David Barillari père

Kiss of Peace

dbarillari — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:49:12 +0000

Pope Picks Leader for Catholic Order
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2010

Filed at 7:56 a.m. ET

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order.

Images: (Widmark) from KISS OF DEATH via blogs.e-rockford.com; (Pope) AP Photo(?) via lewandpolitics.com

The quotidian side of Baron Von Frankenstein, MD.

dbarillari — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:32:40 +0000

A home office is not all it is cracked up to be.

Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931

From the land of the Foxymorons comes…

dbarillari — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:48:25 +0000

Judge Andrew Napolitano

I certainly don’t like his political views,

but I really cannot stand his hair-dos.

As a fellow Italian-American, I think he should at least look good while spouting his proto-reactionary language.

You may not recognize this gentleman…

because he looks nothing like actor Bruce Gordon,

who played him on THE UNTOUCHABLES.

It’s Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti.

So, if Judge Napolitano were to part his hair and

add a moustache, I believe he would be much more telegenic.

Images: (Color photo of Nap) newshounds.us via xpac2010 via Fox News; (Gordon) content6.flixter.com via The Untouchables; (Frank) via chicagonow.com; (new Nap) via matvchastain.com;

LA Times Takes Heat For King Kong Advertisement Disguised As News –Huffington Post headline, 7/1/2010

dbarillari — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:55:16 +0000

Vincenzo Kolchak comments again…

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You know this would be more tolerable if the press and especially papers like the LA TIMES didn’t wrap themselves in the rhetoric of their sacred mission.

The Daily News, as you have many times suggested, has the decency to be what it appears to be and the ‘trinity that includes the STAR, the GLOBE and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER, which never ceases to surprise for working hard to get stories, don’t pretend to be more than they are. Even the GLOBE with its pictures of statesmen with a space alienS are deserving of
more respect.

What did the Godfather say: “…it doesn’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, understand…” He tagged it with, “…but your business is, uh, a little dangerous.”

In this case the tag for the LA Times should be, “But your business is just a little bit sleazy.”

Images: (Godfather-back yard) via listverse.files.wordpress.com; (Godfather-standing) via multifamilyinvestore.com; (Godfather-office) via moviequotesandmore.com; (Irwin Mainway) snlarc.jt.org; (Solozzo-toddler) horroria.com via mooviees.com; (King Kong poster) via movieposter.com;

Seattle Strip-Club Magnate Dies at 93–Mafia Today headline, 7/3/

dbarillari — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:36:32 +0000

“Not a bad page at all — I enclose another article, mainly for the headline.
I have never heard the words ’strip club’ and ‘magnate’ used in the same context. ‘Socialite’ yes, maybe ‘czar,’ ‘local boss’ of course; but ‘magnate,’ never.”–Vincenzo Kolchak

Image: (Edward Arnold) via nndb.com

They must have been playing Twister. Dune Darts would not have called for the lash.

dbarillari — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:19:29 +0000

Saudi Arabia Convicts 15 Men, Women For Mingling At Party

ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | 06/22/10 12:31 PM | AP

RIYADH — Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.

The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three of the women, who are under the age of 30, were sentenced to an unspecified number of lashes and one or two year prison terms each.

The fourth woman, a minor, was sentenced to 80 lashes and was not sent to prison.

Images: (Crescent Moon & Star) mvorng.wordpress.com; (lawn darts) techpaul.wordpress.com
worldwideshoppingmall.co.uk (Twister) MN03004.gif; (burka) itsallmaya.com (arab man) longislandcostume.com;(lawndart tag) johnshotrods.com

“Same to ya, buddy!”

dbarillari — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:17:12 +0000

In this courtroom sketch, a U.S. Marshall removes Faisal Shahzad’s handcuffs in the courtroom Monday, June 21, 2010, in New York. Shahzad pleaded guilty to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him on 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some of which carry mandatory life prison sentences.
(AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

Human Heads Found in Boxes at Arkansas Airport–Washington Post headline. 6/18/2010

dbarillari — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:41:17 +0000

My pal, Patapsco Jack, added: “Senor Wences, call your office.”

The Associated Press
Friday, June 18, 2010; 9:07 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials say a Southwest Airlines worker stumbled across a few boxes of human heads at the Little Rock, Ark., airport.

It turns out the heads found June 9 were bound for a medical laboratory in Fort Worth, Texas. But Pulaski County coroner Garland Camper says he’s waiting for records showing the heads were legally obtained and were being legally shipped.

