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this article excerpt made me chuckle...i love the quote in yellow


WASHINGTON - The White House accused Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday of troop-bashing, seizing on a comment the Democrat made to California students that those unable to navigate the country's education system "get stuck in Iraq."

"Senator Kerry not only owes an apology to those who are serving, but also to the families of those who've given their lives in this," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "This is an absolute insult."

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran and President Bush's 2004 rival, fired back.

He said he had been criticizing Bush, not the "heroes serving in Iraq," and said the president and his administration are the ones who owe U.S. troops an apology because they "misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it."
"This is the classic GOP playbook," Kerry said in a harshly worded statement. "I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium."

LOL, go Kerry!

This is a bit old now, but this is another case of McDonalds shooting themselves in the foot...

Yet another attempt by McDonald's to completely monopolise the 'Mc' prefix.
There's this Australian rugby enthusiast, Malcolm McBratney, who is a sponsor of his local team, Brisbane Irish, which uses his nickname, McBrat, as a logo on the players' clothing. Last year he applied to register McBrat with the Australian trademark office, IP Australia, only to be opposed by our old litigious friend McDonald's, hero of the English McLibel litigation, one of the great public relations disasters of our time.

So does McDonald's Australia have its own McBrat trademark, and was it understandably objecting to someone else copying it? Well, no, but it does own a trademark called McKids, and claims (seriously) that people will be confused between the two. (Does a kid equal a brat in Australia?) But presumably McKids is an established name in the selling of clothing similar to Mr McBratney's product? Well, no. In fact, the McKids trademark hasn't been used for clothing at all; it's used for toys. Is McBratney trying to sell toys? No. So the burger people are trying to stop someone with a different name from selling something which they don't sell anyway? Yup.

One thing McDonald's may not have known when it started mixing it with McBratney is that he's a lawyer - as it happens, a specialist in intellectual property. Trademarks. And he's now taking legal action against the corporation seeking to divest it of the McKids trademark which, since it was registered in 1987, has never been used for clothing.

"What it boils down to" he muses, "is that McDonald's seems to be trying to own not only the McDonald name, but everything beginning with Mc."

He beat them, BTW ;)

Hehehe. Kerry rocks.

Anime Dad wrote:LOL, go Kerry!

that last sentence is still cracking me up.....basically telling tony snow...go f^%& yourself...you've never even fought in a war.

Yet another attempt by McDonald's to completely monopolise the 'Mc' prefix.

nice read.

I loved it that he was an Intellectual Property specialist.. the last person they should have been taking on...

Anime Dad wrote:I loved it that he was an Intellectual Property specialist.. the last person they should have been taking on...

exactly....poetic justice for their overzealousness

Did anyone else dress up today?

Wynter <--- Paper bag Princess.

Wynter wrote:Did anyone else dress up today?

Wynter <--- Paper bag Princess.

Ohhhhhh there's a thread. :doh:

Wynter wrote:Did anyone else dress up today?

Wynter <--- Paper bag Princess.

i sewed together some gyoza skins....and doused myself with soy sauce

Tu_triky wrote:

i sewed together some gyoza skins....and doused myself with soy sauce

You must taste mega yummy. >>insert licking smilie here<<

Wynter wrote:

Ohhhhhh there's a thread. :doh:

Aaah, now I get it.... Halloween...... :beatyou:

That was yesterday here.... I saw one kid dressed as a devil, with horns and a ptchfork. That was basically it. Nobody came to our door, and I had nothing for them anyway.

Anime Dad wrote:

Aaah, now I get it.... Halloween...... :beatyou:

That was yesterday here.... I saw one kid dressed as a devil, with horns and a ptchfork. That was basically it. Nobody came to our door, and I had nothing for them anyway.

no old crocodile scales for the kids huh?

Anime Dad wrote:

Aaah, now I get it.... Halloween...... :beatyou:

That was yesterday here.... I saw one kid dressed as a devil, with horns and a ptchfork. That was basically it. Nobody came to our door, and I had nothing for them anyway.

I'm guessing it's not a huge thing in Australia? Was that one kid a tourist? :beaten:

Nope Wyn-chan, not that big here. Although multinational corporations are trying to make it so, so they can sell all the associated paraphernailia to us poor Aussies.

I have nothing against Halloween in North America, but i'm very opposed to trying to import it into Australia. Australia is Americanised enough as it is.

Anime Dad wrote:Nope Wyn-chan, not that big here. Although multinational corporations are trying to make it so, so they can sell all the associated paraphernailia to us poor Aussies.

I have nothing against Halloween in North America, but i'm very opposed to trying to import it into Australia. Australia is Americanised enough as it is.

Yea, I was gonna say the same thing. Especially if it's not part of your original culture there. It's like Santa Claus representing Christmas. People seem to forgot the actual meaning of the holiday.

Agreed, Wyn-chan. My point exactly.

Anime Dad wrote:Nope Wyn-chan, not that big here. Although multinational corporations are trying to make it so, so they can sell all the associated paraphernailia to us poor Aussies.

I have nothing against Halloween in North America, but i'm very opposed to trying to import it into Australia. Australia is Americanised enough as it is.

I can respect that....when i went to Japan which was in October i found that Halloween is celebrated there in certain parts of Tokyo, which surpirsed me....I saw flyers for Halloween parties throughout Roppongi and Shibuya

Tu_triky wrote:

I can respect that....when i went to Japan which was in October i found that Halloween is celebrated there in certain parts of Tokyo, which surpirsed me....I saw flyers for Halloween parties throughout Roppongi and Shibuya

Were people dressed up?

Wynter wrote:

Were people dressed up?

i left before halloween but yeah there were flyers for costume parties at clubs and the like....

Tu_triky wrote:

i left before halloween but yeah there were flyers for costume parties at clubs and the like....

Ohhhhh fascinating. I guess it ties in with those girls I saw in the documentary you linked me to, who were influenced by western fashion. And of course, in turn, we're heavily influenced by theirs (gwen steffani's vids).

It's because media in the west is just so powerful.