Hmm…see any similarities? The image on the left features a t-shirt design titled “golen tooth” created by Johnny Cupcakes in 2005. The image on the right was released by Billabong in January 2008. Looks like they are BillaBlowingIt. Be sure to write Billabong congratulating them on the brilliant, unique design…

So a lot of people I know have been saying a lot of good things about Ron Paul, the darkhorse Republican Presidential Candidate who has made a name for himself with his unflinching dedication to withdrawing troops from Iraq and actually instituting the small-government type shit that Republicans always talk about but never actually do.  However, a look back at some of the Texas Congressman’s old newsletters uncovers more than a few somewhat questionable opinions, to put it mildly. Though nebulous in their actual authorship, the passages in the newsletter all ran with the implicit editorial signature of Paul himself. A few of the better excerpts:On Martin Luther King Jr:

A “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” “seduced underage girls and boys,” and “made a pass at” fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. One newsletter ridiculed black activists who wanted to rename New York City after King, suggesting that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” were better alternatives. The same year, King was described as “a comsymp, if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.” 

 On AIDS victims in San Francisco:

“[T]hese men don’t really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners.” Also, “they enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick.” 

Paul’s newsletter was also supportive of some interesting causes. Such as right-wing militia groups:

In January 1995, three months before right-wing militants bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a newsletter listed “Ten Militia Commandments,” describing “the 1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty” as “one of the most encouraging developments in America.” It warned militia members that they were “possibly under BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] or other totalitarian federal surveillance” and printed bits of advice from the Sons of Liberty, an anti-government militia based in Alabama–among them, “You can’t kill a Hydra by cutting off its head,” “Keep the group size down,” “Keep quiet and you’re harder to find,” “Leave no clues,” “Avoid the phone as much as possible,” and “Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” 

 And everyone’s favorite, David Duke:

In a passage titled “The Duke’s Victory,” a newsletter celebrated Duke’s 44 percent showing in the 1990 Louisiana Republican Senate primary. “Duke lost the election,” it said, “but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment.” In 1991, a newsletter asked, “Is David Duke’s new prominence, despite his losing the gubernatorial election, good for anti-big government forces?” The conclusion was that “our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.” 

Duke has, of course, returned the favor in kind, offering frequent updates on and support for the Paul campaign on his website. If you’re one of the tens of thousands of people who’ve given Paul money over the internet, there’s only one thing I can say: PWN3D!!!!!!!!!!!!111    

Shithead celebrity gossip sites are blowing loads all over their own chesticles over this weekend’s big news: Kevin Federline and Paris Hilton apparently hooking it up in Las Vegas. Here’s hoping there will be a tape soon! Lord knows I haven’t seen Paris Hilton’s vagina NEARLY enough times. Not saying I wouldn’t still hit it, because I would. I’m just saying that Paris Hilton’s genitalia have become officially fap-proof. For some tri-tip smuggling action, take the leap and you’ll see what I mean… [OMGGG NSFW!!1] (more…)

But Muslims have crazy ass countries where former female Prime Ministers are killed in suicide assassinations. RIP Benazir Bhutto. If you have no idea who Benazir Bhutto is, you should take a few moments and look into her life, and now death. Likewise, her home country of Pakistan might be a country worth knowing a little more about as well. Internal strife in a Muslim theocracy is of course nothing new, but things get a little more interesting when you add in Nuclear Weapons.

From future White House residents, the Huckabees!

[disclosure: I am not actually in this band, but P Brown works for Synthesis.]

Quaint as it may be, I sincerely hope that Chico’s notoriety as a party school that canceled Halloween will one day be supplanted by its true nature. No, not as the 10th best Small Art Town in America, but as Christmas Rock Town USA. In anticipation of the 3rd installment of Gorgeous Armada’s Christmas Musical, Sleigh: Sleigh II Again (Midnight, Friday and Saturday at the Chico Cabaret) Gorgeous Armada presents: Old Yeller and the 12 Days of Christmas!

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