ILLEGALS TURNING ON NATIONALS?

We already have the problem of illegal immigrants and children of illegal immigrants overflowing and weighing down public schools in California, Texas, and Arizona, but a new problem is developing....

Children that actually live in Mexico are crossing the United States border daily for class and then going back over the border to finish their homework for the night.

The funny thing is, some immigrants that are likely here illegally are getting upset about Mexican nationals coming here and effecting their children's lives. HEY... WELCOME TO THE DEBATE, DUDES!

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With too many students and too few classrooms, Calexico school officials took the unusual step of hiring someone to photograph children and document the offenders. Santillan snaps pictures at the city's downtown border crossing and shares the images with school principals, who use them as evidence to kick out those living in Mexico.

Since he started the job two years ago, the number of students in the Calexico school system has fallen 5 percent, from 9,600 to 9,100, while the city's population grew about 3 percent.

"The community asked us to do this, and we responded," school board President Enrique Alvarado said. "Once it starts to affect you personally, when your daughter gets bumped to another school, then our residents start complaining." (Ahhh... NOW you see...)

Every day along the 1,952-mile border, children from Mexico cross into the United States and attend public schools. No one keeps statistics on how many.

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School board member Eduardo Rivera estimates there are still 250 to 400 students from Mexico attending Calexico's schools. (AP)
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And that's just in Calexico... a city of roughly 32,000. Imagine what the number is in larger border towns like Brownsville, San Diego, El Paso, Laredo etc.

THE BIZARRE STAR-CROSSED CAREER PATHS OF DUSTIN & PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

While I was watching Philip Seymour Hoffman on screen yesterday during a screening of Charlie Wilson's War, I couldn't get Dustin Hoffman out of my mind. Maybe it was the ridiculous hair and mustache P.S. Hoffman was wearing, maybe it was his short stature and deadpan/monotone voice... and then "duh!", I realized it.... "they share last names".

Just the Fraggles in my brain playing games with me again... or was it?

I started thinking about the films each have been in. Here is a list of similar roles. Is it coincidence, conspiracy, or could Philip Seymour be Dustin's long lost love child with some chick grip on the filming of The Graduate?!?!

THE "DRESS UP IN DRAG" FILMS

Philip S. in Flawless, Dustin in Tootsie



THE "BAD HAIR" FILM

Philip S. in Boogie Nights, Dustin in Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium



THE "PLAYING A REAL LIFE FAMOUS WRITER" FILM

Philip S. in Almost Famous, Dustin in All The President's Men



THE "DAVID MAMET" FILM

Philip S. in State and Main, Dustin in Wag The Dog



THE "PLAYING A 'RETARD' AND WINNING AN ACADEMY AWARD" FILM

Philip S. in Capote, Dustin in Rain Main



THE "SIDNEY LUMET CRIME MOVIE" FILM (WHICH BOTH HAPPEN TO BE ABOUT FAMILY MEMBERS COMMITTING CRIMES TOGETHER)

Philip S. in Before The Devil Knows Your Dead, Dustin in Family Business



THE "PATHETIC SALESMAN" FILM

Philip S. in Punch Drunk Love, Dustin in Death of a Salesman



THE "PLAYING THE UNDERACHIEVING SIDEKICK" FILM

Philip S. in Along Came Polly, Dustin in Midnight Cowboy

This is just the tip of the iceberg!

If you dare go deeper into it your mind might be blown!!

BWA HA HA HA!!!

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR

With so much Middle East meets West intrigue bubbling over in our current mode, making a film like Charlie Wilson's War an interesting one would seem like a slam dunk. But Aaron Sorkin can't think outside the flagged points laid out for him between the covers of the 2003 eponymous book. With an out-of-gas Mike Nichols on board, Charlie Wilson's War comes off like A Few Good Men meets The Birdcage. With Tom Hanks, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Julia Roberts wobbling around in bad mustachioed and toupeed glee the aim of Charlie Wilson's War feels uncomfortably like a 2-hour made for Showtime comedy.

