There has been outrage after it was revealed that tomorrow evening a documentary is to be shown on British television showing the moment a man ends his life in an assisted suicide.
A 59-year-old man Craig Ewert, suffering from motor neurone disease along with his wife of 37-years Mary, are filmed in a Swiss euthanasia clinic [...]
First Coast health experts are calling our current health care system a disgrace, but are hopeful about Obama’s plans to correct this. His plans seem to be promising as far as covering many more of Florida’s uninsured citizens, but everyone is wondering how he plans to pay for it. The issue of health insurance tied [...]
For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well. On Thursday afternoons he drives to Green Point. Punctually at two p.m. he presses the buzzer at the entrance to Windsor Mansions, speaks his name, and enters. Waiting for him at the door of No. 113 is Soraya. He goes straight through to the bedroom, which is pleasant-smelling and softly lit, and
The world is in the midst of a financial crisis caused by the irresponsible lending of America’s banking system. Despite this, and a multi-billion dollar government (ie taxpayer) bailout, humbled institutions are still planning to pay huge bonuses to the staff that created the mess.
Bloomberg.com reports: “Three of the firms [that received public handouts], Goldman [...]
By NAVAL LANGA, published Oct 14, 2008 I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.--J. M. CoetzeeIf you have deep love for extra beautiful literature, and if you have enough room for reading a novel twice, at least, then J M Coetzee has lot of things to offer. The winner of Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2003, J M Coetzee is a man of his own class, an engineer with his own
US film Disgrace, directed by Steve Jacobs, was awarded the prestigious Black Pearl award for best picture late Sunday at the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF). Based on Nobel laureate JM Coetzee’s award-winning novel and starring John Malkovich, the movie about post-apartheid South Africa won the first prize of 200,000 dollars.
“A total of 76 [...]
Today, the federal government announced its intent to mount the most sweeping and radical incursion of our free markets and the most extensive corruption of our capitalist model likely seen in our nation’s entire history.The individual should be outraged, disgusted and ashamed.Wall Street billionaires and government elites together worked to create a fundamental mechanism and regulatory environm
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.--J. M. CoetzeeIf you have deep love for extra beautiful literature, and if you have enough room for reading a novel twice, at least, then J M Coetzee has lot of things to offer. The winner of Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2003, J M Coetzee is a man of his own class, an engineer with his own set of tools. His novels are thick with
I know the 2008 Summer Olympics have come and gone but there’s an issue that has been bothering me. When that Cuban Taekwondo competitor kicked the referee in the face after losing his chance for a bronze metal, I felt more than disgust. I really don’t want to waste time explaining the details of why he lost. You can look that up on the net later. What is at issue here is the lack of contr
In some place of China, a large number of people who absolutely regard Leviticus as a menu of restaurant, always went to church for their reasonable diet,I'll told them who themselves did this,you could obviously choose some books like health-diet magazines but not the Bible,it's a irony situation who devotedly inquire about how to the better health for daily foods and also the merely conversation
Some people just like to disgrace themselves at their doorstep.
It was on the day I came back from my trip. The plane had arrived at Changi Airport and had berthed at the terminal. Naturally the passengers would stand up, open the luggage compartment and retrieve their hand-carry luggage. This kid who sat in front of me, some secondary school kid, stood up to take his luggage, and close the
The reported threat of the Prime Minister to resign if the Indo-US Nuclear Deal is not operationalised has set the cat among some really big rats. They fear the cat alright but believe that they have enough bulk to shoo it away if they collectively face it without looking or sounding aggressive or threatening in any manner.The last few days have seen endless political parleys among all the top lea
The one thing John McCain always gets a pass on is character. Indeed, Barack Obama always feels it necessary, before ripping into the old man's flesh, to remind us what a national treasure he is.But, for me, a person whose core political beliefs are probably much closer to McCain than his opponent, his lack of character is my biggest problem.I don't mean his flip flopping—intelligent people do
By Robert GillisPublished in the Boston City Paper 6/2008Boston sports fans: What the hell is the matter with you people?The Red Sox / Patriots / Your College Team / Celtics win a championship and you see that as a license to go out rioting, setting fires and doing malicious damage to property?In the latest me lee, over 20 people were arrested after the Celtics win. The Celtics – a team you coul
American Apparel happens to be one of those brands that carries an enormous stigma; normally negative. But, I say who cares. If something is going to add to my wardrobe, I’m all for it. Check out American Apparel’s new unisex big shirt and tank. The tank is not out yet, but [...]
J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace is a relatively short work. It is also quite unputdownable. This was my second reading of it, having first read it about four years ago. And it was a far more vivid experience this time.
Professor David Lurie is a University English professor with a penchant for Romantics, whose “disgraceful” sexual liaison with [...]
McCain’s campaign is almost losing as many Republicans as the House caucus. After a whole gaggle of crooked lobbyists were exposed by the media and asked to leave the Double Talk Express, one of the few decent operatives McCain has had around him, Mark McKinnon, jumped ship yesterday.
In telling the Cox News Service last June [...]
Pretty tough to watch the Penguins-Rangers game today. The outcome was mostly decided by a blown call by the officials, as I believe it was Petr Sykora who was holding Drury's stick against his side making it look like Drury was hooking him. Off goes Drury for 2:00 and bango, the Penguins score a beauty power play goal. That made it 1-0 in an air-tight defensive game where it could have gone either way. Sickening.The Rangers' non-goal because of the refs whistling the play dead was a fair call in my opinion. They had lost sight of the puck. Fair enough.But I just can't stand that a blown call decides the game. Mostly, I wish the NHL would ease off on the stick obstruction rule, because guys are going to pull a Sykora and get away with it. I've seen it happen before. But now it's the playof
This is Time Magazine’s latest cover. Yes they have replaced the American flag on Mt. Suribachi with a tree. They have equated the sacrifices of thousands of US Marines with Al Gore’s campaign to control the climate. Lt. John Wells, the leader of the Marines in that photo summed it up, saying “We’ll stick a dadgum [...]
From the Wall Street Journal
The NAACP has been known as a venerable civil rights organization–so venerable that the “CP” stands for “Colored People,” and everyone understands that is a relic of a time when that phrase provoked no offense. Founded on Feb. 12, 1909, the centenary of Lincoln’s birth, the organization fought Jim Crow laws and [...]
I thought that something beneficial to the country was about to happen when the Law of the Civil Service (5/2007) was decided to be brought into force. The Civil Service Law (yet to come into force) would have been a good step forward in bringing meaningful reform and achieving a more mature and sustainable democratic system in the country. But, I was obviously thinking of the impossible, as I
Seriously, you have to have a good character more than doing well in studies and sports. It does not matter whether you are a scholar or even going to represent your country in any kind of sports, you are simply a thrash without character.Frankly speaking, if you are a scholarship holder or a national representative, and yet you behave like a bitch, you are simply a disgrace to the country.If someone is treating you with kindness and yet you repay with a jerky kind of attitude, you ought to be placed in the zoo, and perhaps, it would be an insult to the animals.
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In another shoddy act of contempt for the public, Ehud Olmert is going to release as many as 450 terrorist prisoners, and even pledging not to build "new settlements".
There was a special demonstration held today at the Rose Garden opposite the prime minister's office, calling to release Jewish prisoners and not terrorists. Why exactly are innocent Jews being incarcerated while potentially
In our last post we have mentioned Teimour Radjabov's interview with APA Sports and expressed belief that translation is wrong and Radjabov was misquoted. Quickly after that, the interview reached chess "mainstream" websites. Having in mind that APA text was somehow controversial, one would expect...
I don’t have racist feelings about homosexuals, as soon as they respect themselves and they don’t invade on my sexual life. This video clip is an example of contemptibility for the homosexual community created by member of it.
I don’t wanna watch for a second time
This girl is in need of a serious intervention. I dont think ANYONE can possibly think this woman is dressing in a way that flatters her true beauty.Fashion, like makeup, is intended to hide your flaws while drawing attention to your best features. Please! Someone! Anyone! If you know this girl, refer her to my blog.STAT.
“It has to be preparation,” said Naslund, who finished the night a minus-two. “This is as bad as I’ve seen this team play. We talked about getting back into good habits, like we had last year, but we haven’t done that so far.” Naslund may have been the best Canuck out there last night. Or at least, showed the most effort, along with the Sedins. But not even close enough of an effort. I'm not going to dissect last night's loss. Just think of anything that can go wrong for a team in one night and that is what happened.The Flyers team spent time bonding in Whistler prior to the game and it paid off. They came out flying last night and the Canucks looked unorganized and ....drunk I guess. I pity the fool that actually paid for that PPV game. At the end of the game we were wondering which player was -4 or worse. I said Kevin Bieksuck, but the truth lies in the boxscore. Anyone else wishing we still had RJ Umberger (even tho the bastard didn't want to sign here)?? I'm have n
Did he go through with his allowing Ahmedinejad to use Columbia as a platform for his obscenities? Tragically, yes. But I guess just as terrible is Dubya's own willingness to legitimize the Iranian dictator's entrance into the US and the aforementioned university (via Tammy Bruce and Hot Air). Some leadership there, eh?
