Calum informs afficianados: Another change is that I can now listen to music with no stress of having to do so to meet my blog commitments. I now have a new YouTube playlist of 120 or so videos which will remain as a resource … The first two are from this delectable list:
You have to hand it to the Illuminati – they sure have a sense of humour as they turn the screws on humanity: Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the [...]
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The good thing this time round is that some of these photos, not all, are superlarge [as will be apparent when clicked on].
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Not only Call Me Dave does U-turns, it seems. Even the Marxists are into it: [Warning: strange accents in this clip} Once a politician ...... [H/T Chuckles]
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Who’ll start on this guy? The key is Irish Time, methinks: After all, hadn’t that scary right-wing US media star Rush Limbaugh called for all those promoting the “global warming hoax” to be “named and fired, drawn and quartered” while Britain’s Lord Monckton branded them as “evil pseudo-scientists [who] should stand trial alongside Radovan Karadzic” [...]
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Los hombres nacen y mueren en los brazos de una mujer. La maravilla y el milagro mas grande es la mujer, dan vida, hacen vida.
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Good to see the G&M getting down to a serious issue which should concern us all: At these temperatures, what we really want is to be naked, but we also don’t want to get fined for being naked. But nearest-to-naked sartorial options – the bikini top or the micromini with bikini top – don’t take [...]
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Caedmon’s Cat: “You’ve been blessed with a greater insight into the wicked ways of the world than we humans; you can smell what we can only discern by our reason and understanding. You can smell the Odour of Sanctimony. It comes from the mouth of the Devil.” Quizzical Observer [playing away]:
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Longrider has put up the most popular post yet [by comments] at Orphans of Liberty, entitled: Thoughts on That Judeo Christian Stuff My stance on any of these matters is in my About section: He’s a private Christian, detesting fundamentalist bigotry but will burst into print when rubbish is spoken or written about the Christian [...]
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Had to smile at this: Should I study for an MBA? Nah, just BS your way through like the rest of us. That’s if you get in, of course, in the first place. It seems to only be for young blondes and brunettes by the look of the pic.
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The Baroque was a bit too ornate for me, the Romantic a bit too emotional, Rococo was a caricature, much of the Renaissance a bit too cold and calculating but at least the Renaissance gave rise to a new clarity and at its best, used light to great effect.
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Care to be left to their tender ministrations? News of the World phone hacking whistleblower found dead It’s on everyone’s lips and it needs to be discussed. Various people said to me yesterday that Autonomous Mind‘s take on it – that it was a peculiarly leftist attempt to rid the UK of a rightish voice [...]
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Honest attempt at grace or just a parody? Victorian women were feminine, perhaps the most deliberately feminine females of history, and dressed and carried themselves to look the part. Steampunk lasts in part because the Steampunkettes dress in pseudo-Victorian costume, and it looks very cute and very female. It is refreshing change from the dull [...]
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They’re back again, by popular request [and finally some new photos on the Russian site]! The good thing this time is that some of these photos, not all, are superlarge [as will be apparent when clicked on]:
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Nick Clegg: ‘I fear another financial crisis’ Deputy PM concerned the eurozone crisis could spread to Britain. Tends to happen, Nick baby, when you and others sell out your nation to the EU. There’ll be a nice tree awaiting you near Tyburn.
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My goodness it’s nice to read some common sense: People still conspire as they always have. How we view it and describe it tends to depend on whether we are inside, outside or uninvolved. Governments describe their conspiracies as ‘consensus’ or ‘seeking consensus’, as if it might be some noble quest. The promotion of consensus [...]
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From here: Maximum Bob [Lutz], who could double as a character on Mad Men, is less an éminence grise than a pithy self-promoter who has a tendency to go off corporate message. That said, his new book, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business, has a message worth hearing. [...]
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I don’t ridicule religion – I ridicule some concepts of what people believe religion is. I firmly believe that if anyone wants to something in his life, he has the right to do it.
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I am not a golfer. Why spoil a good walk? I don’t mind watching the Open on TV and the Beeb’s coverage is always excellent but……… why do golfers feel it necessary to wear such silly trousers?
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Good. Better late than never.
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Contentious? A revolution in regenerative medicine, genetic recombineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, and several other points of the biosingularity are pushing ahead despite three years of global economic downturn and counting, since the fall of 2008. As revolutionary as this approach is … MAGE’s most far-reaching potential lies elsewhere. He reckons it will be possible [...]
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Doctors at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne, Vic., Australia, were treating a patient for alcoholism. They were “stunned” to find his blood alcohol level was 0.271 percent, even though the 45-year-old man had been in the hospital for three days. They pinpointed the cause: the patient had pulled six 375ml bottles of hand sanitizer out [...]
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1. Five-star hotel Claridge’s ‘threw us out for being white and English’ ‘The idea that four English-speaking European gents with four ladies in tow are asked to leave Claridge’s is as outrageous as it’s foul.’ The hotel has denied any knowledge of the incident and rejects the idea that they prefer wealthy Arabs as guests. [...]
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