HERE’S A NEW ONE: HOW ABOUT REVERSE ENTITLEMENT??

Why is the anti-Obama crowd so set against Caroline Kennedy replacing Hillary Clinton for senator, in New York State?  In the case of Republican Peter King, he knows she would be a tough incumbent to beat when her term is up.  And certainly, Andrew Cuomo’s ambitions would be set back, somewhat.  But what about the rest of the mob?  Are they just being sucked into the usual news-for-entertainment media vortex?  Or, are they just trying to punish an ardent Obama supporter for helping him get elected?

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SMELL IT YOUR WAY

“The scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”   BURGER KING has launched a new men’s body spray called “FLAME.” 

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THURSDAY OPEN THREAD

NEW YORK—In what many are calling the most comprehensive study of its kind, Staten Island historians Robert Wilburn and Charles Tinsley have successfully traced the lines of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan all the way back to 1993 A.D.

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L’HOMME DE GEEZER or VIEUX “G” POPS A CAP

 

A 70-year-old man in Senegal was arrested for firing a rifle at a rap group last weekend during a concert because he believed the lyrics to their songs mocked him. The man was at the concert in the village of Lobali when he ordered the group to stop singing about a, quote, “cranky old man.”

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SUNDAY OPEN THREAD

SOME REASONS YOUNG WOMEN SAY THEY PREFER OLDER MEN

I’m not into a lot of sex and he’s so easy to please.

Between the dribble glass and the adult-diaper changing, it’s a laugh-a-minute.

I love the sound of coughing in the morning.

I love to play the game,  ”Sneezy, Wheezy, Parcheesi.”

Ear hair:  who can resist it!

I just can’t get enough of that old-man smell.

It can’t last too much longer.

WEDNESDAY OPEN THREAD

If you have a monkey,  it must be under 40 pounds.

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TUESDAY OPEN THREAD

Just one more thing regarding the OJ Simpson’s case.  You just can’t make this stuff up.

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SCOTUS RULES ON MR. OBAMA’S BIRTH PAPER

 

 Maybe, we may now put this issue to rest.   Stay tuned.

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MONDAY OPEN THREAD

Don’t be tempted to steal Christmas presents, says chief constable

Financially-stretched parents in the UK struggling because of the economic crisis are being warned by a county’s top police officer not to steal gifts for their children this Christmas.

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OJ SIMPSON (EPILOGUE)

Up to 33 years in prison.   Madame Defarge knitting in the back of the courtroom would have rounded out the setting.  It was a media spectacle, as anticipated.

THE OJ SPECTACLE

The foaming at the mouth; the chomping at the bit; the gnashing of teeth – all are in anticipation of Friday’s court/media spectacle, in Las Vegas.  OJ Simpson is to be sentenced for kidnapping and armed robbery – charges stemming from a goofball effort to retrieve what he described as his personal memorabilia, stolen from him at some point.  (Why did he not just go to the Las Vegas authorities to get assistance retrieving the stuff?)   Simpson could get anywhere from six years to life in prison.  Most put odds on something in between.   The family of one of the victims of another crime for which Simpson was criminally exonerated, but found guilty in a civil court, will be in there to relish the moment.  Does Simpson deserve whatever he gets?  Let’s put it this way: anybody with any sense -who dodged a legal bullet like the one Simpson dodged- would have shut themselves away somewhere; kept a low public profile; found a residence in Tasmania; done anything but throw a grinning visage back into the media circus-arena of a society that generally assumes guilt-by-complexion and feels its trust totally betrayed – basically, egging it on to seethe and stew and wait for a chance to catch him by the toe.  Does he deserve whatever he gets?   Sorry, OJ.  See ya!  Wouldn’t want to be ya!

THURSDAY OPEN THREAD

The same congresswoman who brought you this:

…now wants to make sure her constituents and the world know about this:

Who is she kidding.  Is anybody really buying this Barnyard Waste?

WEDNESDAY OPEN THREAD

A body like the cartoon character “Cathy” might be key to a woman’s economic success, an anthropologist now says and just what the doctor ordered.  The hourglass figure for females may be the thing in Pop Culture,  a tiny waist, big boobs and curvy hips may not be all that, says Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah.  Cashdan says the hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist.   More of Cashdan’s hypothesis may be found in the December issue of the journal “Current Anthropology.”

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DINGO ATE MY KOALA

 

They may not be as cool as Dingos, but some say it would be good to “Adopt a Koala for Christmas.”  The “Adopt a Wild Koala Program” is a major source of funding for The Koala Hospital, the world’s only medical facility dedicated to the care and preservation of these unknown-whether-they’re-tasty animals. 

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TUESDAY OPEN THREAD

An Alabama woman and her 18-year-old son were arrested and charged with child endangerment for leaving the son’s 5-month-old infant in a locked car at the Foley Wal-Mart for nearly an hour.

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