The only thing that really sucks about having a big screen television is that sometimes while surfing and accidentally stopping on a nature channel, you risk having a 36-plus inch tarantula on the screen… and a suddenly non-responsive remote.

A man was caught at a pet shop near University Drive and Dorsey Lane stuffing tarantulas into his pants.

Luckily, no video accompanied this story. Yes, tarantulas have the power to strip me of my manhood and have me running away, arms flailing, and I’m okay with that.

Students: Another ‘outrageous riot’ at Dekaney High School
SPRING, Texas – Police were called to Dekaney High School in northwest Harris County Friday after a brawl broke out in the cafeteria.

If you thought the Occupiers were bad, look at the next bunch behind them….

Last night/tonight Oakland Police Department violently and brutally arrested peaceful protesters just trying to occupy a building for their operations. This is not okay with us.

There is so much wrong with this narcissistic thinking. They really are a joke. I had to leave some responses just to fuck with ‘em…

h/t Rachel IC

Over the years I’ve documented many cases of Democrats behaving badly while news accounts of their indiscretions neglected to identify their party affiliation as vigorously as they would had that person been a Republican, if at all. Kyle Keady is the latest and most glaring of examples….

The former Town Administrator for the Town of Shirley pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally recorded conversations and secretly photographed and videotaped his fellow town employees.

It gets worse from here.

The investigation revealed that on over a hundred occasions, the defendant illegally recorded conversations and secretly took video recordings of other town employees by using recording devices that included video cameras and a baby monitor. These devices were hidden in pens and a plant in various offices and rooms in Town Hall. Authorities also discovered that the defendant had taken a pen that contained a video camera and hid it in the ceiling directly above a bathroom stall in the women’s bathroom in Town Hall where he recorded numerous women. The investigation also revealed that on four occasions, he had broken into the home of one of the town employees.

The media wants to know why their subscription and ratings are down? Look into the selective non-disclosure of party affiliation in their reporting and you’ll see why. While I’ve been unable to verify Keady’s party affiliation, based on past experience, had he been a Republican (or even an independent), we’d have heard about it long ago and nationally.

Cazzeggiare….

The passengers were pouring onto the decks, taking the lifeboats by assault. I didn’t even have a life jacket because I had given it to one of the passengers. I was trying to get people to get into the boats in an orderly fashion. Suddenly, since the ship was at a 60 to 70 degree angle, I tripped and I ended up in one of the boats. That’s how I found myself there.
— Francesco Schettino, captain, Costa Concordia

And he just happened to fall into the same lifeboat as the second and third in command. I guess it’s safe to say going for an Italian cruise is off that list of things to do.

Couple found love at Occupy Boston
The Boston Globe just left the insignificant Level 3 sex offender detail out. No biggie

I just received an email from a fellow B&R reader.

Bob,
My mom died January 13, 2011 and I’m concerned about what I found on line thru Spokeo.com. She was a white female in her mid 80′s when she died and voted Republican all her life. Now that she has passed according to Spokeo.com she is an African-American and registered Democrat. She resides in 4 different locations and 4 different districts too. Her name was Geneva Evans, she died in a nursing home here in Wheeling, WV.

I wonder if this is why Democrats are so concerned about black people and voting?

If anyone out there knows of how this lady’s mother can have her name cleared, please let us know. It’s not like we can depend on the Attorney General to clear this up….

This is one very angry, and dare I say it, evil woman.

We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago, where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords — who is doing really well, by the way. The discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular… has really changed, I’ll tell you. I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chair, “Politics and Eggs” forum

Maybe Debbie should go back and check out the easily researched quotes of liberals who joke, insult, and even call for the deaths of conservatives and Republicans before she lectures us about civility and blames us for a tragedy we’re no way responsible for.

I guess the moral of this story is be very careful at who you laugh at….

A dwarf prosecutor is suing a man she called as a witness in a court case – after he broke down laughing in court at her size. Silke Schoenfleisch-Backofen, 39, is a little lady with a big name, and an even greater sense of right and wrong.

Russian-German Wadim Golanev, 25, cracked up in hysterics at the ‘dwarf lady’ in court during a case about theft, she was decidedly unimpressed. Golanev was unable to answer her questions due to his hysterical laughter, pointing at her and singing ‘Hi Ho, Hi Ho!’ from Snow White And The Seven Dwarves.

Sorry but I can’t help visualizing the court scene and if Silke saw me now, she’d probably want to sue me as well.

