Straight-shooting Sarah Palin is about as contrived and spontaneous as a rocket launch. The crazy lady, who criticized President Obama for using teleprompters, had cheat sheets on the palm of her left hand during her speech at this weekend’s National Tea Party Conventionthat read “Energy,” “Tax,” “Lift American Spirits,” and “Budget Cuts.” The word “Budget” was crossed out.

During the Q & A portion of her appearance, Palin referred to the scribbling on her palm when asked her thoughts on what top three priorities of the Republican Party should be if it wants to recapture a Congress majority.

Has Sarah Palin always been writing crib notes on her palm this whole time? I can only imagine what has been scribed on her palm in the past: “Hockey Mom,” “Putin Airspace,” “See Russia Front Yard,” etc…..

I sure she feels that the posting of her palm crib notes across the Internet is yet another hatchet job against little Sarah from Wasilla. The good news for Democrats: she’s not ruling out running for president in 2012!

 A while back I filmed a short documentary about cockfighting in Louisiana that took place in the town of St. Martinsville.

Need I say, I took a strong stance against cockfighting.

Sure, what’s there not to hate about two roosters that are bred to fight it out to the death in a ring (cockpit) while men wager on who will be the winner?

The really astonishing thing; when I posted the video on You Tube I got a slew of comments from people who were actually pro-cockfighting. In their idyllic world there would actually be more cockfighting. Quicker than you can say reinstate-Michael-Vick-in-the-NFL, it was pointed out that I was actually the ignorant one.

Here’s a taste of what these proud Americans had to say about my anti-cockfighting video. Some responses are just plain confusing:

glenroy1993

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nice thing fightin

MrFrank6767

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Guess the HUSU should show up like they did in Tenneesee at a rooster fight and GAS everyone one of the harmless chickens. Gass barrels used to kill them all while they struggle and fight for there life. Rather see them do what comes natural to them and fight to the dealth naturally than PETA and HUSU get involved and kill/torture to dealth everyone with poison gas chambers/barrels. What a sad joke the public is conned into.

claybones1

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Fucked up? Harmon you know nothing about cockfighting, what are you a tree humper? a vegitarian? suck a fat one you queer!

russian1326

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The Gamecock is a true warrior meant for battle. So all you dog or cat loving french kissing freaks are the ones that need to be checked. Come on think about it, we fight gamecocks because that is exactly what they were put on this earth for. I really don’t think God meant for Humans to french kiss their animals after they’ve licked their asses and genitals clean, but you do it anyways. Now who’s the one that needs help?

612colby

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Cock fighting still legal in kentucky, catch a good fight this saturday!

bitemenow609

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I continue to be amazed at how some ill imformed people think they have a right to restrict peoples use of their animals. The gamecocks intended use for thousands of years is to fight. If you do not agree with it, mind your own buisness. The best people I have ever met were cockfighters.

MrGallononon

+1  

long live the gamecock!

TheShitwad

+1  

i love this guy

OEGBANTAMS

+2  

this video is so true
these roosters live longer than a chicken you get from kfc or popeyes

ice163

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this film represents american ignorance towards cockfighting

ArkonDrakk

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Cockfight trainer? Funny I didn’t know you could train an all with such a small brain to do anything, much less fight.

djdeucelove

+2  

if u dont like it why did u go ..and to eat a chicken that only lives less than 6weeks but talk shit bout cockfighting ur a fuckn hipacrit..

Spaz8000

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he experiences what he wants to write about. it is called investigative journalism.

lupio013

+2  

hell yea cockfighting rules

 

 “We’re so bad, we know we’re good. Blowing your mind like we knew we would!”

Joke-e-oke is in the news. Our friend Ali MacLean did a great write up about our show at SF Sketchfest. Ali was one of our Joke-e-oke  finalist at our star-studded show, which featured celebrity comedy judges Paul Provenza, Mark Pitta, Rick Overton. 

The legendary Purple Onion was an awesome venue to perform at. 

We had a really great crowd, which included comedy legend Robin Williams. 

Check out Ali's complete story here. In the meantime here's a taste of our Joke-e-oke champ Kozumi:

Clothes are funny, aren't they? Comedian Lee Camp examines the scary truth about clothes. Be forewarned: this is the scary truth! 

We were on the radio!

OK. So it was Radio Ulster.

But that still counts!

You can listen to the whole show or fast forward to about 1:30 to where we are.

The woman in the group that played after us is our catsitter!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

With Valentine's Day looming around the corner, I realize I'm one of those picky guys when it comes to women. I have a ridiculous set of standards. It's like I'm  a casting-director who conducts  constant open-auditions for the ideal woman. Seemingly benign nuances can send me sprinting for the exit.  Since society dictates that we can only have one Lone Ranger to our Tonto, the stakes are especially high-and I'm looking for as close to my version of perfection as humanly possible. 

 To give you an idea of exactly how picky I can be, consider five seemingly wonderful women I've been forced-for one random reason or another-to drop like a hot brick:

The most curious thing about the 50 Scientologists, who wore matching yellow volunteer shirts and were sent to Haiti: what’s their angle? Surely the people of Haiti wont be able to buy their books or sign up for their expensive courses. Was it to create a Scientology strong-hold during the rebuilding of Haiti?

A leaked Scientology email that turned up on Gawker reads:

One big thing that is happening now is Haiti. We’re going there with our Global Pioneers team to deliver seminars to over 1,500 people. We going for 1,500 hours of auditing in one week and hopfeully, that many starts. More incredible news.

What a perfect opportunity for Scientology–they could basically claim Haiti as their own and create a future Scientology island. Take that Pat Robertson; put that in your e-meter and smoke it

So how did it go for the Scientologists once they got to Haiti. According to afirsthand witness:

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They were completely unprepared for going to a third world country, let alone a disaster zone. One girl was in designer cowboy boots. I asked her if she’d brought any sturdier footwear.

“Oh no, these’ll be fine.”

I asked another guy what he’d packed and he said he hadn’t bothered to bring soap or toilet paper or food, but that he’d just “buy whatever I need at Port-au-Prince airport.” I couldn’t break it to him……

They brought the weirdness of touch healing into a very superstitious society. They’d leave the tent and come into the general hospital downtown, and try healing people. One of the doctors and one of the nurses told me that the wounded started coming to them to tell them they didn’t want to be treated by the people in the yellow shirts. 

 Last week I was on the front lines as the crazy religious/cult members of  the Westboro Baptist Church  instigated a picket outside the San Francisco offices of social media giant,  Twitter. (God Hates Twitter!)

In turn SF’s finest and funniest came out in force to mount a counter-protest that had all the kooky fun of a Burning Man party–complete with boomboxes blaring Lady Gaga–as they muffled out WBC’s God Hates Fags’ message.  

I captured all the glory action, in all its  photo splendor–as the freaky people tried to freak out the freaky people. (Click here for the Twitter protest photo story @ Asylum.)

It was purely beautiful to see the humor of “doomed” San Francisco out trumping the asinine message of hate WBC tried to serve up on a bible-thumping  platter. 

Surrounded by a police escort, WBC went back to their home base in Topeka Kansas with their Satanic tails firmly between their hoofed-foot legs. 

This wasn’t the first time I’ve encountered the WBC. I actually spent several days with them at their Topeka home-compound for my book, The American Dream. I wanted to find out firsthand what the American Dream  meant to a religious cult  that basically hates everyone.

I can safely say it’s much more pleasant to be on the San Francisco-side of things at the Twitter protest, than in the floppy clown shoes of the WBC .

Here’s how I felt to be in the shoes of WBC at one of their 3 daily pickets in Topeka Kansas: