The country awoke this morning to headlines about The Sperminator. Yes, all those rumors of Ahnold’s womanizing ways were affirmed today when the news broke that the former actor turned governor turned actor again not only cheated on his wife, Maria Shriver, with a member of their “household staff”, but fathered a child by the former employee as well.
The alleged affair took place “over a decade ago” before Schwarzenegger ran for public office. According to today’s reports, the revelation that this had happened is what led to the super-couple’s split, reported just days ago.
My initial reaction was to point out what pig Arnold was/is. My boyfriend accused me of hypocrisy about the hypocrite. “Shouldn’t this be between Arnold and his family/ies?” he asked. “How is this any different from Bill Clinton getting a blowjob from Monica? ”
“The difference,” I answered “was that he’s one of them” – meaning a Republican, known for their holier-than-thou attitudes concerning religion, morality and “family values.” But, as David pointed out to me, Arnold was not one of them. Yes, he was a Republican, but one of the dying breed who didn’t seem to preach morality, who was good on climate issues, and seemed to be amenable to gay rights and on the right side of some other social issues as well.
“The other difference,” I offered, “was that he fathered a child with another woman, whom he kept employing while living a lie for all these years.”
“But shouldn’t that be between them? What business is it of ours?” was David’s final question to me on the matter.
And he’s right. But it truly makes me sick that although rumors were swirling about Arnold’s womanizing and infidelity, and as Gawker today pointed out by going there… and there, the story was already there… but nobody followed up on it. And yet Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of NY as soon as the story broke of his penchant for high priced call girls. Just sayin…
But hey, anything can happen in Hollywood, right? A former B-movie actor can get elected president, and a former steroid-using bodybuilder turned actor Austrian man can get elected governor of California.
And still, actors, musicians, and artists of any form get criticized for speaking out on issues about which they are passionate. (OK, I know it’s only RWNJ’s who do the criticizing, but it’s just another example of hypocrisy from the right.)
And there’s the old adage about a leopard not being able to change its spots… Have a look (and be sure to watch the second to last scene… the one with the carrot):
This morning, actor Steven Weber appeared on my show. I met Steven almost 20 years ago when I lived in Los Angeles, and was producer of the Mark & Brian radio show. We reconnected a few years ago after I became a fan of his Huffington Post ramblings, and finally contacted him via the twitter. I did ask him about the thought of pissing off a good portion of the American people by voicing his liberal, socialist, communist, activist thoughts … and he admitted that doing so was probably not very smart, and that he should stick to speaking the words written for him by others, like Aaron Sorkin.
I told him he was wrong… I believe it’s the right and responsibility of all Americans to speak out! Being famous doesn’t make it any less so.
Today’s show was plagues by technical gremlins…. but I made it through the conversation with Steven, a news report from Ellen Ratner at the Talk Radio News Service and, in the second hour, my weekly visit with Gotta Laff from The Political Carnival.
Laffy brought us these stories to talk about today:
[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]New York’s 26th congressional district race moves to “Toss-Up/Tilt Democratic”
Chihuahua pees on backpack, causes NY bomb scare
Report: Shirley Sherrod heading back to USDA for new job
High school student challenges Michele Bachmann to debate on U.S. Constitution
PhotOh! Craigslist: “Rapture on May 21st? I would like your stuff”
VIDEO- Condoleezza Rice: “Don [Rumsfeld] doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
RE: This Satuday’s big Tribulation™/Rapture®/’End Times’ thingy
“…Into this house we’re born
Into this world we’re thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm…”
“…Don’t move too slow, ’cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he’s eatin’ bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He’s gonna eat ’em all
Rapture, be pure…”
Blondie Vs. The Doors – Rapture Riders (VIDEO, 04:03) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhKPw2NXIw
P.S. FROM WIKIPEDIA (Tribulation):
…Among futurists there are differing views about what will happen to Christians during the Tribulation:
• Pretribulationists believe that all Christians then alive will be taken bodily up to Heaven (called the Rapture) before the Tribulation begins. Those who become Christians after the rapture will live through (or perish during) the Tribulation. After the Tribulation, Christ will return.
