Saturday, 31 July 2010
The Private Law of Gypsies
The ASI has an intriguing note here about a current society that functions without a government as such, and yet still somehow manages to enforce a legal code.
And I sincerely hope that the well-read Kingbingo will be happy to read a rather compelling demolition of the idea that a government is necessary to create, administer and enforce law. Or, indeed, necessary at all.
And I sincerely hope that the well-read Kingbingo will be happy to read a rather compelling demolition of the idea that a government is necessary to create, administer and enforce law. Or, indeed, necessary at all.
Friday, 30 July 2010
HoT 200 reset!
All counts have been zeroed, so please, if you're on twitter, vote for me and take the smile off @JackOfKent's fucking face.
Macbeth Act V Scene V
... it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Reminds me of something.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Here’s how science works.
You make an observation about the universe (“Ed Balls is a cunt”) then construct a hypothesis to explain that (“perhaps he is from a disadvantaged background?”) then create a test to see whether that hypothesis holds water (“did he go to a bad school?”) and then publish your conclusion (“No. He’s just a cunt”).
-- Carpsio
That's telling me then!
Pisces (20 FEB-20 MAR)
I've had a word with Jesus and he's told me to tell you that you were a total waste of nails.
I've had a word with Jesus and he's told me to tell you that you were a total waste of nails.
Why government doesn't work
This article ridicules government-issue brownies:
And that, in a nutshell, is why government doesn't work. Somewhere along the line, someone baked brownies using dirty water. So, instead of relying on everyone working to the assumption that dirty water doesn't make good brownies, we need a regulation for it. Then someone made brownies using old nuts. Most people wouldn't anyway, but now we need a regulation for that.
And so on and so on.
My daughter bakes brownies quite often. The recipe (including the ingredient list) is less than half an A4 page. They're delicious and no-one has died from eating them yet, nor do I think they ever will.
In this small microcosm of bureaucratic life, we find how government fucks everything up. All that extra regulation burdening (for example) banks now is because someone learned a lesson somewhere and the government wants to enforce that lesson on everyone. The fact that the banks have learned that lesson pretty well, thanks very much, and certainly won't be making that mistake again in a hurry.
But no, that's not good enough, the government has to add another rule to the book, with all sorts of unforeseen consequences and catastrophes. And simply complying with all these rules makes it more and more difficult to enter that market and provide effective competition. Existing banks already have compliance teams and know where the bodies are buried, so it's no real hassle for them to comply with more rules.
And so, in brownies and in banking (and, indeed, in every aspect of life) the government does lots to protect incumbents and does nothing worthwhile to protect you.
The Pentagon’s brownie recipe is 26 pages long. Among the ingredients: water that conforms to the “National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (Copies are available from the Office of Drinking Water, Environmental Protection Agency, WH550D, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460),” eggs in compliance with “Regulations Governing the Inspection of Eggs and Egg Products (7 CFR Part 59),” and baking soda “which meets the requirements of the Food Chemicals Codex.”
Wondering about adding nuts? Simply consult section 3.2.5.3: “Shelled walnut pieces shall be of the small piece size classification, shall be of a light color, and shall be U.S. No. 1 of the U.S. Standards for Shelled English Walnuts. A minimum of 90 percent, by weight, of the pieces shall pass through a 4/16-inch diameter round hole screen and not more than 1 percent, by weight, shall pass through a 2/16-inch diameter round hole screen. The shelled walnuts shall be coated with an approved food grade antioxidant and shall be of the latest season’s crop.”
And that, in a nutshell, is why government doesn't work. Somewhere along the line, someone baked brownies using dirty water. So, instead of relying on everyone working to the assumption that dirty water doesn't make good brownies, we need a regulation for it. Then someone made brownies using old nuts. Most people wouldn't anyway, but now we need a regulation for that.
And so on and so on.
My daughter bakes brownies quite often. The recipe (including the ingredient list) is less than half an A4 page. They're delicious and no-one has died from eating them yet, nor do I think they ever will.
In this small microcosm of bureaucratic life, we find how government fucks everything up. All that extra regulation burdening (for example) banks now is because someone learned a lesson somewhere and the government wants to enforce that lesson on everyone. The fact that the banks have learned that lesson pretty well, thanks very much, and certainly won't be making that mistake again in a hurry.
But no, that's not good enough, the government has to add another rule to the book, with all sorts of unforeseen consequences and catastrophes. And simply complying with all these rules makes it more and more difficult to enter that market and provide effective competition. Existing banks already have compliance teams and know where the bodies are buried, so it's no real hassle for them to comply with more rules.
And so, in brownies and in banking (and, indeed, in every aspect of life) the government does lots to protect incumbents and does nothing worthwhile to protect you.
You just KNOW this is going to end well
Home secretary Theresa May has announced plans to review the use of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders as she pledged a “coherent and comprehensive” strategy to deal with anti-social behaviour. Ms May criticised the last government’s approach as “top down, bureaucratic and gimmick laden.”
Oh yeah? And as we've already seen over and fucking over, this government is completely different to the last one, eh?
Cunts.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Boo fucking hoo! (for @tomharrismp )
@obotheclown And now I've less time to help constituents deal with it because I have to waste so much time on #ipsa!
-- Tom Harris
Tom has been whining about IPSA again. The poor love had to spend 10 whole minutes on the phone, waiting for some bureaucrat to take his call.
Well, Tom, if you're expecting any sympathy, phone that ever-willing sucker of politician cock, Iain Dale. But I think I speak for the rest of us when I say: Suffer, bitch!
For thirteen years, you fuckers ramrodded through thousands of new laws, regulations and statutes, each with their own little fiefdom of petty, smart-arse, arrogant and entitled quango or civil "servant" cock-sniffers. Every fucking law that was railroaded in was badly drafted, not debated, not thought through and implemented solely for the benefit of whichever minister would be able to have a soundbite on the ten o'clock news.
I said at the time that there was no need for IPSA, and that all that had to happen was that MPs should actually adhere to the green book and all would be well. But no, Labour, so used to the idea of "fixing" things by drafting law and slapping down a badly-though-through quango, leapt into action and created IPSA.
I see with some wry amusement that iDave and his poodle are no fucking different when it comes to "fixing" things, so while our lives will continue to get progressively more and more miserable as iDave and his merry cleggnuts carry on, I will take the only comfort I can, from miserable MPs whining like stuck pigs about the horror they needlessly created for themselves, like every other little horror they needlessly created for the rest of us.
Suck it up, you big jessie, that's just a tiny taste of what you've made life like for us.
You will find no sympathy here at all.
On why this country is utterly fucked
This raised my eyebrows:
Now look, I know I rail against these coalition cunts. But I'm a anarchist, and even any real minarchist libertarian would be railing against what they're doing compared to what they're saying.
But the thing is, most of the country isn't libertarian or anarchist. Most of the country is disinterested in politics or broadly OK with social democracy. And everything the coalition is doing is pretty socially democratic.
And in social democratic terms, I don't think the coalition has put a foot wrong. It's said all the right things. The economy looks pretty good considering, probably too rosy, in my opinion, but clearly I'm in a minority. Cameron looks and behaves in a suitably Prime Ministerial manner and people seem to be remarkably comfortable with the coalition.
Labour is in disarray, with a lacklustre rostrum of cowards, nonentities, frauds, charlatans, bullies and hypocrites running for the leadership. They don't even have a fucking leader, and based on the choice facing them, they're probably better off without one.
So how the fucking fuck can they be this close to the Tories in the polls? How the fucking fuck can people have already forgotten 13 years of increasing state intrusion in our lives or 13 years of glorious economic mismanagement?
Could it possibly be that it's because people are that fucking stupid that they want more of that shit?
Ipsos-MORI’s July political poll will make uncomfortable reading for the coalition as the summer break looms. It has the Tories on 40 percent, Labour on 38 percent and the Lib Dems on 14 percent.
Now look, I know I rail against these coalition cunts. But I'm a anarchist, and even any real minarchist libertarian would be railing against what they're doing compared to what they're saying.
But the thing is, most of the country isn't libertarian or anarchist. Most of the country is disinterested in politics or broadly OK with social democracy. And everything the coalition is doing is pretty socially democratic.
And in social democratic terms, I don't think the coalition has put a foot wrong. It's said all the right things. The economy looks pretty good considering, probably too rosy, in my opinion, but clearly I'm in a minority. Cameron looks and behaves in a suitably Prime Ministerial manner and people seem to be remarkably comfortable with the coalition.
Labour is in disarray, with a lacklustre rostrum of cowards, nonentities, frauds, charlatans, bullies and hypocrites running for the leadership. They don't even have a fucking leader, and based on the choice facing them, they're probably better off without one.
So how the fucking fuck can they be this close to the Tories in the polls? How the fucking fuck can people have already forgotten 13 years of increasing state intrusion in our lives or 13 years of glorious economic mismanagement?
Could it possibly be that it's because people are that fucking stupid that they want more of that shit?
I laughed
Europasionaria wrote:
And then I cried:
If the French aren't telling their government where to get off, Europe really is fucked, isn't it?
Amazing. I've discovered you article on Wikio's e-blogs in French. I'm a French person living in Brussels and I just find it wonderful that I hear about this French advertising campaign reading a translated article from a British blog :)
And then I cried:
On the topic of your article, it's simple, nowadays we can't do anything anymore, especially in France. Cigarettes, alcohol, sex, food, all the things that give us pleasure, it's all bad bad bad. The obligation to be healthy/thin/beautiful, in other words perfect, has become more and more stressful.
If the French aren't telling their government where to get off, Europe really is fucked, isn't it?
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Hallelujah! Rejoice!
The biggest problem bloggers have had with the ConDems is that there is no bumbling fuckwit that displays the monumental incompetence and blatant vacuous mongosity of Gordon "The Nose Picker" Brown.
But now, bloggers, we can rejoice, relax and feel rejuvenated: we have our bumbling basket case!
Ladies and gentlemen (and bloggers!) may I present the new Master of Disaster, the Mong of the Moment: VINCE "TWAT" CABLE!
Oh yeah? Well, let's just stop there for a second, shall we? Banks shouldn't be "forced" to do anything, let alone fucking forced to lend money to people they don't want to lend money to.
