The Corner Blog Archives: August 2006
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23 August 2006
Should we burn some crosses now?
This is an absolutely appalling news story:
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told […]
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18 August 2006
OECD would cut the Finnish wages
As reported by YLE[FIN], the Finnish Public Broadcast Channel, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, would cut down the wages of Finnish youth workers. According to their resent survey of Finland, the minimum wages in shops (~€7.5/h) and on hotel and restaurant businesses (~€8/h) is preventing the youth from employment and the fact […]
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16 August 2006
Neo-Narcissistic movement on the rise
The Europeans™ are worried of the growth of neo-narcissistic movement. The neo-narcissistic organizations have grown by their numbers and by their popularity - specially in Germany, as our reporter is enlightened by the ANNL, Anti Neo-Narcissistic League’s representative Tom af Finland.
“Using neo-narcissistic symbols and spreading the ism are generally forbidden, but one just keeps bumping […]
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15 August 2006
Oh dearie me. He’s lost it.
Check out Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s exercise in realpolitische madness.
He’s obviously insane, but just imagine how many fuckwits in influential positions are thinking the same? We’re all in the shit, get your bomb shelters ready.
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15 August 2006
Cuba Apple says Castro Steve is in Good health
Cuba… Apple tried today to dispel rumors that President Fidel Castro… CEO Steve Jobs’ health is deteriorating by announcing that he’s in good health. Rumors of he being near death started after undergoing surgery… WWDC when he had to send his brother… other executives on stage to rule Cuba… complete the keynote.
Cuban official… Apple spokesperson […]
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15 August 2006
First blogging president
Blogging is catching politics as well. Now we have a first [publicly] blogging president. The weirdest part is that it’s not from a country you would first assume to start something like that [on the other hand, it’s hard to imagine any country’s president to start blogging; and how should I know anyway?] - from […]
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11 August 2006
Lessons for Bush
Ok, so we’re all pretty pissed off about the fact that we can now no longer carry laptops and so on onto our flights. Our eminent Rainer has already covered that. And a lot of people seem to think that there was never any plot at all, that this was a bluff, a fake in […]
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10 August 2006
Security measures at Heathrow just getting stricter
In addition to the security measures already taken, the Heathrow officials have also banned jackets, shirts, sweaters, overcoats, etc, but especially cardigans. The only exception to the rule is that if the person is not wearing anything under the shirt (such as a tank top, sleeveless t-shirt, etc) he may wear one layer of clothing.
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10 August 2006
UK airports’ new “security” measures
I don’t know how many of you reads all of your mails, but I received and read an email today of the new “immediately effective” measures on UK airports.
“Further to today’s national security alert at UK airports, the Department for Transport (DoT) has issued additional security measures. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to […]