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Ten years ago, back when Britney Spears could still sing and dance and wasn't primarily famous for being another messed up white trash celebrity who wanders around with Paris Hilton mutually flashing the paparazzi, Jive Records released ...Baby One More Time. It was the song that turned Britney from a shopping mall-touring ex-Mouseketeer into a superstar. Girls wanted to be Britney, boys wanted to have Britney. Win-win, from a marketing point of view.
It wasn't just the song that appealed, but the music video that stood out. It features the sixteen year old Britney in a raunchy school uniform, in a school setting, imploring her ex-boyfriend to 'hit' her one more time. Leaving the lyrics aside for a moment, it appears that the original plan for the video was to have Britney superimposed on a cartoon setting, but this was scrapped, apparently at the star's request, in favour of a realistic school environment. Similarly, it was allegedly Britney's idea to have the school uniform shirts tied up so as to bear her midriff.
I'm not trying to make out that Britney Spears had some fiendish plan to sexualise schoolgirls, indeed I see her more as victim than villain in this story. But she was, it must be remembered, a product of the Disney corporation. The founder of the company, Walt Disney, attended meetings of the Nazi Party, was an alcoholic, founded the 33 club - a masonic order and has long been rumoured to be a sexual pervert of varying kinds. The company has a relatively long history of employees being convicted of such offences including possession of child pornography and sexual activity with a minor.
More recently the company has been accused of placing subliminal sexual images in movies designed for children. This might seem far-fetched but bear in mind they did market underwear associated with the kids movie High School Musical which bore the slogan 'Dive in'.
Along similar lines, back in the days when they were preparing Britney for stardom the company opposed a law designed to help protect children from online pornography. They've even got involved with the War on Terror:
As noted by Michel Chossudovsky:
"But now a land grab is about to take place comparable to the 'purchase' of Manhattan Island from the Lenapes Indians for $24 worth of beads and trinkets in 1626, the 'best real estate deal in history.'
In an 'agreement' with the 'Mayor' of Baghdad, the fifty acre Zawra Park is to be developed into a trashy Disneyland by the Tigris, complete with malls, hotels, housing, amusements, entertainment and a museum. Iraq's National Museum with its millennias of treasures and the National Library's irreplaceable ancient volumes and manuscripts were looted and destroyed under US watch in 2003. A replacement by a Disneyland version is a concept devised by the seriously psychologically challenged." - Felicity Arbuthnot, globalresearch
"Through the use of motion based simulations and sophisticated entertainment equipment, the harsh daily realities of poverty and military occupation are replaced by a World of fiction and fantasy.
The concept underlying Disney's Imagineering (developed by RSE) is to "overcome the barriers between reality and dreams".
The objective is to replace reality by a dream world.
Iraq's daily realities of death, destruction and torture are replaced by a "Dream World Made in America".
The imagery and motion simulations intended for Iraqi children and adolescents provide a "human face" to the American invaders.
The project constitutes a despicable form of war propaganda. It is a cover-up of the extensive war crimes committed against the Iraqi people in the name of an illusory "American Dream"...
...The Baghdad Disneyland-style project has all the essential features of a PsyOp. It is intended to instill American values and destroy Iraqi identity.
"The people [of Iraq] need this kind of positive influence. Its going to have a huge psychological impact," said Mr. Werner of C3.
In a cruel irony the PsyOp target group are Iraqi Children:
"There are all sorts of investment opportunities all over Iraq. But it's not just hydrocarbons. Half the Iraqi population is under the age of 15. These kids really need something to do," (Mr. Brinkley, quoted in The Times, April 24, 2008)
Iraq's cultural heritage is destroyed.
The historical memory of Mesopotamia is wiped out.
US investors are to "bring badly needed fun" to the war theater.
The sponsor of project Mr. Llewellyn Werner says the time is ripe for a "fun park":
"I think people will embrace it. They'll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they're Shia or Sunni. They'll say their kids deserve a place to play and they'll leave it alone."(Ibid)
According to a spokesman for the US installed Iraqi regime:
"There is a shortage of entertainment in the city. Cinemas can't open. Playgrounds can't open. The fun park is badly needed for Baghdad. Children don't have any opportunities to enjoy their childhood." Mr al-Dabbagh added that entry to the park would be strictly controlled." (Times, April 24, 2008)" - Chossudovsky, globalresearch
Reminds me somewhat of what they did in Germany after the Second World War, when it was deemed necessary to deNazify the population. Indeed, Paul Bremer used debaathification as his excuse for disbanding the Iraqi army in 2003, though this did not stop private military firms (not to mention people looking for potential terrorists) from employing them.
Back to Britney, and the song that made her a star, the lyrics contain numerous uses of the word 'baby' to refer to (presumably) an ex-boyfriend. This, along with 'babe' has become a very popular idiom, so much so in the case of the latter that it's new meaning of an attractive person, usually a teenage female, has usurped its old meaning of a newborn or young baby. This may seem trivial, but when you combine a young but sexually attractive girl dressed in a school uniform with throatily expressions of 'baby baby' and I'd say you've got a pretty comprehensive image of the sexualisation of youth.
On top of that there's the punchline at the end of the chorus 'give me a sign, hit me baby one more time'. This young, evidently emotionally vulnerable female is imploring the listener, or at least her ex-boyfriend, to give her a 'sign' by hitting her, again. This is the line with the most emphasis in the entire song, and is sung in the most aggressively, so there's not much room for ambiguity that the word 'hit' is intended literally. Indeed, there was some concern from the record studio execs at the time that the song might be seen to be condoning domestic violence. Their answer? To drop the 'hit me' from the title. Not change the lyrics. Not have Britney or the song's writer give an interview saying what the line means. Not downplay the line in the song's production. Just drop the 'hit me' from the title.
I think they're fighting a losing battle. For one thing, the Japanese school uniform fetish is pretty well ingrained, and for another it seems they tried the same thing back in 1993 and clearly failed.
I suppose what I'm asking is this: How can we charge a 14 year old girl with raping a 13 year old boy, particularly one who may have been raped herself, or charge three boys aged 8 and 9 with raping an 11 year old girl, or a 12 year old boy with raping two boys aged 8 and 9, or any number of other similar cases when we are the ones who've filled their entertainment culture with aggressive sexual imagery, sounds, ideas and feelings? We create this culture, see it all the time and rarely if ever object, even when something horrific happens. In another recent case a 15 year old girl was accused of possessing and distributing nude photos of herself to other minors and could be placed on the sex offenders register. Apparently a girl now owning a nude picture of herself is a serious criminal offence. Update March 2009 - no 'apparently' about it, today it was reported that a 14 year old girl from New Jersey is to be charged with possession and distribution of child pornography after posting nude pictures of herself on myspace for her boyfriend to see, and will in likelihood have to register as a sex offender.
The same mindset is applied to paedophiles. The news invariably seeks to demonise 'predatory paedophiles' and overlooks the popular culture of making youth an object of sexual desire. Not that I'm in any way seeking to defend paedophiles, they are ultimately responsible for their actions, but it's immensely hypocritical that if a private citizen steals a picture of a topless 14 year old girl and publishes it somehow they are open to serious prosecution but when FHM magazine published a topless picture of a 14 year old girl they were merely 'rapped' by the Press Complaints Commission, not charged with distributing child pornography. The magazine's publishers of course plead ignorance, claiming the girl looked much older. Why is it so difficult to tell the difference between a 14 year old and an 18 year old? Because of the very culture spread by magazines such as FHM.
