Monday, February 28, 2005
Bad, naughty Koko!
A third woman has sued the Gorilla Foundation (an organization founded for the study and preservation of gorillas) for sexual harassment. Why the lawsuits? Koko, the legendary sign-language using gorilla, wanted to see her knockers.
WOODSIDE, Calif. - A third woman has filed a lawsuit claiming a caretaker for Koko, the world-famous sign-language-speaking gorilla, pressured her to expose her breasts as a way to bond with the animal.
Iris Rivera, 39, sued the Gorilla Foundation this week in San Mateo County Superior Court, saying the foundation’s president, Francine Patterson, repeatedly told her to expose her breasts.
Rivera, an administrative assistant at the foundation until she quit last month, claims Patterson told her last year that Koko was signing that “she wants to see your nipples.”
Columnist Dan Judge penned a great column dealing with Koko’s inappropriate behavior in Sunday’s Times-Herald (Vallejo, CA).
Bi-curious Koko - Two caretakers for Koko, the world-famous sign-language speaking female gorilla, have filed a lawsuit claiming they were fired because they would not expose their breasts as a way of bonding with the simian celebrity.
The two women claim Koko’s longtime trainer Francine “Penny” Patterson insisted they indulge Koko’s “nipple fetish” or lose their jobs at the Gorilla Foundation in the South San Francisco Bay Area.
The lawsuit claims that on one occasion Patterson said, “Koko, you see my nipples all the time. You are probably bored with my nipples. You need to see new nipples.”
Wow. I feel dirty. And exactly how does a gorilla say “I am bored with your nipples” in sign language anyway?
Nevertheless, these two women should probably be thanking their lucky stars. If a 300-pound primate is going to have a cross-species sexual fetish, just be grateful it doesn’t involve a good, hard spanking.
I have to point out that, if Koko had been flashing west-coast gang signs instead of requesting some rack, these same complaintants would no doubt be touting Koko’s ability to celebrate diversity.
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Chris Rock lets Hollywood’s guard down
I had promised myself that I wouldn’t do any type of Oscar-blogging whatsoever, but I just heard this quote from Chris Rock’s BET-style comedy jam last night and had to share it.
“Bush did some things you could never get away with at your job, man. … Just imagine you worked at the Gap. You’re $70 trillion behind on your register and then you start a war with Banana Republic ’cause you say they got toxic tank tops over there. You have the war, people are dying, a thousand Gap employees are dead, bleeding all over the khakis, you finally take over Banana Republic, and you find out they never made tank tops in the first place.”
There’s no doubt that this was yet another shot at our troops from the big-hearted patriots in the entertainment industry. We have men and women right now fighting a global war against radical islam and Rock is stupid enough to drop the facade and let us all know how Hollywood really feels about the troops’ sacrifices.
Always keep in mind, when leftists say they “support the troops but not the war,” you can rest assured that, when in like-minded company, they’re celebrating our losses. Thank God they’re in the vast minority.
UPDATE:
Protein Wisdom has more. And it’s much funnier.
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
Sunday Night Poll
Yep, it’s back. Eric at Vince Aut Morire is the only one who has given me a bunch of crap for promising a Sunday Night Poll every week and then failing to deliver. That makes him both my conscience and a rat bastard.
Since it’s Oscar night, and I couldn’t give two shits about who wins what, let’s find out which awards show nauseates you the most. I hate them all, but I probably hate the grammies the most because of the evil nature of the industry and the atrocious quality of the so-called music infecting mainstream radio these days. But don’t let me sway your vote.
POLL IS NOW CLOSED
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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Palestinian arrests follow Tel Aviv bombing
Islamic Jihad, one of the many interchangeable islamic terrorist groups in the middle east has claimed responsibility for Friday night’s Tel Aviv bombing, which killed four and injured more than fifty.
Shortly after the attack, new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sent his special police out to find those responsible, resulting in three arrests.
Israel and the United States said the bombing, the first suicide attack in the Jewish state since November, showed Abbas had to act more forcefully to salvage peace efforts. But Israeli officials said the Jewish state would show restraint for now.
“We will not allow anyone to sabotage the goals and ambitions of our people … We will bring them to justice,” Abbas, elected last month, told reporters.
