old
pods. here
really
old rants here
fun fun fun
D.C.
summer 05 (.gif)
Where
we at? (.gif)
Gone but never forgotten
Go Bluth!!
old
pods. here
really
old rants here
fun fun fun
D.C.
summer 05 (.gif)
Where
we at? (.gif)
Gone but never forgotten
Go Bluth!!
must read in july: report from the fronts mel gibson the no fact zone why no one believes there's a global war on terror the war on terrorble diseases i'm helping the terrorists mega vs mini lebanese blogs marc jacobs (heart) al gore world cup new rules coulter part 3 world cup idiots coulter part 2 pretend nytimes protests copycat coulter hannity in schiavo trouble
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Rush is Pete is Osama
"Until civilians -- frankly, I'm not sure how many of them are actually just innocent little civilians running around versus active Hezbo types, particularly the men -- but until those civilians start paying a price for propping up these kinds of regimes, it's not going to end, folks. What do you mean, civilians start paying a price? I just ask you to consult history for the answer to that.”
- Rush Limbaugh
On the Qana Massacre
July 31, 2006
"We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal . . . As for what you asked regarding the American people, they are not exonerated from responsibility, because they chose this government and voted for it despite their knowledge of its crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and in other places."
- Osama bin Laden
On His Fatwa Against America
March 1997
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Lebanon Update:
Closing in on 600
During the "cease-fire", 49 more bodies were dug up from rubble or burned cars in south Lebanon. YNet (Reuters)
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New curfew leaves us in Alexandria
DC's new juvenile curfew means we have to keep our underaged hookers at our second home in Alexandria, VA (we kid, we kid)
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Family guy presents:
Stewie Griffin - the Untold Story (2005)
Scientist:
[Scientist unfreezes Walt's body] Welcome Back,Mr. Disney
Walt Disney: Are the Jews gone yet?
Scientist: Uhh,no...
Walt Disney: Put me back in!
[Slams the crynogen chamber shut]
"Will Disney desert Mel Gibson..." FOX News
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The Local War On Terror™
"Overlooked, Somalia collapses" StarNewsOnline
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Preach love
and the word of God?
Not in this church mister
"Disowning
conservative politics,
evangelical pastor rattles flock" NY
Times
“When the church wins the culture wars, it inevitably loses,” Mr. Boyd preached. “When it conquers the world, it becomes the world. When you put your trust in the sword, you lose the cross.”
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it's not about the war stupid
Once
a blue, now a red
In our hearts you are dead
NY Times backs
millionaire-Lamont
Wash Post backs millionaire-Lieberman
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Still no truth
about the death
of "pinko-commie" Pat Tillman
It doesn't matter if your name is Sheehan of Tillman. If you ask questions, there must be something wrong with you.
"Playing
the Atheism Card
Against Pat Tillman’s Family" Truthdig
Kauzlarich, in a stunning display of Christian empathy, blamed the family for continuing to ask questions about the circumstances of Pat’s death, and suggested that the reason they’d found no closure was that infidels such as themselves (the Tillmans did not belong to a church), when they die, are only “worm dirt.”
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Reports From The "Fronts"
FROM THE "FRONT"
"Israeli attack kills 54 civilians, 37 children" CNN
"The building itself was next to the rocket-launcher sites and we are targeting all of those rocket-launcher sites. This was a mistake and we will have a full investigation."
Turn on FOX News:
"They
were human shields I tell ya.
Yeah, that's right. Human shields."
They "forget" to let us in on the fact that the IDF video showing
rockets being fired from the area were from friday.
"The hiding among civilians myth" Salon
"Cabinet in open revolt over Blair's Israel policy" Observer
THE OTHER "FRONT"
"Catholic official urges end to Gaza offensive" Kuwait Times
"In the Gaza Strip, a forgotten front" SP Times
The European guilt when it comes to Israel keeps this apartheid alive. F**king shameful.
THE OTHER-OTHER "FRONT"
"Afghan
forces kill 18 Taliban" CNN
Taliban? Taliban!?!? They still there?
THE OTHER-OTHER-OTHER "FRONT"
"Somali PM says Iran, Libya, Egypt backing militants" Dow Jones
"Stay out
of Somalia, US tells..." Reuters
Thought every nation had the right
to defend itself? Appearently not.
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Ladies and Gentlemen. We got him!
"Gibson's
Anti-Semitic Tirade
Alleged Cover Up" TMZ
"Official
confirmation: Gibson did spew..."
Deadline
Hollywood Daily
"Did Gibson get a break..." LA Times
Will Hollywood shun Gibson? Ari Emanuel
GIBSON RESPONDS
"I acted
like a person completely out of control when I was arrested. I disgraced myself
and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry. I have battled
with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret
my horrific relapse. [I am taking the] necessary steps to ensure my return
to health.
The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was
apprehended before I caused injury to any other person. I acted like a person
completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not
believe to be true and which are despicable."