What is a crime for an individual is a mere disciplinary issue for a major publication. Indeed, what is a crime in one country is legal in many others, when age of consent is the issue. The hypocrisy was reaffirmed to a horrible extent when, in 2001, Channel 4 broadcast a 'Brasseye' special - a spoof new program satirising the media's treatment of the subject of sex offenders. The tabloid response to criticism of their shoddy, hate-inspiring reporting was predictable, with the Sun and the Daily Mail branding it the 'sickest TV show ever'. It got worse, as reported by the BBC:
"The Home Office's child protection minister Beverley Hughes described the show as "unspeakably sick" - then admitted that she hadn't actually seen it.
At this point, I was feeling pretty sickened myself - not by "Brass Eye", but at the fact that I'd voted Labour and thus helped to put these people in power.
Then, some surprising things happened. People refused to be told when to be outraged. True, Channel 4 received hundreds of complaints - but the station also received hundreds of calls supporting the show. Significantly, among those who wrote to politicians and newspapers in support of "Brass Eye" were people who were themselves survivors of child sexual abuse. And suddenly, the government line changed dramatically.
Ms Jowell now announced:
"I've made it absolutely clear that programme content and regulatory issues that arise from this are a matter for broadcasters and regulators, not government"." - BBC
There are two different relevant watchdogs in the UK, and they received numerous complaints and messages of support concerning the show. The Independent Television Commission received 1000+ complaints and 750+ supportive comments, whereas the Broadcasting Standards Commission received 213 complaints and 179 supportive comments. Sadly, this distaste for hypocrisy didn't extent throughout the BBC as a few years down the line they commissioned and broadcast Drop Dead Gorgeous, a show about a young model growing up in Runcorn. The protagonist, Ashley, is 15 when the show begins but the BBC thought it prudent to cast an actress who was around 10 years older.
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Two major tax laws have been passed in the first t w o years of the
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and the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA). To
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September for Touche Ross's tax seminars. As chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, Senator Dole was a primary architect of the 1982 tax act. In the
conversation that follows, which was adapted from that filmed interview,
Senator Dole explains the intentions behind the bill and traces it from the
early planning stages to the president's desk. He also offers an insight into tax
reforms now looming on the horizon.
The 1982 act has widespread implications for both individuals and business.
Its origins differ somewhat from that of the 1981 ERTA bill, described by
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It's nearly at the point where using the word futuristic to describe autonomous cars verges on journalistic irresponsibility. Earlier this month the famous self-driving Google car received a (self-) driver's license from the state of Nevada. Computer scientists are cooking up ways for driverless cars to navigate busy driverless intersections. And last week the "road train" — a semi-autonomous highway platoon that follows the movements of a human-driven lead car — made a promising debut outside Barcelona.
The successful trial was conducted by the Sartre project, short for Safe Road Trains for the Environment. The five-car road train consisted of a lead truck followed by an autonomous truck and three Volvo sedans. (Volvo is a partner in Sartre.) The convoy traveled about 125 miles outside the city at speeds around 53 miles per hour while keeping a uniform 20-foot following distance between vehicles. It was the first time a road train had operated on a public highway being used by other motorists:
A road train uses a combination of existing car sensors (radar, lasers, and cameras embedded in safety features) and wireless communication to stitch together a vehicle convoy up to 15 cars long. The cars follow the acceleration, braking, and turning maneuvers of a lead vehicle — call it a conductor car — driven by a professional driver. Meanwhile each vehicle monitors surrounding traffic and converses with the others to ensure a smooth, safe passage.
Once drivers find a road train through their navigation system, they can join it so long as their vehicle is equipped with the convoy's software program. Cars that join the train become autonomous until drivers manually detach from it near their destination. The main advantage of the concept, of course, is that drivers can do whatever they'd like while their car is part of the train: eat, read, talk on the phone — maybe even join the road train club, if the mood strikes.
The Sartre project has been going on for three years. During that time it's logged some 6,200 test miles. Among the project's main goals are reducing congestion (by limiting human traffic errors) as well as fuel consumption (by limiting air drag through close following distances). While fully autonomous cars may require expensive physical improvements — not to mention infrastructure changes — Sartre says participation in a road trains requires only modest upgrades to a car's software system and wireless communication network.
In a statement, project director Tom Robinson of Ricardo, another Sartre partner, called the concept an "improved driving experience." That's a bit of a misnomer, as Wired points out, but it wouldn't be far off to call road trains an improved commuting experience. Behavioral research tells us beyond a doubt that commuting is one of the least pleasurable parts of the average person's day. While road trains wouldn't make for a healthier commute from a physical standpoint, they might make for a less stressful one.
But the quality-of-life question is easier to answer here than the quality of urban mobility one. The folks at Sartre see the road train as the ultimate transportation compromise: the independent flexibility of a car with the efficiency of mass transit. Their online literature doesn't address the problems that auto-dependency and single-occupancy vehicles create for cities. Road trains may handle the highway part of the commute; they don't alleviate street congestion or driver-stress within the city itself.
Still other questions remain. Some of the obvious ones involve the conductor car. Accepting that road trains will decrease congestion and fuel consumption, will those savings significantly offset the increases made by lead vehicles, which wouldn't otherwise be on the road? And who would provide conductor cars anyway? The obvious candidate is an employer: but if a company is willing to send drivers into the suburbs to herd employees into the city, why not just carry them back in a luxury bus?
These are the types of things we should consider sooner than later, because later isn't as far off as it used to be.
Inset image courtesy of Volvo Car Corporation.
Facing declining birthrates and rural depopulation, hundreds of "marginal villages" could vanish in a few decades. But some small towns are fighting back.
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Broncos coach John Fox today offered his condolences to the family of Steve Sabol, the NFL Films pioneer who died Tuesday from cancer.
"I had a great relationship with Steve, and my heart goes out to his friends and family," Fox said.
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Fox, now in his 24th season as an NFL coach (and 11 as a head coach), has been included in plenty of NFL Films projects. Fox couldn't name a favorite from his appearances.
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In Phnom Penh, the drinking water system is of good quality. But in the provinces, the sanitation services are still largely undeveloped. AFD has been engaged in this sector in Cambodia since 2004. Therefore, it is positioned as a privileged partner of the public authorities, private operators and the government. The goal is to reach total water network coverage in urban areas by 2025.
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AFD and the Professional Training in Cambodia
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Pakistan Strategy 2018-2022
Pakistanis' growing demand for partnerships with French actors, AFD will mobilise tools such as FEXTE and promote the emergence of a French offer, although some French consultancies and firms are reluctant to operate in Pakistan.
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Innovate for sanitation
In 2012 a call for proposals for FISONG projects was launched in the field of "Sanitation, hygiene and waste: long-term mechanisms and local capabilities" aiming at improving sanitation services in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs
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AFD and Vietnam
AFD supports in Vietnam the implementation of the Paris Agreement around the area of energy transition, resilience of cities and territories, and youth. It offers a wide range of financial instruments: sovereign and non-sovereign loans, subsidies for the State and public sector.
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AFD and Myanmar
A large, predominantly rural territory rich in natural resources, Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoys a strategic geographical position between the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. Since 2011, the country has initiated a fragile process of democratic transition and is witnessing
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Does family size hinder family living standards? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Madagascar
In this paper we try to identify the causal impact of fertility on household welfare in Madagascar using gender of the two first-born children as a source of exogenous variation. The issue of the link between fertility and economic well-being has been widely treated in the literature but we
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Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition
Guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries
A manual for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents up-to-date clinical guidelines, prepared by experts, for both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals where basic laboratory facilities and essential drugs and inexpensive medicines are available.
