I’m Alan Partridge is an hilarious BBC situation comedy that follows the travails of a former talk-show host named Alan Partridge, an egotistical but insecure blow-hard in love with the sound of his own voice. As the series opens the recently-divorced Partridge, who is consumed at all times by his desire to be on TV again, has been living unhappily for six months in the Linton Travel Tavern while putting in time in the humiliating 4:30 am shift at tiny Radio Norwich (“From the Ouse to the Waveney…”.)
Partridge’s long-awaited lunch meeting with the head of BBC programming proves disastrous, as his increasingly desperate litany of last-ditch pitches for another TV show (“Inner City Sumo? Monkey Tennis?”) are serially rejected by an amused, and finally annoyed, Tony Hayers. Just when his professional prospects look completely hopeless, he receives a phone call telling him the good news: Tony Hayers has fallen off his roof and died, and will be replaced by a man named Chris Feather who had historically been much more supportive of Alan’s ideas. In tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips, the utterly callous and ever ambitious Partridge, played by Steve Coogan, shows up at Tony Hayers’ funeral, not to mourn, but to schmooze with Tony Feather in the interest of cadging himself another TV show.
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LA school named after Al Gore and Rachel Carson (she got DDT banned). Enviro-Marxist re-education camp!!
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And, fittingly, the school will be devoted to environmental themes.
But as in the 2000 election, there’s a catch. Critics say the campus’ location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff.
School district officials insist that the Arlington Heights property is clean and safe. And they’ve pledged to check vapor monitors and groundwater wells to make sure.
The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences will open Sept. 13 for about 675 students.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gore-school-20100906,0,719678.story
the Dog days of August head into September
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/06/obama-they-talk-about-me-like-a-dog/
Christine Brim at Big Peace:
“On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated ‘Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations’ (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups ‘funding, government assistance and resources.’ The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide ‘direct access’ and ‘cut through red tape.’ Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop…”
Read the rest here.
Test (I have my reasons).
Okay, it’s just the Christie Blatchford thread that’s not posting for me.
Sorry Black Mamba, there’s a problem with the comments in this thread. Maybe try it again without live-linking it?
Margaret Artwood’s Throat, aka More Cuts To The Arts.
Breaking the left-liberal chokehold on MSM.
H/T George Soros, left-liberal socialism’s/nazi collaborator.
Left-liberals’ deep throat:
“The really interesting thing all this shows about the proposed Fox New North is that, obviously, it is only viable if it is shoved down our throats.”
Shove it down their throats. More and faster.
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“John Doyle: Television
Sun TV News:
I guess it only works if shoved down our throats
The channel’s bids for special status show it’s not strong enough to face the marketplace without it”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/sun-tv-news-i-guess-it-only-works-if-shoved-down-our-throats/article1697495/
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/09/06/smoke-and-mirrors-primary-school-division/#comment-88969
PET Cemetery Bulletin: This just in.
PET’son mugged by reality? Is this “The Awakening”?
First casualty of Liberal Ziffy’s Busted Rose/Last Rose of Summer Tour.
Death of Ziffy’s left-liberal Liberal vision confirmed.
Internment: TBA.
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“As I get home to my family after a week away, I reflect upon whether it was worth it: was I changing the world or just playing politics?”
“justinpjtrudeau
Justin Trudeau, MP”
http://twitter.com/justinpjtrudeau/status/23223807081
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/09/06/smoke-and-mirrors-primary-school-division/#comment-88971
Ezra:
“Question: If thousands of Tamil refugees from around the world are going home to Sri Lanka, and 71% of Canadian Tamil refugees go back there for holidays, why are we still going through the motions with the 492 Tamils on Vancouver Island, as if they are legitimate? And why are more Tamil ships steaming our way?
@ maz2 “… was I changing the world ..”
Says it all !!!
The Ruling Class has been/is trying to change/maintain the, their! world for centuries. aka the Elites can have it all and can be the chosen ones if only the masses would be ho so obedient.
What is so So SO upsetting to the Ruling class – the damn internet is allowing the voice of the majority to be heard.
Kate, there’s a problem in the Caledonia/Blatchford aisle, where an Internal Error is preventing me from posting a comment. ‘Looks like others are having a problem too, as the last comment was posted @ 9:00 p.m. last night.
PET Cemetery Tweet:
Liberal Ziffy’s O’Harvard buddy’s, “Hope and Change”, now rests in the PET Cemetery.
Say Amen, Ziffy.
Amen Ziffy.
“*It is our sad duty to inform you that Hope and Change has given way to a fatalistic acceptance that most people will have to keep working till they drop.”
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“*A Wider Broom”
“It’s hard to say which is more depressing. The leading paragraphs of recent opinion pieces or what follows. Peter Beinart says President Obama’s foreign policy is failing.
Then he ascribes it to an unwillingness to deal with Hamas and an inability to find a credible local partner in Afghanistan. “It is hard to see how [a troop withdrawal] will be more thinkable next summer, assuming the military still vociferously objects, which it almost certainly will.” Richard Cohen says President Obama is facing a “shrinking presidency” and then attributes the development to bad speechwriters.
The president needs better speechwriters.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/09/07/a-wider-broom/#more-10334
http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/09/07/its-the-label-stupid/#comment-89025
Military girds for climate change battles….
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100907/national/military_climate_change
They mean the battle over divvying up the cash, right??
Ok maybe it is just me but making children look like speed bumps may be a little off.
http://www.good.is/post/vancouver-s-new-speed-bumps-little-children
Mao Stlong Lepolt:
How many foltune cookies you wan?
This one say,
Mao Stlong is Canadian “Liberal leader” Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo.
Lemembel, chality is a viltue.
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“Chinese Billionaire to Donate Entire Fortune
A billionaire has pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity after his death, becoming the first in China to do so.
Chen Guangbiao, chairman of Jiangsu Huangpu Renewable Resources Utilisation, took the decision to give up his mammoth wealth on a charity call made by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investment baron Warren Buffett.
Chen said in an open letter to Gates and Buffett posted on his company website on Sunday that he would donate his entire fortune of more than five billion yuan ($735 million) to charity when he dies, the China Daily reported Tuesday.
Since they launched the ‘Giving Pledge Campaign’ in June this year, Gates and Buffett have so far successfully convinced 40 US billionaires to donate at least half of their wealth, worth $125 billion, to charity.
Gates is also the founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The duo are scheduled to travel to China in late September for a philanthropic gathering with the Chinese businessmen and industrialists. Fifty Chinese, including Chen, are reported to have received an invitation to a banquet during the pair’s visit to Beijing on September 29.
In his letter, 42-year-old Chen said he was “greatly moved” by the duo’s commitment to charity and “pleased to accept the invitation”.
He said his decision to part with his fortune was intended to serve as a “gift” to the business magnates during their trip to China.
Chen’s announcement has come amid the widespread belief that many of the Chinese billionaires who have been invited to the banquet are reluctant to accept the invitation out of concern over being lobbied to make charity promises.
Ye Lei, the Chinese director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, last week denied the rumour that the duo aim to persuade Chinese billionaires to part with their fortunes.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2584833/posts
Kim Justin-il on Twitter: “As I get home to my family after a week away, I reflect upon whether it was worth it: was I changing the world or just playing politics?”
You’re doing what it is that wankers usually do.