- Mel Gibson
South Park: Mel Gibson is f**king crazy
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"Casualty of War"
In its efforts to cut off Lebanon from the rest of the planet, the Iraeli Airforce bombed Lebanese oil cisterns, resulting in a 15,000-ton oil spill.
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non-DC pod.
Brilliant Music Video
Peter, Bjorn
and John "Young Folks"
(feat. Victoria Bergsman of the Concretes)
Very artsy, very "clap your hands", very Swedish
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The US vs Israel?
Hezbollah agrees
with cease fire proposal CNN
Israel rejects the offer BBC
...and claims the World has authorised
the continued bombing of Lebanon BBC
The US state department has dismissed as "outrageous" a suggestion by Israel that it has been authorised by the world to continue bombing Lebanon.
NARRATIVE
Israel rejects the U.N:s offer, but when they accept it, the offer will turn
into "the US deal". In the M$M, the peace talks will have started
after the US got involved, not mentioning that the US blocked any action early
on.
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- 2006-07-29 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mel
Gibson get caught for DUI,
blames the Jews. Ooops!
"F*****g
Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson
then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
More sweet comments from Gibson.
A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"
"You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you."
"My life is f****d."
Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me.
Whole story. "Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade -- Alleged Cover Up" TMZ
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F.L.I.P.F.L.O.P.
From stalling (2) to "demanding".
"Bush, Blair call fo Mideast cease-fire" CNN
Still no word
of actions on this front
of the so-called "War on Terror™"
"Riots erupt as Somalia minister shot to death" DubaiNews
"Somalia on the brink" Times online
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non-DC pods.
Friday Fun Mini Pods
Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
"500 greatest songs of all time" Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert roasts Chevy Chase GM
How did the Internet look 10 years ago? Internet '96
Short version of the second greatest movie of all time Collegehumor
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Iran: Did you know...
...that only
1,4% of Iranians attend friday prayer and that 75% don't pray daily.
Muslim fundamentalists?
"100
saker du inte visste om Iran"
(100 things you didn't know about Iran)
Expressen (in swedish)
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Nothin' but talk
Talk talk talk block international efforts talk talk. Talk talk some more talk talk talk talk talk. Talk talk talk talk block some more international efforts talk talk talk talk.
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Bigger than the Bible baby!
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The new IKEA Catalogue is out today. So we take this pod. to celebrate the Swedish world domination. The New World Order - where everyone must be fashionable dressed, or else... |
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competence - nowhere to be found
One year later,
and he's still clueless
 |
If you think, just like the cons, that Rummy and Condi, 2, are clueless? What about this guy! |
Appearing on right-wing talkshows he talks about changes that need to be made, but when it's time to act. He's somewhere else.
"Why Bolton's first year was a failure" Thinkprogress
Stephen Colbert says "yes" to Bolton C&L
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Hell no, we'll go!
"Swedish
troops could join UN Lebanon force"
China
Broadcast
Current EU-countries
that could/would send military forces to southern Lebanon (Unifil).
- Sweden
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- France
- Turkey
Will not send
troops
- Denmark
- United Kingdom
Sweden currently
have forces in
Kosovo, Afghanistan and Liberia.
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"You gotta believe in miracles"
"The
Phonak Cycling Team was notified on Wednesday by the UCI of an unusual
level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio in the test made on Floyd Landis
after stage 17 of the Tour de France," said a team statement.
BBC
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Updates of this pod. at the bottom
Ignorance is bliss in the No-Fact Zone
The Ayatollah
of Cluelessness still has no f**king idea what the U.N. actually does.
He was just at it again. Smearing, spinning, calling names (look who's talking)
with no facts.
The U.N. have had observers (doing their job) for over 20 years in Lebanon, maybe it's time Bin Reilly learned. Or maybe he does know, and just lies about it?
Sure the U.N. could give the observers more power to act, but that's only fun until they fire back at the Israelis.
MORE MADNESS
There's also this old (non-factual) U.N.-bashing from a few days ago. From Media Matters
"Why
should I or any other American care about what the United Nations does in
the Security Council?" - O'Reilly
Pretty much everyone, except less than one percent of the US population (the ones that watch FOX News) agrees that the US runs the U.N. Security Council (with its veto power, which it uses kinda often) so it might be interesting for Americans to know what its representatives does with that power. Just so the population of the US can be informed and make smart decisions about its foreign policies, like in an election.
"You don't hear (from the U.N.) about civilian casualties inflicted by Hezbollah on Haifa." - O'Reilly
Ah, the old "they only go after us"-routine. Maybe if you actually looked it up (like on the internet, were you get all your stories) before you opened your mouth you would know that's not the case. Here, we've increased the size so you can read it....
The
secretary-general blamed Hezbollah for triggering the crisis and accused
it of holding Lebanon hostage with its campaign against Israel.
CNN
And actually there're no U.N resolutions about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, cause the US keeps vetoing it. Remember? Earlier in this pod.?
| So much anger directed... at ignorance... must... keep... writing... turning into... Ted.... Stevens.... |  |
UPDATE: The U.N.
has still not condemned Israel for the attack on its observers. The
US keeps blocking.
