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Kanye West sh*ts on Taylor Swifts big moment

Alternate title to this post: Kanye West shows Joe Wilson how it’s DONE. UPDATE: Someone pounced on that gag already. geez, that was quick.

Alternate title #2: Kanye West doesn’t care about white people…

I’d love to think Kanye West is not an insensitive narcissistic asshole. but… dude…

Tonight’s VMA awards were messy. The transitions were sloppy. The performances were so-so. And the emotional outbursts were, well, tacky. Our evidence: Kanye West upstaging Taylor Swift’s big win. In a bit of a surprise, singer Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video for her track “You Belong With Me.” Sure, many of us aren’t familiar with this 19-year old country girl’s entertainment outputs, but that’s really no excuse for Mr. West, a man so consumed by his own fame that he has no respect for fellow travelers in the starosphere, to take the mic and declare Beyonce and her silly “All The Single Ladies” video the real winner. “Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” he declared, although that’s wrong on more than one level.

Honestly, Kayne, you look like an asshole. More so than usual. This poor girl had a moment to shine and, as is apparent by her reaction, you stole that and ruined what should have been a proud moment. That’s mean and childish and you should be publicly shamed. Oh, wait. Your own fame guarantees that. Good. As for Beyonce. She looked somewhat appalled, albeit under the guise of self-conscious humility.

First President Bush, now Taylor Swift. why is Kanye always picking on little girls who did nothing wrong?

(video updated since MTV keeps yanking uploads off of Youtube)

The contrast in this picture says it all: Classy, elegantly dressed young woman with good posture vs some hunched over thug-douche wearing sunglasses inside a brightly lit facility with a topiary maze shaved into his head, wearing a black (pleather?) shirt with – are those sleeves rolled up?? – and torn up jeans? wtf.

19 year old Swift was reportedly spotted “crying hysterically” backstage afterwards.

Stars watching the show and tweeting immediately posted their thoughts on the incident:

“Kanye needs to learn how to wait his turn,” Zac Hanson wrote. “I am sure he will get plenty of mic time to say something stupid later in the show.”

Country singer John Rich went even further with his tweet: “KanyeWest is a lowlife. He needs to have his @@@ kicked in the middle of the stage right now! What a piece of @@@@!!! Go TAYLOR SWIFT.”

Pink, who was also nominated for best female video, tweeted: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of s– on earth. Quote me.”

And Katy Perry followed suit: “F– U KANYE. IT’S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”

Later, when Diddy and Jamie-Lynn Sigler took the stage to announce the best male video winner (rapper TI took it), they mentioned each of the nominees, including West, who was loudly booed by the crowd.

Flashback from 2007 when there was this: Video: Whiny loser loses, whines like a five-year-old at Video Music Awards... but actually it’s so much “whining” as it is a race-based hate tantrum…

Haunting tales of the Twin Towers jumpers on 9/11

In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. He does not appear intimidated by gravity’s divine suction or by what awaits him. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered. His left leg is bent at the knee, almost casually. His white shirt, or jacket, or frock, is billowing free of his black pants. His black high-tops are still on his feet. In all the other pictures, the people who did what he did — who jumped — appear to be struggling against horrific discrepancies of scale. They are made puny by the backdrop of the towers, which loom like colossi, and then by the event itself. Some of them are shirtless; their shoes fly off as they flail and fall; they look confused, as though trying to swim down the side of a mountain. The man in the picture, by contrast, is perfectly vertical, and so is in accord with the lines of the buildings behind him. He splits them, bisects them: Everything to the left of him in the picture is the North Tower; everything to the right, the South. Though oblivious to the geometric balance he has achieved, he is the essential element in the creation of a new flag, a banner composed entirely of steel bars shining in the sun. Some people who look at the picture see stoicism, willpower, a portrait of resignation; others see something else — something discordant and therefore terrible: freedom. There is something almost rebellious in the man’s posture, as though once faced with the inevitability of death, he decided to get on with it; as though he were a missile, a spear, bent on attaining his own end. He is, fifteen seconds past 9:41 a.m. EST, the moment the picture is taken, in the clutches of pure physics, accelerating at a rate of thirty-two feet per second squared. He will soon be traveling at upwards of 150 miles per hour, and he is upside down. In the picture, he is frozen; in his life outside the frame, he drops and keeps dropping until he disappears.

