Suomalaiset ovat sairaita
Tasavallan presidentti Tarja Halonen on edelleen ihailluin suomalainen nainen. Ihailluimpien miesten listalla ykkössijan säilytti presidentti Martti Ahtisaari, ilmenee Valittujen Palojen TNS Gallupilla teettämästä kyselystä. Naisten listalla toiselle sijalle nousi Aira Samulin, joka pudotti viime vuonna toisella sijalla olleen Kirsti Paakkasen kolmanneksi. Ihailluimpien miesten listan kärkikolmikko säilyi ennallaan vuoden takaiseen verrattuna. Martti Ahtisaaren jälkeen kakkoseksi sijoittui eduskunnan puhemies Sauli Niinistö ja kolmanneksi presidentti Mauno Koivisto. Miesten kärkikymmeniköstä löytyvät mm. ulkoministeri Alexander Stubb ja taiteilija Vesa-Matti Loiri. Kyselyyn osallistui reilu tuhat suomalaista.
Reykjavik's anarchist mayor takes office
A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A "drug-free Parliament by 2020." Iceland's Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jón Gnarr, to satirize his country's political system, ran a campaign that was one big joke. Last month, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik's elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr Gnarr is now the fourth mayor in four years of a city that is home to more than a third of the island's 320,000 people. In his acceptance speech he tried to calm the fears of the other 65.3 percent. "No one has to be afraid of the Best Party," he said, "because it is the best party. If it wasn't, it would be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party. We would never work with a party like that." With his party having won 6 of the City Council's 15 seats, Mr Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of "The Wire." A sandy-haired 43-year-old, Mr Gnarr is best known here for playing a television and film character named Georg Bjarnfredarson, a nasty, bald, middle-aged, Swedish-educated Marxist whose childhood was ruined by a militant feminist mother.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/world/europe/26iceland.html
The Battle of Karánsebes
A fight broke out between hussars and infantrymen of the Austrian army campaigning against the Ottomans in Wallachia in 1788. An officer shouting "Halt! Halt!" was misheard as "Allah! Allah!" causing a mass panic. Two days later, the Ottoman army arrived. They discovered 10,000 dead and wounded soldiers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karansebes
Delivery device for nicotine
At just the tender age of two, Ardi Rizal's health has been so ruined by his habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day that he now struggles to move by himself. The four-stone toddler's condition is set to rapidly deteriorate. Ardi, who is rarely seen without a cigarette, insists on the same brand, which costs his parents £3.78 a day. Local officials offered to buy the family a new car if the boy quits, but Ardi's parents feel unable to stop him because he throws massive tantrums if they do not indulge him. "He is totally addicted. If he does not get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall," Ardi's mother wept. Ardi's youth is the extreme of a disturbing trend. Data from the Central Statistics Agency showed 25% of Indonesian children aged three to 15 have tried cigarettes, with 3.2% of those active smokers. The percentage of five to nine year olds lighting up increased from 0.4% in 2001 to 2.8% in 2004, the agency reported. Child advocates are speaking out about the health damage to children from second-hand smoke and the pressure to smoke. One-third of Indonesians smoke tobacco. Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's child protection commission, blames the increase on aggressive advertising and parents who are smokers.
Jungner: Vasemmistolaiset ovat piraattidemareita
Leck mich im Arsch
Leck mich im Arsch ("Lick my ass") is a canon in B-flat major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with lyrics in German. It was one of a set of at least six canons probably written in Vienna in 1782.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_me_in_the_arse
Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber ("Lick my ass right well and clean") is a canon for three voices in B-flat major, long thought to have been composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during 1782 in Vienna.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber
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