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Asshole Fuckface Roundup



It's 7-7-07. You know what that means! It's time for another Asshole Fuckface Roundup! There are an enormous amount of assholes in the world but only a few make the cut and land up on the FearTheReaper Asshole Fuckface Roundup. Here are this week's winners:

First up, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold has been getting quite a bit of press lately for taking the lead on environmental issues.

Now Schwarzenegger, a Republican, wants to use his star power to turn global warming into an issue in the 2008 presidential election. "There is a whole new movement because of the change of people sent to Washington," Schwarzenegger said in an interview this week, referring to the Democratic Party's impending takeover of Congress. "We want to put the spotlight on this issue in America. It has to become a debate in the presidential election. It has to become an issue."


Yay! He’s an environmentalist! No, wait, that’s not right. What would you call him? Uh...oh, yeah, he’s a fucking liar. Arnold recently fired the executive officer of the California Air Resources Board for “not being tough enough.” The executive officer claimed he was fired for “pushing to implement more aggressive action to curb global warming than the administration supports.”

Then another board member quit. She also claimed the "green governor" was pressing the board to go easy on businesses. The board is supposed to be an independent of the governor’s office.

Witherspoon said she and her staff were routinely pressured by the administration to soften crackdowns on heavy diesel construction equipment and other machinery after industry officials complained.


In an attempt to stop the bleeding, Arnold has appointed a staunch environmentalist to run the board, but the damage has already been done.

"You can have the best person at the helm of the board, but if the administration is trying to micromanage it on a day-to-day basis, it won't make a difference who is in charge over there," said Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles). "It will lose credibility and become politicized."


Sounds like Arnold has learned a lot from our current president. Keep destroying everything that is good in our government, boys. And, to add a little icing on the cake, Arnold has been taking lavish trips that are paid for by a "nonprofit group."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, a millionaire many times over, bills much of his overseas travel to an obscure nonprofit group that can qualify its secret donors for full tax deductions, just as if they were giving to skid row shelters or the United Way.


Isn’t that awesome? If anyone needs to be taken care of due to a lack of funds, it’s Arnold. Just last week he went to Austria, England and France. He gets to fly on plush private jets and stay in hotel suites that cost thousands of dollars a night. And it’s all paid for by charities!

By giving to the foundation, donors avoid having their identities made public, because charities are not governed by the disclosure rules that apply to campaign contributions. And they can donate unlimited amounts to the nonprofit, which is not subject to contribution ceilings the way campaign accounts are.


Didn’t take Arnold long to become a corrupt Asshole Fuckface, but then again, I didn’t expect much from the star of Twins. (I do expect a lot from Danny Devito, however.)

It wouldn’t be an Asshole Fuckface Roundup without a ridiculous lawsuit. Meet Susan McBride. She’s an employee who has been nearly crippled by pretty scents.

An employee in the Detroit planning department who claims she is severely sensitive to perfumes and other cosmetics has sued the city, saying a co-worker's strong fragrance prohibits her from working.


Not since the great pants lawsuit of 2007 has there been a more idiotic use of the judicial system. I can’t wait until someone sues a co-worker for showing him or her blueberries. It will happen. A year ago a co-worker started working in the office and nearly killed McBride.

"This employee not only wore a strong scent, but also plugged in a scented room deodorizer," the lawsuit states. "Ms. McBride was overcome by the smell almost instantly, causing her to go home sick."

The co-worker later agreed to stop using the room deodorizer, but kept using perfume, the lawsuit states.


McBride claims the work environment is in “violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.” She is demanding perfumes and other smells be banned at work. Oh, and she wants a cash settlement. The poor woman has been through hell, smelling perfumes and room deodorizers. She is basically a cripple now, from all the smelling and whatnot. She deserves a few million at least. Or, alternatively, someone could cram a deodorizer up her arse.

What would an Asshole Fuckface round up be without a fat, white, corrupt Republican?

Meet Representative Ken Calvert of California. He’s a class act. In 2001, a Riverside park district asked to buy four acres of land, with the hope of turning it into a park. The land could have been the only park in a lower-income, mainly Hispanic neighborhood. Unfortunately for the poor people, Calvert had his eye on the land, too. He snatched it up in what appears to be an illegal transaction.

A California city government agency broke the law when it sold a four-acre parcel of land to a group of investors which included Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., an investigative grand jury has concluded. Calvert and his partners planned to build a mini-storage facility on the property.


Just doing the work of the people. Who needs a fucking park? Kids love mini-storage facilities!

The grand jury concluded that the city agency did not follow the law when it sold the property to Calvert. The agency was required by law to offer the land to other government entities before it was sold to private investors. The park district will now go to court to get the land. It must have just been a coincidence that the land was sold to Calvert and his fellow investors.

Just as it must have been a coincidence in 2005 when Calvert bought four-acres of land that quickly doubled in price. It also must have been a coincidence that he used his influence to get funding for a nearby freeway interchange. But he’s got a great excuse.

"They haven't passed a law against investing yet," Calvert told the paper.


Ha ha! Good one! I hope you crammed a cigar in your mouth after you said that and then flipped a coin to a street urchin, you asshole fuckface.

