May62008
"He is still racking up votes, for one thing, having garnered 16 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary on April 22. And his supporters are still active at the grass-roots level: GOP officials abruptly canceled the Nevada state convention when it became clear that Paul’s backers outnumbered those for McCain and stood ready to take control of the delegate process."
How crime took on the world »
BBC program on the profitable world of cigarette smuggling in the Balkans—and the connection between organized crime and sanctions.
Reblogged from the day they tried to kill me.
Almost Rowdy Roddy Piper in his peak, thesbian role of “They Live” (1988)
“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass.
(pause)
-and I’m all out of bubble gum.”
grrrr html, but here’s the link.
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(via 1000lolz)
Reblogged from Maya Gantt.
Thinking about the song “Let’s have a war” by FEAR
Jonathan Bartlett
Reblogged from this isn't happiness..
Somalia forces 'out of control' »
Civilians are completely at the mercy of armed groups in Somalia, says human rights group Amnesty International.
It says the situation is “dire” in the centre and the south with government troops, their Ethiopian allies and Islamist insurgents “out of control”.
They carry out killings, torture, rape, beatings, arbitrary detention and forced disappearances, a report says.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed the report as a “total fabrication” and demanded an apology.
“We have said repeatedly that our soldiers are the most disciplined soldiers in the world,” said foreign ministry spokesman Wahide Belaye.
“They have never cut anybody’s throat, never gang-raped any women, never deliberately shot civilians in Somalia.”
In Mogadishu, hundreds of people have stormed through the Bakara market area, hurling stones at cars and shops and setting fire to tyres in protest at rising food prices and fake currency.
Troops shot two people dead on Monday in similar protests.
People who have visited the capital, Mogadishu, recently say parts of it are a ghost town, but Amnesty says residents fleeing the city are prey for armed bandits on the road who rape women and girls and steal whatever they have taken with them.
Reblogged from nwsppr.
Local - WMAR ABC2 News Baltimore Maryland »
/cop hits car and lies about it. Forgets he has a dashcam that catches him in his lie. D’oh.
A lot of discussion about the quality of this boob, and yes, it gets high marks, and now according to this story, it’s natural lactation produces baby geniuses.
/the guy or girl who said “ignorance is bliss” I believe did so many years ago, probably after an incident similiar to this.
"59. Write a thank-you note. Make a habit of it. Follow a simple formula like this one: First line is a thesis statement. The second line is evidentiary. The third is a kind of assertion. Close on an uptick. Thanks for having me over to watch game six. Even though they won, it’s clear the Red Sox are a soulless, overmarketed contrivance of Fox TV. Still, I’m awfully happy you have that huge high-def television. Next time, I really will bring beer. Yours,"
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Skills for Men - Things Men Should Be Able to Do - Esquire
/via Vinh. This is the one I need to work on.
"The main camp is located near the town of Jalil Azad, near Tehran, according to coalition officials. The capture of Qais Khazali, a major figure in the Shia insurgency alongside Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Lebanese Hizbollah guerilla, last year yielded a treasure trove of information on Hizbollah’s activities in Iraq."
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John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps - Telegraph
/I think that Iraq was the foothold to get in to, and force regime change in Iran, which because of the hardline that particular country towes and more importantly, there is a strong under towe of younger Iranians, with a very proWestern-democracy bent that are silenced by Khomeini and his bureaucracy (there’s also the nuclear shit they are trying to hide…).
//The lesson to be gleaned from Iraq is how to properly insert regime change on a nation while helping increase a country’s domestic stability (i.e. actually liberating a people like we did with France in WW2) so we aren’t greeted as imperial troopers, but harbingers of a better day, regardless of whether our ultimate goal is imperial pilfering or not.
///I don’t think GWBush is capable of this degree of tact or planning.
"A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women’s prison."
A local report in April said that about 30 per cent of the animals are so huge they struggle to get around their 420-square-meter enclosure. (via Pictured: The chunky monkeys who have been put on a diet after being overfed by tourists | the Daily Mail)
MyFox Washington DC | Former Judge Who Lost $54M Pants Suit Sues To Get Job Back
/This guy is the world’s biggest asshole. I fuck, now he’s suing me…
Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth - io9 »
Skydiving specialist Michel Fournier plans to break the world record for the highest skydive ever attempted. If all goes well, he will jump from a balloon at an altitude of around 131,000 feet, or 25 miles above Saskatchewan, Canada. At around 115,000 feet his body will blow through the sound barrier. At 102,800 feet, he will pass the current world record for highest altitude jump.
If exceeding Mach 1 doesn’t tear him apart, he doesn’t go into an uncontrollable spin and die, and he manages to survive lethally low temperatures, pressures, and oxygen levels, his name will go down in the history books.
Nut.
So he likes to be an underdog and has an insecurity-complex thats only briefly subsided by being associated with records, feats of accomplishment, and calculable distances of remarkableness.
