So interesting that the Washington Post runs this article today, titled “Graceful in all that she did” because this is what I’ve been debating with the lady for the old values, Ubermouth. The article is about the life of Grace Kelly. Let’s not get bogged down in the moral compass of Hollywood and the rapid [...]
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[De Modica's bull] One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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1. It’s international telephone dialing code is 672, has no reptiles, has one ATM machine, is very dry and almost never snows. 2. It’s capital is built on the River Effra, it’s northernmost city was at war with Russia for 110 years, it has a town named after the beavers in the river and there [...]
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This take on Jane Greer sums up what film noir did for women: Jane Greer was the “real deal”, her sexiness was derived from sheer cunning, she did not rely on the parodistic flirtations so common to the counterfeits of the genre. She possessed the perfect on-screen persona of a post-war desolation angle. By the [...]
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Was there ever an author who came in for such vilification as this lady? For some, she wasn’t even a real person but a pseudonym covering a group of American commercial authors. Well no, she was very real, she was English and she had troubles becoming accepted. You can say I’m showing signs of senility, [...]
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The people on my blogroll are not there because they’re my friends -they’re there because I admire them and some go on to become friends with me, poor souls. The moment I select one website, there are twenty I should have mentioned. The subject of this post is The Economic Voice. These guys had a [...]
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This is turning into a medical blog. The Economic Voice explained in comments on this post how to do a gallstone flush and it clearly works for him. I went searching and present to you here three articles. Pro-flush The Liver and Gallbladder Flush can be used by those who have had gallbladder removal as [...]
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Upfront, the detractors. Weightlossresourcesuk say: Medical experts universally agree that the theory is nonsense, and say there is absolutely no link between our blood group and the diet we eat. Consequently you won’t find qualified nutritionists or dietitians recommending this diet. Right – you’ve been warned. Now, what about the proponents? Each blood group has [...]
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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1. What does PDF stand for? a. Page Draft Form b. Personal Desk File c. Portable Document Format d. Printed Data File 2. The word ‘physics’ derives from the Greek phusis, which means: a. Nature b. Matter c. Force d. Earth 3. In scientific terms, what is a “blue moon”? a. The moon as it [...]
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If a band has a singer with a distinctive, powerful voice, it can be a double-edged sword. Odds are he’s going to move on and the band members never really reach those heights again that the band itself did. It’s understandable that Steve Winwood, for example, wanted to explore new directions but that band was [...]
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His Girl Friday presents this: Wouldn’t it be lovely if stairs all had something like that and large amounts of greenery could be put in at strategic points and little benches to sit on and drinking water fountains on a springloaded principle, as in schoolyards in the old days. Wouldn’t it be lovely to cut [...]
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Sarah Palin is an enigma. The trouble is that she’s vilified by so many but to speak in less than glowing terms of her alienates many women and other conservatives. Is she electable? After all, being tongue-tied and gaff-prone didn’t stop George Bush but then again, he had Skull and Bones assistance. Sarah Palin is [...]
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First and foremost, I shouldn’t be putting discussions here but at the forum, useful though the discussions were. So this is really a progress report more than anything. Issues can be discussed over there. There’s been criticism of the Albion front page and that’s why it was revamped to put things more clearly but basically [...]
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One can relax more in a raging storm: Helen Chivers, a forecaster with the Met Office, said on Friday: “Upland areas of Wales and southern England look like they will see the heaviest rain on Monday with 15-25mm in the early hours.” As she spoke heavy wind and rain were sweeping eastwards across the south [...]
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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Simple one this evening, as you’re probably worn out: 1. This country is tiny – virtually a city on the end of a peninsula – and it is ruled with a rod of iron. Long hair, drugs and crime are not allowed. It is a country of business and one of the richest in the [...]
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Dearieme presents this little ditty: Keep your eye on the keyboard player:
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The kerfuffle over Carrie Prejean [great name] had me thinking in an entirely different direction – why she’s so incapable of dealing with these people who are kicking her around. Upfront, I’m onside with her in this although she’s not my type at all, she’s making basic errors of logic and she’s much of what [...]
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You’ll notice a change in the logo and it is as a result of the embellishments of Sue at Muffled Vociferation, via The Quiet Man. A logo should reflect what the people are about and the earlier one was pretty but did not state the message. It’s fair to say that we’ve reached our first [...]
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Carrie Prejean was asked to comment on her out of court settlement and she gave a clear answer: That’s completely confidential. I’m not going to be able to talk about that. Larry King, the chat host, ignored it and continued on asking the same question, as if by repetition, she would break down and answer [...]
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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Literature? 1. Which 1971 novel written by William Peter Blatty was turned into a classic horror film? 2. Which Shakespeare play concerns the two old friends Valentine and Proteus’ love for the beautiful Julia? 3. Which book, later made into a classic 40s film, would you find the villain ‘Casper Gutman’? 4. What is the [...]
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The Economic Voice says: “4 years ago my eldest daughter came to live with me and just after moving in I met my wife (The love of my life) so we went up to Bowness-on-Windermere where my wife to be was living and we went to the Beatrix Potter museum in Bowness with my new [...]
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I had to think out whether to do these updates here or not, as most news is now carried by the Albion Alliance site. So this is mainly for my own readers who pop in on their rounds and not for the UK as a whole. Yesterday was good, that’s for sure. The teething troubles [...]
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My first reaction whenever I read a story a bit left field is to check out the author and if he/she/they are hidden behind a smokescreen of capitalization and glaring colour, not least in the employment of adjectives, one wonders. On the other hand, we’re never going to get new revelations from the other type [...]
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If you have ten thousand regulations … … you destroy all respect for the law.
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If the Globe and Mail is to be believed, Charles spent Armistice Day in Canada. Perhaps I read it wrongly.
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Economic Voice, let me run Dearieme’s three this evening [different mood to last evening] and then I’ll run yours and one of mine tomorrow evening. So, without any further ado: Dearieme sent me yet another “embedded disabled” but the other three tracks were all right. First – a bombshell version of Nagasaki: What ho – [...]
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