Speaking of Asshole Fuckfaces, it didn’t take long for the Scooter Libby supporters to climb out from under their rocks.

They have a great defense for Bush’s total disrespect for the rule of law. It is really simple, they just scream, “Clinton, Clinton, Clinton,” until they pass out. The only problem is they end up looking like hypocritical assholes. It is rare they get called on it, but when they do it is a beautiful sight.



I am no fan of Clinton, but there is a pretty profound difference between the two acts. Clinton lied under oath because he didn’t want to talk about getting blowjobs from a woman. He could not be convicted of perjury because the federal statute requires that “the lie be about something material to the case.” The judge in Clinton’s case ruled his statements were not material to the case and excluded all evidence about Lewinsky from the suit. Therefore, Clinton was never tried or convicted of perjury.

Libby, on the other hand, was convicted of four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Libby did all that while working for the administration and probably protecting Cheney. The prosecutor said, “there is a dark cloud over the Vice President.” BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE.

The time when convicted criminals come forth to broker a deal and give up their criminal friends is right before they go to prison. Which means Bush undermined one of the prosecutor’s best tools to get the truth. It seems Bush has obstructed justice, by commuting the sentence of Libby's obstruction of justice conviction in an attempt to avoid holding the Administration accountable for its actions. You are an idiot if you equate this action to anything Clinton did.

But I shouldn’t even be getting into the argument of what Clinton did. Why? Because blaming Clinton for something does not excuse Bush for what is clearly abuse of his power. If we want to live under those rules, then I submit that what John Wayne Gacy did was totally cool because Jeffrey Dahmer did the same thing. Fucking morons.

Last but not least, the Republican Party.

Yesterday, the Republican Party unveiled their South Dakota candidate to run against Democrat Tim Johnson for the US Senate. Meet state representative Joel D. Dykstra. He is a complete religious nut job, but that is what the Republicans love these days. Dyksta received a degree in business from Oral Roberts University in 1980. He then had a delightful 19-year career in the oil and gas exploration industry. He is like a Republican wet dream.

But Dykstra has never had a greater moment than on April 20, 2006 during an abortion debate, when he said this:

"I think 'rape and incest' is a buzzword. It's a bit of a throwaway line and not everybody who says that really understands what that means. How are you going to define that?”


I don’t know, they really are such vague buzzwords. It’s like murder. What the fuck does that even mean?

Congrats to this weeks Asshole Fuckface winners! You each get a free FearTheReaper T-shirt!

 

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lolly

lolly

Madison, WI
April 2004

JUL 08, 2007 02:14 AM

HelloCentral said:
i'm afraid i don't like most of the politics apparent on this site. but it wouldn't be a problem if y'all would stop being so immature about it. I'm not even a republican and i think it's just silly to call the party in general an "asshole fuckface" every year. you people are caricatures. just thought i'd participate in the annual Roundup!!!! ^_^




I agree which is why even though I have been a member here for a while I rarely comment or care about news put up here.

It's often times juvenile and a lot of pointing out the other side of an already worn out coin.

"I hate product A! Product B rules!" and so on.

Just because they have had dalliances with Playboy in the past doesn't mean people are going to start saying they come to SG to read the articles as well as look at the pics.

SuperCrunch

SuperCrunch

Birmingham, AL
January 2007

JUL 08, 2007 12:57 PM

So if we can impeach a president for legally lying about getting a blowjob, why can't we impeach a president who is responsible for actual crimes or if nothing else blatant abuse of power.

ASSH0LE

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV
June 2003

JUL 08, 2007 03:25 PM

FearTheReaper said:

NickFaust said:
I think you ought to add Robert Bork to your fuck face round up, under the law suit category.



There is something wired in me that refuses to type that name. I don't know why. I just don't want to even talk about him, good or bad.



When you were a child you had a soft spot in your heart for this guy?

Argggh. That's enough hours spent trawling web toy sites for pictures of that toy we all had back in the 70s (and maybe the 60s and 80s too) where you'd use a magnet to drop these iron shavings onto this guy's face until he looked like Robert Bork.

ASSH0LE

ASSH0LE

Las Vegas, NV
June 2003

JUL 08, 2007 03:31 PM

scylis said:
so you know, there are many cases of people who are, indeed, highly affected by perfumes and other things containing artificial odor molecules. a friend of mine's father will actually go into anaphylactic shock if he encounters a strong dose of the stuff. even if she shouldn't normally be allergic to the perfumes and such, she might have a case of a sympathetic allergic reaction if she had smelled a strong dose of perfume or deodorizer or such while having a severe allergic reaction to something she actually is allergic to. the body imprints and then associates the smelling of the artificial molecules with encountering what she's actually allergic to that she gets the same reaction from them.

so while it might sound like BS, this case (and others like it) shouldn't just be dismissed out of hand because there might actually be something to it. I don't know, as the link didn't say much of anything about it other than the extreme basics and that it was taking place. if she is full of crap, though, then she deserves to be on the list because she makes people less understanding of those who actually do have a problem with them.

and just so you know, i used to have an extraordinarily difficult time breathing when in the presence of strong perfume and air spray. something on the level of a decent asthmatic attack in some cases. others were merely sever nasal congestion and light-headedness. fyi.



