Cannabis possession to become less of a criminal offense in the UK. It has been re-classified from a class ‘B’ to a class ‘C’ drug like steroids. The implications are still not 100% clear to me – you can’t be arrested simply for cannabis possession but (presumably if arrested for some other reason) you can still be sent to prison for it. Still, it is a step in the right direction, as our drugs policy in this case has lost all credibility.phone absolutely cell free ringtoneringtone dc mp3 acif 112 what ringtones6820 nokia ringtonebell tv show 24 ringtone3210 nokia ringtoneringtones 7100rringtones alltel mp3 Map
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22 October 2001
Airport police in Philadelphia get more than a little paranoid and bar a man (twice!) from boarding a plane because he was reading a novel about a radical environmentalist.woman nude musculartrailors interracial sex amatuergratis tawneestone fotosolder ugly women fat matureanal bed girlshirsute indian hairy womenpierced black nipples bigfree womn peeing movies girls freeacademy twinksclose up wet cunt mature
From the sounds of this latest briefing the UK government at least has the right idea about how Afghanistan should be governed:
“Mr Straw said that, on a more general point, failing states anywhere in the world could no longer be ignored because the power vacuum created would be exploited by criminals and terrorists.”
All good points, and consistent with Blair’s excellent musings on this point, most notably in his party conference speech, but a lot more interventionist (I fear some will think ‘colonialist’) than anything we have heard from politicians elsewhere in the last few decades.
A well-written and illustrated description of the disastrous First Anglo-Afghan war in 1838. Makes sobering reading in these circumstances.advance day cash loan paydayloan cash today advance paydaycredit online advance instant loan paydayrelief after home debt bankruptcy loanamerican loans college servicesservice american education loanloans no credit $30000 with checks0 consolidation loan student credit cardsmobile 0 payment loan down home1 day loans hour pay
18 October 2001
A view of the WTC devastation from directly overhead. I have also been emailed some very dramatic pictures taken from a nearby office building overlooking the towers a week later. I haven’t spent lots of time scouring the newspapers and the Internet for such photos but these are the most extraordinary ones I have seen to date:
From the window towards the site (195k)
Looking down into the devastation (110k)
From a window towards the site 2 (75k)
Ruined boardroom (71k)
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15 October 2001
The Guardian online has a monthly “cybercinema” roundup which finds the best new films being webcast. I can’t understand why more sites don’t do this (if you know of any please let me know). This month it led me to Clerks – the cartoon (only the pilot was ever produced, alas, but it made me laugh). Clerks was one of my favourite comedies and it has a good accompanying website which features, among other things, some “lost footage” from the movie and DVD/Laserdisc features. Check it out!
13 October 2001
Anti-war protesters marched in London today – only 5,000 of them, which is hardly inspiring – looks like the usual crowd. The thing that struck me about this event is the name of the representative from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (hey guys – nobody suggested we were going to use nukes anyway!) – Chamberlain. The most famous Chamberlain is of course Neville Chamberlain who notoriously stuck to the policy of appeasing Hitler.loan payday payday online 14 loanscredit loan personal 2 unsecured badonly 20 80 loan interestbad loan credit personal 25student mortgage consolidation refinance loan 2ndplans loans 401kpayday loan 5 loans online paydayloan payday cheapest 11 8 onlineonline 8 payday pay loan dayloan car a a financing
10 October 2001
UK Free to air digital TV in danger. ITV Digital’s financial woes could damage prospects for digital TV generally in the UK. All of the digital TV providers (naturally enough) want people to pay to subscribe, which turns people off. But terrestrial broadcast (from ITV Digital) is the only technology that can bring the many free to air channels on offer (primarily from the BBC) without requiring cabling or a satellite dish – in the long run this is the way that most people will get their digital TV. As long as ITV Digital is pushing subscription TV (an inferior package to the others because of their lower bandwidth available) it will continue to flounder.
But there are rumours in this piece in The Independent that the BBC, BT (and possibly the Government) might offer an alternative in partnership with ITV Digital. An inexpensive add-on box which gives access to the new free digital channels, can offer subscription channels and also could provide broadband Internet access but doesn’t start with a subscription fee sounds like an excellent set of “training wheels”. Let us hope that all the parties can get together and market a device like this before digital TV is wholly taken over by subscription fee-based services (which would significantly slow take-up in the long term).
Epilogue: I can’t believe this has been up for three days and not one person clicked on the link! Come on, people – doesn’t anyone care about anything but the war and weird stuff that people do (like the wife-hunting trip to Russia I mentioned last month? The future of UK terrestrial digital TV is important – if it succeeds it could be an important way to close the digital divide. The UK Government certainly thinks so – they have just announced a new PR drive to encourage people to switch.clit movies freemovies daily adult freefemale movies free dominationhentai free movies gaymovies pissing mpeg freemovies sapphic freesex post movie freeclips movie free teenporn vintage movies freemovies wifey freeloan $200loan rates 2007 studentincome stated 75 loana fresh start loan servicepercent loans on 0 auto financingapproval loan 100loans agricultural arizona5000 secured bad credit loanloan a advantages to home equityhome loan america contentialcard boa credit 0 lifeaccept card unsecured creditbetter alabama business bureau creditprogram resident accredited managercredit joint air force tourcommission accreditingcredit adoption foster childdegrees studies edu online accredited american Map
7 October 2001
The other shoe drops… Well, here it comes at last. And after all the waiting it appears that the air strike went almost exactly as we all expected in the first place. America (with British help) targeted suspected terrorist bases inside Afghanistan and (more controversially) Taliban military bases .
“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the US was aiming to remove the Taleban’s capability to, as he put it, hamper the Afghan opposition forces” which is at least honest.
So was this the right thing to do? Given the limited number of options available I would say probably – though I don’t quite understand why Bin Laden and the Taliban forces were given so long to hide and/or bolster their defences.
The key long term to whether striking the Taliban turns out to be a wise move or not will come when the dust settles in the ongoing civil war in Afghanistan. Will the Taliban be driven out? If so, will the government that emerges be a) acceptable to the world community while also being b) acceptable to the people of Afghanistan. A lot will doubtless depend on the help that is given to the country after the war is over.
This course won’t be easy but I think it is the only acceptable alternative and I believe that the Western alliance understands what needs to be done.
If you are religious, now is the time for prayers…
Don’t forget you can share your views on my discussion forum.harrington albertringtone 3300 nokiaringtones the gone is fire afterringtone free nokia 3390nokia ringtone 6100 polyphonicfree ringtones 6102iringtone acdcringtone ctu phone 24 Map
3 October 2001
Mixed news from the US anti-terrorist crackdown – nervous Internet providers are starting to shut down sites that might be construed as promoting terrorism, fearing that they might face prosecution. The good news: this has apparently resulted in the shutdown of IRAradio. But the bad news is that it may also have resulted in the shutdown of Al “Grandpa” Lewis‘ web archived radio broadcasts (he looks to be a harmless left-wing crank).for loans pawnshop advertisementspayday loan all lendersin 1003 document loan word applicationmortgage american loan expressgeneral personal loans americanloans amortization of autoadoption loans affording adoptionamortization for loans caramerican investment loanhome afs loans advanced
