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It's Friday......So.....
With the Presidential Turkey Pardoning Thanksgiving earlier this week, I'm sure mine and other West Wing fans went back to certain episodes for Thanksgiving so thanks to the West Wing wikiquote page I serve up the followingFirst up from Shibboleth we have the dilemma that apparently Press secretaries have to C.J. Cregg: They sent me two turkeys. The most photo-friendly of the two gets a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's zoo. The runner-up gets eaten.President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet: If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch. Of course you can wat

Postcard From Cumbria
I've just recieved an email from Westmorland's MP Tim Farron which I am going to share with you all.This is what the weather's been like in my constituency in Cumbria this last week: I'm sure you've heard about the floods which have forced hundreds of families out of their homes. A life has be

Strictly Come Jailhouse Rock
The frontrunner for most of this season's Strictly Come Dancing Ricky Whittle, star of Hollyoaks, found himself behind bars last night on suspicion of assault. It is an unusual case of fact imitating fiction as Ricky's character is Calvin Valentine the cop who has been led to the other side of the law by resident bad guy Warren Fox.The incident which occurred in the small hours of this morning involved a collision between a motorist and a male Pedestrian in Liverpool's Duke Street. It is not clear how his arrest will affec

Dubai Crisis as a Spider
I had to say that when I opened the Times today I was impressed by their spider diagram (this is a link to a PDF) showing the interconnectiveness of businesses to the Dubai World difficulties. Unlike the previous map of islands that they showed, when reporting on the venture at the start up, there is less enthusiasm about the state of some of these islands.

Time to Question When the #BBCFail
Earlier this week Jo Swinson tweeted that she had been dropped from the BBC Question Time panel in Edinburgh less than 48 hours before it was scheduled. What we ended up getting was the Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, up against Blair's good mate Derry Falconer, David Davis of the Tories, comedian Marcus Brigstocke and Daily Fail columnist Melanie Philips. Apart from part of Lord Falconer's education being in Scotland none of the others has much Scottish experience.The questions were largely predictable.The Iraq Inquiry - but the one party that wasn't fooled by Blair's dossier we