This blog doesn’t run posts on this topic as a rule. I did write on Polanski and Kercher because they were major issues with other things interwoven but not a straight paedo case. Right, so she was 33 and they were 14 and 17. Lots of questions – did it depend on their age or [...]
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Preaching to the choir, I’m afraid. It’s such a pity, given the positive tone of the post on the round the world sailor crossing the equator, to have to get negative again. There are three aspects: Angus reports [and I'll need to verify this]: The Tories said they would work with Baroness Ashton and the [...]
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A month at sea: Tonight I’ve got company out here, let me introduce you to ‘Silly’. He’s a little brown sea bird that’s landed on the sailor 250 satellite dome on the stern of Ella’s Pink Lady. Silly earned his nickname because of his dangerous fascination with the wind generator and his amusing attempts to [...]
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According to the French: Some maintain you should dress demurely, in muted greys or dark blues. Not a bit of it. Leave the new boss in no doubt of your zest and energy with this red-slippered number. If you’re from Thomas Hardy country, advertise it – you might like to bung on a Wessex accent [...]
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1. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, Awaiting to be filled in the morning. 2. The beginning of eternity The end of time and space The beginning of every end, And the end of every [...]
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Just switch off the sound and ignore the write-up: And in the talkies: And the leading man:
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Karl Denninger reports that Representative Cummings, along with a half-dozen other Representatives, have had enough of The Fed’s games. They are now calling for a full congressional review of the entire Federal Reserve system, including a full public audit. Hallelujah! Here are the Fed’s origins. Here are its owners. Try The Ascent of Money [hat [...]
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Just look at Orwell’s map and it’s uncanny. EU/Russian rapprochement, China playing everyone off, EU Sceptics winning out and America looking for new allies and stepping down from its high horse, the Arab/Muslim world its own entity, having failed in its bid to take over Europe. South America is a moot point here. The Americans [...]
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It’s great that people in respectable positions are now coming out with things which were seen as left field not so long ago and frankly, sound bizarre. This is why Glenn Beck is apoplectic and lost for words – he’s finally seen what we’ve been trying to get out to the public for some years [...]
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Without looking – quick, how many babies are there in the photo? Iceland is in the middle of a baby boom: “The children who are being born now are those who were conceived shortly after the crisis hit,” Húsavík midwife Hulda Skúladóttir pointed out to Morgunbladid, however adding, “There are often peaks. Last year there [...]
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Well, one can never tell – last evening’s Quiz at Nine was pretty much shunned so we’ll have to try better this evening. There are THREE light switches on the wall. One is connected to the lamp upstairs, and two are not. How should you set the light switches so that once you get upstairs, [...]
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Dearieme’s contribution first: “When I am dead, I believe that film writers will fasten on the story that I am a lesbian … I have done lots to make it believable [...] All my women friends have been lesbians. But that is one point upon which I agree positively with [Christopher] Isherwood: There is no [...]
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Some things from the first vid at Karl Denninger‘s: Glenn Beck: 1791 – 2002 National debt rose to 6 trillion dollars; 2002 – 2009 Another 6 trillion dollars Damon Vickers, Managing Director, Nine Points Capital Partners said: Oil looks higher, gold looks higher, currencies look weaker … you’ve got huge wage disparities, I don’t know [...]
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Let’s face it – Sarah Palin is the most interesting thing in U.S. politics at this moment. Last year hardly saw a day without something on America and over this side of the pond there was sheer depression. Now it’s different and we have a sniff, a whiff, just the slightest chance of halting the [...]
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“Through active employment and training programmes, restructuring the financial sector, strengthening the national infrastructure and providing responsible investment, my government will foster growth and employment.” Aaaaagh! Hiding behind the Queen’s Speech to give the start to the PM’s election campaign is not unknown but there’s something about the way Brown and the Dark Lord do [...]
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To quote directly from Wiki: The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code” or “food book”) is a collections of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. Its name derives from the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus. Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius [...]
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With the Daily Express poll showing 86% wanting out of the EU, it’s very hard for party leaders to continue with the line that we should remain in. The Express is but the latest poll and yet it is not dissimilar to others that have been taken of late. The message is clear – we [...]
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Alas, Winnie is resting and so we present ice-cream instead; quite logical really. First up is Philippe Faur’s foie gras and caviar ice cream [above] but hot on its heels is David Lebovitz’s candied bacon ice cream. The resulting smoky/salty/cinnamon-tinged dessert got a thumbs up from his butcher. See below: Failing that, you could try [...]
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What are these? 1. Microscopic periodicity is a sufficient but not a necessary condition for it, it can have a piezoelectric effect and the IUC regulates the nomenclature and other matters relating to it. 2. It uses South-Pacific nomenclature, such as aka, ama and vaka, is often powered by a crab claw, the vaka is [...]
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Aquaharp: Real harp: Harp, flute and orchestra:
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Canadian site Scragged has an article by what appears to be one of my blog visiting sites, Blazing Cat Fur. I can’t get to the bottom of that but the issue is quite clear: I was in Canada, the land of cultural relativism, where the most important value is tolerance. Criticizing any other country or [...]
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Longrider, Mr. Eugenides and DK have commented on the PCC power grab for the blogosphere. You can read it over there. I’ve signed up to the protest letter and maybe you should too, if you’re a blogger that is.
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Neither Le Figaro nor Le Monde are running the story, which suggests that the Telegraph‘s story on Air Sarko One is hearsay about a left wing beat-up but the gist was that the public are angry that he is getting a new jet. There’s much to take Sarkozy to task about and his actions on [...]
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Mark Wadsworth maintains: Barely ten per cent of England by surface area is developed, and the proportion of leafy Surrey that is developed is not much higher. And it’s not “forced construction”; there’s a demand for housing so developers try and meet supply. You might as well argue that by not placing a limit on [...]
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In an attempt to add gravitas to the late night slot, it’s time to rate three of the Doctors. Unfortunately, I’m not really the one to do it because I only saw the second half of Jon Pertwee, went through all of Tom Baker and saw the beginning of Peter Davison. That’s why the post [...]
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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A circular railway project was divided into five successive stages of construction. The contract for the construction works of each stage was awarded to a different contractor. From the information given below, can you identify the starting and finishing point of each successive stage of construction, and say which contractor was awarded the contract for [...]
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Had to have at least one male face here. His last words were supposedly: “I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.”
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The Land Army fights in the fields. It is in the fields of Britain that the most critical battle of the war may well be fought and won. [Lady Denman, 1939] In 1939, the farming community of Britain greeted the idea of a Women’s Land Army (WLA) with scorn. It was the view of those [...]
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[Britain and the breakup of England] Summer patriot, winter soldier, via Lord T, writes: Racism used to mean that the racist was a person who devoutly believed that his racial or ethnic group was superior to another, or, indeed, superior to all others, and was usually a concept antecedent to an attempt at domination or [...]
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