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Sunday, August 31, 2003

Movie Review: The colored Teddy Bears of The Avengers - having just seen the 1998 version of "The Avengers" for the first time, and being Ursine-friendly. I was intrigued by the rainbow bears featured in the film. So I went online to see if I could find out more. Imagine my surprise when the first page in the search results turns out to be by one of my oldest on-line friends (Gerald - WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!?!?)

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Friday, August 29, 2003

Gossip...What people were overheard saying on the London Underground: "My life is like a bad Daily Mail headline." - says it all.


Although "That's not a dog - it's a rat with delusions of grandeur" comes a close second

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Thursday, August 28, 2003

George W. Bush The White House, USA Past Work Experience:

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; the company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

With my father's help and name, I was elected Governor of Texas.


Accomplishments as Governor:

I changed pollution laws in favor of the power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history.

I became U.S. President after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes with the help of major Enron money and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.



Accomplishments as President:

I attacked and overtook two countries.

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

My record for environmental issues is the least of my concerns.

I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.

After taking-off the entire month of August, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.

I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of Sadam's procurement of Yellow Cake Nuke WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S.history.

I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history.

My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.

I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" (detainees) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.

I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in World history.

I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

I am the first U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. Even after 18 months I have no leads and no credible suspects.

In the past 18 months following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history.

In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War.

I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.


Records and References:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available.

I was AWOL from the National Guard.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.


~ Please consider my experience when voting in 2004. ~

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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World - dreadful oversight - can't think why I haven't linked to this already. It's my mate Nick's book. It's very good....got reviewed in the Guardian 'n everything!

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Monday, August 25, 2003

A Simple Question of Hot: Simon vs. Hitler - OK, it appears that someone has doctored a photo of Hitler to get him past the moderators at "Am I Hot Or Not?" and is tracking how many votes the world's most infamous house painter was getting in comparison to their own photo.

All was going well until until a White Supremacist group recognised Der Fuhrer (despite the edits) and recently got in on the voting.

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Quote du jour:
"Mary had a little lamb....
The Obstetrician went into shock"

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Statesman or Skatesman? - see Margaret Thatcher on a toboggan, Enoch Powell on a pogo stick and Gywneth Dunwoody trashing a car.

Either this webmaster has been tripping massively or politicians here in the UK are weirder than we thought.

But no photos of Tony Blair on a Death slide...more's the pity.

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Monday, August 18, 2003

My Word Du Jour: Politics from the Latin 'Poli' meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

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Funny Pictures Funny Cartoons Funny Jokes - Foggys Funnies!....REALLY not a cat person.

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Funny Animal Pages - Clean The Cat - I'm not really much of a cat person....

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Word-a-Day 2003 - lists of words, organised by ways they can be used rather than alphabetically - MUCH more handy!

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Breakfast Show Words Of The Day - "Use it to impress your friends, freak out workmates or make your teachers back off a bit as they think 'damn this kid knows so much more than me'... "

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Friday, August 15, 2003

Work in Progress - if you've seen either of the adverts being parodied by this, you'll appreciate this.

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Stopping Advertisements with Messenger Service Titles - never thought I'd be posting a link to Microsoft but I'm fed up to the rearmost fangs with the recent crop of pop-up spam ads. Here's one way to get rid of them.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Dangers to left handers from using non-left handed items - Chainsaws.....circular saws....and London Underground Barriers?!?!?!?

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Left handed products, left handed people - ANYTHING LEFT HANDED - Happy Left Hander's Day!!! (from a dedicated Southpaw)

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Tuesday, August 12, 2003

.:: Revelate - Elastic Baby ::. - this is just plain strange.....

but cute.

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Friday, August 08, 2003

"There is no such thing as bad weather, just different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin

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(cos it's Friday)

A list of actual announcements that LONDON TUBE train DRIVERS have made to their passengers :

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologise for the delay to your service. I know you're all dying to get home unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you'll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite direction".

"Your delay this evening is caused by the line controller suffering from backside and elbow syndrome, not knowing one from the other. I'll let you know any further information as soon as I'm given any."

"Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria station and we are therefore stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let's take our minds off it and pass some time together. All together now....'Ten green bottles, hanging on a wall...'".

"We are now travelling through Baker Street, as you can see Baker Street is closed. It would have been nice if they had actually told me, so I could tell you earlier, but no, they don't think about things like that".

Beggars are operating on this train, please do NOT encourage professional beggars, if you have any spare change you can give it to me."

During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a West Indian drawl: "step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman... unfortunately towels are not provided".

"Let the passengers off the train FIRST!" (Pause...) "Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care...."

"Please note that the beeping noise coming from the doors means that the doors are about to close. It does not mean throw yourself or your bags into the doors."

"We can't move off because some idiot has their f***ing hand stuck in the door"

"To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage - what part of 'stand clear of the doors' don't you understand?"

"Please move all baggage away from the doors(Pause...) Please move ALL belongings away from the doors (Pause...) This is a personal message to the man in the brown suit wearing glasses at the rear of the train - put the pie down, four-eyes, and move your bloody golf clubs away from the door before I come down there and shove them up your a**e sideways"

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Monday, August 04, 2003

Insult du jour King Kong, if you ever wanted your arse back, here it is....

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