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By David, September 25, 2008 4:50 pm

Tony Blankley writes:

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.) And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly and even half way honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs — the press.

Blankley gives some details, but the column only really scratches the surface.  This lack of curiosity in the Obamessiah’s past is shameful and yet another reason why we call the MSM the American Butthash Media.

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By Joshua, September 2, 2008 3:38 am

I don’t care that Cheney has a gay daughter and I don’t care that Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant.

I DO care that the freakin’ American Butthash Media is parading around the “disclosure” about Sarah Palin, hoping to poke the right beehive (to mix a metaphor or two).

CNN Headline:  Palin’s teen daughter is pregnant

Yahoo.com Headline:  John McCain’s vetter defends Sarah Palin review

Fox News:  Palin Pick Offers Enthusiasm Despite Newly Learned Family Woes

NYTimes: Palin Daughter’s Pregnancy Interrupts Script

ABC News: Palin Pregnancy Rocks Political World

GROW.  UP. 

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By Joshua, September 2, 2008 3:14 am

The worst is yet to come:

Hurricane Gustav didn’t pack the wallop of Katrina three years earlier, officials said Monday, but they urged almost 2 million evacuees to stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day.

“Tomorrow is not a day to start coming back to the city of New Orleans,” Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday night. “Power lines are down all over the city; there’s a significant number of homes and businesses that are without power…” Gustav didn’t do the damage feared a few days ago, a possible repeat of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. “I’d probably call Gustav, instead of the mother of all storms, maybe the mother-in-law or the ugly sister of all storms,” Nagin said.

Gustav roared from the Gulf of Mexico into southern Louisiana on Monday as a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 mph, bringing fierce winds and heavy rains from the Alabama-Florida border west into Texas.

Four hospice patients died while waiting for air ambulances to evacuate them from southern Louisiana.

 

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By Joshua, September 1, 2008 2:13 pm

FLEE!

Hurricane Gustav swirled violently ashore Monday, turning lights out across the Gulf Coast and sending water over the tops of New Orleans’ levees, officials said. At 2 p.m. CT, Gustav weakened to a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 90 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Winds were sending whitecaps over levees in New Orleans, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported no major problems.

Meanwhile:

The Republican National Convention will cut back most of its activities Monday because of Hurricane Gustav, Sen. John McCain said Sunday. “This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as Americans. We have to join the 300 million other Americans on behalf of our fellow citizens. It’s a time for action. So, we’re going to suspend most of our activities tomorrow except for those absolutely necessary… We must redirect our efforts from the really celebratory event of the nomination of president and vice president of our party to acting as all Americans,” he said, adding that it was likely the event would change into a “call to the nation for action.” “I pledge that tomorrow night, and if necessary, throughout our convention … to act as Americans, not Republicans, because America needs us now no matter whether we are Republican or Democrat,” he said.

McCain will attend some small events Monday in Pennsylvania, a senior aide told CNN.

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By Joshua, July 31, 2008 7:17 am

If you find flatulence humor humorous, then this 4000 year old joke is for you:

The world’s oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

It heads the world’s oldest top 10 joke list published by the University of Wolverhampton on Thursday.

UPDATE:  Fox News has a special report on this story.

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By Joshua, March 17, 2008 10:36 am

Is it true that, as reported here in The Waterglass, a woman sat on a toilet seat for two years?

Here is a video of someone who knew Pam Babcock, the woman who allegedly sat on a toilet for two years.  Not much new info, other than a member of her family is skeptical that Pam Babcock would willingly sit on a toilet seat for two years, and they switch to a video of Pam’s boyfriend, Kory McFarron.

Some people are making fun at the peopl in this story.  The headline fromThe Times of India reads, “Woman, Boyfriend’s Pot Inseperable!” and the North Country Gazette (which is probably a blog) says that “Mr. Whipple Seeks Criminal Charges in Toilet Case,” reminding readers

Remember those commercials for Charmin bath tissue with grocery store manager George Whipple telling customers not to “squeeze the Charmin” while sneaking a squeeze himself? There’s a Mr. Whipple in the bizarre case in Ness City in western Kansas of a woman who stayed in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s mobile home for the past two years.  Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple was among the people who responded on Feb. 27 to the call from Kory McFarren, 36, and who found a 35-year-old woman, identified as Pam Babcock, woman actually fused to the toilet.

