Brazil Clears Shanty Town for Olympic Stadium By Burning It Down

 

Claim Chicago did not get Olympics because the organizers were not courageous enough to do the same to the city’s projects…..

Nepali teen bids for crown of world's smallest man ever

A 22 inch-tall Nepali teenager who laid claim to the title of world’s smallest man when he came of age this week says he is looking forward to global fame, international travel – and an arranged marriage with a bride of similar stature.  Well, good luck Nepali dude but its been done…

From minuscule movie stars to petite pop stars, here’s a list of famous short people through history.

10. Edward Carl Gaedel

Standing at 3”7, Eddie was the world’s shortest pro-baseball player – albeit briefly. Born in Chicago in 1925, “Eddie” aspired to be a sportsman, and managed to secure his debut with the St. Louis Browns in the summer of 1951. Despite being a publicity stunt, his appearance on the plate lead to 18,369 fans giving him a standing ovation. Unfortunately, Gaedel became a heavy drinker and died of a heart attack after being mugged in 1961.

9. Bridget the Midget

Twenty-eight-year old Bridget – born Cheryl Marie Murphy – claims her fame in a slightly more risque industry to our other legendary small people. Idaho-born Bridget is an erotic film actress with a difference – she’s just 3”9. She’s now retired from “adult” acting after appearing in over 100 films, and these days favors more traditional acting roles, including a bit part in 8mm.

8. Danny Woodburn

This 44-year old actor from Philadelphia stands at a mini four foot. However, his height never held back his acting career, and he’s managed to avoid getting pigeonholed in typical “little people” roles either. The star has had parts in Seinfeld, One Tree Hill and CSI, and features in the forthcoming film, Watchmen.

7. Gary Coleman

Gary is most famous for his role as Arnold Jackson in Diff’rent Strokes. The 4”8 actor has since had a few cameos and bit parts on TV series and in films, but is predominantly more famous for his eventful personal life. Such dramas include his televised appearance in a divorce court, a car accident, an assault, and ongoing financial problems.

6. Dolly Parton

Diminutive Dolly may have a big – er – heart, but her height is just five foot. The 62-year old (yes, 62!) became famous for such country ditties as “Jolene” and “I will Always Love You”, and is still singing and song-writing to this day. She is also recognized as a philanthropist, is an accomplished player of the autoharp, banjo, drums, guitar, harmonica and piano, and lest we forget, has her own theme park, Dollywood.

5. General Tom Thumb

The original famous small person – Charles Sherwood Stratton, adopted the stage name of General Tom Thumb after the fabled English legend, who was no bigger than his father’s thumb. The real life version was born in Connecticut, weighing 9 pounds 2 ounces, but only grew to 2”9. He was snapped up by the traveling circus showman P. T. Barnum, and toured the world, becoming stinking rich and meeting his wife – another small person – on the way. He died of a stroke aged 45 in 1883, and over 10,000 friends, fans and family attended his funeral.

4. Wee Man

This Jackass star, whose real name is Jason Bryant Acuña, is just over four foot tall. He was born in Pisa, Italy, to Italian parents, but grew up in Torrance, California. He worked as a subscription manager for a skateboarding magazine after graduating, which saw him become involved with the stunt-crazed Jackass gang. Acuña now does occasional presenting gigs and has appeared on the reality shows Armed and Dangerous and Celebrity Circus.

3. Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson, aka His Purple Majesty, aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, or sometimes, just a symbol, is only 5”2. The womanizing extrovert, who has had hits with ‘Purple Rain’, ‘When Doves Cry’ and ‘Beautiful Girl’, is now back in the studio recording his next long-awaited album.

