You wan't to know why I don't have comments on this blog, why I've dumped Twitter and why I'm having less to do with political blogging in general? Lawyers for US golfer Tiger Woods have obtained a UK injunction preventing certain information purportedly about him being published.The order was granted by a judge at the High Court in London, and concerns alleged information which cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.So we don't know what it is we can't say about Tiger Woods and his sexual adventures. One thing we definitely can say: the man is a fucking idiot. I read somewhere earlier today that he hadn't paid for sex. Oh, boy! How wrong can you be, Mr Woods. You paid alright. You paid plenty. These are going to be the mosy expensive fucks you ever have in your life! I hope they were worth it.
Oh, I bet!As much of its oil is relatively cheap to extract, analysts suggest the potential profits for foreign companies could be huge. "This is an opportunity without precedent anywhere else in the world.
The scale of reserves available for development and exploitation is without equal," Peter Kemp from Energy Intelligence told BBC News. "That is something that no oil company... can ignore."
In an epoch of small wars in confusing and ambiguous causes, and with a fully professional military, we should not be emotionally ramping up what armed conflict is sometimes about. We are using the Second World War language of national survival and conscripted soldiers — “our boys” — to discuss what ought to be discussed as a limited operation, of an optional nature, in support of an important ally, using professional service-people working in their chosen career. There is not a single conscript in the British Armed Forces.
This is not a fight for our very existence, our whole way of life, all that is dear to us. It is not a race against time to forestall carnage on our streets at home. The pro-war brigade should cease talking up the stakes in these overblown terms.
Via J-WalkA 53-year-old was arrested after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll. Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit to slapping him, saying she did it "so that he could learn."
Surely there's nothing wrong with asking whether Santa Claus could ever be gay, right? Well, not if you're Focus on the Family. For them, you might as well call Santa Claus a murderer. Posting on their blog Citizenlink, everyone's favorite organization that focuses a lot on persecuting gay people and very little on families, writes that the play destroys the innocence of Christmas and shows the dark side of homosexual activists.
A psychoanalyst offers an explanation for America's fury at murder conviction
I spotted a link to this piece by Frank Skinner and got the wrong end of the stick. I marched over ready to slag it off only to find a thoughtful, considered and well-written piece. Check it out.It’s as if the town has deliberately placed itself in the unquestioning past — in a time before anti-war riots and Iraq inquiries. Wootton Bassett seems, from afar at least, a glimpse of that Great Britain that makes a lot of people, including the BNP’s Nick Griffin, go dewy-eyed with nostalgia. Maybe Nick Griffin is a bad example. Well, obviously Nick Griffin is a bad example but I mean a bad example in this particular context. One would guess there isn’t often a tear in Nick Griffin’s eye — unless, of course, the wind suddenly changes at a book-burning — however, he does seem to get genuinely sentimental when he hankers for a lost Britain.
At the start of The Bully State, his rambunctious account of the nanny state’s recent history, Brian Monteith argues that the term ‘nanny’ is too cuddly a word for the alliance of ‘puritans, control freaks and prohibitionists’ who are waging war on individual freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.
Nanny, he says, has lost her patience with us. Her policies of re-education have failed to ‘nudge’ us towards government-approved behaviour. Targets have not been met. Too many calories are being consumed. Too many units of alcohol are being knocked back. Some of us are even smoking and using offensive language. Not so much disappointed as angry, she has now turned bully. What happens now is going to hurt us a lot more than it hurts her.
The US has been the driver of drug control policies throughout the world. Policies which originated in US right wing religious bigotry and racism.If you had asked me 10 years ago whether the United States will ever change its interdiction-focused counternarcotics policies -- and perhaps even decriminalize marijuana consumption at home -- I would have told you, ``never.'' Today, I say, ``perhaps.''
Earlier this week, in a tacit admission that current U.S. anti-drug policies are not working, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to create an independent commission to review whether the U.S. anti-drug policies of the past three decades in Latin America are producing positive results.
The charge of a few quid for using your card in 'heinous'?! You get a flight for peanuts and moan about having to cough up another tenner?! And to avoid this you'd go to all the trouble of getting a prepaid card? What you need to do is get a life, dear, not another fucking card.
Ryanair announced last week that it will only exempt one payment card from its transaction fees – the MasterCard Prepaid. Any other card attracts the £5 or €5 fee per flight, regardless of whether it is credit or debit. So, passengers must now jump through another hoop to avoid Ryanair’s heinous extra charges.
In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.Via JsansF
"A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people. Please give your opinion as to whether this can be explained to the Poles without hurting immigration," read the document, written by Meir to Israel's ambassador to Poland, Katriel Katz. The letter, marked "top secret" and written in April 1958, shortly after Meir became foreign minister, was uncovered by Prof. Szymon Rudnicki, a Polish historian at the University of Warsaw.
As much of its oil is relatively cheap to extract, analysts suggest the potential profits for foreign companies could be huge. "This is an opportunity without precedent anywhere else in the world. 
A 53-year-old was arrested after allegedly hitting a man in the head with a raw steak. According to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report, the man told deputies Elsie Egan repeatedly hit him with the uncooked meat and slapped his face after he refused a piece of sliced bread. The man said he wanted a bread roll. Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit to slapping him, saying she did it "so that he could learn."
It’s as if the town has deliberately placed itself in the unquestioning past — in a time before anti-war riots and Iraq inquiries. Wootton Bassett seems, from afar at least, a glimpse of that Great Britain that makes a lot of people, including the BNP’s Nick Griffin, go dewy-eyed with nostalgia. Maybe Nick Griffin is a bad example. Well, obviously Nick Griffin is a bad example but I mean a bad example in this particular context. One would guess there isn’t often a tear in Nick Griffin’s eye — unless, of course, the wind suddenly changes at a book-burning — however, he does seem to get genuinely sentimental when he hankers for a lost Britain.
If you had asked me 10 years ago whether the United States will ever change its interdiction-focused counternarcotics policies -- and perhaps even decriminalize marijuana consumption at home -- I would have told you, ``never.'' Today, I say, ``perhaps.'' 
