Tuesday - September 21, 2010
those darned americans and their border fence. hang on a minute. no. it’s the mexicans?
H/T RichK
Huh? The Mexicans are building their own fence somewhere else?
I may have to keep my eye on this site (Examiner.com). My thanks to RichK for the email heads up.
Interesting article. Is it for real? There’s not much in msm back home? Seems odd. You’d think they would be all over this like a blanket.
Take a look.
Hypocritical Mexico is now building their own wall on border with Guatemala...press ignores
Where is MSNBC?
The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border.
The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.”
According to Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year.
Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government.
The executive coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration in Guatemala, Marila de Prince, told a local newspaper: “It is not a correct measure being taken by the Mexican government.”
Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala’s National Council on Migrants said: “We are watching the Mexican government’s initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died.”
Maldonado said the wall “is going to make the migrants’ situation worse, because to meet their needs they are always going to find blind points where there are no migration or security controls, which implies greater risks.”
Vice-President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, said: “The walls are not the solution to the problems.”
The Catholic Church has been highly critical of U.S. treatment of illegal aliens, and one priest in Central America used the news of the Mexican wall to take another shot at the American people.
Father Francisco Pellizari, of the Casa del Migrante told IPS: “The dramatic increase in the cost of ‘polleros’ (human traffickers) and the corruption of the authorities is the result of the walls the United States plans to build and has built along the border. We can transpose the Guatemala case to this situation and the results will be the same.”
Peliizari said border walls “are supposedly intended to halt migration, but that hasn’t happened. Instead they have triggered an economic hemorrhage and a shift in the migratory flow to inhospitable routes that lead to thousands of deaths.”
Of course, the U.S. press has completely ignored the story…They excoriate Americans for their desire to simply defend their own borders, but give Mexico a pass for building a wall to keep out illegal aliens.
Hey there Mr. Pellizari .... up yours. Our country, our borders, our freekin business. We’ll keep an eye on our borders and you can keep an eye on ..... you know. I have an idea, why don’t you and your church personally take ALL those poor and tired and needy and include please the druggies, and you house em all at your expense in your house. Permanently. HEY ... you gotta take the girls too. Wait ... where ya goin? Come back and talk.
Fruit loop.
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Permalink • Monday - September 13, 2010
Ines In The Newz
Oh when the Sainz go marching in ...
A certain clique of our readers frequents a certain blog where it has only come to light recently who this woman is. Ok, we were all familiar with the picture, but didn’t have a name to use. Now we do. And now ... looks like there’s trouble a-brewing.
When she isn’t too busy with her modeling career,
or hard at work making yet another swimwear calandar,
or gracing the cover of magazines,
Ines Sainz is a sideline sports reporter for TV Azteca in Mexico. They send her down on the field during games to get interviews with the players. In the middle of the game, during breaks, halftime, whenever. And she always seems to get the guys to talk to her. Beats me why. Does she know her sports? I hope so, but I have no idea. I don’t get that channel. This is how she dresses for work:
Football, soccer, basketball ... it doesn’t matter. No matter how well the players can ignore the WAGS and cheerleaders, when she arrives with the microphone, they talk. It’s said that it takes her 5 hours to prepare for each game: 10 minutes to study the stats, and 4 hours 20 minutes to squeeze into her jeans.
I mean, come on. The woman has more jiggle than the Jello™ factory during an earthquake. She got hired because of that. She was Miss Spain because of that. She makes a nice living because of that. She’ll use it whenever and wherever on the reporting job to land the story. But proving that there is no line anywhere anymore ...
Mexican sports reporter claiming sexual harassment by Jets
The female sports reporter at the center of a sex harassment claim against the Jets now says she doesn’t feel the locker room treatment she received was out of line.
“In my opinion, I never felt I was attacked, nor that anything rude was happening to me,” Ines Sainz told Spanish-language program DeporTV on Monday.
“I went to the locker room and started to talk about commentary and sports. Another reporter approached me to say he was sorry these things were happening...and that evidently people were making fun of me,” she continued.
Despite the media frenzy that has ensued since Sainz complained of being bombarded by locker-room catcalls as she waited to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez, the reporter now maintains, “In no moment, did I feel offended.”
