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What’s your formula for happiness, Friedrich Nietzsche?
WHAT’S your formula for happiness? The Happiness Formula by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:
Spotter: Biblioklept
Princess Diana murdered by a mentally ill SAS fantasist
THE silly season was punctuated by the return of Princess Diana. News was that someone in or close to the SAS murdered Di. So said “Soldier N”. The story was broken by Channel 4, which noted:
“The allegations, if true, ask some serious questions of Soldier N’s mental state of health”
Soldier N’s shocker was first made in a letter written in 2011 by his in-laws. This note was part of the second court martial against one of N’s colleagues’s, namely sniper Sgt Danny Nightingale who was found with a stack of ammo and a Glock pistol in his possession – souvenirs of overseas ops. N was testifying against Nightingale.
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Posted: 30th, August 2013 | In: Reviews, Royal Family | Comments (3)
Transfer balls: Arsenal set to buy almost half Real Madrid team
TRANSFER Balls: Anorak’s look at the media reporting on Arsenal in the news media:
Today’s latest player to join the roster of hundreds of potential transfer targets is Real Madrid’s Kaka.
Says Kaka (via Daily Star):
“I want to leave. I think now is the right moment for me and for the club for me to leave amicably.I have spoken to Ancelotti and with the club, they all know.Things are difficult for me now in the team, and the club knows what I want. It’s my obligation to work and keep training, but my father is already working to see if something comes up. I think it’s the best thing for me and the club.”
So. Arsenal have now been linked to Real Madrid players: Benzema, Kaka, Ozil, Casillas and Di Maria.
That all..?
In 1977 JG Ballard predicted the dawn of social media in Vogue in 1977
JG Ballard predicts the dawn of social media in Vogue in 1977:
Spotter: Brendan O’Neill
Posted: 30th, August 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Presenting the Losers: Eastern Airlines 1970s advert for pretty, vacant and sexually available airline stewardesses
BACK in the 1970s, Eastern Airlines knew you wanted your air hostess to be pretty. But it;s not all bout the face. It’s also about the legs, figure, weight and hair. She should also be able to answer question of such matters as world peace and what’s she doing for dinner with a ready smile interested tone.
Posted: 29th, August 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Gay Putin portrait seized by Russian gay police – photos
THE portrait of Vladimir Putin grooming a bikini-clad Dmitry Medvedev is no longer on view in St Petersburg’s Museum of Power gallery (two rooms in a flat). It broke “laws” (unspecified) and has been removed by police.
Also removed is a picture of the leader of Russia’s Orthodox church covered in tattoos and St Petersburg deputy Vitaly Milonov’s face painted in the gay rights movement’s rainbow flag.
Mr Milanov says the pictures are “of a distinctly pornographic character“.
Russian porn, it appears, is lame and of the 1950s British sort.
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Posted: 29th, August 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
In 1964 the FBI Martin Luther King this letter urging him to kill himself (photos)
FIFTY ears ago today Martin Luther King delivered his I Have A Dream speech. His address to 250,000 civil-rights supporters, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, was a defining moment of the American civil rights movement.
In November of 1964, fearful of his connection to the Communist Partythrough Stanley Levison, the FBI anonymously sent Martin Luther King the following threatening letter, along with a cassette that contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms — the fruits of a 9 month surveillance project headed by William C. Sullivan.Unsurprisingly, King saw the strongly worded letter as an invitation for him to take his own life, as did an official investigation in 1976 which concluded that the letter “clearly implied that suicide would be a suitable course of action for Dr. King.”
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Posted: 28th, August 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Kyron Horman: restraining the facts to make Terri Horman confess
KYRON Horman: Anorak’s look at the case of the missing child in the news. So far, there have been no arrests, no named suspects and no confirmation as to what crime, if any, befell the child who was aged 7 when he vanished in June 2010. Now read on…
The Oregonian reports: “Terri Horman agrees to limited evaluation for parenting time with daughter”
Helen Jung reports:
Terri Moulton Horman agrees with her estranged husband’s request that an expert should evaluate whether she should have any parenting time with the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, Kiara, court papers say.
But Horman, who has been a focus of the criminal investigation into the June 2010 disappearance of her stepson, Kyron, would seek limits on such an evaluation, her attorney Peter Bunch wrote in a filing earlier this month in the Hormans’ divorce case.
Police have not provided Terri Horman with information about their investigation, Bunch wrote, and she should not have to answer questions that could affect her constitutional rights.
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Posted: 28th, August 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (9)
Miley Cyrus rescues The Guardian from Edward Snowden and and that confusing free speech
WHO knew that when the Guardian cheered the demise of a newspaper – the News of the World – and championed State influence over what journalists can and cannot write and investigate, they were being foolish? Well, we did. Free speech has no buts. It is either free or it isn’t.
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor, is shocked that the State is meddling in its writers’ lives. Hitting tabloid writers is fine. But look out anyone who messes with the broadsheets. The three main police operations resulting from the News of the World hacking scandal are the biggest investigation in UK criminal history.
