Cocktail "Eurasia"
Ingredients: instant coffee (Nescafe is recommended), high quality vodka, coca-cola.
"Eurasia-Espresso": Take tall cocktail glass. Put into the glass 1/3 of vodka, add 1 tea spoon of coffee, then carefully add 2/3 of coca-cola. Drink it while the foam exist.
"Eurasia-Classic": 1 bottle of vodka, 1 bottle of coca-cola (2 litres), 2 spoons of coffee. Take the pot. Put there coca-cola and vodka. Boil this mix. Then carefully add the coffee and cook the mix 10 minutes with small temperature. Then bottle the mix and cool it.
ATTENTION! It's not recommended to drink this cocktail for a people who experince health troubles with the heart. Author doesn't care any obligatory for the result if this rule broken. Cocktail has been clinically tested: no victims.
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Meet the Veeps: Chuck Hagel
By most measures, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) doesn't seem a likely Republican to run for vice president on the Democratic ticket. A Reagan Republican through and through, he consistently receives high-marks from the NRA, opposes gay marriage, and supports drilling for oil in the arctic. So why do liberals consider Hagel the biggest fish in the pond of potential running mates? One word: Iraq.
Hagel is a Vietnam veteran who is considered one of Washington's most adept foreign policy minds. He vaulted to prominence this past year with his constant and brutal criticism of the war in Iraq. And while he begrudgingly supported giving Bush the authority to invade Iraq, Hagel was one of the first senators—Republican or Democrat—to declare the war a lost cause, calling the American strategy "dangerously irresponsible."
He has also provided bipartisan grist for the anti-war mill, most famously by telling Condoleezza Rice that sending more troops into Iraq was akin to sending meat into a grinder. Later, he advised colleagues who were waffling over their support of the war: "If you [want] a safe job, go sell shoes."
Those close to the senator say he is itching at the opportunity to join a ticket, either as a Democrat or with Michael Bloomberg as an Independent. "He's going through a period of introspection. He feels that the president and some of his own colleagues have flat-out deceived America about this war," says one insider close to Hagel. "He's always placed a premium on being straight with people—sometimes to the detriment of his own career—and what he's seeing now really upsets him."
While Iraq is certainly cause enough for Hagel to abandon the Republicans, his problems with GOP higher-ups have been brewing for some time. Hagel supposedly fumed over the Bush administration's slander of his friend John McCain in the South Carolina campaign, long after the election had passed. He also threatened to endorse Democratic Senator Max Cleland in 2002 after he discovered Bill Frist and the NRCC created ads linking Cleland—a triple amputee after Vietnam—to Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Says a Hagel ally, "Chuck is a conservative, but he puts an emphasis on fair play. He's never been about rhetoric and blind loyalty. He'll sign up in a minute with a Democrat if he feels like that person is the best choice for the country."
Hagel is a Vietnam veteran who is considered one of Washington's most adept foreign policy minds. He vaulted to prominence this past year with his constant and brutal criticism of the war in Iraq. And while he begrudgingly supported giving Bush the authority to invade Iraq, Hagel was one of the first senators—Republican or Democrat—to declare the war a lost cause, calling the American strategy "dangerously irresponsible."
He has also provided bipartisan grist for the anti-war mill, most famously by telling Condoleezza Rice that sending more troops into Iraq was akin to sending meat into a grinder. Later, he advised colleagues who were waffling over their support of the war: "If you [want] a safe job, go sell shoes."
Those close to the senator say he is itching at the opportunity to join a ticket, either as a Democrat or with Michael Bloomberg as an Independent. "He's going through a period of introspection. He feels that the president and some of his own colleagues have flat-out deceived America about this war," says one insider close to Hagel. "He's always placed a premium on being straight with people—sometimes to the detriment of his own career—and what he's seeing now really upsets him."
While Iraq is certainly cause enough for Hagel to abandon the Republicans, his problems with GOP higher-ups have been brewing for some time. Hagel supposedly fumed over the Bush administration's slander of his friend John McCain in the South Carolina campaign, long after the election had passed. He also threatened to endorse Democratic Senator Max Cleland in 2002 after he discovered Bill Frist and the NRCC created ads linking Cleland—a triple amputee after Vietnam—to Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Says a Hagel ally, "Chuck is a conservative, but he puts an emphasis on fair play. He's never been about rhetoric and blind loyalty. He'll sign up in a minute with a Democrat if he feels like that person is the best choice for the country."
