Saturday Night Randomry

Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397

Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397 (Fantasy in English, Fantasie in German) is a piece of music for solo piano composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782. Despite being unfinished at Mozart's death, the piece is nonetheless one of his more popular compositions for the piano. Because of its somewhat unusual rhythm, its constantly changing tempo (seven different tempi occur throughout the piece, some of which are quite fast), and its complete lack of any recognizable musical form (as indicated by the "Fantasy" title), the Fantasia is considered to be a relatively challenging piece to perform.


Performed by Emil Grigoryevich Gilels

Ms. California On 700 Club; Pat Robertson Calls Her A Bitch

You just can't make this shit up.

Carrie Prejean, the homophobic pageant lady with free fake tatas, stopped by the 700 Club to talk about Baby Jesus, buttseks, and whatnot.

via the Youtubes

Site Asks All 5 Gay Wal-Mart Shoppers To Stop It

Queerty exposes Arkansas resident and Wal-Mart CEO, Mike Duke, as somone who is against gay adoption! Gasp!

Now they feel the need to ask gay men to refrain from buying Wrangler jeans or those fancy Puritan dress shirts.

Ugh:

Their prices may be low, but Wal-Mart's support of discrimination appears to be through the roof. Thanks to the site KnowThyNeighbor.org, the signers of an Arkansas petition to limit adoption only to married couples (effectively denying adoption to gays, who cannot legally marry) are now available for all to see. Well, they always were: This data is public information, and publishing it is perfectly legal (although the scourge of anti-gay advocates). But browsing Know They Neighbor, one name in particular sticks out: Mike Duke of 16 Pinnacle Drive, Rogers, Arkansas. Yep, that's the guy who Wal-Mart just named CEO on February 1.

...Now what? Well, you can throw this evidence into yet another hat as reasons to boycott Wal-Mart, right next to "poor employee health care," "unfair labor practices," and "destroying local businesses." If Wal-Mart's chief executive supports such discrimination, buying lawn chairs, toilet paper, and clothes for your kids effectively puts dollars in Duke's pocket.

FOUND: One Martian Skull

Ahhh, science. Master of the unknown once again.

When was the last time your Jesus found an alien corpse? Huh?

NASA's robot monster, Spirit, captured the above image while cruising the Mars strip.

Might it be a relative of the Jawa found January of last year?

From the Telegraph:

At first glance it looks like a rocky desert - but this image of the Mars landscape has got space-gazers talking.

An oddly shaped space boulder appears to show eye sockets and a nose leading to speculation it might be a Martian skull.

Internet forums are full of chatter about the picture, taken by a panoramic NASA camera known as Spirit.

One alien-spotter speculated: "The skull is 15 cm with binocular eyes 5 cm apart. The cranial capacity is approximately 1400 cc.

"There appears to be a narrow pointed small mouth, so this creature most likely is a carnivore."

Another joked: "The coronal ridge shows ample structure to support the musculature of antennae, although none are visible in this view.

"The nose area is broad and blunted as you would expect to see in a cold and windy landscape. Is he decapitated or is he buried up to his neck?"

Alaskan Snowcunt Officially A Twatterer

Isn't this quaint. Cheerleader for Christ, Sarah Palin, has started a Twitter page.

From The Telegraph:

Perhaps this is a tipping point for Twitter - conservative icon Governor Sarah Palin is now tweeting. Under the moniker @AKGovSarahPalin (not very snappy but there are, by my reckoning, already 32 Sarah Palin twitter accounts) the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate has plunged into the social networking maelstrom.

...Interestingly, among the 36 people she's following are GOP 2012 nomination rivals (and fellow governors) Bobby Jindal and Tim Pawlenty and - from the media - Drudge (her first follow), Fox duo Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, NBC's David Gregory and ABC's George Stephanopoulos.


It only took her second twat (the real mother of Trig) to piss and moan about the librul media:

AP gravely misquoted my staff, saying I 'changed my mind' on the stimulus package. For accurate info, go to http://tinyurl.com/c7v84t.
3:13 PM Apr 29th from web

This should be fun.


via Sarah Palin's twat

Opening On The SCOTUS; Arianna Compiles Short List

Famous Greek blogger/beard, Arianna Huffington, has decided to do President Unicorn a favor by compiling a short list of replacements for Justice David Souter, who announced his retirement today.

Lets take a look at who her top prospects are:

Sonia Sotomayor: An Hispanic with 16 years of court experience who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Sotomayor is a graduate of Yale Law and considered a legal liberal. She also shares a biographical footnote with Souter: they both were appointed by George H. W. Bush -- Sotomayor to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1992.

Elena Kagan: The first woman to serve in the post of Solicitor General, she arrived at the Department of Justice from her post as Dean of the Harvard Law School. She served as Associate Counsel to President Bill Clinton and as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Should Obama choose her, it would mean his White House would have to fill another vacancy. But her academic and judicial pedigree seem almost better suited for the Court than as a lawyer arguing before it. Plus, she's already been through the confirmation process.

