Kerry on guitar…
Get ready with the barf bag! Wonder why they didn’t cover a Nugent song? Check out the rent-a-mob in this shot; could they have any less rythmn?
4 commentsSweden says NO!
Sweden has voted no on the referendum on the Euro!
Exit polls:
Against euro: 57%
In favour: 41%
Congratulations to the winning side. It is good to see that the Swedish people have not bought into the Euro-bullshit.
The DT has a good piece on the vote.
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Why do we give foreign aid? We give aid for humanitarian reasons: that is, we wish to relieve human suffering because of famines or natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, etc.; we give aid for economic development. The crisis in Iraq has again raised the issue of how much aid and in what forms are appropriate for the U.S. and other countries to provide. Humanitarian aid at reasonable levels has a strong political constituency in the U.S. and is not going to be abolished. Development aid, on the other hand, has never been popular, and for good reason.(09/14/03)
From: Rational Review
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Today I posted two DVD reviews: one of the new Maiden video retrospective, Visions of the Beast, and Animatrix.
The CDs in today’s batch are Firebird’s latest, a covers album from Bonnie Tyler, a compilation from Bad Taste Records, and, last but not least, a Motorhead box set!
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It’s referred to as hazing by some, but, in fact, it’s just rape and abuse. Funny that the jocks who responded to my piece on sports callled me a poof. Does the expression “repressed” not ring a bell?
This sort of thing frequently happens in sports-based frats at US universities as well. Laughably, when I challenged a pissed frat-member (at Colby) on this particular activity, he claimed it was not “gay” but “bonding”. Um, yeah, ok, and I suppose the showering together is just to save water.
Via: Michele, who also has a link to Hell’s musicians. Nominations are open now!
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The Telegraph has published an idiotic report on a Eurosceptic who welcomed the murder of Ms Lindh in Sweden. The man is neither prominent nor mainstream. I am willing to bet that most Eurosceptics haven’t even heard of Greg Lance-Watkin’s crap site. The arsehat, Daniel Foggo, who wrote the DT piece, should be sacked forthwith for incompetence. Clearly, even a cursory reading of the site in question would make it obvious those running it are on the fringe of politics and a bit nuts.
It is rather curious that Mr Foggo didn’t bother to talk to anyone from the mainsteam Eurosceptic movement. Do I detect a prejudice against a certain side in this argument from Mr Foggo?
Needless to say, I abhor Lance-Watkin’s comments and am absolutely positve that 99% of British Eurosceptics hold the same view.
1 commentFarewell
I was unsettled, as were a lot of people, by the deaths of Johnny Cash and John Ritter yesterday.
Cash’s death is something I’ve occasionally thought of for the last couple of years. I’d known he was in poor health and I think the loss of his wife a few months ago was a blow from which he never recovered.
I’d already mentally written his obituary (“Johnny Cash, one of the icons of American music, and one of America’s yaddayaddayadda . . .”)
Which would all of it have been true. Surely there was no more seminal moment in popular music than that early Sun Sessions confluence of Elvis, Johnny, and Carl Perkins.
The death of John Ritter was, frankly, shocking. I won’t pretend I was a fan — I think I saw Three’s Company about twice, and I was probably more mesmerised by Suzanne Somers’ boobs — but I’ll give him his due as a very good comic actor, and I’ll infer from his long career that he was a professional who showed up on time, knew his lines; and didn’t lock the door in his trailer every Thursday and throw a screaming hissyfit.
That qualifies as gentlemanly behaviour in Hollywood (and more importantly, with its insurers), and he seemed an unaffected, likable guy.
Godspeed you both.
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Quite simply he states there is no negotiation with Hamas. He states that it is entirely within Israel’s rights to kill Hamas’ leadership. He also slams Guardinista-type moral relativity that likens the “troubles” in Northern Ireland with Israel’s fight for survival.
I am sure he is bracing himself for the onslaught of hate mail.
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