Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Friday, 29 October 2010
Strange News on the Housing Benefit Cap
Boris Johnson has refused to stand by his revelation that mass murder and the use of rape as a weapon are being planned in the British government's 'Kosovo style social cleansing' of London.
Mr Johnson said he was quoted out of context, the said context being a grip on reality.
Despite these allegations one landlord has come out in defence of the governments policy.
Mr Barrington-Smyth said: "I work really hard in the city and for what, my cleaner lives in a house almost as big as mine, in fact it is as big as mine because I rent her family the top floor. That costs her £22,000 a year. That's £22,000 of my hard earned money that goes to the government to go to her to give back to me. It's like some people don't have to contribute to society at all."
Mr Johnson said he was quoted out of context, the said context being a grip on reality.
Despite these allegations one landlord has come out in defence of the governments policy.
Mr Barrington-Smyth said: "I work really hard in the city and for what, my cleaner lives in a house almost as big as mine, in fact it is as big as mine because I rent her family the top floor. That costs her £22,000 a year. That's £22,000 of my hard earned money that goes to the government to go to her to give back to me. It's like some people don't have to contribute to society at all."
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Strange News from Party Conference Season
The Lib Dems
The Liberal Democrat conference was barely noticed even though they are in power. Gaining a place in government is clearly not enough to make people take any notice of them, perhaps faking a kid-napping of their front bench would help. You only miss your water when the well runs dry.
Biggest applause of the conference went to Vince Cable for a speech attacking free-market capatalism. Even though Nick Clegg won them power in a coalition with the free-market capatalist Tory party. Apparently the Lib Dems won't vote for a government that would have them as a member.
Labour
The Labour Party conference was massively improved by Gordon Brown not being leader anymore. To add to the excitement a new leader was being announced so they weren't going to let a budget deficit bring them down. The tag-line could have been 'Labour- We are willing to pretend Gordon Brown and a massive financial crisis did not happen.... are you?'
Ed Miliband was chosen as party leader, and the press immediately called him a communist because of his love of the colour red. This also meant David Miliband, the party's best politician and most connected statesmen {Hilary Clinton will be crying as I write this} had to leave the conference and the shadow cabinet, taking the media scrum with him in order to avoid distracting the media scrum from his brother.
Biggest applause of the conference went to David M. for a speech applauding his brother.
Conservative
The Tory party conference started in exhilirating and imaginative confusion, big ideas were stated, then floated, then mooted, then reversed, then reversed from reversal but off-set by other ideas that they won't talk about in case they have to reverse them before they have even counter-reversed the intial idea they brought in thus reversing the off-setting power of the idea they used to help reverse the ensuing back-lash from their first reversal.
It took the Tories just days to work out which way they were facing again and in the meantime they used up all of their air time desperately trying to not answer questions or throw up.
George Osborne's speech made waves in all directions. His policy so far is to save our children's financial future by cutting the deficit which he will do by taking away money from our children.
The Liberal Democrat conference was barely noticed even though they are in power. Gaining a place in government is clearly not enough to make people take any notice of them, perhaps faking a kid-napping of their front bench would help. You only miss your water when the well runs dry.
Biggest applause of the conference went to Vince Cable for a speech attacking free-market capatalism. Even though Nick Clegg won them power in a coalition with the free-market capatalist Tory party. Apparently the Lib Dems won't vote for a government that would have them as a member.
Labour
The Labour Party conference was massively improved by Gordon Brown not being leader anymore. To add to the excitement a new leader was being announced so they weren't going to let a budget deficit bring them down. The tag-line could have been 'Labour- We are willing to pretend Gordon Brown and a massive financial crisis did not happen.... are you?'
Ed Miliband was chosen as party leader, and the press immediately called him a communist because of his love of the colour red. This also meant David Miliband, the party's best politician and most connected statesmen {Hilary Clinton will be crying as I write this} had to leave the conference and the shadow cabinet, taking the media scrum with him in order to avoid distracting the media scrum from his brother.
Biggest applause of the conference went to David M. for a speech applauding his brother.
