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Buddhist Advice for 4th May, 2009

After this day of action I’ve been taking against the naffness and sheer greed in the world, I’d like to share some words of wisdom and encouragement that I’ve just received before I retire for the day: The strength of our life force manifests itself in our voices. Let’s therefore use our courageous voices for [...]

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Curly Pigs for Alice?

My mate ‘Zippy Len’ pointed me to these strange creatures.  Looking half-pig, half-sheep, they could be called shigs or peeps but are actually curly-haired pigs!  They are rare – in fact they nearly died out.  They belong to Pig Paradise Farm, the home of all rare breeds! (contact them here.) Maybe after looking at these, [...]

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Best Description of Google Treasure Chest Scam?

A comment by ‘Not Kevin’ on this site is a pretty good description of the methodology and purpose behind these cloned scam/ripoff websites purporting to be work-at-home business ‘opportunities’/ http://strangelyperfect.tv/3126/drill-down-through-bsadnpanthersslcom/#comment-1095 Comments are now closed on this posting as Google Treasure Chest is dead. However, the problem has not gone away – the menace continues. For [...]

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Another One Bites the (Coal) Dust

Third Solicitor Barred from Practice Andrew Nulty from Warrington is the third solicitor to get barred from the profession for stealing from clients.  He was fined £60k and barred and another lawyer, Malcolm Trotter was fined £15k.  (See full story) This follows on from the barring of Slytherin  lawyer, Jim Beresford last December, which I [...]

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Worried about Flu?

Don’t just sniff and worry. Don’t sweat. Don’t worry about Death by Flu. Instead, worry about: “Death by Powerpoint”! (see http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/London%20Councils/090127sellwooddraft.ppt) Or try Death by Portable Document Format! http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0054555.pdf (written in 2007) Author’s note: Some bits are okay actually, especially the picture of Maiden Castle.  But if you do get the flu, stay in, don’t [...]

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Iggy Pop Gets Insurance

Earlier this year when Ron Asheton died, I remarked (see Nazi Ron Dies) that it was funny how life takes us on different paths.  James Williamson is now an IT executive for Sony and Iggy Pop is doing car adverts… Well, it turns out that there’s been a problem with that.  The Advertising Standards Agency [...]

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Google Treasure Chest – and a Huge List of Scams

Introduction I’ve done a fair bit of checking around the Google Treasure Chest/Money Kit scamming systems to try and alieviate some of the pain that a lot of people have been afflicted with. Now follows possibly the most extensive scam list and redirects that I’ve found.  I class this post from workathometruth.com as a: Very [...]

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mystimulusmoney dot con

Site Statistics One of the benefits of managing your own website is you can check exactly who’s been visiting your site.  There are various sorts of visit, the most common for most sites being from search engine robots.  If you include these in your statistics, it makes you look really good…. mystimulusmoney.com Another sort are [...]

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Google Treasure Chest, or Kit, and Mysterious ‘Help’ from a Stranger

Pre-Script Comments are now closed on this posting as Google Treasure Chest is dead. However, the problem has not gone away – the menace continues. For further information, all chat on this and subsequent scams is now here: Google Revolution, Different Name, Same Scam! and here: More on Google Profits and Pacific Webworks/ Google Treasure [...]

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The Problem to be Pondered Night and Day

….. you had better cut short your sleep by night and curtail your leisure by day, and ponder this! You must not spend your lives in vain and regret it for ten thousand years to come. Yay Nichiren! This quote is taken from The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume One, page 622 Says it all [...]

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Too Much Scam – Professor Fink, Fetch the Paleontologist!

When I’m feeling numb, I just look at this.  It’s got everything.  One (or two) character(s), five frames, no words, sound effects, tension, drama. It’s by a cartoonist called Don Martin who died a few years back and for many years was part of the glue that held Mad Magazine together. Ahhhh.  That’s better.

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Proof: When is a Ship a Boat?

This BBC report contains video proof that HMS Endurance, called a ship here, is actually a boat! Damaged Endurance set for repairs The point is in the Royal Navy’s definition.  Sailors get extremely upset (yes really, if you are not a sailor) when you call their ship a boat.  I’ve done it in conversation in [...]

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BBC Reports on Dubai Hell

At Last – some Proper Reporting from the BBC I actually thought that no-one did it any more – investigative journalism, that is!  Tonight’s show, Panorama: Slumdogs and Millionaires is on BBC One, Monday 6 April at 2030 BST and promises to reveal the hell that a combination of Arab religious kleptomancy and the sheer [...]

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I Feel so Thick

I Got April Fooled by The Daily Mail How? Someone came up to me and said that Wacky Baccy Jaqui Smith had been photographed coming out of an Ann Summers shop with a large carrier bag full of goods. “It’s hardly surprising given the recent sexual embarrassment” …in that area is my one and only [...]

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