2. Danny Devito

This huge movie star stands at just 4”11 tall. He was born in Neptune, New Jersey, to a middle class family, and decided to go into acting at an early age. After getting his big break in Taxi, Devito went on to star in blockbusters such as Other People’s Money, LA Confidential, Batman and Heist. He continues to act, starring in Always Sunny In Philadelphia

1. Verne Troyer

This 40-year old actor, famous for playing Mini-Me in Austin Powers, is now just as famous for his private antics as his professional. The self-confessed sex addict was the latest celebrity to fall foul of a sex tape scandal, after private moments between him and his former girlfriend, Ranae Shrider, were leaked. He is no stranger to reality TV however, and is currently doing a stint on Celebrity Big Brother UK, where he has been seen getting sozzled on Champagne, flirting with the ladies, and causing havoc on his mobility scooter

COOLPAPA THE FIREWORK DOG

SEEING IS BELIEVING

OLD SLOW GOLFER LOOSES ARM TO GATOR WHILE DIDDELING FOR LOST BALL IN POND

Why was this not completely predictable.  Saturday morning, busy course, 5 old geezers playing a 25- cent Nassau , stacking up 6 groups behind them….then lady luck shines, and you’re playing right through the carnage…..thanks mister gator.

BEAUFORT, S.C. -- Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.

The man, who is in his 70s, was retrieving his ball from a pond when the 10-foot alligator bit him at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County. The gator pulled the golfer into the pond and ripped off his arm in the struggle. His golf partners were able to free him.

Wildlife workers killed the alligator and retrieved the arm in the hopes it might be reattached.

The man has not been identified. He was being treated at the Medical University of South Carolina, but officials there would not release any information about him.

A call to the golf course was not immediately returned.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING

Snow covers the playing surface of Coors Field, seen from the main concourse Saturday in Denver. 

Game 3 of the Phillies-Rockies playoff on Saturday night has been postponed because of cold, snowy weather.

A Failed ASS-ASS-ination

 

Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports.
Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations.
To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.            “The TROJAN BOMBER”                        Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia's most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince's own secret service agents - all without anyone suspecting a thing.
How did he do it?   Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities….

A failed ASSASS-ination? The blast left the Jabba the Hut sized prince lightly wounded, but as an exercise in defeating security, it was perfect.
The bomber persuaded the prince he wanted to leave al Qaeda, setting a trap, by handing his cell phone to the Prince, to receive a text message, the cell phone’s incoming text message likely detonated the butt bomb.   SHHITTBOOM.

ww: I’m not really into gore, but this is one video I’d like to see.

At the proper moment did he point his rear end at the prince and say: “Excuse me your Excellency, I must pinch a load. The spoiled cat milk and rancid goat hoof as caused a great discomfort in my”…….BOOOOM

The sad thing is that yet another good hiding place’s cover has been blown.

To the left is a “Sodomy Map” of the world, the darker the area the more popular.  Based on Saudi Arabia’s complete blackout, the Prince’s security team probably bumped into the device during the search. and……

What’s up Idaho?

SURGERY SUPERSTARS RESULTS THRU WEEK 2…THE CREAM BE RISING TO THE TOP

RANK     RANK
NOW    LAST WK
	Team	Offensive	Def	Total	Behind
1          4	MoFo's Hams	177	24	201	0
2           1	MB	163	22	185	16
3           9	Earl's Dogs	164	16	180	21
4          11	HIGHCOURT	166	9	175	26
5         3	EL MACHO BORRACHO	149	18	167	34
6          8	FAITHHOPE	154	12	166	35
7         2	BL	150	15	165	36
8         5	Burning Sensation	144	20	164	37
9       10	WILL/PEGGYS TIGERS	151	10	161	40
10      7	Devil Dogs	118	38	156	45
11        6	JT	126	15	141	60
12       12	DP	105	8	113	88

The Ham’s, Earl’s Dogs and HighCourt rode a bullet upstairs.

JAMES TRACEY stunk.   Looking under the skirt of JT’s stench, it easy to see he’s not wearing any……………………. WIDE RECEIVERS (perfect), including his reserves, 4 points total for WR’s.

and the Mighty Pharaoh seems to have never left his TENT

“Hey look, the Pharaoh ain’t got no running backs in dat tent.”

