Fun with Pictures
Here are my three favorite pictures from surfing the internet this morning.
Ladies, if you're insecure, look: even Eva Longoria wears Spanx.
Suri Cruise hates you.
And this is what I call a "Good Weekend."
IM I THE ONLY WON HE HATES REY MYSTERIO
THESE ARE THE REASON I DONT LIKE REY HE, PLAYED ON OFF EDDIE GURREO. Am eighteen and therefore i dnt wana wear i stupid mask. He is always the "UNDERDOG" BUT YET HAS A VERY HIGH WIN PERCENTAGE . KIDS LOVE HIM YET HE TAKES DRUGS DAILY. THE 619 IS A RUB**** FINISH A MOVE DAT IF HE DID IT TO MY 90 YEAR OLD GRANNY SHE WLD SAY O WAT WAS DAT A GUST OF WIND? LEAVE ME A COMMMENT R U A REY LOVER OR A REY HATER?
SPECIAL K SENDS THE INTERNS TO JOIN THE CIRCUS!!!
INTERN JUICY FRUIT SAID THAT BEING A CLOW IS THE EASIEST JOB EVER!!
I TOLD HIM TO PROVE IT...
IF THEY WANTED TO HIRE HIM I WOULD BUY HIM DINNER FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR!!
TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHAT HAPPEND!!
UK: prostitution: a red light to this idea
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, egged on, it is said, by Harriet Harman, is bringing forward legislation aimed (eventually) at outlawing prostitution. The plan is that the punter would have to show that the girl is not trafficked, or being run or coerced by a pimp. The proposals have had a mixed reception in the press.
How is it that people who say we cannot ban abortion because it will simply 'go underground' to the detriment of women cannot see that the same holds true for prostitution. We will never eliminate prostitution; all we can do is stop the trafficking and the worse aspects of the pimping.
Melanie McDonagh, in the Telegraph, has a particularly harebrained piece. Welcoming the proposals as 'freeing women from sexual slavery', she accepts 'Even I can see that it might be difficult for a punter to find out from a prostitute whether she is indeed under a pimp's control.' Indeed so, Melanie. Yet you support the idea of making him guilty unless he can prove himself innocent.
'The truth is' opines this Thinker, 'that nobody knows the sheer extent of trafficked women. The Home Secretary thinks it may be as many as 70 per cent of them. The Home Office says that as many as 4,000 trafficked women are working as prostitutes at any one time.'. There are in fact more than 80,000 prostitutes in the UK. To suggest that 70% of them are trafficked (56,000) is clearly drivel. If it is the 4,000 figure that would be 5%. Serious, and it should be targeted by police, but not serious enough to start making people prove their innocence.
So, says Ms McDonagh, 'It would be next to impossible to implement comprehensively, but if police are trying to crack down on prostitution in any area, it will help them do it.
The idea behind having laws is that they apply to everyone. Passing laws in the knowledge that they will only be implemented if the police want to is render the process arbitrary. And, incidentally, to put an unfair burden on police.
This is bad lawmaking, designed not for the benefit of women but to earmark a political stance for Smith and Harman. We must hope that parliament see through it, but it is not much of a hope.
Lack of insurance shouldn't spell crunch-time for small businesses
Never mind the credit crunch. Companies are being driven under by an insurance crunch.
Last night I heard about a manufacturing company which went into administration yesterday, despite having a full order book. The reason? Suppliers suddenly found they couldn't insure the payments they were due to receive.
The government has tackled the banking crisis by guaranteeing transactions in the interbank market. Does some action need to be taken to ease trading between businesses? Offering insurance would probably be too complicated, but freeing up more funds so that businesses can, if necessary, pre-pay suppliers could ease the strain. The government seems to be considering its options, and measures could be announced in Monday's pre-budget report, according to the Times.
Now that our banks are no longer in danger of going bust, this is the next big problem to tackle. The bulk of the country's workers are employed by small and medium-sized businesses. Some will go to the wall as a result of collapsing demand and excessive debt burdens. But we cannot afford to allow viable companies to go under just because the insurance market has dried up.
John Humphrys, the biter bit
Can Philip Green go on the Today Programme every day please? The retail wallah and all-round billionaire geezer was nominally on air this morning to talk about retail sales figures, but he ended up asking some rather pointed questions about the Beeb itself.
Anyone who sometimes finds John Humphrys a tiny bit grating and longs to hear him get a bit of a smack should listen in here to the last minute of this morning's 0810 package, where you'll hear the BHS owner brilliantly turning the tables on his interviewer.
