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Win cow sponsorship: Local news in Rutland
THE Rutland & Stamford Mercury news has an offer:
Win year’s sponsorship of cow in naming competition
Happy Thanksgiving and stuff The Moral Statisticians
HAPPY Thanksgiving to our American readers. Eat, drink, smoke and enjoy. An American great wants you to. In 1893 Mark Twain wrote in The Moral Statisticians:
I don’t want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it.
I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man’s health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years’ indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc. etc. And you are always figuring out how many women have been burned to death because of the dangerous fashion of wearing expansive hoops, etc. etc. You never see more than one side of the question.
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Pictures of Peru’s Huanuco bullfighting festival
BULLFIGHTING is popular in Peru. These photos are from the Yawar Toro center, taken during a festival on the outskirts of Lima, Peru on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The festival was organized by people from the town of Huanuco to celebrate their native customs, in the arts of culinary, dance and music. People from Peru’s Andean highlands who have emigrated for decades to the capital in search for opportunities, organize fairs on various dates in honor of their various patron saints, to celebrate the anniversaries of their communities or to celebrate their native customs.
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Thanksgiving in Utah at the Indian Center (without William Shatner)
THANKSGIVING: Hundreds of frozen turkeys are lined up before being handed out to Utah families at the Indian Walk-In Center Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, in Salt Lake City. Harmons Grocery Store is feeding Utah’s hungry this season through its annual ” Gift for a Gift” Thanksgiving turkey drive.
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Mass death never sounded so cute: Dumb Ways to Die
DEATH. It isn’t a nice thing, but it sure as hell is inevitable. So, with that, which should treat death with the contempt it deserves and laugh in its face, be merry around it and… well… try and avoid it in the cheeriest way possible.
And with that, we go to Australia where, instead of frightening the bejeezus out of you, an animated safety video prefers to indulge you in a little fun without giving you a boring, stern lecture.
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The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s
WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We’ve pulled together some of the devices available in the brown decade. If you have any of these items, please let us know if they worked:
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (4)
1949: the walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden
FLASHBACK: The walls of Hitler’s ruined alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden, Germany are covered with the names of tourists who have visited it since the war – and with the cartoons and gibes they inscribed to show their hatred of the Nazi leader on Dec. 9, 1949. On this section of the wall in his garage are names of many nationalities. That cartoon is apparently some visitor’s conception of Hitler.
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Why does the Guardian describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as bloodletting?
IN war, words matter. The BBC knows it. The Guardian knows it. In a piece entitled “It’s Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves” Seumas Milne writes that Israel started it. He’s opinion fits with his paper’s view. So much the usual.
Not all news organs agree with one another. As the Times Giles Coren tweeted on the Guardian’s Steve Bell cartoon:
“That Nazi c*** Bell wants nailing to a f****** windmill.”
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Hamas murders six collaborators in name of Human Rights (photos)
WHAT news from Gaza?
IDF planes on Monday targeted and eliminated another four senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists … In a statement, Hamas said that it could not confirm that the four had been killed by the IDF, and said that they were “out of communication range.”
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Local news: Stares at a small bush in Woodfood Bridge
LOCAL News: The East London and West Essex Guardian spots the story of the bush. The headline declares:
Small bush blocks driveway plan
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Anglicans judge women unfit to be bishops
SO. Women cannot be bishops in the Church of England. They cannot sit in House of Lords, as bishops are entitled. Maybe the women should establish a new branch of the Church, one that allow equality?
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Rome statue of Pope John Paul II reworked to look like Ant McPartlin
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Why is the BBC biased against rich Jew friendly Israel?
ON Israel and Gaza, the BBC is biased. Fair enough. But why does the State broadcaster pretend to be impartial? Israel is a foreign country. Why doesn’t the BBC just come out and say what side it is on? Cranmer opines:
“Israel pounds Gaza..”? (You may have heard that before..) Funny, isn’t it, how the BBC has never mentioned Gaza pounding Israel, which it does incessantly. Indeed, the sirens frequently wail in Ashkelon, Pit’hat Shalom and Shaar HaNegev, as Gaza pounds Israeli civilians of whatever gender, age or creed. But only when Israel justifiably retaliates does the BBC bother to report the ‘pounding’. It is as though these evil Jews were responding to a Palestinian peashooter with a nuclear bomb.
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (10)
1985: House spiders on drugs
FLASHBACK to 27/04/1995: EXPERIMENTS BY NASA SCIENTISTS HAVE SHOWN THAT COMMON HOUSE SPIDERS SPIN THEIR WEBS IN DIFFERENT WAYS ACCORDING TO THE DRUG THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN.
Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Killer gets a fate worse than prison – CHURCH!
AMERICA is a dangerous place filled with guns and cholesterol, but this time, they’ve gone too far. A seventeen year old kid has been found guilty of manslaughter, which isn’t unusual. So is he getting sent to prison? NO! Far, far worse than that!
HE IS BEING SENT TO CHURCH!
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
World Cup Willie – a life in photos
WORLD Cup Willie was the original football mascot. Willie, the first Word Cup mascot, was the first modern mascot of all in a marketing and branding kinda way. It as Willie wot won it in ’66:
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Sports | Comment (1)
Hello There, Racists! Tumblr blog is twinned with Salem
ARE you a racist? Do you say racist things? A new tumblr called Hello There, Racists! collates your racist comments. You can, of cours, be guilty of unwitting racism. The site is so open abuse it can never work. The site’s owner notes:
I was disappointed to see that this website was taken off the internet. I am not the originator of this site, but I will try to restore it to its former glory.
Some people are angry that this may cost these fools, that they won’t be able to get a job, or get into college. This makes no sense. Here you have fools who are judging others on the basis of the color of their skin, and I am supposed to feel sorry for them if their foolishness causes them problems? Please.
Others say that teenage racism should be excused, because teenagers have a problem with impulse control. This also makes no sense. The problem is not that they voiced their racism, but that they hold these views to begin with.
If any of these idiots wants to respond to what they have done, contact me and I will post your comment in full. If you have a compelling explanation for why you posted this, inform me and I will remove the entry.
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Hamas song of the day – with video of Israeli F16 jet being downed over ‘Gaza sea’
HAMAS song of the day is the rather catchy ditty about hitting Tel Aviv. The video features an Israeli jet being blown from the skies.
An earlier tweet declared:
“The Qassam brigades declares responsibility for shooting down an #Israeli F16 jet over #Gaza sea”
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
Parturition chairs made child birth more comfortable
PARTURITION chairs were used by women when they were giving birth. Is sitting down more comfortable than lying down when giving birth? Are these the models for the moden day electric chair?
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Old Moore’s Almanack predicted right on Obama, Savile and Gaza
PERIODICALLY I dip into Old Moore’s Almanack – the astrology annual that’s been going since 1697. In between the awful ads that recur year after year and comic book line drawings, ‘Dr Francis Moore’ can still deliver on the forecasts.
Take the 2012 edition, for instance. This was published in around June/July 2011. So, its mundane (or world) forecasts will have been put together at the latest in early 2011 (Dr Moore’s editorial letter is actually dated October 2010).
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Roni Daniel and Ahmad Tibi got for it on Israeli TV
MEANWHILE, on Israeli telly… Israel’s Channel 2 features this exchange between the broadcaster’s in-house defence correspondent Roni Daniel and Ahmad Tibi, the deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset and leader of an Arab-Israeli political party.
Daniel wants action Dahiya-style. Tibi is unimpressed:
“The Israeli’s are very argumentitive,” goes the joke.
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)
Israel fakes: BBC Gaza correspondent tweets old photo of dead child killed in Syria
JON Donnison is the “BBC Gaza and West Bank Correspondent”. It says so on his twitter account.
Having advertised his role at the BBC – and thus given his tweets substance – he adds “Views mine”.
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (27)
Hamas burns down Gaza’s Crazy Water Aqua Fun Park
HAMAS has burned down Gaza’s Crazy Water Aqua Fun park, where men and women mingled. Well , so say Order Order. It quotes Middle East News Watch reports:
“40 gunmen tied up and blindfolded a nightwatchman before setting fire to an administrative building and restaurant. The fire engulfed different parts of the club, including an administrative building, and then spread to the main restaurant and cafeteria, which is three storeys high.”
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The best photos of Misao and the cat called Fukumaru
IN 1999, Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara began taking pictures of her grandmother, Misao. Then her grandmother found a cat. She called it Fukumaru in hope that “God of fuku( good fortune) comes and everything will be smoothed over like maru(circle)”. The cat had odd eyes. It and Misao are now the stars of a book. The pictures are gorgeous:
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment (1)
Egypt’s leader ups the political ante and kisses dead babies: but who killed Mahmoud Sadallah?
BRENDAN O’Neill writes: “If you think it is cynical of Western politicians to kiss living babies during election campaigns, look at this Egyptian politician kissing a dead baby in front of the world media’s clicking cameras. There is something grotesque about the way in which dead Palestinian children are being paraded across the Western media.”
Of course, there is also something grotesque about dead children. But is it right that a child’s life is reduced to a photo opportunity for racists and politicians?
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