Take a scene near the end, for example.... Rep. Wilson (Hanks) is debating with three members of his sub-committee over the funding of infrastructure rebuilding in Afghanistan. He seeks $1 million dollars; peanuts compared to the $1 billion he drummed up for the Mujaheddin. When his three fellow congressmen laugh him off, Wilson says "That's what we do. We get involved in another country's affairs, then leave..." But the line is delivered with no awareness of it's prescient meaning regarding the war in Iraq. We have stayed, we have been rebuilding infrastructure, we have been training, yet most of the country wants our military out. Whether you are for the Iraq War or not, it's an interesting conundrum for everyone to ponder.

Overall, the Afghanistan/Soviet war - and it's place in our current international crisis - seems like an after thought to Nichols and Sorkin. CWW is more a mini-biopic about Wilson and his affection for women, whisky, and Washington than an emotional lunge at how the backs we scratch sometimes come back to bite us. Even failures like Rendition gave diplomatic complexities such as those more of a go.

KILLING THE OPPOSITION

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No, I'm not saying Musharraf is responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto this morning, but at this point, my gut is telling me he was. The first assassination attempt this fall was rather ominous, then there was the house arrests... all of it coming after Musharraf felt threatened, martial law was instated, and the U.S. had been leaning on him to step down as military commander.

I particularly love this bit from a NY Times story on Christmas Eve:

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After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban , some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped.

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Pakistani officials say they are incensed at what they see as American ingratitude for Pakistani counterterrorism efforts that have left about 1,000 Pakistani soldiers and police officers dead. They deny that any overcharging has occurred. (NY Times)
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Hmmm.... wanna take that back now Pakistan??? $5 billion dollars on counterterrorism aid and you couldn't protect the #1 target of terrorists in your country.... even after repeated attempts on her life?

So yeah, PERVEZ, sorry if I don't really care to believe you when you say: "Terrorists are the greatest threat to Pakistan, and we won't rest till we defeat terrorism.''

I understand the need to handle this situation - and Musharraf - with kid gloves, I really do. Pakistan have nukes, and we surely don't want them getting into the wrong hands. (Not that they aren't already in "wrong hands", but at least they are contained "wrong hands"...) But I'd love to vote for someone who isn't afraid to talk nasty to this "ally" of ours.


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As usual, Victor Davis Hanson succinctly nails the post-Bhutto situation in five brief paragraphs (BOLD is mine):

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We don’t know exactly who assassinated Ms. Bhutto, but, given the infiltration of the Pakistani secret services by Islamic extremists, it seems likely that al-Qaeda-like jihadists, with the deliberate blind eye of the government, were responsible. Same old, same old in the Middle East: The jihadists are cruel and crazy, the dictatorial alternative is duplicitous and illegitimate, and the democratic third way is weak and vulnerable.

Pakistan is a nuclear dictatorship, with a thin Westernized elite sitting atop a vast medieval Islamist badlands that it cannot control. Today’s events show that the very notion of a pro-Western politician coming to power legitimately is unlikely for the immediate future.

Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, among others, have suggested that it’s about time to consider incursions into Pakistan to strike al-Qaeda. That would be like putting a needle into a doughboy: The problem is not a particular region, or a particular Pakistani figure, but Pakistan itself, founded as an Islamic state, and by nature prone to extremism. It is the most anti-American country in the region and we should accept that and move on.

Our relations were always based on the flawed idea its Islamic and autocratic essence made it a good bulwark against communist Russia and socialist India. But the world has changed, and we should too. It is long past time to smile and curtail aid — and quit arming it with weapons that are more likely to be used against our friend India as bin Laden.

I would imagine once most of the “reform” candidates are killed or cowered, the emboldened terrorist animals will turn on their government feeders — even as the Pakistani street somehow blames us. (NRO)
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AW SHUCKS-ABEE

Oh boy! Give the dog a bone why don't you!

Mark my words... the bloggers are gonna have fun with this Reuters photo in the next few days. If you don't immediately look at this photo and think what I'm thinking, then you're a much healthier person than I.

Moving on....

Huckabee tried to appeal to Iowans yesterday by taking some duck huntin' photos. No, it's not as damning as those girly John Kerry-going-wind-sailing pics, or the George Bush Jr. helicopter-helmet-aircraft-carrier photos, or John Edwards acting-like-he-likes-black-people snaps.... but it's goofy and only makes me think of the Nintendo Duck Hunt game.


