No one can honestly say they haven’t jerked off at work, but for most of us it’s just a figure of speech. Not so for one Brazilian woman.
IHateTheMedia.com’s ace legal department sent us this story, which tells you a lot about our legal department.
No one can honestly say they haven’t jerked off at work, but for most of us it’s just a figure of speech. Not so for one Brazilian woman.
Every time her boss said, "Take a letter, Miss Lopes," the Brazilian secretary said, "I'd like an o."
M24Digital is an oddly appropriate source to tell us about the woman’s digital manipulation:
This is the story of Ana Catarina Bezerra Silvares, an employee of an accounting firm, a divorced mother of three who lives in the village Vila Velha, Espírito Santo.
The woman suffers from a rare condition known as “compulsion orgasmic”, caused by a chemical alteration in the brain region of the cortex, which leads her to masturbate several times a day to relieve the deep anguish that it causes.
Under this circumstance, Bezerra started legal proceedings with the company where she works that eventually won and that enables to masturbate for 15 minutes every two hours, besides using the computer to see erotic images that stimulate her desire.
The Brazilian newspaper North Regiao reported that the woman confessed, “There was a day I had to masturbate 47 times”, adding: “I began to suppose that this could not be normal, and decided to seek help.”
Currently, Bezerra follows a treatment that includes a potent cocktail of sedatives which gets her to “only” masturbate 18 times a day.
Ahhhh, reminds the editor of his 13th summer. But this really is neither the time nor the place.
Now you can get free government assistance (read: money) to repair your home. But only anyone who’s already receiving some other kind of government assistance probably can.
Now you can get free government energy assistance (read: money) to repair your home. Well, in the interest of accuracy, you probably can’t get it. But anyone who’s already receiving some other kind of government assistance probably can.
Snuggies would be a lot cheaper and the government could probably buy them in bulk on QVC
Yes, good ol’ Uncle Sam now offers free home repairs to low income families. In theory, the grants are money savers because those families often live in drafty homes and have high heating bills. In reality, we’re pretty sure it’s just another way to pound money down a rat hole and all the insulation in the world won’t plug that hole.
Here, according to eHow.com, are the five easy-peasy steps necessary to suck a few more bucks from the government teat through the Energy Assistance Program:
Instructions
1. The home repair program provides licensed contractors to seal attics, walls, floors, air ducts, cover water heaters and other basic maintenance. This program, is designed to save low income families, about $300 a year in energy costs.
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2. Check your state: Contact the department of Energy in your state, for further information on the Weatherization Assistance Program [Energy Assistance] or home repair grants in your area.
3. Qualifications: To be eligible for a home repair grant or help to winterized your home, your income must be below 125% to 150%. Some states will vary in the income qualifications.
4. The application: The application process is very simple. You must provide proof of income, unemployment, ownership or renting, to be considered for the program.
5. Acceptance: Once you have been approved for a home repair grant, local agencies will come to your home to be assess possible heat loss, carbon monoxide leaks and a plan of action will be designed to weatherize your home.
Hey, here’s an idea. Maybe you can call all the free government contractors on your free government cell phone while you’re driving around in your free government car.
And that, friends, is what we call the socialist circle of life.
Here you go. Gruesome Reuters photos of some of Osama Bin Laden’s henchmen after the Navy SEALS stopped in for a spot of tea.
We’re pretty damn proud of that headline. This story should get picked up by HotAir and WeaselZippers and those clowns over at iOwnTheWorld and every other website that appreciates genius headlines.
Hell, it’ll probably get us nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Maybe even a Nobel Prize, because we’ve heard it’s pretty easy to win one of them these days.
Here you go. Gruesome Reuters photos of some of Osama Bin Laden’s henchmen after the Navy SEALS stopped in for a spot of tea.
Publicity whore attorney Gloria Allred has done some very strange things over the years, but this one is right up there at the top of the list.
Publicity whore attorney Gloria Allred has done some very strange things over the years, but this one is right up there at the top of the list.
Why, you may ask yourself, is Gloria Allred simulating anal sex with a baseball bat during a press conference. The explanation follows the clip.
