Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn is currently featured on American Masters and I wish they would stop insulting her.

Pay yr billz

by: Josh (context)
YES WE CAN HAS

I would like to post a happy fishnet friday post, but...

First kills of 2008.

Making matters worse Open Season on Wolves in Wyoming starts today: Today, the decision by the Bush administration to remove the Northern Rockies gray wolf from the list of species protected under the Endangered Species Act goes into effect.

Video and details on CNN via Wagga.

And the 6 Degrees of Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre Winner is...

Mitchell (despite the fact that Casey Serin AKA Benoit has been stuffing the ballot box)!


Woohoo! Win-win! Excellent entry!

Mitchell said...

1) Casey finally sold IAFF in the third quarter of 2007.

2) Google's revenues for that quarter were US$4.23 billion.

3) When I checked just now (9pm Pacific standard time, March 15 2008), US$4.23 was roughly equal to 100 Russian rubles.

4) Shostakovich once won a 100-ruble bet that he couldn't arrange the Broadway hit "Tea for Two" for the orchestra.

5) The music for "Tea for Two" was composed by Vincent Youmans.

6) Ashley was born Ashley Youmans.
March 15, 2008 8:55 PM

P.S. Nothing wrong with stuffing the ballot box as it seems to be the American way!

Baby seals have less than 1 day left to live

Help stop this insanity.
Boycott Canadian seafood.
Boycott Red Lobster.

Baby seal slaughter begins in less than 2 days

Who could possibly purchase fur clothing made out of these little guys killed so brutally?
Often they are skinned before they are dead despite what the Canadian government says.


Do you want to support thugs like this? If not, sign the pledge.





The seal hunt survives only because of subsidies doled out to the sealing industry by the government of Canada. It has become a glorified welfare scheme where in return for killing seals for a few weeks the sealers can qualify for unemployment insurance for the rest of the year.

“They say it’s part of their culture,” said Captain Watson, president and founder of Sea Shepherd who himself grew up in an Eastern fishing village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. “It’s a culture based on the cruel clubbing of baby seals for a few weeks each year and drinking Canadian Club and beer the rest of the year. It’s a culture that any Maritimer with half a brain abandoned generations ago.”



It looks like this skinhead asshole spends a lot of time on his ass drinking beer.
Boycott Canada.

Seal Hunt Starts in Less than 3 Days

These pups may soon be clubbed to death.


Take action to stop Canada's cruel seal hunt.
Boycott Canadian seafood.

Zen Dog

At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays.

Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2-year-old black-and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily prayers at Naha's Shuri Kannondo temple, sitting up on his hind legs and putting his front paws together before the altar.

Conan has proved very popular with tourists
It took him only a few days to learn the motions, and now he is the talk of the town.

"Word has spread, and we are getting a lot more tourists," Mr Yoshikuni said Monday.

With Conan's help the temple now draws 30 per cent more visitors than before.

Yoshikuni said Conan generally goes through his prayer routine at the temple in the capital of Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture (state) without prompting before his morning and evening meals.

"I think he saw me doing it all the time and got the idea to do it, too," Yoshikuni said.

The priest is now trying to teach him how to meditate.

Well, sort of. "Basically, I am just trying to get him to sit still while I meditate," he explained. "It's not like we can make him cross his legs."

Conan the dog learns to pray

Farts in the Wind

Farts are jazz to assholes

WTF?

Source unknown via riotclitshave

Big Tentacles! フジサワ 新ピロエースCM ８０年代

Hat tip to Ogg for this bizarre find!

China posts wanted list for Tibet

"China must resolutely crush the conspiracy of sabotage and smash 'Tibet independence forces'," the paper said in an editorial.

Luba and Marketa Say Hi!

Photos of the suspects were posted on the internet as China continued the crackdown that followed the unrest.

China has said that 19 people were killed in the Lhasa riots, which later spread to other Tibetan areas.

But Tibetan exiles say that nearly 100 have been killed by the Chinese security forces.

