Can’t start to tell you why, after getting only three hours sleep last night, I was climbing out of the upstairs window in the slush, came back in and pulled the window partly to, then fell asleep on the floor. Woke up with the sinus induced runs and shivering, off to beddy-byes now. Sleep tight. [...]
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Seeing as I couldn’t get the thinking processes going this evening and seeing as there was a backlog of Dearieme numbers and seeing as it was time to cheer up a bit, laze and gem – James Morrison:
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This is an outsider’s point of view. I’m not all that interested in football, except in passing and certainly not in Chelsea but the human dynamics in football is another matter and that came to the fore in the England drubbing at the World Cup. Human capital is the prime resource in most fields and [...]
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Yesterday, Rossa alluded to alternative energy and today, courtesy of Russ, a look at NIF. To get an idea what this is about, there are four youtubes of use, the first is presented here:
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And don’t forget New Year’s Eve is January 13th [Photo courtesy Chuckles]
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Всем привет и С Рождеством Христовым я Вас поздравляю! Счастья и здоровья, блага всем желаю, Святости, лукавства – в меру чтоб всего, Радости, удачи. Плохого – ничего! For non-Russian readers – the images in this youtube are nice and the music will give you the idea:
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With this stupendous number of comments, thanks to Cherie [Cherry Pie] for her interest [and friendship] over a considerable time. It is with some regret that Nourishing Obscurity announces the end of the comment aggregates widget, called Sages and the accompanying awards, which is a bit rough on Lord Nazh and Patrick Harris, who were [...]
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A US lawyer who took offence to strict full body scanning at airports has created a series of scanner-proof undies. Marc Carey, from Northern Kentucky, said he designed the range, that includes a kids line, as a compromise for travellers. What astounds me is how meekly cattle passengers have just accepted this unbelievable intrusion on [...]
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Last in the current series:
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There might be light blogging in the next three days because of commitments. _________________________ Since the inception of this version of the blog, I’ve been running a Sages section in the sidebar and it’s been popular with quite a few. On the other hand, the opinion has been expressed that it is preventing comments because [...]
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Rossa takes us on an interesting journey, starting out with a new EU law and leading, by a series of stages, to orgone. Similar in some ways was Xxxl‘s contribution to this post and then there was this post. I present it without comment. _________________________ There’s been a sneaky law introduced under the radar in [...]
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Apoplexy permitted.
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Some snippets from Mark Steyn’s article, Dependence Day, courtesy of LordSomber: If I am pessimistic about the future of liberty, it is because I am pessimistic about the strength of the English-speaking nations, which have, in profound ways, surrendered to forces at odds with their inheritance. “Declinism” is in the air, but some of us [...]
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Time’s winger chariot:
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For those of you starting out in blogging who are maybe looking for a testimonial or two, why not go to your spambox? There you’ll find such gems as: # Hello, this is unquestionably a really terrific post. In principle I’d prefer to jot down like this as well – taking time and genuine energy [...]
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Seeing as we’re posting about thumbs today.
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In reading about diet pills and studies showing some people are naturally obese and so on, sorry to call a spade a bloody shovel but this is avoiding the issue by any means possible. While quality of life can be had through lovely cuisine, good company and good cheer and that can stave off many [...]
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It takes 7 seconds for food to pass from mouth to stomach. A human hair can hold 3kg. The length of a penis is 3 times the length of the thumb. The femur is as hard as concrete. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s. Women blink twice as much as men. We use 300 [...]
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Jesse: The solution is in the hard work of restoring the rule of law, and taking the crooks and throwing them in jail, and their friends out of public offices. History informs us that freedom for the individual is never natural or easy given the reality of human nature in all its manifestations. Corruption is resilient. [...]
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Welshcakes has been a bit scarce on the ground here of late but 200 comments is 200 comments and Nour Obscur thanks her for her patronage. I suspect though that she’s actually been off doing strange things: … bumping into a friend of mine who is a gastroenterologist, I was prevailed upon to go with [...]
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Not just different artists but different types of artists and yet the same style runs through all:
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Quite unacceptable, of course. A translation from the French: Several European churches have been threatened on various Islamist websites, the latter indicating possible terrorist attacks on Jan. 6, the day of Orthodox Christmas. Among the premises was St-Marie-Saint-Marc Chatenay-Malabry, where security was reinforced. This is at a time when people in this country, especially white [...]
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Danger to motorists.
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This blog has never run a post on abortion before, due to indecision over the issue and some psychologically painful brushes with it in real life. It’s also impossible to get informed debate because positions are so entrenched. Just as the spurious argument for the type of sex education in schools which transfers the onus [...]
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From comments on the Mail article, it seems it’s a mixed bag across the country re the rubbish collection. Ours has not been collected – bags are still piled up high, as in parts of Birmingham and other places but that’s hardly the issue, it seems to me.
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To some, this might seem strange coming from your [not so] humble blogger but IMHO, it’s a woman’s right to decide: Caesarean rates follow the money. Australian women giving birth in private hospitals had a c-section rate of 41 per cent, compared with 28 per cent for those in the public system. Staff and institutional [...]
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