It's An Uphill Struggle (But I'll Win In The Battle Of Ideas)

See? I say it and it means nothing. Sy Hersh says it - it's major news. 

RACIST: 

  “Our job [as journalists] is to find out ourselves, our job is not just to say – ‘here’s a debate’ our job is to go beyond the debate and find out who’s right and who’s wrong about issues.”

Journalists are supposed to find out who's right and who's wrong. 

Wow.

What a concept,...

 

Girls Getting Special Treatment, Defending Against Gay Attacks, Whites Assaulting Blacks - Nope, It's The Same

What's un-fucking-believable about this is, there's not a single word about booting those responsible, changing anything for the better, or punishing anybody for not caring enough to stop dragging their heels on the job:

  Across gender, race, and class, American adults say it was better to be a child when they were young and believe today's kids will enjoy less financial security than they did.

I don't know why they expect different:

My life hasn't changed, much, since foster care.

I'm still alone, guarded, and kicking up a fucking shit storm,...

 

You Have To Look On The Bright Side: If You Decide To Kill Them All You Won't Feel Bad

Now this is a great message we're trying to get into the heads of you fools - though you still lie and insist it's not true - you're a bunch of shits:

A depressed charity worker killed herself as Facebook users mocked a suicide note she left on the social networking website.

So-called Facebook ‘friends’ of Simone Back responded with cruel messages after she posted a message that read: ‘Took all my pills be dead soon so bye bye every one.’

One user replied calling her a liar who ‘overdoses all the time’ while another said it was ‘her choice’. Miss Back, 42, is thought to have been dying of an overdose as the messages were posted on Christmas Day.

Yesterday Miss Back’s mother demanded to know why none of her daughter’s 1,082 Facebook friends tried to save her.

Save your breath, Mom:

These loonies today are worthless and they think it's cool to be so. Before our wife, Karine Anne Brunck, killed people with 'Dr." Robert Wohlfahrt, we sought help from everyone we knew (and many we didn't) and all we got was attacked (and we still are to this day) for our efforts - because we were "a man" her freedom was more important to them. Yea, ultimately that was the freedom to kill three people.

Now those two killers are still out there and the "compassionate" types are still screaming their bullshit feminist anthem. Whatever. We get it. If they won't save Tom Cruise from "the world's most dangerous cult" then they ain't doing shit for anyone else. They even deny there are cults. Or, if there are, they too are free to do whatever they want. Oprah's made cults O.K.. These people today want entertainment, and destruction has always amused the evil. Responsibility to one another matters none. That's their NewAge community.

Expect nothing more.

Ricky Ray Rector's Killer Has Advice For Us

Man, it sure would be nice to hear from an honest person for a change:

"The words we use really do matter, because there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike.

One of the things that the conservatives have always brought to the table in America is a reminder that no law can replace personal responsibility. And the more power you have and the more influence you have, the more responsibility you have.

I'm glad they're fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled.

By all means keep fighting, by all means, keep arguing. But remember, words have consequences as much as actions do, and what we advocate, commensurate with our position and responsibility, we have to take responsibility for."

-- Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton

This liar will tell us anything and everything, but, after all his years of gum-slapping, he's still never bothered to clear up what the meaning of the word "is" is,...



Click on this post's title if you don't know who Ricky Ray Rector was, or the circumstances surrounding his death.

Con Twofer: Homeopathy And Wine In One Post!

"The natural frequencies of air?

Are you joking or what?

Luxist Team, I love the blog and enjoy reading about interesting products both in my price range and out, but seeing you promote snake oil like this incenses me! As a wine lover and collector, I recognize that there are wine-related products that work, and those that don't. Aerating your wine can allow flavors to open, and tools like the Vinturi work, although a nice decanter does just as well. 



Things like this 'wine wand', however, are pure unmitigated fraud. 'Encapsulated glass jewels replicate the natural frequencies of air and oxygen and speed up the aeration process,' is the same nonsense spouted by practitioners of homeopathy, a thoroughly discredited (and utterly insane) 'treatment' for disease that leads to countless unnecessary sicknesses and deaths every year.



Crystals aren't going to do anything to your wine, there are no such things as 'captured oxygen frequencies,' and Philip Stein is laughing all the way to the bank after he rips you off if you believe garbage like this. Please, show a bit more responsibility to your readers!"

-- Two comments - by people who know a scam (and the language of a scam) when they see and hear one - on the luxury site, Luxist.com.

Isn't wild how homeopathy, specifically, is the #1 new prime example of a con? Keep reading to see,...

