How? How can this be? Simply baffling.
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Khaleej Times Online has more on that security wall. You know, the one that is visiting humiliations upon the non-residents with their checkpoints and such. Oh, the humanity. I wait with baited breath for International ANSWER and other assorted neo-Stalinists to denounce this wall and throw stones at the soldiers and the checkpoints in a show of solidarity. /sarcasm
Try that at this wall and you'll be pushing up daisies.
All heed the wisdom of the Oompa Loompas!
WonkaFacts! - Song Lyrics from the Film : "OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO
I'VE GOT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR YOU
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADAH DEE
IF YOU ARE WISE YOU'LL LISTEN TO ME
WHAT DO YOU GET FROM A GLUT OF TV
A PAIN IN THE NECK AND AN I.Q. OF THREE
WHY DON'T YOU TRY SIMPLY READING A BOOK
OR COULD YOU JUST NOT BEAR TO LOOK
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO COMMERCIALS.
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAH
IF YOU'RE NOT GREEDY YOU WILL GO FAR
YOU WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS TOO
LIKE THE
OOMPA
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DO "
I have long been decrying the gross expansion of commercials in both news and entertainment programming. It's bad enough you have to endure them, but they keep increasing the frequency and duration. Much of this grumbling ended when I got TiVo. Now I skip the commercials and I can watch my show uninterrupted and get on with my life. David Kelley, of LA Law and The Practice fame is clamoring about the same thing: News : "Kelley said that when he worked on 'L.A. Law,' there were 48 minutes of show. That has been reduced over the years to a little more than 41 minutes."
He proposes corporate sponsorship of the entire program which may allow them to increase showtime to a whopping 43 minutes. Please. Product placement is a far less obtrusive way to advertise with fewer commerical breaks. Fox has been at the forefront with Ford commercials built into both ALIAS and 24. They ran a short filmlet/commercial about the F-150 ahead of the season premiere last yea...
More innocents could be shot: UK police - Breaking News - World - Breaking News : "On July 7 three trains and a bus in London killed 56 people - including the four suspected suicide bombers - and wounded 700."
ARE YOU FRIGGIN' KIDDING ME!
This is the absolute WORST case of blatant media bias I've ever seen. The entire editorial staff should be summarily flogged.
Speculation Alert! This one is highly speculative. I don't know what happened here but it does appear that there are CIA employees doing things they ought not to be doing. Conversely I had heard contemperaneous accounts that the embassy was bombed due to the type of bomb used. It seems the particular warhead was designed to home in on military grade communications arrays and the Chinese had just such an array on their roof. In retrospect, that's the one part of the operation I applauded most.
My wife talks in her sleep. She doesn't think she does, but she does. Two examples:
It's 3:45 AM. I sound asleep. My wife starts shaking my shoulder and says: "I need a shirt. I don't have a shirt to wear."
Me: "you need one now? It's 3:45 AM why do you need a shirt?"
Wife: "I don't know...zzzzzzzz"
*grrrrrrr*
It's late (I don't know what time) Nature calls. I get up, in the dark and I'm in my typical nightime attire. (Yes, I was in the altogether, simmer down) I have one hand on the doorknob to the bathroom and my wife asks me in an incredulous voice:
"WHERE are you going?"
Me: "I thought I'd do some gardening."
Wife: "What!? What are you talking about"
Me: "Nothing. I have to pee. Go back to sleep"
My snarkiness almost caused a row there. Gotta watch that. Seems Sleeping Wife (TM) has a short temper.
My brother in law is a big NASCAR fan. He's always buying matchbox cars and such for the kids. He bought Connor the #18 car (driven by Bobby Labonte).
This morning, Connor shows Mommy the car and says; "do you know who drives this car Mommy?"
Mommy: "No, who?"
Connor: "Bobby the Bunny"
I love being a Dad.
A tunnel has been found beneath the US/Canadian border. Whoever built this thing has some serious resources. The whole thing is reinforce w/ concrete. No wonder they watched it for 8 months. Drugs? People? I gravitate towards the former and the latter as a side business. Coyotes could very easily get someone across the border who ought not to be. I doubt we'll ever hear much more about this one.
Submitted without comment as none is necessary.
USA WEEKEND Magazine : "'You can read our movie several ways,' says screenwriter David Koepp. 'It could be straight 9/11 paranoia. Or it could be about how U.S. military interventionism abroad is doomed by insurgency , just the way an alien invasion might be.' "