The official People's Daily newspaper said on Saturday that those responsible should be severely punished

Vote on the 6 Degrees of Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre Winner

Now it is time to vote on the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Ashley Alexandra Dupre win-win winner! Woohoo!
BTW is it just me or is this photo of Ashley Alexandra Dupre utterly ridiculous...?
Not to mention this one:
Yikes!

We have some excellent entries to choose from:

Buzz Saw said...
1) Kristin is a shameless hussy who earned her money.

2) KC is a shameless blog whore who earned very little of the money he wasted.

Sorry, I'm in a sour mood. I'll try again later. Oh yeah, murst!
March 14, 2008 6:50 PM

Casey Serin said...
Both I and this Kristen character service men for money. Concise? ;-)
March 15, 2008 7:31 PM

Mitchell said...
1) Casey finally sold IAFF in the third quarter of 2007.

2) Google's revenues for that quarter were US$4.23 billion.

3) When I checked just now (9pm Pacific standard time, March 15 2008), US$4.23 was roughly equal to 100 Russian rubles.

4) Shostakovich once won a 100-ruble bet that he couldn't arrange the Broadway hit "Tea for Two" for the orchestra.

5) The music for "Tea for Two" was composed by Vincent Youmans.

6) Ashley was born Ashley Youmans.
March 15, 2008 8:55 PM

BelowTheCrowd said...
1) Casey Serin broke the law and tried to turn his experience into a path to riches.

2) Kristin broke the law and tried to turn her experience into a path to riches.
How much more obvious can it get?
-btc
March 15, 2008 10:51 PM

BelowTheCrowd said...
Or as an alternate:

1) Casey Serin has caused significant marital distress.

2) Kristen has caused significant marital distress.

another:

1) Casey made a career of getting fucked by banks.

2) Banks employ investment bankers.

2) Kristen made a career of getting fucked by investment bankers.
-btc
March 15, 2008 10:54 PM

NotAnOptimist said...
Mitchell's entry is a bit hard to beat. Nevertheless, here's my attempt.

1) Prior to IAFF, Casey wrote in his Earth Mission blog for 7 months (1/1/06 - 7/17/06).

2) There are 7 books in the Harry Potter series.

3) One of the main characters in Harry Potter is Ron Weasley, or as his Mum sometimes calls him, Ronnie.4) Ronnie is also a nickname for Veronica.

5) Veronica Mars was a popular TV show starring Kristen Bell as the title character.

6) Kristen is the name by which Spitzer knows Ashley Alexandra Dupre.
March 16, 2008 11:34 AM

Ogg the Caveman said...
I'm going to get my ass kicked in this one. Nevertheless, here's my entry, with a nod to Benoit™:

1. Kristen is prostitute who has been linked to an important public official.

2. Dick Cheney is an important public official who has been linked to prostitutes.

3. Dick Cheney once shot his friend in the face while hunting.

4. Acting in gay porn may involve taking a shot in the mouth, which is a part of the face.

5. Gay porn is the only legal career path still open to Casey Serin.
March 16, 2008 12:42 PM

Octopus Bath

Time to wake up via Warren Ellis

Jaqui is a typical white person

And so am I! I hate corporations like Exxon and Wal-Mart! I like guns too!

Space Age Tentacles

Ryan Heshka

In other news you have less than 3 days to purchase Hillary Clinton's dignity and class on eBay.

6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Ashley Alexandra Dupre voting starts soon so submit your entry while you still can!

Big Lobster

fh1 uploaded by lilyofthevalley

Don't forget to submit your 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Ashley Alexandra Dupre entry before voting begins!

Boycott Everything!

Old favorite reiterating Buzz Saw's Boycott Everything comment.
We cannot continue business as usual any longer.

Sparklepus

Ana Bagayan via Suzanne G.

Random Surrealism from Google Ads?

As I've mentioned before, the Google ads are here for pure entertainment value (like the Random Surrealism Generator) and certainly do not generate any sweet passive income - I purposely place them in areas one isn't likely to accidentally click.
Why would there be a TogetherChristian.com - Where Christians Join FREE - ad here? I don't even know what a "Christian" per se is! Bizarre.
Anyway there seems to be a lack of interest in the 6 Degrees of Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre game. How about a new 6 Degrees of Hillary Clinton game instead?

