April 13th, 2012
Mr Peter Thomas, Conservative MP for Hendon South since 1970, told his constituency party last night that he would not contest the next general election.
Mr Thomas, who will be 65 on July 31, was Secretary of State for Wales throughout the period of office of the Government headed by Mr Edward Heath, from 1970-74. Between 1970 and 1972 he was also chairman of the Conservative Party. Before his return for Hendoh South in 1970, he was MP for Conway from 1951 to 1966.
Mr Humphry Berkeley, who was Conservative MP for Lancaster from 1959 to has been chosen to fight the Southend East seat for the Social Democrates at the next election. He said last night that he was probably the only person alive to have been asked by three political parties to contest parliamentary constituencies at general elections.
Mr Berkeley, a former investment banker, and now director of a charity, was chairman of the United Nations Association from 1966 to 1970. He resigned from the Conservatives because of their opposition to Labour’s Race Relations Act 1968. He joined the Labour Party in 1970, and fought the North Fylde seat for Labour unsuccessfully in October, 1984.
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March 24th, 2012
This week there will be 2 sponsered events going on to help families looking for a bit of extra income. There will be a baby photo contest and a pet photo contest open to all members of the community. Basically how it works is you submit the cutest photo of your child or pet and you are eligible to win a $2500 prize. You can follow the links to get more information.
The contest is being sponsered as a way to reward people with a fun event that can also help them financially. These contests are mainly being done for fun and a winner will be announced each and every month.
If you are interested in entering your baby or your pet you can go to the sites linked above and enter them into the contests. Please feel free to submit as many different photos as you’d like. The contest will be judged by other members of the community and other online visitors.
This will hopefully be a fun event for all and give a few families a few extra bucks in their pockets.
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March 10th, 2012
I’m not going try to spit out some garbage about reading the entire bill – because I havn’t. With that said I have read through it, and have been researching this on my own. No I didn’t just find out about this today when google and the other sites started their protest against it – I found out about it *roughly* two months ago.
Regardless of ANYTHING that this bill has to offer – ANYTHING – and I repeat ANYTHING that allows the government to decide what is or is not acceptable to be on the internet will get NO support by me. I don’t care if it is this bill or the next, they need to find a new way to do it. This is the start of internet censorship that I will not stand by and watch happen.
I am all for stopping piracy – but if I ask for steak and A1 don’t give me a hamburger and ketchup and say “This is good enough right?” – because it’s not. If we are going to do it – we need to get it right the first time.
Have you read the bill? Do you realize the potential (Yes I said potential – not that they will – but it is possible – which is enough for me) problems that can come up with this bill?
Any video with a song playing in the background that has been copyrighted will have the audio removed, or the entire video removed, or the entire web site for that matter. Any streaming service that has the ability to be posted on by users could be blocked from the american internet – say by by to youtube.
Not to mention there are always going to be ways around it – and the ones who care enough about pirate software will be the ones who do it. The innocent ones however will be the ones majorly effected by this bill.
I just realized after typing all that, that I got sucked into the discussion and argument side of things. I won’t reply to your next reply if you choose to do so – but I wasn’t about to delete all that – so….
Feel free to reply though – I would be interested to hear what you have to say if you feel it necessary.
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March 10th, 2012
It’s all fairly amusing. America kills off the one area in which it leads the world.
I thought the bit about ‘communism’ was particularly funny. Like ‘capitalism’ can hold it’s head up.
I believe this is the result of a hugely humiliating disconnect between average americans and their government. Not because American government is bad but because americans distrust govt and thereby leave it to act in ridiculous ways. Keeping a thing you don’t trust at arm’s length is a sure way to let it get on with the things you don’t like.
The US controls the internet, it’s made in it’s image. If Americans want to give that up then support the bill. It’s stupid, short-sighted and, if upheld, will spell the end of a free and open exchange of information on the internet because if one site or individual can be shown to have breached copyright then all who have linked to that site will also be in breach.
So I go, ‘hey look at this hilarious Lionel Richie video from ’84′ and I am a criminal.
Please do something worthy today and contact your congressmen and tell them they are out of their minds. This won’t protect copyrighted earnings, it will turn a whole generation away from online discovery. It’s a mess, created by corporate interests in a nation who’ve lost site of seperation between state and enterprise. Big business wins EVERY time.
That’s not democracy folks.
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