Tales of Drudgery & Boredom.
’t Zal wel op niets uitdraaien, maar een mens kan maar hopen:
Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas has filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in Fort Bend County Court. In her suit she is alleging “race based harassment and individual sex crimes committed against her and her husband.” The suit lists numerous offenses and asks for actual damages, punitive damages and judgments against George W. Bush. [Fort Bend Star]
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Hehe. Marquee mutilation.
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Tiens, kijk, CDNOW bestaat niet meer.
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Soms vind je nog wel eens interessant commentaar bij Fark (van Tadlette):
This is what happens when you try to even out social inequality too quickly. I wrote a diatribe on the Venezuelan situation just a few days ago which I shall now recycle, just like the good greenie I am. Yay. Just make sure you check out the Freepers comments for some top-notch refined and purified amusing bullshiat, it’s worth it.
The people opposing the government are the oil companies, the army, and the rich. They are mostly white, and of course the poor are mostly black or indian. I liked the article that described the anti-chavez protestors wearing pearls and sipping champagne while ‘camped out’ on their demonstration.
The protestors were shot at last week, credible sources report the gunman was caught and admitted to being hired by an anti-government general. He used his own supporters lives to drum up more support for his cause. Dirty politics at its best.
So why don’t the opposition like him? Chavez is a filthy communist, that’s why the US government want him out and have supported both coups. When will this communism demon die for the US government.
“Chavez’s real crime was to pass two laws through Venezuela’s national assembly. The first ordered big plantation owners to turn over untilled land to the landless. The second nearly doubled, from roughly 16% to 30%, royalties paid for extracting Venezuela’s oil. Venezuela was once the largest exporter of oil to the USA, bigger than Saudi Arabia. This explains Chavez’s unpopularity – at least within that key constituency, the American petroleum industry. “
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,857027,00.html
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1549914.php
Anyway – there are reports that he’s arming the poorer citizens as we speak, they were the ones that voted him in and he hopes in the next coup they will be the ones that keep him in.
“Thursday, December 12, 2002 — Uruguayan EP-FA congressman Jose Bayardi says he has information that far-reaching plans have been put into operation by the CIA and other North American intelligence agencies to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias within the next 72 hours.
Bayardi says he has received copies of top-secret communications between the Bush administration in Washington and the government of Uruguay requesting the latter’s cooperation to support white collar executives and trade union activists “to break down levels of intransigence within the Chavez Frias administration.”
http://www.vheadline.com/0212/14248.asp#External
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1550023.php
now check out the pure unadulterated bullshiat the freepers have spewed on the matter, and notice almost _all_ the faces are white:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/802763/posts?page=1,50
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=221925&group=webcast
Confirmed US involvement in the first coup?
“What was indeed confirmed is that the airplane booked to take Chávez off Orchilla Island and out of the country belonged to Paraguayan banker Vænbsp;ctor Gil (TotalBank). And where was it headed? According to personnel of the airplane registered in the United States, the flight was headed to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. “
“U.S. intervention was to be found not only in ?advice? from high government officials in Washington such as Roger Pardo-Maurer (in charge of special operations and low-intensity conflicts in Latin America for the Pentagon), Otto Reich, and/or John Maisto, but also from Lieut. Col. James Rodger, assigned to the Military Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, who supported the revolt with his presence on the fifth floor of army headquarters, where he advised the generals in the rebellion. “
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/581.cfm
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/witness.htm
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Ik ga eens proberen videoconferencen naar mijn ouders. Zien of dat werkt.
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ENG CTRL FAULTY zegt de Multipla alle vijf voet, en dan valt hij stil. Terwijl we aan het rijden zijn, en zonder redenen. En alles blokkeert, en het dashboard zegt CONTACT GARAGE.
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OK, I stand corrected. I think. Zo had ik er nog niet over nagedacht:
Re:Spielberg Over the Hill? (Score:5, Informative)
by Twirlip of the Mists (615030) <[email protected]> on Saturday December 14, @08:46PM (#4889703)
(Last Journal: Saturday December 14, @09:55PM)
We meet an alien race that is smart enough to figure out how to resurrect the dead, but isn’t quite smart enough to figure out how to do it for more than one day. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard.
It’s ridiculous because you completely misunderstood it. They weren’t aliens. They were highly sophisticated mecha. Humans became extinct in the 2,000 year interval, but mecha survived and evolved by reproducing themselves. The “aliens” you see are the end result of 2,000 years of mecha evolution.
And they didn’t resurrect the dead. They initially told David that they would be unable to resurrect his mother because they lacked her DNA, but when Teddy presented the hairs, they had to improvise. “Give him what he wants,” said the narrator. They created, out of David’s memories, an image of his mother, and let him interact with her for one day. Why only one day? Because they wanted to give David a sense of peace before euthanizing him.