Can skin really fuse to the toilet?

“It’s analogous to a couple of things,” says Dr.  Daniel Aires, director of the division of dermatology at the University of Kansas Hospital. “One of them would be a splinter. When someone gets a splinter in the skin, the skin grows around it. Another thing that’s similar is an earring or piece of large tribal jewelry, like you see people wearing now. The skin is very happy to grow around things – that’s a natural process.”Whipple said the woman, who he described as “very small, very petite,” appeared to have developed “bed sores” from sitting on the toilet seat for a prolonged amount of time and thought that her skin had become attached and grown around the seat as it tried to heal. “Skin can heal and become accustomed to these situations very quickly,” said Aires, the dermatologist. “I’ve seen a case where someone became fused to a piece of white gauze bandage. The bandaged skin was injured and the skin grew into the gauze.  And that took only about a week and a half.”

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By Joshua, March 4, 2008 6:33 am

White students from University of the Free State in Bloemfontein sought to humilate black women “housekeepers” at their residence hall.  They concocted a jenkem-like mixture and attempted to get the women to eat it:

Black students on a university campus in central South Africa resumed their protests Tuesday against a racist video that showed white students tricking black workers into tasting stew laced with urine… In the video, white male students at Reitz Residence are seen encouraging at least five black housekeepers to participate in what the students call the “Reitz Fear Factor,” an apparent reference to a television show in which contestants eat live worms or compete in other feats. 

In one scene, a student mixes what looks like a beef stew in a plastic bowl and adds garlic and other items. Then he tells the camera he will add the “special ingredient.” The student then urinates into the mixture, which he later stirs up and puts in a microwave. Other students can be heard laughing on the tape.  The next scene shows a different student urging at least three housekeepers to drink cups full of the stew, saying, “This is our dorm’s ‘Fear Factor.’ We want to see who has the best ‘Fear Factor.’” On the video, the student does not tell the women that there is urine in the mixture.  The women, on their knees, spit the stew into buckets after tasting it. Some appeared to vomit, but the women also laughed during the incident, as the student urged them on.

There was a political motive behind the sick prank:

The video, which surfaced Tuesday but was made in September, was a reaction to the university’s efforts to integrate its residences, the university said in a written statement. It has sparked widespread outrage and condemnation.

How did they know that?

At the end of the video, a message appears on the screen in Afrikaans saying, “That, at the end of the day, is what we think of integration.”

This led to prostests:

Protesters barged into classes at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, demanding teachers suspend lectures. One lecturer who refused got into a confrontation with students.  Authorities arrested 28 protesting students.  The students want classes boycotted until Friday, when university officials are expected to decide whether they will close the residence hall where the video was made. 

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By Joshua, December 17, 2007 4:48 pm

Huh?

It seems like only two months ago that Pamela Anderson was aglow with happiness over her quickie Las Vegas wedding to Rick Salomon.  Actually, it was.  [What?] But the 40-year-old ex-”Baywatch” beauty has filed for divorce from her 38-year-old husband after just two months of marriage. [Huh? Whuh? How...?] Anderson cited irreconcilable differences in papers filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. [Why? What?  What's going on now?] The documents were first obtained by the celebrity Web site CelebTV.com. [Who?  Whuh? Hunh?] Anderson and Salomon wed October 6 during a break between the 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. shows of “Hans Klok’s The Beauty of Magic” at Planet Hollywood resort, where Anderson was starring as a magician’s assistant. [What was that again?  A whosit?  Huh?  Where, exactly?] The couple separated less than 10 weeks later, on December 13.  [When?  Whuh?  Why...? How?] Salomon is best known for making a sex videotape with Paris Hilton, his girlfriend at the time, and was previously married to actress Shannen Doherty. [Who?  Whuh?  How is... what was that again?] Anderson was previously married to singer Kid Rock and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. [Who?  What?  Huh?]

I care this much about this.  Pamela Anderson’s happiness is all I can think about this Xmas season. 

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By David, November 15, 2007 8:59 am

What do you eat when you get the munchies from huffing butthash?

Thanks to Scribal Terror for the pointer.

