Culture Watch: Yummy Kangaroos, Idiot of the Week and World's Oldest Cat

Culture Watch Vol. 45
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
December 15, 2008

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As every failed business sector in America lines up in DC with their hands out, the Federal Reserve continues to deny requests to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers

What is known is that more than half the homeowners who had their loans modified to make the payments more affordable in the first half of the year are already in default again. Ah, big government. We voted for it, we got it.

GOOD NEWS:

Despite the unrelenting effort to remove God from the public square, a new poll shows that 80% of adult Americans still believe in God. Large majorities of the public also believe in miracles (75%), heaven (73%), angels (71%), and that Jesus is God or the Son of God (71%).

'GLOBAL WARMING' UPDATE:

The global warming crowd is experiencing difficulties. Though the UN stated at the recent Climate Conference that the question of man-made global warming has been proven 'without a doubt', 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe dared to challenge their assertions.

Father Earth, algore, continues to erode his credibility. In a speech in Germany last week he claimed, 'The North Pole will disappear in 5 years." See video here.

The eco-idiocy continues: Australians have been told to eat camels to protect the environment, just months after being urged to combat climate change by chomping on kangaroos.

Here in the US, our own government is starting a most-wanted list for environmental fugitives accused of assaulting nature. Next thing we know, we could be jailed for passing gas. You heard it here first.

CULTURE:

A new documentary called Right To Die - The Suicide Tourist, was shown in the UK last week. It showed a fellow committing suicide, with a little help from his friends.

In another new 'reality' show offering, Showtime is developing a series documenting gay people coming out of the closet. In each episode, a closeted individual reveals their true sexual orientation during a group meeting. In your face, baby.

With Christmas right around the corner, attacks on the Christian religion abound. When they lit the town Christmas tree in Armonk, N.Y. on Sunday, there was a Jewish menorah right alongside, as usual. There was also something new this year — an Islamic crescent and star.

Playboy has added to the Christmas spirit — by putting the Virgin Mary nude on its Mexican cover. The controversial magazine's latest festive offering was released Thursday. Lovely.

A federal judge says South Carolina must stop marketing and making license plates that feature the image of a cross and the words "I Believe."

Learning by example, our kids are starting to let it all hang out. A recent survey reveals one-fifth of teenagers surveyed have sent or posted nude or seminude pictures or videos of themselves online. Almost a third have received such images.

Giving new meaning to 'love machine', a Canadian man now lives with a female robot. Le, a scientific genius from Brampton in Ontario, Canada, said he never had time to find a real partner so he designed one using the latest technology. Spooky stuff.

Another result of all this in-your-face sexuality is seen in a new survey: 46% of women and 30% of men now choose the Internet over sex.

The world's oldest cat celebrates 125th birthday. The Guinness World Records has confirmed there is no record holder at the moment, but the previous oldest cat was 29.

The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, went on sale to British customers last week.

The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep. Way cool.

Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010 and studies show that dogs have a sense of fairness. How about Fido For Congress?

Another interesting study purports to show that men are hardwired, after eons of evolution, to overspend. Their maxed-out credit cards and mega-purchases have been tied to their desire to attract mates. Hey, it works...

TOP IDIOT OF THE WEEK:

Michael Jackson, the new King of Weird, wins this week's Top Idiot award. He was caught sporting a new outfit that made him look like an Islamist Zorro.

So many idiots, so little space. Check out the full list of Idiot awards in RightBias.com's new weekly Top Idiots Of The Week Awards.

Till next week, keep smiling,

by Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com

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Politically Incorrect FBI Bulletins

Politically Incorrect Holdout:
FBI Most Wanted-Violent Crimes & Murders

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Here is the FBI's most wanted: VIOLENT CRIMES - MURDERS


Hmmmm.

Seems to be a lot of Hispanics. Wonder what their immigration status is?

Wonder why we can't find them?

And there sure seem to a lot of Muslim murderers for members of the Religion Of Peace.

