There are some unusual daily reads on TheEye’s list, and ArabNews is one of them. Which is how we learn that: Saudi Arabia’s top government-sanctioned board of senior Islamic scholars has endorsed a fatwa that calls for a ban on female vendors because it violates the kingdom’s strict segregation of […]
As usual the White House threw a Halloween Party this year. They wouldn’t have been expecting one of the children to dress up as the Obama Joker! Incidentally, once again we seen that black face paint is somehow wrong but white face paint is fine. How on earth did he […]
In Sweden rather than here, but maybe the idea will catch on…. A special police unit in Stockholm combating share scams was closed last week by the chief safety ombudsman due to a large influx of cases.Four Stockholm county police officers are working on five large investigations involving nearly 2,000 […]
This blog has always had a strong military slant, and, well, this post is the product of two unconnected thoughts. Over on A Tangled Web, Mike Cunningham has written a post on the saving and restoration of Sir Francis Chichester’s old yacht Gypsy Moth IV. He writes: I read that […]
It’s showdown time! Harry Reid vs Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell vs Chris Coons, Marco Rubio vs Charlie Crist vs some Democrat in Florida, primary upsets and write-in candidates in Alaska…and those are only the headline races. It’ll be a night of high drama and humiliation on Tuesday and we’re going […]
At the so-called Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Saturday, it turns out that many of the attendees were…insane. This video from “Americans for Prosperity” catches some of the lunatic signs and banners. Remember, these people have the vote. And the IQ test for breeding isn’t in place yet. […]
A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled. The ruling by King’s County Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten stems from an incident in April 2009 when Juliet […]
…with a Glock. If that doesn’t keep the trick-or-treaters away then you’ll have to fall back on some techniques learned from the Saw moves.
The US mid-term elections have thrown up some oddballs as usual, and not just amongst the candidates. Some splendid nutjobs have managed to get local, area and statewide referenda on their ballot papers. Consider this lunacy from Denver, Colorado : Ballot Initiative 300 would require the city to set up […]
Under the revised and more powerful terms of the European Arrest Warrant that the UK has just signed up to (thanks a lot, David ‘No More EU Powers’ Cameron) we can all be extradited to other EU countries for things which are crimes over there but not in the UK. […]
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