Katrina-How About That Couple Who Sold Their Donated House Without Spending On Day In It?

It's time to catch up on the Katrina aftermath.

How about that lovely couple who sold the donated house given to them by a kind church? Sold it at a handsome profit, in fact.

They defend themselves by standing on the strict technality of law but those of us with common sense out here in la-la land know greed and ungraciousness when we see it.

Also, suicide notes leads to dismembered body as violence escalates in New Orleans' French quarter. Some serious shooting going on there as well.

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Katrina Couple "Flips" Home Donated to Them

We continue to document the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina for baby Kaitlyn Mae that she knows how it happened, why it happened and now, how New Orleans struggles to recover.

For it's been declared all the fault of the federal government even though those folks in Louisiana had plenty of notice that a hurricane was bearing down on them. Yet they chose to stay. And THIS is the fault of President Bush.

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Now it's not even clear if this fine pair were either homeless due to Hurricane Katrina or even if they are a "couple" at all.

But anyway, God Bless America and the Entrepreneurial spirit which made this country strong.

From TwinCities.com:

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A church that wanted to do something special for Hurricane Katrina victims gave a $75,000 house, free and clear, to a couple who said they were left homeless by the storm. But the couple turned around and sold the place without ever moving in, and went back to New Orleans.

"Take it up with God," an unrepentant Joshua Thompson told a TV reporter after it was learned that he and the woman he identified as his wife had flipped the home for $88,000.

Church members said they feel their generosity was abused by scam artists. They are no longer even sure that the couple were left homeless by Katrina or that they were a couple at all.

So Joshua tells those who think taking a donated home and flipping it at a handsome profit is in poor taste, to "take it up with God".



You know what? Joshua can just go right to Hell, do not pass go.

Of course, Joshua and his scheming partner in this deal WILL likely go to hell and at that time we assume ole Joshua will be taking it up with God.

For Joshua's broken no laws. The house was given to him by kindly church members who wanted to provide him and his significant other a paid-for house for the one they allegedly lost due to Hurricane Katrina.

See, we understand bad taste out here in la-la land. Sure, ole Joshua won't go to jail, nor should he. But we know poor taste and don't forget that some other hurricane-devastated couple could have used that house.

Let us immortalized this pair that Kaitlyn Mae will someday see that for all the shouting that Hurricane Katrina was somehow Bush's fault, well note that the "victims" themselves aren't doing such a good job of recovering.

So Who’s Moving Back to New Orleans?

Came across this weird news item and have to hope that this is not the norm in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

From APNWS:

NEW ORLEANS - A note found on the body of a suicide jumper led police to a French Quarter apartment where they found his girlfriend's charred head in a pot on the stove, her arms and legs in the oven and her torso in the refrigerator, a law enforcement officer said Wednesday. New Orleans Police spokesmen confirmed that a 26-year-old woman was found dismembered Tuesday night in her apartment above a voodoo shop.

Note that this couple lived above a “voodoo shop”. Which may mean nothing but then again …

A More “Normal” Crime Wave Rages in New Orleans

You know all those New Orleans cops who abandoned their post during Hurricane Katrina? Looks like they haven’t come back yet.

From Newsday.com:

NEW ORLEANS -- A gunman wounded five people in a French Quarter bar early Tuesday, the latest violence in a city struggling to rein in crime as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina.

The gunman walked into Club Decatur around 12:30 a.m. and shot three men, said police Sgt. Jeffrey Johnson. He said two women were grazed by bullet fragments.

Let the record show that it is now 11/30/06, over a year after Hurricane Katrina and after billions thrown at the resurrection of that city.

And yet…well they don’t appear to be doing all that well.
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Political Tidbits-Bush Girls Robbed and Secretary of Ed Goes on Jeopardy

A few Political Tidbits this week.

Last week the International Red Cross released a plethora of records from the Nazi era. Why now?

The Bush girls are crime victims, the real reason Repubs lost the Senate, a Mayor of a city with strict gun laws caught with an illegal gun.

You'll never believe this video with an MSM babe comparing those Islam praying-on-the-airplane Imams to Rosa Parks!

Finally, the Secretary of Education goes on Jeopardy. So how does she do?

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Political Tidbits

Those Wacky Praying Imams

I am just not sure who those praying imams who got booted off a US AIR flight in Minneapolis think they are fooling but I don't know of a single fool in America that's buying it.

It seems that before they even boarded the flight these Imams were praying very loudly and know now that Americans understand prayer, yes we do. We also know that one can pray silently and without calling attention to oneself and go with me here, plenty of Americans likely say a quiet prayer before boarding an airplane. The very asinine act of praying loudly and ostentatiously is just considered in bad taste by most Americans, so shoot us all.

Add to this melodrama of the prayer, we get these Imams on the plane finally and they begin to play some sort of game that wasn't considered a game by co-passengers or airline personnel. First they kept changing seats and even commandeered seats that weren't even theirs. Then they requested seat belt extensions, those things used by very obese people to get them belted more comfortably. None of these Imams was particularly fat so why on earth did they want these things?

Discussion across the Blogosphere is that these seatbelt extensions can make handy weapons for use as a method of strangulation or as an airborne device that can be swung around with the buckle used to hurt someone severely in the skull.

So okay, what were these guys up to?

Let us begin with that big joke of a protest these fellows are staging across the land. Their mantra is that they are guilty of "flying while Muslim".

Heh.

I knew just as soon as I saw a Democrat strategist on TV stating firmly that these Muslims' behavior was totally unacceptable in an airport. If the Democrats aren't ranting in favor of some Islamofacist bad behavior than they've polled everybody they know and hey, average Americans ain't buying it.

What's unclear here is just why these Imams were so obviously engaging in activity that they had to know would specifically set off alarms.



From HotAir.com:

Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks - two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.

Some suggest the whole charade was a "dry run" designed to detect American reaction to behavior required to, well to hijack and take over control of an airplane. Since 9-11-01, silly Americans have been very cognizant of weird behavior on airplanes and at times, passengers themselves have joined together to stop possible hijackings, witness the hapless shoe bomber.

Another possibility for this behavior is that it was a blatant attempt to create a situation whereby the airline had no choice but to take an action. Said action being the removal of these kooks from the airplane in handcuffs.

After their removal we then had a situation whereby the poor beleaguered Imams could claim discrimination. With the help of a few likely paid-for Democrats, specifically Maxine Waters, their cause of being abused and mistreated was ready for public display.

Hey, Americans love victims, or so the Islamofacists think. Get Americans to feel sorry for these poor Muslim fellow simply trying to get an airplane ride and boom, Americans get complacent and will overlook future Muslim airplane weirdness for fear of accusations of mistreatment.

Sure, it's a stretch and yet these Imams are out and about and protesting at US AIR's terminal at Reagan Airport and sure are getting plenty of press.

Get silly Americans overly politically correct as concerns traveling Muslims and soon enough it will be much simpler to actually hijack and do Allah only knows in the future.

Whatever their reasons, plenty of Muslims have been flying the skies and this is the first instance of this type of behavior so widely reported. This was obviously an orchestrated event, don't tell me not.

Islamofacists have controlled millions of people with skewed propaganda and distorted reality for decades. They've convinced young children that the tiny country of Israel is their mortal enemy and through constant brainwashing, they've managed to focus a huge population on a common enemy that they do not look to their own so-called "leaders" for the real source of the problem. This Imam airplane episode could well have been a test to see if Americans are ready to be politically-corrected to a point where they ignore the reality of the danger.

We are not. We are the keepers of the common sense out here in la-la land. We understand danger and cannot yet be brainwashed to politically-correct suicide.

All of this proves that they really intend to try and control America, perhaps one day even OWN America. For America is the enemy of the Islamofacist radical. It's the American military provided by the American people that constantly gets in the way of their goal of total world domination.

Goes to show how hard they are working on it.

Just for giggles and grins, one Lamestream Media idiot did try to do what the Lamestream loves to do: take the anti-American side on everything. This fine reporter compares those trouble-making Imams to Rosa Parks of all people!

A black woman is denied a seat at the front of a bus. She takes a stand and refuses to go to the back of the bus, a practice dictated by discriminatory laws in the Parks' era.

Not even close.

Video of this nonsense below.



Why Weren't These Archives Unsealed Before Now?

Far be this humble blogger from questioning the wisdom of the International Red Cross. But why on earth has almost six buildings filled with archives and data from the NAZI era been sealed from the public all this time? Further, why are they suddenly releasing it now?

I have no answer to my first question but have a suspicion of an answer to that second question.

From the Jerusalem Post:

The two pages of testimony, in a file randomly plucked off a shelf, are among millions of documents held by the International Tracing Service, or ITS, an arm of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

This vast archive - 16 miles of files in six nondescript buildings in a German spa town - contains the fullest records of Nazi persecutions in existence. But because of concerns about the victims' privacy, the ITS has kept the files closed to the public for half a century, doling out information in minimal amounts to survivors or their descendants on a strict need-to-know basis.

There are over 16 miles of files in what is described as a "German Spa Town". The files include testimony of Holocaust survivors, captured Nazi documents and any details unclaimed about the Hitler regime. 11 countries oversee the documents and for years only scant information was given to the public, mainly to those looking to find the fate of a loved one.

Now all documents have been released to the public pending ratification by the 11 member countries that oversee the data.

While I have no idea why this data was kept hidden from the world, I strongly suspect that the recent Muslim PR campaign to deny the Holocaust is the impetus for releasing the documents.

Yes, the Iranian President makes a career out of denying the Holocaust because, hey, the Holocaust tends to absolve the despised Jews that the Arabs love to hate for no reason whatsoever.

It will be hard for Ahmadinejad to deny all this detail.

You Must Understand, It's Only YOU They Don't Want to Have a Gun

Liberals want to take away your guns. They have wanted to do so since the beginning of this country but the Founding Fathers wisely provided an amendment to disallow such a thing.

For an unarmed citizenry is a more easily controlled citizenry, or so the elites who would govern us think.

From CNSNEWS.com:

A Mississippi mayor has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor weapons charges after carrying a handgun on church and school property, and a gun rights group thinks now would be a good time for him to step down from Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).

Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, a Democrat, pleaded guilty Nov. 15 to the misdemeanors to avoid felony charges that would have cost him his job. Instead of jail time, he was fined $1,500 and put on a year's probation.

Notice the above fine Mayor is a member of, get this, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns".

Yet, heh, the man himself got a fine and a year's probation for owning a gun his own self and that's the plan.

The political elites, you must understand, NEED guns. They are way more important than thou and I. Thus while they pass laws and lobby endlessly to take away the gun from the silly American slob out in la-la land who might want to protect his family, it's a no-brainer that important persons such as themselves need guns to protect against...well, rabble-rousers like us peasants.

Bush Daughter Purse Stolen in Argentina

This tidbit flew under the radar this past Thanksgiving weekend.

She was eating dinner when someone, somehow, managed to steal a First Twin's purse from under her table where she placed it while she dined.

The bigger problem is that her cell phone was in her purse and we must imagine that Barbara Bush has some very secret numbers on that cell phone.



From ABCNEWS.com:

First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News.

Even more shocking, not only did the Secret Service Agents charged with protecting the First Twins not see a thing, yet another Secret Service agent was mugged, no we're not making this up, while out on the town during the President's recent trip to Latin America.

Former KGB Spy Dies

Seems someone sprayed a lethal radioactive element on his sushi.

Litvinenko was investigating the death of a journalist who was looking into the activities of one Vladamir Putin. Seems someone doesn't want the activities of Putin known.

From CNN.com:

Final statement of Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko:

"You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price. You have shown yourself to be as barbaric and ruthless as your most hostile critics claim"

"You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life. May God forgive you for what you have done."

Russia, ladies and gems, is essentially run by a mafia.

Indeed.

The folks running Russia today are nefarious characters who use old Soviet nuclear technology and Russia's oil money to serve their needs. Russia runs a thriving black market in the world today and for the right price will help Islamofacists obtain nuclear technology and hey, just recently Russia signed a deal to deliver fighter jets to Iran.

When criminals run things, well things tend to be criminally run.

It's never about democracy or power to the people. Given a chance there's always someone who wants all the power, wealth and prestige. Hey, we have a little of that with our own privileged congress critters but we need only to scan the planet to see how it could be if a stable government and constitution aren't in place.

Those Russians love to poison people. The bigger concern here is that we now know the Russians have managed to create an aerosol form of radiation. Wow. Get the Russians mad and how easy would it be to spray a bit of this stuff in the air in a major city?

It's a dangerous world out there folks, and not just for former KGB spies. It's dangerous for freedom-loving peoples because freedom-loving peoples tend to get in the way of dictators, despots, Islamofacists and criminals who just want power over everything.

Midterm 2006 Election Tidbit

Came across this intriguing story about the Montana election and was surprised that this unknown Montana candidate actually managed to turn over the Senate to the Democrats.

From the Spectator.org:

Stan Jones, a Montana libertarian widely known for his peculiar blue skin, can arguably be said to have recast the political complexion of the U.S. Senate, turning it from Republican red to the same color as his face," reported the Washington Post after the election.

Running as the most anti-government candidate in the field in the race for the U.S. Senate, Libertarian Party candidate Jones received 10,324 votes while Republican candidate Conrad Burns lost to Democrat Jon Tester by just 2,565 votes.

Hey, elections are elections and if a blue-faced Libertarian managed to get on the ballot then so be it. But make no mistake, if Burns had gotten even half the votes this Stan Jones probably took from him, the Senate would still be in Republican hands today.

Only this fellow, Jones, is a bit of a nut. The story is that his skin is really blue, turned this color by his choice of a silver-laced antibiotic. Don't ask me what this is about.

So the blue-skinned candidate turned the Senate blue.

Heh.

Jimmy Carter's New Book

Every time this humble blogger gets a chance I shall rail against Jimmy Carter, former President of the U.S. and lover of dictators and despots.

Now this awful man has written a book condemning Israel for what? Daring to exist?

I was once a sweet young liberal gal, I believed in free love, peace and even was one of the two or three people who voted for George McGovern.

Then Jimmy Carter became President and I actually LIVED through the world as a liberal would run it. I will never, ever forget.

Did you know that we had to turn off our Christmas light displays during Carter's presidency? Oh sure, we didn't HAVE to, but there was an oil embargo going on and the notion was that outdoor holiday displays waste energy. Man, that was a real bleak Christmas.

The economy was so bad that I spent two full years biting my fingernails frightened to death I would lose my precious job. There were long gas lines, yes there were and young people don't remember this. But it took hours to simply fill our gas tanks and add to my fear of losing my job over the economy, I was terrified I wouldn't be able to get to work to keep the job I had!

Then there was the Iran hostage story, really pathetic. For over a year a few nut cases in Iran held Americans hostage and the one pathetic attempt peacenik Jimmy did to rescue them failed miserably. On the day Ronald Reagan took office every one of those hostages were released, now doesn't that say something?

Can't stand Carter and wonder why he writes lying books now and travels the world verifying blatantly illegal elections. Of course his family owns its own freelance diplomatic firm and I wonder why this is never mentioned by the Lamestream press.

Below, a review of Carter's lying tome about the Mideast where Carter does, as he always did, take the side of the bad guys. You gotta wonder how much they pay Carter to lie like the practiced liar he is.