As for Bollinger, he may have issued a rebuke to Ahmedinejad, but that still
She wasn’t just attractive, she was hot. In a way that made the poets among her many suitors bemoan the fact that ‘hot’ was just a three-letter word. She dealt with all the attention like a pro who knew no other state of life. She was always in training and there wasn’t a single person, male or female, that knocked her off her stride. She carried herself with the supreme confidence that is genetically excised from the makeup of the less attractive. She was a goddess and she didn’t care who knew it.
He was one of guys who lived for the days on which she smiled at him. More often than not the ‘smile’ was actually the residue of her actual reaction to someone she knew at the gym they both were members of, but he didn’t care. As far as he was concerned her waning smile was his cue to cut loose with his most brilliant approximation of sunshine on a rainy day. He secretly suspected that she had been slightly scared the first time he smiled at her and he also secretly
When I got home from work tonight and checked the internet scoreboard to see how the Yankees did against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, I thought there was a typo. But there was no typo! The Yankees crushed the Devil Rays, 21-4!AP Sports Writer Rick Freeman wrote: "Ah, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Just what a struggling club full of stars needs to get back into contention for a playoff berth."New York had 25 hits, reaching 20 in consecutive games for the first time in more than 100 years in a 21-4 rout of the Devil Rays on Sunday."The team racked up 6 home runs and 20 RBIs in this game. Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano each scored three runs. A matter of fact, the only players who didn't score were the pitchers.Starting Pitcher Andy Pettitte had 8 strikeouts despite giving up 3 runs. He also gave up 8 hits. Though not his greatest outing, the team had his back and Pettitte did what he could.The Yankees (51-46), who are 8-2 in the last 10 games, are now only 7.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox
David Moffett, former boss of the New Zealand Rugby Union, writing in The Press on 30 June 2007 labelled the South African Rugby Union an absolute disgrace. I think most of us would agree with him on that one – but he’s talking about the latest Springbok B-team fiasco, and not the usual goings on at SA Rugby HQ that regularly keep us amused. (more…)
Following the conclusion of the G8 summit and climate change talks about a week and a half ago, I had the following to say in my post titled G8 Leaders Agree to Make an Agreement,
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The Times Editorial Board calls it “Gitmo: A National Disgrace” and has, as usual a real humdinger of an opening: “Ever since President Bush rammed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 through Congress to lend a pretense of legality to his detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, we have urged Congress to amend the law to restore basic human rights and judicial process. Rulings by military judges this week suggest that the special detention system is so fundamentally corrupt that the only solution is to tear it down and start again.” Ever since President Bush rammed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 through Congress The NY Times and other outlets of the msm have been ramming their opinions down our throats, whether this was through “news” articles or opinion pieces mattered not. For some unknown reason the msm considers itself above it all as though it delivers the news with no bias; most, if not everyone would disagree (although there would be much disagreement
Regina: Oh my God, I love your skirt! Where did you get it?Lea Edwards: It was my mom's in the '80s.Regina: Vintage, so adorable.Lea Edwards: Thanks.Regina: [after girl walks away] That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I've ever seen. ~ Mean Girls Don't get me wrong, an animal print scarf goes great as an accessory to a pin-up girl look, and a pair of animal printed shoes can dress up plain black in a fun, sexy way... But this girls outfit looks like Kelly Bundy fell in love with Encino Man and had a lovechild. Im sure she is "dressed up" (and I am using the term "dressed" very loosely, fyi) for some occasion or another, but I personally wouldn't be caught dead in this get-up: even on Halloween!
Regina: Oh my God, I love your skirt! Where did you get it?Lea Edwards: It was my mom's in the '80s.Regina: Vintage, so adorable.Lea Edwards: Thanks.Regina: [after girl walks away] That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I've ever seen. ~ Mean Girls Don't get me wrong, an animal print scarf goes great as an accessory to a pin-up girl look, and a pair of animal printed shoes can dress up plain black in a fun, sexy way... But this girls outfit looks like Kelly Bundy fell in love with Encino Man and had a lovechild. Im sure she is "dressed up" (and I am using the term "dressed" very loosely, fyi) for some occasion or another, but I personally wouldn't be caught dead in this get-up: even on Halloween!