Maybe Bill will report that tonight....
"FOX News (officially) abandons journalism in the Middle East" Eric Boehlert
BONUS: "Why
is it so difficult to understand that you can be pro-Israel, anti-terrorism,
and pro-Arab all at the same time?"
SuperFrenchie screws up the narrative
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It's getting hot in herre
Stockholm is still hot as hell BBC Weather
"Water shortage as Sweden swelters" The Local
The (global warming "improved") weather might have had something to do with the huge increase of tourists in Stockholm. The Russians and Chinese are coming strong (the Russians now spend more money than the visiting Americans).
Someone who seems to be enjoying it is Tiger. Hanging out in the capital with his wife and her twin sister (yes, Tiger Woods swedish model wife has a twin sister, you big perve you). He was also seen with his mother in law who is part of the swedish government.
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Gay Ol' Day
A
little something for our buddy James Dobson and also sort of a tribute to
one of the reasons we love American Politics soooo much.
The hypocrisy, ooh the hypocrisy.
BILL CLINTON
ANN COULTER:
I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent
homosexuality.
Wonkette
"Rampant
promiscuity" = gay. Wonder if she'll use the same thinking when being
interviewed on Rush Limbaugh's show, or when appearing on the O'Reilly Factor
(together with Dick Morris)?
Aaah, sweet, sweet irony.
Cause they're
trapped in the closet.
Rush Limbaugh, Dick Morris and
Bill O'Reilly are trapped in the closet.
They're not coming out of the closet.
JEFF GANNON
Jeff Gannon on Rick Santorum’s gay press secretary: “I think it’s a tribute to Rick Santorum. I think it says a lot about the man.” On Media Matters’ David Brock: “At 35, he decided that he loved shoving dollar bills down the pants of the twinks down at [D.C. gay strip club] Wet.”
THE PHELPS FAMILY
How do you best deal with anti-gay protestors and expose their own "issues"? This comedian hits on a Phelps family member and that seems to do it.
"I saw that look! God has brought us together"
NON-D.C.
Fomer 'NSYNC member (and southern baptist raised) Lance Bass finally comes out. People
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The Swedish Government
knew
of Oil-for-Food corruption
Sweden "knew
of oil-for-food payoffs"
A Swedish Foreign Ministry official who spoke with Swedish Radio said the
country didn’t want to act in fear that companies would be blacklisted.
the Local
Eliasson:
I knew nothing about Iraq payoffs
"It is possible that embassies are informed - that is routine - but
hundreds of reports come in every week, and the [Swedish] organization that
would be most expected to act would be the delegation to the UN," he
said.
...
The Swedish government was sent information from the embassy in Amman,
in which it was claimed that Iraq was demanding commission of 10 percent on
every contract signed with foreign companies, money that was to be paid into
a special account.
the Local
A few years to late, but nice to see it's in the open. It's still not to late for the government to blame their own corruption on the French or the U.N.
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McCain in '08 (not really)
Even though he's on the road kissing ass and eating dirt for '08, McCain had some problems answering questions... on the Daily Show!?!
"President Bush has been very clear that, through his leadership, he has made the world safer. My question to you is simly this: how much safer can the world afford to have him make us?" McCain dodged the question repeatedly — prompting Stewart to actually say, "Don’t dodge the question!"
C&L (with video)
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More Running Than Cutting
One day, I'll
show you Harvard guys hehe. I'll be prezzz
First they failed
to save Afghanistan from the Taliban and fixed that by no
longer considering the Taliban a terror group.
When the Iraq war is looking more and more like a lost cause, the "global"
War on Terror™ is changed and now
means the Israel - Palestine - Lebanon conflict. Cynical and cruel but
might help give a little November-boost.
Mission accomplished!
s.f.obama
song of the day:
Not our proudest moment, but good fun.
CUT AND RUN
- HIS NAME IS D U B
(music: whatever you feel like)
Even though
he's a cowboy in every shot
An everyday man he's certainly not
He rose to fame as kinda dumb
With remarks that just left us numb
Cause his
name is Dubs
His politics ends with stubs
Cause his name is D u b s
Once again
his political life is a drag
Chances are he's gonna wave the flag
Since the M$M never checks his source
He blames his problems on a foreign force
Leave us all
to scrub
He's at the country club
Cause his name is D u b
(clap your hands)
Cause his
name is Dubs
His politics ends with stubs
Cause his name is D u b s
(clap your hands)
Leave us all
to scrub
He's at the country club
Cause his name is D u b
Cause his name
is D u b
Cause his name
is D u b
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First day's coverage one week later
It was a little
suprising to see that the Nation are writing about this now. This was
sorta the basics of the current Lebanese-Israeli conflict. Does it justify?
No!
Does it explain? Yes!
In January
2004 Sheik Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, presided
over a major prisoner exchange with Israel, in which the Lebanese guerrilla
movement and political party secured the release of more than 400 Arab prisoners
in return for the bodies of three Israeli soldiers and an Israeli businessman
and alleged spy, Elhanan Tannenbaum, whom Hezbollah had kidnapped.
