Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Palestinean rep at UN
An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the United Nations Assembly and made the world community smile.
The Palestinian Representative's Speech at the UN
'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Moses. When he struck the rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath!'
He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water.
When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished.
An Israeli had stolen them.'
The Israeli representative jumped up furiously and shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Israelis weren't there then.'
The Palestinian representative smiled and said:
'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.'
Quips from Late Night Shows
Recent Quips from Late Night
"Couple of days ago in New Jersey, there were UFO sightings. Believe me, it's not an invasion. The aliens are actually here because they want some of that Federal bailout money." --David Letterman
"Do you have your tickets for the inauguration down in Washington? I sent in early. I sent the money in. I got my tickets back, lousy seats. You know where they put me? I'm right between Govs. Spitzer and Blagojevich." --David Letterman
"You know for each inauguration, the President adds his own little touches, his own signature note to the proceedings. For example, maybe you don't remember this but for the first Clinton inauguration, ladies drank free." --David Letterman
"Vice President-elect Joe Biden is already getting acquainted with his new responsibility as Vice President. And he's starting every afternoon at 3:00. He picks up Sasha and Malia from school." --David Letterman
"There was a historic meeting in Washington this week. Yesterday, Barack Obama and all the presidents met at the Oval Office. Did you see it? All the living ex-presidents were there. Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney. All of them were there." --Jay Leno
"And, of course, you know, being president-elect is kind of awkward, because Barack Obama didn't have any experiences or accomplishments to talk about as president. So, at least he and President Bush had something in common." --Jay Leno
Activists are now pressuring President-elect Obama to make good on his pledge to end the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy in the military to allow gays to openly serve in the military. You know, I think it's about time. Don't you? Let me tell you something, if someone is willing to risk their life for our country, they should be able to watch 'Dancing with the Stars' openly." --Jay Leno
"I tell ya, the economy is bad. The economy is so bad, Iraqis can only afford to throw one shoe." --Jay Leno
"In a speech about the economy, Barack Obama said that Americans will soon be able to go online and see where the bailout money is being spent. In response, Americans said, 'Thanks, but we'll stick to downloading porn.'" --Conan O'Brien
"Now, during his speech, it's interesting, Barack Obama said, 'It will soon be too late to change course if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible.' It's a quote, yeah. And Obama said the same thing about NBC's prime-time lineup." --Conan O'Brien
"On Inauguration Day, Barack Obama will be riding in a brand new presidential limousine made by General Motors. Yeah, the parade route is five miles long, so GM says Obama should only have to stop for gas twice." --Conan O'Brien
"The Bushes, by the way, aren't the only presidents to have their own china. Truman, Reagan and Clinton all had it, too. Though the Clinton service is missing some plates and I think a soup bowl because of Hillary throwing them at Bill. One time she really nailed him with a gravy boat. So that's missing too. But I'll tell you something, nothing, to me, says recession like spending half a million dollars on dinnerware." --Jimmy Kimmel.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Useful Links
http://vixy.net/ converts flv (youtube) into other formats
http://mobile9.com has free ringtones, programs, games for your mobile phone that you can easily download with your WAP browser. this does have a ton of moving, flashing, and talking ads (easily defeated by adblockers)
http://woot.com sells one thing per day, usually deeply discounted
http://maxgames.com is apparently not blocked by websense, so you can play games at work
http://wwwl.meebo.com/index-en.html is AIM, YIM, and MSN in your browser
http://slickdeals.net has deals n' shit
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page how to do shit
http://code.google.com database of open source code
http://www.oswd.org/ open source web design
http://www.google.com/reader/ amalgamates rss feeds or some such shit, i don't know
http://zillow.com prices for any home, plus estimates on what you can do to raise the value of your home
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ free sci library
http://pandora.com find music that is similar to music you already like
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/ find music in general
http://fatwallet.com deals
http://www.junglecrazy.com/ compiles deals from amazon.com onto one page
http://www.netvibes.com/ a good customizable home page that does rss feeds, tabs, etc etc
