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Pepper Spray Added to ATMs in South Africa

Read it at The Guardian - reminds me of a photo taken in France.  I have another one somewhere of a Diebold machine smashed during a riot.

That's Not A Gay Rights Rally, THIS Is A Gay Rights Rally

Let me apologize in advance for my really crappy camera work here. In my defense I was caught a little off guard by the Christopher Street Rally in Munich yesterday, because I had no idea it was going on and I was in the Marienplatz shopping district on another errand and I just wasn't able to make the mental gear shift that I needed to, so I'm all over the map with this footage that I literally shot from the hip.

My wife was a bit more focused than I was, so I'll be posting some of her stuff once we go through it.

One thing I didn't notice right away until I got home and looked at it is that the thing that really stands out is the thing that doesn't.  

Not a lot of flaming flamboyant Brünö stereo types to be seen in the crowd, save for this guy I spotted while I was on the second floor of a retail store as he was passing by in the street.

I like the color coordination he's got going there, what with him using all the colors of the German Flag in his outfit.

A little irked I didn't spot him 10 seconds earlier though.

When I post some more clips later, be sure to look at the crowd and how 'normal' looking most people are. I'm beginning to form the belief that a lot of socially persecuted/ostracized so-called 'fringe' people go for outrageousness as a defense mechanism.

As in:

'Oh, yeah, you think I'm a freak, do you? Lemme show you what a freak REALLY looks like.'

More on this later in my follow up post.

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Juergen Teller - the new Helmut Newton?

new show  Kate Moss, Kim Gordon, Charlotte Rampling, Victoria Beckham, Sofia Coppola

Rude Pundit Says Prosecute!

Rude Pundit wonders at what point amid all the revelations about who hid what from Congress do we all just become knowing accomplices to crimes. NY Times - Cheney is Linked to Concealment of CIA Project - from Congress - for eight years!  HuffPo - Holder Leaning Toward Appointing Torture Prosecutor DailyBeast: Torture Prosecution Turnaround? Guardian: Cheney Kept Congress in Dark Over CIA CounterTerrorism Action"

"I'm persuaded there are a lot of interesting stories that ought to be told" - Dick Cheney

PeeWee's Big Adventure at Fremont Outdoor Cinema, Seattle

Perfect night (spooky), perfect weather (ominous clouds, minimal drops), perfect neighborhood (still interesting pockets), perfect film (classic)

Skies over the deck of the Rainier place where we had beers, the sculptural condo with PCC below which used to be where the old outdoor theater was before Fremont became all gentrified, the bar down the street, some other big mural next to the theater that reminds me of Brussels, one of the best neons around, the garage sale signs by Circus Contraption building, finally the theater, then the darkening theater, and finally PeeWee!  Time to cheer for PeeWee and his bike and boo Frances!!

Frank Rich Has the Best Palin Graphic

He also has her pegged in this NY TImes article today - Palin Broke the GOP - Now She Owns It

.. she stands for a genuine movement: a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances and awash in self-pity as the country hurtles into the 21st century and leaves it behind.

The Palinist “real America” is demographically doomed to keep shrinking. But the emotion it represents is disproportionately powerful for its numbers. It’s an anger that Palin enjoyed stoking during her “palling around with terrorists” crusade against Obama on the campaign trail. It’s an anger that’s curdled into self-martyrdom since Inauguration Day.

See also Willie Brown at SF Chronicle, "Sarah Palin, Political Genius

Vancouver Sun Covers Free Republic's Racist Smears of Obama's Daughter

Vancouver Sun story

DKos is tracking it here

Even if our media is passive, the Freeper's crap can be read on the internet, and so thanks to our neighbors to the north.  Maybe Canada has a free press.

Here are other stories they feature which do not make some of us particularly proud to be from here (the country, the planet, the human race at times):

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