Posted on 01/27/2009 1:03:28 PM PST by markomalley
NRO colleague Kevin Williamson passes along this item from Wired.com’s Danger Room:
It's like Burn After Reading, the latest Coen brothers' flick, come to life. Well, kinda sorta.
"A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player," the Age reports. He bought at an Oklahoma thrift shop, for less than ten bucks.
Chris Ogle wasn't looking for secrets during his little shopping trip, of course. But when he brought the player home and hooked it up, "he discovered a playlist he could never have imagined," New Zealand's TV One pants.
The sixty files included personal details of American soldiers, equipment data, and what "appears to be a mission briefing." Most of the info comes from 2005, however. And there are no report of truly secret squirrel material. So it may not be enough to get Brad Pitt or Frances McDormand involved in a down-under remake, alas.
I’m not sure what all this was doing on a soldier’s MP3 player, but the information it contained, mostly telephone and Social Security numbers, would probably not be of much use to a bunch of terrorists in the caves of Kandahar. So you have to figure the soldiers in question are pretty safe, unless this MP3 player falls into the hands of Code Pink.
Kelly Clarkson has genuine talent and honest passion. Enjoying her music is nothing to be embarrassed about. She’s also a babe, and we have rules here.
LOL! I don’t think that’s the photo Mogwai was awaiting. Maybe one with makeup?
There was shrinkage!
some of em just look better with some clothes on!
I enjoy bubblegum like the Archies and the 1910 Fruitgum Company - but I don't pretend they are revolutionary talents.
Fixed to describe me. :)
That's just it. Kelly does not, and never has presented herself as a sex kitten. She's a girl-next-door type who happens to be a committed Christian. Kelly has a tattoo of a cross inside the wrist of her right hand, she says to remind her never to get too big-headed about her success.
Kelly also chooses not to live in Hollywood, New York, or other celebrity mecca. She lives in Texas, and still maintains friendships with people she went to high school with.
So stuff your misplaced judgmental cruelty where the sun don't shine.
Support REAL songwriters and REAL musicians with your attendance and your dollars instead of phoning in votes that buy Simon Cowell another Bentley (nothing against Simon however - he's got a lot of people fooled) and you may be surprised at what you discover.
The "high school friends" contention defies comment. Is this supposed to be some magical litmus test of a person's down-to-earth nature?
By the way, if Kelly doesn't present herself as a sex kitten then why pose/dress for these photos? The truth is painful, as it often is.
Uh, you have a SERIOUS problem if you view the first three photos you posted as a sex-kitten image. BTW, the two in the sweater are from a photo shoot for the cover of her first album. The middle one is an event she attended (and, BTW, you can see the cross tattooed on her wrist). By modern standards, she looks really quite demure in that photo. When most celebrity women walk down red carpets for a glamour event, they are wearing dresses that are cut to their navels.
As for the last one, a quick check of the photo's URL shows that it comes from a subscription site named starpulse.com. It comes from their photo section, which you can't access without subscribing. Further, the URL traces to a page named "Previews," and the photo filename is "Kelly-Clarkson-rca16.jpg."
All of that leads me to conclude either that (1) the photo was an RCA publicity shot, or (2) it's one of those trashy websites that put celebrity faces on the bodies of "adult site workers." Know what I mean? If it's the former, Kelly is under contract to RCA and must fulfill her contractual obligations regarding promotions. If it's the latter, how did prudish you get a copy of the photo? In any case, as sexy photos go these days, you can see more skin on any episode of "Dancing With The Stars."
Johnny, just pinging you FYI. Relictele is one who thinks we American Idol fans "can't deal with the reality that it's an overhyped karaoke contest." This person also thinks Kelly presents herself as a "sex kitten." LOL! Kelly a sex kitten? You and I know how utterly absurd that is.
Dissemble all you want. The photo completely and utterly contradicts your contention: “Kelly does not, and never has presented herself as a sex kitten.”
Unless you think it was taken in the first row of the pews in her church?
Quit buying the PR fluff in People and Parade magazines.
And drop the Hamilton Burger routine. I simply used Google image search.
Quit buying the PR fluff in People and Parade magazines.
I'll take orders from you about the same time the sun starts rising in the west.
Ah but my mind’s not in the gutter especially when it comes to this tarted-up bruiser - it’s simply on a logical track and your star-struck talking points are not. Candies have been known to publish provocative ads (including ones deemed too racy and refused by publishers) long before Clarkson made the scene - ergo, she, her agent and/or others knew about the product and how it was marketed beforehand.
If your point held it wouldn’t be necessary to rationalize it.
Too bad I don't have photos of you to publish on the internet for people to mock.
LOL! The filename of that photo is jcpenney_pimpwear.jpg. So, if that really is you, you took a gig modeling pimpwear. And you have the nerve to complain about a young singer maximizing the peak of her career by taking a shoe endorsement deal?
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