GIA GUIDICE - The Official GIA GIUDICE is a COCKSUCKER thread.

Post what you have to say about Gia here.

Jill Zarin
• She''s the daughter I never had!

  Victoria Gotti

• lol at r1\ \ Gia a major cunt. She''s stole my boyfriend, fucked my father.

• The biggest bitch that ever bitched. Skinny Italian, my ass.

  Milania Giudice

• My neighbor''s brother caught Parkinson''s off her. \ \ She''d sucked off our old Culligan man for the water softener upgrade.\ \ I do know first hand she doesn''t recycle.

• It takes a lot to disgust and offend me, but this thread accomplishes that. You''ve crossed the line. Enough.

• Better Get Drain-O

• Gia had to get her stomach pumped after a recent mafioso luncheon. She sucked off 37 members of the "carting" business.

• Teresa loves the guys. If she were to see this thread, she might change her mind. You queens are skatting on very thin ice.

• What''s she gonna do, R8 -- come to our houses and flip our tables over?

• [quote] "You queens are skatting on very thin ice."\ \ Oh, dear.

• I prefer a glass top coffee table to skatting on thin ice.\ \ Way safer.

• Gia''s dad HATES the gays.

• r12, just because someone labels something as "that''s so gay," doesn''t mean he hates the gays. I''m sure he''s very tolerant of the gays and there lifestyle.

• "there lifestyle?"

  Oh dear

• r14, never mind the egregious grammatical error but "lifestyle"?

• Gia sucked off my fadda and my grandfadda.\ \ She also sucked off the entire Franklin Lakes High School Football team- IN ONE SITTIN''!

• Can we close this thread? I find it loathesome and vile. I don''t like it and I want it closed down.

• Evidently Gia would not suck off R17.

• Gia = Hoover in NJ Italian.

• Gia is going to be one high maintenance sloppy hole when she gets older.

  Just sayin''

• Gia already has a sloppy hole.

  Dina

• bump

• Nothing is as sloppy as Danielle''s hole. That thing can probably fit a couch, two end tables, and a plasma TV, with room to spare.

• I''m greedy for cock. But I deserve it, because I''m beautiful. k? fags?

  Gia, gonad glutton

• Gia: Goomar to the stars!

• Why do I have the feeling that this thread is going to get us mentioned on "The View" again?

• How does this bitch have her own thread?

  Allyson Shapiro Zarin

• Allyson, you only wish you had half the cocksucking ability as Gia.

  plus you''re short and fat

• Well Gia is short and simian. SSSSssss!

  Ally

• Gia has been promised to me by Andy Cohen.

  Francois van Kempen

• PROSTITUTION WHORE!

  http://teresagiudice.com/

  Teresa Giudice

• Gia is quite...exotic, don''t you think? It''s so interesting to mingle with people of her class.

  Avery Singer, with a casual hair flip

• if Gia was on the Titantic,she''d be in steerage class.

  Ally

• Yo ally! Baffanculo, prostitution whore! OH!

  Gia Giudice, Pro

• Gia, go make tomato sauce in the gargage, in New Jersey

  Ally, truly disgusted

• Eh, Mama Cass. Go have anuddah box of twinkies! OHHH!!!

  GG

• you bitches have nothing on me!\ \ both of you are short and ugly.

  Christine, supermodel

• sorry Christine but I owned the runway during fashion week.\ \ And at least I didn''t vomit!

  Gia, CS Extraordinaire

• [quote] And at least I didn''t vomit!\ \ At least MY dad didn''t call me an ugly face in the car on the way to the fashion show.\ \ And guess what? HE WAS RIGHT!

  Christine *smooches*

• At least I have a Dad. You''re a fatherless cunt.

  Gia, daughter of Joe, sister of many

• Gia, hon, I might have vomited but at least I didn''t MAKE people vomit, unless a pygmy ape I could mention.

  Chrissy

• unless = unlike.\ \ No one ever said I was bright.

  C

• Gia gave me cholera.

  Audriana

• Attention, whores! My new show, "Gia Getting Cock?" debuts right after "Bethenny Getting Married?" Be sure to watch!

  Just Gia

• Hey, Gia - Danielle is a recording a song. Suck on that!

• This Gia shit never gets old. I don''t care what any of these pecking hens say!\ \ Viva La Gia La Cocksucker!

• My baby is a STAH!

  Teresa, Skinny Italian

• Mary all you want, but I''m completely grossed out by cocksucking jokes about a 9-year-old. \ \ Not quite as grossed out by whoring your kids on trashy reality tv shows, but still, pretty grossed out.

• Pucker up, Gia! Those cocksucking lips need to work off Mommy & Daddy''s $11 mil debt.

  http://www.realitytea.com/2010/06/05/nj-housewife-teresa-giudice-husband-files-for-bankruptcy-owe-11-million/

• We''ll just sell my three sisters since I''m the pretty one

  Gia, STAR

• Has Gia commented on her parents'' collapse yet? Rumor is she was so distraught that the couldn''t even hold a cock in her mouth.

• Dearest Gia has made a few comments but it is obvious she is upset. I would love to read some of Gia''s insights on her parents situation.

• Perhaps Gia can book a big modeling gig and save her parents.

• Gia will be the new face of Petco

  Garbriella, the human looking one

• I will be setting up a gloryhole at Kmart in Paramus, NJ. Come one, come all!

  Gia

• p.s. I just lost 4 upper teeth and 2 molars.

  Gia

• GIA LOVES JIZZ!\ \ A new Bravo series premiering this fall!

  Andy Cohen

• I auditioned for a Christian Slater movie, cunts!

  Gia, rising STAH

• How in hell did that bitch Danielle get a sex tape before ME? I am fuming!

  Gia G.

• someone should link this on Ashley''s page and attribute the thread to Danielle for some reunion drama.

• ^I''m of course kidding. the frau influx would be worse than the EW invasion years ago.

• Gia, how did you get all those cuts and abrasions on your knees?

• She breaks up with guys all the time with the excuse, "sorry, your dick just isn''t big enough"

• Gia broke my heart.

  Christian Slater

• Is everyone over me already?

  Gia

• until Monday, cock whore.

• This thread name makes me laugh every time I see it.%0D\ %0D\ What''s the little troll doing these days?

• Who fucking cares what you think or want, R17?\ \ Try ignoring what you don''t like, cunt.

• What the fuck is this?

  Julianna

• I think it''s time we talk about that gilled Lovecraftian abomination, Melanoma.

  The Wakiles

• Gia loves the jizz

• I''ve contacted the FBI about this thread. I''m sick of this disgusting site and the comments about children. You people are mentally ill! I was abused and I was afraid to ask for help but now I''m an adult and I''m not taking it!!! If you replied with anything suggesting this innocent child and anything to do with sex you better be worried!

• Pediphile site! CLOSE it! %0D\ %0D\ Horrible, horrible... how would these people feel if their loved ones were the topic of a nasty site like this. Poor little girl...soooo sad.%0D\ %0D\ CLOSE this site... I just had to see if it was actually a horrible site and to have an opportunity to log on and request it gets SHUT down ASAP. It is....SOOooooo disgusting. Hasty, dirty men think its funny! These people in our society with NO respect!!! Dirty doggs!

• The most pathetic person I''ve ever encountered is claiming to be her PR person. Perfect pairing.

• Gia, Juicy Joe says I''m better at giving head than you.\ \ So suck on that!

  Noel de Lesseps (enjoying having a "weekend mom")

• she looks like she was born with alcohol fetal syndrome - those fucked up eyes\ \ but, then again, look at the gene pool she came from

  anon

• Gia is part chimpanzee.

• I know it''s disturbing, but I crack up everytime I see this thread.

• Hey fagolas, I finally got the ring! No more cocksucking for me!

  Gia

• Is this woman who now wants to be called JOO-dih-chay instead of JOO-dice?

• No, r80, this is her dancer/singer/actress/sexpot daughter.

• My lips are up and running, fagolas! Drop em if you''ve got jewels for me!!! xo Gia...

  Cocksucker

• Does Gia still suck cock during a hurricane?

  Tio Joe

• I''m filming "Gia''s 51 load Weekend" in Parsipany....\ \ ...suck on that, Dawson!

  Gia G., Franklin Lakes, NJ

• BUMP\ \ Come on, Guys... keep this going, this is the funniest thread!!!!

• I don''t like it when the fagolas stop talking about me. Or when I don''t get sapphires for my services.

  G (I go by the letter now)

• When were we mentioned on The View?

• I''m retired now that I''m pregnant. What you thought it was food sickness that had me barfing on Xmas morning?

• You should see the view from my pussy R87....

  G

• Gimme a dick you old troll!

  Melanoma Guidice, future cocksucker

• You lowly peasants are all so pedestrian with your vulgar displays. Some of us must rise above.

  Gabriella, the pretty one

• Trowing up at Christmas=Morning sickness

• Mommy, I don''t want penicillin! It''s only a cold sore!

  Gia

• Whoever made this disgusting blog or wahtevver this is, are you that bored and misreable in you''re life that you have to talk about a 10 yr old like this? she is a CHILD! I am a friend of the family just happened to be using google to find her twitter, And came across this disgusting ass webiste. You have no life you need to remove this website or whatver this is or I will report this, THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING.. GET A LIFE A JOB?? FRIENDS OR SOMETHING.

  Hanna

• Gia is one used-up sloppy hole.\ \ I''m opening up for business down here in HOTlanta so come get some of this juicing mouth. Just got my braces removed so no need to worry about them tearing out your pubes, all is fine now.

  Brielle Zolciak

• Hey fuck yous aunt Caroline R94. My lips was born to suck dick and my pussy drips for sapphires.

  Gia-wet

• Wait until Joe and Teresa find out you were Googling for "Gia Giudice" and "cocksucker," R94. They will both whip your ass, and you''ll be lucky if they don''t have you arrested for kiddie porn. Google searches are recorded, you know!

• I''m just doing research for my son.

  R94 C Manzo

• Webmaster this thread is border line illegal and it would do you good if the Giudice family sued your asses for this sickness.

  End this thread now

• R99 is correct......\ \ This is the official "Gia Guidice is ALLEGEDLY a cocksucker" thread.

• this is why they hate us

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• this sad thread is indicative of how low DL has gone ~ really sad

• People who think this is funny are very ill

• Gia is now on twitter. Follow her.

  Russell Armstrong

• When she tweets, does she say: "I am a COCKSUCKER" or "I M A CKSKR"\ \ Anyone?

• Gia, My mom wants me to be the West Coast version of you, because she refuses to go out and work.

