nourishing obscurity

Saw this earlier: Laugh? I nearly gagged.

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If you’re at all interested in the final 40 pages of the doctorate manuscript I’m currently proofreading [it was lots of fun last evening, after work], here is a small sample for your delectation: The minimum lag for the exogenous variable is determined through a contemporaneous structure, using a non-synchronism correction matrix (Table 5.1-2) and [...]

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Rossa‘s 4th looks nasty.  What I want to know is why she has all these implements of torture at home in the first place: Hopefully the lady readers haven’t tried the previous item in front of a mirror! They would usually have blunted ends for your eyebrows. Yes, they are fish bone tweezers and I have [...]

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I was feeling a bit glum with the shorter days and the air decidedly chilly. The 30 knot winds weren’t helping either. And then I spotted our Carnival rose with a single bloom. Spring, warmth, and longer days are on the way. I must be patient.

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Rossa puts her third puzzle to you: There will be 12 of these conundrums. Let’s see if anyone can get them all right. The last one was a garlic peeler bought for me by my Dad who loves his gadgets. Unfortunately it stays in the drawer as I prefer to peel garlic the old fashioned [...]

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Bill of Churchtown presents the inimitable Ambrose Bierce: Ambrose Bierce In these disquieting times of elections and upheaval a few words from The Devil’s Dictionary: POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling [...]

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History, of course, can be reflected in our own times. Summary from a Baltic perspective: The natives of the Baltic who comprised the majority of the population, the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, did not own the land and thus they did not have political power. Emancipation of the serfs followed, in dribs and drabs and [...]

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Clive Robertson Your [not so] humble blogger has admitted to reading the Mail but the types of females in the right sidebar leave me cold. One of those females is someone apparently called Christine Bleakley and I’ve just been reading comments on her woeful ratings on breakfast TV – I wouldn’t know, not having TV.

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Part 1: Forget the bloody deficit for now My greatest fear for our land is war. A look at the Great Depression inevitably leads to the question – how did it end? It didn’t end through artificial job creation which costs billions nor through welfare payments to pensioners [though that gave them food in the [...]

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Rossa‘s brain teaser for the evening: What is this? And what would you use it for? Answer with the next one. __________________________ All Rossa’s posts at this site can be found here.

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Soup kitchen – where are the women? Independent: Almost one million jobs will be lost as a result of the Government’s programme of deficit reduction – many in the very regions and industries that have already suffered most in the recession, according to a powerful report from a leading firm of accountants.

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The American way:

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Well, well, well, what’s all this then? Police officers are living in “ghettos” because there is a growing divide between officers and the public, the chairman of a London police authority has said. Kit Malthouse, who is London’s deputy mayor with responsibility for policing and crime, said officers from Britain’s largest force are living in [...]

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On this Columbus Day let us celebrate some of the things that are quintessentially American. Things that are unique to the USA and exported around the world. And the rest of the world loves it. Start with three beards plus one of the neatest cars you will ever see and a gratuitous display of legs. [...]

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