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September 13, 2007
Let's Listen To The Real Experts
When the New York Times reports from overseas, you can always trust them to provide a fair, balanced assortment of serious sources on what foreigners are thinking. For instance:
Seeking Terror’s Causes, Europe Looks WithinSince the terror attacks on the United States on Sept. 11 six years ago, Europe has faced far more new attacks and reported plots than the United States...
In that setting, questions about how minority populations of Muslims are integrated into the mainstream are coming to the fore, along with basic questions about Islam itself. Less attention is being focused on finger-pointing at the United States, analysts say...
An editorial in Bild on Friday said: “There are no easy answers. But the 1.4 billion or so Muslims owe it to the rest of the world to at least try to give answers and find a remedy. A religion with bloody margins does not belong in a world which wants to and must move closer together.”
Bild is a hyper-conservative German tabloid best known in the journalistic world for publishing a picture of a topless woman on its front page every day.
Posted at September 13, 2007 08:08 PM | TrackBack
i don't understand the 'soft porn' market -- i'd think it would collapse considering what's out there...
Posted by: softy at September 13, 2007 08:28 PMThe 'soft porn' market succeeds because there is also a 'squeamish religiosity' market, making people feel guilty for looking at pictures of hairy wet pussy.
Posted by: saurabh at September 13, 2007 10:12 PMI think this is one of the most nicely juxtaposed sarcastic-while-making-a-good-poin blog posts I have ever read. Should accompany the definition of "snark" in dictionaries.
I laughed so loud my wife made me show her what was making me laugh. She laughed out loud too (after i first explained Bild Zeitung to her, along with the NY Times ongoing slide into general irrelevance).
Posted by: Jon Husband at September 13, 2007 10:29 PMI think this is one of the most nicely juxtaposed sarcastic-while-making-a-good-poin blog posts I have ever read. Should accompany the definition of "snark" in dictionaries.
I laughed so loud my wife made me show her what was making me laugh. She laughed out loud too (after i first explained Bild Zeitung to her, along with the NY Times ongoing slide into general irrelevance).
Posted by: Jon Husband at September 13, 2007 10:52 PMAny chance you could do "Bild Zeitung Watch" as a daily feature? We think it would be a delectable addition to the site.
Not delectable. Hilarious! We meant to say hilarious.
Posted by: Simbaud at September 14, 2007 03:12 AMI second (or third) the notion that this site needs more pundit breastseses.
Please invite them back for more political commentary.
Posted by: Ted at September 14, 2007 08:51 AMNo different from UK tabloids. Daily pics too.
Do them all. Call it Busenwatch. Then do a Hefner and wrap a "philosophy" around it. Call it Der Busengeist. Almost Hegelian.
Regarding religion, seems to me someone eventually blows up, shoots or stabs someone else in the name of some religion, especially if the religion originated in the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Emperor-worshipping isn't so hot for world peace either.
People will exploit religion. Religions are by their nature created by men to suppress and exploit other men.
The most dangerous religion today, though, is the worship of money.
Posted by: Bob In Pacifica at September 14, 2007 10:13 AMThe breasts speak: http://www.bloggerheads.com/page_3.asp
Posted by: John Angliss at September 14, 2007 10:15 AMUmm, nobody here worried about NSFW? As much as I don't mind seeing that, people could get fired for having that picture on their computer.
Posted by: Nick at September 14, 2007 10:17 AMNot to try and distract attention from the talking mammary glands, but there's a new poll just released which asked about Iraqi mortality which apparently confirms the Lancet 2 study--the current death toll in Iraq is, according to this new poll, roughly 1 million. I've been somewhat skeptical of the Lancet study, but if this replication holds up my skepticism was unwarranted.
Darn it, the computer won't let me cut and paste my link here. Well, anyway, one place you can look is at Tim Lambert's blog "Deltoid".
Posted by: Donald Johnson at September 14, 2007 11:41 AMWhen I was a teenager my dad was stationed in Germany. I really miss the Bild.
And the topless nun on the Aquacola billboards.
Africola, that is.
Posted by: merlallen at September 14, 2007 12:19 PMAfricola.
Hell of an advertising slogan they got:
"So schwarz wie immer.
So stark wie frueher."
As black as always. As strong as before.
And now, they got an Afri-white. Or, lite.
Not yet ready for the global market.
Posted by: donescobar at September 14, 2007 12:50 PMIt looks like the right one is bigger than the left,is this a conservative magazine?
Posted by: PR at September 15, 2007 10:59 PM"A religion with bloody margins (...)"
Whaa? How many millions did the fascist, white CHRISTIANS of Europe exterminate in:
Africa
North America
South America
South Asia
Australia
Ehh?
Fascist white supremacist christians, especially anglo-saxons are on top of that list.
But hey what the fuck did you expect? Almost 100 years of colonialsm, looting and killing in the middle east and they just shut the fuck up and stay calm?
What? This time is taking longer than what it took with the american natives? Or the africans?
Posted by: Whaaa? at September 16, 2007 04:30 AMBild is a hyper-conservative German tabloid best known in the journalistic world for publishing a picture of a topless woman on its front page every day.
You say that like it's a bad thing!
Posted by: at September 16, 2007 09:23 AMBREAKING:
The girl on p.1 of today's BILD (9-17-07) is not topless.
See what you've done. Shame.
PR, I noticed that the boob on the right is bigger, too. I think we should call it "Hannity."
Posted by: Kip W at September 18, 2007 03:15 PM