The manual focuses on the inpatient management of the major causes of childhood mortality, such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, severe malnutrition, malaria, meningitis, measles, and related conditions. It is part of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI).
Whereas this manuals focuses on treatment recommendations, a summary of the technical background and the evidence-base underlying these clinical guidelines is presented in the background book "Serious childhood problems in countries with limited resources" (ISBN 29 4 156269 2).


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Vivian Girls (4 Albums, 32 Tracks)
- Cassie Ramone
- Kickball Katy
- Fiona Campbell
- (former: Frankie Rose
- Ali Koehler)
The Vivian Girls started in Brooklyn, NY in March 2007 as the trio of Cassie Ramone (guitar/vocals), Kickball Katy (bass/drums/vocals) and Frankie Rose (drums/bass/vocals).While only a band for a short while, they recorded a demo CD-R which included five original songs and a Wipers cover, and began to play locally in Brooklyn and Katy and Cassie's home state of New Jersey Within the first couple of months they had already developed a strong local following, supporting acts like Jay Reatard, Japanther and the King Khan & BBQ Show as well as finding kindred spirits in other locals like Cause Co-Motion!, Crystal Stilts, and Woods, with whom they've shared many bills and helped develop a local scene.
In March 2008 they released the "Wild Eyes" single on the Plays With Dolls label. With very little promotion and distribution the single became an underground indie hit as it charted on many college radio playlists and garnered positive reviews on the internet. Recorded in the same session, their debut self-titled LP was released by the Mauled by Tigers label, whose initial pressing of the LP sold out in ten days. During this time, the group signed with In The Red Records who released a new single in August 2008. In The Red re-released the Mauled by Tigers record on LP and CD formats in October 2008. In July 2008 the band underwent a lineup change with new drummer Ali Koehler replacing Frankie Rose.
The band's name comes from a mammoth written work by outsider artist Henry Darger, called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.


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A woman accused of trying to kill her ex-boyfriend with a vehicle appeared this morning before a Pitt County judge.
Shameika Smith made her first appearance on attempted murder charges at the Pitt County Detention Center.
Greenville police arrested Smith on Wednesday after they say she pinned her boyfriend, Joshua Pearson, between a car and a wall at the Camelot Inn on March 6th.
Judge Galen Braddy said if found guilty, Smith could serve a lifetime prison sentence on the attempted murder charge alone. Her bond of $200,000 was not modified.
The victim's parents told WITN that Pearson had to be put back on a ventilator after an attempt to take him off did not work.
The victim's sister told WITN he lost his right leg, has several broken ribs and his pelvis was broken from the incident.
Pearson's parents said he had just completed work for his welding certificate degree and enrolled at Pitt Community College.
The Pearson's added that their son and Smith had been dating on and off again for the last two years, but had known each other since kindergarten.
Smith's next appearance in court is set for late March.
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The ex-girl friend of a man pinned against a motel wall by a vehicle has been charged with attempted murder.
Shameika Smith of Snow Hill was arrested by Greenville police this afternoon. She is charged with attempted first degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and injury to real property.
Joshua Pearson remains in intensive care at Vidant Medical Center. His sister says Pearson lost his right leg, has several broken ribs and his pelvis was broken.
Police say Pearson was pinned between a car and the outside wall of the Camelot Inn on South Memorial Drive last Wednesday night.
The 26-year-old Smith is jailed on a $200,000 secured bond. Police believe the assault stemmed from an ongoing domestic dispute.
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Police said a woman drove a car into a local motel overnight, pinning her boyfriend in the process.
Greenville police said the crash happened just after midnight at the Camelot Inn on South Memorial Drive.
Police said the woman drove a car through part of the building and her boyfriend, Joshua Pearson, ended up sandwiched between the car and a wall.
At last check with authorities, Pearson was in surgery at Vidant Medical Center. No word on the extent of his injuries.
Police say no charges have been filed yet in what they call a domestic investigation.


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Photoshop Friday Episode 30 : Create an Outline From a Font
Welcome (back) to Photoshop Friday! I am so excited to bring Photoshop Friday back and we are starting off with a bang!
For those of you who are new to Photoshop Friday, you are in for a treat. Every week I will bring you 3 short video tutorials that will teach you a new technique in Photoshop that you can then use on digital scrapbooking layouts, hybrid layouts, cards, and so much more. Before you know it, you will have a whole arsenal full of cool Photoshop tricks. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday of every week, I will feature tutorial videos from my past Photoshop Fridays.
In addition to the video tutorial, you will receive a layered PSD template to make your own digital layout and you will receive a PDF instruction sheet. Not only do these PDFs have all of the video instructions in written format, but they also are full of gorgeous layouts from our Creative Team. They will show you how to take the technique you learned and apply it to a different layout for a whole new look. How cool is that?!
Ready to get started? Today we are going to learn how to create an outline of a font. This is a great technique to make your title stand out a little bit more. You can use this to enhance your title or you can use just the outline to create a "ghost" effect. As a bonus, I will show you how to use your title as a clipping mask.
Here is a look at my layout and a sneak peak of the template that you will be working with today.
Step 1: Downloads
2. Click here to download the PDF. Make sure that you have the most current version of Adobe Reader found here.
Step 2: Video Tutorial
Here you can watch the video tutorial. It was filmed in Photoshop Elements, but it works the same in Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5.
Step 3: Complete & Share
Create your layout with the Photoshop Friday template and customize it with your own pictures and digi supplies. When you are done, tag us or share it on my Facebook page, Pinterest it and let the world see the beauty you've created! I would love to see your creations!


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TopRank has been asked to speak at the upcoming OMMA Global conference in New York on the topic of, "Digital Asset Optimization." While TopRank has helped pioneer and promote DAO as a holistic content optimization model for improving online lead generation and sales, this session is geared specifically towards online publishers.
Online publishers are in a prime position to take advantage of advanced search engine optimization strategies like digital asset optimization because creating, publishing and promoting various media formats are what makes them unique compared to corporate or ecommerce web sites.
