This week I'm adding more content! Just what you were looking for right? So, for now on, every Thursday I'll post the "Party Primer."
It's a quick way for those of us too busy to keep up with the world, to get all the ammunition we need for any current events conversations that we stumble into at a party this weekend.
Now you can look as well read as you are well...busy.
North Korea, really trying to fuck shit upWell, lookie here. North Korea is still pissed off that the Middle East gets all the attention. Kim Jong Il, is doing all he can to raise his stature as Supreme Annoyer of the Free World. Fidel isn't complaining about being out of the limelight, but Kim's over there pulling uranium rods out of reactors and waving them defiantly under the nuclear watchdog's noses.
In the
New York Times today they experts claim that the 8,000 spent fuel rods that N. Korea claims to have removed could only produce 1-3 more warheads. Yes, you read that correctly, "Only" they say, like a warhead's a fucking pack of sparklers. I guess if ONLY one of them goes off, it might ONLY kill some people. And they'll be ONLY dead.
But what really gets me is the superiority complex these "experts" have. Besides their nonchalant dismissal of a measly three more warheads, the
Times says, "their suspicions were aroused because by leaving the rods inside the reactor for another year, North Korea could have obtained a much better yield of weapons fuel." James Brooke at the Times quotes an unnamed source as saying, "There is a lot of symbolism and taunting here."
Really? No fucking shit there's some taunting and symbolism here. They're fucking rods, right. They're big huge radioactive phallic symbols, and N. Korea is pointing them towards our mother's anus.
Apple TabletTo writers this is one step away to digital heaven. Apple has submitted for a patent for a Tablet Mac. Rad.
What I hope the folks at Apple figure out next is the iTome, some form of
e-ink powered book version of the iPod. Download from iLibrary an entire bookstore worth of books. That's be cool. You don't even need to give me credit for the idea. Just give me lots of money, and a free iTome.
Koran BlueOk, I know that shady shit happens during interogations, but why would you do anything that would give validity to the various groups proclaiming America's desire to destroy Islam and Arab culture. Why give people who are willing to die for the honor of defending their faith, more reason to believe we're attacking all they hold sacred.
And to top it all off, Newsweek, not Al Jazzera or some Islamic state-run news channel, uncovered that investigations of Guantanamo Bay. Which according the
Newsweek found that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet."
Maybe the heat is getting to the interrogators.
Modern Day Slavery This article is just a reminder of the
ongoing plight of women and children around the world. It's a story as old at time, but if we have a war on drugs, we can have a war on global slavery. Here's the quick, Some 12.3 million people are enslaved worldwide, and according to The International Labour Organization, their labor generates profits of over $30,000,000,000. That's too many zeros!
Polio Outbreak in Yemen a US plot?Yemen is seeing an outbreak of Polio. How did this happen? Well, Nigerians decided to boycott the polio vaccine. To be more precise, Islamic clerics in Nigeria's Kano region had said the vaccines were part of a Western plot to make Muslim women infertile.
Islmaic clerics led the ban in Kano, and since Islmaic clerics trump Western Educated Doctors, there's an outbreak of Polio in Africa, and it's being spread, by migrant workers and Islamic pilgrims to Yemen.
Following the ban began in 2003 now sixteen previously polio-free countries have reported new cases. The ban is over, and the Nigeria president was in Kano, personally innoculating the daughter of Kano's governor.
Hopefully, Allah blesses her with many strong, polio-free children. But if she turns out to be infertile, the Ismalic clerics can tell the World Health Organization, I told you so.
Iraqis feel the blunt of the insurgents wrathMore death. But is it the sign of a final, last, this-is-the-end-for-real-this-time, spasm of violence as the insurrgents see their cause finding less support among the majority of Iraqis? Everytime there's a surge in violence they say the insurrgents are seeing an end to their resistance, so this violance is a final lashing out.
Money for Troops has hidden immigration legislation attached. The 'Real ID' act, isn't as creepy Big Brother, as some steps states have taken to sidestep right to privacy when you get a drivers license. In Georgia and many other states, your finger prints are encoded on your id. No, you can't take the 5th. But despite how much our troops need the
$86 billion our states don't need another tangled roll of red tape to buy. Reports vary from 100-500 million dollars that it will take each state to institute the Real Id act, but if you thought waiting in line at the DMV sucked before, look out.
Amazing Race For Bets Ended in MarchAccording to the off-shore betting website,
Sportsbook.com, Uchenna and Joyce Agu's Tuesday night victory on "The Amazing Race" was a sure thing. Back in March, the site recieved a flood of the maxium $500 bets on the couple from bettors in LA and Boston. Good to know if you ever have an office pool, that a quick check to the bookie will give you the edge.
Katie Holmes and Tom CruiseTom and Katie. At least, she's not too tall. And if you saw a certain movie, her assets are firm and substantially ample.
Home Alone 4Sure, I slept in his bed. Yeah, he's the one that first called me and asked to be my friend. Yeah he's odd, but no he never touched me.

Culkin's the one on the right. He turned out just fine after sleeping in Micheal's bed.
Renee and KennyRenee and Kenny married on a beach. Without the press. But here's the picutres. So it's almost like you were there.
Paula Abdul Freaks OutAppearantly Paula can't handle the pressure of performing live. I wonder what Simon would say?
New German Pope Likes German Beer. Sterotypes ContinueWhile still a cardinal, Pope Benny the 16 pack endorsed a local Stuttgart beer. Now there's a truck with 185 gallons of blessed brew on it's way to the Vatican.
Prost! A Classic Black Dress Causes An UproarKerry Lofy thought he'd help out his gay friend, and do it will a sense of humor, by becoming his friend's prom date, complete with a borrowed black spaghetti-strap dress, a new blond wig, and blue earrings he got from Goodwill.
As I see it, the school was wrong to ban this harmless jester from the dance. But after he changed into a leisure suit, and allowed to enter, Lofy went too far by stripping during a dance contest.
Not that I'm against nudity, or strippers, but when "the man" has got it out for you don't keep pushing him?they'll just end up fining your bare ass.
Jesus Christ, you've got to be too old to drive.
Jesus Christ, the 50 year old from D.C. is having trouble getting a new license in West Virginia. Why, you may ask. Well, despite having a social security card, and a D.C. driver's license in with that name, the DMV in W. Virginia is requiring Mr. Christ to present his birth certificate to prove his legal name.
Well, when Mr. Christ changed his name from Peter Robert Phillips Jr. to Jesus Christ 15 years ago as an act of faith, the courts refused to issue an new birth certificate do to the outrage his name might cause. So, the courts are protecting Jesus from any undo persecution that might arise from his new name. That really defeats the point doesn't it? Mr. Christ picked the name of a man who sacrificed his life for what he believed (
see Mel Gibson's christ blood fest). Why not let this man recieve at least some eyebrow raises when he get's a speeding ticket.
One dumbass can shut down our government faster than an entire Capitol Building full of dumbasses. . Ironically, while the legislature debates
the Filibuster a single prop Cessna, stalls progress just as well.
The face of TutWanna see what a dead prince looks like? Oddly enough, the French verison looks thinner than the U.S. scientists' model. Even our forensics models are obese.
Kenyan first lady doesn't take lip from a cameramanThe First Lady of Kenya might go to jail for slapping a rude cameraman. May the spirit of Lady Di protect her from the paparazzi.