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Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister, nailed a pheasant during a hunting expedition in southern Iowa. He has rocketed to the top of polls in the Midwestern state, largely on the basis of his appeal to its sizable bloc of religious conservative voters.

"Hopefully we'll just shoot pheasants, not each other," Huckabee told reporters during the outing.
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MEMO to Mike Huckabee: Lay off the lame jokes! But if you insist, can you at least refrain from recycling them. Twice now I've heard the following hair puller:

"I may not have any foreign policy experience,.... but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!"

Yuck yuck... can you finish your answer about Iran now?

And I TOLD YOU he's getting fat again!!! If I were Romney et. al. I would start playing "the fat card". You know, like "How can you trust Governor Huckabee to cut your taxes if he can't even cut his own cholesterol level?!?" You know, something despicable like that....

EXPRESSWAY TO A GOAL?

On the heels of calling for a return to the successful Apatow formula in the previous post (see below), comes two new leaked screen shots from one of his upcoming projects, The Pineapple Express (co-writer & producer):


I really like James Franco.

Although...

Gotta say that I'm a little leery seeing that I'm not a David Gordon Green (TPE's director) fan...

We shall see....

WALK HARD : THE DEWEY COX STORY

This morning in USA Today:

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Although the strong weekend likely assured that 2007 will eclipse last year in ticket sales, the fortune did not extend to Walk Hard. The John C. Reilly comedy, a spoof of movie biographies such as Ray and Walk the Line, was expected to do about $10 million. Despite strong reviews, it managed only eighth place with $4.1 million.

"We're at a loss," says Rory Bruer, distribution chief for Sony Pictures, which released the movie. "We have a really funny movie that everyone at the studio worked really hard on.

"There was no shortage of star power out there this weekend," Bruer says. "Our hope is that as the holidays set in and people have time off, word will spread about what a good movie we've got." (USA Today)
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You're at a loss, Mr. Bruer? Well, let me help you out ... YOUR MOVIE ISN'T FUNNY!!!

Judd Apatow almost had a perfect year in 2008. Knocked-Up and Superbad were knockouts, delivering barrel laughs on the backs of sweet story lines. But Walk Hard is a mere 0-5 laugh generator on the back of a tired parody movie plot line (come back Scary Movie 3... all is forgiven!). If I were Apatow (co-writer & producer), I would disown it as soon as my first biography is written fifteen years down the road. Walk Hard should've been slotted as a January/February dump film rather than a Christmas weekend trophy film.

Watching this mess is watching another reunion of the Apatow/Adam McKay/SNL troupe, and that group's biggest offender, unfortunately, is Walk Hard's director and co-writer... Jake Kasdan. If you remember Kasdan's other 2007 film The TV Set (does anybody??) you'll know that he's now owner of two of the worst comedies of the year. It's quite easy to daydream a "what if..." about the end product of Walk Hard had Apatow plopped down in the director's chair instead.

So, it's equally as easy to place all of the blame on Kasdan's poor comic sensibilities - he deserves most of it - but you gotta question why the talent involved here (and there's a lot of it: Apatow, John C. Reilly, Kristen Wiig, Justin Long, Tim Meadows etc.) didn't step in and have a "quality" intervention. Maybe it's because they've all been flying high for too long, or maybe it was some kind of "emperor's new clothes" mind freeze. Whatever the case, hopefully they've awoken to the hard fact that Walk Hard falls hard,... and then the next go around won't be quite so disastrous.

(KINDA) GOOD NEWS FOR HUCKABEE HATERS... (MAYBE)

If you're playing word association at a holiday party this season, and you say "2008 evangelical candidate" most people will say "Mike Huckabee!". But by looking at the financial donations given by religious contributors, you wouldn't know it.

In fact, Da' Bee comes in fourth ... just a grand over John Edwards (at 5th), and $19,000 less than Mitt Romney (in 3rd... and he's a Mormon!). Hillary (2nd) and Obama (1st) round out the list.


It's too early to tell, but maybe a good chunk of the evangelical/Christian conservative voters won't "Like Mike" in '08 after all.