Moments before the exchange was sealed, Ariel Sharon withheld three Lebanese
detainees, one of whom, Samir Kuntar, had killed a family of three in the
Israeli town of Nahariya in 1979. Nasrallah, having failed to release Kuntar
and the two other men, declared that Hezbollah would "reserve the
right" to capture Israeli soldiers until the men were freed.
On July 12 Nasrallah launched the most daring assault of his tenure as Hezbollah's
leader: the capture of two Israeli soldiers in a raid that left eight other
Israeli soldiers dead. He called the attack "Operation Truthful Promise."
OneGoodMove
(from the Nation)
Thought at least
one of the cable news channels would have reported this. Since they're swarming
in on the Middle East and they have hours to fill.
CNN:s reporters
(picture by Atrios)
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Rupert Murdoch
would rather help
straightTALKER McCain than Hillary
(suprise, suprise)
nice shirt Rupert
Poor old Rupert will never change, he continues to blame the "elites" for everything (by that he doesn't mean the neocon oligarchs).
Murdoch's successful "us vs them"-bubble has spread beyond his media outlets. As SuperFrenchie learns when looking at the lazy, lazy american M$Ms reporting about Landis great win in the Tour de France.
The French
were irked?
By Landis’ victory?
Where, when?
SuperFrenchie
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Firepants in '08!!
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Newt "I know nothin' about nothin'" Gingrich is having a look at his chances to run for President in '08. |
"Two volleyballs in every garage!" Wonkette
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UPDATE: The BBC site have been updated after the EU voted to continue funding stem cell research
The War On Science™
Like most successful talking points from the US, the "stem cell research = murder" one is now coming to Europe.
"EU mulls
stem cell research ban" BBC
Together they could block adoption of the EU's 54bn euro (£37bn) research
budget for 2007-13, of which stem cell research forms a very small part.
| BAN
E.U. FINANCED STEM CELL RESEARCH Austria Germany Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Poland Slovakia |
KEEP IT
LIKE
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The framing of
"Snowflake babies" Frameshop
This
is the logic, of course, of the 'culture of life' frame. In this frame, the
idea of 'life' begins at the very moment of cell division. But unlike Progressives
who refer to that fertilized egg as an 'embryo,' the Nightlight adoption agency
refers to that embryo as a 'preborn child.'
According to this logic, the IVF process produces a surplus of 'pre-born'
children in a frozen state--'snowflake babies.'
Old pod. about
theocratic talking points.
I.D. comes to sweden
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You're a Nazi,
I'm a Nazi,
we're all Nazis
Not only did
fights break out during a protest against Israel's attacks on Lebanon in Stockholm...
The Local
...but some of the protestors in Malmo had banners claiming that the Israelis
are Nazis, with the Star of David = swastika.
Someone filed a complaint with the police against the people with the Nazi-banners,
but the Malmo police points out that it's not against the law to use a swastika
in a demonstration. However, prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem will look into the
matter. Was there a difference in circumstances etc. SVT
Text (in swedish)
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Why no one takes
the talks about
a "global war on terror™" seriously
(cause when it's Africa... well you know)
"Ethiopians
enter new Somali town" BBC
"Somali Islamist vow holy war..." Yahoo
Osama's buddies are calling for a Jihad and...
The United
States urged Ethiopia to exercise restraint and said the U.S., European
Union, African Union, Arab League and others in an international contact group
on Somalia will meet soon to consider the volatile situation.
...
"We
are watching the situation very closely," State Department spokesman
Sean McCormack said Thursday in Washington. "We would urge the Ethiopian
government to exercise restraint."
Yahoo
What
a diff'rence a day makes
Twenty-four little hours
Remember the
last time political enemies in
this region used religion to fight each other?
"Catholic
complicity and Rwanda genocide" NPR
"The Cross and the Genocide" AFROL
Sorry Somalia. You're f**ked, and we don't care.
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Aaaah, how cute!
Israeli
girls writing messages on shells.
"Teach your children" OneGoodMove
"Putting
things in perspective" On
The Face
(explaining the picture above)
The perspective you get is that the girls don't know what the shells are used for since they don't see pictures of dead Lebanese on TV. (??)
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Bring that Westbury-fury |
O'Reilly continues to be kind of a chicken outside his TV-studio Yahoo News
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Bush hates Jesus and the US Economy
Jesus is crying as the Bushies change NASA's mission so it doesn't pay so much attention to earth. NY Times
When will someome challenge Bush's lack of faith in the US economy? He still seems to think the environmental (and labor) laws active in every western nation would break the US economy. Kinda sad.
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Stupid Pissing Contest
Still, it's nice to see that the State Dept. has learned something from the Tsunami.
EVACUATED CIVILIANS
FROM LEBANON (friday)
Sweden 6800
Denmark 5000
Germany 4200
United States 3000
France 3000
United Kingdom 3000
Yummy, yummy,
yummy. I'll act soon, promise.
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The difference
between "murder"
and "side effect" brings us to...