OMMA Global New York, "Platform Wars" will be held at the Marriott New York Marquis September 18-19, 2008 and features a prestigious line up of speakers including:


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Friday, October 28, 2016
Definition of a Human being
Definition of Human Being Are you a 'person', an 'individual', or a 'human being'? These words, at law, define you as being spiritually 'dead.' This is how the world makes its attachment to you. The terms, 'person', 'individual', 'human being', etc., are not in Christ. Words like "individual," and "human being" do not even appear in Scripture! These are 'created' terms by the natural man (1 Cor 2:14). These words describe the 'old man', but not the 'new man' in Christ (Col 3:9-10). In Balantine's Self Pronouncing Law Dictionary, 1948, page 389, Human Being is defined as "See Monster." On page 540 of this same Law Dictionary, Monster is defined as "a human being by birth, but in some part resembling a lower animal." In Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, 1988, pages 879-880, a Monster is defined as "a person so cruel, wicked, depraved, etc., as to horrify others." From the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd Edition, page 901, Human Being is defined as a "Natural man: unenlightened or unregenerate," and on page 1461, Unregenerate means "not regenerate; unrepentant; an unregenerate sinner; not convinced by or unconverted to a particular religion; wicked, sinful, dissolute." In Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, 1988, page 657, Humanitarianism is defined as "the doctrine that humankind may become perfect without divine aid." In Colliers New Dictionary of the English Language, 1928, Humanitarian is defined as "a philanthropist; an anti-Trinitarian who rejects the doctrine of Christ's divinity; a perfectionist." And in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary, 1990, page 653, Humanism is defined as "any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values and dignity predominate, especially an ethical theory that often rejects the importance of a belief in God." Therefore, when anyone calls himself or herself a 'human being', or a 'humanitarian,' they are saying (according to every definition of these words, and according to the law), "I'm an animal; I'm a monster; I'm not saved; I'm unrepentant; I'm an unregenerate sinner; I'm not converted; I'm wicked, sinful, and dissolute; I'm cruel, depraved, unenlightened; and I reject Christ's divinity and the importance of a belief in God." "Individuals [Bondman] rely for protection of their right on God's law, and not upon regulations and proclamations of departments of government, or officers who have been designated to carry laws into effect." Baty v. Sale, 43 Ill. 351." [Codes, edicts, proclamations, and decisions are not Law, which define or regulate the Good and Lawful Bondman. Therefore, title 42 "law" suits are ungodly, and are the redress for and of human beings, i.e., non-believers.] The Septuagint uses the term "human beings" only one time, and its meaning is identical to the above definitions. Let's look at the last verse of the book of Jonah, where Nineva was full of men who were unrepentant, unregenerate, unconverted, wicked, sinful, dissolute, cruel, depraved, unenlightened, rejected the importance of a belief in God. Or, in other words, "human beings." "and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand...?" [Jonah 4:11 (Septuagint)] The "human beings" of Nineve did not know their right hand from their left because they did not know the Truth and were lost. They did not know God, they were separated from God. However, those human beings were willing to turn from their ways and learn the things of God, so He spared that city from destruction. The term "human being" is also synonymous with the term 'natural man.' "The natural man is a spiritual monster. His heart is where his feet should be, fixed upon the earth; his heels are lifted up against heaven, which his heart should be set on. His face is towards hell; his back towards heaven. He loves what he should hate, and hates what he should love; joys in what he ought to mourn for, and mourns for what he ought to rejoice in; glories in his shame, and is ashamed of his glory; abhors what he should desire, and desires what he should abhor." [Thomas Boston, quoted in Augustus Toplady, Complete Works (1794, reprinted by Sprinkle Publications 1987), page 584]. And the Word confirms: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." [1 Corinthians 2:14,] The above verse witnesses to us that the natural man is spiritually dead. The 'natural man' in Scripture is synonymous with the 'natural person' as defined in man's laws. "Natural Person means human being, and not an artificial or juristic person." Shawmut Bank, N.A. v. Valley Farms, 610 A. 2d. 652, 654; 222 Conn. 361. "Natural Person: Any human being who as such is a legal entity as distinguished from an artificial person, like a corporation, which derives its status as a legal entity from being recognized so in law. Natural Child: The ordinary euphemism for 'bastard' or illegitimate." [Amon v. Moreschi, 296 N.Y. 395, 73 N.E.2d 716." Max Radin, Radin's Law Dictionary (1955), p. 216.] Those that are spiritually dead belong to the prince of this world because he's dead himself. Satan has dominion over the natural man, for he is the prince of this world [John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11]; and, as a consequence of this, he has dominion over those of the world, i.e., human beings, the natural man – those who receive not the things of the Spirit of God and reject Christ. Because the bondman in Christ is sanctified from the world, he is separated from the adversary's dominion over him–sin [John 8:34]. This is the cause for Christ having sanctified Himself in the Truth of the Word of God – to provide the entrance to the refuge in and through Himself for us.
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Crowdsourced Erotic Fiction Novel Hits #4 On The iTunes Charts
from the features-100%-more-'beekeeper-sex'-than-the-closest-competitor deptOne of the old adages of publishing is "know your audience." In today's ultra-crowded digital markets, that adage is more important than ever. There's money to be made simply by following trends, and if you can get over any hangups about "artistic integrity," you can ride the wave until it collapses.
Much like the success of the Twilight series kicked loose a wave of imitators and revitalized young adult fiction , E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy (which itself began as Twilight fan fiction) has pushed the erotic fiction genre into the mainstream. This fact didn't go unnoticed by a couple of opportunists (and several accomplices), who took it upon themselves to add to the pantheon of
"It all started with Scam School Book 2 – Brian's magic book," Justin said. "He found out as he was pushing that book that the top ten in iTunes was all erotic fiction. Even to the point where established authors, like Janet Evanovich, couldn't break into the top five of the iBooks store—because of all the erotic fiction that was capitalizing on Shades of Grey. And he thought—we could do that!"The twist here is that Brushwood and Young didn't write a single word. The entire book is compiled from the contributions of their listeners. Held together only by the appearance of the same main character in every chapter, The Diamond Club has more in common with anthologies of Penthouse Letters (such things actually exist) and its inspiration, Naked Came the Stranger, than an actual cohesive novel. No matter. It crashed the iTunes best-seller chart, placing at #4 -- directly following the Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy.
The men behind the book claim to be trolling, but the sales seem to indicate that the book's audience stretches further than those who are in on the joke. Certainly some people aren't aware of the origin, but it's listed as erotic fiction and delivers the payload expected. Without having to spend a lot of time on character development, plot pacing or "compelling" dialogue, it likely delivers on the "erotic" side more efficiently than other books in the genre.
Justin said, "It's a hoax in that we are not erotic fiction writers. We don't genuinely think it's any good. But I will stand behind our product that it delivers what we believe to be the most important component in this genre: sex."Some may see this as yet another indicator of how opening ebooks to the masses is going to result in piles of lousy writing popping up everywhere. Maybe so, but I just can't see it as being solely a bad thing. If the customers are happy with their purchases, it doesn't seem to be much of a problem. The advantage here is a ridiculously short turnaround time that would be nearly impossible to emulate running through a second party, which allowed The Diamond Club to take full advantage of a trend before the audience moved on.
And the book does deliver. Though it has over 1,000 user reviews, only one of them calls out the hoax. "If you look at it, right now," Justin said, "There's only one comment that says it's a joke. One review says: Don't pay money for this. It's what they want."
The other big takeaway from this? Another new way to connect with your fans, which springs out of the duo's understanding of both their core podcast audience and the ongoing disruption in content creation:
Users are the content creators today – so they made the listeners of their podcast the authors.Nothing builds loyalty like including your fans in the creative process, and nothing builds word-of-mouth faster than loyal fans.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
What Sucks…Chihuahua Rescue! Funny Web Video
My very good and very funny friend, Chris Regan takes on the problem of too many Chihuahuas (which is more than one if you ask me) in California, in this very well done clip from "Lopez Tonight". Take a look and remember- we are flying Chihuahuas across the country to be adopted, yet that bum you stepped over on your way out of the subway will be dead by 8:30 tonight!
Sorry to get so "real" there, enjoy the video!
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What Sucks…Personal Printers
I try and be as impartial as I can about the things out there that suck but sometimes a person can be wronged and when that happens, he has to speak up.
I have owned about 12 personal printers during the course of my life from when I was a kid getting all "dot-matrix" on someone's ass, to later in life when I purchased a "3 in one" printer, scanner and copier. Each one of those printers had something in common- you guessed it- they suck. Big time.
