Tag Archives: Blogbits

Thursday News: Stop the presses!

For Marines in Afghanistan: be careful where you fart “So here’s the news:  audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans.” If I don’t get a comment from Doug on this, he must be … Continue reading

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Wednesday News

Expert: Tunnel on house of cards To “unexpected” high unemployment and “unexpected” bad economic results and etc. etc. etc….add “unexpected” soil collapse leading to “unexpected” damage to Big Dig infrastructure.  I don’t think that word means what you think it … Continue reading

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Tuesday News

Weather Warning: Searing Heat Wave May Hit East Coast in Late August, Scientists Predict  Oh! Really? Today Aug 23 Wed 24 Thu 25 Fri 26 Sat 27 Sun 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu Sep 1 Partly Cloudy … Continue reading

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Monday News

If They Remake Dirty Dancing, Will They Take All The Jewish Parts Out? I hate remakes. This post on a Boston Herald blog brings up a good point, if movies like Dirty Dancing are a time capsule of a time … Continue reading

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Sunday News

Perry Plays Obama, Media Like a Fiddle Perry does not campaign as Mitt campaigns, this is not a flaw. As I have seen elsewhere, Perry and Mitt jab at Obama, then Mitt starts to second guess himself while Perry hits … Continue reading

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Thursday News

A-level results: tough subjects ‘should carry more Ucas points’, says David Willetts Students taking traditional A-levels such as maths, science and foreign languages should be given priority in the race for university places, the higher education minister has said. Fair; … Continue reading

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Trip to Cuba

sonia-bel: Trip to Cuba This is a very strange girl, naked pictures of herself on her blog, anti-communist and democrat. Loves Obama, hated George Bush. But this post is good and very interesting.

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Wednesday News

The Bronte’s and the London riots You couldn’t get further away from the England of the Brontes if you traveled to the Moon. More, I’m afraid. Find the scooter looters: Thieving riot thugs caught on camera ambushing biker Teenager, 16, … Continue reading

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Tuesday News

Report: Pakistan Granted China Access to U.S.’s Top-Secret Bin Laden Raid Chopper Neither Pakistan or China is our friend, Pakistan merely hates us, China is spending every penny from their profits in their trade with us to build a war … Continue reading

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“In Britain, everything is policed except crime.”

Lessons for us from London in flames “Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth’s surface and a quarter of its population. When you’re imperialists on that scale, there … Continue reading

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