Among Sir Philip's questions to the BBC's most overrated interviewer: "What do you think the BBC would be doing if they were a commercial station? How would they be running their businesses? Do you think getting £3 billion of taxpayers money is still a good idea?"
Oddly, Mr Humphrys didn't offer many clear answers, simply gargling platitudes and trying to bring the whole thing to an end. They don't like it up 'em, etc, etc.
Missing The Rated R Superstar =[ ;;
Yup, it's offical, I'm missing the Rated R Superstar; Edge so much on television. :)
The rumor going around is that, the WWE is waiting to see what Jason Reso (WWE's; Christian or TNA's; Christian Cage) is going to do, if he is going to renew his TNA contract or sign a brand spanking new contract with the WWE. If you saw last week's episode of TNA, the writers there pretty much gave Jason an "out" beating at the hands of the Main Event Mafia. They (the WWE) probably are going to pair up Adam and Jason again.
*cross' fingers and prays to God they will do it*
I would love to see Jason back in the WWE, to see Edge & Christian Connection again, that was such a great tag team. Maybe they could surpress the Dudley Boys' record of 20 tag team championship reigns. Only time will tell, as they all say.
What are your thoughts WWE Universe?
Send me your feedback.
In support of Jazz, Freedom and Democracy
In support of Jazz, Freedom and Democracy, when I get home this evening, I shall find out the cost of BNP membership, and make a donation of that amount to the party, assuming its not £400 or some such.
I have no wish to join, but find myself unable to stand by and do nothing in rsponse to this.
Damocles is a troll/baiter
It has become clear that Damocles has set himself the task of becoming the newest incarnation of NoBrand, TTM, RdO, Hemmet ect.
Just a friendly warning to everyone, in case no one else has spotted it and put the warning out.
Poke with stick at own risk.
Thanks to the Geese of Gaia
The GEESE are a think tank of sustainability educators from 13 nationalities building on a common stock of wisdom and best practice from Ecovillages around the world. They have been meeting since 1998 through information technology as well as face to face to conceive and give birth to the EDE programmes that are spreading the message of low impact and carbon neutral activities across the globe. The 26 participants were representatives from these and other pilot EDE centres and Ecovillages as well as the Gaia Education Board and other interested parties.
Thanks to the Geese of Gaia
At October's cold morning kiss
I woke up with a touch of spring geese
replacing all that fear with circular release
That silver geese melting out
"ice cold and evil"*
with the whole brightness of wings
into more sustainable livings!
That golden geese
turning all the stranger powers
into a daisy of collective flowers
of the greenest hills...
All of a sudden,
"Angst" means nothing!
Darkness!
So-called darkness
before the enlightened ages of polluting technos!..
Oh! real brightness of bogus darkness,
invisible bird leaving your "circle"
behind the doorless land of love
where passive voice rules in tranquility
where the circular geometry will rise again
in its own quality!...
I, the Nature, was not born
in sometime in somewhere
I, the Nature, am always being born
in every time in everywhere!..
2008 september
Deniz Postaci
*judas priest
(Arab racism by Islamic) Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader - uses racial epithet against Barack
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-house-slave20-2008nov20,0,1727083.story
Sustainable Living Today!
Ode to Gaia
"April is the cruelest month"*
in which aridness prevails
"Thunder without rain"*
flashes in the cave*
Invisible womb begets a star
A star begets some light
And
some light gave birth to the eyes
Then, the "tree of knowledge"* would be
full of eyes, the most venerable fruit so utile
where the cobweb of chakras* die
stealing an "eye" from the branch of lie.
A voice whispers, then:
"Eye am the son of light!"
I the sun burns the light into night.
However, the night bore the child, a mother* killer "consumingly"* murders the night
Over be night, Over be dreaming
A voice continues and says:
"Paradise Lost"* at the dawn of vicious sun!
1996
Footnotes:
*- "April is..." refers to Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
*- "Thunder..." refers to Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
*- "cave" refers to Platon's cave allegory.
*- "tree of knowledge" refers to Genesis of The Old Testament.
*- "chakras" refers to the energy spots on body believed by Hindu people.
*-"mother" refers to Gaia the Mother Earth.
*- "consumingly" refers to The Old Testament and the Cabbalistic connotation of Zoharian truth.
*- "Paradise Lost" refers to "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
WIN STEELERS/BENGALS TICKETS THIS MORNING
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HINES WARD THE NEW KDKA WEATHERMAN
Hines took over the weather report on Wednesday night at KDKA
It was pretty classic....Hines actually looked a little bit nervous!
Overall though....he did a pretty bang up job, NICE HINES!
