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Running nearly three hours, Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh is a leisurely paced look at the famous painter's final year. Pialat's portrait differs from many other films in that he shows Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) as being reasonably sane and he focuses on the everyday events of the painter's life and art. ~ Stephen...more
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Who Twitters? That's a question I see more and more on the web lately. Twitter membership is seemingly growing by leaps and bounds, and if you're anything more than a casual internet surfer, you've probably heard of it. Heck, you may even already use it. I'm actually pretty far behind the times for only coming around to adopting it now. However! If you're unfamiliar with Twitter, you're probably familiar with either MySpace or Facebook, so I'll explain it like this: You know those "status updates" on Myspace and Facebook where you can write a little blurb about what you're doing right now? That's what you do on Twitter. You write these little blurbs about what's going on in your life, and people can "follow" you (i.e. be kept up-to-date with your Twitter posts) and you can follow them. It also keeps a log of all your past Twitter posts (called "Tweets"), so in essence, it's like a tiny blog. You can then post a box that houses your most recent Tweet on your MySpace page, or any website of your choosing if you're savvy enough. If you're a normal internet user and you feel like it's already a hassle to update your status on Myspace and Facebook and you don't see the point of using Twitter, well, I guess I can't blame you. But, it does offer a unique way for me to connect with you, my loyal and attractive readers, without having to make full-blown blog posts every three hours.
So, anyway, I've had a Twitter account for something like a year and a half, but it wasn't until a few days ago that I started putting my Twitter feed here on George. If you scroll down and look beneath the tower ad that runs on the right side of the site, you'll see a little box with my latest Tweet in it. Or, you can head over to http://twitter.com/georgecomics and follow my Twitter feed. That is, if you feel like it. No pressureDO IT NOW!!

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PETRONELL-CARNUNTUM, Austria — They lived in cells barely big enough to turn around in and usually fought until they died. This was the lot of those at a sensational scientific discovery unveiled Monday: The well-preserved ruins of a gladiator school in Austria.
The Carnuntum ruins are part of a city of 50,000 people 28 miles east of Vienna that flourished about 1,700 years ago, a major military and trade outpost linking the far-flung Roman empire's Asian boundaries to its central and northern European lands.
Mapped out by radar, the ruins of the gladiator school remain underground. Yet officials say the find rivals the famous Ludus Magnus — the largest of the gladiatorial training schools in Rome — in its structure. And they say the Austrian site is even more detailed than the well-known Roman ruin, down to the remains of a thick wooden post in the middle of the training area, a mock enemy that young, desperate gladiators hacked away at centuries ago.
"(This is) a world sensation, in the true meaning of the word," said Lower Austrian provincial Governor Erwin Proell.
The archaeological park Carnuntum said the ruins were "unique in the world ... in their completeness and dimension."
The gladiator complex is part of a 3.9-square-mile site over the former city, an archaeological site now visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists a year. Officials said they had no date yet for the start of excavations of the gladiator school, saying experts needed time to settle on a plan that conserves as much as possible.
"If one has a major injury then you first do a series of CT scans before you let a surgeon do his work," explained Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Bolzman Institute for Archaeological Prospecting and Virtual Archaeology.
Digging at the city site began around 1870, but less than 1 percent of it has been excavated, due to the enormity of what lies beneath and to the painstaking process of restoring what already has been unearthed.
Neubauer said an unusual and unexplained "white spot" on an aerial photograph led experts to scan the area with state-of-the-art radar that shows a three-dimensional image of what lies underground.
"(It's) a clarity we normally find only in the field of medicine," he said Monday. The same machines have been used at Britain's Stonehenge and other European archaeological sites.
A virtual video presentation of the former Carnuntum gladiator school showed images of the ruins underground shifting into what the complex must have looked like in the third century.
It was definitely a school of hard knocks.
"A gladiator school was a mixture of a barracks and a prison, kind of a high-security facility," said the Roemisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, one of the institutes involved in finding and evaluating the discovery. "The fighters were often convicted criminals, prisoners of war, and usually slaves."
Still, there were some perks for the men who sweated and bled for what they hoped would at least be a few brief moments of glory before their demise.
At the end of a dusty and bruising day, they could pamper their bodies in baths with hot, cold and lukewarm water. And hearty meals of meat, grains and cereals were plentiful for the men who burned thousands of calories in battle each day for the entertainment of others.
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Thick walls surround 13,160 square yards of the site, and the school and its adjacent buildings stretch over 3,350 square yards.
Inside, a courtyard was ringed by living quarters and other buildings and contained a round, 23-square-yard training area — a small stadium overlooked by wooden seats and the terrace of the chief trainer.
The complex also contained about 40 tiny sleeping cells for the gladiators; a large bathing area; a training hall with heated floors and assorted administrative buildings. Outside the walls, radar scans show what archeologists believe was a cemetery for those killed during training.
The institute said the training area was where the men's "market value and in end effect their fate" was decided. At the same time, it gave them a small chance for survival, fame and possibly liberty.
"If they were successful, they had a chance to advance to 'superstar' status — and maybe even achieve freedom," said Carnuntum park head Franz Humer.
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DUI summit touts tactics for prevention
IRVINE A DUI fatality statistic is not just a number on a page. It is a human being: A daughter, a son, a parent, a teacher, a friend.
That set the tone of the Orange County DUI Summit at Concordia University on Wednesday, and it came from Marilyn Ellis, mother of Kimberly Ellis, who was killed by a drunken driver at age 22 in 1997.
"We can talk statistics, but these statistics are people with families and friends, and the feeling never goes away of loss," said Ellis, a Mothers Against Drunk Driving volunteer and an advocate against DUI.
The summit, hosted by the Orange County DUI Task Force, focused on building "uniformity and continuity" among each city to organize "Orange County Best Practices for DUI Prevention." It was suggested that city leaders and organizations apply these programs and educational tools.
"This is an enforcement seminar," Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer said. "What I hope we are all going to take away is that we are all in this together."
Spitzer said that in 2011, 29 percent of county fatalities and severe injuries in traffic collisions involved alcohol. Although this percentage is the lowest it has been in five years for Orange County, it is higher than the state average of 27 percent.
For the first time this year, Orange County DUI statistics will be incorporated in the annual Community Indicators Reports, said Spitzer. The DUI Task Force is available to monitor those statistics and DUI prevention efforts.
David Doucette, the assistant director of operations with the California Office of Traffic Safety, also put the statistics into perspective when addressing Orange County about its DUI arrest rankings.
During his fatality and DUI arrest presentation, Doucette cited Laguna Beach for what he called its high number of DUI arrests. With a population of 22,755, Laguna Beach made 468 DUI arrests in 2010.
This means that compared with other cities, more establishments and restaurants in Laguna Beach are serving excess alcohol to drivers, said Spitzer.
To deter DUI arrests, prevention tactics and more education for the community and establishments that serve alcohol were suggested.
Prevention options
Social host ordinance: Used to enforce the prevention of underage drinking at social gatherings in a home or private location. The first offense penalty for this violation may be up to $750 and can be issued in conjunction with a loud party notice to address multiple complaints to parties and gatherings. Currently used in the cities of Irvine and Mission Viejo.
Conditional use permits: Focuses on how alcohol is made available in retail settings taking the type, distance, amount and location into consideration.
Responsible beverage service programs: Focuses on the development and execution of management policies that reduce the risk of serving to minors. By exercising these programs, servers will receive regular, high-quality training and management support in not serving intoxicated persons.