Palestinian officials said three suspected Palestinian militants were arrested in the bomber’s village, Deir al-Ghoson, near Tulkarm. Israeli troops arrested five others there, including two brothers of the bomber, during a raid.
A senior Palestinian security official said inquiries indicated the hand of the Hizbollah guerrilla group, which denied any role and called the accusations a provocation by “the Zionist entity” (Israel).
Some of the crucial tools that the Palestinian police force used to make these groundbreaking arrests include these plastic handcuffs 
, this police badge 
, and this special plastic police helmet 
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These novelty items are a clear demonstration that Abbas is serious about cracking down on Palestinian-based homicide bombers and their co-conspirators.
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Friday, February 25, 2005
New Missile Shield Solution
Those filthy Canucks north of the border have come out and said that they want no part of the U.S. missile defense program.
TORONTO (AP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S. missile defense program, a decision that will further strain brittle relations between the neighbors but please Canadians who fear it could lead to an international arms race.
Gasp! An international arms race!?!? Egad! Been there, won that.
I have a solution for those faux-Frenchies in Moosehead land - and an improvement to our country’s own strategic defense shield. It’s called the Super Missile Misdirection Magnet.
I haven’t completed the scientific, or effectiveness, portion of the system’s development, but I have completed the initial design. This supermagnet will simply re-direct all incoming missiles towards Canadian territories. As pictured in this helpful diagram:
I’ve already submitted the system to my high-level government contacts, so stand by for news in the mainstream press about this new groundbreaking system. For the time being, we’ll just keep it between you and me.
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Hunter S. Thompson: Selfish dead asshole
Oh, wait. I’m supposed to fawn over what a groundbreaking “gonzo” journalist he was, right? Gosh, I sure hope I don’t offend anyone by making the statement: Hunter S. Thompson: Selfish dead asshole.
Why am I taking a shot at his soon-to-be-decaying corpse? New information emerged today regarding the details surrounding his suicide.
MAVERICK writer Hunter S Thompson shot himself in the head while he chatted to his wife on the phone, she revealed today.
“I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun,” Anita Thompson.
But during the conversation he set down the receiver and shot himself.
Mrs Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened.
“I was waiting for him to get back on the phone,” she added.
So, right there, blowing your brains out while your wife waits for you on the phone: assholish behavior. But he didn’t stop there. His son, daughter-in-law and 6-year-old grandson were also in the house when he shot himself.
So heap all the literary and artistic praise on him you want to, he’s still just a selfish dead asshole. Do I have to turn in my Knox County Public Library card now?
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Yeller-belly
Small Mike has taken down his ForsaketheTroops.Info website. (Thanks for the tip, Linda!)
When you go to the site now, you see this:
Mike then claims that the site was owned by a fictional couple - Scott and Laurie Vogel. Pish posh.
We don’t normally air business matters with clients in the public, as we believe in respecting clients’ privacy, however, Forsake The Troops, led by Scott Vogel and Laurie Vogel, chose to bring their business out in the public by way of threats and obscenities towards us. We find it tasteless that they felt that the fact the owner of SMIS has a biracial child is something to be used against him.
We apologize to the many people who were offended, and thank those who wrote in to complain, giving us the documentation to show that the Internet community did not appreciate their presence.
Furthermore, Forsake The Troops has chosen to refuse to honor an outstanding bill for some services. The money isn’t of concern to us, though it costs money to run the servers, we have many customers who are good, decent people and pay their bills on time.
According to commenter Drew, the whole thing was a publicity stunt for his hosting company, which is apparently what he did with his last anti-military website CitizensAgainstTheTroops.Org. You would think that there are better ways to get name recognition than being a complete asshole.
At least one good thing came from this: if you have webhosting needs, you now know who NOT to use…. SMISHosting.Com.
UPDATE: Now Small Mike has dropped all pretense. Forsakethetroops.info is now Small Mike’s personal white-supremacist website. Go see for yourself - or better yet, don’t.
Thanks to commenter Marble for the tip.
