Mandatory Arabic Classes May Be Coming to Some Texas Schools, Thanks to U.S. Education Department Grants: Will This Create an International Incident?

Although the local school district claims its plans are now "on hold," the Arabic "language and culture" classes were to be (and may still be) mandatory at an elementary school and an intermediate school in Mansfield, Texas (while optional for the older kids in middle school and high school).

The classes would be brought to the kids courtesy of Uncle Sam and federal Education Department grants (link to full story at bottom), reportedly based upon Obama's Education Department ordaining from on high that Arabic is the "language of the future." And even if this plan doesn't go forward in Texas, you can bet it'll be pushed somewhere else. My reactions to this controversial story:

1. On these grants, why is Obama and our federal government looking at the Middle East and discriminating against the Persian language and culture in favor of the Arabs? Iran and "President" Ahmadinejad are not going to be happy about this. I thought the goal was to appease him, no? Two words: Oil. (And I don't want to even think what Spanish-ranting Hugo Chavez's reaction might be!)

2. You're really telling me that you're going to try to teach Arabic to Generations Y and Z? They've never learned English!

3. But seriously: If you're going to mandate that a language be taught in addition to English, then why would it not be the language that's spoken the most in the United States next to English – i.e. Spanish?

And if English and Spanish are both already mandatory in these Texas schools, then I think that's plenty in terms of mandatory language instruction. I mean, what’s next? Mandatory Sanskrit? There are only so many school hours in the day, after all, and many critical subjects beyond language to be taught.

Bottom line: Regardless of whether or not the Texas schools ultimately go through with their plan (and as stated, other locales will try the same thing), this is still an example of more of the wonderfully enlightened and wise use of your tax dollars by our illustrious federal government. It's little wonder that same government is $14.1 trillion in debt. Maybe next they can use federal grants to try to mandate what the school kids can eat for lunch. Oh wait…

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/mandatory-arabic-classes-coming-to-mansfield/

They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies:Charlie Sheen to be Portrayed in Film – A Porn Film, That Is! But Who Will Play Him & What Will Be the Title?

First she cashed in to the tune of 30 grand for having sex and partying with the "Two and a Half Men" star during the notorious recent 36-hour "sex, drugs and booze bender" that landed Sheen in the hospital and rehab. And now 22-year-old porn star Kacey Jordan (pictured above & on the left) is set to cash in again by portraying herself in a porn film that recreates Charlie's Big Bender (link to full story at bottom).

Jordan will reportedly make "tens of thousands of dollars" for the film, which is said to be a "big budget porn movie" (meaning, presumably, that the producers may actually have a 100 grand or two to throw around).

Initially, the producers of the upcoming flick wanted all of the various porn stars who participated in the 36-hour bash to also appear in the movie along with Kacey Jordan. Jordan was even offered 100 grand if (1) she would appear and (2) could persuade the others to appear. But alas, none of the other partying porn dames is apparently interested, including 19-year-old porn ladies GiGi Rivera and Melanie Rios.

Reportedly, "it is unclear who will play Sheen in the movie," and the film does not yet have a title. But here are some of my own suggestions on both fronts:

Potential Titles:

1. Young Buns

2. Platoon a’ Born Babes

3. Two and a Half Eightballs

4. Red Dong

5. Being John Holmes

6. Major League IV: Back In the Minors

7. Eight Women In

8. Rated X: Literally

9. Hot Shots Trente-Six

10. Ball Street: Charlie Never Sleeps [a title previously featured in this space]

Potential Actors to Play Sheen:

The actor who "lands" this "role" will (1) need to be in Sheen's age range (over 40, which automatically disqualifies younger porn actors such as Brian Pumper) and (2) probably have previous porn acting experience. Keeping those criteria in mind, here's a list of 10 candidates (in alphabetical order; and no, I didn't know most of this info previously, but rather took a few minutes to research IMDb and Wikipedia):

1. Seymore Butts (age 46) (starred in Shhwing, Uranus or Bust, and Big Boobs in Buttsville) [TIR: a plus for Mr. Butts is the fact that he's considered a prolific porn director, and therefore he could wear two...well...]