Read more: The Falling Man – Tom Junod – 9/11 Suicide Photograph via Esquire.com

Another story from the Daily Mail:

For those who have discovered that their loved ones may have been among the estimated 200 or more who plunged to their deaths, this uncomfortable official reticence can only compound the suffering they have already endured.

University administrator Jack Gentul cannot possibly imagine his late wife’s torment before she died. Alayne Gentul, mother of two and the 44-year-old vice president of an investment company, was in the South Tower and had gone up to the 97th floor to help evacuate staff after the other tower was hit. In her final moments, she rang Jack to say in labouring breaths that smoke was coming into her room through vents.

‘She said “I’m scared”,’ he tells me quietly. ‘She wasn’t a person who got scared, and I said, “Honey, it’ll be all right, it’ll be all right, you’ll get down”.’

Alayne Gentul’s remains were found in the street outside the building across from the tower — sufficiently far from the rubble to suggest she had jumped. Mr Gentul, who has since remarried, is not convinced she took that option but is clearly irked that some believe jumping was some sort of cop-out.

‘She was a very practical person who would have done whatever she could to survive,’ he explains in a quiet voice. ‘But how can anyone know what one would do in a situation like that, having to choose how you go from this Earth?’

The notion that she jumped is, indeed, consoling to Mr Gentul in some ways, in that she exercised an element of control over her death.

‘Jumping is something you can choose to do,’ he says. ‘To be out of the smoke and the heat, to be out in the air, it must have felt like flying.’

Obama makes speech on healthcare. Democrats focus full attention on heckler

A congressman says “you lie!” to Obama during a speech and becomes a bigger story than the speech he was interrupting. Yup, thats American politics for ya.

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President Obama made an address to Congress last night to try and and squeeze an approval rating bump out that he could ride into passing his Government run healthcare bill plan thingy (Sarah Palin calls it the Bureaucratization of Health Care”). I played the Obama drinking game while watching it: you take a sip every time a black guy says something. – so I had to go to bed early. I do remember though that some guy I assumed was from the Republican side yelled something at some point. Turns out it was Republican congressman Joe Wilson from SC and he yelled “You lie!” at point when Obama claimed that his legislation would not offer benefits to illegal aliens.

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Barack reacting to the congressman’s outburst…

John McCain denounced him, his daughter Meghan McCain called him a child, blah blah blah.

He deserves the scolding, but it’s pretty vomit-worthy to watch the hippies freak the hell out over this disrespect toward the Obammessiah. The guy running against Wilson in the next election is getting donations streamed in even though it seems a bit of a waste (his district has voted Republican for the last 44 years), Wilson is bucking back, and its open season for smear-timez as some wonder if he’s a drug addict.

Listening to Democratic histrionics about civility in response to this, you’d almost think they hadn’t booed and yelled “no” at President Bush during his 2005 State of the Union. Or…wait a tic…

Okay, but was Wilsons rude comment at least right? Did Obama lie? Well… The bill available online in PDF form expressly says: “HR 3200 SEC. 246. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS: Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.” Which would sorta kinda suggest – ehno, he didn’t.

But there was a loophole that apparently is being fixed now due to Wilsons outburst (great. just what we need: public admittance that uncivil yelling will get you what you want):

Indeed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage.

House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner amplified the complaint that without proof of citizenship, illegal immigrants could be insured.

“There were two opportunities for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered by putting in requirements to show citizenships,” he said. “Both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected.”

