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BBC:

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed a historic power-sharing deal with his long-time rival, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

The two smiled and shook hands at the ceremony in the capital, Harare, attended by African dignitaries.

Mr Tsvangirai said the agreement provided the best hope for Zimbabwe and called on President Mugabe to work together to implement the deal.

Mr Mugabe said he was committed to national unity and would do “his best”.

Mugabe will do “his best”? What the fuck does that mean? He’s gonna try not to have people beaten shitless? He isn’t going to make people disappear?

Part of me thinks the MDC are kidding themselves and shouldn’t go into an agreement with that cunt. Would you trust him? They should’ve ousted him.

The other part of me, thinks it’s easy for me to say the above when there aren’t any so called ‘war veterans’ on their way round to my house wanting to show me their collection hammers, drills and bits of wood with nails through the end.

Slow, gradual change generally leads to a more stable result in the end anyway, doesn’t it? And again, I can accept a slow transformation, I don’t have to pay millions for a loaf of bread.

The petition:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to promote a meaningful public debate on voters’ experience of elections, and let voters determine if there is a case for changing the way we elect MPs.

The response:

…the Government continues to believe that the current voting system for UK general elections works well, and that any future change would require the consent of the British people in a referendum.

The system can’t be changed without a referendum, fair enough, but if we can’t have a referendum for the EU constitutionthere certainly won’t be one for this.

Lembit Opik:

The Segway PT (personal transporter) has the potential to do for personal transport what the mobile phone did for personal communication.
…
Segways are clean, quick, safe and simple. If we’re serous about our environment, we’ve got to get serious about the Segway.

CheekyEx:

Isn’t this a bit rich coming from you? You looked very chuffed on the TV recently flying your cheeky ex girlfriend to Paris for the weekend on a private flight (which you piloted.) Get off the eco soapbox before someone kicks you off it.

Taken from The Register:
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Via B3ta

There’s RSS/Atom to get it in your feedreader.
Or you could read it the old fashioned way and actually go to the site itself to see it.

Now, there is a third way.
Yes, you can now get notified when a new post goes up on The Sun – Tabloid Lies from Twitter.

Go on, you know you want to.

Aarons’ got a new post up at The Sun Lies.
It’s regarding a letter from ‘Kelly’, about her problems since having a baby, to Jon Gaunt, because he can help so much more than any politician or CAB can.

It hits all the right buttons for the current narrative and probably made him moist.

made to have sex against my will

The statement above is the definition of rape, isn’t it?

Hmmm.

Whilst strolling through teh interwebs, I happen on this discussion on The Suns’ forum, a post of some text seen in many circular emails:
Am I a racist?

[posted by] vars72

Am I racist?

I am a proud Englishman.
I am a royalist.
I am not happy about the way this country is heading.
I do not believe in multiculturism.
I despise this government.
I do not want my kids to go to school in the city (we have moved to the country).
I do not like our traditions been diluted and forgotten.
I believe political correctness is destroying our country.
I believe in tougher prison sentences & capital punishment
I do not believe our troops should have gone to Iraq.
I do not want to join the European Union.
I believe people working in the UK should all pay tax to the UK
I believe there should be a stop on more immigrants entering our country.
I believe the UK should aim to be more self sufficient.
I find Jim Davidson & Chubby Brown very funny.

I treat everyone I meet on face value regardless of colour or faith

There follows a few replies of the nature, ‘No, I agree with all on that list’ and ‘You’re a realist’.
…and then ‘tria1’ comes long and spoils the love-in:

[posted by] trai1

lol, Yes, you just said in another thread you wanted to take a hammer to a Muslim.

Went for a ride with my son on my bike (he sits on the crossbar and then tries to exert some influence on our direction) down by our local river.
It’s quite nice. Lots of flora and ducks and stuff.
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Even the guys that work in the factory/warehouse on the other side of the river enjoy it on their breaks.
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It’s quite enjoyable, I do recommend it, especially when you get to the lock and the weir.
Hold on, what’s that? There in the corner.
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Oh no. Not more bloody houses.
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Hmm. Well it’ll probably look alright once the gardens get established and the cover for the wildlife returns, albeit probably a slightly different type of wildlife.
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WTF!
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Just lay a fucking RSJ across the river, why don’t you! Bollox to trying to make it pretty, or blend it in, like [[popup:riverwalk_6.jpg:a bridge a little further down the same stretch::1:left]] of river. Just: Bam! – Industrial shit! With some [[popup:riverwalk_8.jpg:weird plaques::1:left]].

Steel and metal and industrial stuff is fine in it’s place. I quite like it. But not in the middle of a nice wildlife area.

All this guy is missing is a very small moustache, and the rule book.

Via and also.