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I remember Norman Mailer
2007-11-12 22:32:00
norman-mailer-ripOriginally uploaded by jarvic7.In 1969 Norman Mailer was running in the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of New York City along with columnist Jimmy Breslin who was trying for City Council President. Despite the fact that I did not agree with Mailer's anti-war views I invited him and Breslin to come speak at Wagner College in Staten Island. I was very heavy into Ayn Rand and I fancied it would be fun to spar with him. Although I thought I had some very strong intellectual arguments against some of his leftist positions, what I didn't count on was that Mailer had great routines at evading thrusts for which he did not have handy cogent replies. Sometimes those with a greater repertoire of evasive skills can dominate an argument. It wasn't until years later that I recognized some of those leftist routines: Liberals yell Islamophobe or racist when they have no good answer in regard to Islamic terror. As a digression, I should mention that Mark Rudd, who ...
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Leaving Las Vegas
2007-11-10 21:34:00
mark cuban @ blogworld expoOriginally uploaded by mil8. I'm heading back home from Blogworld Expo. I would like to tell you what happened here but you know what they say about Las Vegas ... Only kidding. I will be adding some really fabulous features when I get back starting Sunday. One particular highlight of this trip was meeting and talking with Mark Cuban. I should mention that I always thought he was about 5' 10" but unless I am mistaken he is 6' 3". I suppose that we always see him with his players makes him look shorter. He told me he lost 30 pounds as he poked my potbelly (the curse of blogging too much). I really need to exercise more. Mark had some great insights into Youtube and their problem with user uploaded content. He noted that Youtube has no porn, so they could, if they wanted to, also filter copyrighted material being uploaded. He said Youtube's fears that users will not tolerate waiting a day for their content to be approved is overblown. ...
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Nothing Wrong with Banning wearing of Hijab
2007-11-07 23:29:00
Hijab-a-scooterOriginally uploaded by aymanshamma.I am using the free WiFi at the JetBlue terminal in JFK. Laptops outnumber passengers without them. I should be in Las Vegas shortly after midnight EST. So I decided to dash off this post before my plane departs; I can't wait for Internet in the Sky. If this country asked Muslims to eat pork - I would stand up for their rights because it is compulsory in Islam to avoid the eating of pork. If this country asked Muslims to drink alcohol - I would stand up for their rights because it is compulsory in Islam to avoid the drinking of alcohol. If we asked Muslims to pray to Jesus - I would stand up for their rights because it is compulsory in Islam to pray only to Allah because God does not beget nor is he begotten. But all Muslims tell you that wearing of the hijab is voluntary, that Muslim women LOVE wearing the veil and there is no compulsion to its use. So if it is truly a matter of choice, and the lifting of the veil is no i...
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Warren Buffet is an Idiot
2007-11-06 22:36:00
Sometimes a person can be so wealthy that he loses touch with the common man. According to popular myth, Marie Antoinette was so divorced from the plight of the peasants that hearing they had no bread to eat, suggested "qu’ils mangent de la brioche" ("Let them eat cake"). Warren Buffet , fluctuating between being the second or third richest man in America, has informed us that he (and by extension, every rich person) pays too little in income taxes in terms of percentage. As for proof, he confessed that his effective tax rate is 17.7%. Then taking 15 volunteers from his office personnel in Omaha, Nebraska calculated that not one had an effective tax rate below 32.9%. Of course, this is all smoke and mirrors. Mr. Buffett pays exactly the same rate on the first $102,000 of income as do his employees. Since FICA taxes stop at that point, anyone making more than that amount will have a lower tax rate. Should rich people continue paying the FICA tax on the rest of their income ju...
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I'll be at BlogWorld Expo
2007-11-05 21:17:00
From Wednesday night until Saturday morning I will be in Las Vegas for Blogworld Expo , the first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. Here are some of the top name bloggers that'll be there:BlogworldExpo, Political Bloggers Speaking at BlogWorldThis is a great line up if I do say so myself! Hugh Hewitt, Jerome Armstrong (MYDD), John Hinderaker (Powerline Blog), Jeralyn Merritt (Talk Left), Glenn Reynolds (The Instapundit), Joe Sudbay (America Blog), Ed Morrissey (Captains Quarters), Sean-Paul (The Agonist), NZ Bear (TTLB), Pam Spaulding (Pam’s House Blend), Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), Brad Friedman (Brad Blog), Mary Katherine Ham (Townhall.com) Nate Wilcox, Dean Barnett (The Weekly Standard), Professor David Perlmutter, Michael Medved, Roger L. Simon, Kevin from Wizbang and more. Now I know what you are thinking. You normally wouldn’t find half of these folks hanging out with the othe...

