Continuing our carefully thought out policy of confusing the enemy by putting out shows at highly irregular intervals, thereby taking them by surprise (along with our actual listeners) SNN is back with another of our increasingly misnamed weekly shows.

 

New presenter Murray is replaced temporarily by Doug Payton in Atlanta, making this the first time SNN has been entirely in American hands. Murray has some software problems that haven't responded to his standard method of resolving difficulties, i.e. striking them repeatedly with a medieval weapon. You might be surprised how effective that usually is.

 

We have some blog news about the isolated lone wolf extremist who attempted to explode an SUV in Times Square. He seem (according to the experts who run the editorial page of the New York Times) to have gone off the rails when he fell behind on his payments and had his house was repossessed by the bank. Taking half a year off to go to a Pakistani training camp to learn how to blow shit up courtesy of the Taliban does tend to put something of a hole in one's finances. If only there was some obvious reason for his actions. It makes no rational sense. Most people who manage to get a parking space on Times Square tend to be a lot happier about it than this guy. His possible links to the Tea Party are of course the prime focus of the current investigation.

 

"Leave no man behind on the battlefield" is a code the British SAS live be. Shame the MOD doesn't see it that way. Too bad for the red tabs at HQ that the SAS told them they were going ahead and following the code anyway, and if London didn't like it, then London could have the entire Regiment's resignation.

 

A man in the UK attempted to put up a memorial to the small boats that helped the Royal Navy evacuate British anjd French soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940. Regular listeners have a pretty good idea what's coming. Did you know the expression "World War II" is offensive? Yeah, us neither,

 

"Tom Paine" is along with another look at how the famous Thousand Bomber Raid on Cologne might have been covered by today's journalists.

 

And Doug Payton introduces himself along with an economics lesson that Greece might have benefited from if it has been paying attention for the last 30 years. In what alternate reality is "spending more money that you have" a sound economic policy?

 

We don't mention the UK election because frankly Brown, Clegg and Cameron deserve each other, and it's just too depressing for words. The Tories had the biggest open goal ever in front of them, a keeper who was rolling around outside the penalty box clutching his shin in pain, the opposition defenders were all peering hawkishly in the wrong direction and the ball landed right at the strikers feet with all the time in the world to take the simplest imaginable shot.

 

And he missed.

 

Just speaking hypothetically here, but how many of our listeners on the US eastern seaboard and in the Canadian Maritimes have boats capable of doing a return trip across the Atlantic? No reason, just, you know, in theory, in the event of things getting even worse than they already are.