/Either way Darwin wins - splat or 25 miles later he raw dogs two chicks at the same time and winds up with a 2/137 chance of being the father of an autistic child.
//unmade and best arguement is for the day-after pill.
Reblogged from Travors.com.
Survivor
by Roger McGough
Everyday,
I think about dying.
About disease, starvation,
violence, terrorism, war,
the end of the world.
keep my mind off things.
\Earlier today some shit was floating around via GQ magazine about 75 things “that everyman must know”, “should know how to do”, or one of their other arbitrary lists that defines proper masculinity, and one of the things was to know one poem by heart. Stumblng Tumblr posted the above poem probably less than an hour ago.
/I’m getting in to the speculative realm of bullshit here, but think I would have posted this poem regardless if I had seen Vinh’s tumbl on the GQ thing or not.
//the photo above was the first image that came up on googleimage when I put in “dulce et decorum es”.
Crazy Florida! »
Is one straight reblogging Fark’s “Florida” tag conveniently in to their own blog?
/or does the state of FLA truly justify the press?
//one of these for NOLA would be something. Now whether that somethinig was truly special or very much disturbing, well, I’ll go with the latter strictly from this old yarn. It’s from the USA today so, if you are screrred of the reading commitment, don’t be.
/minor lol, fuck html
-dhk
Hey, look! Here’s a new group blog for all the wacky stuff that could only happen in the Sunshine State. For sure, this isn’t a new genre — but I do believe the tumblelog format suits this sort of thing just perfectly.
Thanks to fatmanatee for the idea and for being the first contributor. If anyone else is interested because you live here or you just an interest in how darn interesting we make the news, hit me up for an group invite with “Crazy Florida!” as the subject. Thanks!
Reblogged from topherchris.
Tumblize »
If anyone reposts this, do so with an email bc I’ll contact you and hook you up.
/I’m doing the same thing as tumblise, except much cheaper and much cooler. Trust me, you get the same Tumblr theme as DHK! If you’re really interested, it’s 35$ and I’ll include a bonus item: which could be an old book, an old auction catalogue, a vintage trading card, or even a collection of printed reading material from the internet. Hell that’s worth the $35 alone.
//Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaye, Capitalism. Vive le Capitalisme. :)
Wow, lots of buzz around Tumblize today. Those guys that, for “just $999” will supply you with a brand new theme for your tumblelog. No, seriously, it’s just $999. For a one-page design. […]
Personally, $999 seems like a lot of money for a Tumblr theme; however, for that amount of money, I would hope these guys weren’t making the kind of mistakes Richard points out.
Reblogged from cubicle 17.
Kate Nash = Rilo Kiley to me, which is a great thing.
Props to both, tho i gotta say KN’s lyrics are bit more audacious in the brooding ways, but “it’s a hit” is a great fucking song too.
/no pt hear, listen to em both and like credit at Franky and Johny’s, its noooooooo problem. If you had any idea how great the old ver. of this commercial used to be and if you have digi footage of the vintage, special man, maybe one person reading this knows who I’m talking about. sounded like “lettahabid” and he had cigar as well.
Talk about a rip-off! Then there’s this little gem - $5,500 today is worth MUCH more than $5,200 in gas savings spread out over three years. It’s called time-value of money. If you used the $5,500 in cash rebates as your down payment on a new Ram, you save about $500 in interest over the next three years (assuming you get a 3 year loan at 6%). If you got a 6 year loan at 7.99% (which a lot of people do now), using the cash rebate saves you almost $1,500 in interest on a loan, on top of the $5,500 you can take right off the top. (via Dodge’s New Fuel Price Protection Program Is A Scam | tundraheadquarters.com)
As is true with so many human problems, people tend deal with this difficult-to-quantify inequality by giving it a name– “luck”– and then disclaiming any responsibility for how much of it they are apportioned. Luck is considered by many to be a force of nature, coming and going as inevitably as the tide. But Richard Wiseman, a professor at Britain’s University of Hertfordshire, has conducted some experiments which indicate to him that we have a lot more influence on our own good fortune than we realize. (via Damn Interesting » You Make Your Own Luck)
Etiquette Question
From Katydid, I like this one the most bc theres no anxiety to get it done the next day, and no note would be more sincere than one written on the tail-end of the noteworthy event.
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on a completely unrelate note:
\/\/\/~~~/\/\/\/
“You make your own luck”
-anon.
Is it okay (proper) to send a thank you note for a wedding gift that was received before the wedding? Or should I wait until after the wedding? It is still two months away and we have started receiving presents. I like to send things out in a timely fashion, but I’m pretty big on following the rules. I have searched through my etiquette book (yes, I have about 8 of them) and can’t find a ruling for this.the sooner the better with thank you notes - write away! there’s an old southern anecdote about the truest ladies bringing thank you cards to dinner, writing it in the bathroom, and putting it in the mailbox on the way out—probably too much, but you see where i’m going!
Reblogged from o n e s o n g.