Right, so this pamphlet about AV came through the door and it’s the No case. No one’s bothered distributing a Yes case yet. Obviously there’s some money about interested in a No vote.
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Wheels within wheels. Via Sackerson, Jose Manuel Barroso gave a speech at the College of Europe in 2004: “ … it important to promote his positive views on the separation of powers that reflects that the EU’s three powers are working separately from but in cooperation with each other. According to Barosso, his main task [...]
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. [Albert Einstein] the past is history the future is mystery but the present moment is a gift live your life! apocalypse is always now
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Multitasking?
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Roald Dahl’s The Way up to Heaven has a husband who quietly enjoys making his wife go spare over his edgework, in running very close to departure times and appointment times, whilst she prefers to be there “in good time”. Not just prefers but needs to, in order to stay calm. He ends up getting [...]
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1. The Rebecca Black views are 99, 814, 213 and dislikes are on 1, 997, 394, so it’s going to be line ball which gets to its target first. Many around the world are watching and helping it along. Update At 13:44 – 1, 999, 823 dislikes At 13:49 – 2, 000, 008 dislikes At [...]
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This makes me very angry: “It’s very important to understand if anyone wants to have a street party you don’t need a food licence, you don’t need an entertainment licence, you don’t need to have written documents about closing your street,” [said David Cameron].
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Raising the tone of this blog: Did you catch what the dude was singin’ there? Maybe you prefer McDaughter:
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Mark Wadsworth notes, with this Mail picture: Either she’s about four feet tall or that’s a VERY big bike!
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Bo Derek – I’d not have rated her a ten LOL: More than 50 students from a Brisbane Catholic boys’ college have been suspended after rating their female teachers according to appearance on a social networking site. The 52 high school students in years 9 to 12 at Villanova College in Coorparoo will also have [...]
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It’s vital, when we speak of “America” doing this or “Britain” doing that, that we understand we’re speaking of the criminals at the top and their bankster/corporate/military complex, e.g. JPM/GS/Halliburton/Fed in the U.S. We’re not speaking about the actual people of those countries.
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Another weekend’s football and another tsunami of abuse poured onto the head of Wayne Rooney. This time for swearing into a TV camera on live television after he scores a goal. When I saw it on the news it didn’t appear to be a generalised, emotional profanity in celebration of his goal, but seemed to [...]
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Redheads again?
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Take a good look at the bstds We appear to be powerless. How does one counter this: It cannot be stressed enough that Common Purpose is a criminal organisation that is dependent upon insider dealing, secrecy and corruption for its existence.
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Jessica Jones or Rebecca Black? I was genuinely not going to write one more word about her, about that song, wasn’t going to work it into post titles, wasn’t going to touch on the topic any more because I think people have had a gutful of it/her/me doing it. Then this came up and I [...]
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Via This is True and MS/New York Daily News, WABC-TV, a variation on our Gurkha saga: “I’m proud to be an American soldier,” said Ramdeo Chankarsingh, 44, of South Ozone Park, N.Y. He was promised if he served in the military he would be given citizenship, so the Trinidad native enlisted in the Army in [...]
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Continues:
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That lizard mindset, reflected in Georges Clemenceau’s speech to the French Chamber of Deputies, March 8th, 1918: My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war; all the time I wage war.
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Every Saturday morning the group calling themselves The Materialistics met at The Customs House art centre in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, to knit. Here are some results:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_vJDhpuDhM&feature=related The post on Black Friday elicited an understandable response from Cherie so let me explain in greater depth as once again I didn’t explain myself well enough. There are three main reactions to the Rebecca Black song:
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Market Street San Francisco 1906 _________________________ JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found in the left sidebar at this site.
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Yes, yes, yes and yes. Inès de la Fressange: ‘French women don’t want to be trendy’, de la Fressange explains. ‘They know what suits them. It’s more about style than trends. Women should dress up for themselves, not for showing off but to feel better – and if you feel better, you look better.’ And [...]
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Catherine Lamacque [the artist] said it was absurd that they replaced the Marianne. Me? I’d just say the bust is a bit too small to really symbolize the generosity of the republic. Perhaps she should have looked at a G cup or larger.
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Never forget the Bruderheist in Bavaria. Merkel is their creature. We need to put a number of factors together to understand Spain and by extension, Europe. These people seem to know what they’re talking about:
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