And its yours.

“Tourism chiefs in Serbia are hoping their annual testicle cooking competition will do for the region what whisky did for Scotland.”

WWII on Facebook
(h/t SDH)

Who’s laughing now?

“God bless you, God bless you, I didn’t let you down,” Blago said as he shook hands with admirers. He also high-fived spectators.
Patti laughed as Blagojevich kissed her on the cheek.

Blago Flashback: “The gun that didn’t smoke.”

Explained as a pub fight. (h/t EBD)

On 2 May 2008 tropical cyclone Nargis struck Burma with such force that even today nobody knows how many people were killed, although the ruling military junta reported exactly how many chickens died. Here is the special quality of this regime, as Emma Larkin writes in her latest evocative book: ‘Events happen in Burma, and then they are systematically unhappened.’ Unhappened is a good word, and very Orwellian, an echo perhaps of Larkin’s wonderful previous book on Orwell’s early years in Burma.

Continue reading…
h/t Maz2

Three of them, I want. The Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years.

A ten part video series from Captain Capitalism. Part one starts here.

At the front of the room Ed Butowsky also does a bobblehead nod. Stout, besuited and silver-haired, Butowsky, 47, is a managing partner at Chapwood and a former senior vice president at Morgan Stanley. His bailiwick as a money manager has long been billionaires, hundred-millionaires and CEOs—a club that, the Steinbrenners’ pen be damned, still doesn’t include many athletes. But one afternoon six years ago Butowsky was chatting with Tubbs, his neighbor in the Dallas suburb of Plano, and the onetime Pro Bowl player casually described how money spills through athletes’ fingers. Tubbs explained how and when they begin earning income (often in school, through illicit payments from agents); how their pro salaries are invested (blindly); and when the millions evaporate (before they know it).
“The details were mind-boggling,” recalls Butowsky, who would later hire Tubbs to work in business development at Chapwood. “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.”

Me, turning to the man waiting to pay behind me: “Raspberry rum”
Man: “?”
Me, gazing down at the label: “You have such wonderful liquor stores in America….”
Man: “Where are you from?”
Me: “Saskatchewan.”
Man: “Oh, in Canada”.
Me: “Yeah. Where I come from our socialist government owns the liquor stores”.
Man: “Really?”
Me: “They make us line up to buy bread flavoured rum“.

Mathew Halton of the CBC. Direct link.
A virtual tour of the Juno Beach Centre.
Thanks, Boys.

Most teen drivers don’t like MyKey initially, according to an online survey by Harris Interactive – a finding that should surprise no one. About 67 percent of those polled said they wouldn’t want any of the features.”

Forest fire smoke blankets Montreal, Ottawa.
And a whole lot of other places year in and year out that typically, don’t make the news.
h/t Paul.

h/t Stephen M.

When did Al arrive in the Battlefords?

Cloudy. 60 percent chance of rain showers or flurries changing to 60 percent chance of flurries in the evening. Wind northeast 30 km/h. Low zero.

Same difference.
h/t

Read on…

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Odd. Why not ask CGI Group Inc. to pay for it?
More here from Rafael Gomez.
Update: And now the Toronto taxpayers find their little website used for Liberal Party of Canada ends.

Or something like that.

More here.