nourishing obscurity

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* That woman with the daughter We recently had Jodi Farhat flooding the Missouri basin, Regina Dugan‘s conflicts of interest, countless other “affirmative action” appointees which I call Parachutees and now there’s Lori Garver, unqualified and imposed on NASA by the Obama administration.

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Having said that there are many problems with the 911 polls, I then go ahead and put some up below. For a start, the differences in questions asked produced different responses.  When it spoke of the govt or influential persons knowing, the number was much higher than for the govt actively participating. Whilst the question [...]

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Clémence Oleksy, Miss France Well, you know, I’m not too sure about this.  It does seem to be a lot of lecherous old men ogling young female flesh but who am I to say?  Laura Coleman seems to think it’s fine: Laura Coleman, a former Miss England, asked protesters not to attend the event, arguing [...]

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This is Albrecht Dürer’s engraving known as Melancolia There have been several attempts to understand whatever secrets are hidden in the symbolism in the picture as well as the underlying geometry of the whole thing.

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England has been here before but this is as hard as any times she’s faced.  1997-2010 saw the quislings effectively complete the social re-engineering of the entire nation and invite the EU in to decimate and enslave the land, although the process really started under Wilson and Heath.  Now she’s in danger of losing her [...]

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Pity this wasn’t on bicycles:

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We all know of the ancient civilization of Tyre: The city of Tyre was particularly known for the production of a rare and extraordinarily expensive sort of purple dye, produced from the murex shellfish, known as Tyrian purple. This color was, in many cultures of ancient times, reserved for the use of royalty, or at [...]

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… or cuddles? [Over at Orphans, by the way: Marriage is one Man and one Woman - guess who wrote that post?] Can’t remember the online newssource but the comments below it were numbing in their selfishness and self-centredness.  I always thought men had the mortgage on emotional self-centredness and lack of open affection but [...]

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Authorities threaten St Paul’s protestors with George Monbiot: Anti-capitalist protestors are being told they face a lengthy visit from columnist and self-styled eco-warrior George Monbiot if they don’t withdraw from their encampment in St Paul’s Square. The protestors are said to be ‘in disarray’ over news of Mr Monbiot’s imminent arrival at the camp. Is [...]

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Sorry to Wiggiatlarge that this has taken so long but all good things take time eh?  Wiggi points out that the car to which he refers is the one below [it's high resolution so click for the big pic]: Here’s another shot:

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TRAVEL 1. The typical train is 16 carriages long. 2. All food in Germany consists of hasenpfeffer and black pumpernickel. 3. The Heartbreak Hotel is located at the end of Lonely Street and its desk clerk dresses in black. 4. Hula dancers are best judged by their ability to really move that grass around. 5. [...]

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From Rus:

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The interesting thing for me is that this is quite uncannily like a certain Russian lady I know/knew.  She’d say the face is different and the outline but it’s not all that different and to readers outside Russia, it does illustrate the constant moral danger the male of the species was in the whole time.

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Servicing your Spitfire This post is for those of us that have ever used a Haynes Manual (or Clymer or Chilton equivalents) in attempting home maintenance of a car or motorbike.

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