“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar” - Henry David Thoreau
Female members of the Czech parliament have posed for a glamorous calendar to highlight the growing presence of women in Czech politics.
Perhaps we would have more female MPs ourselves if we didn’t boast a collection of such utter munters and swamp donkeys and had the implicit belief (so ably and so misogynistically demonstrated by Blair’s [...]
· Pythagoras’ Theorem – 24 words
· Lords’ Prayer – 66 words
· Archimedes Principle – 67 words
· Ten Commandments - 179 words
· Gettysburg Address – 267 words
· US Declaration of Independence – 1,321 words
· Magna Carta (including signatures) – 3,856 words
· EU regulations on sale and trade of cabbages – 26,253 words
From here.
It starts well.
Gaza’s misery does not make Israel safer. Peace is impossible until the blockade is lifted and people can regain their dignity.
Agreed. The question is who is making Gazans miserable? Is it their neighbours or is it the Islamist gang who have ceased control of the place and are using it essentially as a [...]
You hear that Barosso and Rumpy Pumpy are demanding to vet the budgets that our elected governments may put before our elected legislatures?
Who voted and made them Presidents huh? Huh?
Oh, yeah, that’s right.
You know, the states of Massachusetts, Colorado, Queensland and Mato Grosso can do whatever the hell they like. Put their budgets [...]
We must always prepare for the next war. Not the one we’re fighting now. And who knows what the next war might involve?
There’s another reason it’s important for the navy to maintain its fleet of boomers*. Having a nuclear submarine in your arsenal is what makes a country important. Take that away and what is [...]
I missed this. go for it Nigel.
The comment about Belgium was a bit unnecessary, but if this Rumpy Pumpy cove wants to be a President with no legitimacy and no mandate then he can bloody well put up with a bit of political rough and tumble.
If those other anti democratic neofascist dickheads object, well, [...]
I dunno about you lot but with the Royal Navy fuckulated by Messrs Brown and Blair, the RAF reduced to winding elastic bands and the Army chasing rag-heads in the ’stan and a community organiser in The White House this was bound to happen.
The Falklands are British. The international legal position here is very [...]
A conference centre in The Hague has cancelled the launch of a book criticising Islam. The book launch was scheduled for Thursday at The World Forum, but was cancelled because the director of the venue does not believe he can guarantee the safety of his guests.
The book in question is Islamofobie?
You know the worst bit?
There [...]
This from a school newsletter…
“The children are always pleased when parents hear them sing at our assembly shows, so please come along if you can. Remember to bring your CRB checks with you”
That’s from Britain in 2010, not Germany in 1938. That is outright fascism. Please read the whole thing and get plum-dog fightin’ [...]
I have been to Auschwitz and to Dachau…
On this day 65 years ago today the Red Army “liberated” Auschwitz. This is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and some of us at least will not forget.
I have seen the gas-ovens but I have also seen the gibbet upon which the Russians hung the SS guards. How could [...]
Well, there’s a bit of narcissism on my part, I’m not Geert at all. Here, in Queensland, it remains legal to express loathing for a loathsome belief system, although for how long remains to be seen.
So, what is it with the Wilders trial? Or pre trial hearing anyway?
Here we are, a formal determination on whether [...]
A floor collapsed beneath a group of about 20 members of Weight Watchers as they gathered to compare how many pounds they had shed over Christmas.
I think the answer “is not a lot”.
No one was injured in the incident, the cause of which is being investigated.
That one will puzzle M Poirot’s “leetle grey cells” [...]
So the Swiss have decided that they want no more minarets. Well, like the Kaiser Chiefs I predict a riot. Do you remember the Motoons of Doom riots? In certain parts of the Islamic world they ran out of Danish flags to burn and burnt Swiss ones instead. I wonder if the reverse will happen [...]
Apropos my previous posting:
“The House will forgive me for quoting five democratic questions that I have developed during my life. If one meets a powerful person–Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler–one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to [...]
