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Sunday, 10 July 2011

Beatles Blogging

My wife and I caught The Beatles LOVE Cirque du Soleil last week.

Some reflections here. The full series (with photos and video) here. John Lennon was leaning Republican by 1980, which gave the production some extra appeal.

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Blogging Kate's 'Marilyn Moment' in Calgary

Well, babe blogging is informative.

See: "Kate's 'Marilyn Moment'; or, Rule 5 as Celebrity News Reporting."

Cartoon Round Up....





Classic Video: WALRUS EXERCISES WITH TRAINER

Brilliant.



H/T Peter Gunn

Great Shot...........

Bonus Soccer Totty..........

Blue Angels News...........





WKRG.com News

H/T Jeff

Video: Saving Valentina

Michael Fishbach narrates his encounter with a humpback whale entangled in a fishing net



H/T Pete H

Song of the Week: THANK GOD FOR THE SOLDIER by Artie Rodriguez

Song written and performed by Veteran Marine and Country/Western music prodigy Artie Rodriguez.



H/T Warchick

Pic Dump...........


















VBS TV: Pakistan after Bin Laden


NORFOLK (June 27, 2011) The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless (D 33) separates from a tug during its departure from Naval Station Norfolk to take part in the at-sea phase of FRUKUS 2011. The international exercise is designed to enhance communication and interoperability between the navies of France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Cothran)

H/T Marc

Quote from five years ago... March 2006

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”


-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006



H/T Shelly

'Goodbye News of the World' Words and Music Corrigan Brothers 2011

Were they tappin the phones
were they stalkin and hackin
Eventually Murdoch
He started crackin
Indignation , abuse
...It was hurled
So Murdoch closed down
The News of the World

Chorus

No more spit roasts
Footballer news
Or vicars and ladyboys
At it on the pews
Or wags givin out
About call girls
She’s gone for ever
The News of the World

Give it a week
Because next Monday
Murdoch will launch
The Sun on Sunday
With much bigger boobs
all over page three
And a new journalistic
Standards Decree

Chorus

No more spit roasts
Footballer news
Or vicars and ladyboys
At it on the pews
Or wags givin out
About call girls
She’s gone for ever
The News of the World

Video: "The Seafire"

A great story.



H/T Canis 61

MSM & Israel: What's Old is New Again...........by Dan Friedman

Jerusalem Post columnist Sarah Honig reminds us in this piece that “Almost every demonizing and delegitimizing canard to which we have by now grown so inured had already manifested itself back in 1958.”

Honig’s exhibit A is this adversarial interview with the dovish Abba Eban conducted in 1958 by Mike Wallace. Only ten years earlier, Israel had miraculously, but narrowly, defeated 5 Arab armies intent on destroying the young state when she had just left the womb. Apparently, that was time enough for big media to dry its eyes and revert to type, because here we have Wallace (a passing Jew) in the vanguard, beta testing the same allegations, distortions and arrogance we are all used to seeing in the loathsome MSM today.

Dan Friedman
NYC

Video: Jetman Flight at Grand Canyon West

The Sunday Best.........

The UK's energy cost double whammy

What if they gave an anti-Israe​l protest and everyone booed?

Iran Is at War with Us

Iran wants US to leave Iraq

Iraq 'to decide on continued US military presence'

Kate's 'Marilyn moment' in Calgary

Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets

The West is in for a rude awakening after years of abusing 'risk-free' debt

Pilots 'cleared' over Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash

Anger in EU as Dutch government says it wants to send out-of-work Poles back home

Syria: Secret journey around a nation in revolt finds protesters are not flagging

Horn of Africa drought: A vision of hell at the Dabaab refugee camp

Iran claims long-range missile test

Will we one day see the EU's ring of stars waving over Lord's?

Tourist buses attacked in Buenos Aires

The Unemployment Numbers are an " Unmitigated Disaster" - the real numbers are much, much worse....bleak times for US Workforce

Institutionalized Absurdity

Leon Panetta predicts strategic defeat of al-Qa'ida is within reach

and finally.........

Doc's Computin' Tips: Thunderbird update

World's only remaining 'Ghost Car' headed for auction... incredible images of the Plexiglas Pontiac expected to fetch almost $500,000

Sunday Totty.........




Video: Iran's Ahmadineja​d sings "Everybody Needs a Mahdi (Sometime)​"

Everybody Needs A Mahdi from PoliticalXray a.k.a. PoliSat.Com on Vimeo.



H/T Polisat

Goodbye to News of the World

See: "The End of News of the World."

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American Readers Will Think This Awesome

London, England



Yes, American readers there is an place in England called Sandwich and nearby there's a village called Ham. We at "Theo Spark" are not making this up. Seriously.

Last year I posted a photograph of the signpost below and here's the same signpost a year later.








For those of you who like golf, The Open starts nearby to this place next week. That's the tournament Tiger Woods isn't competing in. What a waste of a great talent and for what?

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Australian Gored in Pamplona Bull Run

It's the "Running of the Bulls."

And more info at the link.

The End of the Space Shuttle Program

The end could be the beginning: "The Future of Space":



More Kate Upton as Promised

Well, to make up for the mix up earlier, some Kate Upton at Sports Illustrated:

Kate Upton Stare Down

Irresistible.

"Kate Upton Rule 5 Bikini Stare Down."

UPDATE: Scrolling down I see Theo beat me to Kate Upton. I'm checking now for something different and will update.

Meanwhile, a flashback: "Kate Upton SoBe Bikini Video."

Saturday Night is Bath Night............

Video: 3D Printer



H/Ts Canis 61 & Old Dude

VBS TV: Inside Syria - Trailer

Councilicious

WoW - the Watchers Council - an eclective collective of cats both cruel and benign with their ability to put steel on target (figuratively - natch) on a wide variety of topictry across American, Allied, Frenemy and Enemy concerns, memes, delights and discourse.

Every week these cats hook up each other with hot hits and big phased cookies to peruse and then vote on their individual fancy catchers.

With out further adieu and adon't:

Council Winners

Non-Council Winners

See you next week! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebookcause WoW's undeniable influ is getting off the hook!

Cartoon Round Up....





Seriously WTF!!


H/T Martin

Fun: Latma presents: The Audacity of Dopes Band brings you "Guns, Guns, Guns!"

This is brilliant.



H/T

Warchick

Video: The Phoenix Haboob of July 5th, 2011

The Phoenix Haboob of July 5th, 2011 from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.



H/T Amnon

Blue Angels News..........


Blue Angels Thursday Practice


Pilot could ditch Fat Albert flight for son's birth


H/T Jeff

Video: North Korean Spy ship gets shot to pieces and sunk



H/T Marc

Some more cool captions..​.





H/Ts Shelly & Martin

Bonus Babe............