Food For Thought

With time being short today, just a couple of links for fun.

Those who want to find their past families, or hunt heirs, make a great deal of use of a number of web sites, a leading one being Ancestry.co.uk or Ancestry.com the world wide version.

Daily Mash has its own take on this, in gloriously bad taste:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news-in-pictures/news-briefly/reader-offer-201201214798/

For those with more serious and contemporary interests there is a financial one that will equip you to sound authoritative; or at least as convincing as most of our present financial commentators and politicians:

http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2012/01/advice.html

Enjoy.

Thoughts For The Day

Just in case you were trying to make sense of anything in the news a few items to remind you that it is not as simple as that.

Try any or all of the links below.

Buy your own slave at current low prices to cut energy costs from Raw Story via Some Assembly Required:

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/03/report-slaves-now-a-disposable-commodity-at-historic-low-of-90-each/

Europe debate and industrial “strategy” from The Slog:

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/europe-while-the-eu-floats-away-on-hot-air-cold-reality-is-settling-on-the-ground/

The Chinese housing bubble (will it collapse?) from Market Oracle:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article26836.html

World water supply issues from Automatic Earth:

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-10-2011-will-water-set-world-on.html

The food we might eat from The Oil Drum:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7624#more

Who is really getting the big subsidies in the USA from Tax Justice Network:

http://taxjustice.blogspot.com/2011/03/bob-mcintyres-365-billion-testimony-to.html

And lastly, forget all those TV series about The Tudors its just in the blood from ArchNews:

http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/5423-could-blood-group-defect-explain-why-henry-viii-s-became-a-monster.html

Its being so cheerful as keeps me going.