Seth Waxman: The 41st Solicitor General of the United States, Waxmnan is 58-years old and a graduate of Yale Law School. Perhaps his greatest claim to legal fame was arguing Boumediene v. Bush before the Supreme Court, which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Diane Wood: Wood, a 58-year-old Chicagoan, has served for 14 years on the city's 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. She has made a reputation as a strong liberal voice on an otherwise conservative bench and her name was decidedly in the mix when speculation first arose that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would retire due to medical issues. The one downside: her position on abortion rights has already sparked the ire of conservatives and pro-life groups, portending a potentially contentious confirmation process.

Harold Koh: The Dean of Yale Law School, Koh is perhaps the highest-profile Asian-American legal mind in the country. He clerked for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court, and worked for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Reagan Justice Department. But if Obama wants a smooth confirmation battle, Koh might not be the pick. Nominated to be the State Department's legal adviser, he has attacked by conservatives who claimed that he values foreign law over the U.S. Constitution.

Dark horses: Some names offered by legal observers who have followed Supreme Court politics a bit more closely:

Teresa Wynn Roseborough: A legal scholar, in an email to the Huffington Post, described the Clinton-era Deputy Assistant Attorney General as such: "She's late 40s, super smart and kind, decent, moderate; and was Editor in Chief of UNC law review. She clerked on the 4th Circuit and for Justice Stevens; worked in Department of Justice, was a partner at a private Atlanta firm; and now at a private counsel for MetLife. And, she's African-American. A perfect choice. Unimpeachable and perfect."

Leah Ward Sears: Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.

Kathleen Sullivan: Former Dean of Stanford Law and a protege of Harvard's famed professor, Laurence Tribe.

William Fletcher: A U.S. federal appeals court judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (the same circuit as one Jay Bybee, who will definitely not be an Obama Supreme Court nominee).


We couldn't help but be reminded of the above skit from Tracey Ullman's State of the Union.

Fuck You, Virginia Foxx

Seriously, eat a bag of dicks.

From Towleroad:

Some ugly things are being said in the House debate of the federal hate crimes bill (the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act aka the Matthew Shepard Act) right now on C-SPAN. North Carolina GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx said that it's a "hoax" that Matthew Shepard's murder was motivated by his sexual orientation.


Since then, the cunt twat taint stain has backtracked on her remarks:

"It has come to my attention that some people have been led to believe that I think the terrible crimes that led to Matthew Shepard's death in 1998 were a hoax," she said. "The term "hoax" was a poor choice of words used in the discussion of the hate crimes bill. Mr. Shepard's death was nothing less than a tragedy and those responsible for his death certainly deserved the punishment they received.

"The larger context of my remarks is important. I was referring to a 2004 ABC 20/20 report on Mr. Shepard's death. The 20/20 report questioned the motivation of those responsible for Mr. Shepard's death. Referencing this media account may have been a mistake, but if so it was a mistake based on what I believed were reliable accounts."


On a personal note, your editor (as a gay Indy) does not really believe in Hate Crimes legislation. Tragedy is tragedy, violence is violence, and murder is murder. No one group should be singled out for special treatment.

If the gay community wants to be treated on equal footing with the rest of society, we should really avoid putting ourselves in a seperate but equal situation.

HOWEVER, Rep. Foxx's statements were detestable.

In Summary: Suck it, Virginia Foxx.

Even Meghan McCain Is Throwing Arlen Under The Bus

As reported by everyone yesterday, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter has switched from the GOP to the baby-eating gay Communist Democratic Party.

While most of the conservative wingnut reactions were expected; Meghan McCain expressed her disdain as well...albeit with a tad more tact:

Let me be clear: I have a lot of respect for Sen. Specter. But I also can't help but feel like he's let us down. I'm sure this was a long, hard decision. The polls were looking very bleak in his primary contest. His probable opponent was nearly 20 points ahead in many polls. And I understand how he’s been made to feel like an outcast by a small, vocal group. Still, this was an opportunity for Specter to hold his ground and set an example for progressive-minded Republicans trying to overcome one of their biggest obstacles: winning the party primaries.

Of course, this speaks to much larger problem in the GOP. We need to attract more centrist and progressive conservative voters at the primary level, so that level-headed candidates stand a chance. We need courageous Republicans more than ever. And this week, Sen. Specter turned his back. But he wasn’t the only one.

Shortly after the senator's announcement, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement:

"Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not. Let’s be honest—Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record. Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first."

At its core, there is not much different about what the chairman said and what I’ve written here. Specter's decision was most likely motivated by political reasons. But that's where the similarities end. What's left is the same, tired rhetoric conservatives simply cannot seem to get past. Even someone like Mr. Steele—who was elected to be a more inclusive, open voice for Republicans—can’t escape it.


Why can't they all be like this?

Lambo Lands In Bottom 2; Internets Outraged

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Tween girls (and fancy tween boys) realeased a collective and traumatic squeal about 8:40 EST last night when our fair Lambo Cockrissian was put in the bottom 2.

