Thursday, March 22, 2007
Greater Lusitania Jobbed by the Brits
Imagine. Crocodilho Dondi speaking like Figo, or the Croc Hunter spouting in a whacky Timor Leste accent. Oh the opportunities lost.
Hah, Chicago Cops are getting Soft
Twenty years ago, they did their beating up in full uniform on duty! The ancients took pride in their work.
Dr. Gore spots a Fever
I suppose next he will be quoting Agent Smith as to what the virus is.... [and then offer himself as the cure]
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Not Exactly Making His Point
With Romney quoting Castroisms to Miami Cubans, and this guy making analogies he should really have thought through, the Republicans seem to have been swayed by the glib tongue of Bush
Beyond the Cozy Offices of Oxford...
Click the orange link. The footage is understandably joggy. This might be the chest-beating that Pepe despises (I'm uncertain, specifically, so I'll let him comment). Before lecturing in a cozy hall of academia, chest-beating — from Oxford to Stanford — is unfortunately an unimaginable and unecessary concept.
Soldiers, however, often do that sort of chest beating for mental preparation, much similar to the way an academic might psychologically prepare themselves before, as mentioned, a lecture; before delivering a paper; before reading the latest from Yale University Press.
Strangest "Sport" story of the year [so far]
If this was the Colombian team, you'd have the usual suspects [narco-gamblers]. But what the hell is going on here?
Als Klahr on the Australian Front
The Duke of Planet Pepe is saddened: how could a victim of racist rants indulge in such unashamed racist ranting?
And Yet Another Racist Rant for the ol' DPP
So much racism, with only that thin little red Pepean line to keep it at bay.
Another Racist Rant for the Duke of Planet Pepe
Of course, the christians who retaliated for these attacks were executed. One can either be impressed by this sentence, given that the Imam who ordered the Bali bombing was set free after two years, or one can wager a Sleeman on what small handful of years they will be released to a hero's welcome back on Planet Pepe
A Face to Sink a Thousand Ships
It is depressing how frequently the foster care system seems to end up with this sort of "care" of children
Bouncy Czech vs Pinko Gore
This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection – similarly to the old Marxists – wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world.
The Left never stops in pursuing its goals; it just transmutes them.
The Left never stops in pursuing its goals; it just transmutes them.
Hand-outs
JJ has hinted several times at the notion that help to rebuild louisiana amounted to hand-outs. This report establishes that the flood was the direct result of the ineptitude of the corps and that programs and $ to rebuild are nothing more than compensation from the federal govt to make good on its own fuck-ups.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Rough Riders in Iraq?... "BULLY!"
This article fails to mention that a portion of the American media refuses to help Mesopotamia until Bush is out of office, but overall, it's not a bad analysis.
Eyeless in Nimes
So arranged marriages, or the landscape of southern Morocco, or things appearing to stem from a mental illness, threaten to lead to eyeballs bouncing on the linoleum. You've been warned, Citoyens.
The Embodiment of the Anglo-Saxon Clusterfuck
From the Dunord blog.
"Toronto also signed midfielder Andy Welsh from Sunderland. As one writer put it (sorry but I forgot who):
His name is Welsh, he was born in England, but his passport is from Scotland, he is going to play for a team in Canada, but the league is American. Talk about yer Anglo-Saxon clusterfuck."
"Toronto also signed midfielder Andy Welsh from Sunderland. As one writer put it (sorry but I forgot who):
His name is Welsh, he was born in England, but his passport is from Scotland, he is going to play for a team in Canada, but the league is American. Talk about yer Anglo-Saxon clusterfuck."
Pity they both can't lose
On the other hand, that Romanian saying divide et impera might be a good one to invoke here. A long bloody stalemate might be just the ticket. A while back, Pepe argued (OK, he stated) that the war in Iraq is a dismal failure because the extremist Sunnis are killing extremist Shias. Sounds pretty cool to me, actually. Maybe the moderates (if they exist) will tell them all to go to Hell and let them alone to enjoy freedom and democracy. So now here we are in Pakistan and Al-Qaeda is going after erstwhile allies Taliban kinda like Fatah and Hamas were at each others' throats up till a couple weeks ago (and as they will be soon again).
Disappointed your barbarians can't unite against Rome, Pepe?
Disappointed your barbarians can't unite against Rome, Pepe?
Another poll on progress
There is no life at all," Solaf Mohamed Ali, 38, a Shiite woman who works in a bank. USA TODAY interviewed Ali and other Baghdad residents to supplement the poll findings. "We are eating, drinking and sleeping like animals, but animals are lucky because they are not scared all the time like we are. They don't think that they might be killed at any moment, so I think even the animals are much happier than us."
There was very little trust in U.S. and British troops. By a ratio of more than 4-to-1 — 82%-to-18% — Iraqis surveyed said they had little confidence in coalition forces.
