McCain Accidentally Left on Campaign Bus Overnight
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politics,
video
Nothing seems to go for McCain these days. Once a hero thought to bring balance to the force, his reputation has been reduced to rubble by a contradictory campaign that should have been more negative according to pundits, but more loving according to his heart.
Read more, go further......Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
Obama & Bush: chimp fairness in evil smiley land
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overheard in hogtown,
politics
A T-shirt designer tells his story of evil smiley mischief. As it turns out, they designed two almost identical T-shirts, one with Bush as a monkey, the other with Obama.
Read more, go further......Friday, October 10, 2008 | 0 Comments
Sad Guys on Trading Floors
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overheard in hogtown,
photo
We briefly wrote before about the beginning of the crash. We can't possibly ignore this amazing(ly funny) collage of photos documenting the crash impact on people's faces.
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 | 0 Comments
10 years after its demise, the Red Army Faction still causes controversy
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politics,
showbiz
del.icio.us Tags: movie,left,politics,assassins,murder,execution,terrorism,disenchantment,resistance,communism,anticapitalism
Some movies, such as Schindler's List or 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days manage to gain acclaim from both sides of the story they cover. Others, such as The Baader Meinhof Komplex, attract criticism from both the antiheroes' and their victims' offspring.
The Red Army Faction was a self-described communist "urban guerilla" involved in numerous crimes and assassinations between 1970 and 1998. It even caused the German Autumn of 1977, a series of events involving murders, abductions, PFLP and Siad Barre (find the all on wikipedia.org).
The movie, released in Germany on Sept 25 and chosen as a candidate for the foreign-language Oscar, caused the following reactions:
1. The daughter of Ulrike Meinhof, the original gang's leader:
"The film portrays one murder after another without any sense of meaning, any explanation," Bettina Roehl said in an interview Thursday. (...) the film is offensive not only for its glut of violent scenes but because "in nonverbal but very suggestive ways, the film insinuates that their motivations for terrorism are understandable. That is 100 percent wrong," said Roehl, who has long decried the Red Army Faction's violent campaign against the West German establishment.
2. The daughter of Juergen Ponto, CEO of Dresdner Bank, assassinated:
"There were never any images from the (group's) assassination of my father until now," Ponto was quoted as saying in the Die Welt daily. "That always provided a degree of comfort and solace for us. I find the film's willingness to wrongfully invade our privacy particularly perfidious."
3. The son of assassinated industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer
praised it in the Bild daily for showing up the faction as a "pitiless gang of murderers."
4. The movie producer, Bernd Eichinger
defended the depiction of another killing — that of West German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback — against criticism from his son. He acknowledged that the scene would be "difficult" for Buback's son, but argued that "showing the scene in a watered-down form" would have meant "knowingly falsifying and downplaying the facts," according to an interview with the Hoerzu weekly.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Read more, go further......Thursday, October 09, 2008 | 0 Comments
The Queen to "United States"-ians (and Moore's lawyers)
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politics
A Message From the Queen
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
(You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour’, ‘favour’, ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise’. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’).
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ‘like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u’ and the elimination of -ize.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
8. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don’t try rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
Source: That British Woman
In related news, it's not just MoveOn that takes an interest in the upcoming presidential elections in the US of A. Michael Moore has made a new documentary, Slacker Uprising available to the masses, but there's controversy (as usual with his movies).
Read more, go further......
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
(You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour’, ‘favour’, ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise’. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’).
