(Via @stoo11) There’s no way anybody could have pulled this off:
The man’s got Secret Service agents and stuff to keep this sort of thing from happening, right?
Libyan Leader Moamer Kadhafi gestures after a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) and participating African countries during the G8 summit in L’Aquila, in central Italy, on July 10, 2009. G8 leaders, including an Africa-bound Barack Obama, vowed today to stand by the world’s poor despite the downturn, unveiling a 15 billion dollar boost for food production. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
(pause)
Wow.
Open thread.
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No world leader would do that to the Messiah, would they?
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:08PM EST (link)555
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:42PM EST (link)That’s one of my favorites of yours, 6eorge
I agree,
Wayne (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:52PM EST (link)that’s a keeper, George. 5′s for it.
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I Used To Love Doing That as a Teen! :) (nt)
IJB Sunday, July 12th at 1:32PM EST (link)Kadhafi? Really? Then ....
LibRick (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:32PM EST (link)Dude…where’s my camel?
SyFy whats the world coming to? Sci-Fi...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:35PM EST (link)are we americans so stupid that we can not pronounce Sci-Fi that we need it translated to SyFy? Stupid! its about as dumn as naming whatever that channel was to Spike? Open thread spout off.
Oh, it probably came about
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:45PM EST (link)as part of the texting/twitter culture. You know, that pesky hyphen is just sooooo hard to get in there. There was a time that hardcore science fiction readers even objected to it being shortened to sci-fi.
There'a Line Going Around That Copyrights...
IJB Sunday, July 12th at 1:51PM EST (link)…Were the real issue – that NBC-Universal couldn’t copyright “Sci-Fi” but they could “Syfy”, but I’m not buying.
This basically was the idiotic idea of some Marketing VP trying to justify his job and title.
My grandfather said all business VPs were like this, and useless, and I’ve seen no evidence over the years to prove him wrong.
Yeah, I'm not buying that either.
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:58PM EST (link)They used sci-fi for years with no problem. I think you’re probably right, IJB, about it being some marketing guy trying to justify his job.
What I'm told...
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 5:12PM EST (link)Is that they find the science fiction image to be unseemly and they want to break away from that.
Which is a huge insult to their base.
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It seems they're more the
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 6:14PM EST (link)horror channel these days anyway, and mostly bad ones at that. Those are what I find unseemly. I know, some sci-fi fans tend to be horror fans too, and sometimes the 2 genres are blended pretty well, Alien comes to mind right off. I mostly watch it lately if they have a favorite Star Trek TNG or DS9 episode anyway, and those are getting hard to find there.
Unseemly, eh? Well, I can’t expect much from something owned or co-owned by NBC anyway. Figures they’d insult their base.
hyphen?????? it's a dash ;) nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 5:14PM EST (link)Lol! nt
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 6:03PM EST (link)Yeah, shoulda known hyphen was too big a word. nt
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 6:04PM EST (link)and here I thought it was a minus ;-) lol
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:18PM EST (link)Science minus Fiction… When does the Science FACT begin then? prelude to Climate Scam … I’d laugh, but more and more Chicken Little crap is getting on in all the movies…. Won’t surprise me they don’t put Wall-E on next (I enjoyed it greatly, but the Enviro driven storyline aspects were only slightly less objectional than the blatant only reason Happy Feet was made).
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Yeah, I d like to fire all the idiots at SyFY
kyle8 (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:56PM EST (link)It sounds too much like syphilis. The damnedest thing is that there are always two or three really good series on that network every season. But all the rest is crap. Ghost Hunters! Give me a break!, those horrible monster movies of the week, and they even have Wrestling!
And when they do get a good series going they always kill them off.
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wasting time changing the abbreviation when they could be bringing back "Firefly"!
nessa (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 5:03PM EST (link)Fire Them All!
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DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 8:48PM EST (link)but darn it bring back “firefly”. Damn good show and movie.