And now, if you’ve fully recovered from the shock of what you just saw, here’s the full video that explains what the hell Allred was doing.
http://youtu.be/MKTSiH4bDtY
In case you are like us and can’t stomach the thought of watching two Gloria Allred video clips in one day, here’s the story:
The Atlanta Braves were playing the San Francisco Giants. Allred’s client was at the game with his two young daughters.
For some unexplained reason, Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell allegedly began screaming “homophobic slurs” at the San Francisco fans. Oh, if only the idiot had stopped there. But no, he is also accused of using a nearby baseball bat to simulate anal sex.
Allred’s client naturally took offense and complained that the coach’s words and actions were offensive to his two young daughters. We have to agree. The irate McDowell allegedly responded by screaming, “Kids don’t f@¢king belong at the baseball park.”
Allred, always in search of a TV camera, held a press conference Wednesday to demanded that McDowell and the Braves apologize and be fined.
Unfortunately, that press conference quickly strayed from the normal Allred publicity seeking circus into the land of the truly bizarre. She read the transcript of McDowell’s alleged remarks aloud while reenacting the event with her client while his two young girls tried to pretend they were somewhere else. Anywhere else.
What happened at the ballpark was bad enough. But we’re still trying to figure out why anyone would subject their young daughters to the humiliation of this press conference.
Apparently Gloria believes everyone wants to be in front of a camera as much as she does.
We’re not sure which news is the most disturbing – the fact that Iceland has a penis museum or that someone donated their organ to it.
We’re not sure which news is the most disturbing – the fact that Iceland has a penis museum or that someone donated their organ to it.
The Associated Press has the flaccid facts:
In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander’s pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country’s most bizarre museums.
This is either Iceland's penis museum or Iceland's hat rack museum. We're not sure which.
Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason’s organ will help round out the unusual institution’s extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals.
Hjartarson should be glad he lives in Iceland. If the museum were located in a warmer climate, he’d need a larger erection…uhhh…facility for his penises. Shrinkage, you know.
Highlights of the museum’s collection include a 170-centimeter (67-inch) sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles and what the museum described as an “unusually big” penis bone from a Canadian walrus.
Hjartarson, 69, said his interest in what he calls “phallology” began when, as a youngster in rural Iceland, he was given a whip made from a bull’s penis to help him herd cattle. Later, when he worked at a school near a whaling station, colleagues brought him whale penises as gifts.
“That was how it started. I opened this museum 15 years ago with 62 specimens,” he said. Now, with the addition of Arason’s organ, he has 276, many suspended in formaldehyde or dried and mounted on the walls.
If we’re not mistaken, this is the world’s largest collection of dicks outside of the United States Congress.
We’re not all that interested in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But we ran across this photo on the internet a few weeks ago and we’ve been looking for an excuse to run it.
Yes, of course, it's PhotoShop. But it's damn funny PhotoShop.
To tell you the truth, we’re not all that interested in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But we ran across this photo on the internet a few weeks ago and we’ve been looking for an excuse to run it.
But in case you care, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the controversial regulation on Wednesday.
Fox News reports:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Obama administration’s request for a temporary freeze of a California-based federal judge’s order telling the military to stop enforcing the policy…
Government lawyers sought to suspend the ruling while appeals were pending, arguing that it would pose a major problem for the military. They said it could encourage service members to reveal their sexual orientation before the issue is fully decided.
Seriously. The photo makes this whole story worthwhile, doesn’t it.
You’ve got to hand it to Rachel Maddow. No one else can plunge into the crevices of a person’s past and deliver a tongue lashing like this two-fisted MSNBC host. This time she’s decided to finger Christine O’Donell for being, of all things, masturbation intolerant.
You’ve got to hand it to Rachel Maddow. No one else can plunge into the crevices of a person’s past and deliver a tongue lashing like this two-fisted MSNBC host.
This time she’s decided to finger Christine O’Donell for being, of all things, masturbation intolerant.
Here’s the rub. Far be it from us to condemn people for getting in touch with themselves. A little introspection can be a good thing. And if by the end of all that waxing philosophic you come to the conclusion that you want to exercise a little more self control, well, that can be a good thing, too. But be warned, beating masturbation might not be as easy as you think.
