Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The New York Daily News captures Sarah Palin's return to Fox News in pictures. Oh, my.
Sarah Palin returned to the FOX News airwaves Monday morning, blasting Mayor Bloomberg for his "bizarre bucket list" of measures that deprive New Yorkers of their God-given rights and treating city residents like "a bunch of little babies."
"Your mayor, bless his heart," she started before bashing him for trying to ban large soft drinks, institute tighter background checks for gun owners and she took aim at his recent proposal to recycle food scraps in the city.
Donning a pink top, black mini-skirt with pink polka dots and snakeskin strappy high heels, Palin, 49, was warmly welcomed back to the conservative cable news channel.
Her return segment included an interview with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a chat with two captains from "Deadliest Catch" and a tour of a Winnebago parked outside the show's studio.
Palin returned to the network after a five-month leave but she assured viewers that "she never went far." She says she's been spending time with her family and also revealed her newfound enthusiasm for hot yoga.
Hot Yoga? Nothing this woman does could be considered "hot" anymore.
Hmm, perhaps she meant "hot yogurt?"
Perhaps the best advice concerning Sarah Palin came from Jhn Oliver last night on the Daily Show, who made the startling claim that we could all just ignore her.
"She's now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted."
Yeah well that WAS pretty funny but seriously how do you NOT pay attention to a giant train wreck, covered in shit, careening across your television set?
It would be like watching a giant meteoric plummeting toward earth. Yeah you realize that the light will probably burn your corneas but you still want to see it actually crash down to earth. Right?
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Shoe thrown at George Bush is big seller in Iraq.
When television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi lodged the grave insult of hurling his black leather Oxford shoes at President Bush during his final visit on December 14, the world heard "This is a farewell kiss!" Turkish shoemaker Ramazan Baydan also heard the sound of a cash register opening.
"We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy," Baydan said.
Orders for the "Bush Shoe," formerly known as Ducati Model 271, are coming in to Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic. from around the world. 15,000 pairs are currently being made for sale in Iraq in addition to 95,000 destined for Europe and 18,000 to be sold in the United States. Advertising posters with the slogan "Goodbye Bush, Welcome Democracy" are being distributed in Turkey and the Middle East.
"We have been producing that specific style, which I personally designed, for 10 years," Baydan said, "so I couldn't have missed it, no way."
Baydan plans to hire 100 more people to meet the demand. "Mr. Bush served some good purpose to the economy before he left," quipped Baydan general manager Serkan Turk.
Bush should probably avoid any more press conferences in Iraq from now on.
Dodging two shoes may have been a piece of cake, but imagine a whole truckload of shoes being thrown at once. Actually this fate may be more fitting then simply putting him on trial for treason.
"We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy," Baydan said.
Orders for the "Bush Shoe," formerly known as Ducati Model 271, are coming in to Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic. from around the world. 15,000 pairs are currently being made for sale in Iraq in addition to 95,000 destined for Europe and 18,000 to be sold in the United States. Advertising posters with the slogan "Goodbye Bush, Welcome Democracy" are being distributed in Turkey and the Middle East.
"We have been producing that specific style, which I personally designed, for 10 years," Baydan said, "so I couldn't have missed it, no way."
Baydan plans to hire 100 more people to meet the demand. "Mr. Bush served some good purpose to the economy before he left," quipped Baydan general manager Serkan Turk.
Bush should probably avoid any more press conferences in Iraq from now on.
Dodging two shoes may have been a piece of cake, but imagine a whole truckload of shoes being thrown at once. Actually this fate may be more fitting then simply putting him on trial for treason.
Friday, December 19, 2008
"Sock and Awe" webgame based on George Bush shoe throwing incident is an internet smash!
Shoe-wielding Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, who was catapulted to international prominence after throwing his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Iraq, is now the star of the latest in viral Web games.
"Sock and Awe" -- named after the military doctrine employed in the US operation to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq -- allows players to throw shoes at a figure of President Bush, as he ducks behind a podium.
Al-Zaidi missed both his attempts before being dragged off by Iraqi security forces, but players of "Sock and Awe" have a little more leeway -- you can keep slinging footwear for up to thirty seconds.
At the time of writing, the virtual President Bush has been struck in the face by 21 million shoes, the site indicates.
Sock and Awe also shows visitors a league table of "Bush-shoeing countries" -- and although the United States is number one, the top five also includes France, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
This story is just one of those amazing stories that never gets old.
