Aren’t you tired of dumbsh!ts?

The singer or whatever Beyonce raised the dumbsh!t bar really, really high with (a) audio from the space shuttle Challenger disaster in her video for a newly released song; and (b) her dumbsh!t statement that proves she is a dolt.

The audio is this: “’Flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction,’ Nesbitt is heard saying. The brief audio clip runs for six seconds.”

The statement of explanation from the dumbsh!t: “My heart goes out to the families of those lost in the Challenger disaster. The song XO was recorded with the sincerest intention to help heal those who have lost loved ones and to remind us that unexpected things happen, so love and appreciate every minute that you have with those who mean the most to you.”

What does that say? Nothing. Not a f’n thing.

She is a rich dumbsh!t, and anyone who spends money on downloads or CDs or concerts is a bigger dumbsh!t for supporting her.

http://floppingaces.net/most_wanted/beyonce-is-a-bigger-moron-than-even-i-thought/

Some stuff no one can make up, nor can I imagine in my greatest imagination anyone wanting to

“Because milk is produced by female mammals, a feminist perspective seems to offer a logical foundation for such inquiry. From the start, feminism has been a movement for justice: at its heart is the centrality of praxis, the necessary linkage of intellectual, political, and activist work. Feminist methodology puts the lives of the oppressed at the center of the research question and undertakes studies, gathers data, and interrogates material contexts with the primary aim of improving the lives and the material conditions of the oppressed. Using standard feminist methodology [standard feminist methodology?], twentieth-century vegan feminists and animal ecofeminists challenged animal suffering in its many manifestations (in scientific research, and specifically in the feminized beauty and cleaning products industries; in dairy, egg, and animal food production; in “pet” [note the scare quotes] keeping and breeding, zoos, rodeos, hunting, fur, and clothing) by developing a feminist theoretical perspective on the intersections of species, gender, race, class, sexuality, and nature. Motivated by an intellectual and experiential understanding of the mutually reinforcing interconnections among diverse forms of oppression, vegan feminists and ecofeminists positioned their own liberation and well-being as variously raced, classed, gendered, and sexual humans to be fundamentally interconnected to the well-being of other nondominant human and animal species, augmenting Patricia Hill Collins’s definition of intersectionality to include species as well.” – Greta Gaard, “ecofeminist writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker,” Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/12/31/inadvertent-comedy-from-the-asa-or-an-ecofeminist-does-milk/?singlepage=true

Roger Kimball at PJ Media said the thing is 25 pages. I looked. It is.

$70,000 in pipe missing; or, business as usual

By Chelsea Boozer
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

“More than $70,000 of surplus pipe is missing from a Little Rock Wastewater Utility storage area, and sewer officials think the material was hauled off by a friend of a high-ranking manager already under police scrutiny in connection with questionable expenditures, a utility spokesman said Monday.

“Debbie Williams, the utility’s accounting supervisor over capital projects, planned to have the pipe scrapped and sold at auction this year because it’s been sitting in storage at the Adams Field Treatment Facility since 1996, but when she sent workers to take photos Dec. 20, the pipe wasn’t there.

“Williams said she questioned Eric Wassell, the last superintendent stationed at the wastewater-treatment plant. He told her that Operations Manager Stan Miller had a friend haul off the concrete pipe sometime in 2011, she said.

“The missing pipe includes 1,255 feet of 42-inch diameter pipe and 416 feet of 60-inch pipe, sewer utility officials said.”

(The pipe sat there for 15 years? And, other than a high-ranking manager reportedly/allegedly having a friend haul it away, nobody considered what to do with it?)

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/dec/31/lr-utility-surplus-pipe-missing-20131231/

Giraffe killed in fight at Little Rock Zoo

By David Harten
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

“A fight between two giraffes at the Little Rock Zoo has resulted in the death of one.

"Jigsaw, a 13-year-old giraffe that has been at the zoo since his birth in 2000, died as a result of injuries he suffered following an altercation with fellow giraffe Mesi, zoo officials said in a statement Monday.