2. Ben Dover (age 55; British) (has appropriately already starred in Crack Attack, as well as such films as Duke of Knockers and Beavers and Butt-Cheeks) [TIR: he would have to work on his American accent to land the role]

3. Ron Jeremy (age 57) (has appropriately already starred in Charlie's Death Wish, as well as such films as Tales from the Crapper and Poultrygeist) [TIR: Deserves top consideration since he's an all time porn legend, not to mention having already starred in Charlie's Death Wish]

4. Anthony Hardwood (age 43) (starred in Rack 'em Up, Kung Pow Kitty, and Porn Valley P.T.A.) [TIR: Hardwood has a good resume, but he would have to overcome his Gabor-like Hungarian accent]

5. Pat Myne (age 44) (starred in War on a Rack, Just Juggs, and Stop! My Ass Is on Fire) [TIR: He's the right age and has plenty of film "experience," but he may be overlooked in an otherwise crowded field of candidates]

6. Evan Seinfeld (age 43) (a.k.a. Spyder Jonez) (starred in XXX Box, Sleazy Riders, and Teradise Island) [TIR: Has to be a top candidate since not only has he starred in porn films and is married to a porn wife in Tera Patrick -- he's also a rock star, having been a bassist and vocalist in the metal band Biohazard. Not to mention, he starred in HBO's hoosegow epic, "Oz." It gets no cooler than Evan Seinfeld.]

7. Rocco Siffredi (age 46) (starred in Captain Organ, Ass Collector, and Rocco: Animal Trainer) [TIR: Similar to Ron Jeremy, the "Italian Stallion" is an all time porn legend, but he has an edge on Jeremy in that he's closer to Sheen's age]

8. Long Dong Silver (age 50) (old-school porn star who starred in Beauty & the Beast, Sex Freaks, and Electric Blue) [TIR: He would have to come out of retirement, but any porn star cool enough to have been at the center of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Supreme Court confirmation saga should receive strong consideration for the Sheen role]

9. Dick Smothers, Jr. (age 46) (has appropriately already starred in Sex Trek: Charly XXX, Sex Games Vegas and Blow!) [TIR: He may be the strongest candidate in the field for several reasons. First, he has the best resume, given the titles he's already starred in and the fact that's close in age to Sheen. Second, like Sheen, Junior is a second generation show biz dude, being the son of the Dick Smothers from the old Smothers Brothers TV show. Finally, Dick has a bit of the Evan Seinfeld rock star thing going, having been the bassist and lead singer for 80's metal band Kamikaze.]

10. Dark horse candidate: Emilio Estevez [TIR: Sure, Sheen's brother has never done any porn, but he has a striking resemblance to Sheen and, moreover, could use the work].

End analysis: My leading candidates are Smothers and Seinfeld, but don't count out porn legends such as Jeremy and Siffredi, nor that dark horse candidate!

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1617632.php/Porn-star-set-to-recreate-Charlie-Sheen-bender-in-new-adult-movie

"He'll Feel Better After He's Robbed a Few Banks": Man Gets Out of the Hoosegow, Then Allegedly Pulls a Bank Job Only Hours Later & Heads to Walmart!

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had just arrived in Bolivia, looking to escape the pursuit of American authorities and to start their criminal enterprise anew in the South American country. However, Sundance quickly develops a sour mood when he sees the poor, third-world quality of the Bolivian countryside.

But Butch reassures their female companion. "He'll feel better after he's robbed a few banks," says Butch. I wonder if a similar type of anxious thought was going through the mind of Pennsylvania's Richard Brandon Johnson (pictured immediately above) upon his release from the pokey last week (links to full story at bottom).

That's because Johnson had only been out of the can a few hours when he allegedly boosted an SUV from a Walmart parking lot (dude really seemed to like hanging around Walmarts – read on) and drove the vehicle to go pull a bank job in Benscreek, Pa.

But as an alleged criminal, Johnson ain't exactly a flaming wit. Cops say he entered the bank without any mask or disguise, which allowed him to be easily identified on the bank’s surveillance video. He reportedly did know enough, however, to order the bank teller not to include any dye packs with the loot, which would have exploded and permanently marked the cash later on.

