Photographic foodscapes :(click for slideshow)
Suspect accused of killing kitten to save wife’s life
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Protesters arrested in Dam Square on the grounds that they insulted the racist, poofy-haired ninny, right wing politician Geert Wilders (As if anything could be an insult to Wilders) Police took exception to the protestors’ placards (“Extremist – damaging to you and society”) but they won’t be prosecuted – the Public Prosecutor’s Office has said that it does not consider the posters distributed by the protesters insulting. Amsterdam police overstepped their powers, say critics. No change there, then.
Do the chroniclers of George W Bush’s life and presidency ever get to the real truth? James Wolcott thinks not. He also agrees with us bloggers that Bush’s presidency (especially Iraqi) sn’t, just some random disaster; instead it’s gone exactly as planned. And it isn’t over yet.
Half of all young Britons don’t know how to boil an egg.
I remember when news of Abu Ghraib broke, wondering both here and in comments at Digby about what horrors would be unleashed in their home communities when the brutal and brutalised veterans of Iraq finally came home. Well, now we know: from the NY Times comes
“War-Torn: A series of articles and multimedia about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have committed killings, or been charged with them, after coming home.:
Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories. Lakewood, Wash.: “Family Blames Iraq After Son Kills Wife.” Pierre, S.D.: “Soldier Charged With Murder Testifies About Postwar Stress.” Colorado Springs: “Iraq War Vets Suspected in Two Slayings, Crime Ring.”
Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the patchwork picture of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak.”
Speaking of eggs and guns:
Virgin to trial jet biofuel on Gatwick to Schphol flights
Why didn’t the government just leave her where she was? Supporters and friends in Cardiff.have set up an appeal fund to help Ama Sumani, a terminally-ill Ghanaian woman who was forcibly removed from hospital in the UK back to Africa because her student visa had expired, despite being on kidney dialysis and having no money for treatment in Ghana. The UK government minister responsible says her situation “is not unique”.
“We have had a call from a lady in Llandudno who says she is willing to pay for all the hospital bills.
“A woman from Rhiwbina (in Cardiff) rang and said “I am a pensioner, I don’t have much but I will contribute £100″.”
Such generosity is heartwarming – until you remember that this is exactly the world New Labour and their fellow neoliberals want us all to live in, a world in which an unproductive economic unit without the right paperwork has to rely on fhe benevolence of strangers just to be able to die in peace.
