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Today you’re getting a nice big compendium post of all the interesting bits and bobs I’ve come across on my occasional forays from my cough-wracked , phlegm-speckled fever bed. Best of all, because of the wonders of the internet tubes, you can read them without catching anything nasty from me other than a persistent earworm.
The idea has been backed by the Dutch sex workers union which said it thought the idea had some merit. But an unnamed military spokesman, quoted in the Volkskrant’ newspaper, expressed reservations. He said: “I don’t think my wife would like the idea very much.”
HA-ha – professional harpy and conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation about whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will likely be turned over to state prosecutors… I have only one suggestion for the investigators. They know what to do with an uncooperative witness. Waterboard! Waterboard! I give her 30 sections before she coughs. What? Coulter has a problem with that? It’s legal now, isn’t it?
More alleged terrorists freed due to lack of evidence:
Two brothers charged in connection with the alleged airliner bomb plot have walked free from court after a judge found there was “insufficient” evidence to put them on trial. Mehran Hussain, 24, and Umair Hussain, 25, both of Chingford, east London, were discharged by District Judge Quentin Purdy following a committal hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London. The brothers, who were arrested at their home on August 9, had been accused of failing to disclose information about their brother Nabeel, a suspect in the case. Addressing the men, District Judge Purdy said: “On the evidence before me there is insufficient material to put you on trial.”
A Florida burglar breaks into houses at night and licks womens’ toes.
A Lancashire community activist and her four daughters have been murdered. It’s not clear yet whether it was domestic or a potential racist arson attack.
Thursday sandwich blogging at Steve Gilliard and Majikthise: here’s my 10 12 :
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Thin sliced cucumber, Hellmans’ mayo, lots of salt and pepper, on very thin white bread.
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The one and only BLT. Simply gorgeous with the freshest best ingredients, but have I had some vile ones.
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Plain boiled Wiltshire ham on home made bread with Devon butter.
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Cream cheese, corned beef and sweet Vidalia onion with mayo and watermelon rind pickle.
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Local strawberry jam on Cornish saffron cake. With clotted cream.
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Black cherry jam on Fries suikerbrood or krentenbollen .
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Coronation chicken salad, lettuce & cucumber on white bread with mango chutney
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Baked ham. curls of parmesan & thinly sliced pear on a fresh baguette
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‘Thunder & lightning’: clotted cream and golden syrup on a Devon split. Drool.
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‘Nelson squares’: slices of bread pudding sandwiched with jam
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Spamwich fritters
Oops, that’s 12 . I could go on and on. Spamwich fritters are a cholestorol disaster my Mum used to make us at Saturday lunchtime – spam sandwiches on white bread, cut into small squares, dipped in batter and fried. With ketchup. There was also a damson jam version when we were skint with no ketchup but dusted with icing sugar… hmmm, looking at that list suggests my poor Irish genes’re calling out for cheap, quick carbs .
Doubt is growing in the heartland:
“Nearly half of Americans are not sure God exists, according to a poll that also found divisions among the public on whether God is male or female or whether God has a human form and has control over events.”
Amen to that.
Romanian bone fossils suggest early neanderthal/human interbreeding.
An honour killing of a different sort:
American soldier refused to torture, committed suicide
An Army investigation has determined that Army Spc. Alyssa Peterson committed suicide after refusing to participate in torture:According to the Army’s investigation into her death, obtained by a KNAU reporter through the Freedom of Information Act, Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. Army spokespersons for her unit have refused to describe the interrogation techniques Alyssa objected to. They say all records of those techniques have now been destroyed.
Some good news for once – ‘Vermont poised to elect America’s first socialist senator‘
Aww:
Heifer has false leg
A cow has had a false leg fitted.
Theresa, a prize heifer, had to have the bottom part of one hind leg amputated after breaking it in a fall.
Rather than slaughter the Jersey cow, farmer Geoff Heazlewood from Tasmania had a prosthetic one made.
According to The Sun, he said: “She can get up herself from laying down, and moves around quite freely”
Not so cheerful: while today’s papers all wail of the police state and Big Brother watching us they’re neglecting to notice the Fearmeister General expanding his surveillance empire, hand-in-hand with the private sector. The government is selling us to the highest bidder, right down to our DNA.
Which reminds me, isn’t it Guy Fawkes day this weekend? Remember, remember the 5th of November…
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