Another Hollywood IQ For Your Saturday Morning Funnies

Travis Smiley of PBS gushes over his interview with Sean Penn on his new film, Milk.
Quoting from your typical everyday narcissistic self-absorbed Hollywood star.
Via NewsBusters:

SMILEY: And how do you juxtapose the feeling that you get from doing that, the call to do that, with the risk you take in so doing?

PENN: For example, the criticism people get tend to be from failed actors. (Laughter) Like the Fox anchors who are just clearly very envious; the failed actors, and that kind of people. And what they don't know is that you're raised on resilience as an actor to that.

PS: One reason the Academy Awards broadcast has been sinking in the ratings is the tendency to embrace arty or edgy movies that critics love, but few people have seen. There are some exceptions this year – Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the surprising nod for Tropic Thunder – but most of the “celebrated” films have seen meager returns at the box office. Milk, for example, has grossed only 23.8 million dollars to date in limited release.

You can read the rest of the yadda, yadda.

"I'm so wasted!"

Artificial Intelligence

If I ever get a Ferret, I'm going to name it Cher.
Via CNS:

Grammy award-winning singer and Academy award-winning actress Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed" her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican.

She also said that President Barack Obama’s “intelligence” and “spirit” are “so great” he will be able to do “more than anyone could possibly do.”

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“His intelligence is so great and his spirit is so great, I believe he will be able to do as much if not more than anyone could possibly do,” Cher told CNSNews.com at the RIAA/Feeding America inaugural ball.

“I just think he’s totally the right person at this time in our history," she said. "He brings something more in his spirit than maybe another president could be even with the same intelligence. There’s something about him that brings more with his spirit, and that’s what Americans need right now. Republicans almost killed me.”

When asked to explain how Republicans somehow “killed” her, Cher was not specific.

“You know what? I have so – I try to be charitable and there are some really good Republicans, but I just don’t understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can’t figure it. I don’t understand,” she said. “If you’re poor, if you’re any kind of minority – gay, black, Latino, anything. If you’re not a rich – I don’t know. If you’re not a rich born-again-Christian, I don’t get it.”

Cher also said President Obama will not end the war in Iraq right away.

“I think as soon as he can. I don’t think it will be easy. It would be kind of simplistic to think that’s going to happen right away,” she said.

Cher rose to fame in 1965 as a member of the pop/rock duo "Sonny & Cher" with her future husband Sonny Bono. Among their hits songs were "I Got You Babe" and "The Beat Goes On." Cher won an Academy Award for her performance in the 1987 film "Moonstruck." She also won a Grammy award for her 1998 solo album, "Believe."

Smart as bait.

Obama and Infanticide

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air said what I was thinking when I posted the born alive botched abortion article. Barack Obama continually voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

President Barack Obama in 2003 insisted that abortion clinics don’t commit infanticide because … well, because they’re doctors:

[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being — that — that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.

Now, if — if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I — I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation[.]

Obama tried denying that this practice occurs in order to suck up to the abortion industry and help them avoid responsibility for killing live infants. Jill Stanek had already testified that she personally had witnessed this practice as a nurse at Christ Hospital in Chicago, which was affiliated with Obama’s own church, Trinity United Church of Christ. The Illinois legislature heard further testimony that as many as 40% of late-term abortions resulted in a live birth, whom staff would abandon until death rather than provide the necessary medical care to save the infants’ lives.

But Obama, in thrall of Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion, continued to deny it.

Apparently this was preferable to “punishing” Williams with a child. At least that’s what Barack Obama thought in 2001-3, when he had an opportunity to defend innocent life and stop this practice.

Update: Jill Stanek notes that the physician’s license to practice has been suspended as a result of the investigation:

The Florida Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a doctor following a badly botched abortion the doctor never showed up to. …

The Board of Medicine revoked [his] license to practice medicine, at a hearing in Tampa. Neither Renelique nor his attorney would answer questions from ABC Action News.com.

Jill also catches an interesting quote from another link, which appears to be down:

Renelique’s attorney, Joseph Harrison, told the medical board, “His record of a lifetime of practicing medicine does not warrant revocation.”

The patient, Harrison said, “came in for an abortion. This patient came in to have the fetus rendered and terminated.”

The defense of this action is that “the patient wanted a baby killed, and that’s what she got”? Either that, or “What’s a little infanticide between colleagues”? Got it.

Also, the original Buffalo News report appears to have been cleansed. The Kid from Brooklyn send the link from the Boston Herald, which remains in its original form.

h/t to Hot Air
I've attached other links:
Testimony of Jill Stanek
Obama's votes against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act
Obama and the Comfort Room

Lawsuit Filed for Baby Born Alive and Then Killed

Another case of infanticide. This cannot go unpunished or ignored.

Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.

Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure.

Only Renelique didn't arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.

What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic's owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant's umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.

"I don't care what your politics are, what your morals are, this should not be happening in our community," said Tom Pennekamp, a Miami attorney representing Williams in her lawsuit against Renelique (ren-uh-LEEK') and the clinic owners.

The state Board of Medicine is to hear Renelique's case in Tampa on Friday and determine whether to strip his license. The state attorney's homicide division is investigating, though no charges have been filed. Terry Chavez, a spokeswoman with the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office, said this week that prosecutors were nearing a decision.