Straight Up

"The man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her male friend at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza insisted on pleading guilty today, saying, 'I did it,' and that he wanted to be executed.

'Just give me the death penalty,' Nathaniel Burris, 46, of Richmond demanded in a court hearing in Martinez at which he repeatedly interrupted the judge, proclaimed that he didn't need a lawyer and asked to be taken back to his jail cell.

'I'd like to plead guilty,' Burris told Judge Leslie Landau of Contra Costa County Superior Court after she read the complaint accusing him of gunning down Deborah Ross, 51, of Richmond and her friend Ersie Charles Everette III, 58, of San Leandro on Tuesday. If convicted of capital murder, Burris could face the death penalty.

The judge tried to interject, but Burris continued, 'I don't need an attorney, I'll do it myself. I don't need all that nonsense.'

Landau repeatedly tried to cut Burris off, but the defendant wasn't looking for help.

'I don't need no public defender,' Burris said. 'I talked to a lawyer last night. I'm guilty. I did it. Why do we have to wait 30 years?'

Landau refused to accept his guilty plea and ordered Burris to return to court Thursday. She said he had the right to a hearing at which he could ask that he act as his own attorney.

But even then Burris said, 'Why not Monday? Why wait? I did it. Let's get it over with.'

He also brushed off Deputy Public Defender Laurie Mont as she tried to get his attention, telling her, 'Ma'am, I don't want to talk to you.'"

-- Henry K. Lee, one of the best journalists working today (and, definitely, the best reporter chronicling the madness of "The City By The Bay") on one of the few Americans willing to truly "take full responsibility" for his actions - in this age of outrageous liars, cowards, and cons - which has obviously (and hilariously) confused everyone, but the one clear-thinking scribe representing The San Francisco Chronicle.

Two Morons Tied For "Moron Of The Week"

Gems from the pus-filled pimple brains at the forefront of the culture – sometimes they just gotta spew to relieve the pressure:

Dita Von Teese. Stripper, "sex worker," idiot:

“It is a strange time. I just met the First Lady and the President of France and they wished they could come to my show but can’t while they have this job.

It’s such a shame, there was once a different time when stripping and burlesque wasn’t considered scandalous."

Apparently Dita must not know who the First Lady of France is. Too bad, as Dita might have gotten some serious advanced skank lessons for free.

And her longing for a different time is perplexing. Morality, modesty and responsibility have only deteriorated over time. It’s not even scandalous to bang your neighbor’s dog on the front lawn at high noon anymore.

Dita, the projector in your head is running backwards, so our advice is to invest in plastics, be one of the first shareholders of IBM, and watch out for World War II.

Always a strong contender, Paris Hilton, after spending 23 days in jail, claimed she would change her party ways and release a book she wrote in the slammer.

As it turns out, the book was super eco-friendly, as it used no ink whatsoever, which makes the paper easier to recycle. And since then she’s been photographed sucking face with just about anyone who has a face.

None of that stopped her from saying this:

"I’ve grown up a lot, I’ve been thru a lot this past year and really grown-up and become an adult," Paris added. "I was living like a teenager and living carelessly for a long time but I’ve realized I’m now running a huge corporation and empire."

Relax, Paris. Take a break from the empire and chill out, go on vacation, take a cruise and fall overboard. You’ve slept with everyone you could, now sleep with the fishes.

And a special thanks to all who continue to make the most monumentally stupid people on earth into celebrities.

The Sad Dilemma Of The Modern Feminist

"Raised on the idea that victimhood is a source of empowerment, today’s crusading feminist is in rather a bind. Not only is she not discriminated against, she is discriminated in favor of. Every elite institution in the country is frantically scouring the horizon for women to put in the corporate boardroom, among law partnerships, on the masthead of editorial boards, on the pages of magazines and newspapers, on television talk shows, and on university faculties, inter alia. This situation is hard to square with the claim of oppressed status. And so it becomes imperative to fabricate pseudo-bias where none exists."

-- Heather Mac Donald in Pajamas Media

Forever Pointing At Everyone Else

"While I personally have nothing against torching buildings and brawling under appropriate circumstances, I can't understand why Paul Auster simply can't say, "I ripped out the fence because I wanted to. I rioted because I decided to." The idea that a 61 year old man might act irrationally because the mere thought of US policy in Iraq deprives him of reason is a pretty disturbing,...there's a whole population,...of seemingly normal people out there just waiting to go berserk at the mere mention of politics they disapprove of."

-- The Belmont Club (in response to Paul Auster's '60's recollection, in the New York Times, "The Accidental Rebel") writing for Pajamas Media.

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