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High holidays: the Menorah bong for a happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukah!
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Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
The 6 new perverted rules of Islam that corrupt and kill
Qanta Ahmed says the slaughter in Paris was an attack on Islam. The jihadis are new form to totalitarianism:
To assert that this Islamism is un-Islamic is not a kneejerk response … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Paris massacre: far-right bigot Marine le Pen becomes a statesman
Le Ben ‘Je ne suis pas Charlie’
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Airport security is more theatrical than real
What happens are airport security? The Economist takes a look at the panto;
The growing certainty that the mid-air destruction of a Metrojet airliner flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg was … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Paris: diversity, pluralism and Trump’s lazy rhetoric
Kenan Malik looks at the massacre in Paris in “AFTER PARIS”. The killers slaughtered people at the Jewish-owned Bataclan theatre. They hit the Stade de France, where ‘Les Bleus’ were playing.
What the terrorists despised, … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Manchester United sign Robben and Muller but Kroos gets lost
Apparently, Robben is “at war” with team-mate Robert Lewandowski.
Robben will be 32 in January.
Why would he … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Pastafarian wins right to wear colander on her head for driving licence photo
The US Registry of Motor Vehicles says Massachusetts woman Lindsay Miller can, as a Pastafarian, wear a colander on her head on her licence photo. The RMV only allows drivers to wear hats … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Costa sold, Falcao leaves, Griezmann arrives
Transfer balls: The Sunday Mirror says Chelsea are ready to sell Diego Costa, 27.
The paper says Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would have sold Costa last summer had he been able to find a replacement.
Andy Dunn … (read more)
Posted: 15th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Madeleine McCann: the Buzzfeed years
Madeleine McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child.
On November 7th, the Sun and Mirror had news.
Mirror: “Gerry and Kate McCann reveal the reasons why they miss Maddie”
Well, she’s their … (read more)
Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Real Madrid ‘steal’ Chelsea’s Eden Hazard
Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Guardian criticises Gates Foundation for helping ‘for-profit companies’; takes Bill Gates’ money
Linsey McGoey has been writing about The Bill and Melina Gates Foundation for the Guardian. The article begins with a rather ghoulish view that the charity would be better were … (read more)
Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Money, Reviews | 0 Comments
Paris: Wikileaks legitimises mass murder and Islamophobia update
Mass murder in Paris. And WikiLeaks attempts to make a point:
If we are all Charlie Hebdo – and we should be; we must be – then this kind of balls by … (read more)
Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 1 Comment
Vive La France!
Paris mourns. And so should we all.
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Posted: 14th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Ronaldo to Chelsea but Manchester United have his pension book
Posted: 13th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Footballer investigated for barking at police attack dog
Oakland Raiders player Ray-Ray Armstrong is accused of barking at a police dog and pounding his chest. Police stepped in after Armstrong, 24, allegedly lifted his top and woof-woofed in the direction of … (read more)
Posted: 12th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Caitlyn Jenner mansplains womanhood to women
Caitlyn Jenner is telling Buzzfeed of “The Moment She Felt Most Proud To Be A Woman In 2015”.
Jenner, patriarch of the Jenner-Kardashian clan, is now an estranged matriach of that same … (read more)
Posted: 12th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | 0 Comments
England lost Fifa 2018 because Russia paid more And Seb Coe was upwind
But doesn’t every country bidding to host the World Cup … (read more)
Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Tesco seeks a Christmas Tree light untangler
Former boy scouts, listen up. Your skills are needed. Tesco is hiring “Christmas Light Untanglers”. If you are “able to untangle 3 meters of Christmas lights in … (read more)
Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Money, Reviews | 0 Comments
Older couple helps young woman pay attention to Donald Trump (Vine)
The multi-tasking woman is reading Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.
Jacket copy (via Xeni Jardin):
Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily … (read more)
Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments
Flounce: how to get not bad at something in just 5 hours
Posted: 11th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Chelsea chase ‘Arsenal’ striker Higuain
Transfer Balls: the Mirror says Chelsea are keen on Napoli’s Gonzalo Higuain.
Any move leaves “bad boy striker Diego Costa fighting for his Chelsea future”.
But he’s not fighting. He’s a bit limp. He’s … (read more)
Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Welsh parents banned from London after sex at Westfield in front of their children
We join the action as pregnant Akeela Ali, 25, is carrying out a ‘sex act’ on her husband Fahad Bilal, 26. Their children aged three and five are close by, running … (read more)
Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Brendan Rodgers arrives via Tube (Christian Gross nowhere)
Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Arsenal balls: Wenger says he’s a Gunner until he dies
Darren Lewis says PSG have Wenger on a shortlist. Other … (read more)
Posted: 10th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments