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

There's an outbreak of West Nile disease in Dallas Tex
so they told everybody to stay indoors from dusk to dawn
while planes flew very very low overhead and sprayed the
entire city with chemicals. "Safe unless swallowed."

This kind of aerial spraying was banned decades ago and
even back then it was never carried out to such an extent
or over such dense urban areas before.

A TV reporter asking the public for their reaction had
one pretty young woman declare - "Well no one wants
to die of West Nile disease so a little poison dropping
from the sky is a small price to pay for good health."


~jwf~

The old nuclear option: http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/newsnotes/intnews6.html

ps that was an old story about 15 years ago.

More recent stories in the USA report of thousands of birds mysteriously falling from the sky dead:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188591/Mystery-dozens-dead-birds-falling-sky-New-Jersey-solved-officials-say-farmer-killed-purpose.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Another example
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12106315

Accommodation Rent charges in UK reach all time high:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19288208

Chinese nationalism on the rise? Chinese - Japanese tensions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19313052

It is cheaper to live in a Hotel; my rent isn't that much but I thought it was a lot at £400pm. Well toffee tory reckons I ought to be moved now I'm disabled, not at their cost but at my cost, out of the vast amounts of free dosh I get for paying National Insurance, Insurance, Insurance all my life.

Actually a tory can't say a word without misleading a lot, because they quote rents assuming I keep the same status, a legal bit of jargon to get my vote to sell off the housing stock the last time they was in, which means my rent is kept down by a formula. Now the misleading bit is that by moving I lose that status, security and have to pay market rents for the privilege.

Now a think tank wants to sell flats in expensive areas; because they COULD build two for the price of one. It is a tory talking; you won't see any new flats.

You may find APOD interesting (2012 August 21) a DNA animation:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Tony Nicklinson has died at his home in Wiltshire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19341722

Of course, in the short term, there will be masses of speculation about this.

Five days ago the British courts refused him the right to be able to choose the time of his departure, in this country, with medical assistance.

PP

"Pictures showing Prince Harry and a young woman naked in a Las Vegas hotel room have been published"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19346468

Poor lad. First he gets in trouble for wearing a Nazi uniform, then he gets in trouble for *not* wearing it.

Talking of pictures, well frescos:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

'The once-dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic'

Oh dear

I suspect that less people are interested in Harry's plums than the papers would like.

You can take the boy out of the Hewitt but you can't take the Hewitt out of the boy.

PP.

From what I have read online about the prince Harry story, the theme seems to be about Brit papers not touching the story, post Leveson Inquiry.

Yeh well I'm not standing up again. How much holidays does he get anyway cos I saw him at the Olympics everyday, and how much do army pilots get paid.

Must be an easy job; you just get to fly a flash airplane around at taxpayers expense, and I pay tax.

He's no different to any other squaddie I know, except he gets naked in private rather than public.

Now, I wouldn't want to pre-judge but

http://velostage.com/cyclists-sought-after-alleged-assault/

BMW driver overtakes cyclists riding two abreast
BMW driver stops, gets out of car, approaches cyclists to discuss Highway Code
BMW driver gets smack in the mouth.

Black BMW?

Obviously a drug dealer then.



PP

Neil Armstrong, said to be the first man to walk on the moon, has died

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098

"said to be"? is there some background to that?