[CanYoAssDigIt] Hilton in Car Crash

I was on the IMDb site, and I saw this:

"Hotel heiress Paris Hilton escaped unscathed from a freak car crash
in the early hours of on Wednesday morning. The reality TV star was
leaving a Hollywood nightclub in a plush silver Bentley, when her
vehicle collided with a heavy goods wagon. The incident was caught on
camera by eager photographers; one image shows Hilton blowing a kiss
towards helpful police officers as she fled the scene. It is not known
how fast the star's car was traveling. Los Angeles cop Michael Lopez
says, "They decided to leave the scene because the paparazzi was
there." Lopez also confirmed no one was hurt in the smash."

I am so glad to grateful that there is a place we can get the REAL
news. I'm going to stop wasting my time going to websites that have
this kind of JUNK on them:

"Republicans Call For Joint Investigation into Possible Prison Leak

A week after the Washington Post reported the existence of a secret,
CIA-run prison in Eastern Europe, Republican Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert have called on the Senate
and House intelligence committees to convene a "a joint investigation"
into who leaked the information. The CIA has notified the Justice
Department classified information was leaked in the disclosure of the
prisons. This could set the stage for a possible criminal inquiry
similar to the one launched following the outing of CIA operative
Valerie Plame."

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These prisons are in Romania and in Poland. This information from
Robert Fisk, the outstanding British Journalist who is not owned by
the administration and their cronies the way US journalists are (such
as the award winning professional liar Judith Miller). It's
interesting that both of these countries had phony "revolutions", in
which eastern bloc tyrants were replaced by tyrants responsive to the
White House. That Lech Walesa is a virtual CIA asset, isn't he? What
other kind of "labor activist" would be hailed as a hero by Reagan?
No other kind, that's who.

So now they are running torture prisons there, and they are trying to
make it a crime for the American people to even know it.

This is very distressing, but I'm so glad to learn that nobody was
hurt in the crash.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Judge chucks spears case

Don't imagine for a moment that a poor person will prevail against a
rich person in a copyright infringement suit, no matter what the
merits of their case. It's clear from the headline which side the
IMDb is on:

Spears "Fraud" Dismissed in Court

A lawsuit claiming pop star Britney Spears plagiarized her hit record
"Sometimes" have been dismissed by a judge in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Songwriter Steve Wallace alleged the 23-year-old stole and copyrighted
his track, originally penned in 1990, and released her version on her
1999 debut album Baby One More Time, and on 2004's Greatest Hits: My
Prerogative. Wallace maintained that a few weeks after finishing his
song, he executed what is known as a 'poor man's' copyright - sealing
his work in an envelope and obtaining a postmark - making Spears'
later copyright void. But his suit was thrown out by US District Judge
John D. Tinder last week, despite a side-by-side comparison of the
songs in court showing a striking resemblance. Spears' lawyer David R.
Baum quashed rumors the two parties had reached a financial
settlement. He said, "I cannot emphasize enough this was not a
settlement but a dismissal."

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Conversely, don't expect any poor person to affoid ruin if a rich
person decides to take them to court.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Give your mother a hug today...

The RTE has lifted their prohibition on English language songs, so the
hipster music they play on An Taobh Tuathail is unfortunately a lot
more like the hipster music I can hear elsewhere.

They just got through playing Martha Wainwright's song about her
father, Loudon. The announcer was rattling on about it in Irish, but
when it came time to give the name of the song (which is in English of
course) he couldn't bring himself to say it.

He announced as "Bloody motherhugging gas hole."

BTW, I can't quite put her in the same category as the despicable
Eminem, because Loudon has a bully pulpit, too, he could put a song
out called "My daughters a selfish bitch, she conspired with her
therapist to create the LIE that I ruined her whole life," but it's
still awkward. You can ignore the shit, and have people believe it, or
try to respond and start WWIII in your family.

Maybe he is an asshole, he did name his kids Rufus and Martha, how
cruel and unusual is that? But he comes from a line where they named
3 generations "Loudon" so he can be forgiven for not knowing any
better, it seems to run in the family.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] When you come to a cross in the roads, take it

On a non-political note, I was looking through the bottom 100 movies
of all time, according to the users fo the imdb:

http://imdb.com/chart/bottom

I was very pleased to see that these people recognized the awfulness
of Crossroads. what a turkey that movie is, but I've never heard
anybody else saying it.

but then I looked closer, and saw that they were talking about a 2002
movie with Britney Spears, and not the 1986 movie with Ralph "help me,
I've fallen and I can't act!" Macchio.

