<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-14T04:48:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2007-08-17:links.412031783</id><title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/happy_birthday_johnny.htm"><![CDATA[Apologies to anyone thinking &#39;whats going on here?&#39;!&nbsp; Basically I took over the administration of Johnnys account after his passing as I felt it was a good way to keep his memory alive.&nbsp; I&#39;m not very techy so I&#39;m not sure ho]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/happy_birthday_johnny.htm"/><dc:creator>Yeatsy</dc:creator><author><name>Yeatsy</name></author><updated>2007-08-17T15:48:00Z</updated><published>2007-08-17T15:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2006-01-17:links.1606313</id><title>Pomi&apos;s story</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pomis_story.htm"><![CDATA[Well the old body continues to give up on me and break down at perplexing and depressing frequency.
The writing up of all the thousands of butterfly notes pinned to books, guides and other travel memorabilia has all but ground to a halt, it's diffic]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/pomis_story.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2006-01-17T08:02:00Z</updated><published>2006-01-17T08:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2006-01-07:links.1597252</id><title>The King of Swaziland</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_king_of_swaziland_1.htm"><![CDATA[The king of Swaziland has ordered an end to a five year no-sex rite for teenage girls to try and reduce the spread of Aids in his tiny African kingdom.
Under the umchwasho chastity pledge any breach was punishable by a fine of one cow for anyone tha]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_king_of_swaziland_1.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2006-01-07T06:27:00Z</updated><published>2006-01-07T06:27:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2006-01-02:links.1592414</id><title>2006 - through the crystal ball</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/2006__through_the_crystal_ball.htm"><![CDATA[Prediciton is always a dodgy pastime, but it's amazing how many professional prediction pundits there are out there. And they get paid, handsomply whether they're right or wrong! Take economists, half of them say one thing and half the complete oppos]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/2006__through_the_crystal_ball.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2006-01-02T07:31:00Z</updated><published>2006-01-02T07:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-29:links.1589102</id><title>US Captain J Anderson on Iraq</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/us_captain_j_anderson_on_iraq.htm"><![CDATA['As a recently discharged Air Force Captain, I now have the privilege of free speech. America is at a crossroads in Iraq, and I find the revisionist historians deceitful and disgusting. Though no WMDs have been found, bringing the terrorists out of t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/us_captain_j_anderson_on_iraq.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-29T11:33:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-29T11:33:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-23:links.1584490</id><title>ID &apos;not science&apos; - thrown out of court</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/id_not_science__thrown_out_of_court.htm"><![CDATA[In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, Judge John Roberts III, in Dover Pensylvania, struck a telling blow for reason and logic against superstition and ignorance by ruling that 'intelligent design' was nothing more than creationism in another guise. He or]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/id_not_science__thrown_out_of_court.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-23T11:50:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-23T11:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-16:links.1578306</id><title>Bush finally admits he was wrong!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_finally_admits_he_was_wrong.htm"><![CDATA[It would be nice to think so wouldn't it? But in last Wednesdays speech he didn't quite go that far, maintaining that he and the Pope alone remain infallible on this earth.
He did admit that much of the pre-war intelligence on Iraq 'turned out to be]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_finally_admits_he_was_wrong.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-16T12:39:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-16T12:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-10:links.1572527</id><title>&apos;Mai pen rai&apos; - never mind</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/mai_pen_rai__never_mind.htm"><![CDATA[Brooding on my continued incarceration in BK, I'm struck by how I'll never understand the Thai people. I rountinely get angry at the smallest of things - hawkers trying to drag me to inspect their crap wares, the bird sellers and their cruel cages, t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/mai_pen_rai__never_mind.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-10T08:46:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-10T08:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-09:links.1571555</id><title>Fox news - you&apos;ve got to laugh!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/fox_news__youve_got_to_laugh.htm"><![CDATA[I finally escaped the city of Angels and escaped to Pattaya where I hoped to follow up many of the stories I captured exactly a year ago. I even checked into the same hotel, and flicking through the channels on the first tired night I came across an]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/fox_news__youve_got_to_laugh.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-09T06:50:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-09T06:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-12-03:links.1565594</id><title>Bush and the future of Iraq</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_and_the_future_of_iraq.htm"><![CDATA[On Wednesday that arch avoider of reality, Wuberry Bush, addressed the Naval academy on the state of the Iraqi war. A compliant, loyal audience of strictly military personnel, whipped up into an orgasmic frenzy of patriotism by another tub-thumping g]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_and_the_future_of_iraq.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-12-03T07:08:00Z</updated><published>2005-12-03T07:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-17:links.1549301</id><title>Bush the liar</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_the_liar.htm"><![CDATA['We do not torture'. [Bush].How many lies can one man and his administration speak? The US does not do torture? How can this barefaced lie be allowed to pass without barely a mention? What about Abu Ghraib? What about Baghram? What about Guantanamo?]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush_the_liar.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-17T06:51:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-17T06:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-13:links.1544657</id><title>The perils of self medication - PIV</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_if_selk_medication__piv.htm"><![CDATA[Before I knew it I was stripped, washed and laid out on a hospital bed, having been prodded, x-rayed and injected with God knows what.Before they were done I had IV drips in both arms, with four different solutions being flushed into me. This made th]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_if_selk_medication__piv.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-13T07:33:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-13T07:33:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-11:links.1542698</id><title>The perils of self-medication part III</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication_part_iii.htm"><![CDATA[Perils of medication IIBummrungrad International hospital is a pleasure to visit, indeed, it almost makes it worth being ill. There are lot of health tourists here, mostly Arabs recieving treatments unavailable in their own countries. Americans, faci]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication_part_iii.