Here are a few nude Carré Otis photos by photographer Antoine Verglas. Because even hot famous chicks love getting naked in the art. Enjoy!
The sex video saga is really turning out to be a farce. It’s so funny you can’t help but laugh.
First, the ‘Datuk T’ trio who brought public attention to the video have been made the butt of countless jokes. Second, the police seem to be hesitant in revealing their findings even as the video has been leaked out and posted on YouTube and Umno-friendly blogs although the only copy is supposed to be in police custody.
And now one of the trio has taken the sumpah laknat. Last week, Shazryl Eskay Abdullah swore on the Quran to make us believe he is telling the truth in saying that the man in the video is Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim. What’s going to happen next?
This act of swearing on the Quran is getting to be a trend. In 2008, Saiful Bukhari Azlan did it to attest he was sodomised by Anwar. That same year, no less than Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak himself also did it to have us believe he was never involved with Altantuya. Despite their gestures, many people are still sceptical.
In the case of Eskay, the act is hugely ironic. He would have to be a good follower of the faith to take such an oath and be believed, but has he not been tainted by his own admission that he is one of the people caught on the video? As it is, he has not come clean on why he was there. His narratives are often cloudy and enigmatic.
In the case of Eskay, the act is hugely ironic. He would have to be a good follower of the faith to take such an oath and be believed, but has he not been tainted by his own admission that he is one of the people caught on the video? As it is, he has not come clean on why he was there. His narratives are often cloudy and enigmatic.
It’s just as well that his collaborator Rahim Thamby Chik did not swear on the Quran too. His record of allegedly having had sex with an underaged girl, an act amounting to statutory rape, would have wrecked his credibility. In fact, it’s another laughable point that Rahim is part of this trio – he, of all people, accusing another man of immorality!
Besides, what the trio has done in regard to the sex video is already immoral. And that’s not even saying they were behind the videotaping itself, which is still a mystery.
Simply using it to destroy the reputation and career of another human being is already without doubt an immoral act. How then are we to believe that by swearing on the Quran, Eskay exhibits religious conviction? Does it not more likely appear as some kind of stunt?
Does it not also appear as an attempt to win public sympathy? Or a desperate measure? After all, the day before he took the sumpah laknat, Eskay intimated to the media that he and his collaborators would soon be charged in court; although what the charge would be, he wouldn’t say.
Ignorant cops
That was actually quite a revelation, because up till that time, no one had known if the police were ever going to take any action against the trio – for possessing and exhibiting pornography.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ismail Omar had said from the outset that the case would be investigated under Section 292 of the Penal Code, which covers that offence, but along the way no action seemed to have been taken.
The Star did report on March 25 that according to Deputy Commissioner Ghazali Md Amin, three unnamed individuals had been arrested in connection with the sex video, but when the ‘Datuk T’ trio were asked if they were the ones, they said they were not.
Rahim even told the media that when the police questioned them on March 24, they did not sign any document stating they were arrested and released on bail.
Thereafter, nobody gave a straight answer when asked about the truth. Not even the cops.
In fact, on March 25, when the IGP himself was asked why Rahim and Eskay were not arrested when they went to the police headquarters for questioning, the country’s top cop actually said, “What offence (did they commit), you tell me.”
But then on the eve of his sumpah laknat, Eskay told Malaysiakini he was arrested “that day” (without specifying which) and “was bailed out with RM10,000”. Intriguing! More so when you consider that the IGP seemed ignorant of the offence when earlier he had mentioned Section 292. Did he have a lapse of memory?
Going by the events, the public perception so far is that the police are biased in their handling of the case – and that’s cause for another hoot.
There was reportedly even a police escort for the ‘Datuk T’ trio when they arrived at the mosque for the sumpah laknat ceremony. This reeks of VIP treatment. At least one of them, Eskay, wore a bulletproof vest, which he, however, claims belongs to him.
Nonetheless, do these three, who should instead be charged in court under Section 292, deserve police escort?
To reinforce the public perception of the police bias, the next day PKR alleged that a police officer with the rank of senior assistant commissioner had been giving talks to school principals and teachers in Kelantan in which he told them Anwar was the man in the sex video and a threat to national security. Whatever the truth of PKR’s allegation, it’s hard to bet now on police impartiality.