  Kennedy Armstrong

• pedophobe: The opposite of a pedophile (depending on your definition). One who is afraid of and/or hates pre-pubescent kids to the point where it interrupts their lives %0D

• Homosexual columnist: let%E2%80%99s face it, we want to indoctrinate children

  http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-journalist-lets-face-it-we-want-to-indoctrinate-children

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• AIDS is responsible for leaving vast numbers of children across Africa without one or both parents. The first table above shows the countries with the largest numbers of AIDS orphans. %0D %0D In some countries, a larger proportion of orphans have lost their parents to AIDS than to any other cause of death - meaning that, were it not for the AIDS epidemic, these children would not have been orphaned. The second table shows the countries in which the children who lost their parents to AIDS make up the highest proportion of the total national number of orphans.5 %0D %0D Most of the AIDS orphans who live outside of Africa live in Asia, where the total number of orphans - orphaned for all reasons - exceeds 73 million.6 There is, however, insufficient information available to provide figures for the number of AIDS orphans in individual Asian countries. The rest of this page concentrates on AIDS orphans in Africa, although the issues described here are present to some extent in many countries around the world. %0D %0D Variations within countries %0D As the number of orphans varies between countries, so it varies between different regions within those countries. Particular areas may have higher or lower percentages of orphans, largely depending on the local HIV prevalence rates. There can also be substantial differences between rural and urban areas. %0D %0D The age of orphans, however, is fairly consistent across countries. Surveys suggest that overall about 15% of orphans are 0-4 years old, 35% are 5-9 years old, and 50% are 10-14 years old.7 %0D %0D An increasing problem %0D The scale of the orphan crisis is somewhat masked by the time lag between when parents become infected and when they die. As adults continue to die from AIDS over the next decade, an increasing number of orphans will grow up without parental care and love. %0D %0D back to top The problems faced by AIDS orphans Emotional impact %0D Children whose parents are living with HIV often experience many negative changes in their lives and can start to suffer neglect, including emotional neglect, long before they are orphaned. Eventually, they suffer the death of their parent(s) and the emotional trauma that results. They may then have to adjust to a new situation, with little or no support, and may suffer exploitation and abuse.8 9 %0D %0D In one study carried out in rural Uganda, high levels of psychological distress were found in children who had been orphaned by AIDS. Anxiety, depression and anger were more found to be more common among AIDS orphans than other children. 12% of AIDS orphans affirmed that they wished they were dead, compared to 3% of other children interviewed.10 %0D %0D These psychological problems can become more severe if a child is forced to separate from their siblings upon becoming orphaned. In some regions this occurs regularly: a 2002 survey in Zambia showed that more than half of orphaned children no longer lived with all of their siblings.11 %0D %0D Household impact %0D %0D A member of the community takes care of children orphaned by AIDS, Lesotho.%0D The loss of a parent to AIDS can have serious consequences for a child%E2%80%99s access to basic necessities such as shelter, food, clothing, health and education. Orphans are more likely than non-orphans to live in large, female-headed households where more people are dependent on fewer income earners.12 This lack of income puts extra pressure on AIDS orphans to contribute financially to the household, in some cases driving them to the streets to work, beg or seek food.13 %0D %0D The majority of children who have lost a parent continue to live in the care of a surviving parent or family member, but often have to take on the responsibility of doing the housework, looking after siblings and caring for ill or dying parent(s). Children who have lost one parent to AIDS are often at risk of losing the other parent as well, since HIV may have been transmitted between the couple through sex. %0D %0D Education %0D Children orphaned by AIDS may miss out on school enrolment, have their schooling interrupted or perform poorly in school as a result of their situation. Expenses such as school fees and school uniforms present barriers to school attendance if orphans%E2%80%99 caregivers struggle to afford these costs.14 %0D %0D Studies suggest that the impact of orphanhood on a child's education is closely interlinked with other factors such as poverty. For example, a multi-country study released in 2010 found that orphanhood itself was not directly associated with lower school attendance (when measuring school attendance orphans are defined as children who have lost both parents while non orphans are defined as children both of whose parents are alive).15 Instead, other factors such as greater household wealth were more likely to result in increased school attendance for both orphans and non orphans. However, the loss of a productive family member is likely to be a financial burden and might push a family into poverty, increasing the likelihood that a child orphaned by AIDS will miss out on school. Moreover, most orphans and their caregivers still do not receive any type of external support in the form of healthcare, nutrition, or psychosocial support.16 Ensuring that households where a child has been orphaned by AIDS receive external care and support is therefore essential to ensure that the increasing number of AIDS orphans attend school. %0D %0D Figures released in 2010 revealed that in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa the gap between school attendance by orphans and non-orphans has narrowed although progress varies across the region.17 Despite this, orphans, particularly those from poorer households still remain less likely to attend school compared to non orphans. %0D %0D Outside of school, AIDS orphans may also miss out on valuable life-skills and practical knowledge that would have been passed on to them by their parents. Without this knowledge and a basic school education, children may be more likely to face social, economic and health problems as they grow up.18 %0D %0D Stigmatisation %0D Children grieving for dying or dead parents are often stigmatised by society through association with AIDS. The distress and social isolation experienced by these children, both before and after the death of their parent(s), is made worse by the shame, fear, and rejection that often surrounds people affected by HIV and AIDS. Because of this stigma, children may be denied access to schooling and health care. Once a parent dies children may also be denied their inheritance and property. Often children who have lost their parents to AIDS are assumed to be HIV positive themselves, adding to the likelihood that they will face discrimination and damaging their future prospects. In this situation children may also be denied access to healthcare that they need. Sometimes this occurs because it is assumed that they are infected with HIV and their illnesses are untreatable. %0D %0D %E2%80%9CWe should remember that the process of losing parents to HIV/AIDS for the children often includes the pain and the shame of the stigma and the fear that the disease carries in most our societies.%E2%80%9D - UNICEF representative Bjorn Ljunqvist19 %0D A video of the Gogo Getters, a group of grandmothers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa%0D Family structures %0D In African countries that have already suffered long, severe epidemics, AIDS places pressure on families and communities. Traditional systems of taking care of children who lose their parents, for whatever reason, have been in place throughout Sub-Saharan Africa for generations. But HIV and AIDS are eroding such practices by creating larger numbers of orphans than have ever been known before. The demand for care and support is simply overwhelming in many areas. HIV reduces the caring capacity of families and communities by deepening poverty, through medical and funeral costs as well as the loss of labour.20 %0D %0D back to top The way forward The way forward is threefold: firstly new HIV infections must be prevented so that children do not lose their parents; secondly access to antiretroviral treatment needs to be stepped up; and finally care must be provided for those children who are already orphaned. The rest of this page is devoted to issues around the care of AIDS orphans in Africa, but it is also important that HIV prevention is not forgotten. The situation of AIDS orphans is ultimately generated by adult deaths; until this problem is addressed the orphan crisis will continue. %0D %0D Support for carers %0D In the early days of the AIDS orphan crisis, there was a rush by well meaning non-governmental organisations to build orphanages. Given the scale of the problem, though, this response was unsustainable, as the cost of maintaining a child in such an institution is much greater than other forms of care. Most people now believe that orphans should be cared for in family units through extended family networks, foster families and adoption, and that siblings should not be separated. Studies in sub-Saharan Africa have repeatedly demonstrated that growing up in a family environment is more beneficial to a child than institutional care, which should be considered a temporary option or a last resort. %0D %0D Ultimately, though, the extended family can only serve as part of the solution to mass orphanhood if adequately supported by the state and the community, as well as other sectors of society. %0D %0D The community needs to be supportive of children when they are orphaned, making sure that they are accepted and have access to essential services, such as health care and education. This means improving existing services and reducing the stigma surrounding children affected by AIDS so that they do not face discrimination when trying to access these services. %0D %0D Keeping children in school %0D %E2%80%9CMy sister is six years old. There are no grown-ups living with us. I need a bathroom tap and clothes and shoes. And water also, inside the house. But especially, somebody to tuck me and my sister in at night-time.%E2%80%9D %0D - Apiwe aged 1321 Schools can play a crucial role in improving the prospects of AIDS orphans and securing their future. A good school education can give children a higher self-esteem, better job prospects and economic independence. As well as lifting children out of poverty, such an education can also give children a better understanding of HIV and AIDS, decreasing the risk that they will become infected. Schools can also offer benefits to AIDS orphans outside of education, such as emotional support and care. %0D %0D Empowerment for children %0D If AIDS orphans are as active members of the community rather than just victims, their lives can be given purpose and dignity. Many children already function as heads of households and as caregivers. They are a vital part of the solution and should be supported in planning and carrying out efforts to lessen the impact of AIDS in their families and communities. %0D %0D Protection for the legal & human rights of orphans %0D Much can be done to ensure the legal and human rights of AIDS orphans. Many communities are now writing wills to protect the inheritance rights of children and to prevent land and property grabbing, where adults attempt to rob orphans of their property once they have no parents to protect their rights. %0D %0D %E2%80%9CYou find that the parents have been productive and have left assets for the children but immediately after their deaths, the relatives squander everything. Those that are left without anything are just being used for the food rations.%E2%80%9D - Pelonomi Letshwiti, a social worker for Childline Botswana22 %0D Children orphaned due to AIDS may face exploitation in other areas of their lives as well. For instance, evidence suggests that there is a relationship between AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa and increased child-labour.23 %0D %0D Meeting emotional needs %0D The physical needs of orphans, such as nutrition and health care, can often appear to be the most urgent. But the emotional needs of children who have lost a parent should not be forgotten. Having a parent become sick and die is clearly a major trauma for any child, and may affect them for the rest of their life. %0D %0D %E2%80%9CMy sister is six years old. There are no grown-ups living with us. I need a bathroom tap and clothes and shoes. And water also, inside the house. But especially, somebody to tuck me and my sister in at night-time.%E2%80%9D - Apiwe aged 1324 %0D back to top Country responses to the AIDS orphan crisis: Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia In many countries with a high prevalence of HIV, efforts to provide care and support for AIDS orphans have been underway for many years. Although existing initiatives are encouraging, many of these are small scale and are struggling with the increasing number of children that require care. Three of the Africa countries that have been worst affected by HIV and AIDS are Botswana, Malawi, and Zambia. %0D %0D

