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‘Cos I’m a bloggerjack and I’m OK…….

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by Anna Raccoon on February 6, 2009

 I see blogging as the cyber equivalent of the role of host in the medieval ale house. Long before the advent of licensing regulations, the ale house was a private house, a place to gather in congenial company

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Do the roots of the banking crisis stem from Little Acorns……?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 5, 2009

Obama: “I’ve been fighting alongside Acorn on issues you care about my entire career…” (Steven Malanga, “Organizer In Chief,” [New York] City Journal, Summer 2008)

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has become a household

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The prohibitive cost of a Glasgow based web site?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 4, 2009

Hot on the heels of the news that the Madeleine MCann fund paid £37,071 for web site costs comes word of more expensive Glasgow based web sites.

The ‘Madeleine’ web site was set up by 19 year old Callum McCrae,

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The Power of Prayer meets the New World Order.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 4, 2009

The son-of-the-Manse, Gordon Brown, has been pipped to the post in the ‘lets pray with Obama’ stakes. Our revered Leader is not to be honoured by being the first to shake the hallowed Presidential paw – despite the BBC showing

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Britain on its Beam Ends?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 3, 2009

Old salts will recognise the signs immediately – our beloved leader sending out distress signals as the Good Ship Britannia staggers and wallows over onto her beam ends…..and no sign of the Captain being keel-hauled! – is it too much to ask of life

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The threat is mightier than the pen.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 2, 2009

 

The definition of Terrorism grows ever wider. It may surprise you to learn of the ways in which Vernon Coaker, the Labour Home Office Minister, has quietly signed away your right to undertake everyday activities.

There are many reasons why you

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The McCann case – Nuts, whole hazelnuts……

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by Anna Raccoon on February 2, 2009

Metodo3 the infamous Spanish detective agency involved in searching for Madeleine McCann was today accused by the Spanish Attorney General’s Office of squirreling other people’s nuts away for a rainy day.

The ‘crack’ detective team – and who can forget that

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The Serial Farce Office…….

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by Anna Raccoon on February 1, 2009

Jessica de Grazia’s official report last summer on the Serious Fraud Office was mortifying, painting a picture of gross incompetence in an organisation designed to pierce the most sophisticated corporate frauds. 300 lawyers, accountants and investigators, presumed to

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And how many brothers and sisters do you have?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 1, 2009

 

A standard question posed by many adults to a small child. Easily within a four year old child’s capacity to answer in words of one syllable.

What a minefield that question will present for young Sean and Amelie McCann.

How to answer?

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From closet to cabinet and back to closet again…..

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by Anna Raccoon on January 31, 2009

No longer centre stage, the man who should more properly be blamed for the present bout of fiscal diarrhoea in the UK banking system, skulked on the outer perimeter of the Davos conference this week, uncharacteristically silent.

The last time he was

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‘Unspeak’ – the Journalist’s lexicon and ‘Abduction’.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 30, 2009

Steven Poole coined the phrase ‘Unspeak’ as a fitting title for his book describing the process by which certain key words can lay claim to the high moral ground in a contentious matter without having to justify the

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Pedagogue or Paedophile?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 30, 2009

A long, long, time ago, just after World War 11, six licenses were granted to war veterans that allowed them to take commercial photographs in Trafalgar Square thus overriding the obscure by-law that had long prevented this means of

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A ‘Clarri-fied’ parallel universe.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 29, 2009

Mr Clarence Mitchell said: ‘People will be able to see that every penny of the money they so generously donated has been spent properly in the hunt to find Madeleine.’

I would suggest,

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The silence of the lame…….