Jenna Trades Sword Swallowing for Swordfighting
She's taken down all sorts of bad guys, good guys, girls, etc., but now Jenna Jameson is turning her attention to monsters -- of the two-eyed variety.
TMZ has learned that the porny business juggernaut is creating and starring in her own series of comic books, featuring a leather-clad, g-string wearing heroine named "Shadow Hunter." Even though she's practically pulling her shirt off in the exclusive cover art obtained by TMZ, we're told that Jenna's animated alter-ego will not expose her sketchy smooth southern parts. How easily hope is snatched away.
And get this -- the company behind the comic book? Virgin. How appropriate.
Stephen Colbert Breaks Wrist On Set
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Colbert's disdain for all things left is growing.The host of "The Colbert Report" revealed on Thursday night's show that he broke his left wrist while running around the New York studio before taping a recent episode. Colbert removed a large "No. 1" foam hand to unmask a small cast.
"I didn't want to draw attention to it. I didn't want to play on your sympathy," Colbert said before dramatically grimacing.The fall happened June 27, before the show went on a two-week hiatus, a spokesman for Comedy Central said Friday. Colbert, 43, was only recently fitted with a cast."To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how it happened," the mock right-wing talk-show host told his audience. "My director Jimmy is suggesting I might have broken my wrist ... before the show."Slow-motion footage was then shown of Colbert running around the set to "pump up" the crowd. Beyonce Knowles' "Ring the Alarm" was played over the footage, alluding to the singer's fall while performing the song during a concert Tuesday in Orlando, Fla.As Colbert rounded his "C"-shaped desk and headed to high-five his audience, he slipped and fell backward."Yeah, that might have been it," he deadpanned.Colbert and his cast stopped by the White House on Friday to spread the drama a little further. He and his crew staged a mock briefing in the White House briefing room, where Colbert sat in the front row, raised his wounded limb and was called on by presidential press secretary Tony Snow.Snow also signed the cast and engaged in a few minutes of banter with Colbert as the cameras rolled. The cast was to be auctioned off later to raise money for military families.(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
"I didn't want to draw attention to it. I didn't want to play on your sympathy," Colbert said before dramatically grimacing.The fall happened June 27, before the show went on a two-week hiatus, a spokesman for Comedy Central said Friday. Colbert, 43, was only recently fitted with a cast."To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how it happened," the mock right-wing talk-show host told his audience. "My director Jimmy is suggesting I might have broken my wrist ... before the show."Slow-motion footage was then shown of Colbert running around the set to "pump up" the crowd. Beyonce Knowles' "Ring the Alarm" was played over the footage, alluding to the singer's fall while performing the song during a concert Tuesday in Orlando, Fla.As Colbert rounded his "C"-shaped desk and headed to high-five his audience, he slipped and fell backward."Yeah, that might have been it," he deadpanned.Colbert and his cast stopped by the White House on Friday to spread the drama a little further. He and his crew staged a mock briefing in the White House briefing room, where Colbert sat in the front row, raised his wounded limb and was called on by presidential press secretary Tony Snow.Snow also signed the cast and engaged in a few minutes of banter with Colbert as the cameras rolled. The cast was to be auctioned off later to raise money for military families.(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Media Watchdog Decries Reckless Use of ‘Kerfuffle’
A media watchdog group will soon mark the fourth anniversary of its quixotic campaign to convince newspaper writers and editors to cease using the word “kerfuffle” in headlines and articles.
“It saddens me to admit that we have made little headway. ‘Kerfuffle’ is just as prevalent as ever in the print media,” said Marty Neederhosen, president of the Society to Curb Repugnant and Unctuous Erudition (SCRUE). “It’s as if all the headlines writers formed a cabal and agreed to ignore us. Every time you turn around the loathsome word is staring out at you from a newspaper page. It’s even in their online editions.”
On the brighter side, however, Neederhosen said SCRUE’s outreach program aimed at television and radio news directors and writers appears to be very successful.
“Our media monitoring staff has yet to find a single instance of the use of ‘kerfuffle’ in any local station or network or cable news broadcast.” he said. “Television journalists appear to be much more responsible about the use of ‘kerfuffle’ than their print colleagues.”
