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Japanese Pole-tician !

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Japan, _BABE | | No Comments Yet

The Initials …The Initials … The Initials BB !

Une nuit que j’étais
A me morfondre
Dans quelque pub anglais
Du coeur de Londres
Parcourant l’Amour Mons-
Tre de Pauwels
Me vint une vision
Dans l’eau de Seltz

B Initials
B Initals
B Initials
B.B.

- Serge Gainsbourg

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Brigitte Bardot, France, Serge Gainsbourg, _BABE | | 1 Comment

Marianne Faithfull

Come over to the window, my little darling,
I’d like to try to read your palm.
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
before I let you take me home.
Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

- L. Cohen

Marianne sure looked hot back before the Rolling Stones got their claws into her!

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, _BABE | | No Comments Yet

We love Mariya Poroshina

Mariya’s amazingly like a clone of Cathérine Deneuve!

Sacre bleu!!

All you roosky vampires better look out!

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Cathérine Deneuve, Mariya Poroshina, Russia, _BABE | | No Comments Yet

Gaza

http://www.cagle.msnbc.com/news/GazaConflict08/images/fares.jpg


by Fares Garabet
E-Mail Fares.

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Israel, _CARTOON | | No Comments Yet

Beware of those "Good Time Girls"!

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | _ART | | No Comments Yet

Our Hero …. Tex Avery’s Wolf !

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Tex Avery, _CARTOON | | No Comments Yet

Where exactly ??!!

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Nympho, _CARTOON | | No Comments Yet

My GF’s a nympho ….. thank God!

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Nympho, _BABE | | No Comments Yet

That was LAST week!

http://www.cagle.msnbc.com/news/GazaConflict08/images/bromhead.jpg


Peter Bromhead, Dominion-Post Wellington and Sunday-Star Times, Auckland New Zealand
Visit Peter. E-mail Peter.

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Israel, _CARTOON | | No Comments Yet

The Swimmer

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | _BABE, _PHOTOGRAPHY | | No Comments Yet

Tex Avery – Blitz Wolf (WWII)


The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

- Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media (Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)

For those who thought/think Israel was/is the first to invent war propaganda to feed to the masses! (cue a slew of manic vitriolic comments!!)

From one of our heroes, the legendary Tex Avery, here’s a fine piece featuring Adolf Wolf (Colossal Stinker) and the three lil piggies! (Austria, Poland and Prussia, we suppose!)

We love Der Mechanized Huffer und Puffer! How can we get our paws on one of those?!

Not that Tex was the inventor of propaganda! Neither was Israel (well, it’s only been around a few decades!) Nor America. Not even the Nazis or the Brits!

Nah. Like prostitution, propaganda has been around for countless centuries. Reliable recorded evidence obviously does not go back nearly that far though.

One of the earliest documented examples of propaganda is the Behistun Inscription (c. 515 BC) detailing the rise of Darius I to the Persian throne.

Propaganda was widely used as a colonisation tool by Alexander the Great (356 BC- 323 BC).

The Arthashastra written by Chanakya (c. 350 – 283 BC), a professor of political science at Takshashila University and a prime minister of the Maurya Empire (the empire of ancient India) discusses propaganda in detail, such as how to spread propaganda and how to apply it in warfare. His student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire, employed these methods during his rise to power.

The writings of Roman scribes such as Livy (c. 59 BC – 17 AD) are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman propaganda.

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Noam Chomsky, Tex Avery, _CARTOON | | No Comments Yet

Larry Mullen claims ‘Bono’s friendship with war criminals makes me cringe’

Who’d have thunk it! The smartest person in U2 (though that of course is damning with very faint praise indeed!) turns out to be stickman Larry Mullen!

He talks about Bono cavorting with jug-eared war-monger Tony “I don’t care” Blair and numbskulled war-monger GW “this’ll make daddy happy” Bush!

Man, this guy finds Bono as annoying as we do! Nice work stickman!

There’s a rather interesting reference in the article below too to a writer we like, Paul Theroux, who has described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as “mythomaniacs“! So, Angelina’s a nymphomaniac? Wow, there’s a real shocker!!

What about Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage? Are they “mythomaniacs” too? Or nymphomaniacs?


http://www.independent.ie

By Anne-Marie Walsh
December 29 2008

U2 drummer Larry Mullen has admitted he “cringes” when he sees Bono associating with “war criminals” George W Bush and Tony Blair.

The normally reserved musician has launched a stinging attack on his frontman for his involvement with the two world leaders in an interview with music magazine Q.

It is not the first time Mullen has criticised Bono for his campaign work, but this is his most scathing criticism to date. From his appearance at Live Aid and Band Aid in the 1980s, Bono has been involved in numerous charities to raise awareness of crises in Africa, including AIDs.

He praised Mr Bush for increasing aid to Africa and most recently appeared with him during the G8 summit last year. In 2007, he also saluted outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for “doing the things he believed in”, despite the “accusations of a slick PR machine, spin doctoring and the like”.

But his work outside the band has caused a deep rift between Bono and at least one other fellow band member.

In his interview, Mullen suggests the singer’s campaigns have taken their toll on his family life. He admitted that Bono is “prepared to use his weight as a celebrity at great cost to himself and his family, to help other people”, adding: “but, as an outsider looking in, I cringe.”

He brands Mr Blair and Mr Bush “war criminals”.

“Tony Blair is a war criminal and I think he should be tried as a war criminal.

“Then I see Bono and him as pals and I’m going, ‘I don’t like that’. Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably — but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.”

Six years ago, in an interview on American TV, Mullen said he believed Bono’s political crusades were unsettling the band. He told the ‘60 Minutes’ programme that the lead singer’s absence was felt each time he took a break to campaign on issues.

“It does interfere with the band,” he said. “It’s a four-legged table, and with one leg missing, even for short periods of time, the thing becomes a little unstable.”

Bono has also come under attack from critics less close to home, including writer Paul Theroux.

Mr Theroux described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as “mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth”.

He said he was not complaining about humanitarian aid, disaster relief, AIDS education or affordable drugs.

“Instead, I am speaking of the ‘more money’ platform: the notion that what Africa needs is more prestige projects, volunteer labour and debt relief.”

The U2 singer responded by calling his critics “cranks carping from the sidelines”.

“A lot of them wouldn’t know what to do if they were on the field,” he said.

January 5, 2009 Posted by stupidand | Bono, GW Bush, Larry Mullen, Mythbusters, Tony Blair, U2, _ARTICLE, _CARTOON, _MUSIC | | 1 Comment