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calendar   Wednesday - July 27, 2011

Just for fun!

Why? Because I can!

Also, a friend recently emailed me with a request for this photo. He was teaching his kids about St. Paul. I’ll explain after the photo:

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1986. Rome, Italy. Just me and Caesar. Behind me is, according to local legend, the jail that St. Paul was incarcerated in before he was crucified.  Hence my friend’s request for the photo.


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 07/27/2011 at 10:43 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - July 26, 2011

tennis anyone?

Might be away tomorrow, and thought I’d leave tonight with some sort of cultural event for readers to feast eyes on.
What better thing, aside from the Dodgers winning a World Series , then Tennis?

We hardly ever cover sports here.  Unless it’s wearing a bikini. Which ain’t a bad thing at all.

I call her the Great Dane. She is:

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

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OKAY ... Here’s the Tennis part.

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And here’s the bikini .............

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That’s All Folks ....


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/26/2011 at 01:58 PM   
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a mild late evening rant …

I think I might reflect the feeling of most Americans with regard to that Libyan lunatic, Gaddafi.  Millions of words about that grubby bastard have been written by ppl far more articulate then I am so I won’t try and add to the pile.
But something caught my attention today that I have to comment on.  Well two things really.

Second ....
The talking heads in govt. and the ppl who hold press conferences and tell lies for a living, are still on about this little one sided war being all about protecting civilians.  I think everyone knows that’s a bald faced lie. It’s pure BS but as Goebbels once said:

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

And boy oh boy have we been hearing about that “civilian” ploy. Five months of it in fact.

Goebbels also said that any lie if big enough would be believed. Provided it was said often enough, people will come to believe it.  And I think there are a few who do buy into call me Dave’s big lie.
Tiresome.

But number one ... the thing that really caught my eye today was the generosity of Mr. William Hague, who is Foreign Secretary.
In a magnanimous gesture of humanity and understanding ..... Mr Hague said that if Gaddafi stood down and relinquished his office, he could stay in his own country.
Isn’t that nice?  One foreigner telling someone in another country they could stay in their country.  Hey-hey. What a guy, eh?

What I’d like to see is another Seal team take out that miserable sob once and for all. I’d like it to be us. For PanAm and cos he’d deserve it.
I can understand that. What I hate is all the lies and BS. Hit us and we’ll hit back but please.  Let us not be world cop. And lets get the hell out of the UN. Something else that’ll never happen. Like, never ending foreign aid and especially to Africa.  Drew covered that subject very well so I’ll leave that one alone.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/26/2011 at 01:10 PM   
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UK to unveil travel police?

Where do we begin to try and explain this bit of planet saving pc lunacy?
I guess we don’t try and explain it except to say it all part of what I term, ‘Libthink.’
Which says all that needs saying.
Take a look.


Doorstep lectures on travelling without your car as army of advisers teach families about ‘sustainable travel’

By STEVE DOUGHTY

Hundreds of thousands of families are to be visited by travel advisers who will tell them to stop driving their cars.

Armed with bus timetables and cycle route maps, they will knock on doors and lecture on the need for ‘sustainable travel’.
The doorstep campaign by the army of taxpayer-funded ‘personal travel advisers’ is part of a £156million effort by ministers to persuade people to leave their cars at home when they go to work or the shops, or take children to school.

Of 39 councils who will share the ‘sustainable transport’ money, 32 have said they will use some of it for advising individuals on how they can get around without their car.  About 300,000 families are liable to get a visit.

Darlington has already run trials using paid advisers to go door to door. It will now get £375,000 for a scheme to visit all 45,900 homes in the area.
In Hereford, the 74,282 homes in the city will be visited twice, once for advisers to give information on public transport and cycling, and three months later to check whether the advice is being followed.

Blackpool has offered its residents a questionnaire on the way they travel, which asks for personal details, information about journeys made, and asks questions such as ‘what prevents you from cycling?’ and ‘do you know where your nearest bus stop is?’
Ministers have told MPs that the spending is good value for taxpayers.

Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker said in a statement to MPs that the money will ‘support authorities in delivering local economic growth while cutting carbon emissions from transport.’
He added: ‘The Department is confident that the overall package of proposals included in this first round represents high value for money.’
John O’Connell of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘Schemes like these represent poor value for money for taxpayers. They don’t address the real issues facing commuters on congested roads or packed trains.

‘With tighter budgets, silly schemes should be consigned to the scrapyard.’

On the streets of Darlington last week travel advisers said they were meeting mixed success. With trolleys full of pamphlets in tow, Alex Clarke, 21, and Chris Chance, 28, who were on contract for the council, said some members of the public were more receptive than others.
Mr Chance said: ‘Some people we’ve spoken to have never considered using any other form of transport than a car.

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“Some people we’ve spoken to have never considered using any other form of transport than a car.”
Gee ... I can’t imagine why not.  Can you?  Maybe convenience and privacy has something to do with this odd habit. Or not having to share a ride somewhere with noisy,unruly teens and screaming babies.  Maybe?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/26/2011 at 11:21 AM   
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NATIONAL/CULTURAL SUICIDE AND RIGHTS FOR ALL

Unlike some folks, I do not have to go far or hunt for things to bother, offend or see that ever present RCOB.  Nope.  I just have to innocently pick up either of our morning papers and there it is. Or perhaps the word should be plural. Yeah.
There they are is a better way to express it.

The following article is a case in point.  For sheer pc and idiot left wing thinking this gets a prize all it’s own.  But it’s par for the course in the west these days.  I can’t even say, oh well.  What would you expect. It’s England.  Of course that’s very true but I think it could apply almost anywhere in the west these days.

I’ve shared articles and rants about Europe’s cancer before.  In fact, many times.
Travellers/Gypsies … a thieving and troublesome unwashed band of unwanted neighbors who happily take over land illegally, and then demand and get rights.
Too bad there isn’t anyone here dedicated to the eradication of this vermin.  And make no mistake, they are that. In spades.  But the worse people are the shit liberals who enable them. Without them, the problem might be less.

So here’s another example of libthink.

Finally after spending multi millions the authorities get an eviction approved. And that did not happen over night.
But wait ….. the eviction might be delayed and in fact most likely will. Why?

SO BAILIFFS CAN BE GIVEN ‘CULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING’!


Eviction of travellers from Britain’s biggest gypsy camp delayed while bailiffs undergo ‘cultural awareness training’

· 400 travellers to be moved on next month after being at the site for ten years
· Council wants ‘bespoke training… for the forced removal of women and children’
By ANDREW LEVY

That’s the headline.  Should you want to read the damn thing, aim your rifle, whoops. Wishful thinking.  I mean aim your browser HERE.

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And then there’s the usual bullshit which is tiresome I know, but I really can’t help bringing this kind of madness to readers of this site.  Not that it will do any good or correct a lunatic situation.
You may be aware that France is trying to ban the public wearing of the burka.
In fact, they have banned it although I’ve read that some have defied the ban.

Welcome to democratic and open and liberal England where the traditions and culture of the native population take second place to the sensibilities and customs of almost anyone else.  Oh … btw.  Just a reminder that there should be no celebration commemorating the Battle of Waterloo as it could cause alarm and or offence.
Germans unite.  Protest all these yearly and even mid yearly Battle of Britain ceremonies.  Just threaten to sue for hurt feelings. That always works here.  Jeesh.  What a fracked up world.

Anyway …. due to the ban in France …..

French burkha ban boost for London stores as Middle-Eastern tourists head for ‘friendly’ Britain
By ROB COOPER

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British shops are cashing in on the burkha ban in France because wealthy Middle Eastern shoppers are avoiding Paris.
London retailers have benefited from a tourism boom after Nicolas Sarkozy’s government banned the headscarf in April.
Liberty, the West End store, has seen a 45 per cent surge in the number of international visitors - while Selfidges has seen a 40 per cent rise.

READ THE STORY HERE


Never mind the article.
Click on the link, scroll down to the comments section. It’s not like all Brits approve of a facial covering.  But to hear the govt. types talk, you could be forgiven for thinking that a vast majority are at ease with the idea of anyone wearing face covering in say, a bank.  And that reminds me.

The word from liberal Norway is that in spite of the horrific event of last Friday, Norway welcomes multi-culture and plans on encouraging more of the same.
While I don’t agree with what that guy did, I think I understand his hatred and frustration. How long can you survive in a country that’s nibbling itself to cultural death?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/26/2011 at 10:05 AM   
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calendar   Monday - July 25, 2011

What, Again???

Drought and Famine in Africa!

Millions Starving!!

Western Aid blocked by Islamist Warlords!!!




yawn.

Food aid for Somalia could be flown into country within a week

The international effort to bring humanitarian relief to 3.7 million Somalis who need urgent help to beat drought and famine is being hampered by al-Shabaab’s refusal to let most agencies into their territory.

The al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents backtracked on an earlier promise to allow access.

But the United Nations said it was planning to fly food into areas held by the Islamists despite the ban.

“There are 2.2 million people yet to be reached,” said Josette Sheeran, the head of the agency.

“It is the most dangerous environment we are working in in the world. But people are dying. It’s not about politics, it’s about saving lives now.”

Jane, you ignorant slut. It’s always about politics, first, last and forever. It’s not about saving lives at all, and never was. The warlords will take your food, feed themselves, then steal the rest and sell it for weapons the instant you turn your back, while starving their opposition. That story hasn’t changed in Africa in 60 years or more.

WFP was one of the many organisations that al-Shabaab effectively forced out last year after imposing strict conditions of operation including no foreign female staff.

The group also taxed aid convoys.

Regis Chapman, the head of WFP’s operations in Somalia, said that food deliveries would soon start into the limited parts of Mogadishu controlled by the internationally-backed government.

He added that “within a week to 10 days” WFP would be sending food into areas controlled by the Islamists.

The Red Cross on Sunday said that it had delivered 400 tonnes of food to 24,000 people in Gedo province, the first time it had taken supplies into al-Shabaab’s territory since 2009. More than 2 million Somalis in the worst affected areas, including two famine zones, live in al-Shabaab territory and cannot be reached by international aid.

They are among more than 11.5 million people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia who need urgent help to keep them from starving after at least two years with no rain.

Stop wasting your money. Let them all starve. It won’t make any difference even in the short run. There are always tens of millions starving in Africa. Or suffering from some dread disease. Or being cleansed ethnically. Or being molested by flamingos. Whatever. It’s what Africa does, because Africa is actually Hell. It’s their job.

You can’t feed the people because the other people are such heartless malicious bastards that they use starvation as a political and military tool. They always have, and they always will. Stop wasting your money. Wait. This is the UN we’re talking about. So it’s MY money they’re wasting. Stop even faster in that case.

Maybe they should petition those Somali pirates in their own midst to use some of those hundreds of millions in ransom money to, you know, BUY some food for once.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/25/2011 at 03:34 PM   
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Fire Them All And Start Over

No, I’m not posting much at all on this self-inflicted “budget crisis” / “debt ceiling crisis” crap going on in DC. It never had to happen. It never should have happened. But the idiots in charge have to play their power games, and neither side is on our side, although one side is less not on our side than the other group. It’s confusing, it’s annoying, it’s a 24-7 bullshit fest. It has given us the darkest kind of humor, made even more ironic because these jokes are not at all funny; they’re true!

How bad is the budget crisis? The budget crisis is sooooo bad that Obama has stopped playing golf. It’s so bad that he’s stopped going to his own campaign fundraisers; it’s so bad that he’s sending Joe Biden to them instead!

Harry Reid thinks he’s immune from the First Law of Holes ( when you get to the bottom, stop digging! ) Did you see him on TV today, splatzing his verbal diarrhea? As far as Harry is concerned, me, you, and anyone else who believes in the TEA Party is a right wing extremist. Seriously, those were his actual words. The TEA Party people are right wing extremists. Extremists. Crazy people. Dangerous radicals. Because they believe the We The People are Taxed Enough Already, nickle and dimed to death and beyond, and that the government should be able to run itself on the vast mountains of tax revenue they already bring in without borrowing more. The nerve of us peons.

