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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy picture spurs pregnancy speculation
Speculation that Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could be pregnant has intensified after pictures showed her husband caressing her tummy on a French beach.
Posted by: john frum || 08/24/2008 09:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's a beach? Looks more like Moab in Utah.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/24/2008 9:49 Comments || Top||

#2  man touches attractive woman shocker.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2008 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Nah. It's modesty. Doesn't want to show her belly button to her admiring fans. Who is she, anyway?
I've got two belly buttons, sorta. Besides the regular one, I have a very deep dimple where a feeding tube was put in a few years back. You can photograph my belly buttons, if you like. What, no takers?
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/24/2008 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Not clear from that photo what she sees in him ...
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2008 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Power is the greatest aphrodisiac.
Posted by: Henry Kissinger || 08/24/2008 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Not clear from that photo what she sees in him

The President.
Posted by: JFM || 08/24/2008 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Ahem

Le President
Posted by: john frum || 08/24/2008 10:29 Comments || Top||

#8  and Bush could've had a threesome with the beach volleyball girls too, the lucky bugger.

Now I want to go into poly-ticks.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2008 10:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Monsieur Le President.
Posted by: Seafarious || 08/24/2008 13:00 Comments || Top||

#10  What took him so long? >:-}
Posted by: gorb || 08/24/2008 16:11 Comments || Top||

#11  LOL @ cargo cultist and EM space
Posted by: .5MT || 08/24/2008 17:26 Comments || Top||


It's the Love Boat for policy moonbats wonks
The horror! The horror!
Posted by: ryuge || 08/24/2008 06:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ugh..what a nightmare.
Posted by: NCMike || 08/24/2008 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they all received a "Carbon Footprint Invoice" upon debarking.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/24/2008 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Talk about sea (see) sickness!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 08/24/2008 13:08 Comments || Top||

#4  "'It's like an SDS reunion on the Love Boat,' said a guest speaker, Mary Mapes, the former CBS News producer"

Only without the bombs.

Posted by: Frozen Al || 08/24/2008 14:21 Comments || Top||

#5  And of course they will all now claim to be experts on the Alaskan Ecology on the nightly news.

When 460 of the more ardent readers of a 142-year-old leftist weekly get together on a cruise ship, things can be a little topsy-turvy.

I don't know much about cruise ships... but isn't 460 kind of light?

"If I start to get dizzy, then I twirl in the opposite direction,"

That about sums it up....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/24/2008 14:26 Comments || Top||

#6  isn't 460 kind of light

Not for the more expensive cruises. And I think some of the Alaskan itineraries use smaller ships of this size or so.
Posted by: lotp || 08/24/2008 15:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Designate Siera-25.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/24/2008 17:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Flood Tubes two and Four

Range to Target?
Posted by: gb506 || 08/24/2008 21:18 Comments || Top||

#9  The silken waters of the bay directly in front of Sitka afforded good views of Sitka's volcano, Mount Edgecumbe; it's said that from Edgecumbe's summit, you can see the curvature of the earth.

Jeeze Louise! Mt. Edgcumbe is a bit over 3000 ft high. This guy is really versed in science. Curvature of the earth my a$$. I hope that the cruise ship is adequately treating his and his fellow moonbats' waste before it goes overboard into the pristine marine waters of SE Alaska.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/24/2008 21:26 Comments || Top||


Hot Lixx Hulahan captures world air guitar title
Video here.
HELSINKI - With perfect timing and dramatic moves, an American performer with the stage name of Hot Lixx Hulahan has captured an international rock guitar award -- without ever having to strum the instrument. Wearing tight black pants, satin shirt and elaborate armbands, Hulahan -- real name Craig Billmeier -- crushed his competition on Friday night to capture the world air guitar championships in Finland's western city of Oulu.

"The two-year reigning Air Guitar champion, Japan's Ochi 'Dainoji' Yosuke had to give in to the overwhelming new champion," organisers said in a statement that saluted Hot Lixx's "impeccable timing and overall solid performance."

For his prize Hott Lixx was presented with the real thing -- a Finnish handmade Flying Finn electric guitar.

The event, which involves performers strutting and strumming on nonexistent instruments, has taken place in Oulu for the past dozen years.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/24/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was good for about 30 seconds of that video. Wotta buncha maroons!
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 || 08/24/2008 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  damn that's nothing but noise...
Posted by: Red Dawg || 08/24/2008 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  This guy is fake, like his guitar, right? Just another pretend human.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/24/2008 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  As a guitar player for 46 years and guitar teacher for 40 of those years I have mixed emotions about "air guitar"; much like drummers who see people doing "air drums". Having said all of the above, lemme' just say I tend to agree with Richard, Red Dawg and Jolutch.
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/24/2008 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Hot Lixx Hulahan

Margret!
Posted by: .5MT || 08/24/2008 17:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Lol! A M*A*S*H fan, I see.
Posted by: Mike N. || 08/24/2008 17:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Which begs the question, Frank or Winchester?
Posted by: Mike N. || 08/24/2008 17:40 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Court to consider divorce for girl, 8
A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today.