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THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 20TH, 2008
Paris Hilton and Good Charlotte's Benji Madden have called it quits, AWWWW CLICK HERE FOR THE BREAK UP DETAILS
You've seen and heard "Hamster on a Piano" and "Cat Flushing a Toilet" and now we bring you "Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway", WOW
Steelers linebacker named AFC Defensive Player of the week CLICK HERE
California Supreme Court agrees to hear the gay marriage case. All gay marriage is banned until they make a final decision CLICK HERE
People Magazine releases "Sexiest Men" issue. Hugh Jackman is the big winner CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO ELSE IS ON THE LIST
Jon and Kate Plus 8 have a brand new house and it's HUGE CLICK HERE TO SEE PICS OF THEIR NEW HOUSE
Hitler only had one testicle....giggle giggle....CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY
President Obama might name Arnold Schwarzenegger Secretary of Energy CLICK HERE
First official promo shot from ABC for Season 5 of LOST, enjoy....
SICKEST VIDEO OF THE MONTH - Real life Guitar Hero....on a bike....
Coldplay will call it quits at the end of 2009 because they don't want to be the old creepy rock band out on the road CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Are your kids SEXTING??? Kids + Cell Phones = Felony Charges
Full video of Soulja Boy's "Super Swag 18" party for his 18th birthday. WARNING - This video may melt your brain CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT
La amenaza de la deflación se cierne sobre EE.UU.
nosotros tenemos 1 year y 4 meses anunciando esto.- Esos bailouts, esos recortes de tasas, nada de eso sirve, lo correcto era desde un inico subir las tasas, aunque fuese doloroso.. siempre explicamos que estas medidas solo alargaran lo inevitable y depaso sera peor..
Veremos las tasas al 10% o mas antes de las proximas elecciones.. Observen y aprendan.
Por Jon Hilsenrath y Kelly Evans
El índice de precios al consumidor registró en Estados Unidos su mayor caída mensual en la era de la posguerra. El descenso generalizado presenta un nuevo desafío para las autoridades: prevenir un brote deflacionario en el cual los precios declinan por un período sostenido.
El riesgo de que EE.UU. sufra una deflación, aunque sigue siendo leve, refuerza la presión para que el Congreso y el gobierno del presidente electo Barack Obama emprendan pronto un significativo plan de estímulo fiscal.
La amenaza de una deflación también aumenta la probabilidad de que la Reserva Federal (Fed) adopte medidas para apuntalar el consumo y la demanda de las empresas, ya sea a través de nuevas reducciones en las tasas de interés u otras iniciativas.
La Fed revisó sustancialmente a la baja sus proyecciones de crecimiento, según las minutas de su reunión de octubre divulgadas ayer.
En un discurso sobre la deflación pronunciado ayer en el centro de estudios Cato Institute, el vicepresidente de la Fed, Donald Kohn, señaló que el riesgo de una caída generalizada y sostenida de los precios es bajo pero ha aumentado.
El Departamento del Trabajo informó que el Índice de Precios al Consumidor descendió casi un punto porcentual en octubre respecto al mes anterior, tras mantenerse estable en septiembre y anotar una baja de 0,1% en agosto.
El descenso en los precios de la energía fue el principal motor de la caída, algo que le ofrece una dosis de alivio al banco central. Los precios de la energía son sumamente volátiles y hace apenas unos meses estaban en auge.
THIRSTING AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS 53
Do you know what pig shagging is, Senex? You may think you do but you'll have to read on to find out. Thanks you for your reminiscences of Ladysmith - how many people know the good lady was Spanish? And for you various remarks some of which I would disagree with, for example that all DRC churches are the same. There is a fine one in Harare in the classic Cape Dutch style, quite different from the one you illustrate, although it does have palm trees in common with yours. You obviously missed my point about English Catholics; no doubt I wasn't clear.
Next question: what do Simon Knott, David Starkey and my wife have in common? The answer is that they all feel much the same about Burnham Market. I think she can claim a certain advantage here, because she works there. This is what Simon says:
Incidentally, I joked to the historian David Starkey, with whom I have a small acquaintance, that Burnham Market had become Islington-sur-mer. He responded, rather vociferously, "no it's not, it's much worse than that! It is Notting Hill-plage!" which was amusing, the vociferousness arising no doubt from the fact that Doctor Starkey lives in Islington himself.