Tax cheat Timothy Geitner threatened yesterday that if Lord Obama’s plan wasn’t approved, then 80 million government checks wouldn’t go out. Aside from being a complete lie, Turbo-Tax Timmy glazed right over that 80 million part. The government is sending out 80 million checks a month? There are only 300 million people in the whole damn country!! That’s more than 26% of the country, more than 1 person in 4, who is getting some kind of monthly payment from the feds. Who the hell is left to pay the bills???

And to make it even worse, here comes the news we all saw coming months ago ... when everyone who mentioned it (Beck et al) was instantly labeled a racist crazy person willfully trying to destroy the recovery ...

U.S. Credit Rating Now Cut As Boehner Fights Back

It’s official.

The credit rating of the United States government—for the first time in American history—has been cut.

Lost in the headlines generated by Obama press conferences, Reuters reported that the credit rating agency Egan-Jones has in fact become the first rating agency to downgrade the U.S. rating. Egan-Jones, says Reuters:

..has cut the United States’ top credit ranking, citing concerns over the country’s high debt load and the difficulty the government faces in significantly reducing spending.

And what else is being reported about Egan-Jones’ reasoning for doing this?

The agency said the action, which cut U.S. sovereign debt to the second-highest rating, was not based on fears over the country not raising its debt ceiling.

Instead, the cut is due the U.S. debt load standing at more than 100 percent of its gross domestic product. This compares with Canada, for example, which has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 35 percent, Egan-Jones said in a report sent on Saturday.

The startling news, dug out by our friend and talk radio host Mark Levin, comes as House Speaker John Boehner walked out of talks to resolve the issue because President Obama “insisted on raising taxes.”

So this means that the government will now have to pay even higher interest rates on any future money it borrows. Which will push us even further into never ending debt.

But let’s listen to Harry and Oboner and the Gang of Thieves, and pile on more and more programs to ... promote social justice or whatever ... and borrow even more money at even higher rates to pay for them. And the best Crybaby Boehnhead on our side of the aisle can do is come up with a “temporary" plan to allow more borrowing? Followed probably by some more “temporary” taxes to increase revenue by taking even more money from the paychecks of the people lucky enough to still have jobs?

“Temporary”? That’s another punchline. No such thing. Alabama is still collecting money from it’s “temporary” tax they put in more than a century ago to pay the pensions of Civil War veterans. And their last veteran died in 1939!!

And we’re the extremists? We’re the crazy people? Horry Clap. I just can’t face this insanity. That’s why I’m trying to avoid posting on it.

PS - this world ending August 2nd deadline may also be fake. It looks like the real deadline might actually be August 10th. Not that it matters. The world stock markets are already trembling because these jerks in DC can’t work together.

On the other hand, good. Bring the government to a standstill. Don’t send out those checks. Let come what may. Families will take care of each other. It might not be so bad for a couple months. But if one side of the aisle is preaching fiscal sanity, and the other side wants to spend spend spend spend spend with no brakes and no limits ever, then bringing things to a standstill is what I want, and I want my guys to not give an inch. It’s what has to be done. The cupboard is bare; that poor dog has no bone. Stop the spending. At the very very least, do your damn jobs and develop and pass a budget that runs on 90% of the expected revenue. And that means HUGE CUTS across the board. Do it. Cut hundreds of billions in spending, right now, this year, and every year thereafter. Cut a trillion. Cut two trillion. And pass a law to make sure it stays cut. For that, these assclowns can argue till they’re blue in the face and everybody in government is out of a job. Fine by me. Do it. Might as well act like an extremist if I’m going to be labeled one again.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/25/2011 at 02:55 PM   
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seeing 20/20

What’s the point of eye candy if you only get one eye’s worth?

First up, we have a very rare sighting of a Scottish mermaid. Note the red hair and the tartan bikini.

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Click to get the really large version. What makes this sighting even more rare is that it was done in Hungary. Originally stolen from Theo’s, but I hunted down the sources.



Next up, to show a little solidarity with Norway, here’s a nice picture of Norwegian model Siri Tollerød. Before I found the mermaid, I was going to run just this pic and name the post “The Eyes Have It” because she certainly does indeed.

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Clicky picy to majorly embiggenify. Other pictures from that photoshoot can be found here. I’d never heard of Siri before I saw that picture, but once I found her name I found others ... many others. The girl has an amazingly symmetrical beauty. She looks like sculpture brought to life.