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By Joshua, November 15, 2007 8:36 am

The Waterglass continues its investigative reporting into jenkem.  Our crack staff of investigative reporters have tracked down an anonymous source who confirms that jenkem — defined as fermented sewage — is real and has been used by street children in Lusaka, Zambia.  Due to confidentiality reasons, we cannot reveal the source.  We can say that this individual has seen first-hand street children in Lusaka, Zambia collecting “faecal material,” placing it in the sun and huffing the gas this process generates.  This individual was shocked to see it. 

Jenkem is used because it is free and because it does not involve property theft.  For example, stealing petrol is a property crime.  We surmise from this that the Lusaka authorities do not consider stealing “faecal material” a crime on par with stealing other, presumably more valuable, property.  Lack of enforcement is tantamount to ignoring the problem.

It must be stressed that our anonymous source does not know how popular jenkem is, or if it is still being used.  If we recall the UNICEF report, only 5.8% of a skewed, unrepresentative sample of street children in Lusaka, Zambia reported having used the drug. 

Jenkem does not seem to be popular in Lusaka, Zambia, and least of all in the United States, where there are no confirmed cases of its use.

According to the anonymous source, the use of jenkem is due to the appallingly poor conditions in parts of Lusaka.  Facing the depths of what anyone would reasonably consider absolute poverty, a small percentage of the poorest of the poor street children in Lusaka turn to “butthash” to escape from the physical and psychological torment of their existence.  From the UNICEF report, it is clear that other huffing drugs, such as gasoline or glue, are preferred over jenkem.

American kids will never turn en masse to jenkem, not only because of the stench and stigma, but because they have a “wealth” of other drugs to turn to first.  There are millions of American poor (36.5 million in 2006), but even the ones that would turn to drugs would likely start with the most high-end drugs they can find (marijuana, cocaine) before resorting to fermented sewage.  It is possible some demented American will try it out of curiosity, but jenkem could never be popular, in any sense of the term.  It’s not even popular in Lusaka, Zambia, and their poverty rivals that of the worst in the world.

Jenkem is real, but it is not popular — anywhere.

What gets lost in the jekem story is that poverty is real, street children are real, and street children in the cities of subsaharan Africa face some of the most awful conditions on Earth.  Some people are so wrapped-up in their narrow-minded, egotistical world that they worry more about their own children getting high off of fecal materials — an incredibly unlikely event – than the very real poverty in Africa — a current, on-going, and widespread problem.   

Give a shit; Give to UNICEF.

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By Joshua, November 15, 2007 4:41 am

You heard it here second.  Snopes.com has expanded their entry on Jenkem, a.k.a. butthash and have concluded that the alleged popularity of Jenkem in America is false.

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By David, November 14, 2007 11:28 am

The Kansans are clever enough to sniff out this butthash hoax:

Is it a new way to get high or just an internet hoax?  A Florida drug alert is making its way to Kansas police departments warning of a new, popular drug in schools.  It’s made from raw sewage but there is reason to believe it’s all a hoax.

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office tells Eyewitness News it wrote an internal memo in September about jenkem, a drug made from fecal matter and urine.  A department spokesperson says it wrote the memo because a concerned parent contacted them after hearing kids talk about it at school.  Somehow the memo was leaked publically and distributed to law enforcement agencies across the country.  Collier County officials say there are no confirmed cases of it. 

Jenkem supposedly gives the user severe hallucinations.  Just the thought of it is enough to disgust the young people we talked with.

“There’s not enough money in the world to make me try something like that,” said 20 year-old Austin Stading.

“That’s pretty nasty,” said South High sophomore Elizabeth Plank.  “I don’t know why someone would even think of that.”

The Wichita Police Department and Salina Police Department are among Kansas agencies that received the alert.  A Wichita police sergeant says it’s common to get alerts from other agencies about new drug trends or fads.

“If we come across it, we know how to handle it,” said Sgt. Carlos Walker.

“We know how to handle it.”  Did he say that with a straight face?  Ewwww! 

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By Joshua, November 14, 2007 11:08 am

Here at The Waterglass, we strive to be your source of newsworthy news, whether it be on politics, the media, or a combination of both.   The Waterglass have recently been recognized by Wikipedia as an “external link” in their JENKEM category.