Let's just rewind to a couple of years ago and the banking bailout, shall we? Why were the banks in a position that required them to be bailed out? Could it possibly be that "constrained" by government- and inter-government-decreed levels of liquidity, they lent out money to people who might not have fitted their normal risk profiles.
In this, they were not at all encouraged by a number of governments running wildly expansionist monetary policies and using artificially low interest rates to encourage more lending.
The nett upshot of all this was that people who couldn't possibly repay loans were given money on ludicrous schemes like self-certification. And when it all went completely tits-up, banks got given huge amounts of our fucking money and told "this better not happen again".
Right in front of the jeering crowds was Vince "Twat" Cable, arguing for tighter regulation of banks and bonus control. The taxpayer, he sonorously proclaimed, should not have to bail out the greedy banks again.
And what is the fucking twat saying now? He's saying "lend more to struggling businesses or you will lose part of your bonus". Struggling businesses are actually businesses that are more likely to fail Vince. Which means that the banks will lose money, and also increase their risk, possibly to unsustainable levels. Which could precipitate another crash. Which will lead to more bailouts. Which will lead to Vince "Twat" Cable calling for more regulation and smaller bonuses.
Look, Vince, you're a fucking idiot. You are a fucking danger to shipping and you're my number one candidate to replace Gordon Brown as "Asshat of the Decade".
Can somebody get shot of this useless fucking mongtard before he causes some real damage?
Update: Timdog and the Angry Teen weigh in.
But now, bloggers, we can rejoice, relax and feel rejuvenated: we have our bumbling basket case!
Ladies and gentlemen (and bloggers!) may I present the new Master of Disaster, the Mong of the Moment: VINCE "TWAT" CABLE!
Bankers are to be forced to lend to businesses or risk losing their bonuses under plans to be outlined by Vince Cable, the Business Secretary.
Oh yeah? Well, let's just stop there for a second, shall we? Banks shouldn't be "forced" to do anything, let alone fucking forced to lend money to people they don't want to lend money to.
Let's just rewind to a couple of years ago and the banking bailout, shall we? Why were the banks in a position that required them to be bailed out? Could it possibly be that "constrained" by government- and inter-government-decreed levels of liquidity, they lent out money to people who might not have fitted their normal risk profiles.
In this, they were not at all encouraged by a number of governments running wildly expansionist monetary policies and using artificially low interest rates to encourage more lending.
The nett upshot of all this was that people who couldn't possibly repay loans were given money on ludicrous schemes like self-certification. And when it all went completely tits-up, banks got given huge amounts of our fucking money and told "this better not happen again".
Right in front of the jeering crowds was Vince "Twat" Cable, arguing for tighter regulation of banks and bonus control. The taxpayer, he sonorously proclaimed, should not have to bail out the greedy banks again.
And what is the fucking twat saying now? He's saying "lend more to struggling businesses or you will lose part of your bonus". Struggling businesses are actually businesses that are more likely to fail Vince. Which means that the banks will lose money, and also increase their risk, possibly to unsustainable levels. Which could precipitate another crash. Which will lead to more bailouts. Which will lead to Vince "Twat" Cable calling for more regulation and smaller bonuses.
Look, Vince, you're a fucking idiot. You are a fucking danger to shipping and you're my number one candidate to replace Gordon Brown as "Asshat of the Decade".
Can somebody get shot of this useless fucking mongtard before he causes some real damage?
Update: Timdog and the Angry Teen weigh in.
Cognitive Dissonance ...
And this is where I get sick and fucking tired of this fucking bullshit spouted by fucking pricks.
Here at [redacted] we spout a lot of shit, but that is our wont.
I'm baffled. How can you in two consecutive sentences moan about people spouting shit when you immediately confess to spouting shit yourself?
Just because your schtick is spouting shit, other people aren't allowed the same pleasure?
Wow. They really have got fucking enormous egos, haven't they?
Monday, 26 July 2010
Fucking Doctors
I went to see my doctor today. I fully expected to get back needing tranquillisers.
But no: he saw me promptly, listened courteously, sympathised, clearly told me what was going on and how the treatment would carry on. I walked out feeling rather deflated.
I wonder what has changed?
But no: he saw me promptly, listened courteously, sympathised, clearly told me what was going on and how the treatment would carry on. I walked out feeling rather deflated.
I wonder what has changed?
On the road today
I saw twats, mongs, windowlickers, bellends, fuckwits, thickoes, imbeciles, morons, tossers, wombat-felching retards, but most especially, cunts.
How can you see so many fucking stupid, clueless fucking dickheads in a two-mile trip?
How can you see so many fucking stupid, clueless fucking dickheads in a two-mile trip?
*Sigh*
So there's this, very funny, ha! ha! Gurnadia lives up to its name, etc., etc.
But what is the actual story? The Regional Development Agencies got shitcanned for being a total fucking waste of taxpayer dosh. Instead of an unelected, unaccountable bunch of timeserving tossers sitting there pissing our money away on the ideals of the Labour government, we're going to get ... an unelected, unaccountable bunch of timeserving tossers sitting there pissing our money away on the ideals of the LibDem/Tory coalition.
What the fuck is wrong with British politicians? Why is the answer to every problem yet another quango?
And I can't wait for Kingbingo to wander along and tell me how different and how much better this is all going to be from Labour's idea of a quango.
But what is the actual story? The Regional Development Agencies got shitcanned for being a total fucking waste of taxpayer dosh. Instead of an unelected, unaccountable bunch of timeserving tossers sitting there pissing our money away on the ideals of the Labour government, we're going to get ... an unelected, unaccountable bunch of timeserving tossers sitting there pissing our money away on the ideals of the LibDem/Tory coalition.
What the fuck is wrong with British politicians? Why is the answer to every problem yet another quango?
And I can't wait for Kingbingo to wander along and tell me how different and how much better this is all going to be from Labour's idea of a quango.
The delights of being a libertarian
Amused and slightly inspired by this expression of frustration, I'm amused to point out that being a libertarian means:
Is that all clear?
- I detest the fact that some men force some women to wear a burkha
- I support the right of women who want to wear a burkha to wear a burkha
- I support the right of people to say that wearing a burkha is an offensive thing, even though I don't think it is
- I support the right of people to say that wearing a burkha is a good thing, even though I don't think it is
Is that all clear?
Bronson
I have tried to watch this movie three times now, and nodded off each time. I really wish Sky Movies would show it just a little bit earlier.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Quote of the picosecond
James Delingpole spends a large part of the rather stirring article being incredibly contemptuous about sneering demagogue Michael White—an activity so worthy that even I, who despise such government interventions, almost believe should be subsidised.
-- The Devil
High Praise Indeed
"Fuck me you still alive? Do the decent thing top your fucking self do everyone including your family if you have one a favourecrain" -- Anonymong
"Hasn't the mindless hypocrite Obo given up in the face of his losing argument against KingBingo?
Joy to read this. Obo coming unstuck off the rails, soon to get derailed into a bush at any given moment.
Obo - the man who slams Boaty & D on the basis that we allegedly pretend to monopolise libertarianism. Yet his own narrow dogmatic view of libertarianism is presented as anarchism, and furthermore, fact, on his site.
Obo - the man who said we were wrong about blog censorship and the prerogative of private blog site / property owners, but who went ahead and took the same line as we did regarding 'a very public sociologist'.
Obo - the man who slams me for using ad hominems and cognitive dissonance in my arguments, yet when it comes to being challenged on here, he is the first to pile out the rampant abuse (noted by King bingo)
Obo - The man who belittles Boaty & D on the basis we blog war and hunt for stats, when it is in fact he who writes endless shit stirring articles about us and others to get attention.
Unbridled hypocrite. Absolute shameless charlatan. No wonder you and your Country Cunt pals like Anna, DK, Bella, CF etc etc all pull together. All in your cosy little bottom right hand corner of the political spectrum, making out like your way is the true way.
Oh, wait, we are the 'keepers', aren't we. Yes, of course. Us who dare to have a slightly different optinion...and say it on a blog!
HAHAHAHA! Expooooosed!" -- John Demetriou
"@jackofkent @Obotheclown is not as funny as he thinks he is ;)" -- @marksany
"Look @obotheclown insulting you's like insulting a lump of wood in an orange wig." -- @SimonMagus
"@obotheclown @jackofkent - Oy. Obo. You're a wind instrument." -- @ashleyfrieze
"@jackofkent I refuse to believe @obotheclown is a lawyer. Seems more likely he's just a, well, arse. His tweets bring nothing to the table." -- @ManiacFive
"@jackofkent but why would you ever want to insult such a cute friendly clown? I mean just look @obotheclown's little face!! Sweet!!!" -- @silv24
"@obotheclown All hail Lord Xenu. The all-knowing. The all-merciful. And stuff like that." @ScepticLetters
"@obotheclown Does being a libertarian just mean that you swear a lot?" -- @foster63
"@jackofkent @obotheclown? Foul-mouthed in avatar & output, one hardly knows whether to wash out the tedious creature's mouth or file it down" -- @HildegardP
"@obotheclown Your qualifications as a nutritionist are the subject of some controversy." -- @BobDotStone
"@jackofkent I'm not sure that @obotheclown is worth insulting. Or following." -- @anne_f_
"@jackofkent @obotheclown's mum wishes he was the cum she swallowed. (things I'll do for a free book...)" -- @Gaijinsan21
"@jackofkent @obotheclown Lick my gash" -- @MsGoodhew
"@jackofkent @obotheclown is a piss poo bum wanking man who has shit on his shoe's so is a shitty shoe bastard!!!" @shedleveller
"@obotheclown You're the most mealy-mouthed, wimpish, cowardly excuse for a man I've ever met - no backbone! <----Will that do @jackofkent ?" -- Pam Nash
"@obotheclown Are u a player of the pink oboe? #blame@jackofkent" @theglorymill
"@jackofkent @obotheclown is a buggy-eyed plum." @steand
"@obotheclown you fucking Labour voter @jackofkent" -- Mr Civil Libertarian
"You have my word I'm done here, never to return, I'll leave the last word to you. " -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
""Oh and if you must put my name on your blog, do try and spell it correctly clown: Hoffmann, rather than Hoffman."" -- Daniel Hoffman-Gill
"Do you understand now?
Or do I have to keep making you look stupid as you bluster along?" -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Or are so puffed up with sycophancy that you believe your opinion holds greater sway than anyone else's?
Good grief, pull yourself together man, you're all at sea here." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Must try harder clown.
