February 09, 2012

Because, you know, the show is set in the 70's and back then Egyptian women dressed like total sluts

Islamist students halted the filming of an Egyptian television series at Cairo's Ain Shams University protesting against the "indecent" clothing of the actresses, the production company said Thursday.
Misr International films had obtained permission from the university's management to film on site, the head of the company, Gaby Khoury, told AFP.

But "when the shooting started, the director of the engineering faculty, Sherif Hammad, came to tell us that some students and teachers were against it, because of the clothing worn by the actresses," he said.

The series, adapted from the novel "Dhat" by Egyptian author Sonallah Ibrahim, takes place in the 1970s, "when women wore short clothing."

Hammad "insisted that the filming should stop and that we would be reimbursed ... explaining that he was not able to guarantee the protection of the materials or the artists," Khoury added.

In a statement on Wednesday evening, the production company said "the student members of the Muslim Brotherhood at Ain Shams University had prevented the film crew from the 'Dhat' TV series from shooting the scenes set at the university."

The students had objected to the "indecent" clothing, it said, and "categorically refused" to let the filming continue unless the costumes were changed.

February 07, 2012

Greatest movie idea evah?

I honestly have to see this.

If you think about the whole premise of a zombie movie, it's that you get to kill the bad guy without any moral dilemma. It's gratuitous violence without any angst over whether there's a smidgen of good buried somewhere, deep inside the zombie.

It's the same thing with Nazis. Nazis, I hate those guys. Nazis have no redeeming value and can be killed indiscriminately without a twinge of regret.

It's why, contrary to popular opinion, Return of the Jedi was such a let down. Here you have the most evil villain in all of sci-fi history, Darth Vader, who is redeemed through ..... a single act of good.

You see, there really was some good in him. Kill the Emperor and that wipes out a lifetime of destroying six year old Jedis. Not to mention destroying entire planets just to prove a point.

Lame.

A few years ago there was a Norwegian film (or Swedish?) about a group of college age buddies who go hang out at a cabin in the winter only to find out that (surprise!) the area had bad mojo due to the fact that it was haunted by Zombie Nazis (what was that called? I watched it on Netflilx. UPDATE thanks to Nanabozoh: Dead Snow)

Zombie Nazis, the perfect storm of bad guys that can be beheaded, exploded, crushed, or killed in any number of fun but deadly ways.

I thought the Zombie Nazi motif was the absolute ultimate of movie villaindom. I kept waiting for Hollywood to redo the Nazi Zombie movie. The idea can't be beat, so the only thing left to do is to remake it in English and with higher production value.

Until now.

In one stroke Hollywood has proved, once again, that anything Scandinavia can do we can do better. Zombie Terrorists.

Mark your calendars my friends, for this day will be looked to by future generations as the day that Hollywood finally reached its pinnacle.

Zombie-freaking-terrorists!

Thanks to @WilliamAmos who says some people are outraged by the idea. Save your outrage for the movies where the terrorists are the good guys. Or, at least, nuanced bad guys who have legitimate grievances and where the Western soldiers are just as despicable and probably more so. You know, your usual Hollywood fare.

February 03, 2012

I guarantee these two women were Obama supporters. I have no doubt, they went to Egypt to experience the country's new-found freedom and democracy.

Two American tourists were kidnapped at gunpoint Friday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula by Bedouin tribesmen, security sources said.

A group of masked gunmen held up a tourist bus in south Sinai, snatching the two Americans, both women, and their local guide before taking off, AFP reported. (Source)

Enjoy your stay, ladies! I have no doubt these Islamic militants will treat you, as women and as captives, with all the respect and mercy Muhammad taught.

Update: It is being reported they have been released. Let's hope they learned a valuable lesson. Many parts of the world are not a safe place for foreigners. We, living in America, tend to take security for granted. Travel the world, enjoy your life. Just use a little common sense.

January 25, 2012

You don't get to see gems like this every day.

January 22, 2012

(Hat Tip: Carol's Blog)

Act of Valor is a new anti-terrorism movie that employs active duty Navy Seals as the actors. It really looks like a great movie, but I will be disappointed if it makes the terrorists some politically correct villains like Neo-Nazis or 'Christian Fundamentalists.'

Still, looks like a good combat movie. Here's a short video about the making of it. Visit the Act of Valor website for more info and for trailers.

PS: Just finished watching "We Were Soldiers." Damn you, Mel Gibson! Why did you have to turn out to be antisemitic?

