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"A painting by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for $42.6m (£26.4m) - a new record for the US 'pop artist'.
The cartoon-style painting, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's in New York, features a woman on the phone with a speech bubble containing the title."
The cartoon-style painting, sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at Christie's in New York, features a woman on the phone with a speech bubble containing the title."
"Have you experienced 3D telly yet? Don't worry if you haven't, because so far it's powerfully underwhelming: the very definition of a step backward disguised as a leap forward. Consider this a warning from the future."
-"a wife saver" it says! ;)
"nullibiety n. the state of being nowhere" -been there! ;)
"Scottish lairds and grouse moor owners face £5,000 fines or jail terms if they allow their gamekeepers to illegally kill birds of prey, under tough new measures tabled today.The powers would, for the first time in the UK, make landowners directly liable for wildlife crimes committed by their employees, after an upsurge in cases where rare birds of prey have been deliberately killed to protect grouse stocks on shooting estates."
-which really is too bad!
"Maybe all your future dreams will simply consist of a gigantic mouth shouting the words "DIET COKE" over and over until you wake up in tears, and immediately reach for a Diet Coke, hands quivering, without really understanding why.
In fact, yes. That's PRECISELY what's going to happen."
In fact, yes. That's PRECISELY what's going to happen."
"Right-wing Republicans will press for more war, in more places – financed, of course, by the magic of credit. Few stop to think that this manic borrowing it wrecking America."
"This could quite possibly be the best baseball promotion ever. No, it definitely is the best baseball promotion ever."
"Next week: Clegg defends his decision to force the Chilean miners back underground, claims 2 Unlimited were better than the Beatles, and explains why the coalition's proposed oxygen-rationing scheme will usher in an age of peace and prosperity for all."
"The town's mayor, Jose Luis Guerrero, said she was the most qualified of a handful of applicants for a job, which in many parts of Mexico is considered tantamount to a death sentence."
-more sheer brilliance from the "tea party!"
"A barracuda jumped out of the water and bit a 45-year-old woman kayaker in the chest in the Florida Keys"
-OMFG!-it's soup for Christ's sake! ;)
"“If the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault,” he tells her sternly."-uh, they're soap bubbles!
Terminal Man wrote: "I eagerly await the creation of the BC Rhinoceros party. I want my next vote to at least count as a joke if nothing else. No matter what "real" party I have voted for in the past the result has always been that the province is run by liars and thieves"-agreed!.
"It's not like "demand" is an external problem for B.C., either. This province has the highest rate of drug-related arrests in Canada -- and 60 per cent of these are for cannabis.Eighty per cent of all drug arrests are for personal possession; that is, not trafficking or intent to distribute, but for personal use."
Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Legalize+marijuana+crime+rate/3684141/story.html#ixzz12cotOF4i
Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Legalize+marijuana+crime+rate/3684141/story.html#ixzz12cotOF4i
"Judge Binnie said that expecting a defence lawyer to effectively advise a client who is shut away in an interrogation room is the equivalent of playing him a phone message that states: “You have reached counsel. Keep your mouth shut. Press one to repeat this message.” -no shit!
-and so it goes!
-atta boy Doc!-brought tears to my eyes!
"SAO PAULO - Voters the world over complain about having clowns for politicians, but Brazilians embraced the idea Sunday by sending a real one to Congress with more votes than any other candidate."- ;)
"Perhaps before too long, you'll be midway through an especially underwhelming paragraph, and it'll start deleting itself before your very eyes, just like this one should have. Or your favourite character will die or reappear under an assumed name and have sex with themselves. Any notion of permanence will be a thing of the past. Even the individual letters will crawl around while you look at them, like agitated ants."
-and why not?-lots of, "illiterate clowns", get elected all over north america!
-Cito Gaston retires-Happy Trails!
“I find a lot of junk in the river, too, the last few years,” added Thacker, four years older than his vessel and a resident of “Fort Chip” since birth. “Pipes, timbers. Last weekend, I was at the dock [at Fort McKay], watching an oil slick go by like someone was sitting up-current with a pail of oil, just dumping it slowly. An hour we watched it. With all these new oil plants along the river, obviously it’s coming from their places.” But even these are not the most distressing changes he has witnessed the past few years."
