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I can’t help but like this song, despite the many (obvious) reasons I shouldn’t.

Another celebrity reveals his idiocy.

Texas icon Willie Nelson said on a nationally syndicated radio show this week that he questions the official story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

“I certainly do,” Nelson said Monday when asked by talk show host Alex Jones if he questions the official story.

“I saw those towers fall and I’ve seen an implosion in Las Vegas, there’s too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn’t get hit by nothing,” the singer-songwriter said. “So, how naive are we, you know, what do they think we’ll go for?”

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked planes, crashing them into each of the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.

Nelson, who turns 75 this year, said if he were president, he would “stop the damn war, it’s just that simple.”

“The way I heard it, the 15 people from Saudi Arabia hit us in New York and we go jump on Afghanistan,” Nelson said. “I never could figure that one out in Iraq.”

Nelson’s publicist would not comment on the remarks.

Jones, an Austin-based talk show host on the Burnsville, Minn., Genesis Communications Network, is sometimes described as a “conspiracy theorist.” He regularly rails against globalism, the United Nations and World Bank on satellite and Internet radio.

Damn narcotic mushrooms.

I had never heard of Erykah Badu before this next story, and I hopefully won’t hear about her again.

Not unless the words “apologizes for being a huge jerk” appear next to her name.

You see, she seems to think that she is doing Israel a huge favor by gracing us with her presence.

Sporting a huge, billowing afro and a T-shirt with an anti-Iraq war slogan, Erykah Badu expressed her support of black leader Louis Farrakhan and the Palestinian cause Thursday before a crowd of Israeli fans and journalists in Tel Aviv.

The Grammy-award winning neo-soul vocalist, 36, is in Tel Aviv to perform on Saturday night. She has also won acclaim for her acting roles in Cider House Rules and House of D.

“I come from across the water bringing light and hope,” said Badu in her deep, languid voice. She commissioned a poster design especially for her visit to Israel, featuring a large hamsa, a traditional Middle Eastern good luck charm, that appears to be growing out of her hair. At the bottom, the words for peace in Hebrew and Arabic appear side by side.

However, Badu could not name any Israeli hip hop artists. She explained that she identified best with the Palestinians and their hip hop scene, saying that they are a part of her tribe of hip hop.

“They use (hip hop) as a form of liberation, as a form of pre-resistance, as a form of therapy,” Badu said.

Badu defended Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who has drawn fire over the years with pronouncements including praise for Hitler in a 1984 speech, for which he was censured by the U.S. Senate, repeatedly denouncing Israel and the Jewish people and calling the pretense for the war in Iraq a Zionist conspiracy.

The Anti-Defamation League, a leading Jewish group, has labeled Farrakhan’s statements bigoted and anti-Semitic. On its Web site, the ADL lists dozens of Farrakhan statements it considers anti-Semitic.

“(Farrakhan is) not an anti-Semite. He loves all people,” insisted Badu. Her next album, Nu AmErykah will be released February 26, the date of Savior’s Day, a main Nation of Islam holiday.

Niiiiice. Insult the hosts, and support people who murder them and hate them.

Bring back the Black Eyed Peas, I say.

Ha’aretz reports:

Amy Winehouse could be the next British Jewish songstress to enter the mid-winter holiday spirit, with a collection of Hanukkah tunes.

Winehouse’s producer, Mark Ronson, told Rolling Stone magazine this week that the two had discussed an album of Hanukkah and Christmas songs.

“We’re talking about making a holiday record, with Christmas songs on one side and Hanukkah songs on the other,” Ronson told Rolling Stone.

“She’s got songs called, like, Kosher Kisses and Alone Under the Mistletoe.”

Not to mention I’m Dreaming of a White Hannukah.

According to Ronson, the idea came as the two were bemoaning the lack of “cool” Jewish songs for Hanukkah.

“She was kind of f**king around, but I was like, ‘You have all these amazing records to play for Christmas, like Motown and Carla Thomas and the Charlie Brown Christmas, and unfortunately, us Jews have nothing that cool to listen to. So we should do something,” Ronson told the magazine.

I appreciate the sentiments, but with her public drug use and generally erratic behavior, I would hardly look to Ms Winehouse for “cool.”

I’ll stick with Adam Sandler, thank you very much.

From the Sun (UK):

SINGER Britney Spears will be ordered to cover her face with a veil and wear a full-length Islamic dress when she weds her British boyfriend, it was revealed last night.