Our suggestion for getting your hands around the problem and pounding it into submission? Try watching MSNBC on any weeknight between the hours of 9 and 10 pm Eastern. We guarantee that all sexual desire will vanish. It’s far more effective than a cold shower.
Thank you, Rachel, for helping us overcome the greedy urge for self-satisfaction. Thank you.
We are not SafeLink Wireless. We are not affiliated with SafeLink Wireless in any way. We don’t like their service. We don’t approve of their service. We don’t sell cell phones. We don’t give away free cell phones. We have nothing to do with cell phones. You won’t find a free government cell phone here. Absolutely nothing.
Get this through your head: IHateTheMedia.com does not give away free cell phones
Waaaaaay back in March 2009, we ran a story headlined Safelink Wireless: Exposing the government’s cell-phones-for the-poor scam. Is there anything in that headline that would make anyone think we support this gross giveaway?
It was all about a company called SafeLink Wireless and the fact that they will give you a free cell phone and free monthly minutes as long as you’re already receiving other government assistance.
For some reason we are apparently unable to comprehend, this is our all-time most popular story. Day in and day, 365 days a year, it’s our one of our top five most read and most commented on stories.
But even more amazing, we constantly get emails from readers who think IHateTheMedia.com is giving away these phones, or that we are Safelink Customer Service.
For example:
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From Pamela: i have a safelink phone u sent me and 1 it was someones phone b 4 I got it & 2 now its saying i have to reapply, so i tryed and it wont let me. so how can u say u are helpping people by giving them free phones now i have no phone im almost 60 and im disabled and live alone so if i need help ill just have to sit here and die cuz i cant use a safeliknk phone to call for help. lets see what our gov, thinks of all this mess u done now. thanks for not helping me.
From Raymond D****: my name is raymond d**** i misplaced my cell phone please send a reply asap sincerely raymond d****
From Raymond O: i am from Ghana life in my village is really not good i really need you to help get a handset
And so it goes. Dozens of requests for a free cell phone. One after another, they just keep rolling in. Everyone want a free government cell phone.
So, just in case we haven’t made this clear, let us be blunt:
We are not SafeLink Wireless. We are not affiliated with SafeLink Wireless in any way. We don’t like their service. We don’t approve of their service. We don’t sell cell phones. We don’t give away free cell phones. You won’t find a cell phone from the government here. Absolutely nothing.
We would consider it an honor to be monitored and blocked by Pakistan’s Islamic extremists. It would be, perhaps, the highest honor that can be bestowed in the blogosphere.
Will this be enough to get IHateTheMedia.com blocked in Pakistan?
IHateTheMedia.com is not an anti-Islamic site. Not even close. Sure, we occasionally run stories on Islamic extremists and lunacy they engage in around the world, but that’s just reporting reality.
That being said, we would consider it an honor to be monitored and blocked by Pakistan’s Islamic extremists. It would be, perhaps, the highest honor that can be bestowed in the blogosphere.
The Associated Press reports on Pakistan’s preemptory perfidy:
Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material.
The moves follow Pakistan’s temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow.
Both the Facebook ban and the move announced Friday were in response to court orders. The sites to be monitored include those of Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. and its YouTube service, Amazon.com Inc. and MSN, Hotmail and Bing from Microsoft Corp., said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran.
“If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website,” Mehran said.
Have we mentioned that Muhammad was a child molester?
A 1996 video has surfaced in which Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, gives a whole new meaning to the term “T&A” as she talks about both “T” and “A” in ways American first ladies other than Rosalynn Carter are totally unfamiliar with.
A 1996 Eurotrash video has surfaced in which Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, gives a whole new meaning to the term “T&A” as she talks about both “T” and “A” in ways American first ladies other than Rosalynn Carter are totally unfamiliar with.
UPDATE: Now all versions of the video have been pulled, but we found this photo of Mrs Sarkozy. As they say in France, "Elle est très va-va-voom."