"Everyone loves a full English breakfast, but the traditional greasy spoon has an image problem. I propose a chain of health-conscious caffs where the eggs are free-range, the tea and coffee are Fairtrade, and the sausages and bacon are cooked on George Foreman grills, right there at the table.
Oh, and the meat in the sausages and bacon comes from the customers themselves. Your first cup of tea contains a local anaesthetic; while you read your paper, simply slice a thin rasher of thigh off your leg and pop it on the grill. Two rashers if you want to lose weight. It's the ultimate in locally sourced produce: 100% organic, extremely environmentally friendly, and, if taken up by large numbers of people, it will go some way to solving the global food crisis."
Oh, and the meat in the sausages and bacon comes from the customers themselves. Your first cup of tea contains a local anaesthetic; while you read your paper, simply slice a thin rasher of thigh off your leg and pop it on the grill. Two rashers if you want to lose weight. It's the ultimate in locally sourced produce: 100% organic, extremely environmentally friendly, and, if taken up by large numbers of people, it will go some way to solving the global food crisis."
"An Iranian court has jailed a prominent human rights activist and journalist for six years after convicting her of "waging war against God" and other charges."
"A burglar in Malaysia who broke into a house to steal watches and jewellery was caught after falling asleep with the loot on a sofa"
"He said he didn't talk to environmentalists or aboriginal people who live downstream from the oilsands"-nice to hear that he spoke to all involved not just the business interests so that he could form a well-rounded opinion!-;)
"Police were able to easily track Welychka to his home after witnesses got his licence number while he searched, in a panic, to find something to smash his way into his getaway vehicle.Welychka, 54, had locked his keys in his car before entering the Husky and robbing the clerk at knifepoint."
"GLENN SOKOLOFSKY, perhaps the closest thing New York City has to a curator of police car history, recently recounted an interesting story about the New York Police Department’s early patrol cars."
-what a waste of "valuable" policing resources let alone pot!!-only a drop in bucket of what's out there though!! ;)
-geez,cops as voyeurs!?!-who woulda thunk it?
"Researchers have pieced together a set of puzzling fossils from a stocky dinosaur discovered in Romania. The newly described predator helps to flesh out the spotty fossil record of carnivorous animals from Europe's Cretaceous."
"We found that 25 mg herbal cannabis with 9.4 per cent THC, administered as a single smoked inhalation three times daily for five days, significantly reduces average pain intensity compared with a zero per cent THC cannabis placebo in adult subjects with chronic post traumatic/post surgical neuropathic pain"
"The first authentic Klingon opera on earth will be hosted in the Netherlands at the Zeebelt Theater, The Hague from the 9th to the 12th of September 2010."
-my guess is if there is one there are probably more
-here's a weird one
"Police couldn't catch him, but they say he dropped his phone. They grabbed it and called a number marked "Ma" in his contact list."-brilliant
"Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears."
"Manning’s motivations for whistle-blowing matter not. What does matter is he revealed to the public the brutal nature of the colonial war in Afghanistan and the bodyguard of lies protecting it from public scrutiny. If Americans and Canadians really knew the truth of this resource-driven war, and its carefully concealed cost, they would end it very quickly."
-probably would have "troubled" plenty of boys of that age.-so what?
-with a "nudge nudge here and a wink wink there" ;)
"More than 800 wildfires had been reported by the end of the week. Most were in western and central parts of the country, which is in its worst heat wave since record-keeping began here more than 130 years ago."
"This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we're likely to see in the next several years," he told BBC News. "And we've only looked here at one [out of the] six bat species that have been affected by the disease."
"Ninety per cent of the world’s rhinos have been slaughtered in the last 40 years to feed the illegal horn trade in China and Vietnam."-so sad and so sick!
