tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15631359863852779742024-03-13T03:12:09.657+00:00the man from porlockAm I a Coleridge opium fantasy? Or have I always been here?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-70492425791490362082012-04-27T20:30:00.002+01:002012-04-27T20:30:09.794+01:00ESM: if even the Germans are worried..be afraid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-20732635844967790252012-04-17T01:46:00.004+01:002012-04-17T01:54:34.436+01:00Egg<span style="font-size: large;">The poultry sort. Fried, boiled, scrambled. I eat them. My daughter keeps chickens and gives me eggs.</span><br />
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Whole eggs, egg whites, water, nonfat dry milk, premium egg blend (isolated pea product, salt, citric acid, dextrose, guar gum, xanthan gum, extractive of spice, propylene glycol and not more than 2% calcium silicate and glycerin to prevent caking), soybean oil, butter alternative (liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, beta carotene (color), TBHQ and citric acid added to protect flavor, dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent added), salt, beta-carotene (color).</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Propylene glycol, a solvent for food colors and flavorings, is also used in anti-freeze, to lubricate air-conditioner compressors, and in deodorant sticks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Isolated pea product is a protein additive often used as a substitute for animal-derived protein.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Guar gum is a thickening agent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Glycerin is a solvent that is found in soap, moisturizers and some brands of shaving cream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone) is used to preserve vegetable oils against oxidation, and can also be found in varnishes, lacquers, and perfumes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">dImethylpolysiloxane is a type of silicone used to prevent cooking oil from foaming after repeated uses. It’s also found in Silly Putty and many lubricants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Calcium silicate is used to prevent caking and is also a popular antacid. In addition, it’s a sealant used on roads, roofs and concrete.</span><br />
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Pasteurized whole eggs with sodium phosphate (preservative), citric acid and monosodium phosphate (added to preserve color), nisin preparation (preservative). Prepared with liquid margarine: Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).</div>
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Mono and diglycerides are used to blend substances together that would otherwise not blend well (oil and water, for instance).</div>
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Potassium sorbate is a preservative that inhibits the growth of molds and yeasts. It’s also used in personal care products as a replacement for the controversial chemical, paraben.</div>
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Cottonseed oil, when fully hydrogenated, is 94% saturated fat.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are some of the state-owned power firm Zesa Holdings’ biggest debtors. After a month of investigations by the Daily News, we can today reveal that the Mugabes as at December 31, 2011 owed Zesa over $345 000 in unpaid electricity bills at their multiple farms.</strong>
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As the struggling power firm switches off hundreds of thousands of hard-pressed Zimbabweans owing paltry amounts, an investigation by this newspaper has unearthed shocking electricity bills for Mugabe and his family, and they are not in this alone.</div>
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The stunning revelations come as Mozambique power utility Hydro Cahora Bassa has just switched Zimbabwe off its grid over an unpaid power import bill of about $80 million.</div>
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Among those that owe Zesa hefty amounts are Mugabe’s closest aides going back to the 1970s liberation war days such as Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, minister of State in the President’s Office Didymus Mutasa and State Security minister Sydney Sekeramayi.</div>
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Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere, Higher Education minister Stan Mudenge and Mugabe’s deputy John Nkomo make the list.</div>
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Others that joined Mugabe after the liberation war years but have become part of his close knit, such as presidential spokesperson George Charamba are also up there on the Zesa defaulters’ list.</div>
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Charamba’s phone was unavailable when the Daily News called last night. Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira’s mobile phone was also unavailable.</div>
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Service chiefs such as Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Constantine Chiwenga and Airforce commander Air Marshall Perrance Shiri are part of the crew that has left Zesa in financial doldrums.</div>
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Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe also owes the power utility hundreds of thousands of dollars.</div>
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But it is Mugabe’s bill that is stunning, particularly when Zesa has over the years mounted a spirited campaign to force ordinary Zimbabweans to pay by disconnecting power in poor suburbs where unemployment is rife.</div>
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Mugabe and Grace, through various properties cumulatively owed Zesa more than $345 000 as at 31 December last year. This was just about the time a large number of Zimbabweans spent Christmas in the dark as Zesa claimed defaulters were crippling efforts to generate power and pay for enough imports.</div>
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Mugabe’s four plots at Foyle Farm plus a cottage as well as Gushungo Dairy Estates put the octogenarian into a $143 667,33 debt with Zesa as at year-end. The President’s Gwebi Woodlot 1st Farm owed $24 901,05. Mugabe’s Sigaro Farm 1st PO, 2nd PO, 3rd PO and 4th PO owed a total of $78 218,71. The First Lady fared less.</div>
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Her Iron Mask Cottage, Iron Mask 2nd POIN, Iron Mask 3rd POIN, Mazowe Wholesalers, Annant Cottage, Iron Mask Farm 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th owed a total of $98 306,60 as at December 31, last year. Mnangagwa owed Zesa $240 824,03. He is listed under sensitive customers profile.</div>
