North-east England, my friend. Small town; doesn't take much small-town
stuff to get us all lit up. After last week people were playing safe, which
was perhaps just as well. And we *are plumb on the main London to Scotland
railway.
The last big excitement we had was when the police closed the knocking-shop
at the bottom of the hill. I heard about this from a cab driver who was
saying, more or less resignedly, that his take was way down because of this.
So I say, you mean blokes ring for a cab and say Take me to the nearest
knocking-shop? No, says he, I been driving the girls to work and fetching
them home again. Well, I suppose that makes sense.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Alert
> Which country do you live in, Joanna?
> Sounds like a major pain.
>
> In my world - San Francisco - everyone seems most mesmerized by the fate
> of
> one of our own home-grown major master-mind terrorists - straight out of
> Texas - Karl Rove. In fact attention has now slightly shifted from the
> "Downing Street Memo" to "Downing Rove" as the major game in town - both
> entirely connected, of course.
> Last night on the TV, it was pretty spooky to see the Cabinet meeting made
> for media consumption triumvirate - Bush-Rumsfeld-Rove -sitting behind the
> meeting table. A World War II German management system in the eyes of
> many.
>
> I hope the Anglo & Muslim Brits can persuade Mr. Blair to follow the
> Spanish
> model and withdraw from Iraq - I suspect that will deflate the will to
> domestic insurgency. Eliminating the wind-mill.
>
> One prays here that Bush & Co. are not betting on another domestic act of
> terrorism to breath life back into their penchant for a disastrous foreign
> policy abroad and more clamping down on internal dissent.
>
> As I say, many eyes waiting to see what happens to Rove. If he falls will
> it
> be a Presidency by remote control?
>
> Stephen V
>
>
>> Be alert -- your country needs lerts!
>>
>> Last night there were two bomb scares just a block or two away from where
>> I
>> live. The first was a rucksack left in a phone box, which the army bomb
>> squad dealt with and found to be harmless. In the other case, fire
>> officers
>> spotted a couple of men behaving suspiciously around rubbish bins behind
>> the
>> fire station -- they ran away, but the bins proved to be making a beeping
>> noise. So 150 people were evacuated, included 40 very distressed elderly
>> people from a sheltered housing complex a couple of hundred yards away,
>> and
>> it was several hours before everything was back to normal. And guess who
>> was
>> in the back room with her nose in a book throughout!
>>
>> No, come to think, I heard what must have been the controlled explosions,
>> and though it didn't seem to be coming from the right direction, assumed
>> that next-door were slamming their doors *again.
>>
>> Now the rucksack was almost certainly left there due to carelessness, and
>> whoever left it has paid by losing his belongings in the bomb squad's
>> controlled explosion. But the other sounds like a hoax, though nothing
>> has
>> yet been announced. If so, that is unforgiveable.
>>
>> joanna
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