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October 23, 2005
WB: Plastic Surgery
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First time I’ve ever seen a smiling face on a mugshot. Normally when people try and smile they are told “to straighten up lest they get something to wipe that shit eating grin offa their face”.
That’s what I’ve been told anyway (bfg)
You know the repugs will have seen that as overcoming one of the major obstacles of this ‘black eye’. Appearance is always much more important than reality to these poseurs so if it doesn’t look like a mugshot (ie smiling, not holding a number) then it isn’t a mugshot.
Why wasn’t he in orange overalls?
Of course all this does have the advantage of Delay copping that horrible sinking feeling in his gut really big time as the reality he’s been avoiding hits home at last.
Maybe they’ll ‘forget’ to grab his shoelaces and belt. Nah that wasn’t funny when you think about the misery that this mob have used the prison system to inflict on others.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Oct 23 2005 8:19 utc | 1
And the fucked thing about it is, our tax money went to pay for that, in more ways than one.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 23 2005 9:12 utc | 2
Does remind of Ida Lowry (“Brazil”) at her plastic surgeon’s doesn’t it? Popinjay Delay’s a male version, I’d say.
Posted by: prostratedragon | Oct 23 2005 11:45 utc | 3
@debs..
i can remember seeing smiles in only 2 other mugshots: john gotti and bill gates. go figger.
Posted by: bianco | Oct 23 2005 13:09 utc | 4
Cosmetic technology will not fix what ails this man.
He need an exorcist.
Posted by: eftsoons | Oct 23 2005 13:48 utc | 6
Republicans think that car salesman smile will make it impossible for Dems to use DeLay’s mug shot during duck season (rabbit season!)..
all the Dems have to do is ask…why is this man smiling…and show all the $$$$$ he and his associates laundered…
p.s. Billmon- that site evaluator is b.s. We all know you’re priceless.
🙂 that’s a snarkless comment, btw.
Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 23 2005 15:14 utc | 7
Delay’s notso SMUGSHOT
…Far away in a Photoshop rendered Alternative Universe, where Delay’s arrest was not so voluntary there’s a not so smug mugshot ….
Posted by: goghgirl | Oct 23 2005 18:15 utc | 8
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that is no smile; that is a rictus.
Can’t people tell the difference?
Try this.
Posted by: eftsoons | Oct 23 2005 18:47 utc | 9
eftsoons,
I got 11 out of 20, I thought I would do better than that.
Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 23 2005 19:32 utc | 10
@dan o’
Same score here. Ordinarily I wouldn’t waste the bandwidth to report that, but I was relieved to learn that I am not the only naive chump out there who can’t distinguish a campaign face from an ECT grimace.
Posted by: Monolycus | Oct 23 2005 19:36 utc | 11
I think it might help if you think about what your own genuine versus fake smiles feel like from the inside. Which muscles are involved in each. Then you can look at the images and imagine they felt like from the inside. Unfortunately there is only one test set.
Posted by: eftsoons | Oct 23 2005 20:59 utc | 12
i posted the questions below in a thread that was not related and got few hits back so since this is a delay related thread…
here are the questions: if delay gets convicted of the crime he is charged with, how will that affect local texas politics? mainly what would be the repercussions on texas redistricting that happened a few years back? would they be brought up as unvalid since the money that was put behind the campaign on delay’s part was not kosher? basically if that money wouldn’t have been used would the redistricting happen? do i make sense to you all?
Posted by: charmicarmicat | Oct 24 2005 0:40 utc | 13
@Cat, no, redistricting stands. May give impetus to mvmt. to undo it, but that’s it. Still Screwed. Here’s a parallel question. If you used illegally obtained money to buy goods from a store, could you keep them once it was proven you bought them w/ill gotten gain? Would that be the same deal. If you merely conned people out of it, you could keep the stuff; but if you robbed a bank to get it, then not?
Here’s another question. Even if he’s convicted, would it diminish his power, or would he return in a few yrs. to make a killing as a lobbyist? He prob. has a zillion chits to call in. Prob. depends on how much repugs want to clean up their act. Gingrich is still a very powerful player – even given post @Hoover Institute.
Here’s another one…Would you rather have DeLay in power, or a Dominionist? Corruption is the least of the sins of repugs, from my vantage point.
Posted by: jj | Oct 24 2005 0:58 utc | 14
jj
as you say, what ‘left.’ In any case the ‘left’ disserved by commentary about the Plame Affair that, by extolling the great value of spies/cia, justifies gwot, and indeed the whole world according to our immutable “interests,” in the way all of this reality is defined by these rightwing assholes.
Posted by: slothrop | Oct 24 2005 1:20 utc | 15
@slothrop
Does it really hurt to use my enemies’ enemy as long as I remember that’s he/she is not my friend?
Surely the act of using the Plame outing to bring down BushCo need not be seen as supportive in and of the CIA unless by that act one lets the stumblebum, half smart but grossly incompetent ‘intelligence’ industry (definitely oxymoronic) within to pass in normal society where people don’t behave like everything is an obscure Russian conspiracy.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Oct 24 2005 3:09 utc | 16
for passport & immigration photos the guidelines specify a relaxed countenance, that is – no smiling, but i couldn’t find mention of anything similar for mugshots. delay looks like he just soiled his skivies. the smokingun website has a collection /a> of mugshots, including the smiling gotti & gates ones. personal fave is still nick nolte’s down & out in beverly hills. and, 15 out of 20 on that smile test. i was paying too much attention to the end of the movies.
