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Sex workers protest against the outlawing of certain sexual practices such as face sitting in Old Palace Yard, Westminster http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11289635/Porn-protest-bring-your-coat-and-wrap-up-warm.html

Can't Robert Plant ever get a break?

Hillary Clinton begins weighing details of a 2016 bid, with a spring announcement likely http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-begins-weighing-details-of-a-2016-bid-with-a-spring-announcement-likely/2014/12/11/088bccac-80a5-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html

Of all people to say that about!

How cool is that! http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/christopher-lee-releases-heavy-metal-christmas-song-darkest-carols-faithful-sing-9914850.html

Interesting tips on how to think under pressure. Or at least put up a good appearance of doing! Could you answer the toughest Oxbridge question? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/11284676/Could-you-answer-the-toughest-Oxbridge-question.html

Idi Amin, Uganda Favourite food: roast goat, cassava and millet bread, and oranges Asked point-blank once if he was a cannibal, Amin replied, 'I don't like human flesh -- it's too salty for me.' It was said that on taking power he had had all his military rivals rounded up and decapitated before perching on a pile of their heads and taking bites out of their faces. It was said this was perfectly in accordance with a belief held by Amin's Kakwa tribe that if enemy flesh was eaten, the enemy's spirit couldn't return to haunt the killer.

Dictator dinners: Hitler, Kim Jong-il's foodie foibles revealed ...Another, more banal, motivation for the Fuhrer's vegetarianism was reportedly his belief that a meat-free diet would curb his chronic flatulence and constipation, conditions for which he took as many as 28 different drugs on the orders of his quack physician. Along with large doses of amphetamines he needed to keep him from collapse -- explained away as vitamins to anyone who dared ask -- Dr Theodor Morrell injected the Nazi leader with substances such as essence of Bulgarian peasants' faeces, arsenic-based rat poison in the form of Dr Koester's Anti-Gas Pills and deadly nightshade. By the final months of the war Hitler's chronically dysfunctional digestion had reduced him to a nursery diet of mashed potato and clear broth... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11282463/Dictators-dinners-Hitler-Kim-Jong-Ilss-foodie-foibles-revealed.html

True! Thanks for the reminder

Better younger, for sure.

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian In response to today's Torture Report condemning the CIA and Bush administration, Dick and Lynne Cheney have cheerfully released the season's only pro-torture holiday card. It can be yours, too, here: http://www.cafepress.com/bettybowers.1450315705

You do the best you can with what you have.

0 for 2 here. Oh well

...on the generous terrace!

Paging MsGuy!

Whatchoo say about Myassic?

Poor Hollande. François Hollande mocked for looking 'like Borat' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/francois-hollande/11277582/Francois-Hollande-mocked-for-looking-like-Borat.html