All About Bubba
2007-11-04 19:08:00
A short story with pictures from the internet: Bubba meets the girl of his dreams, his first cousin Emmy Lou. He takes her out for a special dinner, and shows her a good time at the Redneck Carnival at Diggerland. The next day they spend together and Bubba shows off his water skiing skills. Later that night, he romances her under special mood lighting. A week or so later, Bubba realizes this relationship is getting serious. He makes reservations for a Valentine's Day dinner. Emmy Lou was so impressed with his thoughtfulness, they had a special Friday night date at the Soap & Suds Laundromat ! A month later he proposes to Emmy Lou, and he buys her a really purdy engagement ring. On the day of their wedding, he tells her how much he loves her just before the ceremony . Then they're off to their Honeymoon Suite, where they open their wedding gifts. Their favorites ? Hers was the Chandelier, His was the New BBQ Bubba takes h...

PETA Barely Protests
2007-08-28 16:40:00
I have to tell you I'm a little disappointed with PETA's latest protest, "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" in Hollywood - August 20, 2007. Speak plainly; if you mean you'd rather go barely naked than wear fur, say that. But what's the point of a bare-assed lie? Or nearly bare, that is. When I was younger people had the courage of their convictions. Today, spoiled brats like Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan get convictions without any courage involved at all. What a shabby, pusillanimous lot of young people there are today. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays I host Open Trackback parties. This allows bloggers who have interesting posts to share them with my readers and therefore, presumably, a wider audience. My normal rules for linking, Bernie's 8 Rules, are suspended. That is, there is no set topic and as long as the post is not a splog entry, you can link whatever you like especially if it is offensive to Islam. Nothing linked here indicates that I either agree with or...
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FOKO and the Burning Forests of Madagascar
2007-08-27 18:36:00
Before I tell you what FOKO is, let me take you through the dynamics of Slash and Burn . In the US and much of Europe managed timber lands has led to the increased forest cover in those countries, see Liberals Cannot See the Trees for the Fore sts and as I explained in Muslims largest Cause of Global Warming I am not one of those who believe that we are in danger of a cataclysmic Global Warming which will doom the Earth. On the other hand, I do believe that destroying rain forests raises the level of CO2 which will be problematic long term. That is to say the problem with Global Warming, to the extent that there is any, is not a problem with what the United States is doing, but rather on what much of the under-developed world is doing, mainly in the destruction of forests in their part of the world. Ignorance and bountiful fecundity are the biggest contributors to slash and burn in the world today: Through ignorance, deforestation occurs because of primitive timber exploit...
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When Castro Dies comes the real revolution
2007-08-27 03:34:00
Although I expected the Berlin Wall to fall sooner or later, I was surprised when it did. Although I expect Fidel Castro to die sooner or later, I will be surprised when he does, given all the false rumors of his previous deaths. When Castro finally does die though, that will not be the end, but the beginning of a revolution. Very few people know this but before Castro liberated Cuba from foreign exploitation it was an economic powerhouse with an economy stronger than half of the countries in Europe at the time. It only became a banana republic after Communism. Presently, Hawaii has a bigger tourist industry than all of Mexico combined and I expect that Cuba, once liberated from Castro's clutches, can do even more business given the island's proximity to the US. What surprised me all my life was why the US tolerated Castro at all. After all we have invaded countries before that never attacked us, Germany in World War Two, Korea in the early 50s, and Vietnam in the 60s. Thi...
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Women who smell bad
2007-08-26 05:10:00
Back in June 1967, less than a week after the 6 Day War in Israel, I left for Paris to study French at the Alliance Francaise, Sorbonne. The classes were all-day affairs and brutally difficult so when I saw the poster for the new James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, I rushed to the theater to see it. I was a heavy James Bond fan in the 60s, I even combed my hair like him, see my photo in this article. (BTW, click on poster to see the French version, and yes, it's safe for work) Parisian theaters in those days would show filmed advertisements shortly before the main feature. One of those ads was for a female underarm deodorant. As I remember the ad, a woman is standing in a bus hanging on a strap with her underarm just above a poor fellow's head. Squiggly odor waves cascade over this guy and he takes out the underarm deodorant and sprays it on the woman's armpit hairs. The audience laughed at this; deodorants were rather a novel thing in Paris in those days. I suppose they wonde...