• Prewrath Tribulationists believe the Rapture will occur during the tribulation, halfway through or after, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God.
• Seventh Trumpet Tribulationists believe the rapture will occur during the tribulation, halfway through or after, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God. Specifically, at the sound of the Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11:15, 1 Cori. 15:52) of the Seventh Seal.[citation needed]
• Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will occur halfway through the Tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven year period is divided into half – the “beginning of sorrows” and the “great tribulation” proper.
• Posttribulationists believe that Christians will not be taken up into Heaven, but will be received or gathered by Christ into the Kingdom of God on earth at the end of the Tribulation…
RE: “The country awoke this morning to headlines about The Sperminator.” – Nicole Sandler
FROM “Importantitis, Hubris and the Entrepreneur”, by Tim Askew, 09/21/10:
SOURCE – http://thedigitalnirvana.com/2011/04/importantitis-hubris-and-the-entrepreneur/
Contents
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – AND THE HUGE DUMP IT LEFT ON THE CARPET.. 2
GULF COAST SYNDROME.. 2
DOUG HAMPTON SENT LETTER TO FOX ABOUT ENSIGN, AND WAS TOLD IT WASN’T CREDIBLE.. 2
THIRD FUKUSHIMA WORKER DIES. 3
BLACKWATER FOUNDER FORMS SECRET ARMY FOR UAE.. 4
SCORES KILLED NEAR MEXICO BORDER.. 4
GOP WON’T TAKE A NO AS A NO – ATTEMPTS REDEFINING RAPE…NOW THROUGH THE BACKDOOR.. 5
GOLDMAN STEALS TIPS FROM BEER SERVERS..Next: steal candy from kids. 5
COLOMBIA TOWNS AND FARMLAND WASHED AWAY IN WORST RAINY SEASON IN ITS HISTORY.. 5
NEVER LET A GOOD (SEAL) TEAM GO TO WASTE.. 6
Perhaps it was a reaction to the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure: 6
You can still buy G. W. Bush action figure -by Blue Box International (since the 80’s manufacturing entirely in china) 7
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – AND THE HUGE DUMP IT LEFT ON THE CARPET
The Department of Energy is responsible for managing almost 13,000 metric tons of nuclear waste at sites in Colorado, Idaho, New York, South Carolina, and Washington. For the past three decades, DOE planned to permanently dispose nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a geological repository in southwest Nevada.
Since 1983, DOE has spent $14 billion to research potential sites, develop technical documents and apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license for the Yucca Mountain repository, which was slated to open in 2020.
DOE and Navy do not have backup plans in place for a different location the nuclear waster could be stored.
An alternative option includes keeping the nuclear waste at sites beyond the design lives of the current storage facilities. DOE officials acknowledged they did not know how long the facility would last because long-term storage at these sites has never been done. It is also unknown how long nuclear fuel can be stored before it starts to degrade, which makes transport to a different location later on very risky.
GULF COAST SYNDROME
A year after the BP disaster, some Southerners say they’re coming down with mysterious and frightening illnesses
http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=13901
DOUG HAMPTON SENT LETTER TO FOX ABOUT ENSIGN, AND WAS TOLD IT WASN’T CREDIBLE
Text of Doug Hampton’s letter to Fox News
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/19/text-husbands-letter/
On June 11 – five days before Ensign acknowledged the affair at a press briefing in Las Vegas – Doug Hampton wrote to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, requesting that she investigate charges that the senator’s behavior made him unfit to serve in Republican leadership.
Fox told the Huffington Post that it received the letter via email the day before Ensign made his announcement, but that, after following up with Hampton, the network found him to be “evasive and not credible.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23923.html
THIRD FUKUSHIMA WORKER DIES
A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Saturday due to what is a so far unknown cause, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said. This brings the official death toll for workers at the complex occurring after the quake and tsunami to three Two Tokyo Electric employees went missing while patrolling the plant soon after the quake and were later found dead. TEPCO officials said that both had died of bleeding from multiple wounds and some time was required to remove radioactive material of them.
