Althea, wigged-out after her travels
Althea went missing for about 36 hours. No idea where she went.
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Mother can’t travel with epileptic son
A mother has been told she cannot travel to school with her severely epileptic son because she has not been police checked.
Jayne Jones, of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, used to travel with her son Alex, 14, in the council-provided taxi when she feared he may have a fit.
BBC, Mum’s police check for school run
Tell it like it is
I communicate with members of the terror cult, all the time. I tell them to disregard that vulgar murder manual, the Koran. And I say that their so-called ‘prophet’ was a pedophile and a fraud.
Reminder: the phony ‘prophet’ was a sex-toy to an heiress to a wealthy trade family. When she turned 55 - Muhammad [...]
What goes around comes around
Bob Geldof, on the Magna Carter and liberty:
“To no man will we deny, To no man will we delay, Justice and Right.” Is that not grand, worthy of your vote…
…Liberty is always dangerous - but it’s the safest thing we have.
Sir Bob, in the Telegraph, Don’t let ‘Brave New Britain’ remove our fundamental rights
Typist of the Year
changes in technology wipe out roles: the computer has pretty much wiped out the occupation of typist (and thus might explain Polly [Toynbee]’s own move from such to columnist, neatly showing that not all technological advances are to the improvement of society)
Tim Worstall in ‘The Spectator’, Polly Toynbee: Political Journalist of the Year
Equality, discrimination and patterns of outcome
Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out plans to allow firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job candidates.
BBC News, Harman pushes discrimination plan
Harriet Harman - the Deputy Leader and Chair of the UK’s Labour Party, the Minister for Women, the Leader of the House of Commons, the Lord Privy Seal, and [...]
Dog in boots
Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence.
The Times, Sniffer dogs to wear ‘Muslim’ bootees
But why? Even if rover is usually haram, Muslim authorities make exceptions so that a common list of situations in which doggies are allowed is, for example:
A trained dog [...]
The Koran: an advocate for women’s rights
The Qur’an is an advocate for women’s rights
Zohra Moosa , Blazing a feminist trail in Islam, The Guardian
The increasingly deranged advocacy group The Fawcett Society ties itself in knots when it comes to the cultural, historic and religiously sanctioned misogyny of Islam. Here, Policy Officer Zohra Moosa claims to be a feminist not to the [...]
Happy Birthday USA
I first visited the States in 2001, just before 9/11, and I’ve holidayed there every couple of years since. By the end of this summer I’ll have been to: Georgia; South Carolina; Alabama; Arkansas; Louisiana; California; Nevada; Arizona; Washington DC; Virginia; Tennessee; Mississippi; Kentucky; West Virginia; Colorado; New Mexico; and Utah.
I think I was most [...]
Transcendental IPO
When Google went public, its IPO announced a intention to raise $2,718,28,183. The transcendental number e is, of course, roughly 2.71828183….