From the Huffington post.com:

His bias against Israel shows by his selection of the book's title: "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid." The suggestion that without peace Israel is an apartheid state analogous to South Africa is simply wrong. The basic evil of South African apartheid, against which I and so many other Jews fought, was the absolute control over a majority of blacks by a small minority of whites. It was the opposite of democracy. In Israel majority rules; it is a vibrant secular democracy, which just today recognized gay marriages performed abroad. Arabs serve in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court and get to vote for their representatives, many of whom strongly oppose Israeli policies.

Lamestream Media Relies on Bogus Iraqi Police for News

Well they had no problem with publishing fake photos on behalf of the Islamofacists so why should we be surprised that the Lamestream media now uses fake Iraqi police to publish lies for the enemy?

From Newsbusters.org:

The news that six Sunnis were captured by Shiites, doused with kerosine and burned alive, was too sensational to not be picked up by the mainstream media. But it turns out that the event never happened. Furthermore, the Iraqi "spokesman" relied on to give all information regarding this event is as fictional as the story itself.

I was a bit taken aback when the story of Sunnis being burned alive flew across my TV news show. Damn, I thought, now those people are burning each other alive.

The story was reported by one Jamil Hussein, an alleged Iraqi police captain. Only no such person as Jamil Hussein even exists, much less exists as captain of the Iraqi police force.

I mean, hey, just call up the Associated Press, tell them I am Pat Fish, captain of the Iraqi blogger brigade, then feed them any damn story I want.

Believe these people at your own risk folks.

Secretary of Education Defeated by Squiggy of "Laverne and Shirley" on Jeopardy

...or was it Lenny from "Laverne and Shirley"?

I don't think she did too bad but you gotta admit, losing to Lenny is a bit of a put-down for our country's vaunted Secretary of Education.

What's more embarrassing than being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy? Being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy by Lenny from "Laverne & Shirley."

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True Crime-Bodies in AC Drainage Ditch; Clinton Neighbor Murders Wife?

The holiday season arrives but True Crime continues.

You will never believe the story of this couple and a motel room. Also, bodies found in Atlantic City drainage ditch.

Lots of drownings, but were they accidents?

Covering pervert polygamist Warren Jeffs and wondering how his trial might affect a major upcoming presidential candidate.

A Clinton neighbor's wife dies under strange circumstances and this fellow argues that because the deer was dead when he made love to it that he is not technically guilty of animal cruelty.

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Could the Warren Jeffs Flap Affect the 2008 Presidential Race?

I hadn't been paying much attention to the ongoing preliminary trial for Warren Jeffs because a)I'd never heard of him and b)he and his story seemed to come out of nowhere.

Recently, however, clips and audio bites from this same preliminary trial caught my interest. My curiosity caused me to listen in.

Seems Warren Jeffs is a cult leader and no other word can describe that group he leads. Warren Jeffs inherited his mighty cultdom from his father.

From NPR.org

Upon the death of his father, 49-year-old Warren Jeffs took over as prophet of the FLDS, or Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in September of 2002. Jeff's father, Rulon T. Jeffs, had been the group's prophet for the previous 15 years. He died at the age of 92, leaving an estimated 75 widows and 65 children to mourn him.

Now as I understand it, the FLDS is NOT the same thing as the Mormon church although, unfortunately, the mighty Mormon church of Utah is, however wrongly, associated in many minds with polygamy.

The "Fundamentalist" Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is Jeffs' cult, a group of former Mormons associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, removed the word "fundamentalist". The Mormon church, centered in Utah, has banned polygamy in the practice of its religion since 1890. Evidently some former Mormons still cling to this practice and those believers were ripe for plucking by Warren Jeffs and his father before him.

From NPR.org:

· A young woman who says polygamist leader Warren Jeffs forced her to marry -- and have sex -- at age 14 offered dramatic testimony Tuesday in a courtroom in St. George, Utah.

I listened to audio sound bites from the young woman referred to above and also testimony from her sister. I was horrified that such things are going on so blithely in this country.

First, the young woman testifying against Jeffs has parents who were part and parcel of Jeffs' cult. THIS is problem number one.

Yes, the young lady was ordered to marry her first cousin. Her sister describes how she (the accuser) cried and sobbed as she was getting fitted for her wedding gown, how she was miserable and couldn't believe that she was being forced to marry at the tender age of 14.

It was the saddest testimony I ever heard. But I was wrong.

Later I then heard sound bites from the accuser herself as she described her new husband's efforts to remove her clothes on their wedding night, how she sobbed and begged him not to do this, how she asked him why he was doing this to her.

Right then I had to imagine what it was like to be a mere 14 years old and to have to go through something like this. Her new husband continued to remove the child's clothing and told her something like pleasing her husband is her job, that they would be having children, that this was something God commanded her to do.

The accuser's story, told through barely controlled tears, was the saddest testimony I'd ever heard. That woman's adolescence was brutally stolen from her, stolen from her by her crazy parents, her horny cousin and from Warren Jeffs, the cult leader who commanded this 14 year old to marry against her wishes.

I simply had no idea things like this went on in America in this day and age.

I can understand what the prosecutors are trying to do here in the case of Warren Jeffs. For though that young woman's parents are surely guilty of something and her first cousin who paid no attention to her tears and sorrow could have stopped the nonsense, it is Warren Jeffs who needs to be stopped first and foremost.

This preliminary hearing is to determine if Warren Jeffs can be tried for the crime of rape. As but an amateur to these sorts of things, I must wonder how Jeffs can be tried for rape when it was that first cousin doing the actual raping.

The prosecutorial problem here is that there's a whole slew of weird men in this cult marrying young adolescents or God knows who and trying them one at a time is doing nothing to stop the ongoing problem. Because in this FLDS cult, once Warren Jeffs gives the command, a woman must get married whether she wants to or not. Or adolescent, as the case may be.

It is Warren Jeffs who needs to be stopped.

Frankly I have my concerns as to whether this is going to work. We assume that people have a free will. That young lady's parents had a free will yet her own mother continued to make her 14-year-old's wedding gown even though the girl was almost hysterical with fear. And her first freaking cousin went ahead and married her even though she begged to be freed from this commitment for which she had no input or choice. Seems to me that THESE two groups of criminals should be tried first.

Whatever my thoughts on the matter I am no expert on this religion or the Arizona rape laws for that matter. I AM a political junkee of sorts and to this end I must speculate.

Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, is a favorite contender for the Republican nominee for President in 2008. Yes I know Guilliani and McCain are forming exploratory committees and all that, but Mitt Romney has, since his birth, been groomed to ascend to the presidential throne and by me, he has a real chance.

A few weeks ago I attended a meeting of my Republican Womens' Group. We had a speaker, a knowledgeable fellow, and he said to pay no mind to the former NY Mayor behind the curtain or even the nasty John McCain from Arizona. This chapter of the GOP was backing Mitt Romney and as I consider Romney's position, for now anyway, I'm inclined to believe that he will get that GOP nomination.

Romney is a handsome fellow, a good talker, and religious enough to keep the GOP base of evangelicals and generally religious folks. He oversaw the recent Salt Lake City Olympics at a most difficult time and it went off stunningly. He's served as Governor of a very liberal state yet managed to hold on to his conservative credentials. Yes, Romney has a damn good shot at it.

But will this Warren Jeffs' trial hurt Romney in his presidential bid?

Hey, Romney is a Mormon, did I mention this? Yes there is a Mormon Senator already but this is a Senator, elected by people in his own state. For a Mormon to win that presidential seat requires votes from across the fruited plains by people whose only knowledge of the Mormon religion is that they allow polygamy.

Which, again, they do NOT.

This ongoing trial by a wacky offshoot of this Mormon church, complete with all the sad testimony by women used and abused by this cult, might be the sound bites that will condemn Romney to Mormon hell as concerns the American people.

