For the last month or more I have been paying occasional visits to Michael Jennings‘s blog. One day a picture of him appeared at the top, making him look alarmingly like the bearded bloke on They Think It’s All Over. And then it was there at the top the next day, and the next, and I jumped to the conclusion that he was on holiday and not blogging, because if he was blogging, the photo would have moved down, and have been replaced by further entries. Or so I deduced. But, I do sometimes get matters intenetted slightly wrong (see the comments). It turns out that under the picture he’d been blogging away like a mad thing.
Yesterday, for example, with an unerring eye for the main story, he focussed in on the alleged doom facing the banana. Apparently, bananas are all clones of each other, which means that they can’t do evolution properly, which means that they are now about to be completely wiped out. This was national news in Britain yesterday, and for all I know, everywhere else that bananas are cared about.
Michael notes the supposedly ferocious consumer resistance in Europe to genetic engineering, but goes on to note that banana-wise Europeans – Germans in particular – may face an agonising choice.
Actually this could be interesting. Imagine the scene in 2012. Normal bananas are extinct. Those of us who have been following the ongoing EU banana war for the last couple of decades know that the Germans have an almost legendary appetite for bananas. It may be that they will be faced with a choice: accept genetically modified bananas, or move to some other fruit. My money is on the genetically modified bananas.
Michael also had a posting at the beginning of the month about cricket. For Zimbabwean mass murder reasons I want the entire blogosphere immediately to become fascinated about this strange game, and it can plug itself into an elaborate discussion via Michael’s posting about which international cricket side was the best ever, who the all time best Australian (and English and West Indian) side(s) would consist of, and so on, also involving Iain Murray. And then when all of blogdom everywhere is lusting to watch the World Cup, others whom we have also been instructing, but this time on the political dimension of this tournament, can dig up all the pitches.
Gee, I wonder if anyone else has been making that mistake. You were kind enough to link to me several times in early December, and then you suddenly stopped. I was wondering if I had offended you by saying something insufficiently libertarian for you, or something like that. This now explains it.
Bananas are not going to go extinct, because not all varieties are clones propogated by cuttings.
This is the first result I got searching for “banana seed”: Banana Seed Kit
I think it must just have been a slow news day, and the story sounded too good to check.
I should add that Scott Wickstein and Stephen Pollard also weighed in on the All-Time XI question.
Iain
Pointless off-topic screed deleted by the Samizdata Admin. anti-blogroach patrol
What the?
Anti-War poem / the last song of the mothers
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welcome to the Gulf/
American brothers/
Britannian brothers/
taste hospitality/
instead of the blood, what the official jackals promised/
drink our clean water/
eat our orientalistic food/
but don’t massacre our children/
don’t kill the oppressed peoples/
are you true human?/
please, mothers of Western/
tell ye’ your children!/
don’t believe in the/
Jewish ruled imperialism/
don’t listen to the/
lapdogs and bulldogs of/
weapon markets’ boss/
don’t believe in the/
bastards of the political brothels/
who built reserv shelter by/
Zion-manipulated massmedial shurks/
don’t join the cowards/
who betray each other/
honored man/
should awoid being marionetts in the bloody hands/
what kind of animals they/
who pissed off/
the botherhood of earth!/
human, where are you now, human?!/
is it impossible to give a chance/
civilized future of your own children!
DEMOCRATIZING BEGAN IN IRAQ
coalition troops set heavy weapons/ thousands of marine soldiers,/
airplanes, tanks, uniformed lapdogs and bulldogs/
open and secret machines of modernized war industry/
general Shurk in Pentagon says;/
we bring democracy /
meanwhile they systematically bombed/
showed fake pictures, Ghurka-media served/
massacred civil people of Basra, Baghdad, Mosul/
like Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin /
on the blood of children, they declared victory/
at least, the thieves celebreting everywhere/
world witnessed similarly scenes under WW II,
americans saving the plunderers/
the Jews, steal wealth of whole Continent/
and escaped to Jew York, Sweden, London, Australia/
like that, looting continues all over Iraq/
general Shurk in Pentagon says;/
democratizing continues/
“I AM AN AMERICAN NOW!”
when the criminals released from prisons of Iraq/
most bloody pedophile ones didn’t delay/
to embrace these uniformed human butchers/
Evangelian Jewish coalitioned bastards, followers/
same day he killed two children more/
“I am cleansing Saddam’s guards”. explained/
when a journalist witnessed him on next deal/
manouvred well, joined plunderer masses of thieves/
the journalists almost took his group’s photo/
because he was most active provocator instrument/
on all the cold-bloody scenes, what Big Brother needs/
to manipulate the opinion centers of the communities/
most useful traitor like many other willing whores, everywhere/
I saw him when he climbed on Saddan Hussein’s statue/
like a monkey danced on the ruined wealth of the museums/
“democracy saver army” saved such nonsense actors during looting/
weared American flag/
on an american tank cried/
showed his knife and a handfull bloody dollars/
yelled like an true Texas jackal:
“I am an American now/
I love you Bush double U Sharon!..
from and now I am an AmeeeeriiiiiCoww!..”
Loooooooosers! hahahahahaha.
Your favourite Ba’athist Socialist mass murderer has been overthrown AND YOU CANNOT STAND IT.
Oh, and my cat could write better ‘poetry’ than you morons.
Have you noticed how, when their arguments are picked apart or disproved by actual events, the enemies of freedom often resort to restating them in awfull doggerel?
What they believe pisspoor poetry can add to their already dicredited creed I cannot imagine.
WEAPONS OF MASS DELUSION EXPOSED by IRAQ
-last minute’s news by the poetry power for peace:
the hidden weapons of mass delusion/
declared by the Arab resistance leader braveheart Saddam Hussein/
maybe his declaration schock you, now/
ingredients of this “subject”; also,/
was simply one liter stink by Bushy double WC/
beyond this kinky, Tory BLiar 250 gr/
100 gr swinishly mucus of Human Butcher Sharon/
90 gr coaliton’s boss of Western weapon markets/
compozed with urines of all the lapdogs, shurk satellites/
like Berlusconi’s brain, it was the top secret sh’it complex/
what all the druged authorities eat it desirous, labeled/
massmedial lies on Iraq’s weapon of massdestruction
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but, it’s already completely forbidden to declare the truth/
’cause massfalsification is the judaic tradition/
official history looks like a kinde of the political whore/
one of the monopoly by liberal market of jackals/
most advanced and exposed zionist freakness since WW II
written by Tim Timerson
time_newspeek@aol.com
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