Johnson's alleged take from the score was a measly $1,100, which might have been what led the local police chief – immediately after the bank robbery – to proclaim: "We need to get him before he does another job."

But it turns that that the chief really had nothing to worry about: After this piece of work went down, Johnson allegedly headed back to a Walmart, apparently to do some casual shopping!

However, before Johnson could so much as shop for a ski mask for his next job, cops say an "alert citizen" and fellow Walmart shopper spotted Johnson as a local bank robbery suspect and fingered him to the police. The bust went down right there at the discount store.

Now, I might be able to imagine some of Johnson's alleged crazy behavior if he was some hardened criminal getting out of the joint after doing some hard time – but that definitely wasn't Johnson. He had been in the county clink only about a month in connection with an assault charge (cops say he clocked his old lady right in the face on New Year's Day). He had been released on a $10,000 recognizance bond, and the judge says that a plea deal had been "in the works" for Johnson on the assault rap.

But now, he's back in the ice house and faces a $500,000 bond if he wants another taste of freedom before his trial on bank robbery charges. And since prosecutors appear to have this dude on tape with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, I don't see too many more plea deals in Johnson's future.

Johnson himself is providing no clues for why he allegedly went on a crime spree only a few hours after getting out of the freezer. He clammed up and gave cops the silent treatment, saying only "Hi, mom" to reporters at his arraignment.

Now he may have to do his waving to mama from the inside of a cell for a long, long time to come. And to think, if he had just done his shopping at that first Walmart before the bank job (allegedly), he might still be on the loose. (Assuming a mask or disguise purchase, of course). I'm confident Butch and Sundance never would have made that same mistake.

http://tribune-democrat.com/local/x856147008/Suspect-held-in-bank-heist

http://tribune-democrat.com/local/x1293239616/Plea-deal-was-in-works-Judge

Still Crazy After All These Years: Would-Be Ronald Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Reportedly Gets Along Only Too Well in the Nuthouse...

It was one of those moments when you recall exactly where you were. Like 9-11, the space shuttle disasters, the Kennedy assassination, and Pearl Harbor for the old-timers. It was March 30, 1981. I was in fourth grade. Mrs. Cornshucker came into our classroom at Franklin Elementary after a recess and told us that the president had been shot and that it wasn't known whether he'd survive.

But he did, of course, and regardless of what you think of him, it is indisputable that Ronald Reagan had one of the most historical presidencies in American history. Today is the 100th anniversary of his birth, and this weekend The Daily checked back in with the nut job who shot Reagan and three others in 1981.

John Hinckley never spent a day in the joint for his crime -- which the whack job said was his nutty attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster (with whom he had become obsessed after watching her play a kiddie hooker in the film Taxi Driver).

Instead, the deranged lunatic and bona fide slimeball was committed to the loony bin, where he's been ever since (he's now 55). And as The Daily's story details, he's livin' it up pretty good in the ol' snake pit (link to full story at bottom).

The story describes the maniacal Hinckley as a "Caged Casanova" with a new girlfriend for whom he's "going gaga." Her name is Cynthia Bruce (pictured at the top with her beau).

The couple met in the madhouse (errr, St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital in Washington DC) and have been dating since at least October 2010. But they let Bruce out of the cuckoo’s nest at some point, as she's now described as a "former psychiatric patient" who lives in her own apartment.

The 45-year-old Bruce says that the affair she's got going with madman Hinckley is a "positive thing" and that she's doesn't care what anyone thinks about it. She also says she sees "value" in the demented failed assassin.

Bruce also cries "none of your damn business" if you try to ask her what the strange brew duo does for fun: "I don’t want to hurt or derail anybody, including myself," she said cryptically.

The Daily also reports that the crazed couple was "recently photographed cuddling outside St. Elizabeth’s psych ward," spending "an hour together on a sunny afternoon" and "sharing sodas and snacks" (I'm guessing nuts, crackers and bananas). How romantic. (Hinckley, BTW, is permitted to spend limited time outside the lunatic asylum and even has a driver's license).

Apparently they don't let Bruce spend the night with Hinckley at the funny farm, however, since following that recent "sunny afternoon," she took the subway home to her one-bedroom apartment. That joint, BTW, is reportedly decorated with "Christian posters [and] biblical passages" by the "very religious" Bruce.