http://www.gethuman.com/us/ get real people when you call places
http://beeradvocate.com beer dorks
http://www.grandcentral.com/ visual voicemail on your phone, etc; has been bought by google
http://www.cdcovers.cc/ cd covers, dvd covers, etc
http://nyc.myopenbar.com/ happy hours in LA, NYC, Chicago, San Fran, Boston, DC
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ calculate distances you walk or run
http://mailinator.com if you need to sign up for spammy shit
http://www.snacksby.com/ tell it what you have and it can tell you recipes to cook
http://www.nanika.net/Metro/ cell phone software that has timetables and directions for the mass transit networks of hundreds of cities
http://www.citationmachine.net plug in info and it will make citations for you for papers and shit
http://www.musictheory.net/ a first year music course
http://steepandcheap.com like http://woot.com for outdoor equipment
http://makezine.com/blog/ DIY projects
http://zuji.com cheap ass airplanes tickets
http://www.gutenberg.org/ books n shit
http://riaaradar.com tells you if a band has an album released through a member of the RIAA
http://bubbl.us make brainstorming charts
http://www.site59.com last minute flight deals
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/ explains how to text message google and get directions, addresses, phone numbers, etc
http://caedes.net high res wallpapers
http://www.chordbook.com/guitartuner.php online guitar tuner
http://mandolux.com/ cool wallpapers; also has options for the people out there with a multiple monitor setup
http://orb.com stream your media over the web
http://www.sxc.hu/ free, high res stock images
http://www.youtube.infamousx.com/ watch deleted youtube vids
http://www.factcheck.org/ NO SPIN ZONE
http://www.betawatcher.com/ sign up to beta test games
https://www.mediamax.com 25 gigs of storage
http://proxy.espn.go.com/wireless/espn/wml/index this, plus a phone and a data plan, gives you updates to all kinds of faggy sports bullshit
http://www.video101course.com course on film, lighting, editing
http://www.idrink.com give ingredients, tells you what drinks you can make
http://portableapps.com/ full software suites that are bootable from a thumb drive
http://www.virtualnes.com/ play nintendo
http://www.t-nation.com/ articles and forums on bodybuilding, powerlifting, and sports training (they do hawk their supplements heavily)
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ the only reason you still used IE is eliminated
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html shows and tells how to do almost any weightlifting exercise
http://www.wififreespot.com/ca.html locate free wifi hotspots
http://logmein.com browser interface, allows you access to your desktop files
http://bookmooch.com give away books, get points, get books
http://marxists.org everything marxists have written
http://www.ovguide.com/tvfilm.html compiles tv and movie sites
http://bloglines.com checks your favorite blogs for updates
lhttp://ala.com trade your old cds for new ones ($1.75 per trade)
http://brandsoftheworld.com/ huge free database of logos from all over the world
http://librivox.org/ users record public domain books into audiobook files, so they're free
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials drawing and painting tutorials
http://www.torrify.com portable web browser that can get by most proxies
http://pinger.com spam a voicemail to multiple people
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ forum where people, you know, advise you on trips (fastest way, cheapest way, places to see, etc)
http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm movie fonts for photoshops
http://empornium.us bittorrent porno
http://biopsychiatry.com/ abstracts from studies of many prescription drugs
http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley UCB lectures on youtube
http://ffffound.com/ v cool found images
http://www.gasbuddy.com/ find cheapest gas near you
Useful Links
http://vixy.net/ converts flv (youtube) into other formats
http://mobile9.com has free ringtones, programs, games for your mobile phone that you can easily download with your WAP browser. this does have a ton of moving, flashing, and talking ads (easily defeated by adblockers)
http://woot.com sells one thing per day, usually deeply discounted
http://maxgames.com is apparently not blocked by websense, so you can play games at work
http://wwwl.meebo.com/index-en.html is AIM, YIM, and MSN in your browser
http://slickdeals.net has deals n' shit
http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page how to do shit
http://code.google.com database of open source code
http://www.oswd.org/ open source web design
http://www.google.com/reader/ amalgamates rss feeds or some such shit, i don't know
http://zillow.com prices for any home, plus estimates on what you can do to raise the value of your home
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ free sci library
http://pandora.com find music that is similar to music you already like
http://www.seeqpod.com/music/ find music in general
http://fatwallet.com deals
http://www.junglecrazy.com/ compiles deals from amazon.com onto one page
http://www.netvibes.com/ a good customizable home page that does rss feeds, tabs, etc etc
http://www.gethuman.com/us/ get real people when you call places