DP’s three RB’s managed only 5 points combined, well the good news is that he at least started Brandon Jacobs and got the 5………and Brady 6 pts…well that a “hole” ‘ nuther story, isn’t it? WW

STOP, HEY, WHAT’S THAT SOUND….IT’S NOT BUSH ANYMORE BROTHER…

PITTSBURGH – Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins and throwing rocks.

The march turned chaotic at just about the time that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived for a meeting with leaders of the world's major economies.

The clashes began after hundreds of protesters, many advocating against capitalism, tried to march from an outlying neighborhood toward the convention center where the summit is being held.

The protesters banged on drums and chanted "Ain't no power like the power of the people, 'cause the power of the people don't stop."

LOOK, IT’S A PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINIC, GODDAMN NEW CAPITALISTS….GETTING OUR TAX DOLLARS… WW

AND THE WEEKLY WIPER GOES TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

I have to admit I am now a friend of Mouammar Kaddafi, NOT because he gives one hell of a 2 hour speech to a group of jet lagged, H1N1 spewing, 3rd world leaders.  And NOT because he’s the first such ass-head of state to suggest that the UN General Assembly be moved to another country because the security was so tight he could not import his entourage and party like a rock star.  And NOT just because he has a pretty hot daughter,

(Aisha Kadafi, by the way is some hot shot Jordian lawyer, and a law professor that helped  defend Saddam Hussein in court.  Well you can’t win them all, can you Aisha; especially when the very act of flashing some leg or cleavage for the judge and jury will get you stoned to death. )

AND NOT BECAUSE HE HAS a Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mouammar-Kadafi/47025646541

and knows something about Coke and Pepsi:

 

BUT 

because he’s one hell of a guitarist, 

   playing under the alias, Carlos. 

GOD PERMITTING, THE DUDE WAS AT WOODSTOCK!

SMOKING DOPE AND DROPPING LSD…

“Carlos Kaddafi” recalls his own experience (at Woodstock) taking LSD. "My guitar is like - like (an) electric snake. So that's why you see my face, you know, like making all these ugly faces, like, 'Stand still,' you know." "Intuitively I just said, 'Allah, please help me. I'll never do this again," he says.

Soooo, Mouammar Kaddafi is just an aging hippy guitarist, having flash back after flash back, the US being the electric snake.

Thanks for the memories, WW

DECEASED PATRICK SWAYZE TO STAR IN REMAKE OF “GHOST “….”GHOST TOO”

BECAUSE WILLY KEEPS ASKING FOR IT…..

“Ghost” shot in 1990, chronicles the sad story of Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realizes that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who didn't even realize that her powers were real.

FAST FORWARD 19 YEARS….We find the same cast of characters, Molly in desperate need of plastic surgery,reconnects with Oda Mae, now the  “race baiting” Barbara Walters’ side kick on

“The View”.   Using voodoo and the persistent bashing ex-president Bush, she conjures Sam back into the world of the living, for the purpose of starring in a re-make of Ghost, “Ghost Too”.  A plot is hatched by which Molly will drug Sam, steal his organs and sell them to  a gang of organ selling Jews in New Jersey to fund her much needed lifts and tucks.  The plan is initially scuttled when Sam shows up   without a single functioning organ due to heavy partying, drinking and smoking and dies, again before the ex-plantation can be completed.  Now penniless,  and being pursued by a mighty gang of organ snatching Jews, they seek the help of Oda Mae’s real life close friend, Senator Edward Kennedy, whom they realize has successfully undergone a kind of breast transplant, has terminal brain cancer, and a life long goal to abort fetuses and reform health care.   Unfortunately, on the way to Mass General, to procure some organs,Kennedy takes the girls sight seeing on the CHAPAQUITIC BRIDGE…. were the plot takes a familiar turn….they drive off the bridge…

Kennedy wanders back to the compound…and a few days later joins Patrick Swayze and the others in Fun Land, “GHOST TOO “ .

   ohh my, w.w.

And will we ever forgive Swayze for his lispy ballad,“Thee’s Thalke tha’ Weend “