"In 1965, in a noble attempt to help the rest of us understand Australians, Alistair Morrison published Let Stalk Strine, a glossary of terms used Down Under:"
"“Most British Columbians would be as sickened as I am by this so-called ‘sport,’ added Joe Foy, of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. “That article was some kind of sick eco-porn for those that like to hurt living creatures for the fun of it.”
-this kinda spooks me!
"A rich area for marine biodiversity, the Mediterranean is extremely sensitive to pollution. Almost a lake, its waters take up to 90 years to mix with the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.The effects of oil pollution are felt high up in the food chain. Plankton store and concentrate hydrocarbons from the surface and pass them on all the way to top predators. Whales and dolphins were found to have accumulated high levels of oil-derived compounds in their blubber two years after the Haven oil tanker exploded off Italy in 1991, spilling 140,000 tonnes of oil."
"Trash Can Source, a division of Highland Products Group, announced today its offer of a $177 billion bailout package to the federal government to provide commercial trash cans at two-year, 0% financing in order to aid in the cleanup of excessive government waste." -;)
"A stylish Manhattan bank robber is saying it with flowers. "- ;)
"Stupid people! Thinking of setting up a Facebook group dedicated to an inflammatory cause? Why not simply scream your views into an empty breadbin instead? All the cathartic release, none of the lingering opprobrium."
"Canada's first International Medical Marijuana Expo in Toronto hopes to attract people suffering from health problems who are "sick and tired of taking pharmaceutical drugs that have adverse side-effects," says the event's organizer."
-enough is enough!-the "Calgary Stampede" is barbaric!
Rep. Tom Moore was dismayed at how often his colleagues in the Texas House of Representatives passed bills without understanding them. So in April 1971 he sponsored a resolution honoring Albert de Salvo:
" This compassionate gentleman’s dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future. He has been officially recognized by the state of Massachusetts for his noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology."
That’s true as far as it goes — Albert de Salvo is the Boston Strangler.
The measure passed unanimously.
-thanks Chris!
-some wild lookin' sharks!
"For every Stephen Strasburg(notes) and Jason Heyward(notes), there are a thousand Daniel Navas and Darnell McDonalds, guys with skill and pluck and want-to and some sort of flaw, inherent or assigned, that attaches itself to their vita and refuses to dislodge.Most never make it, not in a place like Boston, not anywhere. On a dollar and a dream, and a baker’s dozen years of trying, the unlikeliest two did."
-a couple more reasons i truly love this game!
-a couple more reasons i truly love this game!
"Vancouver city council, scientists, oil-tanker experts, and NGOs meet today (July 5) at city hall to discuss oil tankers in Burrard Inlet in light of the BP oil spill catastrophe. In Vancouver, the clearest first step is to stop any further expansion of oil travelling through Burrard Inlet, and then take the steps necessary to reduce and eliminate the more than 100 oil tankers that navigate these waters annually. "
-i'm happy 6 has been saved!-my favourite bbc station!
"According to some reports, it can appear to lose reception under exceptional circumstances, such as a nuclear winter, or someone holding it. Apple zealots were quick to point out that you can get around the problem entirely by placing the device on a velvet cushion and gazing at it and breathing through your nose and masturbating instead of making any calls."
"Wearing a "Free Kobi" T-shirt, Kobayashi tried to force his way onto the stage during the awards ceremony, climbing over the Coney Island crowd and struggling with cops who tried to stop him."
""It's exceptional to see a psychologically disturbed person say: I have to be treated," said defense lawyer Fabien Picchiottino, noting the "failure of the psychiatric, penitentiary and social system."-no shit!
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"When Amy Shroffs ex-boyfriend violated a restraining order by blocking her exit from a police station parking lot with his pickup, the Denver woman thought officers would come to her defense. Instead, Officer Frank Spellman mistakenly arrested Shroff for violating the restraining order."
"A journalist covering the G20 for British newspaper The Guardian was brutally assaulted and arrested when police executed a mass arrest on a peaceful protest near Yonge and Front last night."