The War On Terror-ble Diseases™
C&L (with video)
No matter where
he works, Tony Snow
is still a f**king douchebag.
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Once
a blue, now a red
In our hearts, you are dead
Lieberman trails Lamont for the first time.
OLD HOLY JOE
POD
Lieberman gets some
loving from David Brooks. This
David Brooks? Yes, that one.
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Lesson learned from the Tsunami...
 |
The Swedish
hi-tech |
The Canberra Times reported that the Australian effort was being unfavourably compared with that of a number of countries including Sweden, while USA Today slammed America's apparent inaction, pointing out that three ships had been chartered by Sweden to carry citizens to Cyprus.
According
to foreign ministry spokeswoman Nina Ersman, text messaging has been a major
tool in the Swedish evacuation operation.
"In the last week we have sent out five text messages to everyone
in Lebanon who is registered with a Swedish mobile network," she
told The Local.
Telia's Jan Sjöberg explained that its mobile subscribers who were in Lebanon were sent an SMS as early as last Friday, which told them that an evacuation would be taking place.
Since then, further messages have told people to get to a certain hotel at a certain time, depending upon their priority status.
"The GSM technology allows us to do this," said
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I'm helping the terrorists, ooops
When visiting D.C. last summer I took some pictures with my crappy cellphone camera. One of the buildings featured in the little montage I put together after returning home was John Edwards Georgetown home. The montage was then posted under pods. as "D.C. summer 05" (as you can see to the right).
click to enlarge,
house at bottom of picture
Now the terrorists
know where an enemy of totalitarian governments everywhere live.
Could it be...
"...an apparent retaliation for criticism of its disclosure of classified
intelligence to America's enemies." - David Horowitz
In my defense, they'd have to look pretty darn hard to find the house featured in the montage.
- Magnus, s.f.o.
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Great blog posts
about
the Lebanon-Israel conflict
"I’m
beginning to realize how isolated we might be once the Western nationals leave
Lebanon…"
Back
to Iraq 3.0
"First,
the US is in a weaker position to influence the outcome of this crisis than
any time in the last three decades. Our influence in the region couldn't be
lower. Our identification with Israel couldn't be higher. And our ability
to work with Arab moderates and have them defuse the situation seems nonexistent.
Does anyone really believe that Hezbullah or Hamas are going to listen to
the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia?"
SyriaComment
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Bring your helmet
and kevlar
Sven is going on a trip
After looking at HonestReporting (monitoring anti-Israel bias) and Palestine Media Watch (monitoring anti-Palestine bias), we thought it would be better to send our own guy to the region.
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"Sorry.... sorta"
such large breasts, so many jokes to be made
Lance "big pimp" Armstrong says he was just kidding when he called the French National Team assholes. Well sort of kidding. It was fun for the crowd he was entertaining at the time.
Asked about
it in an interview last night, Armstrong replied: “It was a joke. You
don’t understand.” Then he walked off camera.
The
Times Online
In Armstrongs defense; the Times story makes it sound like he's some sort of Texas Bush-lover, which he certainly is not.
BONUS - GOOGLEFIGHT.COM
Lance Armstrong = 15 million
Zinedine Zidane = 28 million
By FOX News standards that means Zidane
is almost twice as good as Armstrong.
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Brownback questions the word of God?
"And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living being"
Genesis 2:6-7
It used to be that we believed that we got our soul (life) when we took our first breath. Wonder what we'll believe in 200 years?
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The US continues
to stall
about Gaza and Beirut
American officials
signaled that Ms. Rice was waiting at least a few more days before wading
into the conflict, in part to give Israel more time to weaken Hezbollah forces.
NYTimes
UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan put it rather differently, calling for a cessation of hostilities
to provide a window in which diplomacy might be conducted.
For the time being, Israel will get its way, and Mr Annan's mediators will
have to pursue their mission against the din of continued conflict.
BBC
Do we dare to
guess that the ignorant
will blame the UN when this is over.
UPDATE: Reporter
to White House:
"Why don't you want the fighting to stop?"
Raw
Story
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He's greedy,
he's a whore,
he's not here anymore.
He's greedy, he's a whore
he's not here anymore.
"Reed Concedes..."
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Stephen Colbert's Microphone Accident
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Quote of the day
"Some
of these news outlets are very one-sided"
- FOX & Friends host E.D. Hill about arab news
F&F stories
that day:
FOX News reports about how life is in Israeli bomb shelters. The fear of Hezbollah
rockets. How will Israel deal with Hezbollah, Iran, Syria? Why isn't the UN
helping Israel? Where will Hezbollah strike next? Is the Hezbollah acting
in the US?
...you kinda get the picture.
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The Mega vs Mini Trend
How can a small (terrorist) militia like Hezbollah put pressure on the only superpower in the Middle East? How can Wikipedia challenge mega-established Encyclopaedia Britannica? Why do nerds who live in their mom's basement put pressure on giant media companies?
"Megaplayers vs. Micropowers" Foreign Policy
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Swedes "cut and run"
Swedes being
evacuated from Lebanon.
