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2003-04-25 Home Front

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Posted by tu3031 2003-04-25 01:55 pm|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Some Colombian floozie. Not much else worth mentioning.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-25 14:11:35|| 2003-04-25 14:11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 She's a big Latina pop star right now -- you can see her in that Pepsi commercial where the convenience store clerk is dancing with this cardboard cutout of a bleach-blond, but salsa-esque vixen, she turns into a real person, yada yada... I think she originally hails from Columbia or Venezuela but has made a big cross-over in the last year or so.

Posted by JTE 2003-04-25 14:11:57|| 2003-04-25 14:11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Just another ditzy pop-rock singer.

Here's a quick bio:

Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is the youngest sibling of her parents' eight children. Her father William Mebarak, who is American of Lebanese descent, and Colombian mother, Nidia Ripoll, both supported their daughter's ambition of becoming a singer.

Another Alpha-Hotel. Nothing to see here....move along.......

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-25 14:12:14|| 2003-04-25 14:12:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Shakira's the blonde Columbian chick who's in the new Pepsi commercials.

While I don't agree with her politics, I do agree with her statement. Madonna's always claimed to be controversial, if for nothing more than the sake of being controversial.

Posted by Dar 2003-04-25 14:14:10|| 2003-04-25 14:14:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Shakira makes Madonna look like a Mormon schoolgirl.

Posted by Raj 2003-04-25 14:18:43|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-04-25 14:18:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, the Pepsi commercial. Okay. I thought that was, like, Jenna Jameson's little sister.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-25 14:19:23|| 2003-04-25 14:19:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "Shakira made a strong anti-war statement by projecting images of Saddam Hussein and Bush as puppets during her tour.But they lose control of the game and the puppeteer is revealed as the grim reaper."

Guess I missed all that while I was staring at her boobs... You know, I suspect she is not a real blonde...

Posted by Capsu78 2003-04-25 14:42:21|| 2003-04-25 14:42:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Sidenote: Columbia contains a small but vocal group of Arab ex-patriates who moved from Lebanon and the Palestinian territories a couple of generations ago. My roommate in college 23 years ago was a "Columbian Palestinian" and boy but did he hate Jews.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-04-25 14:49:51|| 2003-04-25 14:49:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Arab ex-patriates? Does that explain the Mebarak in her fathers name? I've always described her as the dirty-no-talent-puke-import-slut. "Good pop music has always been political in times of crisis" Good pop music? Has anyone ever heard a "Good" political pop music song? Jesus, this gash needs to move to Venezuela so she can support my 2nd. favorite Central American Dictator. I love it when one-hit-wonders come out in support of Despots.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-04-25 15:40:32|| 2003-04-25 15:40:32|| Front Page Top

#10 If that last comment looks like a collection of incoherent choughts, that's because it was.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-04-25 15:41:29|| 2003-04-25 15:41:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Maddonna, Dixie Chix, now Shakira...
You know, this debate can't end until the Spice Girls chime in. Bulldog, anything on your radar screen concerning their important foreign policy perspective?

Posted by Capsu78 2003-04-25 15:47:26|| 2003-04-25 15:47:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Another reason to stick with Coca-Cola.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-04-25 16:29:47|| 2003-04-25 16:29:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Damn...and now I have to get rid of all my Shakira albums...

Posted by Porps 2003-04-25 19:27:25|| 2003-04-25 19:27:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Capsu78, They've been lying low on this. Can't see they're keeping quiet to protect their careers, as they don't have 'em any more. They might have been on the big Red Bus to Baghdad a couple of months ago, but I doubt whether anyone would have noticed. In general, our poplets have been reassuringly quiet over Iraq, with a few semi-muted exceptions.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-04-26 07:51:17|| 2003-04-26 07:51:17|| Front Page Top

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