• Gangsters in the United StatesThe terms "gangster" and "mobster" are mostly used in the United States to refer to members of criminal organizations associated with Prohibition or with an American offshoot of the Italian Mafia (such as the Chicago Outfit, the Philadelphia Mafia, or the Five Families).%0D %0D Gangsters have been depicted in American popular culture in films such as The Godfather, War, Hell Up in Harlem, Scarface, and Goodfellas, and in television shows (e.g.,The Sopranos).%0D %0D Early historyAs American society and culture developed, new immigrants were relocating to the United States. The first major gangs in 19th century New York City were the Irish gangs such as the Whyos and the Dead Rabbits, followed by the Italian Five Points Gang and later a Jewish gang known as the Eastman Gang.[2] There were also "nativist" anti-immigration gangs such as the Bowery Boys.%0D %0D During ProhibitionAl CaponeMain article: Al Capone%0D %0D Mug shot of Al Capone. Although never convicted of racketeering, Capone was convicted of income tax evasion by the federal government.The stereotypical image and myth of the American gangster is closely associated with organized crime during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and 1930s.[3]%0D %0D In 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption. Many gangs sold alcohol illegally for tremendous profit, and used acute violence to stake turf and protect their interest. Often, police officers and politicians were paid off or extorted to ensure continued operation. Al Capone was one of the most influential gangsters during this period. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1899 to immigrant parents, Capone was recruited by the Five Points Gang in the early 1920s. Capone%E2%80%99s childhood friend, Lucky Luciano, was also originally a member of the Five Points Gang. Capone would rise to control a major portion of illicit activity such as gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging in Chicago, Illinois during the early twentieth century.%0D %0D Lucky LucianoMain article: Lucky Luciano%0D Lucky Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania), a Sicilian gangster, is considered to be the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade. He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family and is credited with organizing the American Mafia's ruling body.%0D %0D After ProhibitionAnastasia, Gambino, and Costello %0D American gangster Frank Costello, testifying before the Kefauver Committee, during an investigation of organized crime.Albert Anastasia was a gang boss for many years until 1957, when Carlo Gambino had him killed because he wanted to take over.[citation needed]%0D %0D Carlo Gambino was an influential gangster in America. From 1961 until he died in 1976, he was chairman of the American mafia.%0D %0D Gambino was born in Palermo, Sicily, but moved to the United States at the age of 21. Through his Castellano relatives, he joined the Masseria Family. While Lucky Luciano was the underboss in the Masseria Family, Gambino worked for him. After Luciano had Masseria killed, Luciano became the boss, and Gambino was sent to the Scalise Family. Later Scalise was stripped of his rank, and Vicenzu Mangano became boss until 1951, when Mangano disappeared. His body was never found.%0D %0D Frank Costello was another influential gangster. He was born in Italy but moved to America when he was four years old. He later changed his name from Francesco Castiglia to Frank Costello when he joined a gang at age 13. His name change led some people to mistakenly believe he was Irish. He worked with Charlie Luciano in bootlegging and gambling. He also had a lot of political power which enabled him to continue his business. He took charge when Luciano was arrested and expanded the gang's operations. He decided to step away from the gangster life and died peacefully in 1973.%0D %0D Gangstas"Gangsta" is a term used to describe a type of gangster typical of African American and hip-hop culture. The term is derived from the word "gangster" but is purposefully misspelled. The typical attire[citation needed] of a gangsta is oversized pants, skate shoes, a large shirt, a vest, and a do-rag or flat-brimmed hat.%0D %0D

• A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life.[1] She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Catholics %E2%80%93 both eastern and western traditions %E2%80%93 Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jains, Buddhists, and Taoists. While in common usage the terms nun and sister are often used interchangeably, in some cases they are differentiated, a nun being a religious woman who lives a contemplative cloistered life of prayer and meditation, while a sister, in Christian denominations, lives an active vocation of prayer and service, often to the needy, sick, poor, and uneducated.%0D\ %0D

• In the Catholic Church, a nun is a woman who has taken solemn vows (the male equivalent is often called a "monk" or "friar", although the positions actually entail very different religious origins and constitute very different duties of the church).[citation needed] The only distinction between a nun and a sister is that nuns have solemn vows and sisters have simple vows. Nuns are usually cloistered or enclosed to the degree established by the rule of the religious institution they enter;[9] exceptions include one branch of Visitandines and the Ursulines.%0D %0D In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of different orders of nuns each with its own charism or special character.%0D %0D In general, when a woman enters a convent, monastery or abbey, she first undergoes an initial period of testing the life for a period of six months to a year called a postulancy. If she, and the order, determine that she may have a vocation to the life, she receives the habit of the order (usually with some modification,normally a white veil instead of a black, to distinguish her from professed nuns) and undertakes the novitiate, a period (that lasts one to two years) of living the life of a nun without yet taking vows.[10] Upon completion of this period she may take her initial, temporary vows.[11] Temporary vows last one to three years, typically, and will be professed for not less than three years and not more than six.[12] Finally, she will petition to make her "perpetual profession", taking permanent, solemn vows.[13]%0D %0D In the various branches of the Benedictine tradition (Benedictines, Cistercians, Camaldolese, and Trappists among others) nuns take vows of stability (that is, to remain a member of a single monastic community), obedience (to an abbess or prioress), and "conversion of life" (which includes poverty and chastity). The "Poor Clares" (a Franciscan order) and those Dominican nuns who live a cloistered life take the threefold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Most orders of nuns not listed here follow one of these two patterns, with some orders taking an additional vow related to the specific work or character of their order (for example, to undertake a certain style of devotion, praying for a specific intention or purpose).%0D %0D %0D Nuns at Work in the Cloister, by Henriette BrowneCloistered nuns (Carmelites, for example) observe "papal enclosure" [14] rules and their monasteries typically have walls separating the nuns from the outside world. The nuns rarely leave (except for medical necessity, or occasionally for purposes related to their contemplative life) though they may have visitors in specially built parlors, often with either a "grillwork" or half-wall separating the nuns' side from the visitors', that allow them to meet with outsiders. They are usually self-sufficient, earning money by selling jams or candies or baked goods by mail order, or by making liturgical items (such as vestments, candles, or hosts to be Consecrated at Mass for Holy Communion). They sometimes undertake contemplative ministries%E2%80%94that is, a monastery of nuns is often associated with prayer for some particular good or supporting the missions of another order by prayer (for instance, the Maryknoll order includes a monastery of cloistered nuns who pray for the work of the missionary priests, brothers and religious sisters; the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master are cloistered nuns who pray in support of the religious sisters of the Daughters of Saint Paul in their media ministry; and the Dominican nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery in the Bronx, N.Y. pray in support of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York).%0D %0D A canoness is a nun who corresponds to the male equivalent, a canon. The origin and rules of monastic life are common to both. As with the canons, differences in the observance of rule gave rise to two types: canons regular and secular canons.%0D %0D A nun who is elected to head her religious house is termed an abbess if the house is an abbey, with the exception of Poor Clares who have an abbess but no abbey perhaps from St. Clare's beginning her religious life "train" by the Benedictines, to whom St. Francis entrusted her, who have abbesses, a prioress if it is a monastery, or more generically may be referred to as the Mother Superior and styled "Reverend Mother". The distinction between abbey and monastery has to do with the terms used by a particular order or by the level of independence of the religious house. Technically, a convent is any home of a community of sisters%E2%80%94or, indeed, of priests and brothers, though this term is rarely used in the U.S. The term "monastery" is often used by communities within the Benedictine family, and "convent" (when referring to a cloister) is often used of the monasteries of certain other orders.%0D %0D Traditional cloistered nuns' clothing consists of a tunic which is tied around the waist with a cloth or leather belt. Over the tunic some nuns wear a scapular which is a garment of long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head. Some wear a white wimple which "encircles" the face and a veil the most significant and ancient aspect of the habit. Some nuns such as Poor Clares wear a large rosary on their belt. Benedictine Abbesses wear a cross or crucifix on a chain around their neck. After the second Vatican Council, many orders chose to no longer wear the traditional habit, and as well did away with choosing a religious name. However, Catholic Church or Canon Law states (669.1) "As a sign of their consecration and as a witness to poverty religious are to wear their habit in accordance with the institute's own law."%0D %0D %0D The Vale of Rest ; by John Everett Millais, 1848 (Tate Gallery, London)[edit] Distinction between nun and religious sisterIn the Catholic Church, the term "nun" is more specific than "religious sister". Nun refers to a religious sister who is a member of a religious order that takes solemn vows, which is most often dedicated to contemplation and observes strict enclosure. Sister refers to a consecrated woman with simple vows, most often one who works in an active apostolate ministering to people. There are, however, several communities of sisters totally dedicated to the contemplative life.%0D %0D During the first millennium, nearly all communities of men and women were dedicated to prayer and contemplation. These monasteries, abbeys, or convents were built in remote locations or were separated from the world by means of a cloister. The mendicant orders, founded in the 13th century, combined a life of prayer and dedication to God with active works of preaching, hearing confessions, and service to the poor, and members of these orders are known as friars rather than monks. At that time, Church law did not allow women to leave the cloister if they had taken solemn vows. Female members of the mendicant orders (Dominican, Augustinian and Carmelite nuns and Poor Clares) continued to observe the same enclosed life as members of the monastic orders. On the other hand, religious congregations and institutes, such as the Daughters of Charity, were founded taking simple vows so that they could engage in the active life of teaching, ministering to the sick, and other works of charity. Technically speaking, the term %E2%80%9Cnun%E2%80%9D applies to women religious in solemn vows, while the term %E2%80%9Csister%E2%80%9D refers to nuns and also to women religious in simple vows. In popular speech, the terms nun and sister are used interchangeably for any woman religious.%0D %0D The same religious order may include both nuns and sisters, because many of the communities of simple vows were founded according to the Third Order rule, which was originally intended for lay people and did not require enclosure (see Third Order of St. Francis). For instance, the Poor Clares are cloistered nuns of the %E2%80%9Csecond order%E2%80%9D of St. Francis, while the Sisters of St. Francis are "Third Order Regular Franciscans" who teach, work in hospitals or perform other ministries.%0D %0D Pope Leo XIII, by the constitution Conditae a Christo, formally recognized the consecration of those in simple vows, and today the Catholic Church makes no essential distinction between religious women with solemn vows and those with simple vows.%0D %0D [edit] Eastern Orthodox %0D Saint Sophia of Suzdal, wearing the full monastic habit of a SchemanunMain article: Eastern Christian Monasticism%0D In the Eastern Orthodox Church there is no distinction between a monastery for women and a monastery for men. In Greek, Russian, and other Eastern European languages, both domiciles are called "monasteries" and the ascetics who live therein are "Monastics". In English, however, it is acceptable to use the terms "nun" and "convent" for clarity and convenience. The term for an abbess is the feminine form of abbot (hegumen)%E2%80%94Greek: hegumeni; Serbian: %D0%98%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0 (Igumanija); Russian: %D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F, (igumenia). Orthodox monastics do not have distinct "orders" as in Western Christianity. Orthodox monks and nuns lead identical spiritual lives.[15] There may be slight differences in the way a monastery functions internally but these are simply differences in style (Gr. typica) dependent on the Abbess or Abbot. The Abbess is the spiritual leader of the convent and her authority is absolute (no priest, bishop, or even patriarch can override an abbess within the walls of her monastery.) There has always been spiritual equality between men and women in the Orthodox Church (Galatians 3:28). Abbots and Abbesses rank in authority equal to bishops in many ways and were included in ecumenical councils. Orthodox monasteries are usually associated with a local synod of bishops by jurisdiction, but are otherwise self governing. Abbesses hear confessions (but do not absolve) and dispense blessings on their charges, though they still require the services of a presbyter (i.e., a priest) to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and perform other priestly functions, such as the absolution of a penitent.%0D %0D Orthodox monastics, in general have little or no contact with the outside world, especially family. The pious family whose child decides to enter the monastic profession understands that their child will become "dead to the world" and therefore be unavailable for social visits.%0D %0D There are a number of different levels that the nun passes through in her profession:%0D %0D Main article: Degrees of Eastern Orthodox monasticism%0D Novice%E2%80%94When one enters a monastery the first three to five years are spent as a novice. Novices may or may not (depending on the abbess's wishes) dress in the black inner robe (Isorassa); those who do will also usually wear the apostolnik or a black scarf tied over the head (see photo, above). The isorassa is the first part of the monastic "habit" of which there is only one style for Orthodox monastics (this is true in general, there have been a few slight regional variations over the centuries, but the style always seems to precipitate back to a style common in the 3rd or 4th century). If a novice chooses to leave during the novitiate period no penalty is incurred.%0D Rassaphore%E2%80%94When the abbess deems the novice ready, the novice is asked to join the monastery. If she accepts, she is tonsured in a formal service during which she is given the outer robe (Exorassa) and veil (Epanokamelavkion) to wear, and (because she is now dead to the world) receives a new name. Nuns consider themselves part of a sisterhood; however, tonsured nuns are usually addressed as "Mother" (in some convents, the title of "Mother" is reserved to those who enter into the next level of Stavrophore).%0D Stavrophore%E2%80%94The next level for monastics takes place some years after the first tonsure when the abbess feels the nun has reached a level of discipline, dedication, and humility. Once again, in a formal service the nun is elevated to the "Little Schema" which is signified by additions to her habit of certain symbolic articles of clothing. In addition, the abbess increases the nun%E2%80%99s prayer rule, she is allowed a stricter personal ascetic practice.%0D Great Schema%E2%80%94The final stage, called "Megaloschemos" or "Great Schema" is reached by nuns whose Abbess feels they have reached a high level of excellence. In some monastic traditions the Great Schema is only given to monks and nuns on their death bed, while in others they may be elevated after as little as 25 years of service.%0D %0D Princess Praskovya Yusupova before becoming a nun Nikolai Nevrev, 1886 %0D The Way of Humility: Russian Orthodox nun working at Ein Karem, Jerusalem %0D %0D %0D %0D %0D [edit] Anglican CommunionAnglican religious orders are organizations of laity and/or clergy in the Anglican Communion who live under a common rule. The term "religious orders" must be distinguished from Holy Orders (the sacrament of ordination which bishops, priests, and deacons receive), though many communities do have ordained members.%0D %0D The structure and function of religious orders in Anglicanism roughly parallels that which exists in Roman Catholicism. Religious communities are divided into orders proper, in which members take solemn vows and congregations, whose members take simple vows.%0D %0D Religious communities throughout England were destroyed by King Henry VIII when he separated the Church of England from the papacy during the English Reformation (see Dissolution of the Monasteries). Monasteries were deprived of their lands and possessions, and monastics were forced to either live a secular life or flee the country.%0D %0D With the rise of the Catholic Revival and the Oxford Movement in Anglicanism in the early 19th century came interest in the revival of "religious life" in England. Between 1841 and 1855, several religious orders for nuns were founded, among them the Community of St. Mary at Wantage and the Community of St. Margaret at East Grinstead.%0D %0D In the United States and Canada, the founding of Anglican religious orders of nuns began in 1845 with the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion (now defunct) in New York.%0D %0D In the Episcopal Church in the United States, there are two recognized types of religious communities, called Religious Orders and Christian Communities. The differences are as follows:%0D %0D A Religious Order of this Church is a society of Christians (in communion with the See of Canterbury) who voluntarily commit themselves for life, or a term of years, to holding their possessions in common or in trust; to a celibate life in community; and obedience to their Rule and Constitution. (Title III, Canon 24, section 1)%0D %0D A Christian Community of this Church is a society of Christians (in communion with the See of Canterbury) who voluntarily commit themselves for life, or a term of years, in obedience to their Rule and Constitution. (Title III, Canon 24, section 2)%0D %0D In some Anglican orders, there are sisters who have been ordained and can celebrate the Eucharist.[16]%0D %0D

