h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Indeed, and we thought only the Muslims had that mindset...

No, it's not a Muslim, Christian, Western or whatever thing... it's a male thing. Makes me want to appologize for that Y-chromosome I happen to carry around with me.

"Margaret Thatcher insisted on spending almost £2,000 on a desert search to find her missing son, rather than using public cash, newly-released files show."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20800549

Compare that with the thieving, grasping and fiddling nature of the current crop of politicians.

The reason for that is her husband was incredibly rich.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/05/margartet-thatcher-modest-and-authentic.html

" did not take the salary she was entitled to as Prime Minister and instead drew the salary of an ordinary cabinet Minister.

Recently I was talking to her about the current debate on Member´s allowances and I asked her why she had not taken her full salary as PM. I knew the answer. "We didn´t need it. DT had done well and our outgoings were not that great. We lived above the shop and worked and worked and worked. And in any case it was taxpayers' hard-earned money." The last four words were given particular force. Perhaps another example of a part of ´Thatcherism´ that could do with copying by today´s politicians?"

The problem is she then went on to screw the whole country by changing it so that the rich could get richer.

I would rather have a PM who had to draw the full salary.

As we all know, the rich got poorer before 1979.

It's come to light that Thatcher intended to destroy the welfare state.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/margaretthatcher
"NHS safe in our hands"?.....Wasserman is now an advisor for Cameron

So a proposal that was briefly discussed, instantly rejected and which Thatcher described as "nonsense" becomes an intention to destroy the welfare state?

Ah yes, the Guardian

Why not rename them Comic Papers, they make me laugh so...

I shouldn't laugh really -

'Oompa Loompas' sought by police over Norwich assault

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-20873831

There were the usual stunning displays of fireworks
last night at midnight from Sidney and Hong Kong which
involve whole swaths of the skyline. But Taipei, Taiwan
gave an especially dazzling show from one venue, the
whirled's second tallest building.

There are dozens of Utoobs of it giving various views,
some better than others, some show the building being
swallowed up in slightly unfocused smoke and flame that
reminds one of V2 rockets exploding on a launch pad.

But this is my fave because it shows the detail up a
bit closer and a few wider shots that demonstrate the
effort and finesse that went into it.

http://youtu.be/o64Hr48ZSoE



~jwf~

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/02/us-transgender-man-faces-difficulty-in-getting-divorced-from-wife/

A man can't get divorced because he was born a woman and the place he lives doesn't recognise his legal sex change, making his marriage one between two women. Arizona has banned same sex marriages and if they can't have same sex marriages, they can't have same sex divorces either.

Laws are weird.

Woman stuck in shop over New Year:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20887450

Can imagine some villains reading that and going "So nobody responds to the alarm huh! Ker-CHING!"

FB

The Sun has decided it wants in on the action re Argentina and Falklands

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20907312

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20898940

The UK's first hand transplant.

Now tell me that I am the only person who thought of the Billy Connolly 'laying on your own arm' joke.

You can't.

PP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957587

Teenager arguing against having to wear an electronic tag in her school (used for tracking attendance) on religious grounds

I'm worried that it's permitted at all, I don't know US law that well, but surely it can't be allowed under their law
I would hope so at least

I'm just amazed that the tag case infers that if she wasn't a religious in that sort of way she would be OK with being tracked.

Presumably, if she's lost her appeal than it is allowable under US law.

I agree exactly with your amazement

I'm not sure whether the court would rule on the whole legality of it, or just the aspect on which the challenge was based

Surely someone would have challenged its use on personal liberty first

Well, one would assume that however as she made the claim based on THE SIGN OF THE BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then actually putting in a bit of rational thought probably did not enter into the equation.

We aren;t exactly talking about a real world complaint and as the US legal system is secular in nature then it would be thrown out as being ball hooks.

I didn't say She would be the one doing the expected challenging, i just hope there would be one person in the school who didn't want to be tagged and was sensible

"This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For":
White House answers the petition about the building of the Death Star.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN

... the marshmallow cannon video, by the way.