I am about as graceful as a pond skater on a mud-pie-nt
DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 8:51PM EST (link)LMAO! I should have figured you for a Firefly fan!
nessa (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:01PM EST (link)nt
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digged the whole "rever" thing...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:14PM EST (link)and that whole wildwest gunslinging in the future. “Serenity” “Everythings Shiny, Captain”!
useful as Vic at a Peta... nevermind ;-)
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:08PM EST (link)ObamAgenda July ’09 update – So, What does Obama NOT want you paying attention to? – revisited/updated: current Distractions
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Without Wash or Shepherd Book?
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:12PM EST (link)Urg.
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DONTREADONME (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:20PM EST (link)pretty much mean the series was lost, but I still digged it. I figured the whole serenity could be future-future thing and we can get back to the storyline pre-serenity. What a great story.
SyFy
kingkonj Monday, July 13th at 12:01AM EST (link)Why did they change their name? SciFi was one of the few cable channels that still lived up to its name (TLC and learning?? MTV and music? Cartoon channel is showing some reality shows, as is TVLand…. Biography channel shows a handful of biographies, History Channel is the UFO, monster, and reality show channel…. ) SciFi really showed science fiction movies and shows. I suppose now they’ll show Syence Fyction movies.
My thought
Pomme (Diary) Monday, July 13th at 1:59AM EST (link)Was that the satellites/cable companies found people complaining when Discovery brought out the Science Channel since it’s labeled Sci on the menus.
Still annoying as all get out!
I am no fan of change and hope they keep it to a minimum.
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As an aside to the weird name thing....
wrenhal (Diary) Monday, July 13th at 7:15PM EST (link)How about that new chilled snuff called SNUS … I mean, what marketing guy thought it would be cool to name a tobacco product in a way that looks like sInus …
Funny Fake
valor8 Sunday, July 12th at 1:47PM EST (link)Yeah, this gotta be photoshopped. If you look at Gaddafi’s badge it looks fake too. Still pretty funny picture.
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Another photo from the same event
Uma Richie (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 2:03PM EST (link)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8144055.stm
Still too early to tell.
The internal info said that it was AFP.
Moe Lane (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 2:35PM EST (link)So I don’t know.
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farstar99 (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 8:01PM EST (link)Recognize the Obama photo from whence his part sprang?
"Put dowm my shovel Obumma"
shift Sunday, July 12th at 1:51PM EST (link)…..and this is what happens when the “one” plays in someone elses sandbox
Isn't there a way
TNJim (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 1:54PM EST (link)if it’s a digital picture or digitally enhanced to break it down into raw data and look at the meta tags or something to determine if it’s photoshopped? I’m also not sure if you have to do that with the original or if downloading it off the site Moe linked to to get it would work.
Whoa.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 2:01PM EST (link)That’s pretty a impressive photo.
Bert Convy came back from game show heaven to pose with Teh Mess-I-Yah !
(Y’all young’uns won’t know who I’m snarking on….. sorry.)
Cheers !
lol...30 years later...the 'grisled' version
speciallist (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 9:35PM EST (link)5
OK, Kenny, since you're going all retro on us............Enjoy!!
barry915barry (Diary) Monday, July 13th at 12:11AM EST (link)This is definitely a fake.
Brian Simpson (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 3:51PM EST (link)I hate to give him the traffic, but Tommy Christopher has the original photo:
http://dailydose.us/2009/07/12/yep-the-moamer-kadhafi-obama-bunny-ears-pic-is-fake/
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What always gives it away..
speciallist (Diary) Sunday, July 12th at 3:57PM EST (link)is the light source…Obamas ‘light’ comes from one direction…and Kadhafi’s comes from the other
I always thought they both came from the dark side
Lammo (Diary) Monday, July 13th at 2:14AM EST (link)And that comment is about LIGHT, and not to in any way be taken as RAAAAAAAACIST.
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I'll never think of Star Wars the same way again..
speciallist (Diary) Monday, July 13th at 2:29AM EST (link)Photo Shop What Photo Shop ?
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