There are reasons to suspect that there might be a considerable unknown number of casulaties among those who have worked at the plant, to the degree that the work force operating at the plant to stave of further disaster is composed of contract workers.
These contracted nuclear plant workers have been called Nuclear Gypsies, and little is kept record of when it comes to what happens to them after they rotate out of their contract or even what cumulated dose of radiation they have received.
As the go from one plant contract to another. they lack access to their individual cumulative dose for one year or for many years.
Job offers come not from a company whose business is construction and cleaning maintenance. The description indicates only that the work is at a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture and there is no information about danger, only the suggestion to ask the employer for further details on food, lodging, transportation and insurance.
It is known that before the quake, data published by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Industry (NISA), showed that in 2009 the vast majority of those working at Fukushima 1 were 9195 contract laborers. These contract employees or temporary workers were provided by subcontracting companies.
Despite the prolonged nuclear crisis, Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to announce at a G8 summit in France that Japan will keep using nuclear power, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
BLACKWATER FOUNDER FORMS SECRET ARMY FOR UAE
Eric Prince – Republican mega-donor, self-described crusader, related through marriage to the DeVos right-wing hyper-rich dynasty funding promotion of full privatization – taking his connections in the US government, intelligence, war industry and Military to the UAE
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150868/the_devos_family
http://www.truth-out.org/blackwater-founder-forms-secret-army-uae/1305512059
SCORES KILLED NEAR MEXICO BORDER
At least 27 people were killed in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico in what is believed to be one of the worst mass killings in a generation. The bloody incident started when 200 raiders attacked the small town of Caserio La Bomba about 275 miles north of the capital. Police said the slayings could be linked to the slaying on Saturday of 56-year-old Haroldo Waldemar Leon, the brother of suspected drug trafficker Juan Jose Leon, who was shot in a rural area in northern Guatemala.
GOP WON’T TAKE A NO AS A NO – ATTEMPTS REDEFINING RAPE…NOW THROUGH THE BACKDOOR
‘Forcible rape’ returns as House plans vote on GOP abortion bill
The House is poised to vote Wednesday on H.R. 3, the GOP’s “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act” — and Republicans may have reignited an explosive controversy they swiftly backed down from at first.
Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reported that Republicans may be attempting a back-door maneuver to re-include those provisions seeking to limit government-subsidized abortion coverage even in some cases of rape and incest.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/03/forcible-rape-returns-as-house-plans-vote-on-gop-abortion-bill/
INDIANA COURT: NO RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL COP ENTRY INTO HOME
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html
GOLDMAN STEALS TIPS FROM BEER SERVERS..Next: steal candy from kids
Goldman Sachs part-owns a company that’s been (apparently illegally) pocketing the 20 percent “service charge” on beers at Yankee stadium – you know the tips you thought went to the servers
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/goldman-steals-tips-from-beer-servers-20110513
COLOMBIA TOWNS AND FARMLAND WASHED AWAY IN WORST RAINY SEASON IN ITS HISTORY
Colombia is experiencing the worst rainy season in its history. Constant showers since November have caused flash flooding on the Atlantic coast of the country. Overflowing rivers have washed away towns and farmland, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Experts say this summer could see the worst hurricane season for a decade.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD :OSAMA ‘WAS A US PRISONER’
Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “some time” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
http://www.worldpress.org/feed.cfm?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/iafrica/uGIK/~3/z0R3JPXZ_Ss/727979.html
NEVER LET A GOOD SEAL GO TO WASTE
So far officially confirmed, words have it that Disney has applied for trademarks on SEAL Team 6.
The trademark applications came on May 3rd, two days after the operation that killed Bin Laden… and two days after “Seal Team 6? was included in thousands of news articles and TV programs focusing on the operation.
