Lost in translation [PICS]

Could be an identity theft case.

Only in the USA.

‘Civil War submarines’ would make equal sense.

Next line could be ‘Painter rewarded.’

‘We had no idea anyone was buried there.’

Thought we were democratic.

Some people need to be told everything.

See this man in your neighborhood?

What did they expect? Lingerie?

I’d say it drops off even better after 80.

Ok, that’s just mean.

Photographs That Changed the World — Part I

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts were one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

Assasination (Yasushi Nagao, Japan) January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

Protest (Malcolm W. Browne, USA) 1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

Death (Hictor Rondsn Lovera, Venezuela) 1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan) 1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan) 1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

Vietnam War (Eddie Adams, USA) February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

Assasination of Salvador Allende, Chili (Unknown photographer) 1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

Accident (Stanley Forman, USA) 1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

Hunger in Uganda (Michael Wells, U.K.) 1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

And Now, Palin Wine

Appears Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin just can’t stay out of the news. Well, I’m talking about the kind of news a vice presidential candidate wouldn’t necessarily be jumping with joy to be in.

A hitherto inconsequential organic wine from Chile has suddenly shot to limelight caught up in the US presidential race — for the simple reason it’s called Palin Syrah. Not that Ms Palin has anything to do with it, but that’s the way news works, I guess.

San Francisco’s Yield Wine Bar manager Chris Tavelli has been serving Palin Syrah well before Republican presidential candidate John McCain asked Palin to be his running-mate. But once that (nomination) was announced, Palin Syrah sales have plummeted in Frisco. But Tavelli is not taking it off his wine list.

“It’s good, organic and affordable,” he said.

But Palin Syrah is not running dry in Texas, where a store reports that out of a stock of the wine stacked 20 high, only less than a hundred bottles remain. And the spirit has hit new sales highs even in the Democratic New York City.

“I think is that some of the reason is that some people are going to buy it and cross out her name and maybe write Obama or Biden’s name,” said shop owner Scott Pactor.

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What the Heck is Palin-tology? Newsweek Defines

What the Heck is Palin-tology? Newsweek Defines

On stands today, the September 15, 2008 issue of Newsweek helps define the new word with a story on Sarah Palin’s record to get a better understanding of where she stands on issues.

UPDATE
September 16, 2008

Now that I’m talking about ‘palintology’, little did I realize that a site devoted to the subject has been around much before I saw the word on Newsweek’s cover. And that is Palintology: the science dealing with Alaska’s first female governor & USA VP nominee, Sarah Palin. Check out the latest ‘Palinistic’ news, stories, forums, the store and more:

Now, I’m not sure if the above Newseek photo is authentic or not, well, it does look real, but the following ‘image’ of Palin is definitely, positively Photoshopped:

Check out the orginal here.

Source The Huffington Post

Naughty Duck Promotes Sex Line

Some think that former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer could be behind the slip in the proofreading, but the carrier card for the new duck stamp also carries a misprint that’s sending callers to a sex line.

Duck hunters are invited to a different kind of sport when they call the number, which takes them to a certain “Intimate Connections” with a husky female voice inviting them to “talk only to the girls that turn you on,” for $1.99 a minute.

Blame it all (or thank) a printing error — instead of listing 1-800-782-6724 (1-800-STAMP24, it lists 1-800-872-6724 (1-800-TRAMP24).

Strangely enough though, no one seems to be complaining.

“I’m going to order a lot more stamps,” said New Jersey native Brad Jones, who’s suddenly become a die-hard fan of duck hunting, having called the number three times to ‘order duck stamps.’

It has even enabled 14-year-old Kevin Anderson to discover a new world. He’s raised money with his neighborhood gang to pay for some steamy chats. “I had no idea such a thing existed, me and my friends love it,” said Kevin.

About 3.5 million federal “duck stamps,” featuring artwork by a Plymouth artist, are affixed to a card that bears the misprinted number, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday. Cost of reprints? About $300,000.

The revenue from duck stamps goes toward purchasing waterfowl habitat for the National Wildlife Refuge System. For 2006-2007, that amounted to nearly $22 million.

The card also carries their website URL duckstamp.com. Hmm… wish there was a misprint there as well and they’d printed offbeatbuzz.com.