Recent content by Hard-Luck Henry

Various American commentators - from left and right - offer their verdicts on 5 years of Bush: The Guardian, Tuesday December 13, 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm

An interview with - and a song from - Don Wise, the creator of the theory of incompetent design.

More on 'rendition detainees' - It's 'news', though there's nothing 'new' about it. The Guardian, Friday December 9, 2005

How to win friends and influence people? The following link contains a video clip which seems to show private security contractors shooting at Iraqi civilians from a moving vehicle. There are over 25,000 such contractors in Iraq - they are immune from prosecution under Iraqi law. link

The Guardian, Thursday December 8, 2005

Bright Eyes: When The President Talks to God

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/7069.htm

Fascinating news, if it's true. http://www.grant-thornton.co.uk/pages/press_room-other_news-man_cured_himself_of_hiv.html

This man is off his trolley. It seems O'Reilly is upset about about San Francisco proposition discouraging public schools from allowing military "predatory recruiting" on campus. On his national radio show Tuesday, he said San Francisco should not get a nickel of federal funds. He then invited...

I'm sure this news has filled you all with immense glee. Either that or you couldn't give two hoots. Well, I find it interesting, anyway. :D http://www.evertonfc.com/news/index.php?page_id=7969 COYB!

Some of the most poignant poetry in the English language was written in the trenches of the First World war - much of it anonymously, the words scribbled on scraps of paper or cigarette packets found on the bodies of nameless soldiers. I thought today would be a good day to post some of them...

A rare victory for British democracy - no internment here8) (for now, at least). Blair loses terror law vote

This is so good it deserves it's own thread: U.S. public opinion: who shall we invade next? :lol: The dumb feckers are sticking pins in Australia! :lol: "You have to laugh, or else you'd cry".

I don't know how far behind with this the UK is, but the curent Doonesbury, with Zonker working in the fast food restaraunt is just too feckin' funny! :lol: [/URL][/img] Incidentally - the paper I read it in - The Guardian - was reformatted a short while ago; one of the changes they...