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

Don't you love stupid people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11908583

Regarding Wikileeks:
http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/3b966422-529b-4c2c-b027-f5e684d74c2c.jpg

No loud noises like gunshots will be tolerated in the library!

http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/man-killed-crossbow-shooting-toronto-library-suspect-custody.html


~jwf~

How disappointing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11913832

Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council has overturned earlier poll results and declared President Laurent Gbagbo the winner of Sunday's run-off.

That could have been worse, though. Ivory Coast could have nuclear weapons and North Korea's leadership.

A while ago I posted a link to a story about homeless people being hired to clear snow from our stadium in preparation for our national Football championship. Here's some video of one of those people enjoying the rehearsal for the half-time show.

It doesn't end well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQlA-mr5gM&feature=aso

The convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was deliberately neglected in Greenock prison in Scotland and when he dies his family will demand compensation, the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi is reported to have said.

http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=14923

I know for a fact that lives of great promise were cut short by the Lockerbie bombing. I don't criticise Scotland for its humanitarian decision to release the bomber earlier, but why are he and his family not concerned about the world's loss of its gifted young?

>>It doesn't end well

Thanks for the warning, I stopped watching afore anything bad happened.

Technically, there isn't much that ends well. As Keynes said, "In the long run we are all dead." That is why I would like to stipulate in my will that my ashes should be used to grow flowers, which would at least bring pleasure to someone.

But not to those with pollen allergies, obviously

I'm sure there must be flowers that nobody is allergic too. if there aren't, then maybe my ashes can be used to grow strawberries or raspberries.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7205104.html

Nobel Prize laureate Luc Montagnier to become full-time professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

The bad ending in the video was that the dancing man stumbled . . .



and fell . . .



and rolled down a goodly number of the steps of the Stadium.


I haven't been able to find out the extent of his injuries.

The Big Society, in action:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11918873

The USA's Republicans stop a bill because it doesn't make their deficit even bigger by keeping tax breaks for the rich.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37904586/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

The TeaParty's millionaire backers will be pleased at what they've bought.

I could get upset by these stories if I let myself, but Obama will ride in on a white horse and find a sensible compromise.

Trapped! We're trapped, I tell ya!


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335602/UK-snow-Seven-trapped-Yorkshire-pub-days-Big-Freeze-set-week.html

'Obama will ride in on a white horse'


I believe, Paul, that the proper term is 'European-American horse'.

if that is the case, does he now live in the 'European-American house'.