She is planning marriage No3 to Muslim Adnan Ghalib, 35, who she hopes will help keep her on the straight and narrow so she can win back custody of her two sons.

But the only way Brummie cameraman Adnan’s strictly religious family will accept her is if she converts to the Islamic faith.

Astonishingly, party girl Brit, 26, is keen to do it – even though it will mean ditching the booze. The singer, famed for stepping out without her knickers, has even told friends she plans to wear a burka, or even a naqib, which leaves only the eyes visible.

One of her pals said: “She is really keen to do it.

“It would be a mark of respect to Adnan and his family, and it would give her the anonymity she’s craving.

“Adnan’s Muslim beliefs could be Britney’s saviour.”

Friends believe the couple had planned to tie the knot on a trip to Mexico last week, but put it on hold.

Her relationship with Adnan has stunned his parents, too. His mum Saghar teaches the Koran at home, while his dad Hussain attends the mosque daily.

Now, that would be a great reality show.

(Cross-posted, somewhat embarrassingly, at Elder of Ziyon)

Aussie Dave adds: No more of this, I guess (kissing a Jew-lover is forbidden).

Aussie Dave adds (again): Now I am really confused.

Britney Spears has told family and friends she intends to marry her paparazzo lover Adnan Ghalib in a Scientology marriage ceremony.

The troubled singer, 26, phoned an aide with the news from a beach in Mexico, where she fled by private jet with Ghalib, 35, last week.

She is due to appear before a Los Angeles court tomorrow for the continuing battle over custody of her children.

A friend described her wedding plan as “hare-brained”, adding: “Brit blew a fuse again when she was told it would be an act of insanity to marry. Having a Scientology wedding is her way of giving her family a one-finger salute.”

Scientologists – its celebrity members include Tom Cruise and John Travolta – believe humans are descended from space aliens.

Update (Aussie Dave): More from Alarabiya:

The couple claim to be very much in love and the troubled star’s friends have reportedly said that she is so in love with him that she plans to marry him and convert to Islam, the UK’s News of The World (NOTW) reported.

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Spears, who was previously believed to be part of the mystic Jewish faith Kabbalah, is said to be talking about plans to fake her own death and move to Pakistan with her new lover, according to The Sun newspaper.

Update (Aussie Dave): Even more proof that you can’t take any of this news too seriously (via Sandmonkey).

Back in the summer of ‘95 (if I’m not mistaken), I headed out to Fremantle and heard Midnight Oil in concert. Those boys could really rock the park, and as a performer, lead singer Peter Garrett was fantastic.

As a politican, not so much.

Example 1:

Peter Garrett has made a humiliating backflip after Kevin Rudd ordered him to reverse his position on Kyoto, blunting Labor’s attack on the Coalition’s split over the issue.

The backdown came after a Labor crisis meeting, which followed a day of sustained assault by John Howard and senior ministers on Mr Garrett’s approach to a new post-Kyoto climate accord which he would be negotiating in Bali in December if Labor wins the federal election.

Mr Garrett started the day by committing a Labor government to signing a new global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions targets that might not include developing nations, such as China and India. He said the absence of China and India would not be a “deal-breaker”.

The Opposition Leader had initially endorsed Mr Garrett’s statement, saying China and India would follow suit if Australia showed leadership on the issue by signing up without them.

The Coalition seized on the Labor position. Mr Howard said it was a policy to “reduce Australian jobs”, not to reduce Australian emissions.

Last night, Mr Garrett issued a statement, reversing his position. “Appropriate developing country commitments for the post-2012 commitment period … would be an essential prerequsite for Australian support,” he said late yesterday.

The blunder enabled the Coalition to shift the heat on climate change away from Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. It was revealed on the weekend that Mr Turnbull had asked Cabinet six weeks ago to sign up to Kyoto because Australia would meet its targets anyway.

Mr Rudd had attacked Mr Turnbull, highlighting his difference with Mr Howard - who rebuffed Mr Turnbull’s suggestion - and the rest of Cabinet.

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Mr Howard had said Mr Garrett’s original commitment, in an interview with The Australian Financial Review and on ABC radio, was against Australia’s interests and would put Australian jobs at risk.

“We can’t have a situation where Australian industry is bound to take steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but competitive countries like China are not bound,” Mr Howard said. He said that would effectively export Australian emissions - and Australian jobs - to China.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said committing to any new deal without the explicit support of developing countries was “absurd”.

“You cannot be the government of Australia and go into negotiations saying ‘developing countries don’t have to make a contribution, we’ll sign the agreement anyway’ and think you are going to do something to solve this problem of greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.

