Jonathan Gabay's new book Soultraders was featured in this week's Jewish Chronicle. Read the review here.
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Jonathan Gabay and Branding
Author of Soultraders, Jonathan Gabay highlights the difficulties brands have attracting customers.
Meet the Blogs...4th of July with Franken, Tea Parties & Obama
Meet the Blogs, with Mr Green, Mr Ott & Mr Dodge on PJTV -- and beer, brats, and bombs. Discussions of Sen. Franken and Obama's latest moves to expand the government.
My Top 5 patriotic games...
1. Fallout 3
2. Prime Target (Marathon engined game)
3. Duke Nukem
4. America's Army
5. Call of Duty 4
Inspiration came from from this list.
Question.....
Does anyone ever use the Daily Telegraph and WSJ widget thingys in the sidebar or should I get rid of them.
News.....
Charles' heartbreak: Royal salute, but was Colonel R left vulnerable to Taliban bomb? Yup. All our troops are vulnerable whise the MoD and Brown continue to send them into battle under-manned and under equipped.
Shattered in the shadow of death: The Mail joins our troops on their biggest ever assault against the Taliban. Some good pics.
Schools bar parents from sports day... to keep out paedophiles. Pathetic. The head-teacher should be sacked.
Britain rallies opposition to Iranian threat to put embassy staff on trial. Once upon a time we would have sent in the navy. Oh how we have fallen.
India plans massive liberalisation of economy. Pity we have nothing to sell them.
Hitler? He got things done, says Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone. Another power crazed shortass.
Treasury announces 'bonfire of quangos' to save taxpayer millions. Bull. They will be amalgamated or renamed. If anything they will get bigger.
Sarah Palin hints at White House bid by quitting as governor of Alaska. Loaded for bear.
TOP TEN THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR IN CHURCH…
10. Hey! It’s my turn to sit in the front pew.
9. I was so enthralled, I never noticed your sermon went 25 minutes over time.
8. Personally I find witnessing much more enjoyable than golf.
7. I’ve decided to give our church the $500 a month I used to send to TV evangelists.
6. I volunteer to be the permanent teacher for the Junior High Sunday School class.
5. Forget the denominational minimum salary, let’s pay our pastor so he can live like we do.
4. I love it when we sing hymns I’ve never heard before!
3. Since we’re all here, let’s start the service early.
2. Pastor, we’d like to send you to this Bible seminar in the Bahamas.
1. Nothing inspires me and strengthens my commitment like our annual stewardship campaign!
H/T DML
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Geezer Pride.....
'Geezers' are easy to spot: At sporting events, during the playing of the Star Spangled BANNER. Old Geezers remove their caps and stand at attention and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them.
Old Geezers remember the Depression, World War II, Pearl Harbor , Guadalcanal , Normandy and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War 1950-55, The Cold War, the jet age and the moon landing, the 50 plus Peacekeeping Missions from 1945 to 2005 the Jet Age and the Moon Landing, not to mention Vietnam ..
If you bump into an Old Geezer On the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Geezer on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady.. Old Geezers trust strangers and are courtly to women. Old Geezers hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection. Old Geezers get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children. Old Geezers have moral courage. They seldom brag unless it's about their grandchildren.
It's the Old Geezers who know our great country is protected, not by politicians, but by?the young men and women in the military serving their country.
This country needs Old Geezers with their decent values.
We need them now, more than ever.
Thank God for Old Geezers!
H/T Shelly
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Friday, 3 July 2009
Breaking.....
Iran To Try Brit Embassy Staff Over Protests. Because they want to humiliate Britain and our government hasn't the balls to stop them.
Some thoughts..........
1. Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
2. Needing a man is like needing a parachute. If he isn’t there the first time you need him, chances are you won’t be needing him again.
3. I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either.
4. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, “Where the heck is the ceiling?!”
5. My reality cheque bounced.
6. He who has, so shall he who. - Old Norwegian Proverb
7. Someday we’ll look back on all this and plough into a parked car.
8. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
9. Good news is just life’s way of keeping you off balance.
10. Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.
