Politics
Friday June 4th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
It [Derby City Council] said teachers should consider "postponing or cancelling events... in periods of excessive sun".
LMFAO!!
Saturday May 15th, 2004: Film Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
'the former US Vice-President Al Gore said the risks the film portrayed were a threat to our common future' -- Gotta love the Americans .. they're the only nation stupid enough to veto the Kyoto agreement because it might affect their struggling economy!! How important will the economy be when the Ice Age comes .. someone please show Dubblya Bush this film and forget to explain that it's just fiction please ;)
Meanwhile scientists have been busy mocking the science behind the film saying that it's not very accurate .. it's just a film!!
Monday April 5th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Colin Powell recently conceded that the 'evidence' the US presented to the UN to justify it's war on Iraq 'appears not to be ... that solid' -- no shit Colin, that's why the rest of the World (bar Britain -- cheers Tony) told you to go to hell when you told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and must be blown to tiny pieces to prevent them continuing to not use the weapons of mass destruction that they never really had anyway.
"The USA ... I completely detest it. It's the most washed-up shithole I've ever been to in my whole life" - Nicky Wire (1992) Thursday February 26th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Clare Short's had another go at Tony Blair and the Labour government, some people might suggest she was bitter. Today she accused them of spying on Kofi Annan
Tony's response: "I'm not going to comment on the work of our security services - do not take that as an indication that the allegations made by Clare Short are true.". Let's face it: if it were a lie, and he could prove so, he would deny it and take great pleasure in demonstrating to the public how honest and trustworthy he actually is. Asked whether she'd be prosecuted he said he would "have to reflect upon" her comments -- again the government realise that by prosecuting people who know about all the dirty tricks they are getting up to they are bringing those tricks into the public eye even more so.
I'd like to conclude that it's time for a new government, but would the Tories actually be any better? Surely they couldn't be any worse!!
Tuesday February 24th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
The more I follow the going's on in the US the more I think they've got to be made up events. How the hell can George Bush get away with saying that the US constitution needs to be changed to prevent "the meaning of marriage from being changed forever" I'll never know. America truly is a shining example of democracy (remember Bush's election 'victory'), freedom and tolerance to the rest of the world.
Sunday February 22nd, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
What do you think are the top three concerns of the F.B.I. these days? What's America's top three problems (apart from having too many Americans)?
Piracy is now the FBI's third biggest priority behind terrorism and counter-intelligence. Well they've got counter-intelligence sorted out, I don't think anyone would deny America counters intelligence better than any nation on the planet. It's nice to see that they've got their priorities straight though .. gun crime - pah, what's a few hundred drive by shootings compared to the kids who download NSync's latest chart topper and don't pay for the privilege!?
Friday February 20th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
"The news follows report that the Downing Street Strategy Unit was considering a "fat tax" on unhealthy food.".
Those crazy politicians -- whatever will they think of next!?
Wednesday February 18th, 2004: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Illegal buttons consumed in Merseyside school -- nice to see that the people in power at our schools are unaffected by the over-reactionary governing of this country from Labour and Brussels.
Saturday October 25th, 2003: Film Music Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Went to see The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen with Linda, Andrew & Mel. It was good, I didn't feel like I'd wasted £6.30 and a few hours of my life, but it hardly lived up to my expectations.
Ker Ching, Pop idol finalists are going to murder Lennon's Happy Xmas (War is Over) ... another depth well and truly sunken to.
Schools are to be given more help to boost the achievements of white, Christian pupils. HELP HELP I'm BEING REPRESSED! RACISM!! RACISTS!! How dare they, we're all equal! Actually, the help is to boost the achievements of pupils from ethnic minorites, which isn't racist - cos it only discriminates against the majority.
Friday October 17th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
A referendum? you don't want to do it like that! Sit down! Do as I say! Don't speak up!
Thursday September 18th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Clearly this man knows what he's talking about: Hans Blix has compared the way Britain and America were sure Iraq had weapons of mass destruction programmes to the way people in the Middle Ages were convinced witches existed and so found them when they looked!
So ... logically ... if the missile weighs ... the same ... as a duck ... it's ... a weapon of mass destruction!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (an excerpt)
Friday August 29th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
While Tony Blair congratulates himself over the fall in the number of asylum applications to the UK since April, the sceptical among us would like to point out that this may have something to do with the rising number of illegal imigrants, hell why go through all the fuss of an asylum application when a few quid can you buy a free ride to a free ride!?
