American “Jihadi Rapper” and British Islamist executed by former comrades.
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September 22nd, 2013 | 51 comments - (Comments are closed)
 September 12th, 2013 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
With apologies to all those who will be les misérables tomorrow, I give you… One Day More RUDD: ABBOTT to ELECTORATE: RUDD: ABBOTT OR WOULD THIS WORK BETTER AS RUDD and ELECTORATE: GILLARD: ABBOTT CORRECTION RUDD YES STICKING WITH RUDD HERE and ELECTORATE: GILLARD: ABBOTT and ELECTORATE: GILLARD: ABBOTT and ELECTORATE: GILLARD: A FLOATING VOTER: RUDD: ALL: RUDD: ABBOTT NO WAIT A MINUTE HE OUGHT TO BE LEADING THE REVOLUTION OH NEVER MIND I JUST CAN’T SEE RUDD AS JAVERT: RUDD: KATTER, PALMER and OTHER BENEFICIARIES OF SECOND PREFERENCE VOTES IN THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM: VOTERS: SOMEONE FROM A MINOR PARTY I’M HAVING TROUBLE FITTING INTO THIS ANALOGY: I’M LOSING TRACK OF THIS: THIS WOULD WORK BETTER AS RUDD AND THE ELECTORATE I THINK: GILLARD: ABBOTT: RUDD: KATTER, PALMER, OTHERS ENDING WITH ER: ABBOTT (I LOVE THIS BIT, GO JAVERT!): RUDD: RUDD and ABBOTT: ALL: UPDATE: I should have guessed I would not be the only one to think of it: Old Owl and 2dogs both pointed out in comments that “Bill Glasson, who is standing against Rudd in his seat of Griffith, has used this song in a video thanking his campaign volunteers.” ANOTHER UPDATE: Got it! I have finally settled on which character from Les Mis best represents Kevin Rudd. Gavroche. We are meant to find him loveable but he is an irritating little brat. He endlessly plays up his proletarian origins and faffs on about “what little people can do”. He denounces Inspector Javert and gets him sent off to be murdered by a People’s Court, setting the example for Children of the Revolution ever since. Then on the barricades, when the revolutionaries are offered the chance to leave, what does he do? He hams it up, sings his little song in a halting, childish treble, and basically dooms the lot of them. Go to the top of the class, little Gavroche! Or preferably go prancing out onto the top of the barricade – go on kid, you know you can’t resist an opportunity to show off – and get yourself slaughtered. Oh, you just did. Good show! September 6th, 2013 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
In most ways the Pollyverse is a place where the rules of our continuum do not apply. She worships strange gods and that which she fears causes Earth-humans to rejoice. But could she be right to fear the new lobbying bill?
Ironically, the bill seems to my uneducated eye to resemble the attempt to stifle free speech in the US that was defeated by the Citizens United decision, a ruling demonized by the Left. That irony might be fun to point out but the consequences are not reassuring. We in the UK do not have the protection of the First Amendment. September 4th, 2013 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
The quick version of something the old plague-carrier said is that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Second time as tragedy and farce would have been more accurate. Top comment: “I did not set a red line, Bush did it and you are a racist” September 4th, 2013 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
These proceedings are closed. – General Douglas MacArthur, bringing World War II to an end as if it were a parish council meeting, sixty-eight years ago today. September 2nd, 2013 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
No one was killed, no one was injured. Do not excite yourselves. From Adrian Hilton in the Spectator: Revd Dr Alan Clifford’s ‘homophobic’ comments referred to the CPS
From Damien Gayle in the Daily Mail via Tim Worstall: Armed police turn up at family home with a battering ram to seize their children after they defy Germany’s ban on home schooling
August 31st, 2013 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
This is old news to some but new to me, and to the Huffington Post, judging from their headline. I had thought Clooney to be the standard Hollywood “liberal”, looking down from a lofty height on the barbarians below. Instead he is looking down from a lofty height on one particular barbarian below in order to deter him from atrocities and warn his potential victims. Cool. Next stop, armaments. Which might get hairy, given that some private individuals and nearly all states of the satellite-owning classes are prone to think of themselves as gods already, even without the power to strike down malefactors from the heavens. August 31st, 2013 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
Humiliated? As a prime minister and party leader, yes. But there are compensations. To President Obama he can say, “Sorry guv, tried to help, but the boys just wouldn’t let me. We are going to remain neutral”. And then sotto voce he can add, “Neutral like you are ‘in terms of the Maldives or the Falklands, whatever your preferred term is'” To Parliament, and through Parliament to the voters, he can say, with great ceremony “I respect your decision” and get all sorts of strange new respect from anti-war people while not losing the respect of those who thought British support for US military action against Assad was necessary, because, after all, he did try. To Syria he can say all the right things without having to do anything. Given that it is damned difficult to know what to do, or even what is happening over there, that is a silver lining for him. In that link, Jim Miller says, “we need an explanation for the attack — whoever is responsible — that includes a motive.” Assad was winning. Why jeopardize that? A member of my family suggested that Assad might have said to his henchmen something equivalent to Henry II’s “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” “Destroy those rebels in Ghouta, and I don’t care how you do it.” Bashar Assad is an evil man, which does not make his enemies good. Was this vote a good thing or a bad thing to happen? I do not know. It is a generator of ironies, and not just for Cameron. August 31st, 2013 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
All suspicions which have been raised have been dispelled – German interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, referring to reassurances that British and US intelligence agencies “had observed German laws in Germany”. It is compulsory to recite this quote in the voice of Cecil Baldwin from Welcome to Night Vale. August 17th, 2013 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling
Schemes outwardly quite like this, that ask people to put their money where their mouths are, might yet turn out to be a great way to find the balance between development and preservation that actually pleases most people as revealed by what they are willing to pay for. But given that Mr Correa has already shown, as Tim Worstall points out, that he considers payment of his country’s debts to be optional, I think the required foundation of trust might be lacking for this one. Sadly there were quite a few private individuals who contributed to this scheme even though the rich world’s governments prudently refrained – some of these individuals lament their wasted money in the comments to this second Guardian story. Someone else replies that it is a sin to leave a sucker in charge of his money, but there are worse things to be than a sucker. They are not the environmentalists who should arouse our scorn. Reserve that for the first commenter, who says to general approval, “If we want to save the planet, we are going to have to do this by force.” August 17th, 2013 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
Once upon a time there was a wise princess. She lived in a magic castle together with her friends, who were also wise. One day, the princess, taking pity on the ignorance of the common folk, decided to go among them and teach them. Alas! Some rough people said rude and nasty things to the princess. She had to run back to her castle and issue a proclamation. This what it said: Anthea Butler: Conservatives bashed me for speaking out about the Zimmerman verdict. The princess was very sad. She even wondered if the people were worthy to go on being allowed to hear her wise words.
The princess felt that she had to choose between sharing her wisdom and keeping a record of all the bad things the rough people had said to her. Why she felt that way, we do not know, but we know the reason was wise.
July 29th, 2013 | 36 comments - (Comments are closed)
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