11. God did not create the world in 7 days; he messed around for 6 days and then pulled an all-nighter.
12. I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is improving.
13. Stupidity got us into this mess - why can’t it get us out?
14. Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.
15. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
16. I don’t mind going nowhere as long as it’s an interesting path.
17. Indecision is the key to flexibility.
18. If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is.
19. I don’t get even, I get odder.
20. In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
21. I considered atheism but there weren’t enough holidays.
22. I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got around to it.
23. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
24. My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
25. I am having an out of money experience.
26. I plan on living forever. So far, so good.
27. Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths.
28. Practice safe eating-always use condiments.
29. A day without sunshine is like night.
30. I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
31. If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
H/T DML
Video: US Navy Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard in Norway
H/T Don E
and The RAF Regiment Queen's Colour Squadron
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A winter statistic............
98% OF CANADIANS SAY "OH SHIT" BEFORE GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD.
THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM SASKATCHEWAN AND THEY SAY, "HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS."
H/T Pete H
An Irish farmer named Seamus...........
An Irish farmer named Seamus had a car accident. In court, the lorry company's hot-shot solicitor was questioning Seamus...
'Didn't you say to the Police at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine?' asked the solicitor.
Seamus responded: 'Well, I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite cow, Bessie, into the......'
'I didn't ask for any details', the solicitor interrupted. 'Just answer the question. Did you not say, at the scene of the accident,'I'm fine!'?'
Seamus said, 'Well, I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road.....'
The solicitor interrupted again and said, 'Your Honor, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the police on the scene that he was fine. Now several weeks after the accident, he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question.'
By this time, the Judge was fairly interested in Seamus's answer and said to the solicitor: 'I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite cow, Bessie'.
Seamus thanked the Judge and proceeded. 'Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite cow, into the trailer and was driving her down the road when this huge lorry and trailer came through a stop sign and hit my trailer right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other. I was hurt, very bad like, and didn't want to move. However, I could hear old Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible pain just by her groans.
Shortly after the accident, a policeman on a motorbike turned up. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, and saw her condition, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes..
Then the policeman came across the road, gun still in hand, looked at me, and said, 'How are you feeling?'
'Now what the f**k would you have said?'
H/T Ted
Like ROYALTY and 2010..................from Rico
Our Congressionals are behaving like royalty. The peasants may be starving, but like the Romanov Dynasty (well, we now have multiple Czars and an Emporer who sometimes calls himself Obama) it's time to party on Capitol Hill!!!!
It is not just unemployment or our national debt that are increasing these days...tax-payer funded Congressional has increased tenfold!!!!
- While I have mixed feelings about that (when they are away touring the Galapagos islands, for example, they are NOT here at home mucking things up; on the other hand: paying them to sit at home under house arrest a la Madoff....or just firing the lot of them summarily suggests itself to me too), I wonder how many will remember this when our next chance to throw these thieving bastards overboard comes in 2010?
I've not yet seen the hordes with torches and pitchforks when looking out my window and wonder if they are quietly organizing like the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks did at the end of the Romanov period........
It's a fairly certain thing the RNC and GOP are not capable of such a thing. They need to be log-dropped out of the political process almost as badly as the Democrats (a.k.a. Communist Party of the USA) do.
Remember: 2010
Oooooowww......
What's Janet Jackson got in common with Australia?
They'll both be taking the ashes home this summer.
H/T Old Dude
Analogies From High School Essays...........
The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
more at Mitchieville
H/T JMH
Light News....
Lieutenant Colonel killed in Afghanistan is highest-ranking British casualty since Falklands. A good officer.
US says North Korean missile launches are 'provocative act'. No sh*t. They know that no-one has the balls to stop them.
Burma expands military ties with North Korea. Another odious regime with nothing to fear from the west.
Ancient war machines on show featuring 22AD Arty
and finally....
Obamacare...H/T Dick B
Moral Compass? Norfolk Plod have surpassed thenselves. H/T Jeffrey N
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