DUI educational campaigns: Campaigns can include DUI checkpoints, public service announcements, billboards, brochure distribution and press events. Campaigns will be effective if they are well planned and executed, are used with other strategies including law enforcement, policy and laws, use relevant and high-quality messaging and encourage discussions.
Operators permit: This permit is meant for the operators of a business or alcohol retailer, not for the owner. Permits are controlled by the chief of police. Newport Beach Deputy Chief David W. McGill described the permit as an "additional layer" to the conditional use permit to enforce closing times, noise levels, extra security staff and facility closure. Helps control the excess serving of alcohol to intoxicated persons. Currently used in Newport Beach.
Enforcement of over-serving laws: Enforces the prevention of over-serving alcohol to customers. Discussed by Gregg Hanour, good alcohol practices consultant and author of "A Business Approach to reducing Drunk Driving."
Proper evaluation of drinking establishments: The cities can regulate and change the way they communicate the expectations of new applicants who wish to offer alcohol to customers. Discussed by Gregg Hanour.
Plan for action
Each city, county department and organization will be sent a letter from the DUI Task Force addressing the "5 Best Practices for DUI Prevention" discussed during the discussion as well as the need to review and adopt these practices. Data presented at the OC DUI Summit is meant to help cities and organizations better understand and use the DUI prevention tactics.
Once the letter and materials are reviewed, cities are encouraged to designate one person on the City Council to lead DUI prevention efforts, put the DUI prevention issues on the City Council agenda and hold discussions at a meeting.
Upon request, a representative from the DUI Task Force representative can schedule a presentation at a City Council meeting.
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Three hundred years later, Americans owe a debt to King George I
Three hundred years ago, on Aug. 1, 1714, by the Julian calendar (Aug. 12 by the Gregorian calendar we use now), Queen Anne died. She was just 49 years old, but was weakened by obesity, gout, and the effects of 17 pregnancies, from which only one child lived beyond infancy — William, Duke of Gloucester, who died of smallpox at age 11 in 1700.
That posed a constitutional crisis in an era when monarchs actively led governments and religion was inextricably intertwined with government. Who would succeed the Protestant Anne as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland?
Just 25 years earlier, Anne's father, King James II, a Catholic, was driven out of England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. One of his major offenses: He appointed Catholics to local offices and made them military officers, claiming he could suspend the act of Parliament that required they be members of the Church of England.
The fear was that James would set up an absolutist government, ruling without parliament, just as the most powerful monarch of the day, Louis XIV, had done in France. James had not called a parliament in three years and abolished the colonial legislatures in what would become the United States.
The parliament that installed Anne's sister Mary and her husband (and first cousin), William of Orange, as queen and king got them to agree that monarchs could not suspend laws. That's the example the framers of the U.S. Constitution followed when they required presidents to faithfully execute the law.
After the Duke of Gloucester's death, parliament passed the Act of Settlement of 1701, which barred Catholics and anyone who married a Catholic from the throne. Left disinherited were the next 21 in line, including James' Catholic son, James Edward, who was 26 when Anne died.
Just before Anne died she dismissed her chief ministers, Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke, who had been scheming to have James Edward succeed her. In their place she appointed the Earl of Shrewsbury, a leader in the Glorious Revolution.
Anne's and perhaps England's greatest general, the Duke of Marlborough, organized military forces to repel any attempt to place James Edward on the throne. So when she died, the summons went out to her distant cousin, Georg Ludwig, the Elector of Hanover, the next Protestant in line, to come from Germany to London to be crowned.
And so he was, six weeks later. The Hanoverian succession, as historians call it, had been accomplished. A Jacobite army landed in Scotland in 1715 to install James Edward and landed there in 1745 to install his son, Bonnie Prince Charlie, but both were repulsed after initial victories.
No one can know what these two princes would have done as king. Both were indolent figures, quirky and irresolute. But it's possible that they would have tried to rule without parliaments, would have swept aside the common law courts, as James II did or tried to do.
We do know that Georg Ludwig, installed as King George I, was an unappealing figure. He spoke no English and communicated with ministers in French, the language of European courts. He had shut his wife up in a German castle and brought over two mistresses, one fat and one skinny, and gave them titles of nobility.
He spent enough time in his native Hanover to prompt consideration of a law barring monarchs from leaving the kingdom without permission from parliament.
He and his son George II and chief minister, Sir Robert Walpole, were loathed by the chattering classes of the day. Jonathan Swift's diatribes and fables, John Gay's "Beggar's Opera" and Samuel Johnson's commentary pilloried the Hanoverians as corrupt and in league with the bankers and financiers of the City of London.
The anti-Hanoverian "Cato's Letters" and Bolingbroke's "Idea of a Patriot King" provided arguments and inspiration to the Founding Fathers in North America.
But despite their unpopularity, the Hanoverians served Britain well. Freedom of expression became ingrained. Commerce boomed and generated capital for the Industrial Revolution. The Bank of England enabled Britain to borrow cheaply enough to match and exceed the massive military capacity of France.
Under the Hanoverian kings, the North American colonies enjoyed benign neglect, leaving their local legislatures and town meetings as incubators of the ideas that made America united and free.
So, as we lament the effects of the Great War that broke out 100 years ago, let's remember gratefully what happened 200 years before that.
Michael Barone, senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner, where this article first appeared, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.


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Don't emphasize rank unless you want your students to be motivated by rank. Rank is, at best, a rather artificial way of recognizing the ability of Karate students. At worst, rank is completely arbitrary.
Emphasize the things you want your students to learn. If you emphasize other things, don't be surprised if your students become motivated by them.
If you think that rank is important, please keep that in mind the next time you meet a 10 or 12 year old sandan.
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Thankful Fox has 'the guts to tell the truth'
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Isn't it great that we still have freedom of speech? I take my freedom and that of my family very serious, as all Americans should.
I noticed you counted my paragraphs and I also noticed you feel I have no facts to back up my opinion. You seem to blame Fox News, Limbaugh, Hannity, and let's not forget Glenn Beck.