Some 200 still stuck in southern Lebanon without any guarantees that they
will be able to leave.
"The EU is demanding that the Israelis grant safe conduct and guaranteed security for all. As soon as we get such assurances we can send the buses,"
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Where Are They Now?
So shocked that
middle America don't like Bush anymore. Dan "I rather eat my salad than
listen to the President" Quayle got up and left a John Mellencamp concert.
No word if he fake signed any autographs without a pen on the way out. Old
habits die hard you know.
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Cheapass French Jokes
SuperFrenchie
Some good points from SuperFrenchie. Still no Hezbollah leaders killed or
captured, 100 civilians killed (15 kids), but France gets accused of being
anti-semitic when calling for Israeli restraint (something the US did as well)
European guilt is easy to use and play on when it comes to Israel. It was
a lot easier to deal with apartheid in South Africa...
"So now Israel responds to a weakened Hezbollah provocation by destroying the civil infrastructure of the one country in the region that is most friendly to it, and some Americans find it strange that most countries find it disproportionate?"
Yahoo
News
Lance Armstrong
is still a stubborn bitch. This time however he's not so much stubborn, just
a bitch
UPDATE: If you
act like a non-champion, you're gonna get treated like a non-champion.
Welcome
back "asshole"
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UPDATE:
Another blog worth checking out about
the subject We (heart)
Lebanon
Warning! Contains images of "soft targets"
(dead children, very un-M$M)
CONDI RICE ALL
OF A SUDDEN LOVES THE UN
“We first need a way ahead. Let’s recognize that simply going
in and shuttling back and forth, if you don’t know where you’re
trying to go, is not going to help.” It was vital, Ms. Rice said, to
work with the United Nations and other parties “to lay a foundation so
that we don’t have continual further crises.” NYTimes
Joshua
Landis have a great blog about Syria and the region
The US has
sought to isolate Syria, cut off its regional trade, push it out of Lebanon,
and starve it of international funds and assistance.
Syria believes it must hurt the US where it can in order to force Washington
to rethink its anti-Syrian and general regional policies. Syria insists that
Washington must engage it if it wants even a modicum of Syrian cooperation.
It will continue to encourage its allies to attack American interests in Lebanon
and Israel until it gets that engagement.
With the United States on the run in Iraq, frustrated by the Hariri government's
weakness, extended in the UN by its losing showdown with Iran, and embarrassed
by Israel's aggressive anti-Palestinian policies, Syria is feeling strong.
It can now go on the offensive. Damascus feels confident that Washington
cannot counter-attack at this time. It has few arrows left in its quiver.
Syriacomment.com
Hezbollah Raid
Opens 2nd Front for Israel
The
attack Wednesday was almost sure to bolster the martial reputation of Hezbollah,
which probably enjoys more support in the rest of the Arab world than in Lebanon
itself, where other sectarian factions have pushed for it to disarm. Nasrallah
has vowed on numerous occasions to seize soldiers as a bargaining chip for
the Lebanese prisoners; in one speech, he said it would happen this year.
Washington
Post
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The M$M lie
We love it when our favorite fake narrative
of how the M$M hate Bush gets busted
Remember when
the mainstream media
loved Bush? Well, that's so last year.
Watching the Middle East spiral into chaos, combined with the ever-worsening civil war in Iraq, reminded me of how, a little over a year ago, we were being told that because there were some protests in Lebanon and some things that vaguely resembled elections in other countries - not to mention the biggie, an election in Iraq - that George W. Bush Was Right All Along. The Iraq war did spread freedom and democracy!
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Continuing the theme of Pay to Pray...
"The
$in$ of Ralph Reed"
GQ
via The
Huff
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The Church of Scientology's "bible" really sums it up the best....
"If
you want to make
money, start a religion"
(see at the bottom of this pod.)
Mark brought his camera down to their 4th of July celebration (1999). And, well, they didn't really like that and called in the "intergalactic super force" (the police).
Consumerist (Google video)
Since they were talking to each other with their human voices we have to assume that Tom Cruise was not there.
Maybe we shouldn't
have posted this. "The Office of Special Affairs" could come knockin'.
It wouldn't be the first time they came
to Sweden to take care of people who question their religion.
The lawsuit brought against Zenon
Panoussis by the church financially ruined him. He now live in Holland
but his address is not known.
Translation from the state dept. summary after the Swedish constitution was changed after pressure from the US: "A short time after the first publication of parts of the bible, the Swedish state dept. was contacted by representatives of the Church of Scientology, American members of congress and the American embassy in Stockholm."
Maybe we're heading the same way with the case of the MPAA vs the Pirate Bay.
Please note: The quote is not exactly what the bible says. We might be brave sometimes, but we're never stupid.
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We're All Screwed
leaflet, dead
civilians and bombed out Lebanese streets
The Swedish state
dept. has gotten a budget increase of about 8 million USD to help them get
the 4500 swedes that are trapped in Lebanon out. DN
(in swedish)
A "rescue team" (??) is to fly to Cypress to stand by to assist
if there are any swedish casualties.