Constant breakdowns, eternally running out of ink- paper jams- all I have been asking these things to do is print and it's a 50/50 chance at best I would get to hold my document in my hand. I mean the thing's name is "printer" for Christ-sakes it should be expected to "be its name".
They break at an alarming rate. Harsh language from someone standing nearby is enough to cause these things to go offline. Why the F are they so fragile? I've had NYC deli-bought umbrellas last longer that these printers- are printers made from the most fragile material in the world? Also, I hate buying something that is promising to do 3 things- printing, copying, scanning- and then can't do any of them. Why not just say it can make coffee or "clean asses" as well. Make it a 5 in one thing that does nothing!
And can some reputable journalist also please uncover the "timing" function, that causes the printer to constantly say that it is out of ink, even though you know you only replaced the ink cartridge "like yesterday". Hey printers- "F" You!
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
What Sucks...The Reaper
Even more reclusive now.
JD Salinger, RIP.
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What Sucks…Part 4 of Triumph @ Tell Your Friends: We'll Kick Cancer's Butt
Give money to these people- they're AGAINST leukemia!
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
What Sucks…Part 3 of Triumph at Tell Your Friends: We'll Kick Cancer's Butt
The great Triumph in clip #3- make a donation here.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
What Sucks…Part 2 of Triumph at Tell Your Friends Leukemia Benefit
Hilarious clip #2- with a very special guest- make a donation here.
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What Sucks…The Twitter Death Announcement
BLOG NOTE: I may be playing a little catch up here and there with some stuff I missed over the past few days....
Is this what its come down to? You live your life to the fullest and when you die someone will Tweet your death?
Is a life that can be summed up in 140 characters worth living? And, hey Ashton Kutcher, when mourning the death of an ex-girlfriend who you did a movie or two with, can we not abbreviate as much?
Come on, human race- we can do better!
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Monday, January 25, 2010
What Sucks…Obama's Idea Of "Help" To Haiti
BLOG NOTE: I may be playing a little catch up here and there with some stuff I missed over the past few days....
Barry is sending Bush to Haiti? What was his other choice, sending another earthquake? What, is he trying finish them off? Look at this picture, it's like no one can believe Bush is there- INCLUDING BUSH!
Sending the comedian Earthquake would be in better taste. If this picture was taken at a press conference, clearly it was taken before someone (Helen Thomas?) was asked the first question, which HAD to be…
ME: Yeah, Chris DeLuca, WhatSucksBlog. I have two questions, and then a follow up. Ah, first you have to be shitting us, right? Secondly, clearly you're shitting us and finally the follow up, you're shitting us.
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What Sucks…Tell Your Friends: Haiti Disaster Relief Show!
Friend of WhatSucksBlog Liam McEneaney, producer and host of the great Tell Your Friends comedy show that takes place every Monday night at Lolita Bar, is holding a benefit show tonight with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. It's a great casue and the show promises to be awesome with Lewis Black, the very funny Kristen Schaal and the great Todd Barry set to perform.
Liam's benefit shows have long kicked major ass, his last one was to raise money for leukemia and lymphoma research and featured the great Triumph the Insult Comic dog.
Check out the show tonight and if you can't attend, donate some coin to a good cause (Doctors Without Borders). Or, donate some money to battle leukemia and lymphoma by clicking here.
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What Sucks Salutes...Women With Bad Taste In Men!
…Brooke Mueller Sheen
I guess he's getting better, at least this time hookers weren't part of the problem.
…Charlie Sheen's Other Wives
This dude is one of the only guys in the world who when he posts his Match.com profile has to photoshop his wife AND the cop arresting him out of the picture!
…Mary Jo Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher
It's hard to believe there was even an argument between two women over Joey Buttafuoco, much less someone getting shot in the head over him.
…Elin Nordegren
At this point, she needs to start eliminating women her husband DIDN'T cheat with- Waffle House hostesses of the world, get your alibis together!
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Friday, January 22, 2010
What Sucks…2009
Well, there you have it, that's 2009 for you. Pretty shitty, huh? I mean other than a few gigantic advances in the way hilariously dark, ahead of their time, late night, low budget sitcoms are done, and a Yankee World Series victory, it was pretty much a shitstorm stuck inside a clusterfuck. And believe me, narrowing down a list of the top 10 a-holes of this past year is like Tiger Woods when he's meeting the new hostess of Waffle House, that is to say, extremely hard. (Author bows, roses are thrown at his feet.)
How can it be that other than Mariano Rivera, Jay-Z and Capt. Sully Sullenberger, no one in America had their shit together this year?
It was a banner year for dicks and dickheads. A-holishness flourished at almost unprecedented levels and stupidity reasserted itself as a force of nature. We had people leaving their homes in large numbers to go fight for the rights of insurance companies to screw them and their neighbors out of health care. Our disgusting, corrupt politicians cynically stalled on a health care bill so that any possible benefit that could come of it was marred and perverted to the point of being yet another kick-back to the corrupt health insurance industry who owns them. All this, by the way, despite the fact that health care reform has been a major issue in every election I have lived through- and I ain't no spring chicken.
Once again, anyone who spoke up for the environment was openly ridiculed, and those who spread clear, proven lies about climate change were allowed to broadcast their viewpoint as if it had any validity at all. And if that wasn't enough for you, a group of what can only be specially bred "uber a-holes", decided they'd rally against the government as it tried address some of these problems- all of which left on their doorstep by the previous, horrific administration- and do so under the name "Tea-Baggers". TEA BAGGERS! And I'm supposed to take them seriously? Google the name of your movement before you make your first racist sign, jag-offs- then come talk to me! JEEZUS CHRIST!
Oh, and on top of all this, a sequel to Twilight was released. So, seriously, way to go, mankind.
2009 was like a multi-layered shit cake made with special care by a bizarro Cake-Boss. Suckiness this year, like a virus, mutated. It got smarter, meaner- it was like it became a
In 2008, suck came right at you with overwhelming force. After a while, you started to see it coming and could predict its actions. People started to not go see M. Night Shyamalan movies, "According To Jim" was taken off the air and the Republicans were swept out of office. But now, just one year later, suck is back. Take the economy- yes, it hit the shitter for sure, but where 2008 suckiness might have been satisfied with just one big hit- everyone loses their houses- 2009 suckiness stuck around to combination punch us in the balls. We had to bail out the banks, but then were treated to EXTRA SPECIAL suckage, when we watched these bank scumbags give each other obscenely rich bonuses again and again- and then had to sit there and watch people claim that "bonus giving" was essential in the business to keep the brightest minds around. The brightest minds that caused us all to have to bail them out. Enjoy your yacht, douchebag, I'm gonna go eat soup from a can! It doesn't end there though- then we were openly mocked when we were told we were in recovery. Fine, slap us with that boldface lie, but then to use the term "jobless recovery", as if that isn't an infuriating term, well that's some pretty special kind of Bullshit 2.0 that 2009 will be remembered for.
Still don't believe me? Look at what I like to call the "Bullock Syndrome" we recently went through. In 2009 we were beaten into submission by three (3!) Sandra Bullock movies. We were able to resist the first one pretty well, but then by the second one with Ryan Reynolds we were like – okay, okay we'll go see it- and then by the THIRD one, people were actually going around saying this can be the year she wins the Oscar! The fucking Oscar! It's Sandra Bullock! We're becoming a nation of battered wives.