While I'm not nearly as bad-off as the woman in the article, I have a difficult time walking down the laundry detergent aisle in the supermarket. My skin starts to tingle incomfortably. My skin goes into rashes and horrible itching if the wrong laundry detergent is used.

There's certain stores at the mall I steer far clear of (usually candle stores). A ways-back coworker named Steve used to put on his cologne while his fan was blowing in our general direction. That used to tend to leave me and the hyper-allergic guy by my side gasping for air and breaking into rashes. My skin used to burn whenever he did that.

FunkyPhantom

FunkyPhantom

Chapel Hill, NC
June 2007

JUL 08, 2007 09:06 PM

Im tired of this "oh you republicans do this" or "you democrats are such" bullshit

I dislike all parties, and most politicians, they are people, and are just as fucked up as we are

Ambience

Ambience

Yuba City, CA
July 2007

JUL 08, 2007 10:08 PM

CaptPajamaSharkX said:
Im tired of this "oh you republicans do this" or "you democrats are such" bullshit

I dislike all parties, and most politicians, they are people, and are just as fucked up as we are



I hear you. We'd probably be much more productive as a nation if we stopped the Super Bowl mentality of politics and worked together towards a common goal. Unfortunately we're in a society where those who make the money make the rules, and they are rarely in it for the public's best interests.

skeptik

skeptik

New Orleans, LA
February 2004

JUL 08, 2007 10:17 PM

ASSH0LE said:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

scylis said:
so you know, there are many cases of people who are, indeed, highly affected by perfumes and other things containing artificial odor molecules. a friend of mine's father will actually go into anaphylactic shock if he encounters a strong dose of the stuff. even if she shouldn't normally be allergic to the perfumes and such, she might have a case of a sympathetic allergic reaction if she had smelled a strong dose of perfume or deodorizer or such while having a severe allergic reaction to something she actually is allergic to. the body imprints and then associates the smelling of the artificial molecules with encountering what she's actually allergic to that she gets the same reaction from them.

so while it might sound like BS, this case (and others like it) shouldn't just be dismissed out of hand because there might actually be something to it. I don't know, as the link didn't say much of anything about it other than the extreme basics and that it was taking place. if she is full of crap, though, then she deserves to be on the list because she makes people less understanding of those who actually do have a problem with them.

and just so you know, i used to have an extraordinarily difficult time breathing when in the presence of strong perfume and air spray. something on the level of a decent asthmatic attack in some cases. others were merely sever nasal congestion and light-headedness. fyi.



While I'm not nearly as bad-off as the woman in the article, I have a difficult time walking down the laundry detergent aisle in the supermarket. My skin starts to tingle incomfortably. My skin goes into rashes and horrible itching if the wrong laundry detergent is used.


There's certain stores at the mall I steer far clear of (usually candle stores). A ways-back coworker named Steve used to put on his cologne while his fan was blowing in our general direction. That used to tend to leave me and the hyper-allergic guy by my side gasping for air and breaking into rashes. My skin used to burn whenever he did that.



My sister has a similar problem. In her case, it is specifically related to her severe migraines - where strong scents, smoke, certain chemicals, etc. serve as environmental triggers. As a college registrar, however, she's in a position of some authority. She can ask for rules against this kind of stuff in her office and get them enforced.

There's not very much detail in the linked story, but at least one other article on the subject indicates that this woman's manager agrees with her, and has asked to have a rule instituted banning strong perfumes in her office.

In which case, I would think the asshole fuckface here is the new employee - the one that apparently can't stop dousing herself with perfume, even though it severely bothers a co-worker.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

JUL 09, 2007 03:46 AM

Would it be possible to mark further installments of this series with either a number or the date they're submitted? 'cause it's hard to tell (from the boards, anyway) whether any given "NEWS: Asshole Fuckface Roundup" thread is a new article or an old one that's been bumped.

Keri

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

JUL 09, 2007 12:54 PM

aldoushuxley said:

Keri said:

as_seen_on_tv said:

Oh BTW... I too can't believe that "this site" wouldn't be more conservative!!! When I signed up I thought it was a christian dating site frown



me too....wait....where the hell am i?



Whats wrong with being religious or conservative and enjoying naked women, or alcohol. I mean liberals aren't the only ones who know how to have fun. I am conservative to the core, I like alcohol, porn and good music. I think I am just a little bit of a war monger, I side with religious issues, I disagree with environmentalists and I want to marry someone who will be a stay at home mom. That is the great thing about this country, though I essentially disagree with everything a liberal stands for yet we can still stand on common ground with porn alcohol and music.




i am christian and i like/participate in porn and drinking booze. conservative....i am not. but 80% of my friends are. ( i do live in va afterall...) i never said there was anything wrong with being conservative. i was just being a jackass. lighten up you silly conservative you wink

Jah

Jah

I'm lost
August 2005

JUL 15, 2007 10:18 PM

What can we do about it? besides voting?

Keri

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

JUL 16, 2007 09:27 AM

Jah said:
What can we do about it? besides voting?




assassinate.

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