Disney’s trademark applications for “Seal Team 6? cover clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and “entertainment and education services,” among other things
Perhaps it was a reaction to the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure:
On Wednesday morning, Hero Builders released the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure — a muscular President in fatigues armed with an M1-A4.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/meet-rambama-the-obama-seal-team-6-action-figure-doll/question-1799253/
You can still buy G. W. Bush action figure -by Blue Box International (since the 80’s manufacturing entirely in china)
Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush – U.S. President and Naval Aviator – 12″ Action Figure http://www.blueboxtoys.com/about.htm
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Contents
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – AND THE HUGE DUMP IT LEFT ON THE CARPET.. 2
GULF COAST SYNDROME.. 2
DOUG HAMPTON SENT LETTER TO FOX ABOUT ENSIGN, AND WAS TOLD IT WASN’T CREDIBLE.. 2
THIRD FUKUSHIMA WORKER DIES. 3
BLACKWATER FOUNDER FORMS SECRET ARMY FOR UAE.. 4
SCORES KILLED NEAR MEXICO BORDER.. 4
GOP WON’T TAKE A NO AS A NO – ATTEMPTS REDEFINING RAPE…NOW THROUGH THE BACKDOOR.. 5
GOLDMAN STEALS TIPS FROM BEER SERVERS..Next: steal candy from kids. 5
COLOMBIA TOWNS AND FARMLAND WASHED AWAY IN WORST RAINY SEASON IN ITS HISTORY.. 5
NEVER LET A GOOD (SEAL) TEAM GO TO WASTE.. 6
Perhaps it was a reaction to the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure: 6
You can still buy G. W. Bush action figure -by Blue Box International (since the 80’s manufacturing entirely in china) 7
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – AND THE HUGE DUMP IT LEFT ON THE CARPET
The Department of Energy is responsible for managing almost 13,000 metric tons of nuclear waste at sites in Colorado, Idaho, New York, South Carolina, and Washington. For the past three decades, DOE planned to permanently dispose nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a geological repository in southwest Nevada.
Since 1983, DOE has spent $14 billion to research potential sites, develop technical documents and apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license for the Yucca Mountain repository, which was slated to open in 2020.
DOE and Navy do not have backup plans in place for a different location the nuclear waster could be stored.
An alternative option includes keeping the nuclear waste at sites beyond the design lives of the current storage facilities. DOE officials acknowledged they did not know how long the facility would last because long-term storage at these sites has never been done. It is also unknown how long nuclear fuel can be stored before it starts to degrade, which makes transport to a different location later on very risky.
GULF COAST SYNDROME
A year after the BP disaster, some Southerners say they’re coming down with mysterious and frightening illnesses
http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=13901
DOUG HAMPTON SENT LETTER TO FOX ABOUT ENSIGN, AND WAS TOLD IT WASN’T CREDIBLE
Text of Doug Hampton’s letter to Fox News
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jun/19/text-husbands-letter/
On June 11 – five days before Ensign acknowledged the affair at a press briefing in Las Vegas – Doug Hampton wrote to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, requesting that she investigate charges that the senator’s behavior made him unfit to serve in Republican leadership.
Fox told the Huffington Post that it received the letter via email the day before Ensign made his announcement, but that, after following up with Hampton, the network found him to be “evasive and not credible.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23923.html
THIRD FUKUSHIMA WORKER DIES
A worker at Japan’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died on Saturday due to what is a so far unknown cause, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said. This brings the official death toll for workers at the complex occurring after the quake and tsunami to three Two Tokyo Electric employees went missing while patrolling the plant soon after the quake and were later found dead. TEPCO officials said that both had died of bleeding from multiple wounds and some time was required to remove radioactive material of them.
There are reasons to suspect that there might be a considerable unknown number of casulaties among those who have worked at the plant, to the degree that the work force operating at the plant to stave of further disaster is composed of contract workers.
These contracted nuclear plant workers have been called Nuclear Gypsies, and little is kept record of when it comes to what happens to them after they rotate out of their contract or even what cumulated dose of radiation they have received.
As the go from one plant contract to another. they lack access to their individual cumulative dose for one year or for many years.