January 20, 2012

If you go to Somalia on "jihad vacation", you might want to bring that kevlar vest: Somalia is the new hotspot on the ‘jihadi tourism’ trail

I'm thinking it's kind of like those sex tours to Thailand. Except, when they give you the "basket treatment" there's a goat instead of a midget. I dunno, Vinnie would the be expert on that.

Thanks to Rahm.

January 19, 2012

High School pictures of past, current, and future wannabe politicians and Royalty.

Whoever guesses them all will get a "So-What-Do-You-Want-A-Cookie?" Fatwa.

January 17, 2012

The best defence against Zombies, as everyone knows, is a well-aimed bullet to the head. But let's face it, bullets don't last forever.

The last thing you want to hear when fighting a close horde of Zombies is that gut wrenching sound dry-fire. But that's where the Blood Rayne Arm Blade W/ Sheath & Adjustable Handle comes in.

With a just quick velcro adjustment, you are instantly back in business. One neck-high swipe of the arm will dispatch all the walking dead within reach. It's as easy as waving.

For under twenty bucks, you can't go wrong. This economical machete is a must-have for any Zombie Apocalypse preparation kit.

I would also recommend a Lansky Lawn & Garden Multi Purpose Sharpener to keep your arm blade and other cutting utensils razor sharp.

January 14, 2012

(http://www.thoseshirts.com/)

Update: A. L. informs me that Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret) is not the author of this essay. It seems a blogger named Marko Kloos is the author. My apologies to Marko for not giving him proper attribution in the beginning. Name and link have been corrected below.

The Gun is Civilization By Marko Kloos

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no
validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.

People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes
force from the equation…and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

January 13, 2012

On the popular Big Bang Theory television program, female character (Penny) tries to sell her underwear to two male characters (Radjesh and Howard).

"So, either one of you weirdos want to buy my underwear?"

Damn that's quite an honor to have a horse fly named after you because it too has a huge, yet golden ass. Isn't it?

January 10, 2012

Lets face it there's nothing little HS bitches hate more than another little HS bitch that looks better than they do.

18-year-old Sydney Spies wants a future in modeling, and she figured she would make that clear with her senior picture in her high school yearbook.

But the Durango, Colo., prospective graduate found herself embroiled in controversy when her school’s yearbook editors put the kibosh on running a photo of Sydney posing provocatively in a black shawl and short yellow skirt that exposed plenty of skin.

It seems the efforts to ban this girl's slutty pics have backfired on the yearbook staff, making Sydney famous overnight. I bet that really burns their asses.

More research material here.

January 09, 2012

Documents reveal JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings was criticized by the Nobel prize jury of 1961 for its "poor prose and bad story-telling."

January 05, 2012

The Blaze:

We’ve covered our fair share of wild brawls in the United States, but how about a chair-throwing melee at a Chinese restaurant in Canada? We can now check that off our list.

On New Year‘s Day in Montreal’s Chinatown, patrons at New Dynasty restaurant started arguing. But what started out as verbal quickly became physical. The National Post in Canada explains:

The owner of New Dynasty restaurant, a mainstay in Montreal’s Chinatown, said “it was just a regular night” until an exchange between two tables, who didn’t know one another, erupted into a fight that snowballed into a spree of chair throwing, table tossing and glass smashing.

“It was dangerous, of course,” said the man who identified himself as the owner, but would not give his name. “You can see that [from the video]. It was out of control.”

And he’s right about the video, which has just started to surface. Check it out yourself:

January 04, 2012

(Oslo, Norway) A Norwegian television broadcast news program discussed eye care for pensioners using a questionable eye chart.

January 03, 2012

(Tacoma, Washington) A 37-year-old music teacher formerly at Tacoma Community College, Kevin Gausepohl, has lost his job.

Gausepohl faces morality charges stemming from convincing a 17-year-old girl to disrobe and perform sex acts while singing. He said she would be able to reach lower octaves by singing naked and touching herself.

Gausepohl allegedly told a Gig Harbor High School student he was conducting a study on how sexual arousal affects vocal ranges. The girl, 17 at the time, was attending the college as part of the Running Start program.

She complied with some of his requests to strip naked or touch herself during private voice lessons at the college, court records show.

Other students told investigators Gausepohl approached them about being part of the study, court records show. They declined.

December 24, 2011

Gift giving at Christmas is not about the number of presents or the most expensive gift. It's about showing someone you care by giving them a meaningful gift. There is no monetary value for a gift given from the heart - it is priceless.

It really is worth watching in full screen.

