Oil, explosions and porn!

Quietly, too quietly, down in the south of the Philippines....miles of coastline and local waters are being covered in thick black oil, however the company that owns the tanker seems to think that things are on the up...it would be good if Petron were correct...

And not as large, but still terrible, thanks to the recent hostilities...Lebanon has an oil slick of its own.

Still in Lebanon, yet again the Hariri's step in to help rebuilding their country, of course there are political issues, however, it's a start....

Jordan is doing what it can to help its neighbours....in this case, removing the bombs embedded in Bierut's airport's runway....I just hope that in this instance they are right....

Commander of the corps, Colonel Zuheir Azzam, told The Jordan Times during a telephone interview yesterday that the engineers, who started work on defusing the bombs last Friday, extracted the three bombs late Monday, detonating them on waste ground outside the airport perimeter.

“The bombs were buried some eight metres deep in the runways, and the corps, in cooperation with the Lebanese army bulldozers, managed to dig around the bombs and remove them,” said Azzam.

He added that a fourth bomb of the same type remains buried nine metres deep in one of the runways.

“This bomb was not detonated or defused because directly under it lies a layer of water and the bomb is deep inside this water. Therefore, it was left in its place as it will not cause any damage and with time will corrode because of the seawater,” Azzam said.

The politically correct movement gets out of hand.....but it could get worse - I once had a very alarming episode with someone's mother and a porn channel in a hotel.....she was watching it....not me....honest!!!

And finally, maybe, just maybe, I need to stop giving my Italian colleague a hard time!!!