Gaddafi summarily executed by Libyan rebels… the world is a better place today than it was yesterday.
Lets hope this puts the right idea in people’s heads elsewhere.
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David Cameron went to his first EU summit last year and agreed to let the European Union take charge of the financial regulation of the City. As far as poor decision-making goes, Gordon Brown’s gold sale was bad enough. History will remember Cameron’s surrender of the City as worse. September 28th, 2011 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Nothing has changed from the riots and nothing will. As usual after such shocking events, we had two or three days of moral clarity where you could get away with saying things that normally you can’t – like pointing out how many people live lives of amoral spoon-fed incontinent idleness. Then we had the essential moment – known as “the Gitmo moment” – providing a cause around which confused lefties could rally (in this case the harmless but poorly expressed mutterings of a TV historian). The next step is to draw ludicrous moral equivalences – burning down shops and killing people is, apparently, no worse than wearing a dinner jacket and getting drunk, or fiddling expenses. I don’t often agree with David Cameron but it was good to see him having a pop on that point at the BBC. Finally you just keep repeating idiocies about how rioters were “deprived” and bringing it all back to “inequality” and such notions. It doesn’t matter how stupid it is if you say it often enough. This is just how it works. In a few months I bet you’ll be able to call it the Tottenham Spring. We’ll “reach out”, we’ll open some youth clubs, our policing will become even more limp-wristed, vendors of steel shutters will do well, and small shopkeepers will, bit by bit, give up to take up lives of amoral spoon-fed incontinent idleness. – Samizdata commenter m2p September 3rd, 2011 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
I think MPs should have their personal tax rate depend on how often they vote for new legislation… think of it as a ‘binge legislation tax’ to encourage more responsible legislative behaviour and finance the social cost of their boundless interference in every aspect of other people’s lives August 30th, 2011 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
Does Jobs deserve kudos for his acumen? Absolutely. That doesn’t mean I have to approve of the grotesque beast that is the modern super-corporation. It is something that could only exist in the statist world, and it is a disturbing hybrid of free market principles and ultra-authoritarian government interference, fused together in a way that brings out the very worst of all worlds. – Commenter ‘Jaded Libertarian’ August 25th, 2011 | 40 comments - (Comments are closed)
Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world. – Sage and raconteur Jeremy Clarkson. I cannot count the ways we love him. August 24th, 2011 | 15 comments - (Comments are closed)
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. – Frank Zappa August 21st, 2011 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
Obama declares US is still a AAA nation, in his regard. Like when i would try & convince my parents that my C+ in math was pretty much a B- – Mark Ronson (via Twitter) August 9th, 2011 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
When travel writers start going on about how “vulgar” and “overdeveloped” Cuba is becoming, I’ll book my flights. So long as it is the favoured destination for the sort of people who wear silly T-shirts with pictures of mass murderers on them, I’ll be off to somewhere else instead. – Johnathan Pearce August 3rd, 2011 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
American government spending will be higher in 2011 than it was in 2010. Government spending will be higher in 2012 than it was in 2011 – much higher. The above is all that matters – everything else is piss and wind. The deal is one great big shining lie. – Paul Marks August 2nd, 2011 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
What a pity there is no culture of personal defence and widespread concealed carry in Norway as it would have been nice to see one of the victims shoot back at the bastard. – A sentiment much echoed in various armed self-defence forums regarding the recent atrocity in Norway. July 24th, 2011 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan July 16th, 2011 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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