So far, 59 journalists have been arrested, including: News of the World (23), The Sun (21), The Times (2), Sunday People (3) Sunday Mirror (2), Daily Mirror (1) and Daily Star Sunday (1). (Full list here.)
The Guardian is fine with journalists being arrested when its the popular tabloids getting it. Although a look at that paper’s website reveals that popularism isn’t all bad so long as its analysed fully:
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Transfer Balls: Chelsea Juan Mata and the Arsenal kit balls
TRANSFER Balls: today we salute the Daily Star for its “exclusive” news that Chelsea player Juan Mata has ben spotted in an Arsenal shirt. The Star’s headline yells:
PICTURE SPECIAL: Juan Mata pulls on an Arsenal shirt! – IT’S the picture that Arsenal fans thought they’d never see – a new face in a Gunners shirt!
Only, Mata hasn’t worn the Arsenal kit. A computer boffin has just stuck one on his body using what tabloids must refer to as “wizardry”.
The small print tells readers:
Here is Chelsea’s star winger Juan Mata donning the strip for the first time – but don’t get carried away Arsenal fans, it’s only a Starsport impression!
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PC Rohan Scarlett guilty of punching a man who had spat at him
TIME for a heated debate: Metropolitan Police officer PC Rohan Scarlett, 47, has been found guilty of assaulting Andrew Uba as he put him in a police van in February 2013.
Mr Uba was being transferred from Islington police station to custody in Lewisham, east London.
Before the assault, PC Scalett alleged Uba spat at his face from close distance.
“Without any warning, he just spits in my face. A big lump went in my mouth and left eye and spray went over my face and vest. Because I hadn’t heard him bringing it up I thought he was going to spit at me again so I struck him in the face area. It was a clenched fist but loosely clenched.”
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Evolution under attack: Creationist angers Lord God Almighty
THE phrase “creation scientist” is as oxymoronic as “athletic quadriplegic” or “Nazi racial-equality advocate”– if the first part applies to you then the second by definition cannot. And Ken Ham, who heads the Answers in Genesis foundation and Kentucky’s Creation Museum (thus making him one of America’s foremost “creation scientists”), basically admitted as much last week in a radio ad pointing out that godless concepts like logic and science cannot prove the alleged falsehood of evolution; only unquestioning religious faith does that.
“We have solid proof in our hands that evolution is a lie: the Bible,” Ham explained. “You see, we can’t depend solely on our reasoning ability to convince skeptics. We present the evidence and do the best we can to convince people the truth of God by always pointing them to the Bible.”
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Posted: 28th, August 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Glasgow man say racism is behind Edinburgh chip shop charging him for tomato ketchup
“I COULDN’T believe it. Every chip shop I know gives ketchup free of charge. A condiment is a condiment. You can’t offer one customer brown sauce for nothing and then charge another for tomato sauce,” says Glaswegian Tony Winters of his alleged experience at the Gold Sea on Ferry Road, Edinburgh.
“I said I thought it was racist that if you come from Edinburgh you can get brown sauce free but people from elsewhere, who like ketchup, have to pay. It’s clear they’re discriminating and I don’t think it’s right. If something is morally wrong, I will shout from the heavens. I feel in this instance, it is morally wrong. We went to another chip shop and the guy was killing himself laughing when we told him. It reeks of racism. Just because we come from the west and tend to like ketchup instead of brown sauce. It’s clear they’re discriminating and I don’t think it’s right.”
Paul Crolla, owner of Gold Sea, counters:
“Fish and chips is an Edinburgh thing and people want salt and sauce on it – that’s the tradition. If you go west to Glasgow, it’s salt and vinegar. Salt and sauce goes with fish and chips, anything extra should be paid for. It’s not just like we offer two sauces, we do it so customers have a choice. For this guy to suggest it is discriminatory takes the biscuit. It’s like going into a car dealership and saying you want an electric sunroof instead of electric windows, it’s ridiculous.”
The matter will be settled by trading standards.
Posted: 28th, August 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Stupid rescuers bring record-breaking Welsh dolphin swim to an end
THE popular legend tells us that dolphins are bright. But how intelligent are they?
One dolphin swam 30 miles up the the River Dee at Saltney Ferry on the outskirts of Chester. WalesOnline tells us that the beast was lost “after taking a wrong turning and swimming up a river”.
Ho do they know that it was lost?
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Bradley Manning is now a woman called Osama Oprah Obama
BRADLEY Manning is now living as a woman known as Chelsea Manning. He says:
“I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female”
And just like that you can be a woman. Can you become black in much the same fashion? Can it be that you declare it and it is so? You can be anything so long as you believe it?
Some say no:
@instapundit what would the media reaction be if Bradley Manning asked to serve his sentence dressed as a rodeo clown wearing an obama mask?
Isn’t the “mask” of gender identity little deeper than a stick-on disguise?