Interestingly, Bruce might want to pack up those decorations and try to find a way back into the bughouse so that she can keep a better eye on her creepy, underdone old man. I say that because Hinckley gets around. A real player around the psycho ward, you could say: The man who lost his marbles but kept his stones. Women go bonkers for the aging, batty psychopath.

Specifically, Hinckley has dated female patients before there at the crazy house, including an unhinged "Ms. M" (a patient "suffering from bipolar disorder") as well as a daft "Ms. G" who was actually cheating on her own old man with Hinckley! Apparently they don't call that place the booby hatch for nothing.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/05/020511-news-hinckley-02/

The Diplomacy of Bullying, Booze & Boorish Blueblood Behavior: Reported Devilwoman Ambassador & Obama Pal Cynthia Stroum Resigns in Disgrace.

Earlier this week, she quit the gig that Obama selected especially for her, just days before a scathing internal State Department report was released concerning her so-called "performance" on the cushy job of being Obama's ambassador to the quaint little European nation of Luxembourg.

Her name is Cynthia Stroum, and she was a significant and official pal, fundraiser and contributor to Obama long before the State Department ever blasted her embassy management skills as "abysmal" and a "disaster" (link to full story at bottom).

The report from the State Department's inspector general paints the picture of a nightmare of an ambassador -- a regular dragonlady, you might say -- who spent her tenure in Luxembourg verbally abusing underlings, worrying mostly about the perks of the job, and spending inordinate amounts of taxpayer money on booze. More on all of that later. But first:

The Rise

You might ask, how could such a person ever ascend to an ambassadorship in the first place? Well, as the linked AP story puts it, "Stroum's major qualification for the post appeared to be her generous contributions to Democratic politicians and causes, particularly Obama's campaign."

This included "Stroum donating the maximum personal amount to Obama's campaign" and being "responsible for ginning up at least $500,000 for Obama, putting her near the top of the campaign's money generators."

I think they have a phrase for this in the American mafia: "If you earn, you rise." And rise she did. Though she had no prior diplomatic experience, Obama in 2009 named Stroum ambassador to Luxembourg – "a tiny nation of 500,000 people about the size of Rhode Island and surrounded by France, Belgium and Germany" (final picture above). Put another way: A dream gig.

The Lout

The State Department's report found that Stroum's "tenure was fraught with personality conflicts" and "verbal abuse," among other things. It charges Stroum with being responsible for a "corrosive atmosphere" involving "the ambassador running roughshod over staff [and] threatening to read their e-mails."

The State Department also found that most of the embassy's internal problems were linked directly to Stroum's "leadership deficiencies, the most damaging of which is an abusive management style." She would publicly criticize her colleagues and staffers, and those who dared to ever question any of Stroum's behavior "paid a heavy price in the form of verbal abuse and [being] threatened with dismissal."

Things got so bad that "the inspector general recommended that the State Department dispatch medical personnel to Luxembourg to test the stress levels of embassy employees." Incredibly, "at least four staffers quit or sought transfers to Iraq and Afghanistan"! How bad must it have been to work under this "lady" if staffers felt compelled to seek transfers to dangerous hellholes such as Afghanistan and Iraq? Good grief.

The Booze

The State Department's report also detailed various "questionable expenditures" by ambassador Stroum on such things as "travel, wine and liquor." For example, the report revealed that her embassy "purchased $3,400 in wine and liquor a day before the 2010 budget year ended in an effort to spend as much of its annual entertainment funds as possible."

In other words, there were thousands and thousands of dollars in the embassy’s annual "entertainment" budget, and Stroum was determined to spend every single penny of that budget, damn it – even if it meant making arbitrary and unnecessary booze purchases simply for the sake of spending the entire budget. That's just sick. Deplorable. Disgraceful. Deranged.

The Perks

Stroum, a highly wealthy Seattle blueblood, really loved her perks of the job as well! In fact, they were her main focus. The report finds that Stroum was "largely concerned about job-related perks" – an emphasis that reared its ugly head almost from day one: Shortly after she arrived in Luxembourg in 2009, Stroum made a point to discuss with the embassy's staffers "the importance she attaches to the perquisites of being an ambassador."

