Damian reports on another piece of paranoia about Jewish control, this time in Canada.

Of course, our dear friends the Saudis are being a fed a diet of hate and bile about the Jews.

There is an excellent TCS piece destroying the myth that Bush skipped the Vietnam war by flying fighter jets. Do the fools who believe this was an easy way out actually realise how dangerous fighter jets were in the 60s?

This is something that’ll show you the popularity of your first name through the last century, at least in the U.S. (It uses names culled from Social Security registrations.)

Q: Are your posts getting even more lame lately, or what?

A: They are. I should be back to my usual standard of sustained mediocrity by next week.

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The dangers of an entrenched government are seldom mentioned, but are insidious and malevolently increasing in exponential fashion, threatening the tattered remnants of what used to be our freedoms.

Even if you are happy with the bans that have been so thoughtlessly enacted to date, your turn may still come. Cherish your freedoms while you can. They may not last for ever.

As they say, RTWT; consider with great care before you vote the next time round.

Look, I’m not the world’s biggest curling fan—I barely know the rules—but this doesn’t seem like a very good simulation.

For one thing, there’s no sweeping, and curling without sweeping is like rap music without the bling-bling.

Or something like that.

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Funny thing is that I never even noticed it…happened quite a while ago. Only found out about it via A9, under a search for Andrew Ian Dodge. If you want to see what the sick & twisted fuck person did click the link below.

Steyn is chanelling bloggers again and has written a particularly scathing piece about the la-la land that those in Brussels seem to inhabit.

I would pay good money to see this:

A woman used her talent for gymnastics to destroy two art installations at a controversial exhibit in the Hamburger Bahnhof museum late Wednesday, yelling as she did a series of flips across the room into one object and pushed over another, organizers said yesterday.

Poseurs and frauds beware. I can see it now: The nondescript white panel truck screeches up to your local gallery, the rear doors fly open, and “Zelda the Art Avenger” goes cartwheeling in, destroying all in her path.

“What’s that flipflipflip sound? flipflipflipFLIPFLIPFLIP Aiiieee! It’s ‘Zelda!’ Run, run for your lives!”

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Would the real John Reid please stand up.

Long considered one of the most capable and outspoken members of the government, he is actually extremely brilliant. Sure, on the one hand he is a very loyal and solid supporter of Blair, and on the other hand he likes to talk about workers a lot, but he goes in for the whole enigma/riddle/sphinx thing, and few people really appreciate what he is trying to say.

Yesterday he was speaking on a star-studded panel hosted by Progress and chaired by the smug Tony Robinson, entitled ‘Third Term Thinking.

When he comes out with statements in support of the Iraq invasion like: ‘I opposed it when we inserted a dictator in Chile [for another discussion]. Why would I oppose removing a dictator in Iraq?’, and when he discusses the importance of choice in the field of healthcare and the need for an increased role of the voluntary sector in social welfare, then you can (almost) forgive him for couching these ideas in terms of ‘democratic socialism’ and for championing ‘the workers’ – his way of refusting accusations of deviation from ideology. Or is he just throwing these out as bones for the audience? The Tories have shown themselves incapable of coherence in policy, so it comes as a relief that the dialogue is turning to ideas of choice, volunteerism, and pro-democracy. But these, of course, are ‘radical social policies.’ Whatever you want to call it. (Does a rose by any other name smell as sweet…?)

Tony Robinson, looking as gormless as Baldrick, didn’t seem to get it. Which is the way it should be.

On one of my walk-abouts, I happened upon the very lonely-looking Country Alliance stand. I wanted to say hello, but out of expediency, it was not appropriate, especially after having had a long chat with The Council for Arab-British Understanding. They seem to have overlooked the fact, however, that the Arab World extends beyond Israel-Palestine. In their zeal to inform the public, they seem to have forgotton to include some facts on their ‘fact’ sheets; such as any mention of suicide bombs against civilians at all; terror attacks being the cause of the security fence; the fact that the security fence has cut dramatically the incidences of terror attacks; the fact that Israeli Arabs have the right to elect their own MKs; the fact that Israeli Arabs have a highr standard of education and services than any of their brothers from across the region; the deep-rooted corruption in the PA and institutional brutality; Arafat’s links to terror organisations; the sickening government-sponsored anti-Semitic propaganda across the Arab world, etc. Small things, easily forgotten.