BREAKING NEWS update: Pornsaint Anna the Nerd!

6 Degrees of Casey Serin – Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre

Mitchell suggested a 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Client #9 game. Given the grim economic news and the ongoing political circus I thought we could probably use another game. However, after reading about Kristen AKA Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s “get rich ideas”* I decided she would be more fun.
Sooo the latest 6 Degrees challenge is Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre!
Woohoo! Win-win!

*Bubbly, not too bright, but lots of fun, with a million get rich ideas...a book, a concierge service, at 22 she has ambitions.

Cthulhu Elephant?

Actually it is an indian street painting of Indra's multi-trunked elephant.
via automatism

Also, Wagga sent me this depressing article that states there are only 3500 tigers left worldwide.
Note: "The Chinese government is actively planning to legalise the trade (of tiger products) and if they legalise this trade then the demand for wild tigers is going to increase manyfold," he said, pointing out that people preferred products from wild tigers over farmed animals.

The Clinton News Network

Any questions?

Originally I thought it may have been a technical issue, but why is it that whenever one goes to CNN's election 2008 section, my only clicky options are either Hillary Clinton or John McCain?
That's democracy and lobbyists for you!

This message has been paid for by one royally pissed off American.

The Emperor's Club's Diamond Rated Ladies

Hat tip to Wagga for this hilarious find: A Pictorial Tour of The Emperor's Club Ladies
Our secret Internet operative "Jake" has sent us screen shots from the Emperor's Club VIP's website. The Emperor's Club, of course, is the "prostitution ring" that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer allegedly penetrated with his sex bits. Let's see if it was worth $5,500 dollars an hour (and his governorship/career/family etc etc).

I wonder what Maya has done to earn a 6 diamond whore rating?

UPDATE! Here are the fees:

More Humane Baby Seal Slaughter?

A harp seal lies on the ice as a sealing boat positions itself for the start of the commercial seal hunt.


More humane seal hunt takes to ice: The key element will be for hunters to palpitate the seal's skull to gauge whether it is unconscious or whether its head has been fatally crushed before proceeding with bleeding out or skinning the animals. If the seal is still alert, hunters will have to cut the main artery to ensure imminent death.
...
"They're not going to require immediate testing for unconsciousness," said Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for the Humane Society of the United States, a leading opponent of the seal hunt.

"They're shooting from boats, at moving seals, from moving vessels, often at a distance of 50 to 60 metres. Even if you were able to stun that animal with one gunshot, it would take a significant amount of time to reach that animal and test for unconsciousness ... and that's done by impaling the animal through the jaw with a hook and lifting it on to the boat. That does not fit with internationally accepted standards for a humane death."

Canada says 275,000 seals can be killed this year:
OTTAWA, March 10 (Reuters) - Hunters will be allowed to kill 275,000 young harp seals on the ice floes off eastern Canada this year, the government said on Monday, a number that animal rights activists said was totally unsustainable.

The quota is slightly more than last year's 270,000, when ice conditions were poor, but considerably below the 335,000 set in 2006.

Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the Fisheries and Oceans Department, dismissed suggestions that the harp seal herd was in danger of shrinking.

"The seal herd is healthy and abundant right now at about 5.5 million animals. We want to see it continue to be healthy and so over the years we have brought back the total allowable catch," he said.

The animals are either shot or clubbed to death in a hunt that takes place in March and April each year. The furs are turned into clothes and there is a growing market for seal oil, which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids.

Activists complain the hunt is cruel and say they often catch sealers killing animals in an inhumane way. Ottawa says that from this year hunters will be obliged to take extra steps to ensure the seals die humanely.

Sheryl Fink of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said she was stunned at the quota, which she described as unsustainable.

"There is absolutely no way this increase in quota can possibly be justified," she said in a statement.

