Faces in the News
Troy Buswell: (edit: Original site is down. Here is another article about it)Politician from Australia who admitted this week that he sniffed the seat of a female staffer who worked for him.
"As revealed by The Sunday Times, Mr Buswell crawled around on his hands and knees in front of a former Liberal staffer before she left the job late in 2005.
In a separate incident, he lifted her chair and started sniffing it after she had sat in it in his parliamentary office.
The scandal follows an admission by the Liberal leader earlier this year that he had snapped open the bra of a Labor staffer."
So Buswell held a press conference and tearfully admitted (sniff, sniff) that he had sniffed the staffers seat. Thankfully he didn't make his embarrassed wife stand next to him during the conference, a favorite move of many American politicians who are embroiled in sex scandals.
Charles Ray Fuller: 21 year old from Texas who was arrested last week for trying to cash a 360 BILLION dollar check that he says his girlfriend's mother gave him to start a record company.
"The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion."
I'm glad the bank had to contact the owner of the check. It does seem a little suspicious now that I think about it.
Fuller was "also accused of unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana" Of course. I wonder if he was high when he started adding zeros to the amount on the check and just couldn't help himself.
Discuss: What sort of music do you think Fuller's record company would have produced? I'm guessing Soft Adult Contemporary.
OMG! She can’t even use a coffee machine!!! LOL!
A Battle for the Ages: Hillary vs. The Coffee Maker!
This video was posted on Drudge and is making the rounds on the Internet.
Really? Is this what it has come to?
First, I have to say that I love the choice of music and I guess watching Hillary fumble with a coffee machine is mildly amusing. "She can't figure out a coffee machine, How's she gonna be able to figure out a solution to this Mortgage mess?" yuk yuk
But is this really what the campaign has come to? Are we that desperate for something to talk about? Oooh you know what would be great? If Hillary had a couple squares of toilet paper stuck to her shoe as she walked around the convenience store. OR maybe if Barack let loose a really stinky fart on the campaign trail. Better still, maybe we can get some footage of McCain fumbling with a cell phone, unable to figure out the T9 function for text messaging. That would show how out of touch he is.
I'm grateful Hillary doesn't wear skirts because if she did I'm sure we'd have photographers trying to get upskirt shots as she gets off her campaign jet. I'm just tired of this campaign. It has gone on for too long so the networks and the Internets try to come up with something, anything, to talk about. Yes they could talk about "the issues" or "the really important stuff" but we both know that stuff is boring and definitely won't cut it for May sweeps. I hope this is just Drudge posting the vid because it gave him a giggle and that it doesn't become any sort of story where Hillary comes out and says, "Well you know those coffee machines can be pretty tricky (smile smile, pander pander)" and then your local news anchors banter about how they have trouble with their own coffee machines sometimes and oh isn't this just something we can all relate to?
She couldn't get a coffee machine to work, so what? Maybe it was broken, maybe she smoked a fatty in the bathroom and was stoned off her ass, who gives a shit? I mean, it's not like she's in the new issue of Vanity Fair wrapped in a bed sheet and showing her back ( it's her BACK people! her BARE BACK!!! AHHHH!!!!). Now that would be a scandal.
And yes I realize it’s somewhat hypocritical to post the video and then criticize the fact that people are posting it/watching it. But you know what? Shut up.