Your bitterness is leaking out of you, poor sad sack." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"I know this fact is hard for your bruised ego to grasp but do try and keep up boy, you're slipping so far behind with your feeble efforts that I've lapped you a few times too many.
I thought you were a wit?
All you can muster is playground efforts utterly at odds with reality.
How disappointing you are." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"I extend the same thought to your musings on the levels of irony and humour in my ripostes, I think you'll find that a lot of comedy is all about sides, just as you find your sycophants attacks highly accurate and amusing, the same cannot be said when the attacks are carried out on you. Not much of a surprise there.
I can see you're quite desperate to be right. Well rejoice! For in your own mind, you will always be so, as for the wider world, well, who cares about that? Leave that to me." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Your silly and desperate aspersions are at odds with the truth, which is fine but you do know you're looking awfully envious and clumsy?
Is this all you've got?" -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"@RantinRab not really. in obo, i feel the last gasps of a loser blogger on the slide, pretending to have principles where he has none" -- John Demetriou
"@obotheclown "That boat looks ludicrously topheavy" thats what your mum last said when she saw your face." -- John Demetriou
"@obotheclown just thought id say you are a horrid, contemptuous, repellant, pointless,arrogant little cunt. Fuck you." -- John Demetriou
"But in the meantime, if really you want someone to blame for me quitting Twitter, please go and blame @obotheclown.
He just wasn't funny enough..." -- Jackoff Cunt
"I HOPE YOU DIE OF ANALLY CONTRACTED DISEASES BEYOND THE WILDEST IMAGINED THOUGHTS OF DOCTORS SEEKING A CURE. YOU ARE A SHIT-NOSED ARSEHOLE. FUCK YOU ANAL CUNT WANK FUCK STAIN BASTARD WHORE. TOFF." -- Another anonymong
"Fuck off Obo your a boring cunt and your blogs crap." -- Anonymong
"You are an ass" -- Irfan Ahmed
"You got soft and sold out and now you are on a poxy list ..that you have wrapped around your slight reaching phallus and have been stroking with it all day." -- Oleuanna
"Your boring,much prefer Old Holborn or Dick Puddlecote." -- Anonymong
"You really are an absolute CUNT!" -- Obnoxio is a borin twat
"At least I try. Your 'points', when you bother to enunciate them, are so hidden and nuanced amidst the usual 3 line shite you churn out about random nonsense, one could be forgiven for thinking you and your blog aren't that political.
There you go, stick that in your 'high praise indeed' section and titter about the irritation you cause your interlocutors." -- John Demetriou
"Obo is the voice of reason in the debate!
This should cause some heavy thinking by all of us
Flying pigs / hell freezing over, well yeah, but Obo 'sweet reason' the clown
Sweet Jesus!" -- Sanity Check
"fuck you too, you foul-mouthed porridge wog! try staying in your own country if you can't stand the heat in ours!" -- Anonymong
"I'll then gloat about it on the net like a cunt for a couple of days and prove my amazing blogging worth by posting little YouTube clips of other people talking on something random and obscure. Or even reproducing quirky little pictures with cool captions for people to muse over." -- John Demetriou
"a plain old boring techy cunt with a piss poor lame arse excuse for a blog" -- John Demetriou
"Obo is neither right wing nor a Libertarian" -- John Demetriou, referring to this.
"did the fleshlight dump you again....?" -- oleuanna
"YOU CUNTING FUCK CUNTER PISS WANK STAIN CUNT BOLLOCK WHORE........." -- twitter DM
"Fucking chav!" -- Anonymous
"So, you're not really a 'Libertarian' after all then, are you ?
Just a knobhead who thinks its clever to use a lot of swear words on his blog.
Prick." -- Anonymous person, upset about my failure to praise the BNP
"you xenophobic twat" -- oleuanna
"You're a mother-fuckin' douche bag, NOX. ... You fucking pathetic loser." -- CathyG
"Obo is not exactly welcome in the blogosphere (or the LPUK) anymore, and I DO mean not welcome, so expect the same from him. Best of luck to anyone who takes over his blog. Last I heard, he is being hunted like a dog, and certainly not by me. " -- Old Holborn
"I have n’t accessed Longrider’s blog since reading you suggestion on there of sticking a broken bottle up Jacqui Smith’s vagina" -- DBC Reed
"You really need to trash the stupid, inane and pointelessly combative comments made by the likes of obnoxio. To become a forum for public debate - and to help Labour win - you need to create a generally convivial atmosphere, and certainly one in which intelligent argument has a chance of winning rather than the foulmouthed and unthinking mudslinging of these idiots." -- unidentified poster at labourlist.org
"Obnoxio and his potty mouth, this is indeed the same as the Nazis and their suppression of public debate" -- Timmy
"Fuck this theatrical gayness." -- Salted Slug
"Hasn't the mindless hypocrite Obo given up in the face of his losing argument against KingBingo?
Joy to read this. Obo coming unstuck off the rails, soon to get derailed into a bush at any given moment.
Obo - the man who slams Boaty & D on the basis that we allegedly pretend to monopolise libertarianism. Yet his own narrow dogmatic view of libertarianism is presented as anarchism, and furthermore, fact, on his site.
Obo - the man who said we were wrong about blog censorship and the prerogative of private blog site / property owners, but who went ahead and took the same line as we did regarding 'a very public sociologist'.
Obo - the man who slams me for using ad hominems and cognitive dissonance in my arguments, yet when it comes to being challenged on here, he is the first to pile out the rampant abuse (noted by King bingo)
Obo - The man who belittles Boaty & D on the basis we blog war and hunt for stats, when it is in fact he who writes endless shit stirring articles about us and others to get attention.
Unbridled hypocrite. Absolute shameless charlatan. No wonder you and your Country Cunt pals like Anna, DK, Bella, CF etc etc all pull together. All in your cosy little bottom right hand corner of the political spectrum, making out like your way is the true way.
Oh, wait, we are the 'keepers', aren't we. Yes, of course. Us who dare to have a slightly different optinion...and say it on a blog!
HAHAHAHA! Expooooosed!" -- John Demetriou
"@jackofkent @Obotheclown is not as funny as he thinks he is ;)" -- @marksany
"Look @obotheclown insulting you's like insulting a lump of wood in an orange wig." -- @SimonMagus
"@obotheclown @jackofkent - Oy. Obo. You're a wind instrument." -- @ashleyfrieze
"@jackofkent I refuse to believe @obotheclown is a lawyer. Seems more likely he's just a, well, arse. His tweets bring nothing to the table." -- @ManiacFive
"@jackofkent but why would you ever want to insult such a cute friendly clown? I mean just look @obotheclown's little face!! Sweet!!!" -- @silv24
"@obotheclown All hail Lord Xenu. The all-knowing. The all-merciful. And stuff like that." @ScepticLetters
"@obotheclown Does being a libertarian just mean that you swear a lot?" -- @foster63
"@jackofkent @obotheclown? Foul-mouthed in avatar & output, one hardly knows whether to wash out the tedious creature's mouth or file it down" -- @HildegardP
"@obotheclown Your qualifications as a nutritionist are the subject of some controversy." -- @BobDotStone
"@jackofkent I'm not sure that @obotheclown is worth insulting. Or following." -- @anne_f_
"@jackofkent @obotheclown's mum wishes he was the cum she swallowed. (things I'll do for a free book...)" -- @Gaijinsan21
"@jackofkent @obotheclown Lick my gash" -- @MsGoodhew
"@jackofkent @obotheclown is a piss poo bum wanking man who has shit on his shoe's so is a shitty shoe bastard!!!" @shedleveller
"@obotheclown You're the most mealy-mouthed, wimpish, cowardly excuse for a man I've ever met - no backbone! <----Will that do @jackofkent ?" -- Pam Nash
"@obotheclown Are u a player of the pink oboe? #blame@jackofkent" @theglorymill
"@jackofkent @obotheclown is a buggy-eyed plum." @steand
"@obotheclown you fucking Labour voter @jackofkent" -- Mr Civil Libertarian
"You have my word I'm done here, never to return, I'll leave the last word to you. " -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
""Oh and if you must put my name on your blog, do try and spell it correctly clown: Hoffmann, rather than Hoffman."" -- Daniel Hoffman-Gill
"Do you understand now?
Or do I have to keep making you look stupid as you bluster along?" -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Or are so puffed up with sycophancy that you believe your opinion holds greater sway than anyone else's?
Good grief, pull yourself together man, you're all at sea here." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Must try harder clown.
Your bitterness is leaking out of you, poor sad sack." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"I know this fact is hard for your bruised ego to grasp but do try and keep up boy, you're slipping so far behind with your feeble efforts that I've lapped you a few times too many.
I thought you were a wit?
All you can muster is playground efforts utterly at odds with reality.
How disappointing you are." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"I extend the same thought to your musings on the levels of irony and humour in my ripostes, I think you'll find that a lot of comedy is all about sides, just as you find your sycophants attacks highly accurate and amusing, the same cannot be said when the attacks are carried out on you. Not much of a surprise there.
I can see you're quite desperate to be right. Well rejoice! For in your own mind, you will always be so, as for the wider world, well, who cares about that? Leave that to me." -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"Your silly and desperate aspersions are at odds with the truth, which is fine but you do know you're looking awfully envious and clumsy?
Is this all you've got?" -- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill
"@RantinRab not really. in obo, i feel the last gasps of a loser blogger on the slide, pretending to have principles where he has none" -- John Demetriou
"@obotheclown "That boat looks ludicrously topheavy" thats what your mum last said when she saw your face." -- John Demetriou
"@obotheclown just thought id say you are a horrid, contemptuous, repellant, pointless,arrogant little cunt. Fuck you." -- John Demetriou
"But in the meantime, if really you want someone to blame for me quitting Twitter, please go and blame @obotheclown.
