Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. It’s one of the oldest debates in history – democracy or something else. What has always got to me is that, to take someone at random, Nigel Farage for example, he would rate maybe 9.5 out of 10 on understanding of the [...]
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Bruce Springsteen, Freddy Mercury, Robert Plant, Jim Morrison, Jon Fogerty et al were wonderful, yes but only one man was called The Voice.
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Enough’s enough, says JD: __________________________ BBC “Real Madrid have topped the league table of the world’s 20 richest football clubs for the sixth straight year, according to Deloitte. Its Football Money League, based on season 2009-10, also said the combined revenues of the 20 clubs had passed 4bn euros (£3.8bn) for the first time.” That [...]
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Segolene Royal [1953], Koo Stark [1956], Susanna Hoffs [1959 - the kid]: Three women, pretty as young women but compare them now. Any woman can be pretty and get away with it before 30 but after that time, what they are inside really comes out. Same with men but who wants to talk about men?
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There’s an incident causing a flutter in Iceland just now: „Þetta var mjög gaman og afar sérstakt. Ég varð rosalega hissa að sjá ugluna sitja í rólegheitum svona nálægt okkur,” segir Anna Björg Kristbjörnsdóttir, íbúi í Gerðhömrum í Grafarvogi. Önnu brá heldur betur í brún um þrjúleytið í gærdag þegar hún kom heim til sín [...]
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[Yawn - there's a more interesting post at 11:00 a.m.] Did you read this rubbish? “Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, said that Britain cannot simply ignore the European court ruling.”
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Palatine Hill Can Queen Victoria Eat Cold Apple Pie? [Clockwise from the westernmost hill] Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine Another interesting fact today, totally unrelated, is that I had a fight with the government and the government won. Great big bully it is. Just thought I’d mention it.
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I just adore sax:
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New series and who better to kick it off than Ornella Muti?
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Quite liked this one about the top ways to cause a man made earthquake: 1. Build a Dam: Water is heavier than air, so when the valley behind a dam is filled, the crust underneath the water experiences a massive change in stress load. For example, the Hoover Dam area experienced hundreds of quakes as [...]
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Jesse: I see in the news that the NYSE and the Deutsche Boerse are in merger talks. One ring to rule them all… “Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, the bare existence of such a power, is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.” Nicolas Trist, secretary to Andrew Jackson, [...]
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I picked up this fabulous little book called “i before e, except after c” and it has all those old mnemonics that were taught in the last century and earlier, from the days when children actually received a good education and were taught by teachers with some sort of literacy and numeracy, rather than ideology. [...]
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Dedicated to a fellow blogger:
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This is the last of the current series. New series tomorrow. Rail means service, eh?
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There’s a blogger, Alexys Fairfield whom I read and much of what she says make a lot of sense to me. She and I might differ on the means because I know of a fasttrack to what she’s saying but the danger in that fastrrack is that it doesn’t always take the person through the [...]
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Quite surprised that the Human Rights post was neither read nor commented on by anyone except Jailhouse Lawyer. I’m judging by sitemeter and by WP’s own rating, both of which put Guns and Lost in Translation as the leading posts. Now it might have been read in RSS but because it’s so long, it perhaps [...]
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Some of you might recall the luge death at the Whistler Olympics. Now it appears: No one told VANOC luge track was dangerous, Furlong says Deadly Olympic luge track: What the warnings were Luge accident victim’s father blames VANOC for death
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If you only knew the magnificence of the three, the six and the nine … then you would have a key to the universe. [Nikola Tesla] Whatever could he have meant? ———– And while we’re at it, learn how to fold a T Shirt in two movements at Sackerson’s.
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A shop front in Doha, Qatar. Any guesses as to what they do or what they sell or even who they are? _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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In reading about Stuart Levey and the shutting down of funds to terrorist organizations [in the eyes of the U.S.], it’s a pretty weird tale as well as being sordid: United States sanctions already blocked American firms from dealing with Iran and North Korea. For sanctions to “bite” they had to extend to the Chinese, [...]
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Preliminary notes 1. There are three separate issues which affect each other in this post: a. the prisoners votes issue; b. the human rights issue; c. the issue of national sovereignty.
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That song has been covered by more artists than you could shake a stick at but surely this is one of the best versions above. Eva Cassidy herself was a tragic figure, dying at an early age from a melanoma and only really ‘discovered’, four years later, by Terry Wogan.
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Full story here. _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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The WSJ recently had an article on training widows and focussed on a triathlete, which most of us will never become. Even for a standard man or lady who attends the gym, there can be dangers, especially if one partner does and the other doesn’t.
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A Mark Wadsworth type post from the Globe&Mail: The readers’ answers can be found here.
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