Scotland's New Year's Eve Celebrations or Hogmanay

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/Hogmanay.htm

Lets be careful out there

http://community.livejournal.com/vintage_ads/176317.html

Getting hassle about your doberman?disguise it as a poodle.

Blair's plane in runway drama

Police and rescue vehicles surrounded the aircraft and engineers had to
tug the plane back from the end of the runway and back on to the
taxiway, damaging two runway lights in the process.

The
incident caused a 45-minute delay for Mr Blair and the other
passengers. No one was injured. The prime minister, who was believed to
be with his wife, Cherie, and some of his children, was travelling to
Miami to stay with former Bee Gee Barry Gibb.

...............what possible connection could mr tony have to a bee gee?

spooky

Happy Whatever you call it now.

Color Me Impressed

The 'Mats.......................................best band ever?

i think so.

Pyjama ban for UAE civil servants

seems a bit harsh...............

The Gulf emirate of Ras al-Khaimah has introduced a new dress code targeted in part at people wearing pyjamas to work.

The head of the emirate's personnel department was
quoted as saying that large numbers of civil servants were wearing
sleeping clothes and pyjamas.

so relaxed together

work in december is wierd

folk that you never speak to,send you cards(spell yer name wrong)
do you want to go out for a meal?(we never socialise,so why once a year).
you comin to the pub for a drink?(i am with my section,but we do thruout the year)

not entirely sure what it is all about,i think folks who have young kids or young kids
themselves love crimbo.the rest of us are just kinda goin with the flow as best we can.

on a personal level,i have had truble for years with december.made worse when my father passed 2 years ago,in december.

i am not sure about the new dress code - but it pays the bills.

this was meant to be ramblings

but is pretty much just "cut and paste" most of the time.

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

he does look kinda "fiesty".................

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4489792.stm

One Last Lie for the Road

What the heck, I�ll pop over to Iraq one last
time for a meet-and-greet with the kids I�ve sent to war.

Thank goodness I�m not going to have to do this
again, though; I was born an upbeat guy, but it does

get to you knowing that the thing is such a bloody
mess and yet more of them are going to be sacrificed.

Did I write a secret memo saying that I don�t
believe in this thing anymore? You bet! But you can�t

let the public in on that and just cut-and-run.
Jeez, how would that look for the Rummy Legacy?

I went over there back in 1984 to kiss Saddam�s
derriere in order to get him to take on Iran,

and now I leave Iraq in the hands of those Iraqi
Shiites who were trained in a decade of exile in Iran.

Those are the insurgents I�m worried about, not
those Sunni guys who used to be with us.

Should I have tried to convince young Bush that
Hussein could be brought over to our side? Probably

Barney knows.....................but he aint sayin

happy winter festival

saudi arabia seems to have sway over US/UK

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown

More on this hopefully later, but
in the meantime here's the initial dirt. They certainly pick their moments. And
other depressingly overused
epigrams.

Remember
this?

Saudi Arabia has given Britain 10 days to halt a fraud investigation
into the country's arms trade - or lose a £10 billion Eurofighter
contract.

Well, it took just a little over ten days. Here's
this:

The Serious Fraud Office is discontinuing its investigation into a
multi-billion pound arms deals with Saudi Arabia, it has been
announced.

Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said the decision had been
made in the wider public interest, which had to be balanced against the rule of
law.

'It has been necessary to balance the need to maintain the rule
of law against the wider public interest,' apparently. Just what this wider
public interest entails other than the massively subsidised (at the UK taxpayers
expense) jobs in the British defence industry and the flogging of weapons to an
oppressive regime, isn't clear.

From now on, upon hearing the words 'rule
of law' trip from the mouth of a New Labour hack, the urge to spit will be nigh
on irresistible.

this is kinda scary - i thought this was what the "bad guys"do.

The forensic psychiatrist who examined Jose Padilla
says that he "does not appreciate the nature and

consequences of the proceedings against him,
is unable to render assistance to counsel, and has

impairments in reasoning as the result of a mental
illness, ie, post-traumatic stress disorder, complicated

by the neuropsychiatric effects of prolonged
isolation". José Padilla appears to have been lobotomised:

not medically, but socially. If this was an attempt
to extract information, it was ineffective...

Bush and Ashcroft made a big deal out of stopping Padilla before he
blew up America.

But when the Supreme Court said he had to charge padilla, they didn't
charge him with

trying to blow up America because they didn't have any evidence that
would hold up.

So they charged him with whatever "crimes" they could think of, instead.

Why
would it be dangerous to let him see where he was walking?

Why
would it be dangerous for him to hear his surroundings?

This is an American citizen - denied his "inalienable" rights.

That's what happens when Fascism runs our government.

He might be guilty as hell, but we'll never know because Bush threw
away the Constitution

so this guilty-or-unlucky American is going to rot in jail until he
dies or until Bush leaves office.

Oh dear,how sad,nevermind.