Now, Senex, if you take an Ordinance Survey map and look at the village, it might occur that this attraction, whatever it is, has been around for a long time. There are tumuli to the east and west, and Iron Age ring forts a little further to the north east and south east. There are the remains of the Roman fort of Branodunum (garrisoned by Dalmatian cavalry and an Aquitanian cohort) to the northwest and a Roman road running along the hilltops to the southeast. There are the ruins of a friary just to the north and of an abbey a little way to the south. There are medieval churches of Burnham Westgate, Burnham Ulf, Burnham Norton, Burnham Sutton (ruined), Burnham Thorpe, Burnham Deepdale and Burnham Overy. It is what you might call an historical landscape. Could this have had something to do with amber trade, as some think the name implies? And just to keep things in perspective there are the names of 27 pubs associated with the area.
The reason the place we call Burnham Market (it had a market dating from 1209 which survived into the 19th century) is so well endowed with churches is that it was originally three parishes, but unlike Reepham, the churches were not built in the same churchyard. Knott says that the parishes of Sutton (St. Ethelbert) and Ulf had been united in the 15th century and that by the 18th both were ruinous so the Rector, Edmund Nelson, whose son had a notable naval career, pulled down St Ethelbert to repair All Saints, Burnham Ulph. Originally Norman, All Saints is heavily Victorian and pays second fiddle to St Mary, Westgate, which has an interesting tower. The other standing church in the village is St Henry Walpole, (a scholar from Docking who was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1595), a modest Catholic chapel.
In Sebastian Faulk's 1994 novel Birdsong, the hero gets off the train at Burnham Market on a whim and wanders into a pub he finds unattended. I wonder which one Faulks had in mind. Probably the Hoste. The Hoste Arms was originally built in 1552, although whether it was so as an inn is not known. It was certainly one in the 18th century and by then called the Pitt Arms (or perhaps it was the other way round). Your friend Parson Woodforde stayed there on 12th September 1787. It was re-christened the Hoste Arms in 1811 after Sir William Hoste, one of Nelson's captains, but by 1871 seems to have reverted to Pitt's Arms. Anyway it is back to being the Hoste now and is quintessentially Burnham Market, i.e. Up-Market, a famous table, luxuriously appointed a very nice bar, as often as not staffed by jeunesse doré.
Or it might have been the Jockey, which then would have been called the Admiral Lord Nelson. They would have saved paint, if they had kept the previous name of Lord Nelson, and even more if they had hung on to the 18th century name of The Mermaid. Or it might have been the Rose & Crown in Herrings Lane, which departed this life in 1962. Or it might have been the Victoria, which died the same year. Or it could have been the Foundry Arms, which shuffled off about the same time having gone through two previous incarnations as Brown's and Satchell's. Or even the Black Horse - once known as the Wild Horse when owned by saddle makers. All those would have been around at the right time, but others had existed that wouldn't, but have left us their names such as The Anchor, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Wagon & Horses, The Bear & Beehive, The King William IV, The Blue Boar, The Vine Inn, The Prince of Wales and Tumbledown Dick.
If I am riding to Burnham Market, Senex, I pass the back gate (which used to be the front gate before the railway was built around the wrong side) of Lord Leicester's Holkham Hall and free-wheel down a mile long hill to the village of Burnham Thorpe. The church is famous for two things, a brass of William Calthorpe from the 1420s, and the fact that Nelson's father was rector here (among other Burnhams) and the great man himself was born in the (now demolished) rectory nearby. And guess what the pub is called, Senex? The Plough. No, I jest, but it was called the Plough (built in 1637) until its name was changed in 1807 (some say 1798 in honour of the Battle of the Nile) to the Lord Nelson. Nelson is supposed to have given a farewell party here before taking command of the Agamemnon in 1793 and the last landlord of the pub held a breakfast for the village on the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar to commemorate it. I haven't been there recently but I have fond memories of nice lunches and beer with Sheepshank there after cold winter's rides.
I don't know what you make of old Horatio, Senex but I'm not sure I would have got on with him. I am certain he was able and brave but there was a streak of viciousness shown by his execution of the Neapolitan patriot Francesco Caracciolo, refusing him a priest. This may have been to impress Lady Hamilton. And he treated his own wife shamefully. As regards Trafalgar it is easy to forget how superior the Royal Navy of his day was to all others in ships, training and commanders and nobody has ever suggested he couldn't have been done without. Wouldn't Collingwood have done as well? He was a much more civilized character. Anyway, Nelson was good for Norfolk, and the Burnhams.
Simon Knott seems to hold a similar view. He also suggests that Nelson's famous, Kiss me, Hardy was actually Kismet. Certainly, if my back had been broken by a musket ball, the last thing I should want is to be kissed by an adjacent sailor. Which reminds me of the other story; when the other officers asked Hardy what Nelson really had said, he replied that it was st