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So I guess this last picture is for your extra eye. You’ve heard the expression “third eye, blonde” right? Oh wait, that’s a rock band. Never mind.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/25/2011 at 01:57 PM   
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Woman! Thy Name is Stupid!

I guess I’ll have to explain that title. We all know that women are wonderful! We celebrate–Viva la differance!. Sorry, my spell-checker caught that too. The French can’t spell worth a damn.

Anyway, I had a new roof put on last year. This morning my wife asked me to walk with her (this is never good news).

Showed me how some squirrels screwed my new roof. Paid almost $9 grand for that roof!

Bad enough. I spent the morning trying to find someone to fix it. No go. Seems we had a very bad hail storm that I never heard about, luckily it missed us. But most roofers are very busy.

Then, my wife asked me to search the internet for ideas on how to squirrel-proof the home. Well, I did so. Can’t wait for her to get home and find out the most important thing to squirrel-proof the home. The same thing I’ve told her for years!

But I’m a man and therefore stupid. She disregards the fact that I grew up on a farm and never had squirrel problems.

How to squirrel-proof your property

In this case, and the song I’ve sung to my wife for twenty years is:

# 1 Remove the squirrels’ food source. Feed pets inside only. Get rid of bird feeders. Keep garbage cans well covered.

So she’s refused to believe me. She leaves bowls of cat food on the front and back porch. All it does is attract raccoons, opossums, squirrels, and lately, a skunk. I forgot to mention starlings. All of the above love cat food, and my wife is still refusing to believe that a bowl of cat food every day has caused the squirrels to nest in my brand new roof.

I’d call her a stupid woman, but that would be redundant! (wardmama is exempt. She’s not stupid, and I’m fairly certain she’s female. Despite that, I think she probably listens to her husband.)

What’s my point? Why is it that some females think their husbands don’t know anything? My wife did the same thing a few years ago: she bought a bale of hay and stuck it under our living room overhang. ‘For the poor kitty-kats’ she said. I pointed out that all she was doing was to make a nice, warm place for termites.  Guess what? 2 years and $500 later, we got rid of the termites!


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 07/25/2011 at 11:04 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - July 24, 2011

Buy Your Tickets Now?

Shop Wisely

Airline Tax Expires, many airlines raise ticket prices to offset savings. Customers get screwed.

Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets.

By Saturday night, nearly all the major U.S. airlines had raised fares to offset taxes that expired the night before.

That means instead of passing along the savings, the airlines are pocketing the money while customers pay the same amount as before.

American, United, Continental, Delta, US Airways, Southwest, AirTran and JetBlue all raised fares, although details sometimes differed. Most of the increases were around 7.5 percent.

For consumers who wanted to shop around, only a few airlines were still passing the tax break on to passengers Saturday night, including Virgin America, Frontier Airlines and Alaska Airlines.

The expiring taxes can total $25 or more on a typical $300 round-trip ticket. They died after midnight Friday night when Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration running.

That gave airlines a choice: They could do nothing — and pass the savings to customers — or grab some of the money themselves.

“We adjusted prices so the bottom-line price of a ticket remains the same as it was before … expiration of federal excise taxes,” said American spokesman Tim Smith. US Airways spokesman John McDonald said much the same thing — passengers will pay the same amount for a ticket as they did before the taxes expired.

They declined to say whether the increases would be rescinded if Congress revives the travel taxes.

Several federal airline-ticket taxes expired when Congress adjourned for the weekend without passing FAA legislation. Lawmakers couldn’t break a stalemate over a Republican proposal to make it harder for airline and railroad workers to unionize.

Air traffic controllers stayed on the job, but thousands of other FAA employees were likely to be furloughed.

Airlines stopped collecting a 7.5 percent ticket tax, a separate excise tax of $3.70 per takeoff and landing, and other taxes. Those add up to about $32 on a round-trip itinerary with base fare of $240 and one stop in each direction.

Other government fees for security and local airport projects are still being collected. They boost the final cost of that $240 base-fare ticket to $300.

Passengers who bought tickets before this weekend but travel during the FAA shutdown could be entitled to a refund of the taxes that they paid, said Treasury Department spokeswoman Sandra Salstrom. She said it’s unclear whether the government can keep taxes for travel at a time when it doesn’t have authority to collect the money.