Now this Jeffs' trial might be well over and forgotten by 2008 but somehow I wonder. Sooner or later the mighty American public is going to start paying attention to this Jeffs character and the nuts who follow him. And that same American public is not going to differentiate between the modern and more dignified Mormons of great choral fame and this offshoot of Jeffs'.

They'll sure not vote for any presidential candidate espousing polygamy even if that is not remotely the case.

Just some idle political speculation on my part on a really heart-breaking True Crime currently in the news.

That John Ramsey "48 Hours" Lovefest

I refer yon reader to my TV Tidbit post, HERE for a drop-dead brutal analysis of John Ramsey's apology for the Mark Karr mess he wrought upon this country.

It was damage control but there were some startling revelations about the Karr Geek that John Ramsey dropped as a reason he really, really thought Karr must have had something to do with the murder of his daughter, Jonbenet.

John Ramsey knows full well who killed his daughter and she's now dead and buried. Click the link, read my review.

The Mystery of the Mississippi River Drowning Deaths

Serial killers are often discovered, well, after quite a few people end up dead from the hands of that same serial killer. One death does not a serial killer make is what I'm saying here.

For almost ten years now, young college fellows from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, have ended up drowned in the nearby Mississippi River, all of them drunk. Now the La Crosse authorities are getting very suspicious.

Said suspicion stemming from the fact that one such drowned young man has been declared dead by homicide. Now Wisconsin authorities are doing a look back at the years before and the other drowning victims.

From TODAYSTIMJ4.com:

MINNEAPOLIS - Year after year, young men have been found dead in the Mississippi River. All were ruled accidents, but now police believe one of the college students was in fact murdered.

Eight young men from UW-La Crosse have been found dead in the Mississippi River in the last nine years. Some believe a serial killer is on the loose. And while police are not saying a killer is at large, they do believe Chris Jenkins may have been murdered.

The theory by the local authorities had been that these young men went out on the town, got themselves liquored up as college youths tend to do, then took a stroll along the banks of the Mississippi and managed to fall in and drown.

Come on. There are plenty of colleges located along river banks or bays and there's no plethora of drowning victims in that same region. My own home town of Baltimore sits on the Chesapeake Bay and there are several universities right near Baltimore's famed Inner Harbor. It is not a regular thing for bodies of drunken young men to be fished out of the waters of the Bay after a night of drinking. Although go with me here, those Baltimore youths drink and party as much as those folks in La Crosse. All across the fruited plains there are universities near bodies of water and yet only in La Crosse is there a spate of unexplained drownings.

Sure, drunken fellows are susceptible to drowning what with alcohol fuzzing up the brain and preventing decent swimming to safety. But a bunch of these very similar deaths is too much to ignore. Now one of these victims, a Chris Jenkins, has been declared a murder. Now somebody in La Crosse needs to go back and look at those prior deaths a little closer. If some nefarious person is helping these drunken young college men to their deaths, then we call that a serial killer in this neck of the woods.

Below a list of the similar deaths in the La Crosse area over the past ten years or so.

From TWINCITIES.com:

Richard Hlavaty, 18, found July 1997. Blood-alcohol level 0.271 percent.

Charles Blatz, 28, found September 1997. Blood-alcohol level 0.20 percent.

Anthony Skifton, 19, found October 1997. Blood-alcohol level 0.23 percent.

Nathan Kapfer, 20, found April 1998. Blood-alcohol level 0.22 percent.

Jeffrey Geesey, 20, found May 1999. Blood-alcohol level 0.42 percent.

Patrick Runningen, 23, found March 2001. Blood-alcohol level 0.24 percent.

Jarod Dion, 21, found April 2004. Blood-alcohol level 0.28 percent.

Lucas Homan, 21, found Oct. 2, 2006. Blood-alcohol level 0.32 percent.

We'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

The Clintons' Neighbor and Strange Deaths in the Night

It seems that Carlos Perez-Olivo does have a temper. In that the fellow liked to almost throttle a reporter who dared to ask him if he murdered his wife.

This True Crime, ladies and gems, is a doozy.

First, Perez-Olivo is a man in deep trouble in his law practice. He's been disbarred for stealing money from his clients and had been under great stress to somehow keep his wife and family in the lifestyle to which they had become accustomed. The neighborhood of former President Clinton and wife Hillary is a high living area and yes, Perez-Olivo lives three houses down from Bill and Hill and already camera-hog Bill Clinton has been commenting on his neighbor.

Seems Perez-Olivo and his wife were out for a drive when a "Hispanic" man forced them off the road, climbed into the back seat of Perez-Olivo's car then shot Perez-Olivo's wife in the head and shot Perez-Olivo in the abdoman. Perez-Olivo's wife died; Perez-Olivo survived his wound.

From the NY Daily News:

Exploding in anger, the crooked Westchester lawyer whose wife was killed in a roadside shooting attacked reporters outside a police station yesterday when they asked if he had anything to do with the mysterious murder.
Carlos Perez-Olivo began shouting expletives outside the Westchester County police station after a TV reporter asked the 58-year-old, "Carlos, did you kill your wife?"

As for Bill Clinton's comments on the case, they were innocuous. The former President said that so far as he knew the Perez-Olivos were a happy couple and Perez-Olivo was a nice neighbor. Well it's not about Bill Clinton's opinion on the Crime as it is always, it's ALL ABOUT BILL CLINTON.

From the NY Daily News:

Perez-Olivo - whose Chappaqua house is just three doors from Bill and Hillary Clinton's home - has told cops a gunman ambushed him and his wife as they drove home late Saturday, mortally wounding her with a bullet to the head and shooting him in the abdomen.

This True Crime is full of holes as concerns Perez-Olivo's story of the Hispanic who shot him and his wife. First, the Perez-Olivo's car has a lock that stays engaged when the car is in gear. So how on earth could this Hispanic murderer get into the backseat of their car so readily?

Also, scuttlebutt has it that the shots that killed Mrs. Perez-Olivo came from OUTSIDE the vehicle. No proof of this just yet but it's being bandied about.

This case has all the red flags of husband-murders-wife. Now that Perez-Olivo has recovered from his own possibly self-inflicted wounds, look for this investigation to go into high gear.

If we're lucky we'll get Bill Clinton's constant input, I just can't wait.

Just the Strangest and Most Intriguing Story

I first came upon this blurb in a True Crime newsgroup and was intrigued.

Seems a couple left their motel room but left behind some weird stuff. Like a room full of blood, and linens stuffed into a trash bin. The motel staff reported this find to the police because hey, the couple up and left suddenly and who knows, was it their blood left behind? Could the couple have been murdered, the blood the proof and their bodies who knew where?

Then I read, as below, the couple was found alive and well so hey, all okay and hunkey-dorey, right?

From Newsday.com:

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Carson City authorities have found a couple that left behind a bloody motel room, and both were alive and well.

Authorities said Cynthia Markham, 47, and Steven Martinoni, 50, were located Thursday at an undisclosed casino and were being questioned.

Sheriff's deputies began looking for them Wednesday after a maid at the Rand Motel found a large blood stain on the mattress and splatter on the wall of the room they had rented the night before.

Blood-soaked linens were then found in an outside trash bin.

HOLD ON!

It turns out that, get this, the woman cut open her friend's face with a beer mug and they used SUPERGLUE to hold the nasty gash closed. The lady will be charged, my goodness, with assault by a deadly beer mug.

From NevadaAppeal.com:

Charges of battery with a deadly weapon will be submitted to the Carson City District Attorney's Office against a woman who allegedly struck her boyfriend in the face with a beer mug then left the motel room covered in blood.