Neederhosen said SCRUE has encountered a few instances of “kerfuffle” in Sunday morning network television talk shows where guests discuss politics.
“However, our studies show that every single utterance of ‘kerfuffle’ came from the lips of a print journalist,” he said. “Either it’s in their genes and they can’t help themselves, or they just don’t give a flying you-know-what about proper usage of the English language.”
Neederhosen said the “vast majority” of the Sunday morning “kerfuffle” utterances came from reporters for The New York Tiimes or the Wall Street Journal.
“If Rupert Murdoch gets his hands on the Wall Street Journal, I think we might make some headway there with stamping out ‘kerfuffle’,” Neederhosen said. “You almost never see ‘kerfuffle’ used in the New York Post.”
SCRUE’s kerfuffle campaign first gained national attention in 2003 when the group protested with picket lines in New York City. Members would don bulky dictionary costumes and march to and fro on sidewalks carrying anti-kerfuffle signs.
An early protest targeted the Wall Street Journal’s use of “kerfuffle” to describe the budding controversy after someone in the Bush Administration leaked to the media the fact that Valarie Plame was an undercover CIA operative. A special prosecutor was appointed to investigate, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was ultimately convicted of lying to a grand jury and President Bush the commuted Libby’s prison sentence.
“You could hardly call that a ‘kerfuffle’,” Neederhosen crows. “Our studies show that virtually every time the print media uses ‘kerfuffle’ to describe something, you can bet it will balloon into a really big affair.
“One of these days when we get some time, SCRUE plans to go back and analyze newspaper coverage of the lead up to the invasion of Iraq,” he said. “We will find plenty of examples where reporters or editorial writers used ‘kerfuffle’ to describe the invasion of Iraq. You’d be hard pressed now to think of Iraq as a kerfuffle.”
“It saddens me to admit that we have made little headway. ‘Kerfuffle’ is just as prevalent as ever in the print media,” said Marty Neederhosen, president of the Society to Curb Repugnant and Unctuous Erudition (SCRUE). “It’s as if all the headlines writers formed a cabal and agreed to ignore us. Every time you turn around the loathsome word is staring out at you from a newspaper page. It’s even in their online editions.”
On the brighter side, however, Neederhosen said SCRUE’s outreach program aimed at television and radio news directors and writers appears to be very successful.
“Our media monitoring staff has yet to find a single instance of the use of ‘kerfuffle’ in any local station or network or cable news broadcast.” he said. “Television journalists appear to be much more responsible about the use of ‘kerfuffle’ than their print colleagues.”
Neederhosen said SCRUE has encountered a few instances of “kerfuffle” in Sunday morning network television talk shows where guests discuss politics.
“However, our studies show that every single utterance of ‘kerfuffle’ came from the lips of a print journalist,” he said. “Either it’s in their genes and they can’t help themselves, or they just don’t give a flying you-know-what about proper usage of the English language.”
Neederhosen said the “vast majority” of the Sunday morning “kerfuffle” utterances came from reporters for The New York Tiimes or the Wall Street Journal.
“If Rupert Murdoch gets his hands on the Wall Street Journal, I think we might make some headway there with stamping out ‘kerfuffle’,” Neederhosen said. “You almost never see ‘kerfuffle’ used in the New York Post.”
SCRUE’s kerfuffle campaign first gained national attention in 2003 when the group protested with picket lines in New York City. Members would don bulky dictionary costumes and march to and fro on sidewalks carrying anti-kerfuffle signs.
An early protest targeted the Wall Street Journal’s use of “kerfuffle” to describe the budding controversy after someone in the Bush Administration leaked to the media the fact that Valarie Plame was an undercover CIA operative. A special prosecutor was appointed to investigate, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was ultimately convicted of lying to a grand jury and President Bush the commuted Libby’s prison sentence.
“You could hardly call that a ‘kerfuffle’,” Neederhosen crows. “Our studies show that virtually every time the print media uses ‘kerfuffle’ to describe something, you can bet it will balloon into a really big affair.
“One of these days when we get some time, SCRUE plans to go back and analyze newspaper coverage of the lead up to the invasion of Iraq,” he said. “We will find plenty of examples where reporters or editorial writers used ‘kerfuffle’ to describe the invasion of Iraq. You’d be hard pressed now to think of Iraq as a kerfuffle.”
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