Moreover, the police still haven’t told us how the sex video in their custody managed to get into cyberspace.
Moreover, the police still haven’t told us how the sex video in their custody managed to get into cyberspace.
More important, the central and most pressing question has not yet been answered although they have reportedly been investigating the case intensively. That question is: Who was actually behind the videotaping? Is it so difficult to find out who the culprits are? Who was the prostitute in the video? Have the police got to her? What has she revealed?
PM provides the best laugh
Are we going to get any answers at all? Or will this, like the many intriguing mysteries that have arisen in this wonderful land of ours, such as the murder of Altantuya, be swept under the carpet?
Could it be that the police are waiting for instructions from their political masters?
Could it be that the police are waiting for instructions from their political masters?
Are these political masters calculating when the right time would be to take action, how the case should be spun, who should be arrested, what should be done so that they can make political capital out of it?
It seems there is no going by the truth any more in Malaysia, and this sex video saga illustrates it clearly.
It is now all about twisting the truth to one’s advantage, hiding the truth, turning the truth into falsehood. And, worse, making falsehood the truth.
This, fellow citizens, is the Malaysian Malady. And the people who are suffering for it are the innocent rakyat.
Stricken with it, we have to laugh or face despair, and no amount of crying will bring us relief. On that note, perhaps the best laugh stems from Najib Tun Razak’s response when he was asked by the media if he had watched the sex video when it was uploaded on the Internet. “Apa punya soalan ini (What kind of question is this),” he said, dismissing it.
Don’t you think it’s a fair and legitimate question? But why is the PM evading it? Well, that, fellow Malaysians, is the crux of the Malaysian Malady.
Can we trust any minister in the government? Or can we trust the government?
After days of verbal gymnastics over the 1 Malaysia email project, I thought Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had the final say when he said that project promoter, Tricubes Berhad, would have to sell the project to the Malaysian public as it was a private initiative.
I mean I was sceptical about his pronouncement because in the days leading to his comment, it seemed the email scheme went from being a government project to privately-financed, then to some hybrid that could only exist in the minds of some Malaysian planner.
But never mind, people should be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them.
So, it was a private initiative, albeit a strange rent-seeking one by a financially-distressed company. I wonder if Datuk Seri Idris Jala who heads Pemandu knew that Tricubes is a financially-distressed company. Or is that not a factor when assessing the capability of a company?
Anyway, we accepted the government statement that myemail.my service is a private initiative and believed Najib when he exhorted Tricubes to salvage their own project and somewhat damaged reputation.
That was until I read in the Internet (sorry, I don’t read newspapers) that Pemandu took out advertorials defending the indefensible. Yes, you guessed right. The government, which functions on the money you and I pay them, took our money and paid the newspapers to defend and promote a private sector initiative.
How does that work, again? Jala signed off on two pages of unconvincing arguments on a project which most Malaysians do not see a need for. And we paid for it!
Jala and his friends in the Najib administration must really either think we are stupid Malaysians who can be stepped on or don’t care what we think.
And to think that Najib entrusted them with his New Economic Model that comprises the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP). The only thing that has transformed is Tricubes now has Pemandu as its cheerleader.
No one has even sent or received the first myemail.my email but the public is already paying to make them look good.
Syabas, Pemandu. You have just finalised my vote for the next general election.
The internet has moved at a breathless pace since the world found out about Osama Bin Laden's death late last night, with experts from all fields being consulted to lend fresh perspective. Well, we think we've found a new area of specialty: pornstars! To show that Bin Laden's death has captured just about everyone's attention, we've rounded up some Twitter reactions from people who have sex for a living. Admittedly, out of the fifty or so accounts we scoped out, the pornstars below are the only ones who chose to address this momentous occasion on Twitter. Enjoy!Three unidentified bodys of men are seen after a raid by U.S. Navy SEAL commandos on the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, May 2, 2011. Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons were seen.
Note the guy above with the green water gun under his right shoulder. What is up with that? LOL...
ABS News photos:
● Sinnamon Love: “@StevieJ102 I hear you. I was living in NY at the time but was in LA when it happened. I lost friends in those buildings. This is relief.”