By the way, you people out there who are NOT putting together Top Ten 2009 A-Hole Lists have no idea how difficult it is to do when each year there the likes of Joe Francis, Dick Cheney and Eddy Curry qualify merely by being alive during the past 12 months! If I didn't care for my 14 readers, I could fill this list out in two minutes; Al Sharpton, Spencer Pratt, Richard Cheney, Geraldo Rivera, OJ, Madonna, Whoever Made Tila Tequila famous, Mark David Chapman, Anyone With Power In the Credit Card Industry and then one last spot for someone topical – Joe Lieberman. There, done and done- someone on that list dies? Replace them with Bud Selig, again- done! But I do care. So I will go the extra mile and plagiarize someone else's list for you.
So what A-holes stood above the crowd of other A-holes this year? Who makes it impossible for me to include Lady Gaga here? Let's take a look…
But first… how bout a special shout out to anyone involved in air travel. Wow, you took flying in a plane and have now made it less appealing than driving in your own damn car. Shit, I flew Continental a couple of weeks ago and asked them for an upgrade- they offered me a ticket for a Greyhound! (That would have been an upgrade, is what I'm saying.) Flying sucks so bad now it makes me want to stay home all the time- and I live in New Jersey! When you get on a plane, not only do you have to basically be a contortionist in order to fit your body in a seat, but you are now regularly charged a "baggage fee", for whatever bag you are checking and apparently you are also now responsible to physically confront and stop would be terrorists because the airlines and the government are too fucking inept to do so themselves. Be sure, by the way, to get to the airport 16 hours ahead of time, because security needs an hour to frisk the elderly, but the dude with the Muslim name who pays cash, he can go right on board. All this and you get to pay 5 bucks to get head phones so you can watch "Julie and Julia"? No fucking thank you.
The list…
10) The Mormon Assholes Who Spent The Early Part Of The Year Outlawing Gay Marriage
It is a sad-ass statement that not only are we still debating whether or not to allow same- sex marriage, but that it is still being openly denied to people who want it. Who the "F" is one person to tell another that they can't be married to someone else of consenting age? By the way, we are not talking about same-sex marriages that take place in a church or in some sort of religious setting, we are talking about the legal arrangement that is marriage, set forth by our seemingly secular society. And making this an even bigger disgrace? This whole dust up was bankrolled by Mormons! Mormons! Who don't drink coffee, wear special undies that bring them closer to g-d, and think the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. Unbelievable. Let's get over the fact that there are gay people who want to get married- gay marriage being legal it doesn't mean it will be mandatory! If you don't want to marry a dude, you don't have to! And to repeat an important point, this is not about bringing gay marriage into your church- relax, the only gay guy there will still be the priest. By the way, lighten up on that too- what, the only guy NOT into lesbians is Jesus? Let me put it to you this way, who would YOU rather be around, two women kissing or a religious extremist?
9) Chris Brown
Hey dude, as much as you may not want to recognize it, beating the shit out of Rihanna was a pretty big deal, you can stop acting so astonished that people think you're a douchebag for doing it. Now if you had hit Brooke Hogan, you know, that's another conversation but you made…
Also, nice touch leaking those photos of her naked. (Seriously, nice touch.)
8) Dick Cheney (& Liz)
Holy shit-rainbows and poop-unicorns! Can Dick Cheney, shut up please? Are you kidding me that I still have to listen to this ass-clot after 8 years? At least George W. Bush had the common decency to keep his mouth shut this year.
I used to wonder why Dick Cheney was always such a cranky bitch all the time- is it that he is just a dick? Is it because there are puppies and kittens being born everyday and there's nothing he can do about that? Is it because he has an old back injury that keeps acting up back from when he had to fight Luke at the end of Empire? Whatever it is, he needs to shut up.
Can someone, the next time this colossal douchebag opens his mouth to blatantly politicize something like the security of our nation, PLEASE remind him that when he was in charge America hated him and his hacks so much that they hired a black guy with a Muslim name to replace him? Can someone point out to him that the people of the United States of America hired Joe Biden for his very job? That's like being the guy Sean Penn in "I Am Sam" replaced at Starbucks. And can someone tell all this to as well to the horrible Liz Cheney (one of Dick Cheney's kids, the other being Luke) anytime she opens up her disgusting pig-mouth on TV?
LIZ CHENEY: The current administration simply does not put our nation's security among its priorities…
ANYONE AGAINST LIZ CHENEY: Your dad did such a horrible job that America replaced him with a black guy, with a Muslim name! End of debate!
Not to start a sub-list but Liz Cheney by the way was one of the higher profile people out there, along with Lou Dobbs to bring the "birther" question into the spotlight. "The Birther" movement was one of 2009's specialty acts- horrible, completely debunked "movements", this one focusing on whether or not President Obama was a citizen and thus legally qualified to be President. No matter it had been consistently debunked by a myriad of sources, Cheney decided it was worth a whirl, I suppose because the leader of the "birther movement" Orly Taiz, may have been a lawyer she looked up to, or a dentist she looked up to, because that psychopath and disgraced leader of the birther movement, was a lawyer AND a dentist! (People V. Cavity Creeps?)
ORLY TAITZ, Esq. AND D.D.S.
7) Jon Gosselin
What can you say about this douchebag that hasn't already been said about Michael Lohan? The guy managed to go from star of his own reality program about 8 "adorable" kids, to public douchebag number one in almost record time. Things got so bad he was fired from his own show- AND THEY KEPT KATE!
A lot has been said on this blog about this jag-off, I've covered the Ed Hardy shirts, the blatant, public dysfunction- the Vegas pool party. By the way it was at MGM, those of you who think you can go to a swimming pool in Vegas and not catch VD are on your own, but if I see anyone in the MGM pool who's not wearing a wetsuit, I'm just gonna have to refer to them as "bug chasers 2.0".
Most recently, Jon has had his apartment ransacked in NYC. Police say it was clearly done by someone who dislikes him a great deal so therefore they have been able to narrow their search of possible suspects to "everyone on Earth".
6) The Japanese Fisherman Assholes Who Keep Killing Dolphins
Look, let's be honest for a second here, the Japanese do some weird, quirky things they like to pass off as culture and 95 percent of the time the world is okay with it. Sushi, karaoke and anime are staples in our everyday society and for the most part, no one really complains about the seriously weird game shows they have.
When you move on to their porn, sure, eyebrows are raised. They've given the world "sharking", their scientists work tirelessly to invent a robot you can have sex with, and for some reason they often pixalate a woman's private area, yet let her be in a tub naked with eels (nsfw), so yes, they are serious pervs. And further, let me add that I'm all for the senseless killing of animals that would, given the chance, kill me- polar bears, sharks, scorpions, mountain lions, Canadian Geese* etc. But to kill dolphins, when they regularly beat the shit out of sharks is just an example of not getting it. Yeah, I saw "The Cove" the other day, and the Japanese need to get off the whole whaling thing and the senseless slaughter of these dolphins, and certainly stop pretending it's part of any "tradition" or "culture". Jesus, you guys are being complete and total assholes.
*denotes while I'm in a plane.
5) Glenn Beck
I am prouder of the way America treated the Indians, than the fact that people this summer, however small in number, actually went to a rally at the behest of Glenn Beck. This moron, a fucking former Morning Zoo guy, by the way, fancies himself a Howard Beale type, but I have a problem with that, mostly because Howard Beale didn't cry like a bitch as much.