Truly, the terrorists are winning.

Here's a decent summary from Idolator:

More surprising to observers, though, was the appearance of longtime frontrunner Adam Lambert in the bottom three, alongside Giraud and Kris Allen. Was this the result of shenanigans by the producers–who want people to keep watching, even despite the widespread assumption that Lambert’s going to win this thing–or was it the first piece of evidence that a wide swath of America isn’t really into the whole Scissor Sisters/Muse/Adam Lambert axis of rock, despite poor old Randy Jackson’s claims to the contrary?


Keep in mind that last year’s winner operating in the “covers of other peoples’ covers” paradigm was actually using as his touchstone a genre of music–crummy radio mook rock–that, while being objectionable for a host of completely valid reasons, does relatively well, especially when compared to the glammy and fabulous bands that Lambert has chosen to emulate on the Idol stage. Sure, his fanbase is pretty devoted to him and he normally has amazing energy on the stage (save Tuesday’s oddly inert performance), but as other contestants drop off and their former fanbases find new horses to back, that may not be enough.


As much as it pains me, go to this site and read some of the comments, of which are full of conspiracy theories.

It's just a show, folks.

Today's Godtube/tangle Moment

Just keeping it topical.

via GOD's WRATH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe You Should Consider Becoming a Muslin

Hey everybody. Some Chinese science slut says we're all gonna die.

Stock up on duct tape the windows and bottled water. Elohim is coming back to our Earths...and he's pissed:


World Health Organization director-general Dr. Margaret Chan raised the pandemic threat awareness level to 5 out of 6 on Wednesday, meaning the world is at imminent risk of a pandemic from H1N1 swine flu.

"I have decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5," Chan told a news briefing.


via Reuters

President Unicorn Is Almost 100 Days Old; Does Not Matter To Racist Crazies

The Muslin Kraken will have been our Supreme Leader for 100 days tomorrow...and he's done some stuff.

Not everyone is celebrating, as illustrated above.

Hoorayz 4 Freedoms™!!!

via the Youtubes

Today's Paultard Video

Hobo Mittens Sells 2 Homes; Now Only Has 2 Homes

Famous Scientologist and failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants America to know he is a man of the people. He feels your pain and whatnot:


Newsmagazine trends come and go, but some irrefutable evidence has emerged to prove this one's for real: Renowned trendsetter Mitt Romney is doing without. According to the Belmont Citizen-Herald, he and his wife just sold their Boston home for $3.5 million—the second multimillion-dollar home they've sold in the past month. The Romneys began the year with four McMansions—in Massachusetts, Utah, California, and New Hampshire. Now they're making do with two.

...In the run-up to the 2008 primaries, Romney gave himself a conservative makeover, trading in the moderate stands he had been forced to assume to run for office in Massachusetts. This time, with his conservative credentials in order, he seems to be eyeing a different transformation—from master of the universe to man of the people.

Romney has always been the mood ring of the Republican Party, so the sell-off seems the perfect symbol of a broader movement among Republicans: They're downsizing! Demand is slack, and it's too soon to know when they'll find the bottom.

...when new owners buy a $5.25 million, 9,500-square-foot ski villa in Deer Valley, Utah, and a $3.5 million, 6,400-square-foot, 13-room home in Boston, is that a sign of the New Frugality—or proof that even in hard times, there is always New Money?

...The biggest question about Romney's downsizing, however, is more fundamental. Given his balance sheet, are the two McMansions he sold really the most urgent liabilities to shed? There's not much point bothering with one concession to political reality (that most voters can barely afford one home, let alone two or four) while continuing to deny a more important political reality: Most voters don't buy the conservative economic foundations on which Romney's political future is built.

Al Gore/Marsha Blackburn Turn Climate Hearing In To Episode Of The Hills

This past Friday, President of the Earth, Al Gore, waddled up Capitol Hill to speak about drowning polar bears or something. During the hearing, the above exchange occurred.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked fatty about all the blood money he made off of low-energy light bulbs built by Taiwanese infants, prompting Gore to resurrect his famous sigh and to be all "Bitch, please. You don't know me!"

After all was said and done, Gore boarded a plane back home where he hit on a couple of ladies sitting next to him while sipping a Diet (yeh right) Pepsi:


But when the plane landed and was waiting for an open gate, Gore struck up a conversation with his seatmate, who planned to run a 5K Saturday, and a woman seated across the aisle, who was in town for Saturday’s Country Music ½ Marathon.

“Longer races aren’t good for you,” he said. “I used to run those — hurt my back.”

He said he doesn’t run at all anymore. “I do other things” for exercise, he added. “Have a good race,” he said, as he struggled to pull his bags out of the overhead, apologizing to the passenger seated under the compartment.

You know who else was on this exact same flight on Friday? Gore foe, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, fresh off their aggressive back and forth on The Hill. Blackburn had no entourage and did not get priority boarding treatment. Also, the two were not seen speaking.