells jokes on late night public access television may be expressive of something. But it is not the kind of free expression protected by the First Amendment, the Michigan Court of Appeals has decided, confirming the indecent exposure conviction of the show's producer and host.
Timothy Huffman, 47, who lives north of Grand Rapids, was convicted in Kent County after the penis episode aired twice in spring 2000 on the Grand Rapids public access cable channel GRTV.
In affirming the conviction in an opinion released Wednesday, the appeals court said any "incidental restriction" on the First Amendment is "no greater than is essential to the furtherance of the governmental interest in promoting public morality by prohibiting public nudity."
Huffman, whose defense was assisted by the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed the three-minute segment, "Dick Smart," was an expression of free speech and not obscene.
Reached at his home Wednesday, Huffman said he is the victim of "a relentless prosecutor."
"I'm truly trying to stand up for the constitution. It's a matter of principle," he said.
Huffman, an unemployed musician-cook who is the father of five children, said he'd been targeted for prosecution because he has a criminal record and lacked the resources to defend himself.
"We asked them in court, 'Why don't you prosecute 'Schindler's List'? It has nudity,' " Huffman said. "And they said to me, 'You're no Steven Spielberg.'
"I'm the low-life scapegoat that they can say, 'Look. This is what happens when you put this stuff on Grand Rapids TV.' "
Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Tim McMorrow said Huffman is not being singled out, nor was he charged for expressing himself.
"This is really not a First Amendment case," he said. "The First Amendment protects his right to an opinion, not the right to appear naked on TV."
Huffman was sentenced and served one day in jail, one year of probation and was ordered to pay $1,035 in fines and court costs.
He said he continues to produce the TV show "Tim's Area of Control" on GRTV and a two-hour program that airs in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Huffman said he mostly sticks to adult humor and music.
The offensive-talking penis did a form of Rodney Dangerfield-esque comedy. ("Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in the Army, ya know. I didn't do much, ya know what I mean? I just hung around.")
Huffman said he and the station's then-supervisors believed the program was well within the bounds of free speech protection.
He said he also hoped it would bring in a wider audience: "You need to have something that gets people to stop changing channels," he said. "I thought it would be good exposure... pardon the pun."
Huffman said he would seek an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court.
In the meantime, he said he also will be going to jail on another conviction, also for indecent exposure, that stemmed from a dispute with a neighbor. Huffman said he believed the latest charge was unjust. But, unlike the talking penis, it's not a free-speech case.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/naughty12e_20050512.htm
Bob Novak's column today talks at length about Howie Dean's wild comments of late and how ineffective he has been thus far as Dem chairman.
Speaking of gloating, this long but well worth the time speech from a Prof. Gaddis, a historian at Yale will "pump you up." Give it to your liberal friends to read. It'll make their heads explode.
The Past and Future of American Grand Strategy [Bush critic gets it]
Arianna Huffington doesn't like being called Judas. Some of the pundit's critics have claimed she betrayed her liberal Hollywood friends by getting them to write for her huffingtonpost.com - never telling them they'd have right-wingers as blogmates.
But Huffington insists she's still tight with showbiz lefties like Larry David and wife Laurie. "I had dinner with Larry last night," she told us at Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Riverkeeper benefit Tuesday. "They love blogging, and a lot of people recognize that sometimes people will not agree. They need to be understanding of each other." ...
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This somewhat relates to a phenomenon Mr. M and I discussed yesterday, that is, how we are civil, friendly, courteous and respectful to the various liberals in our little college town, but many just can't seem to look past our politics to respond in kind. In other words, our very existence seems to offend them, just like Arianna's lib friends can't even tolerate being on the same blog as those hated Republicans. And they think conservatives are mean-spirited!
Liberals everywhere believe anything that doesn't fit their template is wrong, out of the mainstream, yadda, yadda, yadda. There is no compromise for them, although they constantly holler for it. Compromise to them is, you have to agree with them, period. Because, don't forget, they know more than we do.
That speech I linked above addresses some of that liberal, academe, elitist 'we know better' attitude quite nicely.
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