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Goche owed Zesa $158 245,52 for properties spanning several plots at Ceres Farm and businesses that include grinding mills, a farm store and a service station. Mutasa owed $179 590,31.</div>
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Happyton Bonyongwe, the Central Intelligence Organisation director general owes Zesa $350 989,48 but has forked out $77 800 in payments as he makes steady efforts to retire the debt.</div>
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Air Marshall Perrance Shiri owes $26 947,70 for his Hopdale Farm. Police chief Augustine Chihuri’s homestead and his Inyika Farm owe Zesa $106 778,25. The politicians’ penchant not to pay is evident in the figures, according to investigations.</div>
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-64782777808753244642012-04-02T22:09:00.002+01:002012-04-02T22:24:31.115+01:00Corrie Kills!! Manchester Matricide!! Read all...<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/02/article-2124034-1270178F000005DC-144_634x428.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 634px; height: 428px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/02/article-2124034-1270178F000005DC-144_634x428.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><i>Where's Health and Safety when you need them?</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 100%; "><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Nottingham Crown Court heard Bartlam was "obsessed" with Coronation Street character John Stape - who battered stalker Charlotte Hoyle with a hammer before leaving her body in the wreckage of a tram crash.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Six weeks before he killed his mother with a claw hammer, mental health assessors concluded that Bartlam "demonstrates no mental illness or emergent mental health process" and was judged to be of little or no risk to himself or others.</span> </div><div style="font-size: 100%; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; "><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The teenager accepted he killed his mother but claimed none of it was planned. Instead he claimed to have lost control due to the fact that her alleged insult was the "final trigger to a culmination of years of lack of emotional warmth and inappropriate parenting".</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; ">Bartlam was found guilty by a unanimous verdict in February after a two-week trial. As he was convicted, the teenager shouted out: "That's wrong. I'll appeal. It isn't over."</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 46px; "><span >Cue <a href="http://youtu.be/lUxKuZqtljM">music</a>.........</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="line-height: 46px; "><span ><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; "><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; "><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; "><br /></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-347251017683379062012-02-14T23:26:00.003+00:002012-02-14T23:39:05.271+00:00The Byters Bit<a href="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/multiple-devices-2016.jpg?w=568"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 568px; height: 307px;" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/multiple-devices-2016.jpg?w=568" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />By the end of this year, there will be more mobile 'phones' in the world than people.<br /><br />Those terribly cute apps and the vital need to watch UTube clips in the bath mean that internet charging for space is inevitable.<br /><a href="http://the-man-from-porlock.blogspot.com/2010/01/fancy-byte.html">An exabyte </a>is quite a lot of 0s and 1s. Five exabytes would encode every word ever spoken.<br />'All You Can Eat' is history, in internet access as well as Greece.<br /><br /><a href="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mobile-video.jpg?w=640"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 548px; height: 345px;" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mobile-video.jpg?w=640" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-20064710379362958812012-02-07T22:25:00.001+00:002012-02-07T22:26:44.642+00:00Superior Hippy Shit<a href="http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/404958_371005846259754_100000510250428_1427423_1569040048_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 620px; height: 410px;" src="http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/404958_371005846259754_100000510250428_1427423_1569040048_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-52269835470371999212012-01-14T22:58:00.003+00:002012-01-14T23:13:58.434+00:00British Justice<a href="http://www.injusticeinohio.com/uploads/9/3/5/0/9350913/jail-3498759384_3779771_orig.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 610px; height: 406px;" src="http://www.injusticeinohio.com/uploads/9/3/5/0/9350913/jail-3498759384_3779771_orig.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57879000/jpg/_57879049_57879048.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 171px;" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57879000/jpg/_57879049_57879048.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A 79-year-old man from Somerset who was said to have "snapped" and strangled the wife he had cared for has been jailed for 12 months.</span><br />Malcolm Beardon, of Churchfields, Wellington, admitted the manslaughter of Margaret, 78, who had dementia.<br />The manslaughter plea was accepted by the prosecution on the grounds that Beardon had lost control after caring for his wife for more than a decade. Exeter Crown Court heard that Beardon had been caring for his wife of 58 years - and childhood sweetheart - for more than a decade.<br /><br />Judge Graham Cottle said that to describe the case as tragic would be "a significant understatement". He described Beardon as having been a man of "impeccable character" and added: "I am sure that what you did will haunt you for the rest of your days."<br /><br />The court heard that as Mrs Beardon's dementia progressed, she no longer recognised her home, her family, or her husband. At a previous hearing, the court was told that after strangling his wife, Beardon had phoned his daughter to tell her. He had rejected offers for help, insisting that he could cope, the court heard.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">=============================================================</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/6/17/1308336521943/Richard-ODwyer-007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 460px; height: 276px;" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/6/17/1308336521943/Richard-ODwyer-007.