October 29, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Nobody can say that MoD planners in Whitehall don’t have a sense of humour when it comes to naming things. When it starts tomorrow, Exercise Macaque Attack will be the first full-squadron size exercise to have taken place at RAF Gibraltar for several years. Six Tornado GR4s of XIII Squadron, […]
October 29, 2009 at 5:15 pm
It had to happen sooner or later – the population control eco-freaks are coming out of the woodwork. In this bit of lunacy we’re only a few logical steps away from putting sterilising chemicals in the water supply (an approach already advocated in the past by Obama’s Science Czar). From […]
October 29, 2009 at 4:10 pm
And so the Internet reaches the age of maturity – a splendid 40 not-out. On October 29 1969, the first Arpanet network connection between remote computers was established. Arpanet was, as any fule kno, the military precursor to what we now know as the internet (the term “internetting” would not […]
October 28, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Peter Gadiel’s son James was killed when Muslim murderers crashed a plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. In memory of that horrible day, James’ hometown of Kent, Connecticut wants to erect a plaque remembering James’ death but have hit a snag: James’ […]
October 28, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Spotted in the Hootmon and basically, the message as usual is that We’re All Doomed (Part 82348). Still, it’s a nifty excuse to use this picture, eh? The summary, to save you clicking on the link, is that if you assume we are all going to die in a man-made […]
October 28, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Remember those very useful unmanned drones being used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to target terrorists? AllSeeingEye has blogged on them before, their effectiveness in combat situations and the fact that human rights lawyers therefore don’t like them. Well it seems possible that that expansive monolithic bastion of socialist stupidity the […]
October 28, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Spotted over at the Greek lad’s place, and originally from the San Fransico Bay Guardian we have this gem: It was hardly a bill of cosmic import, but Assemblymember Tom Ammiano’s AB 1176 would have helped the Port of San Francisco with some financing issues. It’s the kind of bill […]
October 28, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Peter Kilfoyle MP has tabled an EDM opposing the coronation of Blair as President of the European Council. At least that’s what he probably means – there is no such job of President of the European Union…that’s just a phrase used by lazy journalists and ignorant backbench Labour MPs. This […]
October 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm
If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for the next AGW scaremongering Dr Francis Yeboah, Head of Molecular Medicine at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), on Tuesday said too much heat could affect how the brain worked and could also increase the risk of cardiovascular or heart diseases. He […]
October 26, 2009 at 5:22 pm
After press speculation that the Government was starting to backpedal on its policy of reducing training for the TA, Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox was granted an Urgent Question on the topic by the Speaker at 3.30pm this afternoon. Unfortunately although it was televised, most of the debate was obsdured […]
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