Investigators became concerned about the couple's welfare Wednesday afternoon after a maid at the Rand Ave. Motel found the walls and mattress splattered with blood and blood-soaked bedding tossed in the Dumpster.

Legros said when the couple was first contacted on Thursday, Martinoni was initially evasive about what had happened, but eventually admitted Markham had struck him the face with the mug, slicing him from his cheek to his chin.

"It was probably about a good three- to four-inch gash, but I couldn't really tell because they had Superglued the bandages to his face," Legros said.

You can't make this stuff up.

Speaking of Stuff You Can't Make Up

They thought he was masturbating in public but he was really having an epileptic seizure.

Seems something about Beloungea's hand movements replicated those involved in masturbation but that's not the worst of it. Beloungea had on, plainly, a Medic Alert bracelet declaring him to be an epileptic and with full contact information.

From ABCNEWS.com:

On most days Beloungea lives the normal life of a 48-year-old single man. But roughly once a week, he loses total control of his body and mind to an epileptic seizure.

A seizure took over Beloungea's body while walking through his suburban Detroit neighborhood last April. When an onlooker in a neighbor's house saw Beloungea having the seizure, which includes rapid repetitive arm motion, she misinterpreted it as criminal conduct. Specifically, she thought Beloungea was masturbating in public.

With that misconception in mind, she called the Oakland Police Department. When police arrived on the scene, Beloungea was still undergoing his seizure, acting disoriented and not responding to questions.

When officers couldn't get through to Beloungea they drew their weapons, shocked him with a high-voltage taser, hit him with a baton and wrestled him to the ground. They then handcuffed him and put him in a police car.

Instead they stunned-gun this fellow to oblivion and beat him up a bit.

Beyond that, while masturbating in public is a bit distasteful, dear Lord, it's hardly a danger to anyone in the surround. I'm just saying, even IF he wasn't having an epileptic fit, which he was.

So why all the police heavy-handedness? It's not clear by the report if Beloungea wouldn't stop his "masturbating" when commanded by police, but hey, if he didn't stop when a bunch of cops told him to, well that should have been a clue right there.

Four Women's Bodies Found in Atlantic City Drainage Ditch

It's rumored they were all prostitutes. Whatever the case, four dead women found in one locale, goodness, this is a serious crime. We'll keep watching for more details.

From ABCLOCAL.com:

Atlantic City - WABC, November 21, 2006) - Authorities in Atlantic County, New Jersey are trying unravel the murders of four women.

Their bodies were discovered yesterday in a drainage ditch behind a row of motels on the Black Horse Pike, which is just outside Atlantic City. Those motels are located between route 322 and the Atlantic City Expressway in Egg Harbor Township.

Best Defense of the Year Award

So hey, the damn deer was dead when this fine fellow "made love" with the carcass. So how is this "animal cruelty"?

As for myself, frankly I am glad the deer was dead, at least for the deer's sake.

The defendant, on the other hand, thinks that animal cruelty charges do not apply here as the animal ceased being an animal once it died.

As for charges of crimes against sexual morality, another possible crime by this dead-deer lover, well the defense argues that statute is about HUMAN sexual morality and does not apply in cases of humans making love to deer carcasses.

From the SmokingGun.com:

NOVEMBER 22--A Wisconsin man who argued that he could not be prosecuted for having sex with a deer because the animal was dead at the time, was dealt a legal setback today when a judge rejected a motion seeking dismissal of a criminal charge against him. As a result of Circuit Court Judge Michael Lucci's ruling, defendant Bryan James Hathaway, 20, will have to stand trial for his alleged assault last month of the deer carcass.

Again, we can't make this stuff up.

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TV Tidbits-John Ramsey Pees On Our Collective Feet AGAIN!

 


Time for a few TV Tidbits.

First, an old-age rant about those American Music Awards. If this is the best in music America has to offer I must thank the Lord I was born in the 50's.

Next, a summary of that "48 Hours" Tribute to John and Patsy Ramsey.

Indeed, the stupidity to defend these killing parents continues and I am amazed at those who continue to carry John Ramsey's water.

Some startling revelations on that pervert Geek John Mark Karr and the silly reason they thought he killed Jonbenet. Some serious lies were spread about this guy.

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TIDBITS Some of the amazing and famous hoaxes around Darwin's time: Barnum's Fiji Mermaid (he spelled it Fejee Mermaid). This was an ugly, dried-up, black object about three-feet (one-meter) long that was promoted as being half-monkey and half- fish. It was eventually found to be a hoax. Poet Edgar Allan Poe ran a long-running hoax promotion of a manned balloon flight across the Atlantic. The city of Palisade, Nevada, enticed tourists to visit the city because of its regular gunfights and street brawls. Tourists flocked into town to witness the gunfights, not knowing at the time that they were all staged. A report in The Illustrated London News of February 9, 1856 claimed that a living pterodactyl (an extinct flying reptile) had been discovered in France. A hotel operator hoaxed tourists to visit his city by creating a "Silver Lake Serpent" that lured many people to the area. A cigar manufacturer named George Hull hired stonecutters to carve a 10-foot giant, which he buried on his property. In the wake of evolutionists' desire to find fossils of creatures that lived in the ancient past, this Cardiff giant was "accidentally" unearthed in 1869, and wagon-loads of tourists came to see Hull's find. He charged them 25 cents each for the privilege.

"48 Hours"-11/25/06-John Ramsey on John Mark Karr

Let us begin with my never ending rant about Jonbenet Ramsey and the mother who accidentally struck her child a little too hard and bashed in her skull.

Through expensive PR machines and elite attorneys, the Ramseys avoided prosecution for the death of their daughter. Anyone who wants to continue believing that an intruder marched into that house in the mid of night and did that marathon session of writing ransom tomes, climbing spiral and straight staircases in the middle of the night, feeding Jonbenet pineapple before bashing in her head, removing all her bed clothing then washing and drying the stuff...well move on. Common sense, the stuff that juries use to convict the guilty as there are few confessions to crime and far fewer videotapes of the same crime, dictates that Jonbenet died a tragic death at the hands of her mother.

Weary of going through it all again, please reference this link, -ALL ABOUT JONBENET , where I've documented what likely happened as concerns pretty little Jonbenet plus some book reviews on the case.

 
For now, let's talk about this past week's "48 Hours" and some rather shocking revelations that were revealed about that perverted Geek, John Mark Karr.

Karr is one of many child molesting perverts who have become obsessed with the Jonbenet Ramsey case. There are plenty of them out there and they become obsessed with these sorts of crimes as, sadly and totally baffling to normal folks, these sorts tend to imagine their own selves as the criminals. In fact, Karr was also obsessed with the death of Polly Klass and, indeed, even managed to obtained a copy of that child's death certificate!

Karr became a media sensation late last summer as the stupid Colorado prosecutor, who really should be a Sunday School teacher, actually brought this pervert home from Thailand to undergo DNA tests for the murder of Jonbenet Ramsey. This was all at the urging of one equally stupid Colorado professor and, of course, John Ramsey.

For the Ramseys, you understand, not only are NOT satisfied with having accidentally killed Jonbenet and having gotten away with it, they also aren't content to just go away and let it rest. But oh no. They are determined, DETERMINED I tell ya, to pin that murder on someone else. Way I figure it, God knows. And Patsy Ramsey might have gotten a pass for the death of her child in that it was an accident and I'm quite sure she grieved mightily. Her (and John's) bigger crime is their constant attempt to pin the blame on someone else. This includes nagging the investigators to death to bring home a child pervert to test for DNA so that he may now molest AMERICAN children because hey, all for the Ramseys. The Ramseys, throughout the years, have pointed their fingers at everyone, including their best friends who stuck by them through thick and thin.