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Richard O'Dwyer, the 23 year old man who was accused by Big Content of operating streaming website TVShack, faces extradition to the United States.</span><br /><br />O'Dwyer's servers were outside of the USA, but that has not stopped Big Content and its political cronies from pursuing him and calling for an extradition. A British court has now caved in to America's demands and he faces being shipped to the States for the grave crime of linking to website that stream TV shows online for free.<br /><br />America has been openly running a paper tiger policy against people it perceives are a threat to its churlish but effective role as the world's bully.<br />Judge Quentin Purdy ruled that O'Dwyer's website "could have" been illegal under UK law, and that any grounds for human rights appeals would go nowhere.<br />O'Dwyer's family will appeal.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.computescotland.com/images/dYMax17hEj7WjmFZVdNM08w09m.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 346px;" src="http://www.computescotland.com/images/dYMax17hEj7WjmFZVdNM08w09m.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hacker Gary McKinnon was targeted because, admitted a US ambassador, he "mocked" the USA.<br />As Senator Darrell Issa said of Julian Assange: "If the President says 'I can't deal with this guy as a terrorist,' then he has to be able to deal with him as a criminal, otherwise the world is laughing at - this paper tiger we've become."<br />If Big Content has the influence to push through an undemocratic blanket-censorship bill like SOPA, then it has the influence to push for O'Dwyer's extradition.<br />O'Dwyer's mother's statement is a poignant one.<br />She told the Guardian's Walker: <span style="font-weight:bold;">"If they can come for Richard they can come for anyone".</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-2086322-0F73110500000578-56_468x353.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 353px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-2086322-0F73110500000578-56_468x353.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-88918174885657555432011-12-31T21:52:00.006+00:002011-12-31T23:03:07.101+00:00Stanford Squirms, Stays on Hook<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/stanfordbeatdown.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 397px;" src="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/stanfordbeatdown.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />My favourite financier, Ex "Sir" Allen Stanford, approaches public denouement as inexorably as entropy. Ducking, foaming at the mouth, diving in psychotic style, he is driven back into the naughty corner by American Justice, pressing every available button marked "DELAY" "PREVARICATE" that he can find.<br />The Beeb clinically traces his ducks and weaves.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">27th Jan: </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Allen Stanford ruled unfit to stand trial for fraud</span><br /><br />A US federal judge has ruled that Texan billionaire Allen Stanford is unfit to stand trial at present over accusations he led a $7bn (£4.5bn) fraud scheme.<br />Mr Stanford is facing trial over allegations that he ran a pyramid scheme based in Antigua which defrauded investors.<br /><br />"The court finds Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time based on his apparent impaired ability to rationally assist his attorneys in preparing his defence," District Judge Hittner wrote in his ruling in Houston, Texas.<br /><br /><b></b><span style="font-weight:bold;">16th Feb: </span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Stanford moved from Houston to a different detention facility</span><br /><br />U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled after a hearing in January that Stanford is incompetent to stand trial and must undergo detoxification from addictions to medications prescribed for anxiety and depression.<br />A brain injury Stanford suffered in a 2009 altercation with another inmate also may have diminished his capacity to assist in his defense, the judge wrote, citing expert testimony in the hearing.<div><br /></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; ">18th Feb:</span><span> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Allen Stanford files $7.2bn countersuit</span><br /><br />Texan billionaire Allen Stanford has filed a countersuit against US prosecutors, accusing them of depriving him of his constitutional rights. The lawsuit claims prosecutors "undertook illegal tactics" in their investigation of Mr Stanford's alleged pyramid scheme that they claim defrauded investors of $7bn (£4.3bn).<br />Mr Stanford is seeking $7.2bn in damages from the SEC and FBI.<br /><br /><b>23rd Dec: </b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Allen Stanford ruled fit for trial</span><br /><br />A US federal judge has ruled Texan financier Allen Stanford is mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly operating a $7bn (£4.5bn) Ponzi scheme.<br />"I see no brain injury that stands in the way of his standing trial," said Dr Robert Cochrane, a psychological evaluator at the prison.<br />US District Judge David Hittner agreed after a three-day hearing in Houston, Texas, that Mr Stanford was able to help his lawyers prepare for the trial.<br /><br />Mr Stanford has spent more than eight months at a North Carolina prison hospital undergoing psychological tests and being weaned off anti-anxiety medication. Charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2009, Mr Stanford denies running a Ponzi scheme involving the sale of fraudulent certificates of deposit issued by his offshore bank in Antigua.<div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/allen-stanford200907/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_pagination_contai/cn_image.size.allen-stanford-0907-01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 493px; height: 331px;" src="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/allen-stanford200907/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_pagination_contai/cn_image.size.allen-stanford-0907-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-60414036360818889152011-12-25T02:00:00.003+00:002011-12-25T02:30:56.913+00:0021st Century Tatts<span style="font-style:italic;">Disclaimer: I have no tattoos and three sealed up piercings.</span><br /><br /><br />They've got these hi tec guns and stuff now, so the ink bottle and one of Mum's needles is restricted to an underclass, but tattooing is still pretty basic.<br />You want a tatt, absolutely 100% fine by me (as if you give a fuck), but the end result seems to be defined by the limitations of the process. Sticking an inked bit of metal in your skin.