Tyrants are always assassinated too late. – E.M. Cioran
I apologize if this column is a bit short this week; I was so busy in Atlanta that I didn’t have as much time to look around for them as I usually do. However, I think you’ll find these interesting; the three before the video are courtesy of Radley Balko, the video itself was provided by Deep Geek, and the first six links immediately after it arrived via Jesse Walker, Cthulhuchick, reader Krulac, Brooke Magnanti, Jack Shafer and Franklin Harris, in that order.
- Cops hold down 75-year old woman on floor as they murder her dog with a shotgun; police chief claims it was “for her protection from a dangerous animal”.
- The best part of this story for those who understand a little French is learning that the town of Condom is located on the River Baise.
- Chinese toddler’s karaoke tantrum ends in bloodbath.
The political ad Google tried to censor:
- If there was a huge knife fight involving every American president, who would win?
- Judge uses pop-therapy talk to blame victim for being sexually assaulted by a cop.
- California: the land of the fee and the home of the ban.
- How dictators have evolved with the times.
- Welcome to our world.
- Meta-uncertainty?
- Where Magazine needs to have a talk with its art director.
- Enabling a rapist cop cost the city of Anchorage $5.5 million.
- My prediction: if this really does happen, it’s going to be crap.
- Huffington Post headline compares sex workers to bloodsucking parasites.
- Naomi “Stopped Clock” Wolf’s new book is so dumb (Chorus: How dumb is it?) that…here, I’ll let some neuroscientists explain.
- Various prudish busybodies offer their busybody opinions on the number of sex partners a woman can have (in her life) before turning into a ruined slut.
My first thought was “it figures that Whore Magazine would base itself in Orange County.”
The River Baise–isn’t that next to Con Street?
That’s all I can think to write for now since I don’t have a hoo-hah to send dopamine to my serotonin and get those synapses flowing, and stuff.
Is this story with the dog true? It is so horrifying! Just unbelievable!! It makes me so angry, I can`t even tell how angry and sad I am right now! I have two cats, who are like family to me, and I think I would not know what I did, if someone tried to harm them. What idiots. In Europe we have a saying that goes:”If you know nothing and are incapable of finding a proper job, join the police force”. It seems to me more than true here. Jesus!!!
Not only true, but all too common; in the past few years American cops seem to have turned murdering people’s dogs into a routine procedure. 🙁
Balko’s blog is full of similar incidents. Apparently it’s now police SOP never to enter somebody’s home without killing any dogs that may be there.
Q: What’s the difference between a police officer and a hero?
A: A hero will lay down his life for yours. A cop will lay down yours for his own.
Unbelievable….I was kind of hoping this is not true or something. Now – it makes me feel even worse to not be able to do anything about it. I posted this to some people, though, who deal with animal rights in the USA. I mean, seriously??? What are people thinking???
Speaking of insanely-bent cops (not just in America, it seems):
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/archives/sunnews/canada/2012/09/20120910-104945.html
This is a true pig. The only good parts of this (if there is any) are that he was an EX cop, and that the crimes weren’t committed at the same time, so the sentences can be consecutive, or the Crown can apply for Dangerous Offender status (which means he’ll never be released…Canada’s only loophole in our lack of capital punishment for those *not* declared insane).
I hope this piece of crap is found hanging in his cell and/or that the rumours of what happens to child molesters in prison is true.
I don’t know who would win the knife fight. But FDR better watch himself — Obama stabs liberals in the back.
Zakaria forgot to mention the dictators Cameron, Harper, and Obama.
All respect to E.M. Cioran, but the only case where it is soon enough is before the tyrant destroys any lives. But if he’s assassinated before he destroys any lives, his death won’t be recorded by history as tyrannicide.
Regarding Cops High on Drug Busts, I give you Mel Gibson from “Tequila Sunrise.”
TV news report, cops confiscate drugs with a street value of X millions of dollars.
Mel Gibson, “Christ, wouldn’t I love to find THAT street.”
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the Wonder Woman movie/TV will stink. Did you see any of the David Kelly pilot? Agony Booth did a review. It was simply horrible as they tried to make the character “gritty”.
If you saw what they did to the Superboy/Superman mythos, then we KNOW it will stink. Smallville was entertaining in ways they didn’t intend on it being entertaining, such as the lovely homoerotic subtext between Clark and Lex, especially in the first two seasons, that the writers vehemently denied to the end.
Yet, I love Supernatural, probably because it’s not a remake and doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Trust me on this – in a knife fight among all US Presidents – Andrew Jackson would win handily. He was the original BAMF and God’s prototype for Chuck Norris.
Dude was captured by the British during the Revolution – and he was struck with a sword when he refused to shine a British Officer’s boots. Then he contracted small pox while in prison – and lived.
He killed Charles Dickenson in a duel and, he did so quite deviously. He deliberately allowed Dickenson to get off the first shot – and took the bullet in his chest. Then he calmly aimed and dealt Dickenson the fatal shot.
And that wasn’t the only duel he was in.
Dude was BAD. There shouldn’t be any debate about this whatsoever.
krulac,
While I agree that Jackson is the odds on favorite, I wouldn’t count Teddy out. It’s pretty impressive to think that a bullet wasn’t about to stop his speach or that he was still boxing in his 50s. I mean how bad do you have to be for a member of the opposing party to eulogize you with “Death had to take him sleeping. For if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.”