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-11T07:26:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-11T07:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-09:links.1540316</id><title>The perils of self-medication - PII</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication__pii.htm"><![CDATA[So having the enduring gastritis, the mending mouth sores, I was able to make the visa run to renew my visa. Sure enough, two hours into the journey I stopped the bus and got out to throw up like a roaring God, bellowing like a bull. I'd also suddenl]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication__pii.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-09T06:06:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-09T06:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-08:links.1539116</id><title>The perils of self-medication</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication.htm"><![CDATA[I'd been trying to leave BK, the city of angels for nearly three months now, but with the sort of ad-hoc things that kept cropping up - robbery, yeast infections sheer inertia and so sprinkled with the odd positive reason for staying 'just a few days]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_perils_of_selfmedication.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-08T06:03:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-08T06:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-11-04:links.1534382</id><title>Bush - Quack quack you&apos;re dead!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush__quack_quack_youre_dead.htm"><![CDATA[Last week Bush suffered one of his worst periods in office. Libby was indicted on five charges of obstructing justice and lying to grand juries. Miers, his supreme court nomination stood down. The US Iraqi death count soared past 2000. And so on.The]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/bush__quack_quack_youre_dead.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-11-04T06:47:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-04T06:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-10-30:links.1528227</id><title>The comeback kid</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_comeback_kid.htm"><![CDATA[Well, hardly a kid I suppose.Just a short note.I've spent the last week in hospital undergoing chemical bowel surgery - all very pleasant stuff! Glad to say I'm on the mend now and out of hospital, though still feeling somewhat weak and fragile. Turn]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_comeback_kid.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-10-30T07:28:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-30T07:28:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-10-18:links.1515185</id><title>Figures that don&apos;t add up...Bush</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/figures_that_dont_add_upbush.htm"><![CDATA[Iraq - US casualties are estimated to be 20,000 (dead and wounded). The number of insurgents is also estimated at 20,000. Therefore each insurgent has injured or killed one American (forgetting America's notorious habit of shooting one another or 'fr]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/figures_that_dont_add_upbush.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-10-18T04:45:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-18T04:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-10-05:links.1500666</id><title>The King of Swaziland</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_king_of_swaziland.htm"><![CDATA[The king of Swaziland has ordered an end to a five year no-sex rite for teenage girls to try and reduce the spread of Aids in his tiny African kingdom.Under the umchwasho chastity pledge any breach was punishable by a fine of one cow for anyone that]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_king_of_swaziland.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-10-05T08:08:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-05T08:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-26:links.1490048</id><title>Katrina - a harrowing yet moving account</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__a_harrowing_yet_moving_account.htm"><![CDATA[At Nursing Home, Katrina Dealt Only the First BlowNuns Labored for Days in Fatal Heat to Get Help for PatientsBy Anne Hull and Doug StruckWashington Post Staff WritersFriday, September 23, 2005; A01NEW ORLEANS -- As Hurricane Katrina swirled closer,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__a_harrowing_yet_moving_account.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-26T08:31:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-26T08:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-26:links.1489962</id><title>Fucking, Austria</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/fucking_austria.htm"><![CDATA[Fucking, AustriaThere's a village not far from Salzberg in Austria that's blessed with a rather unfortunate name, which happens to be, well, Fucking.Now the denizens of this rather sleepy little village on the way to anywhere are a little fed up of t]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/fucking_austria.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-26T07:04:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-26T07:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-22:links.1485769</id><title>Women and their waists...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm"><![CDATA[Those that read me regularly will know that I've spent quite a while now travelling through SE Asia and have fallen hook line and sinker for the local women - they truly are beyond compare. But why?I used to think it was perhaps their feminity, somet]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/women_and_their_waists.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-22T08:08:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-22T08:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-20:links.1482995</id><title>Iraq:- Col Tim Collins - then and now</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_col_tim_collins__then_and_now.htm"><![CDATA[In a remarkable speech, given in March 2003, Col. Tim Collins caught the imagination of the world in a moving speech given to his men just before entering Iraq fron the Kuwaiti desert. It drew praise from many quarters, including Bush and lair. Here]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/iraq_col_tim_collins__then_and_now.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-20T07:36:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-20T07:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-17:links.1479715</id><title>Cricket - England win the Ashes!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/cricket__england_win_the_ashes.htm"><![CDATA[Well who'd have thought it? England winning the Ashes for the first time since 1989 - nearly twenty years.But blood and sand what a sight for sore eyes, what a gladatorial spectacle, what a soul inspiring inspiration to see such a cathedral of achiev]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/cricket__england_win_the_ashes.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-17T07:57:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-17T07:57:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com,2005-09-10:links.1470943</id><title>Katrina - Bush addresses America</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__bush_addresses_america.htm"><![CDATA[Tonight I want to talk to the people of America about the hurricane Katrina. Except for the poor, the frail, the elderly and foreign tourists, probably all terrorists, who only bring these things on themselves.I want to tell those people that count,]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/katrina__bush_addresses_america.htm"/><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><author><name>john mchugh</name></author><updated>2005-09-10T08:17:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-10T08:17:00Z</published></entry></feed>