Sounds like she's got a decent gripe. After all, if someone told you you were filming some nice jewelry advert and they made you look as if you were doing porn, you'd be mad too, right?

Right.

Except... check out the ad she filmed.

I hope I'm not giving the joke away when I say Moderate Content Warning.

Dri asks, "How else could she think this ad would play? It is not like they filmed her eating Cheerios and then edited it to make it look like she was having sex."

I think she's going to need to prove she's actually legally retarded if she even wants to survive a motion to dismiss.

Posted by: Ace at 09:29 PM | Comments (24)
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Didn't Jesus have some parable about not being a total dickhead?

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Seems like the initial hunches were right:

Sisters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, were each shot to death. Friends of the girls say their father was Egyptian and critical of popular American lifestyles. "I'm definitely 100% sure that it was her dad that killed her," said Kathleen Wong, a friend of the dead teenagers.

Wong says the girl's father was verbally abusive and that Sarah, especially, lived in fear. "She's always told me that she was always so scared of her dad," says Wong. "Even at school if a teacher joked around like, 'I'm gonna tell your parents about this', she would like totally flip out and start crying like, 'please don't tell'."

What was it that that Muslim spokesman said after a Canadian Muslim killed his daughter? Oh yes: This isn't a problem with Islam or seventh-century Arab traditions; this is a teenager problem.

Well! Problem solved, I guess!

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And the gap between Democratic and Republican affiliation falls to a two-year low.

The number of Americans who consider themselves to be Republicans jumped nearly two percentage points in December to 34.2%. ThatÂ’s the largest market share for the Republican brand in nearly two years, since January 2006 (see history from January 2004 to present).

At the same time, the number of Democrats fell to 36.3%. ThatÂ’s down a point compared to a month ago. During 2007, the number of Democrats has ranged from a low of 35.9% in July to a high of 37.8% in February.

Not too shabby.

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Warden is annoyed by the new/old troll. So am I.

But banning doesn't work.

So, look: Anyone with blogging priviledges, feel free to go to peppermintelfball's/Tom's comments (go to edit the post in question, then look down the list) and edit them to your heart's desire.

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Click on the pic for the answer.

Conservative Belle sent that. I suspect the shirtless torso is photoshopped in, but I just can't wait to put this dick's pic up. Update: See below! Early word from SarahW: It's all too real, baby!

Man, if that's a genuine picture from some swinger's site... oh man oh man oh man. "Friendsearch.com" appears to be a real dating site -- or maybe a real sex-partner site -- because his page closes with this bio:

I love sex. I'm wild about so many ways that sex makes life worth living. I joined this site because the women I'm seeking are both beautiful and adventurous.

Adventurous enough to fuck a bridge-troll who could seriously stand to do some Pilates in between eating smal children?

Man, I gots to get myself on this site. Looks like easy pickin's!

Guess Who, Part II:

Again, click for the answer.

Real?!!? SarahW., who is not, as far as I know, a lunatic, writes:

Since I doubt anyone would photoshop himself to attract mates with that torso, Ace, your suspicions can fall away like my lunch did when I first saw that.

That's a real photo from his old profile. I had signed up with a fake name to check out that profile, when a hit came up on a google search of his email address, days ago ( he used the same email for his law practice! The fool.)

Oh man.

You know, I hate all this politics shit, to be honest with you. It's this stuff that makes me happy, suddenly gets me all jazzed to be barely scraping by writing on Teh Internets all day long like a fifteen year old.

What a wonderful way to ring in the new year.

What can I say? I'm stupid, shallow, glib, lazy, and take far too much pleasure in the misfortunes of others.

And those are my strengths, mind you.

Well... Look, if this guy can get laid on "FriendSearch.com," surely I can.

So I just signed up my damn self, posting one of my sexier candids.

I'm about to be knee-deep in vagina, I'm pretty sure. Better pull on my pooter-galoshes, it's gonna be a wet one.

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ABCNews notes that the Clinton camp is "pre-spinning" a poor showing in Iowa. Rick Klein has Clinton-supporter and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack claiming victory for her even if she ends up in third-place:

"She has done what she needed to do here," Vilsack said shortly before a Clinton campaign event in Indianola. "When she started the process she was way behind — it's now by all standards a competitive race."

ABC's Jake Tapper punches all kinds of holes in the claim that Clinton "started way behind", which has been repeated by her campaign chairman today and by Clinton herself this past weekend:

On Sunday, she told George Stephanopoulos on THIS WEEK, "When I started here, I was in single digits. I mean, nobody expected me to be doing as well as I'm doing in Iowa."

[...]

But more factually, as for starting in single digits, her campaign cannot point to one poll in which she was in single digits.

They send as back-up THIS POLL [PDF] taken more than a year ago in which she was polling at 10 percentage points.

But that was long before she "started here."

And while I may not have been a math major, I'm fairly certain "10" is not a single digit.

The Smartest Woman in The World strikes again.

As far as a Clinton loss in Iowa goes, it was my impression that the party super-delegates had all but assured her of the win. As an alternative to spinning defeat, this kind of talk could be an attempt to create a momentum myth. She can pretend that she wasn't benefiting from her national notoriety long before people were trying to figure out how to say Obama's name.

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A sign on the door leading out of India Company’s Combat Operations Center says “Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet.” For a fraction of second I thought it might be some kind of joke. But I was with the Marine Corps in Fallujah, and it wasn’t a joke.

I asked Captain Stewart Glenn if he could explain and perhaps elaborate a bit on what, exactly, that sign is about. “It’s pretty straightforward,” he said rather bluntly. “It means exactly what it says.”

But the sign's about a plan, not an intention, just reminding the troops that despite the fact that there's almost no violence in Fallujah anymore, there could be, and it's wise to have that plan. Another sign adds a caveat to the message "Have a plan to kill everyone you meet, but don't treat them that way."

Speaking softly but carrying a big .50 caliber stick seems to be working:

It has been months since the jihadists have been able to murder anyone in Fallujah. Only a few weeks before, however, a handful showed up on a street corner and handed out anti-American snuff films on DVD. Apparently they thought the local civilians would be impressed. They were not. They called the Iraqi Police, and the propagandists were taken away to the jail.

Whoops: It's old. Still, hey -- that sign.

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The numbers seem very much inside the MoE, but, if they're right, Thompson's moved from 8% to 12% to pull into a third-place tie with McCain.

4% is a big thing, obviously, when you start at 8%. But then, again, very MoE.

And also very Zogby.

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The girls were 17 and 18, daughters who apparently strayed from their father's ideas of sexual modesty, and so were of course whores who needed to be put down.

And at Fishwrap, cop begin taking note of "Sudden Jihad Syndrome." Maybe it's about time to start admitting those "baffling" crimes with "no motive" but which are definitely "not connected to terrorism" are in fact not terribly baffling, have an easily understood motive, and just may be connected to terrorism after all.

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