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by Anna Raccoon on January 28, 2009

                        

Lame we most definitely were, hobbled by the devastating trail that a monstrous storm carved through South West France. Allegedly. We had seen and felt

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State Terrorism

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by Anna Raccoon on January 28, 2009

Commenting on the Police searches of the offices of Law Firm Vasco Vieira de Almeida looking for papers relating to the so-called ‘Freeport’ Case, the head of the Portuguese Bar, Marinho Pinto, said

“This is a practice usual to

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Scary Monsters……

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by Anna Raccoon on January 28, 2009

Just when we thought it couldn’t happen here – whoops! Meet Dan, thanks to the charity Action for Children. They’ve created a cunning advert in which a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome is depicted as having been eaten by that scary

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Lord Mandelson And The Car Industry. This Is Not A Bail-Out! This Is Not a bail-Out!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 27, 2009

The Business Secretary Lord Mandelson is about to unveil a package of support for the UK’s  struggling car industry. The industry will be treated to some short-term help and some long-term help. It is considered by some MPs that the long term help may

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Is Michelle Obama About To Make The Late Princess Diana Look Like A Hermit?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 27, 2009

A bright, attractive and healthy Michelle La Belle Obama wore  one of  the most drab colours on the planet last week  This was the most auspicious occasion of her life …….. and yet she wore that colour! The fashion Gurus went wild! Women all over the World loved

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Barack Obama’s First Formal TV Interview As US President Is With …….. An Arabic TV Network!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 27, 2009

Having dispatched his new Middle East envoy George Mitchell on an eight day trip to meet Arab leaders, Obama spoke to Al-Arabiya TV based in Dubai. In his first formal TV interview as President of the United States of America, Obama says he

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3500 Corus Workers Are Steeled To Lose Their Jobs. Ta Ta to Tata!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 26, 2009

Steel giant Corus is axing more than 10% of its UK workforce with the loss of 2500 jobs in the UK alone.

Its Indian parent company Tata is currently announcing a series of cost-cutting measures. Sadly they no longer need their UK

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Important message to all our posters!

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by Anna Raccoon on January 25, 2009

MESSAGE TO ALL!

Anna Raccoon has managed to telephone us to say that she is safe and has enough supplies to get through this tempestuous time. She wants us all to know that she is with us in Spirit. Hopefully she will

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Dear Lord above! Are The Lords Above the Law?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 25, 2009

Are the Lords going to be interrogated with the same tin of vim and vigour that they used to scour the Commons out?

Will the investigators wipe the floor with them? Will we see a bit of the old naming and shaming?

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Update to Karen Matthews

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

The mother of Shannon Matthews has been jailed for eight years for her role in the kidnap of her own daughter.

Karen Matthews, 33, of Moorside Road, Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court after being found guilty

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The ancient art of Bonsai

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

Print more money, bend one knee to the IMF, or plead with the ECB to let you into the Eurozone, those are the choices facing Gordon Brown, now presiding over a country that is bleeding cash and sensible citizens. He

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The New World Order is here. Do we go with Obama and the USA or do we allow Kenneth Clarke to lead us into Europe?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

In a week where we have witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama and the timely arrival of Kennth Clarke into the bosom of David Cameron’s Conservative Party, even a lateral thinker would wonder if there is a puppet-master tugging on

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The McCann influence.

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

Karen Mathews, the mother of Shannon Matthews is due to be sentenced for kidnapping her own daughter at Leeds Crown Court, alongside her former partner’s uncle, Michael Donovan, 40.

It was revealed that Donovan kept her imprisoned as part of a

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Mad about Harry?

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

Harry Nicolaides was an Australian expatriate living in Thailand who wrote a book called ‘Verisimilitude’ which contained a paragraph of precisely 103 words allegedly insulting the Crown Prince of Thailand.

103 words can do a great deal of damage if widely

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Gary McKinnon and the USA – (Who happen to have been on constant High Alert Since 9/11!)

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by Anna Raccoon on January 23, 2009

United States security services have been on extreme high alert since the atrocious 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A young guy with a lot of time on his hands decided to hack into all the major security systems from a dial-up computer in his bedroom

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You hum it, I’ll write it……………

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by Anna Raccoon on January 22, 2009

The news wires from Portugal are hissing and humming this morning as they transmit the latest saga from Faro.

The Faro court was hearing the case of the alleged assaults by five PJ inspectors of Leonor Cipriano who alleges torture during her

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The medicalisation of Autism

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by Anna Raccoon on January 22, 2009

In response to Carol Sarler’s evil column about one particular autistic child in the Daily Male, the Autism Treatment Center of America has offered its Son-Rise program to anyone who has pockets deep enough to pay for it. It suggests in

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