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There are different things going on in Arizona: Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill 1070 immigration law – U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked the most controversial sections of the new immigration law on Wednesday, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control over the issue. 1.  There’s a battle royal between [...]

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For some reason, people were staring and smiling as I rode along with my shopping and 1.3 metre diameter black and grey umbrella today.  The man in the pic below is not too bad but I do think my hemispherical beast of a brolly might pip him for the prize:

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Gillard’s civil partner Mathieson with another woman – what a fine specimen to have in the Lodge as the Prime Minister’s husb er concub er toyb er what?  Yes, Australia can hold its head high in the fora of the world – apparently he’s damaging ratings.  Whodathunkit? Perhaps there’s no need to say anything more [...]

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Fair enough, style is in the eye of the beholder and tastes change.  One man’s stylistic icon is another man’s abomination. In the case of these two above though, I mean, WTF are they?  More to the point, who the hell “designed” them and why did anyone think that one eye was somehow cool?  What [...]

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Lovely make of boat with good freeboard Interesting that we could only initially get this in Canada: A Dutch court cleared the way Tuesday for 14-year-old Laura Dekker to embark on a risky attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, an adventure that could begin in the next two weeks. [...]

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Oh s***, I think I’ve got myself in trouble again.  Two days ago there was this lady, see and I knew her because her name is unusual and it was 27 years ago so I wrote and suggested a secure way to go about it but that must have killed it.  Anyway, along the way, [...]

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I simply do not understand why Angus Dei is not on everyone’s must read list but perhaps it’s a slow build.   This post must rate as one of his best yet: The few seemingly lost souls that happen on my piss poor blog for whom I am eternally grateful may have noticed that it [...]

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Doesn’t time fly?  Is it really one year ago  that Man in a Shed began this fine tradition where, for one week only, we post things which are just plain … well … silly? Click either here or on the pic for the rules. Go to it rightly and may scallops rock yer tadger!

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Penultimate entry – running out of good pics of cardis.

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Sackerson has written what I consider to be an important post because it is a considered response to what he sees about him, free at last from the natural scepticism of the typical economic thinker whose daily life is concerned with the nuts and bolts of daily markets and projections – many of these chaps [...]

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Oh my goodness – is this the best we can do? Ugly as sin outside, ugly inside, yet another banal, 3rd rate feminist journo, now this Barber woman is bragging about being a slapper at Oxford, somehow feeling it “empowers her” or something.  Assuming she’s not telling porkies, of course.  Does she think that it [...]

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