John Mark Karr's DNA did not match any DNA found at the Jonbenet crime scene, as we all know, and he got off for his possession of child porn in California as those authorities lost the evidence. Now, ladies and gems, this fine fellow walks the country and who knows whose child he will get next. All so the Ramseys can be exonerated for a crime they DID commit.

This recent episode of "48 Hours" was devoted to the Ramseys and John and Patsy's (now just John's) never ending quest to clear their name. Even at the expense of our own children because mark my words yon reader, this Karr is going to molest some other kid and then the shit will really hit the fan.

What a monument to the Ramsey cause this episode of "48 Hours" was. I watched closely so let us review some of the murkier details that were allegedly made clearer as concerns John Mark Karr and further, the so-called "innocence" of the Ramseys.

We begin by stating firmly that that joke of an investigation into John Mark Karr sure did make the Ramseys and their Colorado professor nut look very stupid. Thus John Ramsey needed a forum to make amends that he may continue to cast blame everywhere when he knows right where the blame belongs.

Michael Tracy is the Colorado professor all involved with finding the "real" murderer of Jonbenet and this fellow has been making videos and conducting extensive email investigations with perverts across the planet and I must wonder if he is doing this stuff on the taxpayer dime. It was Michael Tracy who became buddies with the Ramseys because of course the Ramseys like anyone who thinks someone else did the deed besides them. It was Tracy who kept up an email exchange with Karr when he was in Thailand and reported back everything he knew to ...who else? The Ramseys!

Let me also state right now that not one single investigator involved in that crime who believed the Ramseys killed Jonbenet was on this show. Why is this? Shouldn't both sides of the story be presented that the public may decide? Instead we had all the kooks who think the Ramseys innocent out and talking which would have been just fine had the other side been presented.

First, there were some very shocking revelations about John Mark Karr that even I didn't know. The main one being that it had been widely reported in the media frenzy surrounding Karr's deportation that Karr was being deported back home because the Thai authorities were unable to take a DNA sample from him suitable for American standards. Thanks to "48 Hours" we learn that Karr simply REFUSED to provide the Thai police with a DNA sample but that he did agree to return to America to give a DNA sample.

So you all thought Karr was stupid, did you? This guy knew he was innocent in the killing of Jonbenet. He courted that professor nut with tantalizing emails insinuating he knew something deep and dark about Jonbenet's murder. When Colorado professor Tracy reported this to the Ramseys, they pressured forces within the Colorado DA's office, which they certainly must have to have gotten away with this charade for so long. The Colorado's DA office pressured, get this, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security not that they shouldn't be dealing with protecting all Americans and not just the Ramseys.

It seems the Colorado authorities, or the Department of Homeland Security, did TRY to get the Thai police to get a DNA sample from Karr but Karr simply refused. Then Karr VOLUNTARILY agreed to return to the U.S. to give up a DNA sample. Karr was NOT extradited. Hey, the guy needed a free trip back to the states and look how cleverly he managed to get one!

The misreporting of how Karr came to be brought back to America boggles the mind. Frenzied reporters said it took months to get Thailand and the U.S. to bargain to get this creep home, that the Thai police couldn't, or wouldn't, get a DNA sample from Karr...on and on...the lies and deception.

So John Ramsey- who does look really stupid in that even that Sunday School teacher of a Colorado DA even said, in a press conference, that John Ramsey told her that this Karr fellow simply HAD to have had something to do with Jonbenet's death, that Karr knew entirely too much about the Ramsey family to be a coincidence- gives us one major tidbit on this "48 Hours" episode that was one of the items he said was odd that John Mark Karr knew.

Guess what it was?

Are you sitting down?

Here's the shocker...John Mark Karr included in an email to the nutty Colorado professor that he (Karr) knew that Jonbenet called her grandmother (Patsy's mother) "Neddie".

Heh.

Hey, Grandmothers all across the country are called by wacky names. I simply can't swear to it, but somewhere, in all my reading, I even read that Jonbenet called her maternal Grandmother "Neddie".

Now John Ramsey did say they he checked his and Patsy's book on the case, yes they even wrote a damn book how many parents of murdered children do this, and he said that nowhere in their book did they reference this tidbit.

THIS was a major reason that the Ramseys got the Colorado nuts to import John Mark Karr back home on the taxpayer dime to molest innocent American children! Because Karr knew that Jonbenet called Patsy's mother "Neddie"!

Another impartial guest on this "48 Hours" episode was one Lou Smit, a famed detective who gained money and glory by embracing the theory that the Ramseys were innocent, that an intruder killed Jonbenet. Smit wrote a book on the matter after he resigned (or was fired, who knows) from the Colorado police. Now there's no problem having Smit on, understand. But there were plenty of Colorado police, PLENTY, who still think the Ramseys did it yet not one of them were on this "48 Hours" episode. Some of then even wrote books about it also.

There was one other interesting character on this "48 Hours" episode, a fellow named DeMuth. I'd never heard of this DeMuth character but learned he had drafted what the CBS people called "an alternative theory into the death of Jonbenet". CBS had copies of documents drafted by DeMuth but know right up front that this guy was eventually REMOVED from this case because his superiors thought he was, well I think they thought he was nuts. I thought, just watching him talk, that he was totally smitten by Patsy Ramsey and I could see this out here in la-la land.

DeMuth's document revealed two things, neither of which mean crap. First, he said that Jonbenet struggled when the garrote was tightened around her throat. Which, DeMuth asserts, is proof that the garrote, crafted from one of Patsy Ramsey's paintbrushes imagine that, was more than just staging.

I ask you, what human being would not struggle when being choked to death? Of course DeMuth offered this as proof that a stranger killed Jonbenet because the popular assertion is that Jonbenet was already dead when that garrote was affixed around her neck so how could she struggle?

First, I have never read any proof that the child struggled but allow as it could have been something never made public about this case. Though I seriously doubt that there's anything not made public about this case. But even if true, by my scenario hey, one of those parents could have tightened that garrote to finish off Jonbenet, whose skull was already bashed in so bad that it was obvious to anyone that she'd never recover. In summary, IF there's proof somewhere that Jonbenet struggled from the force of the garrote, it doesn't prove to me that a stranger had to do it.

Another tidbit offered as proof that the Ramseys didn't do the deed was the discovery of some sort of rope in the Ramseys' house that night. This rope did NOT belong to the Ramseys but now I must ask the obvious. Just WHO says this rope did not belong to the Ramseys? Could the Ramseys have denied the rope did not belong to them? I mean, come on, I have rope and all kind of stuff around my house. If I was looking to get away with murder it would be small effort to point to something...I don't know...a cat toy or something, and declare wildly that this thing does not belong to me, it surely belongs to the intruder who killed my child.

CBS did report that almost 60 people were cleared of the murder of Jonbenet by DNA testing. 60 people! Does this sound like the Colorado authorities were not looking everywhere they could to find the murderer of Jonbenet? A fact asserted endlessly by the Ramseys who swear the police were only looking at them.

This CBS show was obviously set up by John Ramsey to attempt to clear the egg on his face for John Mark Karr petering out to nothing. A really fair show, and I watch plenty of True Crime shows, would have presented ALL sides of the case.

But if John Ramsey is to continue his and Patsy's crusade to throw someone else in jail for a crime an innocent person did not commit, well he had to do SOMETHING to make the public believe in him again. Who knows, might come a time they'll be some pervert in Africa or something who needs to come back for DNA testing for the murder of Jonbenet.

Finally, I'm not making this up. CBS showed a video clip of Patsy Ramsey playing the piano, playing one of Jonbenet's favorite songs it was asserted. Tears fell down Patsy's face as she played the ivory keys and I wonder just who the hell filmed this thing? It was so obviously put together for showing on a national TV show and so obviously meant to move us, the stupid public out here in la-la land, to know implicitly that this fine lady crying and playing her dead child's favorite tune on the piano, could NOT have killed her own daughter. This is the sort of stuff vaunted PR firms come up with and goodness knows the Ramseys hired plenty of those.

