h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9003055/Black-Sabbath-guitarist-Tony-Iommi-fighting-cancer.html

Tony Iommi has lymphoma.

Dammit, I was hoping to go and see them this year.

Not really a piece of news, but an interesting point of view regarding context dependence of swearing:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3688

I was evem more saddened reading the article to find out RJD had died in 2010 I have Dio's greatest hits at home and its brilliant.

Marines urinate on dead Taliban bodies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16534289

What on earth were they thinking of?

PP

Don't trust ANYBODY. Least of all your own security services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16523249

I'm not all surprised of course, but I am disappointed.

PP

"Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage . . ."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/ows_home_invasion_z9ApqDP6Q0boFviq8CjvAL#ixzz1jd3Nb3zG

http://www.salon.com/topic/occupy_wall_street/

Right-wing documentary targets Occupy:


"Occupy is an attempt “to establish a socialist utopia through revolutionary anarchism” and that the movement must be met with legal and ideological opposition."

In that link of Anhaga, there are more articles portraying Occupy as dirty anarchists.

Right-wing groups have lots of money and a powerful media. They did a huge work against scientists that says that climate change is due mostly to human causes.
There are people who still believe in the contents of the right-wing campains, let´s see what happens with Occupy.

Anhaga, check your sources if you want to sound credible.

The subject line: '"What news story has caught your attention today?" thread'

My post was a news story that caught my attention.

"Anhaga, check your sources if you want to sound credible."

Are you suggesting that my credibility is doubtful when I say that that particular news story caught my attention?


I made no statement one way or the other about the credibility of the news story.


It caught my attention, as I think it would reasonably catch anyone's attention.

Your reaction suggests that you think that it is impossible for anyone to make a mistake in the name of Occupy or that it is unconscionable for such an error to be reported if it should occur.

I don't know anything about the accuracy of the reporting in that news story, but . . .


*It caught my attention!*






I'll be sure not to post any more stories that catch my attention.

(another thread shut down as far as I'm concerned.)

common anhaga, don´t be so sensitive.

nor disingenous

I know how much you *love* Occupy, and for me you were throwing a log to the bonfire agaisnt that movement. The log had the label of "right-wing crap" on it.

Occupy surely has many mistakes and it´s healthy to point at them. I have no problem with that.

"I know how much you *love* Occupy"


No, apparently you don't.

When I bothered with the Occupy h2g2 love-fest, I made careful points about my personal experience with the occupy camp where I live and about the occupy movement in my country and its relevance here, frequently making the point that I suspect the movement to very relevant and very important in many parts of the world. Apparently because I questioned Occupy's relevance *where I live* I have been labelled some sort of universal Occupy hater, which is absolute bullshit.

But, the label has stuck and shut down the possibility of my voicing any thoughts on the movement, or even a link to a news story about the movement, anywhere on hootoo, without being jumped on.


Brave new world we're getting here.

A $5 billion passenger ship carrying over 4000 people takes a detour many miles from its normal route and hits island: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16584075

>> Brave new world we're getting here. <<

So it aint just me whats starting to think
that theres a lotta not-thinking going on.

And before anyone accuses me of h2g2-bashing
let me clarify that it aint just here, no sir, itsa
happening everywheres. Its like there's some
sorta shift in the poles, and everybody feels
they gotta take sides and label everything.

Seems to me, having been apolitical, agnostic
and a bachelor all my life that I might be in
danger of having to make some commitments.

Guess I'd best take up a cause, join a few clubs,
find me a god and maybe even a wife and kids.

Naw, on second thought, why bother. Better to
stay as a moving target. Safer. And cheaper.

~jwf~

>>..theres a lotta not-thinking going on.
..happening everywheres. Its like there's
some sorta shift in the poles, everybody
feeling they gotta take sides and label
everything. <<

'Pon furder considerations Ima thinking its
like some sorta natural feedback thing whats
happening. For the past century or so folks
have been having all their cherished beliefs
mocked and shaken apart. They been told we
gotta be nice to forriners and coloureds and
gays and women and cripples and even jews.
So maybe's it's just natural they wanna have
something to get riled up about, something
we can poke a stick at and call names.


~jwf~

The European Court rule that Jordan is a state sponsor of torture in which a fair trial is not possible:

"In the absence of any assurance by Jordan that the torture evidence would not be used against Mr Othman, the Court therefore concluded that his deportation to Jordan to be retried would give rise to a flagrant denial of justice in violation of [his right to a fair trial]".

In this case the European Court is refering to the country and not the B list celeb. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16590662

Wikipedia blackout.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

I have started to think about how often I access Wikipedia. By the end of the day, I am thinking that I may have been driven round the twist.

PP

Financail Services Authority fine two insurance companies for tampering with customer complaint files.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16611668

But what is the point? To maintain profits, these firms will simply pass the fie on and charge more to their customers. The fine goes, I think, to the exchequer.

So this ends up being no more than a tax on people buying insurance.

PP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16605184

The headline reads:-

'Concrete balls to deter Indonesia 'train surfers''.

Well, the extra weight should certainly make the climb up onto the train more difficult.

PP

The captain of the crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship, Francesco Schettino, has reportedly said the reason he was in a lifeboat while thousands of panic-stricken passengers and crew were trying to evacuate was because he “tripped” and fell into the rescue craft.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9022170/Costa-Concordia-captain-says-he-tripped-and-fell-into-lifeboat.html

Isn't that the excuse Priests give at the A&E for coke bottles up their backsides?

The Sinking of the Costa Concordia - The captain reportedly told the investigating judge in the city of Grosseto that he had decided to sail close to Giglio to salute a former captain who had a home on the Tuscan island. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16620807