At a press conference in Cairns yesterday morning, where Mr Rudd and Mr Garrett unveiled a $200 million plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef, both men repeated the commitment.

Mr Rudd said countries such as Australia should be prepared to take the lead on signing new targets under a new international agreement so that big emitters in the developing world had no excuse not to adopt the same tough approach.

“We believe that leadership must come first from the developed economies, including Australia and the United States, and then countries and economies like China have nowhere to go,” Mr Rudd said.

Only after Mr Howard and other Coalition ministers began to publicly question the policy, and the media began asking questions, did Mr Rudd, Mr Garrett and a team of advisers hold a crisis meeting at lunch-time in Cairns.

It was decided that Mr Garrett, who had made the initial commitment, should release a statement that “clarified” Labor’s position and recognised the need to lock developing nations into targets for greenhouse gas emission cuts.

After Mr Rudd had flown to Townsville, Mr Garrett issued a statement to the media, emphasising that Labor’s policy was to seek binding targets at the Bali conference for both “developed and developing” nations.

Mr Garrett’s statement even italicised the “and” to make it clear he was repudiating his earlier comments.

Example 2:

Ex-rocker Peter Garrett was forced into an embarrassing apology to Kevin Rudd yesterday as the Liberal Party pounced on his remark that Labor would change its policies after the election.

At a hastily convened press conference in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the Labor frontbencher said “I accept responsibility for cracking a joke at the wrong time and place”. It was “probably a dumb thing to have done”.

Mr Garrett said he had two phone calls with Mr Rudd yesterday morning after waking to damaging front-page headlines.

He told his leader: “Hey mate, sorry for the stuff up.”

“I just apologised to Kevin this morning,” Mr Garrett said. “I said: ‘Hey mate, this is what happened.’ He accepted the apology. We agreed it is a bit of a stuff-up. We won’t be making comments like that again.”

In a rapid-fire response to Mr Garrett’s jocular Friday remarks to disc jockey Steve Price at Melbourne airport, the Liberals released a savage website video clip and a bumper sticker.

Alongside a picture of Mr Garrett, the sticker reads: “Once we get in, we’ll just change it all.” Underneath it states: “Don’t risk Labor.”

The video clip has a series of stinging grabs of Mr Rudd agreeing with Liberal policies, and a humiliating clip of a gauche Mr Garrett gibbering and running away from the camera.

Campaigning in Darwin, the Prime Minister hammered the theme that Labor’s “me-too” support of Coalition policies was a charade.

He said Mr Garrett’s remarks that Labor would change its policies after the election were no joke or gaffe.

He was echoed in Melbourne by Treasurer Peter Costello and in Sydney by Malcolm Turnbull, signalling a headline Liberal assault on Labor’s strategy of copycatting Liberal election promises.

“What he’s done is confirm the suspicions so many of us have had for so long and that is the me-tooism is nothing more than a dodgy strategy to get elected”, Mr Howard said.

“It’s all sweetness and light in the campaign but once they get in, it’ll be a radical, risky alternative.

“You don’t joke about what your intentions are in government three weeks out from the election.”

But the former Midnight Oil frontman continued to strenuously insist that his comments to Price were off-the-cuff light-hearted banter.

“We will just get on with life now. It was just a joke that he seemed to have taken very seriously,” he said.

“I reckon Australians have a sense of humour. I don’t think it’s a sin to have a sense of humour”.

Remember last year how I posted about Osama bin Laden’s alleged infatuation with Whitney Houston?

Well someone’s taking it seriously.

Bad boy singer Bobby Brown says an al-Qaida plot to kill him will not thwart his Melbourne show on Thursday.

“Come on, if anybody is threatened by al-Qaida they’d take it seriously,” said Brown, who is increasing security.

Even by Brown’s standards, an assassination plot ordered by Osama bin Laden is bizarre.

Sudanese writer Kola Boof has claimed bin Laden is besotted with Brown’s former wife, Whitney Houston, and wants her for himself.

Brown said he has boosted behind-the-scenes security and will keep those arrangements for his coming Australian tour.

“I figure if bin Laden wants me, and everybody is looking for him, it probably won’t happen,” Brown said.

“But if he wants to try and find me for something so stupid, he can do what he wants. I have to leave it in the hands of my higher power.”

Brown and Houston, who wed in 1992, divorced last year.

Brown, 38, bad tempered, scandal-plagued and often arrested, said he had been busy building a new life.

