nourishing obscurity

Apart from saying thank you, the only way I can really thank Dearieme is to run some of the music below:

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Chris Hall quite rightly brings up the question of whom this Koran burning pastor’s actions affect elsewhere in the world: You can bet that the Copts, Assyrians and other groupings will have yet more misery inflicted on them because of the actions of this idiot, not his beliefs.

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This is not exactly news but Toque has decided to call it a day after being [allegedly] constantly smeared by Steve Uncles, of the English Democrats. I am a member of the Witanagemot club [which changed its name in a temporary loss of sanity] and the core aim of that group is an English Parliament, [...]

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OK, are you ready?  Time yourself.  Ready, set, go: 27 x 11 = ? 45 squared = ? 15% of 40 = ? 1000 – 547 = ? 9% of 300 = ? Of course it’s easy if you know the trick.

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Two wonderful definitions, courtesy of Richard, who commented at this blog. Them [the elite] We used to call them psychopaths — these creatures that appear on our planet physically in human form, but are not human beings.  We noted they are amoral. That should have given us a clue.  We noted they do not feel [...]

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I nicked this from BobG. As one commenter said: Mexican-Americans dressed in faux arab costumes rocking the 60′s with a classic two-chord nonsense-lyrics two-chord song. What’s not to love? And one from closer to home:

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Lyrics here Not a very good analogy but an analogy which will suffice for now to try to explain the “Visible World Only Phenomenon”, as I call it: Imagine an island with hills and valleys, lines of communication and a history of conflicts and relative moments of peace.  This land is gradually almost submerged in [...]

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This evening, we just can’t go past the above, courtesy of JD. Either click the pic or click here to view and listen.

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Right, people, what appeared to happen was this: The site went down with an “Error – establishing database connection”, sometime from mid to late afternoon until about 19:00.  A few people had trouble getting in, with the same message.  My assumption was that I’d been either hacked and shut down or else my provider had [...]

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I can’t remember who said it or even if it was said like this but: Whoever would be young again?  Always dealing in extrinsics.

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There are some very weird things going on: Firstly, I had my provider back up my WordPress in order to update it but the new version gives no “View Site” facility in the top bar, as the old one did.  Plus the new Menu facility does not work [dialogue box to tell me this]. Secondly, [...]

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Oh, splendiferous splendiferousness from she-of-the-magic-camera-eye.  Cherie has surged to 1100 comments on this [not so] humble blog and has been taking its writer to task, of late, in her usual entertaining and focussed way.

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