Collectively, the users of the imdb gave that stinkfest 6.5 out of 10
stars, which is depressingly high.

But the collective imbd users are somewhat redeemed by NOT placing the
excellent movie Ishtar in the bottom 100, as certain frequent users of
the imbd websight might....

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Bush rolls back the democratic progress...

November 7, 2005
"Blaming Others for Their Own Failures"
What Country was Bush Talking About?

By DAVE LINDORFF

You have to wonder whether President Bush

[Hey, isn't he the guy we want to impeach?!?]

just thinks we Americans are stupid, or whether he is so out of touch
with reality that he isn't aware of what he's saying.

In Latin America, trying to sell his American imperialist snake-oil to
a group of nations whose leaders, and especially whose people, were
skeptical to hostile, Bush argued for the American model, instead of
the neo-socialist approach being taken and advocated by the wildly
popular Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

That latter approach, the president said, "seeks to roll back the
democratic progress of the past two decades by playing to fear,
pitting neighbor against neighbor, and blaming others for their own
failures to provide for their people."

Now at the moment, it would be hard to find any failures in Venezuela,
where Chavez has been using his country's windfall revenues from oil
to fund schools, to help displaced and unemployed workers take over
shuttered factories and run them as co-ops, and to bring in doctors
from Cuba to bring health care to the country's poor.

Chavez, incidentally, has survived a most likely U.S. -orchestrated
coup, and has been elected twice by wide margins, in elections that
were monitored by international observers (including former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter) and declared to have been fair.

As for the U.S., it would seem to me much closer to what Bush was describing.

Certainly the Bush administration's introduction of arrest and
indefinite detention without charge or recourse to an attorney or the
courts, his authorization of torture, his ramming through Congress of
laws granting new police powers, and his two presidential campaigns'
successful efforts to subvert the election process, notably in Florida
and Ohio, have "rolled back the democratic progress" in the U.S. His
declaration of a so-called war on terror and his Homeland Security
Department's blatantly political use of terror alerts to divert public
attention from his failures and various political crises have played
to fear. His effort to introduce a neighborhood spy program (Operation
TIPS), and his administration's support for ethnically, racially and
religiously-based arrests and round-ups of alleged "terror" suspects
has "pitted neighbor against neighbor." Finally, if his response to
the Katrina disaster in New Orleans wasn't a case of "blaming others"
for his own failure to provide for his people, I don't know what was,

His comment was no doubt met with laughter and derision in Argentina,
Brazil and other Latin American countries.

Sadly, it was simply reported without comment in this nation's excuse
for a news media.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the
Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch
columns titled "This Can't be Happening!" is published by Common
Courage Press. Information about both books and other work by Lindorff
can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net.

He can be reached at: dlindorff@yahoo.com

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[CanYoAssDigIt] anybody who doesn't believe they could have done a better job than this...

...should probably just kill themselves

Brown Complained, Discussed Wardrobe as Katrina Hit
And newly-released e-mails continue to call into question the job
performance of former FEMA head Michael Brown. On the morning
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Brown wrote to a colleague: "Can
I quit now? Can I come home?" A few days later, he wrote to an
acquaintance: "I'm trapped now, please rescue me." In other e-mails
written during the days leading up to and during the storm, Brown
discussed searching for a dog-sitter and mused on his wardrobe. Three
days before Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, Brown wrote to his
press secretary Sharon Worthy: "Tie or not for tonight? Button-down
blue shirt?" Days later, Worthy advised Brown: "Please roll up the
sleeves of your shirt, all shirts. Even the president rolled his
sleeves to just below the elbow. In this [crisis] and on TV you just
need to look more hard-working." On August 29, the day the storm hit
New Orleans, Brown received an e-mail from deputy director of FEMA
public affairs Cindy Taylor. Taylor wrote: "You look fabulous – And
I'm not talking about the makeup!" Brown replied: "I got it at
Nordstroms... Are you proud of me?" Brown wrote in another e-mail one
hour later: "If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire, you'll really
vomit. I am a fashion god." Two days later, Brown received an e-mail
from Marty Bahamonde, one of the only FEMA employees on the ground in
New Orleans. Bahamonde told Brown "the situation is past critical" at
the Louisiana Superdome. Brown responded: "Thanks for the update.
Anything specific I need to do or tweak?" Brown resigned as FEMA
director September 12th. He continues to collect a $148,000 dollar
annual salary

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