Мой товарищ, в смертельной агонии
Не зови понапрасну друзей.
Дай-ка лучше согрею ладони я
Над дымящейся кровью твоей.

Ты не плачь, не стони, ты не маленький
Ты не ранен ты просто убит.
Дай на память сниму с тебя валенки,
Нам еще наступать предстоит.

Ион Деген
1944

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Если у кого-то были какие-то сомнения относительно того чем был Советский Союз (Дмитрий Быков, например, считает, что Артеком) посмотрите вот это

Происшедшее 100 лет назад было страшным знамением всего что случится с Европой в XX веке. Ипр, Верден, Ипатьевский дом, ГУЛаг, Освенцим, все это впереди...

Мне не нравится президент не потому что он чернокожий, а потому что он краснопузый

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"CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Article 14
Right to education
[...]
2. This right includes the possibility to receive free compulsory education."

Принуждение - это свобода.

Во время восстания негров на Гаити в начале XIX века, лувертюровские пропагандисты использовали лозунг: "Бей белых - они Христа распяли!"

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According to New York Times: "In a television interview during a visit to Egypt last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to agree [that US Constitution is obsolete akin to Windows 3.1]. "I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012." She recommended, instead, the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights."

Please, M-me Ginsburg, stop torturing yourself dealing with that obsolete right-wing extremist document. What pain must you feel when your noble attempts to upgrade it a bit for the benefit of us all are frustrated by those neanderthal conservative colleagues of yours. Resign. We shall all gladly petition South African Supreme Court to hire you instead.

В России во многих регионах существуют законы запрещающие "пропаганду" гомосексуализма.
В Швеции существует закон запрещающий осуждение гомосексуализма.
Мне вот кажется, что и шведские и российские любители затыкать людям рты - пидарасы.
В плохом смысле слова.

Не выдержал и прочитал постоянно цитируемую глубокоуважаемым мною afraniusом "Алую ауру протопарторга". Весело, душевно. Конечно кое-что кое-где у него порой немножко стырено у Войновича, но я все равно получил массу удовольствия. Давно не смеялся вслух, читая книгу.

Из понравившегося:

"Борхес, ссылаясь на свидетельство Блаженного Августина, утверждает, что в конце IV века люди перестали сопровождать чтение голосом… Мы же, ссылаясь на Николая Васильевича Гоголя, утверждаем, что примерно с середины XIX столетия чтение не сопровождалось уже и мыслительными процессами…"

А также персонаж по имени Пелеев-сын ;)

Валить отсюда надо, пока Блюмберг ОВИРов не пооткрывал.

Светиными приемными родителями была пожилая гомосексуальная пара, в школе где она училась их называли "батюшки Светы".

"The Supreme Court has sided unanimously with a church sued for firing an employee on religious grounds, issuing an opinion on Wednesday that religious employers can keep the government out of hiring and firing decisions."

Now if only non-religious employers were extended the same liberty...

Услыхав от lkoyfman про хороших и плохих даков, полез искать эту историю. Не нашел и с горя прочел статью об истории румынского языка. Я не подозревал насколько там много славянизмов. Причем славянизмы эти, причудливо сочетаясь с исходной латынью, дают иногда комический эффект. Например можно встретить славянский суффикс присобаченный к латинскому корню: portus + ца/це = портицэ (калитка). А можно и латинский суффикс присобаченный к славянскому корню: любовь + re = (л)юбире (любить) вместо латинского amare.

We don't need the Cato Institute anymore. Just keep interviewing the OWS people and showing them to the rest of the country as they are, uncensored and uncut.

Отвратительно видеть как улюлюкающая толпа линчует раненого и истекающего кровью человека. Чьи-то закадровые истошные вопли "Аллаху акбар!" вызывают лютое бешеное желание чтобы этот самый Аллах сделал с вопящим что-нибудь библейское. Но при всей отвратительности, единственное резюме которое можно вынести: всякий человек желающий власти над своими ближними заслуживает смерти от их рук. Sic semper tyrannis.

This is called hitting the nail on the head.
I'll tell you why they aren't going to the prairies and organizing kibbutzes there. Because unlike Israeli commies they don't really believe in all that shit they're saying. The reason they stick close to where I am is because they want me to be their serf. They want a share of the fruits of my labor to be taken away from me and given to them. That is called serfdom and that is the only thing they actually do believe in.

"Out of solidarity for the bling-ridden poor, Mr West wore a gold chain."

Простите кого обидел. Легкого поста кто постится.
И всем на свете: гмар хатима това.