However... what Huckabee's got going for him is that he gets waaaaay more bang for his buck than any other candidate in the race. For example, he's spent somewhere around $350,000 in Iowa - where he's leading - while Romney has spent around $7 million! - and sits in second place. (So obviously money isn't quite the bellwether it once was. No doubt it helps, but as far as I know, YouTube spots and MySpace pages still cost around $0.00.)

Here's another thing to consider: The difference between an evangelical/Christian, and an evangelical/Christian voter. For example, I would say I work with 7 evangelical/Christians. Only one of whom would vote Republican. Of the remaining 6: 3 told me they will not - and never do - vote, 2 told me they will vote Hillary or Obama, and 1 has never expressed any of his political beliefs in person.

Such a tiny sample size doesn't really tell us anything, of course, but maybe we should assume that evangelicals/Christians are just as disillusioned and fed up with politicians like everybody else...

...and that Huckabee still has a pretty good chance of being nominated.

JUNO

I laughed quite a few times in Juno. Diablo Cody can write a swell joke... but a full screenplay? She's not there yet. Juno is more a piecemeal bucket of clever set-ups than a true film about a pregnant 10th grader. The only high school insight we get is when Juno tells us how jocks quietly pine to pork nerdy "McSweeney girls" and that cheerleaders secretly get wet for Woody Allen quoting English teachers. (Indeed, right now, Cody stands as nothing more than an underdeveloped Woody wannabe, herself,... but for the YouTube generation.)

From there we jump to bizarre Dario Argento, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Mott the Hoople, and Patti Smith references but their context is scattered. It's empty posturing, nifty name-dropping. Diablo Cody wants to share her pop-culture preferences and sensibilities than that of a modern day teenager. Amy Heckerling and John Hughes understood that folly, and made it task numeber one to observe the younger generation before making Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club (all superior screenplays to Juno's).

Even other-worldly teen films like Rushmore - with it's mythical portrayal of teen ambition -, or Brick - with it's playful goof on high school drama playing out like the dark tensions of a film noir -, gave keener demonstrations of postpubescent life. But Cody isn't a total wash. She's definitely got something. In Juno's best set-up, Juno treks some living room furniture over to the front lawn of her boyfriend Paulie's house. The next morning she greets him in a laz-e-boy, rug at her feet, pipe in her mouth, and tells him the pregnant truth. It's a moment of adult future and responsibility meeting an unexpecting teen at the door, yet this type of braininess sadly ran dry for the rest of the film.

THE UPCOMING DUMP MONTHS

Not to jump over the excitement that is these last two weeks of MEGA movie releases, but I'm already looking over the fence into 2008.

Yes, you're going to have the regular January/February dump movies : One Missed Call, The Killing of John Lennon, First Sunday, John Rambo, Skid Marks, 27 Dresses, Made of Honor, Strange Wilderness, Untraceable and last - but not least - , and winner for most audacious title, In The Name of the King : A Dungeon Siege Tale.

[NOTE: This doesn't mean I won't be in line for the above films... especially First Sunday and ITNOTK : ADST. On the latter, it's because of Jason Statham and the fact that I'm in the middle of a dangerously bizarre Uwe Boll crush. Plus, freakin' Burt Reynolds is in it!!]

But quickly in '08 we will get into what could be some possible diamonds in the "dump movie" rough: CJ7, Be Kind Rewind, Cloverfield, Cassandra's Dream, Mad Money, and My Blueberry Nights.

This is why movie obsession is the perfect hobby. You just can't get enough, and there's always enough out there for you to go get.

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2007 (REMIXED & REPLAYED)

Since December 4th, we've had some new additions to the Top 10 Albums of 2007 extravaganza....

Here is my friend George's Top 10

Here is my friend Mandy's Top 10

Here is my friend Victor's Top 10.

Here is my friend Tom's Top 10.

... and last but not least, my Top 10.

And if anyone else has a personal Top 10 Albums/Music list of 2007, please e-mail me and I will gladly post it. After all is said and done, I will try and create a collective MASTER TOP 10 culled from everyone's lists. ... stay tuned!

**** Also stay tuned for my TOP 10 Best & Worst Films of 2007 that will appear after the first of the year.....****

ELMO, DORA, THOMAS THE TRAIN, AND... JIHAD CHICKEN LITTLE?!?!

