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Make sure Susan and the crew have plenty of Gin and Tonic to go round !!

What about catch up with Phil Woolas to see how the GM "debate" is going?

Also how about an analysis of whether there were incentives on 42 day voting now the dust has settled a bit?

Would Lord Coe reject any approach from the racist far right to include goose stepping as an Olympic sport? He seems a decent guy I am sure he would. Perhaps its the Olympic committee on reflection.

Scottish 2010 referendum.

Obesity is supposed to be a massive potential head ache so I hope the government really encourages the public to exercise - other than goose stepping.

I missed newsnight over the past few day's.
The truth is like many. I feel angry that we are so embroiled in all things abroad. Now we read of Tsvangirai's shaking hands with Mugabe? Why then, did this country ring it's hands and make us fall for propaganda etc.
All news is of interest! but we are fed long, long reports - whipping up hysteria.
Well I switch off... Likewise, News related to the MCCann's, Obama etc. expect a lengthy yarn, they have long become a turn off.
Please can we filter foreign affairs and give them a lesser time slot. Updated Headlines condenced to retain interest can still report the news without the saga.
Please Newsnight. Bring the issues that directly affect the UK today, no argument that Obama is BIG news. Not to many, the lengthy tale of the campaign in a foreign countries election is of no great interest. Have we got nothing going on in the UK?
Go out and speak to the man on the street you'll see the news has become a turn off. Some interest is awakened when it has an impact upon our lives, our communities or political issues surrounding our democracy.

yes too much irrelevant foreign stuff. no one talks about it down at the dog and duck. So less of the tribal wives stuff. its just playing fantasy liberal imperialist. Futile or what.


if stuck look in the hansard for uk topics ideas. Often a simple question has a massive backstory.

lets see

we have the 'is it illegal to take a photograph in public' debate [several people have been stopped by police]

why have organised crime figures doubled since 1997 taking an estimated Β£40 billion out of us a year?

why is MOD incompetent? 20 years of bad luck or deliberate sabotage?


prisoners sleeping in toilets.

why is subsidy payment to landowners not transparent?

and the one foreign story not covered was the uk official who lost his downing st blackberry in a chinese honey trap. Experts say the chinese can using the blackberry now hack into the no10 server.

Given the chinese have a track record of honey traps [indian official, japanese official etc] why was our Govt 'rodney' such easy meat?

There's a front page story in today's Scottish Daily Express on obesity -
it quotes Professor Annie Anderson
who leads Dundee University's Obesity Research Group arguing that families
should be given incentives to change
diet apparently ..... She also knows a
lot about blackberries (as well as rasps
and strawberries - and honey traps!!!!)

Dundee has of course also got a long
standing interest in both the Arctic and Antarctic :



But in today's Dundee 'Courier' there is an interesting letter from Ken Kennedy who is responsible for charting noctilucent clouds
for Western Europe from our municipally
run Mills Observatory in Dundee. There
is a suggestion that the occurrences of
this phenomenon have increased - and
data collection is needed to find out why.

One theory is that there may be links to global warming .........

OBESITY IS OBESE PEOPLE'S FAULT (BUT THEY CAN'T HELP IT?)



So, what next, diabetes is peoples' 'fault', cancer is peoples' 'fault', depression is peoples' 'fault'? Oddly, I haven't encountered this particular concept of 'fault' in the research literature. If someone goes to their doctor reporting that they're drinking copious amounts of water (polydipsia) I don't think the doctor would say 'stop it, it's your own fault'. We know why this happens in diabetes, just as we know that some people are more at risk for alcoholism because of genes that they carry. So why do we talk this way about hyperphagia? May it be because we don't fully understand it (yet) and as there's still no effective treatment it's easier to blame the obese than for medics to admit they are not omniscient?

If Cameron did indeed say "fat people only have themselves to blame" was he properly briefed? If so, was he unable to assimulate the advice he'd been given? Either way, was it his 'fault'?

NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS

Almost certainly another intimation of the Electric Universe.

Very probably on the increase because the electrical environment of planet earth is changing.

Could well be linked to warming.

If you like yuor socks blown off -


2012 - here we come?

JJ #6

Yep - it's all our 'fault', whether it be obesity, nicotine addiction, alcohol addiction, short legs, blue eyes or an overwhelming urge to ride fast motorcycles. That is 'fault' in the sense that it lies within us, faulty manufacture, damaged genes, none of us being perfect. Is it not these faults, aka mutations which have brought us down from the trees under the weight of our large brains (which may well send us back again but that's another story)?

But it's not all bad, were we all perfect there would be no diversity which is, after all, what makes our friends interesting.