Sainz, a reporter for Mexico’s TV Azteca and a former Miss Spain, also took to Twitter to appeal to fans and defend herself from criticism.
She denied that her choice of outfits while working the field at the Jets’ New Jersey training facility over the weekend was “inappropriate,” and thanked her fans.
Huh? What what what???
Damn, that’s the downside of the internet and real time news. By the time I get my post together, figure out what point I want to make, and choose from a variety of pictures, the story can reverse itself. And this one did. Granted that it took me a little longer than usual to pick the photos ... the woman has dozens of web shrines dedicated to her derriere. DOZENS. So now that she’s backing off the story, there’s no point in me debating the “she asked for it” viewpoint against the “rules apply to everyone” view against the “yeah, but she’s guilty of sexual harassment just by walking into a room” argument.
Ratz.
But I got the idea for the post after watching Fox News’ Megan Kelly cover the story, sitting in front of the TV camera in her 5” stiletto heels, in her short skirt up to here and her big hair out to there and I said “pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot”. Although to be fair Megan does try to be a serious news reader. She just happens to be drop dead gorgeous. We’ll just ignore that part, right?
The story made the front page of the paper edition of the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and I think even the cover of the NY Times. Who’d a thunk that a giant photo of a pretty girl with her boobs showing would sell newspapers?
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 28, 2010
Summer Fun
Doing windows in the summer sun and heat is no fun. I never knew how much I could sweat until today. Holy cow. I was soaked all day long. I should get a set of swimming goggles to wear to keep my eyes clear.
And this job gave birth to another job, 2 “cottages” (3000 sq ft) back in the woods and a garden house. So I’ll be busy for a solid week at least. Fine by me, though I’d like to find half a day in there to install my new radiator. Phah, just keep a few gallon jugs of water in the car. Make hay while the sun shines, or at least get the windows clean for cash. Fix the radiator later. And this is repeat business too, something I hope I’m finally starting to see after chugging away at this for 2+ years now.
So I’ll be away from the old blog pretty much. Maybe I can get a couple posts up in the evening. Sans links, but heck, these stories are everywhere.
I hear Arizona’s immigration law was shut down by a Clinton appointed in-the-pocket judge. That was expected; this one has to go to the Supremes. I hope AZ governor Brewer simply ignores the court until her appeals bubble up through the system. Like, what are they gonna do, bust her for smoking come and arrest all the AZ cops for carrying out a federal law? It’s high time the states started flipping off DC and their minions. And We the people should too. And it could all start with her. Far out. ( I heard last week Arizona had to take down all it’s traffic cams because nobody was paying the tickets mailed out that the cams generated. Seems AZ has this law that says tickets have to be hand delivered. Tens of thousands of tickets ignored by the people. Maybe it’s starting already. Fantastic. )
Looks like the libs are trying to throw Charlie Rangel under the bus, calling for his resignation. Greasy smarmy bastard has been living large and laughing about it for far too long. I hear he’s suddenly trying to cut a deal. No friggin way. Kick him out, bust him, perp walk him on international TV, investigate him inside out, make him pony up the full millions he owes in back taxes, then send his uppity ass to jail for 20 years. Then tell the rest of them they have 60 days to get their finances in order or they’ll get the same. And watch the billions come rolling in over night. The power brokers have been above the law for too damn long. It’s time for major payback. TV news says old yellow belly, John Freakin Kerry, is going to pay his home state the $500,000 luxury taxes on his expensive toy boat, “whether they’re owed or not”. And he did it without mentioning that he’d served in Vietnam, which means he’s running scared already. So, two done, more than 500 to go. Roaches scurrying when you turn on the spotlight.
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Permalink • Monday - June 07, 2010
DLTDHYITAOTWO*
nana na na, nana na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Wow, even double standard PC couldn’t save her gnarly withered old ass
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced her retirement Monday following an uproar over comments she made on camera last month about Jews in Israel.
Hearst Corporation, which employed Thomas as a columnist, put out a brief story by Hearst News Service announcing the retirement “effective immediately.”
The announcement came after the White House Correspondents Association decried her remarks as “indefensible” and began to consider whether Thomas should continue to have the privilege of a front-row seat in the briefing room. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called her remarks “offensive and reprehensible” on Monday, as other former White House spokesmen called for Thomas to be fired.
