January 9, 2012

"Oh, the Places You'll Go" at Burning Man!

As different a trip as a trip can be,
Such sights for all that are willing to see.

Will you just think it's weird and not worth quite a lot?
Or a ticket to ride an idea with no plot.

A journey I found both wild and wise too,
Ready or not, it is ready for you.

Dr. Seuss would ride with abandon and glee,
This Burning Man trip so different and free.

(with apologies to Dr. Seuss, Burning Man, and any and all poets)





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January 8, 2012

Jerry Sandusky's book, 'Touched,' helped police investigation into alleged sex crimes

The investigation of Jerry Sandusky took three years.

And it took Sandusky himself — through the pages of his autobiography, “Touched” — to help police find Victims 3, 4, 5 and 7.

At the end of 2009, police had spent almost a year trying to corroborate claims by a single boy — a 17-year-old Clinton County teen later known as Victim 1 — who had alleged years of sexual abuse by Penn State’s legendary defensive coach. Only one state police investigator had been tasked to handle the case.
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The 1998 boy was called Victim 6 by the grand jury. After police found him, the man’s mother told them about Sandusky’s autobiography, which was sitting on the shelves of the Penn State bookstore. A Google search of the name “Jerry Sandusky” would have revealed the book in seconds.



Victim 6’s mother and sister sat down with police, flipped through the pages of Sandusky’s book, and quickly identified boys who had often attended football games together. That led police to identify four more alleged victims, according to Victim 6’s mother.
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http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/jerry_sanduskys_book_touched_h.htm

Oh the irony.....

It is beyond ludicrous for anybody to say they couldn't find any information or for Joepa among others to claim ignorance. Inspector Clouseau looks like Sherlock Holmes compared to the law enforcement officials in Centre County and PSU.

I wish they would jail every one of these mooks who looked the other way! They all belong under the prison.

Sandusky is going to get touched.

January 8, 2012

The GOP Primary is like a

claiming race. Even if somebody has bought them before, they still end up back in the cycle. People try to clean them up and train them differently, but they are still LOSERS. I wouldn't bet on any of them much less claim them.

Newt, Mittens, and Paul have run so much this track feels like home. They could probably legally claim residence in a lot of primary states.

January 7, 2012

Bravo Gives Kathy Griffin Primetime Talk Show

Bravo announced that Kathy Griffin will host a one-hour weekly talk show beginning this spring, as well as renewals for "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Pregnant in Heels," and "Million Dollar Listing LA."
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"Kathy" will be "the destination to get Griffin's thoughts on everything pop culture as she rants on the week's biggest headlines and tabloid gossip," Bravo said in a news release. It will also feature standup, celebrity interviews and prerecorded segments.

Griffin will also appear in two new one-hour comedy specials this year, adding to her 13 previous Bravo specials since 2005.
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/bravo-gives-kathy-griffin-primetime-talk-show-194753820.html

Yay! This I'll watch.
Even if she isn't your cup of tea, she has been a staunch defender of LGBT rights. She also gets her digs in about the wingnuts.

January 7, 2012

"Don't bother.They're here!"

The Clown College known as the GOP candidates are wending their way to SC. I expect Gingrich to fire on Fort Sumter and demand we secede again. They all seem to be running for Jeff Davis's old office and not Lincoln's.

We may reach CCM very soon. That's critical clown mass. We stay near that point and the addition of those loons just might do it. I'm not sure what happens if we do, but it should be interesting.

Larry, Moe, and Curly have been touring the state together. They are also known as Romney, McCain, and Haley. It's a traveling show under the Big Top. Next up (or down) will be the Man On Dog act.

Mittens is leading, but as it has been so delicately put Santorum is surging. It will be interesting. I expect Rantorum will be right up a lot of the wingnut's alleys. Once they hear his ideas on the Blahs, his numbers should shoot up. Santorum has spent more time talking about gay sex and same sex marriage than the LGBT community did in 2011.

It's hard to tell that they are here though. We have so many fools that they blend right in. Their accents are usually the only clue.

Wish you were here!

January 7, 2012

ACLU: WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE STOPPED BY POLICE, IMMIGRATION AGENTS OR THE FBI

YOUR RIGHTS
- You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud.
- You have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.
- If you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.
- You have the right to a lawyer if you are arrested. Ask for one immediately.
- Regardless of your immigration or citizenship status, you have constitutional rights.
Note: Some state laws may vary. Separate rules apply at checkpoints and when entering the U.S. (including at airports).