http://beeradvocate.com beer dorks
http://www.grandcentral.com/ visual voicemail on your phone, etc; has been bought by google
http://www.cdcovers.cc/ cd covers, dvd covers, etc
http://nyc.myopenbar.com/ happy hours in LA, NYC, Chicago, San Fran, Boston, DC
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ calculate distances you walk or run
http://mailinator.com if you need to sign up for spammy shit
http://www.snacksby.com/ tell it what you have and it can tell you recipes to cook
http://www.nanika.net/Metro/ cell phone software that has timetables and directions for the mass transit networks of hundreds of cities
http://www.citationmachine.net plug in info and it will make citations for you for papers and shit
http://www.musictheory.net/ a first year music course
http://steepandcheap.com like http://woot.com for outdoor equipment
http://makezine.com/blog/ DIY projects
http://zuji.com cheap ass airplanes tickets
http://www.gutenberg.org/ books n shit
http://riaaradar.com tells you if a band has an album released through a member of the RIAA
http://bubbl.us make brainstorming charts
http://www.site59.com last minute flight deals
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mobile/sms/ explains how to text message google and get directions, addresses, phone numbers, etc
http://caedes.net high res wallpapers
http://www.chordbook.com/guitartuner.php online guitar tuner
http://mandolux.com/ cool wallpapers; also has options for the people out there with a multiple monitor setup
http://orb.com stream your media over the web
http://www.sxc.hu/ free, high res stock images
http://www.youtube.infamousx.com/ watch deleted youtube vids
http://www.factcheck.org/ NO SPIN ZONE
http://www.betawatcher.com/ sign up to beta test games
https://www.mediamax.com 25 gigs of storage
http://proxy.espn.go.com/wireless/espn/wml/index this, plus a phone and a data plan, gives you updates to all kinds of faggy sports bullshit
http://www.video101course.com course on film, lighting, editing
http://www.idrink.com give ingredients, tells you what drinks you can make
http://portableapps.com/ full software suites that are bootable from a thumb drive
http://www.virtualnes.com/ play nintendo
http://www.t-nation.com/ articles and forums on bodybuilding, powerlifting, and sports training (they do hawk their supplements heavily)
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/ the only reason you still used IE is eliminated
http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html shows and tells how to do almost any weightlifting exercise
http://www.wififreespot.com/ca.html locate free wifi hotspots
http://logmein.com browser interface, allows you access to your desktop files
http://bookmooch.com give away books, get points, get books
http://marxists.org everything marxists have written
http://www.ovguide.com/tvfilm.html compiles tv and movie sites
http://bloglines.com checks your favorite blogs for updates
lhttp://ala.com trade your old cds for new ones ($1.75 per trade)
http://brandsoftheworld.com/ huge free database of logos from all over the world
http://librivox.org/ users record public domain books into audiobook files, so they're free
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials drawing and painting tutorials
http://www.torrify.com portable web browser that can get by most proxies
http://pinger.com spam a voicemail to multiple people
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ forum where people, you know, advise you on trips (fastest way, cheapest way, places to see, etc)
http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm movie fonts for photoshops
http://biopsychiatry.com/ abstracts from studies of many prescription drugs
http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley UCB lectures on youtube
http://ffffound.com/ v cool found images
http://www.gasbuddy.com/ find cheapest gas near you
Types of girls
CD-ROM GIRLS
She is always faster and faster.
Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense .
***********
She remembers everything, FOREVER
She make horrible thing look beautiful
She is good for nothing but at least she is fun
She forget about you, the moment turn her off
Everyone know that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.
Always busy when you need her.
***********
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Final Ssolution Of Palestinean Question [An article by Adnan Gill]
By Adnan Gill
The 'Final Solution' was Nazi Germany's plan of systematic elimination of the European Jewry. Hitler termed it: "the final solution of the Jewish question" ("Endlösung der Judenfrage"). Instead of throwing Hitler's playbook down in the deepest bowls of Earth, the Jewish leadership took a page out of it and applied to the Palestinians.
Joseph Hell quoted Hitler: "…my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. …I will have gallows built in rows... Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink... As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews." Replace 'Jews' with 'Palestinians', 'Munich' with 'Gaza' and 'Germany' with 'Israel' and you would think Hitler was referring to the genocide of the Palestinians. Ironically, the same Jews who at one time were at the receiving end are now carrying out the genocides.