He just wasn't funny enough..." -- Jackoff Cunt
"I HOPE YOU DIE OF ANALLY CONTRACTED DISEASES BEYOND THE WILDEST IMAGINED THOUGHTS OF DOCTORS SEEKING A CURE. YOU ARE A SHIT-NOSED ARSEHOLE. FUCK YOU ANAL CUNT WANK FUCK STAIN BASTARD WHORE. TOFF." -- Another anonymong
"Fuck off Obo your a boring cunt and your blogs crap." -- Anonymong
"You are an ass" -- Irfan Ahmed
"You got soft and sold out and now you are on a poxy list ..that you have wrapped around your slight reaching phallus and have been stroking with it all day." -- Oleuanna
"Your boring,much prefer Old Holborn or Dick Puddlecote." -- Anonymong
"You really are an absolute CUNT!" -- Obnoxio is a borin twat
"At least I try. Your 'points', when you bother to enunciate them, are so hidden and nuanced amidst the usual 3 line shite you churn out about random nonsense, one could be forgiven for thinking you and your blog aren't that political.
There you go, stick that in your 'high praise indeed' section and titter about the irritation you cause your interlocutors." -- John Demetriou
"Obo is the voice of reason in the debate!
This should cause some heavy thinking by all of us
Flying pigs / hell freezing over, well yeah, but Obo 'sweet reason' the clown
Sweet Jesus!" -- Sanity Check
"fuck you too, you foul-mouthed porridge wog! try staying in your own country if you can't stand the heat in ours!" -- Anonymong
"I'll then gloat about it on the net like a cunt for a couple of days and prove my amazing blogging worth by posting little YouTube clips of other people talking on something random and obscure. Or even reproducing quirky little pictures with cool captions for people to muse over." -- John Demetriou
"a plain old boring techy cunt with a piss poor lame arse excuse for a blog" -- John Demetriou
"Obo is neither right wing nor a Libertarian" -- John Demetriou, referring to this.
"did the fleshlight dump you again....?" -- oleuanna
"YOU CUNTING FUCK CUNTER PISS WANK STAIN CUNT BOLLOCK WHORE........." -- twitter DM
"Fucking chav!" -- Anonymous
"So, you're not really a 'Libertarian' after all then, are you ?
Just a knobhead who thinks its clever to use a lot of swear words on his blog.
Prick." -- Anonymous person, upset about my failure to praise the BNP
"you xenophobic twat" -- oleuanna
"You're a mother-fuckin' douche bag, NOX. ... You fucking pathetic loser." -- CathyG
"Obo is not exactly welcome in the blogosphere (or the LPUK) anymore, and I DO mean not welcome, so expect the same from him. Best of luck to anyone who takes over his blog. Last I heard, he is being hunted like a dog, and certainly not by me. " -- Old Holborn
"I have n’t accessed Longrider’s blog since reading you suggestion on there of sticking a broken bottle up Jacqui Smith’s vagina" -- DBC Reed
"You really need to trash the stupid, inane and pointelessly combative comments made by the likes of obnoxio. To become a forum for public debate - and to help Labour win - you need to create a generally convivial atmosphere, and certainly one in which intelligent argument has a chance of winning rather than the foulmouthed and unthinking mudslinging of these idiots." -- unidentified poster at labourlist.org
"Obnoxio and his potty mouth, this is indeed the same as the Nazis and their suppression of public debate" -- Timmy
"Fuck this theatrical gayness." -- Salted Slug
Parish notice
The "High Praise Indeed" sidebar column is getting too long, so I've decided to make a blogpost which I'll keep up to date instead.
Just in case people wonder what's happened to it.
Just in case people wonder what's happened to it.
Intriguing
Watch the video:
Now read the breathless, wanky Grauniad commentary. "Without bubbling into a fit of hysterical technophobia," my arse.
Mob (a near-future science fiction story) by Tom Scott from hurryonhome on Vimeo.
Now read the breathless, wanky Grauniad commentary. "Without bubbling into a fit of hysterical technophobia," my arse.
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Friday, 23 July 2010
Well, that's certainly worth quoting
I don't need to pour vitriol and defamatory spite against everyone I disagree with.
-- Guess. Go on, guess.
Get fisked
Hasn't the mindless hypocrite Obo given up in the face of his losing argument against KingBingo?
a) No I haven't given up. And b) losing would, to me anyway, imply that I am convinced by his argument. I am not.
Joy to read this. Obo coming unstuck off the rails, soon to get derailed into a bush at any given moment.
I'm very happy for you.
Obo - the man who slams Boaty & D on the basis that we allegedly pretend to monopolise libertarianism. Yet his own narrow dogmatic view of libertarianism is presented as anarchism, and furthermore, fact, on his site.
I promote anarcho-capitalism. I can quite easily defend my reasoning that it is the most libertarian policy and I fully accept that it's not to everyone's taste. What I do NOT, however, do, is represent social democracy as libertarianism (as John Demetriou does) nor do I represent social democracy as the path to libertarianism (as Kingbingo does).
Obo - the man who said we were wrong about blog censorship and the prerogative of private blog site / property owners, but who went ahead and took the same line as we did regarding 'a very public sociologist'.
And what line was that?
Obo - the man who slams me for using ad hominems and cognitive dissonance in my arguments, yet when it comes to being challenged on here, he is the first to pile out the rampant abuse (noted by King bingo)
Gosh, yes, it's the first time I've ever sworn on my blog, isn't it?
Fucking dickhead, the raison d'être of my blog is abuse. I thought I'd better fucking point that out, since it's clearly passed your thick fucking head by. However, there is a difference between calling someone a cunt and saying his arguments are meaningless because he's a cunt. Kingbingo's arguments completely fly in the face of all human history AND he's a cunt. His arguments aren't shit because he's a cunt, his arguments are shit because they're shit.
And yes, it is especially fucking frustrating when an apparently well-read and intelligent person continues to insist that red is blue when the artist is X rather than Y. And that may lead to some abuse, but that is not the same as an ad hominem argument.
And speaking of cognitive dissonance, do you not find it curious that you are applauding someone who consistently and unquestioningly votes Tory, despite your regular abuse of Tories? Do you not find it curious that avowed Tory statist Kingbingo's arguments are so compelling to you, despite the fact that you have ridiculed the idea of "libertarian Tories"? And yet you keep insisting that you are a "pragmatic libertarian", much the same as Kingbingo does -- even though he unquestioningly votes Tory?
Are you sure that these arguments would be compelling to a genuine believer in personal liberty?
Obo - The man who belittles Boaty & D on the basis we blog war and hunt for stats, when it is in fact he who writes endless shit stirring articles about us and others to get attention.
Really? I'm interested in all these shit stirring articles that get me so much attention. They might get your attention, but they certainly don't get me readers. There's a difference between slagging off Guido who has half a million readers (or whatever the fuck he claims) -- in the hopes that you'll drag a few of them over -- and slagging off Boatang and Demetriou. Because even if I pull all your readers, that's still only five people.
Unbridled hypocrite. Absolute shameless charlatan. No wonder you and your Country Cunt pals like Anna, DK, Bella, CF etc etc all pull together. All in your cosy little bottom right hand corner of the political spectrum, making out like your way is the true way.
I certainly find it easier to defend my version of libertarian than someone who thinks that coercion is fine, as long as it's coercing the things that you happen to agree with.
Oh, wait, we are the 'keepers', aren't we. Yes, of course. Us who dare to have a slightly different optinion...and say it on a blog!
You are entitled to your opinion. What you have never been able to do, and what Kingbingo has singularly failed to do, is convince me that there is ever a justification for blessing an armed group of thugs to steal money.
HAHAHAHA! Expooooosed!
Exposed as not dwelling in the base world of realpolitik? Probably. But the issue is not to convince people that we need less government. Everybody will agree, even civil service mandarins will agree that other departments can be cut.
The real challenge is to make people question whether government is needed at all, whether there really is a justification for armed thugs stealing from you. Because that's a much bigger eye-opener than lazily saying "the state can be made perfect if we just tweak this knob and that lever."
Tribal politics
One of the really cool (or frustrating!) things about becoming a libertarian and then an anarchist was the remarkable change in perspective that comes with being a total outsider.
And the most confusing thing I've ever seen is the tribal nature of voters.
And the apologia I keep getting from Tory loyalists like Kingbingo do my head in. Claims that policies that are identical to Labour failures or LibDem wishlists are just "easing people into Tory thinking" or some such shit are nothing more or less than complete delusion.
The policies are exactly the same in most cases, and where they are not, they all stem from the exact same set of motivations and principles.
By all means, vote because of the colour of the guy's tie. But at least be honest with yourself and the rest of us about your blind, unquestioning allegiance to the tribe.
And the most confusing thing I've ever seen is the tribal nature of voters.
"My dad voted Labour all his life, and even though I'm a mid-ranking manager in a large multinational that gets clobbered by lefty bollocks, and even though I send my kids to the local private school, I still vote Labour."
"I have voted Labour all my life, and even though the anti-war, pro-civil-liberties platform I signed up to in 1975 has long since been consigned to the dustbin, I'm still voting Labour."
"Back in the 1980's, the Tories stood for less government interference and more reliance on my own efforts. I liked it then, and even though Tory policies are entirely indistinguishable from those of Labour, I still vote Tory."
And the apologia I keep getting from Tory loyalists like Kingbingo do my head in. Claims that policies that are identical to Labour failures or LibDem wishlists are just "easing people into Tory thinking" or some such shit are nothing more or less than complete delusion.
The policies are exactly the same in most cases, and where they are not, they all stem from the exact same set of motivations and principles.
By all means, vote because of the colour of the guy's tie. But at least be honest with yourself and the rest of us about your blind, unquestioning allegiance to the tribe.
Thursday, 22 July 2010
A reflection on married life
Tip of the clown wig to Paul.
Update: It's true, it's even better when you understand what they're saying!
Tip of the clown wig to @anne_f_.
Cognitive Dissonance ...
The "Rapper" edition:
Ahahahahahaha!!!
Best known for provocative songs such as 1992's Cop Killer, Ice-T now plays an NYPD detective on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Ahahahahahaha!!!
Comparing the state with individuals
Douglas Carswell has an excellent post here contrasting two different ways of giving people power.
And as a micro example of how people can self-regulate perfectly reasonably, and discuss something significant and important without succumbing to "criminal elements", it's pretty good.
It also contrasts the government's superficially glossy but ultimately useless delivery of a service with the slightly less snazzy but infinitely more useful and usable solution created by individuals.
I'm also willing to be a fiver that the government solution cost thousands of pounds while the privately created solution simply piggy-backed off something that was already there -- something that the government could quite easily have done, but chose not to.
You might claim that this is a triviality and that it's not that important in the grand scheme of things.
