httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VId2QdBBWM&feature=player_embedded
Buenos Aires, yesterday.
Argentinian legislator Graciela Camano has just risen from her chair to confront her colleague, Carlos Kunkel during a session of the Upper House’s constitutional affairs commission. Seconds out, round one:
“Under no circumstances will I allow Kunkel or anyone else to lack respect,” Ms Camano said.
The incident was broadcast live on two television news channels.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEAiCKlRTSs
The Corrigan Brothers and Shay Healy. The McCartney and Lennon of instant topical songs about Irish news stories.
Fan Sijia, from China’s Shanxi Province weighs an astonishing 45kg (just over 7 stone). Her family have tried several weight loss treatments, none of which have had any effect.
Fan is two years old.
Whatever you made of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in Washington yesterday, you have to admire the group-lolz. In the end, the crowd stole the show – with an impressive display of comedy chops in placard form.
The 100 best signs at the Rally To Restore Sanity.
Here’s Jon Stewart getting things underway.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDALorfjBig
Rally to Restore Sanity Attracts Thousands (RTE News)
Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000 (CBS News)
BuzzFeed via DailyWh.at
Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 8% in 2009 – the first recorded fall in emissions in 20 years. Hooray!
It’s partly due to improvements in efficiency and greener policies. Hooray!
But it’s mainly due to the economic downturn. Hoo-
First fall in greenhouse gases in 20 years (RTE)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR4a3v61o9E&feature=player_embedded#!
Laughing-boy presenter Paul Henry unwittingly causes an international incident and kisses his career goodbye on New Zealand breakfast show TVNZ last week.
Initially suspended, Henry resigned on Sunday. PC gone mad? Racist gobshite gets his comeuppance? The jury is out.
In the face of brutal budget cuts and staff layoffs, Chief Constable Peter Fahy (above, cuffed) of the Greater Manchester Police has come up with a rather brilliant PR stunt: posting details of every 999 call the GMP (already stretched to its limit) receives inside a 24 hour period.
Three dedicated twitter feeds are being used to log the calls in real-time: a gob-smacking, sometimes depressing, frequently hilarious mixture of batshit craziness and mundanity.
The deluge started at 5am this morning and continues until 5am Friday.
From the Sunday Business Post, 3 Sept, 2006:
And today’s Independent:
No hideously over-priced apartments for ‘parents who want high quality accommodation for their UCD-bound offspring.’
No ‘boomtime profits’ for Fingers.
Aww.
Not a Photoshop. Not Sasha Baron Cohen’s next incarnation. Something altogether more mundane. And all the more charming for being just that.
We can reveal that Cigar Guy is golf fan Rupesh Shingadia, a 30-year-old investment analyst in the City – and a very reluctant star.
‘I am embarrassed and overwhelmed,’ he said in an exclusive interview. ‘Never in a million years could I have expected anything like this.
