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

I'm glad to see that the myth of Friday has finally been exploded.

RF

Cross-posting from another thread...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11275980

Film-maker Claude Chabrol dies

homeopathic MMR vaccine available

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11277990

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because its Bx!!

Not news, target advertising

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A former Labour Minister is in court today charged with election offences. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7998847/Former-minister-in-High-Court-battle-over-election-dirty-tricks.html

I hope they find the disgusting little man guilty and get him out of politics. Here's the leaflet he distributed.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/08/phil-woolas-election-leaflets/

I find Woolas excreble, and the tone of this leaflet to totally confirm the reasons why I dislike him so (though I would wonder if some on hootoo would have some sympathy with the position espoused in the leaflet).

However whilst disgusting based on what I think I don't really I'm not really sure if the leaflet does on the tin what the Liberal Democrat bloke is alleging. An amnesty for long term illegal immigrants was Liberal Democrat policy, and whilst it is scummy the way the leflet is set up I'n not sure there are any direct lies in it... perhaps I am wrong.

Still I won't shed a tear if woolas is booted out, I dislike him intensely...

FB

as the majority was only 106, the best outcome would be a re-run

I doubt he'll be found guilty either unfortunately. He walked a very fine line. Whereas he made himself abundantly clear and stirred up racial tensions, he did so by allusion and innuendo.

I think if someone has really broken the rules they ought to be disqualified from running again. And when I read the story earlier I was amused that Woolas, on of my least favourite ministers in the previous government, was in trouble.

However looking at that leaflet (though perhaps there were others), whilst a summy way of conductiong ones self it does not look like he has done what the article I read earlier suggested he had done.

it will be interesting to see the outcome.

FB

Just send him over to France, the current government doesn't seem to mind anyway.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/13/le-monde-sarkozy-spying-reporters

Le Monde accuses Nicolas Sarkozy of ordering 'spying' on reporters.

Best use of the work "wackdoodlery" in what's actually a serious op-ed piece of journalism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/this-is-how-the-media-wor_n_712229.html

Furtive sweets...

"While executing a search warrant for a marijuana grow operation, RCMP in Cranbrook discovered a package of suspicious-looking gummy bears."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/09/12/bc-cranbrook-lsd-gummy-bear.html#ixzz0zU7gz4Iv

Priests need not be celibate, BBC survey finds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11274849


A wonder if the survey included any kids?

Holy exploding cappucino's Batman!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11300629

At least seven people were hurt when an industrial coffee machine exploded at a Sainsbury's supermarket in Hampshire.

France hit by EU legal threat over Roma 'disgrace'

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jhdfEn7BDYu8-kazZt-hO2qr6oZQ

Reding chided the French government after a leaked memo "openly contradicted" assurances given by two ministers to the commission that specific ethnic groups had not been targeted in France.

And one for swl:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/14/3010768.htm

Castro calls Sarkozy 'crazy'

And here's why Castro is shooting his mouth off at other countries

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11291267

Cuba to cut one million public sector jobs

A British teenager has been banned from America for life for sending Barack Obama an abusive email.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Luke-Angel-Teenager-Banned-from-America-For-Life-For-Sending-Abusive-Email-To-Barack-Obama/Article/201009215726177?lpos=UK_News_Third_World_News_Article_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15726177_Luke_Angel%3A_Teenager_Banned_from_America_For_Life_For_Sending_Abusive_Email_To_Barack_Obama_

"Luke Angel was reprimanded by police on both sides of the Atlantic after firing off a drunken message to the White House calling the president a "p****".

The FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK who went to see the 17-year-old at his home in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

Luke, a college student, is now on a list of people who are banned from visiting the States."

So this comes up again, despite the vast amount of evidence against it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11303939

The government is to set out plans later for a badger cull in England, which it believes is necessary to curb tuberculosis in cattle.