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Death in the Family
2007-08-24 19:20:00
John Garfield.jpgOriginally uploaded by drxblog.My wife's first cousin Sonia died last week, not quite 60 years old after battling cancer. Sonia worked for much of her life in her father's bar and although she never smoked herself, she breathed others' smoke. I suppose Sonia will be classified as a non-smoker who died of lung cancer although that would not be quite accurate. I am opposed to the government passing laws to protect idiots who want to injure themselves. That is, if you want to smoke it should be legal, just not around other people. New Jersey's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants was the subject of post number 2 of this blog. If your smoke didn't impact my health directly I would care less. I have a similar attitude regarding seat belts. I would be opposed to the seat belt law, you want to die go die, except for one thing. Usually the idiot who is not seat-belted dies because he gets thrown in front of another car and gets run over. I do not want your ...
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Iraqi Passport Photo Camera
2007-08-24 05:36:00
I know I make fun of Muslim creativity and inventiveness in my blog posts Scientific Breakthroughs from Jews and Muslims, Israel Creates more in One Month than Islam in a Century, How Many Muslims have won Nobel Prizes, anyway?, Muslim Inventions - Nobel Prizes, The Arab Contribution to Civilization: Nothing Lately, and How the world looks when you've created nothing: Islam, but you have to hand it to the Iraqi s, they really know how to make a passport photo camera. This one is specially made for uninvited illegal immigrants. By the way, here is a typical passport photo of a Muslim mommy and her child:
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Bruce Willis comes to my High School in Bayonne
2007-08-23 20:10:00
vroom Originally uploaded by planck's constant When I was in the 5th grade at P.G. Vroom School in Bayonne New Jersey, the Principal was Fidelis T. Wangler. The problem with having a bad reputation is that you get blamed for perfectly innocent acts and I had a very, very bad reputation. One of the things I enjoyed doing at that time was skipping rope and there were only two sets of skip rope available during recess. Unfortunately there came a time when a selfish little girl monopolized one of the skip ropes and wouldn't give it to me when I thought she had skipped enough during the period. When she refused my request I tried to wrestle it out of her hands which were now hidden behind her and I had to circle my arms completely around her waist to get to the rope when she started screaming for me to let her go. Mr. Wangler witnessed this event and, grabbing me tightly by the arm, dragged me to his office. He closed the door and said that what I did was a very, very bad t...
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Michael Vick would be smart to convert to Islam
2007-08-23 03:25:00
sad pit bullOriginally uploaded by hot babe99.R.L. White, president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP wants to give Michael Vick a pass (no pun intended) because he's black: USA Today, 22 Aug 2007,NAACP urges NFL to let Vick play again"As a society, we should aid in his rehabilitation and welcome a new Michael Vick back into the community without a permanent loss of his career in football..." "We further ask the NFL, Falcons, and the sponsors not to permanently ban Mr. Vick from his ability to bring hours of enjoyment to fans all over this country." Sadly, no one from the NAACP or the black community spoke the same words in regard to Imus and his career and the enjoyment of his fans; see Al Sharpton is a Nappy Headed Ho. But such is life in these here United States, whites get the shaft and blacks get cut a little slack. However, here is my advice to Michael Vick if he really wants to get off without losing his career or sponsors: Convert to Islam . First of all, I...
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Are you Male or Female?
