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Dec16

Rant: And the hits keep on coming

2008 at 11:36 am Phil Rants 'n' Raves, What's Up 564 Words

Jaysuz! Ya couldn’t make it up could you? Just when you think that the finance watchdogs of the western world couldn’t fuck up any worse, along comes the story of Bernard Madoff and his 50 billion pyramid scheme.

Not only did the SEC fail to perform even a spot inspection of this geezer as a matter of routine, they appear to have entirely ignored / failed to act on information received from an apparently reliable source, advising them of the large-scale Ponzi fraud being perpetuated by Madoff for years!

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Dec15

Winter Poem

2008 at 10:08 am Phil Struggle & Toil 9 Words

‘Winter’
by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre

'Winter' by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre

Shit it’s COLD!

The End

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Dec06

An early Christmas present to myself

2008 at 6:53 pm Phil Lyre & Pipe, What's Up 194 Words

I’ve been thinking about buying a collapsible guitar that is suitable for stuffing in a large suitcase for some time now. After looking at what was available and chatting with a few enthusiasts of various models, I settled on the Yamaha SLG100S.

Collapsible guitars are suprisingly hard to get hold of; I looked at buying one from an online retailer, but couldn’t find a supplier that either a) was based outside the UK but willing to deliver to a UK address or b) was based in the UK, had one in stock, with a decent reputation and was able to deliver one in a reasonable time frame.

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Dec05

DNA Database Ruling: A Victory for Liberty

2008 at 6:32 pm Phil Rants 'n' Raves, What's Up 677 Words

Yesterday’s news about the DNA database was most welcome to those of us concerned about the growing infringement of civil liberties here in the UK.

In one of the most decisive rulings to ever come out of the European Court of Human Rights’ (a unanimous ruling by 17 judges), the current policy of the Home Office to store DNA data of over 800,000 innocent citizens has effectively been shown to be what it is; a breach of civil liberties, which cannot be reasonably tolerated in a democratic society.

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Nov20

Hopeless Home Office Harasses Hookers’ Habitue’s

2008 at 12:58 pm Phil Rants 'n' Raves, What's Up 839 Words

After months of head-scratching, endless policy committee meetings and (no doubt) lots of expensive conferences and retreats at the taxpayers expense, Jacqui Smith our latest “Home Office Hero” has presented plans to further criminalise men who pay for sex.

And no surprise that after all the hoo-hah we find that the half-baked proposals, presented to the public are pretty much exactly like Smith herself; well-intentioned…but entirely unfit for purpose.

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Nov05

US Election: a ray of hope

2008 at 9:25 pm Phil What's Up 846 Words

Barack Obama & Michelle after inaugural address 2009

The US election results announced today are a significant milestone in many respects.

Beyond the obvious landmarks such as Barrack Obama’s ethnic background and the strong shift in voting trends from Republican to Democrat, today’s events herald a resurgence in many of the fundamental ideals and beliefs that the US has purported for many years, but has failed to live up to. Concepts such as freedom and liberty have throughout most of the post-war years been subverted by a series of administrations for the purposes of US hegemony, to the detriment of people the world over.

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Oct10

Credit Crunch con-trick: Who’s really to blame?

2008 at 9:08 pm Phil Rants 'n' Raves, What's Up 1602 Words

A few days ago, I was listening to one of a seemingly endless series of radio discussion programmes about the credit crunch.

Most of these programmes have a fairly low-to-middle range annoyance factor, but this particular programme really got my blood boiling, because the interviewee had the gall to state:

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Rant: And the hits keep on coming

Winter Poem

An early Christmas present to myself

DNA Database Ruling: A Victory for Liberty

Hopeless Home Office Harasses Hookers’ Habitue’s

US Election: a ray of hope

Credit Crunch con-trick: Who’s really to blame?

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