<br />And you get a piece of graphic art, a picture, or writing, script, and that's your lot.<br />A good artist can get a 3D effect with colour and composition but it's still a static image, a snapshot, paradoxically often expressing more abstract values.<br /><br />So 20th century, static stuff. In this new century, on the move is the way, whole countries with no copper wire telephones but smart phones, multi dimensional tasking made essential in order to cope with the privations being forced upon us by out banking Lords, to pay their gambling debts. To make us able to buy 24/7, fulfill our capitalist obligations as the Consuming Serf.<br />Everything is moving, marketing fish waiting for your credit card to snap them up swim all around you in virtual shoals, infinitely breeding with depthless digital fecundity. We will never be able to eat enough, and their greed will never be satiated.<br /><br />Anyway, what about nanotechnology? I first came across this as a sceptical green, reading with grim horror about nanosilver socks that stop your feet smelling by killing bacteria. Everything above the size of nothing, apparently. Which is cool if you're a lazy cunt who can't be bothered to wash his feet, but not so good for Good Old Mother Earth and her groovy ecosystem.<br />Because not all somethings above the size of nothing are bad for you, that's why, but nanosilver doesn't give a monkey's about that. You're a toasted microbe.<br />To cut to the chase, I was wondering if you could graft an 'active' skin onto your body, made with computerised elements at the nanolevel, and have<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;" >MOVING TATTOOS! </span><div><span style="font-weight:bold;" ><br /></span></div><div><span ><b><br /></b></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">To be continued...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-81135701327478112512011-12-11T17:38:00.007+00:002011-12-11T22:19:16.490+00:00Very Short Videos Inc. presents: Belle and the Hooker<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='430' height='356' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxV9-PE4GeAbScpLbdCr1Dwy6HffD1_HMwtQ-tBfceV18eTRdGvCOYJWTP_pGuOTs3Yhp90iQOcO3X-xmDgOg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-61133197615795340992011-12-05T21:18:00.002+00:002011-12-05T21:25:41.324+00:00Pepper with that?<span style="font-weight:bold;">America's Law Enforcement Officers Enforce Law<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2011/12/3/20/enhanced-buzz-wide-26539-1322960640-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2011/12/3/20/enhanced-buzz-wide-26539-1322960640-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2011/12/2/14/enhanced-buzz-wide-5050-1322853230-10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2011/12/2/14/enhanced-buzz-wide-5050-1322853230-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2011/12/2/15/enhanced-buzz-wide-4854-1322857099-43.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2011/12/2/15/enhanced-buzz-wide-4854-1322857099-43.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-59055467673769129332011-11-17T22:10:00.002+00:002011-11-17T22:26:17.361+00:00Breaking News: U.S. Economy in Safe hands<a href="http://rlv.zcache.com/img/imt-prd/pd-128491400197503618/isz-m/at-238560305421145726/realview.jpg?urbanword_txt=wanker%20banker&urbanimage_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fproducts.image.php%3Fdefid%3D3346604%26revision%3D9ece21c09bc633a7d083ec02b94fd9e308c2c639" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 325px; height: 325px;" src="http://rlv.zcache.com/img/imt-prd/pd-128491400197503618/isz-m/at-238560305421145726/realview.jpg?urbanword_txt=wanker%20banker&urbanimage_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fproducts.image.php%3Fdefid%3D3346604%26revision%3D9ece21c09bc633a7d083ec02b94fd9e308c2c639" border="0" alt="" /></a><div>The world's greatest deliberative bodies are exempt from insider trading laws, even though its members get quicker access to market-moving information than almost anyone else.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you're one of those 9 percent of Americans who still trust Congress, well, avert your eyes and don't read a new book, Throw Them All Out, written by the conservative scholar/sometime Palin speechwriter Peter Schweizer. </div><div>Working through it, one of the ugliest revelations so far -- prodded in the Kroft story -- is the degree to which Rep. Spencer Bachus, then ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, bet against the market as it collapsed in 2008. Schweizer finds "no less than forty options trades" in Bachus's records from July 2008 to November 2008.</div><div>The trades made him wealthier; almost nobody else had the information he had, and could have made them. Take this example, from the bottom of the collapse.<br /><br /><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; ">On the evening of September 18, at 7 p.m., Bachus received [a] private briefing for congressional leaders by Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke about the current state of the economy. They sat around a long table in the office of Nancy Pelosi, then the Speaker of the House. These briefings were secretive. Often, cell phones and Blackberrys had to be surrendered outside the room to avoid leaks.</blockquote></div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; ">What Bachus and his colleagues heard behind closed doors was stunning. As Paulson recounts, “Ben [Bernanke] emphasized how the financial crisis could spill into the real economy. As stocks dropped perhaps a further 20 percent, General Motors would go bankrupt, and unemployment would rise . . . if we did nothing.” The members of Congress around the table were, in Paulson’s words, “ashen-faced.”</blockquote></div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; ">Bernanke continued, “It is a matter of days before there is a meltdown in the global financial system.” Bachus was among those who spoke. According to Paulson, he suggested recapitalizing the banks by buying shares.</blockquote></div></div><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: verdana; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; ">The meeting broke up. The next day, September 19, Congressman Bachus bought contract options on Proshares Ultra-Short QQQ, an index fund that seeks results that are 200% of the inverse of the Nasdaq 100 index. In other words, he was shorting the market. It was an inexpensive way to bet that the market would fall. He bought options for $7,846 on a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 8,604. A few days later, on September 23, after the market had indeed fallen, he sold the options for over $13,000 and nearly doubled his money.