Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name -- which, in Arabic, translates to "biggest dick."
I Was Driving Through Idaho 10 Years And I Stopped Off in Blackfoot, Idaho in Bingham County to See Their "Potato Museum." This County Produces Half the Potatoes in the Country, the Museum Was Free. In an Old Railroad Depot it was Quite Interesting, I Liked It a Lot. After I Was Finished With the Museum I Exited Into an Adjoining Huge CountryKitchen Where I Was Handed a Really Big Baked Potato, Free, Stuffed With Sour Cream and Butter and Told to Sit Down.
In an editorial bashing conservatives, U.S. Marines, and businessmen on Jan. 19, the Los Angeles Times admits that James Cameron’s “Avatar” has a radical leftist agenda. But, either out of disingenuousness, deception, or stupidity, they then contend, what does it matter?Small potatoes of course, but stipulating that Ted Baehr has a conservative point of view, why does Andrew Breibart publish Nazis?
“We’ll stipulate,” the Editorial Board of the Times wrote, “that ‘Avatar’ promotes a liberal worldview. The question is, why does anyone care?”
Say your goodbyesMany lyrics sites scrimp on the Ds, I give you full value.
That was your life
You'll pay all your penance
Laser cannon death sentence
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Die!
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Die!
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Die!
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Die!
DIE!
LOST IN NUMBERS: The 108 Questions We Want 'Lost' To AnswerTo be fair, it could also represent a very long prank.
Or, how about I sell my original art (how does one do that?) to a fabric company who makes bikinis out of it? I call it “The Obamunism Bikini”. On it, in tiny black letters, will be a list of all the horrid, terrible, destructive things he’s done this year; Snitch Program, flag@whitehouse.gov, Gitmo, “Police acted stupidly”, “57 states”, Sealed college records, “Spread the wealth”, Blame Bush, Gazillion dollar deficit, Cap ‘N Trade, Obamacare, Bowing to Sheiks, Apology Tour, Lying, Lying, Lying, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Partial Birth Abortion, “I’m ashamed of my country” -Michelle-with-22-assistants, NEA fiasco,Van Jones Communist Czar, Jarrett, “Spread the Wealth”, Marxist Professors, Mao Christmas ornaments, Dissing Fox News, Ignoring”Astroturf” Tea Partiers, ACORN, Lame Stream Media Control, Spendulous Package, Bailouts, Kill Middle Class, Waterboarding, NY Terrorist Trials, Destruction of Small Businesses, Saul Alinsky, Ft. Hood Muslim Massacre, Christmas Muslim Bomber, Transparency?, No Earmarks?, No Special Interests?, C Span?, Barry Sortero from Indonesia.
Tapestry - January 31, 2010 - Losing ReligionIt's a really careful, sympathetic, yet harrowing story.
William Lobdell was the last person anyone would expect to lose his faith. The journalist hit rock bottom in his 20s. But his life turned around when he became a born-again Christian. Lobdell prayed for his dream job, as the religion reporter at one of the biggest papers in the U.S. Miraculously, he got it. He was winning awards for his stories about faith; life was good. Then something happened. William Lobdell tells Mary how his faith came crashing down.
Notice her credentials:Now I have no idea if Carole Longson is a baby-killing monster or not - these days you're at the supermarket and you get your stuff and you're in the line and it's taking forever and you're stuck between the old lady with the perfume and the teenager who's discovered Axe Body Spray and you're wondering why it's taking so long and you realize that the person at the front of the line is a BABY-KILLING MONSTER KILLING BABIES and the cashier isn't helping move things along AT ALL - but if the health care debate hinges on the opinions of people who are scared by the word "technology" then you can pretty much kiss that one goodbye.