It said the girl's mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220km north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl. "She doesn't know yet that she has been married,'' added Jtili of the girl who is about to begin her fourth year at primary school.

Al-Watan said relatives of the girl had told a Saudi rights group of her plight and urged it to intervene to have the marriage annulled. But the daily also reported that the husband had refused to renounce the marriage, saying that he had not done anything illegal.

Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common.

In Yemen in April, another girl aged eight was granted a divorce after her unemployed father forced her to marry a man of 28.
Posted by: tipper || 08/24/2008 04:53 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  so does she get alimony or child support. Ima confused
Posted by: Frank G || 08/24/2008 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  snark o' the day, Frank.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/24/2008 10:39 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Indian police seek cyber-jihadi in Gwalior
Police are looking for a person who opened the site “Al-Jihad” at a cyber cafe in the city on August 13 and when the owner of the cafe saw it, he suddenly closed the site and disappeared. The cyber-cafe owner, who informed the police, said that the person had closed the site but forgot to sign out from the mail box. Police reached the spot and opened the inbox and found that it contained mails received from different countries, including Dubai. Police handed over the matter to the Special Task Force in view of its seriousness.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/24/2008 08:17 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Good thing this got in the news then.
Posted by: Formerly Dan || 08/24/2008 12:49 Comments || Top||


Two minor girls raped; one murdered
RAWALPINDI: A 13-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped, raped, killed and thrown in an area with dense growth of vegetation in Gulzar-e-Quaid, police sources said.

In another incident, a nine-year-old girl was raped in Banni police station area. The police have arrested the accused and registered a case against him.

The police said that the locals of Gulzar-e-Quaid on Saturday informed them about the presence of a mysterious tin box lying in a dense vegetation, adding that, the Airport police reached the scene and found the nude body of a young girl wrapped in a bed sheet and shredded shirt. The police, later, shifted the unidentified body to the District Headquarters Hospital for autopsy.

The hospital sources claimed that the girl was brutally gang-raped that may have caused her death. The sources didn't rule out the aspect that she was murdered after the gang-rape.

Police argued that the girl did not belong to Gulzar-e-Quaid or its adjacent areas, adding that the crime was committed in some other area but the criminals had thrown the body there.

Police have taken up the case and started search for the heirs of the victim.

In the other rape incident, one Suhail Khan raped a nine-year-old maid (S) in a house in Banni. Police have arrested the accused, aged 41, on the complaint of the victim's mother.

Meanwhile, a four-year-old boy, Bilal, was molested by a shopkeeper when he went to his shop at Banni to buy some toffees. Police arrested the shopkeeper, Liaqat, on the complaint of the mother of the boy.
Posted by: Fred || 08/24/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  13-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped, raped, killed

13 & even 9 is plenty old for marriage. Can't convict of rape without 4 willing adult male witnesses. Being a victim of unwilling sex that is not provably rape is a capital crime. So, nothing to see here, move on along.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/24/2008 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  How does DNA evidence set with Sharia?
Posted by: gorb || 08/24/2008 3:21 Comments || Top||

#3  It would prove she had sex and thus had to be killed.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/24/2008 8:54 Comments || Top||

#4  God's will, or not. You decide. It makes it tough for me. If I can't swallow the above line, then I feel that we have some kind of obligation to help these victums to at least have the government on their side. George Bush is a hero of mine for his efforts to bring freedom to others. Hey, it's Sunday and I haven't put my cynical armour on yet. Give me a minute. Ok, it's on now. Better. I can hardly feel the pain now for these children.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/24/2008 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Pretty rare considering they were not goats.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/24/2008 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Thread's over.

Jack wins.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/24/2008 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  It would be nice to help.

Although given the sometimes shocking misuse of DNA evidence in the UK and USA I sometimes wonder if they'd(the police and victims families) want the help.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/24/2008 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  What do you expect from a religion that condones pedophilia.
Posted by: James Carville || 08/24/2008 12:02 Comments || Top||

#9  I agree with Barbara Skolaut 'bout Jack is Back.
Great snark, Jack.
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/24/2008 12:04 Comments || Top||



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