The full 27-minute video has already been pulled off YouTube at the behest of the French government, but this edited 2-minute version gives you a sense of Bruni’s…uhhh…laissez-faire attitude toward sex. (Nice use of French, huh?)
The Daily Mail UK reports the randy details:
The 42-year-old former supermodel was said to be ‘shocked and dismayed’ after video producer Thomas Cazals added the conversation to a new ‘tribute’ on YouTube.
The clip was first aired on cult television show Eurotrash in 1996.
It shows Miss Bruni emptying her handbag and producing two ‘hot international sex guides’ in seven languages, of which she speaks four – German, Italian, Spanish and English.
She then says: ‘We need this kind of book because we’re travelling around the world and we’re meeting new people every day and we must know what to tell them in case we get in bed with them.’
Miss Bruni adds: ‘For example if you have a German person and you want to tell them, “You get me very hot”, you say, “Sie erhalten mich sehr heiss”.’
During the interview she also says ‘Do you like my t***ies?’ in the four languages before describing how to perform a sex act.
The longer version of the video indicates that Bruni has personally surrendered more often than the French army as she reveals affairs with Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton and says, “Monogomy bores me.”
We can’t wait for that Roslyn Carter video to show up on YouTube. Hubba hubba.
The Mohammed Image Archive has archived hundreds, maybe thousands of drawings of the Muslim prophet. Many not that Islamist jihads wouldlike.
Crybaby Muhammad. Just one of the hundreds of illustrations found in the Mohammed Image Archive
Our Everybody Draw Al Gore Day competition is spreading across the internet. It has more than 5,400 7,300 Google references now. We don’t know if we’ll actually get any entries, but we’ll get some laughs.
Of course, our idea is a parody of Seattle artist Molly Norris’ brilliant “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” But Norris quickly canceled that Allah image event out of fatwah phobia.
Fear not, Molly. The Mohammed Image Archive makes our little contests look like…well…little contests. It has archived hundreds, maybe thousands of images and pictures of the Muslim prophet. And at last report, the curator is still enjoying good health.
ZombieTime.com illustrates the story:
The Mohammed Image Archive is a compendium of images that depict Mohammed (the 7th-century founder of Islam), spanning all historical periods, cultures and genres.
The inspiration for this Archive came from the global controversy over the publication of Mohammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and the need for a comprehensive and even-handed look at the wide variety of Mohammed depictions in Islamic and Western societies from the Middle Ages until today. It will remain online as a resource for those interested in freedom of expression.
This website has Mohammed drawings galore. So many, in fact, that they are divvied up into categories like Islamic Depictions of Mohammed in Full, Islamic Depictions of Mohammed with Face Hidden, European Medieval and Renaissance Images, Dante’s Inferno, Book Covers, Satirical Modern Cartoons, The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons, and our personal favorite, Extreme Mohammed. Allah images, Muhammad pictures, it’s got it all.
More free cell phones for the poor. This time from TracFone Wireless in Colorado, not Safelink Wireless.
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In March 2009 we did a story about a wireless phone plan that provides free cell phones for the poor through Safelink Wireless. Much to our surprise, it’s generated more controversy and more comments than any other story we’ve ever done (you really should read some of the thousands of comments. Frankly, it’s astonishing).
TracFone Wireless follows Safelink Wireless in giving free cell phones to the poor
Anyone who thinks this is a good idea should have their head examined
Now Colorado is thinking about enrolling its poor in the same program.
The Denver Post reports:
“If approved, the plan by TracFone Wireless in Miami would make Colorado the 17th state it has settled into with free cell service for the indigent, a form of wireless welfare that proponents say taps into one of the last untapped markets for the telecom technology.
“Our hope is to have it up and running by September,” said Jose Fuentes, TracFone’s director of government relations. “Historically, it’s a very underutilized service, and we’d like that to change.”
In Colorado, it’s called LITAP — the Low Income Telephone Assistance Program — and is available to anyone receiving aid from any of six welfare funds…
The bad news is that you’re paying for this via the Universal Service Fund, one of those mysterious line item taxes listed on your monthly phone bill.
