Why am I not surprised that it's conservatives who are trying to neutralize the bin laden name.
Posted by Ga6thDem at March 11, 2006 02:38 PMI wonder how many people in the world stuck with the surname "Hitler."
Posted by dj moonbat at March 11, 2006 02:48 PMI wonder how many people in the world stuck with the surname "Hitler."
The history channel actually did a program about the surviving relatives of Adolf Hitler. If I remember correctly, no one who was directly related to Adolf Hitler ever married or had children. They more or less took an unspoken vow to let their branch of the Hitler family die out.
Posted by herbal tee at March 11, 2006 03:46 PMOh, great. Now we can have articles in newspapers, news reports on TV, stories in cheap celebrities magazines, pictures of her on those gossipy TV shows, etc. Another show for the mindless Americans, who, having no lives of their own, can fill their empty days with the latest on Dufour.
Posted by Judith at March 11, 2006 03:54 PMSo what exactly is your point? That only high-school dropouts should be in American Idol? This is a silly post!
Posted by whenwego at March 11, 2006 04:07 PMDoes she know where her uncle is hiding? I mean, to what address does she send his birthday card???
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I say she should go for it--make the celebrity and her looks work for her. Just like Paula Abdul (sp?). That she has a law degree merely adds backstory to her carefully groomed persona. I should think the bin Laden monicker is far more embarrassing to the jihadist than to her.
Posted by suds at March 11, 2006 04:45 PM
So what? Doesn't britney have a PHD in philosophy or something? Q.E.D
Career police at work.
Posted by degustibus at March 11, 2006 05:17 PMI think Britney would have trouble spelling PhD.
Posted by dj moonbat at March 11, 2006 05:23 PMActually, Adolph Hitler was born to Alois Hiedler and the name "Hitler" was a clerical error in the records. But even Hitler's father, Alois, was the unwed son of his mother, who was named Maria Schicklgruber.
Hiedler, buy the way, was the name of Alois's step-father, a name he started using when he was age 40 and before Adolph was born.
Posted by Hank at March 11, 2006 06:06 PMJust what the world needs. An Arabian Paris Hilton.
Posted by Sonoma at March 11, 2006 06:45 PMI dunno, you can pick your friends, pick your nose, and pick your ass, but you can't pick your family.
She had the courage and the brains to get away from the name. If I were named Bush, I would change my name also, were I related to the dipshit son of a bitch in the Oval Office...
Just this old chief's 2 cents...
Posted by Ken Jackson CPO USN Ret. at March 11, 2006 06:58 PMFrankly, WTF cares what she, Britney, Paris, Paula, or any of them do. The less attention paid to them, the less they earn. They are only concerned with stardom, not the benefit of mankind, or poverty, or sickness, or war, so F*ck them.
Anyone who poses for a photo in a bubble bath will not be getting a birthday card from me.
The whole "profit on her name" by our deranged system is sad. Very sad indeed.
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Hank, I had no idea Hitler was an artist, and a watercolorist no less. In fact, being a watercolorist myself, I think he was quite talented. Perhaps the world would have been different had the Fine Arts Institute Vienna accepted his application.
Judith, there was a movie about Hitler being a painter just recently. Can't remember the name though.
Anyhow, let the bimbo get famous on her name. This is America, where kids trade serial killer cards, where rich white trash get tv shows, where people gobble it all up with ice cream. In fact, I think it would be the epitome of American culture to have the name of the most infamous enemy of the state also be the name of the most famous tv celebrity. Face it, without her uncle, no one would have paid this chick a bit of attention. Now, though, let's embrace the cognitive dissonance, because we've come full circle and are now pre-911 in our thinking. To tell you the truth, it took longer than I thought it would for this kinda shit, but Oliver Stone is finally making the 9-11 movie. At last, we can move on!
Posted by iamcoyote at March 12, 2006 07:01 AMHitler's 'artwork' was considered a frank abomination by the scholars at the various schools he attempted to enter. I have seen three of his works, and, as one expert said 'I've seen better from a three-year old'. They are paint-by-numbers attempts.
In some ironic way, his sense of perspective, referring to the painting technique, was as warped as his perspective of the world.