• During the early 1600s in England, life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because two-thirds of all children died before the age of four.[10] During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically.[11]%0D\ %0D\ According to population health experts, child mortality rates have fallen sharply since the 1990s. Deaths of children under the age of five are down by 42% in the United States, while Serbia and Malaysia have cut their rates by nearly 70%.[12]%0D\ %0D

• Anti-Italianism in The United StatesAnti-Italianism in the United States is a fairly recent phenomenon that coincides with the period of large-scale Italian immigration beginning in the last part of the 19th century. Prior to that time Italians, who had lived in America from around the beginning of the 17th century, were respected craftmen, musicians, soldiers, merchants, missionaries, educators, artists and architects. An Italian Filippo Mazzei, who was a friend of Thomas Jefferson, is credited with the phrase "All Men Are Created Equal". Italians played an important role in the settling of the country, and were generally well regarded. Later immigrants, who were escaping poverty and turmoil in Italy, had a much different reception.%0D %0D In America, and other English-speaking countries to which they immigrated, such as Canada and Australia, the later Italian immigrants were often viewed as perpetual foreigners in a lower class, restricted to blue collar jobs. Their Catholicism, their frequent lack of formal education, their folkways and their competition with earlier immigrants for lower paying jobs accounted for much of this prejudice. Their experiences in North-American countries were notably different than in the South-American countries to which Italians immigrated in large numbers. In Argentina and Brazil, Italians were key to developing these countries, and quickly rose into the middle and upper classes there.[1] Italians have been viewed in the United States mainly as construction workers, chefs, plumbers, and in other blue-collar jobs.[2] However, in 1990, more than 65% of Italian Americans were managerial, professional, or white-collar workers.[3]%0D %0D Anti-Italianism can be closely linked to the anti-Catholic tradition that existed in the United States. When the United States was founded, it inherited the anti-Catholic, anti-papal animosity of its original Protestant settlers. Anti-Catholic sentiments in America reached a peak in the nineteenth century when the Protestant population became alarmed by the number of Catholics immigrating to America. This was due in part to the standard tensions that arise between native-born citizens and immigrants. The resulting anti-Catholic nativist movement, which achieved prominence in the 1840s, led to hostility that resulted in mob violence, and the burning of Catholic property.[4] Italian immigrants, who began arriving in the last quarter of the 19th century, were especially vilified because of their millennia-long leadership role in the Catholic Church and the fact that, from earliest times, the popes were predominately Italian (Roman Catholicism in Italy).%0D %0D Many of the later immigrants from southern Italy brought with them a political disposition toward socialism and anarchism. This was a reaction to the economic and political conditions they experienced in Italy. In America, they were in the forefront of organizing Italian and other immigrant laborers in demanding better working conditions and shorter working hours in the mining, textile, construction and other industries. As a result, they were branded as radicals and labor agitators by many of the business owners and the wealthier class of the time, and were subjected to intense anti-Italian sentiments.%0D %0D [edit] Violence against Italians Rioters breaking in to parish prison. Anti-Italian lynching in New Orleans, 1891In the United States, Italian immigrants were frequently subjected to extreme prejudice, racism and, in some cases, violence. During the 19th century and early 20th century, Italian immigrants were often seen as ignorant peasants. Italians were actively recruited to come to the United States after the American Civil War to work mainly in agriculture and as laborers. Most soon found themselves the victims of prejudice, economic exploitation and sometimes violence. Italian stereotypes abounded during this period as a means of justifying this maltreatment of the immigrants. Later waves of Italian immigrants inherited these same virulent forms of discrimination and stereotyping.%0D %0D

• Liz says James Dean was molested%0D\ From a Kevin Sessums interview%0D\ %0D\ And James Dean? "I loved Jimmy. I''m going to tell you something, but it''s off the record until I die. OK? When Jimmy was 11 and his mother passed away, he began to be molested by his minister. I think that haunted him the rest of his life. In fact, I know it did. We talked about it a lot. During Giant we''d stay up nights and talk and talk, and that was one of the things he confessed to me." %0D\ %0D

• Violence against Italians Rioters breaking in to parish prison. Anti-Italian lynching in New Orleans, 1891In the United States, Italian immigrants were frequently subjected to extreme prejudice, racism and, in some cases, violence. During the 19th century and early 20th century, Italian immigrants were often seen as ignorant peasants. Italians were actively recruited to come to the United States after the American Civil War to work mainly in agriculture and as laborers. Most soon found themselves the victims of prejudice, economic exploitation and sometimes violence. Italian stereotypes abounded during this period as a means of justifying this maltreatment of the immigrants. Later waves of Italian immigrants inherited these same virulent forms of discrimination and stereotyping.

• pedophobe: The opposite of a pedophile (depending on your definition). One who is afraid of and/or hates pre-pubescent kids to the point where it interrupts their lives

• pedophobe: The opposite of a pedophile (depending on your definition). One who is afraid of and/or hates pre-pubescent kids to the point where it interrupts their lives

• Monument by William Finnegan June 25, 2007 France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now Russia has given us "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument. If you have not seen it, that may be because you haven't recently approached New York City by ship. For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit. As you get closer, however, you will begin to make out an immense, stainless-steel teardrop"the Tear of Grief"hanging in a jagged crack that runs down the middle of the main slab. That's when you'll know that you're not looking at some ordinary bronze-sheathed, hundred-and-seventy-five-ton afternoon snack. Tsereteli's inspiration came, he says, on September 11, 2001. "I saw the people gathered around the American Embassy," he said recently from Moscow. "The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument." Tsereteli, who is seventy-three and bogglingly prolific, flew to New York, visited Ground Zero, and decided that it wasn't the appropriate place for the sculpture. He pitched it to Jersey City, where the mayor loved it. But then the mayor died, and objections to the planned monument surfaced. A Jersey City artists' organization, for instance, called it "an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world's blatant self-promoters." The project was put on hold. This was in 2004. Then it turned out that Bayonne, a city where artists do not exert undue influence, was in the market for a 9/11 memorial. Bayonne had only forty thousand dollars to spend, however. No problem, Tsereteli said. He would pay for "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" himself. In the sweep of Tsereteli's career, the contretemps in Jersey City was a micro-skirmish. (His enemies once tried to blow up a three-hundred-foot-tall statue of "Peter the Great," which includes an enormous bronze galleon and now dominates the skyline of central Moscow.) He has decorated Soviet embassies around the world, won the Lenin Prize, and served as People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. He was Chief Artist of the Moscow Olympics. A minor planet has been named after him. (It's between Mars and Jupiter.) He is the president of the Russian Academy of the Arts, and in the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, in Moscow, there stands today a statue of the judo master Vladimir Putin, barefoot and looking good. For decades, no visiting head of state or celebrity has been safe from Tsereteli's attentions. Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, the first President Bush, and Liza Minnelli have all found themselves at his gallery. At the White House with Boris Yeltsin soon after the death of President Clinton's mother, Tsereteli pressed into the President's hand a painting of her, made on a small block of ivory. Clinton, reportedly deeply touched, now displays the painting on his mantel in Chappaqua. Tsereteli is short and built like a baby bull. His energy and charm are legendary. Still, skeptics wonder how he gets the valuable metals that go into his monuments"for instance, the unusually shiny stainless steel that covers the forty-foot Tear of Grief. Asked by telephone about the steel, Tsereteli got into a glum-sounding discussion in Russian with his grandson, Vasili, who, patched into the call from Venice, was acting as interpreter. Finally, Vasili said, "From a military factory that did airplanes. In Dzerzhinsk. A secret city." What about the monument's financing? (It is widely said to have cost twelve million dollars to build.) "My grandfather paid the money," Vasili said. [see offsite link on www.newyorker.com] by: Anonymous reply 21 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] But a black granite stone beside the monument, it was pointed out, carries the inscription "Gift from the People of Russia"President Vladimir Putin." (Putin himself attended the unveiling.) More discussion, with a sense of rising impatience in Moscow. Finally, Vasili: "He is a government employee, and he does many things in the name of the Russian government." Today, a large banner hangs on a warehouse alongside the monument, with portraits of Putin and President George W. Bush facing one another across the battle cry "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." Inscribed on the monument's base are the names of the 9/11 victims, along with the names of those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The base has eleven sides. Nine pathways lead to it. The Tear of Grief is aligned, it is said, with the missing towers, across the water. On a recent sunny afternoon, two men drove up and parked near the monument"a Bayonne resident and his son, home from college. They walked around its base, studying the names. The father pointed at one with his shoe. "See, there's Noley," he said. Asked what he thought of the monument, the father looked up, shading his eyes against the ferocious brilliance of the Tear of Grief. "Pretty impressive," he said. by: Anonymous reply 22 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] It'll be Splits-ville for Delta Burke and Major Dad. by: Anonymous reply 23 09/10/2011 @ 11:01PM Reply 21 - 23 of 23 first | prev | | next | last