When he chose to exploit 9-11 for his own career and invent something called "The 9/12 Movement" I found it very sad that some people said, "okay…we're gonna go and do what that dude who is crying on TV in front of the chalk board says." Beck often refers to himself as a "rodeo clown", but a rodeo clown's job is to distract a bull so that the guy who was just riding him (and pulling a rope connected to the bull's balls) doesn't get killed. Rodeo Clowns put their asses on the line for Rodeo cowboys who, let's face it, have it coming. It's kind of a courageous gig for a clown and they are easily the 2nd most bad-ass clowns out there. (Here's the first.) I don't especially see Glenn Beck putting his ass in front of a bull for anyone, I don't know why- oh wait, yes I do, it's because this dude would break into tears if Obama did a card trick. Holy shit Rockwell was less paranoid than this asshole.
Watching his show, by the way, he never really says anything factual. There's always a wink-wink quality to the stuff he says, like President Obama was a "racist", with "deep seeded hatred for white culture" or that FEMA was setting up "prison camps" or that Acorn threw the election or that their are communist messages in the murals of 30 Rock and I'm like- hey, stop fucking winking at me!
4) Bernie Madoff
In a year dominated by scumbags who work in finance, Bernie Madoff would become the poster child for douchebaggery. Granted, he is a major scumbag who is currently rotting in the big house (jail, not the one he owns in the Hamptons), but part of me regrets that his story was so high profile as it probably takes away from all the other scumbags who have screwed with and damaged the economy this year. Ken Lewis, John Thain, the guys who ran Lehman Bros and let's not forget Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Hank Paulson and Alan Greenspan who all deserve mention. So let it be known that I am mentioning them here, even though what they did was different than what Madoff did, this is the place for all the money people! Let me also mention the SEC too, whose job is to watch over dudes like Madoff and who were warned a number of times but could never bring the great Ponzi scam he was ruining to a halt. He's symbolic of an industry that REALLY gave it to us hard in 2009
Madoff stole billions of dollars from people, charities and foundations. He ruined countless lives and probably has something to do with why the Mets suck and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future. (The Wilpons had some money with him.) In some ways, he's won though, yes he's in jail, but at least he doesn't have to spend time with his wife anymore, that woman is horrible.
3) Sarah Palin
Much has been written about the decision to have Sarah Palin chosen as John McCain's running mate back in 2008. And while I haven't read any of it, (I will not read a book that even has a .005% chance of being a movie- imagine that, all those pages when you could have been finished with the whole thing AND have eaten a tub of popcorn in under two hours) one interesting fact is that she wasn't his first pick. McCain wanted Joe Lieberman. I'm not exactly how the decision to pick Palin went down, but I have to think it went something like this…
MCCAIN: All right, let's wrap this up, it's almost time for dinner. We're going with Lieberman, right?
MCCAIN'S TIRELESS CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Dinner? It's 4PM, you old bastard and no- I think we can do…shittier! Are we taking into account fuckability?
And with that, America got Sarah Palin who really, really sucks. You figured in 2009, she'd lay low, right? Yeah, right- *WINK*. (Get it? She winks a lot.)
Wow, did Sarah Palin put on a suck show in 2009. I mean she couldn't suck more if she reunited Air Supply to put out a Nickelback album. Why the fuck is she a figure in our culture again? Oh yeah, because men out there want to have sex with her. Can't we want to have sex with someone else? Seriously- do you have to have a fantasy where you can fuck the President, you pervs? This woman is an idiot. Look what she did in 2009 alone-
- Get interviewed in front of a guy who was killing turkeys.
- Conduct a mini-war with David Letterman where she accused him of wanting to have sex with her underage daughter because he made a joke about A-Rod.
- Give a crazy-ass, rambling speech right before she straight up quit her job as Governor of Alaska.
- Go on Oprah and promote her book and try to seem like a victim when asked about how she couldn't answer tough questions from Katie Couric (Katie Couric!) a year previous.
- Added "trees" to "various animals" who died an undignified death at her hands when her book "Going Rouge" was released.
- Call the aforementioned "birther" question "fair" when asked about it while being interviewed on the radio.
- Accused the Obama adminstration of trying to take "In God We Trust" off our coins, saying that if "In God We Trust" was good enough for the founding fathers it should be good enough for us now, even though "In God We Trust" wasn't put on money till 1954- this by the way was fact checked by Fox News and disproven. FOX NEWS!
- Have a months long, very public, pissing contest with a teenager and the father of her first grandchild.
That's a Suck Resume bigger than her actual resume. How come the only thing this woman actually sees through to the end are things that are incredibly annoying?
But by far the most egregious thing she did this year, however, was to coin the phrase "Death Panels". Palin, on her Facebook page, (hear less of this person, anyone?) essentially wrote that a major component to health care reform was that the government wanted to kill your grandma. Outing this immediately as a huge lie however (it was voted biggest lie of 2008) didn't stop a shit storm that lead to the section of the Health Care reform that included "end of life counseling" being stripped out.
So, let's say I'm a little biased about Sarah Palin being an a-hole, you know just for argument's sake. This speech puts her on the list all by itself. What the hell is this jag-off talking about? Seriously, find a coherent point in this. She was going to be the 2nd in command? The real question here is how could she only be #3 on this list…
2) The Reaper
The Grim Reaper came to 2009 to kick-ass and chew bubble gum and apparently, he killed the guy who makes bubble gum because holy shit did the Reaper wreak havoc this past year. Young, old, weird- no one was safe from his icy touch. We lost so many heavy-duty celebrities, it's hard to even express. You think the Oscars run long? This year the memorial section itself will be 90 minutes. Any other year Dom DeLuise would get 2 shots in the death montage, and a friendly round of applause, this year he'll be lucky to make the cut!
How did Larry King, Lindsay Lohan and Courtney Love get through this year?
So who will be #1?
The tension is mounting, so many a-holes, but yet there must be one who hasn't been named yet….
Is it Joe Jackson, who showed abusive dads the world over if you beat your kids enough they could very well grow up to be the weirdest person to ever walk the face of the earth, and then, when they die in a weird way, you can plug your new record company at a press conference in front of their home?
Is it Carrie Prejean, the former "Miss California" who in 2009 set standards for being dumb even among beauty pageant contestants? This is a hot chick so annoying Donald Trump told her to take a hike, and he gave the world Omarosa . She managed to offend lesbians and enthrall religious kooks by referring to same-sex unions as "opposite marriage" before enthralling lesbians and offending religious kooks by appearing in 7 solo sex tapes. In between she had her Miss California crown stripped from her, sued to get it back citing religious discrimination, wrote a crappy book, and walked off Larry King Live in a big huff- pretty impressive when you consider that at her age, it took Madonna 3 years to be that much of an a-hole.
Could it be the Octomom, who after getting plastic surgery to look more like Angelina Jolie, decided to be she'd be artificially inseminated with 8 embryos despite already having 6 kids and not having gainful employment- making her the worse of the seemingly endless parade of women in 2009 on TV who used their uteruses as clown cars. (Another horrible trend, by the way.)
Could it be Richard Heene, whose sad thirst to have a reality show made about his family led him to tell people his son (named Falcon, by the way) was in a giant floating Jiffy-puff bag, hovering over the western part of the country?
Or is it the media who at the instant that the Richard Heene- balloon boy story broke, gave us non-stop, uninterrupted coverage of the giant Jiffy-Pop container floating over the western part of the country? Mind you this was without knowing if there was an actual kid in there, and once it was determined that there wasn't, the story was still on for a week to ten days later.
Perhaps it's Rush Limbaugh? I know the assertion that helping the people who are dying in the street in Haiti is only a ploy by the Obama administration "to gain favor with the dark and light skinned community", (because let's face it, he's not really getting all the support he can from that community, I mean there probably are about 10-12 black people in America who didn't vote for him) will qualify for the 2010 Douche of the Year search, but this fat a-hole has done plenty in 2009 to make the list.
Can it be the women of the View, simply because the View still exists?!
These are all excellent candidates, but the winner, ironically, is a proven, horrible candidate. I present to you the biggest douchebag of 2009, Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut.
1) Joe Lieberman
When was the last time you asked your Senator for something? It's quite possible, never. Pretty much the way it works is, they shower us with bullshit, especially around elections, and we have to decide between 2 candidates, who the lesser of two evils is.
What do they get from the experience? They're voted into positions of power where they preside over vast amounts of money, are given voice at a government body where laws are made and given great influence over what gets funded and what does not. They vote to send us to wars (normally based on how they will be perceived politically), that they and their families will never have to participate in, and they are able to set themselves up for life through the favor they show towards a particular company or industry during their time in office. Not a bad gig, as long as you don't get caught on tape taking a bribe (after 22 days in office), or killing someone, you're basically on easy street.
So would it be okay if we asked you, you miserable pieces of human garbage, for one fucking thing? Could you, you disgusting corrupt pigs, you know, make it easier- or in some cases, possible, for us to get decent affordable health care?
Now, I'm not crazy. And I'm going to take this concept way back to the beginning- to just the idea that health care needs to be reformed. I'm not talking about the shitty bill we have been left with right now. I'm not even talking about you paying for my root canal and my mistress' new boobs yet. I'm talking about the idea of health care reform that 65 % of the people in this country wanted. The idea that Republicans during their tenures in the White House, I'm sorry but its true, did nothing to obtain. I'm talking about one of the major principles in the election of Barack Obama, specifically: the current system we employ being the most rife with cost, and least efficient, this combined with the country being extremely bold in the 2008 elections, are all factors leading up to this health care debate and evidence that people wanted reform. Add to this, the exceedingly obnoxious and dubious practices of health insurers- the denials of coverage, the blanket dismissals of claims, the indiscriminate refusal to cover in the first place and the infuriating under-coverage to those who are actually paying to be covered. And finally add the people who lose coverage and are then financially ruined by the costs associated with getting care to the equation.
The call for change, was/ is pretty friggin' clear. So, what happened? Some shit you would not believe.
Joe Lieberman, a disgusting political hack in a world of horrible political hacks, is sadly only the most high profile of the INCREDIBLE douchebags that let us down this year.
Being from Connecticut, home to major insurance companies, I would understand and even appreciate if he were just honest enough to say "health care reform would damage my state". Or even "health care reform, would hurt the people who own me", but Lieberman probably recognized he needn't say those things. He could just rely on his position in the Senate, as #1 asshole and super-majority point man to screw everyone over.
What puts him at the top of list is the pathetic acting exercise he did when he tried to make his opposition to health care reform seem in any way genuine. Not enough that he had supported most of the stuff on the table, including the Medicare buy-in as recently as 2007, faced with the concept that some reform may actually come to bear, and the insurance industry he's sworn to protect possibly be moved into harm's way, he decide to kill two birds with one stone. He'd protect the insurers, and be an obstructive dick to his own party.
He claimed health care reform would cost too much, that it would add to the deficit (both republican talking points) and that we simply needed to "wait" till the economy was better. I have a better idea, why don't you do your fucking job. The only people the public option would endanger would be the insurance companies screwing us over.
Lieberman is not without company in the valley of douchebags. The health care reform "debate", which wasn't a debate at all, was filled with bullshit from so many different sources that it quickly became difficult to keep track.
The media was consistent in their ability to let us down, constantly repeating the false claims of lying politicians (the Sarah Palin Death Panel lie, propagated by Senator Chuck Grassley among others), and allowing for the sad case of Joe "You Lie" Wilson to be made over and over again- i.e. having people on to talk about how egregious a breach of etiquette it was, before commenting on how filled with passion he was that he was unable to control himself and thusly get his narrative across.
It was a sad thing to watch- our leaders and media so incredibly controlled by the health insurance industry, that the one threat to their vice-like grip on the balls of decent health care, the public option, was dismantled before it even got to the floor for a debate.
By the way, next time that animal Dick Armey of the pharmaceutical industry funded "Freedomworks" gets on TV to talk about how reforming health care is the equivalent to socialized medicine, let me on to debate him- here's how'd it go…
DICK ARMEY: My view on this is, anyone who wants to reform health care is a socialist who wants to ration your care and kill your grandma, we should let the market decide.
ME: We're listening to this guy? His name is DICK ARMEY! Are we done here?
The public option, which, technically would have been a major blow to the corrupt insurance industry's hold on your balls, died a lonely death, and the Senators- and I'm talking about the democratic ones, disgraced themselves by attempting to extort the White House for their votes. Ben Nelson and Joe Stupak's abortion language was especially disgraceful as democrats allowed for other democrats to throw women under the bus all to get a piece of shit bill passed. Truly a shitty moment for all concerned.
One final note, it would be naïve to suggest that blindly championing a "public option" is the remedy for what ails us in the gigantic shit-storm that is our health care system, however, the concept of putting the kind of serious financial pressure on that industry (an industry that has shown brazen indifference towards those it serves) that comes with the public option would be invaluable to reform. And why not put the bad guys on their heels for once? The only reason I can think of not to would be that they'd be pissed because they had given me so much money over the years for my campaign and that's no way to repay someone who's been so nice to you.
Well, that does it for 2009. Congrats Joe Lieberman and drop dead. Incidentally, I'm glad I got to post this before the end of 2010 and as always, just because you're not on the list- "adult women who un-ironically associate themselves with something called 'Team Jacob'", "Ashton Kutcher", or "person who brought back Kara Dioguardi"– doesn't mean you're not part of the problem.
Here's to the new year, may it not suck as much as the old- although, come on, it will, we know it, I just said that to have something to drink to.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
What Sucks…Will Be Back Monday!
Hello everyone, and g-d bless each one of you. As I am apt to do, I have found myself talking off from Christmas to the 2nd week of January once again in posting for What Sucks. But you know who HASN'T taken off? Suckiness. Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, earthquake in Haiti (the event, not the comic), Earthquake in Haiti (the comic, not the event- those people are in no mood to laugh right now!), Jay Leno and his incredible passive aggressive move to get the Tonight Show back, believe me, I am paying attention and I will get all over this crap, starting Monday.
Also, in the New Year, I'd like to amp this blog up even more (kidding, I know its not very amped right now)- is there a redesign in the layout in the future? I'd love to- someone who does that stuff for a living- email me so I we can talk. My technologically retarded ass will finally get its shit together enough to do a podcast, there will be special "What Sucks" video and you may even see some animation if I can convince the talented people I know that its worth their time. Also, I may try and actually market this thing and get the word out that it exists.
As always, thanks for reading and stopping by and by all means feel free to comment or send me an email about what YOU thinks sucks, if by chance that thing has slipped through the cracks.
I'm just about finished with my What Sucks 2009 entry, and its super long so, yeah how the hell did we get through that year? I'll probably post that tonight or over the weekend.
For now, enjoy this video of Jimmy Kimmel basically ripping Jay Leno apart on Jay's show last night.
I'm doing some stand up tonight by the way at Ochi's Lounge which is at Comix comedy club in NYC, at 14th and 9th. The show is at 7PM and has no cover.
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