2007-08-21 20:19:00
Male or Female ? Originally uploaded by *mike7.net This just proves that we have become a little too dependent on our computers. Are you male or female? To find out the answer, look down... ...Look down, not scroll down, dummy! Trackposted to Perri Nelson's Website, third world county, Big Dog's Weblog, Right Truth, The World According to Carl, Pirate's Cove, Webloggin, The Amboy Times, Right Voices, Gone Hollywood thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
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When Bank Robbers dont get sh*t
2007-08-21 18:38:00
100_0827Originally uploaded by conradhofmeyr.First you have to read the story: Ananova, Robb ers snatch dog pooA Chinese woman has told how robbers snatched a parcel of dog poo wrapped in newspaper out of her hand outside a bank. Mrs Chen, of Laohekou city, was waiting in the bank to withdraw money when nature suddenly called for her dog. "While I was waiting in the queue, my dog had to poo. So I asked for several pieces of newspaper to wrap the poo," she said. After wrapping it, Chen left the bank, and was waiting to cross the street to throw the parcel into a rubbish bin when the robber struck. "A motorcycle stopped swiftly before me, the man on the rear seat seized the package from me, and they sped away," she said. I imagine the thugs had a hard time explaining to their boss that they didn't get any money: Boss: "OK boys how much did we get in today's snatch?" Thief: "Sorry, boss, we didn't get any money." Boss: "Are you lying to me? Swear to me that you didn't g...
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Because that is how my parents did it
2007-08-21 06:06:00
Crazy CribOriginally uploaded by anastasiav.If you ever want to give a stupid reason for doing something, say "Because that is how my parents did it." I bring this up because I was recently asked by a young woman for advice on buying a crib for a baby she and her husband are expecting. Well, I thought that was a barbaric practice and so I asked her why she didn't want the baby in bed with her, the natural way, as most of the world does it. She gave me the stupid reason: that's how her parents did it. I told her that her parents were idiots, nothing personal, but the safest way for a baby to sleep is in bed with her mother and father. A child is 50 to 60 times more likely to die in a crib than in a bed with its parents: AskDrSears, SLEEPING SAFELY WITH YOUR BABY... in most countries around the world sleeping with your baby is the norm, not the exception. And what is the incidence of SIDS in these countries? During the 1990s, in Japan the rate was only one tenth of the U.S. ra...
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Poodwaddle
2007-08-20 19:41:00
Poodwaddle.com Click on year, month, week, day, now buttons to change the stats. I thought I would share this with my readers., Cool, eh? This and other widgets are available here. You can even customize your own home page. If you like you can put the world's vital stats in your sidebar: Unfortunately my sidebar is so cluttered I had to put it into a separate post filled with nothing but flairs, buttons, and widgets. It would be useful if Poodwaddle had a line that showed in dollars how much money we are paying Muslim sand fleas for the oil we helped discover, develop and refine. For 1400 years Muslims could only cause trouble when they had money to fund their wars of conquest. If you watch the barrels of oil produced in the stats above it should be clear why there have been so many Muslim atrocities since 9/11: Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, Perri Nelson's Website, Mark My Words, Committees of Correspondence, Rosemary's Thoughts, ...

The Flower of the Fence
2007-08-18 12:32:00
My attorney friend B.W., emailed me this amazing story yesterday: "The Flow er of the Fence " August, 1942. Piotrkow, Poland. The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow's Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square. Word had gotten around that we were being moved. My father had only recently died from typhus, which had run rampant through the crowded ghetto. My greatest fear was that our family would be separated. "Whatever you do," Isidore, my eldest brother, whispered to me, "don't tell them your age. Say you're sixteen". I was tall for a boy of 11, so I could pull it off. That way I might be deemed valuable as a worker. An SS man approached me, boots clicking against the cobblestones. He looked me up and down, then asked my age. "Sixteen," I said. He directed me to the left, where my three brothers and other healthy young men already stood. My mother was motioned to the right with the other women, childr...

Russians offered day off, prizes to procreate
2007-08-16 22:21:00
The Kartuzov family, shown in June 2007, drive away in their new UAZ-Patriot SUV, which they won as a grand prize in a regionalcontest titled "Give Birth to a Patriot on Russia's Independence Day."Photo Credit: API have written an article previously on the population crises in Russia: Islamic Russia and the End of Civilization. Although most of the world is getting overpopulated, Russia and the more developed nations have a birthrate that is too low. MSNBC,14 Aug 2007,Russians offered day off, prizes to procreateA Russian region best known as the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin has found a novel way to fight the nation’s birthrate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate. The hope is for a brood of babies exactly nine months later on Russia’s national day. Couples who “give birth to a patriot” during the June 12 festivities win money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes. Ironical...
