Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
Worth re-reading in the light of the controversy over the impartiality of the Chairman of the Child Abuse Inquiry – Barrister Blogger’s excellent summation of the impartiality of the ‘victim’s champion’.
Americans are more likely to believe in Big Foot than they are toe believe the ‘Big Bang’ theory.
Dick Puddlecote on ASH and e-cigarettes.
Mythbuster on how sworn evidence was concealed from the Justice Committee in Stormont.
Sunny Hundal on how Russell Brand is just the ‘wrong kind of Leftie’…
The perks currently on offer to our MPs…(makes you wonder why they need to fiddle their expenses).
Liverpool fans fail to recognise a copper when they see one – throw bottles at him – get tear gas in return – wail loudly…..
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October 25, 2014 at 8:47 am -
As noted by commenter on Bigfoot story:
“Standard disclaimer. Every poll or survey you have ever is the collected opinions of the retired and the unemployed, conducted by the semi-employed.”
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October 25, 2014 at 9:08 am -
re: MP’s perks.
Used to be that in business there would be a lot of goodies coming in before Christmas, and one or two treats at other times.
The deal on one site was that everything was collected, stored on view in a cage, to be later distributed by a free raffle open to all staff.
Sure some found a way round it, but the rule was that hospitality could only be accepted when it was business related & there was reasonable likelihood of reciprocation.
Perhaps all these MP’s freebies could be pooled & raffled off for a nominated charity?
With all those MPs there would be quite a sum raised……-
October 25, 2014 at 12:30 pm -
At one company in my past, a friendly supplier donated a case of decent wine one Christmas.
The staffer receiving in, in a commendable spirit of sharing, decided to e-mail all her team members and ask who wanted a bottle. Only snag was that she selected the wrong mailing-list and e-mailed the whole company…….-
October 25, 2014 at 11:52 pm -
We had a sharing protocol at one company i worked at. I hired a modest piece of equipment, and I was grandly awarded
ta-da
a teabag. OK, a very special tea, but one bag. It was tricky sharing that out.
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October 25, 2014 at 10:46 am -
Re: Russell Brand. Whilst I wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan, he is raising some salient points. It is very noticeable that is “the left” who are most put out by his continuing crusade, as they get angry with anyone criticising all political dogma. The media are treating him as a useful distraction at the moment, but I can foresee him outstaying his welcome before much longer
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October 25, 2014 at 2:21 pm -
Wussell seems to have been given his entre to the intellectual life of the UK by the BBC. Wussy wisdom seems to lie in the repetition of fings wot ‘e ‘as redd an’ ‘erd uvver pepul say. Big pal of Icke, who, whilst clearly insane on some issues was always bang-on about the mainstream media, but then Icke had an advantage over most of us. He had worked for the BBC for about ten years.
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October 25, 2014 at 9:07 pm -
You actually raise a good point in how insidious (a word Brand uses here to describe the Newsnight interviewer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvFAkKPi2UE ) the ‘left mainstream’ has become in how they have played what I’ll loosely describe as ‘My Generation’. He also says ‘Tom Watkins MP’ (he must mean Wanker Watson, Tom Watkins is a portly pop svengali who’s clients included Pet Shop Boys & East 17) is “one of the good guys” when, as we all know here, he’s a hypocritical censorous opportunist with one foot in fascism and the other in the HQ of a certain Disreputable Law Firm
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October 26, 2014 at 11:59 am -
Clearly “the BBC” that in 1991 used Terry Wogan to drum the Savillian track-suited Icke out of town to hoots of laughter from the audience, was not the same “BBC” that in 2006 reinstated the conspiracy theorist.
On the other hand perhaps in some ways the BBC did remain the same because whilst coating Icke in a veneer of respectability, they did not mention to the gawping British public that this same guy also believed their Queen was the matriarch of a clan who dined on babies occaionally. This it does seem to be that they always want to be in full control of the story, rather than just presenting the facts.
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October 25, 2014 at 1:20 pm -
Anna – Everton, not Liverpool fans. Though the same would probably have happened…
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October 25, 2014 at 2:17 pm -
Riot police also used tear-gas… which was condemned by travelling Toffees
Sweet….
Nasty injury on the old guy though…
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October 25, 2014 at 6:13 pm -
Indeed, Liverpool fans are gentlemen, Everton are not. Fifty laps of Stanley Park at the double.
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October 25, 2014 at 1:36 pm -
Can we have some French riot police over here to police ALL our footie matches, please?
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October 25, 2014 at 2:39 pm -
Re ‘Americans are …’
The linked article is itself ridiculous, because it links such things as ‘Rabbit’s feet. Horoscopes. A return to the gold standard.’ The first two of these never worked, and are never likely to work, despite being put to the test millions of times. The third was the way the financial world worked for centuries, and having been abandoned, has never been tried again. It might not work – but it isn’t in the same class as the other two.
In ‘Things that are real’ the author sneaked in global warming, which most definitely isn’t, even using the phrasing chosen (‘causing’) and not adding the usual mantra of GW being ‘catastrophic’. The truth is probably that humans contribute marginally to the climate, especially through urban heat islands which skew our understanding of the process, so that despite some tiny natural temperature variations (which are in the main beneficial) can be abused by pseudo-scientists with a political agenda, and politicians with no agenda at all except to keep their hand in the till.
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October 25, 2014 at 5:41 pm -
Archeological excavation of submerged cities, such as at Dwarka, is a real thing too.
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October 25, 2014 at 10:35 pm -
I only got as far as ‘Things that are real…’ not the alleged ‘Things that aren’t…’ Cities of considerable size have undoubtedly existed for thousands of years, and certainly longer than we know, and their social organisation could well have been more advanced than ours. Less probable is that they had advanced technologies now lost, although our forebears certainly did have some technologies we don’t have or understand today – experimental archaeology proves it. The question to which the answer is almost certainly ‘No’ is ‘Were they Von Danikenesque repositories of super-science?’
Also ‘Slightly over 40 percent of Americans believe in UFOs.’ Well, anyone who is convinced that every flying object has been identified is simply stupid – the question in the list is couched more sensibly.
Then there’s ‘Positive thinking’. Churchill after Chamberlain anyone?
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October 25, 2014 at 8:55 pm -
I just wonder how you manage to find time to locate and read all these items whilst carrying out your various other activities!
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