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ‘like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter ‘u’ and the elimination of -ize.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
8. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don’t try rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
Source: That British Woman
In related news, it's not just MoveOn that takes an interest in the upcoming presidential elections in the US of A. Michael Moore has made a new documentary, Slacker Uprising available to the masses, but there's controversy (as usual with his movies).
elections, uk, britain, british humour, humour, fun, funny, USA
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | 0 Comments
Horror ABBA video clip
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overheard in hogtown,
video
We learn from the Guardian of a horror video clip made by Ratatat and based on ABBA - contorted, slanted & distorted:
(Source)
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Monday, October 06, 2008 | 0 Comments
Diesel celebrates with porn
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overheard in hogtown,
video
Diesel decided to celebrate its birthday with a trip through its pornographic memory. Here's the video:
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 | 0 Comments
Perles de Journalistes
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overheard in hogtown,
quotes
C'est la foire des veaux et des porcs: venez nombreux ! (La Vie
Correzienne, 09/05/1954)
Cette attaque frappe les hommes politiques mais aussi les
honnętes gens.
La conférence sur la constipation sera suivie d'un pot
amical. (Ouest-France, 12/08/1995)
C'est un chasseur, qui ne voulant pas rentrer bredouille, s'est
tué...
Le syndicat des inséminateurs fait appel ŕ la vigueur de
ses membres. (Ouest France)
Les kinés se sont massés contre les grilles de la
préfecture. (Presse Océan)
Les brasseurs sont sous pression.
Journée du sang : s'inscrire ŕ la boucherie. (Var Matin)
Véritable Pub anglais : spécialité couscous.
Visiblement, la victime a été étranglée ŕ
coups de couteau. (Journal du Dimanche)
M. Jean C. remercie chaleureusement les personnes qui ont pris
part au décčs de son épouse. (La Voix du Nord)
Trčs gravement brűlée, elle s'est éteinte pendant
son transport ŕ l'hôpital. (Dauphiné Actualité)
Des trous dans sa culotte laissaient entrevoir une famille
pauvre. (Le Parisien)
Un trou de balle a été relevé ŕ la base du dos.
(Le Provençal)
En raison de la chaleur, les musiciens ne porteront que la
casquette de l'uniforme. (Derničres Nouvelles d'Alsace)
Le mystčre de la femme coupée en morceaux reste entier.
(Est-Éclair)
Suite ŕ ce succčs, les acteurs se reproduiront devant
vous.
Aprčs l'autopsie du cadavre de Jean M. on reste un peu sur sa
faim. (France-Soir)
Richard Virenque : J'aime me défoncer sur un vélo.
(Télé 7 jours)
Un type qui tue sa femme n'est pas vraiment un assassin. (Nouvel
Observateur)
Il y aura un appareil de réanimation dernier cri. (Le
Courrier picard)
Chasse : Moins de cerfs, mais plus nombreux. (Derničres
Nouvelles d'Alsace, 14/03/1993)
Deux conducteurs étaient interpellés par les gendarmes en
état d'ivresse. (Var Matin, 13/07/1994)
Détail navrant, cette personne avait déjŕ été
victime l'an dernier d'un accident mortel. (L'Alsace)
Le grand inventeur Louis Lumičre s'est éteint. (L'Aurore)
Les mosquées sont trčs nombreuses car les musulmans sont
trčs chrétiens. (Le Dauphiné)
La situation ne pouvait plus désormais s'améliorer que
dans le sens d'une amélioration. (Ouest-France)
Quand Honoré Gall s'est-il suicidé ? S'est-il donné
la mort avant de se jeter ŕ l'eau ? (Le Progrčs)
Le rapport de la gendarmerie révčle que Alain P. se
serait suicidé lui-męme. (Nord Eclair)
Horriblement mutilée, la voiture succombe quelques minutes
aprčs l'accident (Paris-Jour)
D'autres professions bénéficient d'abattements
particuliers : les dames qui font des pipes ŕ Saint-Claude
ont obtenu 10%. (Le Figaro Magazine)
Quand vous doublez un cycliste, laissez lui toujours la place de
tomber. (Le Républicain Lorrain, 14/08/54)
Il a été superficiellement égorgé au bras.
Elle venait d'enterrer son regrettable époux.
Elle est décédée mortellement.
