Vietnamese police have sent a singer/actress to “re-education camp” in a widening crackdown on rampant prostitution, just months after she created a scandal with a home-made sex video, state newspapers said on Friday.
Yahoo News
Yahoo News
Paris Hilton, take heed!!
That’s a pretty punny story.
” … a widening crackdown …”
Tom DeLay is whining about the “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” episode that aired this week. Anytime I see Tom DeLay and Criminal used in the same article brings a smile to my face. Kudos to NBC for not backing down.
Interesting how the network entertainment division seems more capable of standing up to nutwing bullies than the “news” division. Maybe they should just fold them together, since the content is almost indistinguishable anyhow.
Well hopefully NBC won’t be the next target of a witchhunt by the right and Faux news because someone there had the gall to say something negative about one of their own..man these people are thin skinned.
who knows he’s going to get thrown into water. He’s lashing out at anyone and everything. I smell blood in that hypothetical water.
Where’s our surprise? (Persistence is a virtue)
Well since you mentioned Paris Hilton I’m no bound by her sacred name to pass on this quote from her explaining her success.
” I have good karma. I am a good person, so God made things happen for me.” So, there, take that all you welfare moms/dads and people living below poverty levels..it’s all your own dam fault..you are bad people with bad karma…shame on you.
And since this is Frivolous Friday here are several more quotes unfortunately proving how inanely stupid some people are.
Kelly Clarkson(top Idol winner) on Marilyn Monroe….” I kind of think of her as the Paris Hilton of her day.”
And not to leave out one of my favorite celebrities I love to hate, J-Lo on becoming first woman president..offers us this pithy insight into why she’d be a good first woman President……..”I’d like to become the first female president-it would be fascinating. The first thing I’d do is redecorate the White House. It doesn’t look very cozy.”
Well, think how much better America would be now if the current resident had confined itself to interior decorating instead of exterior devastating.
Steve Bell on the effects of frivolous oil consumption:
I’m wondering whether any members here are living in the city of Brotherly Love.
No, and I’m not even living in the city of ‘Sisterly Love'(as I’m living as I’ve stated before in the redneck part of CA.)
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BooMan existed in 1666, a century before the United States of America was founded! Talking about strong roots. Way to go Martin.
XIII. Cornelis Arijens Boonman, alias Cornelis Ariens Boomman, wonende “aen de suijtsijde” te Nieuw-Beijerland (1666), overleden na 06.03.1667; trouwt: Ariaentje Cornelisdr. , overleden na 05.10.1664.
[wonende»residing, overleden»died, trouwt»married, gedoopt»baptized]
Perhaps one of the Pilgrims or Founding Fathers?
Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
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BooMan — how likely is it for you to read this comment?
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
Too bad I side tracked it.
It was a great comment.
My daughter said I had to watch this video.
Yeah, you too.
Isn’t that something?! I love how the video loops too, making it look like she’s doing it over and over.
diane’s incredible diary about 100 images we won’t see this memorial day has been linked on Buzzflash…however the link is to Kos….if I understand this right, diane posted this diary here first then linked to Kos?….if that is so everyone should sent Buzz and email and point out that the great new site Booman had this diary first.
Don’t know if this has been reported yet, thought you might be interested:
SLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Muslims marched Friday in Islamic countries from Asia to the Middle East, burning symbols of the United States to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran by military personnel at a American prison in Guantanamo, Bay, Cuba.
The rallies in Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere followed an admission Thursday by U.S. investigators that Islam’s holy book was mishandled at Guantanamo.
But American officials said it was often inadvertent and denied that any Qurans were flushed down a toilet, as Newsweek magazine had reported in a now-retracted article.
No injuries were reported in Friday’s demonstrations, with police simply watching in most places.
In India’s Kashmir region, however, police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of Muslims gathered outside a mosque in the capital of Srinagar.
Women in black veils marched through Kashmir, where schools and businesses were closed as part of the protest, and set American flags and copies of the U.S. Constitution ablaze.
“The defilement of our holy book is outrageous because we consider it to be the word of God,” thundered Asiya Andrabi, head of the women’s group Daughters of the Community, through her veil. “Guantanamo Bay is a cage. It is not a prison.”
More than 15,000 people took to the streets of Pakistan’s largest cities. A demonstration in the capital of Islamabad began in a tense atmosphere, hours after a bomb at a Muslim shrine killed more than 15 people at an annual celebration. The motive for the suspected suicide bombing was not immediately clear. (Full story)
“We condemn sacrilege of the Quran by U.S. extremists,” read one banner draped across a bus while protest leaders chanted into loudspeakers during a rally of at least 2,000 in Islamabad.
In Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, 5,000 demonstrators chanted slogans against the United States and Britain. Another 5,000 gathered in the southern city of Karachi, demanding the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador. Protests also were held in Lahore, near the Indian border.
The rallies were organized by a hard-line religious coalition, Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal, or United Action Forum — a vocal opponent of Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
About 12,000 people, many of them supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, gathered in Alexandria, Egypt, filling a three-story building and spilling into surrounding streets, listening to preachers who demanded an apology from U.S. officials. The neighborhood was ringed by police, who arrested 12 of the demonstrator’s organizers.
About 1,000 people — mostly lawyers — gathered in downtown Cairo and were surrounded by double that number of riot police.
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He asked Seattle Liberal to post this diary, and Seattle Liberal asked me to let everyone know about it + recommend it. It gets into the ugliest aspects of the House these days.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/27/20135/6111
The Ongoing GOP attack on Congressman Jim McDermott