Tony Blair made political history today, and not in the way he would have hoped.
There was a knock on the door of Number 10, and in came police officers for a
little chat. Unlike his friend Lord Levy, he was not interviewed under caution,
nor was there a lawyer present. But he is the first serving Prime Minister to be
interviewed by the police.

Will the combination of the cash for honours
scandal and the war in Iraq put a lasting blight on Tony Blair's 10 years as
leader, and the office of Prime Minister?

i fuckin hope so.

Texas is different............

We are going to let blind people hunt!
 

 

A lawmaker in this firearm-friendly state wants to help more people get
the chance to shoot live animals - even if those people can't see.
 

 

A bill filed for the 2007 legislative session would permit legally
blind hunters to use laser sights, or lighted pointing instruments.
 

 

"This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think
that's great," said Republican Rep. Edmund Kuempel, the bill's sponsor.
 

 

Visually impaired people are allowed to shoot now with the aid of a
sighted person, he said, a requirement that would continue if the
sights were legalized.
 

 

Only in Texas (for now) but I can see a movement sweeping the nation!

i cannot begin to imagine how they feel.

The first blow was delivered to the fiancée of a
Staten Island soldier by a man in uniform - word that her beloved was
killed in combat in Iraq. The second was delivered two hours later by a
FedEx truck - a package from Sgt. Yevgeniy Ryndych with an engagement
ring inside.


This story of love, war and cruel fate was described
by Ryndych's grieving brother last night after the military confirmed
that the 24-year-old soldier was felled Wednesday by a homemade bomb
while on foot patrol with his unit in Ramadi.


Fighting back tears, his face tight with grief, Ivan
Ryndych said his brother's beloved was named Kim, but he couldn't bring
himself to talk about her - or what their life together might have
been.


But his eyes flashed with anger when he realized he
lost his brother on the same day a historic report damning President
Bush's failing Iraq strategy came out. "It won't change anything," said
Ivan Ryndych, 20, today.

just be happy - if you can.

True - he has his legacy to think of + the big paid speeches in da USA.

Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring

Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept
a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They
Really Want to Give You One
(2/14/02)

1. You've Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond

The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer
advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to
create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock.

http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/conflictdiamonds.htm?cont=1

nothing.

i dunno how some blog folks keep up the quality AND
the quantity of their blogging.

well,apart from having talent .
that probably helps.

‘It’s Bad In Iraq. That Help?’......................no,not really.

Bush responded curtly, “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?” and then chuckled.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/07/bush-denial/

i hear tonee bliar has still to collect his Medal,awarded by dubya,for bein a loyal poodle or summat.
too busy.
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

i am guessing,very progressive or a vintage advert.

good grief

ummmmmmmmmmmmm

a kindred spirit?

a rabbit with a basket on his head....................dunno why.

Repeal Day

In the United States, Repeal Day is celebrated on December 5. The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 5th, 1933. The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and thus effectively ended nationwide alcohol prohibition.

Generally, Repeal Day is celebrated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

i had not heard of this,i raise a glass to those Stateside.

Blair defiant over NHS criticism

"The best is yet to come with more lives saved, stopping more pain and distress "

Tony Blair


and he is famous for that,his caring side i mean.

dunno how he sleeps at nights.

http://indexed.blogspot.com/

no idea if you are meant to link to sites like this(is their a link code?).

Sheesh,release an album dude.

Long horse

Above, a color photo of a long horse.
In
later years, unethical breeders were breeding longer and longer horses.
Eventually, their spines gave out, leading to the extinction of the
breed.

Hypothermia..........or just a way in the front door?

Hedgehogs born late due to warm weather have been spotted "drunkenly" walking around as they are unable to hibernate.

Charities have been inundated with the babies from second litters which have not put on enough winter weight.

"People are ringing up saying they've found a hedgehog
that looks drunk," said Hugh Warwick of the Hedgehog Preservation
Society.

"Hedgehogs are suffering from the early stages of hypothermia, they're beginning to shake and to wobble."

They lost interest?....... surely a perfect Christmas gift.a chance missed.

The WASP, later named the X-Jet, was the result of fifteen years of
development. It looked a bit like a flying garbage can, with the pilot
standing on the fuel tank and a 600-pound turbofan engine mounted in
front of him. Performance of the WASP was impressive, with a speed of
60 mph and a service ceiling of 10,000 feet. Maximum flight time was
just over 30 minutes. The craft was listed in Jane's All the World's Aircraft as late as the 1985 edition but once again the army, which had financed its development, lost interest.

National Methamphetamine Awareness Day, 2006 (Yesterday,always a day late.)

"Methamphetamine is a powerfully addictive drug that dramatically
affects users' minds and bodies. Chronic use can lead to violent
behavior, paranoia, and an inability to cope with the ordinary demands
of life. Methamphetamine abusers can transform homes into places of
danger and despair by neglecting or endangering the lives of their
children, spouses, and other loved ones. Additionally, methamphetamine
production exposes anyone near the process to toxic chemicals and the
risk of explosion."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061128.html