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ACLU attacks law enforcement, yet again
The ACLU and a host of other bedwetting leftists are attempting to stop the use of tasers by law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
A sample of activities from Austin (TX)-based pants-shitters the “Austin Spokescouncil”:
Since its inception a year ago, the Spokescouncil (or just “Spokes,” as members often refer to themselves) says the group has organized most of the public actions made to draw attention to the anti-Iraq-war movement, including pickets at various private contractors (CACI International and Computer Sciences Corporation among them), the “Day of Wailing” to mourn Iraqi casualties, a Bikes Against Bush rally, the Day of Resistance Against War and All Who Profit From It (last Sept. 11), and the J20 Anti-Inaugural March – where, they say, a protester was unnecessarily Tasered by police. “I feel like the mobilizations we’ve been doing are a bit more exciting than going to the Capitol and listening to some college professor drone on and on until you cry,” laughs Jerry Bellow, a veteran activist who has worked with the Anti-Racist Action group for the past 11 years. “Every action that we’ve done has had double the numbers – or more – of the previous one.”
What started as a call for an emergency spokescouncil by the ARA to organize in reaction to the U.S. soldiers’ abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has become a full-fledged matrix of organizing for Austin’s activist community. A recent Spokes meeting included representatives of Austin Against War, CodePink, the ARA, the ACLU, the Rhizome Collective, Resurgent Tide, Food Not Bombs, the fledgling UT anti-war group Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation, and local high schools Garza and McCallum – quite a range in a community commonly considered to be somewhat scattered. “Up until this past year, I would go to a different meeting every night, just trying to keep all the groups connected,” recalls Russell, who represents CodePink and the ACLU at Spokes meetings.
For once I actually agree with the ACLU. Let’s do away with the tasers and simply allow the cops to use their firearms. They’re far more effective in stopping criminals anyway.
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G-mail invites
I’ve got a damn boatload of them. E-mail me if you want one. No requirements.
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More on America’s Sweethearts
You may remember this mentally-ill duo from Berkeley who hung a soldier in effigy from the roof of their second home in Sacramento.
Digger has an excellent letter from one of their neighbors, who provides a lot more detail about what egg-sucking dogs these asshats really are. You should go read it now.
Related and quite funny: Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.
Also related: Riehl World View, Cranky Neocon.
Photo lifted from Riehl World View.
UPDATE: Riehl World View: Look Ma, I made an effigy!
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
White Trash Wood
This hand-crafted hunk of tree love was specially carved for Presidential election loser Al Gore. Rumor has it that his love for trees finally overwhelmed him to the point that he was driven to consummate his relationship with nature. This is how he did it.
Other lowlights from this week’s trailer park extravaganza:
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White Trash Hero: The Donald
Not The Donald, you say! He’s rich and famous! White Trash is about behavior, not economics, you sick little monkey.
Yes, that loveable real estate magnate who fires people on TV to America’s delight gets called out on this particular White Trash Wednesday. Why, you ask? Eminent domain abuse, that’s why.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
The Worm Returns
Jacques “The Worm” Chirac shits in President Bush’s mouth and calls it a sundae.
Sadly, President Bush believes him.
IRAQ war wobbler Jacques Chirac scuttled George Bush’s fence-mending trip to Europe yesterday — by cranking up a row over the future of Nato.
He embraced a German-led plot to ditch the alliance as the backbone of transatlantic relations, in favour of the European Union.
He also snubbed President Bush by speaking French at a dinner, despite having fluent English.
Diplomats insisted Mr Bush had pulled off a coup by getting all 26 Nato members to contribute to a £2.5million programme to train and equip Iraq security staff. But the clash on Nato overshadowed everything.
France and Germany, led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, want defence enshrined in the EU constitution.
It is a sad, sick shame that President Junior has traveled to France and sucked up to the corrupt, spineless, worthless garbage sack that is Jacques Chirac. Shameful.
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Earthquake in Iran?
Earthquake in Iran?
Now is the time to strike! The Iranian Army still has wobbly legs I bet.
Submitted to C-3PO for analysis.
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Save Protein Wisdom
Save Protein Wisdom.
While ordinarily, I don’t care much for blegging, when it’s one of my favorite blogs, I’ll make an exception. I threw some $$ in his tip jar, so won’t you help Jeff recover from the tsunami of ill-health that has befallen his laptop?
