Check out Robert Fisk in the Independent
And Peter Tatchell in the Guardian
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Usual Famous Suspects
Seen on SKY
"Monty Lookalike Could Help Solve Murder
Updated: 02:39, Sunday October 28, 2007
A taxi driver who looks like England cricket star Monty Panesar could help solve the murder of a 21-year-old man in Wales.
Police say driver looks like Monty
It is believed the taxi driver picked up the suspect on the night Christopher Jones was attacked in Cardiff city centre. Officers have also previously released information that the suspect is thought to bear a resemblance to England footballer Wayne Rooney."
Errrrr police are also looking for a woman who looks like Angelina Jolie who was seen pouting in the taxi queue. So if you don't look like somebody famous, you'll probably get away with it?
"Monty Lookalike Could Help Solve Murder
Updated: 02:39, Sunday October 28, 2007
A taxi driver who looks like England cricket star Monty Panesar could help solve the murder of a 21-year-old man in Wales.
Police say driver looks like Monty
It is believed the taxi driver picked up the suspect on the night Christopher Jones was attacked in Cardiff city centre. Officers have also previously released information that the suspect is thought to bear a resemblance to England footballer Wayne Rooney."
Errrrr police are also looking for a woman who looks like Angelina Jolie who was seen pouting in the taxi queue. So if you don't look like somebody famous, you'll probably get away with it?
Friday, October 26, 2007
Elementary
Now Watson what do you first notice about this man?
Errr well Holmes errrr I think that he may be Dutch.
How in the deuce do you know that?
Well he's wearing clogs.
And anything else Watson, come on man.
Well I believe he's a fisherman
Why?
He's wearing a horrible brown jumper.
Good anything else Watson, we need to find this man and quickly.
No, I can't see anything else....oh he doesn't get his hair cut very often, he's a hippy Dutch fisherman.
Damn it Watson you dunderhead, why I ever decided to take up with an in the closet doctor I don't know. This man has no face.
My God Holmes you're right.
What can we deduce from this?
Errrrr the Portuguese police are hopeless?
Correct. Pass me that pipe Watson. I'm going to get off my face on opium.
Errr well Holmes errrr I think that he may be Dutch.
How in the deuce do you know that?
Well he's wearing clogs.
And anything else Watson, come on man.
Well I believe he's a fisherman
Why?
He's wearing a horrible brown jumper.
Good anything else Watson, we need to find this man and quickly.
No, I can't see anything else....oh he doesn't get his hair cut very often, he's a hippy Dutch fisherman.
Damn it Watson you dunderhead, why I ever decided to take up with an in the closet doctor I don't know. This man has no face.
My God Holmes you're right.
What can we deduce from this?
Errrrr the Portuguese police are hopeless?
Correct. Pass me that pipe Watson. I'm going to get off my face on opium.
HPV
"The decision [to vaccinate] will trigger controversy as some critics have argued that treating young girls with the vaccine might encourage under-age sex."
read in the Daily Hate Mail
Thes people seem to think that HPV stands for Highly Promiscuous Vaccine.
read in the Daily Hate Mail
Thes people seem to think that HPV stands for Highly Promiscuous Vaccine.
Do You Give a Monkey's?
An important story about a peer being paid to introduce an arms lobbyist. A personal aside here, I remember when the lowly Doug Hoyle won the Warrington by-election in the early Thatcher years and even then I thought he was, despite being the Labour Party winner, an oleaginous, horrible little man, that was my knee-jerk reaction as a Labour supporter. I say this as only a digression. We have our priorities, a labour Peer whoring himself, as Guido terms it, is important, maybe even something about cannabis might be important. But the most important story is buried on buried on page 9 of the Guardian
The edge of oblivion: conservationists name 25 primates about to disappear
That should be the lead, we'll always have hand wringing about drugs until the lick spittle religious puritan bureaucrats concede there's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself. There'll always be a whiff of corruption lingering in the corridors of Parliament. We won't always have the primates. These we have to save, it's a line to be drawn. All species must be protected, the relentless consumption of the earth must be stopped. People have to think about everything they do has an effect and people should turn their eyes away from celebrities, houses and all the distractions of the capitalist consumer heaven that we live in and look at the world and do something to save it. The governments of the countries where these forests are being hacked down must be contacted and forced into action to save these primates. A letter for a primate, or instead of a gorilla a washing machine?