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Genre: | Drama, Musical |
Release Date: | March 19, 1958 |
Running time: | 167 minutes |
Cast: | Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, France Nuyen |
Director: | Joshua Logan |
Producer: | Buddy Adler |
Writer: | Paul Osborn, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, James Michener |
Description: Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener's best-selling novel Tales of the South Pacific, the film stars Mitzi Gaynor as WAVE officer Nellie Forbush, who while stationed overseas during World War II falls in love with wealthy French planter Emile De Becque (Rosanno Brazzi). The Navy would like DeBecque to help them in a reconnaissance mission against the Japanese, but he refuses; having run away from the outside world after killing a man in his home town, De Becque sees no reason to become involved in a war which he did not start and in which he has no interest. But when Nellie, her inbred bigotry aroused when she discovers that Emile has two mixed-race children, refuses his proposal of marriage, DeBecque, having nothing to lose, agrees to go on the mission. His partner in this venture is Lt. Joseph Cable (John Kerr), who like Nellie is a victim of prejudicial feelings; Cable has previously thrown away a chance at lasting happiness by refusing to marry Liat (France Nuyen), the dark-skinned daughter of Tokinese trader Bloody Mary (Juanita Hall). When Cable is killed and DeBecque is seemingly lost in battle, Nellie, realizing the stupidity of her racism, prays for Emile's safe return. The dramatic elements of South Pacific are offset by the low-comedy antics of Big Dealer seabee Luther Billis (Ray Walston). Outside of Walston and Hall, both repeating their stage characterizations, South Pacific suffers from a largely noncharismatic cast. Mitzi Gaynor never rises above cuteness in the difficult role of Nellie Forbush, while Rosanno Brazzi (whose singing is dubbed by Giorgio Tozzi) seems to be striking poses rather than acting as Emile DeBecque. These casting deficiencies might have been ignored had not South Pacific been laboring under an additional handicap: director Joshua Logan's decision to use colored filters in several key scenes, representing the emotions experienced by the actors. The constant color shift is more unsettling than attractive, drawing attention to Logan's technique and thereby taking the audience out of the picture. With all this going against it, however, South Pacific has much to be treasured. For one thing, all of Rodgers & Hammerstein's immortal songs--Some Enchanted Evening, Bali H'ai, There is Nothing Like a Dame, I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy, Younger Than Springtime etc.--are retained, and, as a bonus, a song cut from the original stage production, My Girl Back Home, is revived herein. In addition, the film is a bonanza for movie buffs who enjoy playing spot the bit player: among the supporting-cast ranks are Tom McLaughlin, Ron Ely, Doug McClure, John Gabriel and James Stacy (rumors persist that Joan Fontaine shows up unbilled as a nurse, but we've yet to spot her). Though artistically disappointing, South Pacific ended up one of the biggest box-office gold mines of the 1950s.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Grand Hyatt Tokyo
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Kurt Russell, May/June 2006
Sprawling across nearly 30 acres, Roppongi Hills is massive even by Tokyo standards, a city-within-a-city that has become a modern new urban heart for the vast metropolis. The largest redevelopment project in all of Japan, it sits in the center of Roppongi, Tokyo's entertainment district, and includes a shopping mall, office skyscrapers, a performing arts center, museums, residences, parks, shrines, a cinema complex, a TV production facility, an observation deck, subway stations and dozens of restaurants. But there is only one hotel: the stunning Grand Hyatt Tokyo. And it is one of only two places in all of Roppongi Hills that sell cigars. Many visitors choose the Hyatt simply for its one-of-a-kind location, with easy pedestrian access to a stunning array of dining, shopping and entertainment options, where most merchants and staff speak English, still a rarity in Tokyo. Several subway stops also make it a simple commute, and the welcoming feel is enough for many customers, but the hotel has much more to offer.
The accommodations in the three-year-old, 21-story building are high-tech all the way, with flat-screen TVs, DVD players and breathtaking bathrooms featuring huge walk-in rain showers, soaking baths and another flat screen as well as automated toilets. The private Grand Club Lounge on the 10th floor rolls out cocktails and hors d'oeuvres to accompany the panoramic views of the city, and, on a clear day, Mt. Fuji. The spa and health club is renowned.
But it is the restaurants and bars within the Grand Hyatt that steal the show. Of the seven restaurants and two bars, all of high quality, none is as tempting as the Oak Door steak house. The glass-walled meat aging room not only displays the real Kobe beef, but other coveted Japanese cuts, including Hokkaido, Sendai, Matsuzaka Sirloin and the exquisite Kumomoto Red Beef, which many experts consider superior to Kobe. Not so carnivorous? Choose from the formal French eatery, two Japanese choices, or Chinese and Italian restaurants. Three have outdoor seating, and the entire hotel, with its green spaces, atriums and outdoor areas, enjoys an escapist feel even in the world's most frenetic metropolis.
When you're ready for that cigar, check out the lobby's well-stocked Cigar Club and its 200 selections, including every major Cuban label, in a walk-in humidor. You can pick up a "passport" and try to work your way through the daunting list.
Purchases can be smoked upstairs at Maduro, the number one power nightspot in all of Tokyo. Widely known as the place to entertain on a budget, it features live jazz plays and a deep selection of both Scottish and Japanese whiskies, as well as a tableside humidor.
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The television remote control has become a de facto ballot in today's hyper-polarized world of politics.
Turn the dial to the left to watch MSNBC and it's more likely you lean left. Turn it to the right to tune in Fox, and it's more likely you lean right. Which cable news channel people watch has become a bona fide indicator of what they think about taxes, health care, immigration and the size and scope of the federal government, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
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Media and civil liberties groups have expressed alarm after the managers of an Olympic venue pledged to intercept and question anyone seen photographing or filming the site, even from public land, and defended security guards who wrongly tried to invoke terrorist laws to prevent footage being shot of the arena.
John Toner from the National Union of Journalists said he would seek an urgent meeting with managers of the O2, saying their tactics had no basis in law. "I'm stunned, and what they say is utterly outrageous," he said.
The New York Times Admits That Virtually Every Major News Organization Allows The News To Be Censored By Government Officials
In one of the most shocking articles that the New York Times has ever put out, a New York Times reporter has openly admitted that virtually every major mainstream news organization allows government bureaucrats and campaign officials to censor their stories. For example, almost every major news organization in the country has agreed to submit virtually all quotes from anyone involved in the Obama campaign or the Romney campaign to gatekeepers for "quote approval" before they will be published. If the gatekeeper in the Obama campaign does not want a certain quote to get out, the American people will not see it, and the same thing applies to the Romney campaign. The goal is to keep the campaigns as "on message" as possible and to avoid gaffes at all cost. But this kind of thing is not just happening with political campaigns. According to the New York Times, "quote approval" has become "commonplace throughout Washington". In other words, if you see a quote in the newspaper from someone in the federal government then it is safe to say that a gatekeeper has almost certainly reviewed that quote and has approved it. This is another sign that "the free and independent media" in this country is a joke. What we get from the mainstream media is a very highly filtered form of propaganda, and that is one reason why Americans are turning away from the mainstream media in droves. People want the truth, and more Americans than ever realize that they are not getting it from the mainstream media.
McClatchy's Washington Bureau establishes no-alter quote policy
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To be clear, it is the bureau's policy that we do not alter accurate quotes from any source. And to the fullest extent possible, we do not make deals that we will clear quotes as a condition of interviews.
Fox Criticizes Networks For Not Jumping On Its Manufactured Obama Controversy
Fox News host Neil Cavuto and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell castigated the mainstream news networks Thursday for not covering President Obama's speech last week, claiming "it took the networks four days" to "even mention" Obama's "controversial comment." During that speech, Obama made the unremarkable observation that business owners do not achieve success in a vacuum, but that public infrastructure -- such as roads, schools, and fire departments -- create a community that supports businesses.
Facebook Monitors Your Chats For "Criminal Activity"
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users' chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report.
The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an exchange of personal information or vulgar language.
Jews DO control the media
Okay. Fine. So some of that is kooky talk. - But let's look at it a bit deeper.
Let's be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We've got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it's almost obscene. Just about every movie or TV show, whether it be "Tropic Thunder" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is rife with actors, directors, and writers who are Jewish. Did you know that all eight major film studios are run by Jews?
And let's not forget AIPAC, every anti-Semite's favorite punching bag. We're talking an organization that's practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion. I'll never forget when I was involved in Israeli advocacy in college and being at one of the many AIPAC conventions. A man literally stood in front of us and told us that their whole goal was to only work with top-50 school graduate students because they would eventually be the people making changes in the government. Here I am, an idealistic little kid that goes to a bottom 50 school (ASU) who wants to do some grassroots advocacy, and these guys are literally talking about infiltrating the government. Intense.
We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, Jewish directors. Every time someone mentions any movie or book or piece of art, we inevitably say something like, "Did you know that he was Jewish?" That's just how we roll.
We're a driven group, and not just in regards to the art world. We have, for example, AIPAC, which was essentially constructed just to drive agenda in Washington DC. And it succeeds admirably. And we brag about it. Again, it's just what we do.
But the funny part is when any anti-Semite or anti-Israel person starts to spout stuff like, "The Jews control the media!" and "The Jews control Washington!"
