Monthly Archives: April 2012

An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower.

A spokesman said the MoD had not yet decided whether to deploy ground based air defence systems during the event.
But estate resident Brian Whelan said firing the missiles “would shower debris across the east end of London”.

Novelist and blogger Charles Stross adds:

If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it’ll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city.

Go Team GB!

London 2012: Missiles May Be Placed At Residential Flats (BBC News)

boingboing

“I was born, of course, in Hawaii,” President Barack Obama began last night from the stage of the annual piece of dinner theater that is the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Then he winked, bringing down the house.

Here’s the full version from CSPAN.

How Attacks On Obama’s Race And Religion Turned Into Jokes (Buzzfeed Politics)

CAMPAIGNING BY the Coalition parties on the fiscal treaty referendum will be ramped up today amid warnings from a senior Fine Gael figure that the Yes side is facing a “difficult engagement” with the electorate.

And then some.

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte said the International Monetary Fund “will not come to the rescue of any member state of the European Union, only in partnership with the ESM”.

However, Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín, citing a story in a Sunday newspaper, said Ireland would not be isolated from funding [from the IMF}  if it voted against the treaty.

“If they would not let Anglo Irish Bank fail, they’re not going to let this State fail,” he said.

*popcorn, Minstrels, large Sprite*

Coalition To intensify Yes Drive In ‘Tight’ Referendum (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)