Music dealer sells fake guitars?

Fake Gibsons?

Bastards.

"Signing guitars that are not Gibson is like being married and kissing a woman who is not your wife," [B.B.] King once huffed when asked to autograph a Fender guitar.

*sigh*

This make me sad. And angry. And.. so... verklempt.

It's pure evil.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 05:53 PM | Comments (70)
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Curious, curious indeed. If these results are true, the democrats are spending a lot of time flogging a number of dead horses.Most of the media weren't too excited about touting these results.

Foreign policy and the war in Iraq topped the list of issues facing the United States, participants in a UPI-Zogby International poll said.

Respondents were asked to select the two most important issues facing the country and, in another question, the world. The war in Iraq and U.S. foreign policy, as one issue, was named by 42.1 percent of those asked in the U.S. question; the Iraq war came in seventh among world issues.

As to the issues most important to the United States, after foreign policy, terrorism and security was mentioned by 32.7 percent of respondents. Immigration was third at 26.4 percent followed by healthcare (21.9 percent), jobs and the economy (13.2 percent) and the federal budget. Government spending and the deficit came in sixth at 10.6 percent.

As to what the 7,081 U.S. residents who were asked thought were the top global issues, Islamic radicalization was first at 47.7 percent, well ahead of global warming at 27.7 percent and the oil supply and energy at 22.9 percent.

Fourth on the world list was al-Qaida (18.2 percent) followed by the growing power of China (17.1 percent), the environment and pollution (16.4 percent) and the war in Iraq (16 percent).

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 05:49 PM | Comments (9)
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It did seem a bit odd to me that he had set Rambo 4 in Burma and suddenly all this mayhem happens. Hmmm, I wonder if he might have some New York Money Men investing in his movie, hmm? Hmmmm?

If you're wondering how he got into Burma to make a movie about the psychotic Burmese government, well, he didn't quite; he was on a river on the Burmese-Thailand border. Close enough.

"I witnessed the aftermath - survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off.

"We saw many elephants with blown off legs. We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific," he said.

...

Shots were fired over the film crew's heads and there were threats, he said.

"We were told we could get seriously hurt if we went on," Stallone added.

He had first hand accounts, too, from the Burmese extras whose families were imprisoned.

Stallone returned eight days ago - before the crackdown last week against the largest pro-democracy protests in Burma in two decades.

He has faced criticism for his choice of location. "I was being accused, once again, of using the Third World as a 'Rambo' victim.

"The Burmese are beautiful people. It's the military I am portraying as cruel," he said.

Assuming the bolded bit is true -- which I do -- comprehend this: Someone actually criticized him for depicting the murderous Burma tyranny as murderous and tyrannical. I guess we're supposed to "respect their culture," even if it's not actually their culture, but a lunatic autocracy inflicted on the people at bullet and bayonet point.

Here's the latest trailer:

On the other hand there's Sean Penn, who's currently engaging in an Apologism Tour for Hugo Chavez.

Sean Penn's the smart one, huh? Look, both are weird looking, both are inarticulate and make animal-noises as their major form of actorly emoting, but only one writes his own scripts.

And apparently only one is smart enough to call evil evil.

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM | Comments (44)
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She wanted to be streetwalking gutterscrunt, but she never got her "big break." So apparently she's going to be a stripper-stage mom.

Either that or she's a real fan of Taxi Driver.

The kid was sent home from middle-school for wildly inappropriate attire. She's twelve.

The mother is outraged by the school's decision:

Ronda Gray, the mother, says school officials were out of line in deeming the shirt, part of the upscale Juicy Couture clothing line, inappropriate.

“In my opinion, the word ‘Juicy’ means sweet and nothing more,” she said. “I mean, this is a brand made for toddlers, too.”

In my opinion, you should wait at least until your daughter is fifteen until attempting to turn her out as a whore. Let's have some decency here, huh, Rhoda?

"Upscale Juicy Couture clothing line." Yeah. It's classy. Especially for children.

I find the "Juicy Angel" shirt a bit too crude and obvious. I prefer the more subtle Will Engage In Semi-Anonymous Oral Sex In A Futile Attempt At Validation and Combating Low Self-Esteem.

I also like the one that reads I Caught My Mom Fucking Her Parole Officer And It Bothered Me... But In A Hot Kind of Way.

Posted by: Ace at 12:25 PM | Comments (121)
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The news and some vids here.

For some reason I deemed yesterday "Serious Day" and didn't bother.

