Bad Ads, they’re all around us.

For example, this morn­ing I was a rap­idly per­us­ing a local clas­si­fieds ‘site, when all of a sudden…

Ini­tial reac­tion? What the @#$%?

Has this soci­ety dropped to these levels, ser­i­ously?

…so I open the ad’, because, you know, I’ve been look­ing for a baby to buy for a while now and R1,900 seems a bit of a bargain.

It is debately fit­ting that this ad’ ori­gin­ates on the East Rand, a local region with an entrenched rep’ for ‘back­wards’ people, to be polite.

Seller, please, be more descript­ive when post­ing an ad’ for a doll that creepily close to that of a real baby.

What do you even do with that? Do I want to know? Chucky; The Beginning…

PS: What about all of the arb’ wan­nabe–single–fath­ers out there? Equal oppor­tun­it­ies for creepy wan­nabe parents!

How dire must your dec­or­at­ing skills, your social life and your taste in art be that you would be pre­pared to spend R 10,000…on a Fugly paint­ing of the “talk­show” “Qween”, Oprah Winfrey?

Crikey.

Where would you even hang that? “Oh, I must give you a tour of the house. This is my Oprah room…”

by Derrick

Pub­lished on 17-02-2012 09:20 AM

A young SA Air Force pilot was earlier this week groun­ded pending the out­come of a com­mis­sion of inquiry, after he ‘bor­rowed’ a plane to visit a friend in Botswana.He also allegedly stole a pet­rol card from 21 Squad­ron, the air force’s VIP divi­sion, to fuel the plane for the trip, Beeld repor­ted on Friday.He crossed the Bot­swana bor­der with a Cessna 172 without sub­mit­ting a flight plan, and without obtain­ing per­mis­sion to enter a neigh­bour­ing country’s airspace.

A traffic con­trol­ler at Gaber­one air­port, allegedly one of the pilot’s friends, facil­it­ated easy pas­sage and land­ing of the plane in Gaberone.

Air force spokes­wo­man Brigadier-General Marthie Vis­ser said on Thursday that air force chief Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagi­ano had groun­ded the pilot.

A com­mis­sion of inquiry had been set up to invest­ig­ate the incid­ent, and if the com­mis­sion found suf­fi­cient cause, it could mean the end of his career.

The pilot’s col­leagues repor­ted him to the author­it­ies, after he appar­ently boas­ted of his dar­ing and told them that he was untouch­able, because he had the right contacts.

Source : Sapa

I can’t add much in the way of facts, but just think if the air­craft had been a fighter, or worse, a loaded bomber.

I feel safer in South Africa every day.

Ran­dom fact: We have oil here. LOTS of it! We’re drow­ing in oil! OIL! OIL! OIL!

So much FAIL.

Source: MyBroadband.co.za

A radio sta­tion was forced to issue an apo­logy today after listen­ers com­plained of hear­ing ‘sex noises’ live on air.

Jazz FM’s pre-recorded Fun­cky Sen­sa­tion show was inter­rup­ted for around five minutes on Sat­urday night.

Stunned listen­ers took to Twit­ter to say they had heard ‘sex noises’ from an adult film being played.

Iwan Wil­li­ams tweeted: “The **** just happened on jazz fm?! Soun­ded like sex noises… This is turn­ing into an awk­ward dinner.”

JazzFM.com issued a state­ment today, say­ing: “Unfor­tu­nately we had an unau­thor­ised access to the live feed this even­ing which res­ul­ted in a highly regret­table incid­ent. Please accept our pro­found and sin­cere apo­lo­gies for any offence that may have been caused.”

Mike Vitti, sta­tion pro­gramme dir­ector, told RadioToday.co.uk: “There was unau­thor­ised activ­ity and beha­viour in the stu­dio which we take very ser­i­ously and we will be tak­ing the appro­pri­ate dis­cip­lin­ary action against the indi­vidual concerned.

“In addi­tion I will apo­lo­gise to the Jazz FM audi­ence at the begin­ning of next weeks programme.”