The controversy escalated quickly over the weekend after the video surfaced online showing Thomas last month saying that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” suggesting they go instead to Germany, Poland and the United States. The video, shot by New York Rabbi David Nesenoff, was posted on several prominent websites and prompted a swift apology from Thomas on Friday.
* Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Another one under the bus? Probably. But I just love it when the news reporters become the news themselves.
I’d put up a picture, but please. This is Helen Thomas we’re talking about, and that could break your monitor.
for those who dare ...
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Permalink • Monday - April 05, 2010
Taliban Attacks US Consulate
Taliban suicide squad attempts to storm US consulate in Peshawar
Taliban fighters using rocket-propelled grenades, car bombs and suicide vests have attempted to storm the United States consulate in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
Five security guards were among seven people killed during the raid in Peshawar and there were several explosions in the area which caused nearby buildings to collapse.
Six militants in two Toyota Corolla cars, laden with explosives, managed to pierce the city’s most heavily-guarded complex, which houses the provincial intelligence headquarters, the American consulate and the homes of several local ministers.
One eyewitness, Hamidullah Jan, said the attackers had successfully penetrated the consulate compound. He said he heard an exchange of gunfire followed by two loud explosions.
Hasan Ali, 25, who was being treated for abdominal injuries from the blast, said he saw the first explosion and was running to safety when a second and third explosion “shook the entire area”.
Senior North West Frontier Province minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour, whose home is 200 yards from the scene of the raid, said he saw six dead bodies, four of whom he said were the remains of terrorists and that suicide vests were close by them.
A Taliban spokesman later claimed responsibility for the attack, which he said targeted the United States consulate in revenge for American drone attacks which have killed a number of senior militant leaders, including the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud and his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud.
“The co-ordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and terrorists attempting to enter the building using grenades and weapons fire,” American officials said in a statement from their embassy in Islamabad.
There were no reported U.S. casualties in the attack and it is not known if the consulate, situated in a heavily fortified area of the northwest town, suffered any damages.
The Taliban wasted little time in claiming responsibility for the attack as spokesman Azam Tariq told Reuters news agency, “Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks.”
The security barrier near the consulate gate was damaged, and shells from rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades were left lying in the area, which was sealed off by Pakistani police and army, witnesses said.
Police said of the two car bombs, one exploded at a checkpoint 50 metres from the consulate while the other - laden with about 100kg of explosives - went off close to the consulate gate.
At least three blasts were reported and a firefight between security forces and the attackers followed.
Pakistani television showed security forces firing their weapons and clouds of smoke rising over the garrison area of the city, close to the Peshawar offices of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, which was bombed last November.
Stunned that the terrorists had managed to get as far as they did — given the multiple layers of security around the mission — shopkeepers in the nearby downtown Sadar area downed their shutters as security personnel cordoned off roads leading to the consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of the ISI which had faced a similar attack last year.
The blast was so powerful that it formed a huge crater in the road and brought down a boundary wall. Claiming that they had struck at the U.S. mission to avenge the drone attacks in North Waziristan, the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP-Pakistan wing of the Taliban) TTP spokesman told AFP that there would be more such attacks on “any place where there are Americans’’.
In August 2008, the top U.S. diplomat at the consulate survived a gun attack on her armored vehicle. Three months later, gunmen shot and killed an American in Peshawar as he was traveling to work for a U.S.-funded aid program in the region.
The last attack against a U.S. mission in Pakistan was in Karachi in 2006 when a militant rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the car of an American diplomat near the consulate, killing him and three others.
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Permalink • Thursday - March 25, 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy has said that France will ban the full Muslim veil.
VIVE la FRANCE
I imagine there might be riots among the righteous assuming there are any real ones. Interesting to see if this will work and how it will be enforced.
The fact is, in Western societies, seeing folks walking around masked is intimidating and is not part of western culture. Or it hasn’t been. I truly wish Sarko wouldn’t use the old saw about unfair to women which I’m sure for many it is. For many others, they claim they like it. Who can say they are all lying?
