by kara on May 20, 2013

What is that Wikipedia, you have a backstory on the city of Moore, Oklahoma?

The city of Moore has been damaged by significant tornadoes on October 4, 1998, May 3, 1999, May 8, 2003, May 10, 2010, and May 20, 2013. The May 3, 1999 tornado that hit Moore was rated an F5 on the Fujita scale, and was one of the strongest (Probably the strongest single tornado ever) and most destructive tornadoes in world history.

Huh. Makes you think there might be some scientific reason that a certain area is getting hit by tornadoes multiple times or something.

This is a story about my friends Jason and David. If we didn’t live in a third world country, it would be a fairytale.

reblogged from the doma project

Jason and David

On May 12, 2007, I sat in a restaurant in West Hollywood swearing off men forever after a string of bad relationships. That was until my future husband walked in.

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Who is this hot shot squinting and snarling his way through the Benghazi hearings? It’s Darrell Issa, the unlikely subpoena-wielding chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, fulfilling his duty of stickin’ it to the Obama administration over one grossly exaggerated scandal after another.

Darrell Issa (above) and mugger from a John Buscema drawing from a 1967 issue of Spider-Man (below)

 

 

 

 

Darrell Issa was appointed as Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform with the stated task:

“to have jurisdiction to investigate any federal program and any matter with federal policy implications.”

Weirdly, prior to the appointment, Issa had already sought to expand subpoena powers in his quest to deal with “Washington’s institutionalized waste, fraud, and abuse.” In the past, Issa (incidentally), has been quick to note that — like any good manager — some matters just aren’t worthy of his attention. Like what Blackwater was up to in Iraq!

What’s this guy all about? Let’s just say that Darrell Issa has never met a false, trumped-up accusation, he wouldn’t blindly repeat at least once.  And maybe dozens of times. Let’s just say that he’s the kind of paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorist amoral swindling chiseling grifter that Orly Taitz can only dream of being. His BENGHAAAAZIIII$1!!! hearings were designed to root out, among other potentially “explosive” points, that Issa has evidence of the administration’s “premeditated lying to the American people.” Also, that there’s “no question” that “someone from Hillary Clinton’s “circle” was involved in a “cover-up” following the attack on the U.S. consulate.

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by kara on May 14, 2013

from rocket news 24


Check this out. It’s just a strawberry parfait, no big deal. But there is a giant slice of cake, and it is so big it wasn’t even trying to fit into the glass. Check it out, the slice of cake is sitting on top of the fucking parfait. I’t’s so beautiful, it’s like a Wayne Thiebaud painting.I love the unapologetic nature of this, the disproportionally giant hunk of cake sitting there atop the parfait like IT is the main part of the dessert. According to the article, the restaurant doesn’t even celebrate or flaunt this chimeric dessert, it is shoved in the back of the the display case, behind soda bottles, as if it isn’t even a thing.

You can’t buy  SHORTCAKE NEW YORK CUT PARFAIT  here, thought. No, it’s not a Guy Fieri gut buster or a Marie Callendar’s special. It’s only in some restaurant in Osaka, yes, that’s in Japan.

The 1,030 yen (US$10.50) Shortcake New York Cut Parfait

 

by kara on May 12, 2013

America, land of the free, where clearly clinically insane people can put shit like this up on their lawns and not immediately get hauled off for a psychiatric evaluation.

Why it’s Nancy Grace’s Fault.

by kara on May 12, 2013

The regrettably late Court TV was a TV experiment way ahead of its time. What seemed a grotesque spectacle in 1994 with the thoroughly televised trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, has become a permanent state of being in the criminal courts. I was one of the idiots sucked in by the theatrics and the polarized emotions that that trial aroused. The cornerstone of the defense, presented by a seemingly coked-up, frizzy-haired defense attorney, was the sordid claim that dad was an abusive pedophile and mom was a self-absorbed drug addict, and that “the boys” believed their parents were about to kill them. So, the Beverly Hills brats did what anyone would do in their situation: they preemptively shot their parents full of holes while the couple ate ice cream and watched TV. This was orgasmic media fodder, the prosecutors seemed shellshocked and failed to address head-on the brothers’ unsupported, ridiculous assertions. They neglected to question the brothers over their lurid and tearful descriptions of abuse, and didn’t present any expert witnesses to counter the defense experts. The abuse testimony became the turning point that blunted the prosecution of those two parricidal assholes, and led to at least one  juror totes buying the Menendez brother’s operatic story.

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Ben. Gah. Zee.

by kara on May 8, 2013

Remember that these are the same ghouls who called the Newtown victims and their families “props” when the scandalous background check law was up for a vote. Darrell – car thief and arsonist – Issa and the rest of his ilk are basically using the deaths of Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods for their fictional scandal in the most revolting way possible, especially since their “new evidence” is testimony from some guy who was in Tripoli at the time. I’m so glad we had all those”special hearings” in 1983 when Ronald Raygun allowed 60 times more Americans to get blown to bits in Beirut, when everybody knew the Marines stationed there were sitting ducks and should get the fuck out. And I’m so glad they went after the Bush Administration for its ineptitude for 9/11 with the same laser-focus and vigor. Not to mention the mis information about Iraq that led to a monumentally costly war (in both $$$$ and lives) and the 20 odd attacks on embassies during the Bush Administration. Though to be fair, the (then Democratic) house did hold hearings on the Bush Administration’s flagrant use of the Justice Department to launch spurious prosecutions timed to influence political campaigns in the Republicans’ favor, including the firing of DA’s that didn’t agree to go along. They even subpoenaed Karl Rove. Who flatly refused to answer the subpoena.

Asshole Neighbor UPDATE

by kara on May 8, 2013

I have to take my shed down. Can you please tweet me your suggestions as to how to enact (harmless) revenge on my neighbor? I am thinking something of the order of replacing the lovely, modernist shed I had built with some sort of unsightly and very very very very large flag? Or something involving dog poop?

tweet me at: @teenagesleuth

Best idea gets a prize.

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My modernist idiot neighbor did the unthinkable and called the city inspectors on me ( I – a thoughtful and helpful neighbor – am rebuilding my rotting deck which in no way has anything to do with his life). My insticnt is to make his life a living hell.

Have you ever seen those books on “How to Get Even?” One of them has the best back cover blurb ever: “Has someone been spreading rumors about you? Did someone cause you to lose your job? Get revenge!” All I’m thinking is shit – someone else made me get fired or told everyone that I’m watching the Jodi Arias trial all the time? That could be just about anyone!! Revenge!!

 

from atlantic wire by Dashiell Bennett and Philip Bump

n a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd “satellite” interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all.

The two suspects are Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of Headline News, who were updating viewers on the latest from the ongoing and increasingly ugly Cleveland kidnapping story. (Grace being TV’s leading expert on deviant crime.) At first it seems like a normal TV “remote,” as Banfield interviews Grace from another location. Then the channel’s graphics alert viewers: both anchors are in Phoenix. That’s odd. Also: They’re both outdoors, sitting in what looks to be a parking lot. And is that same building behind them? [click to continue…]

Who Knew?

by kara on May 4, 2013

I totally would have wanted one when I was 9, along with that pony.