(Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies) In response to Trump's AI post of himself as Pope Benedict Arnold I, Mr. Newberger presents the hit new musical, Antichrist, a satirical rock-opera in the spirit of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar, reimagining Trump’s rise as a twisted false prophet. (Didn't have to imagine too hard).
"As a general rule, I'm fine with people telling jokes [you know, as long as they're not about me, my wife, or my beloved boss, in which case we may have to censor it due to national and my job security]"
- Vice President JD Vance
Trump on upholding constitution: "I don't know" | The Daily Show
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(The Daily Show) May 5, 2025: Jon Stewart sorts Trump's latest barrage of bullsh*t into "OK" and "NOT OK" piles, including telling kids to cut down on dolls and pencils, calling for Alcatraz Island to reopen as an Al Capone Era prison, posting AI-generated images of himself as the new pope, and shrugging off the American Constitution as something he only promotes during campaigns. #DailyShow #AI#Alcatraz #Trump #Pope
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Trump’s loony cabinet gets final touches, Matt Gaetz joins Cameo, RFK Jr. skeletons
I may be dead, but I'm still prez of this failing nation
(Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Nov. 25, 2024: The holidays are upon us and 17,000 flights have been canceled or delayed since Friday, QB Jameis Winston gave one of the most suspiciously upbeat pre-game interviews in the history of football, G-Joe Biden stepped out for the annual pardoning of the Turkeys today in Washington, Wicked racked up $165 million dollars at the box office this weekend and AMC released a special popcorn bucket for the film, since DJ Trump won the election vasectomies in the United States have skyrocketed, Trumpo picked another Fox News correspondent to be surgeon general, sex scandal ex-congressman Matt Gaetz is now on Cameo after withdrawing from attorney general consideration, some of RFK Jr.’s old interviews are getting attention, and JKL sent a team out to Hollywood Blvd. to ask people walking by our theater about some of Trump’s cabinet picks that were totally made up in a new Donald Trump Cabinet Edition of Lie Witness News. #Kimmel
HAIR became a phenomenon then a movie. It was originally a stage musical, a play. As such, it has a libretto or the stage directions, script, and lyrics. Here's a sample of a good Buddhist part of HAIR. Everyone's heard its songs, but how many of us have seen them in context? What the Altadena Music Theatre has done with the play is mind blowing. That's why we care so much. The musical is about everything we care about: spirituality, awakening, meditation, war, peace, establishment lies, entheogenic plants, nonconformity, questioning, free love, the Sixties, sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... The movie is not great, but the songs and script are golden.
(CLAUDE lands in a Vietnamese field. ORIENTAL CRICKET MUSIC: He crouches as TWO VIETNAMESE NATIVES cross, pursued by and American SOLDIER carrying an M-1 rifle. From offstage, we hear a loud voice).
WASHINGTON (BERGER): "Revolution…revolution…"
(Enter BERGER from wings, or down and aisle, on horseback, wearing a powdered wig, and tri-cornered hat askew, with very long dark-blue velvet cape trailing after HIM, held up by bloody, bandaged, RAGGLE TAGGLE TROOP of 5 or 6)
WASHINGTON (cont’d): "Hut two three four. Hut two three four. Jump to it, lads. Kill the Redcoats. Into the Delaware, men! Grab your muskets for God, for Country, for Crown, for Freedom, for Liberation, for Mother." (Music out)
MESSENGER (WOOF): (Running on, beating a drum rather badly) "General Washington, General Washington, Your Highness!"
WASHINGTON (Slaps HIS face): "Practice!"
MESSENGER: "General Washington, news from the front. The word is retreat. Threat of attack."