I would turn that on its head and say if the government couldn't get this absolutely trivial thing done properly and cost-effectively, how on earth can you justify them trying to deliver even more complex, important and inherently expensive things properly?
The Coalition is currently in the process of trying to implement my idea of a Great Repeal or Freedom Bill. Launched by officials as Your Freedom (but with a tone that implies their terms), it's moderated by people in Whitehall. Unsurprisingly, it has, at times, been overrun by angry trolls, and it is hard to see how it differs from every other on-line government consultation.
Meanwhile, the completely unmoderated and totally open Great Repeal Bill site, goes from strength to strength.
And as a micro example of how people can self-regulate perfectly reasonably, and discuss something significant and important without succumbing to "criminal elements", it's pretty good.
It also contrasts the government's superficially glossy but ultimately useless delivery of a service with the slightly less snazzy but infinitely more useful and usable solution created by individuals.
I'm also willing to be a fiver that the government solution cost thousands of pounds while the privately created solution simply piggy-backed off something that was already there -- something that the government could quite easily have done, but chose not to.
You might claim that this is a triviality and that it's not that important in the grand scheme of things.
I would turn that on its head and say if the government couldn't get this absolutely trivial thing done properly and cost-effectively, how on earth can you justify them trying to deliver even more complex, important and inherently expensive things properly?
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Oh for fuck's sake!
Was my inevitable reaction, just from reading the headline. But when you read the article, you can see that Labour have not lost one jot of their bullying, salami-slicing ways when it comes to our civil liberties:
So, whatever want you might have for a pre-paid credit card, you're not allowed to have one in case you're one of the three people who buys child pornography using a pre-paid credit card.
All this means is that the whole point of a pre-paid card just goes away, and because of the actions of an excruciatingly tiny minority, everybody loses out.
Now, on face value, the "Liberal" Democrats and "small state, respecters of the individual" Tories should just laugh this out of court. But given that the Cleggeron is nothing but another pair of social democrat thugs in sharp suits, I reckon we're looking at this being shot down for appearances and then quietly smuggled in later on.
Let's wait and see...
Update: Wadsworth wades in.
Credit and debit card companies should face fines if their products are used to buy child pornography on the internet, an MP says.
The Labour MP, Geraint Davies - whose motion is being debated on Wednesday - said he wanted an end to anonymity for pre-paid credit cards.
So, whatever want you might have for a pre-paid credit card, you're not allowed to have one in case you're one of the three people who buys child pornography using a pre-paid credit card.
All this means is that the whole point of a pre-paid card just goes away, and because of the actions of an excruciatingly tiny minority, everybody loses out.
Now, on face value, the "Liberal" Democrats and "small state, respecters of the individual" Tories should just laugh this out of court. But given that the Cleggeron is nothing but another pair of social democrat thugs in sharp suits, I reckon we're looking at this being shot down for appearances and then quietly smuggled in later on.
Let's wait and see...
Update: Wadsworth wades in.
Oh Jesus Christ ...
... give me fucking strength:
Next stop: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" ...
Cunts.
‘It [the Big Society] is about decentralisation, but without giving more power to county councils. It is not necessarily about charities or even the private sector. It’s about collective action.’
Next stop: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" ...
Cunts.
Tax doesn't have to be taxing
Fucking hell:
Tax people till the pips squeak: it doesn't fucking work.
President Kennedy proposed a tax cut lowering the top marginal rate by 20%, from 91% to 71%, which was enacted in February 1964 (three months after Kennedy's assassination) by Lyndon Johnson. Gross National Product rose 10% in the first year of the tax cut, and economic growth averaged a rate of 4.5% from 1961 to 1968. Disposable personal income rose 15% in 1966 alone. Federal revenues increased dramatically from $94 billion in 1961 to $150 billion in 1967.
Tax people till the pips squeak: it doesn't fucking work.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
It's a fierce market out there
So, it looks like someone has realised that a pretty-near-infinite market is tough. I've been listening to this podcast for ages and while I like its whimsical awful jokes and hearing some new blues, crucially, I don't find the show good enough to justify forking out money, or even buy any of the music I hear, which is pretty indifferent stuff for the most part.
I'm sorry, Murphy, but while I will miss the jokes and your po-faced, earnest, "progressive" political messages, I won't be missing them enough to stick my hand in my pocket. And it seems that most of Murphy's listeners feel the same way.
It's sad but it's true: just because someone likes your show enough to expend the effort of subscribing to it, downloading it and listening to it, doesn't mean they like it enough to pay for it. You'd have to raise your game a hell of a lot before I paid for it.
It's just a consequence of a nearly infinite supply of free podcasts. You have to be pretty damn good to make money out of it. I'm afraid the irresistible force of your progressive, Democrat-inspired sense of entitlement is running into the immovable object of the free market.
And your podcast is right in the middle.
It just isn't fair, is it?
I do actually hope that someone will step in and keep you going, but the reality of scarce funding and a load of podcasts to fund makes this incredibly unlikely.
Good luck and Godspeed, Murphy!
I'm sorry, Murphy, but while I will miss the jokes and your po-faced, earnest, "progressive" political messages, I won't be missing them enough to stick my hand in my pocket. And it seems that most of Murphy's listeners feel the same way.
It's sad but it's true: just because someone likes your show enough to expend the effort of subscribing to it, downloading it and listening to it, doesn't mean they like it enough to pay for it. You'd have to raise your game a hell of a lot before I paid for it.
It's just a consequence of a nearly infinite supply of free podcasts. You have to be pretty damn good to make money out of it. I'm afraid the irresistible force of your progressive, Democrat-inspired sense of entitlement is running into the immovable object of the free market.
And your podcast is right in the middle.
It just isn't fair, is it?
I do actually hope that someone will step in and keep you going, but the reality of scarce funding and a load of podcasts to fund makes this incredibly unlikely.
Good luck and Godspeed, Murphy!
Spot the difference
I've had Tory loyalists tell me all kinds of shit about how David Cameron "can't frighten the horses", and how radically different his ideas really are when compared to Labour's tired shenanigans.
So I was amused to read this over at "Tory loyalist", Dizzy.
Well, at first, anyway.
But when you read the articles, it's abundantly clear that even at the detail level of where the money is going, there really isn't a hair's breadth of difference between the two schemes.
So will Tory tribalists please just stop spouting this bullshit about how much better iDave is and how different Tory policies are? And especially, stop fucking telling me that the Tories are the only way to achieve a more libertarian future. Your esteemed leader has a flagship policy which is identical to something that the fucking one-eyed madman tried on before.
On which planet does stealing money from people's bank accounts constitute fucking libertarianism?
The man is a cunt, and this iteration of the Tories is entirely undistinguishable from Labour and the LibDems. Something I've said since forever, and something which gets proven over and over again.
So I was amused to read this over at "Tory loyalist", Dizzy.
Well, at first, anyway.
But when you read the articles, it's abundantly clear that even at the detail level of where the money is going, there really isn't a hair's breadth of difference between the two schemes.
So will Tory tribalists please just stop spouting this bullshit about how much better iDave is and how different Tory policies are? And especially, stop fucking telling me that the Tories are the only way to achieve a more libertarian future. Your esteemed leader has a flagship policy which is identical to something that the fucking one-eyed madman tried on before.
On which planet does stealing money from people's bank accounts constitute fucking libertarianism?
The man is a cunt, and this iteration of the Tories is entirely undistinguishable from Labour and the LibDems. Something I've said since forever, and something which gets proven over and over again.
Blogroll update
Monday, 19 July 2010
How unspeakably depressing
Cameron has staked his reputation on the Big Society and Labour will gun for it on any pretext (a fig-leaf for cuts being the current refrain). Cameron cannot afford to fail twice.
I hope to God that analysis is wrong. The Big Society is a monumental clusterfuck waiting to happen, the last thing that can happen is for it to succeed.
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ladies, this is a not a good look. The enormous collar makes it look like your head is floating in a soup tureen. This is not a style that BBC newsreaders should be copying.
Capice?
Sniped!
I see Wesley Snipes has committed the only crime that a movie star can commit and get really nailed for: tax evasion.
I thought he only committed a misdemeanor? When was the last time you saw someone get sent down for three years for first-time misdemeanor charges?
Some might ask if it's because he iz blak, I say it's because the state takes care of its own.
Fucking cunts.
But prosecutors, in their sentencing recommendation, said the jurors' decision "has been portrayed in the mainstream media as a 'victory' for Snipes. The troubling implication of such coverage for the millions of average citizens who are aware of this case is that the rich and famous Wesley Snipes has 'gotten away with it.' In the end the criminal conduct of Snipes must not be seen in such a light."
I thought he only committed a misdemeanor? When was the last time you saw someone get sent down for three years for first-time misdemeanor charges?
Some might ask if it's because he iz blak, I say it's because the state takes care of its own.
Fucking cunts.
Gove fuck yourself
I see Mr Gove is trying to use New Labourish tactics to ram his schools policy through Parliament.
Now, I quite like Mr Gove's policy and I quite want to see it implemented unchanged as quickly as possible. But rather more, I'd like to see Parliament doing its fucking job and things to be properly debated.
So stop behaving like a New Labour thug, Mr Gove and start behaving like a parliamentarian.
Don't be a fucking cunt all your life.
Now, I quite like Mr Gove's policy and I quite want to see it implemented unchanged as quickly as possible. But rather more, I'd like to see Parliament doing its fucking job and things to be properly debated.
So stop behaving like a New Labour thug, Mr Gove and start behaving like a parliamentarian.
Don't be a fucking cunt all your life.
Sunday, 18 July 2010
92 today #happybirthdaymadiba
So, today the saintly Nelson Mandela is 92. And I have to admit, as a rather cynical person, I have a grudging admiration for the man.
He may not have achieved much post Apartheid, but at least he appears to not be an outright cunt like so many of his peers. It was inevitable that he was going to be showered with riches upon his release, but he appears not to have gone looking for any more. He took his task of healing the nation seriously and even though the roots of reverse racism took place under his rule, I don't think his intentions were malign.
And remember, this was a man who advocated killing random strangers, black or white, to bring about change.
I once met a man who'd been on Robben Island for even longer than Nelson Mandela, he was the nicest, gentlest person you could ever hope to meet, it was hard to imagine that he'd once actually killed random people by planting bombs.
I think it's probably that 25-odd years in a shithole prison are enough to knock the cuntishness out of anyone, really.
