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Posted by Cynyr McCain’s “Hundred Year War”
March 28, 2008Fifty years? Make it one hundred!
“We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so,” says McCain.
Not to mention the Confederate States for a hundred and fifty,
Posted by Cynyr Parking Tickets
March 26, 2008Apparently, our English cousins are bedeviled night and day by meter maids. I guess it’s the inevitable bottom of the slippery slope of surrendering your rights.
Warwick is a beautiful part of England but it had no appeal for one man who received a parking ticket from the local Council. Krister Nylander was dismayed to receive a parking ticket in the post for parking in Warwick. But he knew the parking ticket was wrong because he lives in Sweden and had not visited England since he was 16. The offending vehicle was his 20-ton snowmobile which had barely ever left his barn, let alone Sweden.
The Ten Craziest Parking Tickets of All Time
Barely a hundred years after “Rule, Britannia!” So very sad.
Huh?
March 24, 2008So, I saw this mermaid today, and I asked her “What’s the best tuna?”
She said she didn’t know what the fuck I was talking about.
Cliche
March 4, 2008Pretty soon, we should be able to get electoral politics down to a basic newspeak that contains perhaps 10 keywords: Dream, Fear, Hope, New, People, We, Change, America, Future, Together.
I don’t read a lot of left-leaning media, but this article in Slate is notable for the great quote line.
Boo-Hoo
March 2, 2008This piece of disgusting Euro-trash whines like a big pampered baby over sending Prince Harry to war. Yes, it was very expensive. Yes, that time and money could have been spent on something that would (in your view) be more productive.
But he’s the prince. It’s in his blood. He is in a unique position of saying “There’s a war on, and you can’t keep me out of it!” He has influenced (shamed?) his older brother, the future King, to do the same. That’s why we have Princes and Kings, dammit!
If young Henry Wales wishes to leave England and set himself up a nice warrior kingdom, I can be packed in a matter of hours.