Dr [PhD not an M.D.] Carole Longson, Health Technology Evaluation Centre Director
Getting to know a pleasant-faced, EU Bureaucrat
[C]arole joined NICE ["NICE was established in the 1990's to ensure that the government-run National Health System used 'best practices' in medicine. It's become is a rationing board. Health care costs have exploded in Britain, as they have in the U.S. and most developed countries. So NICE reduces spending by limiting treatment"]in 2000 as Health Technology Evaluation Centre Director. [If the term "technology" disturbs you, it should. Do the words, " experimentation" or "inhumane" come to mind?]
Social Security Is a Fantasy and Ponzi Scheme; How to Fix ItUnderneath the headline is a telling squib:
By Jean M. Twenge
Posted January 29, 2010
America today is subsisting on fantasy. Facebook allows us to think we actually have 500 friends, grade inflation has convinced young people they are smarter than they actually are, and we have a hollow economy based on debt and false promises. The giant Ponzi scheme of Social Security is one of the most egregious examples of our delusional optimism.
Jean M. Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of Generation Me.Look:
As my coauthor W. Keith Campbell and I document in The Narcissism Epi-demic, the prevailing attitude in this country has become "Me first." Believing that you deserve a Social Security check, even if you don't need it, is a sterling example of entitlement.And believing that others don't need one is a sterling example of I've got my sterling, jack.
Despite Anthrax, Beat Goes on for Drum Circle FansI await investigations of the leprosy/tie-dye connection.
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. January 31, 2010 (AP)
The Associated Press
For drum circle devotees, the beat goes on.
The case of a young New Hampshire women who contracted a rare form of anthrax at a drum circle in December has done little to deter fans of the gatherings, which range from informal outdoor jam sessions to professionally run sessions in corporate conference rooms.
[...]
Those conversations bolstered the theory that she likely swallowed anthrax spores propelled into the air by vigorous drumming, deputy state epidemiologist Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom said Wednesday. Tests have confirmed that anthrax spores found on two of the center's drums and elsewhere in the building were the same strain that infected the woman.
Though there have been several recent U.S. anthrax cases linked to naturally occurring anthrax on animal hide-covered drums, this case is unusual because the spores didn't enter through the skin or lungs but through the woman's digestive system.
Going Rogue: An American LifeI like saying people are "bananas" these days - HA HA "BANANA" IS A FUNNY WORD - so I am happy to say that Daniel Oliver is bananas. There are other laffs to be had in the column, but try this out:
By Sarah Palin
(HarperCollins, 413 pages, $28.99) What’s not to like about Sarah Palin — for a conservative or a Republican? Her autobiography makes it abundantly clear why the liberal United Nations-hugging big-government socialist fascist gangster capitalist atheist God-hating running dogs don’t like her. But conservatives?
Are there other traits a president should have? [...] What about intelligence? Sure, intelligence helps—maybe. Quick, name one presidential decision made in the last 16 years, i.e., during the Clinton (Yale, Yale, Oral Roberts) and Bush (Yale, Harvard) years that you think was either right because the president was intelligent or wrong because he was not intelligent enough. Okay, take your time (oh, and sorry, I meant oral sex, not Oral Roberts).
I Went to the UNLV-Utah Basketball Game, Utah Won an Away Game 73-69 before 16,594 Against a Very Good UNLV Team. Both Teams Fought Like Heck, a Sign of Good Coaching. Utah Had a White Freshman Guard, Marshall Henderson, Who Dropped Five 3's on UNLV and a Couple Times After Stroking a Long 3 He Ran Down Court With His Arm in the Shooting Position, ha, ha, He Was A Cute Kid. They Brought This Heavy 15-Year Old Girl to Sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and Her Voice Was So Beautiful That Afterwards Everybody Was Looking at Each Other and Commenting, Few in the World Could Come Close, She Should Sing Opera. We're Losing Our Heritage, Few Americans Even Know How to Do the "Rebel Yell" (a Series of Quick High-Pitched Screams). Eerily I've Heard the UNLV Cheerleaders Do It Perfectly.Witness our beloved M.Bouffant breaking down barriers without spilling a single drop of law-enforcement blood.
Bill Gates has sunk at least $4.5 million of his personal wealth into geoengineering research.