But if it means that much to em, let them go to a country where it’s the norm. I wish Sarkozy would say that as well. The idea that it would as he says, protect the dignity of women, reminds me of all the crap this govt. (and ours at home too) introduce and enforce because, it’s all for the kids. (subject of a post to follow)
I think it’s done for the reason that it just plain and clearly IS NOT FRENCH.
Stay Tuned on this one.
Meanwhile, Good for France! (I hope)
France to ban veil says Nicolas Sarkozy
Published: 7:00AM GMT 25 Mar 2010
The move would protect the dignity of women, the president added.
“The full veil is contrary to the dignity of women,” he said. “The response is to ban it. The Government will table a draft law prohibiting it.”
The president gave no further details during his address to the nation following a heavy defeat in regional elections for his ruling Union for a Popular Movement party.
Speaking from the Elysee Palace Mr Sarkozy gave no indication as to how an outright ban would be imposed and policed.
France is home to six million Muslims.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 20, 2010
AN OBSTACLE TO BROADBAND …. yeah, might be but the scene is lots prettier.
I would love to live in a setting like this one. Of course, there are also a thousand other beautiful settings in this very beautiful country that the socialists are in a hurry to give away. Curses on em! But then come to think of it, it’s doubtful we’d afford a setting like this. This island has to import almost everything, and that costs. Which naturally pushes up the cost of living here. But then, it’s understandable cos someone has to pay for the illegals who then must be put up in homes and with furnishings they’ve never been accustomed to before coming here. So ppl in settings like this have to fund it all.
What the heck, this is a pretty scene. Almost looks like a painting.
Canal that opened great age of waterways ‘an obstacle’ to broadbandA canal that opened the great age of British waterways is now just an ‘’obstacle’’ blocking the path of modern electronic communications, a High Court judge said.
Mr Justice Lewison had been asked to decide whether the company wanting to lay a fibre optic cable under the canal should have to pay rent to the owner of the waterway.
His ruling began: ‘’The Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761 and engineered by Joseph Brindley, ushered in the great age of the canals.
‘’It was built to give citizens of the growing city of Manchester access to cheaper coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal mines.
‘’Now, however, what the citizens of Manchester want is access to broadband and fibre optic cables.
‘’Far from facilitating access, the Bridgewater Canal is now an obstacle.’’
He said Geo Networks already had a duct under the canal for which it paid a rent to the Bridgewater Canal Company.
Lawyers for the fibre optic company argued it only had to pay for the right to lay the extra cable. Under the electronic communication industry code, it could ‘’buy one get one free’’ and did not have to pay extra rent.
Mr Justice Lewison ruled that Geo should pay more, but gave permission to appeal to try to clarify the industry code.
‘’It does not seem to me to be fair that an operator should have something for nothing.’’
He said David Elvin QC, representing Geo, had warned him against allowing those in control of ‘’linear obstacles’’ extracting ransom payments.
The judge said the expression ‘’fair and reasonable’’ in the code meant ransom payments could not be demanded.
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Permalink • Monday - March 15, 2010
SHE WEIGHS IN AT 602 POUNDS, AND WANTS TO SET A RECORD BY DOUBLING THAT. MOONBAT CROWN
Ok, this deserves a civilian moonbat crown maybe with skulls(?) as this woman is digging her own grave at some point. This is GROSS.
Drew ... is there some way to embed just one of the bats on this photo? I wanted to do that where I have the text on the pix. Jeesh.
This woman needs counseling pretty quick.
If she ever fell down, how would they get her upright short of a construction crane? And we know who will end up picking up her medical tab.
What was it Texas Guinan said? Oh yeah. .jpg)
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[what, like this? Drew]
The super-sized 602 lb. mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman
By Daily Mail Reporter‘My favourite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,’ she said.
‘I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favourite.’
Donna, who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats mounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.
Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s fattest mother, when she gave birth in 2007 weighing 38stone.
She needed a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter Jacqueline during a high-risk Caesarean birth.
Yet although she can only move 20ft before needing to sit down, she wants to be even bigger.
‘I’d love to be 1,000lb,’ she said.
‘It might be hard though. Running after my daughter keeps my weight down.’
Donna Simpson already weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world’s fattest woman.
The 42-year-old from New Jersey, U.S, is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years. Remarkably she insists she is healthy, despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.
