Three Snow Flakes=Power Outage!

You'd kinda think that by now, the power companies in the US would have figured it out. That each year, millions of $'s later, stickin' the power lines in the ground (like the UK) would actually pay. In a recent early cold snap, 3 million of their customers on the east coast wouldn't have been sitting freezin' their butts without ner a watt of Mr Edison's favorite cracklin' stuff, sizzling down the snow dead lines.

Is it Mumbai, India? Nope..it's the US of A.

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2+3=6. Nope, Dumbo!

Most of us aren't called Albert E...so click on this most excellent site called Khan Academy. Developed for young people but makes sense for all. With over 85,378,041 lessons already delivered, if you like me, were not aware of this free facility...go forth immediately! PS: It covers many different subjects from Art to...

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`Iranians Not After Weapons, Favour Culture`

"Iranians will dissolve you by their culture, thoughts and logic; we are not after weapons" Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency.
La la la...to the tune of "I'm A Little Tea Pot."
I'm-a-dinner-jacket's idea of 'culture' was initiated by the return to Iran of Culture Minister Number One, or Ayatollah the K as he was better known. (see below).

Make way for the Big Chief of Mullahdom!

And so children, after the bearded unholy one returned in 1979 from his exile in the land of the unbeliever, he began his own cultural revolution which first meant turning the clocks back to the 14th century (on the infidel calender). Then said he: Let the new Islamic era be upon us! And low, so it was; down even to this very day the population lives much afflicted by the mind-set of the Mullah's of Mayhem.

Let the country and culture-cleansing commence!

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Remembrance Sunday: Britain falls silent to honour war dead - Telegraph

Remembrance Sunday: Britain falls silent to honour war dead - Telegraph: "At 11am there was a two-minute silence as thousands paid their respects to those killed in conflicts past and present."

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Required Viewing!

The Nuremberg trials and their drama are familiar enough to the world, but not the face and the work of the 27-year-old American Army lawyer and investigator Benjamin Ferencz, charged with the task of collecting evidence for the Nuremberg prosecutions. 

Benjamin B. Ferencz (left) with Gen Dwight Eisenhower
his hand is on the box (Germany, 1945).

The terrors of entering the just-liberated camps with their hellish scenes—the film provides striking footage, more extensive than the usual documentary clips, of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower doing just that, with Gen. Omar Bradley just behind him—caused him, he tells the filmmakers, to create a self-defense mechanism. The whole scene wasn't real, he told himself—it was "just a case," one of many to get through, in camp after camp. He would become chief prosecutor of a special German unit, the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile killing units operating on the Eastern front. He found the report of their daily accomplishments, which Germans meticulously recorded—a typical page of which is shown on screen, detailing how many Jewish children were killed, how many men and women had been murdered on a particular date. He counted. "When I got to over a million I stopped counting." (Wall Street Journal).


Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 9-11 p.m. EST on PBS, whose dates and times vary; check local listings.

The Contenders

Fridays, 8-9:30 p.m. EST on C-Span

Visit Benjamin Ferencz (above) http://www.benferencz.org/

Mad Mullahs R Us!

"Their is extreme concern about a report that says in response to reports of a possible Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran is threatening to mount an attack on Israel via the Syrian border. According to an Iranian news agency, 30,000 Syrian and Palestinian men have spent the past three months training to infiltrate Israel in order to carry out suicide missions." (AP)

All in favor of 30,000 martyrs? Just scratch your beard, bum or bollocks.

Can't they give the world a break and just all self combust?

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Italy's New Gov: Number 3890 And Counting!

Italy closer to new government after reforms vote - BusinessWeek: "After weeks of political deadlock in Rome and Athens, investors were this week fearing the worst -- a Greek-style crisis in Italy that would tear apart the 17-nation euro currency union and shake the global economy.

Tell em' to give us the Euros, then Fritz & Co can piss off.

The market's 10 second sentiment improved on Friday, with the benchmark 10-year borrowing rate down to 6.48 percent -- a sharp retreat from the dangerous levels above 7 percent hit earlier this week. Their quick buck barometer can be likened to the Oracle of old and is just about as believable.
Meanwhile, the Italians are not going to be deflected from la dolce vita by some WASP Governments residing in far off northerner European climes.

Hey!..Ya wanna polish ma chrome worka?

So Fritz and Co will just have to keep digging deep to maintain Lambretta and

cappuccino folks in their comfort zones.

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