EDITOR’S NOTE: This may be the greatest celeb candid ever taken. It actually captures the loogie in mid-flight! Shades of Johnny Cash’s immortal middle finger! Seriously, give that guy a Pulitzer. And if anyone has earned the right to spit in the camera’s eye, it’s Miss Beehive 1965. God save Amy Winehouse. Please, God, we don’t ask for much. RELATED: The troubled singer Amy Winehouse finally has something to look forward to after receiving six Grammy nominations this afternoon. Winehouse, who has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, received the second-highest number of nominations for the […]
Tom Ridge & The Selling Out Of Homeland Security
In its report, Homeland Security for Sale – DHS: Five Years of Mismanagement, CREW details billions of dollars in waste and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, for example: —$24 billion has been spent, and at least $178 million wasted, on the failed Coast Guard Deepwater program; –over $600 million has been allocated for unworkable radiation border scanners; —$1.3 billion has been lost on the US-VISIT program, which was never fully implemented and –projected $2 billion loss on the SBInet “virtual fence” border program. MORE
PAPERBOY: Super-Dooper ‘All I Want For Christmas Is A Fat Sack Of AK47 Peace On Earth’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN We know how it is: so many words to read, so little time to surf for free porn. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you, freeing up valuable nanoseconds that can now be better spent ‘roughing up the suspect’ over at Suicide Girls or what have you. Every Thursday we pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer you towards the gooey caramel center of each edition. Why? Because we like you. ON THE COVER: CITY PAPER: […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
GET REAL ESTATE: Subprime Crisis Spurs Home Loan Interest Rate Freeze WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has hammered out an agreement to freeze interest rates on certain subprime mortgages for five years to combat an escalating number of home foreclosures, congressional aides said Wednesday. A person familiar with the matter said the rate freeze would apply to borrowers with loans made from Jan. 1, 2005, through July 30 of this year with rates that are scheduled to rise between Jan. 1, 2008, and July 31, 2010; likewise, the program would only be available for owner-occupied homes — to ensure the […]
When Beer Was The AK47 Super-Weed Of Its Day
Wednesday, December 5th was the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. KYW’s John McDevitt spoke with the owner of the nation’s oldest brewery, in nearby Montgomery County, Pa., and what his family did to stay in business during the ban on alcohol.Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville went into business 178 years ago. They were established for about 90 years before Prohibition. Dick Yuengling is the fifth generation running the brewery. He says that during Prohibition his family brewed “near” beer: “Less than one-half of one percent alcohol in (the) product. We called it a ‘cereal beverage.’ There were a couple […]
TMI TV: Kidnap Victim To Host Chat Show
(CNN) — Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian teenager who was held prisoner for eight years in a basement, will have her own television chat show, her media adviser confirmed to CNN Thursday. Natascha Kampusch gives an interview in August 2007, a year after she escaped from her captor. The 19-year-old made headlines around the world after she escaped from a subterranean bunker below the house of Wolfgang Priklopil in a suburb of Vienna 16 months ago. Her captor killed himself by throwing himself under a train only hours after she fled. Kampusch will be hosting a show on the Austrian television […]
SERGE GAINSBOURG & BRIDGITTE BARDOT
“Bonnie & Clyde” RELATED: The young Center City Philadelphia couple charged with stealing many identities and tens of thousands of dollars to live a lavish lifestyle (see related story) has been arraigned on additional charges that they burglarized neighbors’ apartments as part of the alleged scheme. Bail for Jocelyn Kirsch was increased to $105,000, and bail for Edward Anderton was raised to $130,000, based on the new charges. Parents of the two defendants were in the courtroom and looking distraught on Thursday morning. Both families were expected to post bail, after which Kirsch was expected to return to her family’s […]
THE TAO OF MITT: The Book Of Mormon
VIA WIKIPEDIA: The Book of Mormon[1] is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement, regarded by Latter Day Saints as divinely revealed, and named after the prophet?historian Mormon who, according to the text, compiled most of the book. It was published by the founder of the movement, Joseph Smith Jr., in March 1830 in Palmyra, New York, USA. Its purpose, as stated on its title page, “is to show the remnant of the House of Israel what great things the Lord has done for their fathers” and to convince “Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the […]
Suicidal Gunman Kills 8 In X-Mas Mall Massacre
(CNN) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded five others Wednesday at the popular Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before apparently turning the gun on himself, police said. “We do not believe that we have any other shooter,” said Sgt. Teresa Negron. Seven people died at the scene, and two — a man and a woman — died after reaching Creighton University Medical Center. Three of the wounded are in critical condition. The shootings began just before 2 p.m. at the Von Maur store inside the shopping complex.The gunman [NOT pictured, above] had a rifle, Negron said. After the […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Devil’s Playthings
NEWSWEEK: After years of humiliating sexual-abuse scandals, Roman Catholic Church officials are trying harder than ever to convince parishioners that they’re doing everything they can to prevent such tragedies from happening again. That means public education, training programs and — in the New York Archdiocese — a surprisingly direct, abuse-themed coloring book for kids that’s being sent to parishioners across the area. At first glance, “Being Friends, Being Safe, Being Catholic” is what you’d expect from a Christian handout: lessons in loving thy neighbor and knowing we’re all special in God’s eyes, plus a fun word search with names of […]
FORECAST: Positively Himalayan
[Hat tip to reader ANSEL ADAMS for this snap of Sixth & Passyunk taken moments ago] Light snow developing by midday could hamper the afternoon rush hour. Snow showers have already hit Harrisburg and Lancaster, as a storm system moves eastward, having already blanketed the Midwest. The snow could become steady this afternoon in the Philadelphia area, before ending late tonight, according to a National Weather Service snow advisory. Accumulations of 1 to 2 inches of snow are expected. MORE