And so I have a suggestion to improve the level of political discourse and aspiration in this country. In order to stand for parliament, you have to spend 25 years in a maximum security shithole run by vicious bastards who fucking hate you. After your sentence is complete, you are free to stand for parliament.
It really can't be any worse than the system we have today.
He may not have achieved much post Apartheid, but at least he appears to not be an outright cunt like so many of his peers. It was inevitable that he was going to be showered with riches upon his release, but he appears not to have gone looking for any more. He took his task of healing the nation seriously and even though the roots of reverse racism took place under his rule, I don't think his intentions were malign.
And remember, this was a man who advocated killing random strangers, black or white, to bring about change.
I once met a man who'd been on Robben Island for even longer than Nelson Mandela, he was the nicest, gentlest person you could ever hope to meet, it was hard to imagine that he'd once actually killed random people by planting bombs.
I think it's probably that 25-odd years in a shithole prison are enough to knock the cuntishness out of anyone, really.
And so I have a suggestion to improve the level of political discourse and aspiration in this country. In order to stand for parliament, you have to spend 25 years in a maximum security shithole run by vicious bastards who fucking hate you. After your sentence is complete, you are free to stand for parliament.
It really can't be any worse than the system we have today.
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Friday, 16 July 2010
Mongnitive Dissonance: the Weapons Grade Cock End Edition
Dammit, if you use the real definition it is very clear I am a libertarian. I consider myself to be so - I genuinely want to provide the individual with the opportunity to make choice.
Dude, what the fuck?
Can this really be the same person who, in his comments policy, says:
For a comment to be published I must be satisfied that:
6. It is not questioning the fundamental tenets on which this blog is based.
This last point is important. Those who wish to argue that tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions are good things may do so, but not here. Likewise those promoting neoliberal economics may do so, but not here: propagating the delusion that an economy can be accurately modeled using counterfactual propositions about its nature is not something I wish to partake in, and will not allow.
Seriously? In other words, you're a libertarian that won't hear a word from the Austrian school or anything other than your own?
Fucking hell.
But just as the far right in Germany claimed the word socialist as their own - wholly inappropriately - so have the right claimed libertarian as their own - wholly inappropriately because the programme they promote is clearly intended to deny choice to mist by providing privilege to a few
In the process they claim to have no desire for social engineering - when that is their very obvious aimAnd most who seem to be libertarian also seem incredibly keen on restricting immigration - whilst promoting the free flow of capital
Wrong, you fucking bell end. Free movement of people and free movement of capital are a fundamental policy for any libertarian. You, on the other hand, are quite happy to restrict the free movement of capital while calling for the free movement of people.
This does not make you a libertarian. Along with your comments policy, this makes you a fascist cunt.
Vote for meeeeeeeeeeee!!! Somewhere else!
I'm sure none of you will be surprised that I've been nominated by "progressives" as one of the 100 worst blogs in their mirror image of Mrs Dale's effort.
Since I know you all think I'm cunt, please feel free to wander over here and tell them all what a cunt I am.
You do have to nominate at least 3 blogs (and rank them.)
Have fun!
Since I know you all think I'm cunt, please feel free to wander over here and tell them all what a cunt I am.
You do have to nominate at least 3 blogs (and rank them.)
Have fun!
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Yes, that's a great idea
Wonderful. Leave the fucking bint in the wheelchair right in the middle of a bottleneck in the flow of people trying to get the fuck out of Heathrow.
Yeah, fucking genius, that.
Yeah, fucking genius, that.
The denormalisation of smokers
I read, with complete detachment, the latest story about how smokers are being vilified as paedophiles.
I remembered how, on my flight here, I was advised that not only was smoking illegal on the plane, but if I needed to light up, not only did I have to wait until I was outside the building, but I had to find a designated smoking area.
In my hotel room, every single door has a "no smoking" sign under the door number.
And, of course, as a non-smoker, this doesn't affect me in the least, other than my clothes never seem to reek of tobacco smoke any more. Which, as a non-smoker, I'm rather pleased about.
But I do have to say that I'm continually surprised by how complete the anti-smoking victory has been.
Not content with giving smokers and non-smokers the choice of a train carriage or a section of the plane, smoker's rights have been gradually eroded to the point where it now looks like a petty child is in charge of dreaming up new rules.
It's getting stupid now: not only are you not allowed to smoke inside the building, you're compelled to smoke at least 10 yards from the front door. You're not allowed to smoke in your van if you use it for work. There is talk of banning parents from smoking in cars where they might, one day, have children, let alone allowing them to smoke in front of their children.
Non-smokers are now taking the piss. Having banned smokers from the inside of pubs, they're now looking to ban them from the beer garden because it's spoiling their fun.
And it's bizarre to see so-called "social liberals", who are quite keen on having drugs unbanned and free speech and all the other social liberties restored, railing against smokers, apparently intelligent people happily swallowing any guff about second-hand smoke. These same people who will shred any "evidence" about the evils of recreational pills will also blindly swallow any "evidence" about the evils of smoking.
In my lifetime, I've seen smoking go from being a background noise to life to being something used as a cosh to hound people into misery. Petty spite seems to have become the order of the day. And it's happening all around the world. Even countries which have a healthy disrespect for official regulations are meekly toeing the line.
What is going on?
And who is going to be the next victim of the new puritans? We've already seen them start on booze and fatties.
Why are people so willing to be cowed?
I remembered how, on my flight here, I was advised that not only was smoking illegal on the plane, but if I needed to light up, not only did I have to wait until I was outside the building, but I had to find a designated smoking area.
In my hotel room, every single door has a "no smoking" sign under the door number.
And, of course, as a non-smoker, this doesn't affect me in the least, other than my clothes never seem to reek of tobacco smoke any more. Which, as a non-smoker, I'm rather pleased about.
But I do have to say that I'm continually surprised by how complete the anti-smoking victory has been.
Not content with giving smokers and non-smokers the choice of a train carriage or a section of the plane, smoker's rights have been gradually eroded to the point where it now looks like a petty child is in charge of dreaming up new rules.
It's getting stupid now: not only are you not allowed to smoke inside the building, you're compelled to smoke at least 10 yards from the front door. You're not allowed to smoke in your van if you use it for work. There is talk of banning parents from smoking in cars where they might, one day, have children, let alone allowing them to smoke in front of their children.
Non-smokers are now taking the piss. Having banned smokers from the inside of pubs, they're now looking to ban them from the beer garden because it's spoiling their fun.
And it's bizarre to see so-called "social liberals", who are quite keen on having drugs unbanned and free speech and all the other social liberties restored, railing against smokers, apparently intelligent people happily swallowing any guff about second-hand smoke. These same people who will shred any "evidence" about the evils of recreational pills will also blindly swallow any "evidence" about the evils of smoking.
In my lifetime, I've seen smoking go from being a background noise to life to being something used as a cosh to hound people into misery. Petty spite seems to have become the order of the day. And it's happening all around the world. Even countries which have a healthy disrespect for official regulations are meekly toeing the line.
What is going on?
And who is going to be the next victim of the new puritans? We've already seen them start on booze and fatties.
Why are people so willing to be cowed?
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
FML
The hotel's OK, I guess. But there doesn't seem to be anywhere within walking distance that looks like I'd want to eat there.
At least the hotel staff are polite and helpful. But then they are all Polish.
At least the hotel staff are polite and helpful. But then they are all Polish.
The romance of travel
The first flight I can remember was an awfully long time ago. It was a DC-3 and all I can really remember is that it was a hell of an adventure and it was bloody noisy.
Many years later, my father dragged me across the Atlantic in a 747 and I remember how wondrous it all was. I got escorted to the cockpit and saw the sea of dials, knobs and levers ... it was all too much for a young lad.
Many years after that, I spent a lot of time flying between here and the middle east. And while I got used to the miracle of powered flight, each trip was either taking me to new customers with new challenges or bringing me home, tired and looking forward to seeing my family.
And of course, there were magic moments like the Aussie air hostess tossing ice cold beer to desperate passengers as the wheels left the ground in Kuwait.
But like so much else in modern life, travel has had all the joy sucked out of it. My flight here was on Aer Cunnilingus, and boy, did it suck cunt.
To be sure.
Heathrow is a vile shitpit of overpriced crap, overpriced awful food, nowhere to sit, glaring neon light, noise and most particularly, cunts. From the security neaderthals to the pushy fuckers trying to get you to buy tickets to a car you'll never win or overpriced crap from the shops to the moronic, slack-jawed, wheeled-luggage-dragging fuckpieces who always stop in the worst possible place, it seems that every person in the airport is determined to squeeze the last possible drop of pleasure from the whole experience.
Clearly, the people who arrange the seating for modern airlines are also all either fucking dwarves or leg amputees who have no fucking need for legroom when they pack you in in a fashion that sardines wouldn't put up with. And the numerous signs saying "one piece of hand luggage only" also gets ignored by every fucker, so when you do eventually get to your seat, there is nowhere to put your luggage.
The flight across the Irish Sea is apparently only long enough for them to try and sell you insanely overpriced, nasty-looking sandwiches or booze and then wheel a cart around to try and get you to buy overpriced, nasty-looking tat. This while the fucking pilot keeps on asking you to buy shit. Don't these fuckers have a plane to fly or something?
And all the fucking nagging, Jesus. Don't smoke in the toilets. Don't get up when there's turbulence. You can't do this. You can't do that. Nag, nag, fucking nag, it's like being fucking married again.
And then, of course, there's the screaming kid across the aisle while the fucking twat next to you plays cunt and bass music through shite fucking earphones that you can hear her fucking music over the screaming kid and the fucking engine noise and the fucking nagging of the pilot and the hard sell of the cock-sucking trolley dollies.
Then you get off the plane and have to wait for half an hour while some mindless thug does their level best to destroy your luggage by dropping it on the tarmac from the plane and slinging it around to see if they can get it to explode clothes all over the place.
And there's the taxi from the airport to the shitty hotel. Well, to be fair, the hotel's OK but the view sucks cock. Fucking wittering pikeys when all you want to do is calm down from the preceding horror.
Yeah, whatever happened to the romance of travel?
Is it really any surprise that people who travel on business wind up getting completely shitfaced in the bar every night?
Many years later, my father dragged me across the Atlantic in a 747 and I remember how wondrous it all was. I got escorted to the cockpit and saw the sea of dials, knobs and levers ... it was all too much for a young lad.
