Vice Celebrity Lookalikes
A while back, I ran MyHeritage's face-recognition software on the United States major party Presidential candidates. Now it's time for the 2008 Vice Presidential Candidates.
Republican Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska:
In case you're wondering, that IS NOT a real photo of Sarah Palin.
[Update: I apologize for perpetuating the myth that this was a real photo of Palin - I said it was when I posted this blog, having received "verification" from a friend who'd never steered me wrong before. However, we have since learned that it is NOT an authentic picture. It's Palin's FACE in this image, but it's not her body or gun. Damn! But what a metaphor! Follow this link for more information on the photo: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sarah_palin_bikini_pic.htm.]
If you're wearing a red white and blue bikini, do you still need an American flag pin?
Sadly, I was unable to find a comparable photo of Governor Palin's Democratic nemesis. If anyone knows where I can find a photo of Senator Biden sporting swim trunks (or briefs or boxers - or even showing off his rifle), please let me know.
Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware:
I find it interesting that Biden looks more like Catherine Deneuve than Sarah Palin looks like any celebrity besides Sharon Osborne. You may recall that last time, the software said that John McCain looked like B.B. King and Barack Obama looked like Jessica Stam. And at various times (on various photos), it's compared me to Donald Rumsfeld and Angelina Jolie.
To see which celebrity MyHeritage thinks YOU look like, visit http://www.myheritage.com/collage.
And don't forget to vote!
Before I did it with the bikini picture, I tried to run the face recognition of this very normal head shot. But MyHeritage says it detects no face in this image:
But it found a face in the bikini photo. Curious....
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Wow that is strange. That picture is heinous. And people bitched about Brintney Spears in skimpy clothes?
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I can't wait until SNL does spoofs of a pitbull with lipstick on Weekend Update with--yes, Palin's Twin---TINA FEY!!!
LOLOLOLOL
~HU
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It is very important that you read your email since I sent you a forward about Sarah Palin just now and it is a long letter from a long time acquaintance of hers from her home town. READ IT PLEASE!!
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I know, I thought she looked like her too! That should be hillarious!
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Morph me babay one more time
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i think this line will be part of my blog tomorrow:
if there's anything left alive after our mass die-off, we'll just give sarah palin an american flag bikini and an automatic rifle and she can hunt it down and lie it to death.
i was sure that had to be a joke foto. loved it when you said it's true.
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Great line!
I wonder if she can out shoot Dick Cheney.
I thought it might be a gag, too - but someone who's never led me astray before assured me it's the real deal.
Here's a full size pic for anyone who cares to see for themselves.
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I stand corrected - the person who at first vouched for the authenticity of this picture just sent me a note of profuse apology, along with this link: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sarah_palin_bikini_pic.htm
Please accept my apology as well, for perpetuating the myth.
Still think the truth might be worse than this photo....
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I read this today and I know it's long but it's a must share:
To my fellow Americans:
I’m an Alaskan. I grew up in Wasilla. Sarah Palin was my mayor. She wanted to ban books at the library where my parents taught me how to read. There have been many interesting pieces of journalism introducing my gun toting, mooseburger-eating former neighbors (I now live in Manhattan) to the rest of the country, and most have focused on how proud Alaskans are of their governor making the surprise leap to the big leagues.
Sarah Palin’s story is compelling, but it is one that could happen only in Alaska, where the politics and the economy are simple and where it’s not difficult to spend a lifetime sheltered from the complexities and diversity of the outside world. I love my home state; I wouldn’t trade my childhood there with anyone. And I hope the Palin intrigue will translate into a boost in tourism that will further enrich the state’s $5 billion budget surplus, so that when Gov. Palin returns to Juneau in November she can continue to serve Alaska’s interests with relative ease.
But as reporters roam the streets where I grew up, chatting with my ecstatic neighbors, I feel compelled to offer another view, as an American, by pointing out that John McCain has demonstrated an alarming lapse of judgment by choosing Sarah Palin as his party’s VP candidate. Choosing a running mate was his first and only concrete test of judgment in the campaign process. Here’s why he failed.
My fellow Alaskans have vouched for Palin as a charming, interesting person. I can add to that that she is perfectly friendly. But now she is running for the highest office and so it must be noted that Sarah Palin the Friendly Neighbor is different from Sarah Palin the Executive. The latter is a woman with intense agendas guided by a narrow set of culturally conservative and extreme religious values. She believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught to teenagers; she believes that creationism should be taught alongside science in our schools; she is against a woman’s right to choose even in the cases of incest and rape; and her church believes gay and lesbian Americans can and, one assumes, should be corrected by prayer (“pray away the gay” is their cheery slogan).
When she was mayor of my hometown, these extreme views came off as petty and irrelevant to people like me who did not share them. There seemed little cause for alarm. Most Alaskans are happy to live and let live; we don’t think of ourselves as Republican or Democrat. Besides, as mayor, it’s not like she had the power to wiretap our phones, amend our constitution, or send us to war.
But she did try to use her power to ban books. Wasilla’s popular public librarian rightly objected, and the community rightly backed the librarian. The books were never banned, though Mrs. Palin did fire the librarian for not agreeing with her political views, then rescinded the firing afte...
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As a rule, I do not let anyone take compromising pictures of me, just in case I have greatness thrust upon me. That pic of Palin really does look real, so don't feel bad for not "veting" it (pun intended). Of course, I might forego my rule if I looked that good in a bikini. I have no problem with Palin's stance on guns for her State where there is boundless wilderness and people hunt for sport and sustenance. The thing, among many, that she doesn't understand is that while toting a gun in Alaska may be useful and essentially harmless, the issue is totally different in say, New York City. I don't think she gets that. I think that she is way too entrenched in the propoganda of the NRA. My ex was a member and they are a huge propoganda machine. I think this among other things is going to cloud her judgment about what is best for the whole country, not just the wilderness. On top of that, I can't afford the McCain/Palin agenda. If they drive me into the poor house, I can't go out back and shoot a moose for dinner, as I live in New Jersey.
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If I ever lose my home, I'm going to ask McCain if I can use one of his. It's not like he'll miss it.... I mean, come on, how about some "compassionate conservatism" here?...
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What we have to realize is that women are not any more alike than all men are. That these old men determine that they will determine what is life and when it begins and will make our laws on this. It is ludicrous that an egg and a sperm are any more a human being than a seed is a full grown corn or the acorn is an oak tree. And if their sperm is so sacred why is the rapist's sperm sacred also? If Roe vs Wade is not law where are these unwanted seeds going to go if we have to bring them to fruition because a guy stuck his sperm in us? Is this holy sperm if not wanted and the guy will not be a father to his offspring? God didn't bless Americans with this thought. Get real everyone!! Add to this thought: Before Roe vs Wade there were unwanted pregnancies and a lot of women died trying to get rid of unwanted pregnancies and they still will if it is rescinded. Let's just kill all unwanted pregnant women!!Something like the Taliban? Men first women nothing!!
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If life begins at conception, as the so-called right to lifers would have us believe, then why don't they throw out Christmas and celebrate Jesus' conception instead of his birth?
You remind me of this classic song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life:
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