Tag: news
member name: Ian Thorpe
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August 13, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
So that cute little Chinese girl who sang the solo at the Olympic opening ceremony and "won the hearts of the world," to quote one tabloid headline, was not all she seemed to be . . . . more
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December 20, 2006 12:47 PM EST --
Decriminalising Drugs and Prostitution.
In my previous article about the murders of six prostitutes in a mid - sized British town I suggested a way to solve the "crack - ho" problem is . . . more
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July 02, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
After the latest terrorist scares in Britain caused more disruption than the floods, veteran war correspondent Max Hastings said:
The flurry of precautions after terrorist alerts are almost . . . more
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . . more
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December 14, 2006 01:09 PM EST --
One story has dominated the news here in the UK for the past few days.
This week we have learned of the violent deaths of at least three, probably more, young women who made their living as prostitutes . . . more
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June 04, 2007 12:31 PM EDT --
Some stories in the UK last week ought to remind us that freedom and democracy (or freeman moxy if you are American) is being eroded by creeping fascism.
First story concerns the fatigued firefighters . . . more
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March 03, 2008 12:24 PM EST --
If we were in the business of rehabilitating criminals in the prison system so that on being discharged they were equipped to take their place in society and earn and honest living how would we go about . . . more
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March 14, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
This is a story I posted on Boggart Blog three years ago, before I was at Gather. I exhume it now because a) its funny; b) the phenomenon is happening again I hear.
Wild life experts around . . . more
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March 15, 2008 12:25 PM EDT --
TOP COMEDY news of the week. The downfall of New York politician Eliot Spritzer this week reminds us how a name can affect a persons behaviour, what path they choose in life and ultmiately their fate. . . . more
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April 07, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
As the topic of education (or lack of it) seems to come up ever more frequently in my comment threads and we seem to be losing sight of the fact that one of the great socially improving reforms of . . . more
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March 04, 2008 11:04 AM EST --
The Democratic Party claim their candidates lost the last two elections due to sharp practice, the hanging chad election in the state of Florida swinging the vote the Republicans' way in 2000 and . . . more
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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . . more
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July 08, 2008 12:26 PM EDT --
The Republican lady promised me marshmallows, complains Blue Gal in this video blog .
I had to tell her "Beware of republicans bearing marshmallows". Remember the Stapuft Marshmallow . . . more
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March 09, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
Overheard in Washington, Bill Clinton talking to a journalist ia a bar was heard to say:
"I'll be straight with you buddy, if the phone rang at 3 a.m. Hillary is the last person I would want . . . more
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March 20, 2008 12:56 PM EDT --
The Republican nominee, Senator John McCain was in London today, meeting people he may have to work with in a few months, his visit featured prominently in lunchtime news bulletins. This gave me my first . . . more
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November 27, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
The American love of flags is often remarked on by comedians all round the world.
To help Americans of the patriotic right to kick their flag habit here is a very funny post by Liz Davies featuring . . . more
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February 17, 2008 10:50 AM EST --
So the boy-candidate Barak Obama has chosen the phrase "Yes We Can," as his campaign slogan. Its a common enough phrase, uttered millions of times each day around the English speaking world . . . more
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July 10, 2008 11:37 AM EDT --
From Boggart Blog Reporter fatsally:
The link between animals and bras, probably as old as the bra itself, though not as old as the ancient and exclusively make British sport of putting ferrets down . . . more
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August 21, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
My earlier article here, So Who Is Anti Semitic drew the predicted responses from religious right and neo-con commenters, most of whom entirely missed the point (no surprise there) which was that those . . . more
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February 21, 2008 01:00 PM EST --
One of the big news items of last week was the story of the baby about eighteen months old in Tennessee who was carried into the air by a tornado but safely deposited in a nearby field to be found by . . . more
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