American Exceptionalism

Normally, something this idiotic would not even warrant a mention, especially as it comes from Karen Tumulty, one of the Beltway Intelligentsia. I was going to ignore it until I saw this today, in light of World AIDS Day.

Yeah, guess what country has given the most money and help to fight AIDS in Africa. Hell, even uber douchebag Bono can see the writing on the wall:

“Even people who are snide and snarky about the United States of America have to admit that millions and millions of lives have been saved by American taxpayers,” Bono told Fox News’ Bret Baier during an interview with the lead singer and the former president taped at {former President George W}Bush’s Dallas, Texas, office.

That’s fucking right. No fucking other country on the fucking face of the fucking earth would fucking donate zillions of dollars to fight a scourge such as AIDS on a continent far away and not blink an eye. Put aside any social commentary about AIDS, and what you see in the fight that Bono and the U.S. have started shows our fucking exceptionalism. What you see is the willingness for a free people to expend money to help people far away, and not utter a peep. And what you fucking see is how generous the American people are. And this shit Tumulty pushed really fucking pissed me off.

Yes, Karen Tumulty, America is an exceptional place. America is the only country that can and will lead to preserve life, liberty, and the fucking pursuit of happiness around the globe. Only America will be willing to save zillions of people around the fucking globe to fight anything that threatens said goals listed above. And only America, that Shining City on a Hill, will do whatever can be done to make sure that people in other parts of the fucking world that we will never see might have a fucking chance to live, and utter nary a significant peep in protest. And what is truly pathetic is how you fail to see what good arises from us saving the world.

So fuck your snark, Karen Tumulty. Fuck your inability to see how a free nation is indeed exceptional, as contrasted to the dictatorships that have done jack fucking shit to help out Africa. Fuck your cocktail circuit for thinking along your lines. And furyfuck with the flying fuckeagle of freedom’s claws anybody who agrees with your decree that America is not exceptional. Why don’t you fucking live in an oppressed state, just so you can fucking see what it’s like to have no fucking chances and report back to us?

So get fucked, Tumulty, and go and see how exceptional we are from the outside.

If You Work At A Soup Kitchen

Keep your wallet at home.

According to the police report, Stack told police “a lot of his friends are homeless” and that “all his friends knew that he had a lot of cash on him, due to hearing that the stock market was doing bad and that he should pull his money out of the banks” and that he kept a “cash reserve at home.”

Police said a chain on the gate at the end of the driveway of Stack’s home had been cut and that there was a large hole in the fence beside the house.

Stack said he gave the men his wallet containing $4,000 in $100 and $50 bills. He said the assailants then tied his wrists and legs together while lying facedown on the bed, and that they punched him and asked for the keys to his 2001 Green Volkswagen Jetta.

Before leaving, they told Stack, ‘If you call the police, we’ll kill you.”

According to police, there were “several coins leading from the lawn into the woods.” Stack told police that he also kept a large amount of coins in the house and he believes the robbers took some of them.

After Prescott and Santiago left, Stack used a pair of scissors to free his wrists and called police at 7:22 p.m.

The suspects allegedly abandoned Stack’s car in the Mr. Tux parking lot on Merrimack Street in Lawrence and took a taxi to the Hampton Inn Express on Winthrop Avenue in Lawrence. They paid the cab driver $50, spent $60 in alcohol and another $400 in crack cocaine before renting two rooms at the hotel, which they paid for with $100 bills, police said.

Santiago and Prescott, along with another man and woman, also homeless, were celebrating Prescott’s 45th birthday Saturday, police said.

Stack told police that he recognized a woman at the hotel party also as being a guest at Bread & Roses, and that he hired her about a month ago to clean his house.

Stack told police that the woman “may have stolen about $3,000 from his wallet on that occasion.”

In court yesterday, Prescott and Santiago were

If You Feel Compelled To Hurl A Sex Toy At A Cop

Expect jail time to follow.

The man was arrested and charged with assault police.

Meanwhile, police arrested and charged a 35-year-old man from St Helens Park for displaying pornographic material whilst camping at Mount Panorama for the Bathurst 1000.

At around 9pm last night the Public Order & Riot Squad police were conducting a foot patrol of the McPhillamy Park Campsite when they came across a man who was displaying pornographic material on a television which he had mounted on a home made trolley.

The man had been walking his trolley around the park displaying the material.

Police arrested and conveyed the man along with his trolley to the on site police station where he was questioned in relation to the offence. Police conducted a search of the man’s tent where they located and seized in excess of 20 pornographic DVD’s. The man was subsequently charged with displaying pornographic material.

If You Are A Sex-Change Arsonist Who Dresses Like Rambo

Expect jail time.

When police arrived, Spencer answered the door wearing combat gear and a gas mask and told police she would not come out and was wearing the mask so she would be killed by the flames rather than fumes.

Firefighters dragged her from the house and she was detained undeer the Mental Health Act.

But on July 4, she went back to the flat on Thornbury Road, Thornes, to collect some of her possessions.

When she was disturbed, she fled to a nearby taxi. When the driver refused to take her she brandished a hunting knife, racially abused him and threatened to kill the terrified driver, swinging the blade at head height.

Police were called and had to use a stun gun to bring Spencer in.

Sentencing her, Mr Collier acknowledged that she had had a “tragic” life.

If You Feel Compelled To Sleep Naked On The Court Steps

Expect jail time to follow.

