Posted in Culture, Life, tagged beauty pageant, blonde, Czech girls, Miss, supermodel on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
In just two days the grand finale of the 2008 Czech Miss pageant will take place. The ceremony will take place in an airport terminal! In case you are not familiar with the Czech beauty, here are the finalists. Please follow the link, then click on the thumbnail collage and the keep clicking on the button [...]
Posted in Law on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Czech Police are now focusing on their image more than ever. There is a I-Want-You recruiting campaign in progress: a TV ad with a small boy who protects his classmates and later becomes a cop, there are new uniforms which resemble those of British police…and police cars are now being resprayed to include the slogan [...]
Posted in Culture on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
The Czech translation of the latest Harry Potter is in stores today. However, according to a special deal between the publisher and bookstores, the book will not be available in supermarkets for the next four weeks. The publisher wants to support bookstores this way…
I am hoping to get some interesting photos done…crowds of people fighting for [...]
Posted in World, tagged corruption, Serbia, visa on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For over six months the Czech Foreign Ministry has been keeping secret that the operation of the Czech embassy in Belgrade, Serbia is almost totally halted in relation to visa regime(s) due to corruption, the Denik daily writes.
FM officials claim that most corruption-related practices in obtaining visa take place on the sidewalk outside the embassy where the embassy has no legal [...]
Posted in In The News on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
An American citizen was stabbed to death by an off-duty cop in Prague last night. According to Denik.cz news server the victim was a soldier stationed in Germany.
More to come…
UPDATE: The cop was drunk. The police are now investigating “who started it”. Later a minor investigation proved that the man was NOT a soldier. He [...]
Posted in Media, Personal, tagged fun, journalism, Murphy's Law on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of crazy things happened to me recently that can be briefly summarized under five new Murphy’s laws…Here goes…
You buy a huge camera and you take it everywhere you go, just in case you witness a World Press Photo situation. Of course you witness it the one time you leave the camera at home to [...]
Posted in World, tagged Hinckley, LDS, Mormon on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
LDS President Gordon Hinckley died a the age of 97, CNN reports.
It should be noted and applauded that the CNN obit reminded the viewers some horrifying things he said in a 2004 interview with Larry King:
“We are not anti-gay. We are pro-family, let me put it that way. We love these people and try to work [...]
Posted in Where In The World..., tagged Charlize Theron, EU, geography, Turkey on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Actress Charlize Theron visited Istanbul, Turkey, and after she had arrived she began singing odes to the beautiful city of BUDAPEST.
In a recent interview Theron admitted that “Budapest” felt like Cannes, France. She also said she visited a bazaar. Bazaar is Oriental tradition and is NOT generally to be found in Budapest, Hungary.
Mayor of the [...]
Posted in Politics, World, tagged Bush, God, Iraq on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I saw some CNN news story about two U.S. soldiers who tragically died in Iraq. There was some malpractice of some USMC officer involved.
The C.O. of the soldiers spoke at a press conference. He did not promise investigation, he did not promise professional assistance to the families of the victims, he did not promise anything [...]
Posted in Politics on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
World War II Wehrmacht soldiers who died near the Czech town of Cheb were to rest in piece on a local cemetery but the town wants “grave rent” that is unacceptable, the Novinky.cz news server wrote. But the German daily Bild am Sonntag came with the story first.
The costs are 500,000 euros, but the Mayor of [...]
