Peter Risdon

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A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their immigration test case at London’s High Court.
They were challenging immigration rules which said that those who retired from the British Army before 1997 did not have an automatic right to stay.
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“If a person breaks into your home, you are justified in using deadly force in defending your family,” said [Police spokesman, Sgt Matthew] Mount
Background:
Police responding to a call from the city’s northwest side about 3:20 a.m. found 64-year-old Robert McNally on the hallway floor with his arm around the neck of 52-year-old David T. Meyers, [...]

Actually I cheated. Two are real Palin quotes, the other two randomly generated by the program. Can you guess which?
It’s very hard to tell the difference.

The attacks against Palin have been disgusting, her acceptance speech was astonishing, her answer in the clip below is gibberish.

Cafferty’s disgust is understandable. This exposes an important question. Palin has been compared to Reagan and Thatcher, but both these were intelligent people with good understandings of the economic principles of Liberalism. Thatcher had Keith Joseph [...]

I’m told I have a 95% chance of survival. Come to think of it — as a drinking, smoking, saturated-fat hound — my chance of survival has been improved by cancer.
Best wishes for a full recovery, P J.

I’ve been too busy to respond to this before now, but Peter Ryley opened his recent post about totalitarianism – a response to the discussions I’d been having with Harry Barnes – as follows:
Harry Barnes has opened himself up to a bloggertarian attack…
And his last paragraph began:
Sometimes I wonder about the exaggerated nature of contemporary [...]

And for you.
Gordon Brown, today:
“Understand that all the attacks, all the polls, all the headlines, all the criticism, it’s all worth it if in doing this job I make life better for one child, one family, on community. Because this job is not about me, it’s about you.”

How Gram Parsons met Emmylou Harris:

And she is beautiful.

So there you are, busking with your twelve string outside a subway station in Copenhagen, and you’re playing a Bruce Springsteen song, and along comes this guy with a guitar in a case, and he wants to play along. And he’s Bruce Springsteen:

Click here and you’ll find more – Springsteen played a long set. He [...]

The Republican V.P. nom would be “gang-raped by my big black brothers” if she enters Manhattan, [Sarah] Bernhard said. Palin is said to be making a campaign stop in New York next week.
But don’t react too quickly. That was a nuanced statement:
“[The gang rape comment] is part of a much larger, nuanced, and yes, [...]