The reality of train travel in India: Many Indians seek to avoid paying for tickets by travelling on the roof. However:
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On the recording industry at the time:
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What the EDL is saying, what the UAF is saying I’m not dealing with here. What I am looking at is our police force in this country: 1. 44 EDL members are arrested for “shoving” and then quietly sitting down in a protest. No reports have substantiated anything else. This is critical in this argument [...]
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This is basically a reply from another post, hereby depersonalized and addressing the issue only: The old ways are no longer needed – or are they? Differences There are differences between men and women, left and right, black and white, good and bad, hetero and gay, earth, water and sky. There ARE differences and to [...]
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In Part 1, I made reference to a Mail article. Comments from that Mail article on women’s depression: Someone said it’s greed. Sorry but I have to agree with them. These women could get part time jobs or stay home & look after their children themselves. They’d save a fortune on childminders for a start. [...]
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If you stare at this picture for 30 seconds you may be able to detect a bicycle theme:
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Raedwald makes the point about the signals sent out by what one wears. He qualifies this with: Now those who know me will be aware I’m the last person to comment on men’s fashion, but in a Prime Minister these signals do matter. Not just in a PM either. We all send out signals by [...]
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Julia was on about obesity and it seems we all have our ideas on this. So I thought a photo collage would be useful but when I began, some things became apparent very quickly [probably always have been to you]:
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I prefer the abstract to the full article: In America, in the midst of economic crisis and government driven moral hazard, millions of people are scrambling for “solutions”. The term is used rather haphazardly and often without proper context. There are, indeed, very evil men out there in the dark precipices of global infrastructure, and, [...]
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Interesting comment below the youtube: Lot’s of people long to live in a by gone era, but be very careful what you wish for!
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Al Fin: At least two billion people worldwide are infected by the protozoan, many from eating infected meat. Initial symptoms are mild flu, after which the parasite forms cysts that lodge in the brain. There they remain for decades… _NYT Two recent studies reveal how microbes can alter normal brain functioning. Researchers from California and [...]
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From the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: “Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling.” Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling–but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama’s backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance [...]
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Women drinkers ‘given a bad press’ I replied at the Indy: Young women drinkers are portrayed as unfeminine, according to the study Quite right – they’re the pits. You only need to go to France or Italy to see proper women. The problem is all in our anglo-western culture. Should be interesting.
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LOL – now the PCist atheist humanists plan to rewrite all the history books to eliminate the years we currently date by. Isn’t this what happened during the French Revolution, based as it was on love and goodwill to Mankind? Such a happy Brave New World they found themselves in, as people found out [...]
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Natasha Giggs, a married mother of two, as described by the young man who had her on a one week trip she made for a friend’s wedding: A few minutes later we went upstairs to a spare bedroom and one thing led to another. We spent half an hour in the bedroom and then just [...]
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This is a beat-up by the Mail. The readers have it right [look at the arrows]: This is more likely the story: As if the EDL, knowing very well what the extremist UAF will do to set them up, would pose using weapons, particularly after Breivik. The emotive language of the Mail on this is [...]
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Number quiz solution chart
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Large pic – click to zoom:
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In every borough, in every small town, in every city, these creatures called administrators are earning obscene salaries and for what? The local newspaper in Abilene, Texas, the Reporter-News, did a study to see how local government agencies compared to each other, including salaries paid. It found, for instance, that “Abilene Independent School District employees [...]
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On the NHS: The NHS saved 3,951 lives per million of the population, compared to just 2,779 in France and 2,395 in Germany. But and there’s always a but: On Vision Deficit Syndrome:
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Most passwords are hacked by ‘Social Engineering’ rather than brute force. A useful rule of thumb in such things is also that certain choices are NEVER suitable as passwords e.g.The example passwords on the ‘choose a password’ screen Passwords like ‘XYZZY’, ‘hunter2′ or ‘squeamish ossifrage’
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Beautiful seeing a woman write this: A teacher can never replace a missing father … Katharine Birbalsingh However, some of the commenters have it right: # My mother is a teacher, a very good one, but when I meet her colleagues something becomes very obvious compared to my old teachers. Most of them are young women straight [...]
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10. Smokes and Chew: Marlboro Lights for a category one hurricane or tornado, Marlboro Mediums for a category two or three, Marlboro Reds for a category four. You need a serious smoke for a serious hurricane. Chew is important because it c…ounts towards your daily supply of vegetables. 9. Booze: Hide the Budweiser and have [...]
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The Bruges Group has written a rebuttal to David Lidington MP, Minister for Europe who has claimed that there are a number of benefits that follow from Britain’s EU membership. In this rebuttal the Bruges Group addresses the main points he raises and counter his pro-EU propaganda. RebuttalToDavidLidingtonLetter [pdf] The writer [presumably Robert Oulds] marvels [...]
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The ugly mutt on the left is my team This bl***y team I support downunder – they go down last week to a failing team, at home and home is a fortress where they haven’t lost since 2007 – and to a team way down the table. So tonight [Australian time] they meet the team [...]
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Another painter from the same zeitgeist as The Pitmen Painters is Norman Cornish who was born in 1919 in Spennymoor, Co. Durham. He began his working life as a miner at the age of fourteen in the nearby Dean and Chapter Colliery at Ferryhill. All his life Norman has drawn and painted, winning his first [...]
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