Bouncers - the new Sheriff's in Dodge City

This, from the 'Brussels Broadcasting Corp.'...I have dealt with 'bouncers' in a proffesional capacity for many years and, while it's true, many are obnoxious 'jobsworths', have you ever tried calling a policeman when suddenly confronted with a violent drunk at 1 A.M.?? Its the deeper symptoms of our ailing society that need addressing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8168709.stm

When Will the Penny Drop ?

According to a poll published today, 84% of the CON-servative party's membership ( of those asked ) want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty... Interestingly, 60% wish such a referundum to also question the basis for Britain's continuing involvement/ membership of the Draconian EU.

I wonder for whom the penny will drop first, the CON-servative party' pro-EU leadership, or its members ? Let's hope that it is the latter...

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e2011570e3c545970c-pi

'Wanderings of a Pilgrim : In Search of the Picturesque, During Four and Twenty Years in the East' by Fanny Parks (1850)

An absorbing and colourful record of colonial life in early 18th century India - written by an outspoken, cigar-smoking, sitar playing, urdu-speaking 'memsahib'...

http://www.archive.org/stream/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft#page/n5/mode/2up