If you really enjoy watching these displays, there is a much longer version here.

Below is a different display dedicated to our military. The same person who did the display above helped design it.

December 15, 2011

(Washington) Big news this week!

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for a nationwide ban on the use of portable electronic devices while driving.

Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pushed the use of portable electronic devices by airplane cockpit crews.

December 08, 2011

On the heels of Pearl Harbor Day, I wanted to repost one of my favorite articles ever. This is an excerpt from Dan Simmons' Time Traveler:

“Let’s imagine,” said the Time Traveler, “that on December eighth, Nineteen forty-one, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke before a joint session of Congress and asked them to declare war on aviation.”

“That’s absurd,” I said.

“Is it?” asked the Time Traveler. “The American battleships, cruisers, harbor installations, Army barracks, and airfields at Pearl Harbor and elsewhere in Hawaii were all struck by Japanese aircraft. Imagine if the next day Roosevelt had declared war on aviation... threatening to wipe it out wherever we found it. Committing all the resources of the United States of America to defeating aviation, so help us God.”

“That’s just stupid,” I said. If I’d ever been afraid of this Time Traveler, I wasn’t now. He was obviously a mental defective.“The planes, the Japanese planes,” I said, “were just a method of attack... a means... it wasn’t aviation that attacked us at Pearl Harbor, but the Empire of Japan. We declared war on Japan and a few days later its ally, Germany, lived up to its treaty with the Japanese and declared war on us. If we’d declared war on aviation, on goddamned airplanes rather than the empire and ideology that launched them, we’d never have...”

I stopped. What had he called it? Category Error. Making the problem unsolvable through your inability – or fear – of defining it correctly.

It is an amazing story. You should read it all.

December 05, 2011

Just listed Ferraris, Lambos, Mercs! Prices cheap and cheaper! Crazy Tanaka is going wild!

Don't be shut out. Get a deal today. Nobody beats Crazy Tanaka.

Crazy Tanaka's Pre-owned Supercars,
Service Road, Chugoku Expressway,
Southwest Japan

December 04, 2011

A New York teacher shatters the innocent imagination of young children:

A sourpuss teacher in Rockland County ruined Christmas for a class full of second-graders this week, when she told them that there is no Santa Claus during a lesson about the North Pole.

The evil educator even told the youngsters — mostly 7- and 8-year-olds — that the presents under their trees were put out by their parents, and not St. Nick.

OUTRAGEOUS! EVIL!

I am just so angry that this teacher would so callously destroy childhood memories, so below the fold, I'm posting several images to forever immortalize that cheerful innocence stolen from these beautiful children.

December 03, 2011

(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) It appears that four people conspired to intentionally piss off the Saudi Police.

Three Saudi men parked their car close to the headquarters of the Gulf Kingdom’s feared religious police late night, got out and started having sex with a woman accompanying them just in front of the massive police signboard.

They were filming themselves with the aim publicising the shot to defame the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcement authority in the Muslim nation.

The three were half way through their operation when one of them noticed the security camera next to the signboard in the capital Riyadh. They stopped filming, headed for the camera and smashed it before fleeing the scene.

In the morning, Commission members going to their offices were surprised to notice that the security camera was badly damaged.

But examination later showed the film inside was intact and it contained clear shots of the three men while having sex with the girl.

November 29, 2011

Katherine Goldberg

Reportedly, Goldberg experienced an alcohol-induced illusion that the flight steward was her boyfriend so she sat on his lap and grabbed hold of his junk. She was arrested and charged with sexual assault.

As a result of pleading guilty, Goldberg has been sentenced to community service and ordered to pay a fine and court costs. She avoided jail.

November 23, 2011

at the site of Jihadi Princess' Akhi training to destroy the Kufr!

OMG! That dude is invincible!

Update: We fixed Mujahidah Boneatah's video for her. Its much better with a soundtrack.

November 22, 2011

Warning! Make sure you have plenty of tissue nearby before viewing!

November 17, 2011

AP:

Demi Moore is ending her marriage to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, she told The Associated Press Thursday.

Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, were wed in September 2005.
The couple's relationship became tabloid fodder in recent months as rumors swirled about Kutcher's alleged infidelity.

The only other thought I have is on Kutcher's recent twitter controversy and decision to hand his twitter feed over to a publicist.

That's why people followed Ashton's feed (myself not included), because it was real. That's what the internet is about. Great victories and the occasional public humiliation of yourself. Letting the trolls troll you into quitting just make yours another fake and contrived corporate feed as opposed to the authentic feed where you take risks.