Posted by: b real | Oct 24 2005 3:25 utc | 17
debs
look at Watergate. This was a moment when the shithouse of ‘1st’ world exploitation began to totter–the scandel insinuating a whole legacy of murder in indochina, and the whole of it was feebly connected only to the excesses of one man, as if all of the horror of cold war militarism and murder could be condensed to the corrupt vanity of one man. That’s what we do in America: put the sonofabitch on 60 Minutes and organize and present in an 8-minute narrative the systemic failures of Our Away of Life as the passing betrayal of one man.
Totality’s a bitch. It will be interesting if what passes as dissent in this country will recapitulate the old efforts of the “left” to serve notice the American Dream is bullshit–do something more than offer another way to kill more brown people.
But, I’m an optimist.
Posted by: slothrop | Oct 24 2005 3:52 utc | 18
People say I am the MOST intuitive person they have met and compare me to Andre from “My Dinner With Andre”. I got a ten out of twenty; coulda just flipped a coin, I guess. I was troubled by the fact that there was no definition of what an honest smile was. I spent a lot of time looking at how their smiles finished up.
The war in Vietnam failed for two reasons: Corporate America in general turned against the war, people lost confidence in the war, compared to the level of casualties we were taking.
Right now, the differing factions of corprate America are duking this one out behind the scenes, though the weapons guys are far more powerful than they were during the Vietnam years. As far as casualties, war gaming proved that they could maintain this level indefinitely. A more informed, and more NIMBY oriented, electorate might come to the opposite conclusion.
Speaking of factions of corprate America,
ESP wonder; newspapers channel Bush
What does this newspaper editorial, this one , this one and
this one all have in common?
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 24 2005 4:40 utc | 20
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his Bolivarian Revolution
The elected President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezeula, Hugo Chavez, is a Bolivarian. That means he believes in a world free of poverty and pain. Chavez is a man who quite clearly wants to save the world.
Ahah ! No wonder Bush & Co consider him and his ideas so very, very dangerous …
Peter Buckley on Hugo Chavez
from the ACA listserv, 29.09.2005 19:58, link
…Chavez is a revolutionary, and you can agree with him or not with how far he goes with his rhetoric, but he has placed the resources from his country’s oil sales into health care and literary programs for the poorest of the poor. I have to admire that. I know of no credible sources claiming that he is enriching himself at his peoples’ expense. That has been the clear habit of Latin American leaders in the last several decades, but Chavez seems clean. He is an avowed leftist and friend of Fidel, but a corrupt militarist he’s not.
The Washington Post has an interview with him from a few days back that people can google for if they are interested.
I look at South America and Central America and see a good deal of
hope. Even Mexico looks as if it is going to elect a progressive
president in their next election. Bolivia is a fascinating case study as well, with a true grassroots movement demanding the end of a non-representative government that sells the country’s natural
resources to the highest bidder with no benefit for the people.
Progress is coming to us from the south. We also have a good
progressive movement in Canada as well. It’s time for us to not only
move in the same direction, but to help lead.
Thanks & Onward,
Peter Buckley
Ashland Democrat, Oregon
Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Thursday 20 October 2005, Australian Radio National (roughly an NPR equivalent …)
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Most Sundays you can turn on Venezuelan TV and find President Hugo Chavez on his all-day program called ‘Alo Presidente, sometimes there are other guests, but other days he just talks about whatever comes to mind…baseball, politics, Jesus and himself. Chavez calls the US a ‘terrorist state’; President Bush ‘Mr Danger’. And he has offered cheap oil and free eye care to the poor of the United States.
Chavez’s ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ is hodge-podge of social and health programs, nationalisation of industry, and populist nationalism that is inspiring many Latin Americans.
Behind all this is some serious geo-political tension: Venezuela holds the largest oil reserves outside of the Middle East – and with the US distracted with the War on Terror, Chavez has been using his oil money to become the favourite benefactor of Latin America.
No wonder US televangelist Pat Robertson called for the CIA to go in and assassinate him…
For background the following is an extract from Chavez’s speech to the UN Millennium summit. It is well worth a read in its entirety.
“Without a doubt, in the most recent decades, these summits have been repeated intensely. We jump from summit to summit, but sadly, the majority of our peoples keep moaning from abyss to abyss. Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of South America and the inspiration of the revolution that is taking place now in Venezuela, dreamed one day, in his vision for justice, dreamed about scaling the Chimborazo Summit, and there, over the perpetual snows of the spine of the Andes, he received a mandate from the lord of times, that wise long-bearded old man: “Go and tell the truth to man”. Today, I have come here as the banner bearer of this Bolivarian dream.”
Link To Full Speech…
The first interview of Hugo Chavez in the US (audio, video, transcript)
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005, DemocracyNow.Org
Venezuela’s President Chavez Offers Cheap Oil to the Poor…of the United States
To obtain an insight into the sustained propaganda stream and (reading between the lines) why Chavez and his ‘ideas’ are seen as ‘so dangerous’ (Not).
General Health Warning: To avoid the onset of an unctrollable desire to regurgitate, suggest you just glance thru the headlines and exit promptly … 😉
Hugo Chavez articles @ Free Republic
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 24 2005 5:23 utc | 21
Seeing Billmon’s captioned picture of Delay suddenly reminded me of something.
Posted by: Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) | Oct 25 2005 6:03 utc | 22