Daily archives: January 24, 2007


Soap for sore eyes, need an intermission

she said, she said
‘you don’t know shit,
because you’ve never been there’
she turned upon him,
took him by the hair
spun him round about,
laughing as he fell about,
sat down for a drink
in her father’s favourite chair
kill your television

Kill Your Television – Ned’s Atomic Dustbin


Rent-A-Mob

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6292341.stm
In Germany you can rent protesters to wave your banners and shout your slogans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290867.stm
We may need such a mob as support for civil liberties declines.  There’s obviously a disconnect that means people can’t realise that governments aren’t going to give back freedoms without a fight once this terror fear has dissipated or been revealed to be a sham.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1997247,00.html
I’m with Sir Ken MacDonald, Director of Public Prosecutions.  I’ve long held that the greatest threat to Western democracy is the sort of politician or pundit who spouts on about threats to Western democracy.  All they do is play to the ego of the sort of "deluded, narcissistic inadequates" who fall for the rhetoric and decide to kill innocent bystanders and lead to the sort of disastrous thinking shown above.  Ken MacDonald is my hero of the day, how long until Blair & Co. try to get him removed for having a grip on reality?

I might see if I can find the full text of his statement and post it.

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/rabbit.htm
The rabbit test.  In the beginning the rabbit always died, whether you were pregnant or not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6293333.stm
Thanks to the Romans and slavery, there’s a bunch of Yorkshire types with African genes.