I will say that I don’t know what the hell Jeff was thinking when he bought an HP laptop. HP has some of the worst hardware on the planet.
Don’t worry, he won’t take your money and run off to the bathhouses of Europe like Andrew Sullivan. At least, I don’t think he will.
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Monday, February 21, 2005
Terri Schiavo blogging
You can get all your info at blogsforterri.com, My VRWC, Hyscience, Vince Aut Morire and several other blogs that are blogging for Terri. I haven’t been paying much attention to the story, though I know that this week is crucial as her estranged husband is trying to yank the feeding tube this week.
I remember hearing the Terri Schiavo story on Glenn Beck’s show more than a year ago and while I don’t pretend to know everything about the story, it’s certainly worth helping spread the word. So go visit one of the above blogs and tune in.
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Bush Lied! Bacon Fried!
via Digger’s Realm
You may have read the story of the soldier hung in effigy on the side of a home in Sacramento, CA. Several weeks ago, Steve and Virginia Pearcy, a pants-shitting socialist couple decided that they would exercise their freedom of speech by hanging a soldier from the side of their house in support for Saddam’s Iraqi regime. I’m sure it was meant to be a message of peace and tolerance - so often the faux message of the left - but naturally, it got some folks riled up.
Digger has done some more “digging” and has learned that the couple actually lives in Berkeley (big surprise) and the house in Sacramento is actually their second home. As big-hearted liberals, I’m sure they let the homeless use their second home as a crack house when they’re busy at the Berkeley bathhouses.
Here is a photo of the filthy capitalist couple’s Porsche:
The peaceful message that they’ve displayed on their car’s back window is as follows: FUCK BUSH, FUCK THE POLICE, FUCK THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, FUCK ISRAEL, FUCK SUVS, BURN AMERICAN FLAGS.
They’re just good Americans exercising Freedom of Speech, right? Hopefully, as one of Digger’s commenters mentioned, the people they do business with and represent via their law firms will exercise their own freedom of expression and ostracize the peace-loving couple. Sadly, I doubt that will happen in a cesspool like Berkeley.
UPDATE:
Digger has more photos and info here.
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
The Wild Wild West
The Carnivorous Conservative has a different take on this week’s goings-on at CPAC.
Showdown at the Laptop Corral if you will.
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This should be fun
(via Drudge)
Hollywood elites prepare to receive annoying phone calls from red-state backwoods fly-over country hayseeds.
Private telephone numbers of celebrities have been unleashed on the Internet after an apparent hacking into Paris Hilton’s T-MOBILE SIDEKICK Address Book, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the hack, a government source said.
Sounds like a national security issue to me.
One top star reached Sunday morning expressed total outrage at Paris.
“I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she f**king kept it on her cellphone!” the star explained.
Also splashed in the hack, Paris Hilton’s private notes, listed by date.
From Hollywood to Vegas to New York — and back, Paris Hilton’s notes, road directions, hotel and airline preferences are exposed.
Alert Homeland Security! Paris Hilton’s safety is at stake! Ay caramba! We can’t afford to lose such a rare talent - what that talent is, besides fellatio, I’m still not quite sure.
If I didn’t feel sick as a dog, I’d take the “Paris Hilton Hacked Mobile Phone Notes” theme and run with it, but I feel like shit. I’m sure some other enterprising blogger will see the opportunity and take advantage.
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Freedom of speech isn’t free
You’d think that “Silent Mike” would have already learned that.
Lord Spatula at Spatula City did some digging and discovered that this guy is the lamebrain behind forsakethetroops.info. More info on that here. Silent Mike’s “official” personal website is here. So don’t be fooled by any unofficial Silent Mike websites. Accept no imitations.
DrewB did some digging of his own and discovered that Silent Mike was also behind another garbagedump of a website called CitizensAgainstTheTroops.Org. This previous site was shut down and an apology offered. DrewB has a copy of that apology, which obviously now rings as hollow as Helen Thomas’ skull.
So here we have an asshat who has spent a good deal of effort deriding our troops - which is particularly odious since so many of our fighting men and women are currently dodging bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting a war on terror to protect shitnecks like Silent Mike.
More has come to light about Silent Mike - he found a soldier’s digital camera at a Philadelphia Eagles football game and offered to return it to the soldier for $1,000. The story is here at WIXT via Spatula City.