In summary, I kinda doubt the Ramseys will get a chance to import any other perverts across the planet to be tested for the death of their daughter as Karr's media frenzy and subsequent thud might have put an end to that. We're dumber than shit out here in la-la land but I doubt the American public will be all that keen on keeping up this nonsense. All at taxpayer expense, mind you.

Hey, since Patsy died so young, and since, as I believe, Jonbenet was killed by accident, I'd be quite happy to let the matter rest. They can't put Patsy in jail now and God knows John Ramsey's certainly had some rotten luck. But I'll be damned if I'm going to sit quiet while this taxpayer-paid quest to find the "real" killer of Jonbenet Ramsey goes on ad nauseam.

Even with a little help from CBS.

Middle-Aged Rant on American Music Today

...based on the American Music awards which aired in mid-November, 2006.

Rap music has its place in American Pop Culture, but it's NOT music.

Hated the show, hated the music, wondered what Paris Hilton was doing giving an award. And there really is a musician named NE YO.

Even Josh Grobin disappointed.

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The Fine Muslim Male

When Muslim Men Become REAL Men Perhaps There Will Be Peace In the Mideast

First, I’m not sure that the ladies in the beauty parlor know that what they often think to be a quaint Muslim practice is not voluntary. I speak specifically of the wearing of the Burka, those layers of clothing that is mandatory in many Muslim countries.

No I say to the ladies in the beauty parlor, it ain’t like the Amish who so intrigue us with their plain black clothing and eschewing of modern technology. The Amish CHOOSE to live their lives in that fashion.

Muslim women often MUST wear the burka and hey, it does better hide the nightly beating frustrated Muslim men administer to prove their manhood.

In Saudi Arabia a woman is not allowed to drive…AT ALL. She often cannot vote, she cannot have surgery without her husband’s permission and is not allowed to go out and about without a burka and a husband or father by her side.

In fact, a few years ago 15 young Saudi girls were locked in a burning school and allowed to burn to death because to open the gates that they could escape the fire would have them in public with no covering. Seems these young adolescents, who should be alive and living happy lives today in the most oil-rich country on earth, left their burkas behind to escape the flames.

Yes, THIS is what Saudis think of their women.

From CNN.com:

The husband of a Saudi rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison said his wife is "a crushed human being," but blamed a judge -- not the Saudi judicial system -- for treating her as a criminal.

Human rights groups want Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to drop charges against the rape victim.

Saudi society is respectful of women, he said, adding that he had faith his wife would get justice.

Now the tale of this young woman, brutally raped by 7 men, then herself sentenced to 60 lashes and 6 months in jail for the crime of being in violation of the very fair, fine Saudi law that forbids women to walk the public streets without a designated male by her side, is a bit murky.

Oh, and where is the United Nations on this matter? Further, where the hell is this country’s own National Organization of Women because if ever women were being mistreated it is in abundance in the fine world of the Muslim males?

So this particular case is getting international attention because, go with me on this, no matter how much the American administration tries to gloss over the oppressiveness of Saudi Arabia, particularly towards women, the ladies at the beauty parlor would never approve of this sort of thing if they knew about it.

Now life for women in that godforsaken country run by a bunch of inbred nitwits, all descendents of camels, known as the House of Saud, is revealed, at least in this case, for the feminine horror it is.

So even though this young woman’s husband has been out and about and pretending to defend his wife from the hypocrisy of the Saudi court, it turns out that it was HIM, a fine, FINE example of manhood yon ladies and gems, who turned in his own wife!

The woman raped was 18 years old at the time and she was engaged at the time to this fine man without testicles no matter what’s hanging between his legs. It’s not clear why she went to meet another fellow but I’m guessing that she didn’t want to marry this creep. Hey, I don’t know…Muslim women are treated like cattle so maybe this woman was sold to this pathetic excuse for a man in some fashion. Maybe she had another lover she wanted to meet.

The woman was NOT married to the creep who supposedly loved her so much he married her at the time of the rape. She was, at the time she was gang-raped, engaged.

But her rapists, all fine Muslim men, so tall and proud to have brutally raped a young woman stupid enough to go out and meet with what we assume was a love interest, went around bragging about the incident.

So the wonderful husband of the woman, well damn Sam, can’t have the other men smirking about having made it with this wife he bought and paid for all fair and square. So HE turns in his own wife.

From CNN.com:

After the incident, the woman and the man did not come forward about the assaults or press charges until someone contacted the woman's husband "telling him what happened, and about his wife's affair and adultery," the ministry said. "She then confessed ... the husband therefore came forward to the police and formally complained nearly three months after the incident."

Someday these camel jockies are going to grow some testicles and act like real men. You ever notice that the Muslims NEVER have an army? Sure, they have lots of thugs running around declaring themselves in charge but never, never, ever, an army.

Takes pride and little testosterone to become a soldier, fighting for the right cause.

No wonder these bunch of sons of camels are so jealous of the American soldier. They couldn’t touch one of our heroes with a ten foot pole.

It’s when the Muslim man decides to reclaim his country from the nut cases, defends the honor of his woman and protects his children with the vehemence of a real parent…then there will be peace and respect for this religion of the blasphemous.

Pop Culture-Sir Paul Looks Really Bad; Rachel Ray Scandal

Time for a dose of Pop Culture.

The biggest story of the week, Food Network Chef Rachel Ray's husband really into kinky sex.

Sir Paul McCartney has a bad face day. We've lots of blind items, an update on Katie Holmes' wedding lingerie-heh- and that joke of a Michael Jackson concert.

Finally, the Borat controversey. He lied and people feel cheated.

Pic of the Day

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Borat Being Sued by ...Everybody!

My husband first mentioned a controversy concerning this Borat fellow, an overnight sensation who produced the movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ". Husband informed me that in one scene involving the movie star learning to drive that the driving instructor was from my home state of Maryland and that he had not been informed that the entire driving lesson would become an actual part of the movie.

Since then, plenty of others are coming from out of the woodwork to complain about this Borat star and the deception of the movie's producers in obtaining permission and the payment for services.

Below another Borat participant comes forth to complain.
From YAHOO.com:

At a news conference Thursday in Los Angeles, etiquette teacher Cindy Streit announced that she has filed a complaint with the California Attorney General's Office requesting an investigation into the methods that were used to get her to participate in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

NOW we have an ENTIRE TOWN suing the movie's producers!

I don't know how this works but it seems to me that somebody was deliberately deceiving a whole bunch of people. As I understand it, all movie participants signed waivers and hey, I don't think you get to change your mind once the movie becomes a hit.

From Celebslam.com:

The producers of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan face yet another lawsuit, this one from the tiny Romanian village of Glod, which acted as a stand-in for a Kazakh village in the opening scenes of the hit movie. "We thought they came here to help us -- not mock us," one resident told the Associated Press.

That So-Called Michael Jackson Concert

So it was the World Music Awards and it seems there are still fools willing to pay to see pervert Michael Jackson perform.

Some of the ticket-buyers felt that they were misled, that Michael Jackson was supposed to sing his hit song "Thriller".
From BBC.com:

Angry Michael Jackson fans are seeking refunds on their tickets for the World Music Awards.
Entry to the award show cost as much as £100, and fans say they were misled by promises that Jackson would perform a version of his hit single, Thriller.

What's really odd is that Jackson did sing. He sang a small part of "We Are the World" then suddenly he stopped singing. Concert organizers said they had to stop the song due to a time limit on their license with London's Earls Court. Only officials at Earls Court said that a specific extension on the time limit was obtained by concert organizers.

