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All the news unfit to print for Saturday, December 1, 2007

And it begins

Snow tonight hitting the grounds of Eastern Pennsylvania.. The storm arrives. For some.


THRILLER IS 25


Historic event: The 25th Anniversary of THRILLER


Some random Saturday night wedding

Not just another Saturday. .This one is different. . winter storm possibility has led me to be wifeless this evening, and nothing on TV except for these endless replays of old footage of TO CATCH A PREDATOR with Chris Hanson..

But there's news in the world.. Presented for you in this snippet of random raked headlines from 'round the world..

Storm of ice hits Midwest.. heads Northeast... And the presidential candidates don't let the ice storm stop them..


What in the name of God is happening?

TABLES TURNED, and Julia Roberts becomes my new heroine: Chases paparazzi!

Former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra was jailed early Saturday---again----after a confrontation with police and onlookers..


The age of CHINA: Wins Miss World contest..

Three of four Sean Taylor murder suspects held without bond..

Judge rules that sperm donor is liable for child support!

Follow-up: Joke is on Leno staffers as they get fired.. reports of phone call when Leno said they would not have to worry about their finances..

"TIN MAN" called 'bizarre' update of WIZARD OF OZ..

Re-arrested brothers in Holloway case released again..

Snow in Seattle!



MASSIVE WINTER STORM ACROSS NATION
The shoppers stock up..
"Madman Margusity updates..
Prediction map
Active weather alerts..
Watches issued..


Hillary: A time to shine


It was a dramatic event.. The most dramatic event of the campaign--excluding the intense moments between John McCain/Ron Paul and Edwards/Hillary in the debates.. This event wasn't just political. It was real. Real life, possible death. A hostile takeover of Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New York. As reported earlier, Leeland Eisenberg has since been taken into custody..But the post-day event coverage has switched to Clinton and how she may deal with a crisis.. Glowing reviews today persist. The media has fallen in love with their candidate, all over again. Wearing her finest black and scarf to protect herself from the chill, Clinton made a statement describing the difficult day. Her heavy heart went out to families.. her voice seemed to be human. She actually sympathizes with pain! But, she was calm. There was no worried face. She didn't read MY PET GOAT. She didn't go to a basement bunker. While it was not war, or terrorism, it was a dramatic day and a great possibility to showcase a steady hand in a time of worry. That's what America looks for, after all, right? In the age of worry, don't we need that leader with the magical "certain" touch? Hillary's there.. scarf and all. The video: But as even the liberal site RAW STORY points out the AP gave a glowing assessment of Clinton, writing at the end "case dismissed." Maybe. Oprah may not think so. Nor does half of the American people--yet. Favorable coverage here we come. One event can change a campaign. Could this little known man with a mental health issue be enough to make the media want to date the Clinton campaign again? Well.. maybe continue dating, some feel they never broke up. Good luck Barack. You'll need it now.

Photos above, AP


THE RON PAUL REVOLUTION CONTINUES: NEXT PRIMARY MUTINY?

Now will they stop ignoring him? If they don't want to, they may have to: Ron Paul, the anti-war, anti-government, libertarian Republican ostrasized during the You Tube debate is on track to be the biggest fundraiser of the final quarter of the year. The online money bombs, Nov 5, The Ron Paul revolution. Who'd ever think it?
The Paul-o-maniacs did. And they succeeded like no other before them in groups raising cash for their candidate.
The media has done as much as it could to debunk his thoughts and opponents (normally only Republicans) have done their best in calling him a Nazi, racist, crazed lunatic, and all the rest. But Doctor Paul outdid them with his constant rant against big government, but more so the war.
That ever so unpopular war.
The most dramatic thing about Ron Paul is this: He tapped into a segment of the country that not even anti-war Democrats were able to. The reason is simply put this way: He was never gray about the war, he was black and white. He spoke out directly against it since the beginning and never backtracked. Not the same for leading Democrats now against the war.
Will it be Paul Mutiny in New Hampshire in 2008? If the money race is a precursor of events, it's very possible the Revolution will have some more steam...


Can Rudy handle heat?

The weekend is here.. most of the nation has felt, is feeling, or will feel the effects of a major winter storm.. the storm dumping snow, rain, ice.. Mixed bag of precip throughout the nation. Politicians throughout the nation also dumping their loads of mess onto the country. Their mess in the form of words, deeds, and actions. Rudy the latest to dump his mess... Rudy Guiliani's staff getting rough with the press.. and Guiliani himself ignoring questions about allegations that his travel expenses were picked up by obscure city offices during his tenure as Mayor.. The issue came up in the You Tube debate the other night with Anderson Cooper.. Cooper asked the Mayor about it, Guiliani responded with an outright denial of any impropriety. The most interesting aspect of the MSNBC first read story is the description of the Guiliani camp manhandling reporters.. Really, Rudy, this is tame compared to what you'd get as a nominee.. And you can't handle this?