In the Senate, Democrats in the so called “Gang of Six,” a group of bipartisan senators on the Senate Finance Committee which is the last panel yet to release its bill, began moving quickly to close the loophole that Wilson helped bring greater attention to.

“We absolutely assure that those who are here illegally would not get the benefit of any of these initiatives,” Sen. Kent Conrad said.

Congressional Research Service: H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citzens participating in the Exchange–whether the non-citizens are legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently. Nonetheless, only aliens who could be classified as resident aliens would be required under the bill to have health insurance.

Steve Jobs is not dead

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has been on extended sick leave and had to skip the last stage presentation or two because of it. His lack of visibility lead many to believe he was terminally ill or maybe even had already died and was being kept as a Weekend At Bernies type secret for as long as possible. But today – tadaa! – Jobs is back on the job..z, and conducted the expo thingwhatever today revealing new ipod nano’s with cameras and a software upgrade to the iPhone full of features no one will ever notice. yeay! but his entrance… so blah… dude just walked out on the friggin stage with no announcement.

The video below is the whole thing if you’re interested, but for purposes of this blog, only the first 60 seconds is important.

Jobs squandered a huge opportunity here. No one had any idea he was going to appear on stage and he just strolls out and starts talking?? wtf Steven? He could have tripled the publicity for this event if he had taken the Willy Wanka route:

See Mr Jobs? thats how its done… Maybe a full floor tumble was out of the question, but a fakeout still could have been pulled off subtlety and been just as awesome. Imagine him limping out with a cane and beginning to tell that story about his recovery only to drop it and erect himself to announce how great he feels. Apple stock would have risen an extra 4 points, I guarantee.

Obama talks to America’s chillens

President Obama made a speech in front of a class that was encouraged for teachers to show their own classes.

The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props.
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The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

The Washington Post wrote the first half and the Democrat, House Majority Leader said the second part after the dashes… in 1991. responding to President Bush giving a speech aimed at students. right before they had a hearing to investigate the matter.

Bush’s speech contained such controversial material as talking about importance of studying math and science and answered other questions, ranging from “How difficult is it to be our president?” to whether he would like his dog – Millie – to be the first dog in space.

As for Obama’s speech: Like Bush’s in 91, it had some nice common sense stuff in it that kids should hear. unlike Bush’s, it contained needlessly controversial self praising stuff about how hard OBAMA, not the country or bipartisan government, is working to save the world.

But wait… Obama actually did exactly what the Dems groundlessly freaked out over Bush doing? but that.. would make them… hypocrite political hacks….

While its true that liberal doctrine claims that persons A accomplishments must come at person B’s expense, I’ve always known that was bullshit bumper sticker pandering pap, so its not that that’s the cause for a “wtf man”. The reason praising yourself to young students is “needlessly controversial” as i stated, is not because it negates someone elses work as liberal theory would assume, but rather its just 1) bad taste and 2) bad politics.

Obama changed his speech from being the political commercial that republicans flipped their toupee’s over at first (The original Department of Education directive asked children to write letters with promises on “how they could help President Obama.” and changed it to how kids “could achieve their long-term and short-term goals”) yet still left in the self stroking stuff about how “he” alone is working for them. why hand your opposition a victory like that when the rest of your 2nd draft speech is so praise-worthy by honest members of said opposition? 10% of school funding comes from “Obama”. why not show some love to the mayors, governors and state politicians? when the guy who does 10% of the work takes all the credit, he’s usually called an a-hole. unless he’s the Obammessiah.

Shameless backstabber laments friends stabbing his back

levi-gawkerYoung Alaskan self described redneck Levi Johnston entered the public stage when his unprotected sex with his girlfriend resulted in that one thing that unprotected sex results in. I forget what its called, but its the thing when you put your sperm into a girl and she gets all fat n stuff afterward? you know what I’m talking about? anyway, a baby was produced out of that and the reason it was a news making event was because the girl he knocked up was the Governor of Alaska’s daughter at a time when said Governor was running as Vice President of the united states. If you’re confused what is so newsworthy about a potential Vice Presidents child engaging in bad behavior then knowing that we’re talking about Republicans should clear that up for you.

During the knock-up news, they were together and engaged (with still no sign that they were threatened or forced into said engagement) and Levi was saying nice things about Sarah Palin and the Palin family at large. Then he realized he could get WAY more attention if he did the opposite, so he did. Now he’s doing photoshoots that may or may not include his famous baby-making penis, on red carpets with young popular hotties at the top of their game such as Kathy Griffin and he’s got a book deal claiming to “tell all” about the Palins dirty little secrets that he knows (because banging someones daughter obviously results in a wealth of insider-knowledge about her parents. clearly).

Now we learn that poor Levi has been victim, er, to exactly the kind of sell-out betrayal he’s doing to the Palins. Just look at this lamenting in an article without a hint of irony:

A busboy came by and filled our glasses. He and Levi knew each other from before Levi got famous. They exchanged heys. He told Levi that he tried to call, but that his number didn’t work. Levi told him that he has to change his number a lot. As the boy walked away, I caught something a little sad in Levi’s expression. A lot of friends have sold him out, giving details about his life to reporters, Rex told me. I asked Levi about it.

“I lost all the friends that are trying to do that. I let ’em go a long time ago,” he said. “I know which ones I can trust now.”

Ya, it’s hard to know who you can trust these days eh Leev’s? People who you thought were your friends and then all of a sudden go public with details about your personal lives? What is this world coming to? You trust people and open your life up to them and as soon as they realize there may be money and fame in revealing “secrets” about you they pull a 180 and sell you out?

Great. now I have a craving for fried butter

Mmmmmm. Sounds abso-fricken-lutely scrumdiddlyumptious…

Deep-fried butter.

That’s right. This artery-clogging, heart-stopping dish is among eight new deep-fried concoctions that will be unveiled to the public at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas later this month. Each year, fair concessionaires try to outdo themselves by dreaming up recipes that could send you racing to your cardiologist if they became regular staples of your diet. The friendly competition has become so intense that fair officials have dubbed the fairgrounds the “Fried Food Capital of Texas.”

This year’s fried butter entry is the brainchild of 39-year-old Dallas resident Abel Gonzales Jr., winner of past state fair competitions for his Texas Fried Cookie Dough, Fried Peanut Butter, Jelly and Banana Sandwich and Fried Coke recipes.

(That’s right. Fried Coke.)

Dude whips up fresh, 100% pure butter, chops it into squares, freezes it and then wraps the frozen chunks in dough, frys em up and creates a heavenly little ball of joy.

Gonzales says “I mean, butter by itself does not taste good,” Gonzales said. “Nobody just grabs a stick of butter and eats it. That would be gross.” – Obviously he’s not a Simpsons fan (and if anyone can find a clip from when Homer did that, send it my way).

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Race-baiting Glenn Beck Boycott is an Epic Fail

A few weeks ago, a group no one has ever heard of, called Color of Change, started a boycott against Fox News opinion show host Glenn Beck because Beck stated an opinion they found unacceptable: Beck said he thinks Barack Obama is essentially racist (oh no he di-int!).

Color of Change, under the headline Stop the race baiting,  immediately organized Beck-haters to call or contact advertisers  to notify they will be boycotting their product as long as they continue to run their ads on Beck’s show.

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Problem: Van Jones, the leader of Color of Change is the Dictator of Race Batia. He has first place trophies on his shelves for the annual Race Bating County Fair. If he were on the supreme court he would be Race Bater Ginsburg.

The picture to the right from the Hannity show makes it look like Van Jones is wearing a Hannity pin on his jacket. so. like. i thought that was funny.

