So Osborne is going to make his speech in Edinburgh. That sort of bullying hectoring arrogance is going to do the Yes campaign no end of good.

Not a data site, but the Midlands Storm Chasers facebook group is worth looking at.

If the flood victims are nice middle class people they’ll get official sympathy. If they are working, or non-working class people then they’ll be blamed for living inan area prone to flooding as often as once-in-two-hundred years.

Even the forested parts of the South Downs are a quagmire. It’s really no fun at this time of year.

How does Skype make a profit? Do the calls get preceeded by adverts? I know you can buy Skype vouchers for low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles but I still wonder how the whole thing keeps going.

Interesting that the SNP were able to capitalise on this speech as a sign of Westminster panic. It would take a particular kind of incompetence to overturn the 60% majority in favour of the union, but I wonder if Dave couldn’t just do it… At any rate this will go dowwn as a banana skin. Better just to stay out of it and let the SNP mess it up.

….world, and Clarkonisms; eg: golfists.

The state commoditises you and you don’t care? Baaaaaaa…

David Cameron will be along shortly to tell us to wear an extra wetsuit.

Yes, laugh all you want. One day it won’t be funny.

Just wait until the criminals duplicated the technology. You wouldn’t be able to drive away from them…

Elitists!

The coalition will hand out some mops and buckets and tell the flood affected to get on with it themselves and stop expecting the state to help them.

Why call in the army? So it appears as if they are doing sometging.

It’s good news week
Someone’s dropped a bomb somewhere
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky

It’s good news week
Someone’s found a way to give
The rotting dead a will to live
Go on and never die

Have you heard the news
What did it say?
Who’s won that race?
What’s the weather like today?

It’s good news week
Families shake the need for gold
By stimulating birth control
We’re wanting less to eat

It’s good news week
Doctors finding many ways
Of wrapping brains on metal trays
To keep us from the heat

Oh the poor dear! She should stop expecting taxpaywrs to subsidise her occupancy of a dwelling with too many bedrooms and learn to live within her means.

Don’t forget that with 15 months to go the election we’re going to get drenched with coalition propaganda BS relying on selective use of questionable statistics. As Ben said, six years on the economy is still effectively on state life support, and there are ominous signs that another bust is on the way…

I’m astonished how much water the soil has absorbed recently; though If I were to tread on my sodden veg plot in a vain attempt to weed it I’m sure that a spring would erupt wherever I trod. How much more can it take? This is bound to have an adverse effect on arable farmers.

Jesus wept! I thought I’d seen p!enty of snide bitterness in the readers’comments on the Portsnouth News website, but this goes far beyond what even they can stoop to! Would some of the low comments apply to a mountain biker suffering a similar head injury? Thirteen years ago I might have been in a similar situation; fortunately my concussion wasn’t severe enough (just) to warrant my airlifting to the regional trauma centre, but it was a borderline call… I made a full recovery, but I could so easily have been in a far worse state.

Just remember; there for the grace of god or fate go you..

I find it bizarre that anyone would agitate so strongly for closer ties to the EU.

edited now. effing google keyboard!

Are they a Scottish couple? If so tell them that the answer to everything is independence.

The BBC a soft propaganda outlet for the government? Who would have thought it?!

Or chains actually designed to last.

If you can’t actively oppose evil you can at least try to counter it by doing good.

Map!in, or your local outdoorsy shop.

An interesting point, this. What can you do? Raise awareness of the issues and facts you feel strongly about. Comment in support of people who share your views and put their head above the parapet to express them on local newspaper comments sections so that they don’t feel alone and isolated in having that viewpoint. Challenge the prejudices of those who hold them… Or in the words of Depeche Mode…

You can’t change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world

I’ve got my own project which I hope will come to fruition this year. Whether it turns out to be good or evil remains to be seen.

Despite my repeated lessons, my technophobic Dad has problems using his phone. Go and visit him.

Cameron doesn’t need to bother or worry about Scottish independence; it isn’t going to happen, with the vote being at worst 40% for – 60% against. He just needs to stand far away and watch Salmond and the SNP implode after the vote.

Humans may sleep but the artificial life that we can create don’t. Imagine active avitatrs reproducing at an exponential rate, all generating data…

I like the idea of the NSA’s servers melting under the overload. Let’s do it!

It’s not over ’till it’s over.

“MPs could seek to reinsert the proposal in the bill when it returns to the Commons.

After debate on the report stage of the bill, the legislation still has to go through its third reading in the House of Lords.

The House of Commons will then consider any amendments made by the Lords before the bill can be sent for Royal Assent – when the Queen signs bills into law.”

And if all else fails the Parliament Act could be invoked…

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Act_1911

Ohhhh-oh the guns of Brixton…

The entire bill or that individual clause?

I’m sure that it will return in an amended form.

Allow TJ back and he can reply as much as he wants to.

And this from the coalition that was ‘commited to restoring our freedoms’…

In other news, voters will now have to show proof of ID before casting their ballot. It’s the time tunnel… time tunnel… time tunnel… and we’re back in 2003!

To clarify the uniform issue; the MPs were issued with civillian police overalls. That was the major reason for the furore at the time about the police identifying numbers not being publicly displayed at Orgreave and other clashes.

A poor year? They’ve been getting away with murder, aided and abetted by their lib-dem henchmen.

I hate to say this but…. You’re doomed!

They were recognised by family members.

It’s a well-known fact among the miners and their supporters that non-uniformed military police were seconded to support the civillian forces during the atrike.