Even a cynic like me was overwhelmed by the performances of British athletes such as Mo Farah & Jessica Ennis. I’m sure the spirits of many people have been lifted by the golden performances of Team GB. I get that with all the doom & gloom there currently is in the world people need a distraction such as the Olympics, but ironically it could be because of the Olympics that there could be even more doom & gloom for people in Britain to have to cope with. Yes the performances of the likes of Mo Farah & Jessica Ennis might be amazing, but sooner or later the British people are going to have to pay for the consequences of the gold medals won by Team GB, the British people are going to have to pay for London hosting the Olympics.
My response to Rupert Murdoch’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry is yes & so what.
Yes & what a surprise it isn’t that the present Tory government might have been willing to to Murdoch & his media empire favours. Its not a surprise that this government got into bed with Murdoch, because lets be honest successive government both Labour & Tory have got into bed with Murdoch to buy the influence that his media empire potentially has upon voters & so any revelations which come the evidence given to the Leveson Inquiry how tenuous they might be that Murdoch had over government aren’t of any great surprise to me.
It was announced lat month that there will be more British troops deployed on the streets of London during the running the Olympics then have ever been deployed in Afghanistan. The fact that there will 13,000 troops deployed on the streets of London during the Olympics which is several thousand more then have ever been deployed in Afghanistan, kind of begs the question are those attending the Olympics more of a threat then the Taliban?
As well as the more then 13,000 British troops that will be deployed to assist the police in the security operation during the Olympics there of course will already be thousands of police & of course nudge-nudge wink-wink other ‘security’ personnel in attendance.
IDK WTF I read the Huffington Post. I guess it is because I have unfettered access to the internet and a less than full task basket at work. I do derive some pleasure in finding typographical, grammatical, and usage errors by professional writers, but this goes beyond the pale.
In a story about The Shroud of Turin, what may have been the cloth in which Jesus of Nazareth was laid to rest after being crucified, the Huffington Post had this to say:
Shroud Of Turin, Jesus' Proposed Burial Cloth, Is Authentic, Italian Study Suggests
Proposed is supposed to be used as the past participle of the verb propose, which means: to intend; suggest a plan of action; or, to seek partnership in marriage. None of these definitions fits in this situation.
So this is my first post in these forums, but a rant is good as any introductory post I s'pose. So what am I griping about? Those family shattering state beuracrats at the so called "Child Protective Services". Or as I tend to see them, the 'Family Police'. They are nothing but the State ghestapo we are all familiar with, but in particular, the arm that reaches into your home and tells you how you are to peacefully interact with your family.
Quite rightly many moderate lefties will protest about Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, but I find it curious that the moderate lefties I know haven’t been so vocal in protesting about the treatment of gypsies at Dale Farm, On the whole the lefties I know have been rather derisory about the situation ar Dale Farm, if not damn right racist!
I guess I’ve always been an anarchist, despite spending many years denying that I was iin fact an anarchist anytime made the conclusion that I sounded like an anarchist.
At 08:46 EST, on Tuesday, September the 11th, 2001, in New York City; the world changed & I still feel compelled to say what I said in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 & as to why those planes flew into the World Trade Centre. The reason I feel compelled to still say what I said a decade ago in regards top the attacks of 9/11 is the obvious fact that the US government has not learnt from the attacks of 9/11 in a positive manner & on the whole the US people are still in denial as to why the attacks of 9/11 happened.
Despite the concerns I & others have about statements that Ron Paul has made in the past about homosexuals, the irony is that Paul’s position on gay marriage is currently more progressive then Obama & other so called ‘progressive’ politicians.
Every report commissioned on the war on drugs concludes the war on drugs is counter productive & asinine & yet governments still fund the war on drugs.
The very same people who were complaining about the behaviour of the Murdoch Press bought his newspapers. Murdoch didn’t get to wield the power which he does without people purchasing what the Murdoch media empire produces. You tell people that if they don’t want Murdoch Press to wield the power he does then cease purchasing what his media empire produces, but no one wants to hear the bottom line.
So, recently I signed up for "ringback tones" for my cellphone. I pay an extra $5 a month and when someone calls me, it plays music of my choosing. The way the program is *supposed* to work is that every month, with my payment, I get two credits for two ringtones (they are $1.99 each so it breaks about even).
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Earlier this week, a man was fined £50 after burning two large plastic poppies during a two-minute silence at an Armistice Day event last November.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said of the incident that it was “completely out of order and has no place in a tolerant society”.
Actually you’re wrong David because the basis of a tolerant society is tolerance for free speech & tolerance for anyone to protest no matter how much anyone of us might disagree with any protest.
I’d agree with leftists that the world would be better off if individuals didn’t discriminate against one another upon things such as gender, sexual orientation, skin colour, where somebody happened to be born or what limbs don’t work. I agree the world would be better off without discrimination, prejudice & bigotry, but I’ve got fed up with campaigning against such things because those leftists who often surround me are fucking cowards! Anytime I’ve taken a stand against an onslaught of bigotry, leftists who might be present have done nothing in supporting me & the reason is simply that they believe its not their job to fight bigotry but the government’s job.
Until now I’ve always discounted anarchism publically because I’ve never believed it to be pragmatic.
When it came to libertarianism I always believed that people en masse where not going to buy into the ideals of free idealism of free market anarchism, but I did think that enough people could be convinced by a more moderate form of libertarian along the lines of classical liberal philosophy. From my own experience I can testify that on the whole most middle class mediocre types who surround me will never buy into a moderate form of libertarianism however one spins it. However politely you might put it issue to issue, politicians in Britain will never listen seriously to any libertarian.
Some friends from my Tea Party group told me about a town hall meeting with our state legislators this morning, so I went. This kind of thing is really just becoming rather difficult for me to attend. To have a self-appointed pillar-of-the-community type in a crisp clean suit or smart haircut and gold earings sit at the head of the room and explain to everybody how they are going to take our property by force and use their superior knowledge and judgement to craft a better world for us with it is bad enough. But to listen to a crowd of adoring sheep agree with them and waste time on the excruciatingly boring practice of suggesting slight changes to the way this horribly destructive process proceeds is almost unbearable. If it wasn't for some amount of entertainme
I'm starting another repository of pro freedom haiku
here's my latest about the TSA
Want your wife's naked picture?
Fly the friendly skies
Free with purchase of your fare
Feel free to post your own about the TSA or about any
What is the deal with infirmed old people demanding to see my receipt at Wal-mart at 2 AM. I find this to be an insulting practice, to be audited by an invalid, being monitored on CCTV. It's like the GD Airport. One more reason to never go to Wall-Mart. The guy demanding my receipt had a cane and was ready to menace me with it. I asked him, why do you need to see my reciept. He stated: "I just do." As I held it up all crumpled, as I was going to discard it, but had yet to see a trash can I said: "What will you do if I don't show it to you? Call the cops?" "I'll yell at you," he said. I think I came off as abrasive, and probably fucked up his pace maker. I just think this guy was rude.
...because I'd really like to move on with my life already.
I moved here to El Paso, Texas in 2/2003 when my mother informed me my half-sister, who was military at the time was stationed at Ft. Bliss could be going to Iraq. There were my sisters three kids to be taken care of, so we moved down here. It is this city that single handedly turned me into a Freemarket Anarchist and shown me why government always fails and stymies the growth of its people.
Now that thing that you have to understand about El Paso is this is a city that basically lives on the dole. I don't say that to mean the whole city is on welfare, but that almost this whole city relys on some form of government to survive.