Job offers come not from a company whose business is construction and cleaning maintenance. The description indicates only that the work is at a nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture and there is no information about danger, only the suggestion to ask the employer for further details on food, lodging, transportation and insurance.
It is known that before the quake, data published by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Industry (NISA), showed that in 2009 the vast majority of those working at Fukushima 1 were 9195 contract laborers. These contract employees or temporary workers were provided by subcontracting companies.
Despite the prolonged nuclear crisis, Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to announce at a G8 summit in France that Japan will keep using nuclear power, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
BLACKWATER FOUNDER FORMS SECRET ARMY FOR UAE
Eric Prince – Republican mega-donor, self-described crusader, related through marriage to the DeVos right-wing hyper-rich dynasty funding promotion of full privatization – taking his connections in the US government, intelligence, war industry and Military to the UAE
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150868/the_devos_family
http://www.truth-out.org/blackwater-founder-forms-secret-army-uae/1305512059
SCORES KILLED NEAR MEXICO BORDER
At least 27 people were killed in a Guatemalan village near the border with Mexico in what is believed to be one of the worst mass killings in a generation. The bloody incident started when 200 raiders attacked the small town of Caserio La Bomba about 275 miles north of the capital. Police said the slayings could be linked to the slaying on Saturday of 56-year-old Haroldo Waldemar Leon, the brother of suspected drug trafficker Juan Jose Leon, who was shot in a rural area in northern Guatemala.
GOP WON’T TAKE A NO AS A NO – ATTEMPTS REDEFINING RAPE…NOW THROUGH THE BACKDOOR
‘Forcible rape’ returns as House plans vote on GOP abortion bill
The House is poised to vote Wednesday on H.R. 3, the GOP’s “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act” — and Republicans may have reignited an explosive controversy they swiftly backed down from at first.
Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reported that Republicans may be attempting a back-door maneuver to re-include those provisions seeking to limit government-subsidized abortion coverage even in some cases of rape and incest.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/03/forcible-rape-returns-as-house-plans-vote-on-gop-abortion-bill/
INDIANA COURT: NO RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL COP ENTRY INTO HOME
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
“We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.”
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html
GOLDMAN STEALS TIPS FROM BEER SERVERS..Next: steal candy from kids
Goldman Sachs part-owns a company that’s been (apparently illegally) pocketing the 20 percent “service charge” on beers at Yankee stadium – you know the tips you thought went to the servers
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/goldman-steals-tips-from-beer-servers-20110513
COLOMBIA TOWNS AND FARMLAND WASHED AWAY IN WORST RAINY SEASON IN ITS HISTORY
Colombia is experiencing the worst rainy season in its history. Constant showers since November have caused flash flooding on the Atlantic coast of the country. Overflowing rivers have washed away towns and farmland, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Experts say this summer could see the worst hurricane season for a decade.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD :OSAMA ‘WAS A US PRISONER’
Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for “some time” before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday.
http://www.worldpress.org/feed.cfm?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/iafrica/uGIK/~3/z0R3JPXZ_Ss/727979.html
NEVER LET A GOOD SEAL GO TO WASTE
So far officially confirmed, words have it that Disney has applied for trademarks on SEAL Team 6.
The trademark applications came on May 3rd, two days after the operation that killed Bin Laden… and two days after “Seal Team 6? was included in thousands of news articles and TV programs focusing on the operation.
Disney’s trademark applications for “Seal Team 6? cover clothing, footwear, headwear, toys, games and “entertainment and education services,” among other things
Perhaps it was a reaction to the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure:
On Wednesday morning, Hero Builders released the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure — a muscular President in fatigues armed with an M1-A4.
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/meet-rambama-the-obama-seal-team-6-action-figure-doll/question-1799253/
You can still buy G. W. Bush action figure -by Blue Box International (since the 80’s manufacturing entirely in china)
Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush – U.S. President and Naval Aviator – 12″ Action Figure http://www.blueboxtoys.com/about.htm
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