Looking at this question of who was/is the best Bond yesterday, I read a few lists and commenters came in with: “Yes, Daniel’s the best,” followed by another commenter saying: “Craig is the worst Bond yet. How can you say Casino Royale is …” and so on.
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This is, unfortunately, in the style of “I don’t know much about it but I know what I like”. Looking out over the beauty of the snow which fell overnight and transforming this area into a winter wonderand, elevating the mood and turning the mind to fine things, I chanced upon a few pictures in [...]
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If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
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The Eurostar 2000 are rightly feeling sorry for themselves and so am I – headache to write home about [the pins must be stuck well into those voodoo dolls] and depressed that Monday is the end of the shortening of the days. Waaaaaagh! I just love the dark at 4 p.m., don’t you? Why can’t [...]
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Shane Greer attacks the politics of envy and in terms of the politics of socialism which attacks anyone who has more, I’d agree with him. If a person with drive and incentive makes some money for himself and his family by his hard work and by the salaried agreement of those who work for him, [...]
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The misnamed Child Support Agency, in the tradition of the Orwellian Ministry for Love, Ministry for Truth or the Soviet Era Pravda, has been aptly named the Father Bashing Agency in the UK. What the situation is in the U.S. is an unknown to me – I see the legal advice pages but they can [...]
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This post is largely sympathetic towards her. The second part is sympathetic towards the main earner. So be it – this is a soft post. Look, that woman in the pic might well have enough dosh to escape to a fantasy home in Scandinavia and she might well walk away with enough money to set [...]
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What was the best thing before sliced bread?
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The good news is that you can make your own mead. The bad news is that it will take months to ferment and so you’re a bit late for Christmas. Still, you can nip up to Lindisfarne and get yourself a bottle or eight, warm the contents on Christmas eve and have the rest next [...]
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“I am not bonkers,” she said. “How could I be a successful QC and be that completely stupid?” Further evidence for lack of insanity is in the betrothal in Tuscany: “As we were leaving to go home, I was cleaning up in the bathroom,” she recalled. “I’d cleaned the toilet and he suddenly announced, while [...]
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What really worries me about the Climate Sceptics is their manner. Even Christopher Monkton whom I greatly respect on his analysis of Them and the great finance fraud starts getting Climate Sceptic and dropping into calling people “bedwetters” [Barking Spider today]. The CS bloggers are already into calling it “climate porn”, certain fellow bloggers head [...]
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I suppose this is old news and you’ve all blogged on this already. It’s the Tzipi Livni arrest warrant. In case anyone missed it: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Wednesday to voice his opposition to an arrest warrant issued in Britain against her earlier this week, saying that she [...]
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1. Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950′s Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas? 2. Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? 3. On what day does Christmas fall in the Orthodox calendar? 4. In Britain [...]
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Bjarni Brynjólfsson, of Iceland Review, writes of the Yule Lad tradition: First of all we have the Yule Lads, called jólasveinar in Icelandic. They are Iceland’s Santas. The Yule Lads are brothers, 13, no less, and they start “coming to town” 13 nights before Christmas. These mythical creatures are said to have troll-like parents called [...]
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Via Globe and Mail: Tiger Woods topped The Associated Press’s Athlete of the Decade list. Who do you think deserved the award? 20% 2159 votes Lance Armstrong 38% 4001 votes Tiger Woods
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This one was crying out to be jumped on but just one moment. Exposure to alcohol at a young age is actually more likely to make them heavy or binge drinkers, [Sir Liam] said. Parents with a “laissez-faire” attitude to their teenager’s drinking are also putting their offspring at risk, he warned, as he called [...]
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The post on Internet Censorship was virtually ignored by my good readers and for understandable reasons. It mentioned how the Australian authorities had managed to slip Christian sites onto the list of pornographers, satanists, terrorists, gunmakers, paedo sites et al. I wrote that this was not a very good thing and was met with near [...]
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What have Rachida Dati and Caroline Flint in common? Dans un reportage extrait de l’émission “66 Minutes”, diffusé lundi 14 décembre sur M6, Rachida Dati, députée européenne et maire du 7e arrondissement parisien, affirme lors d’une conversation téléphonique “je n’en peux plus”, oubliant le micro des journalistes : “Je pense qu’il va y avoir un [...]
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If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
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As the other chaps are too self-effacing and as I contributed only moral encouragement and chaired the meetings, James would like it to be known what has actually been achieved at last. Albion Alliance has now put together a database which you can access by going to our site, going to the tab above “Candidate [...]
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Now, what can we follow this up with? I know:
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So the inevitable is happening and Elin Nordegren is moving out. In terms of the prenups, she has every right and morally she does too. As many have pointed out, a leopard doesn’t change its spots, as Shane Warne showed in Australia. As my mate in Russia said, once is a mistake, twice is a [...]
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Scouting around to tie up some loose ends, certain things came up that haven’t been mentioned on this blog to date:
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Most people see greatest songs as meaning “in the current era”. However, one has to include all popular songs, particularly those with international fame, where virtually everyone was singing or dancing to it at the time and the legacy still comes down to us today.
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This link takes you to all posts on this blog mentioning Meredith Kercher. To save you the trouble, the best analysis, leaving my posts aside, is that of the latter commenters on Why I Think Amanda Knox is Guilty, where everyone leaves aside the infighting and starts to look again at the evidence itself. Interesting [...]
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Worrying decision announced by Australia’s federal government [Labor]: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.
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Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
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