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; "><br /></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.6em verdana, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; "><article style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="slb-post" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: normal normal normal 0.95em/1.5em verdana; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="body parsys" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="text parbase section" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><div class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >There are dozens of examples like this. On September 8, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877341,00.html">Hank Paulson</a> gets a tip from GE about the company's sluggish bond sales, on September 10, Bachus shorts GE options<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">four times</em>. It's all <b>legal,</b> and Bachus is now the chairman of House Financial Services.</span></p></div></div></div></div></article></blockquote></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-75051258518904863952011-11-13T08:47:00.001+00:002011-11-13T08:48:24.102+00:00Being a Giant isn't always a bowl of cherries<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Fenja_och_Menja_vid_kvarnen_Grotte_%28xylograph%29-2011-25-05.gif/490px-Fenja_och_Menja_vid_kvarnen_Grotte_%28xylograph%29-2011-25-05.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 490px; height: 600px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Fenja_och_Menja_vid_kvarnen_Grotte_%28xylograph%29-2011-25-05.gif/490px-Fenja_och_Menja_vid_kvarnen_Grotte_%28xylograph%29-2011-25-05.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-5440496397328131672011-11-12T21:28:00.000+00:002011-11-12T21:30:49.895+00:00Were we really pretty things?<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pBQ-S6njQQw?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pBQ-S6njQQw?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-85917367660735310762011-11-09T22:56:00.004+00:002011-11-09T22:57:44.517+00:00A molecule<a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46278000/jpg/_46278048_pentacene_anatomy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 466px; height: 200px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46278000/jpg/_46278048_pentacene_anatomy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-77591905760488100102011-11-07T00:09:00.002+00:002011-11-07T00:19:34.162+00:00Reflections on CoppersThey have gone from this<br /><a href="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/images/2008/09/03/bluelamp_3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 394px;" src="http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/images/2008/09/03/bluelamp_3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />to this<br /><a href="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/policenegotiate415.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 415px; height: 429px;" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/policenegotiate415.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />In my lifetime. Maybe Good Old George was romanticised, but is it really that much more dangerous now? Or it it because of them that it's not?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-75196636641358048942011-11-03T22:02:00.001+00:002011-11-03T22:26:41.388+00:00A Man of Constant Sorrow<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_tD9BuA1ic?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_tD9BuA1ic?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-67485189110674322292011-11-02T21:31:00.004+00:002011-11-02T22:49:08.445+00:00Greece LMFAOStroke of genius, a referendum!!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-37375544911442078912011-10-31T06:24:00.008+00:002011-10-31T07:57:56.359+00:00Fond Memories of Sir Jimmy Savile OBE RIP<div style="text-align: center;">"BY" PAUL MERTON</div><div><br /></div><div><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><i>Apparently, this was actually recorded during the last series of "Have I Got News For You" when Jimmy Saville was a guest on Paul Merton's team. Incredibly, it didn't make our screens. (It seems that Mr. Merton doesn't like Mr. Saville very much)</i></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "></pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><b>Out-take 3:09'36</b> </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">During the headline round: </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: You used to be a wrestler didn't you?</pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: I still am. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Are you? </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: I'm feared in every girls' school in the country. (Audience laugh) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Yeah, I've heard about that. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: What have you heard? </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: I've... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Something about a cunt with a rancid, pus-filled cock. (Huge audience laugh; Awkward pause) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: I advise you to wash your mouth out, my friend... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: That's what she had to do! (Audience laughs) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: Weren't you leaving money in phone boxes or something? (Saville glares at him) Or have I got completely the wrong end of the... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: (To Deayton, heavily) The question you asked was about wrestling. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Yes. And then you mentioned girls' schools. I don't know whe... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Well I understood this was a comedy programme. I realise now how wrong I was. (Audience laugh) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: So were you a professional wrestler? </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Yes I was. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: (To audience) Glad we got that cleared up.(Pulls face; audience giggles)</pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: Feared by every girls' school in the country... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: That's right. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Due to having a rancid, pus-filled cock.(Huge audience laugh) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Erm... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: You're on top form tonight, Paul... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: (Strangely) I'm...this is not what I... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) OK, do you...