Archive for February, 2008

UK Thursday #2

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Rojo
on February 28, 2008
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Hot off the press today is this story, leaked to international media before being made public by the MoD this afternoon:

Prince Harry fights the Taliban

Harry is third in line to the throne, being the second son of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, heir apparent. After completing his officer training at Sandhurst he had wanted to be deployed to Iraq, but this was blocked by the MoD as being dangerous to both him and his unit, due to his hoght profile. Thus the current deployment was made under a total media blackout and now has to be reviewed. Continue reading ‘UK Thursday #2′

More demands from Islam

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Sci Fi Samurai
on February 28, 2008
in Humor, Politics and Terrorism
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I received this in my email today. I watched it and, as with most dialogs that abandon restraint from political correctness, I found it refreshing. I thought I’d share it with you guys.
 http://www.dotsub.com/films/moredemands/…

RIP Bill Buckley

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Relantel
on February 27, 2008
in Uncategorized
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This morning marked the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., the founder of National Review. He was 82. The news was broken in the Corner a little after 11am.

For years, he was the conservative movement - without him, many other cogs don’t come into being, including Reagan and Limbaugh.

May he rest in peace.

Added by Krog:

Pens double up Isles 4-2 as Pens await arrival of Marian Hossa

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Relantel
on February 26, 2008
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Shock. Awe. Just Wow. Marian Hossa is a Pittsburgh Penguin.

The Penguins were players at today’s trade deadline, in a way not thought possible. They gave up a bit, trading away fan favorites Colby Armstrong and Erik Christensen, along with Angelo Esposito (their 2007 1st round pick), and their 1st round pick in 2008 to Atlanta for Right Wings Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis. Hossa is an elite sniper, and expected to play alongside Sidney Crosby when he returns from his high ankle sprain. The other deal brought defenseman Hal Gill from Toronto for a 2nd round pick in 2008 and a 5th round pick in 2009.

With the afternoon trade deadline, the Pens were short two roster players, with the new players not able to get to Long Island in time. The Pens were forced to recall Connor James and Nathan Smith, just sent back down last weekend, from their AHL team in Wilkes Barre/Scranton. The late call up meant that they did not get to Long Island in time either, so the Pens started the game two men down. Both played first in the middle of the 2nd period, and James would be rewarded with his first career goal in the 3rd period, as the Pens earned a 4-2 win on Long Island.

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Palestinian Children’s Show Features Jew-Eating Rabbit

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Krogenar
on February 26, 2008
in Humor, Politics and Television
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Wow.

To give you a rundown on this Palestinian children’s show, “Pioneers of Tomorrow”, it always features a large animal host. I think they started out with a Mickey Mouse’s estranged brother ‘Farfour’ who was martyred about a year ago (see video below) who was then replaced by a bee. The bee couldn’t get the medical attention necessary (thanks to evil Jews, natch) and he has now been bravely replaced by a rabbit named ‘Lion’.

Here’s the video of Farfour being martyred:

I wonder if the Israelis have a comparable television show for their children. I doubt it.

Should we laugh at this stuff, or cry?

Poetry of glenn: The Soliloquy, 7.27.95-2

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Relantel
on February 26, 2008
in Poetry
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Our last installment for February takes us back to July of 1995, and a look into the thought process of writing a soliloquy.  It may have been in the last edition of Annotations of Life.

"The Soliloquy"

such medicine it is,
 the debating of thoughts
several in a short time
   finding your way
 within yourself

  in the mind
    where all inhibitions
       are forsaken,
   heated discussions
   of tormenting thoughts
  of dilemmas, quandries
        and love

where else
    is such a playing ground
  so fertile,
 so fresh
that all can be game

  Resolutions
of thought, of mind
usually are the result,
    but, rarer still,
are the deepest bowels of despair
    that push some shakespearian men
 over the edge to death

 Overall, the soothing
  cannot be denied --
the renewed mental state --
 and strength to face the world.

7.27.95-2     glenn

NASCAR mismanages rain at California Speedway

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Relantel
on February 25, 2008
in NASCAR
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The weekened was a lesson in the havoc that mother nature can make. Rain, rain and more rain followed NASCAR’s top three series to the newly rechristened “Auto Club Speedway of Southern California” - freshly renamed from California Speedway on Friday.

