Solution to last evening’s: Prodigy, pharaoh, iceberg, pharynx, stealth, flummox, anchovy, refresh, overawe, receipt. This evening’s: Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these words: *e*er **eue **o ma* *p*a*e* *erso* ***k*am*on *ouse *a* *ur* ***igent Solution tomorrow evening, same time.
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This blog will be down to a skeleton format for a few days as I’m elsewhere. At some stage I’ll try to blog from the phone on the goings on but don’t hold your breath. The blog won’t be abandoned during that time – a couple of kindly guardian angels will be attending to the [...]
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Only one thing to say – to adopt the words of someone else who wasn’t listened to by the PTB: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. This post is scheduled from Saturday morning and so only early returns are in but it’s looking pretty bad for Europe, democracy and freedom. Sigh [...]
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My prayers were scant, my offerings few, While witless wisdom fool’d my mind; But now I trim my sails anew, And trace the course I left behind. For lo! the Sire of heaven on high, By whose fierce bolts the clouds are riven, To-day through an unclouded sky His thundering steeds and car has driven. [...]
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This cannot be viewed here but the link takes you to the BBC. Watch our very own Economic Voice twanging the bass at 11:04 and the double-bass at 11:50: Click pic to watch and hear.
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Solution tomorrow, same time. Below you will find 10 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words? ….igy ….aoh ….erg ….ynx ….lth ….mox ….ovy ….esh ….awe ….ipt
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Just flicking through Spiegel, as one does and came across this: “Um Himmels Willen, Dave hat Sex” US-Entertainer David Letterman, König der Late-Show, liebt es, sich über die Schwächen Prominenter zu amüsieren. Als er nun wegen Affären mit Mitarbeiterinnen zum Erpressungsopfer wurde, handelte er konsequent – er outete sich öffentlich. I wonder what that could [...]
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Now going over to moderation, readers, apologies and will resume anon.
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Scientists on October 1st unveiled a fossil human ancestor dating back 4.4 million years — a creature more ancient than the famous fossil “Lucy.” And, the scientists say, even more important than Lucy. The team that discovered the fossil, called Ardipithicus ramidus, say it’s the closest thing yet found to the common ancestor of both [...]
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There are a few issues all rolled into one here and they all need addressing. 1. We are, most of us, too busy to worry about petty issues. This blogger will be blogging more lightly from time to time, especially in the next few days and there are RL issues pressing down which need my [...]
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Please, decadent westerners, join with us this night in a celebration of Great China and all she stands for on her 60th Anniversary [don't forget to beam]. As the leader reminds us: Behind the close relationship between CPC leaders and the people is the “Mass Line,” the fundamental work method of the CPC, which means [...]
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Who says Sarah Palin would be a disaster? Steve Schmidt is the highest ranking former member of McCain’s inner circle to openly criticize Palin. He has largely remained silent since the election, being one of the few McCain staff members privy to the entire vice presidential selection process. Partisan political allies have blamed Schmidt for [...]
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Maybe you see something straight away, maybe not:
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This evening, Dearieme presents Noel Coward’s advice to Mrs. Worthington: Unfortunately for Dearieme, Jean Goldkette’s Sunny Disposhish’ has youtube’s insanely annoying “embedding disabled” but it’s at the end of this link and well worth a listen. As some sort of compensation, perhaps Going to Meet my Sweetie might suffice for now: Finally, this evening – [...]
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The Geimer/Polanski story has gone through some twists. The line this blog took in the first post was to wonder why her filing of a request not to pursue him over the matter was ignored, particularly as she was clearly stressed by the eternal lack of closure on the matter. It seemed to your humble [...]
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This is appalling – just look at the language: And for Taoiseach Brian Cowen, it’s a case of, “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again.” Or this: Last June unemployment was less than 6%; now it is nearly 13%. The budget deficit was less than 3%; now it’s nearly 11% and the European [...]
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This worries me: President Gloria Arroyo placed the Philippines under a “state of calamity” on Friday and terrified people fled their homes as a powerful typhoon threatened to unleash more carnage following deadly floods. The emotive language and extreme reaction of the PTB at what should surely be a normally recurring danger in those zones, [...]
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To be a cynic is nothing to brag of – perhaps half of us are cynical and it’s not a pleasant character trait. Let’s call it distrustful. The downside of that is what the other half call our propensity to see conspiracies in everything but we’d call it “everything having its root cause”. There’s a [...]
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In the middle of the night, let this plea to the Irish join the other voices. The Telegraph put it nicely: When Ireland voted to reject the Treaty of Lisbon in June last year, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said the decision “must be respected”. The rules, after all, were clear: a treaty falls if [...]
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The phrase “army of crime”, says Wiki, refers to the caption on the historical Affiche Rouge propaganda poster, in which the Nazis sought to present prominent resistance fighters as criminals. The caption read “Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime”. Hollywood Reporter says: What’s also missing here–and happily so–is the star power and oversized scale [...]
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When the day before yesterday was referred to as the day after tomorrow, the day that was then called yesterday was as far away from the day we now call tomorrow as yesterday is from the day which we shall now be able to speak of last Monday as a week ago yesterday. Which day [...]
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Jethro Tull Ian Anderon said after an unpopular Grammy Award, on account of how ancient they were: “Nostalgia tends to be a dangerous emotion in music because it never tells the truth. You try to relive the past and it is far better in the memory than it is in reality. So you cling to [...]
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Commenters warned me – find another gym which caters for the serious trainer. I know, I know but there’s a pool metres from the weight room and it’s clean and new and light and the view over the water is lovely and everyone’s so lovely and incompetent and I do know how to do the [...]
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This blog does not celebrate birthdays and all the rest of it, least of all mine. However, if something significant comes up, it gets a mention. Angus Burns Dei’s first birthday is today and rather than bake a cake, he has written a poem, an excerpt which appears below: A year of blogging I have [...]
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Simple question – where would you rather be just at this very moment now? Are you brave enough to say?
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State-sanctioned bloodletting with a cross-emblazoned uniform thrown over the reality This is a perfect example of how five separate issues are trivialized and then mocked. Propaganda is a powerful tool in the hands of the obsessed. The issues are: 1. Abortion; 2. The existence of G-d; 3. The Australian [and other ] bushfires; 4. Sexism [...]
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Poor old Wisconsin: Lead lobbyist for the federation, Chet Gerlach, said yesterday it made the change after the meaning of the common text-message lingo was brought to its attention. The organisation has had the same name since it was founded in 1979, a time when it could never have predicted it would one day become [...]
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Land of the infringed constitutional rights. It’s quite significant that SCOTUS have come down on the side of the constitution but I suspect they’ve come down on the chance to hit the state legislatures: The Supreme Court says it will take up a challenge to Chicago’s ban on handguns, opening the way for a ruling [...]
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