(inaudible section)...shall we, for pick-ups... </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: I'm terribly sorry. I don't know what came over me. </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: A pus-filled cock, I imagine. (Shocked audience laugh) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Oh, it's nice to see you joining in. We'd been waiting for you, you sad senile old shitter. (Audience appears to do double-take) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: I think we...d-d-you you want to apologise to our guest, Paul? </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Sorry, I do apologise. Sir senile old shitter, is what I meant to say. (Audience laugh; pause) Sir senile old shitter...who fucks minors. (Audience unrest) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: Sorry, I'm just looking at our lawyer again. (Waves) Hello! (Audience laughs) </pre><pre style="text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Shall we get back on course with this, or sha... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: I do fuck miners, that's quite correct. I have always done so. They can do the most wonderful things with cigars. The coal... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: What, they stick them up your senile, pus-filled arse? (Audience laughs) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV): Come on...I'm getting an ear-bashing here. It's... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Oh they want to continue. Sorry, I'll contain myself. Carry on... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Right (Pause) You used to be a professional wrestler didn't you? (Huge audience laugh) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: (Calmly) I did. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: You didn't have a nickname or anything? </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Yes - 'Loser'. (Audience laughs) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><b><br /></b></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><b>Out-take 4: 21'20</b> </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Following a discussion about caravans: </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Last month, Roger Moore sold his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: I visited your caravan the other week, Jimmy. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Did you really? </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Oh yes. Interesting what you can find, if you have a bit of a poke. (Audience laugh) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: He just told you, it was twelve years ago... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: No, I lived in it for twelve years. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: And fucked twelve year olds. (Audience laugh) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Here we go again...I'll be backstage if anyone wants me. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: (Indicating Saville) That's what you said to the kids on your show, wasn't it? (Audience laugh) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: No, they never did want me. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: Not even Sarah Cornley? </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: She was an exception. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: Who's Sarah Cornley? </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Sarah Cornley is... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: About fifteen grand in damages, wasn't she? (Uncertain audience laugh) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: That's right. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: So if I was going to mention that you threatened to break her arm if she said anything... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: You'd be very wrong. (Pause) I said I'd break both her arms. (Audience unease) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Fucking hell. I mean, you're just sitting there, all shell suit and cigar wearing those fucking...I don't know what they are. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: Chrome-plated SC-700 sun-visors, these are. Sent to me by... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: We don't give a shit. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir James Saville OBE. Jim has fixed it for me to have my arms broken. Meet this depressing old fucked up cunt of a fucker on television who's riddled with cancer and fucking pubic lice. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">HISLOP: (To lawyer again) Hello! (Audience laughs) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Christ, I mean ha ha, big fucking joke - the fucking lawyers are involved, tee hee. It doesn't change anything. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: (Visibly out of character) Do you wanna stop, or...?</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: No I don't fucking want to stop. It's all shit! You'll expect a comedy walkout in a minute, won't you? I mean, big bloody joke - I'm going to quote Shakespeare in a minute, how fucking out of character. And Ian knows about football - oh my fucking sides. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SAVILLE: You've never fucked anyone in your life, boy. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">MERTON: Oh fuck off... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) ...About five minutes, just to...(Phil Davey enters) </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PHIL DAVEY: OK, well top that as they say. You're looking troubled by that, aren't you mate? I tell you, I came back from Amsterdam recently... </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">RECORDING PLACED ON STAND-BY; CUTS BACK TO CLOSE-UP OF DEAYTON AWAITING HIS CUE</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">DEAYTON: OK. Second time lucky. (Pause) Last month, Roger Moore sold his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the New York Times about his relaxed acting style...</pre><pre style="text-align: center;word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">*******</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><b>An amusing, shocking story that's been around for years. However, if you Goggle "Sarah Cornley", all you get is references back to this "story".</b></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><b>The Internet is a dangerous place.................</b></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "></pre></pre></pre></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-13980496401281176042011-10-28T20:44:00.004+01:002011-10-28T20:50:32.790+01:00Where's my cut? Making people famous...