When the Jews were massacred on mass scale, some Nazis considered yet another plan to solve the Jewish problem. It was named, the 'Madagascar Plan'. The plan was to ship all European Jews to Madagascar. Heydrich called it a "territorial final solution". Sadly, the victims of the territorial solution didn't waste much time following in the footsteps of the Nazis. In 1949, close to 1 million Arabs were forced out of the newly-created Jewish State.
Whenever the Third Reich conquered new territory, specialized units called 'Einsatzgruppen' murdered the Jews in masses. Similarly, in1953, Ariel Sharon was given command of one such unit, 'Unit 101'. Its sole mission was to terrorize the Palestinians into fleeing Israel. The UN commander, at the time, Major-General Vagn Bennike reported, "bombs were thrown" by Sharon's men "through the windows of huts in which the refugees were sleeping and as they fled, they were attacked by small arms and automatic weapons."
Nazis built concentration camps to systematically kill millions of Jews. At these camps, the most common method of mass exterminations was the gas poisoning; while others fell victims to mass shootings, starvation or torture. The modern-day equivalents of the concentration camps are the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and phosphorous shells and cluster munitions replaced the poison gas. Cluster munitions in the Israeli inventory include, Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) with M26 warhead and M77 submunitions, Israeli M85 cluster bombs and DPICM cluster artillery munitions.
International Law prohibits the cluster ammunitions and phosphorous shells. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin in May 2008 and signed by 94 nations on 4 December 2008 in Oslo, prohibited all forms of cluster ammunitions. The UN too calls for a freeze on the use of these weapons in or near populated areas. These weapons scatter several dozen "bomblets" over a given area. According to the UN Mine Action Coordination Center, usually between 30-40 percent of such bomblets fail to explode on impact. Therefore, many of these later detonate by accident, wounding and killing civilians.
But that hasn't kept Israel from using the prohibited weapons on the Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Israel has repeatedly used cluster munations on heavily populated civilian areas, resulting in mass casualties. In 2006, an Israeli commander disclosed, they fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon. The head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said, "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs [and phosphorous shells]". The commander stated that highly inaccurate MLRS platforms were heavily used to fire the cluster munations.
It was further disclosed, in order to cause fires in Lebanon, the IDF fired trucks loads of phosphorous rounds. A direct hit from a phosphorous shell typically causes severe burns and a slow, painful death. Carving out the phosphorous from victim's body is the only way to stop the human flesh from further burning. International Law unambiguously forbids the use of phosphorous weapons, because they cause "excessive injury and unnecessary suffering". According to the International Red Cross too, International Law forbids the use of phosphorous and other types of flammable rounds against personnel that were used by the Israelis in Lebanon and now in Gaza.
For the obvious reasons, Martin Gilbert believed in a man's inalienable right to resist force, oppression and occupation. He wrote in 'The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy', "In every ghetto, in every deportation train, in every labor camp, even in the death camps, the will to resist was strong, and took many forms. Fighting with the few weapons that would be found, individual acts of defiance and protest, the courage of obtaining food and water under the threat of death, the superiority of refusing to allow the Germans their final wish to gloat over panic and despair. Even passivity was a form of resistance. To die with dignity was a form of resistance. To resist the demoralizing, brutalizing force of evil, to refuse to be reduced to the level of animals, to live through the torment, to outlive the tormentors, these too were acts of resistance. Merely to give a witness of these events in testimony was, in the end, a contribution to victory. Simply to survive was a victory of the human spirit." Switch 'Germans' with 'Israelis' and you may think Gilbert was feeling proud of the Palestinian resistance. Perhaps, one day, someone could explain, why the Jewish resistance was a matter of principal and survival, but the Palestinian resistance is a matter of criminality and terrorism?
In 1938, the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels said, "Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world." One has to wonder, did Goebbels somehow foresee the 21st century, State of Israel?
However, the problem is, history has a nasty habit of repeating itself. The world stood by and did nothing when 6 million Jews were systematically exterminated. As a result, the Jews are now venting their pent-up anger on the militarily weak and politically abandoned Palestinians. If history is any guide, will it repeat itself, this time around too? Who will be the recipient of the Palestinian retributions? Time will tell.
Fast Food Service in Late 40s in USA
Cars parked at an automated drive-in diner, where individual conveyor belts transport food directly to the driver, California, circa 1950.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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