http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpucZ39sKjs&feature=fvw In Russia, the most popular films were overdubbed with a Goblin soundtrack and if you understand the Russian jargon, it’s excruciatingly funny.
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That day is here again and how to strike the right note? I observe it on the day, rather than on Sunday although I’ll wear the poppy until Sunday. Here is the Last Post for those who’d like to join me: Last year I think we got close to the real meaning, thanks to The [...]
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There’s an Armistice Day post coming up at 11:02 a.m., after the two minute silence but the New Zealanders and then Australians had theirs first, of course, with the time zone differences. Apparently, a storm over some PC madness has broken out downunder, with VicRoads, one of the largest government bureaucracies, refusing to observe the [...]
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Asia Bibi Proverbs 31 8-9 says: 8 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. 9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Asia is one of the prisoners on www.PrisonerAlert.com Please: Email the Pakistan Embassy in London: suggestions@phclondon.org … [...]
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New Orleans revival music. The picture of a white cornet player is the English Ken Colyer who lived in New Orleans for a while.
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In the post Battle Lines are Drawn, I’ve obviously arrived late for the party by asking just who this political whore is [excuse my French which she doesn't know anyway]. Suddenly, from nowhere, she sits next to the chief crim in the European Parliament and shakes her head with sadness at the speech by the [...]
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Not so strange bedfellows Rumpy Pumpy today in Berlin [H/T IPJ]: We have together to fight the danger of a new Euro-scepticism. This is no longer the monopoly of a few countries. In every Member State, there are people who believe their country can survive alone in the globalised world. It is more than an [...]
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Does anyone remember Alisher Usmanov? The blogosphere was up in arms about him. Schillings, the lawyers acting for Usmanov, have been in touch with several independent Arsenal supporters’ websites and blogs warning them to remove postings referring to allegations made against him by Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan. Usmanov was jailed under [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEvk-VTuEI&feature=player_embedded Thanks Sackers, originally from Karl who’s a bit worried.
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These songs are mainly by non-religious people who decided to sing about G-d. I always found that interesting.
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I could watch this sort of thing all day, if I had all day:
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Sackerson’s politics are unclear to me although I don’t see him as a conservative, for some reason. However, all that is irrelevant in the context of a reply he sent to a reply from the Lib Dems in March. You can read the whole correspondence here but this excerpt below is what grabbed my attention:
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No. 26. — Patience Kershaw, aged 17, May 15: I go to pit at five o’clock in the morning and come out at five in the evening; I take my dinner with me, a cake, and eat it as I go; I hurry in the clothes I have now got on, trousers and ragged jacket; [...]
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Interesting article by Peter McGahan. Now it would seem that Peter is in the investment advice business himself but still, his advice vis-a-vis the banks’ structured investment products seems wise. Dial-in, low-risk high-cost
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From the BBC review: When confronted with music as splendid as this, it’s easy to be swept along on a wave of purple prose. “Beautiful”, “haunting”, and “beguiling” are all words that spring easily to mind whilst listening to this astonishing record. Yet such is the presence and emotional weight created by the voices of [...]
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‘If it ain’t Boeing, I’m not going’ “If it ain’t a Boeing, I’m not going” was one of the many cliches wheeled out this week – the irony being that even though there are more Boeings than Airbuses in the skies, Airbus in the past few years has been decisively outselling Boeing in the airline [...]
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Just why do we keep reading the MSM? Why do we do it? Take this bit of idiocy: US will survive errors of Bernanke’s trigger-happy Fed Not according to any economic pundit worth reading. Or this: Emma Thompson claws ‘cougars’ I’m sorry but is she not a cougar herself? Or this: I won Countdown with [...]
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The Baltic timber trade was a prime example of interference by government for no good reason. Timber was vital to Britain and especially to the military but there were only so many oak trees producing hardwood, suitable for masts, for example.
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First of a five part series on what goes on bicycles [and even tricycles]: Thanks to Russ for the tipoff.
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The counter doesn’t lie – Dearieme has clocked up the magic five-oh-oh and in that time, he’s brought a bygone era, when music was music [check out this evening, for example], much mirth and a certain amount of scorn to the proceedings. In a sense, this little number is for Dearieme:
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All political bloggers just past that “small” stage have to confront the problem of people trying to tie them to their agendas. Most of the time it’s fine and many of the people who’ve blogrolled me I’m proud to have been noticed by.
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What a fascinating area political nomenclature is and what misunderstandings arise the way certain terms are bandied around, when the various parties do not agree the definitions and where certain parties wish for such misunderstanding in the first place. The film V for Vendetta is an excellent place to focus on this. In reaction to [...]
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Folks don’t put up with things these days. The least little problem and they’re up and off, aren’t they? … I think people give up too easily these days. Dorrie Coupland [78 years married]
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From this morning: 1 I can’t afford ___ [buy] a new car this year. If it is a specific moment or a future action, you generally need the infinitive. If it is a general action or something a bit hazy and non specific, you generally select the verbal noun, gerund or participle. In this example, [...]
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