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I'm not a hawk...
Feb. 5th, 2013 09:12 am...but this sort of taunting makes me wish we could nuke North Korea's leadership back to the Stone Age...and let its people find a better type of governance.
Feb. 5th, 2013
The Guardian reports that a second reading has been ordered for a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Britain:
Britain is on course to adopt gay marriage after the House of Commons voted to give the marriage (same sex couples) bill a second reading by a majority of 225. The bill will still have to receive line-by-line scrutiny in the Commons, and then it will have to get through the Lords, but the size of the majority, and the fact that the leaders of all three main parties are in favour, suggest that it is now inevitable that gay marriage will become law.Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused by his Tory compatriots of using "Orwellian tactics" to convince his Conservative party colleagues to vote for the bill.
Only 127 Tory MPs supported it. Another 136 opposed it, and 40 MPs either voted both ways (actively abstaining) or did not vote.We don't let our CongressCritters vote twice, do we?
And, according to The Weather Channel, what we're getting at the end of the week will either be 3-6" of snow around Boston...or 2' (that is two *feet*). It's going to depend on when the cold and wet hit each other, and where.
The European model suggests that we'll be using the "N" and "B" words. We haven't had a foot or so in a storm since January of 2011. We're probably due.
Universal Hub notes that the French Toast Alert is currently at yellow/elevated. Of course, the storm's 4 days off, right now. And although the prognosticators are saying we could have the biggest storm in two years,
The European model suggests that we'll be using the "N" and "B" words. We haven't had a foot or so in a storm since January of 2011. We're probably due.
Universal Hub notes that the French Toast Alert is currently at yellow/elevated. Of course, the storm's 4 days off, right now. And although the prognosticators are saying we could have the biggest storm in two years,
OK, granted, "biggest storm in 2 years" isn't saying much, given the size of the storms over the past 2 years, but do we need to remind anybody what this week is the anniversary of?Yeah, that's right. The Blizzard of 78 started 35 years ago today.