"Nigera is Africa’s main crude oil producer. It is also the country which counts the most oil spills in the world. The Niger Delta, once an ecological sanctuary, has become a no-fishing zone because of the slicks that permanently poison its waters. "
"When your skin is the only thing you feel truly proud of, it's become a prison in itself. A cell of cells. Whatever the colour."
"ST. ALBERT, Alta. — A judge has found oilsands giant Syncrude Canada guilty on federal and provincial charges stemming from the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks at a toxic waste pond in northern Alberta two years ago."
Items prohibited from carry-on baggage by the Transportation Security Administration, as of June 2010:
* Meat cleavers
* Spear guns
* Sabers
* Hatchets
* Cattle prods
* Swords
* Brass knuckles
* Nunchakus
* Throwing stars
* Blasting caps
* Dynamite
* Hand grenades
And “snow globes … even with documentation.” ;)
"Creative Commons is a license that artists can voluntarily adopt to help market their music. They can choose to adopt that license, put their music in the public domain or simply copyright their music. Creative Commons is a middle-of-the-road approach when it comes to copyright and enables creators to tell consumers, in plain language, what they can and cannot do with their content. In short, it’s an option for artists. Any attack on Creative Commons is an attack on an artists right to choose what they feel is appropriate for their chosen distribution channel."
RIP Pan Da
-next up, bridge as a contact sport!
-the "officials" really just are mean spirited!
"With little actual definitive data, one strong consensus is that Chinese pine nuts are leading culprits in causing pine mouth. Really? This is what we have to worry about now? That the Chinese are coming for our palates? All weekend long, I'll be burdened to know that there's a shitty Red Dawn remake going on in my mouth."-;)
"BOSTON -- The kid who was 70 pounds when he started high school made a dramatic and historic entrance to the Major Leagues on Saturday. Daniel Nava, an undrafted prospect the Red Sox signed out of an independent league in January 2008, swatted the very first pitch he saw from Phillies right-hander Joe Blanton and put it into the Boston bullpen in right-center field for a grand slam."
"This is a portrait of a dog living at Les Praz, near Chamonix, who, in the summer of 1908, distinguished himself by climbing Mont Blanc. His master, a workman, was employed on repairs to the observatory on the summit, and one morning, after having been seen by his owner’s wife at eight o’clock, the dog disappeared. He must have rapidly tracked his master by scent, for he arrived at the summit at half-past two in the afternoon, having accomplished in six and a half hours what usually is estimated to require thirteen hours for a man."
"About 100 professional clowns, who themselves make money performing on public buses, marched through the capital San Salvador yesterday in protest at the killing of a passenger by two robbers dressed as clowns."
"Ottawa – The Canadian government announced that it is putting the alternative rock band The Pixies on its list of “terrorist organizations” after the group cancelled its upcoming trip to Israel in the wake of the Gaza Flotilla affair."-this is just so totally stupid!
-of course we are! ;)
"the federal government says it will protect a 3,500-square-kilometre area covering the waters and seabed surrounding the archipelago formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands."
"As your correspondent can attest having spent his student days chasing radio-tagged urban foxes around Bristol with an antenna, these canines are normally frustratingly shy and elusive - keeping their distance from humans and preferring to bed down for the night in a deserted graveyard rather than predating children in their beds."
"Up to 24 million Chinese youths are addicted to the internet – and half of those are “obsessed” by online games. Treatment centres have popped up around the country, aiming to ‘cure’ these young people from their terrible affliction."
"Louisiana hasn't yet figured out how we're going to survive. But how it warms our hearts, Tony, to know that you're going to be OK."
""The following takes place between now and never o' clock." Come on. It's got a ring to it." - ;)
"The Krewe of Dead Pelicans, an informal Carnival-style krewe, second-lines down St. Charles Avenue in the Warehouse District to protest the BP oil spill and its response."
kalopsia n. "the delusion that things are more beautiful than they are"-kinda like ,"what looks good at closing time may not in the morning" ;)
"Mr. Hayward and the company have repeatedly played down the size of the spill, the company’s own role in the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, and the environmental damage that has occurred. At the same time, they have projected a tone of unrelenting optimism despite repeated failures to plug the well."-assholes the lot!