● Lexi Belle: “RT @acenlv to celebrate Osama death I joined @OMGitsLexi site. Dont pay for porn & the terrorists win!!!<--you win baby! Thank you"
● Alana Evans: “This is just like when the wicked witch of the east was killed and all the munchins celebrated! DING DONG OSAMAS DEAD!”
● Vicky Vette: “There is no truth to the rumor that Bin Laden was bombed with porn...”
● Joanna Angel: “I can’t think of anything witty to tweet about Osama. so I will just re tweet all the other good ones i see. #carryon”
● Diamond Foxxx: “Hand shake to all armed forces who went after bin laden. As a team, the USA killed the bastard. Congratulations!”
● Alison Tyler: “Alright whoever killed Osama is getting a blow job!!”
● Kayden 420: “Whoa”
● Stacy Burke: “Thank you Mr. President @BarackObama & Troops - you have ALL of my Love & Support Always! “
● Raven Alexis: “Bin Laden is dead. @dirtjunior666 and I are celebrating with margaritas. My foot hurts. Thats
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear ..."
It's been a hell of a binge, hasn't it? I mean all ten years of it: the shock, the grief, the togetherness, the anger and political divisions, and finally the party. Now it's hangover time. When the hangover ends, that's when the questions usually begin:
Are we finally strong enough to keep our heads... and our values... under pressure?
It really was something, wasn't it? The way we came together after 9/11, before we let ourselves be manipulated and divided by cynics? Well, they're back. People are already writing pieces with titles like "Targeted Killing Justified." Rep. Peter King is claiming that the death of Bin Laden vindicates torture, although the experts say we probably would have found him sooner without it.
"Physicists ... discover things about a particular metal alloy when they subject it to extreme pressure ... under extreme pressure, people give you many more insights into their innermost being and tell us about who we really are." -- Werner Herzog
Rep. King asks: Wouldn't we have tortured Mohammad Atta on September 10 to save 3,000 lives? That's a foolish question, as interrogation experts already know. Atta would only have needed to confuse and delay us for twenty-four hours. Experts say that the quickest way to get information from a terrorist is by winning his sympathy. But sympathy doesn't provide the emotional satisfaction, or the electoral opportunities, soulless politicians like Peter King crave.
Advocates for torture and indiscriminate murder aren't just foolish, of course. They're also immoral. They wound our spirit, even as they weaken our national security. Would a peaceful, democratic uprising be sweeping the Middle East if we still advocated torture?Bin Laden's support in Egypt went from 61% in 2005 to 13% this year. That's a realnational security victory. Think it would've happened if Peter King were president?
Other torture advocates were already trying to cover their tracks, even before the news came out. But whether they cower or bluster, it's too late for them. When it took courage to stand up for our values, they cut and run. Like a physicist's alloys, they revealed their true nature under pressure. A word to the wise from Walt Whitman: "Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
Will we finally ask questions about our invisible intelligence empire?
All those headline-grabbing, self-described "deficit hawks" have been quiet as church mice when it comes to the hundreds of billions, possibly more than a trillion in total, that we've spent building a secret, corporation-enriching intelligence empire. The Washington Postdid a comprehensive, hard-hitting two-year study called "Top Secret America" -- and nobody read it. Their findings are staggering:
"1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence ... In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built - the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings ... (there is) redundancy and waste ... Analysts (publish) 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored."We keeping hearing about those ultra-powerful satellites that can read the words on a printed page from their orbits in space. Apparently they didn't read a paper that some UCLA geography professors and grad students wrote in 2009. It predicted, with 88.9% certainty, that Bin Laden was in an urban area within 300 kilometers of Tora Bora. Hindsight's always 20/20, but with all the money we're spending, you'd think every plausible theory was being investigated.
Old soldiers never die, they just go to work for Raytheon. Corporations hire generals, retired members of Congress, and former undersecretaries of Defense to win that next big contract. But when a few academics can outperform a trillion-dollar national security monolith, what are we getting for our money?
Those "deficit hawks" really ought to look into that.
Will we finally honor those "everyday heroes" we keep hearing about?