You just know that in the decades to follow the end of George Bush's Presidency that the shoe throwing video will be played EVERY SINGLE time his name comes up. It will become the iconic image of George W. Bush. And it could not have happened to a more deserving fellow.
By the way if YOU want the chance to wing a shoe at Bush then just click right here and see if you have any more luck then Muntadar al-Zaid did.
"Sock and Awe" -- named after the military doctrine employed in the US operation to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq -- allows players to throw shoes at a figure of President Bush, as he ducks behind a podium.
Al-Zaidi missed both his attempts before being dragged off by Iraqi security forces, but players of "Sock and Awe" have a little more leeway -- you can keep slinging footwear for up to thirty seconds.
At the time of writing, the virtual President Bush has been struck in the face by 21 million shoes, the site indicates.
Sock and Awe also shows visitors a league table of "Bush-shoeing countries" -- and although the United States is number one, the top five also includes France, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
This story is just one of those amazing stories that never gets old.
You just know that in the decades to follow the end of George Bush's Presidency that the shoe throwing video will be played EVERY SINGLE time his name comes up. It will become the iconic image of George W. Bush. And it could not have happened to a more deserving fellow.
By the way if YOU want the chance to wing a shoe at Bush then just click right here and see if you have any more luck then Muntadar al-Zaid did.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Iraqi shoe thrower, now beaten into submission, apologizes to President Bush.
A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister says the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon.Spokesman Yassin Majid says that in a letter sent Thursday to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the journalist described his behavior as "an ugly act" and asked to be pardoned.
Al-Zeidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, Egypt, could face two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader.
This Muntadhar al-Zeid is a national folk hero throughout the Middle East, as well as many other parts of the world (America included), and if the authorities believe making him apologize is going to diffuse the inspiration he has provided to the world they are seriously mistaken.
Especially after he has been beaten so badly he cannot even appear in court to defend himself.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Keith Olbermann has a whole lot of fun with the George Bush shoe throwing incident. Perhaps a little too much fun.
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Aren't there a lot of inventive people in the world? God I wish I had a talent. Any talent.
By the way if you have never watched Joel McHale and "Talk Soup" you must look it up on You Tube and watch it immediately. The show has some of the funniest shtick on cable. I kid you not!
Iraqi "shoe thrower" suffers beatings and broken bones while in custody.
He may be a hero to millions of Iraqis but the “shoe man” has had to spend a second night in detention, during which he nursed a broken arm and ribs as well as cuts to his face, according to his brother.
Muntazer al-Zaidi rose to fame on Sunday when he threw his shoes at President George Bush during a Baghdad press conference, missing narrowly, in apparent protest at the actions of US troops over the past few years.
His brother, Durgham al-Zaidi, said he was told that Mr al-Zaidi is held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad, where the US embassy and most government offices are housed.
“He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm,” he said. “He is being held by forces under the command of Muwafaq al-Rubaie [Iraq’s national security adviser]." Television pictures from the press conference show Mr al-Zaidi being carried away by prime ministerial guards but no sign of excess violence.
Thousands of Iraqis, both Sunni and Shia, took part in a second day of street protests today demanding Mr Zaidi’s release and hailing him a national hero. In Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, north of Baghdad, an estimated 1,000 protesters carried banners and chanted slogans in his support.
Several hundred more also protested in Nasiriyah, a Shia city about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and in Fallujah, a Sunni area west of the capital. “Muntazer al-Zaidi has expressed the feelings and ambitions of the Iraqi people toward the symbol of tyranny,” said Nassar Afrawi, a protester in Nasiriyah.
This is a HUGE public relations problem for the United States.
In fact if the Bush administration does not push for the release of this man, his incarceration may result in an uptick in violence directed toward American troops in Iraq. (Yes I understand that he is being held by the Iraqi government, but the Iraqis know who is really pulling the strings.)
This man, Muntazer al-Zaid, is a hero to the Iraqis right now. But if he is killed or badly abused while in custody he will be elevated to a national symbol representing the atrocities visited upon Iraq by the United States. This can revitalize the militants and the insurgency and bring the violence back up to 2006 levels.
And this can cause Barack Obama yet another series of headaches. It will be much more difficult to bring the troops home if there is a resurgence in violence directed at the US soldiers stationed there.