Images: (box) AFP TV; (Senor Wences & Johnny & man in box) Life Magazine-michelelafong.com;

(hat) landenweb.net; (uni & cape) latinamericanstudies.org

Are we there yet?

dbarillari — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:34:16 +0000

Image: (Malibu) travelpod.com

Hot off the presses!!

dbarillari — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:13:13 +0000

Image: (Model Railroader) via drunkenfist.com; (photo of tunnel) (AP photo by Mary Altaffer / via Chicago Tribune;

Okay, Mr. Oreck, top that!!

dbarillari — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:12:01 +0000

(AP photo by Susan Walsh) via Chicago Tribune

Jake Knotts of Raghead fame looks like a poorly aged, fat and florid Leonardo DiCaprio from GANGS OF NEW YORK.

dbarillari — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:11:05 +0000

Images: (Jake) via thinkpropgress.com: (Scorsese’s Gangs of New York) via collider.com

An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”–quoted in Think Progress

dbarillari — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:38:01 +0000

Think Progress…June 13, 2010
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‘The United States “has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,” according to senior U.S. officials. An internal Pentagon memo dubs Afghanistan the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”’

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How about these grabbers?

The Dubai of Depakote!

The Egypt of Elavil!

The Somalia of Cymbalta!

The Libya of Librium!

The Pakistan of Prozac!

The Syria of Seroquel!

The Lebanon of Klonopin!

The Jordan of Janimine!

The Iran of Neurontin!

The Iraq of Zoldac!

That didn’t take too long.

dbarillari — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:25:10 +0000

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Images: (basic billboard pix) via treehugger.com; (oiled Pelican) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (clean Pelican) via kookaburra.typepad.com

Jesse White Tumblers Miss First Parade In 47 Years After Drums Stolen–Huffington Post headline, 6/1/2010

dbarillari — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:47:41 +0000

Someone or something has stolen their drums before every parade since 1964, but this is the first year that the theft prevented the Tumblers from marching or…

the marchers from Tumbling.

It first happened in Midwich during Wimbleton in the early 1960s.

dbarillari — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:16:59 +0000

Images: (Schiavone) Michael Spingler/Associated Press; (Rafael Nadal) Clive Brunskill/ Getty Images; both via nytimes.com; (Village of the Damned–1995–John Carpenter) via witneyman.files.wordpress.com

Research found these photographs of Moe Greene.

dbarillari — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:39:44 +0000

In an interview for Royal Hot Shot Airways in-flight magazine–

THIN AIR CONSUMPTION–Mr. Greene found it ironic that his early

hopes were to be a concert pianist. He was quite an accomplished soloist, but felt that his name would prevent his being taken seriously by music producers and critics.

Images: (Moe smiling) Godfather 4.bp.blogspot.com via battleroyalewithcheese.com; (Terrorist hat and face) Skynews.co.uk via huffingtonpost.com; (massage) Godfather via blueraymedia.ign.com

U.S. Officials: Al Qaeda No. 3 Killed–Huffington Post headline, 6/1/2010

dbarillari — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:27:19 +0000

WASHINGTON — In what could be one of the hardest blows to the al-Qaida crime family since they muscled their way to the top of the gaming industry, the group’s No. 3, Moe “Mustafa Abu al-Yazid” Greene, is believed to be dead, killed by a rival Las Vegas faction, an attorney with the U.S, Anti-Crime Strike Force said on Sunday.

Moe Greene’s reputation for violence allowed him to cow Las Vegas competitors into selling their stakes in casinos and gambling books. At the time of his death, rough estimates show his personal wealth to be in the tens of millions of dollars; yet there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town!

Photo via Huffington Post

Thanks to Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola for the inspiration.

This was no Mickey Mouse operation!

dbarillari — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:21:48 +0000

Who’s the Builder of the Guys

In Two-Fifteen B.C,

Y-I-N,

C-Z-H,

E ‘n N n’ G!

Images: (Army) via historyofscience.com: (pandas) (AP photo by Muhammed Muheisen / May 14, 2010)

The Philosophy of the East Meets Big Sur.

dbarillari — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:03:18 +0000

Images: (Tai-Chi) via arthritisfoundationwpa.wordpress.com;(Ying-Yang) via cribfashion.com; (Esalen logo) via vernonbush.com; (Esalen massage) via women.timesonline.co.uk;