The good news is that you soon won’t have any money left and you’ll qualify for a free cell phone.
Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid has developed a potential cure for cancer based on camel urine. Thanks to Prophet Muhammad.
Just great. OPEC will soon be joined by CUPEC (Camel Urine Producing & Exporting Countries)
According to SaudiGazette.com, Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid has developed a potential cure for cancer based on camel urine.
Korshid is a Saudi scientist, faculty member at King Abdul Aziz University and President of the Tissues Culture Unit at King Fahd Center for Medical Research. After five years of research, she has announced that nano-particles in camel urine can be used to fight cancer.
Dr. Khorshid says she was inspired by medical advice given by the Prophet Muhammad in the Koran.
“This treatment is not an invention,” she said, “but rather, taken from our Prophet’s legacy.”
In related news, President Obama announced that the “stimulus” had saved or created another 150,000 jobs, demonstrating his theory that the economy can be cured with bullshit.
This isn't just another culture, it's another planet.
This is one of those items you rarely read in the biased liberal media because it calls into question their devotion to moral relativism.
A 22-year old woman is fighting for her life after being caned 39 times in Bangladesh.
Police chief Moshiur Rahman said the 22-year-old unmarried woman angered Islamic clerics by telling friends that a neighbor was the father of her six-year old son.
When she and the alleged father appeared before a Islamic court, the man denied the charge.
“He held a Koran in one hand and swore to the village clerics that he was not the father of the boy. The village court found him not guilty,” Rahman said. “They also issued a fatwa that the woman should be caned 39 times for lying.”
Half the players in the NBA immediately called their attorneys and told them to try “the Bangladeshi defense.”
We signed up for the Huffington Post’s Daily Briefs email list a few months ago. To the best of our recollection, while we receive their Daily Briefs, we’ve never received an “Alert” until May 31, when we received this one:
It struck us as rather selective outrage, but we wanted to be certain before we made any wild, unsubstantiated accusations. So we went to HuffingtonPost.com and used its search function to compare the number of stories on the two murders. There were a least a hundred hits for stories referencing George Tiller’s murder. We say at least, because we stopped counting at that point as the list just kept going and going and going. We have no idea how many more there were.
Then we did another search to see how many references we could find on the Arkansas recruiter murder. Eight. That’s all. Eight. And no, we didn’t search for very specific words like “Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad” or “Carlos Bledsoe.” We erred on the side of caution and performed very loose searches.
While it’s not an exact science, the results were clear: Far more than a hundred Tiller references, but just eight on the Arkansas recruiter (let’s give the poor, ignored guy a name–William Long) murder.
For further study, we then went to Google and did an advanced “site search” where you can search for words found on just a particular site, posted within a specified date range, and various other boolean search criteria. We searched just the HuffingtonPost.com website. The closest date range we could use was “past week.” Close enough.
The results were startling, but we’re not going to publish them because there are too many variables that can get called into question with the search terms. But we ask you to do to your own searches: go to Google, click on Advanced Search, enter “HuffingtonPost.com” into the search site field, set the date range, and try some of your own searches. Remember if you are putting two words together like William Long, they have to be keyed as “William Long” or it will search for William OR long, which will skew the results. Let us know what you find out.
But we did do two simple searches we will tell you about. We simply searched the the Huffingtonpost.com site for “George Tiller” and then for “William Long.” The results were 12,900 pages for George Tiller, but just 6 for William Long.
We understand the George Tiller was more well known than William Long, but Good God, can we honor Private Long just a bit more?
Our conclusion? Huffington Post has a genetic predisposition against the pro-life position. But they seem to have an equally strong pre-dispositon to ignore news that casts Muslims in a negative light.
Don’t you hate it when Islamist extremists threaten your life? Especially when they do it by mistake?
That’s what happened to radio talk show host Rusty Humphries. He was the target of a fatwah issued on a vile blog called “The Jew Report.” Unfortunately, the genius jihadists confused Rusty Humphries with Rusty Shackleford, a pseudonym used by the author of My Pet JAWA Report, a website that exposes online support of Islamic terrorists.