So let me get this straight: Britney is now unencumbered by the kidlets, and will almost certainly drink and drug herself into an anorexic stupor and continue carrying on like a common whore with deep-seated Daddy Issues.

Was the judge acting in the best interests of the children or the best interests of myself and horny perverts everywhere?

Ah, well. Perhaps a bit of both. Maybe sometimes we can all win together.

Related: Prostitute snorted cocaine off baby's stomach while breastfeeding.

Multitasking, I guess.

Posted by: Ace at 11:35 AM | Comments (39)
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I'm just linking this because I'm all about breaking the national high school pole vault record.

It captivates me in a way the 4-minute mile once did for the nation.

The video avoids even a pandering glimpse of her body and legs, a tasteful decision I wholeheartedly applaud.*

* My method of applause usually tends to be hanging myself in the utility shed.

But for the sickies out there:

Not for me. She just doesn't have the bronzed, healthy skin that attracts me.

Since I've already supplied the cowbell, I might as well mention the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new record yesterday, and it's only a bit off the mark even in the face of rising oil prices and a disappointing homes report.

Thanks to Herosmith.

Posted by: Ace at 11:20 AM | Comments (62)
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I've had this article open in my tabs since yesterday. I'm happy Jeff Goldstein finally did my work for me.

Thanks to CJ.

Oh... Zimbabe is going to finally stop its 6000%+ hyperinflation by introducing the "Sunshine Two" currency, replacing the "Sunshine One" currency just released. In both currencies, they just seem to lop three or four zeros off the face value of the old devalued currency and claim the currency is now stable... for eight minutes.

I hear he's handing out buttons similar to those pushed by the Ford Administration, which say "Lynch, Rape, and Ethnically Cleanse Inflation Now."

Whoever could have predicted a racist, Marxist thug would so badly mismanage an economy and drive off or murder a great part of the productive class?

Liberals and leftists live in a world of childlike wonder, as they're always re-discovering stuff every two or three years the rest of us learned as teenagers.

Posted by: Ace at 10:47 AM | Comments (22)
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Is that a human phalange in your pocket
or are you just happy to see me?

Okay, I lied. It's not human skin; it's just a synthetic made to look very much like human skin (including scars and tattoos, and also -- nipples, as its bags are supposed to be hollowed-out breasts).

Allah says hoax. I say not a hoax per se, though it's certainly a publicity stunt.

The thing is about fashion and art is that they're all about "shocking" us with tiresomely predictable sorts of provocations and I resent taking the bait. So I guess I'll just say that it annoys me that they're using synthetics when some people are trying to make a damn-blasted livelihood over hunting and skinning hobos and rummies.

Yeah, rummies too. Hobos are hard to track down, with that whole train-jumping lifestyle of theirs. Rummies tend to pick a gutter and squat.

Posted by: Ace at 10:41 AM | Comments (28)
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It's not merely despicable, it's transparent.

How they can even continue posturing as neutral fact-finders presenting the news without favor or prejudice is beyond me. Do they not even understand they are lying to claim this posture? Or does it simply not even matter to them anymore?

The FT reports that all violent deaths are down by half in Iraq just from last month (and the long-term trendline is even more dramatic), and yet the WaPo feels its front-page coverage should be all about a recent bombing and trumped-up charges against Blackwater.

They always claim that there are "neutral" principles that determine newsworthiness. One of these principles is the "watershed" element -- different news is more newsworthy than more of the same simply because it is new news and not the continuation of the same old news. The MSM justified its wall-to-wall coverage of the initial insurgent attacks because they were a contrast -- a change in storyline -- over the previous one of an easy, quick, relatively low-casualty victory over Saddam's regime.

This principle seems neatly disregarded whenever the storyline changes to a more optimistic take in Iraq. Now, suddenly, "once more, with feeling" trumps the change-in-storyline factor.

At some point this stops being simple bias and because active dishonesty. And I think that point was a couple of years ago, actually.

Thanks to CJ.

Posted by: Ace at 10:29 AM | Comments (15)
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One guy, an amputee, was keeping his severed leg in a meat-smoker in a storage unit so that when he died he could be buried whole.

But he didn't pay his storage unit fees, and now someone else owns the meat-smoker and the leg. And is showing it off for $3 a pop.

I don't know the law on this precisely, but I'm pretty sure custody won't be awarded to Britney Spears.

Posted by: Ace at 10:05 AM | Comments (21)
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