See, the key to understanding this movie is to know that the human characters were all selfish and cruel– intentionally or otherwise– and that the mecha characters were all innocent and pure. David, especially, had to be innocent; he was programmed to be. The uber-mecha were the culmination of this: they were supremely innocent, supremely kind, supremely compassionate. When they found this primitive mecha under the ice, they recognized him for what he was. They knew that he was capable of feeling, but not of learning or growing. So they did what the humans, in their arrogance, could not. They destroyed him.
Last shot – cyberboy frozen in the block of ice staring at the blue fairy. Credits. Much better ending.
Sorry, but I disagree. The existing ending is overwhelmingly powerful, if one understands it.
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Dat doet er mij aan denken: Louis’ uitspraak is helemaal anders dan die van Zelie als ze klein was. Pak nu Kabouter Plop. Zelie zei in het begin iets als “pappe klop”, en Louis doet gewoon “taboute”.
En er was nog geen Bob de Bouwer toen Zelie klein was, maar we keken wel naar Musti en naar Tik Tak. Nu speelt Louis gewoon met Zelie, en Zelie met Louis als de rest haar tegensteekt.
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L’aubaine! Zelie en Louis zijn vandaag tot ongeveer halfnegen blijven liggen! Ik was om halvier wakker en ik dacht dat het al halfacht was. Ik ben dan de rest van de nacht om het halfuur wakker geworden. Beste manier van slapen die er is: regelmatig half wakker worden en beseffen dat ik nog een beetje mag slapen.
En vanmorgen heb ik ze er gewoon uitgehaald terwijl ze nog niet aan het roepen waren. Wakker, maar nog niet kwaad, zo heb ik ze het liefste 🙂
En met al dat is het nu dus al twintig na negen, zijn ze alletwee aangekleed en gevoed, en klaar om te spelen. Zelie is nu Louis aan het uitleggen dat hij in de kleurboeken moet kleuren aan de kant waar de tekening nog niet ingekleurd is.
Ik ben al lang content dat hij vanmorgen blijkbaar het verschil maakt tussen kleurboek en leesboek.
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Ack! Twintig na één! Ik moet er binnen vijf en een half uur uit! Bah, bah bah.
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Fantastisch, magnifiek, groots. Kissinger dient zijn ontslag in als voorzitter van de 11 septembercommissie. Als er rechtvaardigheid was in wereld, zou hij voor een internationaal gerechtshof moeten komen voor al wat hij mispeuterd heeft in zijn leven.
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Mysterie opgelost.
I suspect I am not the only one on Salon blogs getting annoyed at the frequent downtime of the rcs server. It is frequently unavailable, which means that my updates are not posted on my blog, it means the comments does not work, and neither does the referrals page.
If you get a script error when loading this page, that is why. If you get a [] after comments below this message; same reason. This is problem that’s been with me since I stated blogging on Salon in September, but it has surely been getting worse lately.
Salon, any plans to deal with this? [Secular Blasphemy]
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Bijzonder goeie xslt: te vinden in het XSLT Cookbook.
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Shit! Daar gaan we weer.
Het is net na middernacht, en Radio weigert te updaten.
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En wat zeggen de referers precies? Dat hier veel mensen terechtkomen die hier niets gaan vinden.
Olsen Twins zijn naar de achtergrond aan het verschuiven, Julie Taton maar vooral Zoë Van Gastel zijn er sinds kort bij gekomen, en voor de rest nog altijd (na maaaaanden, en uiteraard omdat ik erover blijf zagen) nog altijd Mike’s Apartment en Boygirlbang, al dan niet in combinatie met password.
Voor Zoë Van Gastel zijn de zoekopdrachten allemaal gewoon “Zoe Van Gastel”. Dus niet “Zoë Van Gastel naakt”, of “blote tetten zoe van gastel”, een verademing.
Veronique De Kock is nog altijd hetzelfde, combinatie van de kock / de cock met monokini, en naakt, en borsten, en st. tropez, en bla en bla.
Julie Taton komt dan wel weer binnen met al direkt “julie taton nue” en “miss belgium naked”, och here dat meiske.
Eigenlijk, ik vraag mij af hoeveel meer hits ik zou hebben als ik deze pagina niet “Michel Vuijlsteke’s Weblog” zou noemen, maar iets meer nondescript. Zoiets pompeus en belachelijk als “Suspension of Disbelief” of “Short Visits Allowed” of “Vanishing Point”. Of wat het effect zou zijn van een naam als “Huge Bazongas” of “Leather Bitches”?
Enfin, de vreemde referers zijn altijd wel grappig. Vandaag onder meer:
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