The threat, which included a photo of Humphries, said: “Yes this Fat descusting (sic) pig you are looking at is the boss of the website Jawareport.com but their are many fat kafirs like him you might ask why are we talking about him here’s why.”
“The Shaabab and muslim Leaders have said enough is enough he has to go and they dont mean move….Inshallah we will see his Fat rottan (sic) torso dumped in the side of the road or in some Florida swamp.”
In other news, the same Muslim extremists hage declared a fatwah on spelling and grammar.
The President of the United States bowing to the King of a country that allows 60-year old men to marry girls younger than his daughters Malia and Sasha.Great news from Saudi Arabia. Really great news. A Saudi court has ruled that a 60-year old Saudi man cannot have sex with his 8-year old wife.
Ahhh, but don’t break out the champagne quite yet. The court didn’t annul the marriage nor condemn the marriage nor even raise an eyebrow over the marriage. It just said the old geezer couldn’t violate the girl until she reached puberty.
Justice Minister Muhammad Issa said he wanted to end to the “arbitrary” way in which Saudi parents marry off underage girls. But he said nothing about outlawing the practice. Not a word.
This brings up a few questions for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Is this one of those international laws you want to use as precedent in American law? If you’re not following the United States Constitution, how do you determine which international laws to follow and which ones to ignore? Will your choices as “arbitrary” as those of the Saudi judge? And finally, are you really as friggin’ uninformed and un-American as you appear to be?
Hot Fox News Babes, the best of all the TV anchor babes, are showing leg in their short skirts and helping raise Fox News ratings. We’ve got Laurie Dhue, Alisyn Camerota, Kiran Chetry, Page Hopkins, and E. D. Hill.
We regularly cover the booming ratings at Fox News.
Well, pardon us for being slow. We had never noticed how short the skirts are on the Fox News women anchors until someone sent us this video. With the hot TV anchor babes in their short skirts and beautiful legs (In the interest of full disclosure, we should also reveal that we used to buy Playboy just for the articles).
The note attached to the video postulated that there may be a direct relationship between the rise in ratings at Fox News and the rise of the Fox women skirts. If true, it’s an interesting programming strategy.
Will Fox News ratings dominance last? Can the skirts of Fox women go any higher? Can the Fox News legs get any better? Well, they certainly appear to have legs. And pay particular attention to Laurie Dhue. We’d sure like a 3D printer copy of her.
It would appear that homeless people in the nation’s capitol have come a long way thanks to the largesse of the Pelosi-Obama “stimulus” package.
First Lady Michelle Obama recently took time out from her magazine photo shoots for the covers of “O” and Vogue to pose as a food server at a homeless shelter not far from the White House. She even posed for one of homeless poseurs.
photo: MichelleMalkin.com
Obama said she hoped her selfless public service would inspire other Americans to volunteer in their own communities.
Hell, we just want to know where we can sign up for Obama’s \Free Government Cell Phone With Every Meal Program.
LA Times blogger Andrew Malcolm has the temerity to wonder how an alleged homeless man can afford a cellphone. Not to mention asking where the bills get sent.
Starbucks has been outted. A Saudi cleric has revealed the coffee giant’s devious, long-term, secret plan to contaminate the hands and gullets of Muslims worldwide. To make the whole sordid mess even more offensive, they’re doing it with Jewish cooties right on Islamic soil.
Egyptian cleric Safwat Higazi announced that the woman in the Starbucks logo shows is none other than Esther, the Queen of the Jews. This, of course, is an abomination.
Luckily, Higazi is not recommending issuing a fatwah. In fact, he’s telling
Muslims to not burn the stores down. Instead, he just wants to put the
stores out of business. Now that’s a moderate Muslim if we’ve ever heard
one.
Here are some of the revelations from the wise cleric, translated from the outstanding Memri.org:
“Today, I would like to talk about the Starbucks coffee shop. Starbucks is to be found in Mecca, in Al-Madina, opposite the King Abdul Aziz Gate in Mecca, opposite the Al-Majid Gate in Al-Madina, as well as in Cairo. Starbucks is to be found everywhere, with this logo. This is the Starbucks logo.