"It's a national embarrassment ... is killing baby seals really what Canadians want to be known for?

The government's official plan calls for the herd to be kept at 4.1 million animals or above.

"We have a conservative approach to dealing with this herd ... 275,000 is at a level where we think we are not anywhere near in danger of bringing it down to 4.1 million," said Jenkins. The hunt is set to start in the second half of March.

Activists, who since 2005 have been urging U.S. restaurant chains to boycott Canadian seafood until the seal hunt is stopped, say they are optimistic the European Union will soon impose a ban on the import of all seal products from Canada.

"The seal hunt is an economic mainstay for numerous rural communities in Atlantic Canada, Quebec and the North. It's with these people in mind we make decisions based on science," said federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn.

Activists say the minority Conservative government is in fact subsidizing the hunt in a bid to gain votes in Eastern Canada at the next federal election, which is set for October 2009.

"We believe this quota is reckless and it's far more about conserving votes than it is about conserving seals, said Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society of the United States. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Rob Wilson)

harp seal 1 by ~xXxWTFxXx

“Quite frankly, I’m stunned.” Said Sheryl Fink, a senior researcher with the International Fund for Animal Welfare - IFAW. “There is absolutely no way this increase in quota can possibly be justified. The science doesn’t support it, the markets can’t support it, and the Canadian public won’t support it.”

Scientists from the DFO have acknowledged that the harp seal population is in decline, and have warned that a significant reduction in the Total Allowable Catch will be necessary in order to reach the Canadian government’s management objectives.

“If nothing else, today’s announcement will solidify the recent international criticism of Canada as a country with a ‘manifest disregard for science’.” said Fink

A Collection of Cowboy Boots

The Wyoming State Museum is free and the bookstore is well worth checking out.

I loved this response to a rather silly comment at Politico:
whoa! Wyoming is men country. "A woman has a better chance of being leader of a muslim country than Hillary has of winning in Wyoming or the POTUS." I have to admit---in Wyoming, they know about Annie Oakley. Hillary is no Annie oakley. Annie was a straight shooter.
Posted By: kjoe March 08, 2008 at 02:19 PM

The fish one is my favorite. I believe I may have already posted it here many months ago.


When visiting Cheyenne, I recommend staying at The Plains Hotel. Located near the majority of the cowboy boots above, the historic hotel has been nicely renovated and has the best food I could find in Cheyenne. Just don't order the ahi tuna.
Somehow they managed to make ahi look and taste like steak. Salads and risotto were good though.

This a computer?

You bet your sweet telex operator it is!

Bizarrely entertaining vintage daze!


More via El blog Ausente

Times sure have changed, but Shillary sure hasn't.

Serene

Surrender by =Rockhold-Photography

With all of the political ugliness in the news, I thought this was a serene, ethereal image to view instead.

Hi Luba!

As long as you have red shoes itsallgood. SWEET!

Media Bias?

clinton to lenin by ~raven229

While Hillary Clinton claims the media has treated her unfairly, why has the $17 million fraud suit received so little coverage?

