Rossa and I were having, not an argument per se but a discussion, about these Japanese bottoms. She opined that they were not see-through skirts but prints. That was fine until I looked more closely and in some cases, they seemed to be the lady’s own anatomy, as the lines on the skirt part flowed [...]
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Sackerson suggested we look at this as a way to solve the debt crisis: Why have we heard nothing in the media or parliament about A People’s or a Sovereign Debt Jubilee? Is it because a People’s Debt Jubilee is simply a nice but unworkable fantasy dreamt up by crackpot bloggers like me? This is what [...]
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Goes back to his City job, of course, in Buffalo: Less than two months ago, he was prime minister of Somalia. He battled terrorists, pirates and warlords. He addressed dignitaries from the United Nations. Now, Mohamed A. Mohamed is back at his old job at the state Department of Transportation downtown, back to his little [...]
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…some more B&W pictures, this time with a few stanzas of poetry for each picture.
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I just voted:
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The power of language is a bit overwhelming at times. There was a discussion yesterday about how a man will not tolerate physical cheating in the other or a woman emotional cheating, this led to the concept of auras and so I started googling “aura”, which I wish I hadn’t, as all sorts of psychic [...]
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Via Lord Somber, James Lileks – an American perspective: Watching London burn on the BBC video window. The reporter describes how the thugs hop out of the stores with arms full of electronic goods and stop, for sport, to clout an old lady. Burgess pegged these yobs fifty years ago in “Clockwork Orange”: the end [...]
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iDave. What does the “i” stand for? Highlight the space below. i = Impotent K Clarke. What does the “K” stand for? Highlight the space below. K = Knife Dave in the back
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Click pic for audio. Well worth a listen for riots, gold, governments etc.
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…strange decade, the fifties; when jazz turned into staccato honking noises and Miles and Coltrane were pretending to be cool but were just squeaking and burping and claiming it to be music – they fooled a lot of people (and still do) and then the ‘beat’ poets joined in declaiming their doggerel with a bebop [...]
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Moggsy wrote, in a comment: I don’t like the term Feminazi, or the way it gets thrown around. I am not saying there are not some frankly damaged or disfunctional women it might be applied to, just as there is the equivalent male who I might mention you never seem to latch on to in [...]
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Research can be a little like batting in cricket – you get it right 90% of the time but that 10% of the time you drop your concentration, the enemy swoops and catches you out. Where the analogy falls down is that, even with that 10% in research, it doesn’t always greatly alter the overall [...]
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On this day in 2007, he handed in his phD thesis, 36 years after abandoning it to follow an alternate career. He graduated (from Imperial College) in 2008. Clues – Field – astrophysics. He is chancellor of John Moores University. He is a Commander of the British Empire. Might add – abandoning it to follow [...]
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Victims of the NATO backed KLA [see below] The scenes you don’t read about: But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted after large numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were [...]
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This is to be an ongoing post – sort of live blogging – which will be added to from time to time and reposted. Slush slush: The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year, has authorised payments of almost £5million to the families of ‘martyrs’. Another £3million has been given to 5,500 [...]
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I like Morrisons better than any other store – they’re friendly, the whole way they do things is nice, the feel of the place is better. The prices might be a bit up on that barn ASDA or less than the egregious Tesco but it’s OK, is Morrisons. Until today. At the toilet role shelf, [...]
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On the 14th of April 2011 Ismael Ludman and Maria Mondino two tango dancers from Argentina arrived in Glasgow. They had been invited to give a tango performance and workshops in small venues throughout Scotland something they do all over the world.
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For a start, she was NOT a feminist and the Feminazi attempt to co-opt her for their exploded cause is ridiculous. She said she didn’t see why women should stay behind knitting balaclavas for their men but that is a long, long way from the sexless Feminazis who blight our western nations today. She must [...]
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WTF? Excuse me – what is a woman doing in charge of a borough police department anyway?
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Where there’s fire: Sony Corp’s compact discs and DVDs warehouse in Enfield, north London, was on fire throughout the night. The warehouse is Sony’s sole content products depot in the UK. The Japanese electronics giant may have been caught up in the riots that sporadically swept across London on a third consecutive night of trouble [...]
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