AND THE WARNINGS BEGIN

Winter Storm Watch URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 431 AM EST SAT DEC 1 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT SNOW AND ICE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... MORE


All the news unfit to print for Friday, November 30, 2007

Jay Leno: The goodbye show


Slams all across the web of Jay Leno tonight, as the TONIGHT SHOW lays off staff..

A letter to the laid off reads: "If your services are needed, we will contact you"...

(by the way, Conan O'Brien paying out of pocket for his staff.. as well as Letterman)


Calls for death of Teddy Bear teacher


Gillian Gibbons allowed her students to name a teddy bear Mohamed.. Tonight, teacher Gibbons has been moved to a secret location in Sudan after huge crowds call for her death Gibbons, who simply wanted to teach Sudanese kids, described the world controversy as a nightmare ... Where is the rest of the civilized world? Where are feminists? Where is the American and British government?


Hostage crisis at Clinton camp over

...ends without major incident.. Leeland Eisenberg taken into custody..


All the news unfit to print for Wednesday, November 28, 2007


..WHILE CHUCK NORRIS LOOKED ON..

The You Tube debate produced a tense night between Guiliani and Romney .. But that's it. Nothing else. Ron Paul wasn't permitted to talk much.. When he did the audience responded with a rush of boos each time.. Thompson had trouble putting together phrases, let alone sentences. McCain was dour and sour, but smiled enthusiastically when he repeated the same tired campaign lines that he does everywhere else.. Huckabee presented a church sermon--with his smile. And Chuck Norris looked on. Really.. I think it's time to give You Tube back to the oddities of society and next time keep them away from politics.. The Democratic You Tube debate gave us the high-pitched snowman worried about melting.. This debate produced two memorable videos, one a man loading a gun almost as a defiant stand against anyone who would propose gun laws, and near the end of the debate a young man asking about the Confederate flag--all the while he sat it front of the flag hanging in his room. God bless us all. I go to You Tube for music videos or flashback memories to Nick at Nite promos from the 1980s.. And of course, I go to You Tube and watch Ron Paul videos. They are slickly produced. What can I say. It's the new addictive trend online. But candidates answering questions from people that want 15 clicks of fame? Nah. Didn't work. Give us You Tube back, CNN. Get rid of the logos all over the page.. take away the advertisements.. And finally.. Mr. Anderson Cooper.. we already know who the media wants to see matched up during the election.. no matter what the You Tube tube..

My dour and negative feelings aside, some other thoughts from the online world tonight:

Huffington Post live blog

National Review

Andrew Sullivan quick reactions


Thompson going negative... but no facts to back him up. It appears the writers strike is hurting him! Did anyone tell him he should practice?


Interesting debate. Thompson confused. Rudy rude. Mccain dour. Paul blowing them all away.. when they let him speak..


You Tubers don't have the script

..It's the You Tube debate between the Republicans..

The You Tubers do NOT have the script.. The debate getting nasty early.


Pregnant and proud



In your face cover of Christina Aguilera on the January 2008 Marie Claire magazine shows her baby-belly for 'Sexy Mama' article..


All the news unfit to print for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The glasses didn't help: Video of the Bush pronunciation botch-up


The video from ThinkProgress.org..


Bush gets his photo op

But he almost didn't.. When he tried to shakes hands behind the podium today at the Israel-Palestinian Peace Conference at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, he was reminded by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to move away from the podium so photographers can see.. This was after Bush mispronounced the names of both gentlemen in the photo op ... Olmert told Bush, "If you move from the podium they will see us shaking hands." Hopefully video will come later. I know it was on Keith Olbermann tonight.. I am waiting for my YouTubers and LiveLeakers..


Intrigue in the weather circles

Storm coming this weekend to the East Coast.. new models showing the storm may be strong...

Developing story in weather rooms across the Eastern half the United States..


X X RANDOM RAKINGS X X

A FEW RANDOM RAKINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Major popular new site design for Myspace pages tonight: Sean Taylor layouts.. The Redksins Sean Taylor, 24, dead today after a gunshot wound to the leg..

Citigroup Sells Stake to Arab Nation...

Home prices drop largest on record..

American Red Cross President Mark Everson forced to resign for having a "personal relationship" with a subordinate employee...

Karl Rove on Charlie Rose: "Premature vote" in Congress led to war!

Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot complains about jail..


Carson Daly seeking jokes from "celeb friends" "golfing pals" or "random peeps"

Carson Daly seeking scabs to write his jokes!

Daly is not a member of the Writers Guild.. he is also going to begin taping new shows this week which will air next week!

No comment at this point from the Writers Guild.. But there may be now. The Smoking Gun website released a document tonight showing that Daly set up "joke hotline" to get material for his comeback..

