October 2007
Monthly Archive
Crank it up
Posted on Oct 26 2007 | Tagged as: Media, Science, Lunatics
Oh dear. As if pillocks like Loose Change director Tim Sparke weren’t bad enough, take a look at this:
I have spent over 13 years trying to show the scientific community what I have found, but they refuse to listen. During this same time, everyone who has no emotional or financial ties to the idea that […]
Hello
Posted on Oct 18 2007 | Tagged as: Words, Technology, Aren't I awful?
I don’t normally write posts about humorous search terms.
But to the person who stumbled across this site by googling “computers web internet”: welcome to the modern world.
D’accord
Posted on Oct 12 2007 | Tagged as: Words, Music
Andrew Mueller:
“[Bob Marley’s] canon is bong-addled nonsense from soup to nuts, much of it barely elevated nursery rhymes: whenever one hears, again, him riffing about being “iron, like a lion, in Zion”, one braces for the shout out to his mate Brian, with his tie on.”
Foul
Posted on Oct 09 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Press Release:
Written Ministerial Statement
09 October 2007
IRAQ: ASSISTANCE TO LOCALLY EMPLOYED STAFF
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. David Miliband):
On 8 August the Prime Minister announced a review of the Government’s assistance to our Locally Engaged staff in Iraq. The Defence Secretary, Home Secretary, Secretary of State for […]
Must try harder
Posted on Oct 08 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
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Mr Speaker, I would also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the work of our civilian and locally employed staff in Iraq, many of whom have worked in extremely difficult circumstances exposing themselves and their families to danger.
And I am pleased therefore to announce today a new policy which more fully recognises […]
Minor change of plan
Posted on Oct 08 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
Dan Hardie:
And another announcement: the meeting on Iraqi Employees will take place on the same day (Tuesday 9th October) at the same time (7-9pm) with the same speakers in a changed venue very close to the original one: the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House (MPs’ own office block, opposite Parliament). The long-suffering and highly efficient […]
“I have a vision for change in Britain”
Posted on Oct 07 2007 | Tagged as: Aren't I awful?
Through the good eye, I assume.
Write a letter, save some lives
Posted on Oct 02 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
The film Se7en ends with Morgan Freeman saying: “Ernest Hemingway wrote that the world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. I agree with the second part.”
Despite my day-to-day cynicism — or perhaps because of it — so do I.
Dan Hardie has organised a meeting in Parliament for the evening of October 9th, in […]