(WASHINGTON flees, as INDIANS in warbonnets, with bows, attack)
INDIAN ONE: "Tonto say white man die." (Shoots)
INDIAN TWO: "Sitting Bull say, white man die." (Shoots)
INDIAN THREE: "Crazy Horse say, white man die." (Shoots)
INDIAN FOUR: "Little Beaver say, white man drop dead." (Shoots—all of WASHINGTON’S MEN are now dead)
(Gong. THEY all exit. We hear loud gongs. 1,000-YEAR-OLD MONK and 3 BUDDHIST MONKS enter in long saffron robes)
1,000-YEAR-OLD MONK: "ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GIVE UP ALL DESIRES. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SAY, “OM.” STAY HOME, SAY “OM.”
3 BUDDHIST MONKS (and TRIBE): "OM..."
1,000-YEAR-OLD MONK: "Nice, nice, nice, very nice. (Sings) "OM, OM ON THE RANGE, AND EAT LOTS OF FRUIT AND BE CUTE. BE HAPPY GO LUCKY, EV’RYONE SHOULD BE BUDDHA." (Various gongs sound).
FIRST MONK (WOOF): "WE ARE ALL ONE."
THIRD MONK: "NO MORE WAR TOYS."
SECOND MONK (SHEILA): (As SHE pulls out gasoline can and starts pouring gas on the 1,000-YEAR-OLD MONK): "USE HIGH OCTANE AND FEEL THE TIGER IN YOUR TANK."
1,000-YEAR-OLD MONK: "HUSTLING IS AN HONEST PROFESSION."
(2ND MONK, SHEILA, sets OLD MONK on fire and HE, immolated in flames, runs offstage screaming. The 3 MONKS sit in meditation “Om'ing” as 3 NUNS enter).
THREE CATHOLIC NUNS: "HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE, THE LORD IS WITH THEE. BLESSED ART THOU AMONGST WOMEN AND BLESSED IS THE FRUIT OF THE LOOM. HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY FOR US SINNERS, NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH."
(The lights come up on a SERGEANT, and a couple of PARENTS holding a suit on a hanger).
SERGEANT: "O’Reilly"
HUD: "Present, Sir."
MOM: "Momma loves you."
DAD: "I’ve waited a long time for this day, Son."
SERGEANT: "Palucci."
HIRAM: "Present and accounted for, Sir."
MOM: "Now write me a letter tonight."
DAD: "You don’t know how proud I am of you, Son, today."
SERGEANT: "Epstein."
PAUL: "Present, Sir."
MOM: "Give us a kiss."
DAD (Shoves a bill into pocket of suit). "Be a man."
SERGEANT: "Claude Bukowski."
CLAUDE: "Here, Sir."
TRIBE: (Singing) "RIPPED OPEN BY METAL EXPLOSION
CAUGHT IN BARBED WIRE
FIREBALL
BULLET SHOCK
BAYONET ELECTRICITY
SHRAPNELLED
THROBBING MEAT
ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING
BLACK UNIFORMS
BARE FEET
CARBINES
MAIL-ORDER RIFLES
SHOOT THE MUSCLES
256 VIETCONG CAPTURED
256 VIETCONG CAPTURED
(In a whisper)
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
THREE FIVE ZERO ZERO
TAKE WEAPONS UP AND BEGIN TO KILL
WATCH THE LONG LONG ARMIES DRIFTING HOME
(Now THEY freak out).
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
THREE FIVE ZERO ZERO
TAKE WEAPONS UP AND BEGIN TO KILL
WATCH THE LONG LONG ARMIES DRIFTING HOME
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
IT’S A DIRTY LITTLE WAR
THREE FIVE ZERO ZERO
TAKE WEAPONS UP AND BEGIN TO KILL
WATCH THE LONG LONG ARMIES DRIFTING HOME
RIPPED OPEN BY METAL EXPLOSION
CAUGHT IN BARBED WIRE
FIREBALL
BULLET SHOCK
BAYONET ELECTRICITY
SHRAPNELLED
THROBBING MEAT
ELECTRONIC DATA..."
RONNY & WALTER: "WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN
HOW NOBLE IN REASON
HOW INFINITE IN FACULTIES"
RONNY: "IN FORM AND MOVING HOW EXPRESS AND ADMIRABLE"
BOTH: "IN ACTION HOW LIKE AN ANGEL."
