nourishing obscurity

This and pics below courtesy of First Post and Wikipedia What a fascinating study Amelia Earhart is, just as Jessica Watson is now. What a background, what a tale of overcoming deficiencies and obstacles and actually achieving something worthwhile. From tearaway child and ringleader of the gang to her home problems to her chronic sinusitis, [...]

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I just stole this pic from Letters from a Tory It was right to invite the BNP’s Nick Griffin onto the show.  It is about debate and everyone got in and had a say.  Surely that’s better than censorship.  Not only that but it blew the lid of the complacency in politics and the changing [...]

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Did you think Common Purpose had died away of late?  Not a bit of it. Via Cassandra, they have dug in in the Netherlands and have an office in Price-Waterhouse Coopers, operating “met de programma namen: Matrix Amsterdam, Matrix Rotterdam.“  The purpose is to infiltrate the business world and make it, as Cassandra puts it [...]

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Joseph Wiseman [1918 - 2009] I missed this on Monday.  Though a bit dated now, Dr. No was certainly a classic and Wiseman was quite a chilling villain first up.  Here’s a little quiz about Dr. No: 1. What was Nikki van der Zyl and Diana Coupland’s connection with the film? 2. What was the [...]

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As you know, this little blog has covered Feminazis, the Pink Mafia, radical Islam, PCers, Them and a few others but it has never addressed the BNP or abortion.  That’s because I’m in two minds about these issues and don’t know what to say.  Suppose I’d better get into this BNP thing as everyone else [...]

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1.  Tomorrow makes it one month that this blog has been running.  I just looked at the stats for the old blog and it’s embarrassing – they’ve gone up since I stopped blogging there.  This one is building but very, very slowly. 2.  Slow blogging just now as well. What I don’t like when anyone [...]

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As my Mac nears the end of its useful life and one or two things are glitching, the release, Tuesday, of the new Macbook with monocoque construction is interesting. The comments on the article complained of no firewire and only 2GB RAM but I had a look at mine and it has the same.  So [...]

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Understatement of the week: There is widespread scepticism in London about the new financial rules, which some British critics see as a Franco-German attempt to undermine Europe’s financial capital. The new laws will give more say to European institutions. A risk board, for example, which would be staffed by the European Central Bank and based [...]

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What is: 1. the dot over an “i” 2. the white of an egg 3. the curved shape of the water surface in a glass 4. the physics of the apparent bending of a stick in water 5. the only food which never spoils … called? Answers tittle, albumin, meniscus, refraction, honey

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Nor had I until this article. I have a friend now living in Serbia and one or two shots she put on my computer a couple of years back show the type of place Eastern Europe can be.  Personally speaking, Switzerland is fabulous, Spain can be fun but the Eastern nations are both exotic and [...]

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The value of a sound, solid education So David Cameron is to replace resigning MPs with women, irrespective of merit.  Funny, I always thought that the policy, at least on paper, was to replace the retiree with the best candidate, the most meritorious, the most able. Seems not. Meanwhile the debt goes out of control, [...]

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Nice summation, by Spengler, of the situation in the northern Middle-East and Sub-Continent: The region is full of geopolitical mines. To name some of them: # India can’t let the fundamentalist side of the Pakistani military take power without responding. # Iran can’t let Pakistan’s Sunnis crush the 20% Shi’ite minority. # Israel can’t allow [...]

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In this evening’s listening, the youtubes don’t exactly correspond to the text because it is near impossible to get exactly the right one. For example there’s a vid from New Zealand which is meant to be Australia and so on. Also, if you’re from Hull or you’re a bit sensitive, you don’t want to be [...]

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It was Wolfie who said that he’d seen these people at cocktail parties, full of grandiose ideas, hopelessly inefficient and I would add, inefficiency always accompanies ideology because instead of knuckling down to sound administration, they try to change the world and even reconstitute men and women. You can’t have your mind fully on two [...]

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These pieces are not specifically about autumn, of course and they’re chronologically out of synch but they seemed right for this evening. The first needs, IMHO, to be on the violin.  Perlman. Sorry about the pic quality: To the piano: And lastly to my favourite of the evening, the harp:

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