A bit later, we walked past one of our many burly brother delegates, who, seeing us besuited three, whispered contemptuously under his breath to his equally burly wife ‘New Labour…New Labour.’ Now whatever one’s opinions of Blair may be, how can old-school Labour marxism of the 70s and before be something to hark back to with nostalgia? Or maybe not. In the words of Walter Sobcheck in The Big Lebowski -

‘Whatever your views of … Socalism, at least it was an ideology.’ (He is refering to National Socialism, but it is just as repugnant)...

It is this adherence to (bankrupt) ideology for its own sake at the expense of practical results that prevents progress. (See Stephen Pollard , today)

Dodgeblogium now has a new CONTACT DODGEBLOGIUM mailbox address listed on the sidebar.

Please make note of it if you have our prior address in your address book.

Anyone who follows Branson and Virgin will not be the slightest bit shocked he is the first to announce space plane tourism. At only 100k, it’s cheaper than most supercars and way undercuts the Russian scheme. So, do any of you lot want to put me down for a trip as soon as it goes live?

Yesterday, through a confluence of events and connections, I had the honor oportunity chance occasion to camp it up in Brighton at Labour Conference (linked if you really want).

As I snatch precious moments from the clutches of my real job, I will regale you with tales of adventure and derring-do from my day at the seaside. One was enough, but observations are still plentiful.

Getting in around lunchtime, and spurning both the sandwiches and prawn cocktails, I had a wander round whilst waiting for some people and for the events to start, and picked up a Welcome postcard:

‘I’d hate to be teetotal. Imagine getting up and knowing that’s as good as you’re going to feel all day’ – Dean Martin

I don’t blame you, Matt (Carter – General Secretary). Waking up to a Labour government , with the prospect of another 4+ years, there are many who feel they have to drown their sorrows.

To help current thought-leaders of Britain along the road to self-destruction, the reverse of the Welcome postcard (which the scanner refuses to pick up for some reason) invites all delegates to unwind after a hard days’ self-indulgence in a bar called Iniquity…

Someone is playing games here.

CMU reports that Yusef is thinking of sueing the US government because he got booted from the US. I wonder if this is wise; will his actions truly bear scutiny?

Yusuf Islam – aka Cat Stevens – is planning to take legal action against the US after they refused him entrance last week on the grounds of “security issues”. As previously reported, Islam’s flight from London to Washington was diverted half way there and the singer was turned back to Britain. In a statement Islam said on Friday: “Never would I believe that such a thing could happen in the ‘land of the free’ – unfortunately, it did. I am a man of peace and denounce all forms of terrorism and injustice; it is simply outrageous for the US authorities to suggest otherwise.”

To be fair to the Americans, perhaps they refused him access because they’d heard he might be performing his new duet with Ronan Keating. Islam has recorded a version of his track ‘Father And Son’ with Keating – his first recording since 1974 …

America
George W looks forward to 2nd election victory and states:

“I will see the job though”.

” There will be no cut and run in Iraq. We stand firm in the face of terror”.

Labour PM T Blair looks forward to a 3rd election win victory and states:

I make no apologies for removing Sadam.

Conservative Michael Howard looks forward to 3rd election DEFEAT and states:

“Mr Blair deceived us on Iraq, had I known I might not have supported him, though I support him, now, and our troops, though they might not be there if I’d have known what I know now, though then again, they probably would, though we all support the war, but not really, if its Mr Blair running it, and that Bush felow, what’s he on, anyway. I voted for the war, before I wanted to vote against it, but didn’t, though I might have anyway”.