[or was this the pic you had in mind? - Drew]
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Permalink • Sunday - March 14, 2010
Insinuating that a woman is not as strong as a man will be “unlawful sex discrimination”
Why heck, we’re runnin’ out of bats for this one. Mz Harperson really demands and intends to leave no feelings or even the possibility that there lurks the intent, or the the possibility that by pure accident, a lady may be offended and thereby have her “rights” impinged. Hey .. read this and tell us if she isn’t off the edge of the flat planet she is living on. In fact ... NOBODY, men or women will have hurt feelings or more specifically, their ‘umin rights’ abused or brought into question, as Harperson see those rights.
I will not take the time to go through this and post comments line by line. It’s too exhaustive and time consuming. This legislation is full of so much crap I don’t see how it can pass. But there isn’t any mistake that Happy Deluded Harriet thinks it a neat idea and worthy of becoming the law of the land.
She is for now, the BMEWS Queen of Moonbats.
Note to Drew. We need to get her face on a bat to use for that purpose. With a little moombat crown maybe.
What, like this??
Thanks to Doc DETH!
Gym staff could be prosecuted for warning a woman not to lift heavy weights under equality legislation being championed by Harriet Harman.
By Melissa Kite, Deputy political editorInsinuating that a woman is not as strong as a man will be “unlawful sex discrimination”, under the terms of the forthcoming Equality Bill.
A code of practice explaining the legal implications of the Bill, which is currently going through Parliament, states that being a woman is “a protected characteristic”.The code, drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, explains ways in which women might be unfairly stereotyped and defines behaviours that will in future be seen as discrimination.
It includes a long list of examples of “unintentional less favourable treatment” including what might happen to a woman when she joins a gym and begins lifting weights.It states: “A general stereotype about men and women is that in terms of physique, most men are stronger than most women. Nevertheless it is likely to be unlawful sex discrimination for a gym to test every woman’s strength but not every man’s before allowing them access to weightlifting facilities.”
The code makes clear that it will not be seen as an excuse if the motive of the gym staff is to help a woman or save her from injury.
“It does not matter what the service provider’s intentions are or whether the service provider’s less favourable treatment of the person is conscious or unconscious.“The service provider may even think that they are doing the person a favour, or simply be unaware that they are treating the person differently because of a protected characteristic.”
The Bill, championed by Ms Harman, the Equalities Minister, has already courted much controversy and attracted the criticism of the Pope when it proposed that churches would be prosecuted for refusing to employ gay people.
The legislation also provides protection under the law from discrimination for “any religious belief or philosophical belief” and even “a lack of belief”.
Last week it emerged that vegans would be protected, along with members of cults and “new religions” such as Scientology.Advertisements giving preferential treatment to men or women could also be illegal, meaning the end of “ladies’ nights” at clubs, when women receive cut-price drinks or free entrance but men pay full price.
People for whom abstention from alcohol was a way of life would be given new rights to protect them from discrimination.The Bill will give more scope too for the prosecution of shopkeepers and club owners who refuse to allow entry to certain types of people.
It says that shopkeepers who refuse entry to black teenagers, for example, after stories in the local press about thefts in the area by black teenagers will be prosecuted for race discrimination.The Bill also creates a new offence of discrimination by association. The code states that if a nightclub refused entry to three Polish people and an English man, the English man could claim he has suffered racial discrimination by association.
If a boy is refused membership of his local football club and his parents are two lesbian women, he could claim “unlawful direct discrimination by association because of sexual orientation”.
For the source and article in the Telegraph, click on the pix below of the wicked witch of the west. Queen of Moonbats. Happy Harriet Harperson.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 13, 2010
The crinamol system hard at work doing wrong again. All is normal …
Well here we are again. Ain’t this fun?
This has to be happening in the USA as well. No? Yes? I’d have thought after the last time this might not have happened so soon. And this guy didn’t even beat anyone up. He foiled a robbery of his place. He gets arrested.
I didn’t post the whole article but it is a MUST read. Stupid never ends.
Curry house owner foils burglary… and then HE’S thrown in cell when yobs complain
By Tom Kelly
Last updated at 2:19 AM on 13th March 2010When a restaurant owner found two teenage yobs raiding his beer cellar, he chased them and held them while his staff dialled 999.