While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17 million fraud suit that aims to expose an alleged culture of widespread corruption by the Clintons and the Democratic Party.
At the conclusion of a hearing tomorrow morning before California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz, lawyers for Hollywood mogul Peter F. Paul will begin seeking sworn testimony from all three Clintons – Bill, Hillary and Chelsea – along with top Democratic Party leaders and A-list celebrities, including Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Brad Pitt and Cher.
Paul's team hopes for a trial in October. The Clintons' longtime lawyer David Kendall, who will attend the hearing, has declined comment on the suit.
The Clintons have tried to dismiss the case, but the California Supreme Court, in 2004, upheld a lower-court decision to deny the motion.
Bill Clinton, according to the complaint, promised to promote Paul's Internet entertainment company, Stan Lee Media, in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 Senate campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to produce, pay for and then join them in lying about footing the bill for a Hollywood gala and fundraiser.
The Clintons' legal counsel has denied the former president made any deal with Paul. But Paul attorney Colette Wilson told WND there are witnesses who say it was common knowledge at Stan Lee Media that Bill Clinton was preparing to be a rainmaker for the company after he left office.
Paul claims former Vice President Al Gore, former Democratic Party chairman Ed Rendell and Clinton presidential campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe also are among the people who can confirm Paul engaged in the deal.
Paul claims Rendell directed various illegal contributions to the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign and failed to report to the Federal Election Commission more than $100,000 given for a Hollywood event for Gore's campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2000. McAuliffe, Paul says, counseled him in two separate meetings to become a major donor to Hillary Clinton to pave the way to hire her husband. Paul asserts top Clinton adviser Harold Ickes also directed him to give money to the Senate campaign but hid that fact in "perjured testimony" during the trial of campaign finance director David Rosen.
Rosen was acquitted in 2005 for filing false campaign reports that later were charged by the FEC to treasurer Andrew Grossman, who accepted responsibility in a conciliation agreement that fined the campaign 35,000. Paul points out the Rosen trial established his contention that he personally gave more than $1.2 million to Clinton's campaign and that his contributions intentionally were hidden from the public and the Federal Election Commission.
Rosen, accused of concealing Paul's in-kind contribution of more than $1 million, was acquitted, but Paul contends the Clinton staffer was a scapegoat. Paul points out chief Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson told the Washington Post he was aware of the donation, yet he never was called as a witness in the Rosen trial.
Paul contends his case will expose "the institutional culture of corruption embraced by the Clinton leadership of the Democratic Party," which seeks to attain "unaccountable power for the Clintons at the expense of the rule of law and respect for the constitutional processes of government."
The complaint asserts Clinton has filed four false reports to the FEC of Paul's donations in an attempt to distance herself from him after a Washington Post story days after the August 2000 fundraiser reported his past felony convictions. Clinton then returned a check for $2,000, insisting it was the only money she had taken from Paul. But one month later, she demanded another $100,000, to be hidden in a state committee using untraceable securities.
"Why wouldn't that cause someone to inquire?" Paul asked. "Especially since it was days after she said she wouldn't take any more money from me."
Paul has the support of a new grass-roots political action group that is helping garner the assistance of one of the nation's top lawyers
Republican activist Rod Martin says his group plans to highlight Paul's case as it launches an organization based on the business model of the left-wing MoveOn.org but rooted in the principles and political philosophy of former President Reagan.
Martin's group also is assisting in Paul's complaint to the FEC asserting that unless the agency sets aside the conciliation agreement and rescinds immunity granted the senator, it will "have aided and abetted in the commission" of a felony.
Paul's case is the subject of a video documentary largely comprised of intimate "home movies" of Hillary Clinton and her Hollywood supporters captured by Paul during the period.

Source: Clintons to face fraud trial

Also worth reading: I have no idea why Hillary Clinton's supporters can't or won't see that they are about to do to the nation in 2008, what Ralph Nader's supporters did to us in 2000. I can only hope they'll figure it out before it's too late.

Marat

Zuzana Staňková via Las insólitas aventuras del pez

After he was stabbed in the bathtub, did you know the Marquis de Sade wrote Marat's eulogy?

The Pathetic Kafkaesque Billary BS

It's Electrifying by ~WhiskeyBlade

Screw you! I would never, ever vote for a SLAVE TO FUCKING MONEY.

Bauer's conference call ambush [updated with audio]

Dear Clinton Campaign,
Take your evil tactics and shove it up your fucking ass!
Screw you!!!
Is Karl Rove your latest spin machine?

I sure hope Texas pulls through.
Also, I no longer plan to move to Ireland or France or Wyoming, I intend to stay right fucking here to do whatever I can to make your pathetic, evil campaign's life miserable.
A vote between Billary and McCain is a softer, gentler vote for the same old shit and WAR.
This is so evil, irrational and fucked up.

Teapot Worshipping Cult

Tea Fairy by *Cinnamoncandy

A sharia court in Malaysia jailed a woman for joining a "tea-pot worshipping" cult.