RONNY: "IN APPREHENSION HOW LIKE A GOD."
BOTH: "THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
THE PARAGON OF ANIMALS."
RONNY: "I HAVE OF LATE
BUT WHEREFORE I KNOW NOT
LOST ALL MY MIRTH
THIS GOODLY FRAME
THE EARTH
SEEMS TO ME A STERILE PROMONTORY"
WALTER: "THIS MOST EXCELLENT CANOPY
THE AIR
LOOK YOU
THIS BRAVE O’ERHANGING FIRMAMENT."
BOTH: "THIS MAJESTICAL ROOF FRETTED WITH GOLDEN FIRE
WHY IT APPEARS NO OTHER THING TO ME
THAN A FOUL AND PESTILENT CONGREGATION OF VAPOURS
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN
HOW NOBLE IN REASON."
TRIBE: "HOW DARE THEY TRY TO END THIS BEAUTY
HOW DARE THEY TRY TO END THIS BEAUTY
WALKING IN SPACE
WE FIND THE PURPOSE OF PEACE
THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
YOU CAN NO LONGER HIDE
OUR EYES ARE OPEN
OUR EYES ARE OPEN
OUR EYES ARE OPEN
OUR EYES ARE OPEN
WIDE WIDE WIDE"
(The [hallucinatory] “trip” is over). (Music out).
BERGER: "Claude…"
TRIBE: "Claude...Claude...Claude..."
CLAUDE: (Sits up). "What happened?"
BERGER: "Face reality, Shakespeare."
CLAUDE: "Berger, I feel lonely. Let’s go to Mexico, George."
BERGER: "I’ll go with you."
CLAUDE: "I want to sleep in the mushrooms and eat the sun. I know where it’s at."
SHEILA: "You know where it’s at!"
CLAUDE: (To BERGER): "I know where it’s at!"
BERGER: "I know where it’s at. We all know where it’s at."
CLAUDE: "I can’t make this moment to moment living on the streets."
BERGER: "I dig it. I dig it."
CLAUDE: "I don’t. I don’t." (HE starts painting HIS chest).
BERGER: "Putting on his peace paint, he said: 'On with the groovy revolution.'"
CLAUDE: "I don’t want to be a dentist or a lawyer or a bum or an IBM machine, or a rock ‘n’ roll hero, or a movie star. I just want to have lots of money."
BERGER: "I’m gonna go to India...float around...bake bread. Brownies...I’m gonna stay high. They’ll never get me. I’m gonna stay high forever."
CLAUDE: "I know what I want to be...invisible. I don’t need drugs. An invisible man, I could float around and slip into people’s minds and know exactly what they’re doing and what they’re thinking. I could go anywhere, do anything... I could perform miracles. That’s the only thing I want to do or be on this dirt."
BERGER: "He’s the Invisible Man!"
TRIBE: "Zap!"
(THEY all touch CLAUDE. Tower Clock strikes one, at the back of orchestra. CLAUDE looks out)
CLAUDE: "Oh, my God, it’s one o’clock."
BERGER: "I hate the world, don’t you?"
CLAUDE: "I hate the world, I hate the winter, I hate these streets."
BERGER: "I wish that it would snow at least."
CLAUDE: "I wish it was the biggest snowstorm. Blizzards come down in sheets. Come on! Mountains, rivers, oceans, forests, rabbits, cover everything in beautiful white holy snow, and I could hide out a hermit and hang on a cross and eat cornflakes."
SHEILA: "Tomorrow morning, at dawn, we will take our heads down to the U.S. Army induction center for an Exorcism of the Khaki. We’re going to yip out all the bad vibrations -- yip, yip, yip, yip, -- and we’re going to yip up the sun -- yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yipeeeee! (To CLAUDE, who is now climbing the tower). "Claude, c’mon down and join the tribe."
CLAUDE: (HE comes down). "Are we all going someplace together?"
TRIBE: "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
WOOF: "I’m going home."