Below are images from a video circulating in West Yorkshire, England. It's aimed at Muslim children (check out the cartoon chicken in the upper left hand corner), and it's being pushed by the Abrar Book Shop in Leeds, not far from where the 7/7 bombers got together.

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Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley, who was given the DVD by a local resident, said: "My worry is how many people have had access to this kind of material and how many children may have already been influenced by it.

"It's outrageous that this kind of material is so readily available in parts of West Yorkshire and it beggars belief that somebody is prepared to proudly proclaim that they distribute this material.

The MP contacted police and was told that the disc had been sold at a mosque in the city. "I thought it was sick and totally and utterly unacceptable," he said. "It seems to be directed at children and I find it quite disturbing. It strikes me as being incitement to terrorism. I hope that the people that distribute the material will be arrested and charged." (Daily Mail

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"Seems to be"??? Uh, you think??!??!

And what's with the arrested and charged? How 'bout the "deportation for extremists" that was promised to the citizens of England? You know the hard talking, "no tolerance" rhetoric back from 2005?

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"Once the new grounds take effect, there will be a list drawn up of specific extremist websites, bookshops, centres, networks and particular organisations of concern," Mr Blair said. "Active engagement with any of these will be a trigger for the home secretary to consider the deportation of any foreign national." (Guardian)
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Mmm hmm.... sure.

STRAINING TO NOT UNDERSTAND

In the 1,072nd editorial written on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, or - more appropriately now - the Fatah/Israeli and Hamas/Israeli conflicts, the NY Times opinion board has a weird moment in paragraph four:

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Life has been growing steadily grimmer in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000 and Israel’s crushing military counterattacks and economic blockades. Things got even tougher after the West suspended most of its support following Hamas’s 2006 election victory. Those aid spigots have now been reopened, at least to the West Bank where Palestinian Authority moderates, under president Mahmoud Abbas, are in charge. It is crucial that the people of Gaza also receive support. But that support should not flow through Gaza’s Hamas government. (NY Times)
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That is some serious selective fact chewing if I've ever seen it!!

"Things got even tougher after the West suspended most of its support following Hamas’s 2006 election victory."

Um... how about mentioning why that suspension happened??? You know, like maybe just mentioning that it was entirely Hamas' fault because of their refusal to a) recognize Israel as a state, b) Hamas' refusal to denounce terrorist attacks against Israel, and c) to denounce their clearly stated goal - documented here - to destroy the state of Israel. If those 3 simple tasks were done, then the cash would have flushed in.

It continues...

"...It is crucial that the people of Gaza also receive support. (Agreed...) But that support should not flow through Gaza’s Hamas government. (what!?!....

Hold up.... did the NY Times - in the same editorial (!!!) - just acknowledge that the West was correct in its suspension of aid after slapping it on the hands for doing so?!?! Dudes... you can't have your Blame America cake and eat it too!

And while the Times ends the editorial with good intentions...

"To make a real difference, the billions pledged in Paris will need to be matched by diplomatic progress."

...they need to go back and consider Hamas' own take on "diplomacy":

"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

LATE ENTRY FOR "HEADLINE OF THE YEAR":

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Castro: "I Won't Cling to Power Forever"

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Ummm............ Uh................... like ........... TOO LATE!

I know El Commandante has been hobbling around with a catheter bag lately, and his faculties may not be all there, but he must remember that he's been in control of Cuba since 19-freaking-59!?!?!?

48 years - give or take a few since Raul's been holding in down for a year or so - may not be "forever", but when you're living under a brutal dictator I'm guessing it's pretty much as close as you can get to infinity.

Story ------->HERE

DAFT & DIRECT

I'm a dancer (really, I just jump...), but only in my room. House beats suit me best because of the 4/4 beat. And the beats of Daft Punk suit me bestest because they make House music for people that don't understand House music (like me!)

Their new Alive cd is a recording of a concert they did in Paris this past June. It doubly works as a GREATEST HITS album. The set is split pretty evenly between all three of Daft Punk's albums, but favors Human After All (which, btw, is hugely underrated). It's hard to pick a favorite moment:

* The tease of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" giving in to the crowd-induced-orgasm of "Around The World", then building to an apex of both at once...

* The relentless hooks of "One More Time" being lit up by the electronic toy guitars of "Aerodynamic"...