I hate ads as much as the next sane person. But today for the first time in my life I actually went and bought the product peddled.
Because it's ( freaking awesome! )

"Xi visited Japan in December 2009, yet his visit was marred by controversy that a rushed meeting with Emperor Hirohito showed Japan’s over-eagerness to play up to China’s leader-in-waiting."

This from USA Today editorial:

"Social Security is most certainly not a Ponzi scheme [...] Ponzi schemes have two salient features. First, they are criminal enterprises, which Social Security is not."

Логично, черт возьми!

И дальше тоже хорошо:

"Second, they work only until people get wind of what is going on, at which point they inevitably collapse. Social Security's finances are plainly visible for all to see."

Ага. Надо только забыть, что участие в этой финансовой пирамиде - насильственное.

For the first time saw a Socialist Workers Party on the ballot. Stared at it for a second or two in mild disbelief.

A few months ago the congresscritter representing my district had to resign over him waiving his namesake all over the internets. So now we'll be having a special election. Over the 15 years that I've been living here I never saw any sort of political campaigning, because there was never any doubt who my district will vote for. Now all of a sudden there is. I'm getting bombarded by phone calls, door-to-door campaigners, you name it. I feel like a woman in her 50s who never had any suitors and who suddently came into a great deal of money and now every eligible man in town (and a few ineligible ones) is bringing flowers, serenading, proposing...

I like it. Keep it up, bitches.

"Investigate and shoot down all snoopers — not vindictively, but in a friendly sort of way"

- Admiral Halsey's orders to carrier pilots after the announcement of Japanese surrender


P.S. No relation to today's sad anniversary, of which there really isn't anything to be said that hasn't already been said many many times.

"In the story Tochmarc Emire several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of Lugaid Riab nDerg, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and Cúchulainn avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150"

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/25/why-your-teenager-can%E2%80%99t-use-a-hammer/

But, hey, on the upside we have an army of young professionals with degrees in African Studies.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water. Fire next time.

- A Negro spiritual

Just heard a funny counterpart to the expression: "people of color":
"people of pallor" :))

"My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us."

-Kenneth Minogue


"The Solution

After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"

-Bertold Brecht (of all people!)

Grüß dich, meine Murka
Murka meine Teure
Grüß dich meine Murka, und verzeih
Du hast uns verpfiffen
unsere ganze Bande
darum nimm die Kugel und byebye

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P.S. Looked "pfiff" up. Apparently it means "a whistle". So "pfiff" = "pipe"! :)
Byebye.

"In Britain, everything is policed except crime"

- Mark Stein

N.B. This quote is from a book published a day before the London riots.

Narrator in a beautifully made "dinosaur" documentary:
"T-Rex was capable of intentionally dislocating it's jaw, just like modern pythons. There's not a lawyer in this world that's too fat for the T-Rex to swallow him whole."

I apparently have very high pain tolerance. After breaking an ankle I managed to hike down Bear Mt. for another 20 mins and was walking around as usual for two days until the color of my toes made me go to a hospital.

Значит если меня поймают враги/интервенты и станут жестоко пытать я не 20 минут смогу не говорить им по какой тропинке лучше им к заставе подойти, а все 30.

Prayer in public school? No problem, as long as you're Muslim (and not menstruating).

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4259/28/

Флешмоб от anabellka
Отвечаем на вопросы строчками любимой группы:

( под катом )

Pain or damage don't end the world, or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man. And give some back.

- "Deadwood" TV series

Trump can now demand from Obama Osama's long form death certificate.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Psalm 7:16

The UK branch of Israeli cosmetics store, Ahava, is moving from its central London shop after years of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. [...]

A spokeswoman for Shaftesbury PLC, which owns the property as well as several others in the Seven Dials area, said: "When Ahava's lease expires in September, we will not offer them a new one." Pro-Palestinian protesters have been demonstrating fortnightly outside the shop, which opened in April 2007, for more than two years. [...]

Colin George, manager of clothes shop The Loft, next door to Ahava, said: "I'm pleased Ahava is leaving. It's brought the street down. I've complained to the landlords, as has everyone here. Everyone would like them to leave. I wish they had left two years ago. Protesters are just going to follow them around, wherever they go. Maybe they should be an online business instead."

Just saw good ol' Howard Stern on TV for the first time in, like, 10 years. First thought: "God, but this whole rebellion-suppression business did take a heavy toll on that sonofabitch Colonel!"



Note to self: Semitic males don't age well with long wiry manes. Stick to a buzzcut.

Встретилась прекрасная альтернатива выражению про Тузика и грелку: "порвать как менады Орфея".

А за окном идет мокрый снег :(

Brocar, bebe, brocar

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation"

- Barack Hussein Obama, Dec. 20, 2007