“Has any of you ever wondered who this woman with a crown on her head is? Why do we boycott Starbucks? I will tell you, so you will know why you should boycott this company, and what this logo stands for. As I’ve already said, it is not enough to avoid entering this coffee shop. It is not enough to refrain from drinking this coffee. You must urge people never to go there, but none of you should even consider throwing a stone, breaking anything, or burning [the place] down.
and …
“We want Starbucks to be shut down throughout the Arab and Islamic world. We want it to be shut down in Mecca and in Al-Madina. I implore King Abdallah bin Abd Al-‘Aziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques: It is inconceivable that in Mecca and Al-Madina, there will be a picture of Queen Esther, the queen of the Jews.”
According to completely unsubstantiated news reports, Higazi will announce
next week that Dunkin’ Donuts is a front for the Illuminati.
We'll leave the truly hideous nature of this photograph to your imagination.
Why isn’t this story the headline on every newspaper? Why isn’t it leading off every newscast? Why is it not even considered newsworthy?
According to local Pakistani police, Taliban militants beheaded an Afghan citizen after accusing him of spying for the United States. The man was kidnapped a week ago and his body was discovered Thursday in North Waziristan.
“He was slaughtered overnight. His headless body was put on the roadside,” police official Munir Khan said.
A note found on the man’s body said “Whoever spies for the US will face the same fate. This is a gift to (US President Barack) Obama.”
“See how much the world loves us,” an Obama spokesman somewhere likely said. “They’re already giving us gifts.”
One would think a novelist would understand the concept of “creative license.” But not Salman Rushdie. He’s offended that Slumdog Millionaire contains scenes that (gasp) aren’t realistic.
The Indian-born author recently told an audience at Atlanta’s Emory University that the Academy Award-winning film “piles impossibility on impossibility.”
Rushdie, who gained more fame for hiding than he ever did for writing, spent years cowering in a closet after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwah against him in 1989.
The author of “The Satanic Verses” was in a tizzy that the “Slumdog Millionaire” scene at the Taj Mahal is, in reality, more than 1,000 miles from where the previous scene took place.
Why stop there, Salman? How about the fact that “The Wrestler” showed Mickey Rourke with an attractive woman, “Benjamin Button” aged in reverse, and “Milk” depicted Sean Penn as rational.
Buffalo Beheading story above with ironic Muslim Matrimony ad next to it. Click image to see full size, full screen.
About ten days ago, an ad for “Muslim matrimonials” appeared right next to our story about the Muslim TV executive who beheaded his wife. You can see the hilarious juxtaposition on the screen capture above. Click the image or here for a full size, full screen image.
At first we thought our internet advertising provider had merely misinterpreted the context of the key words in the story — Muslim, husband, wife – and placed the ad there by mistake. But we’ve changed our minds. Because these are the smartest companies in the world, damn it, and they don’t make mistakes.
We’ve been deeply touched by this heartfelt effort to help Muzzammil Hassan find love again.
We hope he can find a life with a new woman. Or 25 to life. Whichever comes first.
(IHateTheMedia.com Exclusive) We’re professional cynics at IHateTheMedia.com. We’re trained to expect the worst from the media. With that in mind, it seemed to us that the media had paid far more attention to the trivial story of Connecticut’s murderous monkey than the lightning rod story of Buffalo’s beheaded Muslim wife.
Is it possible, we wondered, that the media would intentionally ignore the kind of shocking crime story they normally love, simply because focusing on a murderous Muslim is politically incorrect in the land of liberal news?
So we performed a simple experiment. We searched Google News for both stories. Here, unfortunately, is what we found:
The monkey scored a whopping 2,943 articles in the two days since it occurred. But the far more important story of the Muslim TV executive who decapitated his wife in an “honor killing” racked up a meager 990 articles over six days.
It appears that most major media outlets completely ignored the latter story for several days and then neglected to mention “honor killing” aspect of the story when they finally did report it.
Is this a case of political correctness run amok or just another example of the media’s tendency to glorify the truly trivial? You be the judge.
Either way, it’s a frightening condemnation of the state of journalism in 2009.
