Fire Dispute Update - Local Government Association information on the employers' side of the firefighters' pay dispute, providing background on the proposed pay settlement.
Fire fighters dispute advice - Advice to schoolteachers on precautions to be taken during the firefighters' strike.
Firefighters' Industrial Action - Information from Her Majesty's Fire Service Inspectorate for Scotland on the national firefighters' dispute in Scotland.
Independent Review of the Fire Service - Professor Sir George Bain's independent review of the role, responsibilities, pay and conditions of the Fire Service in the United Kingdom.
Operation Fresco - News and information from the Ministry of Defence on Operation Fresco, the armed forces' cover for the striking firefighters.
Retained Firefighters Union - Official website of the Retained Firefighters Union, which is not participating in the firefighters' strike. Provides information about RFU cover during the strikes.
The Brains Trust: Firefighters "Laugh Like Drains" as Britain Burns - Political satire: "As the fire fighters' strike begins this week, the conduct of some of the striking officers has been called into question by charred Britons, "Green Goddess" drivers and irate politicians."
Fire Brigades Union - Official website of the Fire Brigades Union. Archive of all pre-strike and strike bulletins.
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Firefighters' Strike 2002 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Firefighters' Strike 2002
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Firefighters' Strike 2002 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Firefighters' Strike 2002
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Firefighters' Strike 2002 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Firefighters' Strike 2002
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Firefighters' Strike 2002 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Firefighters' Strike 2002
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Firefighters' Strike 2002 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Firefighters' Strike 2002
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Firefighters' Strike 2002 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Firefighters' Strike 2002
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Firefighters' Strike 2002 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Firefighters' Strike 2002
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Firefighters' Strike 2002 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Firefighters' Strike 2002
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Firefighters' Strike 2002 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Firefighters' Strike 2002
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Firefighters' Strike 2002 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Firefighters' Strike 2002
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Firefighters' Strike 2002 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Firefighters' Strike 2002