Man Posts Sex Tape With 14-Year-Old Girl On Facebook
All this talk about doing things “smarter”. This has got to be the dumbest generation ever. Having sex with a 14-year-old is dumb. Posting the tape on Facebook is really dumb. That’s called evidence, bonehead!

The left calls the right “homophobic” and “intolerant” while simultaneously giving Muslims “Islamophobic” victim status. It turns out gays have more to worry about from their fellow victims than they thought.

A group of Muslim men handed a leaflet out to the public that called for homosexuals to be ‘punished’ and given the death sentence, a court has heard.

The Death Penalty? leaflet, which mentions execution and says it is the only way the immoral sin of homosexuality can be erased from society, was handed out to people outside the Jamia Mosque after Friday prayers on July 2, she said.

This kind of “speech” isn’t news to us and it may make the LGBT’s think twice before attack those who’ll probably end up fighting for their freedom to exist.

It would appear (depending on where you live) that fewer things are considered bad behavior.

Greek disabled groups are angry at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.

But the Labor Ministry on Monday said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.

So, not only are child molesters, flashers, and thieves now considered “disabled”, but they actually get subsidized. The fact that Greece is broke may mean there’s a whole lot more of this kind of behavior than the rest of the world (that’s bailing them out) knows.

Maybe the media should dig up a few of the chicks this guy may have spent some of this cash on.

DC Councilman Harry Thomas, Jr., Resigns, Due In Court For Embezzlement And Tax Fraud Friday
WASHINGTON (WUSA) — Former D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. is due in federal court later this morning. He’s expected to plead guilty to stealing more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns for three years. Thomas is accused of using the money for his own personal gain, such as lavish vacations, fancy cars and a motorcycle.

Again, if Thomas was a Republican, we’d know it.

‘Fuck you’: defiant Lindsay Lohan tells judge
Name one person (outside of politicians and their immediate relatives) who could violate the law numerous times, blow off multiple court-ordered conditions for parole and probation, tell a judge “fuck u” in writing, and still be going to a New Year’s Eve party tonight… somewhere?

Consider the time, personal and professional security expense incurred, and now the privacy of individuals now lost because of the arrogant with computers most of them didn’t pay for.

The time for talk is over. It’s time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor. But that’s not all: we’re also dumping ~860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who’s ever registered on Stratfor’s site… Did you notice 50,000 of these email addresses are .mil and .gov?

All our lives we have been robbed blindly and brutalized by corrupted politicians, establishmentarians and government agencies sex shops, and now it’s time to take it back.
— Anonymous last night on Pastebin

Exactly what have these punks paid for “all their lives”? Should they (when caught) be put away for life?
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Documents: ATF used “Fast and Furious” to make the case for gun regulations
Like DDT or abortion, this is yet another case of liberals getting their way even if it kills people

A juicy little tidbit you probably won’t see mentioned on any MSNBC program today, but who knows…?

Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairman James R. Matthews was arrested Tuesday after an 18-month grand jury investigation found he purportedly lied in testimony regarding corruption in local government.

But while Matthews’ criminal charges stem only from those purported untruths, grand jurors – in a highly critical finding – also accused the 62-year-old of a string of other ethical violations including using campaign contributions for personal expenses, awarding government contracts to friends, and conducting county business in secret.

Matthews purportedly spent at least $100,000 on personal credit cards, country club memberships, sporting goods, and rental fees for a car driven for personal use.

BTW — Buried near the bottom of the third of three pages is cited the fact Matthews is a Democrat* (duh). Time to get off that high horse, Chris. Your brother needs a lift.

* Correction: James Matthews is a Republican

We’re supposed to be talking about professional journalists here. Not to make light of a tragic story but what’s wrong with this lead sentence?

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

Hopefully Reuters’ Jim Forsyth can explain to us all how a woman can shoot herself to death and then shoot her kids. Clearly that’s not how it happened but it’s how this reads, does it not?

The Occupiers expect sympathy. Here’s yet another reason why they don’t get it….

Most of the roughly 300 Occupy L.A. protesters were released from jail by Friday evening, with some immediately speaking out on the police raid that cleared their camp. One speaker suggested that some of those arrested might need therapy. Several said they felt traumatized after witnessing police use nonlethal force and being forced to wait for hours in zip-tie handcuffs.
— LA Now excerpt from Don Surber commentary

Considering what real activists have endured over the course of history, Occupy L.A. are some of the biggest pussies out there and have no reason to even attempt to place themselves in the same category as “protesters”.

Therapy… gimme a break.