This is a video that simply must be seen to be believed. In it, we get to see some of Portland’s stupidest drivers watch cars attempt to drive on the icy streets, and then, after seeing the cars slide into numerous other cars, drive on the ice anyway and go crashing into some cars themselves.

I can’t embed the video. Go to the article and enjoy. It’s best watched with at least one other person, so you can wince and cry “Holy crap!” together.

Off to an interview with an agency and other job-related things today.

Fingers crossed, people.

Update: Look for an announcement soon. Good things are happening.

No need to rummage Snopes or to look for a needle in the Google haystack anymore, the fact is proved and clear to anyone. Here is a picture of the first victim of the cruel joke BBC played on some people. This is a respectable (albeit French) historian, professor at Sorbonne. Here is his reaction when hearing these absolutely preposterous rumors about a possible unification of France and Britain:

Seeing these words for the first time, Henri Soutou, professor of contemporary history at Paris’s Sorbonne University almost fell off his chair. Stammering repeatedly he said: “Really I am stuttering because this idea is so preposterous. The idea of joining the Commonwealth and accepting the headship of Her Majesty would not have gone down well. If this had been suggested more recently Mollet might have found himself in court.”

I hope that BBC is in for a long and costly litigation now for this case of GBH. The situation with their practical jokers has clearly got out of hand. Even the cruellest psycho-war operators from the Elders’ elite mind control group were aghast… There are some limits, you know.

And, speaking about Elders, the same article caused quite a lot of stuttering in our department as well. Take a look at this:

Tension was growing at this time along the border between Israel and Jordan. France was an ally of Israel and Britain of Jordan. If events got out of control there, French and British soldiers could soon be fighting each other.

Unlike the case of the professor, though, our psycho-med corps put an end to the symptoms very quickly. The injured operatives are back in service. But the Hasbarah department took the idea to heart, and is going to produce a “what if” movie about French and British armies fighting on the Jordan river. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Brad Pitt are already in Israel, scouting for the best location. An Italian general is being recruited as a military advisor, and professor Noam Chomsky, known for his strict adherence to historical facts will write the scenario. The official producers: Italy/Germany. The genre (either a musical or a slapstick comedy) - to be decided upon later.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

In the year 2007, a backward-thinking man in a state that likes to think of itself as forward-thinking managed to piss off blacks and Jews during the annual legislative session. And no, he’s not from the sticks. He’s from Glen Allen, a very wealthy suburb west of Richmond filled with expensive developments and malls and shops and companies and, well, Jews and blacks.

“The present commonwealth has nothing to do with slavery,” said Del. Frank D. Hargrove, R-Glen Allen, whose ancestors were French Huguenots who came to America in search of religious freedom.

How far do these calls for apologies go, wondered Hargrove, a member of the House Rules Committee that could take up McEachin’s resolution as early as Wednesday.

“Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?” Hargrove wondered. “Nobody living today had anything to do with it. It would be far more appropriate in my view to apologize to the Upper Mattaponi and the Pamunkey” Indians for the loss of their lands in eastern Virginia, he said.

A similar request for an apology to Virginia Indians is planned, McEachin said.

Let us not get sidetracked about whether or not Virginia should apologize for having been a slave state. Let us look at the incredible offensiveness of Hargrove’s remarks, and the ones he came out with after he was told people were offended.

Del. David L. Englin, D-Alexandria, who is Jewish, took Del. Frank D. Hargrove Sr., R-Hanover, to task for “inflammatory” comments Hargrove made to the Charlottesville Daily Progress.

Hargrove was quoted as saying that asking the state to apologize for slavery would be akin to asking Jews to apologize for killing Christ.

Hargrove told Englin, D-Alexandria, who’s also his seatmate, that “your skin was a little too thin.”

This would be a good time to point out that pretty much every one of my religious school students will be called a Christ-killer by his or her publis school classmates by the time they reach Bar or Bat Mitzvah age. Central and southern Virginia have a long, long way to go before they equal northern Virginia’s tolerance levels.

I suppose I should be grateful that while Hargrove is definitely offensive, at least he’s not blaming the Jews for the war in Iraq—like a certain northern Virginia politician, Democrat James Moran. Oh. Wait. He’s from the progressive part of the state.

New Jersey is looking better and better all the time.