Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
Frank Davis on Trivial Worries.
Madame Arcati and Mrs Dale’s Dowry line up the latest designer handbags for a duel.
Justin Gau with a damning indictment of the Prosecution’s behaviour in sexual abuse cases.
My Daft Life on Katrina Percy and the ‘NHS Leadership Academy‘.
Kickass Cookies on how millions of Americans are about to starve to death….no really, I know, I see them on TV too, and I can’t believe it either…..explode maybe – but starve to death?
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August 23, 2014 at 12:08 pm -
“Kickass Cookies on how millions of Americans are about to starve to death….no really, I know, I see them on TV too, and I can’t believe it either…..explode maybe – but starve to death?”
Perhaps they should open up a ‘Protein Bank’ to intravenously transfer from the obese to the waifs? Kills two birds with one stone.
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August 23, 2014 at 12:37 pm -
Mind wanders to thoughts of a ‘designer Protein Bank’ whereby you could choose the fat cells from a catalogue…don’t fancy Lord Rennards ex-backside? Maybe some of Oprah’s superfluous left leg appeals more?
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August 23, 2014 at 12:47 pm -
Or a part of Dolly Parton’s anatomy?
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August 23, 2014 at 12:51 pm -
Meanwhile ‘mind’ is desperately searching for something to scrub out image of Rennard’s backside….
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August 23, 2014 at 1:45 pm -
And the bits Cyril Smith couldn’t see.
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August 24, 2014 at 1:15 am -
Just out of interest, what do y’all THINK happens when people do not have the financial means to survive?
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August 24, 2014 at 8:39 am -
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August 24, 2014 at 2:29 pm -
I guess my your answer to my question is that you get a good laugh out of it.
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August 23, 2014 at 1:02 pm -
On the Justin Gau link and the 31 months the defendant spent “On Remand” – d0es that mean remand in custody?
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August 23, 2014 at 1:58 pm -
I’v never heard of any other meaning to ‘on remand’. A quite horrifying case -and nice to hear you Matt.
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August 23, 2014 at 4:43 pm -
On remand is short for remarnded in custody –ie to be sent back ‘in custody’
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August 23, 2014 at 4:45 pm -
As distinct from remarnded on bail
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August 23, 2014 at 1:15 pm -
Oh! The Fat American meme raises its ugly head. Oh, well, it’s a nice, cheap laugh, I suppose.
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August 23, 2014 at 1:24 pm -
When (some) Americans living in residential areas will get in their car to drive to the end of their drive to collect their mail, is it any wonder unaided locomotion leads to obesity?
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August 23, 2014 at 1:32 pm -
Anna, I don’t understand the one about Welsh language activists carrying anti-nuke placards and having big chins, which is a desperate slur on the Daughters of Bilitis and in particular the Blessed Dusty of Memphis.
Was there drink involved?
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August 23, 2014 at 4:39 pm -
The Justin Gau article. A brilliant cold factual and academic deconstruction of when the practice of law by the Prosecution or the Judiciary without discretion produced a dystopian outcome. I am going to hazard a guess is that part of the reason for this is fear by both the Prosecution and the Judiciary that unless they stay on message and do as they are told to do they will loose their careers. Managerialism taken to its logical conclusion though one might have thought personal pride in being a member of a profession and thoughts of responsibility and the power bestowed as a result might count for rather more. I am beginning to think ‘things’ in the legal profession have just gone too far —everyone just too fearful to restore some sanity.
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August 24, 2014 at 9:33 am -
From my own knowledge and experience, the Justin Gau article highlights only the tiny tip of a very large iceberg.
Are there no (reliable) procedures whereby such obvious perversions of justice by the Judge. the CPS, the police officer and the forensic CSI can be dealt with? ‘Quis Custodiet …’ and all that.
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August 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm -
The Justin Gau article highlights a grievous injustice – in the UK there are many instances of things like this, but fortunately, it is probably the disgraceful exception – isn’t it?
But he rather spoils it by bleating that the shocking judge stopped him getting his hotel paid, and losing a day’s fee, doesn’t he?
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