"Liberal" pundits are praising the president because, they say, his handling of the Bin Laden operation was "cold-blooded." But the Barack Obama I most admire is the Harvard Law School graduate who walked away from high-priced job opportunities to pursue a lifetime of service. I know the Dirty Harry pose is an electoral necessity these days, but I'd like to see more of the other guy.
The SEALS who carried out this killing were, in the language of the day, "seriously badass." But so are the teachers, firefighters, nurses, and other Americans under siege in Wisconsin and around the country. Instead of honoring them, politicians are trying to cut their health benefits. Are some of us so enchanted by wealth that we've come to hate hard work?
The honors graduate who becomes a teacher instead of a hedge fund manager... the doctor who stays in primary medicine while his peers get rich in radiology or cardiac surgery... the environmental advocate who turns down a six-figure job from the power company... the mom or dad who works a tough job to feed themselves and their family... Now that'swhat I call "badass."
Whitman again: "There is no trade or employment but the young man (or woman)following it may become a hero."
Will some deaths still be more important than others?
People eagerly surrender their liberties and their treasure to prevent terrorism, but cling resentfully to their wallets and howl about mythical "death panels" when the topic is health reform. According to estimates, somewhere between 300,000 and 400,000 people have died since 2001 because they didn't have health insurance. Last year's bill didn't do toomuch to stop that; it did too little. Now we're seeing proposals that would cut Medicare -- not "reform" it, cut it -- even though studies show that it prevents a lot of deaths, too.
Economic downturns may not seem as deadly as terrorist attacks, but they are. They lead to increased suicides, and studies suggest a link between foreclosures and higher rates of violent crime, including homicide. And the toll in misery is immense. The 2008 crisis left millions unemployed, caused poverty rates to skyrocket, and led to the loss of more than a million homes.
We're ignoring more warning signs right now: Sky-high unemployment. Stagnating growth. Shaky consumer confidence. Signals of a teetering real estate market. The "intelligence" reports couldn't be clearer: "Financial chaos determined to strike in the US."
Fortunately, nobody's recommending Rep. King's solution. We don't need waterboards on Wall Street. Some old-fashioned, ethical law enforcement will do just fine. But instead of stepping up their efforts to protect us, Washington pols are trying to roll back the weak financial protections we've put in place. No surprise: Bankers write campaign checks, but nobody lobbies for those who die alone.
"The real war," said Whitman, "will never get in books."
Most people say they love kids. When will we act like it?
You know what's really haunting me now? The story that bin Laden's twelve or thirteen year old daughter saw the shooting. It probably couldn't be avoided, but what will become of her? How can she recover from the trauma and ever lead a normal life? Is she tomorrow's jihadi queen, destined to instigate some future acts of brutality in her father's memory? Or will she be broken in spirit? Too often, those are the only alternatives left for the children of war.
Where will she go? You can't imprison an innocent child because of what she's seen, or for the DNA in her bloodstream. I hope we don't try.
What about our kids? We can put them through body scanners, but not through school. Those body scanners cost $100,000-$200,000 apiece, and it's been pointed out that bomb-sniffing dogs do the same thing. Dogs can "manufacture" themselves for free, too. Question: What can a body scanner do that a bomb-sniffing dog can't? Answer: Generate a six-figure invoice.
$100,000 buys a lot of books and pencils. Strange. We're willing to ask tough questions about schools and teachers, then look away when the subject is our safety and security.
Now what?
"My enemy is dead," wrote Walt Whitman, "a man divine as myself is dead." It's hard to share that sentiment, isn't it? Not many of us are that profoundly spiritual, that unsectarianly Christ-like. But then it was Whitman who found it "beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost."
We'll always have to protect ourselves from terrorists and madmen. But war? Lost and forgotten? Then we'd have to learn to chant "USA! USA!" when a life is saved, or a recession is avoided, or when schools have all the teachers and supplies they need. Ain't gonna happen, pal. We both know that.
The president said this the other night: "We are reminded that, as a nation, there's nothing we can't do." It was the right thing to say in his position. Yet every evening's news report reminds us that we know how to kill. And grieving military families are reminded every day that we know how to sacrifice ourselves, bravely and selflessly. We know how to die. But who's going to remind us how to live?
Bin Laden's dead. My foot hurts. That's my day in a nutshell.
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