Since last we linked to Wikipedia for the jenkem story, Wikipedia has updated their jenkem entry.  Perhaps it was our intrepid reporting, as The Waterglass was first to identify a UNICEF report on street children in Lusaka, Zambia, where jenkem was listed as a drug.

A 2002 multi-authored report implemented by nine voluntary organizations in Zambia, headed by Fountain of Hope and financed by among others UNICEF and prepared by Project Concern International, Zambia and Dr. Musonda Lemba, Consultant, University of Zambia, titled “Rapid Assessment of Street Children In Lusaka,” Jenkem is listed as the third most popular drug among Lusaka’s street children, following Dagga (cannabis) and “glue and Dagga” but ahead of “Ballan” (uncured tobacco) and petrol.

We are honored that Wikipedia would link to us and we will do our part in keeping up on this news story.  The American butthash media and the local authorities that read the American butthash media and believe any internet story — no matter how ludicrous or humorous — with zero critical thinking deserves its ridicule.

Oh, and one correction: the official Waterglass category is “butthash,” not “jenkem.”  Thank you.

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By David, November 13, 2007 11:39 am

More reporting on our favorite drug:

Fox 7 has learned of a new way kids maybe getting high. At least one website calls it an urban legend, but at least one parent locally, is taking it seriously. This week we received an email from a concerned parent. He overheard his son speaking about a new phenomenon called jenkem. Supposedly, a person deficates in a bottle, lets it ferment for a week, and gets high off of the gases. Most officials we contacted hadn’t heard of it, but some students had. Officials who were familiar with jenkem say the trend is so disgusting, it probably won’t catch on here in the Tri-State.

Outside of the writer misspelling “defecate,” I’m finding it quite interesting that the “officials” claim that the good people of Indiana have a higher standard than those individuals purported to get high off of sniffing their own poopies.   “Probably won’t catch on” indeed.  If it’s good enough for fictional children in Africa, it’s good enough for the Tri-State.

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By David, November 11, 2007 12:09 pm

As recently as November 9, the Alabama-based Enterprise Ledger reported:

What once began on the streets of Africa has now made its way into high schools across the United States, say drug investigators. The “new high” used as a recreational and street drug for teenagers consists of the making of “jenkem” by inhaling human feces and human urine.

Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Investigator Neal Bradley said jenkem is already in use on the west coast.

“Whatever they’re using on the west coast is also used in Coffee County,” he said. “We’ve heard that this was something students were doing and it sounds crazy, but don’t think they’re not doing it here.”

Bradley said because of the diversity of Coffee County with people moving in, “drugs that people think aren’t in our county really are.”

According to the Associated Content Chrissy & Company’s website, for many teenagers, the use of “cheese,” “Winnie,” “butthash,” and even “devil’s chocolate,” are known as some of the common names for jenkem.

Bradley said no arrests have been made in Coffee County yet.
“I’ve heard some things and I’m sure it’s out there, we just haven’t made any arrests yet on it.”

According to the AC website, jenkem is created using human feces and urine by fermenting in a jar, capturing the gas in the top of the jar in a balloon and then inhaling the fumes to elicit a high. While a disgusting thought, AC reports, it is important to understand the health risks involved with inhaling jenkem.

Because many bacterial, fungal and even viral infections are passed through human feces and urine, a child may be placing themselves at risk for disease and a disease well beyond that of a complication with inhaling feces fumes.

Bradley said the parents already face concerns with their child using alcohol and other street drugs.

“Parents should know what they’re kids are doing, where they’re going and who they’re with,” he said. “We already have a problem with students and alcohol and other drugs. We’re constantly dealing with new drugs and people discovering new ways to get high.”

According to Bradley, many meth users are also “recycling” meth through urine.

“They’ll use meth and then take their urine and re-cook it,” he said. “I’ve found out that some people will do anything to get high, but what’s dangerous is young people who get hooked on getting a buzz or a feeling of euphoria with this. Parents just need to keep aware of what’s going on, especially when kids are involved.”

The name on the byline is Carole Brand.  Someone needs to tell Ms. Brand that the jenkem story is likely a fabrication and hoax.  A little bit of research might have brought this idea to light so that the good people of Alabama aren’t fed a story that’s a load of butthash.