Suddenly we're up in arms. We create huge campaigns to take these people down. We do what we can to put them out of work. We publish articles. We've created entire organizations that exist just to tell everyone that the Jews don't control nothin'. No, we don't control the media, we don't have any more sway in DC than anyone else. No, no, no, we swear: We're just like everybody else!
Does anyone else (who's not a bigot) see the irony of this?
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- After yet another loss for his New York Knicks in what's been a trying - not to mention 3-9 - start to the season, Carmelo Anthony did not attempt to pretend everything is wonderful right now.
''It's a very tough time,'' Anthony said. ''This is a time where you could easily put your head down and mope around, but I can't do that.''
Taking their poor home-court play on the road, the Knicks allowed Washington's John Wall to score 31 points and dropped into a last-place tie in the Atlantic Division by getting beaten 98-89 at the Wizards on Saturday night.
''We didn't put a full 48 minutes together tonight,'' said Anthony, who led the Knicks with 23 points and 12 rebounds. ''We played three-fourths of the game - and that one quarter, they took advantage.''
Washington trailed 52-49 at halftime, but outscored New York 27-17 in the third quarter and never trailed again.
Wall registered at least 30 points in consecutive games for the first time in his NBA career, after scoring 37 in a loss to Toronto on Friday. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 draft also had seven assists and a soaring block on Iman Shumpert's layup attempt in the closing seconds.
''John backed up last night's game with another really good game for him. Playing the right way, taking really good shots,'' Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. ''When he plays and takes what (a) defense gives him - (that) is the prime thing that he needs to do.''
Knicks coach Mike Woodson described his team's performance as ''flat'' and declared: ''The only bright spot about tonight was Amare Stoudemire.''
That's not a great sign when the best thing you can point to is that one of your many players who is either injured or returning from injury managed to play 21 1/2 minutes and contribute 12 points. Stoudemire surpassed his previous season best in points - six - by early in the second quarter, and he even delivered a forceful fast-break dunk.
''We can't keep losing these games,'' said Stoudemire, whose club has the same record as the Brooklyn Nets.
Marcin Gortat added 16 points and 17 rebounds for the Wizards, who have won three of four games to improve to 5-8. Martell Webster scored 19, and Bradley Beal 18, making up for a paltry six points from Washington's reserves.
J.R. Smith scored 15 for the Knicks, who shot only 44 percent on field-goal tries and were awful at the foul line, finishing 6 for 15. Smith himself was 0 for 4.
Knicks center Tyson Chandler remains out with a broken leg, and they were without point guard Raymond Felton for a third consecutive game because of a sore back. Woodson went without a true point guard for stretches of the fourth quarter.
Wall definitely noticed.
''We know it's a different team without Raymond,'' Wall said, ''because Raymond does a great job of penetrating and getting shots for those guys.''
While they'd been decent on the road so far - 2-2 entering Saturday, compared to 1-6 at home - this was not the Knicks' finest hour. In addition to missing Felton's direction and Chandler's pick-and-roll possibilities on offense, the defense had no one fast enough to slow down Wall at all.
Wall started 7 for 7 on field-goal attempts and scored more than half of Washington's points - 17 of 33 - over the game's first 14 1/2 minutes. Later, his floater in the lane made it 76-69 entering the fourth.
Apparently, Woodson figures it already is time for some 1-on-1 meetings with players to make sure the season is not slipping away. That included a chat with Anthony after practice Friday.
''I just wanted to see where his head was,'' Woodson said, ''and making sure that everybody stays the course. Not just Melo. I've had some sit-downs with a few guys, just to let them know it's still a long season and we've got to start picking it up.''
Notes: Woodson said that Felton is day to day. ''I'm sure when he's ready, he'll let us know, but right now he's not,'' Woodson said. ... Wizards coach Randy Wittman is not sure when first-round draft pick Otto Porter will be able to play - or even practice with his teammates.
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Hello all. I have a question regarding the .270 Win. on plains game. Is the .270 Win. a good caliber for plains game from Impala up to Kudu and Gemsbok? The reason I ask is when we go to our local sportsman's show and I talk to PH's a lot seem to recommend 7MM mag and up for plains game. Some even recommend .30 cal and up. One PH (from South Africa) made a face when I told him that I use the .270 Winchester, even after I told him that I use 150 grainers he still wasn't pleased. So, what I'm asking is if I do get to hunt plainsgame in the next few years, should I buy a .30-06 for it? I am not a crappy shot and I don't get all shaky with a big game animal in front of me, so it isn't like I need a huge margin for error. P.S Please excuse my grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes. I am sure there are plenty. LOL
Hey there. Most authorities would say I think, that the .270 using premium bullets of at least 140 grs., is more than adequate for most plains game in the size range you mention. Its not neccessarily an eland cartridge but many have been taken with less. The late Finn Aagaard stated on more than one occasion that rounds in this category are perfectly adequate for most plains game if a good bullet is placed where it will do the most good, in the boiler room. Some animals seem to be a little tougher than others, wildebeest to name one. When I went to Namibia a couple of years ago, my brother on his first safari was running around doing the one-shot-kill, beginners luck thing until he shot his blue wildebeest. It took 5 total rounds of 200 gr. Nosler Partitions out of his .300 H&H magnum at over 2900 fps to finish the bull. They are tough! Having said that I would not be at all afraid to take a .270 loaded with premium bullets for plains game if I had lots of shooting practice and took care to place my bullets and not try to stretch the distance too much, like inside 300 yards. Most of us have no business shooting at game much beyond 200 yards anyway, myself included! On heavier game the '06 may have a slight advantage but its not all that much. Take your .270, shoot well and the game will fall. There is no hunt like an African hunt.
Thanks for the well thought out post. I know the Wildebeest are tough animals, I believe some even call the Wildebeest the "poor man's buffalo". BTW, I also agree that most hunters have no business shooting out past 200-250 yards and myself included.
Christian, The .270 will be fine to use on anything on a plains games package. I really dont know why the PH made a face, but I suspect either an ego or experience problem. Let me tell you the majority of commercial famers use the .270 Win on the farms. Since then , sure , there have been new calibres that had arisen and that a lot of guys use. But, believe me the .270 will be sufficient. My personal rifle that I hunt with, whether for my self, backing up a client , or a client hiring it from me , is a .308 Win, loaded with 130 gr Monolithics. It has taken from Gemsbuck to Blue Wildebeest to Duiker. Anything you can think of. Hope that I have shed a bit more light on the subject. Kind Regards Marius Goosen
I grew up with the 270 and taken about 30 kudu without problems. It is a fine cartridge and with very moderate recoil. But the last couple of years I did a bit of hunting with my cousin's 30-06. I believe that a bigger hole does more damage and in the case of these two calibres it is true. They both shooting pretty straight up to 220yards, and as mentioned you should not be shooting beyond these range anyway. These days I do most of my hunting with a 300Mag and shoot allot of bluewildebeest, but don't see the true benefit at bushfeld range and because of terrible meat bruising I am forced to take head shots. To conclude things: I love my 270 but I will happily exchange it for the 30-06!
The 270 has been used to take Elk here, which are pretty tough and need a good hit to put down. Should be ok for most plans game in africa.
I live in Northern canada and am familiar with elk! Hit one poorly and he will disappear to the next mountain! You will not see him again!
I thought (because of your name) that you lived in New Zealand. A kiwi is a person who lives in New Zealand if I am right. Sorry for the mistake.
