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captainsblog(1) It didn't take long after the new no-fly rules following the Christmas bombing (btw, NOW can we say that the "War on Christmas" is finally over, seeing how Obama's used the holiday's name five times in his speech today?) for the anti-terrorist policy to capture its first overentitled celebrity.
Joan Rivers, a/k/a Joan Rosenberg (her late husband's surname- wasn't his first name "Fang" or somesuch?), who tried to fly back to the US from Costa Rica with virtually no cash on her person, joked about bribing airport security personnel and whined about not being an appropriate target for profiling, saying, "'Do Terrorists Wear Manolo Blahniks?"
Well, yeah, Joan, they do- when luggage and shoes and even crotches have been eliminated as possible sources. Playing the "don't you know who I am?" card is bad enough, but spending the next several days bitching about it, when over 300 people might've been lying dead in the Detroit River on account of a lack of caution, just seems tacky.
As some pundit once said, "Oh, grow up!"
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(2) Republicants and big corporations are big on national defense- especially when they're benefitting from it (see Giuliani Chertoff LLC, soon to be the beneficiary of billions in new orders for airport scanners that would not have caught Crotch Boy)- but when it comes to supporting the troops, they're perfectly happy to turn a blind eye. Even down in the dregs of the entertainment world- where on last night's Wheel of Fortune broadcast, the Sony Pictures stooges refused to award prize money to any of three wheel-spinning military men on account of mispronouncing the names "Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa," even after the entire puzzle was revealed:
I'd like to solve the puzzle, Vanna: CHEAP CORPORATE HONKS.
Joan Rivers, a/k/a Joan Rosenberg (her late husband's surname- wasn't his first name "Fang" or somesuch?), who tried to fly back to the US from Costa Rica with virtually no cash on her person, joked about bribing airport security personnel and whined about not being an appropriate target for profiling, saying, "'Do Terrorists Wear Manolo Blahniks?"
Well, yeah, Joan, they do- when luggage and shoes and even crotches have been eliminated as possible sources. Playing the "don't you know who I am?" card is bad enough, but spending the next several days bitching about it, when over 300 people might've been lying dead in the Detroit River on account of a lack of caution, just seems tacky.
As some pundit once said, "Oh, grow up!"
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(2) Republicants and big corporations are big on national defense- especially when they're benefitting from it (see Giuliani Chertoff LLC, soon to be the beneficiary of billions in new orders for airport scanners that would not have caught Crotch Boy)- but when it comes to supporting the troops, they're perfectly happy to turn a blind eye. Even down in the dregs of the entertainment world- where on last night's Wheel of Fortune broadcast, the Sony Pictures stooges refused to award prize money to any of three wheel-spinning military men on account of mispronouncing the names "Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa," even after the entire puzzle was revealed:
I'd like to solve the puzzle, Vanna: CHEAP CORPORATE HONKS.
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