• I work at an insurance company, and they''re all processors and cube dwellers like me.\ \ Seriously: we have about 50 people on the floor. 6 or 7 are guys. They bought us THIRTY large pizzas for FIFTY people on Friday. They were delivered at 11 am.\ \ I went at 11:05 and it was a madhouse. You would have thought these whores had never gone to a grocery store. Some had baggies and were shoving slices right into the bag. One big ole'' heifer just took an entire pizza on her own.\ \ And by the time I could get near the boxes without worrying that my arm would be gnawed off, they''d almost completely wiped out the pizzas, except for about 6 slices of vegetable-only pizza.\ \ Sows, I tell you. They talk, dress and act it all day, too.

• At the John Varvatos Fashion's Night Out party yesterday, Thomas Jane came correct in a pair of Varvatos pants. "I am a real fan," he told us. "I have him in my closet. That sounded funny. I don't have John Varvatos in my closet. I have clothes that he ... you know what I'm trying to say." If he did have the real Varvatos in his closet, that would be a good plotline for Jane's HBO series, Hung, right? Not quite, replied the actor. "I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show," Jane said. "That's the last episode. If they want to keep me around, there's certain guidelines they have to follow. Not all of us can be bloodsucking vampires. That's not all they're sucking, you know! Sorry!" He continued to discuss matters of manhood while telling us about a Western he wrote and plans to direct, entitled The Magnificent Death From a Shattered Hand. "Marlon Brando said acting's not a profession for real men," laughed Jane. "It's not a real man's job. And I agree with him, so I'm going to direct." [see offs

• I was a ballerino and all my father could do was wring his hands

• Thread Watcher [Help] Found new posts GIA GUIDICE - The Official GIA GIUDICE is a COCKSUCKER thread. 0 Memories of 9/11/01 84 9/11 conspiracy theories 125 Under-appreciated divas 78 I for one, am very glad there was no FACEBOOK on 9/11 4 Click here if you are using an iPhone or iPad DataLounge get your fix of gay gossip, news and pointless bitchery. Authenticated Login Subscription Registration Settings wit & wisdom NEWS ALERT! Terror Alert Threat for NYC!!!! Life was so much easier under Bush when we had crayola colors to tell us the level of hysteria we should display. --Anonymous Memories of 9/11/01 My eyes were so blue that day. Namaste. --Gwyneth GHB Are there any behaviors common to people on GHB Turning blue. Extreme stillness. Decay. --Anonymous Reese Witherspoon Hit By A Car Kudos to the lucky driver who got to do what most of us have only dared to dream. --Ava Phillippe What kind of behavioral patterns usually set off your Gaydar? "My gaydar goes off every time I see a guy sucking dick." Mine doeshn't. --Liza with a "Z" Texas is burning We got the BIGGEST and BEST fires, y'all!!!! --Praise Jeses! Can I git an AMEN? Texas is burning Hell has become impatient and actually decided to go looking for George Bush. --Anonymous Texas is burning Red state on fire! Red state on fire! --Old beggar woman with no healthcare Scat is Illegal in the UK It's why Ella Fitzgerald was on Scotland Yard's Most Wanted List. --Anonymous Poor dear actually has to encounter gay pepople in public Gayface for days, her husband has. It's good to know Yoda has gaydar. --Anonymous Privacy Policy/Terms and Conditions %C2%A9 2011-1995 The DataLounge [back to threadlist] [post a reply] Re: GIA GUIDICE - The Official GIA GIUDICE is a COCKSUCKER thread. Reply 161 - 164 of 164 first | prev | | next | last flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Monument by William Finnegan June 25, 2007 France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now Russia has given us "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument. If you have not seen it, that may be because you haven't recently approached New York City by ship. For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit. As you get closer, however, you will begin to make out an immense, stainless-steel teardrop"the Tear of Grief"hanging in a jagged crack that runs down the middle of the main slab. That's when you'll know that you're not looking at some ordinary bronze-sheathed, hundred-and-seventy-five-ton afternoon snack. Tsereteli's inspiration came, he says, on September 11, 2001. "I saw the people gathered around the American Embassy," he said recently from Moscow. "The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument." Tsereteli, who is seventy-three and bogglingly prolific, flew to New York, visited Ground Zero, and decided that it wasn't the appropriate place for the sculpture. He pitched it to Jersey City, where the mayor loved it. But then the mayor died, and objections to the planned monument surfaced. A Jersey City artists' organization, for instance, called it "an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world's blatant self-promoters." The project was put on hold. This was in 2004. Then it turned out that Bayonne, a city where artists do not exert undue influence, was in the market for a 9/11 memorial. Bayonne had only forty thousand dollars to spend, however. No problem, Tsereteli said. He would pay for "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" himself. In the sweep of Tsereteli's career, the contretemps in Jersey City was a micro-skirmish. (His enemies once tried to blow up a three-hundred-foot-tall statue of "Peter the Great," which includes an enormous bronze galleon and now dominates the skyline of central Moscow.) He has decorated Soviet embassies around the world, won the Lenin Prize, and served as People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. He was Chief Artist of the Moscow Olympics. A minor planet has been named after him. (It's between Mars and Jupiter.) He is the president of the Russian Academy of the Arts, and in the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, in Moscow, there stands today a statue of the judo master Vladimir Putin, barefoot and looking good. For decades, no visiting head of state or celebrity has been safe from Tsereteli's attentions. Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, the first President Bush, and Liza Minnelli have all found themselves at his gallery. At the White House with Boris Yeltsin soon after the death of President Clinton's mother, Tsereteli pressed into the President's hand a painting of her, made on a small block of ivory. Clinton, reportedly deeply touched, now displays the painting on his mantel in Chappaqua. Tsereteli is short and built like a baby bull. His energy and charm are legendary. Still, skeptics wonder how he gets the valuable metals that go into his monuments"for instance, the unusually shiny stainless steel that covers the forty-foot Tear of Grief. Asked by telephone about the steel, Tsereteli got into a glum-sounding discussion in Russian with his grandson, Vasili, who, patched into the call from Venice, was acting as interpreter. Finally, Vasili said, "From a military factory that did airplanes. In Dzerzhinsk. A secret city." What about the monument's financing? (It is widely said to have cost twelve million dollars to build.) "My grandfather paid the money," Vasili said. [see offsite link on www.newyorker.com] by: Anonymous reply 21 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] But a black granite stone beside the monument, it was pointed out, carries the inscription "Gift from the People of Russia"President Vladimir Putin." (Putin himself attended the unveiling.) More discussion, with a sense of rising impatience in Moscow. Finally, Vasili: "He is a government employee, and he does many things in the name of the Russian government." Today, a large banner hangs on a warehouse alongside the monument, with portraits of Putin and President George W. Bush facing one another across the battle cry "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." Inscribed on the monument's base are the names of the 9/11 victims, along with the names of those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The base has eleven sides. Nine pathways lead to it. The Tear of Grief is aligned, it is said, with the missing towers, across the water. On a recent sunny afternoon, two men drove up and parked near the monument"a Bayonne resident and his son, home from college. They walked around its base, studying the names. The father pointed at one with his shoe. "See, there's Noley," he said. Asked what he thought of the monument, the father looked up, shading his eyes against the ferocious brilliance of the Tear of Grief. "Pretty impressive," he said. by: Anonymous reply 22 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] It'll be Splits-ville for Delta Burke and Major Dad. by: Anonymous reply 23 09/10/2011 @ 11:01PM Reply 21 - 23 of 23 first | prev | | next | last by: Anonymous reply 161 09/10/2011 @ 11:18PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] I work at an insurance company, and they're all processors and cube dwellers like me. Seriously: we have about 50 people on the floor. 6 or 7 are guys. They bought us THIRTY large pizzas for FIFTY people on Friday. They were delivered at 11 am. I went at 11:05 and it was a madhouse. You would have thought these whores had never gone to a grocery store. Some had baggies and were shoving slices right into the bag. One big ole' heifer just took an entire pizza on her own. And by the time I could get near the boxes without worrying that my arm would be gnawed off, they'd almost completely wiped out the pizzas, except for about 6 slices of vegetable-only pizza. Sows, I tell you. They talk, dress and act it all day, too.

• \ I''m not trying to pick a fight with any fanboys and fangurls, but we keep seeing raves and applause for some of the same artists in threads.\ \ Gaga. Streisand. Madonna. Cher. And so on.\ \ That''s all cool and shit, but I''m kinda interested in hearing about (and talking about) artists that perhaps haven''t made it to everyone''s iPod. Maybe they just never hit the spotlight. Maybe their time came and went a while ago. Maybe they''re famous elsewhere but not in the US?\ \ But they''re still awesome. Still have some classics songs, or a classic album.\ \ Let''s talk about the unrecognized but still awesome artists and divas.

• Obama has completely alienated his base in hopes of winning over the mythical Independent voter. All those young voters who mobilized to elect him the first time around are not going to do that again. We need to focus instead on getting majorities in the House and Senate. The only hope Obama has is if the Repukes nominate a nut like Perry. If they nominate Romney, we''re in trouble.