"The Red Planet harbours rocks rich in carbonate minerals, suggesting there was more water there in the past than previously thought, say scientists. "
-class all round!
"Inevitably, when you're at your most frazzled, the town you've chosen to stop in will be holding a UFO convention or a bizarre asparagus-worshipping parade or something, and all hospitable rooms will be taken, forcing you to spend the night in a cheap and sinister motel room."
"Roy Halladay's illustrious career has captured its grandest feat: A perfect game.
The Phillies' ace retired each of the 27 Marlins he faced in order on Saturday night to notch the 20th perfect game in Major League history and the second this season in the Phillies' 1-0 victory." -good one Doc!
The Phillies' ace retired each of the 27 Marlins he faced in order on Saturday night to notch the 20th perfect game in Major League history and the second this season in the Phillies' 1-0 victory." -good one Doc!
"So volatile and unpredictable and hysterical has the North Korean regime become that it was believed in some quarters that even the finding might trigger a fresh escalation—an escalation that might pass the nuclear threshold before anyone could draw breath. Richard Nixon used to ask his sick and compliant operative Henry Kissinger to imply to the Russians and Chinese that he might be such a touchy president that he was capable of anything—this loopy strategy became known in policy circles as "the madman theory of war." In the case of Kim Jong-il, nobody has any difficulty believing that he is delusional and worse, so the blackmail keeps on working."
-which should ease the minds of those affected since the government did such a good job dealing with the effects of Katrina!-right!;)
"Jamaican police have urged residents in parts of the capital Kingston to take down barricades set up to stop them from searching for an alleged druglord."-i was working a "refit" on the cruise liner Sajafiord in Rio many years ago. The dry dock was located on a prison island in the harbour, Anyways, while we were there a "druglord" escaped from the island. He made it to one of the Favelas and the army couldn't get him out. The poorest of the poor really did idolize this guy. Apparently, he gave plenty to those who had little and became something of a folk hero. Other than south Florida, Rio was my biggest "culture shock" up to that point. i have since discovered so much similar way closer to home!
-too long and kinda boring, especially if yer baked!! ;)
-brilliant and bravo!!
"The administration was for the first time held to account by Congress for the rigour of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), its regulatory body for offshore drilling."-as well they should be!
"State police will take over the investigation of the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl by a Detroit police officer during a weekend raid at the girl's home, a prosecutor said Monday"
"Glenn Beck's antics have always proved to be great fodder for the "Daily Show." Lewis Black took it a step further with an entire segment mocking the Fox News host for his tendency to make everything Nazi-related."
"Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York Times reported late Saturday."
"WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a press conference Monday to publicly denounce the environment for blatantly refusing to pull its weight in mankind's ongoing efforts at ecological conservation."
"Electoral reform: Be a Purple Person and make every vote count"
"Coping with the terror of live television requires nerves of steel ... and a bladder of iron"
"Our message is crystal clear and simple," said Don Staniford of the Pure Salmon Campaign, an international group dedicated to improving fish-farming practices. "We want to the government to get the open-net cages out of the water, on to land, into closed-containment systems and save wild salmon stocks."
"Sander Lely, an attorney for the city, countered that trade in contraband could never be covered by regulations governing the common market. "That some of its revenue is generated through the sale of legal products is irrelevant," Lely said."-i'm confused,contraband-legal-products-please pass the bong ;)
"This could easily be a crawfish boil in Cajun country, until you notice the spring rolls, fried rice, and coconut drinks. The 25-seat spot is the first to bring the growing Viet-Cajun food craze to Boston: Cajun cooking and crawfish served with a Vietnamese twist."
"VENICE, Louisiana (AFP) – The son of an American soldier and a Vietnamese woman, Minh Ly found freedom on the fishing boats of Louisiana where nobody judged him for his broken English or mixed heritage."
"Opposition to the tax, which combines the five per cent GST with the seven per cent PST, centres on the fact the HST will be applied to everything the GST covered, including many items previously exempt from the provincial tax."
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