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Muslim Exploding Panties
2007-08-16 19:03:00
We noticed her yellow panties on the outside of her pants.She turned around to give us a better look.I asked permission to take a photo.She said yes.I then got down to ass level and snapped this pic. =)" />Mardi Gras PantiesOriginally uploaded by darkhairedgirl.I was thinking recently of all the things I cannot do because of evil or stupid people. If a Muslim owns a fast-food franchise I can't get pork with my breakfast and in a number of states it is still legal for pharmacists to refuse to dispense emergency contraceptive prescriptions:commondreams.org, Moral Judgments on Birth Control Endangering Women's LivesSome pharmacists "just say no" to filling the prescriptions. Others don't offer these women alternative locations where they can get them filled. A few zealous pharmacists have actually gone off the deep end and refused to return the prescriptions to the women for whom they were written. That's obstruction -- someone who is licensed by the state to provide a medical se...
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Scientific Breakthroughs from Jews and Muslims
2007-08-14 15:40:00
Iran last week announced the invention of an earth-shattering product that civilized countries have had for decades:Fars News Agency, 5 Aug 2007,Iranian Invents Camera for BlindAn Iranian inventor designed and produced the first photography and video camera for the blind. Mahvash Sepehr told FNA that the camera works with color waves and their reactions and it can determine the distance automatically. "Using this camera, blind people can recognize the distance and position of the subject, " she said, adding that she has also invented special tanks for the blind to develop their negatives. "Once the film is developed, the tank starts ringing to warn the blind person that it is time to bring the negative out of the liquid," the Iranian inventor concluded. I know what you are thinking: film developer timers already exist and who the hell wants to develop old style film and any American camera already has auto-focus and why would blind people want to take photographs for anyway?...
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Typhoon Lagoon and the Reconquista
2007-08-13 14:25:00
Typhoon Lagoon Originally uploaded by Burnsland.First, some background: three months ago in my post The Portuguese Reconquista and New Jersey Bookies, I wrote that once Europe got rid of its Muslims the great age of European exploration began. I noted that Pedro Álvares Cabral was the first European discoverer of the sea route to Brazil. Now the story: We went to Typhoon Lagoon early yesterday at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. The first thing I did was get a locker to store my valuables and was handed locker key number 1468. I noted that the Disney cashier had a name tag with "Mohammed" engraved on it, so I said to one of the other cashiers, "Oh, key number 1468 - that was the year the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who discovered Brazil, was born. Did you know that the Portuguese got a head start in the great European exploration of the world because they got rid of Muslims before anyone else? The other cashier asked, "What are you, a history buff?" I answ...
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War ends in Germany on this Day
2007-07-10 04:22:00
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin - IIOriginally uploaded by 2composers. I was 12 years old and we loved to play war. I would be the Americans and Tommy Pietrak would be the Nazis and we would alternate who was the enemy. It was the Summer of 1957 and there was no shortage of war movies from Hollywood to use as fodder for our games. We even bought tiny Nazi and US flags to drape over lampshades for better effect. My father rarely came home during the daytime, he was always working in his ladies shop so he never knew we played Nazis and GI's. Except for one time. I don't recall why he came home that afternoon, but the moment he spotted the Nazi flag, he viciously yanked it off the lamp and threw it on the ground and started stomping on it all the while yelling words in Yiddish I never heard before. Then he came for me. Now my father was from old school - if your kid did something wrong, he would get spanked with a leather strap and hard. I normally got strapped about every week o...
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Why Young People are not educated
2007-07-09 04:25:00
the flyOriginally uploaded by icky_twerp.We see Jay Leno do it often: he asks young Americans if they know who Winston Churchill is or to name one Supreme Court Judge or if they know where Italy is. It's embarrassing to watch our youth display zero knowledge about history, geography, government, math or even basic literature. At first I thought it was the fault of mass fluoridation of water that lowered the I.Q. of every American born after 1976. But I came across the video below that finally explains why so many young kids today are left-wing liberal idiots. Before I explain, a little background: The human brain contains 100 billion neurons where each neuron can connect to 10,000 other neurons. It is this interconnection that gives us intelligence. Merely knowing a fact by itself, unconnected to any other fact can easily be done by worms or toads. When I see a fly, I don't just record the fly into a mental file by itself. It gets connected to other flying insects, to the ...
