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I thought I’d seen it all in US broadcasting. But now a ‘journalist’ (I’d print his real title but it’d break the obscenity rules of my hosting) has said, of the Iraqi torture photos on his radio station phone in show:

“CALLER: It was like a college fraternity prank that stacked up naked men —

LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?”

Blow some steam off??? I’m fuming with so much rage here I can hardly type. But you can read more (yes, there is more) of his evil on this news article at
mediamatters.org and download an mp3 recording of him saying it, just in case you find it too shocking to be true.

WHY has this guy not been fired yet?

I’m seriously scared about the world’s superpower right now.

Well, it’s been there for several hours but I’ve finally found a nice, free program called Giffy which can convert .bmp files to .gif very nicely. So here it is, a slight tweak to the blog design to keep rivals on their toes

You can get Giffy here

Best-TV-Show-Ever

OK, I’ll come clean, this blog just got wiped (agh!) so I’m having to retype it again. But that doesn’t change the fact Have I Got News For You is a brilliant programme, tonight with Claudia Winkleman (the wonderfully funny presenter of Liquid News before it was axed by the DOG wielding manic Stuart Murphy) and Stanley Johnson, Boris’ dad! It is hard to believe that William Hague, hosting for the second time, ran for Prime Minister only a few years ago. Ah the fate of all Tory leaders nowadays, performing Dirty Den’s lines from Eastenders. Brilliant show!

More sickeningly, Donald (Rumsfeld, not the Duck. Leave him out of this.) claimed that the photos from Iraq show abuse “but not torture.” What planet is this guy on? Oh yeah, the one with global ‘we like hot weather anyway’ warming and Guantanamo ‘they’re really scary and it’s in Cuba so it’s OK’ Bay. Can someone please just send him out to the frontlines in Iraq and let him fight for a few days?

Well, the glorious run of advert free Simpsons on BBC 2 is over. ‘Behind the Laughter’ seemed a good episode to choose, being an MTV-style spoof of the series with some great funny moments. But in a way it also emphasised the show is simply not the one I grew up watching – with those exciting Friday double bills marking the start of the weekend for years.

Goodbye Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. It’s been great fun.

Well despite the fact I’ve only had 3 days of ‘school’ this week, and despite the fact I’ve got a bucket load of homework, a weekend is a weekend and we should all cherish it.

Congratulations to the Year 9s everywhere, SATs are over and now you only have GCSES, A levels, University, a job and retirement to worry about…

In boring personal news- I got my hair cut. I always prefer it short as there is less to worry about, especially in the mornings when it refuses to straighten.

This blog has very quickly become the most popular page on this site, and has attracted new visitors from obscure search results. So howdy to you! I guess this shows people actually like it when things get updated. And talking of updating, why don’t people with broadband just install Windows Updates as second nature? ESPECIALLY at the workplace? OK, I know it’s much more of a pain than for home users, but for god’s sake, isn’t that what network admins are paid to do? Take a note, coastguard.