And if all of this wasn’t enough, DrewB dug up some posts - apparently written by Silent Mike - that suggest that he may even be a white-supremacist KKK-type. A sample:
I am looking for like-minded White Nationalists to talk to, for friendship and activism in the Central New York State area, specifically the Syracuse area.
I am interested in making friends, and forming alliances to help defend and preserve the White way of life in Syracuse.
IM or e-mail me. My e-mail address is silentmike@worldnet.att.net. My AIM screen name is Silent14Mike88.
There’s more where that came from.
Silent Mike has shown up in comment threads here and here blathering on about freedom of speech. Well, Mike, here’s the problem with “freedom of speech” - sometimes it has consequences.
When some needledick strolls into the town square and burns an American flag (which I’m sure you’ve probably done a time or two yourself), he is exercising freedom of speech. When an onlooker takes an aluminum baseball bat and crams it elbow deep into that person’s colon, that is a consequence of exercising freedom of speech. Sure, it’s assault and battery and will probably result in jail time, but it is still a real possibility following such an expression of freedom of speech.
Similarly, when you post a website that mocks one of our brave - yes, brave - men or women crippled in combat, you should expect some kind of backlash. I fully realize that your intent was probably to piss people off, and you’ve certainly succeeded.
So feel free to exercise your freedom of speech via recycled anti-military websites. Just know that your 15 minutes are probably about up and I hope, for your sake, that the consequences won’t be more than you bargained for. And good luck with that whole Aryan supremacy thing. It will be interesting to see if the pants-shitting left will show up to support both of your pet causes.
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Friday, February 18, 2005
Know your constituents
Apparently Hitlery Clinton knows hers pretty well. The Marxist Hag introduced a “wide-ranging election reform” bill Thursday to the delight of Dim-O-Cracks everywhere.
February 18, 2005 — WASHINGTON — With one eye on her 2008 White House campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday introduced a wide-ranging election-reform bill that would boost turnout among Democratic voters — and let ex-felons vote.
An estimated 4.7 million Americans are now barred from voting because of their criminal records.
The $3.5 billion bill also would turn Election Day into a national holiday and make it harder to purge voters from old registration lists.
Two of the big changes are (1) allowing felons to vote and (2) making election day a Federal holiday.
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GayGannonGate
GayGannonGate: I think I finally understand it.
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Taking a dump on the troops
Eric of Vince Aut Morire tipped me to this website: forsakethetroops.info. He was tipped by Raven. (I’m not going to link to it, since I’m sure links are what the sawed-off little prick who started the site wants.)
It’s a website that exposes the truth about how the far left really feels about the military. Or as Neil aptly put it, the site is created by “despicable treasonous bastards” and is “vile and pernicious”.
Here is a sample:
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Want to get an Annika’s Journal tattoo?
Even if you’re not willing to tattoo yourself and celebrate her greatness, you blogger-types should give her some linky love. She only needs a handful more links to pass Baghdad Blob (a/k/a Oliver “What u talkin’ ’bout” Willis) in the TTLB Ecosystem. Let’s all pull together and push her over that massive hunk of lame-brained lard. And it will take an assload of pushing to lift her over that walking, talking sebaceous gland.
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How to lose a war
If you haven’t heard the story of Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, you must have spent the last few days waiting faithfully outside your favorite NHL team’s arena waiting for the season to start. It’s not going to happen so listen up.
Lt. Pantano is a U.S. Marine who is being wrongly prosecuted for “murder” in the case of the shooting of two insurgents in Iraq last April.
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Lee Corso, college football asshat
Sports by Brooks has the story of Lee Corso flipping his lid on the Dallas-based Bob and Dan sports talk-radio show, demonstrating for all to see that he is a self-important asshole with absolutely no sense of humor.
During the interview, Corso, who roomed with Burt Reynolds at Florida State, initially delighted in telling the duo the well-worn story about Reynolds posing nude in Cosmopolitan magazine.
At the end of his story about Reynolds’ naked layout, Corso gushed, “He was the first guy basically to post nude … in Cosmopolitan, and one thing lead to another … and he became the leading movie star in the world.”
