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Put headphones in for this. It’s a 6 min video. First half is just a jumble of great moments from Mommy Dearest. The second half remixes it all to Mama Mia and it’s quite good.
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Archive for June, 2006
A bipartisan group of senators and scholars denounced President Bush on Tuesday for using scores of so-called signing statements to reserve the right to ignore or reinterpret provisions of legislation that he has signed into law. (Read more…)
Blah blah blah… The only reason this made it into oldmedia is because Bush is requesting line item veto. While I didn’t look elsewhere to see if this has been under investigation for long (and it probably has), it’s irritating that congress is now in 100% mediaspinland where they believe that they can be effective if there is a blowout happening in the press. And they might be right.
Part of me thinks exclusive use of line item veto over signing statements would be better because at least we would have a more clear picture of what our executive branch is up to. Those signing statements are creepy and vague and are a top to bottom get out of jail free card.
And that is sad and scary… that I would somehow feel more comfortable with the idea of giving the decider explicit absolute and terrifying power rather than just the… ya know, wink and nod absolute and terrifying power he wields today.
There are monsters under the bed, and they wear business blue blazers.
Sphere: Related ContentPresident George W. Bush said Monday it was “disgraceful” the news media disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects.
The White House accused the New York Times newspaper of breaking a long tradition of keeping wartime secrets. “The fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror,” Bush said, leaning forward and jabbing his finger during a brief question-answer session with reporters. (Read more…)
Sphere: Related ContentCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. (Read more…)
I get most of my news-of-the-whacked from fark.com. People from the internets post interesting stuff with their own headlines and categories, which are often hilarious. i.e.:
So wrong. But it gave me lols. 
Seriously. Stop. Geeks making gang signs is irritating. Geeks who just discovered this new thing called the shocker and like to be photographed doing it is just retarded.
Seriously. Please stop. You. Are. Killing. Me.
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To do:
- 630pm: Suppenkuche for dinner
- 800pm: San Francisco Symphony for Verdi’s Requiem
- 1000pm: Lube Wrestling Costume Birthday Party
I’m not even kidding. I love san francisco so hard sometimes.
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Patsy Ramsey, who was thrust into the national spotlight by the unsolved 1996 slaying of her daughter, 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant JonBenet, died Saturday following a long battle with ovarian cancer, her lawyer said. She was 49.
Ramsey was diagnosed with the disease in 1993 and suffered a recurrence several years ago, attorney L. Lin Wood said. She died at her father’s home in Roswell, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, with her husband, John, at her bedside.
“It is not unexpected but it is a sad day,” Wood told The Associated Press.
JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family’s home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996. (Read more…)
Again, newsworthy only for the freakfactor. The stories of JonBenet and OJ inaugurated the complete downfall of old media, turning it into a 24 hour idiot-fest of talking heads speculating on things for which they were totally unqualified
DALLAS - E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy PlaymateAnna Nicole Smith over his father’s oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.
Marshall died unexpectedly earlier this week in the Dallas area from a brief and extremely aggressive infection, the family said in a written statement released through spokesman David Margulies. He declined to provide additional details about Marshall’s death on Tuesday. (Read more…)
I loved the anna nicole smith reality show. She was such a trainwreck. With huge hooters. This is only newsworthy to me, as I loved that show so damn much.
Sphere: Related ContentPlanetOut Inc. Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Thursday June 15, 5:19 pm ET
Company Also Announces Governance Changes
- Karen Magee appointed new chief executive officer of PlanetOut Inc. effective July 1.
- Lowell Selvin steps down as chief executive officer effective July 1 for medical reasons.
- Company announces change to an independent chairman of the board. (Read more…)