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The Top 12 tunes from the Golden Age of Pop that continue to be sung at British football grounds to this day
A NEW season, and a new chant.
Yes, Manchester United supporters have hailed the arrival of the Moyesiah with a new song: “So Come on David Moyes, Play Like Fergie’s Boys. We’ll go wild, wild, wild!”
And where did they get the tune? From Seventies chart giants Slade, and their straight-in-at-number-one-for-the-first-time-since-the-Beatles classic Cum On Feel The Noize…
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Posted: 22nd, August 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
In pictures: murder and mayhem in Egypt
- Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi walk past an anti-coup banner in Nahda Square, where protesters have installed their camp near Cairo University in Giza, southwestern Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. An Egyptian official said a judge has ordered ousted President Mohammed Morsi to be detained for 15 more days, as investigations continue into charges that he conspired with Palestinian militants during the country’s 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Views on the crisis in Egypt: the Muslim Brotherhood gain supreme moral authority
THE mayhem and murder in Egypt has not been helped by stupid Western secularists and liberals who have handed to the Muslim Brotherhood supreme moral authority over the questions of democracy and freedom. Meanwhile, as the West rows of abuse of women on Twitter, scores of churches burn in Egypt.
Barack Obama is clueless.
Islamists are being massacred. Don’t we care?
Some views on the crisis:
“Democracy is not magic. The Demo, remember, stands for people, who are deeply imperfect. Democracy is simply the best method we know of for preserving freedom. When accompanied by a simple and brilliant constitution that restricts government power, guarantees equality under the law and protects minority rights, democracy has been proven to preserve freedom for, oh, yea about 232 years or so. But when it doesn’t do what it’s meant to do, guess what? Democracy is no better than any other method of stomping on people. . . . What I see in Egypt today is a tragedy — a tragedy woven into the fabric of a nation with no good choices. I’m really sorry for the people there; I am. But I’m not sorry they tossed Morsi out.”
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Hemel Hemstead is the ugliest place in UK
CITIZENS of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Great news. Your little new town has been named the ugliest town in the whole of the UK. It’s worse than places in the Lake District that are freezing, inhospitable dung heaps. Worse than entire Scottish towns made from heroin. Worse than that great wheezing soot pipe that is London (surely Manchester? -ed).
The poll, run by website Crap Towns Returns, counted the votes and the Hertfordshire town came out on top!
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1 in 10 couples haven’t had sober sex for 6 months
BRITISH people, as we know, are furiously repressed and get weird at the mention of genitalia and certainly come over all funny at the thought of having to be naked around others.
With that, a new survey discovered that one tenth of couples in the UK haven’t had sober sex in over six months.
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Shropshire iPad scam ends pair in cold water
ELAIN Sloane, of Wellington Post Office, Shropshire tells the court:
“When the gentleman came to the counter and said he wanted to do a special delivery I did notice the package had damp patches on it and the front of his jacket had damp patches on it too. I just happened to say to the gentleman is it raining outside and he said yes but it seemed strange to me because I could see from where I was sitting it didn’t look like it was raining. I asked him what was inside and he said iPads. I said how much is it worth but he wanted to make a phone call. I asked him for a return address but he couldn’t remember the postcode.
“We had a little look and you could see all ice in there. We were shocked. He had sent it as iPads and I couldn’t believe it was all this water and the box was disintegrating.”
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Posted: 14th, August 2013 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Transfer Balls: West Bromwich Albion hire the Arsenal and Spurs traget who never was
TRANSFER Balls: West Bromwich Albion have recruited Czech international Matej Vydra from Udinese. What did his agent, Ondrej Chovanec, to say on the move?
June 6:
The Daily Express told readers:
Matej Vydra wants Premier League chance with Arsenal, Tottenham and Fulham interested
Words from Arsenal, Spurs and Fulham: none.
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Fox News attack Muslim author on Jesus for not being Christian enough – audience agrees
ACCORDING to the Fox News religion expert, Lauren Green, you can only write about Jesus if you’re a Christian. This explains why only ex-footballers are allowed to talk about soccer on Fox, Republicans are only able to discuss their party with any insight and Fox’s roving reporter ZogH1 is the leading authority on space travel.
Richard Bartholomew looks at the idiocy.
ONE does not expect much from Fox News at the best of times; but a recent interview with Reza Aslan has – deservedly – come under particular mockery for the interviewer’s ignorance and bad faith.
The interview was conducted by Lauren Green, who is described as being “a religion correspondent” for Fox, and it concerned Aslan’s new book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Green appeared to no know little of the book or of scholarship in general, and the segment consists exclusively of her demanding an explanation from Aslan about why a Muslim would write a book about Jesus.
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A day in the life of the KKK – in photos
A DAY in the Life of the KKK, by Anthony S. Karen, updates our pictorial history of the KKK.
The son of an imperial wizard of a North Carolina–based Klan realm
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Posted: 14th, August 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comments (3)
