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

Good grief.

Further expenses "scams (?)" paid for by British taxpayers, uncovered:

Civil servants:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7587803/Senior-civil-servants-claimed-record-1bn-on-taxpayer-funded-credit-cards.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389613/1bn-scandal-Gold-Card-taxpayer-Civil-servants-ordered-come-clean-amid-accusations-massive-new-expenses-abuse.html



Local councils:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8542944/Council-spending-Councils-spend-4m-on-luxury-taxpayer-funded-trips.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/council-spending/8542676/Council-credit-card-spending-database-released.html

Brilliant!
He gets better and betterer!
Shakespeare, hip-hop, Ogden Nash...

How does he do it!
The most complex and delightful rimes.

~jwf~

... >>Re: Storm the non-gender defined human...Tim Minchin has
already written a beat poem about her...him..it...<<

A highly entertaining talent

Genius Mr Minchin.

beep beep beep and now local news.................

next-door has just put out her smalls

I watched a fair bit of the Tim Minchin. Yes it was good stuff. But I thought it went on too long in the same vein. I switched it off after about 2/3.

Italian seismologists are going to be tried on charges of manslaughter, for failing to warn people of a large earthquake. This despite the general consensus being that we don´t have ways to predict earthquakes yet.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43187273/ns/technology_and_science-science/

>> ...it went on too long in the same vein.
I switched it off after about 2/3. <<

Wanna try again?
There's a cartoon version that's a little more interesting
visually. And you won't have to stare a Mr Beetlejuice.

http://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U


~jwf~

jwf
That's brilliant.

I appear to be some sort of weird person who has acquired ADHD in middle age. Mind you they do say bipolars are forever trapped in adolescence.

Crikey I loved that so much I have to post twice.

The BBC now apparently an organ of the Conservative party, reported on its half hourly news bulletin of 5live this Mail story as their main story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392003/Window-cleaner-No-I-carry-ladders-therapy-back.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I really shouldn't wake up in the middle of the night and put the radio on.

Germany closing all its nuclear power stations by 2022.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13594503

>>Flooded-out farmer needs permit to remove fish<<


http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2011/05/20110527-160945.html

Y.

You couldn't invent it...

What isn't mentioned in that story is the fact that the farmer is in a riding which just a few weeks ago elected an Opposition member to Parliament. Our Prime Minister has made trips to a wildfire disaster in Alberta and to Floods in Manitoba (Government MPs represent the areas) but those suffering from the flood (six weeks under water and counting) in Quebec, which voted overwhelmingly for the Opposition in our election a few weeks ago have seen no sign of any Government Minister and calls for emergency help from the military were ignored for a week, then refused (on the grounds that the military would be competing with the private sector), and then finally some extra help was sent after the Premier of Quebec spoke directly with the PM.

If the farmer had been in the Manitoba floods (and voted Conservative), he'd have a couple of platoons of reservists cleaning the fish out of his fields.

Despite GB fuel escalator and carbon taxes development in China and
India gives rise to biggest ever man-made emission volumes of carbon
dioxide: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13595174

World human population passes 6,894,000,000

*reaches for the sun block and shorts*


Ahhh nice and warm and dry

This is British Car Week in the USA.
(America, Canadas Mini-me)

http://www.britishcarweek.org/

-jwf-

Ethics versus Money in a Military - Capitalistic Whirled:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13608826.stm