Mandelson: 'If I can come back, so can Labour'

Err, when ZanuLiarbour lose the election, how will you appoint yourselves to the House of Lords?

You didn't "come back", piggy, your mates rescued you with a peerage.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090928/tuk-mandelson-if-i-can-come-back-so-can-dba1618.html

Fiji & Tourism - Stuff (and Green Nonsense)

"A short family holiday to Fiji is as much as $1000 cheaper than a year ago and the plunging cost has sparked a bounce-back in New Zealand tourists since April's political strife. "

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/2887819/Fijis-sands-regain-their-sparkle

"Green MP Keith Locke said while his party was not advocating an economic boycott of Fiji, travellers to the region could help politically by expressing the New Zealand stance toward the regime."

What a fucking idiot, does he WANT tourists to be rounded up and thrown in jail? (Probably: he has an agenda.) The day folk start taking advice from Locke is the day they start voting "Green". Oh, wait: some idiots do...

And the Race Card is Played

"It's because he's black" says Jimmy the Peanut.

Yeah, and the equally vigorous protests against Bush were because..?

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Clic the pic for the "offical" site.

Iraq shoe thrower 'was tortured'

Zaidi was unrepentant, saying he remained angry over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"The invasion divided brothers and neighbors and turned our houses into places for endless mourning and our streets and parks into cemeteries," he said.

Does he wonder now how the Kuwaitis felt after his glorious country invaded them?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091500152.html?hpid=topnews