“All that fighting, all that stuff, is behind me now. I’m just enjoying life and everything about it.

“My responsibility is to help my kids grow and understand what life is about.”

And it’s apparently all about developing an ego to the point that you actually believe one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists would spend time and effort plotting your demise because he wants your ex-wife for himself.

I mean, c’mon Bobby! Bin Laden’s likely spending his time focusing on more important issues - like rubbing out Christina Aguilera.

Mijovi?

Nope..it’s apparently his.

When it comes to energy drinks, rock star Jon Bon Jovi thinks an East Brunswick man gives coffee a bad name.

The Jersey rocker wants the owner of the Mijovi energy drink to change its name, arguing it is too similar to his famous moniker.

But Marcos Carrington says his coffee-based energy drink is named after his girlfriend, whose name is Jovita.

After Jon Bon Jovi, who lives in Middletown, saw a can of Mijovi for sale in a cafe in nearby Red Bank in January, his lawyers sent Carrington a letter demanding that he stop using the name Mijovi.

“It is just unfair,” Carrington, 37, told the Asbury Park Press for Thursday’s newspapers. “It is unfair because Mijovi has nothing to do with Bon Jovi.”

A spokeswoman for Bon Jovi declined comment when contacted by the newspaper.

Carrington said he started Mijovi in August 2004 as a way to raise funds for an environmental consulting business.

He said there were no coffee-based energy drinks even though coffee is one of the best-selling beverages in the U.S. Working with a flavor company, he developed Mijovi, a coffee drink that contains Taurine, B-vitamins and caffeine.

Sounds like Jon Bon Jovi might be a bit unreasonable. Or is he?

In a Jan. 22 letter, Los Angeles lawyer Peter Laird, representing Bon Jovi, objected to the word “Mijovi” as well as other words “itsmijovi” and “itsmilife” that appear in the company’s marketing materials and on the can. Rather than use Carrington’s spelling, the letter used the phrases, “It’s My Jovi” and “It’s My Life.”

“As you should be aware, one of Bon Jovi’s most popular songs is entitled “It’s My Life,” the letter states. “We hereby demand that you immediately cease and desist all further use of the name “Mijovi’ and “It’s My Life.’ ”

But Carrington said the words “itsmijovi” and “itsmilife” are meant to mean “it’s my jovial life.” The full phrase on the can is “itsmienergy.itsmijovi.itsmilife.”

Now I’m beginning to smell opportunism in the air.

At any rate, if Mr Carrington has trouble finding a new name for his energy drink, he can always ask Steven Seagal for advice.

Live Earth has to be the most fatuous fundraiser ever. Where is the money going?

 

Sorry if I sound like a heretic, but while I accept we shouldn’t deliberately pollute and do our best to recycle our rubbish, I don’t accept that ‘climate change’ is the biggest threat to the planet.

 

That would be global Islamist terrorism right now. Its stated intention is to kill us and destroy our way of life.

 

If rock singers and TV stars want to do something constructive, why don’t they have a series of shows against jihad?

 

Madonna could kick it off in Iran, but the bare flesh and conical bras would have to go. Graham Norton could host the Kabul concert, though he might be lucky to get out without having a brick wall pushed on top of him.

 

I’m sure rappers like Puff Doggy would go down a storm with the Wahabis in Saudi Arabia, given their mutual enthusiasm for women’s rights, homosexuality and drive-by executions.

 

Send the Spice Girls to Lahore. They’d look very fetching in designer burkas. The whole event could be beamed round the world by the BBC, being careful not to mention any connection between terrorism and Islam, perish the thought.

 

Of course, it ain’t gonna happen. They’d rather work themselves into a lather about the ozone layer than confront the number one clear and present danger to our lives.

How’s this for security.

James Hetfield, frontman of US metal rockers Metallica, was detained at a British Airport before his appearance at London’s Live Earth gig on Saturday.

According to British newspaper The Times, the rocker jetted into Luton airport ahead of Saturday’s Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium - where his legendary rock band was due to perform - but was halted by officials before he could leave the terminal.

The legendary frontman was then subjected to a brief line of questioning, after which security-conscious officials were left red-faced when Hetfield explained he was a member of a world-famous rock band.

The Times claims Hetfield’s friends blame his “Taleban-like beard” for the interrogation.

I’m not sure about that, since I don’t know many Taliban members with their arms full of tattoos. (Actually, I don’t know any Taliban members at all).

Meanwhile this man got in without any problems…and he probably actually belongs to the Taliban.