Israeli primeminister
Olmert has said that Israel will end the attack on Lebanon when the kidnapped
soldiers are returned, the rocket attacks on Israel ends and when Lebanon
comply with UN resolution 1559 (incl. disarmament of Hezbollah).
No word if Israel will comply with the UN resolution dealing
with their use of force in Gaza (the one stalled by the US).
Both sides are running to the UN for help and then bitch about and blame
the UN when they're not living up to their own part of the deal.
"European citizens to be evacuated from Lebanon" CNN
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Friday Fun Mini Pods
Kevin Smith talks
about his Superman script and in a funny way sums up why "Hollywood (American)
movie" is a curse word.
If you have no story, no plot, no intentions. Just insert spiders, giant spiders.
about 20 min
long
Maxim ranks the worst comedians ever. What!?! No Colin Quinn and Dennis Miller on the list? Maxim
Our love for
"clap your hands, lalalala, Jesus is coming"-music continues. Check
out this video from swedish mega-sized group I'm From Barcelona. The video
is a few months old, but they're about to be released in Europe soon.
So get in line people!
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Marc Jacobs (heart) Al Gore
click
image to enlarge
Marc
Jacobs (click "special items")
The Nation
Maybe we should pitch our Al Gore, number 5 Jersey to Jacobs...
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"The
US vetoes UNs demand
that Israel leave Gaza"
The US stalled the resolution so when it was presented it was "outmoded". Nice job Bolton!
"It (the resolution) condemned the firing of rockets into Israel as well as the Israeli assault on Gaza and pressed the Jewish state to halt its 'disproportionate use of force' against civilians."
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Look Who's Looking Out For Himself
|
Worlds biggest asshole has no problem keeping the money he's making from his Jessica Lunsford bumper stickers. |
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Helping the Terrorists
In true Geraldo-fashion FOX News reveals the positions of Israeli forces. Hannity, O'Reilly, Malkin, Ingraham and everone at AIM cheers as the Israelis open fire on the camera crew aiding the terrorist (not really).
Raw Story (with video)
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Post-World Cup New Rules
In the post-World
Cup world we live in people seems to have a lot to say about the world game.
Some of these thoughts are coming from american blogs and people who we have
to assume are clueless about football (Huffington Post, we're looking in your
direction).
If only there some sort of rules, maybe new ones, that would make it easier
for people to write these blog entries and not look like complete football-idiots.
New Rule
Don't suggest there should be instant replay for tough decisions during the
game. That just proves that you haven't actually been to a real football game,
making you a non-expert on the subject.
New Rule
"Joga bonito" is a Nike commercial, not a tactic. If you must use
the term don't say "joga bonito - play beautifully". We all
know what it means. We saw the Nike commercial.
New Rule
Don't present you own ideas on how to settle the game instead of penalty kicks.
People who actually watched every one of the 120 minutes leading up to the
penalty kicking welcome them.
New Rule
Nobody cares about the FIFA ranking and it is not used to describe how
good the teams are. The ranking is set by how well the teams finish at the
big tournaments, but mostly how they do in qualifying. France (8th) play England,
Germany or Italy to qualify while the US (5th) fights off Haiti.
New Rule
Don't imply that football is kind of a girlie sport and then make comparisons
to the most feminine sport ever, baseball.
New Rule
Don't call Zinedine Zidane "Zizou". The only ones who call him that
are people who have read on the internet that others call him that.
...also. New Rule. When pretending to be all knowledgeable about "Zizou",
don't sound suprised that he got sent off. It was his 14th red card.
New Rule
Don't pull the old "It's football, but they can't use their hands"-joke.
It's only funny to the 1/60 of the world population who have ever heard of
american football.
New Rule
David Beckham is loved by 12 year old school girls because they think he's
"cute". He should therefore never be referred to as "soccer
great".
UPDATE: Just
when you think the US is never gonna be a "true" footballing nation
(whatever that means), you read this in the LATimes.
Mike Penner sums up the feelings of going from being the best team in the
world to the worst in a matter of weeks, the everyday life of a football fan
in a nutshell.
That plus this video of "The dawn of US soccer hooliganism"
makes us believers again.
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More Fun With MAnnie
"In addition to the three examples identified by plagiarism expert John Barrie (commissioned by The New York Post), three other examples cited by The Rude Pundit, and a list of fifteen items already reported by RAW STORY, the continuing investigation has turned up four more examples."
UPDATE: Ann gets
taken apart by....
Donny Deutsch (!?!?!) C&L
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Football Turns Us All Into Idiots
 |
Fabio Cannavaro
gets robbed of World Cup Best Player Award. Why not give the thing to Beckham when you're at it. Idiots! |
More World Cup
SuperFrenchie
is upset about an American who have seen some Nike Commercials and Lance Armstrong
and is all of a sudden an expert on France and.... "soccer" (??)
Idiot!
UPDATE: Some
idiot thinks he has the answers to why "soccer sucks" and why americans
don't care The
Hoff
Earlier
pod. Who cares if americans care
MORE IDIOTS!
