Independent thought of definitive quality from The Cautionary Revelation:
Polar Bears… are, let’s face it, pretty ugly. I mean, despite being kind of bear cuddly, their long noses and floppy swaging walk style is just horrible to watch. So if we are going to do something in the Polar Bear department, we should rather go out [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Only language they understand
Posted in green, tagged polar bears on 29 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Keep on keeping calm, and carry on carrying on
Posted in resistance, tagged protest on 29 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is always comforting when one’s own prescriptions are reflected by those whom one has come to regard as authoritative*.
Ian Parker-Joseph (LPUK):
This Government is looking for a fight. Don’t give it to them… I neither condemn nor condone these marches, I only wish that they remain peaceful, but will support and defend the right to [...]
Extrapolation
Posted in economy, tagged disaster on 29 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I may have mentioned before, I know refreshingly little about economics, and that which I have been obliged to learn I am, frankly, disinclined to believe. The most cursory interrogation of any City chap (facilitated, if necessary, by the customary means) will reveal that after only about fifteen minutes of cross-examination the fellow will [...]
Another hapless victim
Posted in LoL, tagged petrolheads on 29 March, 2009 | 9 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, gets all unlibertarian:
…it ought to be mandatory for cyclists to carry insurance, with huge, astonishing fines and jail for not so doing. Plus crushing of their bike. And their bollocks.
I’d set the tariff at about £466,000 p.a. for “third-party-only”. And wannabe-cyclists would have to be internally-RFID-chipped. they won’t mind: [...]
Sassenach
Posted in LoL, tagged Scotland on 29 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things about paleontology is that one has to take into account all sorts of evidence, howsoever odd its source may appear at first sight to be.
For example, it can now be shown that the DNA of thylacosmili (a sort of marsupial tiger from the Pleistocene) contained no Scottish genes at all.
There’s a [...]
Rookery
Posted in resistance, tagged protest on 29 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vital strategic educational resource leg-iron, on the subject of protest:
It looks very much like a setup, a stage-managed riot in which a lot of innocent people will get hurt. None of the organisers will be damaged because they won’t be there. The British haven’t rioted to order so the Government is going to arrange [...]
“It’s blasphemy, or heresy, or something…”
Posted in religion, tagged faith or religion on 29 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
NewsBlaze, via Slashdot:
Freedom House condemns the UN Human Rights Council for undermining the universal right to freedom of expression by once again passing a resolution that urges members to adopt laws outlawing criticism of religions.
The “defamation of religions” resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), passed today [...]
Seconds out; round two
Posted in resistance, tagged protest on 28 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Congratulations to all those who made their point (not that I necessarily agree with it) in central London today. I too heard the six o’clock news and independently arrived at the conclusion drawn by mummylonglegs, that the MSM are rather disappointed that there were no arrests.
Before very long the Met Police will have to deploy [...]
Racism: damnable
Posted in terrorism, tagged terrorist qualifications on 28 March, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Once again I am obliged to reminisce.
The Independent announces that
Two hundred schoolchildren in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are “vulnerable” to Islamic radicalisation.
Now when I was at school there wasn’t anything like ‘radicalisation’. They simply explained that we [...]
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Posted in LoL, tagged typos on 28 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Still on the subject of protest, here’s the Daily Telegraph:
Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT Rail Union, said the protest would put Hugh pressure on the G20 leaders to create a different kind of society.
I happen to know Hugh and though he is undoubtedly a big lad I feel that this sort of thing [...]
