A large, vodka-intense Bloody Mary before dinner, copious red during said dinner, roast chicken main course with trimmings, followed by apple pie and ice cream and some female contact is not, repeat not, conducive to evening blogging … – James Higham [2010]
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Midweek Dearieme will appear as Dearieme on Thursday this week. This evening, the rain: One commenter wrote:
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Delighted to say that this thing is moving and so far, there are: 1 [me] who is a regular daily author 2 registered who look likely to post very soon 4 registered who’ll be posting as soon as they can 1 registered who’ll probably post from the New Year 2 registered long-timers and who knows [...]
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Chris H has made a startling discovery:
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Click on text to expand: You might like to check out this bullsh from the CIA [H/T Ian], if you have a spare two hours or else take in the summary above. They just won’t let it rest, will they? Ian comments:
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Not a very good post, I’m afraid. Just woke up and I’d slept in. Aaaaaggghh! I never do that – 6 a.m. is my usual thing but there are things I just have to say. The result of that stirring up on Cats and on Posting yesterday is that it has opened up connections with [...]
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Delighted that four people have taken up the invitation to post here and that it comprises, so far, two men and two women, from three different countries. The slightly down side is that they seem to be able to spend time only on one or two posts in a week, so it will need other [...]
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In 1999, Jacques Chirac was granted diplomatic immunity whilst in office, a situation which ended in 2007. Probably in February 2011, he will stand trial for fraud in that he allegedly paid friends for nonexistent jobs whilst Mayor of Paris. He’s 77 years old at this time. Should a former President or Prime Minister be [...]
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Following the success of the sexiest burqas and the nightwear parade, not to mention the over-40s [can't find the links to the last two], it’s time, methinks, for the parade of pets and what better pet to begin with than the humble domestic cat. So, ladies and gentlemen, nourishing obscurity is proud to announce: The [...]
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[The following post was scheduled last evening, posted this morning at 6.40 a.m. and is now, at 9.09, being completely rewritten, on the grounds of rambling. Nothing it said has been altered but it's just been made shorter by half.] Last evening I asked a fellow blogger to do a guestpost on a specific topic [...]
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What Chance Sarah Palin? This post can be found at The Moral Times, courtesy of Janina Davison-Forder: Naturally, my photo selection here didn’t pass muster over at Janina’s.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = x is an amazing equation. I wonder what the x comes to? Answer: 12,345,678,987,654,321
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Dearieme to the rescue: … and an old favourite – this particular vid is quite nice:
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It happens the whole time but one country’s stereotype of another often gets up the latter’s noses and this is nowhere truer than in the American attitude to the French. They say we’re insular over here but the average American [I've met over there], whilst the nicest person, has an interesting knowledge level about Yurrup.
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I was researching the Welfs and an interview with Daniel Estulin popped up. Here are some excerpts from this December 2007 interview- it’s considerably shorter than the posts over the past two days : Lishman– What is the significance of the nation state? Estulin – The first nation-states were created in France under Louis XI [...]
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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Francois-Auguste Rodin
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Don’t you just love these cross-cultural exercises? This one’s a bit more at you:
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I’ve just been exploring the Olmec and this led to Ethiopia and Ararat and that led to the Atlantic, a necessary precondition for the theory to be true, which led to Pangaea, which led to the Bimini Road. As regards the Bimini, the last seconds of that clip have some guy say something along the [...]
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For those, having read Them-ism, who are still nonplussed what exactly it was all about, this summary might help: There are so many theories about why it is like it is. Most amusing are economic theories. People go to university and get degrees in economics, just as I studied for [and didn't complete] in the [...]
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I’ve chosen this method, rather than run footnotes on Them-ism, as it’s easier to skip from one tab to another in your browser, e.g. Firefox, than to have to scroll down all the time to footnotes.
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It’s immensely difficult to write about Them without doing my own reputation untold damage [some would say I already have]. My aim was never to present a cut-and-dried case, replete with notes, which you could accept or reject but rather to stimulate research on your own part, which is the only way you are ever [...]
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Last evening, reference was made to living in a danger area. Here Graeme Connors sings of an entirely different kind of danger – nature’s: If you can get away from Sydney and Melbourne, then you can discover the real Australia. Perhaps you can go a little further north each year:
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A very pratty thing to do, writing someone like Her Above this letter: Mr Haggart, who was serving on the council’s standards committee at the time, wrote that although it seemed ‘impertinent’ to ask, he hoped she’d managed to get an ‘all over tan’ [on her holiday]. So what does she do?
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This is a three part series, this one being Capitalism and lastly, this evening, Themism. The essential problem of capitalism is that it is never free-market. Just as the idealistic communist state, with love, fairness, equality and tolerance for all is a myth and ends up stuck in the 4th stage, worse than if it [...]
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This is a three part series, the next two being Capitalism and lastly, Themism. Nice article on Pajamas Media, courtesy of Lord Somber: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela proves that even an oil-rich exporter can destroy itself with self-imposed socialism. India progressed only when it adopted free markets. People do not outsource 1-800 numbers to socialist paradises. [...]
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Concerned about the state of education? The Icelanders have come up with the solution – teach it by milk carton. Courtesy Ásta Andrésdóttir [wonder whose daughter she is]: Instead of simply adopting new terms, such as computer, Internet and telephone, we have fun inventing new terms based on our existing vocabulary, oftentimes even recycling archaic [...]
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