So there are a few airlines not leaping to screw the customer, but you’ll have to shop carefully to find one.

Some airlines that didn’t raise fares sought to turn the controversy to their advantage. Spirit Airlines said it would pass tax savings on to consumers while rivals “have not been so generous.” It warned travelers that Congress could end the tax holiday at any time, so book a flight quickly.

Virgin America hawked tickets with the slogan, “Evade taxes. Take flight.” For a September trip between Dallas and San Francisco, Virgin America was $7 to $24 cheaper than United, Continental and American.


Meanwhile, the airlines - those gigantic business enterprises that you would think were “too big to fail” but are forever declaring one kind of bankruptcy or another - are raking it in.

The Transportation Department says it will lose $200 million a week until Congress restores the taxes. J.P. Morgan analyst Jamie Baker said airlines could take in an extra $25 million a day by raising fares during the tax holiday. That’s a tempting sum for airlines that have struggled against high jet fuel costs for most of the last three years.

Airline tickets have had several price increases so far this year, pretty much across the boards. For a deregulated industry that competes so hard that many airlines have gone out of business in the past 3 decades since deregulation, they sure seem to be able to march in lockstep at a moment’s notice when they feel like it. Go figure.

The last time one of these air travel taxes expired, most airlines passed the savings on to the customers. This time, nada. Whatever happened to that trickle down economic theory? I think it’s leaving a yellow puddle on the floor.

Personally, this gives me incentive to hope that a budget impasse continues in DC for months. I just bought tickets for a late fall vacation, and I wouldn’t mind being able to get a refund of some of the tax money.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/24/2011 at 02:21 PM   
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hooray for hollywood?

The genre of comic book movies continues. Last winter brought the Green Hornet flop, spring gave us a slew of “people with magical powers” flicks driven mostly by CGI, this summer generated another X-Men, Green Lantern, Thor, and now we’ve got Captain America.

I hear it isn’t actually that bad, considering. And it lets me post a little eye candy for the ladies, which I almost never do.



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Chris Evans in the title role



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co-star Hayley Atwell reacts?



The film features Hugo Weaving (Agent Elrond) as the villain, and gives Tommy Lee Jones a bit of work too.

A review snippet from the mega-snarky outre author of thesuperficial, a gossip blog that seems to be blacklisted by BMEWS. He wanted more of a Team America feel but gave it 3.5 out of 5:

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to trash Captain America because it was light years beyond the space-diarrhea epic known as Green Lantern, more fully-realized than Thor, which it surprisingly references a lot, yet still fell slightly short of X-Men: First Class. But only slightly. So, for the last time this summer, here’s my dick joke-laden attempt at a review of a comic book movie that forced me to leave the comfort of my pajama pants and interact with other humans in broad daylight.

Coming from a godless, America-hating liberal like myself this is going to knock you Tea Partiers off your Rascals, but this movie could’ve used more, “Fuck yeah, USA!” I hate jingoistic American exceptionalism as much as the next guy in line at Starbucks with an NPR tote, but if there was ever a place for it, this movie was it. Instead, we got an uncharacteristically apolitical war movie where the walking embodiment of American Big Swinging Dickism barely punches a Nazi because he’s spending 99% of the movie fighting fictitious Hydra soldiers who look like rejects from the shitty G.I. Joe movie starring Channing Tatum. Yes, Steve Rogers was a brave sonofabitch who pissed nothing but courage and bravery for breakfast, but when asked if he wants to kill Nazis, he responds, “Eh, I just really hate bullies.” C’mon! I understand foreign box office is how you make your money back on these things, but when Arugula-Eating Bookworms like myself are going, “Are they going to Ameri-fuck at least one Nazi to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner?” you know something went wrong.

And once again Hugo Weaving is in two or more big-hit films at the same time. Homeboy got mad skillz that way!

Captain America - in theaters now, probably on DVD and online rental services by September.

