Oh boy…peace arseholes have decided to tie up London again.

Nice to know they feel they need to do it on a weekday, and even worse, on Halloween!

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Cuthbertson has addressed my observations on the Howard’s speech to party activists. He makes some extremely good points about the state of the Tory Party.

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Hitch has been interviewed in the Front Page Mag. Like everything that comes out of Christopher Hitchens, it is fascinating stuff. He is the poster-bloke for likable, reasonable, intelligent left-wingers. Would that there would be more like him!

Via: Glenn.

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Sarah Sands takes a few shots at Patricia Hewitt over her whingeing about the Motor Show poster. Ms Hewitt has very successfully shown herself to be a humourless gimp. It might have been a good idea for her to check the sex of the creator of the advert first.

Is there some rule that Labour politicians may not do irony?

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A  Rueful  Grin  From  The  Den….....

MommaBear is most remiss in failing to notify the Blogdom that there is a new coalition being formed open specifically to Bears, with associate membership available to all other furry critters at large running blogs. CUB, the Coalition of Ursine Bloggers, is now accepting applications. Send your CV and other pertinent data, including your site’s URL, to NZ_Bear at the address available on his fine site.

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Ted Rall gets fisked by Rand for even considering that Wellstone was murdered by Bush & Co. If they were so inclined, surely they would have made sure Ted Kennedy was on that plane?

Andrew Sullivan lays in as well.

Via: Glenn.

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To Greg Dyke: You are so full of it; we can now see why BBC programming is so shite these days. There is simply no justification for the the licence fee. It’s outdated and unfair taxation that needs to be ended poste haste.

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“Robin Bryer, a chartered town planner, sent a terse reply: “Very simple. No worthwhile room is less than 10ft wide. Add 3ft for a corridor, 3ft for a staircase. Result: 16ft. QED. True in 1500. True today. True in 2500.”

A response to Andrew Marr’s post about the size on the frontage on the average English house.

Quite a few Tory types loath Andrew Marr; never understood why. He might be a bit of a leftie, but at least he is a clever, well spoken, and well written one.

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Islamist Leader in London: No Universal Jihad As Long As There is No Caliphate. The leader also goes on to say that only “occupied” lands are suitable for jihad, although he does include Northern Spain in this. Yet another excellent piece of information from MEMRI.

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Peter has torn into Brian Sewell for his pathetic writings on Bali. In short: “Mix with the towelheads and you’re on your own.”

Over at Norwegian Blogger, Cthulhu flavoured fiskings continue. The latest is an “intermissions” before the next installment in the woeful tale of betrayal and stupidy in the court of the Sultan.

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James “Grumpy” Bennett and Rand Simberg have teamed up to write a rather amusing piece of satire. I would recommend a read of it…and not one mention of the word Anglosphere!

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If you are wondering why there are so few posts today: it is tr�s simple; blogger has been a pig all day, and my posts are not showing up.

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From  The  WebMistress’s  Computer  Stand….....

Andrew has to try every new little quiz and Google-game going! Here are the results of his latest try with one called Googlism. Make of it what thou wilt; MommaBear is left speechless!

Googlism for: dodgeblog

dodgeblog is not doing that well
dodgeblog is not doing too badly
dodgeblog is a rock group and tld is billboard
dodgeblog is doing a multi

Googlism for: andrew ian dodge

andrew ian dodge is a 33 year
andrew ian dodge is taking glenn reynolds
andrew ian dodge is right on tebbit needing to step down from centre
stage
andrew ian dodge is
andrew ian dodge is a capital fellow

Googlism for: andrew dodge

andrew dodge is not in fact possessed by demons
andrew dodge is likewise unimpressed
andrew dodge is just a bit ridiculous
andrew dodge is a second

Googlism for: mommabear

mommabear is absolutely right
mommabear is absolutely correct; don’t take my word on this
mommabear is used to cleaning up text for grammar
mommabear is left with no words to describe the item so detailed; go
read for yourself
mommabear is
mommabear is in a complete funk; john weidner went rambling around
blogdom much much earlier than she did and scooped all the goodies that
were going to be
mommabear is a very reliable
mommabear is a subclass of bear
mommabear is a bot
mommabear is now on red
mommabear is now on blue

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From  The  WebMistress’s  Computer  Stand….....

Frankly, MommaBear was not even sure which cap to wear for this one: Dodgeblogium is proud to announce that they are part of the “founding posters” crew now featured at NZ_Bear’s new The Weblog Action Centers site. He has assembled a good group who will be putting up the best of their posts from their own blogs, particularly related to specific areas, Leaders, Issues, Organizations, and Grab Bag, as you will discover if you go there right now!