Renelique's attorney, Joseph Harrison, called the allegations at best "misguided and incomplete" in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He didn't provide details.

Anyone that can be this barbaric should be hung by his b@lls.

....The complaint says one of the clinic owners, Belkis Gonzalez came in and cut the umbilical cord with scissors, then placed the baby in a plastic bag, and the bag in a trash can.

Williams' lawsuit offers a cruder account: She says Gonzalez knocked the baby off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. The baby's umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out. Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

No working telephone number could be found for Gonzalez, and an attorney who has represented the clinic in the past did not return a message.

At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy fetus would have a slim but legitimate chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks last year at The Nebraska Medical Center survived.

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An abomination.

The Snuggie Stimulus!

I've always told my sister, she needs to get the Snuggie. She loves those infomercials. This should give her more incentive now!

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Too funny...

h/t: the Hammer

Sarah Palin Fires Back at Ashley Judd

You know Ashley Judd. The actress. Naomi Judd's younger daughter. I assume she lives somewhere nicely tucked away in the hills of Hollywood with the rest of the elite. So she's decided to take a stand against the aerial slaughtering of wolves in Alasaka. Naturally, targeting Sarah Palin.

Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s support for aerial wolf-hunting has sparked a heated cross-country war of words between the governor and an environmental ad campaign fronted by the actress Ashley Judd, with Palin calling the organization funding the ads an “extreme fringe group.”

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Palin struck back in a statement Tuesday night, calling the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund a fringe group that “distorts” the goal of Alaska’s predator control programs.

“Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations,” Palin said in the statement.

She added: “Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times.”

You would think if Judd were going to pick a fight, debate whatever...she might want to get some facts before she goes on this big crusade. Aerial hunting was intended to reduce the number of wolves in order to protect an endangered caribou population that had dropped to only 500.

Slaughtering wolves on the Alaska Peninsula appears to have had the desired effect -- more caribou got a chance to live, according to biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

As ugly and as politically incorrect as the wolf killing might seem to some, they said, the helicopter gunning that took place earlier this year saved caribou, especially young caribou, from being eaten alive.

Fall surveys of the Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou herd completed in October found an average of 39 calves per 100 cows. That's a dramatic improvement from fall counts of only 1 calf per 100 cows in 2006 and 2007.

Hollywood is seriously impaired.

Aww well. That's just the way they are. Always doing things half-ass backwards.

The Doors: L.A. Woman

Cruisin' down memory lane..

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Chill

Nancy Pelosi: "500 Million Americans Lose Jobs Every Month"

Nancy Pelosi: Dumber than soap. Pelosi claims that we lose 500 million American jobs each month if we don't pass her $1 trillion pork barell spending boondoggle.

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Etta James: “You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President"

You can find it at BWF:

Etta James is not happy with President Barrack Obama or Beyonce. Apparently, at a recent show, the singer showed her anger while introducing her hit, At Last, the song that Obama asked Beyonce to sing during his first dance as President. Etta made a point to let the audience know that Obama was “not her President.”

Etta told the audience, “You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President”had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She’s going to get her ass whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I’m going to sing it for y’all

h/t to BWF

Flying High

7 year old David, who had an extra tooth removed last summer, 2008. I had the camera because he was so nervous before I wanted him to see before and after.

He was so out of it after, I had to carry him out of the office. The staff was laughing and I had tears it was so funny.

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aka: Michael Phelps, then and now...

Three Women

Since it's a quiet evening on the homefront. And everyone is out and about watching that Super Bowl thingy. I thought I'd share some facts:

Three women friends, one in a casual relationship, one engaged to be married and one a long-time wife, met for drinks after work. The conversation eventually drifted towards how best to spice up their sex lives. ..

After much discussion, they decided to surprise their men by engaging in some S&M role playing.

The following week they met up again to compare notes. Sipping her drink, the single girl leered and said, 'Last Friday at the end of the work day I went to my boyfriend's office wearing a leather coat. When all the other people had left, I slipped out of it and all I had on was a leather bodice, black stockings and stiletto heels. He was so aroused that we made mad passionate love on his desk right then and there!'

The engaged woman giggled and said, 'That's pretty much my story! When my fiancé got home last Friday, he found me waiting for him in a black mask, leather bodice, black hose and stiletto pumps. He was so turned on that we not only made love all night, he wants to move up our wedding date!

The married woman put her glass down and said, 'I did a lot of planning I made arrangements for the kids to stay over at Grandma's. I took a long scented-oil bath and then put on my best perfume. I slipped into a tight leather bodice, a black garter belt, black stockings and six-inch stilettos. I finished it off with a black mask, ready for action. When my husband got home from work, he grabbed a beer and the remote, sat down and yelled, 'Hey, Batman, what's for dinner?'

I Am Woman Hear Me Roar

Here's something for you to remember after menopause kicks in.
The Golden Tampon. Only $79 for a lifetime of memories, yes indeed.

A decorative work of art to commemorate that you've done your Tampon Time and you're Free At Last!

This art object of a tampon symbol is beautifully hand crocheted out of metallic gold thread and hangs in a distinctive black shadow box. Gold trophy labels celebrate "Golden Tampon" and "Lifetime Achievement Award".

Kick @ss

H/T to: Ace