Some people do it better than others; better, even, than AA Gill. With a little help from Europeans, that is. EU States Lose, from Logged Hours via Gawker.
4.) Jean-Jacques was so excited to come to LoveParade that he didn’t stop home to change after his rehearsals for Chippendale’s Easter Extravaganza.
From The Wetass Chronicles:
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Annals of Oceanography–What The Hell Is This?!:It was 40 feet long. It weighed 13 tons. And it washed up on a beach in Chile last July. And no one could figure out just what it was. For a while the scientific community got all excited because it was thought The Blob might be the remains of the intriguing, elusive and rarely seen Giant Squid. Or perhaps the world’s largest piece of bubble gum. But Skip Pierce, a biologist at the University of San Francisco, used electron microscopy to determine that The Blob is in fact the putrid, rotting, remains of a….sperm whale. Oh well. The hunt for the Giant, or Colossal, Squid continues…
Damn, it’s just a massive whale loogey…..
(Photo: The Oracle)
Israeli pilots ‘deliberately miss’ targets. From the Observer.
Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the reliability of intelligence
Inigo Gilmore at Hatzor Air Base, Israel
Sunday August 6, 2006
The Observer
At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities.
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As international outrage over civilian deaths grows, the spotlight is increasingly turning on Israeli air operations. The Observer has learnt that one senior commander who has been involved in the air attacks in Lebanon has already raised concerns that some of the air force’s actions might be considered ‘war crimes’.
The tide is definitely turning. The BoJo flamewar is over, a ceasefire is on the table, France is ready to send in peacekeepers, and even Harper admits that Israel may have been a bit “extra-vigorous”.
Canada wins, with a smackdown. And don’t give me none o’ that “but there were Canadians there as observers, there were Canadians who left to join the US Army” shit. Yes indeed, but (once more, loudly, for the people drooling in the back row):
CANADA DID NOT SEND TROOPS TO VIETNAM
as Ann Coulter, 45, learns to her dismay, confusion and, of course, ongoing refusal to face facts.
from, of all places, Perez Hilton, who has always been good to Canuckistan.
I don’t know what they’re smoking across the pond, but it’s 
gotta be pretty strong. From Norway to Zakynthos, tourists are endangering hundreds of human lives.
Where is the outrage???
An airline issued a “zero tolerance” warning today after a spate of bad behaviour by sun-seeking Britons.
Thomas Cook Airlines staff have already had to deal with passengers turning up drunk for check-in, making jokes about bombs in luggage, refusing to sit for take-off and smoking in toilets.
In the most serious incident, a passenger opened the door of a Boeing 757 as it pulled up at Zakynthos Airport last Thursday.
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A bus carrying 40 elderly French tourists toppled into a ditch by a motorway in central Norway on Tuesday after passengers demanded the driver get closer to a moose grazing by the roadside so they could take snapshots, police said.
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The injured woman was examined at the local hospital and the motorway was briefly shut down. The moose, which was unharmed, was seen skipping away into the forest, Kaapvik added.
I’ll tell you exactly where the outrage is: it’s at home watching reruns, and it’s not getting up off the sofa for this, for lo, the lives endangered were in both cases only those of other tourists.
You say “tragic accident,” I say “cull.”
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