WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush’s “Wolves” Commercial
When the camera crew showed up, we wondered
why they were all driving Hummers. Our agent
assured us it was a Greenpeace commercial and
they paid TWICE our hourly steak rate. Little did we
know we were being tricked into this vicious
campaign attack ad.
It's fun to stay at the...
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I like that!
The Christmas decorations are up in the shops, the shelves are stacked with singing snowmen — and we’re still on British Summer Time!
You don’t have permission to access “http://www.georgewbush.com/” on this server.
Non-American web users are barred from George Bush’s election site.
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the ill-fated action in the Crimean War, immortalised in Lord Tennyson’s poem, which became a British icon of glorious failure:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Gambling Bill Is ‘Recipe for Disaster’
The Labour government has outlined plans to liberalise gambling, which could see the opening of masive casinos, unlimited slot machine payouts and racecourse betting on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
For the government, the lure is several billion pounds in tax revenue and inward investment. The damage was done in 1993 when the Conservative government instituted the National Lottery — as a spokesman for the gambling industry commented recently, this legitimised gambling and made it impossible for governments to restrict gambling on moral grounds. The Christian Socialists who founded the British Labour Party must be spinning in their graves.
Yet Another Pointless Personality Quiz … Which File Extension are You?
I’m not sure about “cool and happening”, but a bit weird sounds about right.
By a strange synchronicity, I’ve just switched to using Ogg Vorbis format for playing music on my Palm Tungsten-E PDA, using the excellent pTunes player. With Ogg format, I’ve found that a nominal bit-rate of 96k gives a sound quality pretty much as good as MP3 at 128k. The smaller file size means I can fit 4 complete albums on a 128MB SD card (currently Evanescence, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand and Belle & Sebastion, so perhaps I can claim to be not entirely uncool!).
A survey by TV station Trouble claims that only three per cent of British teenagers are happy at school
, compared with 32 per cent in America.
Channel chief Jonathan Webb said: “The thing that surprised me is how super confident American teenagers are. Their huge work ethic and deep respect for the school authorities is startling. It’s a massive contrast to our kids.”
The poll of 1,000 youngsters also highlighted their different attitudes to sex and politics. In America, which has seen a growth in pro-chastity campaigns, more than one in three opposed pre-marital sex. In Britain, though - hit by soaring teenage pregnancy rates - just one in six did.
The claim of just 3% of teens being “happy” at school is a bit hard to believe — even if the poll is scientific, which I doubt, the contrasting figures for the UK and US may well reflect a cultural difference — it’s just not cool for British teenagers to admit to being happy.
Still, the figures quoted are pretty striking. The article doesn’t advance any reasons for the differences, but the respective proportions of families in the two countries which hold to the Christian faith is surely significant.