While it’s only a small chunk of his vast personal fortune, it’s a sign that the founder of Microsoft thinks we should at least be looking into the controversial practice of intentionally altering the Earth’s climate on a global scale.
Immigrants More Likely to Have Jobs Than Native Born: ReportSure would be terrible if the folks who make California work stopped showing up.
Foreign-born residents put more into economy than they take out of it, according to report.
By OLSEN EBRIGHT
Updated 11:57 AM PST, Thu, Jan 28, 2010A new report shines a flattering light on California's immigrants.
Foreign-born residents are more likely to have jobs than native-born citizens, according to the report from the California Immigrant Policy Center. Also, immigrants put more into the economy than they take out of it, the Daily Breeze reported.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich's office criticized the report for making no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants in the report.
Headlines from the Year 2020Well sure:
Here is what life will be like in the year 2020 if our civilization continues to go AWOL:Would you care to add your own headlines?[...]
- All business owners and executives now required to pass annual exam on ecology, sexual harassment, diversity, and the history of racial and gender discrimination in the workplace
- Associated Press: Unexpectedly, unemployment surpasses 60%; experts confounded
- All mineral, oil, and natural gas extraction outlawed in U.S. due to looming extinction of the boll weevil
- Oliver Stone, on behalf of the Progressive movement, issues formal apology to Adolph Hitler for frequent and unwarranted comparisons with George W. Bush
- Faculty at Harvard Dept. of Gender Studies admits responsibility for arson at Cambridge cinema showing a John Wayne film
- National Endowment for the Arts spends $50 million on teaching pre-schoolers how to paint a canvas entirely black
- City of London prohibits construction of new churches; Muslim groups protest “infidel trick” designed to allow existing structures to remain
Oh, and I forgot this part in what's above:
- Beloved Pope Benedict XVI On Fast Track For Sainthood: Wore Shirt Made Of Hair From Good-Looking Boys
- Andrew Breibart Reveals Long Lines At DMV
- Intelligence Officials Acknowledge Blood From Stones Impossible But Blood Using Stones Quite Simple
This is the fourteenth installment in a continuing series.
The big religion story today is a new book that says Pope John Paul II used to whip himself both at home and on vacation. This is reported in Why He's a Saint, a new book by Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Vatican advocate for JPII's canonization; a contradicting document is expected shortly from Christopher Hitchens.
Is President Barack Obama spending millions of dollars to hide the truth about his citizenship?
[...]
Roger West, an assistant US attorney in the central district of California, represented the government in a lawsuit brought by Taitz on behalf of perennial presidential candidate Alan Keyes, asking the court to require that Obama prove he is a natural-born citizen. The case has dragged on for more than a year, mostly because Taitz, a graduate of an online, unaccredited law school, failed to serve the defendants. Judge David O. Carter dismissed the suit in October for a host of reasons, but Taitz has appealed. Yet West says that far from bleeding his office, Taitz and her co-counsel Gary Kreep have assembled such a weak case that he hasn't had to spend much time on it. "I filed one motion that didn't take too long, we've had two hearings and that's it," he says. "It's not like we've devoted some sort of task force to this."
Beneath Brittany Lietz Cicala’s porcelain skin and flowing blond hair are blemishes from nearly three dozen surgeries to remove cancerous moles, including an eight-inch scar across her back. The 2006 Miss Maryland title-holder, Ms. Cicala, 24, blamed an obsession with tanning beds for triggering the cancer.What a brave woman. I use her strength to offer my confession: I am showerexic, compelled to clean myself every morning.
[...]
In Monday’s news conference at the Hearst Tower in Midtown, Ms. Cicala said she started tanning at age 17 and within two years became a “tanorexic” who fake baked at least four times a week. She believed tan was beautiful, she said. Now she feels differently.
Burt’s Eye View: Leftist Pathology — Carbon More Dangerous Than Terrorists by Burt PrelutskyHuh. Don't get why that might be.
