That is excellent.

Long time fan of Jake Parker's.

Agent 44 can do no wrong in my book.

His website is so very worth your time and interest.

His Agent44 take on the Wizard of Oz characters alone is brilliant, let alone Missile Mouise and the beautiful US/Manga cross over Aircraft pictures.

I became aware of his stuff several years ago via the now defunct shane glines art forum.

Which transformed ion the sketchbooksessions.

Again. Brilliant.

very interestig article, apart from one small point.

"In the alternative medicine of homeopathy, a dilute solution of a compound can have healing effects"

No it doesn't Homeopathy is Placebo Medecine.

Beyond that there is no science involved at all.

It's hokum and is actually harming the Health services in the UK, but soaking up resources that should be spent of actual medical care and not dispensing vastly over priced water to credulous dolts.

And read up on the situation Greg Palast's book armed mad house catalogues the tricks and double dealing, the govt collusion involved in stealing the pensions of generations of MOTOWNs car workers.

Ed Hands

If you despise the unions so much here's an idea...

PROVE IT.

Go to work 7 days a week 364 days of the year, 12 hours a day until you die.

Like your forebears did and theirs and theirs before them, until people unionised and fought for their human rights.

I was not actually saying Unions walk on water.

American Unions are idiots.

But Detroit management are theives.

I just object to people who pour scorn on unions when they on a DAILY BASIS enjoy the fruits of the last couple of centuries of unionisation.

So either revert to a 17th century workign style or admit that Unions are not the rreason why no one, not even Americans, want your incredibly crappy cars.

A mate of mine in Australia was a member of the Aussie bobsleigh team, and as part of the partnering of 1st world countries with 3rd world countries, they actually donated the bobsleighs, both the dry runner sleigh and the actual Kresta run version.

I dunno about theese American business men but the sleighs were peculiarly Australian.

Christophe

Isn't it just "Shit"?

Pronounced "Em ar duh", sounding the word Merde?

Another odd one was the Nissan Cedric.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Nissan_Cedric_30_001.JPG

But addressing the matter of american cars.

It would take detroit as long to catch up with the rest of the world in car design as it would to leap frog them.

So instead of trying to drag their cars into the late 70s why not go for broke and make cars for the current century?

Carbon fibre bodies, super efficient small engines would in 2 steps put MOTOWN ahead of the pack by about 20 years.

US cars be they BONG BONG or PLIK PLINK all suffer from being lousy.

Even at the supposed leading edge, the US muscle car, they to this day don't have independent suspension.

And the SUVs? good christ these things are abomonations of design and engineering.

A good car is not defined by how many Big Gulp cup holders it has. US cars are now a cavalcade of extraneous crap and electronic toys dropped onto the same 50 or more year old simpleton engineering.

Good Gravy!!

It's the Unions fault?

FFS

Talk about brain washed by the right wing.

If it weren't for Unionisation you'd be property, an indentured serf, a slave.

Fair pay, the 8 hour day,an end to child labour, industrial tribunals, equal pay, payment for overtime, safety at work, complaints procedures, pensions, hell even THE WEEKEND let alone any holiday entitlement.

NONE of this was a bountiful gift from the management.

I adore reading the sort of tripe where people who have benefitted endlessly from the hard work and resolve of their forebears to make a world and a work place based on fairness safety and equality,turn around and bad mouth them.

Management don't care about you, they'd sell you for fertiliser if they could.

This willing untermenschism, this Pan Ethnic Uncle Tommery is vile.

I think the ages established in the US for certain activities are very enlightening as to how your society veiws the young.

You can own a gun at 16

You can join the Armed forces at 18 or 17 with parentla consent.

You can Drive a car at 16.

You can have sex at 18.

You can drink alcohol at 21.

So you'd be able to drive a car legally for 5 years before having a beer legally.

Ever noticed that youngsters who drink tend to screw up and come home with sick down their fronts? Incapable?

And that's them walking.

Yet it is seens as being a good move to be able to get drunk and have the car so habituated into their world view that they'll automatically try to drive.

Also you can own a gun and legally shoot people, under certain circumstances, for 2 years before you can have sex?

The US is seriously screwy.

Sky scrapers make no sense in Dubai, as the veiw from every window is of more and more of dubai.

Which is no recipe for a pleasing vista.

is it in german that they are called the doodle sack?

Anyhow as both a Scot and an Irishman, I love the souind of the pipes.

The Scots version has always been seen as being more of a martial instrument, while the irish pipes, by dint of being played in a sitting position,were not.

The skirl of the pipes will always hold sway over most Celtic peoples. Hell they are played from Islamabad to the arctic circle, so they have got to be douing soemthing right.

Wow.... an oblong continent.. or is this the mercator map of planet Oz?

He had legs and arms too, so following ted's reasoning to whit

ipso facto pepto bismol, you shouldn't hire the belimbed either.

How not to get ripped off?

Don't buy a new car, let soem other clod take that big devalaution as soon as th tyres hit the street.

Never will understand the need to buy a car new.

As the saying goes "Momma didn't raise no fools"

Maybe Bob read the Bob Blog and has had a total and catastrophic emotional break down resulting in him taking his own life?

Still, it's a laff !!

Ho ho Ho.