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It's amazing how stupid some people are when handling certain situations. These guys where loading two cars onto a car trailer and obviously didn't care how they would do it. Essentially they just rear ended one car an pushed it up the trailer. I could not zoom with my crappy phone camera, but what happened was that the last car got stuck on the hitch of the car in front of it. I'm sure it was damaged after that. This happened next door to where I work. My colleagues all wondered what the heck those guys where doing too.

Shows you how "careful" people are with other people's money/merchandise. Besides that: it's not exactly a "safe" way to work either...

Sorry for posting yet another video, but I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. I mean; kudos for president Obama; it seems he has gathered a group of competent people around him in the White House. But I guess Press Secretary Gibbs does not fall into this category. In fact, after seeing this clip I was wondering: "how the heck did he get that job?". The subject: yesterday a flight mission and photo op, that looked like Air Force One and fighter jets heading toward the New York City skyline, caused a panic in New York. Some buildings even got evacuated as several officials were afraid of an attack on the city.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the photo opportunity for being insensitive and showing "poor judgment." In a brief statement after the flight, the New York Police Department acknowledged it was aware the flight was happening, but claimed the Federal Aviation Administration told them not to talk about it.

Now, see how Press secretary Gibbs handles one simple question about this incident: "Do you think the White House owes New York an apology?"



Yes, you heard it right: his first defense: "ask the FAA or Airforce". When reporters tell him: "we did and everyone says contact the White House", he mumbles: "oh well, then I would contact the White House". WTF?! He is the White House. After that it just goes downhill - real quick. "I have seen some news reports, but uh, I don't know. I have no information on this". To add to his stupid appearance he even adds: "I was working on other things". Man, how dumb can you get?

In the mean time officials have apologized for the incident and poor judgement involved. Now some one needs to train Gibbs in dealing with the press. The man obviously can't even fight his way out of a wet paper bag!

See also this videoreport.

The American media are crazy: documentary maker Michael Moore was supposed to be CNN's Larry King`s guest, but the "news" station decided Paris Hilton had something important to say and just cancelled the Moore interview. WTF!? Yes Ladies and Gentleman; it is off course way more important to talk to someone that has never achieved a single thing in her life about something lame as being in jail for a DUI, then actually have a talk to someone that has a far more important message about the state of the US healthcare.

"CNN.. the most trusted name in news." You must be kidding me?

SiCKO Trailer

I wrote earlier about Micheal Moore's latest documentary SiCKO. The story Below comes from The Washington Post and shows how the US Governement (i.e. Bush) treats its own people, in this case veterans from the Iraq/Afghanistan war. Did I hear anyone say "Vietnam?" It is really another example of how the "richest country in the world" just seems to give up on their own citizens. The sad thing is that I see the same trend in my own country.

SOLDIER WHO CAPTURED SADDAM IS SICK, BUT LEFT TO ROT BY VA

Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life. The mayor of New York, officials of his parents’ home town in Puerto Rico, the borough president and other local dignitaries honored him with plaques and silk parade sashes. They handed him their business cards and urged him to phone.

But a “black shadow” had followed Cruz home from Iraq, he confided to an Army counselor. He was hounded by recurring images of how war really was for him: not the triumphant scene of Hussein in handcuffs, but visions of dead Iraqi children.

In public, the former Army scout stood tall for the cameras and marched in the parades. In private, he slashed his forearms to provoke the pain and adrenaline of combat. He heard voices and smelled stale blood. Soon the offers of help evaporated and he found himself estranged and alone, struggling with financial collapse and a darkening depression.

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