Ses derničres paroles furent un silence farouche. (L'Est
Républicain)
Son cadavre a été ramené sur la plage oů il a
récupéré rapidement (Libération)
L'église étant en travaux, ses obsčques ont
été célébrées ŕ la salle des fętes.
(Midi Libre)
L'arrestation s'est opérée sans infusion de sang.
Bref, le Var est redevenu le Var avec son cortčge de
touristes venus des huit coins de l'hexagone. (Var Matin)
Mise au point (...) aux Etats-Unis d'une méthode qui permet
de déterminer avec 100% d'exactitude le sexe d'un
bébé dčs le dixičme mois de grossesse. (Midi
Libre)
Comme il s'agissait d'un sourd, la police dut pour l'interroger
avoir recours ŕ l'alphabet braille. (Le Parisien)
Cet ancien haltérophile est accusé de vols ŕ
l'arraché.
Ayant débuté comme simple fossoyeur, il a, depuis, fait
son trou. (Nord Éclair)
Depuis quelques mois, il emplit une secrétaire.
Lŕ-bas, la main de l'homme n'a jamais mis les pieds.
Les pieds de Damoclčs.
Ses hémorroďdes l'empęchaient de fermer l'oeil.
(Charente Libre)
Tombola de la Société Bayonnaise des Amis des Oiseaux :
le numéro 5963 gagne un fusil de chasse. (Sud-Ouest
24/11/1956)
A aucun moment le Christ n'a baissé les bras. (Le Paroissien
de Lamballe)
On faisait la queue, hier, en face du trou de la place de la
Motte. (La Montagne, 01/10/1995)
Il s'agit de financer les réparations du presbytčre qui a
brűlé le jour de la fęte des Cendres.
Tampax : le nouveau coup de sang de la C.G.T. (La Nouvelle
République de Tours, 05/01/1994)
Robinson harcčle son adversaire par de durs gauches des deux
mains. (La Resistance de l'Ouest, 11/12/1950)
Il abusait de la puissance de son sexe pour frapper son
ex-épouse (La République du Centre).
C'est avant votre crime qu'il fallait éprouver des remords.
Ŕ la lumičre du doute qui obscurcit cette affaire, nous
trancherons.
Un tas de briques avait amorti sa chute.
(via email ;)
Read more, go further......
Correzienne, 09/05/1954)
Cette attaque frappe les hommes politiques mais aussi les
honnętes gens.
La conférence sur la constipation sera suivie d'un pot
amical. (Ouest-France, 12/08/1995)
C'est un chasseur, qui ne voulant pas rentrer bredouille, s'est
tué...
Le syndicat des inséminateurs fait appel ŕ la vigueur de
ses membres. (Ouest France)
Les kinés se sont massés contre les grilles de la
préfecture. (Presse Océan)
Les brasseurs sont sous pression.
Journée du sang : s'inscrire ŕ la boucherie. (Var Matin)
Véritable Pub anglais : spécialité couscous.
Visiblement, la victime a été étranglée ŕ
coups de couteau. (Journal du Dimanche)
M. Jean C. remercie chaleureusement les personnes qui ont pris
part au décčs de son épouse. (La Voix du Nord)
Trčs gravement brűlée, elle s'est éteinte pendant
son transport ŕ l'hôpital. (Dauphiné Actualité)
Des trous dans sa culotte laissaient entrevoir une famille
pauvre. (Le Parisien)
Un trou de balle a été relevé ŕ la base du dos.
(Le Provençal)
En raison de la chaleur, les musiciens ne porteront que la
casquette de l'uniforme. (Derničres Nouvelles d'Alsace)
Le mystčre de la femme coupée en morceaux reste entier.
(Est-Éclair)
Suite ŕ ce succčs, les acteurs se reproduiront devant
vous.
Aprčs l'autopsie du cadavre de Jean M. on reste un peu sur sa
faim. (France-Soir)
Richard Virenque : J'aime me défoncer sur un vélo.