Over the last few years, I have lost friends and become estranged from relatives because of politics.
If you’re convinced, as I am, that Barack Obama is the greatest menace America has ever faced — a far graver danger than Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or Islamic fascism, simply because they all lacked the ability or determination to destroy our Constitution — losing a few friends and relatives is no big deal.Oh. There we go. Burt is completely bananas. And look:
Psychiatrists are forever seeking the cause and cure of various diseases. They have focused on everything from paranoia to schizophrenia and clinical depression, but I think it’s high time they turned their attention to liberalism. It’s far more prevalent than those other mental disorders, and it appears to be particularly rampant among journalists, lawyers, union leaders and academics. Blacks, Jews and the young, are especially susceptible. And for reasons not entirely clear, it seems to strike hardest at people who reside near the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. So perhaps salt water plays a part in it.Yes, the people you're scared of and think are Nazis and commies have some sort of mental problem. Well done.
Specifically, I request all documention relative to the degradation of America’s lovely “greenbacks.” I want to know exactly who requested the treasonous changes; exactly who authorized the violation of our classic and signature currency; exactly who implemented the changes. Please include copies of all proposals, agreements, and law(s), including copies of all official signatures, as well as a list of who voted, and how they voted, to change our money. (The coins are looking quite fake, as well. Did all of the treasury artists retire and take the molds with them?)Who, you ask, is this dedicated sprinkler of phrases and punctuation?
This is America. It does not belong to the Federal Reserve. It does not belong to the Treasury Department or any usurpers of power, especially any who wish to change America for the worse. We the People want back our lovely, detailed, well-designed greenbacks. Our greenbacks were works of art. Your pastels are ugly; tacky; and off-centered. We the People never gave either of you, nor the federal government, any permission to turn our beautiful, if fiat, currency into pastel-colored, badly designed, worthless-looking representatives — to be sent worldwide — of the (un)stability of America. Who authorized these Euro-style fakes?
Linda Schrock Taylor, M.A., taught special education for 35 years in public schools. Now retired from teaching, she is finishing her book for reclaiming lives, “Rapid Reading Remediation;” and is running for Governor of Michigan on a platform for A Constitutional & Literate Michigan.
As Laura grapples with what to give Travis for his birthday, Hamtaro shares the information with his Ham-Ham friends and proclaims “It seems that tomorrow is the day to give a present to someone you care about”. Dexter and Howdy like this idea and each decide to give Pashmina a gift. They also each decide to ask Hamtaro what they should give her and both get angry with him when they realize he is helping them both.Exciting! Who's in this episode?
Laura decides to hand-embroider some towels for Travis, so Hamtaro suggests the boys also give Pashmina a hand-made present. At last they join forces and Dexter and Howdy make a cap and a pair of matching gloves. She couldn’t be happier with her presents, until sweet Penelope steps up to give Pashmina some sunflower seeds.
Featured Characters
Ham-Hams:
* Hamtaro
* Oxnard
* Boss
* Bijou
* Howdy
* Dexter
* Pashmina
* Penelope
* Maxwell
* Sandy
* Stan
* Snoozer (does not speak)
* Panda (does not speak)
* Cappy (does not speak)
Humans:
* Laura Haruna
* Marion Haruna
* Forrest Haruna
* Kana Iwata
* Kylie
* June
* Travis Kimura
* School Kids
What's all this for?Listen: fibs are a big fucking deal. So here's to you, Prong, and your understanding of youth:
Bound and limited
Disregard my word
Fibs are prominent
Yes, Obama would be all over* the guy for helping to cause an economic meltdown taking the WORLD to the brink of economic collapse and costing millions people their livelihoods. As opposed to a guy quitting a TV show that will continue.A reader asks a good question about O'Brien's deal:
So a joker working for a company bailed out (indirectly) by the government gets $45 million — for failing. Where's the outrage, Captain Populist?
I don't have any problem with O'Brien's deal, though I wish he wasn't getting the shaft (he hasn't been great on The Tonight Show, but he's funnier than Leno).
