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Monthly Archives: July 2013

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The Boys are Frackin’ Town.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 31, 2013

When the Saxons first ventured up the stretch of water we know as the River Stour, the surrounding land was an unspoilt wilderness of fertile land and wild fowl.

The settlement that came to be known

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Twitter, Twatter, Twotter…and Thumb Gymnastics.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 30, 2013

The Twitterati. The word has even made it into the Oxford dictionary. Because nobody ever wrote anything down until humans learnt to dance a jig on double jointed thumbpoint whilst having breakfast with a lover that they

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Puerile Savile and the Mexican Staring Frog.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 29, 2013

What arrant nonsense have the hacks that write our Tabloids ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ come up with now? What balderdash-on-stilts is served today?

When the Sunday Pictorial was launched in 1915, Lord Rothermere said that the idea was

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Wonga Conga.

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by Gildas the Monk on July 28, 2013

It has been quite a good week for the Justin Welby, the 106th  Archbishop of Canterbury. Quite unexpectedly and out of the blue, he launched his attack on so called “pay day loan” companies, such as

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James Alexander Gordon sadly retires

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by Gildas the Monk on July 28, 2013

The most poignant news of the week for me was that of the retirement of James Alexander Gordon. Many Raccoonistas have something of an aversion to sport, but Gordon was a man who rose far above mere sport,

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2013

  Jackcart on a more digestible Libertarianism for general consumption. Antimisandry on Oprah and foreskins…. Captain Ranty on Paedos and their protectors. Continue reading →

Workshy Britain?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 27, 2013

814, 359 employers in Britain are so keen to find employees that they have signed up to a European initiative that pays a bounty of 1000 euros to anybody in another European country who is

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Stuart Hall and that Guilty Plea.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2013

Today, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, sitting with Justice Rafferty and Justice Macur, will decide whether the 15-month jail term that Stuart Hall received after pleading guilty to 14 counts of indecent assault, on girls as young

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Oh Come All Ye Debt-full,

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by Anna Raccoon on July 25, 2013

Feckless, Unrepentant,
O come ye, O come ye to Welby.com
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Tallymen;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ, Good Lord….the bloody world’s gone mad.

Jesus

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Exclusive – Austerity is Working!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 25, 2013

Whether you believe that austerity IS working or not depends on your definition of a desirable outcome. If it was to ensure that the ‘trickle down effect’ relieved poverty amongst the sofa resident young, or poured more

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The Other Side of ‘Exposure’ – The Real Victims of the Jimmy Savile Story.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 24, 2013

Before I started writing this, I played a segment of ‘Exposure’ back to myself. Within the first few minutes I was listening to yet another lie – the story of ‘Sarah’ allegedly portrayed by an actress both

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Labour Day! Royal Baby Special! Name Games!

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by Gildas the Monk on July 22, 2013

It is on its way! And by the time of posting may well be with us, in what the occasionally (only very occasionally) waggish Piers Morgan called on twitter “an Ashes birth”  – over by tea

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Cami-knickers!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 22, 2013

Last week, a focus group of Dentist’s assistants in Sunderland told Cami-knickers’ re-election agent that pensioners had had it too good for too long – before the week was out we had sound bites galore as to

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A New Role for Our Glorious NHS?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 21, 2013

Eight years ago, James Adams was a male nurse working with ‘vulnerable adults’.

Something occurred in his workplace, we are not told what, which resulted in him uttering a ‘swear word’ directed at one of his

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 20, 2013

Magda Romanska – a long post, and an excellent read – ‘How I Survived Socialism’!

Duff and Nonsense on Damn statistics.

Macheath on true love 2013 style

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Britain on DaftCon 2 alert!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 20, 2013

Good Heavens Britain! Did the clouds part and the sun peek through for five minutes? Every newspaper in hysteria mode!

Mothers ‘mortified’ because they thought they could put a four week old baby out to bake on a

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Turned out Sunny Hundal again!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 18, 2013

Sunny is on scorching form today; no more hiding his guiding light behind a passing cloud.

He has defined evil for those of us who need re-education.

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Cracked Nest-egg Syndrome.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 17, 2013

Long ago, Equitable Life had a canny scheme. ‘Give us your money now, and we’ll give it back to you with a bit extra when you are older’. And lo! many wealthy people with money to spare

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Tractor Stats and the NHS

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by Gildas the Monk on July 16, 2013

Lately I have been frothing a lot and jiggling about in a most agitated manner. Some have put this down to the hot weather – most unexpected in a summer – coupled with too much excitement

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Zimmerman Framed.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 15, 2013

Who knew that Trayvon Martin had morphed from this angelic picture of a 12-year-old into a 6’2″ 17-year-old body builder? Were there no up to date photographs of him to plaster the country with? No matter, he has

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Saturday Night Posts Worth Reading…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2013

  One woman takes on the Daily Mail @ Dave’s Blog. Do watch the video. http://youtu.be/RRWp4B0qsW8?t=34sGin Lane Gazette proving that sexual shenanigans are nothing new.

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The misery hiding behind the Savile headlines.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2013

I spoke yesterday of the vast volume of mail I am receiving, since starting to write of the Savile case. Some makes me angry beyond belief – and as if by magic, one such arrived overnight. The writer is

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Some positive progress for a change…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 11, 2013

I had not thought when I first put pen to paper on the Savile affair, that it would still be lustily gorging every spare moment of my time months later. I doubt very much that the handful of 70s

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Whole Life Tariffs and the European Court of Human Rights.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 10, 2013

Death twitches my ear.  “Live,” he says, “I am coming.”

~ Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Minor Poems, Copa

‘Jam tomorrow’ is the meme that gets us all through today. It is what makes us say to ourselves ‘five

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Perception, Deception, and Misconception.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 9, 2013

Several weeks ago, the Daily Mail ran a story concerning two women who had ‘fleeced’ their aunt of £200,000. The Mail gleefully listed the Rolex watches and named the designer handbags the women had bought,

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Pants!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 8, 2013

The Urban Dictionary describes the word ‘Pants‘ thus: Adj. British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad; woefully inadequate; useless; a waste of time and space.

I just thought I’d mention that before

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Oy! You Left Something Behind Abu Omar!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 7, 2013

Abu Omar ibn Mahmoud ibn Othman al-Filistini used to live in a dusty fly blown house in downtown Amman. He shared the house with his wife, three children, his elderly parents, and 18 other individuals all related by

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Help me find my G-Spot!

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by Sister Eva Longoria on July 7, 2013

Dear People of the Internet and Raccoon Readers,

I am writing to you in search of help and advice and consolation, because it seems that I have lost, or rather been locked out of what

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It Was 25 Years Ago…

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by James Masterton on July 6, 2013

As I write, the collective minds of most of the world’s news organisations are nervously eyeing their holiday bookings and remaining within travelling distance of an airport as they wait to go into full-on tribute mode as Nelson Mandela

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Hey! You! Get Off of my Shroud!

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by Anna Raccoon on July 5, 2013

Ohrwürmer, that’s Tom Watson’s problem. Ohrwürmer.

There he was at Glastonbury, not a mirror in sight, snapping his fingers and striking the ‘attitude’, quite convinced that he was still an idealistic 18-year-old. The charismatic rhetorical odes to

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