The NY Times announced their endorsements for the primary elections today picking Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and begrudgingly choosing John McCain for Republican nomination. They gave a pretty glowing review of Obama in Clinton’s endorsement as well. All of this was not surprising, it was actually pretty expected. What WAS surprising was how intensely then went after Giuliani who they endorsed just a decade ago…

Why, as a New York-based paper, are we not backing Rudolph Giuliani? Why not choose the man we endorsed for re-election in 1997 after a first term in which he showed that a dirty, dangerous, supposedly ungovernable city could become clean, safe and orderly? What about the man who stood fast on Sept. 11, when others, including President Bush, went AWOL?
That man is not running for president.
The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square.
Mr. Giuliani’s arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton, the architect of the drop in crime, because he couldn’t share the limelight. He later gave the job to Bernard Kerik, who has now been indicted on fraud and corruption charges.
The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city’s and the country’s nightmare to promote his presidential campaign.

Oh snap. That is pretty intense. I don’t think Giuliani has much of a chance, but it is still pretty amazing that the Times would have the balls to go after him like that. It is good to see that Fox News and Keith Olbermann aren’t the only ones with some bite in mainstream media. The one good thing that would come from Giuliani being president would be all the great Punk flyers and album covers that would be made from the photos of him in drag….

Right now I am on a plane headed for Las Vegas, Nevada. Before I left I set my computer up to do one post a day every day at exactly noon EST. So right now, while I am in the air you are watching a video that was probably edited by my brother about how US children are really falling behind in their hand to hand combat and gun wielding skills. It is a very sad story and I hope that the US can do something to make are young children better at killing people with machetes. Anyway, every day, for the next 11 days you are going to get one randomly selected hilarious and/or entertaining video that I found on the internets. I hope you enjoy them, and I hope that even though I am on vacation I will find some time to update this site a few more times than just these automatic updates.

Report: American Schools Trail Behind World In Aptitude Of Child Soldiers

The Lovely Brenda showed me this website, Kiva.org, where you can lend money to business people in third world countries.  It is really amazing because you are donating money to help people with their businesses and you can see directly what your money is doing.  Then at some point they pay you back and you can take that money and lend it to someone else.  So over the course of a few years you could help many people with a donation as low as 25 dollars.  I think it is amazing.  I am going to be lending some money for sure, I hope you guys do the same.  Check out Bill Clinton talking up the program on of all places, Fox News.

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This is just beautiful.  It is George W. Bush singing End Of The World by R.E.M.  The video and the song are both… beautiful.  Seriously.  Fantastic.

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Evidently Marcia Cross from Desperate Housewives accidentally threw out some naked photos of her taken by her husband. They are very… um… natural. They hit the web today but the page that Perez and others linked to went down almost immediately. Thankfully, I am completely relentless when it comes too looking at celebrities naked, and even though I have never seen Desperate Housewives and I have no idea who Marcia Cross is, I had to see her naked. Now you can see Marcia Cross nude too… at least until I get a cease and desist letter.

It is time we took a stand against Water Buffalo and it is finally time someone in the mainstream media came out and said it. Thank god for ONN news analyst Duncan Birch came out and said what we were all thinking on the top rated “In The Know” with Clifford Banes. The funny thing is that all this came out on one of the rare nights when Banes was not even on the show! Imagine how testy things would have gotten if he was mediating. Out of control! Make sure you watch after the commecial when thins really start to heat up!

Should Animals Be Doing More For The Animal Rights Movement?

A “cultural guerrilla” group in France called Untergunther broke into the Panthéon in Paris and over a few weeks fixed a historic clock that has not worked since the 1960’s. They then told the administrator of the Panthéon about it and they were soon charged with the crime and the administrator was fired. The charges were dropped in court and Untergunther said that they will keep trying to restore Parisian historical items.

Klausmann and his crew are connaisseurs of the Parisian underworld. Since the 1990s they have restored crypts, staged readings and plays in monuments at night, and organised rock concerts in quarries. The network was unknown to the authorities until 2004, when the police discovered an underground cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, under the Seine. They have tried to track them down ever since.

Members know Paris intimately. Many of them were students in the Latin Quarter in the 80s and 90s, when it was popular to have secret parties in Paris’s network of tunnels. They have now grown up and become nurses or lawyers, but still have a taste for the capital’s underworld, and they now have more than just partying on their mind.

“We would like to be able to replace the state in the areas it is incompetent,” said Klausmann. “But our means are limited and we can only do a fraction of what needs to be done. There’s so much to do in Paris that we won’t manage in our lifetime.”

Read the rest of the article here.

My friend AJ from way back in the day got arrested for jumping the White House fence. I read about this in the news, but I had no idea it was him until he sent me a myspace message today and I found this video on his profile:

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While this video is extremely heartfelt and I feel for every single person who has had to fight in Iraq, but he was not always so heroic…  Although in some weird way Janicki may be some sort of bizarro world hero…

From the article:

The agents scour his service record. It shows that he joined the Army in 2000, when he was 18 years old. Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Janicki had rolled with a posse of slackers. They threw beer and weed-fueled bashes at an older friend’s apartment. He quit school and earned a GED. They spray-painted graffiti in Georgetown; Janicki’s tag was “Hero.” One day, he walked into an Army recruiting station hoping he had found a place to belong. The desire to join an alpha crew overwhelmed him.

“I figured the military was the same close-knit group, just more legal,” he recalls.

Evidently I too rolled with this so called “posse of slackers.”  Only I don’t remember much beer at those parties, mostly Special K, E and Cough Syrup… maybe the occasional baggie of meth.  I actually broke my straight edge in that apartment, smoking crack out of a light bulb just so I could say that I smoked crack before weed or drinking beer.  Although I didn’t touch anything again until I got drunk for the first time several years later on my 21st birthday.

I found this video today of him fighting a Teddy Bear on New Years eve 2000 at the same apartment with the same slacker friends. I always thought this was strangely funny and now I have a reason to post it.  Also, featured in the video is my “friend” Dylan who is now fucking this girl who got me jumped about a year ago and spread lies about me supposedly molesting her… I have done a lot of things in my life to get jumped before, but I didn’t do shit to her. I guess it is karma and thanks for taking my side Dyl… you’ve only been one of my best friends for a decade. Way to let mediocre pussy get in the way of that.

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Lastly,  I posted this video of him setting his face on fire a few months ago. It is probably the best thing I have ever put on youtube.  Enjoy the hell of it again…

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God that is hilarious.

Now this is weird. The mayor of Centerton, Arkansas resigned the other day becuase he discovered he had been living a lie.  Years ago he claims he was abducted by Satanists and brainwashed.  He was living under an assumed name for nearly thirty years.  He only came out about this because his old family contacted him because he started a website about his old life. Wtf?  Evidently Mayor Ken Williams took a truth serum that made him realize he was actually former preacher Don LaRose.  Of course… Why didn’t I think of that?

As Williams regained his memory, he said, he realized that he had a wife and two kids but that he had decided to leave and take on a new identity to protect them.
“I had no choice. The choice was to watch my family killed before my eyes or go with these people, and I chose instead to run,” Williams said.

Wow.

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