But if O'Brien was a Wall Street guy gettingt $45 million for failing, Obama would be all over it.
Yet, this good man, by the Lord’s grace, met the gravest of challenges, persevered and succeeded far beyond the subversive expectations of America’s enemies and craven-wordsmith critics – described by Edmund Burke as, “the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”I subversively thought he would be bad, and he was TERRIBLE.
In time, and with the benefit of “the distance of history”, objective chroniclers will no doubt cement President Bush’s collected record as Commander-in Chief as truly one of the greatest, albeit (as are all) imperfect, achievements in leadership and dignity that mankind has ever witnessed.Cement still comes in the form of shoes, doesn't it?
‘That’s Why We Have Fox’ — Mika Brezinski Admits the MSM is LiberalMy turn:
Right-Winger Stunned That Right-Wing Host Calls Media Left-Wing
A Recent Poll Showed That 58% of Americans Believe that Nigerian Should Be Waterboarded, A Nation of Deviates? We Just Got Finished With the Holidays and No Emotion Left And Now Martin Luther King Day Looms on the Horizon. Martin King Was Pretty Good But to Have a National Holiday for Him. Franklin Roosevelt Was the President When We Overcame the Great Depression and When WWII Was Almost Won, He Was the Only President Elected 3 Times and Was Elected a 4th and FDR Has No Day, Was Martin King a Better American than Franklin Roosevelt? They Should Just Throw It On With Columbus Day and Make It "Columbus and King Day," Has A Ring to It. "Sports Illustrated" Just Selected Their NFL Team of the Decade and of the 22 Position Players Two Were From Akron, Antoine Winfield from Akron Garfield and Mike Vrabel from Walsh Jesuit (Walsh is Just Outside of Akron but Vrabel is From Akron). Old Broken-Down Akron? A Boomtown for 50 Years With a Population of 300 Thousand Akron Was Down to 217,000 in the 2000 Census. Vrabel, a Defensive Player, Has the Interesting Statistic That When Used As An End of the 11 Passes That He Caught All Went For Touchdowns. I Think that I'd Rather Go To a High School Named After Somebody Good Instead of One Named After, Say, a Direction.
It won't take more than a few minutes to close a security hole in Internet Explorer that allowed attacks against Google.For god's sake people, just don't use it.
Preston Gralla, Computerworld
Jan 19, 2010 8:27 am
Researchers have created attack code that exploits a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) as well as in the newest IE8 -- even when Microsoft's recommended defensive measure is turned on.And fuck Lotus Notes while we're at it. What kind of program turns triangle brackets into rounded ones when you send an email? Probably really an admin's fault, but JESUS CHRIST.
The Pope later described Agca as a trained assassin who could not have been acting alone; but he also believed that both the attempt on his life and his survival were due to divine intervention.Whoops, that's not about what's-his-name, that's about Pope JPII! Apologies for the slip-up.
He donated the bullet recovered from his abdomen to the shrine in Fatima, Portugal, where he believed the shooting had been foretold by the Virgin Mary to three local girls in 1917.
tsm_sf | #8 | 15:33 on Mon, Jan.18
There's something very nostalgic about Finley's art, for me at least.
Something so very "pre-internet" about trying to shock people out of their complacency... one picture of a gaping anus instantly disarmed a million hours of performance art.