I agree with everyone here that a .270 will be fine for 90 percent; of the situations you will face on a plains game hunt. I own three, and it is without doubt my favorite deer round - particularly with a good 140 gr bullet. And a b'zillion head of game have been taken with the 7x57 all over Africa, though the traditional loading was a heavy for caliber bullet with tremendous penetration. That said, for an expensive, fairly rare adventure to Africa, I would seriously consider someting a bit larger. I took both a .270 and a .338 on my first trip in 08 to Namibia. This was big open country in the Erongo Mountain region. The .270 was never fired after the sighting in session, and didn't even go in the truck after the second day. My first game animal was an impala at about 100 yards through a narrow gap in the acacia. I had the .338 in hand because we were also looking for wildebeest. It obviously dealt with the impala easily. The next shot was a trotting Hartman zebra moving along an opposite ridge at 250 yards. I would not have attempted it with the .270. Next shot was a gemsbok quartering away at 200 +. Again, that 250 gr partition was a fairly certain package to send on its way, when again, I would have hesitated with the .270. After that, I left the .270 in camp. My son was shooting his 30'06 and he did fine, but only two exit wounds. This year, with buffalo on the list, I used my .375 on everything and never felt over-gunned. As clients, we typically have a very limited amount of time on one of these hunts; we may or may not be sharing a PH - which has the effect of further cutting our hunting time in half (I would strongly recomend not sharing a PH). Kudu, gemsbock, and wildebeest are all three to four times the weight of the average whitetail shot in this country. Some percentage of your shots will not be ideal - indeed most will not be the sort of ideal presentation we can often wait for in a deer stand. Finally, it also matters a little what your PH believes. In my profession, I spent my life around weapons, and hunted and shot competitively my whole life. It still takes a little experience becoming comfortable with shooting sticks and having an audience for each attempt at a game animal. Having a critical audience can only add yet another factor to that equation. A .30 cal with a 180 gr TSX or similar premium load would be my recomendation as a minimum for a first trip. I am going to S.C. next week to hunt whitetail and my rifle will be a .270; I head back to Namibia just for plains game next August, and my rifle will either be a 30'06 with the TSX load or my .338. Besides, there are worse things than an excuse for a new rifle.
If I get to go to Africa in the next few years, I would strongly consider a Ruger M77 or a Winchester M70 in 30-06. If I would do that, I would take the .270 as a back up rifle. As far as the 7X57 Mauser, I would love to own a rifle chambered in 7X57 Mauser. It has incredible penetration with 175 grainers. Was your son shooting 180 grainers? If he was then that is surprising that he only had 2 exit wounds. I bet a 220 grain .30-06 would almost always have exit wounds. I have read that shooting sticks take some time to get used to them. Is there somewhere you can buy the same style of shooting sticks most PH's use? I have not booked a safari or anything, but I am hoping that I do get too get to hunt in Africa soon. Agreed! Thanks for the well thought out response Red Leg.
We made a mistake on bullets for him. We used 180 grain fusions which seemed to open up very quickly (they grouped MOA in his rifle). I would expect much better penetration with the TSX are the Partitions. If I use my 30'06 next summer, it will be with the 180 gr TSX. That said, exit wounds are much more difficult to achieve on most PG. They are just bigger than deer. Also, you really do need to hit them dead on the shoulder and a bit low - hard for most of us with a lot of time spent hunting deer. This is not to break them down, but rather because their heart lung area is much farther forward than a deer. That means your bullet is often working its way through a lot of bone. These guys make a very good set of shooting sticks which I use at the range a lot. www.sportingwoodcreations.com. That said, you can also make a very servicable set out of three cane poles and a bit of rubber inner tube material. Some PH's use bipods rather than tripods, but Ifind them about the same to use. Regardless, practicing with them is very important. The first couple of times you use them, they'll drive you a little crazy - that right elbow is really floating. But you will find with a few sessions they become a great shooting aid.
I have read that the vitals are a little further forward with African animals than American animals. Which is why it is best if you use heavier bullet weights. Thanks for posting that link Red Leg.
Christian, I used a .270 with 150 gr Winchester XP3 Elites on my hunt in Namibia in May 2008. PH originally wanted a .30 caliber (at least), especially for the Blue Wildebeest and the Zebra. However, I told him I was very comfortable with my .270, so he said "Ok, bring it, and maybe you will use my .300 for the Zebra and Wildebeest." As it turned out, my gun (and me) were on, and the XP3's performed very well, both long (310+ yards) and short (~40 yards) range. Shot kudu, gemsbok, springbok, steenbok, blue wildebeest, and Hartmann's Zebra. Only had to shoot the Zebra twice because he walked forward when I pulled the trigger - he was out past 300 yards. Your .270 will be fine as long as you practice and take good quality bullets.
On my first safari, I used a .270 on everything from Steenbok to Eland. Wildebeest dropped as if struck by lightning. My shot placement wasn't perfect on my eland, so I spent 3 precious days of my safari chasing a bull through the bush! I have hunted Africa a few more times since that first trip with the .270 and I used a .300 Weatherby Magnum or my DGR. The incident with the eland rattled me and regardless of what you can use - I chose a bigger gun. I felt much more confident with the .300 and I will never go back to Africa with anything less than a .300 Mag. Sure the locals use smaller guns - the same way I use a rimfire on wild boar on some hunts here at home. But if you're going to invest in a big hunt, knowing that a wounded animal costs you just as much as a dead one, then why not take a bigger rifle (assuming that you can cope with recoil)? Far as I'm concerned, when in Africa, assuming it does not affect your shooting ability, bigger is always better.
Well, I am not a recoil wimp so maybe I'll take a .30-06 if I get to go soon. Maybe if I go to Africa I'll take the .270 along for a back up? Seems like a good idea to me.
The .270 won't fail you but your shot placement will. If you are familiar with the .270 and have a good accurate load, have faith in yourself and you will be fine. You do not have to take the first shot offered to you. Your PH should help you 'hunt' the animal and with some self discipline you can wait for the best shot. This applys to any calibre. The PH who grimaced at your suggestion of a .270, only wants to promulgate the Big Game Safari Industry Ethos so easily sold to non Africans. Or he has no idea. Either way don't book with him. I took a 9.3x62 to Africa on my 2nd hunt and should have stuck with the .308W 165 Woodleighs I took on the first. I now have a 7x57 with 154 Interlocks and will take it on No.3 for Bushveldt plains game.
Thanks for your reply. I really don't know why that PH wasn't happy that I use a .270. The .270 has been used effectively on Elk and Moose, so why couldn't it handle a Kudu? I figured that if you use a 150 grain everything should go fine.


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Why Britain doesn't need new nuclear power Friends of the Earth submission to UK energy review
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The British government is considering building a new generation of nuclear power stations to replace the generation that will start to be decommissioned over the next 10 years. If this happens it will extend the life of the Sellafield nuclear facility for decades to come and kill any chance of lifting the nuclear shadow from Ireland.
Friends of the Earth in Britain is campaigning hard to prevent a revivial of nuclear power and this document is a media briefing they produced on their submission to the UK government's energy review.


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My Life in Kenya - Autobiography featured in the storyline of the British sitcom AS TIME GOES BY/BBC/1992-2002.
Geoffrey Palmer starred as Lionel Hardcastle, a divorced ex-army officer and coffee-planter who returned to England to write his autobiography entitled "My Life in Kenya."
To transcribe his notes for the book Lionel hired the services of a local secretarial agency. During his interaction with the owner of the agency, Jean (Judi Dench), a smart and hardworking widow, Lionel suddenly realized that Jean was the student nurse he fell in love with 38 years ago before he was sent off to Korea while a young Army officer.