Conservative
The Tory party conference started in exhilirating and imaginative confusion, big ideas were stated, then floated, then mooted, then reversed, then reversed from reversal but off-set by other ideas that they won't talk about in case they have to reverse them before they have even counter-reversed the intial idea they brought in thus reversing the off-setting power of the idea they used to help reverse the ensuing back-lash from their first reversal.
It took the Tories just days to work out which way they were facing again and in the meantime they used up all of their air time desperately trying to not answer questions or throw up.
George Osborne's speech made waves in all directions. His policy so far is to save our children's financial future by cutting the deficit which he will do by taking away money from our children.
Saturday, 7 August 2010
NBA VS Premier League
This is a cross post between myself and billylayman@blogspot.com on the NBA vs the Premier League. His well intentioned piece of hippy propaganda in favour of the NBA is below, my embittered rant is below that.
Bill says:
I love the Premier League but you silly English bumpkins have made some crucial errors. We need to look at our clever-dick pals in the US to see how an entertaining and fair professional sports league is really run.
Salary caps, it seems embarrassingly obvious, are better. Next year there are two or three teams that could win the Premier League. Fine. But the problem is that won’t change unless another club is lucky enough to be purchased by a gizzilionaire.
A salary cap means equality across the league. There would still be great clubs and terrible clubs but the difference would be the terrible clubs have nothing to hide behind. Players are less likely to be sucked up by the top teams. And, best off all, no matter what shit-house club you support it’s only a few well managed years away from glory.
There are some horrendous things about the NBA – national anthems and fireworks before every game – but overall it’s a more enjoyable competition to follow.
If you were designing a league from scratch it would be on the NBA model. Sure, there are difficulties in bringing in salary caps. As there would be with other possible improvements like a draft system but that doesn’t mean the league wouldn’t be improved by it.
Not only would a salary cap fix football it would cure all of England’s social problems. Teams would exist on an even playing field and we would all finally live in a beautiful socialist paradise.
I say:
For some reason a non-contact height competition became one of America's favourite sports. Basketball is a sport that developed from pure boredom and didn't develop that far.
When bored one might absent-mindedly toss a paper ball into the bin, we wouldn't say that made us athletes. When at school some of the crueller and taller members of the playground might play piggy in the middle or rather the you-can't-reach-the-item-I-have-stolen-from-you-because-I-am-holding-above-your-head-and-look-I-can-even-afford-to-throw-it-to-my-equally-freakishly-tall-friend game. Didn't make them clever.
Combine the two and you have the start of basketball. Now add a set of rules each designed to increase the score without adding anything to the pleasure of watching. A game that makes even scoring numbingly repetitive has gone seriously wrong somewhere. You can't pass back behind the line, you can't spend six seconds in the D, you can't touch anyone else, we all have to get time-outs when we're tired, all right already auntie what's next a bike helmet for every player, thermos and blankets for us watching.
The Premier League is an open no-holds-barred market of sporting perfection exported all round the world to the delight of every nation. It's the magic of battle between men wearing leather, using brains, needing balls and taking deadly shots, it's basically the wild west without the dry heat. The NBA on the other hand is like modern LA, pernickety yet bankrupt, crass yet pretentious, with a field of play so over-crowded you can't tell the difference between parked cars and a commuter lane.
Bill says:
I love the Premier League but you silly English bumpkins have made some crucial errors. We need to look at our clever-dick pals in the US to see how an entertaining and fair professional sports league is really run.
Salary caps, it seems embarrassingly obvious, are better. Next year there are two or three teams that could win the Premier League. Fine. But the problem is that won’t change unless another club is lucky enough to be purchased by a gizzilionaire.
A salary cap means equality across the league. There would still be great clubs and terrible clubs but the difference would be the terrible clubs have nothing to hide behind. Players are less likely to be sucked up by the top teams. And, best off all, no matter what shit-house club you support it’s only a few well managed years away from glory.
There are some horrendous things about the NBA – national anthems and fireworks before every game – but overall it’s a more enjoyable competition to follow.
