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Not a lot to report except for three nice experiences and one confrontation. Got off the train, went to WH for the duck with hoisin sauce and they also had some fabulous sushi – a lady and I were getting in each other’s way and apologizing to one another. Later we ran into one another [...]

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Let me address some of the objections to the thesis in Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. Overfamiliarity Agreed, the main purpose of marriage is to bind one man and one woman for as long as it takes to raise the family. After that, it’s a moot point.  However, the vow says “till death us do [...]

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It’s stocked with food and water, its controls are preset to pick up its North Americans and then straight for St. Helena.  You can nominate the five passengers you’d most like to see exiled. This week’s passenger manifest are all journalists you’d like to exile.  For example, I nominate Lauren Booth, among others.

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This morning was a sweet morning until 8 a.m., the time the Gas Man was meant to arrive to check the meter.  Simple little operation – work gave me 3 hours off, I awaited the buzzer [as had been arranged by phone] they knew I had to leave for the 11:12 train, all was well. [...]

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The worst form of propaganda is the subtle kind. Disguised as useful information from reputable bodies, it is anything but and is used to pursue agendas, by means of “slides” or the method well known in China, e.g. The 3 Truths or The 6 Pillars of Bad Thinking and they slip in the propaganda at [...]

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The blurb says that this is the departure of the SS Malodorous – I remember being knee-high to a grasshopper and throwing those multi-coloured streamer rolls and reasoned that if there were enough of them between you and your love, with a judicious tug, you could have the loved one in the drink. No, I [...]

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Wat Tyler points out what so many feel – how the hell are Labour acting as if all is well, as if nothing bad happened? And yet the humbugs currently standing for the Labour leadership – people like the arch-hypocrite Abbott – are treated as if they’re perfectly reasonable and respectable members of the community. All [...]

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Dearieme:

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It was interesting being in an office environment yesterday [private sector, not public] but by law, they had to drop on me a thick dead-wood tome of Equality and Diversity legislation to make sure I understood it., to ensure I was equal and diverse. Now, despite all the things on this blog railing against inanity, [...]

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Like the lyrics: This ain’t me:

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You know, there’s something a bit Sodom and Gomorrah about society just now.   One has to guard at being too Mary Whitehouse about it – that would be hypocrisy of the first order and yet surely there’s such a thing as discretion?  Also, by running that pic [left] from The Age, am I not perpetuating [...]

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Were you to sit through the Marc Faber clip near the end of the “elephant” post, his concluding remarks were: “I think the final crisis will happen and you know, you can just postpone a crisis but eventually, you really have a major crisis and I believe that [while] in 2008, the financial system went [...]

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February 14 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre . March 4 – Herbert Hoover is inaugurated. May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards . May 31 – The British general election returns a hung parliament yet again; the Liberals will determine who has power. June 7 – The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, [...]

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You’ll possibly need this photo explained: Die amerikanische Tennisweltmeisterin Helen Wills in Berlin! Die schöne amerikanische Weltmeisterin Hellen Wills bei ihrer Ankunft auf dem Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin. Neben ihr der bekannte Berufsspieler und Ex-Tennisweltmeister Najuch. [Juni 1929] I love these old photos – that frozen moment of another era. Think where they are now.

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