They need to release this guy IMMEDIATELY! Then they need to make sure he receives quality medical care and give him his damn shoes back!
Muntazer al-Zaidi rose to fame on Sunday when he threw his shoes at President George Bush during a Baghdad press conference, missing narrowly, in apparent protest at the actions of US troops over the past few years.
His brother, Durgham al-Zaidi, said he was told that Mr al-Zaidi is held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad, where the US embassy and most government offices are housed.
“He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm,” he said. “He is being held by forces under the command of Muwafaq al-Rubaie [Iraq’s national security adviser]." Television pictures from the press conference show Mr al-Zaidi being carried away by prime ministerial guards but no sign of excess violence.
Thousands of Iraqis, both Sunni and Shia, took part in a second day of street protests today demanding Mr Zaidi’s release and hailing him a national hero. In Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, north of Baghdad, an estimated 1,000 protesters carried banners and chanted slogans in his support.
Several hundred more also protested in Nasiriyah, a Shia city about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and in Fallujah, a Sunni area west of the capital. “Muntazer al-Zaidi has expressed the feelings and ambitions of the Iraqi people toward the symbol of tyranny,” said Nassar Afrawi, a protester in Nasiriyah.
This is a HUGE public relations problem for the United States.
In fact if the Bush administration does not push for the release of this man, his incarceration may result in an uptick in violence directed toward American troops in Iraq. (Yes I understand that he is being held by the Iraqi government, but the Iraqis know who is really pulling the strings.)
This man, Muntazer al-Zaid, is a hero to the Iraqis right now. But if he is killed or badly abused while in custody he will be elevated to a national symbol representing the atrocities visited upon Iraq by the United States. This can revitalize the militants and the insurgency and bring the violence back up to 2006 levels.
And this can cause Barack Obama yet another series of headaches. It will be much more difficult to bring the troops home if there is a resurgence in violence directed at the US soldiers stationed there.
They need to release this guy IMMEDIATELY! Then they need to make sure he receives quality medical care and give him his damn shoes back!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Iraqis demand release of shoe thrower. Want him to have his shoes back and a second chance at Bush. "We are confident he will hit him this time!"
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George Bush during a press conference.
Protesters hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the US president.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was kidnapped by Shiite militants last year, was being held by Iraqi security and interrogated about whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at Bush during Sunday's press conference in Baghdad, said an Iraqi official. He was also being tested for alcohol and drugs, and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official.
Showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse.
Newspapers across the Arab world printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which provided fodder for jokes and was hailed by the president's many critics in the region.
"Iraq considers Sunday as the international day for shoes," said a joking text message circulating around the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Ungrateful. That is the only word to describe these people.
If it was not for George W. Bush these people would still be living under the rule of a dictator.......not the third most corrupt government in the world which was put in place with the help of America's election rigging know how.
They would have more then a few hours of electricity a day, which means that all their children would do all day is play video games instead of getting into great shape by dodging car bombs and trigger happy Blackwater mercenaries.
They would not have had all of the bombings, that started well before the actual Iraqi invasion, which has made it far less crowded during family reunions.
They have all of these reasons to like and respect George bush, and yet they throw shoes at him?
What else could you call it except "ungrateful"?
Protesters hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the US president.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was kidnapped by Shiite militants last year, was being held by Iraqi security and interrogated about whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at Bush during Sunday's press conference in Baghdad, said an Iraqi official. He was also being tested for alcohol and drugs, and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official.
Showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse.
Newspapers across the Arab world printed front-page photos of Bush ducking the flying shoes, and satellite TV stations repeatedly aired the incident, which provided fodder for jokes and was hailed by the president's many critics in the region.
"Iraq considers Sunday as the international day for shoes," said a joking text message circulating around the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Ungrateful. That is the only word to describe these people.
If it was not for George W. Bush these people would still be living under the rule of a dictator.......not the third most corrupt government in the world which was put in place with the help of America's election rigging know how.
They would have more then a few hours of electricity a day, which means that all their children would do all day is play video games instead of getting into great shape by dodging car bombs and trigger happy Blackwater mercenaries.
They would not have had all of the bombings, that started well before the actual Iraqi invasion, which has made it far less crowded during family reunions.
They have all of these reasons to like and respect George bush, and yet they throw shoes at him?
What else could you call it except "ungrateful"?
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