I saw this on the front page of the Times today but, dear reader, you’re going to have to put up with the Mail version because I shall be arseholed with an Abyssinian disembowelling cutlass before I pay Murdoch a red cent.
Apparently the word on the street is that the Royal Navy will be [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2010’
Taking French Leave of Our Senses…
Plane Sense
Only 7% of flyers are funding green energy projects to offset the carbon emitted on their flights, according to a survey.
A study of passengers at Stansted airport revealed that 93% of those questioned did not offset their flights. Ignorance cannot be blamed: 56% of those questioned by the Civil Aviation Authority knew what the practice [...]
MMR
A man who suffered severe brain damage after being given the MMR vaccine as a baby has been awarded £90,000 in a landmark ruling expected to pave the way for thousands of similar compensation claims.
Robert Fletcher, 18, was a healthy 13-month-old baby when he was given the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. He now [...]
Baby, it’s cold out there
From an excellent article in the Daily Bayonet on the climate change hysterics failures so far, and their tendency to blame everyone bar themselves:
Greens outspent skeptics, they had the ear of the political class, effectively demonized and even silenced opponentsand still it was not enough to convince the world that anything was wrong with the [...]
Seeking advice
Now, I’m a bit of a Joss Whedon fan, but I never watched Firefly when it was on. Should I make the effort now? Is it worth it?
Homo Heroes
I have a leaflet from the LGF (Lesbian and Gay Foundation) in front of me that I picked up at Piccadilly Station in Manchester yesterday. They were being distributed by British Transport Police because it’s Manchester Pride weekend. It is entitled “Homo Heroes” and asks people to vote for their erm… homo hero. It briefly [...]
Pat on the Mosque
Do they have a right to build it?
Of course they do.
Is it a deliberate act of bad faith, a provocation and an insult?
Just consider its original name, The Cordoba House Mosque; of course it is.
Cordoba? Well, losing Iberia is one of Osama’s pet whinges, reconquering it one of his pet objectives, as it must be [...]
Oz explained
Fun and games here in Oz this month.
You may have heard, we had an election, and guess what? No one won.
Our situation is even worse than the UK tho, there seems to be no conceivable grouping to establish a stable government. Neither the Government nor the opposition can form a workable majority from the rest [...]
Runaway Horses
So… I’m on the phone tonight arranging a trip into town for Manchester Pride tomorrow and I hand it over to the missus to arrange the details with our mate (she’d spoken to him before on the subject). And he mentions - in passing - that he was there last night and that Belinda Carlisle [...]
He’s not the Messiah…
“People were once comparing him (Obama) to Jesus Christ. On the economy he seems more like Moses; wandering around aimlessly, blaming everything on the Bush.” –Tim Slagle
From here. H/T to commentator Laird on this Samizdata thread.
Marie Who?
Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a single famous female scientist, according to an ICM poll.
The same survey, organised by the Royal Society, revealed that 90% of 18-24 year-olds could not name a female scientific figure - either current or historical.
Almost half were able to name at least one famous male scientist, [...]
Going to the cats.
The England cricketer Graeme Swann told Nottingham police that he was on a mission to buy screwdrivers to rescue his pet cat from under the floorboards when they stopped his Porsche at 3am and charged him with drink driving.
I mean it’s got it all: a famous sportsman, a cat, a bizarre excuse to an arresting [...]
Dr Fox wields the axe.
Britain could be forced to “borrow” American warplanes for its new aircraft carriers as the Armed Forces’ core capabilities are eroded by budget cuts.
That means lease them. So I’m a bit vague as to the saving here exactly. It’s more that we’ll have to do something to save the embarrassment of having the ultimate floating [...]
Catholic Priorities
Well we all know about the cover-ups of sexual abuse over decades we thought it couldn’t get any worse…
But wait it does. It would appear the Catholic church is happy to collude with the British government to cover-up terrorist priests.
Oh, well, at least on his up-coming visit you won’t be able to take a [...]
Worth
Now we have this race obsessed dickhead:
I’m all for a bit less Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, Galileo and Copernicus, if it means a bit more McCoy, Banneker and Carver. It’s a question of balance. It’s important.
So, this bloke Muir wants us to study the scientists of the past based on their race? Their skin [...]