Early this morning, police arrested a man and accused him of sleeping naked in front of St. Petersburg City Hall. Officers wrote in an arrest report that they found Wesley Lee Campbell, 56, sleeping “completely nude” with his “sexual organs fully visible” about 1:30 a.m. in front of the building at 175 Fifth St. N.

Officers arrested Campbell, who is homeless, on a misdemeanor charge of exposing sexual organs. When officers asked him why he was nude, Campbell said “he had an itch and it felt more comfortable to sleep naked,” the arrest report states.

Henry Earl Is A Legend!!!1!11!

Yup. Arrest Number 1000!

If You Want To Know What Denver Is Doing To Its Homeless Population In Anticipation Of The Obamathon Next Week

Try free haircuts, lest they look grimey for The Messiah.

“We just kind of felt like in news reports lately it was like, ‘What are we going to do with them,’ trying to sweep them under the rug,” said Ghandia Johnson.

The couple owns Sly’s Salon at Grant Street and 16th Avenue, in downtown Denver. They decided to use their business to create a so-called cut-a-thon specifically for the homeless.

“We thought we could help some of Denver’s homeless residents by giving them a fresh look, giving them real good self esteem and helping them feel part of the DNC, so they look their best,” said Ghandia Johnson.

She says homeless people who want to be in public during the convention shouldn’t feel ashamed about their appearance. That’s why the salon gave free haircuts, washes and styles to more than 150 adults during the all-day event on Monday.

If You Want To See Old German WWII Bunkers

Check out these recently discovered ones in Denmark.

Experts have already removed a number of items including stamps bearing Hitler’s image, socks, military stripes, books and medicines.

The bunkers – discovered near the town of Houvig off the Danish coast – are part of 7,000 built by the Nazis as part of Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall’ from Norway to the South of France.

Expert Tommy Cassoe said: ‘It was like entering a pyramid with mummies all around. It is as if the German soldiers had left only yesterday.’

Photo Courtesy of AFP.

If You Feel Compelled To Videotape Yourself Masturbating While Driving A Drug-Laden Car

At least try not to speed excessively.

Prosecutor Sergeant Melinda Edwards said in court the father-of-three told police he “had masturbated while driving” just before he was stopped for speeding on the 130km/h stretch of the Stuart Hwy.

“(He) also video recorded himself masturbating while travelling at a speed of 150km/h.”

Sgt Edwards said Mr Erhardt — who was disqualified from driving — also told officers his act was “not dangerous” as the “only person he could hurt was himself”.

Darwin Magistrates Court heard Mr Erhardt was stopped by NT police 25km south of Daly Waters on July 16 for allegedly speeding at 147km/h on his way home from Adelaide.

Police noticed he was “visibly agitated”, and when they told him they were going to search his Holden sedan, he said “go right ahead”, Sgt Edwards said.

It is alleged that officers found 4.96kg of cannabis hidden in a blue esky in the boot, two cannabis plants on the back seat, two drug pipes and a loaded .22 rifle.

Sgt Edwards said Mr Erhardt was arrested and told officers he had “found” the drugs at a rest stop 100km north of Coober Pedy — and he intended to smoke all of it at his Noonamah home.

Mr Erhardt also told police he had used the rifle to shoot “kangaroos from the vehicle whilst driving north”.

The court heard the cannabis was worth $136,000 if sold by the gram in Darwin — or double that in indigenous communities.

Mr Erhardt applied twice for bail last week so he could get married before going to jail.

If You Think You Have Ever Had A Crazy Sports Bet

These guys have you beat, where the loser went homeless for a week.

He says it was the hardest to find a place to sleep. “That was the worst part, trying to decide that. It varied every night.” When he did sleep, he would be frequently disturbed by noise from people or birds. On average, he got 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

He says on Friday three drunken young men ran around his sleeping body near George Washington University.

“I jumped up. They scared the life out of me.” Jollay says he almost used his pepper spray.

His sleeping areas included the National Mall, a field at The Lab School of Washington in Northwest Washington and a swing set in Northeast Washington.

“I got a little bit of flack because I hung out at the playground. It seemed like I was a weirdo pedophile, the way I looked,” he says.

On other nights, he slept on a concrete bench near the Memorial Bridge and benches by the Kennedy Center and the Ellipse. He says he wanted to stretch out his 6’4 body but short benches posed a problem.

His roughest nights were when it rained: “Its sucks when things are still wet, my blanket gets damp and then I [start] to get cold,” he says on friend Steve Heckman’s website.

Thursday the two friends Christman and Heckman visited Jollay sleeping near the Theodore Roosevelt Building.

“I couldn’t believe it. He was fatigued. His spirits were pretty low I thought,” Heckman says. I thought I’d expect the Jollay I’d always knew…kinda upbeat, not serious.”

Jollay was also surprised at how desperately he wanted to quit. “All Thursday and Friday, I was tired and I was just kinda dehydrated. I just missed the comforts of home.”

During the day, he says he walked. “I lost 10 pounds. I was kinda surprised. Because I’m kind of a skinny guy…I walked so much, like just miles and miles.”

He visited the Natural History Museum and the National Zoo. At the zoo, he ate lettuce and carrots left unattended by the zookeeper inside the monkey house.

“It was just left out in front of the door.”

He says he got $12 from panhandling. He made a sign stating: “temporarily homeless but not too bright, please help.”

“I was kinda careful to stay away from someone who was panhandling more than me?When people asked [why I was homeless,] I said I’d been kicked out by my girlfriend. I didn’t want to patronize anybody or offend.”