I awoke a little before seven, cuddled up to my wife Lillian, who was accordioned up into a Z in the bed beside me, and began pleasantly caressing her breasts, thighs and buttocks with my big gently paws. I liked to begin the day this way: it set a standard by which to measure the gradual deterioration that succeeded from then on. After about four of five minutes we rolled over and began caressing me with her hands, and then with her lips, tongue and mouth.
'Nnn morning, sweetheart,' one of us would eventually say.
'Nnnn,' would say the other.
From that point on the day's dialogue would all be downhill, but with warm, languid hands and lips floating over the body's most sensitive surfaces, the world was as near perfection as it ever gets. Freud called it a state of ego-less polymorphous perversity and frowned upon it, but I have little doubt that he never had Lil's hands gliding over him. Or his own wife's for that matter. Freud was a very great man, but I never get the impression that anyone ever effectively stroked his penis. - Luke Rhinehart (The Dice Man) Saturday July 19th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
The plot thickens ... Dr Kelly apparently warned of "many dark actors playing games" just hours before his death, which we're told was by a cut to his wrist.
I saw a clip from a news conference in Japan where Tony Blair was asked "Have you got blood on your hands Mr Prime Minister? Are you going to resign over this?" -- the journalist was never seen again ;)
Friday July 18th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!. See the violence inherant in the system! I promise Im not making this shit up: "A body matching the description of Dr David Kelly - the weapons expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row - has been found at a beauty spot close to his home in Oxfordshire." Suicide?
Thursday July 17th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
The government sexed-up the iraqi weapons of mass destruction dossier! shock horror the government spends £5.1 million a year on 'spin doctors', it's their job to sex things up isn't it!?
Saturday June 14th, 2003: Gaming Personal Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Played Resident Evil Zero for what seemed like an age. After successfully combining the statue of a woman with the angel wings (as you do) I hit a save point and switched attention to Final Fantasy X, which I should really have completed by now -- the trouble is that the random encounters are so damn annoying, I don't remember them being this frequent in any of the previous games.
Linda came round, and rather sportingly sat through a few hours of Resi Zero gaming, before getting my attention and heading off to the Cart and Horses for a couple of drinks.
Why I hate the people who 'run' this country ...
Thursday June 5th, 2003: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Still no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (I know where you can find some -- US, UK, France - doh, I forgot -- we're the good guys, were allowed WMD) as Bush vows to "reveal the truth". Apparently the politicians may have lied to us, what kind of world are we living in where we doubt the honesty of our politicians -- the very people we trust to run our lives, erm I mean run our country.
'No, you can't go home,' ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen admitted. 'Forty missions is all you have to fly as far as Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters in concerned.'
Yossarian was jubilant. 'Then I can go home, right? I've got forty-eight.'
'No, you can't go home,' ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen corrected him. 'Are you crazy or something?'
'Why not?'
'Catch-22.'
'Catch-22?' Yossarian was stunned. 'What the hell has Catch-22 got to do with it?'
'Catch-22,' Doc Daneeka answered patiently, when Hungry Joe had flown Yossarian back to Pianosa, 'says you've always go tto do what your commanding officer tells you to.'
'But Twenty-seventh Air Force says I can go home with forty missions.'
But they don't say you have to go home. And regulations do say you have to obey every order. That's the catch. Even if the colonel were disobeying a Twenty-seventh Air Force order by making you fly more missions, you'd still have to fly them, or you'd be guilty of disobeying an order of his. And then Twenty-seventh Air Force headquarters would really jump on you.' - Joseph Heller (Catch-22) Monday June 2nd, 2003: Politics Work
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Work's really picking up .. with a corporate audit due some time in the Autumn the IT department is running a bit hot, but that's the way I like it -- the last month or so has really dragged 'cos I haven't had anything really important to do. Now if only I could make pay day come around twice a month everything would be peachy.
Maybe it's because he's no longer a politician, but Robin Cook is makign sense for once: "He said that there were weapons that could be used in 45 minutes. There are no such weapons ... If the allies cannot produce an internationally-verified discovery by August 20, Britain can conclude that the terrible warnings before the war about the imminent threat from Saddam's weapons were totally wrong.", August 20 gives them 110 days - the same time given to the United Nations weapons inspectors. This obviously will never happen, as Tony isn't likely to want to admit he lied (come on, you knew he was lying, even if you wanted to believe it at the time?). If Saddam really had weapons of mass destruction that he could launch within 45 minutes, why didn't he use them when US & UK force attacked Baghdad?
