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Telegraph - The Fayed Book of Nursery Rhymes (Part II), by Craig Brown

Best this time:

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry When the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie phone his official spokesman And say, those other boys, they did […]

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Telegraph Blogs - John McCain too busy to meet Brown

You have to laugh. John McCain has just pulled out of his trailed meeting with the PM on Friday, citing new diary commitments. Being snubbed by the potential next President of the United States will not be the PM’s idea of a joke.

They said […]

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Telegraph - Scottish wildcats: Tall tales and tartan tabbies A new documentary counters the myths about the wildest of cats. By Jack Watkins

Despite our eagerness to devour reports of wild beasts at large on Exmoor, there are those who still dismiss the existence of Britain’s most ferocious mammal, the Scottish wildcat, as a myth. […]

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Peter’s taking me off Small Orange tonight and moving me to Media Temple (lord, how boring), and because only by starting at the bottom can we build ourselves up, this blog is going to go to one of the templates. The code isn’t nearly as elegant as he’d like it to be, mostly because it’s […]

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I’m glad this got printed cuz the same thing came out a couple years ago and I think it predated my trusty ol’ external memory drive (if I saved it to my hard drive, god, good luck cuz I’m not wading down there) and ever since whenever the topic of wage disparity comes up I […]

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Yes, I’m linking to the HuffPo. We’ll get through this together.

HuffPo - Greatest Living American Ignored, by Gregg Easterbrook

Today in Washington I was in the room as the greatest living American received a medal. George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi and others were present. But will you ever hear this event […]

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NY Sun - Jumping the Fence. By MARK STEYN

More artfully, the Democrats’ leader Harry Reid, instead of insulting his old base, invented a new one. Among the torrent of calls from racist intimidatory talk-radio listeners who don’t know where Gulfport is, Senator Reid had somehow managed to get through to the one constituent […]

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Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis liberiensis) eats at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Aldo looks, eats and lazes like a hippopotamus but he is only about as big as a human baby, at 53 centimeters (21 inches). This pygmy hippopotamus, born earlier this month, is one of only a few […]

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You Tube - Carlo Mencia -Terrorists

“As soon as Ahmed blew somethin’ up it was like Blacky, Darky, Cracker: Wonder Twin Powers Activate!”

Curtsy to CDR Salamander (cad) for the link. If only you people could see it… (at the moment I write this my page isn’t working.)

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Times Online - How to solve the Italian Job, by Camilla Cavendish The way to stop corruption is to shut down the EU’s crazy schemes and repatriate the cash

BRAVO! THE PRESIDENT of the EU has offered €60 million to French towns affected by riots, under the “framework of an urban programme”. All those disaffected […]

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Loyal ninme fans: the blog is currently going a bit haywire. Hopefully things will be back to normal by tonight. Your prayers to the tech gods are appreciated. -peter

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Vodka Pundit - Needed: Hobbits With Hyperdrive

Forget about Darth Vader–here’s a real Dark Lord. The Hubble space telescope has located Sauron. Here’s a larger picture.

ninme quakes

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Interesting things are afoot in Britain. Michael Howard has hired John Howard’s Rovian Lynton Crosby.

The Edge of England’s Sword - Speaking for Britain

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President Bush, right, speaks with Sen. John Kerry, D-Ma., at a ceremony for the Boston Red Sox on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, March 2, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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This is my new battle cry.

Via PoliPundit:

Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor

DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts.   The pair were ordered to […]

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