As Lionel and Jean compare notes, they realize both their lives were changed because Jean's love letter got lost in the mail and Lionel thought she no longer cared for him because she didn't write him. Slowly, the Lionel and Jean rekindled their lost love amidst the interruptions of Jean's twice divorced daughter, Judith (Moira Brooker).
Photo session for "My Life in Kenya" book cover with girl
Close up of Lionel dressed as a great white hunter
Meanwhile, a trendy young book publisher, Alistair (Philip Bretherton) arrives on the scene and actively promotes Lionel's manuscript. To pump up sales for the memoir, Alistair hires a photographer to shot a book jacket. The photographs depicted Lionel posing in a hunter's outfit, holding a rifle and being pawed by a beautiful blond who groveled sensuously on the ground while grabbing at his leg (i.e. sex sells books).
[Alistair explains the idea for the book cover design]
Pick-me-up-and-buy-me. Danger, adventure, sex -- she's the sex.
She looks like all three if you ask me.
Lionel later discovered the reason why Alistair took such an interest in his book. It seems back in 1947 Lionel's father lent Alistair's father 500 Pounds to start a publishing firm. Alistair was paying back the favor by promoting Lionel's book.
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A LOCAL LAW To Amend Chapter 135 of the Putnam County Code
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the County Executive of the County of Putnam at Room 300 of the County Office Building, 40 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel, New York 10512 on the 29th day of September at 2:00 P.M. concerning:
To Amend Chapter 135 of the Putnam County Code Entitled, "Contractors" adopted by the Putnam County Legislature on September 7, 2010, Resolution R#248.
This Local Law amends various sections of Chapter 135 of the Putnam County Code which governs the conduct of those in the home improvement business.
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This Local Law shall take effect forty-five (45) days after its adoption, subject to referendum on petition in accordance with the provisions of Section 24 of the New York State Municipal Home Rule Law.
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How can you make swelling go away fast?
If it's an allergic reaction take Benadryl, if it is an injury ice, rest and elevate with some Ibuprofen. on! Any comments?
If it's an allergic reaction take Benadryl, if it is an injury ice, rest and elevate with some Ibuprofen. on! Any comments?
It actually depends on the person, the better you care for it, the faster the swelling will go down. In some cases it can take up to a week. Just make sure you wash
try toothpaste on it! And taking an antihitamine to stop it swelling!
I was racing in my truck black eye went to e r had a ct scan at tuff trucks an went face on the steering wheel over a jump hit my goose egg on head and now just want swelling
To make swelling go down, take aspirin only up to the recommended amount though. This will work internally so it is probably the fastest way. More:http://answers.ask.com/Health/Other/how_to_make_swelling_go_down_fast
If you have gotten an injury, likely you will notice the area beginning to swell suddenly. To mitigate the swelling, follow the R-I-C-E therapy. R stands for rest, I for ice, C stands for compression and E for elevation. Isolate the injury … More:http://answers.ask.com/Health/Diseases/how_do_i_make_swelling_go_away
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Greta the Reluctant Princess
Fiction, Anal, Exhibitionism, First Time, Reluctance, Romance, Teen Female/Boy, Toys
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Posted Sun 26th of October 2014
A not so innocent girl. a "Gay" Prince and a cock shape bronze
Greta the Reluctant P)rincess
In a display cabinet deep in Prussia is a giant bronze cock, well bronze coloured, it is actually cast iron with bronze gilding, Its head is fearsome. its eye seems to follow you around the room and its wings are so exquisitely formed you would almost think it could fly.
A giant cock, and why was it made? A simple mistake, but behind it a story of a simple girl who preferred pigs to Princes, a heart warming feel good story and so I have translated the words from the original Hugenot into English English. for your delectation.
The Reluctant Princess.
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The morning light streamed across the bed chamber as Prince Armen woke.
"Good morning your highness," Greta his chambermaid chirped when she was sure he was awake.
"Uggghhhh," he replied, "My head!" he said while staring at the girl and trying to remember the previous night's party.
Greta was slim and agile with beautiful long blonde hair plaited into two pony tails.
Once his chambermaids were fat and ugly as his mother feared he would force himself upon them but now as she feared he would never desire a woman she had sought the most beautiful serving girl in the whole kingdom.
"Your father wishes to see you sire," she chirped.
"Tell him to," Armen snapped.
"Now sire," Greta cautioned, "He merely wishes you to choose a wife."
"But I am in love!" Armen protested.
"But Edward is not a girl, is he sire?" she pointed out.
Armen shook his head, how unfair, he reasoned.
"What am I to do?" he asked.
"Well you could," Greta said, "Be like Cinderella."
"What, put on a funny dress and wear glass slippers?" he asked.
"No," she said, "Tell your father you met a girl at the masked ball last night and she rushed away but left."
"Her glass slipper, she wore glass slippers and went home without one, really!" he countered, "Limping along wearing one shoe, I don't think so.".
"No, her dildo!" she laughed.
"What?" he queried.
"Her glass dildo!" Greta repeated, "You know."
"No, to be quite honest," he replied, "I don't know."
"A glass dildo, a widow's comforter." she said with an evil grin.
"So all these girls?" he asked.
"Exactly!" Greta exclaimed.
"So?" he asked.
"See who claims it and then," she suggested, "Make them show you if it fits!"
"What make them push it!" he asked.
"Exactly!" Greta exclaimed, "It will be so funny! You could have every girl in the kingdom try it!" she laughed.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because," she said enigmatically, "We use the cock off the statue in the courtyard as a pattern!"
"But it's enormous!" he said.
"Ten times you own size," she volunteered.
"Twice perhaps," he allowed.
"And there won't be a single girl or woman who can take it!" Greta laughed.
"And your point is?" he asked.
"Keep it up long enough and you will be king and can simply choose to alter the law so you can marry Edward!" she explained.
"But Edward will take it up the back easily so I may marry Edward straight away," Armen declared delightedly, "Oh Greta you are so clever!"
Greta glared, that was not her plan at all, "Yes!" she said, "Wonderful, your father wants you."
The Queen waited for Armen to leave his room before she sought out Greta, "Did it work?" she asked.
"Yes and no," Greta said, "Yes he swallowed the plan, but no, he doesn't want to stop with girls."
"Oh god," the Queen cursed, "You said the plan was foolproof."
"But your son is a bigger fool than I thought possible," Greta said sadly.
"You are very impertinent girl," the Queen insisted.
"No Ma'am, your son is very stupid." Greta sighed.
"Then you will have to marry him," the Queen insisted.
"Oh please no," Greta pleaded, "It's bad enough being his maid."
"My dear, you just have to bear him a son or two, nothing onerous." the Queen explained, "Separate rooms, a footman for a lover, why you need barely set eyes upon him.
"No," Greta insisted, "No!"
"Very well then," the Queen agreed, "I'll have the blacksmith make a brass copy of the statue's cock."
The Queen swept from the room and Greta was left alone in Armen's room.
She kicked a few garments around the floor flicked a cobweb or two and then sat on the bed.
The bed was nice and soft so she slid under the covers, and before she knew it she felt nice and safe and warm and her hand stole under her gown and she began to gently finger her tight virgin vagina until she felt lovely and moist and was able to thrust one two and then three fingers inside herself which was particularly stupid if she wanted to prove she was a virgin for any reason.
Suddenly she heard voices, Armen and Edward were outside the door, quickly she rushed from the bed and busied herself.
"Ah maid, make haste, we wish to be alone." Prince Armen commanded.
"Begging your pardon sir but the Queen she did order me to stay no matter what," Greta lied.
"Oh stay then," he snorted, "Stand in the corner and face the wall."
