Sports news: Today’s 2000 Guineas at Newmarket was won by Frankel, trained by Henry Cecil and ridden by Tom Queally. It was a very impressive performance as can be seen here Perhaps not as good as Sea The Stars two years ago but a joy to behold nevertheless and who knows what he might achieve [...]
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However it may seem and despite appearances, it is not my intention to annoy women in this post, particularly as there is a certain women readership at this time which I don’t wish to alienate. Problem is that the Mail article on Lara Logan was just plain wrong and interestingly, it was a woman [below] [...]
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Courtesy Barking Spider Say what you like about Karl Denninger [H/T Sackerson] but this is hard to argue with: This debate is not, at this point, about whether Obama was born in the United States. There are plenty of people who question that, but this case simply isn’t about that any more. This case is [...]
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Less serious Call it fanciful but I see parallels between yesterday’s extravaganza and that of Frederik and Mary Donaldson in Denmark:
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Well, might as well go completely OTT: Apparently they’ll play this at the knees-up this evening:
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I do so hope there’s no 911 or 7/7. Felicitations – they’re going to need them. Telegraph: 1024 Kate Middleton’s mother Carole and brother James have left the Goring Hotel, where Heidi Blake is stationed and where police are apparently investigating a bomb threat. 1029 Carole Middleton is wearing clothes of some description.
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Courtesy Barking Spider This post continues on from the previous one HERE. Comments are now closed there but continue here, if you like. Twilight might still be right after all – in one way – but not in its implications. She writes: Yes I agree with you, generally, on this. But “they” are in a [...]
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Fishermen’s tales 1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.” 2. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 3. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. 4. Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles [...]
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This is the only version of Dead Man’s Blues on youtube:
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Longrider
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Barking Spider points me to Euripedes who has been into the “birth certificate”. He’s at pains to establish his bona fides that he is not a “birther”. Presumably that is not being a “truther” either. Personally, I don’t go in for these sorts of labels, in lieu of evidence and debate. They obscure the issue. [...]
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It’s a bit narcissistic to do an in depth analysis of our progress at Orphans of Liberty at the actual site. These are my personal observations after the first few days and they fall into two categories – the blog and the techie side. The Blog Good spirit about, posts are scheduled until late [...]
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There’s an excellent post at Orphans of Liberty today, by Goodnight Vienna, called Sweating the Small Stuff. In it, she mentions the sneaky way they dropped the sedition law in the EU, to much fanfare but when the noise had subsided, snuck it back in via the back door and buried it in fine print. [...]
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As I dare not post anything on kung fu fighting, for fear of being reported by passing Chinese, what I’ll do is post kung fu girls closer to midnight and hope no one notices. I’m not posting the girls themselves, I hasten to add, just the youtube. Hope that clears that up:
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From John Lloyd and John Mitchinson: The Book of General Ignorance, Faber & Faber, 2008, p196: They don’t drink. Like animals in the desert, they get their liquid from food and from burning their body fat, which releases water. They have up to 260 teeth and yet they swallow their food whole. Interestingly, they sleep [...]
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……….is everywhere
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Telegraph commenter: Why, oh why, has Barack Hussein Obama (real name Barry Soetoro) actually spent millions of dollars on lawyers, in order to insist that he did not need to produce a valid birth certificate? If it was the case that all along he actually had one, why not merely show it? Philip Berg [with [...]
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This blog holds no torch for Cameron and as for the smug Osborne, the least said the better. However, as one commenter at the Grauniad noted, amid the shrillness: Oh how petty and playground. It was an obviously light-hearted comment, which labour have spun and spun with their desperate little fingers to invent a controversy. [...]
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There’s a type of person who has his head screwed on right and whether he’s a “nicey nicey” person or a curmudgeon or whatever, that’s the company I’d prefer to keep. Where we differ is that there are those who are content to just let things take their own course, as long as they can [...]
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Over at Orphans of Liberty, I’ve a post at 21:00 on the World Core Curriculum of UNESCO. How many are aware of how ubiquitous, how promoted and how binding on national curricula is the UN World Core Curriculum? How many have seen the fine print of what it actually involves? How many know the real [...]
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Some beautiful music from the most beautiful country in the World
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There are only two possibilities as to how life arose; one is spontaneous generation arising to evolution, the other is a supernatural creative act of God, there is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only [...]
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The two youtubes below are quite variable in quality. The first opens with some dubious sources and simplistic truisms, especially the explanation of debt. It would be good for a schoolkid to view and possibly was meant for that. The second gets far more into the nitty-gritty and a succession of powerful quotes by key [...]
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Nothing like live but these are not shoddy either:
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Some of you are aware of the transport “discussion” between Longrider and the Englishman. Well, I have the solution: Click for the big pic: Me stir? Moi?
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Before dawn Here are two different views of Anzac Day: William Gruff writes: I hope ANZAC Day is celebrated because it commemorates not an event but the sufferings and sacrifices, and instills in the minds of younger generations the memories, of two nations that exist today because of the suffering and sacrifice of generations passing [...]
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