Sal Miah assumed police would commend him for catching the young criminals.
But when officers arrived, they arrested 35-year-old Mr Miah on suspicion of assault and battery.
‘The system is a joke. How can a man who tries to prevent a crime in progress end up being the criminal?
‘People are living in fear of these kind of yobs but when you do take a stand and try and defend your home or your business you end up in trouble.
more here Lots more ...
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 09, 2010
Bird causes traffic chaos in London after resisting multiple rescue attempts. something different
Yeah, I’ll get back to my usual bitching later I guess. It’s become my natural state seeing things the way they are. But this tickled the funny bone although I doubt others in traffic thought it funny. Mean birds too when they wanna be.
No, I’m not going to swan off! Bird causes traffic chaos in London after resisting multiple rescue attempts
By Daily Mail ReporterAs excuses go, it sounds unlikely - ‘Sorry I’m late, I got held up by a swan’.
But that’s what happened to these drivers after the bird decided to settle down in the middle of a bridge over the Thames.
There was traffic chaos for more than an hour as the creature resisted all attempts to shoo it out of the way.
It had been seen waddling over Kew Bridge in South-West London before sitting down for a rest, forcing police to hold up the traffic and carefully direct cars around it.
An onlooker said: ‘I was very impressed with the way the police cared about the safety of that swan.
‘After one hour the swan managed to fly away and the traffic went back to normal and the police reopened the road.
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 03, 2010
Just for the hell of it even if I don’t understand the need.
I think they look fine and I guess this is an after the boob-job photo. The paper didn’t publish any before shots.
Anyway, why do women do this? I guess it’s strictly a female thing and if it makes em feel better about themselves, well heck. Go for it.
I just liked their looks and felt like posting them. But golly, £4,800. Each. That’s a pile of dollars. I had no clue or if I had I forgot about it, just how costly this sort of thing is. I think they should have spent it on computers and cars. Shows how different women heaven bless em, are.
Example. A guy with brother wins a lotto. Kinda doubt he’d be willing to pay for those (cough,cough) male enlargements I’ve heard about. Guy wouldn’t even discuss that sort of thing. Would we? Just a though. Oh yeah, another thought worth nothing. Just when was it that women became convinced they needed bigger boobs? And who convinced them? Was it a change in the culture, or had women always had this subject topmost in their minds but never discussed openly?
This isn’t a bad article actually. Human interest for a change before getting back to the usual.
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:00 AM on 03rd March 2010What would you buy if you won the lottery? It’s a question everyone has pondered.
Here, the Mail speaks to 11 winners to find out what they spent their cash on - including a girl who bought her two sisters breast enlargement operations.
Bonnier lasses: Sarah Cockings (centre) from Newcastle won £3million in May 2005 and treated herself and her sisters Emma (left) and Alex to boob jobs costing £4,800 each
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 02, 2010
from the, I guess it had to happen dept. A newspaper apologizes for muslim hurt feelings
Thing of it is, betcha the ones making the fuss to begin with were just making all that supposed outrage up. Just another excuse and we all know it.
I meant to post this days ago. Got caught up in things elsewhere. Shows ya how small those vermin are making our world tho.
Danish paper apologises for printing Muhammad cartoonA Danish newspaper has apologised for any offence caused when it reprinted a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban in 2008.
Politiken said it was apologising as part of a settlement with Muslim groups in the Middle East and Australia.
Other Danish newspapers criticised Politiken for its move.
Twelve cartoons of Muhammad were initially published in 2006, sparking widespread protests by Muslims in various countries.
Politiken - and other papers - republished one in 2008 when police uncovered an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Editor-in-chief Toeger Seidenfaden said on Friday: “We apologise to anyone who was offended by our decision to reprint the cartoon drawing.”
He told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that the paper still had the right to publish.
“We have the right to print Kurt Westergaard’s drawings, we have the right to print the original 12 drawings, we have the right to print all the caricatures in the world,” he said.“We apologise for the offence which the reprint has caused. That is what we apologise for.”
this is from another newspaper in Denmark, the one that originally published the cartoons.
Politiken’s pathetic prostrating before a Saudi lawyer takes the first prize in stupidity
Joern Mikkelse
Editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten
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