Morning blogulation - Thu 13-Aug-09

I awake hungry, switch on the old 'puter, since my benefits were unexpectedly cut the other week, I've been economising on food, for breakfast I eat two fortnight out of date eggs, scrambled, I pick up my ukulele and play a couple of old Plimptons songs, remembering past times, richer times, I load up Firefox and venture back into old Bloggington.

• Coffeehouse reckon's Mandelson's 500,000 jobs saved figure is full of shit
• Open Europe reckon's the Generation Yes campaign in Ireland is full of shit
• EU Referendum reports on the Bovine TB epidemic and how it has now passed to humans
• Junkfood Science reckons those who peddle the unhealthiness of being fat are full of shit
• Longrider covers the government misallocating funds
  
• The BBC reports on France and Germany coming out of the Recession
• The Adam Smith Institute suggests scrapping the minimum wage to deal with unemployment - nice idea, but there's no way parliament would do it
• Ambush Predator has noticed that councils aren't cutting jobs in the recession