• It was an extraordinary scene: President Barack Obama, sitting impassively in the Oval Office in May as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him, at considerable length and at times condescendingly, on Jewish history, Arab perfidy and the existential challenges facing his country. What was extraordinary wasn't the message -- it was not an untypical Netanyahu sermon. What was notable was that Netanyahu was lecturing the president live on television, during a photo opportunity staged so that the two leaders could issue platitudes about the enduring bonds between their nations. That display of impudence left the president and his team feeling unusually angry. Shortly afterward, Obama's chief of staff, William Daley, called the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, to communicate the displeasure of the White House in a reportedly heated way. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who watched her husband battle Netanyahu in the late 1990s, also expressed anger and frustration about the prime minister within the administration. Nothing in Return But it was Robert M. Gates, the now-retired secretary of defense, who seemed most upset with Netanyahu. In a meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee held not long before his retirement this summer, Gates coldly laid out the many steps the administration has taken to guarantee Israel's security -- access to top- quality weapons, assistance developing missile-defense systems, high-level intelligence sharing -- and then stated bluntly that the U.S. has received nothing in return, particularly with regard to the peace process. Senior administration officials told me that Gates argued to the president directly that Netanyahu is not only ungrateful, but also endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel's growing isolation and with the demographic challenges it faces if it keeps control of the West Bank. According to these sources, Gates's analysis met with no resistance from other members of the committee. Frustration and Resentment Gates has expressed his frustration with Netanyahu's government before. Last year, when Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel was marred by an announcement of plans to build new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, Gates told several people that if he had been Biden, he would have returned to Washington immediately and told the prime minister to call Obama when he was serious about negotiations. Gates's frustration also stems from squabbling with Netanyahu over U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies. In an encounter in Israel in March, according to U.S. and Israeli sources, Netanyahu lectured Gates at length on the possible dangers posed to Israel by such sales, as well as by Turkey and other regional U.S. allies. Gates, a veteran intelligence officer, resented Netanyahu's tone, and reminded him that the sales were organized in consultation with Israel and pro-Israel members of Congress. Palestinian State The reason the administration's hard feelings toward Netanyahu matter now -- and the reason several officials spoke to me on this subject last week -- is that the U.S. is once again going to the mat for Israel at the United Nations, where Palestinians intend to seek recognition of an independent state in September. The White House plans to contest this resolution in the General Assembly (where the move already has majority support), and the U.S. would most likely veto it in the Security Council. The Obama administration is right to oppose this ploy, which would undermine the chances of reconciliation and could lead to an explosion of violence on the West Bank. But they'll oppose it in spite of Netanyahu, not to help him. Dislike of Netanyahu has deepened in a way that could ultimately be dangerous for Israel. Time after time, the White House has taken Israel's side in international disputes -- over the UN's Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza; over Israel's confrontation with the pro-Hamas Turkish "flotilla," in which nine people were killed; and on many other issues. Yet the Netanyahu government does little to dispel the notion among its right-wing supporters that the Obama administration is at best a wavering friend. This is self- evidently foolish, especially at a time when Israel faces an existential threat from its menacing neighbor Iran. A Blunt Articulation Gates's feelings about Netanyahu are particularly consequential, in part because he's not considered hostile to Israel, and in part because he's a well-regarded figure who articulated bluntly what so many people in the administration seem to believe. Gates declined to comment for this column through his former spokesman, Geoff Morrell. But Morrell told me that Gates "worked extremely hard throughout his four and half years as secretary of defense to address Israel's security concerns." A Pentagon spokesman, George Little, said that Gates's successor, Leon Panetta, "agrees with what President Obama and former Secretary Gates have both said, which is that our defense relationship with Israel is stronger than ever." When I asked Oren, the Israeli ambassador, about Gates's often-expressed feelings toward Netanyahu, he said, "We have nothing but the highest regard for Secretary Gates, and as allies, we don't exchange accusations, we have communications. Israel deeply appreciates the excellent security relationship we have with the Obama administration." Netanyahu's alienation of the White House has not gone unnoticed in Israel. Tzipi Livni, the head of the Kadima Party, said in a recent interview with me and Atlantic editor James Bennet that the average Israeli is more attuned to the importance of maintaining good relations with the U.S. president than is the current prime minister. "For Israelis," she said, "when they wake up in the morning and ask themselves, what is the general situation today, the litmus test for them is the health of the relationship between Israel and the United States." [see offsite link on www.bloomberg.com] by: Anonymous replies 76 09/10/2011 @ 12:23PM Reply 1 - 20 of 76 first | prev | | next | last flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] The day Israel becomes isolated among its enemies with no hope of assistance from our tax dollars is day that can't come soon enough. Any American citizen who would defend Israel needs to pack up and leave this country. I'm sick of my taxes going towards the funding of a terrorist organization masquerading as a legitimate country. by: Anonymous reply 1 09/10/2011 @ 12:34PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Israel is not our friend. They merely use our military. For a people who have endured as much as they have you would think they'd have more compassion for other downtrodden people but they have essentially turned into a fascist Nazi-like country. Before anyone calls me a Jew-hater I will say I don't give a shit about anyone's religion. Personally I think they all suck. by: Anonymous reply 2 09/10/2011 @ 12:41PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Israel is a user nation. by: Anonymous reply 3 09/10/2011 @ 12:43PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Netanyahu is an asshole, but conflating him with all of israel is as fair as saying GWB and Cheney represent all Americans. but they have essentially turned into a fascist Nazi-like country. Why don't you ask any of the Arabs in Israel if they'd like to leave, which they are free to do? The same could not be said for the Jews of Europe. When you invoke Nazism in discussing Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, which are in large part a reflection of Palestinian intransigence, you lose all credibility. by: Anonymous reply 4 09/10/2011 @ 12:56PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Good for Netanyahu. That boy needed a firm talking to. by: Anonymous reply 5 09/10/2011 @ 01:01PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Any American citizen who would defend Israel needs to pack up and leave this country. But of course you say that without any animus toward the Jews, right? Just an objective commentary from a disinterested observer. Any suggestion that you are angry and hostile to Jews would be just another unfair ploy to shift attention from the underlying rationality and justness of your thoughts. by: Anonymous reply 6 09/10/2011 @ 01:01PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Oh [R4] -- many Israelis themselves have come to believe that N is such an overwhelming negative force, he has swamped the Israeli national character with his evil, which is why so many moved away. This goes beyond the Palestinians, who are just the convenient boogeymen, just as the (unnamed religious group) served as scapegoats for the (unnamed German leader). by: Anonymous reply 7 09/10/2011 @ 01:04PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] [R6], touche. by: Anonymous reply 8 09/10/2011 @ 01:05PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] [R6] - huh? by: You're SOOOOOO clever, you've aspired to incomprehensibility... reply 9 09/10/2011 @ 01:09PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] [R7] I don't disagree that Netanyahu is a disaster for Israel and it saddens me that he and his ilk will ultimately force many American Jews to abandon all hope for Israel. I only wish to point out that those who invoke Nazism to describe what is going on in Israel are, shall we say, unhelpful to the discussion. by: Anonymous reply 10 09/10/2011 @ 01:13PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] A story that went away very quickly was the one about Former Israeli PM Olmert boasting about demanding that Bush get on the phone, as well as embarrassing the SoS (Rice) over a resolution that the US co-sponsored at the UN. The US abstained from its own co-sponsored resolution because of pressure from the Israelis and AIPAC. This is how neutered the US government has become when it comes to that one country. I love how Republicans it's only Obama who is subject to Israeli ridicule. If the above story was about any other foreign leader demanding the president get on the phone (Bush was making a speech in Philly at the time) or making us change a resolution we ourselves co-sponsored, it would've been all over the news, and yet, not one media outlet reported it. I can't even find the whole story about Olmert/Bush on Huffington Post anymore. I got an "expired" message when you click on "read whole story." It is always the retired officials who finally tell the truth and as I've said before, it won't be the Arabs who destroy Israel; it'll be the lunatics within their own ranks who have grown so arrogant with power. It's only getting worse as they let in the violent, fraudulent and bigoted psychos from the former Soviet Union - thousands of Orly Taitz. [see offsite link on www.huffingtonpost.com] by: Anonymous reply 11 09/10/2011 @ 01:13PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Has Israel plyed any part in the "War Against Terror"??? Apart from bombing Lebanon into the stone-age, that is? by: Anonymous reply 12 09/10/2011 @ 01:14PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar]

• The Circle of Life has reached a major milestone for Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It seems like it wasn't all that long ago that the wise Rafiki presented him to the sky as a newborn cub (this part may or may not have been fictional), but it is today, September 8th, 2011, that Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the vision of mid-90s tween dreams, turns 30 years old. Rising to fame at 10 years old with his role as Randy Taylor on the ABC sitcom "Home Improvement," JTT, as he would come to be known, saw his face plastered across every teen magazine imaginable. The boy who would be king took on a number of iconic roles in his early days; in 1994, he voiced Simba in "The Lion King," and in the two subsequent years, he played Tom Sawyer in "Tom and Huck," and the title marionette/boy in "Pinnochio." He largely left show business in 1998, having accomplished more than most men triple his age would even dream possible, and began a life devoted to education, enrolling at Columbia University. He has made guest appearances on a number of shows, including "Veronica Mars," but declined to attend TV Land's reunion of "Home Improvement" in 2009. Word, however, is that he is now set on making a long-awaited comeback.

• The Circle of Life has reached a major milestone for Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It seems like it wasn't all that long ago that the wise Rafiki presented him to the sky as a newborn cub (this part may or may not have been fictional), but it is today, September 8th, 2011, that Jonathan Taylor Thomas, the vision of mid-90s tween dreams, turns 30 years old. Rising to fame at 10 years old with his role as Randy Taylor on the ABC sitcom "Home Improvement," JTT, as he would come to be known, saw his face plastered across every teen magazine imaginable. The boy who would be king took on a number of iconic roles in his early days; in 1994, he voiced Simba in "The Lion King," and in the two subsequent years, he played Tom Sawyer in "Tom and Huck," and the title marionette/boy in "Pinnochio." He largely left show business in 1998, having accomplished more than most men triple his age would even dream possible, and began a life devoted to education, enrolling at Columbia University. He has made guest appearances on a number of shows, including "Veronica Mars," but declined to attend TV Land's reunion of "Home Improvement" in 2009. Word, however, is that he is now set on making a long-awaited comeback. "Jonathan is acting, and he wants to direct!" Patricia Richardson, his "Home Improvement" mom, tweeted last month.

• Daddy say says that mom''s a good cocksucker, but that I''m even better.

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• I got some new lip plumper tonight and a taste for rubies.

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• Do you think Gia will be sucking cock today?....on 9/11?