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Should we make it official? Great Britain has pulled ahead of the United States in a rush to surpass the Netherlands in crazy political correctness.

‘People won’t be able to discriminate when it comes to employing nannies in their own homes,’ said a Home Office spokeswoman.

The only exemption would be if they can show a ‘genuine occupational requirement’ to hire someone of a particular racial group – such as an elderly Muslim woman who wanted a home help who was also a Muslim.

So why can Muslims discriminate and noone else? If I’m an elderly black woman, why can’t I hire home help that’s black without facing legal suit? Why can’t I choose who I want to have access to my home, possessions, housekeys and valuables? You should be able to evaluate and decide who you want to let in the front door. WITHOUT a charge of racism.

But wait, it gets better:

Under the Home Office proposals, for the first time the burden of proof in all employment tribunals would also be shifted so that it is effectively up to employers to prove they are not racist, rather than workers to prove that there was discrimination, so long as there is a prima facie case to answer

Let me add, under the Home Office proposals, a lot of domestic workers will be out of work, since a lot more mothers will be staying at home and doing their own housework and child care in lieu of facing heavy monetary and legal penalties. Am I the only one that thinks this is insane?

And for an extra fillip to the conundrum – I’m from the American South. In my area of the country, if you are white and hire a black maid or nanny, you’re considered racist and discriminatory, because you are placing the black person in a position of servitude and obeisance to a white person. It’s a crazy, mixed up world.

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Sound Scots doing well North of the Border? Guess what; it seems that not only are these guys, at least one of whom I have met, Tory but have libertarian leanings as well!

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F1 officials have seen fit to drop the ball attempting to make the races more exciting. Instead, they are mucking about on the fringes but not making any real changes. They are obviously not as worried about their dropping TV ratings as they should be. Anyone betting Ferrari won’t dominate again next year? They could learn a lesson or two from CART, althought this week’s race in Australia was a bit too exciting for some.

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Well, this witch could not have done any worse with his “psychic profile” than the the real “profilers” did in the end. Too bad the FBI didn’t take him up on his offer; might have saved a few lives.

Via the highly amusing Pagan Prattle.

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Human Virus Scanner

The virus that have infected you will be show here along with thier cures, if known.

Viruses you suffer from:

Sci-fi
Stop wearing the stick-on ears.

Cthulhu
Read some Enid Blyton.

Gaming
Life is not a game. Roll 3D6. On a 4 or more go out and do something with your life.

Industrial
Everyone likes folk. No, really. Maybe you should listen to the Incredible String Band.

Religion
Read “God’s Debris” by Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy)

British
No need for cure. Benign virus.

Politics
Stop caring!

Brand Names
Having a well-known name doesn’t make it good.

Hippyism
Free love is passe and potentially dangerous, and patchouli smells like cat piss.

Conspiracy Theory
Face it, the elected government is in control. Actually that’s quite scary.

Ultima
If you find one tell us.

Macintosh
Use a mouse with more than one button.

Prog Rock
Long hair looks dumb with a bald spot. Listen to CD’s they don’t crackle.

Cars
There just hunks of metal which go real fast. Ride a bike through London at rush hour.

Viruses you might suffer from:

Linux (95%)
Install the latest version of Microsoft Windows. Learn to love it.

USA (70%)
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves! [repeat]

Goth (65%)
Grow up. Let your roots grow out. Listen to Britney.

Amiga (80%)
Gnome is better than workbench. BEOS is better than Amiga OS. The TV Modulator was a pain in the arse and an EXTERNAL power pack? I ask you. And it didn’t have a built in MIDI port like some of its rivals.

Discordia (80%)
Buy a suit. Invest your money. Eat hotdog buns on a friday.

BBCB (70%)
CTRL-Break, and get a real computer. Repeat: “Mode 7 was not a good thing.”

Free BSD (95%)
The GPL isn’t that bad really. Adopt a penguin at the zoo.

X11 (60%)
I hear Mac OS 10 Aqua is nice at this time of year.

Computer Games (90%)
Stop staring at the screen and get some fresh air. You should see a doctor about the RSI in your thumbs.

Southampton (69%)
Move to the Isle of Wight.

Via: Live from Brussels

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John Smith analyses the reasoning (or lack thereof) of a Yale Prof. attempting to criticise Bush. John seems perturbed that someone with such a lofty position could be so inarticulate and inane.