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Oh, and Amy Winehouse died yesterday. Sad. Guaranteed to be a drug overdose. She had some decent vocal talent, but her life was a total mess. She was 27.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/24/2011 at 11:40 AM   
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not confirmed. daily mail reports taliban hang 8 yr old boy

Came across this minutes ago before close for the night.
Have no way to know if it’s actually true.  Just cos the Mail prints it doesn’t mean it is, but considering the subject matter and ppl involved, I’m always ready to believe the worst.

I guess that makes me islamophobic. Yeak well, one can never be enough of that in this world.

Take a look at this.


Taliban hang eight-year-old son of Afghanistan police chief

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Last updated at 3:50 PM on 24th July 2011

Suspected members of the Taliban hung the eight-year-old son of a police commander after ordering his father to surrender, it was claimed today.

The Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency reported that the young boy was kidnapped by militants in the Greshk district of Helmand province last Tuesday.
He was hanged on Friday after they demanded his father give himself up or else the boy would be executed.

‘The militants had warned his father to surrender with his police vehicle and weapons, otherwise they would kill his son,’ provincial governor spokesman Daud Ahmadi told the agency.

While child executions by the Taliban are not common, children often fall victim to Taliban militants when they carry out attacks.

Youngsters have also been used by the Taliban as suicide bombers.

Two months ago, four civilians were killed and 12 others were injured when a 12-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban have always denied using children to carry out their attacks.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/24/2011 at 11:16 AM   
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a good reason for living on this side of the Atlantic?

I came across this letter to the editor of The Telegraph, and it bothered me. Not so much that perhaps the NYPD has come in for criticism. I have so much to read on things centered on where I am now, that I miss some things happening at home.  And to be honest, I’d be more likely to want to know what sort of new craziness my fellow Californians are up to, then some scandal in the NY Police Dept.  So then, if any of our readers in the NY area and that might include NJ as well, have a take on what this person is writing about or can refute it, I’d be much obliged.
It reads more like maybe she’s sucking up frankly. Bet if she returns to NY for any reason and is in need of police help, she’ll forget she wrote this for a foreign audience.  And based on my reading of things here, the plod (as they’re called) have not been up to scratch on some things either. But to be fair, I’m not too sure it’s all their fault what with pc reigning supreme. 


Let’s not ape the NYPD

SIR – The Prime Minister’s call to import American police chiefs to sort out British policing shows a lack of understanding of what actually happens on the other side of the Atlantic.

As a sample of police scandals in New York City in 2011, hundreds of cops are under investigation by the Bronx district attorney for tearing up traffic tickets issued to friends, family, associates, and the politically connected.

A police whistleblower is suing the NYPD for committing him to a mental hospital on false grounds, in retaliation for publicising that the police had been routinely falsifying crime statistics.

Bronx jurors (mostly African-American or Hispanic) acquit in more than 50 per cent of cases because they don’t believe cops.

As a citizen of the United States and of the United Kingdom, I regard the British police, for all their faults, as a good reason for living on this side of the Atlantic.

Jessica de Grazia
London WC1

BTW .... Since when have the police in any state had the authority to commit anyone to a mental hosp.?  Can the cops do that?  I would think a court can do that where there’s some proof of instability. But her comment on that doesn’t appear correct to me.  ??


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/24/2011 at 10:13 AM   
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More from Norway

Ok first. To answer a question as to what is thought right wing in Norway.

Anyone who doesn’t agree with the left wing elitist champaign, limoliberal left.
Norway is a country of just under 5 million people.  They are generally a fairly liberal lot, more or less live and let live. But that’s for the left. Every one else is a Quisling.

We’re getting full page photos covering both sides of center spread, and all the news all night on radio has been Norway. Lots of interviews with survivors etc.

I think we should be clear about one thing.  The mad dog killer is neither Christian nor Conservative, no matter what he may call himself.  I don’t even care to refer to him as ‘right wing’ for all the obvious reasons.  The only thing I can be certain about is his claim on a now defunct web site, that the elite left running the country is blind or just uncaring about what has been happening to Norway. He was right about that.  Which does not in any way excuse the murder of a bunch of teens at an island camp or setting a bomb off in a city center.

That said, there are large numbers of people in Norway who are very concerned about becoming a minority group in their own country. And so far, the powers that be are not listening very well. 


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 07/24/2011 at 02:09 AM   
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