Seems to us here at DBKP that allowing illegal immigrants to enter into America with impunity, to rape and kill, then to find safe haven back in Mexico, which not only refuses to extradite them, but won't even arrest them, is beyond foolish. Just about as stupid as allowing Muslims, basically misogynistic barbarians who hate everything about America, Christianity, Judism, and innumerable other elements of our society, into the civilized society.

Of course the excuse is they are just doing the work Americans won't.

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by pat
image: fbi

Video: Mad 15-Ton FrontLoader Driving Skills

Heavy Machinery Video:
The Best Frontloader Driver You Are Ever Likely To See

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Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader



Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader - Watch more Entertainment

Bravo!

by pat
image: amazon.com

Nicola McLean: Miss Scotland, TV, Leeches and Boobs

Ultimate TV Reality:
Miss Scotland Vs. Boob Sucking Leeches



[ABOVE: Nicola McLean screeches as discovers a leech on her breast.]

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What do you do, if you are Miss Scotland, and while filming a very popular 'reality' TV show have a leech attaches itself to your boob, and oh, the cameras are rolling?




Blood-sucker: Nicola plucks the leech from her chest.




Removing excess clothing--of course.




Final examination.

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The answer to the thirsty bloodsucker?

Anything--just get this sucker off me!


by pat
images: ITV/Rex Features
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/celebrity/article-1090044/Sucker-punishment-Nicola-gets-fright-leech-attaches-chest.html

John Edwards Affair: Rielle Hunter in N. Jersey, Out of Cash

John Edwards Affair/Scandal:
Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey

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It's the East Coast for Frances Quinn

The National Enquirer's reporting that Rielle Hunter has left her fancy digs in Santa Barbara for something a little more plebian: New Jersey

The Enquirer had previously broke the story about how Hunter, John Edwards' mistress, and love child/daughter, Frances Quinn, were receiving hush money payments of $15,000 a month from Fred Baron--who was Edwards' campaign finance chairman.

When Baron suddenly passed away from a lethal cancer on October 30, the $15K payments to the Hunters stopped.

After her $15,000 monthly payments stopped with the death of money man Fred Baron, John Edward's mistress blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter abandoned the lavish $3 million home that was being rented for her in ritzy Santa Barbara, California, sources tell The ENQUIRER.

Now she and her 10-month-old daughter Frances, who she privately says is Edwards' love child, are living with her longtime friend Mimi Hockman in South Orange, about 20 miles west of New York City, according to insiders.

The Enquirer, was called "tabloid trash" by the former North Carolina senator when the tabloid ran the story about Edwards' affair with a pregnant Rielle Hunter last December.

But after Edwards was cornered by Enquirer reporters leaving Hunter's Beverly Hilton hotel room after visiting her and Frances Quinn in late July, Edwards finally confessed on ABC's Nightline on August 8. Edwards admitted that he had lied, though he didn't admit being the father of Frances Quinn.

But Hunter has privately confided that Edwards is the father of the bouncing bundle of joy that was Frances Quinn Hunter.

With no money coming in from money man Baron, will Hunter publish her tell-all book that she's been rumored working on for "insurance"?

Will Hunter move back in with her former Midline Groove partner, Mimi Hockman--a resident of the Garden State?

Readers will likely get some of those answers over the next several months: if Rielle doesn't get any dough soon, it's likely that some publisher will be getting a manuscript chock-full of all the details that John Edwards has been able to keep hidden thus far.

And, can a DNA test for little Frances Quinn be far behind?


by Mondo Frazier
image: National Enquirer

Ambrose Bierce: Sixty Ambrose Bierce Quotes

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
--Ambrose Bierce

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Who doesn't like a good Ambrose Bierce quote?

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.

The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic – earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including the poet, George Sterling and the fiction writer, W. C. Morrow.

In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace.

Here's sixty of our favorites from the Bitter One.

• "Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
  
  
• "Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
  
  
• "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
  
  
• "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
  
  
• "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
  
  
• "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
  
  
• "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."
  
  
• "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."
  
  
• "There are 4 kinds of homicide; felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
  
  
• "Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
  
  

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• "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
  
  
• "Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
  
  
• "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
  
  
• "Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."
  