The Guardian interweb site briefly got it right
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
UGLY Human Beings
I'm a big supporter of The Ecologist but I'm beginning to wonder about some of their readers. A feature in the latest issue is, What's UGLY about modern life. I've got to agree with some of the points, iPods, so anti-social; Human Resources, so happy to be mined, me; Legislation, 3000 laws in 10 years and still they twitch for more. Though I wondered about the person wanting to reimpose the Gold Standard. But looking at the website, where extra contributions can be posted, I began to doubt some of the members of the ecology movement. Here's Misanthrope I:
Earth- 07/10/2007 13:45:24
People.
There are somewhere in the region of 6½-7 Billion of them, 60 million in this country alone, barely sentient, clogging up the roads in their metal contraptions, obsessed with ‘celebrity’ and fashion, constantly looking to fulfil their every want and fantasy be it seeking a new high or craving sex (which frankly just results in more of them) and burning up resources like they were infinite. I’m sure some of them have utility but I would do away with most of them if I could."
OK, a bit freaky
the next is just weird, get out, get a life - GOGAL
Dave Pape- 14/10/2007 01:05:34
I saw a free magazine today in Croydon. It was called "What's Local" and the cover article was about... Eva Longoria. I wept bitterly.
Seems an over reaction, a bit Aidrian Molish, especially when you look at Eva Longoria, surely the nicest thing in Croydon at the moment.
next, go on girl let it out, I quite like this one but again that bit about human beings....disturbing
claire slater- 17/10/2007 18:05:51
Alcohol, drugs, plastic bags.......plastic in general, excess packaging, doggy do, cigarette butts, chewing gum, cars, planes, power stations, sports clothing, inner city estates, polluted rivers full of shopping trolleys, buses, abusive kids, abusive adults, trashy magazines, trashy tv programmes, the pleasure people seem to take in seeing other peoples misery/downfall, left over food, supermarkets and large out of city retail parks, brand names, chemicals put in everything we use (is nothing natural anymore!?), mass production of animals,mass production of anything,selfishness, vainity, greed, ................human beings
This one is a bit of a moaner - GOGABJ - Go Out, Get A Better Job
Ian- 20/10/2007 06:24:50
Paid work.
It's doing something you most likely hate in order to retain the illusion of possession of things which in reality actually possess you - your home, your TV, your car. The average workplace forces normal, decent people to discard their normal sense of decency and humanity in order to ensure that they are not denied the right to remain a slave to the company or to their money and 'possessions'. So many of us hate the lives we live but we hang onto them desparately via our jobs not because we love them but we're scared of the uncertainty of being without them.
Though, finally, Rob Illingworth has a point
I think that turning your “office game” into the central feature in October’s Ecologist is lazy journalism. A handful of wall postings and, bingo, “modern culture is in crisis” What bilge. Instead of “exhorting” your readers to add to this Page 101 you should invite constructive contributions in the vein of Laura Sevier’s “Scrub for Victory.” (not on the web; GOABTM)
Shit, I've just been doing lazy blogging.
Earth- 07/10/2007 13:45:24
People.
There are somewhere in the region of 6½-7 Billion of them, 60 million in this country alone, barely sentient, clogging up the roads in their metal contraptions, obsessed with ‘celebrity’ and fashion, constantly looking to fulfil their every want and fantasy be it seeking a new high or craving sex (which frankly just results in more of them) and burning up resources like they were infinite. I’m sure some of them have utility but I would do away with most of them if I could."
OK, a bit freaky
the next is just weird, get out, get a life - GOGAL
Dave Pape- 14/10/2007 01:05:34
I saw a free magazine today in Croydon. It was called "What's Local" and the cover article was about... Eva Longoria. I wept bitterly.
