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Down-home truths 2008-10-07 16:29:00 The cold and the frost are here, and as I watch the 2008 United States vice-presidential debate the temperature drops below freezing; Sarah Palin sends a shiver down my spine.As the nights draw darkly, temperatures tremble in the breeze, and dawn won’t break till morning I can begin to feel the creek in my bones that signals the onset of another cold Alaskan winter. This afternoon I moved my bed
Folksy tales from the brave new world 2008-10-02 21:47:00 I know it doesn’t matter – and you know it doesn’t matter – but if he didn’t quote The Tempest with quite such a simpering smile I wouldn't find myself wondering whether he can bowl as well as Obama.But Joe Biden did. And while he does, and being of the old Wilde school of not attributing his sources, Palin’s modesty to misattribute her quotes is all the more notable. Those given to An Read more:brave new
The Third Man 2008-10-01 14:06:00 Lately, Chameleon Cameron has shown all the symptoms (in my medical opinion) of a man trapped in a Graham Greene novel or two.It began with a friendly smile and as few policies as he could get away with – as long as nothing happens anything is possible. Like Our Man in Havana, he talked a good game, painted castles in the sky, but when you actually looked closely for the policies you saw that it
Fattening up for Christmas 2008-09-30 09:10:00 The first phase of my plan to get fat got underway last night with a double helping of mince and potato, followed swiftly by a crunchy, oaten apple crumble and washed down with three – oh, yes – tall glasses of cool milk. And I’m drinking milk as I type.The great thing about drinking milk is that it fills you up and gives you energy; dairy fats prepare the belly for a night out, which means Read more:Christmas
Facing Them Down: head-on or roundabout? 2008-09-23 08:38:00 Two weeks, two political party conferences, two leaders' speeches. The Liberals’ watery tax and loose end waffling and wandering left it to Labour to raise the bar by standing still and speaking the common sense of our age.A week ago, Nick Clegg, already lacking gravitas, had abandoned the dignity of the lectern to waltz the podium. If you think it didn’t look absurd that’s down, quite liter Read more:Facing
Alaska: Come to Palin Country 2008-10-29 12:40:00 Alaska is the America you all want to be. The 'real America', if you will (and any real American would). Every liberal has a secret hope for that final freedom. Every one of them wakes up at night in a cold sweat with a lonely vision of the frozen north and a longing to be so nowhere.If you eavesdrop on your minds you’ll hear all sorts of noises that have nothing to do with who you are supposed Read more:Alaska
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Distraught prank call victim blasts “shocking” BBC and “cruel sickos” Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. 2008-10-28 22:51:00 As anger mounts over the antics of RussellBrand
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Ross, Georgina Baillie steps forward to publicly condemn the pair and the BBC for their actions.Andrew Sachs, beloved star of the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, was to be interviewed by churlish fad Russell Brand for the latter's radio show. But when they could only get hold of his answering machine, Brand and guest boor Jonathan Read more:cruel
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How to Get Noticed in America 2008-10-15 10:33:00 Top tips to help Uncle John McCain see if he can't put the McCain back into 'election campMcCaingn' as we limber up to Long Island and D3. Stand out from the crowd with the Top Three 3 Sure-fire Steps to the reaction you deserve. Be a hero. An America
n hero. America loves a hero. Accept your party’s – chose one – nomination for President. DO NOT under any circumstance BE JOHN MCCAI
Voting like a child: Did the youth turn out and vote Obama? 2008-11-07 18:07:00 The Americans were voting Tuesday. But which Americans? Who was turning out? All eyes were on young voters in swing states.There is no doubt that among the young there was, indeed is, an energy and excitement – and, I daresay, an optimism – about this election that other’s just haven’t produced.Young people were asking each other, “Did you vote yet?” It was the only story in the media Read more:child
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What does England think? British opinions on the US election 2008-11-06 11:06:00 As British
networks filled time between polls closing, reporters are grabbed influential Brits to test the pulse of the Old Country.Always ready with an opinion is Christopher Hitchens: “I think
it’s a zeitgeist change. It’s an historic, seismic change. The middle-class has flipped hard against the Republican Party. On its watch all the important things about the American Dream have gone sou Read more:England
Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech: full text 2008-11-06 00:48:00 Barack Obama
spoke in Grant Park in Chicago, IL at 12:00am ET on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. He spoke thus:Hello, Chicago.If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders whether the dream of our fathers is alive in our time, who questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.It’s the answer told by lines that s Read more:Acceptance
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Obama Wins: BBC calls election for Obama. 2008-11-04 21:48:00 The 44th President of the United States will be Barack Obama
.11pm: East coast polling closes and states are officially projected for Barack Obama. California was called first. Washington followed seconds later, bringing Obama votes to over the required 270 and sending him into the White House.ABC, CNN, NBC and the BBC have call the election for the Democratic candidate.Victory marks the end of a m Read more:calls
BBC urged to call election for Obama; argument ensues 2008-11-04 20:49:00 Noted historian Simon Schama let his Obama
support get the better of him when he interrupted a reptort to ask the show’s host,“Aren’t you going to call the election, David?”Host David Dimbleby, who had earlier announced that Fox News wasn’t good enough for the BBC to report an Obama victory in Ohio, responded by questioning Schama’s credibility as an historian and chastising him for wa
Obama takes Ohio 2008-11-04 20:07:00 It must be over now. This is Obama
's night.Finally, Georgia has been projected for McCain. But it took so long. It shouldn't have been so close. It shows the force of the Obama phenomenon even in Republican states. If Ohio
has gone blue, Georgia's red is too little too late.The Republican faces look depressed in Ohio. Fox News -- yes, that's right FOX -- has called Ohio for Obama. The Obama steamr
Obama Cakes: accidental chocolate candicrepes 2008-11-03 22:58:00 Ingredients:2 egg whites120ml milk120ml water95g flour25g sugar30g butter1 tbsp cocoaIngredients yield three crepes, no policies, and an endless supply of hopeful generalisations.Directions:1. Whisk and beat ingredients together.2. Fry them.3. Serve piping hot with American apple pie and so much cream that you can no longer see the chocolate.Bon appétit! Swallow it all.
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Countdown to Obamageddon: are these last days the Last Days? 2008-11-02 19:32:00 It’s the question that’s been on the tip of the brain of every serious political commentator for decades. It’s about time one of us came out and said it. As usual that someone will have to be me.Is Barack Obama too skinny to lead the free world?The free world is increasingly a fat world. An elitist beanpole risks alienating the fatheads of wobbly-middle America. He may be the thinnest, but h Read more:Countdown
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NaBloPoMo and the Big O 2008-11-02 01:13:00 A late night hello marks the start of my live as a NaBloPoMoer.This post is the first of my National Blog Posting Month daily-post-for-a-month post posts.
Spread the wealth like Obama 2008-10-30 21:58:00 With socialism and communism discredited, liberty and democracy conflated, the USA is imperial in her ignorance as she foists upon other nations words that she doesn’t understand.Tell your population that the enemy eats babies. That’s the start. They did that in the First and Second World Wars. And they did that with the Covenanters in Scotland. They told us that they threw babies up the air a Read more:Obama
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