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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Whilst perusing Fevered Rants, as I am wont to do, I came upon an article relating to how NORAD helps make certain that Santa is safe when operating over North America.
However, what really concerns me is that due to interference from Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, Santa’s policy of only hiring elves from Northern Finland has been replaced with a more ‘multiculturally inclusive’ system that does not permit ‘racial profiling’. As a result many of the packages in Santa’s North Pole grotto which are destined for your home, have been packed by efreets and djinns of decidedly Middle Eastern appearance.
Think about the implications of that whilst you are opening those ‘nice’ presents on Christmas day. Check the soles of those new Adidas shoes very carefully before you go jogging around the block to break them in.
Merry Christmas.
Now where did I leave that Paracemetol?
– Dale Amon
I wouldn’t recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me.
– Hunter S. Thompson
There have been reports that casualties were suffered during the heroic rescue of Adil Farooq yesterday by members of the 22nd Samizdata Air Service (the spectacular SAS success being evidenced by Muslimpundit‘s site being updated today in spite of the efforts of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Robert Fisk to silence it).
However other reports have indicated that the casualties were in fact the result of friendly fire suffered at a debriefing in London which extended into the wee hours of the morning, at a clandestine location near Tottenham Hale. DEBKA‘s ‘military sources’ suggest that Dr. Chris Tame, the infamous and shadowy figure behind the Libertarian Alliance (the person upon whom the fictitious ‘Dr. Evil’ was in fact based), was seen in the area where the debriefing was taking place. There is speculation he may have masterminded the daring rescue.
Similarly Dale Amon reported the SAS was also conducting intensive combat operations in Belfast yesterday as well. Due to the fog, the report from Northern Ireland was slightly garbled:
I’ll see what I can manage through the fog. There are two things to keep in mind: * Christmas and New Year fall in the middle of the week.
* I am in Ireland I leave the logical derivation of my state to the reader.
War is hell.
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules, and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
– Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, September 13, 2001
The regular Samizdata contributors are reading and listening to:
Dale Amon
Last book read: Winning Colours (Elizabeth Moon)
In the CD player: Song X (Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman)
Last magazine: Fly Past
Perry de Havilland
Last book read: The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch)
In the CD player: Soul Reflections (Xorcist)
Last magazine: Scientific American
Walter Uhlman
Last book read: Art of War (Sun Tsu)
In the CD player: Stunt (Bare Naked Ladies)
Last magazine: First Freedom
David Carr
Last book read: To hell in a handcart (Richard Littlejohn)
In the CD player: Itaipu (Philip Glass)
Last magazine: Free Life
Natalie Solent
Last book read: ? (?)
In the CD player: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (Sir William Walton)
Last magazine: House and Garden
Natalija Radic:
Last book read: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
In the CD player: Dämmerung im Traum (Stromkern)
Last magazine: Vogue (Italian Edition)
Samizdata Illuminatus
Last book read: The Necronomicon (Abdul Alhazred)
In the CD player: Malediction & Prayer (Diamanda Galas)
Last magazine: Simplicissimus
The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.
– Edward Gibbon
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
– Sam Brown
There is some humour to be had at the prospect of Hobart’s Funnies chasing blogista to the cognoscenti Natalie Solent across the sandy parts of Normandy.
If you have any idea what this cryptic remark actually means, you really do need to send an e-mail to Natalie and explain it to her at great length.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule
– H.L. Mencken
Editors note: you need to read this carefully in order to ‘get it’
From Reporter J Baxter, Boston (BS NewsNetwork)
The Boston Celtics announced today they have signed a new power forward after several trial workouts. Standing tall is 6′ ‘7″ power forward Sam Ladenson, who demonstrated explosive charges through the paint, and a distinct ability to draw crucial fouls. Contract details are expected to be ironed out by the end of the day.
Celtic General Manager Red Auerbach said Ladenson is a triple threat–a mixture of Bob Cousy’s ball handling skills, weaving through bigger men almost unseen, Havlicek with his stop short 20 foot jumper, and Bill Russell, who could take on the big men in the middle whenever necessary. Auerbach envisions Ladenson’s presence permitting the Celtic’s leading scorer, Paul Pierce, to take more uncontested shots inside the three point stripe.
Celtic officials indicate Ladenson may well get some playing minutes during Tuesday’s game in New York. Remarked one team official—“It is not often such talent just appears out of nowhere.” Ladenson has traveled with various European and Central Asian teams, but apparently decided to give the NBA a shot. Overseas he was known for his ability to disappear until a critical big shot was needed.
Ladenson’s agent – M. L. O’Marr – well-known for having a singular keen eye for unusual and special talent, said negotiations are underway with the Celtic brass for a partial year contract, and a contract extension option for the 2002-03 season and beyond. O’Marr said Ladenson was looking to put down permanent roots. The team’s press agent did indicate that Ladenson had one contract stipulation—that he would be joining the Palestinian Olympic team for the Summer games. O’ Marr expected such contract details to be minor concerns, and predicted his client would fare well in the negotiations.
The Celtics, currently a half-game behind the New Jersey Nets, are making their first serious run at the Eastern Division title since the departure of Rick Pitino to the college ranks. Celtic scouts have privately conceded that Ladenson may expect trouble in the middle from the game’s biggest man in Shaquille O’Neil, but O’Marr was quick to point out Ladenson’s quick moves when surrounded.
Ladenson was not available for comment.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury
– Sir Alex Fraser Tytler
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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