Friday, March 30, 2007
Awww... give him another one with the taser!
Police car chase driver John Spurnak (42) claimed that he was US vice president Dick Cheeney after having been pursued by police at speeds of 90mph, during which he hit a patrol car and eventually had to be shot with a taser. He also claimed he was Paris Hiltons sisters husband.
Well I say, I had so hoped ol´ Dick had gotten one with the taser... Well, maybe next time :)
The real Kwik-E-Mart
Convenience store giant Seven Eleven announced plans to convert 11 stores across the US to resemble the well known Kwik-E-Mart from the cartoon series "The Simpsons".
Customers will be able to buy related products inspired by the cartoon, like Squishees and Crusty O´s. The move is to promote the upcoming cinema movie.
I´m looking forward to the chain to opening some stores in germany... :)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
There´s only two kinds of money: yours & mine
- multiple booking of funds
- false bills
- obvious "irregularities" between agricultural subsidies and satellite pictures
- as well as - you guessed it- criminal arrangements between authorities and fraudsters
It seems there´s quite a clean-up for Mrs. Merkel to do in her current leadership of the european union, after all: regardless of several uncovered scandals to date not a single EU-official has been fired. The worst they have to fear is a transfer to a different position, well that´s what I call incentive to plunder...
Anyway the funny part lies with another story of european parlaments use of tax-payers money. When not so long ago in the wake of the Asian Tsunami the european parlament was debatting on helping the affected countries one speaker after another stepped onto the podium demanding more and more millions for the region. It seemed that they were in some kind of euphoric race to demonstrate empathy by spendings billions of tax-payers money. However when one italian representative suggested to also donate the days attendance fees -the stately sum of 290 Euros which every representative receives additionally to their wages and allowances- tempers turned and became gloomy. The poor man was forced to resign his proposal albeit the parlament passed a bill for 1,5 billion euros of aid. It seems the italian representative was asking for too much.
As Milton Friedman would say: "There´s only two kinds of money - yours and mine". :)
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Embarrassing ambassador
"Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear. Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth." Source: BBC. See this report in Haaretz for further details and reports on some other pretty "active" Israeli diplomats. Well I say, that´s quite a piece for taxpayers to swallow...
Abnormally amusing advertising
Also please take a look on some of the new entries in this marketing blog I posted some months ago (or did I...). The pic with the giant lego accessory is from there! :)
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
See the 5545th star from bottom left corner? That´s where I come from!
Really contemporary art
Instructive eye mask
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Stick returned
Today I´d like to return the "stick" thrown to me by my good ol´ chump Theodor whom I enjoy bashing verbally now and then.
Some of the pecularities I pride myself of are:
- I like Marmite (best pure from the spoon)
- I like Brown Sauce (HP´s is best) and Vinegar on my Freedom fries
- I´m a german social AND economic liberal (usually germans choose only one, too much freedom seems to confuse them)
- That should be about enough sticky sticky for poor Theodor
