Sex workers against feminism

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My heart swells with pride...

Imagine that: hot on the heels of Lloyds buying itself out of the government insurance scheme, another nationalised bank doing what needs to be done to return to profitability:

Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank rescued by the taxpayer, is to cut 3,700 jobs among its branch staff.

They don't want to be the Gorgon's bitch, either.

Splitters!

Well, the factions are all out in force. In the one corner, we have the People's Front of Judea. In the other corner, we have the Judean People's Front. And in the other other corner, we have the Popular People's Front of Judea. And in the other other other corner, we have as near as damn it, 61 million people who are being lied to; stolen from; bullied; spied on; told how to live their lives; told what to think, what to eat, drink and especially NOT - smoke.

And whereas I think the PFJ may originally have had a point, they have long since erased any sympathy from me or anybody else I speak to about it because they have been so unrelentingly obsessive about it. Frankly, even for the intermong, this has been fatuous.

The JPF have been stirring the shit, which is, frankly, what they do best. The PPFJ have tried to move on, but the remarkably un-Christian nature of the PFJ have rendered those efforts to no avail.

And still, we have 61 million people being fucked up the arse like an attractive Bulgarian lad. The very people who claim to adhere to the ideology that I believe can set us free are spending their days involved in very unedifying, puerile, trite and banal playground internecine warfare.

Really.

The PFJ are still quite literally stamping their feet, pouting and saying "but she started it..." six fucking months later. The JPF is still sniggering and making comments about the size of the PFJ's dinkies and how the PFJ all stink like doo-doo farts. The PPFJ is still saying "but I didn't do anything".

Seriously, kids, fucking ALL say your sorry: sorry to each other and especially fucking sorry to us for having to put up with this shit for six fucking months. You are all* at fault, and if you want to be considered as grownups, then start fucking behaving like grownups. And if you can't forgive and forget, shut your fucking whiny arses up, the grownups are fucking sick of your petulant witterings.

If you don't either kiss and make up or shut the fuck up, I'm going to have to fucking hunt each and every one of you fuckers down, flay you and roll you in salt.

And then fucking render you down for bio-diesel.

Remember the 61 million. Remember what is actually important.

* Well, maybe not the JPF. I like a wind-up merchant as much as the next man.

Update: Bastard fuck published first. Oh well, fuck you too.

Cheaper and more effective

Ross has found a fucking brilliant idea here:

Afghans are known for changing sides back and forth during their long years of war — there is an old saying that “you can rent an Afghan but never buy one” — and battles have often been decided by defections rather than combat.

Paying Taliban foot-soldiers to switch sides could spare US lives and save money, say its advocates. A recent report by the Senate foreign relations committee estimated the Taliban fighting strength at 15,000, of whom only 5% are committed idealogues while 70% fight for money — the so-called $10-a-day Taliban. Doubling this to win them over would cost just $300,000 a day, compared with the $165m a day the United States is spending fighting the war.

Now I did have a minor moral qualm with this. My bourgeois upbringing has an instinctive revulsion about the idea of bribing people. But then I thought about it a bit longer: which collective or individual sponsor of terrorism is going to want to match the US/UK investment in fighting the taliban? We currently spend $165M a day on fighting the Taliban. We could, if we double their current earnings, spend $300K a day on this. In other words, we could fight a year of the Afghan war for a lot less than we spend there per day. So, let's say Islamofascists double up again and we have to double up again. So now we're fighting a year's worth of war for 3 days' worth of current spend. So they double up again and we double up again. We're now fighting a year's worth of war for about 10 days' current spend.

And at this point, if my rudimentary maths is up to it, the $10-a-day Taliban will be earning $320 per day, which isn't a bad fucking deal for a westerner. For an Afghan, that's pretty much millionaire status. They will, collectively, say "fuck you" to the Taliban and start collecting Mercs.

And we can go on doubling and redoubling a fucking lot before it starts to cost us anything like the current costs. Al-Qaeda and their supporters will either go bankrupt or say "fuck it, there's got to be a cheaper way of doing this" and throw in the towel.

And if you combined that with buying the Afghan poppy crop for medical purposes, the Taliban would be pushed out to an irrelevant fringe while everyone else in Afghanistan decided to get rich instead.

The only people who lose out are the neo-con militarists, and frankly, they can go fuck themselves. They've had their fun.