As an example, the report finds that Stroum was "particularly concerned about the state of the ambassador's residence, which was being renovated." During the renovation, Stroum needed temporary housing. A simple matter, right? WRONG!

Stroum had an embassy official spend "six weeks searching for an appropriate property and, using contacts in Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and France along with two offices from the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, screened 200 properties and visited 30 to 40”!

But alas, all of this manpower and manhours only resulted in the embassy finding four properties "that met the ambassador's requirements." And a big surprise here: When staffers ran the four properties by Stroum, she rejected every single one of them! Somehow, eventually, an "appropriate residence" was found for Stroum, the report says. Against all odds, apparently.

I'm sure that to Stroum, the "appropriate residence" needed to be one "fit for a queen," as that's very clearly how this out-of-touch aristocrat viewed herself. To wit: Her Highness even applied her regal self-image to her royal bedroom furniture, obtaining reimbursement "for the purchase of a new bed because she preferred a queen bed" (what else?) to the bed already provided. (The report says that this nonsensical "queen bed" reimbursement needs to be repaid by Stroum, BTW.)

The Fall

Finally, while it's obvious that Her Majesty quit the ambassadorship because the State Department's blistering report was about to be publicly released, Stroum admits no fault and actually claimed to the Luxembourg press that "she was leaving the job because she wanted to return to private life" and "focus on my family and personal business."

Even the State Department joined in on that line of bull$hit, stating: "We are grateful for her service to the United States and wish her all the best in her new endeavors."

Meantime, Stroum has run for the hills just as fast as her blueblooded hooves would allow. She's not returning calls from the media, and she's having others say that she's "unavailable" in response to any and all media inquiries.

Of course, it says very little for Obama's better judgment that he would select such a bad-mouthing, booze-ordering beast of a verbal bully like Stroum to serve in an ambassadorship in the first place. The buck stops at the top, and I hold him just as accountable for this complete embarrassment as that narcissistic, primpin' prima donna herself.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icvkPhBDrb3c8ySkXkQURKNJ9sSw?docId=306882dbed82458e8897d5afef59d730

No Need For a Wire: Apparently Down to His Last Bar, Burglary Suspect Allegedly Charges His Cell Phone at Crime Scene, Then Forgets It There!

Apparently this dude's never seen HBO's "The Wire," or else he would know that cell phones and crime do not mix. For example, if you try to charge your cell phone at the scene of a crime, you might always forget to scoop it up before making your getaway. And that's exactly what cops in Maryland say happened to 26-year-old Cody Wilkins (pictured on the left), who now stands charged in 10 home burglaries involving jewelry thefts (link below).

Following a snowstorm, more than 200,000 Montgomery County, Maryland residents had been without power recently, and cops say Wilkins was among them. Thus, "he needed a place – anyplace, it seems – to charge his phone." And what better place that in someone else's home during a burglary!

I'm trying to understand Wilkins' thought process here (allegedly): OK, I got two things I need to accomplish today:
(1) Pull another jewelry heist; and (2) Find someplace to charge up this damn cell phone. Wait! I can multitask! Kill two birds with one stone! If I can just find a home with power, I can knock the joint over and get a good charge into my phone!

But so much for the best laid plans of mice and men. Cops say Wilkins found a home with power, entered through a rear window and started "rifling through the rooms." But that's when the owner's son showed up!

Cops say that hearing the son's entry downstairs frightened Wilkins, who allegedly jumped out a window and ran away. When the cops arrived, they found "a cell phone, charging in an electric socket, that didn't belong to the homeowner." Two words:
BUS-TED! [BTW, no word yet whether this multitasking marauder also had some supper going on the home's stove when he was forced to flee].

Cops quickly found out the identity of the phone's owner by pulling a little "ruse" in which they used the same cell phone and called a number that had been programmed into it. They told the woman who answered that the man to whom this cell phone belonged had been involved in an "incident" and they needed to know his name.

Turns out that the woman was Wilkins' girlfriend, and she quickly led cops straight to the phone-charging bandit (allegedly). When cops got to Wilkins' home, there was apparently no disruption in his water service, since they say he was in the $hithouse trying to flush jewelry down the toilet.

