Coldish, dampish, calmish and misty at the Castle this morn,
the study is empty of all things broke and beautiful, just got back from Tesco
on the stale bread, gruel and pussy food run-still can’t find anything and I am
orf to my General Medico to get the right elbow injected with stuff, hope I don’t
end up like Popeye.
Before the last non-election the PM visited Liverpool and pledged
his support for job creation schemes which help those who have "slipped
through the cracks" to get back to work.
At the time of his visit, Cameron said: "Any good
scheme we will keep, and obviously when it comes to the whole area of getting
people back to work, our work programme, which includes mentoring and work
training for young people, it will have all those elements."
Among those he praised was MerseySTRIDE,
which employs the long-term unemployed to recycle and refurbish furniture and
sell it on at competitive prices. MerseySTRIDE's future is now threatened
because of lack of funding.
Nice one Dave
Allegedly the Royal Navy will not have enough hunter-killer
submarines to protect Britain after the defence review forced delays to
replacements, a report has shown.
The report said decisions by the Strategic Defence and
Security Review had led to further cost overruns of £500 million in the defence
budget. The decision to delay the batch of seven Astute boats will cost
millions extra and leave the Navy without enough boats to defend Britain,
maintain the security of the Falkland Islands or protect the Vanguard class
submarines which carry the Trident nuclear deterrent as well as carrying out
other secret tasks, the report said.
Astute is replacing the ageing Trafalgar hunter killers, the
last of which will go out of service in 2022. But the seventh Astute will not
enter operational service until two years later, leaving a shortfall of at
least one boat. The Navy needs a minimum of seven hunter killer submarines.
I’ve got an old rowboat on the moat if they want to borrow
it.....
US lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved
to protect schools' ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for
students.
In an annual spending bill covering the US Department of
Agriculture, which has oversight over subsidized school meals, a joint
House-Senate panel voted to prevent the agency from restricting pizza, fries,
and starchy vegetables.
A Republican summary of the legislation, which was unveiled
Monday and may be approved this week, cheered the defeat of "overly
burdensome and costly regulations" and hailed "greater flexibility
for local school districts."
Fat American teenagers for the furnace....
Palm Beach County
animal control officers are racing to remove as many as 80 cats from the
state-run prison in Belle Glade, fearing they will be left without access to
food and water when the facility closes its doors on Dec. 1.
The cats have taken
up residence on the prison's grounds, burrowing under fences and living around
buildings. They have been fed by prisoners, despite rules that prohibit the
practice, officials say.
"They are not
supposed to feed them, but they do," said Paula Bryant, a spokeswoman with
the state's Department of Correction.
The state announced
it was planning to close the 1,000-inmate prison this year, and the Department
of Corrections has slowly been moving prisoners to other facilities across the
state. As of Monday, there were more cats than prisoners. Officials said there
were just 69 inmates left.
Cattus cellus...
Ryanair’s cabin crew have stripped off for the airline’s
fifth annual charity calendar.
Proceeds from “The Girls of Ryanair” calendar, which features scantily-clad
female flight attendants, will go to DEBRA, which provides support for patients
suffering from epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a genetic skin condition. The charity was chosen from nearly 400 applicants, and Ryanair said it hopes to raise around £85,000.
The calendar costs £8.50 and can be purchased on board Ryanair flights, from DEBRA’s charity shops in Spain and Ireland, or on the airline’s website (www.ryanair.com).
Good cause, snag is
you won’t be able to
have a look at it in the toilets.
X-ray body scanners at airports have been banned by Brussels
amid fears they could cause cancer.
The devices, widely criticised because they make passengers who go through them appear naked, emit low doses of radiation.
The EU has now told member states not to
install them until a scientific assessment of the risks has been carried out.
Manchester airport, which has 16 of the
£80,000 machines and bars anyone refusing a scan from boarding a flight, has
been told it can continue using them for another year.
So they haven’t been banned then....
That’s it: I’m orf to put in
my bid.
And today’s thought: There is an art to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Angus
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fearing they will be left without access to food and water when the facility closes its doors on Dec. 1
Oh well, that doesn't sound unreasonable, to rescue them.
Snag is thay are being euthanised after "rescue" James...
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