I’ve heard that chuck norris has never had a near death experience. It turned out that Death was having a near Chuck experience.
Okay, if we’re going there my favorite is Chuck Norris sleeps with a nightlight. Not because he’s afraid of the dark, but because the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
😉
Gods, the story about the 75 year old grandmother and the agonizing, brutal murder of her pet dog makes me sick to my stomach. Disgusting.
Re: Number of sex partners a woman can have.
I’ve heard prostitutes make better wives.
Better, I don’t know. Certainly more interesting ones.
More faithful wives, and generally better in bed. Contrary to popular belief, the fewer sex partners a typical woman had before marriage the more likely she is to cheat in later years; experienced women are harder to talk into sex, are less fascinated by it and are much less likely to confuse it with love.
Re the last item: I thought every woman knew the answer to that one. One more partner than the speaker/writer has been with clearly marks the woman as ruined…
“As long as you’re happy to ruin yourself with me, madam, I don’t give a damn.”❤
“My prediction: if [Wonder Woman Show] really does happen, it’s going to be crap.”</i?
I'm immediately struck with the whimsical thought: What if MAGGIE were the writer and creative directer for the show…
MAN: “Thank you for saving me, Wonder Woman! How can I repay you?”
WW: “I don’t know about RE-payment, but if you bring $500** to the address on this card tonight, I’d be more than willing to ‘save’ you a few more times! 😉 ”
MAN: (blinks rapidly, then grins) “SWEET!”
**(yes Maggie, she makes more than you did; she’s WONDER WOMAN! ^_^ Heck, you could probably have upped your hourly rate $100 by dressing up as Wonder Woman –you have the hair– but she’s the genuine article!)
Annoyed Mother: “What kind of superheroine moonlights as a whore! Think of the example you set! Aren’t you supposed to be an icon of feminism? Why would you DO such a thing!”
WW: “Well, let’s see: For the freedom, the independence, making 30x more money per hour than the average man, the power & control I hold over men… Sounds about right. Why, what are YOU an icon of?”
Confused Mother: “…whuh?”
The applications of the Lasso of Truth alone…
WW: (hang on, whore-senses tingling!) whoopwhoop-ENSNARE
Loser Client “Yeah… I was planning to fuck-n-run. I only got $200 on me anyway.
WW: “I KNEW it!”
Daring Client: “You know, I’m kinda into light B&D too! Can I tie YOU up with your Lasso of Truth?”
WW: “Oooooh Sweetie, there are just SO many reasons that’s not a good idea…”
Oh, I wouldn’t make Wonder Woman a whore! I would just go back to her traditional origin and personality, which is plenty sexy enough!
I wouldn’t make WW a hooker, because that’s like having Clark Kent grow up in the Bahamas: not that the Bahamas is a bad place, but it’s a change not needed.
But I do still think a hooker would be a great secret identity. Flexible hours, good money, not a lot of time spent on the job (she works with an agency the manager of which knows about her other job), and thus lots of time left for fighting the evil mutant cyborgs from Planet Q. Those guys don’t know when to quit.
Sailor,
Along those lines, here’s something for your, er, uh, delectation.
Um, what was that video about?
I’d say it was about three minutes too long! ;-p
OK, I’ll admit I grinned a couple of times. I think I’m going to have to listen to the MDMA song to get that theme out of my head.
GGGRRRR!!!!!
It didn’t take the link to the MDMA song, and it changed the link on my name back to Gravitar. GGGGRRR!!!!!
Well, now I just changed the link on my name BACK to SpaceSports. 😛
Here’s the song:
OK I give up.
I fixed it for you. Looks like you just have to insert the YouTube address and WordPress turns it into an embedded video.
Thanks. I was at Laura’s when I posted that, so I’m going to blame it on her cat. Damn you, Blossom!
Yeah, I had my html challenges yesterday too. I’d like to think it’s system, but…
“Now I can’t run. Geez, I can’t even walk.”
Squeeg Sueeg, Slap, “Don’t touch those.” “Sorry…”
Karaoke Bloodbath
I do karaoke exactly once a year. I’m kind of glad I do it at the con, instead of this eatery. Interestingly enough, “Country Roads” (Whisper of the Heart version) was one song under consideration for 2012, but I did “Little My Star” instead. For 2013, the current plan is to do “Penny Lane”… in Japanese.
Jill Stein
A possibility. I do think that protest votes have a value, not in determining who is elected, but in sending a message. Why it was censored I don’t know, unless it was the use of “bull[bleep]” that did it.
Wonder Woman
While Smallville worked, most of the time, and the 1970s show with Lynda Carter is a classic or the decade, THIS seems like a show which would take the worst of each. I hope it doesn’t happen, though a WW show could be a good thing if the origin is done in the first or first two eps.
Presidential Knife Fight
No matter what happens in the arena, in a controversial 5/4 decision the Supreme Court declares George W. Bush the victor.
How many makes a slut?
Assuming she’s a really hot woman, I don’t care how many sexual partners she’s had, as long as I’m one of them. 😉
“Karaoke Bloodbath” would be an awesome name for a band. 🙂
Indeed it would.