From The Jungle Hut:
Last night, several states in the western part of Venezuela were without power. We were left in the dark for most of the night. The chaos of the traffic in the streets without signal lights was terrible. Also, there was a crime wave as would be expected. I have heard but have not been able to confirm that there were 5 murders here in Barquisimeto alone during the power outage.
Viva La Revolution, baby.
And stay safe Venezuela bloggers.
Not surprisingly she converted from Islam to Christianity after the attack. From The Daily Telegraph:
Abdul Reda Al Shawany, 52, was found guilty by a jury at Campbelltown District Court of two counts of rape on the elderly mother of 13.
The court was told Al Shawany had seen the interest by his victim, then a Muslim, in the Bible and Christianity as an “insult” to Islam.
The case stunned Sydney when details emerged that Al Shawany had lured his victim to his Warwick Farm unit in September 2002 by claiming he had news of her family in her war-torn homeland.
He then raped her twice – telling her when he had finished “well let your Christ benefit you”.
The victim converted to Christianity after the attack.
h/t Gateway Pundit
Big news, sort of. The model hired to play Obama Girl in the wildly popular YouTube video, Amber Lee Ettinger, said “we’ll see” when asked if she’d vote Obama ’08. We’ll see is of course code for not a chance! This is a story that cries out for a few pictures!
Like any good Internet model, Amber Lee has been busy developing quite a web presence. She’s got portfolios at OneModelPlace.com, Talent Finder and a portfolio with a couple of short vid clips at Ujenatalent.com.
Like any good marketer she’s got a MySpace page up. If you have something to sell and you’re not marketing through MySpace, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
So who’s going to get Amber’s vote? I think we all know.
Here’s the video that catapulted her to semi-famous status:
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She’s dancing for Obama, but she’s got Fred Head written all over her.
His platform doesn’t make sense either. But his “art” is what’s at issue here so let’s take a look. First up The Stare.
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Next we have Campfire Dying
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Eh. I’ve seen these before, every time some high school student gets a digital camera. Both pieces are consciously trying to be art, which makes it become a parody of art. Silence, nature and superficial gravitas, or in this case graveltas, do not an art film make. Gravel and company should stick to neo-socialism and leave the art to artists.
Now here’s something on Youtube that can truly be considered art:
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Poe. Price. Pure genius.
h/t Hot Air
Gateway Pundit has the whole sordid story. Here’s the video:
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For those of you like who speak English only, here’s a news report with translations:
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The station this appeared on is apparently owned by a shill for the Baathist regime so unsurprisingly the staff is stocked with Baathists. Hot Air has more.
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