“Zookeepers found Jigsaw lying with his head down on Sunday morning on the zoo grounds. He died a short time later, according to the news release.

“An initial investigation showed that Mesi was able to open ‘a large, metal dividing gate’ that separated the two animals on Saturday evening. After gaining access to Jigsaw’s pen, Mesi sparred with Jigsaw until Jigsaw fell, the news release states."

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/dec/30/one-giraffe-dead-after-fight-another-giraffe-lr-zo/


("... Mesi sparred with Jigsaw until Jigsaw fell ..." Sounds as though the alleged attacker was only school-ground playing, doesn't it? It's not as though giraffes ever get into serious fights.)

Differences between them and us

“MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent Russian Orthodox Church academic has been sacked from his post as a professor at a Moscow theological school for writing blog posts and giving interviews at variance with the Church’s official position on current affairs.

“Andrei Kurayev, an Orthodox senior deacon and well-known blogger, was fired from the Moscow Theological Academy's faculty for his ‘scandalous and provocative activities…in the mass media and in the blogosphere,’ the school's press service said Tuesday.”

Scandalous and provocative activities, as in “Kurayev had criticized the church’s handling of a scandal in the Russian city of Kazan in mid-December, when a clergyman dismissed for allegedly sexually harassing male students was welcomed immediately into another diocese in the city of Tver.

“Kurayev said on his blog that the incident was ‘proof of the existence of an influential gay lobby in our Church.’”

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131231/186120000/Russian-Orthodox-Academic-Fired-Over-Blog-Posts.html

String him up! How dare that senior deacon, theology professor, etc., say sexual harassment of male students is done by gay clergymen! Everyone knows only heterosexual men do that sort of thing. Everyone in the U.S. knows that, anyway.

Hmm. Could it be … Are men who are attracted to and who sexually harass younger men actually homosexual? No. Couldn’t be.

Milunka Savic

“Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has stated that the national WWI hero Milunka Savic resembles her country – bold and invincible when needed, ready to help everybody, and yet pushed aside when others think she could be an obstacle, strong like that. At the ceremony of laying to rest the mortal remains of Milunka Savic in the Alley of the Greats, at the New Cemetery in Belgrade, Nikolic has pointed he believes it is never too late to make right the wrongs others had made on Serbia and her greats. The President added he believed Serbia would preserve the memory of a woman who was the biggest hero of WWI, among many brave men. He has reminded that Milunka Savic was the bearer of highest national and foreign war decorations, including two Medals of the Knight of the Legion of Honor, and she was the only woman in history to have received the French decoration War Cross with golden palm.”

http://voiceofserbia.org/content/nikolic-milunka-savic-%E2%80%93-hero-resembles-her-country

‘Remains of Serbian heroine Milunka Savic transported to the Alley of deserving citizens in Belgrade’

http://inserbia.info/news/2013/11/remains-of-serbian-heroine-milunka-savic-transported-to-the-alley-of-deserving-citizens-in-belgrade/

She fought in the Second Balkan War and in the early days of World War I received her first Karadorde Star with Swords following the battle of Kolubura. She received a second Star with Swords in 1916 when she captured 23 Bulgarian soldiers. Savic also was twice awarded the French Legion of Honor, the Russian Cross of St. George, the British medal of the Most Distinguished order of St. Michael, the Serbian Milos Obilic medal and the French Croix de Guerrer with gold palm.

Internal checkpoints

A growing number of citizens is refusing to answer unconstitutional questions at checkpoints far from an international border.

“During a routine trip from San Diego to Phoenix in 2009, Pastor Steven Anderson was stopped at an internal immigration checkpoint about 70 miles from the Mexican border. A stern-looking Border Patrol agent asked Anderson to provide proof of citizenship and requested permission to search his car.

“The persistent pastor declined both, citing his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He then asked to be allowed to go on his way. The request was denied.

“After a period of dithering, agents announced that a police dog had alerted to potential contraband in the vehicle.”

Then, came the broken windows, Tasers and dragging from the car.


http://reason.com/archives/2013/12/28/americas-internal-checkpoints

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