Convicted murderess Amanda Knox [temporarily at large pending the final appeal] would not be happy with the Helmann Report which has just been released. It is to be challenged on legal grounds and a quick reading of it by the Italian lawyers shows that it is heavily flawed. This unfortunately became about politics and not [...]
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A business which transforms the appearance of the growing number of empty shops on Britain’s streets is now winning work around the world. A sign of the times indeed. Could we reach the stage where there will be more false shops than real ones on our high streets? If landlords cannot find tenants for shops [...]
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El Reg has run a post on the Qantas double-dip [H/T Chuckles]: The final report into the 2008 Qantas flight QF72, which unexpectedly dived twice during a routine flight, has blamed a combination of software and hardware errors for the incident.
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From December 21st to about the 26th is a depressing time for me, for two different reasons. The 24th-26th depression is due to the way Christmas is treated in the west, the rank commercialism, the false bonhomie, the musak and the lack of any awareness of what Christmas is really about. Still, if the kiddies [...]
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The longest night is over. From now on the sun will rise a little earlier each morning and will set a little later each evening. Slowly we stumble out of our darkness yearning for light…. On the other side of darkness, far away there shines a light, A light to end all sorrow, A light [...]
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Whilst conceding that the new division is between Statists and freedom lovers, i.e. true freedom of the individual to associate, speak, pray, to set up a business or to move about, as distinct from the faux freedoms the left-liberals support which require the State to curtail some people’s freedom in order to maintain their own, [...]
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Via Maggie’s:
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Many of you have been keeping an eye on the Roger Tattersall [Tallbloke] situation and have noted Anthony Watts’ [Watts Up with That] publishing of an appeal for Tallbloke. As El Reg put it: Police have targeted at least four climate bloggers in three countries, with constabulary taking computers and networking equipment from a science [...]
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Really don’t know if we’re being suckered here or if this is genuine but for what it’s worth, Picdump has these shots and if they’re paintings, they’re amazing [via Chuckles]:
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Tracey Emin has been appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy. As one commenter in The Telegraph writes- “Professor of Drawing” – you just couldn’t make it up! I’d be surprised if this imbecile could even draw her own curtains – it couldn’t even draw its bedcovers on that “Masterpiece” (My Bed) it produced. [...]
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This guy worried me the moment he began with: My recent post “How to Understand Everything (and Why)” discussed an untaught, integrative kind of knowledge, and why is so important in science and engineering … placing himself in the role of teacher to the dumbos but when he went on to write: You learned your [...]
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Darkroasted: The European Space Agency or ESA was founded in 1975 and currently has eighteen member countries. ESA employs over 2,000 people and has an annual budget of over $5 billion US, dedicated to space exploration. ESA launches take place from the spaceport located close to the equator near Kourou in French Guiana in northern [...]
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Even bankers are hoarding food How dithering leads to misery: Agonising over problems means you’re never happy with your decision Men are just beasts: Former lovers of undercover officers sue police over deceit Crimewave of foreign thugs the Tories promised to kick out The school where pupils have etiquette lessons: Comprehensive hires expert to teach [...]
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They’re not expressly mentioned by Dante.
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These are titled Want versus Need, via Chuckles and Christmas is a good time to ask the question:
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Confidence dropping: In den letzten Jahren hat das Vertrauen in die EU bei den Deutschen kontinuierlich abgenommen. Im Jahr 2007 sahen noch 65 Prozent der Deutschen laut Umfrage die Mitgliedschaft in der EU als positiv an. 11 Prozent war entgegengesetzter Meinung, während sich 22 Prozent weder auf gut, noch auf schlecht festlegen wollten. Damals herrschte [...]
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An Apache goes into a bank and asks for a loan of 200 dollars. The bank manager asks for collateral. “I have 150 horses,” says the Apache, so the bank manager lends him the money. A month later, the Apache comes into the bank with 2220 dollars in his hand and pays off his debt [...]
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Some of what the western media has reported appears to be true and some is a beat-up, according to many Russians, so various correspondents are saying. Given that everyone basically looks at his own hip-pocket and will support policies or parties which will deliver an increase to or maintenance of what’s in there, it’s not [...]
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Up now at both Orphans of Liberty and at my old site: AK Haart wrote, on the topic of electric cars: We run into difficulties when people say things of such mind-boggling stupidity that we almost wonder at their sanity. Why does he/she say such things? It’s nonsense. I’m not speaking of specific slogans here, [...]
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In the light of MPs fiddling expenses, Cameron telling us to be austere and Clegg doing what he does best on his EU pension, this came through from Wiggia and is presented for your delectation this afternoon:
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If I misuse this and abuse the spirit in which it was sent, then Twilight will never send me anything else again. Yet I can’t help but comment. Here is the article and from it, the street mural:
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Can’t remember if we ran this the other day or not. If yes, sorry but we’re getting it again. Dearieme says: “It’s a while since we had this”:
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Instapundit, via Chuckles: The New York Times Company today abruptly announced that its 61-year-old chief executive officer, Janet Robinson, will leave at the end of the year, with no permanent successor lined up. An SEC filing says Ms. Robinson will get $4.5 million plus health insurance for a 12-month retirement and consulting agreement, including “two-year [...]
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