Rain forced cancellation of qualifying for all three series, and left each series with little or no practice time on the track.  The Truck race was the only one to go off as scheduled, on Saturday afternoon, but Sprint Cup final practice was curtailed after 17 laps, and the Nationwide series race was postponed before it started.

NASCAR’s first move was to put the Nationwide race 1 hour following the Sunday Sprint Cup race.   They didn’t count on the rain forcing the Sprint race to start more than two hours late, then suffer an hour and twenty minute red-flag due to an accident and water seepage issues, only to again be red-flagged for rain at 9:12PM eastern.  At some point early in the 2nd red flag, it was decided the Nationwide race would be at 1pm EST on Monday (today). That was when they still thought they could get the Sprint race in late Sunday night.  The FOX crew kept up with updates, first at 11pm, saying check back at midnight, then at midnight, it was the track should be ready at 1am. At 1am, they announced they would go back racing at 2am.  And, you guessed it, at 2am they decided to postpone it until 1pm Monday.  This postponement meant the Nationwide race had to be postponed yet again, since both races cannot run simultaneously. This time, it was to the indefinite time of 1 hour following the conclusion of the Sprint Cup series race.

All of this wreaks havoc on the Tivo, since most NASCAR fans will be at work during the Cup race, and would not get home until the Nationwide race has started.  Hindsight certainly echoes several drivers thoughts at the Lap 21 red flag - NASCAR should have postponed the Cup race to Monday at the outset.  As it stands now, they will restart on Lap 87, with five cars out of contention due to water-caused accidents.

ADDENDUM: I noticed this David Poole column after posting. Poole follows the NASCAR beat for The Charlotte Observer, but does opinion pieces on Thatsracin.com as well. He goes so far to suggest that the Speedway ought not be on the schedule. (California inherited its second date from Darlington’s Southern 500 - the Labor Day Race - in 2004, much to the chagrin of the traditionalists)

Jericho comes back fast paced

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Relantel
on February 25, 2008
in Television
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Two weeks ago saw the return of Jericho on CBS, now on Tuesday from the banishment that is Friday television.  Unlike the first season, a full 22 episode one, this 2nd season has everything crammed into 7 episodes.

This cramming forces long plot arcs to be revealed in short time, leaving some developments unexplained. The premiere unveils a new goverment (”Cheyenne”) with a new flag, in control of the Western U.S., and it spreading a false story of who was behind the bombs. Hawkins is revealed for which side he is on, and forced to take greater risks. It also brings Major Beck into the picture, who is with Cheyenne’s 10th Mountain Division.

 Catch up on episodes here on CBS.com, including 2.1 and 2.2.

And as always, the full whodroppedthebomb.com takes one to CBS’s primetime page for Jericho.

UK Thursday #1

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Rojo
on February 21, 2008
in Uncategorized
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Welcome to my weekly round up of what’s rocking the UK this week in news. Each week I’ll try to focus on three or four stories and round up any other news.

Today saw the announcement by the government that US extraordinary rendition flights did land on British soil in Diego Garcia on their way to other countries, or maybe to a prison on the island. Here’s the BBC’s take:

UK apology over rendition flights

And here it is in the Guardian:

Miliband admits US rendition flights stopped on UK soil

The theory about these flights is that they transport terrorist suspects to loactions where they can be interrogated without people snooping in i.e. places that are beyond the reach of extra governmental organisations or international laws. The British government’s story is that the US only just told them about the flights due to some kind of clerical error, the government having denied using British territory to land CIA planes for several years.

This will obviously create a stir, as the ER flights have been pretty controversial on this side of the pond for some years, the widely held opinion being that if we are to uphold democratic ideals and the rule of law, we should at least stick by them. This can only make more trouble for the government, more next week probably. Continue reading ‘UK Thursday #1′

Film Review: Lifeforce

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Krogenar
on February 20, 2008
in Movies
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Synopsis: When a human spaceship tasked with exploring Halley’s comet discovers a strange ship in the tail of the comet, three crystalline chambers are found. Within each, a perfect human specimen — one female and two males, all nude. Nude women normally excite me, but in this case it would have been better for everyone had they just let the alien ship keep on cruisin’ the spaceways. Instead, they take the three nudies back aboard their space shuttles and head back for earth. Oh, did I mention that inside the ship there were some bat-like creatures about a zillion years old, and vaguely humanoid? You’d think astronauts had read some science fiction as kids, but no — they bring the sleeping humanoids back to Earth.

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