BERGER: "C’mon, let’s go."
CLAUDE: "Tonight is the last night of the world. We stick together." (Music starts vamp for next number).
(Claude exits during song)
TRIBE: "Look at the moon, look at the moon, look at the moon…" (Sings)
Juan A. Lozano, APnews.com, 9/20/23; KHOU 11; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
HOUSTON (AP) — The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class intensified this week as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action.
Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving an in-school suspension since Aug. 31st at the Houston-area school.
School officials say his dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district’s dress code.
Mr. George’s mother, Darresha George, and the family’s attorney deny the teenager’s hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress code and have accused the district of violating a new state law that outlaws racial discrimination based on hairstyles.
The new law, the CROWN Act, took effect Sept. 1st, 2023.
On Tuesday, Darresha George and her attorney filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency, alleging that Darryl George was being harassed and mistreated by school district officials over his hair and that his in-school suspension was in violation of the CROWN Act.
On Wednesday, the agency notified Darresha George and her attorney that it will investigate the complaint.
Later Wednesday, the Barbers Hill school district announced it had filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act. The lawsuit was filed in Chambers County, located east of Houston. More
OTHER NEWS
A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials
Activists from community groups, far-left parties, and unions have held marches around France against racism and police brutality
Disgraced Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de Leon is entangled in a City Hall racism scandal but resisted Pres. Biden's calls for his resignation said Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, that he's running for reelection
Interested in a fun time? It's "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about the 1960s with fantastic choreography, singing, dancing, anti-establishment themes, and joyful exuberance. "Let the sunshine in"! Sure there are drug references and scantily dressed people jumping around, but it's enjoyable for everyone.
I love live drama with rock singing
Sarah and Oliver, Melissa and Chris are doing it again. HAIR is back high above Pasadena on Lake Ave.
It's the 1960s. The US War on Vietnam (with secret carpet bombing of innocent noncombatant civilians in Cambodia and Laos) rages on. But hippie peaceniks and counterculture pot smokers are not having it.
It's time to rebel, burn those pesky draft notices calling on us to kill, and shake off the oppression of the Establishment. It's time for youthful resistance to wear our hair as we like and to live free. Live rock music accompanies each performance. Gates open at 7:30 with pre-show entertainment.
HAIR is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark, LLC (concordtheatricals.com), to support of the arts with all-local acting and musical talent.
Delaney and her boyfriend had a good time at Burning Man (delaneyeva/Daily Star.co.uk)
Hi, we're Kenny and Johnny, conservative pals.
John & Ken Show Hour 1 (Sept. 5, 2023)
Burning Man flooded and stranded a bunch [64,000] festival goers.
Reading the Daily Star, a British tabloid/rag, the inseparable pair pores over the details of sex and release at this year's Burning Man 9-day festival.
Los Angeles area employees at an El Monte jewelry store beat up a super obese attempted smash and grab robber.
If Ken were a doll and John were his John
Dr. Anthony Fauci resurfaces on CNN, talking about masks. [He hasn't figured out that he said they wouldn't work, would work, and now science shows they didn't work?]
A plane had to turn around because a male passenger dropped explosive diarrhea all up and down the cabin. More
‘I joined mile high club on Burning Man s*x plane: Everyone gets to reach altitude'
Delaney and her boyfriend were given a mile high ride over Burning Man's Black Rock City.
A randy festival-goer has told how she joined the mile high club by b*nking on a special "s*x plane" at Burning Man. And Delaney Eva has described the saucy experience in detail, explaining how: "The plane stays up until everyone finishes their ride."
It's the latest crazy story to come out of the annual Nevada Black Rock Desert event dubbed the "wildest festival of the year.
From painful injuries in the orgy dome tent to getting raunchy in huge communal showers, there's always plenty of b*nkers moments at the free-spirited arts event – but Delaney's experience might have topped them all.
The online model, who lives in Hawaii, revealed she and her boyfriend had the time of their lives at Burning Man last year when they hitched a plane ride with a fellow burner. More
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