Only In America

. Ain't that a shame, buh bye Australian Prime Minister John Howard has admitted defeat in the country's general election, and look...

. Jack Ruby silences Lee Oswald. Freddy Mercury heads off to the great gig in the sky. "Birmingham Six" arrested, 16 years later ....

. Let me finish the day on a light note. A Taiwanese lingerie company encouraged all its female office staff to go to work in their undies f...

. Why, without doing any research, would I feel comfortable betting the farm that ninety five percent of this "life is so precious...

. There will be one or two smiles at Boeing no doubt. The weak dollar is threatening the survival of European planemaker Airbus, chief execu...

. LBJ takes command. Hijack jet crashes. Riots for beauty pageant. and other

. Poodle gone, mongrel next? Australia's prime minister has condemned members of his own party for distributing leaflets implying the La...

. After they have totally dismantled her that is. Six months ago, there were fears a ferocious blaze could have put an end to an ambitious ...

. This is quite interesting, I wonder where the truth lies? Pakistan's nuclear weapons are already under American control even as analys...

. JFK shot, start the coverup. Death resulting from INXSive drug use. Rosemary West gets life. Knives out for Thatcher, mind the door on you...

. I would dearly like to know what kind of psychological assessment, if any, these inadequates go through before they are let loose with a f...

. . But not for all, the new rule will apply to home owners only. My own opinion is partially included in a previous post A Hidden World Of...

. Birmingham pub bombs kill nineteen. Mob burns US embassy. and other.

. Shurley shome mishtake! But his press performances weren't based on the facts, McClellan continues. "There was one problem. It ...

. Last post for today, seems there was quite a bit happening on this day past. Nuremburg trial begins. Franco quits this coil. Diana admits ...

. Well I'll be damned, I had no idea the old bugger was still alive, it was only a couple of hours ago when I was posting about the comp...

. A Hidden World Of Astonishing Violence: America's Brutal Prisons This is not a film about prisoner on prisoner violence it's gu...

. Sacre Bleu! it didn't take long, but then it wouldn't, I could never weigh up why a country full of left wing bolshies elected a r...

. And what's Bobs answer to all this? give the mines to the blacks, yes that's sure to work. Zimbabwe delayed the release of latest ...

. How juicy, thou shalt not covet thy brothers wife, begatting of children, lusting after parishioners and bearing false witness, encore! DE...

. The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to the taxpayer, researchers say. ...

. Hoping to convince a judge that his contrition is real, Michael Vick checked himself into jail on Monday - three weeks before he is to be...

. *Garbage in garbage out, so spake judge John Jones, a Bush appointed Republican judge after his ruling on the Dover Pennsylvania Intellige...

. Interesting. The British army says violence in Basra has fallen by 90% since it withdrew from the southern Iraqi city earlier this year. ...

. Mr Ahmadinejad said that all Opec countries had showed interest in converting their cash reserves into other currencies. "They [the...

. Sadat goes to Israel. Second moon landing. and other.

. Little has changed at Kathryn Johnston's yellow brick house on Neal Street since the first few days after the elderly woman was ki...

. But the old bar sinister (hyphen) had to go, not terribly socialist you know. C&L has an interesting few minutes on old Wedgewood, (To...

. This is one scary tale if ever there was. When an already cruel and callous society embraces homophobia as do the Iranians, couple this wi...

. The evil little shits are at it again, I suppose it would be too much to ask for divine intervention or the wrath of Neptune to visit on ...

. Koolaid in Guyana. King's Cross fire. Terry Waite freed. Bush visits London, poodle happy locals pissed. and other.