* The way "Rollin' And Scratchin'" and "Brainwasher" come together after being separated from each other for 7 years, and the way "Rollin' And Scratchin'" just makes you go absolutely mental whenever you hear it...

It's a tough call, man. That's was just my reaction today.

And the thing is, today didn't start out too well. So I put in Alive and ergonomically danced away the gray in my office chair. I can't describe what it looked like. Probably some stiff head bobbin' and foot stompin'... but in my head I was tweaked-out club kid breakin' it off in fields of Paris. This afternoon, two DJs saved my life.

I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE, I SEE BRUNI'S UNDERPANTS

The coolest world leader just got cooler....

Nicolas Sarkozy (aka Sarko) has scored himself a top shelf SMILF (Super Model...) or SMMILF (Super Model Mom...) in Carla Bruni.

Now all he has to do when he wants to get support for his policy is to send Ms. Bruni out to seduce the politicians or squat nazis that are lobbing molotovs in the street. This may be the most ingenious political move of all time.

Sarko may not be on the level of a JFK scoring Marylin Monroe... but he's done pretty well for himself. Sarko & Bruni : The Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina of French politics.

LIFE ON ROAD....

Is Mike Huckabee getting fat again ???....

AFTER "THE WEIGHT LOSS":


PRESENT DAY:



Or maybe he's just pregnant with the second virgin birth of Christ! Lord knows that would clinch the evangelical vote for him (...as if he hasn't already done that.)

HE CALLED THE POOP "FECES" !!!

Ok... time for the weekly low-brow post...

Three teens in St. Louis walked up to the door at Walgreen's, opened it, slung a bag of liquidy poop into the air, and took off. (I say "liquidy" b/c the news story says it "splattered", and another source - yes, I even double-check my poop news! - said it was "dripping"...).

Unfortunately it hit a pregnant woman and broke all over her:

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"When the bag hit, it broke open, and poop went flying," Damke said.

One of the teens opened the door, while another tossed the bag inside, Damke said. Its contents splattered a pregnant woman shopping in the store.

The 17-year-old defecated in the bag and handed it off to a 14-year-old boy, who tossed it in the store, Damke said.
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I think Senators Claire McCaskill and Christopher Bond need to go on a Sunday talk show crusade, this weekend, and call for the banning of all "Poop Gag" movies and to start with the godfather of them all.... Billy Madison!

AXLDENTAL THREAT

Some high school kids in Connecticut got the chance to live out their rock star dreams, one evening, after the school doors had closed. They got on the intercom and started singing "Welcome To The Jungle". (Apparently they are among the envious of us that haven't been able to buy ROCK BAND.... yet!)

I mean, can you really blame the kids?!?! Give any of us a microphone and an empty forum, and you know we'd all be doing some type of amplified fantasy performance. (Personally, I would take that golden op to rap Eminem or Notorious B.I.G. songs...)

But what the teenagers didn't know was that a teacher was still lingering in the building. Apparently she didn't grow up on Appetite For Desctruction, because when she heard an off-key male voice come on the intercom and squeal, "You're in the jungle BA-BY... You're GONNA DIIIIIIIEEEE!!, she freaked! So much so, that she locked herself in her classroom and called the cops:

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Police are reviewing whether an incident Wednesday in Roxbury that caused a Booth Free School teacher to barricade herself inside the building was criminal in nature. At least six state troopers arrived at the school after a teacher called police at 5:45 p.m. She made the call after hearing "You are going to die" come over the school's public address system. The voices she heard later proved to be teenagers singing the lyrics of a Guns N' Roses song, "Welcome to the Jungle," over the school's speakers. The song, a popular rock tune from the 1980s, includes the line, "You're in the jungle baby; you're going to die."

Three teenagers found in the school, whom police have not identified, were detained for roughly an hour Wednesday. Police on Thursday were still investigating the incident, Lt. J. Paul Vance, state police spokesman.

"It doesn't appear there was any criminal aspect, but we're looking into that with school officials," Vance said. (Republican-American)
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But.. you know, somehow this whole thing kind of poetically works. The school is a "jungle", cemented forever in our minds by the absurd 50's b-movie classic Blackboard Jungle. I smell remake!