Neil Cavuto
and John Gibson
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The big, fat
idiot (with an erectile problem)
distorts the numbers behind global warming.
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From Gaza, with Love
Mona Al-Farra blogs from Gaza City in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Women, health,
children and human rights in
Occupied Palestine. A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra.
From Gaza, with Love
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Who Cares If Americans Care?
We never really
got why Americans have to care about football, or "soccer". Americans
have their own perfectly fine sports to eat nachos at.
However, SuperFrenchie sums up why he thinks Americans don't care about "soccer"
(if Americans don't care about "soccer", why even use that silly
word). He has got some interesting points though, as always.
....to bad the French will have to settle for the silver. Come on Italy!!!
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"Go to Venezuela, You Idiot!"
Finally someone who took the righties at their word and actually went to Venezuela. The country that you can't explain, so it must be communist.
"My guess is that if Chavez succeeds in Venezuela -- a big 'if' in a country of endemic corruption, poverty and crime, in the backyard of the U.S. superpower -- its economic system will end up looking more like Sweden than Cuba."
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Friday Fun Mini Pods
George Washington
"Got a wig for his wig. Got a brain from his heart.
He'll kick you apart, he'll kick you apart."
Take the best music you can find, add "god" (wearing white, "clapping you hands-pop" etc) stir and sprinkle what looks like a high school quir on top. You now have an awesome a cappella version of Sufjan Stevens "Chicago".
Some americans are bitter cause they suck at sports. Cracked
It was fun the
first time.
Hasselhoff "Jump in my car" Google
Video
In other Hoff-news.
If your drunk at Wimbledon and no one knows who you are, it's a great idea
to scream "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Hoff". The
Sun
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Copycat Mannie, part:2
Maybe, one day, Ann Coulter will write a book of her own.
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"Garrulity helps our enemies"
This soviet propaganda poster should have been used by the AIM/Freeeeepers at their NYT "demonstration". Then they might have had more people there.
"The Day
Spa Protest"
MyDD
RELATED:
"China to ban news reports..." Independent
"The newbies guide to detecting the NSA" Wired
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No flags were
hurt during
the making of this website.
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The Science of the Media
Jonathan went to see Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth and makes a great point about the media's response.
Gore noted
that in an exhaustive study of almost every piece of research published on
global warming in scientific journals, a sample of 928 articles was examined.
Every single one of those 928 studies concluded that global warming was happening
and that human activity was substantially responsible for it. In other words,
as Gore has noted, the scientific debate about global warming and its sources,
is over.
In a parallel study of 636 news accounts of global warming, by contrast, 53%
suggested that there was no scientific consensus on the question of global
warming and its causes.
Any questions?
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Ted Stevens
angry
You not like it when Ted Stevens angry
Ted Stevens explains
the Internets. Sort of...
Wired (with
mp3)
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World Cup fallouts
Before the World Cup it was repeated over and over that you should not "mention the war", while in Germany. This was to be (and became) a time for the germans to make peace with their history, their flag and themselves. Sadly, they're not returning the favor to the italians.
Come on Italy!!
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"Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose"
NY
Post
All that silicone must be killing her back.
It's pretty bad when the Post turns on you.
QUESTION:
What happens now?
A) Coulter appears on hannity&COLMES 60 times
the coming two weeks. Pretending to face her accusers head on, but really
just blabbing about something else (like always).
B)
Nothing. Answering her critics means she admits they exists.
What would Phyllis
Schlafly do?
(our guess is B)
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|
Schiavo revisited Hannity's
Schiavo nurse might lose her license for making up stuff about Michael
Schiavo. |
 |
OLD HANNITY/SCHIAVO STUFF
The video of
Hannity coaching the nurses.
Huffington
Post (.mov)
Listen to Keith's
interview with Michael Schiavo
MP3, 6 min 32 sec, 3,8 mb,
"Hannity
goes after Michael Schiavo"
Newshounds
Nobel Prize nominee,
I think not
Media Matters
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Europe Rules!!
...or at least kicks the football a little bit better.
WORLD CUP SEMIS
Germany-Italy Hoping for Italy, fears Germany will once again get a
little help from the crowd and the ref. (not
bitter, not bitter, not bitter)
Portugal-France Hopes and believes the french will win. The portuguese came out of the lose/lose game against England (neither team semifinal worthy) and the french once again proved that you shouldn't trust Nike commercials. Especially the ones where Eric Cantona promotes the "beautiful" game.
GIANLUCA PESSOTTO
Remember to send
a thought to "the Professor" and his family. Even the biggest Juve-hater
cannot deny that...
"Ci
sono grandi giocatori e giocatori grandi. Gianluca Pessotto fa parte di quest'ultima
categoria."
(There's great players and then there's players who are great. Gianluca
Pessotto is in the later category)
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Who owns the US Media?
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Senate Race Ranking
Check out the
2006 Senate Race Ranking
Guess who's number 1, who's seat seems to be going the other way. We'll give
you a hint. His name starts with Santor...
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