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Do stay calm and be polite.
- Do not interfere with or obstruct the police.
- Do not lie or give false documents.
- Do prepare yourself and your family in case you are arrested.
- Do remember the details of the encounter.
- Do file a written complaint or call your local ACLU if you feel your rights have been violated.

Answers to questions: If You Are
...Stopped For Questioning
...Stopped In Your Car
...Questioned About Your Immigration Status
...Approached By Police Or Immigration Agents at Home
...Contacted By The FBI
...Arrested
...Taken Into Immigration (Or "ICE&quot Custody
If You Feel Your Rights Have Been Violated

Site: http://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal/bustcardtext.html

Download of card with the info listed: http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bustcard_eng_20100630.pdf

I'm sure some of this has been changed by law.
Be aware that those who stop you may view these as guidelines and not rights.

DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE OR OTHERS WITHOUT A LAWYER!




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January 6, 2012

Breathtaking Natural Landscapes Carved into Vintage Books

Breathtaking Natural Landscapes Carved into Vintage Books

Decades-old, decaying hardcover books have an intrinsic, stately beauty about them. This timeless charm serves as a departure point for Canadian interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramée, who transforms the pages of elegantly aging books into sculptures of mountains, lakes, and monuments.

Although the effect is breathtaking, Laramée’s intention isn’t purely to give pleasure. Titled The Great Wall and often depicting Eastern architecture and iconography, his series of carved books envisions a future in which, “Having recently overthrown the American Empire in the 23rd century, the Chinese Empire set out to chronicle the history of the Great Panics during the 21st and 22nd centuries.”





Click through for a gallery of our favorite images from the set, and then visit Laramée’s website to learn more about the project and explore the artist’s other work.
http://flavorwire.com/246279/breathtaking-natural-landscapes-carved-into-vintage-books

Laramee's website: http://www.guylaramee.com/

Beautiful and creative.

January 5, 2012

Raunchy Santorum Sex Jokes Abound

Raunchy Santorum Sex Jokes Abound

There are some things that can’t be unlearned. Like the word “santorum.” Ever since GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum clumped homosexuality together with bestiality and polygamy and declared them all deviant, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage created an alternative meaning for the politician’s surname. There’s no easy way to do this, so hide the children for a moment and don’t let them near the computer… Santorum: That frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex. (Source: Urban Dictionary).

Last night some Washington journalists couldn’t stop themselves from cracking jokes on the Santorum matter, with the former senator surging and all.

The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza remarked on Twitter, “Note to headline writers tonight: be careful with how you juxtapose the words Santorum and caucus.” And Metro Weekly‘s openly gay White House Correspondent Chris Geidner jumped right in, reminding Lizza, “You forgot ‘three-way’ and ‘from behind.’”

Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Alter made this keen observation: “If Santorum pulls this out, he’ll dog Romney for months.” Democratic strategist and pundit Paul Begala couldn’t resist. “That would be dog-on-man, no?” he replied.

Also unable to resist the heat of the moment was HuffPost‘s political writer Sam Stein who concluded, “This is, undoubtedly, the first three-way Santorum’s been in #hadtomakethejoke.”
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/raunchy-santorum-sex-jokes-abound_b60688

Heh!

January 5, 2012

MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry gets weekend show

Continuing its makeover of the weekend mornings, MSNBC will add a talk show next month that will be hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane University professor of political science.

The untitled program will begin on Feb. 4 and will be shown on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. until noon, MSNBC announced on Thursday.

MSNBC has pretty firmly established itself as a political channel on the weekdays, but it has lagged on the weekends. So it has been gradually replacing its weekend morning newscasts with political conversations. In September it started a roundtable show called “Up,” hosted by Chris Hayes, which has been well-received and has impressed people inside MSNBC with its political I.Q.

“Weekend mornings are a time when our audience wants intelligent political conversation, as the success of Chris Hayes has shown, in addition to coverage of all the headlines,” Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, said in a statement Thursday.
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More: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/msnbc-adding-another-political-talk-show-on-weekends/

Good!

January 4, 2012

The GOP race is now boiled down to one sentence:

Reed Zeta (@reedzeta)
1/4/12 11:37 AM
@PaulBegala
We now have a race between "Man on Dog" and "Dog on Car"