"The Queen says," Greta lied again.
"Bugger the Queen!" Armen laughed.
"That's incest old chap!" Edward laughed.
"Hilarious," Greta agreed.
"Where did you learn such words?" Edward asked.
"Here and there," Greta admitted.
"Well keep them to yourself!" Edward insisted, but he was too late, the Queen had returned.
"Ah, downstairs Armen if you please your father wishes an audience," she insisted.
They left Greta alone again, and she sat moodily on the chair wondering whether she should escape at night or try it in daylight on market day when it was very busy.
Nearly a week went by, and the Queen sent word that the bronze cock was ready and Greta was to collect it.
Greta knew instantly something was wrong, it was wrapped in parchment but was impossibly large.
"Its got wings!" she said as the blacksmith proudly showed it to her, "You stupid oaf its a Chicken!"
"As ordered," he said, "A bronze cock."
"She wanted a bronze cock," Greta sighed, "Not a bronze cockerel!"
"Should have said," the blacksmith replied.
"Are you the most stupid blacksmith that ever lived?" she asked.
"There's one over in Dusseldorf what's even stupider," the blacksmiths apprentice said suddenly as he dodged the blacksmith's backhand slap.
"Oh for heaven's sake she wanted a dildo!" Greta sighed.
"Oh we got loads of they," said the blacksmith, "What size?" he asked and he undid his breeches, "Like mine or smaller?"
Greta stared, it must have been six inches long and grey.
"Bigger," she said confidently.
"Try a number three," he said and the apprentice went off and came back with an iron penis.
"Only got in in Value Brand," the apprentice said, "That's iron see, standard is bronze then there's"
"Thank you," the blacksmith agreed, "Will Iron do, would you like to try it?"
"No thank you," Greta said.
"You can have the silver for the same price if you let us watch you try it." the blacksmith suggested proving he wasn't entirely stupid.
"No!" Greta insisted.
"Half price, two for one," the blacksmith offered.
"Oh very well," Greta agreed, "Where can I hang my smock?"
Greta slipped her smock over her head leaving herself entirely bare except her sandals, her small but exquisite tits standing out proudly on her slim torso, the faint covering of downy golden hair hiding nothing of her perfect cunt lips.
"Bollocks," said the blacksmith, "I cum in me pants."
Poor Greta, no matter how hard she tried she just could not get her cunt lips around the silver shaft, they even got some of the militia from the Inn to make suggestions, as to what she should do, a passing delivery driver, a tramp, several monks en route to the monastery, a butcher, a baker, a watch and clock maker, all squeezed into the workshop where Greta struggled to shove the silver dildo up.
The drummer from the Militia arrived to play a drum roll every time she tried, the apprentice cleared the room and then let people back in if they paid a pfennig and poor Greta strained away trying everything she knew.
"I cannot!" she said finally after nearly twenty hours of exertion.
"Fetch a number two lad," said the blacksmith who was not as stupid as he looked, "Bronze."
The apprentice handed it to Greta, she lay back on the filthy workbench and eased the bulbous head of the very ordinary dildo between her cunt lips. "It fits!" the apprentice cried and a great cheer went up.
"Why didn't you suggest that in the first place?" Greta asked.
"Uh?" said the blacksmith who wasn't stupid at all but was a whole lot richer from the nights takings.
The crowd filed away leaving an empty workshop with blobs of cum over the floor and benches to show where filthy peasants had been wanking.
"You can have two number twos for price of one lass." the blacksmith said helpfully, "One silver and one bronze if you help clear up all that cum."
"I'm not licking up all that cum!" Greta insisted as she went to put her smock on.
The blacksmith wobbled and crashed to the floor as his knees gave way.
"He's had a heart attack!" Greta cried.
"He just cum in his pants again," the apprentice explained.
"I meant with a mop," the blacksmith cried, "I reckon me cock split I cum so hard."
Greta cleared the cum, scooping it into a glass jar to use as glue if there wasn't a bull handy, and then with a cheery smile she wobbled back to the palace clutching two metal dildoes.
The queen was not amused, "You stay out all night and then come back with this, this, this tiddler!"
"Sorry," Great said, "But I couldn't get the number three up, and it was two for one and."
"And what?" the Queen asked.
"I didn't want to disappoint all the men who paid to watch," Greta confessed.
"It gets worse," the Queen sighed, "He wet the bed again."
"Sorry," Greta apologised.
"I told you," the Queen said, "Four strikes of the clock wake him and relieve him."
"I won't do it again," Greta said.
"But you are supposed to do it you stupid girl!" the Queen sighed, "Like getting glue from a bull, as it is the sheets are all stuck together and we may have to wash them!"
"Sorry, OK," Greta snapped, "Let him marry his boyfriend why don't you, then we'll see who wears the trousers."
Greta looked at the Queen and the Queen at Greta, "Who wears the dress?" Greta asked rhetorically.
Prince Armen was in a foul mood, he was playing cards with his friends when the Queen approached with Greta close behind, "Where were you in my hour of need?" he demanded.
"Out," Greta replied angrily.
"I woke in a like of my own fluids girl, it is not good enough!" Armen said as his friends sniggered.
"Twenty and eight years and he wets the bed," Greta sighed and his friends laughed out loud.
"Do you delight in humiliating me wench?" he asked.
Greta thought hard, actually she did, "Yes," she agreed.
"Well I shall delight in torturing you at my wedding celebration!" he snapped.
"No more four o'clocks," Greta threatened.
"Edward will oblige," Armen insisted.
"Sire?" asked Herr Landsdorf head of palace security, "Is Edward, ah, bent?"
"Indeed and we shall be married!" Armen insisted.
"Now hang on Armie!" Edward protested, "We're just chums."
"But when you have you cock lopped off," Armen reminded him.
"Now hang on, you are wearing the dress, I shall be king!" Edward exclaimed.
"No way!" Armen cried and Greta and the Queen slipped away.
Armen and Edward rowed late into the night and were still rowing at four o'clock when Greta came to find them to relieve Armen.
They sat in two easy chairs in the study facing each other so Greta knelt between them.Edward watched horror struck as Greta extracted Armen's cock from his breeches and started stroking it, it stiffened instantly.
"Armen!" Edward protested.
"Oh very well, do his too," Armen sighed so Greta fumbled his breeches and extracted his turgid grey cock.
"Yuck!" Greta exclaimed, "Sod that I would rather hang," she said and she stood up and walked off.
"Stop," Armen cried as he waddled after her with breeches at half mast and his rigid cock gyrating madly, and as Greta out ran him he turned to Edward saying, "Now look what you have done!"
Armen woke in an armchair, his back hurt, he was angry, and then his father appeared, "Big day my son." he said.
"What?" Armen queried.
"Test day for the silver dildo," the King announced, "There's a queue a twenty yards long outside the palace."
"What silver dildo?" Armen asked with a sense of dread.
"The one your mother has been on about for weeks, anyway there's a queue a hundred yards long at the main gate."
"You said twenty," Armen challenged.
"Twenty wenches, but a couple of hundred spectators at a pfenning a throw," The King explained, "Plus we have ale and knackwurst in a bread roll, and chicken nuggets."
"I shall not be part of this!" Armen insisted.
"They have come to see fresh cunt not your stupid face," the King sighed, "You better get your friend Edward in line if you want to marry him."
Edward was indeed in line, dressed in a fetching pink smock with his cock taped to his belly with candle wax soaked bandages he waited to have a bronze rammed up his rectum.