KTCK-AM host McDowell then followed up Corso’s comments about Reynolds by joking, “And not a lot of people know this, but Lee Corso was actually the second person to pose nude … correct?”
Following the McDowell quip, an apparrently offended Corso went stone silent, with a stunned McDowell then saying, “Or did I read that wrong?”
After a long pause, Corso muttered, “I won’t even give you … next question.” He then said, “I think that was very sarcastic and I don’t appreciate it. And I’m not kidding.”
McDowell: “Really?”
Corso: “Why would you say that? It’s not funny at all. The people out there that don’t know me, would say, ‘what kind of jerk is this guy?’”
It just gets worse from there. Thanks to Sports by Brooks, you can hear the exchange here. It’s good clean fun.
The above photoshop was taken from Bob and Dan’s website, bobanddan.net. (So nobody pull a Jordan on me please)
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Kid Rock arrested in Nashville
This would have been perfect for White Trash Wednesday. I don’t know how I missed it. Dammit!
Almost-inauguration-performer Kid Rock got in a scuffle with a D.J. at Christie’s Cabaret in Nashville Tuesday night, then wound up in the slammer.
An arrest warrant was issued for Robert Ritchie, 34, who’s better known as rock singer Kid Rock, after a scuffle broke out at Christie’s Cabaret, located on 8th Avenue South, around 3 a.m.
The fight with the club’s DJ was over the music the DJ was playing, police said.
The DJ, Jay Campos, was punched in the face, police said. He had a red mark on his face and his glasses were broken.
But it didn’t stop there. Rock even managed to get a Vandy rent-a-cop in trouble on his way to another strip club.
At a press conference Wednesday, Vanderbilt Police say that Kid Rock was pulled over by one of their officers for turning quickly near West End. The officer let Kid Rock off with a warning and did not administer a field sobriety test.
At some point, the officer requested and received from Kid Rock his autograph. As the result of an investigation, Vanderbilt determined there was sufficient cause to terminate Officer Juan Minerez for the perception of giving preferential treatment.
Damn! You’d think he was Steve McNair or something.
h/t Johnny Walker Red
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President Junior: Raise taxes
Well, you knew it was going to come at some point for our Republicrat-in-chief. When you spend like a drunken sailor, somebody has to pay - and why not the evil “rich”?
AP: Bush may raise taxes for social security.
It costs a pretty penny to fund services for all these illegals that President Junior seems hellbent on bringing across the Rio Grande.
President Bush is not ruling out raising taxes on people who earn more than $90,000 as a way to help fix Social Security’s finances.
At the same time, he renewed his pitch Wednesday for Congress to approve an overhaul that would include Social Security private accounts for many workers. He told 2,000 people in an airport terminal that rich and poor alike should have a chance to invest in the stock market.
“Investors aren’t just Wall Street people, as far as I’m concerned,” Bush told the crowd invited by the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation. “I think every citizen, every citizen has got the capacity to manage his or her own money.”
Of course, the feds will continue to confiscate that money so that every citizen is denied the opportunity to manage that money, but that’s another story, isn’t it? Besides, we need to pay for prescription drugs for seniors, don’t we Junior?
Asked directly, Bush said he would not bar raising the $90,000 cap, although he does not want to see the payroll tax rate go up.
“The one thing I’m not open-minded about is raising the payroll tax rate. And all the other issues go on the table,” Bush said in the interview, according to an account in Wednesday’s New Haven (Conn.) Register.
For you dual income couples who (combined) make $90,000 + a year, you’re rich. You may not be aware of that - especially if you have kids - but you’re filthy stinking rich and you need to pay your fair share. And that’s coming from one of your beloved tax-cutting Republicans, not a drunken, bloated Senator from Massachusetts.
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said raising the cap on Social Security taxes is just one option among many being advocated.
“Just because he said it was an option doesn’t mean he embraced it,” Duffy added.
To embrace it, he has to actually put his arms around it and give it a loving big-government style hug.
I’m sure glad President Junior hasn’t suddenly become a fiscal conservative in his second term. That could jeopardize the delightful relationship he’s built up with the mainstream press.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
WTW: Around the Racetrack
Around the white trash racetrack, Daytona 500-style:
