I work in downtown San Francisco, just a block from the Embarcadero and the San Francisco Bay.
Today the Olympic torch was supposed to follow a route right on the Embarcadero, from the Giants ballpark to the ferry building and beyond.   That didn’t happy, due to city officials changing the route at the last minute, but […]

Bush at this weeks NATO summit.
Caption should read … “With 9 months to go, does anyone care?”

I’ve come to a decision, at the dawn of my 42nd year of life, that can be easily described as a simple computer program.
IF
  OR    =
THEN
  =
 OR
 OR
 
 OR Maybe Even…
 

She looks thrilled doesn’t she?
What’s more disturbing…
(A) that her family sold her off to this guy
(B) that she’s 11
(C) that he’s “40″ and looks to be around 85
(D) all of the above
 

From MSNBC.COM:
Japanese fleet heads off to hunt for humpbacks
Activists vow to disrupt first hunt for protected whales in decades
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - A Japanese whaling fleet sailing toward waters off Antarctica to kill protected humpback whales was itself the target of a hunt Monday by environmental activists who vowed to disrupt the expedition.
Greenpeace said its protest […]

By Restless
Camp Bondsteel, the biggest “from scratch” foreign US military base since the Vietnam War is near completion in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. It is located close to vital oil pipelines and energy corridors presently under construction, such as the US sponsored Trans-Balkan oil pipeline. As a result defence contractors—in particular Halliburton Oil subsidiary […]

Do they really have the bomb?

From YahooNews: 
India May Arrest Richard Gere Over Kiss
A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function “transgressed all limits of vulgarity,” media reports said.
Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Missing child found in shot croc
BEIJING, China (AP) — A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child’s remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by […]

 
This came out awhile ago, but I still get a kick out of it, so here it is for your reading pleasure, as brought to you by U.K funny man, John Cleese: 
To the citizens of the United States of America -
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern […]

“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”
From The BBC:
Family of faggot fans fly the flag
A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish - faggots.
The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Russia eyes industrial development of moon
Expert believes Soyuz rockets able to reach Earth’s closest neighbor
MOSCOW - Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, a space expert said.
Thirty-eight years after the United States put the first man on the moon, Russia could reach it […]

So in Dubai, they are building an 80 story tower next to a Marina.  This is a photo of the excavation for the buildings foundation…
 
Nearing completion, workers discovered this leak in the wall after hearing a sharp cracking sound.  They were ordered to leave the site, and soon after, this happened….

Doh!

Now they have a bigger Marina.
From […]