  
• "Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
  
  
• "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
  
  
• "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."
  
  
• "Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
  
  
• "Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
  
  
• "Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
  
  
  

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• "AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
  
  
• Bierce book review: "The covers of this book are too far apart."
  
  
• "An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me."
  
  
• "Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
  
  
• "Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
  
  
• "Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs."
  
  
• "Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
  
  
• "Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."
  
  
• "Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
  
  
• "Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
  
  
  
  

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• "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
  
  
• "Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
  
  
• "Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
  
  
• "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
  
  
• "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
  
  
• "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
  
  
• "The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
  
  
• "What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
  
  
• "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
  
  
• "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow."
  
  

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• "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
  
  
• "Let me tell you what a writer is. A writer takes comprehensive views, holds large convictions, makes wide generalizations. A writer's not English, Mexican, or American. A writer's not a woman nor a man. A writer's not Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim, nor snake worshipper.
  
  To local standards of right and wrong a writer's civilly indifferent. In the virtues, a writer's concerned only with general expediency. A writer doesn't waste time focusing on fixed moral principles that aren't yet before the court of conscience. Happiness discloses itself to a writer as the end and purpose of life, and art and love are the only means to a writer's happiness. A writer is free of all doctrines, theories, etiquettes, and politics. To a writer, a continent doesn't seem long, nor a century wide.
  
  And a writer has ever present consciousness that this is a world of...fools and rogues, blind with superstition, tormented with envy, consumed with vanity, selfish, false, cruel, cursed with illusions, and frothing mad."
  
  
• "As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable.
  
  The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value."
  
  
• "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  
  
• "Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
  
  
• "Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands."
  
  
• "You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day."
  
  
• "Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it."
  
  
• "Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being."
  
  
• "I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities."
  
  

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• "Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH."
  
  
• "Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent."
  
  
• "PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics."
  
  
• "I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating."
  
  
• "The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
  
  
• "Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law."
  
  
• "Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another."
  
  
• "Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission."

compiled by Mondo Frazier
image: zenjoombla
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AP Notices Obama Refusal to Answer Questions about Blagovich, Rahm Emanuel

Obama, Chicago and Blagojevich:
The Media Asks Questions--After the Election

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The AP is Curious About Obama


The AP thinks it's a story when Barack Obama refuses to answer any questions.

That the former junior senator from Illinois didn't have to answer many during the campaign might have something to do with his present stance.

President-elect Barack Obama is refusing to answer any questions about the internal review he has ordered into Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged efforts to sell his former Senate seat, saying he will do so when the examination is finished.

Obama's staff has declined to respond to even basic questions, like who is conducting the probe, how long it will take, what issues are being explored and whether they are working with federal investigators. Obama has promised transparency throughout his service and to divulge contacts his staff has had with Blagojevich's office in the coming days. But his staff has locked down on inquiries in the meantime.

The Obama transition team's refusal to talk has contributed to a maelstrom around Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago congressman likely to have been in contact with the governor, who was arrested this week in a corruption scandal. But Emanuel is not a target of the probe, according to people who have been briefed on the investigation.

Barack Obama, international man of mystery lists 51 things that we do know about Obama, including the fascinating facts that the President-elect enjoys Scrabble and poker.

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ALSO at DBKP:
* Who is Barack Obama?
Over 60 stories on the unreleased records, citizenship questions and murky past that the Mainstream Media didn't think newsworthy during the campaign.
* Obama’s Rezko Ties: Cook County Clerk’s Office Lists Attorney as Owner Of Obama Chicago Home
Obama doesn't own his home?
* Obama Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Chicago Home Mortgage $903,000 over Legal Limit
Obama Fun Financing Facts!

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Obama supporters may become confused about the Mainstream Media's new-found curiosity over the president-elect. What's all of the chatter about? Didn't Obama say that he didn't know anything?

That answer seemed to work just fine during the primaries and general election. Why won't that answer satisfy the press now?

As RidesAPaleHorse points out, the latest revelations from Chicago may become "Senategate"--or just the World's Largest Dog & Pony Show.


by Mondo Frazier
image: RidesAPaleHorse