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Annan: UN won't 'wage war' in Lebanon
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
The women feel bad, but the guys must feel worse
Two German women complaining on office email about their partners' poor sex drive found the details of their private lives broadcast to thousands after one of them hit the wrong button, Bild newspaper said Saturday. "Everyone stares at us now and whispers behind our backs," Anica G., a 21-year-old worker at the Federal Labor Office, told Bild.

The emails between Anica and colleague Christina S., with descriptions on how the women try but fail to arouse their partners, were first sent by accident to other colleagues in their department at the Labor Office. They were then forwarded to thousands throughout the Labor Office and other government agencies and widely distributed by recipients to people across Germany. Anica told the daily she and her colleague had not broken any rules because the emails were written on breaks.
Posted by: Fred || 08/20/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Never send anything in e-mail that you wouldn't mind showing up as the centerpiece of a Superbowl half-time show. Heh heh.

Anybody got a copy of that e-mail? I think I'll go to Germany for my next vacation.
Posted by: gorb || 08/20/2006 16:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow! It's 1992 in Deutschland!
Posted by: 6 || 08/20/2006 19:32 Comments || Top||

#3  So much for Teutonic male prowess. Must be that whole squat-to-pee thingie (so to speak).
Posted by: Zenster || 08/20/2006 23:45 Comments || Top||


Europe
28 inmates escape Belgian prison
BRUSSELS - Twenty-eight inmates of Belgium’s Termonde prison escaped in the early hours of Saturday but six have already been recaptured, the Belga press agency reported.

Two prisoners managed to force their cell door open and took several prison guards hostage, demanding their keys. They then released 26 other inmates. The escaped prisoners managed to get into the prison courtyard, from where they scaled the prison walls.

The authorities were on Saturday unable to say how the cell door had been forced, or whether any dangerous criminals were among the fugitives.
Thought for sure there would be something about a tunnel and a nearby mosque.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/20/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney
From Drudge, link will eventually change.
In an exclusive appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., blasted fellow Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman for continuing his bid in the Connecticut Senate race despite a narrow loss to newcomer challenger Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary earlier this month.

"I'm concerned that (Lieberman) is making a Republican case," Kerry told ABC News, accusing the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of "adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney," on the issue of Iraq. Kerry continued, "Joe Lieberman is out of step with the people of Connecticut," insisting Liberman's stance on Iraq, "shows you just why he got in trouble with the Democrats there."
Joe also has a near-perfect liberal rating on everything domestic, and the people of his state seem to like him.
Kerry called the Connecticut Senator's Independent bid a "huge mistake" and applauded businessman-turned-politician as "courageous" for challenging Lieberman on the war. Of his own views on Iraq, Kerry stated forthrightly, "The course of this country in Iraq is making the world more dangerous."
Thank gawd we didn't elect this idjit.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/20/2006 10:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I'm concerned that (Lieberman) is making a Republican case," Kerry told ABC News,

And we're all delighted! (My fav pic of Kerry by the way, thanks)
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2006 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  why the long face, John?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/20/2006 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  How much is the Dark Lord Rove paying these clowns to bad-mouth Lieberman in order to boost his poll numbers even more?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/20/2006 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I live in CT and Lieberman is not the nice quiet-but-dull guy he seems -- he's as jackass mean and vindictive as any of 'em -- and he's ready to stick it up his party's ass and break it off.
Posted by: regular joe || 08/20/2006 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey, Mr. Kerry - I hear Lamont's rich, you gonna go for it a third time?
Posted by: Raj || 08/20/2006 16:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe we should get Lieberman a nice Benelli for his birthday?
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 08/20/2006 17:34 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 "he's ready to stick it up his party's ass and break it off"

From your keyboard to the voters' fingers, rj.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/20/2006 17:48 Comments || Top||

#8  It is obvious that Lieberman's continuing the Senate race as an independent is sticking in Kerry's and the Dem's craw.
Posted by: Alaska Paul back home || 08/20/2006 17:52 Comments || Top||

#9  "Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney"
Lieberman should publicly thank Kerry for the compliment.
Posted by: Darrell || 08/20/2006 17:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Not while he's running or may run for office in CT. ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 08/20/2006 18:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Kerry stated forthrightly,

Kerry and forthright shouldn't be used in the same sentence - ever.
Posted by: xbalanke || 08/20/2006 20:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Men can watch women's soccer
Football authorities have dropped restrictions on men watching women play soccer, a senior official said on Saturday. "Anybody can come and watch the matches," Pakistan Football Federation technical director Mir Farooq told Reuters. "We have made adequate security and seating arrangements for everyone."

When the women's championship was launched last year in the country, the PFF did not allow unaccompanied men to watch. Only men who came with their families were allowed in. Farooq said the women players had to wear baggy tracksuit trousers and long-sleeved shirts and their matches were to be supervised by a women referee, helped by one male and one female assistant. "We want to promote women's sports but we are also aware of the sensitivities associated with women's sports," he said. National football coach Tariq Lutfi said more women were playing soccer, particularly after the World Cup. As a result, 12 teams are taking part in this year's competition, up from eight last year.
Posted by: Fred || 08/20/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is great news until the first guy gets a boner and then both teams will have to have their throats slit to preserve honor.
Posted by: JDB || 08/20/2006 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Football authorities have dropped restrictions on men watching women play soccer, a senior official said on Saturday.

An announcement made from behind bulletproof glass, it sounds like.

"Anybody can come and watch the matches," Pakistan Football Federation technical director Mir Farooq told Reuters.

Could you invite UBL?

"We have made adequate security and seating arrangements for everyone."

Delta Force will take care of security for UBL. Then they'll take care of UBL.

When the women's championship was launched last year in the country, the PFF did not allow unaccompanied men to watch. Only men who came with their families were allowed in.

I guess some letches in the PFF didn't have families.

Farooq said the women players had to wear baggy tracksuit trousers and long-sleeved shirts and their matches were to be supervised by a women referee, helped by one male and one female assistant.

I suppose the male has to be a blind eunuch?

Wait a minute, no chastity belt?!


"We want to promote women's sports but we are also aware of the sensitivities associated with women's sports," he said.

Read: Please don't hurt us, Mr. Extremist!

National football coach Tariq Lutfi said more women were playing soccer, particularly after the World Cup. As a result, 12 teams are taking part in this year's competition, up from eight last year.

Yay!
Posted by: gorb || 08/20/2006 3:13 Comments || Top||

#3  "Anybody can come and watch the matches," Pakistan Football Federation technical director Mir Farooq told Reuters. "We have made adequate security and seating arrangements for everyone."

So they finally got around to importing at huge Japanese wide screen display? Are they going to wrap it in a burkka first?
Posted by: Jomp Sheanter3669 || 08/20/2006 9:08 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Kat who Crossed the Border
An unusual sight was seen a few days ago, with the exit of Paratrooper Brigade forces from Lebanon: one of the brigade reserve soldiers was carrying, along with all his heavy equipment and weapon, a white kitten. "On the way back to Israeli territory we passed through the village of Kauzer," said the soldier, "and all of a sudden I saw a kitten coming out of one of the houses. After a few seconds I realized it is wounded and that its hearing has been hurt. I picked it up and carried it for six kilometers, until we reached Israeli territory. I decided it deserves a better future. After all, it is not its fault that war broke out." The first thing the cat and its new owner did after having crossed the border into Israeli territory was to share IDF military canned meat. The cat was named Kauzer by its new owner.

Lucky Kat..
Posted by: RD || 08/20/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deadly IDF KAT Trainer and Kung Fu Kat
Posted by: RD || 08/20/2006 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Poor kitty
Posted by: badanov || 08/20/2006 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  IDF military canned meat
NOTSPAM.

I do wonder what it is tho. Corned beef maybe? I have the occasional weakness for the Hormel canned stuff.
Posted by: 6 || 08/20/2006 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  A Gourmand's treat for every critter in the house... once in a blue moon.

Corned beef Along with Home Fries and Free Range Fresh Eggs™.

slo fry heaps of Potatoes in Butter till nice and Crusty. X-large skillet

slo fry pile of Corned Beef till crusty w/chopped onions & GREEN peppers, [not too many] [w/corned beef, green is best]

Eggs..suit thyself but w/corned beef fried sunny side up is best.

bon appetite

Posted by: RD || 08/20/2006 14:26 Comments || Top||

#5  ifin the whole pack is really starved, fry up sum pork chops and make biscuits and gravy too.
Posted by: RD || 08/20/2006 14:29 Comments || Top||

#6  How long until we hear about the Israeli war crime of kidnapping innocent Lebanese kitty cats?
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 08/20/2006 14:48 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if this soldier realizes the a large pecentage of all white cats are born deaf
Posted by: Leonidas || 08/20/2006 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Equip him, train him, and take the sniper kitty with you when you go back to Hezbollahistan.
Posted by: GK || 08/20/2006 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm suprised Olmert didn't have him shot for looting.
Posted by: Gleanter Fluck8145 || 08/20/2006 21:08 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2006-08-20
  Annan: UN won't 'wage war' in Lebanon
Sat 2006-08-19
  Lebanese Army memo: stand with HizbAllah
Fri 2006-08-18
  Frenchies Throw U.N Peacekeeping Plans Into Disarray
Thu 2006-08-17
  Lebanese Army Moves South
Wed 2006-08-16
  Leb contorts, obfuscates over Hezbollah disarmament
Tue 2006-08-15
  Assad: We’ll liberate Golan Heights
Mon 2006-08-14
  Hizbullah distributes Leaflets claiming victory
Sun 2006-08-13
  Lebanese Cabinet Approves Cease-Fire
Sat 2006-08-12
  Israeli troops reach the Litani River
Fri 2006-08-11
  ‘Quake money’ used to finance UK plane bombing plot
Thu 2006-08-10
  "Plot to blow up planes" foiled in UK. We hope.
Wed 2006-08-09
  Israel shakes up Leb front leadership
Tue 2006-08-08
  Lebanese objection delays vote at UN
Mon 2006-08-07
  IAF strikes northeast Lebanon
Sun 2006-08-06
  Beirut dismisses UN draft resolution


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