Many years after that, I spent a lot of time flying between here and the middle east. And while I got used to the miracle of powered flight, each trip was either taking me to new customers with new challenges or bringing me home, tired and looking forward to seeing my family.
And of course, there were magic moments like the Aussie air hostess tossing ice cold beer to desperate passengers as the wheels left the ground in Kuwait.
But like so much else in modern life, travel has had all the joy sucked out of it. My flight here was on Aer Cunnilingus, and boy, did it suck cunt.
To be sure.
Heathrow is a vile shitpit of overpriced crap, overpriced awful food, nowhere to sit, glaring neon light, noise and most particularly, cunts. From the security neaderthals to the pushy fuckers trying to get you to buy tickets to a car you'll never win or overpriced crap from the shops to the moronic, slack-jawed, wheeled-luggage-dragging fuckpieces who always stop in the worst possible place, it seems that every person in the airport is determined to squeeze the last possible drop of pleasure from the whole experience.
Clearly, the people who arrange the seating for modern airlines are also all either fucking dwarves or leg amputees who have no fucking need for legroom when they pack you in in a fashion that sardines wouldn't put up with. And the numerous signs saying "one piece of hand luggage only" also gets ignored by every fucker, so when you do eventually get to your seat, there is nowhere to put your luggage.
The flight across the Irish Sea is apparently only long enough for them to try and sell you insanely overpriced, nasty-looking sandwiches or booze and then wheel a cart around to try and get you to buy overpriced, nasty-looking tat. This while the fucking pilot keeps on asking you to buy shit. Don't these fuckers have a plane to fly or something?
And all the fucking nagging, Jesus. Don't smoke in the toilets. Don't get up when there's turbulence. You can't do this. You can't do that. Nag, nag, fucking nag, it's like being fucking married again.
And then, of course, there's the screaming kid across the aisle while the fucking twat next to you plays cunt and bass music through shite fucking earphones that you can hear her fucking music over the screaming kid and the fucking engine noise and the fucking nagging of the pilot and the hard sell of the cock-sucking trolley dollies.
Then you get off the plane and have to wait for half an hour while some mindless thug does their level best to destroy your luggage by dropping it on the tarmac from the plane and slinging it around to see if they can get it to explode clothes all over the place.
And there's the taxi from the airport to the shitty hotel. Well, to be fair, the hotel's OK but the view sucks cock. Fucking wittering pikeys when all you want to do is calm down from the preceding horror.
Yeah, whatever happened to the romance of travel?
Is it really any surprise that people who travel on business wind up getting completely shitfaced in the bar every night?
More Tory twattery
Francis Maude this time:
Now who does that remind you of?
Cunt.
Francis Maude has come up with a genius money-saving wheeze. The only tiny downside is that it won’t kick in for another 10 years.
As the Telegraph reveals in Saturday morning’s splash, the Cabinet Office minister hopes to scrap the census - Britain’s official population count - in an attempt to save its £480m cost.
However, he admitted that next year’s census would still have to go ahead. He vowed instead to cancel the next official headcount - which will not occur until 2021.
To get to that point the Tories (or coalition) have to win the 2015 election and then the 2020 election. And still be in a cost-cutting mood. That’s a whole pyramid of ifs.
Now who does that remind you of?
Cunt.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Reforming the NHS
Lansley is, of course, doing nothing useful. Ostensibly taking the levers of power away from the unaccountable managerial twats who control the purse strings in the current version of the NHS, he is instead giving that power to the only people who I would less prefer to have it: GPs.
Now I realise that I alone in this entire country have been unlucky enough to find only useless, incompetent makeweights in GP practices in three different counties, but I'm afraid that it has coloured my perception of them.
Unable to diagnose a splinter without a battery of blood, urine and stool samples, I wouldn't trust a single fucking GP I've met to find their own arsehole with a map, Grey's Anatomy and fucking assistant. How giving them control of what happens to you after you've left their tender and astute care is going to help anybody is fucking entirely beyond me.
The problem isn't the fucking managers or the bureaucracy, the problem is specifically that the cunting GPs are entirely useless. How giving the fuckers the reward of controlling how money is spent is going to suddenly make them better, I don't fucking know.
How a service that is free at the point of delivery is not going to be abused by freeloaders and hypochondriacs, I don't know. How a system which does not reward a doctor for the quality of his work but rather his run rate is ever going to provide decent primary health care, I don't know.
We are truly uniquely blessed in the UK: we pay through our nose for health care service that needlessly kills more people that pretty much all the things they pronounce upon with such disdain and we have absolutely no fucking control over how any of that money gets spent. The worst incompetent cuntish fuckwits in the entire system are being rewarded with control over the money.
Oh yeah, and that bonfire of the quangos has yet another new "commissioning board" to add to its list of amazing accomplishments.
So: more money being wasted on the NHS, more quangos, taxpayers getting raped, patients getting killed, lectures from doctors about how sinful we are.
Meet the new politics, completely different from the old politics.
Oh yes.
Now I realise that I alone in this entire country have been unlucky enough to find only useless, incompetent makeweights in GP practices in three different counties, but I'm afraid that it has coloured my perception of them.
Unable to diagnose a splinter without a battery of blood, urine and stool samples, I wouldn't trust a single fucking GP I've met to find their own arsehole with a map, Grey's Anatomy and fucking assistant. How giving them control of what happens to you after you've left their tender and astute care is going to help anybody is fucking entirely beyond me.
The problem isn't the fucking managers or the bureaucracy, the problem is specifically that the cunting GPs are entirely useless. How giving the fuckers the reward of controlling how money is spent is going to suddenly make them better, I don't fucking know.
How a service that is free at the point of delivery is not going to be abused by freeloaders and hypochondriacs, I don't know. How a system which does not reward a doctor for the quality of his work but rather his run rate is ever going to provide decent primary health care, I don't know.
We are truly uniquely blessed in the UK: we pay through our nose for health care service that needlessly kills more people that pretty much all the things they pronounce upon with such disdain and we have absolutely no fucking control over how any of that money gets spent. The worst incompetent cuntish fuckwits in the entire system are being rewarded with control over the money.
Oh yeah, and that bonfire of the quangos has yet another new "commissioning board" to add to its list of amazing accomplishments.
So: more money being wasted on the NHS, more quangos, taxpayers getting raped, patients getting killed, lectures from doctors about how sinful we are.
Meet the new politics, completely different from the old politics.
Oh yes.
Chop CEOP?
I see some bunch of dickwad prodnoses has made the news:
Woo. What a fucking recommendation. The NSPCC, Childline, Beatbullying AND the ACPO? Every single one of those organisations is brimful of bossy, know-it-all cunts and if I was king for a day, every single fucking one of them would be burned down and the earth they walked on salted. Plus, their heads would be cut off and a stake driven through their hearts.
Just to be on the safe side.
There's something about CEOP that leaves me feeling very uncomfortable. It's not just that they appear to be the paramilitary wing of the NSPCC, an organisation that I would cheerfully douse with petrol if they went up in flames. I can't find any evidence of their funding, but the whole outfit screams "fakecharity".
They brag about having "safeguarded" 624 children over the last 4 years. What does that mean? The website talks about 47 specific cases where "intensive image analysis" resulted in kids being identified and somehow rescued.
I realise this is going to sound incredibly callous, especially coming from a parent who loves his kid and is horrendously protective, but how much does this little-known bunch of media whores actually cost us? I mean, they're basically bullying social media outfits into giving them free advertising by placing a fucking logo for free on every page. Their website has a whole swathe of professionally produced video clippage available to increase their profile. PDFs of pointless "scoping studies" and vaguely alarming assertions are blandly made. All very professionally produced with your money and mine.
If this wasn't all sitting in .gov.uk and .police.uk domains, I'd swear it was just another thieving quango pissing our money away on overpaid ex-policemen and other assorted oxygen thieves.
Do we really need another "partnership network" of 46,000 people to tell us that sometimes shit can happen on the internet? Is there really that much paedogeddon going on that Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all have to have a panic button?
There's a much better way of controlling what happens to kids on the internet, it's much more comprehensive and much safer. It doesn't require giving yet another bunch of hectoring prodnoses moral authority over our every move.
How about parents take responsibility for their kids and what they get up to online?
Simple. Doesn't cost the taxpayer shit. Helps build the family's relationships.
Plus, it gets to keep another bunch of self-aggrandizing media whores out of a job.
The fucking cunts.
A REPORT BUTTON is now available on Facebook for teenagers after the social notworking outfit capitulated due to nine months of pressure that included a vociferous campaign on its own website.
The situation started to heat up for Mark Zuckerberg's site in November last year when the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) started calling for Facebook, and Myspace, to adopt a button after Bebo did, that would let children report contact from suspected dangerous individuals. In April Facebook told CEOP that it could not come to an agreement to adopt or test the adoption of the report button.
In response to this, the campaign page eventually had over 3,500 members and CEOP said that it also had the support of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Childline, Beatbullying and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
Woo. What a fucking recommendation. The NSPCC, Childline, Beatbullying AND the ACPO? Every single one of those organisations is brimful of bossy, know-it-all cunts and if I was king for a day, every single fucking one of them would be burned down and the earth they walked on salted. Plus, their heads would be cut off and a stake driven through their hearts.
Just to be on the safe side.
There's something about CEOP that leaves me feeling very uncomfortable. It's not just that they appear to be the paramilitary wing of the NSPCC, an organisation that I would cheerfully douse with petrol if they went up in flames. I can't find any evidence of their funding, but the whole outfit screams "fakecharity".
They brag about having "safeguarded" 624 children over the last 4 years. What does that mean? The website talks about 47 specific cases where "intensive image analysis" resulted in kids being identified and somehow rescued.
I realise this is going to sound incredibly callous, especially coming from a parent who loves his kid and is horrendously protective, but how much does this little-known bunch of media whores actually cost us? I mean, they're basically bullying social media outfits into giving them free advertising by placing a fucking logo for free on every page. Their website has a whole swathe of professionally produced video clippage available to increase their profile. PDFs of pointless "scoping studies" and vaguely alarming assertions are blandly made. All very professionally produced with your money and mine.
If this wasn't all sitting in .gov.uk and .police.uk domains, I'd swear it was just another thieving quango pissing our money away on overpaid ex-policemen and other assorted oxygen thieves.