You win some, you lose some. But what matters is that you get back up.

Hat Tip: Dan Reihl.

November 14, 2011

(Newcastle, England) A 44-year-old local woman, Maria Topp, bit off the scrotum of her boyfriend and was sentenced to no jail. She got community service.

November 12, 2011

As of 11/12/2011:

Deaths at Tea Party protests = 0

Deaths at #Occupy protests = 7

November 09, 2011

Maybe Lindsay should have cashed in on that angle before all that hard living?

November 07, 2011

(Katy, Texas) A local restaurant owner, John Nonmacher, has created controversy by displaying an anti-Iranian poster on his wall. The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is displeased and dropping hints of a lawsuit.

Interestingly, the poster has been on the wall of Nonmacher's BBQ for more than 30 years - ever since the time of the Iranian hostage crisis. Only recently has anyone noticed it.[More....]

Linsay Lohan was released from jail for good behavior a few hours after checking in for her 30 days ordered by a judge last week.

Ummmm yeah.

November 04, 2011

First just let me say that anytime the words sex and arena restroom are combined in the same sentence, bad things are bound to happen.

Yahoo:

A woman who claims Justin Bieber fathered her baby in a backstage bathroom could be investigated for having sex with a minor because the singer was 16 at the time.

While no crime has been reported, Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith told The Associated Press on Thursday that the department could investigate after Mariah Yeater filed the paternity suit against the teen heartthrob in San Diego Superior Court.

"If it's brought to our attention, of course we'll look into it," Smith said.
Yeater had just turned 19 when she says she and Bieber, then 16, had a brief sexual encounter after one of the singer's concerts at Staples Center. She said she gave birth to a boy in July and believes Bieber is the father because there were no other possible men she had sex with at that time.

Oh and congratulations Mr. Bieber, I think.

November 02, 2011

Free Lindsay's Boobies! #Occupy eleventy!%$#$#!

A judge on Wednesday ordered Lindsay Lohan returned to jail for 30 days for violating probation and put the troubled actress on a strict calendar of community service and psychological counseling.

The arrangements that have been made just put an endless stream of hurdles that everyone knows she will never clear. It would have been faster, better and way way way cheaper.

November 01, 2011

Vanity Fair:

It’s not like I was shooting a porno.

Fresh view of one of Scarlett's golden globes here.

October 31, 2011

Are they Talor Swift's boobies or not? You decide. (NSFW).

The Jawa Report: bringing you most important stories on the planet!

UPDATE: So I "accidentally" clicked on Howie's link and I felt pretty guilty since I thought Taylor Swift was like 15 or something. But then googled I her and found out she's almost 22!!!

Now I only feel normal amounts of guilt.

October 25, 2011

Heh.

September 16, 2011

CPF.Navy

BARKING SANDS, Hawaii - An unexpected treasure was found underneath the sizzling sun on the beaches of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) Sept. 15. The treasure was discovered by Petty Officer Jon Moore during PMRF's participation in the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup Day. What Moore found was a literal message-in-a-bottle among a collection of ocean debris picked up on a one mile stretch of the base's coastline[...]

The bottle was sent from young Saki Arikawa -- a sixth grade student at the time -- in Kagoshima, Japan and traveled more than 4,000 miles and five years before it was discovered on the Westside of Kauai. The bottle contained a letter, four origami flowers and a photo of Arikawa's sixth grade class.

"I looked over and saw the bottle. I jokingly thought it would have a treasure map inside, but it actually had a message," said Moore [...]

I'll definitely respond. I want to write back to the school and get their thoughts," said Moore.

The message is more than just a letter to Moore. When he found it, it reminded him of home. Though originally from Guyana, South America, he considers Japan home since his wife and son reside there and he's excited to tell them about what he found. He plans on visiting Kagoshima on his next trip home to visit his family.

September 12, 2011

(Sao Paolo, Brazil) One contestant in tonight's Miss Universe Pageant has been going commando during promotional events. Miss Colombia, Catalina Robayo, 22, has been instructed by pageant officials to wear panties.

The show starts at 9PM EDT tonight.

Update by Vinnie This post is nothing without the Cameltoe Song.

Critical update!!! Miss Angola wins!

NSFW commando picture is in the extended entry.(Story)

Catalina Robayo

Apparently the picture showed up on the front page of a newspaper before someone noticed Robayo wasn't wearing panties. Heh.

September 07, 2011

And I'm here to rob you!

You gotta check that link out, lulz.