Seems an over reaction, a bit Aidrian Molish, especially when you look at Eva Longoria, surely the nicest thing in Croydon at the moment.
next, go on girl let it out, I quite like this one but again that bit about human beings....disturbing
claire slater- 17/10/2007 18:05:51
Alcohol, drugs, plastic bags.......plastic in general, excess packaging, doggy do, cigarette butts, chewing gum, cars, planes, power stations, sports clothing, inner city estates, polluted rivers full of shopping trolleys, buses, abusive kids, abusive adults, trashy magazines, trashy tv programmes, the pleasure people seem to take in seeing other peoples misery/downfall, left over food, supermarkets and large out of city retail parks, brand names, chemicals put in everything we use (is nothing natural anymore!?), mass production of animals,mass production of anything,selfishness, vainity, greed, ................human beings
This one is a bit of a moaner - GOGABJ - Go Out, Get A Better Job
Ian- 20/10/2007 06:24:50
Paid work.
It's doing something you most likely hate in order to retain the illusion of possession of things which in reality actually possess you - your home, your TV, your car. The average workplace forces normal, decent people to discard their normal sense of decency and humanity in order to ensure that they are not denied the right to remain a slave to the company or to their money and 'possessions'. So many of us hate the lives we live but we hang onto them desparately via our jobs not because we love them but we're scared of the uncertainty of being without them.
Though, finally, Rob Illingworth has a point
I think that turning your “office game” into the central feature in October’s Ecologist is lazy journalism. A handful of wall postings and, bingo, “modern culture is in crisis” What bilge. Instead of “exhorting” your readers to add to this Page 101 you should invite constructive contributions in the vein of Laura Sevier’s “Scrub for Victory.” (not on the web; GOABTM)
Shit, I've just been doing lazy blogging.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
This is Not Just
"This is not just packaging, this is Marks and Spencer packaging. Less of this packaging can be recycled than any of our main rivals. Just 60% of our packaging can be recycled. Packaging made from the finest petrochemicals just for you to throw away. So treat yourself."
Read this as if you're having a very slow orgasm.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Bitch Slappery at Dawn
Handbags are fully loaded on "Fleet Street" as two grand old dames of the left bitch slap each other, or do so according to the Unindependent, in an unonline article, by Jonathan Brown, about Nick Davies's new book, Flat Earth News, which promises to lift the lid on the allegedly declining standards of journalism, you don't say. He will be revealing the truth about a "profession corrupted to the core" where journalists are content to peddle myths from the Millennium Bug to WMDs in Iraq oh and possibly about the EU Constitution. See the Independent Press Release.
In the book he looks at the rift between The Grauniad and the Observer, the former against the Iraq war and the latter buckling on its sword of truth and hoisting its shield of something else, maybe its shield of freedom. Pouring oil onto the bonfire of the journalistic vanities Nick says The Observer's political editor in the run up to the war Kamal Ahmed "partly crafted" the dodgy dossier that Tony Blair waived around.
Mr Ahmed strongly denies the claims, insisting he had nothing to do with the dodgy dossier.
The publicity for the book says Davies will name names, that's what you're there for son, and expose, ditto, the "national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda."
Let's nail that bombast.
A spokesman for the Grauniad bitch says "This is all utter nonsense peddled by rival newspapers whose own internal feuds make the Borgias look tame in comparison."
A peddling we will go, a peddling we will go...
In the book he looks at the rift between The Grauniad and the Observer, the former against the Iraq war and the latter buckling on its sword of truth and hoisting its shield of something else, maybe its shield of freedom. Pouring oil onto the bonfire of the journalistic vanities Nick says The Observer's political editor in the run up to the war Kamal Ahmed "partly crafted" the dodgy dossier that Tony Blair waived around.
Mr Ahmed strongly denies the claims, insisting he had nothing to do with the dodgy dossier.
The publicity for the book says Davies will name names, that's what you're there for son, and expose, ditto, the "national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda."
Let's nail that bombast.
A spokesman for the Grauniad bitch says "This is all utter nonsense peddled by rival newspapers whose own internal feuds make the Borgias look tame in comparison."
A peddling we will go, a peddling we will go...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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