Still, I think that the medium is the message. I do not think that radio, TV, or Youtube are going to produce strong intellectual discourse. I believe that the written word is the best medium for that. If conservatives master other media, they may win some political battles, but not any intellectual war.There follow comments:
On the right, because we're assaulted by the leftist-media complex on a daily basis, we're constantly having our beliefs challenged. You can't escape the left's ideas, they come from the New York Times, all the papers that pick up stories from the Times, Time, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, etc. etc. etc.and
Until the residents of those well-educated counties come to be educated by non-left anthropologists, historians, law professors, political scientists, and sociologists--and until, after they graduate, they are daily reminded of the application of what they were taught by MSM personnel who were similarly educated--the GOP will increasingly be the party of the uneducated.and
"Conservative talk radio is bombastic." That paints in too broad strokes. Not all right-wing talk radio is alike. Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, and Dennis Prager are consistently thoughtful, willing to engage those with differing views, and respectful of others. Mark Levin is smart but screams and rants too much. Limbaugh is smarter than he sometimes gets credit for, but deviates from ideas too much because he loves ridiculing his enemies. Savage is worthless. Can't speak about Hannity or Beck, because I've only seen them on T.V., where they don't come across as subtle thinkers.and
There is all sorts of good, *smart* conservative talk radio. I agree with Peter - Limbaugh gets sold short.and
And to Prager, Medved and Bennett I add Hugh Hewitt; sharp, incisively intellectual, especially on matters of jurisprudence. Dennis Miller is also a treat. Jason Lewis is perhaps too intellectual for his own good.
The conservative talk show host don't argue 'intellectual' beliefs. They argue personal freedoms and property rights. What is "careful, reasoned" about that? Simple ideas are usually the best.The intellectual arguments for conservatism await their champions.
Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All TimeMy suspicion is that this is a list not dissimilar from Ben's "Directors I've Heard Of" list. Here are the names:
10. Ridley ScottNow just for fun, here's the whole of his Hitchcock entry:
9. Michael Mann
8. David Lean
7. Darren Aronofsky
6. Mike Nichols
5. David Lynch
4. Quentin Tarantino
3. Woody Allen
2. Martin Scorsese
1. Alfred Hitchcock
He’s not even close to the worst on the list, but he’s certainly the most overrated. He never made a great film. He was the Stephen King of the silver screen: he made films with great premises, but he never knew where to go from there. The psychoanalysis at the end of Psycho is laughable. North by Northwest relies on the tried-and-true random helpful coincidence to save our hero, time and again. It brings to mind one of Twain’s rules of writing, directed toward Fenimore Cooper: “the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable.” Not so much for Hitchcock. Spellbound once again relies on amateur psychoanalysis. Notorious is the same movie as Rebecca. Rear Window makes one reach for the fast-forward button. Vertigo makes one reach for the cyanide. The Birds quickly becomes inane. If you want to see good Hitchcock, rent Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Restricted to the one hour medium, he’s at his best. Left to his own devices, he’s slightly better than mediocre.I was initially looking for Ben's exceptionally stupid column about how the ACLU should totally sue the Metropolitan Museum of Art but the "I don't like or understand movies" bit was funnier.
OSS 117 - RIO NE REPOND PLUS is the sequel to OSS 117 - LE CAIRE, NID D'ESPIONS. It features Jean Dujardin as Hubert, a.k.a. 'OSS 117', a secret agent sent on a mission to Rio de Janeiro in 1967 to obtain a microfilm from a former high-ranking Nazi. He is accompanied by a female agent who is also searching for the exiled Nazi with the intention of taking him back to Israel to stand trial. The film was classified '15' for containing strong language, sex references and drug use.The BBFC is like the ChildCare Action Project but more knowingly fun. Their adult film feed is fun (although light on description) because you know it's a government job to consider OLDTIMERS, STILL HOT AND WET 15.
At '15', the BBFC's Guidelines state that 'there may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’). Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context. Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse'.
In OSS 117 - RIO NE REPOND PLUS there are several uses of strong language, some of them sexualised. These uses are generally spoken in English by an American character, and so are not subtitled.
The strong sex references occur during a scene in which a group of characters have an orgy. We see nude women and men kissing each other as they writhe in a mass on the beach - there is extensive sight of breast nudity and also a glimpse of a woman's pubic hair. As the scene continues we see multiple windows showing men and women kissing each other gleefully, the kneading of buttocks and so on. There is also the comedic implication that a man is going to insert his finger into another man's bottom but this is not shown, as with other sexual activity which is masked by the camera angles used.
