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Buon capodanno a tutti felice anno nuovo! Allora…buone vacanze…all’anno prossimo…una bellissima fine anno e un inizio felice 2010 !!!
Je vous souhaite une très bonne année et que tous vos désirs se réalisent. Je [...]
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In no particular order:
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Now cocooned away from the charms of younger ladies, it’s maybe safe to come out and say what I really think of them.
The theme of this post is:
Why ageing men should neither go near, think of nor consider a younger woman.
A doctor friend of mine, my sailing partner, was 49 when he took [...]
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Via Jesse’s Café Américain, a NYT snippet:
The Financial Times has chosen Lloyd C. Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs chief, as its person of the year.
What’s his view on his job of f—ing over the American people?
In an interview with the Sunday Times of London, [he asserted] that Goldman was “doing God’s work”.
Ex Nefarious One, Svali, said [...]
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This is Part 2. Part 1 was here.
When someone generally sympathetic towards this blog’s articles, someone like Richard From TEV writes of:
“the Global elite that I am not sure exists in the first place”
… after some of them have just been named, shown their interrelationship and what they have actually done to harness the [...]
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Well done to the Corkadoragha Romford boy on hitting the Big 100. Jams explains his choice of blog name thus:
Why the Poor Mouth? Why not! I suppose I chose the chose the expression in tribute to one of my favourite authors the late, great Irish novelist/humorist/civil servant, Flann O Brien.
The final message on Jam’s [...]
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Dearieme’s contribution:
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When one reads on certain blogs that we’ve had not a bad year overall and Gordo is getting to grips with the internationally induced troubles in the UK, one weeps at the chutzpah when everyday the tale emerges of our woes and the utter corruption of government.
You need go no further than DK’s quoting and [...]
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The Tate puts it this way:
As the artist Hans Arp later wrote: ‘Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While the guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might.’ The founder of Dada was a writer, [...]
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We’ve no reason to love China but the simple fact is that the Pakistani chap was caught in possession of a large quantity of heroin in their country. If a country has a history of executing foreigners, e.g. Thailand, then it seems logical that you keep it off your visiting list.
The only exception to this [...]
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You all saw the Aston Martin attempt at a small car and many comments were made on that, not all cutting. Seems there is a veritable plethora of small cars being released in the New Year and I have some questions about them. First of all, a reasonably nice one:
I don’t know much about modern [...]
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