Cops have pinned 10 burglaries on Wilkins so far, and more are probably on the way: It seems that the area has suffered more than 40 similar jewelry heists since January 1, not to mention that Lindsay Lohan (who can't leave California) has an airtight alibi.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020206010.html?hpid=sec-metro

"Lindsay Lohan Accused of Major Jewel Heist": What’s Next, Knocking Over a Gas Station or Maybe Pulling a Bank Job?

What gives? Is she destitute? Or just innocent? Lindsay Lohan stands accused by an L.A. jewelry store owner of swiping a "one-of-a-kind" necklace from the store (links at bottom).

The alleged jewel heist went down at the Kamofie & Company jewelry story in Venice, California, but it didn't exactly involve the Pink Panther diamond. Instead, the missing piece is a $2,500 "gold necklace with semiprecious stones." A full police investigation is underway, with Lohan’s handlers over the past day turning over a necklace to the cops.

A surveillance video reportedly shows Lohan inside the store "wearing the necklace just before it vanished," although not showing her actually leaving with it. It's also reported that the store owner gave cops a picture that shows Lohan wearing the necklace one week later.

Lohan is currently on probation for DUI since leaving the Betty Ford clinic in January, and I'd think that a nice little jewel heist (allegedly) would be quite the probation buster. It could also mean some hard time in the hoosegow. TMZ is reporting that a "source closely connected with the case says charges are 'likely'" – and they could be for grand theft and/or burglary.

But it all begs the questions of why she would lift a $2,500 necklace in the first place? Despite her drug problems, I've not heard of her being in bad financial straits. The linked Hollywood Gossip story predicted yesterday: "Knowing Lindsay . . . she'll claim she wore [the necklace] out of the story 'by accident.'"

Well, it turns out that wasn't too far off. The very latest in this story has TMZ further reporting Lohan's purported "side of the story" (last link at bottom). Lohan claims she merely "borrowed" the necklace, and she's trying to blame a stylist for "forgetting to return it on time."

That seems fairly flimsy to me, since if the necklace had been merely "loaned" to Lohan, then why is the owner of the store all gung-ho about prosecuting? If that's Lohan's story and she's sticking to it, methinks she better gear up to give her best acting performance to date in front of the judge (if the "likely" charges are filed, of course).

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/02/lindsay-lohan-accused-in-major-jewel-heist-seriously/
http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/02/lindsay-lohan-jewelry-store-venice-california-ca-necklace-grand-theft-shoplifting-prosecution/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/02/lindsay-lohan-necklace-theft-allegation-under-review-by-prosecutors.html
http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/02/lindsay-lohan-jewelry-grand-theft-jewelry-store-necklace-store-loan-stylist-search-warrant-lapd-cops-investigation/

A New Day & New Charlie Sheen Revelations: He Partied Like "Scarface" w/ Not One, Not Two, But Three Porn Babes Prior to Last Week's Hospitalization!

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Blizzard 2011 & An Inconvenient Truth: Midwest Hit with Worst Blizzard in Decades During the Worst Winter Most of Us Can Recall.

Sorry, Charlie Sheen, but this storm is big news today: Blizzard-like winds, bitter sub-zero wind chills, snow totals of 1-2 feet (oftentimes with a nice sheet of ice underneath), and whiteout conditions are greeting Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and huge swaths of the Midwest today in perhaps the worst one-day snow storm since the pre-World War I days of the early Twentieth Century (links at bottom; images above from the Kansas City Star and Weather.com). And the Northeast is next up in this storm's crosshairs (apologies to CNN and the American left).

Virtually unprecedented things are occurring with this storm. The Governors of Missouri and Kansas have declared a "state of emergency" due to weather conditions. Illinois mobilizes its National Guard. An airport shuts down in Dallas, Texas. Interstate 70 is completely closed across mid-Missouri. Places of business that hardly ever close for an entire day -- such as malls and law firms -- are closed. Other businesses that rarely close at all, such as banks, are widely closing early.

