More News You Really Don't Need

[random axe]

Allegations, schmallegations -- what I want to know is how come in the European press, pictures of the Wikileaks dude make him look like a light-haired European guy, but in all US media pictures of him make him look like Willy Wonka's albino cupboard slave?

THAT is just odd.

[mo]

From an article discussing the announcement by Iran of plans for a long range drone:

In a speech at the unveiling ceremony, Ahmadinejad said Iran should seek the ability to make pre-emptive strikes against a perceived threat, although he said it would never strike first.

"If there is an ignorant person or an egoist or a tyrant who just wanted to make an aggression then our Defence Ministry should reach a point where it could cut off the hand of the aggressor before it decided to make an aggression," he said.

"We should reach a point when Iran would serve as a defence umbrella for all freedom loving nations in the face of world aggressors. We don't want to attack anywhere, Iran will never decide to attack anywhere, but our revolution cannot sit idle in the face of tyranny, we can't remain indifferent."

  

[random axe]

Ehhhh . . . they all sound like that.  The translation and cultural gunk makes it sound a little fancier, is all.

He does happen to seem crazy, though.

[Lindsey Buckinghmof]

Allegations, schmallegations -- what I want to know is how come in the European press, pictures of the Wikileaks dude make him look like a light-haired European guy, but in all US media pictures of him make him look like Willy Wonka's albino cupboard slave?

THAT is just odd.

Not really. Ask OJ Simpson about that.
The media have decided this guy's a villain, so they've photoshopped him into a freak.

[random axe]

I suppose, I suppose.

Still, they went an odd direction.  And it's a little creepy how they all agreed on the same distortion so quickly.

[First Post]

It's "Mr. White" from the Venture Brothers

[random axe]

I've gotta start watching that show again somehow.

Robot Chicken, too.  They have it for free through their website, but it's such an insanely bad website that I hate visiting it even for free Robot Chicken.  It's like wading through sewage to get a free $10. 

I'd say that eventually it'll just be on Netflix, but I finished watching the first three seasons of NewsRadio, and the last two seasons aren't available on Instant Play yet.  It's been a few years, so clearly this is not a reliable process.

[Talix]

If the /b/ team really did track down this kid who was throwing puppies into a river, they have my thanks.

[random axe]

Jebus, Tal.  They encourage that kind of behavior, but they also sort of police it.  It's a weird group.  Er, I mean, obviously.  I just hope they've got the right perps.



From CNN today, in an article I had hopes for (about opening a retail business with very little start-up money):

After selling his Illinois gourmet food store and moving to Austin six years ago, Chris Miller was anxious to open another food-related business. So he became an early pioneer of one of food world's hottest trends: mobile food trucks.

Uh, what?  An early pioneer in mobile food trucks . . . six years ago?  Isn't that about a hundred years late?  Why, yes -- yes, it is.  Nice try.  Good for him if he's making money, but let's not get hysterical.  Plus, nothing in the writeup suggests he had little starting capital.

[random axe]

So, the price of cotton is going up by like 40 cents a pound (to about 90 cents a pound), and naturally the media reports we should expect cotton shirts to start costing $2-$5 more and the price of jeans to double.

And that makes perfect sense because, you know, there's like fifty pounds of cotton in a pair of jeans.  No chance the clothing companies are milking this.

[pdrake]

breckfast is serious bidness in kentucky

[random axe]

Crazy people are crazy.  And the state police showed up an hour after the shooting began?  What, was shooting pretty common in that trailer park and not normally worth calling the cops for?

[Psidefect]

breckfast is serious bidness in kentucky

Whatever you do, don't build a HoJo's near the site!

We have enough angry rednecks at the moment.

[mo]

in his pyjamas

When a man kills because of how his food is cooked, it makes news around the world.

[mo]

The follow-up story of the man who killed because of poorly cooked eggs that had apparently lost his job, was in the process of losing his trailer, had terminal cancer, was off his psych meds, and recently found out his wife had been cheating with one of the neighbors in the trailer park, had been drinking for four days, and whose dog had died will not be as popular a story.