<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0dld9b-clRw/R6UQg--oqqI/AAAAAAAAAqM/Zhnj1OFlcI4/s400/deathheadln5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_0dld9b-clRw/R6UQg--oqqI/AAAAAAAAAqM/Zhnj1OFlcI4/s400/deathheadln5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />This guy was just another freak until he appeared on these hallowed <a href="http://the-man-from-porlock.blogspot.com/2010/05/mod-that-bod.html">pages</a>.<div><br />Grateful? HA. Not a fucking word.<br /></div><br /><br /><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px" width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9mIBKifOOQQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9mIBKifOOQQ?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="640" height="360"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-39064935084459392052011-10-27T02:55:00.002+01:002011-10-27T02:57:34.841+01:00Pulp Fiction<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uHM6jsUhzzc/TbqGXKQmeVI/AAAAAAAAXHc/i6lAbbOKroo/s1600/coed+for+hire.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 960px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uHM6jsUhzzc/TbqGXKQmeVI/AAAAAAAAXHc/i6lAbbOKroo/s1600/coed+for+hire.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-795808900743456532011-10-22T22:02:00.012+01:002011-10-23T23:25:52.476+01:00The Grasshopper and the Ant<a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqTXjqPOKrFKxDhxtLPxHiGKg_nsj2GZJ4MMyZynZ7b9QfExBxPA" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 481px; height: 360px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqTXjqPOKrFKxDhxtLPxHiGKg_nsj2GZJ4MMyZynZ7b9QfExBxPA" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Every now and then I see cut and pastes on the internet forums, homilies and faux personal insights, parables and poems that have been posted by members, eager to share something that they <span style="font-weight:bold;">really</span> agree with, also forgetting to mention that they didn't write it, secretly hoping that 'friends' will think "Wow, WhiteWarrior111 really knows where it's at!"<br />They are usually full of conservative WASP moral values, with a punchline that's as easy to remember, and come in various hues of racism.<br />Being an old billy-no-mates who doesn't do social and can only look at so much bike related stuff on the Net, I occasionally track their antecedents down, usually wading through increasingly bizarre right wing fantasies before ending up with the BNP site, or some US conspiracy blog.<br />One such was this:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The ant and the grasshopper.</span><div><b><br /></b><span style="font-style:italic;">The ant works hard In the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house And laying up supplies for the winter.<br /><br />The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.<br /><br />Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.<br /><br />CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, And ABC show up to Provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant In his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.<br /><br />How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper<br />Is allowed to suffer so?<br /><br />Kermit the frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper And everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'<br /><br />ACORN stages A demonstration in front of the ant's House where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.<br /><br />Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright Has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns the ants.<br /><br />President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope For the grasshopper's plight.<br /><br />Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview on CNN that the ant has<br />gotten rich off the back of the Grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.<br /><br />Finally, the EEOC drafts The Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act<br />retroactive to the beginning of The summer.<br /><br />The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number Of green bugs and,<br />having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.<br /><br />The story ends as we see the grasshopper And his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.<br /><br />The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.<br /><br />The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.</span><br /><br /><br />Note the spacing, to let the prose sink in, or allow room for an inspired underlining slash of marker pen. <b><i>!! !</i></b></div><div>Put the first line in Google and the earliest reference to this particular version is 5 years old, on Right Truth, an American blog whose sub title, "counterterrorism, politics, religion, ..." doesn't promise a laugh a minute. And it's true to its promise.</div><div>The posts and titles I skimmed were typical of these sites, the POTUS is referred to Barack Hussein Obama and blamed for everything, the comments are surreal and the blogroll is huge, mutually linking other crazies in a webclick popularity Ponzi scheme.</div><div>This political spam seems to have cyclical popularity. Most of the other links are recent, near to exactly 5 years after the original, a strangely round number that would indicate some sort of sinister software, accumulating and timing for fixed periods to reactivate random propaganda. Well it would if you were as paranoid about things as the regulars on these blogs.</div><div>So, Right Truth, who and what are you? You're edited by Debbie Hamilton, a very wholesome name, very WASPish, pictured in front of The Stars and Stripes</div><a href="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth_bigger.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img src="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth_bigger.jpeg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 73px; height: 73px; " /></a>Pretty tasty, huh, in a Barbie sort of way. She just has to have silicon tits and a horse. Anyway, no biog on the blog, no interviews on the Net, but she's on Facebook. She's 60 and lives in west Tennessee. Her husband used to live next door to Carl Perkins.<br />Her heroes are:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">'The passengers of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. LET'S ROLL! Our military men and women.' </span><br /><div><br /></div><div>This is the modern version of course, updated to paint recognisable hate figures as left wing wasteful grasshoppers, and the genuine American ants with a blue collar and a red neck.</div>The whole anthropomorphic comparison is shaky anyway, a true blue Tennesee girl would probably associate "ant" with "communist" in a word association test.