And it's on a God-awful day like today, during the middle of the most despicable winter that I can recall, that I'm left to think of the likes of Al Gore and the democrat party and their incessant calls for massive increases in federal regulatory powers and federal bureaucracy under the guise and excuse of far leftist "climate change" legislation (previously called "global warming" by the American left, although not any longer).

How's that Cap'n Trade "climate change" bill working out for ya, democrat party? Since everyone's at home paying no attention to anything but the weather today, it might be a perfect time for Pigsnout Waxman to deliver to Harry Reid hundreds of pages of new amendments to the bill, and then try to jam it through the Senate when no one's looking. "Never let a good crisis [here a terrible blizzard] go to waste," no? I still recall when you guys rammed the health care monstrosity through the Senate on a snowy Christmas Eve in 2009. Can we get a redux with the Cap'n Trade?

Oh, but wait! None of those maneuvers will work. Not any longer. I forgot this is 2011 -- not 2009 or 2010. Well, it was just a thought. Damn pesky democracy, elections and ignorant populace. Now excuse me while I go shovel snow for the third time already today.

2/2/2011 Update: Sure enough today, Al Gore is actually trying to blame this blizzard on global warming! (http://blog.algore.com/2011/02/an_answer_for_bill.html) Fortunately for the world, the masseuse-loving (allegedly), Internet-inventing divorcee Gore could not more irrelevant these days. And while he may not be taken seriously any longer, he does work for a good laugh quite often.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/01/2624165/another-winter-storm-arrives-in.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_6340e01f-16f6-55c9-b739-7f07c33e37a7.html
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/storm-impacts-midwest-february_2011-02-01
http://dailyherald.com/article/20110130/news/701309913/

Hey Porn Babe – Can You Babysit My Kids at My Sex Palace?

As Charlie Sheen enters rehab again this week, startling new details are beginning to emerge concerning the endless wild-ass bender that this dude had been on over the past six months. From RadarOnline and the New York Post (link at bottom):

-The 45-year-old "horndog actor" reportedly spent over $500,000 on hookers, booze and blow over the last half-year!

-A friend says that Sheen " 'consumed mountains of cocaine and other drugs' as he partied uncontrollably" during that period, although his preference was "to smoke cocaine."

-Sheen's "nightly habit" would be to spend tens of thousands of dollars on "drugs and two girls," whom "he would typically pay $5,000 to $10,000 for the night."

-The endless bender finally hit a brick wall with the now-infamous 36-hour party last week involving "sex, drugs and booze," a "briefcase full of cocaine," 22-year-old porn star Kacey Jordan (pictured above), and a "bevy of other women."

-Kacey says that Sheen offered her five grand to attend the party, but that he later wrote her a check for 30 grand. [He must have found her to be a better-than-expected conversationalist].

-Kacey also says that "Sheen asked if she could babysit his children at a mansion he was setting up to be his sex palace." [I assume a babysitter would be necessary at the "sex palace" for when Sheen would need to leave the grounds to make a coke run. BTW: Asking a porn star to a sex palace to babysit? Wouldn’t that be like asking a janitor to a $hithouse to do a song and dance routine?]

-Says Kacey: "He’s like, 'Can you babysit? I need a girl I can rely on to babysit,' you know?" [Since who could possibly be a more reliable person with whom to entrust your kids than a pornographic priestess?! Goo Goo Ga Joob!]

-Apparently Sheen's crazy antics were eventually a bit too much even for porn star Kacey, since she took off before last week's party was even over. But that didn't stop Sheen. Kacey says that when she left, "he was naked in his bed and still smoking cocaine from the pipe, hours before he was rushed to the hospital."

-Kacey's ultimate assessment? "I've never seen someone so self-destructive and able to take in so much at once," she told ABC News.

-But it ain't just self-destruction we're talkin' about: Sheen's hit show "Two and a Half Men" is on hiatus while Sheen's in rehab, and The Hollywood Reporter says this week that CBS "could lose as much as $250 million" in syndication revenue and "millions more in lost ad revenue."

So nevermind the 500 grand that Sheen "blew." I think the cost to CBS may just make Sheen's six-month shindig truly the most expensive bender in the history of the civilized world.

http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/national/actor_charlie_sheen_blew_past_hookers_PA65YQlfyVQ3A4GaPIOIdO