Friday, January 12, 2007
Freezing my dupa off in the Yakima Gulag
Officially it was between 8-14 Farenheit last night. I think in fact the wind chill factor meant it was colder.
O.K. I gotta get snarky on those people on K.apitalist I.diot T.ransmetter. They can't say the name of the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevic. Alright the needs a vowel crack is normal for Americans, but I thought that the 'J'='Y' concept had made it into our benighted Gulag by now, I mean seriously, there are people who have those kinda names here! People with those kinda names have been in our general vicinity for like 100 years. For once I got through to the station and explained how to correctly pronounce Blagojavic's name, and they were actually NICE, that hasn't happened in like YEARS! I wasn't on the air.
Afternoon Updates:
Hajj film produced By and for Bosnian Muslims
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=941775
BiH orders retrial in war crimes case
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/politic.htm#s202407
Serbian Police Replace Serbian Military on Borders
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/19602.html
Dutch Train Roma Health Mediators in Bulgaria
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75324
Internet Sex Popular in Croatia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/croatiasexinternet
Bosnian Serb Convicted of War Crimes Sent to France to Serve Sentence
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/europe/EU-GEN-War-Crimes-Bosnia.php
Ethnic Albanians in Serbia Urged to Participate in Elections
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/europe/EU-POL-Kosovo-Serbia.php
Slovenia Will Not Recognize Unilateral Kosovo Independance
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n103154
Woman gets wierd rare illness in Bulgaria
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158315&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158804&contentPK=16397780&folderPk=87659&pNodeId=158795
Yushenko Visits Romania
http://www.ukranews.com/cgi-bin/openarticle.pl?lang=eng&id=844227&lenta=po
In the event of independance, Serbia would continue trade with Kosovo
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Serbia_would_continue_trade_with_Ko_01122007.html
Albanians Recieving Text Messages to Boycott Election
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/798151/serbia_ethnic_albanians_receiving_mobile_phone_messages_to_boycott_elections/index.html?source=r_technology
Yugoslavia Lives on in Kosovo Time Capsule
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=featuresNews&storyid=2007-01-12T145858Z_01_L12571668_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-KOSOVO-ASYLUM-DC.XML&src=rss
330 Citizenships in BiH Revoked
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=126988&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21
Car of Bulgarian Ambassador Stolen
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n103153
Bulgarians Discover Atrophy Causing Gene
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75292
O.K. I gotta get snarky on those people on K.apitalist I.diot T.ransmetter. They can't say the name of the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevic. Alright the needs a vowel crack is normal for Americans, but I thought that the 'J'='Y' concept had made it into our benighted Gulag by now, I mean seriously, there are people who have those kinda names here! People with those kinda names have been in our general vicinity for like 100 years. For once I got through to the station and explained how to correctly pronounce Blagojavic's name, and they were actually NICE, that hasn't happened in like YEARS! I wasn't on the air.
Afternoon Updates:
Hajj film produced By and for Bosnian Muslims
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=941775
BiH orders retrial in war crimes case
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2756/html/politic.htm#s202407
Serbian Police Replace Serbian Military on Borders
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/19602.html
Dutch Train Roma Health Mediators in Bulgaria
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75324
Internet Sex Popular in Croatia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/tc_afp/croatiasexinternet
Bosnian Serb Convicted of War Crimes Sent to France to Serve Sentence
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/europe/EU-GEN-War-Crimes-Bosnia.php
Ethnic Albanians in Serbia Urged to Participate in Elections
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/europe/EU-POL-Kosovo-Serbia.php
Slovenia Will Not Recognize Unilateral Kosovo Independance
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n103154
Woman gets wierd rare illness in Bulgaria
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158315&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158804&contentPK=16397780&folderPk=87659&pNodeId=158795
Yushenko Visits Romania
http://www.ukranews.com/cgi-bin/openarticle.pl?lang=eng&id=844227&lenta=po
In the event of independance, Serbia would continue trade with Kosovo
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Serbia_would_continue_trade_with_Ko_01122007.html
Albanians Recieving Text Messages to Boycott Election
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/798151/serbia_ethnic_albanians_receiving_mobile_phone_messages_to_boycott_elections/index.html?source=r_technology
Yugoslavia Lives on in Kosovo Time Capsule
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=featuresNews&storyid=2007-01-12T145858Z_01_L12571668_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-KOSOVO-ASYLUM-DC.XML&src=rss
330 Citizenships in BiH Revoked
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=126988&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21
Car of Bulgarian Ambassador Stolen
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n103153
Bulgarians Discover Atrophy Causing Gene
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75292
# posted by Katja R. @ 9:39 AM 
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I was a member of the local democratic party organization in high school; and worked on Blagojevic's first election campaign. During a the warm up for his speech they even had a segment about pronouncing his name.
BTW: he (or someone in his family) Americanized his last name; he has an "h" at the end of it.
Imagine how much more confussing it would be without it!
BTW: he (or someone in his family) Americanized his last name; he has an "h" at the end of it.
Imagine how much more confussing it would be without it!
I habitually drop the 'h' because 9 x out of 10 it was changed at Ellis island, it's probably a necessary adaptation when dealing with English speakers though. Some people have gone as far as to put 'Y' where 'J' would be, and again, in this country, if you are going to live in an area where absolutely no one knows about how the language works, it might be a neccessary concession. It's just that changing some things might make tracing families hard later on.
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