Thursday September 13th, 2001: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
You may have noticed my comparing this attack to those of the IRA, how come no-one else seems to be pointing out that the rest of the world has been dealing with terrorism for decades, and it must be said, with no help and little or no sympathy from the US. Anyway, I'm glad the US are with the rest of the world now and hopefully they'll get this sorted because no other nation has the balls to do anything about terrorism. I just hope that terrorism, does not just mean "those folks that attacked America", though I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
"In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance" - 1984 (George Orwell) Wednesday September 12th, 2001: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
So much to discuss:
"The US declares war on terrorism" - bit late, we've been dealing with terrorism over here for decades, as has most of the rest of the world.
"This is not a battle between the United States and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism" (Blair) - strange that IRA terrorist attacks against Britain over the past decade or so were not considered such?
"We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world" (Blair) - I don't remember such a stance from the US when we were being terrorised by the IRA?
Many commentators have likened this to Pearl Harbour, I would agree; before Pearl Harbour America couldn't give a shit about the war going on in the rest of the world, and before yesterday America didn't give a shit about the terrorism going on in the rest of the world.
"WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" - 1984 (George Orwell) Tuesday September 11th, 2001: Personal Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
THE DAY THE WORLD CHANGED - MY ARSE
What a day, terrorism finally reaches the US's shores. Two planes hit the world trade centre, which collapses killing thousands, one crashes on the pentagon and a car bomb to round things off.
I watched events unfold all day from the comfort of my armchair and was totally amazed at how long it took the news agencies to figure out that it just might not have been accidental - duh! Watching it unfold I figured there would be some pretty big changes coming as a result of this. Quite exactly what changes; we'll all just have to wait and see.
Final thought: I wonder whether there was this much world wide (especially cross-Atlantic) sympathy when the IRA started its terrorist campaign against the UK? I doubt it.
Oh, and liverpool played their first match in the UEFA Champions League, and were shit:
| Liverpool | 1 - 1 | Boavista |
| Owen | | Silva |
At least the other match in the group resulted in a draw so no ground lost.
"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself" - 1984 (George Orwell) Saturday June 23rd, 2001: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
I've been reading in the news about two sweet innocent little boys, whose lives are in danger, their parents believe they will be dead within 4 weeks, how horrible. But wait; are these not the same evil shits that killed that little kid a few years back? Nah - can't be, surely they were locked away for life?
Apparently, they have served their time, a few years of their life in exchange for the rest of James' life, hardly seems fair, they will live a full life, probably a good life if their cover holds. What have they done to earn this? Why, they tortured and murdered a little boy.
But I can't say I'm surprised something like this is happening. This country is set up to protect the evil bastards and punish the good man. Take Tony Martin; he shoots a burglar who breaks into his home, this should be taken as an example to all, instead he's put in prison for "taking the law into his own hands", he'll probably end up serving more time than both Venables & Thompson.
I hope a total nutcase finds those two and does some very ugly things to them both, they deserve absolutely nothing - yet are being treated like they are the victims.
"David Blunket is to announce the parole boards decision as to whether the killers of James Bulger should be killed." - BBC News headline Friday June 8th, 2001: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
I see Phoney Blair got back in yesterday, and in doing so gave himself a nice 50K pay rise, slightly more than our doctors, nurses & teachers will be getting I expect, and just what exactly has he done to earn this massive rise?
Also the leader of the blue team has quit, and all the media seem to suddenly love him for some reason or another. I hear that Anne Widdecombe (Maidstone's local MP) may be taking over, I'm sorry but she'll never win anything, the elections are a popularity contest, and appearance counts. What the Tories need is a young, attractive woman in charge - the votes would roll in. It doesn't matter what she thinks or how smart she is, all she has to do is read a few speeches drafted by PR people while smiling at a camera, hell if it works for Phoney why shouldn't the Tories do the same? Not so sure how many candidates fitting this description there are in the Tory party, but AW is definitely not one such lady.
Andrew: You know what they say: 'If you work at the donut factory all day, the last thing you want is donuts at home'.
Me: If I worked at a donut factory all day I wouldn't come home for my donuts!! Wednesday May 30th, 2001: Politics
Last Updated: Tuesday June 19th, 2007 04:43 PM
Am I the only person getting really hacked off with this general election thing, I just can't escape it; websites, television, radio, billboards and even their cars with the mega-phones on the roof. What I wouldn't give for a good sniper rifle. It's just a giant popularity contest really, surely no-one actually believes what the politicians say.
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Saturday June 23rd, 2001