The central courtyard was packed with people as the first woman stepped forward, not a noblewoman, nor a princess as some had hoped but a common prostitute. Ellie
A seat with footsteps was arranged on stage to reveal in as much detail as possible of the insertion and with a drum roll Ellie raised her smock to her chin revealing her nakedness and Herr Lansdorf took the dildo and without ceremony thrust it deep inside Ellie, so deep in fact that it twisted slightly and he lost his grip as he struggled to get it back out.
"It fits!" Ellie protested.
"Like a prick in a washing tub!" some wag insisted.
The castle erupted into raucous laughter, "You said it were a big one!" Ellie protested as Lansdorf took off his glove to push his whole hand past her black hairy belly to disappear inside her cavernous cunt to seek out the dildo, "I been shoving a table leg up because they said it was a big one!" she protested to raucous laughter.
The King laughed, the ale was selling well and they had two poachers to hang in the interval and all in all things were going well.
"I don't think so," Lansdorf shouted, "Next."
Griselda tried next, she worked in the same whore house as Ellie an she too had been practising using a leg off the big table in the waiting room, predictably as she bared her charms the dildo disappeared inside her, "Without even touching the sides."
"I don't think so," Herr Lansdorf adjudged, "Next!"
Next was Mathilda, then Chloe then Yvette, poor Lansdorf was getting tired of manipulating lost dildoes, and the crowd was getting bored.
"Put the Gay one on next," the King ordered in a stage whisper.
Armen who had been watching from the back came forward to be by the Kings side, the Queen brought Greta down to be beside him, "Moment of truth lad," the King said patronisingly.
Edward wanted to kneel on the seat and take it from behind but Lansdorf would have none of it, "No sir, ah, madam, ah, miss, ah whatever, you must sit like the other contestants."
Edward sat as instructed and raised his smock, he looked ridiculous with his prick stuck to his belly and Lansdorf too a big breath and forced the bronze into Edwards tight bud of an ass hole, it went in barely 5cm.
"Sire, it barely fits," Lansdorf announced.
"Then use the mallet man!" the King laughed.
"Mall it, Mall it!" the crowd started to chant led it must be admitted by Greta.
"You're enjoying this," the Queen suggested, and Greta just giggled.
Lansdorf had found a hammer by this time and he tapped the dildo.
"Whack it, it's brass not glass!" someone said so Lansdorf did "Whack."
"Aggghhh!" Edward screamed, and then again, higher pitched in complete agony as his ass started bleeding.
"Sire he bleeds," Lansdorf explained.
"One more for luck," the King suggested and Edward fainted, "Put him with the poachers," the King said harshly for being gay was illegal at that time.
The mood turned sullen quite quickly, "Hang them!" they shouted
"Hang them, Armen, Hang them, Armen." Greta encouraged them.
"You stupid girl," the Queen sighed, "If they hang him you'll never be queen."
"I don't want to be!" Greta insisted.
"Don't knock it till you tried it, fine silk on your nipples beats rough smock cloth any day." the Queen whispered, "Choice of footmen, no one ordering you about."
"Oh," Greta said, "I never thought."
"So borrow one of my old dresses and try the dildo." the Queen said.
"What show my unmentionables!" Greta said shocked.
"No!" the Queen said, "Suck it!"
Greta laughed, "Yes why not!" she agreed and they slipped away.
An hour later a dejected crowd were about to lynch the poachers when Herr Lansdorf announced, "Our final contestant Princess Margeurita!" and an almost unrecognisable Greta in a fairy tale princess dress three sizes too big stepped up on stage.
She sat on the chair and said, "Well wipe it off first, you don't know where it has been!" which got a laugh and then when Lansdorf wiped it she took it and licked the end.
The crowd fell silent as she kissed the end and then tipping her head back she slid it down her throat and began to, well choke to be honest.
"The winner!" Lansdorf cried as she turned blue and he dragged the dildo form her mouth.
"Is she all right!" Armen cried and he rushed to her side, "You did that for me?" he asked.
"No, not really, it was fun," Greta explained.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," the King shouted, "There will now be a short interval while we erect the gallows, we have two poachers today and two homosexuals, Prince Armen and his friend Edward."
"What?" Armen protested, "But I am to be married to Greta."
"Indeed, married then hung," the King said, "That way we have a Princess we can be proud of."
"But the marriage is void unless consummated, and if I consummate I am not homosexual," Armen said seeing the trap he had fallen into.
"Hang on don't I get a say in this?" Greta asked.
"No," the Queen snapped, "If you don't like it I'll have my dress back!"
There was a gasp as Greta pulled the dress over her head and threw it at the Queen
She realised her mistake instantly, blood vessels bulged on Armen's forehead.
"No sire!" Lansdorf pleaded and he grabbed the dildo and forcing Greta into the chair he forced it deep inside her sweet virgin cunt, she gasped, and then Armen was on her.
"I have to, please forgive me!" he pleaded as he struggled to grip the slimy dildo sending sensations of unbearable pleasure coursing through Greta's slim boyish body.
Fingers tugged at Armen's fly buttons and with a cheer that could be heard in Onionstadt he mounted her and throwing the dildo to the crowd he started to hump.
He revelled in her moistness, no need to smear fresh lard over his cock after a dozen strokes like with Edward and quite suddenly Armen realised what he had been missing.
The cheering reached a crescendo but Armen didn't cum so they got on with the hangings instead.
"Yes, Yes, Yes!" Armen cried.
"Shall we hang Edward for being gay?" Herr Lansdorf asked.
"Yes, Yes, Yes!" Armen answered,
"Or shall we send him to somewhere quite awful, Saffron Walden for instance?" Herr Lansdorf queried.
"Yes, yes, yes," Armen exclaimed and so was Edward saved.
Finally it was over, Greta looked up into a cloudless sky as Armen's cock slowly shrank.
"Seventeen minutes and one half," Herr Lansdorf announced but no one was listening as they were watching the poachers dancing before voting which went through, (the Trapdoor) and which went through to the semi finals in Dresden, and the winner being hung at the Ocktoberfest in Munchen.
Armen and Greta went to see the King.
"Ah I pronounce you man and wife," he said, "Go away."
"You can't do that!" Greta protested.
"Well I think I can," the King said, "And write death warrants," he added, "Which is it to be?"
Greta looked at the ground and at Armen, the King sighed and said. "For heavens sake its a simple enough question."
"Look when I'm King I'll divorce you and you can go back to the farm," Armen offered.
"You know I want to be on the farm yet you keep me here you heartless beast!" Greta railed.
"Right listen up," An exasperated King said, "Two weeks vacation on the farm every spring and fall, and two grandsons, two mind, I can't be fairer than that."
"OK," said Greta, "I suppose that's fair."
"And when she's away father," Armen asked, "Do I use a maid from the brothel, or may I visit Edward in Saffron Walden?"
"Neither, you help out on the farm," the King announced, "Man and wife, already consummated so arise Princess Marguerite."
"I never agreed to that!" Greta pleaded.
"Too late girl, honour an obey and all that," the King laughed.
And Armen found himself holding Greta's hand and getting stiff again....
And the giant cock remained abandoned and unloved until the workshop was demolished to make way for an Asda Walmart store and it was given to the museum.
And Edward, who cares?
I would like to think the all lived happily ever after but this is real life not a fairy tale.
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2014-11-22 14:23:46
Very droll! I love your fairytales, real life fairytales, you're a very wittyman. Thanks for the post, and by the way do you know where the bronze cocks went ? I need some magic in my life ! Luvsalik xx
anonymous reader
2013-08-10 03:53:25
Lol, great fun thank you
anonymous reader
2013-08-09 10:09:46
Gee Sus, its satire you morons.
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