First: Jones called President Bush a racist…

Stop the race baiting? In a Sept. 1, 2005 Huffington Post op-ed, “Bush’s Role in the Drowning of New Orleans,” Jones wrote:

Don’t say that a hurricane destroyed New Orleans. Hurricanes don’t drown cities.It was a “perfect storm” of a different kind that put that great city underwater: Bush-era neglect of our national infrastructure, combined with runaway global warming and a deep contempt for poor African-Americans. [emphasis added]

Hmmm. Should someone be getting outraged over a person accusing the President of being a racist, if..um.. they called the President a fkking racist?

Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones also thinks white people are poisoning black communities. Hmm. that’s a pretty inflammatorily race baiting accusation. Plenty evidence to call this hypocrite boycott against Beck a fraud and and a scam, but as the late Billy Mays would say: But wait! there’s more!

Goodness… So the guy Beck has been calling out then orders a boycott against Beck for saying one thing that was less offensive than any of the things he himself has said. and he works in the Obama administration. Awesome.

Oh ya, and he thinks President Bush was behind the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Maybe he changed his mind though? Cuz last night he issued a statement apologizing and said the petition he signed suggesting that President Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen” perhaps to justify war in Afghanistan or Iraq, “does not reflect my views now or ever.” Except, it seems that “or ever” should have had an asterisk after it to clarify that in *this* case “ever” means “except in 2002 when he endorsed the same claim”.

An administration source told Jake Tapper of ABC News that Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones did not carefully review the language in the 9/11 conspiracy petition before agreeing to add his name in 2004 – but oops – this morning information surfaced that shows Jones was on the organizing committee of a 2002 march making the same 9/11 conspiracy claims.

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Van Jones pictured with the 3 most powerful men in the world

It’s all no big deal though, right? It’s not like he’s a Republican or anything (then it would be REALLY serious).

Okay, so Van Jones is a raging hypocrite and a master-race-bater who is almost as intolerant of white people as he is of criticism. Big deal. What liberal isn’t, right? (yuk yuk). Charles Krauthammer nails it in the video below where he rightly notes that calling Republicans assholes and the fact that he had admitted to being an actual Communist [and black nationalist] may be lame and all but pretty small potatoes, but goes on to say that being a 9/11 conspiracy wingnut IS in fact a big ass fkking deal showing signs of psychotic paranoia and must disqualify you from working in the federal fricken government.

As for that “stop the race baiting” boycott? Fail.
A few advertisers simply diverted their commercials on Fox News to other programs on the channel rather than Beck’s. Some boycott. Color of Change allegedly lied about advertisers dropping out, and Beck’s ratings have never been higher. His show airs at 5 freakin PM eastern (2pm Pacific) and is getting at least 2.5 million and often going over 3 million viewers. To put in context how massive 3 million viewers is on a daytime cable news channel, consider this perspective: The CBS Evening News averages about 4 million viewers a night. The Daily Show and Colbert Report each get around 1.5 million viewers a night, in primetime.

Far from Beck even inching in the direction of losing his job, to make things even more hilariously embarrassing: many are predicting that Jones will be the victim of “backfire scheme of the year” and have to resign before Monday.

EPIC FAIL.

*UPDATE: Midnight Sunday morning, as predicted, Van Jones resigned…


Shakira She Wolf

When super gay dudes call a piece of media involving female nudity “really hott” and lavish praise on it, I usually know to stay away. Not because they can’t judge female-hottness very well – because they can’t do so in media very well. They’re too easily distracted by special effects, style and sparklie objects.

So when a front line soldier in America’s army of gheay recommended I see Shakira’s new music video for the hot-factor, I was less than enthused. For the previous reason, but also because Shakira always came just short of hot on the rating scale for me 10 years ago, so it sounds impossible that she could pass that mark now.

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I started watching out of duty, and although everything seems to be working against this being entertaining and/or sexy: her age (I Googled to find that she’s 32), the theme of the video (werewolf? seriously?…), the techno vibe, the — wtf? – is she popping and locking?? robot dances in a werewolf music video? no.. no, this is all wrong.

Except it isn’t… it’s good. it all works. and it works beautifully.



UPDATE: This version of the song is…also…good?
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