This aforementioned scene also begins with sight of a character being given LSD - he clearly doesn't know what it is and this lack of knowledge is clearly intended for comedic effect as is the hippie lifestyle that the scene promotes, with the character also subsequently haunted by his lack of inhibition while under the influence of the drug.
The film also contains some racism but as with the drug references this element is clearly played for satirical purposes, with the hero Hubert referring to the Chinese as "dirty yellows" and "Chinks", and telling a character that Israel is like a Nazi-occupied country. The character is shown to be something of an idiot, and the film as a whole lampoons some of the attitudes to race in media of the day.
Also present is some infrequent moderate violence with sight of blood as characters are shot, but this is shown without explicit detail. There is also sight of smoking throughout the film.
Hebrew is most successful attempt ever at language revival. We find out why. Also, Malaysians are rioting after a court rules that a Catholic newspaper can use the word Allah. Then, two reports on alphabet letters: in Sweden, parents win the right to name their newborn Q; and in Turkey, using the Kurdish-associated letters Q, W or X can land you in jail. And, a two-nations-divided-by-one-language examination of the word grit.Via the piece on Hebrew a sad sad story:
Ittamar Ben-Avi, in his autobiography, describes (albeit somewhat over-romanticized), some of the drastic precautions taken by Ben-Yehuda to ensure his son would hear—and thus ultimately speak—only Hebrew. Thus, for example, when visitors came to the house who did not know Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda would send him to bed so that he would not hear their foreign languages. Similarly, he would not let the child listen to “the chirping of the birds and the neighing of horses, the braying of donkeys and the fluttering of butterflies, because even they are, after all, foreign languages, at any rate not Hebrew.” Indeed, the child only began to speak at the relatively late age of four. His mother could not keep to Ben-Yehuda's demand, and speak to the child only in Hebrew. One day, when Ben-Yehuda was out of the house, she began absent-mindedly singing lullabies to the child in her native Russian. Ben-Yehuda had returned early and when he heard Russian being used inside his house, he rushed in and began shouting. Ittamar wrote about the bitter scene that followed: “It caused a great shock to pass over me when I saw my father in his anger and my mother in her grief and tears, and the muteness was removed from my lips, and speech came to my mouth.”And Baby Named Metallica Rocks Sweden.
All Academic Institutions should engage themselves in practicing ethics and respect for all Institutions, irrespective of status of being a Federal University (State or Government funded) or Non Federal University. The Universities should not implant the seeds of bias, discrimination and jealously in the minds of the students. All Universities, whether Government or Non-Government must respect Constitutional freedom of Citizens to choose any University to further their career goals.
Russell Lewis Oakes registered as a vet in the UK after buying a fake degree certificate on the Internet. Authorities investigated after area veterinarians complained about the quality of his work. Oakes had been treating horses, dogs, and humans.A more complete and appalling story here.
Here's Mr. Sikdod's dawnning fawn.
Hi Mr. Sikdod!
Hi boisterous blond...
That's no pensive fawn...
Goodbye Mr. Sikdod!
You need an etiological con!
Hello!
Hello skill?
Good bye skill.
Hi foreign philosophy!
Here's Miss Pleexseep's applied con?
Hi Miss Pleexseep!
Hi eating brawn...
What a preeminent blond.
Goodbye Miss Pleexseep!
Go get a crooning bomb!
Lost amid the staggering commercial success of “Avatar” and obscured by the punditry of the left and right as they debate James Cameron’s social and historical commentary are the real warriors whose heroism, valor and selfless service has allowed the U.S. to leave a war in Iraq that many in 2006 thought was unwinnable and indeed salvage success from the jaws of calamity.Yessir, it looked like killing all those people and ruining a country wasn't going to work out, BUT IT HAS. Thanks to people with guns.
