Friday, 23 April 2010

LMAO!!!

Voted Conservative? Cry Me A River...

@'Beau Bo D'Or'
(Thanx Tony!)

Malcolm McLaren's Funeral Cortege

(My old stomping ground of Camden Town!)

Lots of coverage from Fifi

HERE

Boy George's Anarchy wreath

Charles Burn's 'Black Hole' comes alive

A collaborative series with photographer Max Oppenheim and prosthetic artist Bill Turpin in tribute to Charles Burns for his comic ‘Black Hole’. Within this series specific bespoke prosthetic’s were modeled and cast for each individual model. With careful consideration to wardrobe, lighting and style to ‘Black Hole’. The Operators set about finalising the shot within retouch, developing specific colour styles and prosthetic enhancement for each individual shot. The series can be seen in it’s full glory in print within 125 magazine. Go treat yourself to a copy, click me.

@'The Operator's Blog'

HA!

(Click to enlarge)

Nick Clegg: Don't mention The War. Grow Up
Article from 2002 that sent the Daily Mail into spazz mode yesterday

Juno Dubstep 23

Wingnut media attacks Obama over $100 bill redesign

Yesterday around noon, DougJ at Balloon Juice wrote:
All about the Benjamins

I’m pretty sure that the new $100 bills will produce some kind of wingnut freakout.
The most obvious angle is “they look like European money!”, but we may also see some chatter about jack-booted Federal thugs coming to take back all the old hundreds.
Also too, it’s a lot tougher to counterfeit a chicken than to counterfeit a piece of paper.

Then, a few hours later, on the Drudge Report:
They're just too easy. You can pre-mock them now.

Jed Lewison @'Daily Kos'

Tory council candidates physically attack John Prescott's team in London

I have just been told that two female Labour volunteers were knocked to the ground in a scuffle in Poplar after they were attacked by two men in Prescott masks. Their identities were allegedly subsequently revealed as Tory council candidates, one of whom is allegedly called Martin Coxall, who is now in police custody.
From a Labour source:

Two men barged the crowd around John Prescott in Poplar on his walkabout and hit one of our female volunteers and knocked her to the ground and barged another female volunteer knocking her to the ground. Their masks were pulled off and they are Tory council candidates. One of the men is Martin Coxall who was taken away in hand-cuffs by the police.

From John Prescott on Twitter:

Tory council candidate in Poplar Martin Coxall attacked two women in scuffle trying to get me. Expect this from BNP not Tories

UPDATE: Labour's local candidate for Poplar and Limehouse, Jim Fitzpatrick has said: ''This was appalling and disgraceful behaviour by two of David Cameron's Conservative candidates who acted like hooligans. This kind of behaviour has no place in British politics and I will be writing to David Cameron to ask him to take appropriate action.''

James Macintyre @'New Statesman'

Dick Morris: Bill Clinton Personally Orchestrated the 1993 Waco, Texas Tragedy

It looks like somebody is going to have to update the Waco Siege page on Wikipedia. Apparently the whitewashed history that former President Bill Clinton would like us to believe regarding the 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is missing important details regarding his own personal involvement.

In response to Bill Clinton’s highly publicized linking of the Tea Party movement to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in an op-ed piece for the New York Times, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris disclosed on Monday that it was Clinton himself, and not Attorney General Janet Reno, as Americans have been led to believe for the past 17 years, who called the shots during the 1993 botched invasion that led to the death of seventy-six people.

Speaking on the Hannity program on the Fox News Network, Morris criticized Clinton for his Oklahoma City comments: “Let’s understand what was Timothy McVeigh’s motivation …he himself had said that it was the reaction to the Waco takeover. Bill Clinton orchestrated that takeover.”

Morris went on to say, “Clinton in fact was so ashamed about what he did in Waco that he was not going to appoint Janet Reno to a second four-year term. She told him in a meeting right before the inauguration day … ‘If you don’t appoint me I’m going to tell the truth about Waco.’ And that forced Clinton’s hand … It’s never been said (publicly) before.”

For years, Clinton has been criticized for his leadership of the federal government during the Waco crisis, but he has managed to escape personal responsibility for the tragedy. With Morris’s statements, it appears this may no longer be possible. It would seem that Clinton was far more intimately involved with the government response at Waco than previously reported.

While there may be a link between Clinton and the Oklahoma City bombing, I would hardly blame the actions of a psychopath on any one individual or political party.

However, for Clinton to associate such a horrible act of violence with freedom loving Americans, especially given the fact that he must be fully aware that it was his decisions that led to the Waco catastrophe which in turn inspired Timothy McVeigh, is remarkably shameless.

Fred Dardick @'Canada Free Press'