<div>For the original, we go all the way back to the bloke who wrote most of the stories ever written, Aesop and his <span style="font-weight:bold;">Fables, </span> around 600 BC. This is number 373 on the Perry Index, drawing the logical conclusion often stated in the separate <i>Moral of the Story</i> punchlines:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Idleness brings want"<br />"To work today is to eat tomorrow"<br />"Beware of winter before it comes"</span><br /><br />These are echoed by none other than that most august of historical reference books, the Bible, in the Book of Proverbs, Old (Jewish) Testament 6:6-9:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest"</span></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><b>'....which having no captain, overseer or ruler...."</b></i></div><div>Which = evidence that G-d is a Marxist.</div><div><br /></div><div>Number 166 presents a different interpretation, using a cicada beetle as the grasshopper character, as the early Greeks did.<br />Here the ant was once a man who was always busy farming. Not satisfied with the results of his own labour, he plundered his neighbours' crops at night.<br />This angered the king of the gods, who turned him into what is now an ant. Yet even though the man had changed his shape, he did not change his habits and still goes around the fields gathering the fruits of other people's labour, storing them up for himself.<br />The moral in this interpretation is that it is easier to change in appearance than to change one's moral nature.<br /><br />The French identify the singing wasteful beetle with voluptuous females, hopelessly unequipped for the 'real world' as in this excuse for an ogle "When the north wind came" as a satire on Napoleon's failures in cold Prussia.<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/La_Cigale.jpg/198px-La_Cigale.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 198px; height: 385px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/La_Cigale.jpg/198px-La_Cigale.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />French fabulists even enlist a third character, the bee, whose presence breaks the deadlock and they all end up living happily ever after. The Catholics tacked a twist on the end, Updike, Joyce and Somerset Maugham played with different versions for differing reasons, but the modern US version is based on that great American Walt Disney's cartoon critique of that commie bastard Roosevelt's New Deal. </div><div>In his version however, the wasteful=artistic Grasshopper musician is cut a deal for food by the hardworking=responsible ant farmer, and allowed enough food to survive in exchange for music lessons and entertainment. This is a very soft line for Disney to take against his own ideological enemies, the spongers and wasters, possibly explainable by the parallel debate about the 'value' of artists to/in society, one of which he undoubtedly was.<br /><br /><a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTG6pOTvV2e-3R1YJovMMU7_I9vIWsAC6feDri5fMlTvOHGwsFX2A" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTG6pOTvV2e-3R1YJovMMU7_I9vIWsAC6feDri5fMlTvOHGwsFX2A" border="0" alt="" /></a>In a hard line alternative, the ant refuses this deal when it is offered by the grasshopper, saying "I don't want my children to learn music, I want them to learn something useful to put food in the store."</div><div><br /></div><div>But Debbie, if no-one learns music, who's going to be in the "rock and roll bands" (that you 'would most like to meat'... sorry meet'), and what sort of 'Lover of Freedom' can an ant really be?</div><br /><a href="http://www.parisperfect.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cigale_et_fourmi.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 488px; height: 674px;" src="http://www.parisperfect.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cigale_et_fourmi.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-1545686379015338452011-10-21T00:47:00.004+01:002011-12-08T02:08:44.175+00:00Say hello, Pinhead.<embed width="600" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullscreen="true" allowNetworking="all" wmode="transparent" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid902.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fac226%2Fthemanfromporlock%2FValkabilia%2F2aebe384.mp4">Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-36396807235789804842011-10-18T20:04:00.003+01:002011-10-18T20:28:40.873+01:00Ninos Robados: my Favourite Church Strikes Again.<a href="http://actualidad.rt.com/images/publications/97/slide_issue_26059.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 386px; height: 300px;" src="http://actualidad.rt.com/images/publications/97/slide_issue_26059.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Los Niños perdidos del franquismo o niños robados por el franquismo, son aquellos niños que, durante la Guerra Civil Española y la posguerra española, fueron arrebatados a sus madres republicanas, bien porque estaban en la cárcel o porque habían sido asesinadas por el ejército golpista.<div>1) Los delitos de los que fueron objeto son: secuestro, tráfico de niños y adopción ilegal. </div><div>2) Los Niños perdidos del franquismo es un episodio poco conocido de la historia reciente de España. Hace referencia a la desaparición de hijos pequeños de republicanos y la separación forzosa de sus familias por parte de la represión franquista. </div><br /><br /><a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQH4nGLJOX78cjsV8iTtISFV9pwX0CVn25qpWN7NJD31YAejWSC" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 160px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQH4nGLJOX78cjsV8iTtISFV9pwX0CVn25qpWN7NJD31YAejWSC" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><div>Conforme las tropas sublevadas de Franco ganaban terreno, las prisiones se llenaban de personas que habían sido leales a la República. Entre los prisioneros había miles de mujeres militantes de partidos políticos de izquierda o, simplemente, esposas, madres o hermanas de republicanos. </div><div>Las cárceles también se llenaban de niños que nacieron o que ingresaron en la prisión con sus madres y que pasaron los primeros años de su vida privados de libertad por ser hijos de republicanos.<br /><br /></div><br /><a href="http://lamemoriaviva.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nic3b1os-robados-franquismo1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://lamemoriaviva.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nic3b1os-robados-franquismo1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1563135986385277974.post-44854469984727120762011-10-13T22:41:00.001+01:002011-10-13T22:42:23.400+01:00Radio 4"Stalin would order 5,000 prisoners shot. If there weren't enough prisoners, they would drag people off the street and shoot them."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0