"After struggling for more than 10 years without a job, I decided to go to churches for deliverance," he said. "All the churches I went to, the pastors told me that my mother is responsible for my jobless state. They told me that my mother had sold her children's destiny to the devil. I looked back at my other siblings' life and I found out that what the pastors said was true; none of my mother's children was making any progress in life. The pastors told me that unless my mother is eliminated, none of us can make it in life."See also the Christian Millionaire Club.
Forgiving all that for now as merely clumsy bombast, their point — and others’ like Tom Shales is clearly to intimidate Americans. It is to thwart and punish people who speak publicly in Jesus’ name. It is to force people into adhering to Secularism’s unwritten rulebook and principles, not the Bible or First Amendment — whither the Free Exercise Clause?
On Sunday, Mediaite reported that singer Beyoncé Knowles had given a private New Year’s Eve performance for an exclusive crowd in St. Barth — and made the case that she had performed and been paid by relatives of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (variously known as Khadafy, Qaddafi, Quadhafi and more). Atlanta-based blogger Necole Bitchie reported a $2 million fee; the UK Mirror reported a “six-figure sum” and yesterday Media Takeout made the same claim, repeating the $2 million number and confirming the Gaddafi-hosted party from a guest who was there (hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons also placed Beyoncé at a “Khadafy party.” Today Page Six confirms our original report, with one new piece of information: the party was thrown by Moutassim Gaddafi, known as Hannibal, son of the Libyan dictator who less than a week before made headlines for allegedly attacking his wife in a London hotel.Complaints about Mariah Carey performing the year before at a different Ghaddafi son's event: big whoop. She was married to Tommy fuckin' Mottola and you're surprised she's hanging out with the son of a dictator?
This is the time of year when most people are busy resolving to do better in the future. Some people vow to go on diets or exercise more, some promise to give up smoking or booze. But, year in and year out, I vow to cut liberals more slack and give them the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, just as with other people’s good intentions, my own rarely last until nightfall. The difference is that the reason mine die on the vine, as it were, has nothing to do with my own lack of character, but everything to do with the failings of liberals.Now we just have to figure out whether or not it was intentional.
For one thing, liberals are hypocritical. [...]
Here is the story that Crittenton and Arenas plan to tell police on Monday, sources said: When the Wizards returned to practice, Arenas unlocked three unloaded guns out of a strong box in his locker and laid them on a locker-room chair and instructed Crittenton to choose one. The Washington Post reported Crittenton had playfully threatened to shoot Arenas in his knee on the plane, and that offering him a gun to deliver the deed was a way of trying to diffuse the tension.What the heck from Thundra:
Only Crittenton, feeling belittled and bullied, tossed one of the guns to the floor in anger and the tone between the two players escalated again. One NBA executive, briefed on the investigation, said Saturday, “The law is going to start trying to isolate them. Once the entire interrogation starts, you have to wonder if the stories will start changing.”
The New York Post reported in its Friday edition the two players drew weapons against each other. Sources say league attorneys discussed with NBA staff the possibility of Arenas brandishing a weapon in a threatening manner, but league officials hadn’t dug deep enough to be sure, and ultimately are waiting for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and D.C. police to conclude their investigation and make a decision on whether to bring charges.
BUDA, Texas -- The state constitution doesn't say, in so many words, that Carl Mitz has the absolute right to pry open a horse's mouth, grab hold of the tongue, and commence sawing away at the back molars with a power tool.
But Mr. Mitz and his attorneys are pretty sure that's implied.
Seeing targeted destruction of our economy, our security, dissipation of American jobs, massive corruption in the Government, Congress Department of Justice and Judiciary, it might be time to start rallies and protests using our second amendment right to bare arms and organise in militias.
Meanwhile, and maybe more important, a dwindling minority seems to differentiate between the New York Times and the Onion. Or between Williams and Bill O'Reilly. A dwindling minority seems to appreciate accuracy and endangered species such as newspaper copy desks. A dwindling minority understands the gulf in standards and professional expectations at Bloomberg News and Gawker.There is also a dwindling minority that understands the gulf in standards and professional expectations at The Atlantic and The Atlantic.
