On the way to "World Youth Day':

A group of Catholic pilgrims who thought Adelaide was a suburban bus ride from central Sydney are appealing for help to fulfil their South Australian visit.

[...] They had arranged to visit the Adelaide parish of Croydon Park and stay with 30 families but were horrified to find it was a round trip of nearly 3000 kilometres. Adelaide auxiliary bishop Greg O'Kelly said the group was told Adelaide was a long way, but understood that to mean an hour or two.

An hour or two on a plane.

Clive James wrote The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am glad. Today I have been informed by someone who met him/her, that an individual with whom I've clashed online is 'quite plainly thick'. It is always nice to have independent corroboration.

David Davis says he is running a campaign "against the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms". Our Dave thinks a short sharp drop is much better. Freedoms for the English only.

The list of comedy candidates indicates what a farce the whole stunt is.

Picture nicked from him

Saw the Hoodoo Gurus this evening for the first time since their 'final performance' in 1998(?) - they were FAB.

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Thanks: Eugenio for quotation from Il Gattopardo

Nice:

Tokyo Customs has punished three of its officers for secretly slipping drugs into travellers' luggage more than 160 times at Japan's main international airport to train drug-sniffing dogs.

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"We are deeply sorry that such acts have happened," Takahashi said. "The three officers apologised and explained that they did it in an effort to boost the dogs' performance."

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One of the officers slipped a package of cannabis resin into an outside pocket of luggage belonging to a traveller from Hong Kong, but a sniffer dog failed to detect it, Takahashi said.

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Tokyo Customs then frantically sought help from airline and airport officials to track down the Hong Kong traveller at his Tokyo hotel and recover the more than four ounces (120 grams) of resin a day later.

Nobody deserves the death penalty for believing in a non-existent deity. More particularly the believers in one non-existent deity do not deserve death at the hands of believers in yet another non-existent deity. Deporting the Gul family is a de facto death sentence.

Asad Gul Alban and family belong to Glasgow!

Asad Gul Alban his wife, Gullrukh, his daughter 6 year old Maryam, his sons, three year old Nadab and Abishai one and a half. Are currently detained in Yarls' wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday 1st July on Pakistani International Airlines flight PK758 from Heathrow to Lahore at 21:00 hrs.

The family came to the UK from Pakistan eleven months ago. They are devout Christians. Asad Gul Alban had run a publishing business in Pakistan for more than ten years. As a Christian he had often published Christian books and magazines and had been involved in missionary work for the Church.

As a result of this work Asad has faced many problems in Pakistan including false charges of blasphemy.

No One Is Illegal

Meades on Surrealism (5 part autoplaylist).

Single entrant notwithstanding, the horse is out of its mind on ephedrine anyway ... Updates from Sokwanele.

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