Thus, it would seem, Michael Jackson decided to stop singing the song his own self and for God knows what reason.

If they don't refuse to patronize his alleged concerts due to this fellow's perversion, perhaps the small fandom Jackson still has will stop because of this little trick.
Kramer Evidently a Racist

If Michael Richards' sudden and strange racist rant in response to audience hecklers wasn't bad enough, his lamebrain apology on Dave Letterman was way worse.

From American Thinker.com:

Last week, comedian Michael Richards -- famous for his role as Kramer on the hit TV show Seinfeld -- went on a "racial epithet-laced tirade" after his stand up routine at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood was interrupted by two black hecklers in the audience. The incident has been treated as a major news story by most of the nation's news outlets. At Jerry Seinfeld's urging, Richards appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night via satellite to issue an apology for his behavior. Despite this act of public contrition, Richards' behavior has been labeled a "career ruiner" by Hollywood insiders.

First, the video clip I saw of Richards' apology was really awful. This guy is supposed to be an actor and damn, I could have acted the part better than he did.

Worse, the airhead goes and manages, I'm not making this up, to blame Bush for his rude behavior. Something, something...KATRINA...something, something.

Obviously Richards was trying to demonstrate that no matter what he said on stage, we should all remember that Bush let black people die during Hurricane Katrina.

This guy should get some control already. Hecklers are a fact of life to comedians and his wild-eyed rant was way over the top.

I say to Michael Richards...apology NOT accepted.

Sir Paul Having a Bad Head Day

That's right. Not just a bad HAIR day. Paul McCartney's entire HEAD seems to be on wrong.

Divorce must be wearing down the man.



BLIND ITEM FUN

ASKED

Durwood Dope (no relation to the man-eating, avaricious Diandra Dope from Vices past) used to have it all: fab career, great looks, damn good talent, boys 'n' girls to bonk whenever he wanted. Those were the bisexual superstar days, huh?

But that was before this little thing called age set in. Trust me, I know how D2 feels: Ya look in the mirror, and ya wonder what the hell your father is doing looking backatcha! Gray hair. Wrinkles around your eyes, where there used to simply be sleepy goo stuff. Know what I mean, all my little geriatric jelly beans?

Durwood sure does. 'Cause he's increasingly turning to drugs for solace, men for validation in the form of casual sex and-worst of all-vitriolic little queens for companionship. Bad move there, Mr. D.

Now, I'm a bitchy-ass homo if ever there was one, but at least I'm true to my buds. If they've got a bad time goin' down, I'm cool about it. Not so half the fruits Durwood's been befriending, as of late. See, here's the deal:

Dope's (female) partner is currently and utterly eclipsing him in the celeb department, and this fame factoid, along with the unavoidable truth that Durwood's increasingly looking like a weatherproofed donut, is not helping D.'s depressed moods. And since D.D. has always hung with a hedonistic, eclectic bunch...well, let's just say he's leaning wholly toward those who supply him, screw him and then say so long to him-rather than to those who actually want to help him.

Shame. 'Cause Durwood sure needs somebody who cares enough to tell him to lay off this fruits-and-chemicals-only diet of his. Pronto.

and it AINT: Frankie Muniz, Nathan Lane, Luke Wilson
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GUESSED

Harrison Ford?

Michael Douglas? Wasn't his first wife's name Diandra? Technically, they are "no relation"... and CZJ career is eclipsing his somewhat. And his "father" "looking backatcha!" He isn't aging well, but then, that's life, not a personal fault.
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From: **NY Post Page 6 BLIND ITEMS 11/14**
ASKED

WHICH ivory tickler, frequently caught drunken driving, is back on the sauce? The musician has stopped in a few of his local bars and had a few drinks, only to leave the bartenders no tip . . .

GUESSED

(Hint to Billy Joel: If you tip the bartenders they probably won't rat you out to the tabloids...)
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From: **NY Post Page 6 BLIND ITEMS 11/13**
ASKED

WHICH young Hollywood starlet had secret gastric bypass surgery, but then lost too much weight? During a recent four-day stint at a health clinic, she was actually having an operation to remove the bypass.

GUESSED

go with Kate Bosworth or Hilary Duff, though.

Nicole Ritchie
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From: **Janet Charlton BLIND ITEM 11/10**
ASKED

This smart, funny actor is a top boxoffice attraction. He's still on the young side but he's cranked out some major movies and proved himself a skillful actor. He's a father but he's single and a magnet for females. He's often seen at glamorous parties and Hollywood clubs with his entourage and assorted beautiful women, but he hasn't had a long term relationship. Except with his young male assistant! His female admirers would be SURPRISED to learn that this straight-seeming actor is sleeping with his assistant on the down-low!

GUESSED

Jim Carrey

Jason Stratham?

Colin Farrell?

How 'bout Mike Meyers? I know he just split with his wife...but I don't know about the "father" bit.

Tracking Santa Via NORAD

It's that time of year again. As Santa begins his travels across the world our military is on the job.

From Defenselink.mil:

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Nov. 17, 2006 - In advance of the holiday season and its 51st season of tracking Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world, the North American Aerospace Defense Command today activated its "NORAD Tracks Santa" Web site for 2006.

Santa Tracking Site HERE

Tom Cruise Gets Married

Frankly I don't think most Americans are as interested in Tom Cruise's last gasping bid to be relevant by marrying Katie Holmes in a bogus wedding as the raging media is.

First, there was the wedding kiss that lasted for hours as the breathless and vapid celeb pundits reported. Didn't Michael Jackson kiss Lisa Presley real long and passionate too?

Then we hear that Tom and Katie didn't really get married in that big ceremony overseas but had a smaller service in America that was the legal one.

Now we have this amazing account of Katie Holmes' lingerie.

Where on earth would someone get this information but from the bride herself? And if it was the store which released this data well go with me here, if Holmes/Cruise really wanted this kept under wraps, well it's done all the time.

From US WEEKLY:

The real story isn't Katie Holmes' Armani-designed wedding dress, but what she'll be wearing on her wedding night.

According to MSNBC's The Scoop, Tom Cruise's fiancée recently hit La Bra Lingerie in West Hollywood and spent over $3,000 on lacy intimates, more than $1,000 of which was for a "bridal collection" set.

Holmes, 27, picked up the Chantilly lace bridal collection, which includes a bra that cost $440, a $340 thong, a garter belt for $220, and silk stockings that went for $95 -for a total of $1,190.

Additionally, the bride-to-be nabbed a silk nightgown and a matching robe trimmed with ostrich feathers that set her back $620, a lace bra decorated with Swarovski crystals for $380 and matching thong with crystals for $175, as well as two sets of silk pajamas and matching robes at $425 each.

"They weren't all white - and they certainly weren't virginal," a source told The Scoop. "But she's a mom, so I guess that's appropriate."

A long, passionate kiss? An in-your-face wedding ceremony? Lingerie purchases publicly revealed?

Methinks Tom is trying to pull some major wool over our eyes.

Heh.

Big Story of the Week...Rachel Ray

Rachel Ray is Food Networks cutie that busted out from behind the frying pan into the big time. The big scandal this week involving perky Rachel? Seems her husband hires prostitutes to...do what?

Spit in his face?

This post on this Blog received hundreds of hits this past week. Those Wacky TV Chefs:

From Google Groups, attributed to NY DAILY NEWS/RUSH AND MOLLOY...

Jeannine Walz claims in The National Enquirer that Ray's hubby, John Cusimano, paid Walz to commit degrading acts you won't be seeing on the Food Network. And, she claims, they used drugs together. Ray and Cusimano deny the allegations.

Walz alleges that the 39-year-old lawyer and musician shelled out cash for her to spit in his face, rub her bare feet on his face and other gamy rituals.

More Gossip/Speculation HERE

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