The razzle-dazzle of Science, the Dogma Tricked out in science-babble, you can convince people of absolutely anything – all you need to do is talk the talk. Take this one, for example: It appears that significant changes in brain function occur in children sometime between grades 2 and 3, measured by fMRI. At least some [...]
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No F15 has ever been shot down by another aircraft in combat. Ever. The F16 is a better plane
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Lounge lizards – here you go: Piano lovers:
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This blog wishes to make it absolutely clear that the man in this picture is, in no way, shape or form a psychopath, nor is any inference made about his eyes or behaviour vis-a-vis Jonathan Dimbleby or any other person he ever came into contact with. Nor does the linked article when clicking on the [...]
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Menthol brands account for 28 percent of the $70 billion American cigarette market. While only 25 percent of white smokers choose menthol cigarettes, an estimated 75 percent of African-American smokers do. Link. [The FDA have now] decided that menthol cigarettes are no more harmful than the regular kind. Why?
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It all exploded on me, din it, eh? A few minutes ago, I put the coffee and the milk powder in the container I use to mix the milk powder, put the lid on and shook the life out of it. The lid … er … hadn’t gone on properly and milky coffee went everywhere [...]
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German Foreign Policy is a website you can reach but can’t get into unless you pay. Nevertheless, some things have got out and one concerns the German mindset, in particular that of the influential Bertelsmann Foundation.
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Our payment to the EUSSR is up 74% and they then treat us like this? Let’s just leave now please. Let’s just leave them to their imploding circus and get on with running our own country. Dan Hannan today:: Does anyone seriously believe that we advance that interest by subordinating ourselves to people who so [...]
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What do you expect from a Kenyan/Indonesian Muslim wannabee? If you parachute such a marionette into the POTUS chair, odds are that someone else is pulling the strings: What about the erstwhile hegemony and superpower of the world, the US? Under President Obama, US economic prospects are looking worse and worse. Americans suspect that there [...]
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James, the answer to your question is very simple despite the relentless march of Invincible Ignorance Van the Man knows the answer- and so does Dion DiMucci-
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Oh yeah, have a play around with this for a few minutes, boys and girls:
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So far, many of us have looked at the EU situation almost exclusively from the British perspective, even an English perspective. We see the results of “EUism”, Nigel has mentioned the Marxist Barosso and colleagues, everyone mentions the anti-democratic or “post-democratic” nature of it and we are scathing about how Wilson/Heath brought it all upon [...]
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You’ve heard of this excrescence being perpetrated by Grayling and Dawkins and the protest. There was a comment at the Telegraph on the protests, to which I replied: northumbriannomad Thus will perish all attempts at fostering excellence in possibly the only country in the world where it’s cool to be thick. James Higham You write [...]
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It causes all sorts of angst to organizations: “What’s your number and I’ll call you back,” the girl says. “Well, actually, you can’t. I don’t have a workable telephone. However, my email is …” She doesn’t do emails or else she does but doesn’t want – the telephone is what she wants to use. She [...]
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Their star appears to be in decline. Jessica Watson, the one with some claim to greatness, is moaning about how 16 and 17 year olds don’t have the vote, Abbie Sunderland is pushing her book “Unsinkable”, which should perhaps be called “Wrecked and Rescued at Great Cost to the Foreign Taxpayer and Laura Dekker has [...]
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Edward Spalton: In early 2000 a referendum on the Euro currency seemed imminent. New Labour was at the height of its media-manipulative powers. They had delivered a “Yes” result in the Northern Ireland referendum on the Good Friday Agreement by means which I mention here, thanks to leaked documents from the Northern Ireland Office provided [...]
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JD‘s profile and a list of his posts can be found by clicking on JD in the left sidebar.
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Part 1 was here. 13.. Setting up a free-phone customer service hotline to handle complaints relating to the dead horse fiasco 14.. Re-designing the dead horse’s shoes so that they can be made of bamboo and re-cycled 15.. Setting up an inquiry into the dead horse, preferably headed by a dead horse and answerable to [...]
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Friday, June 03, 2011, by Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) – China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month reported by the U.S. Treasury. Treasury bills [...]
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According to the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government, education and the corporate world, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1.. Giving dead horse and rider a good bollocking 2.. Re-structuring the dead horse’s [...]
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