Somber’s best kept secret. Whatever you do, don’t pass this ancient recipe onto anyone – it’s known only to the select few: • Fill 1 pint glass halfway with ice. • Add Bloody Mary mix or tomato juice to halfway. • Add 2 lemon wedges. • Add 1 freshly chopped chilli pepper (Fresh jalapeño, serrano, [...]
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It could have come from anywhere, this quote. As it is, it comes from the bearish Zero Hedge: Boston Consulting Group confirms, the “muddle through” is dead. And now it is time to face the facts. What facts? The facts which state that between household, corporate and government debt, the developed world has $20 trillion [...]
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Did I say, last evening, that the matter had been resolved? I was told it had by the decision makers at both ends and there was every reason to accept that. All I needed to do today was call and it would be explained. With a joyous heart, I placed myself in the fifteen minute [...]
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H/T Chris Rawlinson
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Register: Hackers recently compromised the website hosting the open-source MySQL database management system and caused it to infect the PCs of visitors who used unpatched browsers and plug-ins, security researchers said. MySQL.com was infected with mwjs159, website malware that often spreads when compromised machines are used to access restricted FTP clients servers, a blog post [...]
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It would be remiss of me not to mention the denouement in the great utilities saga some have been following. There are two approaches one can take to being pfaffed around like this. One is to go in hell for leather, armed with Section whatever of the government act concerning such things and a second [...]
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I usually do not post pictures of Amanda Knox but in this case I shall. Today, her defence had its day in court. The procedure now is deliberation tomorrow and Saturday, Sunday off, statements by the convicted pair [separately], last deliberation and then a verdict on Monday at some time. Proud American, at TJMK, put [...]
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At one end of the spectrum is the lover of vast projects and this includes most dictators, Them, engineers and scientists plus the ordinary mortal who is awestruck by major building or reclamation works. Appearing elsewhere on this blog, around this time, is Shanxi, in China, the clifftop city.
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Andrew Breitbart on the absurdity of the Greens:
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Professional woman being ignored Part 1 Professional women have it tough – it’s actually a crime: “Nearly every professional woman has had the experience of saying something in a meeting, receiving no response…” “… and then listening as a male colleague offers the same thought or suggestion minutes later to great acclaim. The first time [...]
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Exhibit A: Anne-Marie Slaughter Slaughter is particularly concerned with sovereignty and redefining it in international law so that national sovereignty is in harmony with R2P and other au courant academic concepts of “global governance” that are outside the scope of this post. While much of Slaughter’s paper relates to description of empirical trends in the behavior [...]
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The critical thing, it seems to me, is not our situation itself or where we find ourselves but how we feel about that.
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Here we go again: One of the reasons I joined Friends of the Earth over 20 years ago was that it was an environmental group with a strong record of joining up social justice, development and environmental issues. This position has been maintained through the years. And the sceptical blogger’s comment: I like the ambiguity [...]
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Unfortunately, this was scheduled and by the time it’s come up now, the MSM was all over it. Still, we’ll press on, as it’s worth it for the pic alone: It has been brought to my attention by the Guild of Parachutees that if I do not cease and desist from exposing the latest members [...]
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Via Vox: The study, from University of Boston, speculates that common autistic spectrum behaviours such as ‘a preference for logical beliefs’ and a distrust of metaphor and figures of speech, could be responsible. His comment:
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Via AK Haart: For the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of [...]
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For once I can’t sheet this home to the Fabians but the principle still applies in this matter: Keep the people malleable by a chain of constant crises,in order to remold society into something the “community organizer”wants. Yep – if you’ve paid your taxes, paid into your pension fund, if you’re on top of all [...]
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There is a chap, Ernest Werner who impresses greatly in comments at TJMK and now I realize why. I’m going to quote him at length. While he is referring to Amanda Knox, he is also, indirectly, referring to what we have in society today and that’s the sense in which I include his comments. Firstly, [...]
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Nemesis, at OoL, in answer to my: Not all leftists are bad. … quotes Samizdata who apparently wrote: According to a poster on Samizdata, the way to tell whether a lefty is not a bad person is to ask them to explain ‘Fabians Window’. If they are shocked – they are not bad, if they [...]
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For some time, I’ve been making harsh statements about Amanda Knox’s guilt. Call it lily-livered but this evening, I wanted to be sure, absolutely sure. It means nothing to anyone else what I say on the case but I needed to know. The only way I could see to do it was to take attested [...]
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There are different styles we each like but this is one I find very close to my soul. The genre can vary but the theme’s the same – little variance in the melody, sometimes even monotonous but relentless, with heavy bass and percussion. Let’s start quite orthodox:
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It would take a long process for me to get my design from paper to this computer, involving going into town to the local library for an hour and a half, so it is not going to be possible to post it here. One day I shall. This one’s as close as I can find [...]
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Thought this one was rather interesting. The article makes the case that : This is where it’s most apparent – from an airplane window – that American ideas about how to live and build communities have changed dramatically over time. For decades, families fled the dense urban grid for newer types of neighborhoods that felt [...]
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