.mp3 clip

Source: Mirror.co.uk

On this date in Feb­ru­ary 16th, 1959, Fidel Castro became the Prime Min­is­ter of Cuba. Since then, accord­ing to the man who was charged with pro­tect­ing him for most of his regime, he’s sur­vived over 600 assas­sin­a­tion attempts. Fabian Escal­ante, the former head of the Cuban Secret Ser­vice, claims that the assas­sin­a­tion endeavors break down like this: the Eis­en­hower admin­is­tra­tion tried to kill Castro 38 times; Kennedy, 42; John­son, 72; Nixon, 184; Carter, 64; Reagan, 197; Bush Sr., 16; Clin­ton, 21. (The accur­acy of Escalante’s stat­ist­ics, espe­cially attempts since the Nixon admin­is­tra­tion, is in dis­pute.) There are only so many dif­fer­ent ways you can ambush someone with a sharp­shooter, so some of the ways the CIA plot­ted to kill Castro were pretty wild. Here are just a few of the unortho­dox meth­ods con­sidered to oust the Beard.

1. Femme fatale. Mar­ita Lorenz, just one of many women Castro coun­ted as a mis­tress, allegedly accep­ted a deal from the CIA in which she would feed him cap­sules filled with poison. She man­aged to get as far as smug­gling the pills into his bed­room in her jar of cold cream, but the pills dis­solved in the cream and she doubted her abil­ity to force-feed Castro face lotion, and she also just chickened out. Accord­ing to Lorenz, Castro some­how figured out her plan and offered her his gun. “I can’t do it, Fidel,” she told him.

2. Poisoned wet­suit. While there’s noth­ing sus­pi­cious about receiv­ing ran­dom diving gear from your enemy right in the middle of the Bay of Pigs Inva­sion, the CIA gave it a shot. In 1975, the Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee claimed it had “con­crete evid­ence” of a plan to offer Castro a wet­suit lined with spores and bac­teria that would give him a skin dis­ease (and maybe worse). The plan sup­posedly involved Amer­ican law­yer James B. Donovan, who would present Castro with the suit when he went to nego­ti­ate the release of the Bay of Pigs pris­on­ers. A 1975 AP report said the plan was aban­doned “because Donovan gave Castro a dif­fer­ent diving suit on his own initiative.”

3. Ball­point hypo­dermic syr­inge. An ordinary-looking pen would be rigged with a hypo­dermic needle so fine that Castro wouldn’t notice when someone bumped into him with the pen and injec­ted him with an extremely potent poison.

4. Explod­ing cigar. But this was no par­lor trick – this cigar would have been packed with enough real explos­ives to take Fidel’s head off. In 1967, the Sat­urday Even­ing Post repor­ted that a New York City police officer had been pro­posi­tioned with the idea and hoped to carry it out dur­ing Castro’s United Nations visit in Septem­ber 1960.

5. Con­tam­in­ated cigar. They may have given up on the TNT sto­gie, but the idea of spik­ing his smokes was still being floated around. The CIA even went as far as to recruit a double agent who would slip Castro a cigar filled with botulin, a toxin that would kill the leader in short order. The double agent was allegedly given the cigars in Feb­ru­ary of 1961, but he appar­ently got cold feet.

6. Explod­ing conch shell. Know­ing that Castro liked to scuba dive, the CIA made plans to plant an explos­ive device in a conch shell at his favor­ite spot. They plot­ted to make the shell brightly colored and unusual look­ing so it would be sure to attract Castro’s atten­tion, draw­ing him close enough to kill him when the bomb inside went off.

7. Nair. Well, maybe not that brand spe­cific­ally, but accord­ing to that 1975 Sen­ate Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee report, the U.S. believed that mess­ing with Castro’s beard was mess­ing with the man’s power. The CIA figured that the loss of the beard would show Cubans that Castro was weak and fal­lible. A half-baked scheme was hatched to use thal­lium salt, the chem­ical in depil­at­ory products such as Nair, in Castro’s shoes or in his cigar. The chem­ical would be absorbed or inhaled and cause the fam­ous facial hair to fall out. (Wait, wasn’t this an epis­ode of Get Smart?)

8. LSD. In what was mostly an effort to dis­credit Fidel, not kill him, a radio sta­tion where Castro was giv­ing a live broad­cast would be bom­barded with an aer­o­sol spray con­tain­ing a sub­stance sim­ilar to LSD. When Fidel had the requis­ite freak out live on the air, Cubans would think he had lost his mind and stop trust­ing him.

9. Handker­chief teem­ing with deadly bac­teria. The CIA was seem­ingly obsessed with cov­er­ing Fidel in harm­ful bac­teria and tox­ins, because they also con­sidered giv­ing him a germ-covered hankie that would make him very ill.

10. Poisoned milk­shake. Accord­ing to Escal­ante, the closest the CIA ever came to killing Castro was a deadly dessert drink in 1963. The attempt went awry when the pill stuck to the freezer where the waiter-assassin at the Havana Hilton was sup­posed to retrieve it. When he tried to unstick it, the cap­sule ripped open.

Source: mentalfloss.com

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/117438

The U. S. State of Geor­gia has a new Bill on the table, the “Right to Travel Act”.

Here’s a quick sum­mary for you…

From the Geor­gia Gen­eral Assembly website.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the “Right to Travel Act.”

SECTION 2.
The Gen­eral Assembly finds that:

(1)
Free people have a com­mon law and con­sti­tu­tional right to travel on the roads and high­ways that are provided by their gov­ern­ment for that pur­pose. Licens­ing of drivers can­not be required of free people because tak­ing on the restric­tions of a license requires the sur­render of an inali­en­able right;

(2)
In Eng­land in 1215, the right to travel was enshrined in Art­icle 42 of Magna Carta:
It shall be law­ful to any per­son, for the future, to go out of our king­dom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by water, sav­ing his alle­gi­ance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the com­mon good of the king­dom: except­ing pris­on­ers and out­laws, accord­ing to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Mer­chants who shall be treated as it is said above.

(3)
Where rights secured by the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States and the State of Geor­gia are involved, there can be no rule mak­ing or legis­la­tion that would abrog­ate these rights. The claim and exer­cise of a con­sti­tu­tional right can­not be con­ver­ted into a crime. There can be no sanc­tion or pen­alty imposed upon an indi­vidual because of this exer­cise of con­sti­tu­tional rights;

(4) Amer­ican cit­izens have the inali­en­able right to use the roads and high­ways unres­tric­ted in any man­ner so long as they are not dam­aging or viol­at­ing prop­erty or rights of oth­ers. The gov­ern­ment, by requir­ing the people to obtain drivers’ licenses, is restrict­ing, and there­fore viol­at­ing, the people’s com­mon law and con­sti­tu­tional right to travel;

(5)
In Sha­piro v Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), Justice Pot­ter Stew­art noted in a con­cur­ring opin­ion that the right to travel “is a right broadly assert­able against private inter­fer­ence as well as gov­ern­mental action. Like the right of association…it is a vir­tu­ally uncon­di­tional per­sonal right, guar­an­teed by the Con­sti­tu­tion to us all.” The Art­icles of Con­fed­er­a­tion had an expli­cit right to travel; and we hold that the right to travel is so fun­da­mental that the Framers thought it was unne­ces­sary to include it in the Con­sti­tu­tion or the Bill of Rights;

(6) The right to travel upon the pub­lic high­ways is not a mere priv­ilege which may be per­mit­ted or pro­hib­ited at will but the com­mon right which every cit­izen has under his or her right to life, liberty, and the pur­suit of hap­pi­ness. Under this con­sti­tu­tional guar­an­tee one may, there­fore, under nor­mal con­di­tions, travel at his or her inclin­a­tion along the pub­lic high­ways or in pub­lic places while con­duct­ing him­self or her­self in an orderly and decent man­ner; and

(7) Thus, the legis­lature does not have the power to abrog­ate the cit­izens’ right to travel upon the pub­lic roads by passing legis­la­tion for­cing the cit­izen to waive the right and con­vert that right into a privilege.

Con­tinue

Essen­tially what they’re say­ing, is that the act of driv­ing is a Right, not a privilege.

Being a “Bible Belt” State, I won­der if this is, some­how, a bib­lical statement?

