http://david.barillari.org Ex Historia, Non Est Salus...Cultural, Social & Politcal Satire Sat, 21 May 2011 11:26:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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; ... http://david.barillari.org/kiss-of-peace A home office is not all it is cracked up to be. * * * * * Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931 http://david.barillari.org/the-quotidian-side-of-baron-von-frankenstein-md * * 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/from-the-land-of-the-foxymorons-comes  Vincenzo Kolchak comments again... * * * 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/la-times-takes-heat-for-king-kong-advertisement-disguised-as-news-huffington-post-headline-712010 "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 http://david.barillari.org/seattle-strip-club-magnate-dies-at-93-mafia-today-headline-73 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/they-must-have-been-playing-twister-dune-darts-would-not-have-called-for-the-lash 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/same-to-ya-buddy 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/human-heads-found-in-boxes-at-arkansas-airport-washington-post-headline-6182010 * * * * * * Image: (Malibu) travelpod.com http://david.barillari.org/are-we-there-yet * * * * * * Image: (Model Railroader) via drunkenfist.com; (photo of tunnel) (AP photo by Mary Altaffer / via Chicago Tribune; http://david.barillari.org/hot-off-the-presses * * * (AP photo by Susan Walsh) via Chicago Tribune http://david.barillari.org/okay-mr-oreck-top-that * * * * * * * * * Images: (Jake) via thinkpropgress.com: (Scorsese's Gangs of New York) via collider.com http://david.barillari.org/jake-knotts-of-raghead-fame-looks-like-poorly-aged-fat-and-florid-leonardo-dicaprio-from-the-gangs-of-new-york Think Progress...June 13, 2010 - '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 ... http://david.barillari.org/an-internal-pentagon-memo-dubs-afghanistan-the-%e2%80%9csaudi-arabia-of-lithium%e2%80%9d-quoted-in-think-progress * * * * * * Images: (basic billboard pix) via treehugger.com; (oiled Pelican) AP Photo via huffingtonpost.com; (clean Pelican) via kookaburra.typepad.com http://david.barillari.org/that-didnt-take-too-long 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. http://david.barillari.org/jesse-white-tumblers-miss-first-parade-in-47-years-after-drums-stolen-huffington-post-headline-612010 * * * 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 http://david.barillari.org/it-first-happened-in-midwich-during-wimbleton-in-the-early-1960s * * * * * * * * * 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/research-produced-these-photographs-of-moe-greene * * 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 ... http://david.barillari.org/us-officials-al-qaeda-no-3-killed-huffington-post-headline-612010 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) http://david.barillari.org/this-was-no-mickey-mouse-operation * * * * * * Images: (Tai-Chi) via arthritisfoundationwpa.wordpress.com;(Ying-Yang) via cribfashion.com; (Esalen logo) via vernonbush.com; (Esalen massage) via women.timesonline.co.uk; http://david.barillari.org/the-philosphy-of-the-east-meets-big-sur