Reader Tips
To close out the work week, we transport ourselves across the pond to Europe and back several decades to enjoy the vocal styling of Nena, as she sings 99 Red Balloons (auf Deutsch). If you’re in the mood for a little more excitement, here’s an extended commercial of sorts for the super durable Go Pro camera.
Your reader tips, in any language you prefer, are much appreciated in the comments.
Frankel, One Last Time
Update 2: He finishes his career, 14 for 14. Watch the replay here.
The first signs that the progeny of Galileo and Kind might not only live up to expectations but exceed them emerged on a July morning in 2010, the day of Frankel’s first proper gallop, with Queally in the saddle, on the vast Limekilns training ground a couple of miles outside Newmarket. Among those watching was Prince Khalid’s racing manager, Lord Grimthorpe, whose job it is to liaise every day with the 14 trainers of the prince’s 250 horses worldwide, and report nightly to his patron. In a lifetime in racing, he said, he had never seen a spectacle like it. One moment Frankel was bunched up with his stablemates, the next he was streaking away as if the others were hauling ploughs.
‘I have to watch a lot of gallops and know how misleading it can be when you don’t know all the horses, weights or instructions,’ Lord Grimthorpe told the racing journalist Brough Scott. ‘But you could not mistake this. He was going so fast at the end we thought he would finish in Newmarket High Street. When we gathered afterwards, nobody said anything, and Queally was white as a sheet.’ “
Frankel enters the gate at Ascot at 11am (Eastern) on Saturday, in search of his 14th consecutive – and final – win.
h/t Barbara
I Amuse Myself
Peggy Joseph’s America
Via Kevin Williamson
The Libranos
Federal tax dollars paid the $1,700 deposit on the 2005 wedding reception for Mayor Joe Fontana’s son, The Free Press has learned.
And the then-manager of the London facility recalls another cheque issued by the feds appeared several months later to cover the outstanding $18,900 Fontana still owed.
A Public Works Canada cheque stub for $1,700, obtained by The Free Press, bears an invoice number that matches that on the contract signed for the event at the Marconi Club. […]
At the time of the June 4, 2005, wedding reception for his son, Michael, Fontana was Liberal MP for London North Centre and federal minister of labour and housing.
For old times sake, I guess.
Deep Impact
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We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
Factory has yet to ship out a single battery…
Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have so little work to do that they spend hours playing cards and board games, reading magazines or watching movies.
They say it’s been going on for months.
“There would be up to 40 of us that would just sit in there during the day,” said former LG Chem employee Nicole Merryman, who said she quit in May.
Just another in a growing list.
Via
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Ken (Kulak)
“Take Me, Obama”
The fifth stage is “the turn”;
….only four years ago, Obama was widely advertised throughout the media as the half-breed Alpha, the Fresh Prince of Punahou, the suave dark lover extraordinaire with the mellifluous voice who featured in the turgid, illicit sex fantasies of SWPL-women from coast to coast. He was supposed to be the older, political version of the hip black man with the halfro who always has a white girlfriend in the TV commercials when he isn’t occupied spending his days as the fifth wheel in every group of otherwise white male friends.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
CNN: “We were helping out the slow kid.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
We’re not running out of oil.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Finally, a Comedian Who’s Not Afraid to Make Jokes About Obama!
h/t Bobzorunkle
Reader Tips
On this day in 1968 the U.S. Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games. Here’s a video that goes through the many memorable events that occurred at the various Summer Olympics between 1968 – 2008.
Your memorable and not so memorable reader tips are much appreciated in the comments.
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Baby Boomers
Rumors of a UN decision to re-introduce Holocaust studies in schools run by UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees — have raised the ire of Jordanian teachers, who say they will refuse to teach history that “harms the Palestinian cause.”
Related: Saudi Students Flood In as U.S. Reopens Door.
And more! State Department granted New York terror plotter a student visa
“Progress” : 2012 Left Coast Definition
The Creekside Community Centre is located in the former 2010 Olympics Athletes Village in Vancouver, BC. It’s a beautiful place, employing a group of smiling young faces. But go into one of the bathrooms there and you’ll find something very peculiar:
To be clear, that is a flushed toilet! Flush it as many times as you like and the colour of the water remains the yellow-brown colour you see in the photo. Not an especially appealing sight for most visitors.
Note: These bathrooms were in the news earlier this year.
This Is Awkward
Editorial board of THE TENNESSEAN – “former employer of Al Gore, and a steadfast liberal paper” – endorses Romney.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
A solar company that got a multi-million-dollar grant from the Department of Energy earlier this year announced Wednesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, making it the second taxpayer-backed green energy company to file for bankruptcy this week.
Related – As it struggled, A123 showered Democrats with donations, hired pricey lobbyist