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• Monument%0D %0D by William Finnegan June 25, 2007%0D %0D France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now Russia has given us "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument. If you have not seen it, that may be because you haven't recently approached New York City by ship. For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit. As you get closer, however, you will begin to make out an immense, stainless-steel teardrop"the Tear of Grief"hanging in a jagged crack that runs down the middle of the main slab. That's when you'll know that you're not looking at some ordinary bronze-sheathed, hundred-and-seventy-five-ton afternoon snack.%0D %0D Tsereteli's inspiration came, he says, on September 11, 2001. "I saw the people gathered around the American Embassy," he said recently from Moscow. "The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument." Tsereteli, who is seventy-three and bogglingly prolific, flew to New York, visited Ground Zero, and decided that it wasn't the appropriate place for the sculpture. He pitched it to Jersey City, where the mayor loved it.%0D %0D But then the mayor died, and objections to the planned monument surfaced. A Jersey City artists' organization, for instance, called it "an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world's blatant self-promoters." The project was put on hold. This was in 2004. Then it turned out that Bayonne, a city where artists do not exert undue influence, was in the market for a 9/11 memorial. Bayonne had only forty thousand dollars to spend, however. No problem, Tsereteli said. He would pay for "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" himself.%0D %0D In the sweep of Tsereteli's career, the contretemps in Jersey City was a micro-skirmish. (His enemies once tried to blow up a three-hundred-foot-tall statue of "Peter the Great," which includes an enormous bronze galleon and now dominates the skyline of central Moscow.) He has decorated Soviet embassies around the world, won the Lenin Prize, and served as People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. He was Chief Artist of the Moscow Olympics. A minor planet has been named after him. (It's between Mars and Jupiter.) He is the president of the Russian Academy of the Arts, and in the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, in Moscow, there stands today a statue of the judo master Vladimir Putin, barefoot and looking good.%0D %0D For decades, no visiting head of state or celebrity has been safe from Tsereteli's attentions. Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, the first President Bush, and Liza Minnelli have all found themselves at his gallery. At the White House with Boris Yeltsin soon after the death of President Clinton's mother, Tsereteli pressed into the President's hand a painting of her, made on a small block of ivory. Clinton, reportedly deeply touched, now displays the painting on his mantel in Chappaqua.%0D %0D Tsereteli is short and built like a baby bull. His energy and charm are legendary. Still, skeptics wonder how he gets the valuable metals that go into his monuments"for instance, the unusually shiny stainless steel that covers the forty-foot Tear of Grief. Asked by telephone about the steel, Tsereteli got into a glum-sounding discussion in Russian with his grandson, Vasili, who, patched into the call from Venice, was acting as interpreter. Finally, Vasili said, "From a military factory that did airplanes. In Dzerzhinsk. A secret city."%0D %0D What about the monument's financing? (It is widely said to have cost twelve million dollars to build.) "My grandfather paid the money," Vasili said.%0D %0D [see offsite link on www.newyorker.com]%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 21 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] But a black granite stone beside the monument, it was pointed out, carries the inscription "Gift from the People of Russia"President Vladimir Putin." (Putin himself attended the unveiling.)%0D %0D More discussion, with a sense of rising impatience in Moscow. Finally, Vasili: "He is a government employee, and he does many things in the name of the Russian government."%0D %0D Today, a large banner hangs on a warehouse alongside the monument, with portraits of Putin and President George W. Bush facing one another across the battle cry "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." Inscribed on the monument's base are the names of the 9/11 victims, along with the names of those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The base has eleven sides. Nine pathways lead to it. The Tear of Grief is aligned, it is said, with the missing towers, across the water. On a recent sunny afternoon, two men drove up and parked near the monument"a Bayonne resident and his son, home from college. They walked around its base, studying the names. The father pointed at one with his shoe. "See, there's Noley," he said. Asked what he thought of the monument, the father looked up, shading his eyes against the ferocious brilliance of the Tear of Grief. "Pretty impressive," he said.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 22 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] It'll be Splits-ville for Delta Burke and Major Dad.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 23 09/10/2011 @ 11:01PM Reply 21 - 23 of 23 first | prev | | next | last%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 161 09/10/2011 @ 11:18PM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] I work at an insurance company, and they're all processors and cube dwellers like me.%0D %0D Seriously: we have about 50 people on the floor. 6 or 7 are guys. They bought us THIRTY large pizzas for FIFTY people on Friday. They were delivered at 11 am.%0D %0D I went at 11:05 and it was a madhouse. You would have thought these whores had never gone to a grocery store. Some had baggies and were shoving slices right into the bag. One big ole' heifer just took an entire pizza on her own.%0D %0D And by the time I could get near the boxes without worrying that my arm would be gnawed off, they'd almost completely wiped out the pizzas, except for about 6 slices of vegetable-only pizza.%0D %0D Sows, I tell you. They talk, dress and act it all day, too.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 162 09/10/2011 @ 11:19PM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] At the John Varvatos Fashion's Night Out party yesterday, Thomas Jane came correct in a pair of Varvatos pants. "I am a real fan," he told us. "I have him in my closet. That sounded funny. I don't have John Varvatos in my closet. I have clothes that he ... you know what I'm trying to say." If he did have the real Varvatos in his closet, that would be a good plotline for Jane's HBO series, Hung, right? Not quite, replied the actor. "I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show," Jane said. "That's the last episode. If they want to keep me around, there's certain guidelines they have to follow. Not all of us can be bloodsucking vampires. That's not all they're sucking, you know! Sorry!" He continued to discuss matters of manhood while telling us about a Western he wrote and plans to direct, entitled The Magnificent Death From a Shattered Hand. "Marlon Brando said acting's not a profession for real men," laughed Jane. "It's not a real man's job. And I agree with him, so I'm going to direct."%0D %0D [see offs%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 163 09/10/2011 @ 11:19PM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] I was a ballerino and all my father could do was wring his hands%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 164 09/10/2011 @ 11:27PM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Thread Watcher [Help] Found new posts GIA GUIDICE - The Official GIA GIUDICE is a COCKSUCKER thread. 0 Memories of 9/11/01 84 9/11 conspiracy theories 125 Under-appreciated divas 78 I for one, am very glad there was no FACEBOOK on 9/11 4 Click here if you are using an iPhone or iPad%0D %0D DataLounge get your fix of gay gossip, news and pointless bitchery.%0D %0D Authenticated Login Subscription Registration Settings%0D %0D wit & wisdom NEWS ALERT! Terror Alert Threat for NYC!!!!%0D %0D Life was so much easier under Bush when we had crayola colors to tell us the level of hysteria we should display. --Anonymous%0D %0D Memories of 9/11/01%0D %0D My eyes were so blue that day.%0D %0D Namaste. --Gwyneth%0D %0D GHB%0D %0D Are there any behaviors common to people on GHB%0D %0D Turning blue.%0D %0D Extreme stillness.%0D %0D Decay. --Anonymous%0D %0D Reese Witherspoon Hit By A Car%0D %0D Kudos to the lucky driver who got to do what most of us have only dared to dream. --Ava Phillippe%0D %0D What kind of behavioral patterns usually set off your Gaydar?%0D %0D "My gaydar goes off every time I see a guy sucking dick."%0D %0D Mine doeshn't. --Liza with a "Z"%0D %0D Texas is burning%0D %0D We got the BIGGEST and BEST fires, y'all!!!! --Praise Jeses! Can I git an AMEN?%0D %0D Texas is burning%0D %0D Hell has become impatient and actually decided to go looking for George Bush. --Anonymous%0D %0D Texas is burning%0D %0D Red state on fire! Red state on fire! --Old beggar woman with no healthcare%0D %0D Scat is Illegal in the UK%0D %0D It's why Ella Fitzgerald was on Scotland Yard's Most Wanted List. --Anonymous%0D %0D Poor dear actually has to encounter gay pepople in public%0D %0D Gayface for days, her husband has.%0D %0D It's good to know Yoda has gaydar. --Anonymous%0D %0D Privacy Policy/Terms and Conditions%0D %0D 2011-1995 The DataLounge%0D %0D [back to threadlist] [post a reply] Re: GIA GUIDICE - The Official GIA GIUDICE is a COCKSUCKER thread. Reply 161 - 164 of 164 first | prev | | next | last flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Monument%0D %0D by William Finnegan June 25, 2007%0D %0D France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now Russia has given us "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism," another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument. If you have not seen it, that may be because you haven't recently approached New York City by ship. For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit. As you get closer, however, you will begin to make out an immense, stainless-steel teardrop"the Tear of Grief"hanging in a jagged crack that runs down the middle of the main slab. That's when you'll know that you're not looking at some ordinary bronze-sheathed, hundred-and-seventy-five-ton afternoon snack.%0D %0D Tsereteli's inspiration came, he says, on September 11, 2001. "I saw the people gathered around the American Embassy," he said recently from Moscow. "The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument." Tsereteli, who is seventy-three and bogglingly prolific, flew to New York, visited Ground Zero, and decided that it wasn't the appropriate place for the sculpture. He pitched it to Jersey City, where the mayor loved it.%0D %0D But then the mayor died, and objections to the planned monument surfaced. A Jersey City artists' organization, for instance, called it "an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world's blatant self-promoters." The project was put on hold. This was in 2004. Then it turned out that Bayonne, a city where artists do not exert undue influence, was in the market for a 9/11 memorial. Bayonne had only forty thousand dollars to spend, however. No problem, Tsereteli said. He would pay for "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" himself.%0D %0D In the sweep of Tsereteli's career, the contretemps in Jersey City was a micro-skirmish. (His enemies once tried to blow up a three-hundred-foot-tall statue of "Peter the Great," which includes an enormous bronze galleon and now dominates the skyline of central Moscow.) He has decorated Soviet embassies around the world, won the Lenin Prize, and served as People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. He was Chief Artist of the Moscow Olympics. A minor planet has been named after him. (It's between Mars and Jupiter.) He is the president of the Russian Academy of the Arts, and in the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, in Moscow, there stands today a statue of the judo master Vladimir Putin, barefoot and looking good.%0D %0D For decades, no visiting head of state or celebrity has been safe from Tsereteli's attentions. Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, the first President Bush, and Liza Minnelli have all found themselves at his gallery. At the White House with Boris Yeltsin soon after the death of President Clinton's mother, Tsereteli pressed into the President's hand a painting of her, made on a small block of ivory. Clinton, reportedly deeply touched, now displays the painting on his mantel in Chappaqua.%0D %0D Tsereteli is short and built like a baby bull. His energy and charm are legendary. Still, skeptics wonder how he gets the valuable metals that go into his monuments"for instance, the unusually shiny stainless steel that covers the forty-foot Tear of Grief. Asked by telephone about the steel, Tsereteli got into a glum-sounding discussion in Russian with his grandson, Vasili, who, patched into the call from Venice, was acting as interpreter. Finally, Vasili said, "From a military factory that did airplanes. In Dzerzhinsk. A secret city."%0D %0D What about the monument's financing? (It is widely said to have cost twelve million dollars to build.) "My grandfather paid the money," Vasili said.%0D %0D [see offsite link on www.newyorker.com]%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 21 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] But a black granite stone beside the monument, it was pointed out, carries the inscription "Gift from the People of Russia"President Vladimir Putin." (Putin himself attended the unveiling.)%0D %0D More discussion, with a sense of rising impatience in Moscow. Finally, Vasili: "He is a government employee, and he does many things in the name of the Russian government."%0D %0D Today, a large banner hangs on a warehouse alongside the monument, with portraits of Putin and President George W. Bush facing one another across the battle cry "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism." Inscribed on the monument's base are the names of the 9/11 victims, along with the names of those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The base has eleven sides. Nine pathways lead to it. The Tear of Grief is aligned, it is said, with the missing towers, across the water. On a recent sunny afternoon, two men drove up and parked near the monument"a Bayonne resident and his son, home from college. They walked around its base, studying the names. The father pointed at one with his shoe. "See, there's Noley," he said. Asked what he thought of the monument, the father looked up, shading his eyes against the ferocious brilliance of the Tear of Grief. "Pretty impressive," he said.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 22 09/10/2011 @ 10:30PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] It'll be Splits-ville for Delta Burke and Major Dad.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 23 09/10/2011 @ 11:01PM Reply 21 - 23 of 23 first | prev | | next | last%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 161 09/10/2011 @ 11:18PM flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] I work at an insurance company, and they're all processors and cube dwellers like me.%0D %0D Seriously: we have about 50 people on the floor. 6 or 7 are guys. They bought us THIRTY large pizzas for FIFTY people on Friday. They were delivered at 11 am.%0D %0D I went at 11:05 and it was a madhouse. You would have thought these whores had never gone to a grocery store. Some had baggies and were shoving slices right into the bag. One big ole' heifer just took an entire pizza on her own.%0D %0D And by the time I could get near the boxes without worrying that my arm would be gnawed off, they'd almost completely wiped out the pizzas, except for about 6 slices of vegetable-only pizza.%0D %0D Sows, I tell you. They talk, dress and act it all day, too.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 165 09/11/2011 @ 12:06AM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] I'm not trying to pick a fight with any fanboys and fangurls, but we keep seeing raves and applause for some of the same artists in threads.%0D %0D Gaga. Streisand. Madonna. Cher. And so on.%0D %0D That's all cool and shit, but I'm kinda interested in hearing about (and talking about) artists that perhaps haven't made it to everyone's iPod. Maybe they just never hit the spotlight. Maybe their time came and went a while ago. Maybe they're famous elsewhere but not in the US?%0D %0D But they're still awesome. Still have some classics songs, or a classic album.%0D %0D Let's talk about the unrecognized but still awesome artists and divas.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 166 09/11/2011 @ 12:07AM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] Obama has completely alienated his base in hopes of winning over the mythical Independent voter. All those young voters who mobilized to elect him the first time around are not going to do that again. We need to focus instead on getting majorities in the House and Senate. The only hope Obama has is if the Repukes nominate a nut like Perry. If they nominate Romney, we're in trouble.%0D %0D by: Anonymous reply 167 09/11/2011 @ 12:09AM %0D %0D flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] It was an extraordinary scene: President Barack Obama, sitting impassively in the Oval Office in May as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him, at considerable length and at times condescendingly, on Jewish history, Arab perfidy and the existential challenges facing his country.%0D %0D What was extraordinary wasn't the message -- it was not an untypical Netanyahu sermon. What was notable was that Netanyahu was lecturing the president live on television, during a photo opportunity staged so that the two leaders could issue platitudes about the enduring bonds between their nations.%0D %0D That display of impudence left the president and his team feeling unusually angry. Shortly afterward, Obama's chief of staff, William Daley, called the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, to communicate the displeasure of the White House in a reportedly heated way. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who watched her husband battle Netanyahu in the late 1990s, also expressed anger and frustration about the prime minister within the administration. Nothing in Return%0D %0D But it was Robert M. Gates, the now-retired secretary of defense, who seemed most upset with Netanyahu. In a meeting of the National Security Council Principals Committee held not long before his retirement this summer, Gates coldly laid out the many steps the administration has taken to guarantee Israel's security -- access to top- quality weapons, assistance developing missile-defense systems, high-level intelligence sharing -- and then stated bluntly that the U.S. has received nothing in return, particularly with regard to the peace process.%0D %0D Senior administration officials told me that Gates argued to the president directly that Netanyahu is not only ungrateful, but also endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel's growing isolation and with the demographic challenges it faces if it keeps control of the West Bank. According to these sources, Gates's analysis met with no resistance from other members of the committee. Frustration and Resentment%0D %0D Gates has expressed his frustration with Netanyahu's government before. Last year, when Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel was marred by an announcement of plans to build new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, Gates told several people that if he had been Biden, he would have returned to Washington immediately and told the prime minister to call Obama when he was serious about negotiations.%0D %0D Gates's frustration also stems from squabbling with Netanyahu over U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies. In an encounter in Israel in March, according to U.S. and Israeli sources, Netanyahu lectured Gates at length on the possible dangers posed to Israel by such sales, as well as by Turkey and other regional U.S. allies. Gates, a veteran intelligence officer, resented Netanyahu's tone, and reminded him that the sales were organized in consultation with Israel and pro-Israel members of Congress. Palestinian State%0D %0D The reason the administration's hard feelings toward Netanyahu matter now -- and the reason several officials spoke to me on this subject last week -- is that the U.S. is once again going to the mat for Israel at the United Nations, where Palestinians intend to seek recognition of an independent state in September.%0D %0D The White House plans to contest this resolution in the General Assembly (where the move already has majority support), and the U.S. would most likely veto it in the Security Council. The Obama administration is right to oppose this ploy, which would undermine the chances of reconciliation and could lead to an explosion of violence on the West Bank. But they'll oppose it in spite of Netanyahu, not to help him.%0D %0D Dislike of Netanyahu has deepened in a way that could ultimately be dangerous for Israel. Time after time, the White House has taken Israel's side in international disputes -- over the UN's Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza; over Israel's confrontation with the pro-Hamas Turkish "flotilla," in which nine people were killed; and on many other issues.%0D %0D Yet the Netanyahu government does little to dispel the notion among its right-wing supporters that the Obama administration is at best a wavering friend. This is self- evidently foolish, especially at a time when Israel faces an existential threat from its menacing neighbor Iran. A Blunt Articulation%0D %0D Gates's feelings about Netanyahu are particularly consequential, in part because he's not considered hostile to Israel, and in part because he's a well-regarded figure who articulated bluntly what so many people in the administration seem to believe. Gates declined to comment for this column through his former spokesman, Geoff Morrell. But Morrell told me that Gates "worked extremely hard throughout his four and half years as secretary of defense to address Israel's security concerns."%0D %0D A Pentagon spokesman, George Little, said that Gates's successor, Leon Panetta, "agrees with what President Obama and former Secretary Gates have both said, which is that our defense relationship with Israel is stronger than ever."%0D %0D When I asked Oren, the Israeli ambassador, about Gates's often-expressed feelings toward Netanyahu, he said, "We have nothing but the highest regard for Secretary Gates, and as allies, we don't exchange accusations, we have communications. Israel deeply appreciates the excellent security relationship we have with the Obama administration."%0D %0D Netanyahu's alienation of the White House has not gone unnoticed in Israel. Tzipi Livni, the head of the Kadima Party, said in a recent interview with me and Atlantic editor James Bennet that the average Israeli is more attuned to the importance of maintaining good relations with the U.S. president than is the current prime minister.%0D %0D "For Israelis," she said, "when they wake up in the morning and ask themselves, what is the general situation today, the litmus test for them is the health of the relationship between Israel and the United States."%0D %0D [see offsite link on www.bloomberg.com]%0D %0D by: Anonymous replies 76 09/10/2011 @ 12:23PM Reply 1 - 20 of 76 first | prev | | next | last flag: [ww] [ff] [troll-dar] The day Israel becomes isolated among its enemies with no hope of assistance from our tax dollars is day that can't come soon enough. Any American citizen who would defend Israel needs to pack up and leave this country. I'm sick of my taxes going towards the funding of a terrorist organization masquerading as a legitimate country.%0D %0D