Another showcase example of how much writers are necessary. For some..

I have some vague mememories of David Letterman making toast during the writers strike back in the old days when he was doing his Late Night program. There were no writers, and no material, but he was oddly funnier.

Not the same hopes for Carson Daly, but it's more than interesting that he's the first and so far only late night talk show host to come back on air during the strike..


Bam! "Good things come to an end" for Emeril Live


The headline may be misleading.. Millionaire chef Emeril Lagasse has his show canceled.. But he's still under contract and most likely poised to take it up a notch sometime soon in the future.. Not that a new show will make him any more watchable than he already is now.


Another day, another drug warning

New advise from the doc: European and U.S. diabetologists advise that there should should be caution when doctors prescribe oral diabetes pills like GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia, which has been linked to increased heart attack risk.

This comes only days after documents were released showing there is concern within the FDA about Tamiflu and Relenza..


Stephen King talks to TIME mag.. Jenna Bush waterboarding, TIME persons of the year. .apparently nothing was off the table

Among the interesting Q&A banter between the author and the magazine, King suggested that Lindsay Logan and Britney Spears should be Persons of the Year..

More controversial, though, will be his assertion that Bush's daughter Jenna be waterboarded!

More from King not THE KING: "So I said something to the Nightline guy about waterboarding, and if the Bush administration didn't think it was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation. Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought it was torture. And then the guy from Nightline said, "Well, obviously you've not been watching World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson." But I do — I watch 'em all!"

Also interesting was his further take on why Britney & Scandal fame company should be the TIME PofY: "Britney Spears is just trailer trash. That's all. I mean, I don't mean to be pejorative. But you observe her behavior for the past five years and you say, "Here's a lady who can't take care of her kids, she can't take care of herself, she has no retirement fund, everything that she gets runs right through her hands." And yet, you know and I know that if you go to those sites that tell you what the most blogged-about things on the Internet are, it's Britney, it's Lindsay. So I think it would be terrific [to have them as TIME Persons of the Year]. There would be such a scream from the American reading public, sure. But at the same time, it's time for somebody to discuss the difference between real news and fake news."

Agree on that point, Mr. King.

Perhaps not the TIME persons of the year, but maybe the Schmucks of the year?

Maybe.


Drink up, deflame your vessels

Another story on the health aspects of wine.. This time Reuters reporting that a study may show that women drinking two glasses of wine a day lowers levels of certain inflammatory substances in their blood.. Apparently this study did not include men. But I am certain that will not stop them from drinking away.. raising a glass. And hoping that inflammation will pass. Or at least lower.


By the way, my choice tonight, while not the best, Taylor Port.


All the news unfit to print for Monday, November 26, 2007

Bust a nut with Hillary


The hottest political toy of the year is a Hillary Clinton nutcracker. .or the stupidest gift of the year, depending on what you read..

But there is a certain ironic beauty in theory with the Mrs. Clinton commidity. .after all, can the irony truly escape you? The possible first women president cracking nuts on your Christmas?

My father hopefully will enjoy this item. I bought him one. It's most likely made in China and will either contain harmful lead or will break on the first nut, but the humor will be unescapable.

Stupid.com may have rated the Hillary Clinton cracker as the 2nd dumbest gift of the year.. but within 2 to 4 postal business days I will have her. To crack nuts.. And will not feel stupid...

At least I don't think??


Gore in the White House .. and Raw video from FOX NEWS




He may not have won the White House, but he did get the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE..


Matt Drudge gives interview to SKY NEWS

The man who sits quietly behind his laptop while his words loudly scream out to the public, gave an interview to SKY NEWS and answered a great question about how to trust the new generation of news online: Keep it live and get to know who you can trust..

With the amount of bloggers and vloggers and online radio hosts, it's tough to get to know your host.

SO meet me. Bryan.

The Schmuckraker.

Trust me. Not with your life, but just with your click.


All the news unfit to print for Sunday, November 25, 2007

Extra Extra, YOUR wife files for divorce, hear it here first


Reporter informs Hulk Hogan that his wife files for divorce against him..

Hogan responded, after looking at divorce papers that St Petersburg TIMES reporter reporter showed Mr. Terry Bollea, "Thank you for the great information. My wife has been in California for about three weeks. ... Holy smokes. Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me."

What a way to find out. A reporter.


CONCERNS OVER TAMIFLU AND RELENZA

According to Reuters, FDA staff based its recommendations on a review of nearly 600 cases of neuropsychiatric events reported by patients on Tamiflu and 115 cases of such events by patients taking Relenza..

RELEASED DOCUMENTS: FDA STAFF RECOMMEND PSYCHIATRIC SIDE EFFECT WARNINGS FOR TAMIFLU AND RELENZA





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