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Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Members of the joint honor cordon carry weapons at port arms as they get ready at the U.S. Capitol for the 56th Presidential Inauguration to begin in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington's 1789 inauguration. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Suzanne M. Day, U.S. Air Force)
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Manufacturing v Government in Britain.....
...continuing on from yesterdays question. In a nutshell, we are f**ked. Our economy is now based on the public sector, financial services, house building and shopkeeping. The last three aren't exactly doing so well right now. Over a decade New Labour has wrecked Britain and I don't see us ever recovering. Where is the wealth creation going to come from?
H/T Iain Dale
Through the eyes of a child:
The Children's Bible in a Nutshell
In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did.
Then God made the world.
He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden.
Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.
Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.
Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.
One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.
After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.
Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable.
God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti. Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments.
These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff.
Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.
One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.
After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.
After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets.
One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore. There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them.
After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of The New. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say, 'As a matter of fact, I was.')
During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats.
Jesus also had twelve opossums.
The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.
Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount.
But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.
Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again.
He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.
H/T Nebraska Bob
Now that's a pub.....
On the edge of the Himley Estate lies the The Glynne Arms (more popularly known as the Crooked House or The Siden House). It is a house that has suffered badly from mining subsidence.
H/T DML
News....
BBC human shields for Hamas. Par for the course.
Obama gives up trying to change anything. What already!!!!
Rising lay-offs push jobless figure near to two million. And the rest. The real figure is hidden by incapacity benefits etc.
Brown orders MPs to back move to keep expenses secret. If MPs block this info it will be the end of their credibility.
India sends message to Pakistan with new missile tests. It's getting warmer over there.
US strikes Central Asia deal to supply troops in Afghanistan. The Pakistanis must do more to secure things on their side.
We have every right to be angry with the bankers. Sadly the government isn't. Too many ministers are looking towards city 'directorships' when they get booted out. They are not about to piss off the golden goose.
Mervyn King paves way to start Bank print presses. Which should finish of our economy.
Israel 'admits' using white phosphorus munitions. They should have thrown in some napalm for good measure.
Obama may be the 'no we can't' President. The honeymoon is over.
Obama: America is ready to lead once more. America has been leading for the last 8 years. As for this 'humility and restraint'. Wasn't that Clinton's big thing? That worked really well.
and finally.
The Gimli Glider. A great account of another aircrash where everyone survived. (H/T JMH)
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