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"Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has been told to apologise in the House of Commons for breaching expenses rules."
I don't think it's enough to just apologise to the house of commons. I think they all need to apologise to the entire country on national TV. Maybe an award for the best grovelling exscuse.
Come on Murdoch. Give us a channel. (You'd never get the BBC to do it).
I suggest that it is called "Trough Factor", or "Strictly Apologising".
Make it a pay to view channel. They pay, for us to view. (And NO, Jacqi, you can't claim it on expenses)
I wrote in this post that I thought that Gordon Brown was trying to find an exit strategy to allow him to leave office, with the pity of the people.
Now it is reported that he has been diagnosed with lesions in his one good eye. That might be the reason his wife was steering him away from the potted plants during the labour party conference.
Do we really want a blind, pill popping chump for our first minister? How's he going to find his Nokia, to throw when he needs to?
Maybe I should take my tin foil hat off, or maybe not?
This article from comment is free, beggars belief.
This man Duncan Bannatyne believes that the smoking ban hasn't gone far enough, but should be extended.
In my view smokers who currently stand outside a pub or restaurant having a fag should have to stand at least several yards away from the front door, to save the 79% of us who don't smoke from breathing in their smoke when we go in or out. We should curtail the rights of the 21% and increase their responsibilities towards the 79%. In other words, we should stop them killing us and our children.
Notice that he is invoking, "think of the poor cheeldren", in this heap of horse shit.
Studies estimate that about 11,000 people a year die because of passive smoking.
Where did he get those figures from? Grimms fairy tales?
It should also be illegal to smoke at home in front of children.
Children again.
Hanging is too good for this cunt.
Update: I've still got some piano wire left. Go over to Mummy's place if you really want to hear a good rant on this.
I've entered my activities on the ACT ON CO2 website where they have a Co2 calculator.
here are my results:
Congratulations. You've successfully completed the Act on CO2 calculator. The tables below represent your CO2 emissions from all three areas of your life.
Your CO2 result is tonnes per year.
The breakdown of your carbon footprint is shown in the table below. For example in your 'Home' section, we break down your footprint so you can see how much of your footprint is due to heating and how much is due to lighting. In the 'Appliance' section we break it down into appliances in various rooms of the house, so you can see how much is used in the kitchen, study and so on. In the 'Travel' section you can see how much carbon your vehicle is producing and how much comes from the flights you take. If any area is particularly high, you can concentrate on lowering the carbon footprint of that area first.
All figures are in tonnes per year.
Breakdown of sections
CO2 Footprint
Total Footprint for Home
32.06
Hot water
4.06
Heating
27.49
Lighting
0.51
Total Footprint for Appliances
10.53
Kitchen
3.7
Entertainment
3.17
Study
3.11
Other
0.55
Total Footprint for Travel
396.65
Vehicle
227.25
Public Transport
0
Flights
169.4
Total Carbon Footprint
439.24
Your target footprint total is 351.38 tonnes per year.
Everybody likes to have a target to reach their goals. In the table below we have given you an aspirational 20% reduction target to reach. This is spread evenly through your three areas of Home; Appliances and Transport, however, for example, if you can see that your transport CO2 emissions are high, and in particular your flights, you can concentrate on reducing that area.
The national average total is 4.46 tonnes per year.
We also show you how you compare to the National Average CO2 emissions for anIndividual or Household (depending on which option you chose at the beginning of the calculator). You can find out how we calculate this in our CO2 Calculations FAQs section.
CO2 emissions from all three areas of your lifestyle
Home
Appliances
Travel
Total
Your Carbon Footprint
32.06
10.53
396.65
439.24
Target Footprint
25.64
8.42
317.32
351.38
National Average
1.99
0.71
1.76
4.46
People like you who have:
6.36
2.46
9.66
18.48
Visualising your Carbon Footprint
it's the amount of CO2...
you need to fill 25218398 party balloons
produced by driving from London to Manchester and back 3338 times in the average car
produced from leaving a 60 watt light bulb on 1487 years
produced from boiling water for 15811242 cups of tea
It was the 9 Hummers, and the perpetual globe trotting, first class, for my family of ten, that upped it a trifle.
If you nip over to Dave's part you see that he is being sued for libel by Tory activist Johanna Kaschke, who seems to me to be somewhat dubious in her choice of political parties.
It is further uncontested that Ms Kaschke nominated herself as Labour candidate for Bethnal Green & Bow in 2007; that she received just one vote; that shortly thereafter she defected to George Galloway's Respect party; shortly after that, she joined an as-yet-unspecified Communist Party; and that shortly after that, she became a Conservative. She was, in other words, a member of four political parties in 12 months.
Today we read that Sharon Shoesmith pleaded with the head of Ofsted to give her some positive spin.
The woman whose staff failed Baby P was so intent on clinging to her £133,000-a-year job that she asked the watchdog to praise her failing department.
Why have we lost decency in public life? Instead of clinging on, she should have followed the honest course and resigned. Since this new labour age begun, honesty in public life and services, has disappeared.
Some have said that Sharon shoesmith couldn't possibly know all the case files. Bollocks, she should at least have been getting a summary. this wasn't two isolated cases.
Previously unpublished details of Ofsted's findings were put before the High Court yesterday as Mrs Shoesmith continued her attempt to overturn her sacking and win a compensation payout.
The report painted a devastating picture of the scale of the failure within children's services at Haringey, North London.
Inspectors cited 'glaringly serious' problems at the Labour-run council which had already failed to save eight-year-old torture victim Victoria Climbie.
They concluded up to 15 other vulnerable children could have been left at risk during Mrs Shoesmith's tenure.
Champagne could fall to £10 a bottle due to the reccession.
Experts predict the cost of some vintage champagnes could fall as low as £10 in time for Christmas.
But champagne lovers should cash in while they can. French authorities have ruled that next year's harvest will be almost halved, leading to fewer bottles produced to push up prices.
At least the cost of the next Conservative conference will be kept down.
