Archives: 2006 March
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
If Only…. II Annual Canadian Seal Pup Hunt Set To Begin… I seem to be one of the few people who remember Serge, The Fashion Seal of Death! from the late lamented Mr Hell animation series. I loved psychotic Serge, the cute little white furry seal pup, who when threatened would whip out his M16 [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Onward Fundian Soldiers Digby has a good post up about Former Reagan White House counsel, Air Force veteran, U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and activist, Mikey Weinstein, who has formed a foundation to combat fundies who use the US forces as recruiting ground for their Evangelical Christian shock troops, and who harass and sideline those [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Strike and Counter-Strike Wow, Campbell and Blair are swift in their revenge: following his revelations last night BBC has just announced that Harriet Harman MP, wife of Jack Dromey ( see this morning’s post) has been fired from her post at Constitutional Affairs in charge of electoral and House of Lords reform. Blair must be [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
HA-ha From a Pew Poll quoted at Atrios: “The single word most frequently associated with George W. Bush today is “incompetent,”and close behind are two other increasingly mentioned descriptors: “idiot” and “liar.” All three are mentioned far more often today than a year ago.” Tags: US Politics Bush
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
Old Labour Bites Back The scandal of loans to New Labour that circumvent the party funding rules and apparatus set up by…. New Labour, is old, old news to any reader of Private Eye. The name of Chai Patel is well known to anyone who knows what to read, as is the fact that others [...]
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March 16th, 2006, No Comments
A Distant Dissident Supreme Court justice Ruth Ginsberg has nailed her colours to the mast with this speech on rendition, torture, and indefinite detention – though it’s a great pity she had to go to South Africa to do it. Early reports concentrate on the death threats aspect of the speech but there are some [...]
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March 15th, 2006, No Comments
I love it when the biter gets bit – especially so when it’s someone like this guy, Tomo Foote Lennox, who gets to censor other people’s internet use. Seems he’s not so squeaky clean himself…. Isn’t it interesting how it’s always the men ( and it generally is men) who try to impose ‘moral’ standards [...]
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March 15th, 2006, No Comments
Spring Notes Apologies to anyone who has mailed me in the past couple of weeks and had no reply. My inbox has been massively spammed (Why only Brazilian spam? Beats me.) and quite frankly I’ve been so unwell with this flu I couldn’t be bothered to unmung it. Influenza B on top of kidney failure [...]