" Do you prefer 'fashion victim', or 'ensembly challenged?' " ~CluelessWhen is this EVER okay? *sigh* Honey, the shirt goes OVER the bra. Not that you should be wearing that kind of bra with a strapless top, anyway. But say you do... the shades of pink in the bra and the tie clash with each other. The boy shorts over the jeans with the top tucked in? Someone please... if you know this girl, save her from herself. And save her clothes from HER!
" Do you prefer 'fashion victim', or 'ensembly challenged?' " ~CluelessWhen is this EVER okay? *sigh* Honey, the shirt goes OVER the bra. Not that you should be wearing that kind of bra with a strapless top, anyway. But say you do... the shades of pink in the bra and the tie clash with each other. The boy shorts over the jeans with the top tucked in? Someone please... if you know this girl, save her from herself. And save her clothes from HER!
Well… with downright Robbery at least!
Why are they allowed to get away with no accountability at all?
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Why do people continue to vote for misfits like Pelosi? I will never understand how some people can look the other way when members of the US Congress engage in treasonous behavior.
Since this country waged its so-called war on terrorism, certain truths have leaked out. Little things like Saddam wasn't really in league with al-Qaeda, that he didn't have any WMDs and our government knew it, etc. But often times we forget that our war of terror started in Afghanistan because that's where al-Qaeda was allegedly headquartered. Let me refresh your memory -- Osama bin Laden is supposed to be camping out in a cave there. Let's face it, chasing around some dude through some caves was a lot less glamorous than scary weapons and suicide bombers. But I don't want to make light of it because we have soldiers dieing there, too. For example Pat Tillman. When he died it was natural for the media to make mention that we were still in that country fighting the invisible enemy because he was a NFL star that died for his country. We were told that he died in an ambush. His family was told the same lie. Now we are finding out that it wasn't really an ambush, but "frie
Further to Scott’s post, and Andrew’s piece, comes this example of YouTube at its brilliant, bizarre best. Among the historical gems, a lot of the other videos there are fairly drab’n’dull recollections of fans playing village cricket. Boring. But searching for “cricket” throws up the odd seemingly inexplicable video, such as this: a band called the Geoffrey Oi!cotts. Their MySpace entry reveals the following:
Band Members
Freddy Skintoft (vocals) W.C. disGrace (bass) A.P.E. sKnott (drums) Devon Malcolm McClaren (guitar) The Dickie Birds (backing troupe and groupies)
Influences
Yorkshire pride.
Sounds Like
The thwack of willow on leather on a sunny yorkshire afternoon..
Record Label
hahahahahaha
What a brilliant image that is. Alan Knott on drums (still equipped with wicketkeeping gloves, and a toothy grin); Devon Malcolm, massive 1980s bottle-top glasses, attached to a Fender and - best of all? - several Dickie Birds, rolling up their sleeves and to
We should be ashamed of ourselves! We "care" for the security of democracy by spending billions on a new Trident system that'll do nothing more than antagonise everyone on the planet with the exception of the US.
We also "care" about the environment by introducing stealth taxes for people who just want to go on the odd holiday or see friends and family.
The bottom line is that we pretend to
15 YEAR OLD FOUND SELLING SEX IN LEITH
(Headline from today's Evening News)
As the Dad of a nine-year old this sends shivers up my spine. Because not only does it raise questions about the debate of whether prostitution should be legalised and the part drugs and homelessness has to play in all this, but it also begs the question of whether these men are aware they are now child abusers as well as sex abusers.
In my opinion, legalising the industry can only help. It won't get rid of the problem but at least it might mean it can be controlled, and girls as young as this won't be put in any danger. She's lucky to be alive and probably doesn't even know it.
It's even more horrible to think that the place where this girl was found is about two minutes from my house. The "red light" district was moved a few years ago from the traditional Coburg Street, where police turned a blind eye to prostitution. The local residents forced city authorities to designate a new zone in Salamande
At last, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the club of the really tough guys : instead of injecting steroïds in his own body, he had something more directly lethal injected in the body of Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Driving a Hummer wasn't enough for a Prez candidate, especially one pushing a rather environmentaly ambitious agenda ; hardliners prefer Gubernator when he's praising Adolf Hitler or when he's actually killing some punk (even without using his NRA right to shoot). Am I my brother's keeper ? Am I my Beta Kappa ? You are a beta beta now, Arnie ; welkome to the Fraternity.At last, Saudi Arabians are diversifying their economy : instead of leading the world in oil production, they're going for a much more noble output : fertilizers. Smart move : at least, next generations will still find some stinking stuff when they dig their deserts.
(From The Article)-A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut's attention at Orlando International Airport Monday.Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according to Orlando police
