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No, it ain’t us – I don’t have a goatee or lots of cash Thought I’d have another go at this friendship thingy between a man and a woman or in this case, between a man and a girl. La Senorita and your humble blogger spoke of things last evening, some of which can be [...]

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Further to the Green Investment Bank issue: [Osborne] confirmed the new bank would would go ahead, with £1 billion funding in the spending review – but he hoped much more would be raised by private sector investment and the future sale of government assets.

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Just because a person is deeply unpleasant, that’s no reason to lie about him.  One of the most misrepresented figures was Enoch Powell but events are now bearing him out.  One I’ve just been looking at is the highly vilified Joe McCarthy: Frederick Woltman, a reporter with a long-standing reputation as a staunch anti-communist, wrote [...]

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Why is it that when even an ordinary woman gets onto a bicycle, she becomes irresistible?

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[Click pics of course]

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“Selfishness always aims at creating around it a uniformity of type.  Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing., accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.  It is not selfish to think for oneself.  A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.  It is grossly selfish to require [...]

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The bus station in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

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Have you seen this at The Register? Last week, Chancellor George Osborne announced a new body that would make loans and issue debt. In a harkback to the 1970s, poorly performing and deeply unprofitable businesses will be the beneficiaries – and investors in them will be rewarded for their poor judgement. So much for moral hazard.

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For a start, many of my fellow bloggers, on our side of politics, quote David Icke and even Sue of Muffled Vociferation was moved to say that though she had seen him earlier as a bit crazy, some of the things he was saying now seemed to make sense. Yet Sue also says: A “long [...]

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Roberta Peters with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Karl Böhm, 1964. _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.

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From Sackerson: Conventional economics, so I understand, ignores the problem of debt and monetary inflation, because it’s assumed that the money spreads quickly and evenly throughout the system. Wages up, prices up, nobody’s hurt, right? Wrong. Just like the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893, who gets there first wins all.

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If you can believe what the ad writers say, then the five most popular female Cosmetic Surgery procedures [are]: Breast Enlargement Liposuction (Fat Removal) Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty) Breast Reduction Face Lift Who’d be a woman, eh?  I should have thought that breast reduction was the way to go but hey, I’m not a woman.  My [...]

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Below this post, Revolution Harry posits an  interesting point of view, of which part is reproduced here: This was an idea that I’d been vaguely toying with but which Chris White, from Nowhere to Run, expressed far more clearly and in greater detail. In essence it’s the idea that the ‘evil’ New World Order is [...]

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The characters: One not atypical British retiree of the “paid off the mortgage and paid into the pension fund all our lives” breed who lost her husband some time back, due to the bumblings and uncaring attitude of our NHS. One senorita over here, on her parents’ money and not on our state, learning English [...]

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