If you were designing a league from scratch it would be on the NBA model. Sure, there are difficulties in bringing in salary caps. As there would be with other possible improvements like a draft system but that doesn’t mean the league wouldn’t be improved by it.
Not only would a salary cap fix football it would cure all of England’s social problems. Teams would exist on an even playing field and we would all finally live in a beautiful socialist paradise.
I say:
For some reason a non-contact height competition became one of America's favourite sports. Basketball is a sport that developed from pure boredom and didn't develop that far.
When bored one might absent-mindedly toss a paper ball into the bin, we wouldn't say that made us athletes. When at school some of the crueller and taller members of the playground might play piggy in the middle or rather the you-can't-reach-the-item-I-have-stolen-from-you-because-I-am-holding-above-your-head-and-look-I-can-even-afford-to-throw-it-to-my-equally-freakishly-tall-friend game. Didn't make them clever.
Combine the two and you have the start of basketball. Now add a set of rules each designed to increase the score without adding anything to the pleasure of watching. A game that makes even scoring numbingly repetitive has gone seriously wrong somewhere. You can't pass back behind the line, you can't spend six seconds in the D, you can't touch anyone else, we all have to get time-outs when we're tired, all right already auntie what's next a bike helmet for every player, thermos and blankets for us watching.
The Premier League is an open no-holds-barred market of sporting perfection exported all round the world to the delight of every nation. It's the magic of battle between men wearing leather, using brains, needing balls and taking deadly shots, it's basically the wild west without the dry heat. The NBA on the other hand is like modern LA, pernickety yet bankrupt, crass yet pretentious, with a field of play so over-crowded you can't tell the difference between parked cars and a commuter lane.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
More Mistakes From U.K.I.P.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2010/04/lord-pearson-worst-campaign-interview-ever.htmle
Hahahahahahahahahahahah.
Sigh.
Following on from the scandal over their racist candidate U.K.I.P. are fighting back with this. Please link above.
Hat tip. Times Comment Central, The B.B.C. and Youtube.
Hahahahahahahahahahahah.
Sigh.
Following on from the scandal over their racist candidate U.K.I.P. are fighting back with this. Please link above.
Hat tip. Times Comment Central, The B.B.C. and Youtube.
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Publish and {hopefully} be damned.
When we started this blog we agreed there was no point in criticising individual religions and religious individuals however…
It has to be said the Catholic Church has outdone itself. Famous throughout the ages for inspiring the genocide of natives in South America and torturing anyone with an opinion in Europe now a new generation of merciless bastards has managed to represent this international stain on civilisation and incredibly bring it to a new low. I cannot say I am a disinterested party; I was baptised, I went to Catholic school {and survived no thanks to God} and my name, Dominic, was given to me in honour of a saint, specifically a man who tried his best to kill every heathen in the South of France.
The Catholic Church is the state religion of the banana republic called the Vatican City, one of the few countries where known paedophiles can find sanctuary. Its dictator in chief is elected in a smoke filled room by a cartel, safe in the knowledge they are protected by a hired militia of Swiss Guards { is there anyone the Swiss wont do business with} and two millennia of powerful patronage. Their most recent case to answer: an international conspiracy that attempted to cover up the rape and torture of children by their Priests and Bishops.
One of the men responsible for this is none other than his Holiness himself. The Pope. Once Joseph Ratzinger.
Little Joey Ratzinger, who was once a member of the Nazi Youth, distinguishes himself by being part of not one but two of the most evil groups ever to exist. While he may have been innocent of being a Nazi, he went out of his way to make sure the same cannot be said of his being a Catholic and his part in Catholicism.
Hat Tip Christopher Hitchens at Slate:
“ In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of his confessor. (Why do we limit ourselves to calling this sort of thing "abuse"?) The offending cleric was transferred from Essen to Munich for "therapy" by a decision of then-Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, and assurances were given that he would no longer have children in his care. But it took no time for Ratzinger's deputy, Vicar General Gerhard Gruber, to return him to "pastoral" work, where he soon enough resumed his career of sexual assault.”