Do we really need another "partnership network" of 46,000 people to tell us that sometimes shit can happen on the internet? Is there really that much paedogeddon going on that Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all have to have a panic button?
There's a much better way of controlling what happens to kids on the internet, it's much more comprehensive and much safer. It doesn't require giving yet another bunch of hectoring prodnoses moral authority over our every move.
How about parents take responsibility for their kids and what they get up to online?
Simple. Doesn't cost the taxpayer shit. Helps build the family's relationships.
Plus, it gets to keep another bunch of self-aggrandizing media whores out of a job.
The fucking cunts.
The Wisdom of Celebrities
I was leafing through a pile of old magazines at the doctor the other day when I saw some deathless prose by Bob Geldof proclaiming Obama as "America's first Rock 'n' Roll President".
Leaving aside the issue of whether a has-been old muso (who last had something interesting in the shops when I was still a child) is actually a celebrity, as opposed to a relentless self-promoting twat, I was struck by the clarity of his assessment, especially since it was assessed at the time of The One's coronation. Later revelations have shown him to be a serial incompetent, dogged by controversy over his typical "Chicago machine" politics.
So, given that Bob's assessment was not exactly as accurate as Paul the Octopus, I did wonder why it is that media whores and people who a talent for being able to sing a pop song have such highly venerated opinions?
Do people really think to themselves, "Those lasses from Girls Aloud can really carry a tune, I'll let them influence my political reasoning?" And, as far as I can see, they actually do. Newspapers and magazines carry this endless vacuous drivel precisely because they know that people actually do buy it.
But lately, I'm beginning to wonder if even the cloth-brained fucknuts of the mentally defective class aren't beginning to question this endless parade of mindless stupidity. Surely someone must be beginning to notice that these twats are either completely wrong or just surfing a wave of media interest in something, so they have to articulate an opinion on it.
The fact that their opinions are mindless and illogical, shines through like lighting on a black night.
Surely, people must be starting to see through this shit?
Hm.
They're not, are they?
Leaving aside the issue of whether a has-been old muso (who last had something interesting in the shops when I was still a child) is actually a celebrity, as opposed to a relentless self-promoting twat, I was struck by the clarity of his assessment, especially since it was assessed at the time of The One's coronation. Later revelations have shown him to be a serial incompetent, dogged by controversy over his typical "Chicago machine" politics.
So, given that Bob's assessment was not exactly as accurate as Paul the Octopus, I did wonder why it is that media whores and people who a talent for being able to sing a pop song have such highly venerated opinions?
Do people really think to themselves, "Those lasses from Girls Aloud can really carry a tune, I'll let them influence my political reasoning?" And, as far as I can see, they actually do. Newspapers and magazines carry this endless vacuous drivel precisely because they know that people actually do buy it.
But lately, I'm beginning to wonder if even the cloth-brained fucknuts of the mentally defective class aren't beginning to question this endless parade of mindless stupidity. Surely someone must be beginning to notice that these twats are either completely wrong or just surfing a wave of media interest in something, so they have to articulate an opinion on it.
The fact that their opinions are mindless and illogical, shines through like lighting on a black night.
Surely, people must be starting to see through this shit?
Hm.
They're not, are they?
Monday, 12 July 2010
There's always someone worse off than you!
I've had a murderous couple of weeks at work and my social life (such as it is) has taken a severe beating. But today, I read something that really made me realise that compared to some people, my life is brimful of good times and great company.
I mean, seriously: how desperate would have to be to go that far to meet a couple of people at a pub for a drink?
I mean, seriously: how desperate would have to be to go that far to meet a couple of people at a pub for a drink?
The Lard of the Humber
Well, now that fatty Prescott has taken the ermine and the world has taken time to react, I suppose it's only fair that I point out the rampant hypocrisy of the left who have bitched and moaned about the shameful power that the unelected House of Lords has, yet have not found the energy to attack the cognitive dissonance of watching one of their heroes (and one who ironically moaned like a stuck pig about peerages to boot!) take the ermine and go sit in "the Other Place".
Politics is full of people who have no other motivation than their own furtherance. The hypocritical fuckface Prescott rode the wave of left-wing politics as far as it would take him, and then casually stepped off it and into the very chamber he'd spent his life complaining about.
Politics in the UK will never get better until tribal loyalists stop making excuses for the failures of their own tribe and accept that a politician being a member of your own tribe should require more accountability rather than a free ride.
Politics is full of people who have no other motivation than their own furtherance. The hypocritical fuckface Prescott rode the wave of left-wing politics as far as it would take him, and then casually stepped off it and into the very chamber he'd spent his life complaining about.
Politics in the UK will never get better until tribal loyalists stop making excuses for the failures of their own tribe and accept that a politician being a member of your own tribe should require more accountability rather than a free ride.
Sunday, 11 July 2010
In other news
Markets solve a thorny issue.
People's lives are saved, healthcare spend is reduced significantly. The one country which has this market is the one country that has no significant waiting list.
But we can't entrust these things to a market. Oh, no! They're much too important.
So we'll just let people die, instead. That's a much more sensible solution.
People's lives are saved, healthcare spend is reduced significantly. The one country which has this market is the one country that has no significant waiting list.
But we can't entrust these things to a market. Oh, no! They're much too important.
So we'll just let people die, instead. That's a much more sensible solution.
Pope on a rope
Since it's Sunday, I suppose it's only right that I should turn my thoughts towards ecclesiastical matters.
I see that Pope Adolf is going to grace us with his infallible presence. And I see that it's going to cost us £20 million for the privilege. Now, I am fully aware that he is theoretically the head of a country, and we have certain obligations to foreign dignitaries. You can't just grab a couple of packets of Tesco Value crisps and some indifferent cheddar.
But after hearing that the last G20 cost north of a billion US, I'm getting a bit fucking sick of these cunts swanning around on our dime. If we're all feeling the pain equally, Dave, perhaps you can cut down a little on the twiglets and Ferrero Rocher? I mean, dropping a mill in a week is pretty fucking generous, 20 mill sounds ... how can I put this? Like you're taking the fucking piss?
You're supposed to be a fucking Tory, Dave. That means more than wearing a fucking blue tie to the office. You're supposed to represent careful husbandry of taxpayer resources.
So stop fucking pissing our money away on shit like this. You're not Gordon Brown, you know.
Cunt.
I see that Pope Adolf is going to grace us with his infallible presence. And I see that it's going to cost us £20 million for the privilege. Now, I am fully aware that he is theoretically the head of a country, and we have certain obligations to foreign dignitaries. You can't just grab a couple of packets of Tesco Value crisps and some indifferent cheddar.
But after hearing that the last G20 cost north of a billion US, I'm getting a bit fucking sick of these cunts swanning around on our dime. If we're all feeling the pain equally, Dave, perhaps you can cut down a little on the twiglets and Ferrero Rocher? I mean, dropping a mill in a week is pretty fucking generous, 20 mill sounds ... how can I put this? Like you're taking the fucking piss?
You're supposed to be a fucking Tory, Dave. That means more than wearing a fucking blue tie to the office. You're supposed to represent careful husbandry of taxpayer resources.
So stop fucking pissing our money away on shit like this. You're not Gordon Brown, you know.
Cunt.
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Friday, 9 July 2010
But the lesson of previous prime ministerial honeymoons is that once the novelty wears off, and the floating voters drift away, a leader needs his party to feel it really owes him and would die defending his honor in a crisis. I wonder if Mr. Cameron can be sure the bulk of the Conservative party feels that way about him.
-- Iain Martin
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Not subject to legitimate expectation
So, given that the Tories have undergone a Damascene conversion about the census they previously described as "invasive, intrusive and unsuitable", can all those fuckers who witter on about the Tories being the only hope for libertarian people to achieve libertarian goals please go and fuck themselves now? And then shut up?
iDave talked a reasonable talk before the election, even though he made it absolutely clear he wasn't a libertarian. For all the bollocks spouted about rolling back the state and ending the war on the motorist and all the other fluffy, cuddly things he said before the election, he has turned out to be just as statist, nannying and bossy as Gordon Brown. He's just slightly more personable.
I've already lost count of the u-turns the Tories have performed, ostensibly to keep the Limp Dumbs happy, but in truth they were things that iDave didn't give a flying fuck about.
They are no different from New Labour. They have continued with all the shit things that Labour did. They are not applying swingeing cuts to the rampant juggernaut of state spending, they have merely closed the tap by a quarter of a turn. They have not killed off any of the spying, logging or bossing of the dumb proles. We still have unaccountable quangos that haven't been bonfired telling us simpletons how we need to live our lives. The medical nazis are still banging on, telling us how sinful we are. We are still drowned in red tape and pointless elfin safety.
There is no difference between any of the big three parties. It is just an accident of circumstance that iDave is not currently in the Labour Party or the LibDems. He is no different from Blair or Clegg or Purnell or Clarke. Agreeable, flexible, euro-centric, amoral, centrist ... they really are all the same.
So stop telling me the one hope for libertarianism is to go Tory and "influence them from the inside".
They are beyond redemption.
iDave talked a reasonable talk before the election, even though he made it absolutely clear he wasn't a libertarian. For all the bollocks spouted about rolling back the state and ending the war on the motorist and all the other fluffy, cuddly things he said before the election, he has turned out to be just as statist, nannying and bossy as Gordon Brown. He's just slightly more personable.
I've already lost count of the u-turns the Tories have performed, ostensibly to keep the Limp Dumbs happy, but in truth they were things that iDave didn't give a flying fuck about.
They are no different from New Labour. They have continued with all the shit things that Labour did. They are not applying swingeing cuts to the rampant juggernaut of state spending, they have merely closed the tap by a quarter of a turn. They have not killed off any of the spying, logging or bossing of the dumb proles. We still have unaccountable quangos that haven't been bonfired telling us simpletons how we need to live our lives. The medical nazis are still banging on, telling us how sinful we are. We are still drowned in red tape and pointless elfin safety.
There is no difference between any of the big three parties. It is just an accident of circumstance that iDave is not currently in the Labour Party or the LibDems. He is no different from Blair or Clegg or Purnell or Clarke. Agreeable, flexible, euro-centric, amoral, centrist ... they really are all the same.
So stop telling me the one hope for libertarianism is to go Tory and "influence them from the inside".
They are beyond redemption.
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