In a coun­try in which some States allow driv­ing from as young as 15 (Geor­gia is 18), these being the States you want to avoid on a roadtrip, do you really want to take your chances with someone driv­ing with skills essen­tially untested bey­ond those of a 14(-17) yr-old?

Let’s not for­get, we’re deal­ing with automatic-biased, straight-road-driving, tanks here, com­manded by school-led instruct­ors without so much as a thought as to advanced driv­ing skills.

If you are not required to be licensed, there is surely no legally-enforceable way to ensure that you receive adequate train­ing (not cer­ti­fic­a­tion) of your abil­ity to handle a machine eas­ily cap­able of caus­ing untold amounts of dam­age and of killing scores of people and animals.

How­ever, with some thought, fur­ther ques­tions arise, accom­pan­ied by an array of pros and cons.

If driv­ing is a Right, thereby doing away with the licens­ing of drivers, is the licens­ing of vehicles (and that deriv­at­ive income) thus defunct?

Where will the money to main­tain the road infra­struc­ture come from?

Will vehicles still be required to be registered? This requires a ‘licens­ing’ authority.

How will offend­ers by caught; and pro­sec­uted, if there are no rules to be abided by, agreed to by the hold­ing of a driver’s license.

Will ‘Learners’ still exist?

If your health reaches a level unsuit­able for driv­ing, such as gradual-onset blind­ness, how will you be forced off of the road by authorities?

If driv­ing is a right, will cars be tested for road­wor­thi­ness, con­sid­er­ing that they are a requis­ite tool for the act of driving?

In addi­tion, we must surely pre­pared to cel­eb­rate the forth­com­ing and inev­it­able clean­ing of our oh-so-polluted genepool.

Lastly, and this is a per­sonal favour­ite, will the age-old argu­ment of roads for cars come to an end? “We pay license, so we can drive here!” is a favour­ite chant of the driver when faced with cyc­lists on the road. If this is what it takes to shut you up, I applaud this oth­er­wise ludicrous sentiment.

…and the hits keeeep on comin’!

Toyota RunX Rsi Lotus edi­tion R220 000, thats Two hun­dred and twenty thou­sand rand.Not Neg.Also will­ing to swap for C63 AMG with reas­on­able mileage.Car was fully impor­ted from Australia.Engine ser­viced by Boencha.Contucci suspension.Micro par­tice fil­tra­tion fuel injection.Ettonoich steer­ing control.Contronaught under­car drag reduction.True 157kw, 0–100 in 6,8 second dead.Tops out at end of clock.Car stock stand­ard from Lotus fact­ory. Looks liek stand­ard Rsi, but will give M3 a hel­lava fright.Very hard to part with,no joy riders or people that have no know­ledge on this edi­tion please. Rather research before you call.Only ser­i­ous EMAILS will be given fur­ther details.

Cap­tain, we’ve detec­ted large amounts of fail in this sector.

I don’t know, I’m rather intim­id­ated by this rare beast. How about you?

106 Kws of pure kit­chen appli­ance POWAH!

This thing must be SUPER rare! To ensure it doesn’t attract the ‘wrong’ type of atten­tion, he’s pur­pose­fully only shown us the really crappy-quality pho­tos of it, and no shots of the mega-exclusive Lotus badges.

Thanks to the “Con­tranaught” drag thinyma­jig, I bet that things pulls smoother than Ol’ Blue Eyes on an ice-rink wear­ing a satin mankini.

I was a bit wor­ried about my neigh­bour beat­ing me, but his ricer M-fwee does 0–100 km/h in 6.832, not “dead”, so you know I can whip him some and have plenty left over to charf the dol­lies with.

We can even be kewl like Ice, sport­ing big flames ‘n wild zorst-muzak right at the end of the clock. Chicks dig that.

With all of those lek­ker good­ies under there, Pimped ain’t gonna know what to do when I send the pho­tos in to ‘em.

I “liek” it a lot, but I can’t find nuffin on da Google about this dope ride, yo!

Be kewl man, be kewl, I’m just gath­er­ing up my “Two hun­dred and twenty thou­sand rand.”

I’m all out of C63 AMGs.

BARGAIN!