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Liberalism causes stupidity and blindness
2007-07-08 06:53:00
Glasgow Airport Terror AttackOriginally uploaded by Islãndßoy.Aside from gadgets and games and many other things, liberal DIGGERS love to DIGG articles that demean George Bush or the United States or makes fun of right wing Christians or twaddles about government conspiracies or disputes that there is an Islamic Threat. For now, I would like only to discuss this last item. Here is an example: DIGG, Terror Attacks in UK Turn Out to Be Yet Another Convoluted Big Media ScareBritish officials are concerned over some sensationalized reporting by the media on the recent car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow. Add this plot to the growing pile of half-baked terror plots carried out by patsies, dim-wits, and extremist individuals who are no way connected to Al Queda. Now the originaI article only says we should not jump to conclusions about any links to Al Qaeda. But look at how this DIGGER spun it into "there is no Islamic threat - it's just a big media scare - no real danger here...
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TT 13 Reasons Turkey is not in the EU
2007-07-05 21:01:00
At first one assumes Turk ey is being held back from entry into the European Union for economic or political reasons. For example, The European Parliament back in 2004 reported that Turkey is not yet ready to start EU membership talks because of continued influence of the army in politics, the continuing torture practices and the discrimination of religious minorities. On 1 Apr 2007, the EU Parliament concluded that Turkey still does not yet meet the Copenhagen political criteria for EU membership. And as of last week France has erected roadblocks that irritate Turkey. But what are the real reasons holding back Turkey's accession to EU membership? Here are the first 12: [Click twice on the image the first time, then only once to walk through the photo gallery] OK, so some of the images are not of Turkey, but it's the sentiment that counts. Now the 13th and last image below is also not from Turkey, but here is the problem: According to the Maastricht treaty everyo...
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Glasgow - No Shortage of Heroes - Alex McIlveen
2007-07-05 16:17:00
So when John Smeaton insisted he was no braver than other Glaswegians who took on the terrorists he must have been referring to Alex McIlveen. Here is that story: Daily Record, 4 Jul 2007,HERO CABBIE: POLICE TOOK MY GOOD NIKE TRAINERSBATTLING taxi driver Alex McIlveen faced down the Glasgow Airport terror suspects ... and his courage cost him his favourite pair of trainers and a £30 parking fine. Dad-of-two Alex punched and kicked the two men after they crashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas canisters into the door of Terminal One. The 45-year-old booted one of the suspects, whose body was covered in flames, as hard as he could between the legs. But the man didn't appear to feel the blow, and a police doctor told Alex later that he'd damaged a tendon in his foot. After the drama, police confiscated Alex's trainers for forensic tests. And when he went back to the airport to pick up his cab, he was stunned to find that he'd been given a parking ticket. Alex said: "The po...
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If I were black I would be offended
2007-07-05 05:23:00
RaceOriginally uploaded by planck's constant.I am not posting anything negative on the Fourth of July, so please do not misconstrue the title. I would like to make two points in my article today: 1) We obviously live in the greatest country in the world and to those who recognize that fact I wish them a Happy Fourth of July. 2) We do not live in a 100%, absolutely, positively, completely perfect society, although if politicians would stop fooling around with the formula we could be living in a near-perfect one; and to those who believe in the concept of America, I wish them a Happy Fourth of July. For the purposes of this article it may be instructive to recall the following words: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This does not mean we owe anyone, black or white or Hispanic, anything at all other than t...
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the Copacabana will never close
2007-07-04 04:37:00
That's right, the Copa will never close. I know what you are thinking, "Bernie, you fool, they already closed." Jaunted2 Jul 2007,Copacabana: As Of Yesterday, Just One Another piece of old New York closed its doors this weekend. The Copacabana, a dance club founded in 1941, is a casualty of subway expansion to the West Side. Good news for Rio de Janeiro (whose chic Copacabana district inspired the name), but bad news for fans of Latin music and disco nostalgics. The nightclub inspired the Barry Manilow song of the same name, and is thought to be the model for The Tropicana, the club Desi Arnaz runs in "I Love Lucy." It's also the site of a real-life scuffle between Yankees (including Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra) and patrons angry at performer Sammy Davis Jr. Mom CopaOriginally uploaded by planck's constant.I was 5 years old when my mother first started going to the original Copa. The one that just closed on West 34th Street was but a mere replica of the original on...
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