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• Hey fagolas, in case yous didnt notice, I ain''t cocksuckin fa money anymo, I gets paid tru my songs!

  Gia, Singer/Songwriter

• I love my uncle joes cock

• Welcum back Gia. I'll be over soon ;)

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• Mom. Melania is sitting on daddies lap again. That's my seat. Mom.

• Her mother is hideous-looking.

• daddy's in trouble also, I feel bad now b/c you know when Gia Google's her name she will find this horrible thread

  http://perezhilton.com/2011-12-21-juicy-joe-giudice-indicted%23.TvKY8NQePI8

• Hey Gia is your momma going to be sucking off Donald Trump on the Apprentice? I hope Lisa Lampanelli mops the floor with your mom's nasty wigs. I heard your daddy Joe has tiny meat that is why he has little man syndrome. what you say about that girl? Bring it!

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• What a bunch of idiots...you should know who you're writting about first. Gia Guidice was 9years old at the time that you were writting your post. So I doubt thats who you're are referring too.

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• leave Gia Guidice alone!! yeah right, when your mother is an ugly horse face tranny even with make up, sorry but she was on reality tv and is married to an italian dwarf, a hairy one at that.

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• Gia, dear, can you tell us anything about your Uncle Joe's meat? I'm guessing average length but incredibly thick. Csn you confirm this? Have you sampled it?

• You're all just jealous that my daddy, Juicy Joe, likes to hook up my nipples to a car battery. And when I get old enough, I'm gonna have my daddy's baby. So there! Put that in your pipes and smoke it.

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• Unlike you fagboys, I can suck a golf ball through a garden hose and hold more population paste in my tummy than Rod Stewart! Here's a blowjob tip: always lick the entire alphabet, A-Z on that big, throbbing vein along the bottom of the cock. Makes my Daddy go nuts!

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• Webmaster, this thread should be deleted. This teenage girl will be Googling her name and find this? That's not right.

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• Me and Daddy Joe just had another fuckfest last night and let me put it this way: on a sexual scale of 1 to 10 - 1 being my usual glory hole job and 10 being the most depraved acts of sexual theater in the history of mankind, me and Daddy got it on at a 12!!!!

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• As a reward for sucking the paint off Mommy Teresa's titanium/steel alloy dildo (and many other cylindrical objects), my Daddy Joe taught all of our dogs to lick my asshole clean every time I shit. Now how many of you silly turd-burglars have the entire animal kingdom servicing my asshole LIKE ME, BITCHES???!!!!

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• Interesting how threads about farts and/or poop get promptly removed from DL (and their creators banned), but threads like this live on for years. There really is no rhyme or reason to this place, is there?

• I fucking love, love, love this thread.

• Do you guys realize that I'm such a dick-tornado human vacuum, I just sucked a piece of straw through 20 feet of lead-reinforced concrete!?

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• When I suck dicks I make my family members cum so hard their jizz leaves a bruise in the back of my throat. Same as when I suck off the dog.

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• Does anyone buy that Lisa Lampanelli would ever date a Black man? Does anyone have proof or did she just say she dated them so she could ridicule Blacks? You know, like the way Howard Stern uses Robin Quivers.

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• Isn't it about time Gia got her own spinoff?

• the reason Gia has NOT gotten a spin off show is because Andy insatiable bottom Cohen doesn't want the competition and in his words "there's only room for one short unibrow cocksucker and that is ME!"

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• Teresape is pitching Bravo a dance show surrounding Gia.

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