About 33% saw "effective" reconstruction efforts, while 67% — 15 percentage points higher than in a similar ABC News survey taken in November 2005 — called them "ineffective."
Nearly one in 10 said they hadn't seen any reconstruction efforts begun
There was very little trust in U.S. and British troops. By a ratio of more than 4-to-1 — 82%-to-18% — Iraqis surveyed said they had little confidence in coalition forces.
About 33% saw "effective" reconstruction efforts, while 67% — 15 percentage points higher than in a similar ABC News survey taken in November 2005 — called them "ineffective."
Nearly one in 10 said they hadn't seen any reconstruction efforts begun
First Class Dead Guy...
Again, British Air is in the news. This time it's not Coanda. Instead, it concerns mortality. Since British Airways has now been in the news twice within a week and a half, I labeled it as follows.
The passenger excerpt: "The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor. It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."
The passenger excerpt: "The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor. It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."
Monday, March 19, 2007
This Guy Sucks Balls
When I went to the Carrib a couple years ago (employed as a journalist, of all things, for a short time — I resigned), my experience stood in stark contradiction to what Jimmy Buffett had been singing about since he started his workaholic singing career. Since then, I've devoted a portion of time in my life to exposing this asshole and his music for what it is.
JJ has also remarked on a similar sentiment of mine: you can't think straight the closer you get to the equator.
Buffett, you suck. I'm on to you. I know what you're all about, you selling your idyllic image of Coors Light on some godforsaken beach Paradise to a bunch of Rubes in Middle America. I know about the reality of those beaches, and the interior of those islands. And this I say to you: not on my watch, asshole.
~mft
JJ has also remarked on a similar sentiment of mine: you can't think straight the closer you get to the equator.
Buffett, you suck. I'm on to you. I know what you're all about, you selling your idyllic image of Coors Light on some godforsaken beach Paradise to a bunch of Rubes in Middle America. I know about the reality of those beaches, and the interior of those islands. And this I say to you: not on my watch, asshole.
~mft
progress
is this progress of the pre-'04 election type, ie: complete disaster, or actual progress?
one gets really confused with these homonyms that mean one thing and the contrary.
one gets really confused with these homonyms that mean one thing and the contrary.
Taranto gazes at Planet Pepe
Do journalists unthinkingly side with America's enemies? Consider this Associated Press headline on a Baghdad dispatch: "U.S. Troop Deaths Show Sunni Resilience." Can you imagine the AP or any other "mainstream" news outlet using the same headline in reverse: "Sunni Deaths Show U.S. Troops' Resilience"? We didn't think so.
Obama steals Apple's ad
Hillary as Bill Gates as Big Brother? So OK, Obama is just another random pinko-lefty, but his ad is great (even though it's a ripoff), I gotta give him that.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
19th-century Arabian Nights: Sir Richard Burton
Any of you FCP'ers check out Burton's narrative of his "pilgrimage" to Mecca? The guy was fluent in like 800 languages (about 27, I think), and was the first to translate Arabian Nights (from my knowledge, I don't think anyone has attempted it since his 19th century translation).
The Wiki portrays him as a sort of Victorian James Bond. Interesting.
Planet Pepe Rejoices...
"In this sequence of still images taken from video and released by the U.S.-based IntelCenter, a U.S. government contractor that studies al-Qaida messaging. A man is seen placing explosives under a US military Bradley fighting vehicle that blew it up. The video was released on March 17, 2007, by the Islamic State of Iraq's (ISI) al-Furqan Media , according to IntelCenter. The arabic script at the bottom of the image top right reads: Destroying armored vehicle, Anbar province, Ramadi. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)"
Note how the labels for a post can both be "From Planet Pepe," and "What's Coming to Planet Pepe." Unfortunately, the Jihadist feces will hit the "pacifist" oscillating device in France.
al Qaida: learning about chem-weapons at summer camp
Three suicide bombers driving trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas struck targets in the insurgent stronghold including the office of a Sunni tribal leader opposed to al-Qaida. The attacks killed at least two people and sickened 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops, the U.S. military said Saturday.
Rich down memory lane
“I took the Grey Poupon out of my cupboard.”
— Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, on the floor of the House denouncing French opposition to the Iraq war.
(As you probably know, grey poupon is a nauseating dijonoid mustard, about as french as appflestrudel is american.)
the happy ending:
[In November 2005, he resigned from Congress and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from defense contractors. In January 2007, the United States attorney who prosecuted him — Carol Lam, a Bush appointee — was forced to step down for “performance-related” issues by Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department.]
— Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, on the floor of the House denouncing French opposition to the Iraq war.
(As you probably know, grey poupon is a nauseating dijonoid mustard, about as french as appflestrudel is american.)
the happy ending:
[In November 2005, he resigned from Congress and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from defense contractors. In January 2007, the United States attorney who prosecuted him — Carol Lam, a Bush appointee — was forced to step down for “performance-related” issues by Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department.]
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