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”(...umm, Andrew, how right wing is the Telegraph or the sunday Times old boy? Isn’t there a chance you get jobs there because you’re well, Conservative?)”

Kind words from British Politics about yours truly. Well, I would love to write for the Telegraph; don’t know about the Sunday Times, though. The DT/ST are far more libertarian than the Times is, closer to my mind set. If the Telegraph were to call, it would be rude of me to refuse. A weekly column would do nicely, thank you.

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Patricia Hewitt thinks that the adverts for the British Motor Show are “sexist and pathetic.” No, my dear, you are “pc, pathetic, and patronising”. It turns out that the adverts were actually designed by a woman. Is Ms Hewitt the only person in Britain to not realise that sex sells? Has she not been on the tube lately? Er, wait a second, no government pondscum would be caught delayed on the tube. There are adverts for everything from Archers to Clothes that are no less sexist than the car show adverts. Of course, many of them feature men instead of women, so they can’t be sexist, right?

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The DT has seen fit to echo my comments on the Shadow Chancellor’s lacklustre approach to his job. They, too, find his lack of direction, waffling on taxes, and abandonement of Tory ideals perplexing and worrying. What is the point of a Tory Party that does not support cutting taxes and red-tape? What is the point of a Tory Party that does not believe in privatising public services and giving people choices in their public services?

With Tony Blair (if not the Labour Party) on the centre-group, the only place the Tory Party can go is to radicalism. The sooner they learn this, the quicker they will come to power. Blair-lite will just not cut it. Why vote for the fake one when you can get the real thing?

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Ever wonder what the correct ritual is for Samhain this Thursday night? Look no further for this, and much more, plus unprejudiced commentary on all aspects of WICA and paganism. Please head over and visit my friend Dr Leo Ruickbie’s excellent site.

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HBO3 seems to think that those scum that took over 700 people hostage in Moscow are not terrorists, rather rebels or “freedom fighters”. It is this sort of attitude towards the Chechen question that so infuriates the Russians. The Chechens are, indeed, ruthless terrorists who are content to slaughter civilians at will. These are the people who blew up two housing blocks in Moscow. This lot use the same methods to achieve their aims as Timothy McVeigh. The Chechens are primarily domestic terrorists and are an internal problem.

However, this lot do have links to Al Queda and Bin Liner; the US should be helping the Russians to tackle them, as they are part of the same disease that caused 9/11 and the Bali bomb. Americans and the British should show their support for Putin and the Russians lest we seem hypocrites. We should congratulate them, not castigate them as some of the press is doing today. Acidman has even more to say about it, as well. Russia is in the front line of the war against Islamonazism.

Putin needs to reciprocate and help the West with its Islamonazi problem. There needs to co-operation as we face a common vicious enemy bent on our destruction, much as we did at the advent of WWII. This time we do not have to reconcile aligning ourselves with Communists. A welcome change no doubt.

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From  The  WebMistress’s  Computer  Stand….....

AGAIN, BloggerPro willing, Dodgeblogium will now be showing Biased BBC in its blogroll. Natalie Solent and several other well-known libertarian bloggers provide this service to ensure that the beeb doesn’t get away with too much without notice.

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A little birdy has informed me that Stephen Twigg MP might be losing his seat prematurely. The flamboyant gay MP who took over from Michael Portillo seems to have massaged his curriculum vitae a wee bit to imply he is has qualifications he doesn’t. There seems to a blind panic among certain Tories to get selected for the prime (and formerly safe) seat. Wonder what Candidatewatch will have to say about it?

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Please find your way over to my fellow Cthulhu mythos writer, Vegard. He uses the Great Ones to mock idiotarians in his satirical tales. Methinks he will soon need to be linked by Shoggoth, the home of my Sage of Wales tales. Not a terrible surprise that the Great Ones are interested in politics mind; these days it is the best way to manipulate things for the Great One’s needs. The Cthulhu connection does explain the idiocy and insanity of some of the idiotarians.

Update: The tale continues over at Vegard’s.

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Lol, Mark Steyn takes a jaundiced look at this week’s celebrity news. Those of you in the US might want bone up before reading this article, it has more in-jokes than you would find at the bar at a Linux conference.

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Tory MEPs in Bad Company? Well, since 1992 they certainly have been keeping odd company. They are part of the European People’s Party, a dodgy-named outfit that are about as pro-EU/Euro as they come. How the Tory MEPs who are allegedly against the Euro could be in with this lot has always been a bit of mystery.

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