(Télé 7 jours)
Un type qui tue sa femme n'est pas vraiment un assassin. (Nouvel
Observateur)
Il y aura un appareil de réanimation dernier cri. (Le
Courrier picard)
Chasse : Moins de cerfs, mais plus nombreux. (Derničres
Nouvelles d'Alsace, 14/03/1993)
Deux conducteurs étaient interpellés par les gendarmes en
état d'ivresse. (Var Matin, 13/07/1994)
Détail navrant, cette personne avait déjŕ été
victime l'an dernier d'un accident mortel. (L'Alsace)
Le grand inventeur Louis Lumičre s'est éteint. (L'Aurore)
Les mosquées sont trčs nombreuses car les musulmans sont
trčs chrétiens. (Le Dauphiné)
La situation ne pouvait plus désormais s'améliorer que
dans le sens d'une amélioration. (Ouest-France)
Quand Honoré Gall s'est-il suicidé ? S'est-il donné
la mort avant de se jeter ŕ l'eau ? (Le Progrčs)
Le rapport de la gendarmerie révčle que Alain P. se
serait suicidé lui-męme. (Nord Eclair)
Horriblement mutilée, la voiture succombe quelques minutes
aprčs l'accident (Paris-Jour)
D'autres professions bénéficient d'abattements
particuliers : les dames qui font des pipes ŕ Saint-Claude
ont obtenu 10%. (Le Figaro Magazine)
Quand vous doublez un cycliste, laissez lui toujours la place de
tomber. (Le Républicain Lorrain, 14/08/54)
Il a été superficiellement égorgé au bras.
Elle venait d'enterrer son regrettable époux.
Elle est décédée mortellement.
Ses derničres paroles furent un silence farouche. (L'Est
Républicain)
Son cadavre a été ramené sur la plage oů il a
récupéré rapidement (Libération)
L'église étant en travaux, ses obsčques ont
été célébrées ŕ la salle des fętes.
(Midi Libre)
L'arrestation s'est opérée sans infusion de sang.
Bref, le Var est redevenu le Var avec son cortčge de
touristes venus des huit coins de l'hexagone. (Var Matin)
Mise au point (...) aux Etats-Unis d'une méthode qui permet
de déterminer avec 100% d'exactitude le sexe d'un
bébé dčs le dixičme mois de grossesse. (Midi
Libre)
Comme il s'agissait d'un sourd, la police dut pour l'interroger
avoir recours ŕ l'alphabet braille. (Le Parisien)
Cet ancien haltérophile est accusé de vols ŕ
l'arraché.
Ayant débuté comme simple fossoyeur, il a, depuis, fait
son trou. (Nord Éclair)
Depuis quelques mois, il emplit une secrétaire.
Lŕ-bas, la main de l'homme n'a jamais mis les pieds.
Les pieds de Damoclčs.
Ses hémorroďdes l'empęchaient de fermer l'oeil.
(Charente Libre)
Tombola de la Société Bayonnaise des Amis des Oiseaux :
le numéro 5963 gagne un fusil de chasse. (Sud-Ouest
24/11/1956)
A aucun moment le Christ n'a baissé les bras. (Le Paroissien
de Lamballe)
On faisait la queue, hier, en face du trou de la place de la
Motte. (La Montagne, 01/10/1995)
Il s'agit de financer les réparations du presbytčre qui a
brűlé le jour de la fęte des Cendres.
Tampax : le nouveau coup de sang de la C.G.T. (La Nouvelle
République de Tours, 05/01/1994)
Robinson harcčle son adversaire par de durs gauches des deux
mains. (La Resistance de l'Ouest, 11/12/1950)
Il abusait de la puissance de son sexe pour frapper son
ex-épouse (La République du Centre).
C'est avant votre crime qu'il fallait éprouver des remords.
Ŕ la lumičre du doute qui obscurcit cette affaire, nous
trancherons.
Un tas de briques avait amorti sa chute.
(via email ;)
Friday, October 03, 2008 | 0 Comments
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