It seems that the Indian autumn has gone the way of the
economy-dull, dingy and drizzling at the Castle this morn.
The study is filling up with objects in need of a re-boot,
the garden is still in need of a medium, fettling and his Maj is sitting by the
rear exit with the hump.
Apparently son
of a B...aronet and reptilian alien in disguise George Osborne has come up with
a Plan A and a bit-he wants to bypass Britain's foot-dragging banks by
injecting tens of billions of pounds into struggling small firms in an attempt
to head off a "double-dip recession".
I think I have got this-we “gave” the banks tens/hundreds of
billions to bail them out so that they could lend money to businesses to help
dig us out of the hole that the banks created.
And now “we”; not the “treasury” are going to lend
businesses tens of billions to help dig us out of a possible double dip
recession.
Spot the flaw in logic......
The NHS will
introduce mandatory language tests for doctors moving to Britain after training
elsewhere in the European Union.
The decision follows a series of cases in which patients
have died or suffered poor care as a result of doctors speaking sub-standard
English. The issue was brought to national attention three years ago when Dr
Daniel Ubani, a German-trained GP on his first out-of-hours shift in Britain,
killed David Gray, 70, by giving him 10 times the normal dose of diamorphine.
In his speech to the Conservative Party conference, Andrew
Lansley will say that the Medical Act will be amended so that doctors must
speak good English to practise in Britain.
There are more than 88,000 foreign-trained doctors
registered to work in Britain, including 22,758 from Europe. They account for
almost a third of the total.
Part “B” of the plan to empty hospitals?
A Longview, Wash., man accused of digging up the skull of a
hog-like animal that predated humans by 20 million years has been banned from
national park lands for a year.
The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/oWBYtN) that
48-year-old David Wixon also must pay $4,500 in restitution for the misdemeanour
crime of depredation of government property.
The fossil was from an Oreodont, one of a number of stout,
hooved, plant-eating animals now extinct.
Court records say an off-duty interpretive ranger saw Wixon
using a rock hammer at a site at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in
May 2007, leading to an investigation by federal agents. Authorities say they
searched his house, and he returned the skull.
Prosecutors say the penalties were imposed Friday.
Lucky it wasn’t a new one.......
The McCarthy family of Pleasanton, California, have
an unusual explanation for how their 2002 Toyota Prius got totalled over the
northern summer.
In
short, a bear took the vehicle for a spin from the driveway of their west Lake
Tahoe cabin, the Contra Costa Times said.
It seems the bear got into the car easily enough, but once
inside became stuck, and got mad about it - ripping seats open, biting a chunk
out of the steering wheel and damaged the gear box, which shifted the car into
neutral.
Awakened by noise from the 3.30am raid, the family watched
from the safety of the cabin as the Prius slowly started rolling out of the
slightly sloped driveway. Picking up speed, it rolled across the street, hopped
a small rock wall and finally came to stop on the porch steps of a neighbour's
house.
Brian McCarthy, 61, said he did not know why the bear, which
escaped back into the woods, would want to get in the car in the first place.
It probably wanted somewhere clean to have a crap because the woods are full of Bear shit....
A county council has been criticised for spending £40,000 on
68 giant granite balls to protect its new headquarters from ram-raiders and
terrorists.
Tory-run Staffordshire County Council has positioned stone
bollards costing £587 each outside its £38 million Staffordshire Place offices.
They have been described by the council as part of "an
essential security package" - yet regular upright bollards are on sale for
less than half the cost of the balls.
But Councillor Tom Harris, whose Forebridge ward takes in
Stafford town centre, said: "I would have expected a cheaper option than
the spherical bollards.
"The council says it will make savings from the move
but they are spending nearly £40 million to save £10 million.
Councillor Mark Winnington, cabinet member for environment
and assets, said: "The stone bollards surrounding Staffordshire Place are
part of an essential security package designed to protect the building and its
occupants from threats, including ram raids.
"Some of the options we were given were more expensive
than the one we decided on while others were less expensive.
"Our main priority was to provide value for money for
taxpayers. We wanted to provide sturdy protection while also ensuring that the
area surrounding the building was aesthetically pleasing.
Load of old Spherical Bollards....
And today’s thought: Books have knowledge, knowledge is
power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn’t pay; so if you
keep reading, you’ll go to prison.
