So, I'm looking for somewhere dry to take a week or more off. Problem is, none of the places I've been are dry this time of year...

 Any suggestions, preferably with rail link? Can be cold, even very cold. Just dry.

I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from them Eugene Debs

Worse, I seem to have lost confidence in my immune defence system. Despite my indifference to food hygiene, I have always been the healthiest person I know. Any friend who chided me that my lifestyle, eating habits, etc etc were bad for me was simply told that I was far healthier than they were and they knew it.

I didn't mind getting flu, it's a once a decade thing, but to suffer a relapse that was worse than the original illness has undermined some essential part of me. God I'm getting old

keep to the Fen Causeway

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron postponed on Thursday a much-anticipated speech on Britain's future role in the European Union because of the hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant where Britons are believed to be among those held.

Cameron warned people to expect "bad news" after Algerian forces launched an operation to free the hostages.

"The Algerian armed forces have now attacked this compound," Cameron told BBC TV. "It is a very dangerous, a very uncertain, a very fluid situation and I think we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of bad news ahead."

The Tesco burgers that contained up to 29% equine DNA were likely to have been made with high-protein powders derived from horse rather than fresh meat, the Guardian has been told.

The main focus of efforts to trace the source of adulteration in the Tesco economy burgers has now shifted from the meat itself to additives used in the manufacturing process. The Irish processors ABP have pointed the finger at suppliers of the "beef ingredient products" it uses to make cheap burgers. The Tesco burgers were only 63% meat and 37% other ingredients.

Economy burgers are typically bulked out with additive mixes of concentrated proteins extracted from animal carcasses and offcuts.

Were an angry group of disenfranchised citizens to target in a strategic manner the substations leading to a city or geographic area--say, Albany, for example--they could put the area in the dark for as long as it took to bring the substations back online. Were they committed enough, and spread their attacks out over a wide enough area, perhaps mixing in a few tens of dozens of the residential transformers found every few hundred yards along city streets, they could overwhelm the utility companies ability to repair the damage being caused or law enforcement's ability to stop them...

How many days with partial power or no power, how many nights in the dark, would it take before the local economy collapsed in the targeted area? Insurgents could cripple a city, region, or state, without ever firing a bullet at another human being.

Progressives seeking to undermine the Constitution seem to think they hold all the cards. I would warn them that they are not remotely prepared for what will happen if they attempt to cross Constitutional boundaries and natural rights.

It could be a cold, dark winter.

Tread carefully.

No link because I don't want to give them the hits.

"An angry group of disenfranchised citizens" = TeaBagging Right Wing gun nuts.

"Attempt to cross Constitutional boundaries and natural rights" = bring regulations of owning a gun up to equal the regulations of owning a car.

"Tread carefully" = do as we say or we'll start committing acts of terrorism.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

It's something like facebook but it promises that people can make money from the place. I think it's a big rip-off but my friend won't believe it.  

I "earned" 44$ in the last 2 weeks by simply liking someone's post and I really don't believe in free money.

From what I've read, no one seems to be able to collect their money and I am not surprised.