Not enough for you. How about this. Arch Bishop Ratzinger was placed in charge of the department formally known as the Inquisition. In May 2001 he issued a confidential letter to every bishop.
I quote Hitchens again:
“He reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime, that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated "in the most secretive way ... restrained by a perpetual silence ... and everyone ... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication." Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but exposing the offence could get you into serious trouble…. (See, for more on this appalling document, two reports in the London Observer of April 24, 2005, by Jamie Doward.)”
It makes me sick to my stomach to think my family ever put a penny in a collection plate to fund this monster's comfort, security and thoroughly debased institution.
The question ‘how do you sleep at night’ is a cliché but in this case it has literal and concrete meaning. Seriously how? I learnt from a pathetic Guardian G2 feature on him he doesn’t even drink, much. The same feature asked euphemistically if he was the most ‘controversial pope’. Controversial, no, taking baths with your socks on is controversial. This man is pure evil. No matter how much cats might like him. Cats do like him apparently. As Saki pointed they are one of the few animals that, like humans, enjoy torturing other animals. So you can understand what they might see in him.
This article is still awaiting approval from Sharon Dean and does not represent her opinion. Although she may well agree.
It has to be said the Catholic Church has outdone itself. Famous throughout the ages for inspiring the genocide of natives in South America and torturing anyone with an opinion in Europe now a new generation of merciless bastards has managed to represent this international stain on civilisation and incredibly bring it to a new low. I cannot say I am a disinterested party; I was baptised, I went to Catholic school {and survived no thanks to God} and my name, Dominic, was given to me in honour of a saint, specifically a man who tried his best to kill every heathen in the South of France.
The Catholic Church is the state religion of the banana republic called the Vatican City, one of the few countries where known paedophiles can find sanctuary. Its dictator in chief is elected in a smoke filled room by a cartel, safe in the knowledge they are protected by a hired militia of Swiss Guards { is there anyone the Swiss wont do business with} and two millennia of powerful patronage. Their most recent case to answer: an international conspiracy that attempted to cover up the rape and torture of children by their Priests and Bishops.
One of the men responsible for this is none other than his Holiness himself. The Pope. Once Joseph Ratzinger.
Little Joey Ratzinger, who was once a member of the Nazi Youth, distinguishes himself by being part of not one but two of the most evil groups ever to exist. While he may have been innocent of being a Nazi, he went out of his way to make sure the same cannot be said of his being a Catholic and his part in Catholicism.
Hat Tip Christopher Hitchens at Slate:
“ In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of his confessor. (Why do we limit ourselves to calling this sort of thing "abuse"?) The offending cleric was transferred from Essen to Munich for "therapy" by a decision of then-Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, and assurances were given that he would no longer have children in his care. But it took no time for Ratzinger's deputy, Vicar General Gerhard Gruber, to return him to "pastoral" work, where he soon enough resumed his career of sexual assault.”
Not enough for you. How about this. Arch Bishop Ratzinger was placed in charge of the department formally known as the Inquisition. In May 2001 he issued a confidential letter to every bishop.
I quote Hitchens again:
“He reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime, that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated "in the most secretive way ... restrained by a perpetual silence ... and everyone ... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication." Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but exposing the offence could get you into serious trouble…. (See, for more on this appalling document, two reports in the London Observer of April 24, 2005, by Jamie Doward.)”
It makes me sick to my stomach to think my family ever put a penny in a collection plate to fund this monster's comfort, security and thoroughly debased institution.
The question ‘how do you sleep at night’ is a cliché but in this case it has literal and concrete meaning. Seriously how? I learnt from a pathetic Guardian G2 feature on him he doesn’t even drink, much. The same feature asked euphemistically if he was the most ‘controversial pope’. Controversial, no, taking baths with your socks on is controversial. This man is pure evil. No matter how much cats might like him. Cats do like him apparently. As Saki pointed they are one of the few animals that, like humans, enjoy torturing other animals. So you can understand what they might see in him.
This article is still awaiting approval from Sharon Dean and does not represent her opinion. Although she may well agree.
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