Kamariah Ali, a 57 year old former teacher, was arrested in 2005 when the government of the Muslim majority country demolished the two storey high sacred tea pot and other infrastructure of the "heretical" Sky Kingdom cult.

For the eccentric sect, which emphasised ecumenical dialogue between religions, the tea pot symbolized the purity of water and "love pouring from heaven".

But in Malaysia, despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of worship, born Muslims such as Mrs Ali are forbidden from converting to other religions.

Passing sentence, the Sharia judge Mohammed Abdullah said: "The court is not convinced that the accused has repented and is willing to abandon any teachings contrary to Islam. I pray God will open the doors of your heart, Kamariah."

Mrs Ali has already been jailed once for apostasy, for 20 months in 1992.

"This has to stop. They can’t be sending her again and again to prison for this," her lawyer, Sa'adiah Din, told reporters.

More here: Woman jailed for 'worshipping tea pot'


contortion girl teapot by ~cannibol


A Den Of Iniqui-Teas- by ~LBlondeau

Spring cleaning with funny dogs

Akubi and Tanuki have fun. Note: Under no circumstance EVER should you say anything that is derogatory towards dogs, critical of spoiling dogs, or that they are not full members of society who deserve the same rights as humans.

While sorting through my dusty allergy-inducing closet I discovered a ton of priceless vintage items shoved here and there and not well cared for.

And then while boxing it up by category, I was thinking this Stuff White People Like guy really makes me feel like a walking stereotype. I thought I was f-ing unique!!!

Rotten butter thrown at whaling ship

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Anti-whaling protesters hurled containers of butyric acid at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters, injuring four crew members, a Japanese official said Monday.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society acknowledged the Sunday incident, saying it had lobbed more than two dozen bottles of rotten butter at the Nisshin Maru, "sending a stench throughout the whale killing ship that will remain for days."

Butyric acid is found in rotten butter.

The Sea Shepherd boat had to move a half-mile away from the whaling ship because "it stinks too bad to remain any closer," activist Todd Emko of New York said in a statement from the group.
Continued with video
Whale and Squid by *evilhomer145

Wagga also sent this amusing animation.

Bloody Sunday

I am not a big fan of sending my $ to the United State of Exxon, Halliburton, et al. so paying taxes has been an extraordinarily annoying process over the past few years. While I’ve worked and re-worked various options, deductions are clearly not keeping up with inflation and paying off one’s mortgage principal due to economic concerns sure bites one in the ass. Why is it that irresponsible POS like Casey Serin or evil mofos like Dick Cheney get by just fine while responsible people in the middle are f-ed up the ass?
Overall, I’ve had a pretty shitty day, but I was hoping to get over it and blow off some steam by going on a long uphill walk with Akubi and Tanuki. We discovered some interesting things on the way up, questionable issues at the top and more annoying crap on the way down. Somewhere between nearing the top and the destination we felt OK.
This area attracts a ton of birds and there were more ravens than usual on the tree in the photo yet they flew elsewhere before we arrived and I could locate my crappy camera.

While the boys caught their breath and we watched the already setting sun, I realized my f-ing sunglasses were gone. I have been wearing those f-ing sunglasses for at least 5 years and spent more on them than any others and they survived longer than any others, but were now gone. Panic set in yet I hoped they may be found in some other pocket of my overstuffed backpack when we got home. On the way downhill there was this shaved-head guy walking uphill with 2 very large dogs in attack mode that he clearly could not manage. Despite the fact that they freaked out my exhausted little dogs, he didn’t bother to apologize for his dogs’ behavior. Having grown up with big dogs like German Shepherds, Alaskan Malamutes, etc I have found it is rather important to learn to control them if they are much bigger than you. I’ll probably never have a yard big enough for the sort of dog I grew up with, so I have Pomeranians and find them far more puzzling. Despite their size they seem to believe they are very big dogs.


And guess what? If my boys weren’t exhausted they could have kicked the shaved-head guy’s big hostile dogs’ ass! Nonetheless that guy was a jerk.