… the dead Turkish guy and the wrath of Allah, you are sadly mistaken.
… and variations on it.
Giuliani is poised to get hit with a multimillion dollar ruling against him in D.C. over his baseless accusations of election fraud against two poll workers. After that civil trial concludes, he’ll turn around and begin preparing for a criminal trial in Atlanta, where he’s facing many of the same racketeering charges he once wielded as a federal prosecutor against mobsters in New York. And throughout it all, Giuliani has a long list of creditors, from former associates to contractors, who are also hounding him for money. For Giuliani, 2023 will likely end in penniless defeat. But 2024 could be even worse—it could actually end with him in prison... 2021 was the ruining of his professional reputation, with New York and the District of Columbia suspending his law license for spreading lies and his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. This year exposed his financial ruin. Next year, it could be prison.
V’imru Amen.
I am not resigned to the shutting away of hypocrites in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness we go, Bridget and Christian. Crowned
With sex toys and strap-ons we go; but I am not resigned.
Or, uh, not exactly...
But after unveiling her National Portrait Gallery portrait, Oprah had dinner at the same place La Kid booked for her office Xmas gathering. So La Kid gazed at her a lot.
I say give the guy a gun out there! America! Fuck the Euros! Fuck yeah!
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BREAKING: The guessing game is over: Draymond Green will be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate.
My much-missed hero, Christopher Hitchens, nailed it.
No wonder The Great Leader wept with desperation recently as he begged the linings of the country’s uteri to thicken.
Why reproduce? Why do anything?
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Yes, yes, of course: South Korea’s fertility numbers are even worse. But there’s a difference between living in an advanced society full of competing possibilities for women, and living mouth to mouth in a squalid gaping hole.
… The major job of today’s university presidents is to solicit money, and their largest targets are typically denizens of Wall Street.
For the same reason, boards of trustees are packed with wealthy alumni, often from the Street, who routinely veto candidates for university presidents harboring views they find offensive.
But not until now have major donors so brazenly used their financial influence to hound presidents out of office for failing to come out as clearly as the donors would like on an issue of campus speech or expression.
As a Jew, I cannot help but worry, too, that the actions of these donors will fuel the very antisemitism they claim to oppose – based on the perilous stereotype of wealthy Jewish bankers controlling the world.
UD proposes significant American mental health aid to Poland, and pronto. An emergency assistance package for our old friend and ally.
Yesterday the paranoiac leader of the party that’s just been voted out of power trundled up to the podium in the parliament (he did this against all parliamentary rules) and, with an intensity of bitterness that would have impressed Iago, shouted at the new prime minister that he’s a German spy.
Today a schizophrenic parliamentarian, representing a fascist party, unloaded a fire extinguisher on a just-lit menorah in the parliament’s lobby because menorahs are satanic.
What will tomorrow bring? A hebephrenic from Hajnowka shitting on the Kopernika Monument? A catatonic from Katowice collapsing in the middle of St John’s Archcathedral and refusing to get up?
Hope not. She just pled guilty to stealing four million dollars from Facebook when she was an executive there.
I wonder when – if? – Spelman College will take down the page celebrating this contemptible person. And her comrade in crime husband.
Yesterday, Faruk ran onto the field and punched a ref so hard the guy had to be helped up off the ground. Faruk has now been arrested. SO…
Things are getting so much better in world soccer! The last time a team owner ran onto the field and attacked a ref, he did it with a gun!
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photo credit: superlig
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Update: LOLOLOLOLOL
My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face. At this time, I slapped the referee in the face. The slap I gave did not cause a fracture. [The ref’s cheek was fractured.] After the slap I gave, the referee stood for about 5-10 seconds, then threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because of my heart disease. Other than that, I am not aware of any incident that took place.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Because of my heart disease, I hereby resign from the club and place myself in jail for assault.
… the compleat criminal, Philip Esformes, whose pardon by fellow fraudster D. Trump lacked full coverage (given that Esformes had around five thousand charges against him). SOOO the feds just picked and chose among the leftover charges and went after Esformes again WHICH has pissed this ultra-pious ultraorthodox person off no end and he’s been appealing up the wazoo.
But every court – now including the Supremes – has ignored him or laughed him out of the building … Cuz you know when you’re committing the largest health care fraud in American history and you get caught doing it, judges prob aren’t going to bend over backward for you.
… against Harvard’s already-embattled president.
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UPDATE: She will stay in her job.
Poland’s new PM represents an inspiring victory for democracy against the tyranny of the now-deposed Law and Justice party, whose bitter senile leader rushed the podium at the conclusion of the vote in favor of Tusk. “YOU ARE A GERMAN AGENT!” he shouted at the PM.
Narges Mohammadi’s Nobel Peace Prize address.