Bestof is up for the week. Enjoy all the 2 month old (or more) goodness.

Next up is one of the newest link-fests. This one is a collection of short stories written by bloggers. Its called the Storyblogging Carnival.

This week’s Bonfire is up all is crackling goodness.

The Carnival has a Gilligan’s Island theme this week.

Media Research Center:

[CBS reporter Jim] Axelrod consulted a Democratic pollster who contended Bush delivers a simplistic “candidacy for the fast food age, whereas Kerry is more like a long dinner party.”

Sort of like a looonnnngggg deadly dull dinner party where the host rambles on and on and on and on about his four months in Vietnam, punctuated now and then by screaming from the kitchen, where Terezzzah is flogging a maid who dropped a teacup.

Yeah, I can visualize that.

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Bloggers in the path of the latest Hurricane give us the flavour of what it is like in Florida right now.

For discussion groups. I wonder which one of these variants MacDiva resembles.

NB: According to MD all of us internet libertarians are actually fascists in disguise.

And the winner is…wait for it…Jenny Tonge.

I was going to write a long, funny, insightful, masterly post today, but I got sidetracked by this instead.

You try to set up an electrical grid to light up all the components. Hellishly difficult, especially trying to make the border conductive (which you very much need to do to win)

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Re: Alternative views need to be recognised
Date: 25 September 2004

Sir – I was invited by the Russian Academy of Sciences to take part in the Moscow climate change and Kyoto Protocol seminar held in July and to present my work on global warming and extreme weather (Letter, Sept 23, Opinion, Sept 20). I am a retired research scientist from Environment Canada and am on the editorial board of two international journals.

The British delegation, led by Sir David King, behaved in a most peculiar fashion throughout the event. On the day of the symposium, Sir David objected to the presence of several dissenting scientists (myself included), submitting a hand-written revision of the academy’s programme that would have reduced it from two days to one, omitting all but one of the “undesirable” scientists. The academy did not accept it. My own presentation was repeatedly interrupted.

During it, I demonstrated that a careful analysis shows no increase in worldwide extreme weather events at present and the likelihood of escalation of such events in the next 10 to 25 years remains very small at this time. Professor Nils-Axel Morner from Stockholm University, an internationally renowned sea-level expert, demolished the myth that islands in the Maldives will be under water if greenhouse gases are not curbed. Despite his previous leading role in the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change and his status as past-president of the International Union for Quaternary Research (Inqua) commission on sea-level rise, his work has been routinely discarded by the IPCC. Many other scientists, including those present at the symposium, have experienced similar treatment from the international scientific community.

With the exception of the behaviour of some of the British delegation, the Moscow seminar was the kind of open debate and public reassessment of climate science that is long overdue.

Sir David and his compatriots ought to recognise the importance of alternative views of the rapidly evolving, yet still immature, field of global warming and climate change. Only then can we hope to understand this complex scientific issue, possibly the most important of our time.

From:
Dr Madhav Khandekar, Ontario, Canada

... one French journalist insisted that George Bush could not be a candidate in Franch Presidency; because he is too stupid. I retorted that Chirac could not be a candidate in the US Presidenc; because he would be in jail.

Bruce Anderson in this week’s Speccie.

There is also a great piece by Steyn where he skewers Kerry. The mag is spoiled, however, by that cretin Andrew Gilligan. He mentions the British Ambassador to Italy; he is gripped by Jewish conspiracy paranoia.

The British media has ignored the current Dan Rather scandal with such enthusiasm, I’m beginning to doubt it exists myself. Across America, folk are scared to leave their homes, lest mugged by a British reporter canvassing their views.

If I never read another interviews with an American Dinner waitresses again I’ll be happy (yet another today in the Independant). If only elections were decided in eateries. However, when America’s toppest news reporter makes a laughably amateur attempt to swing votes by fraud, the story barely manages to squeeze through the concerns of middle aged women in polyester dresses.

Though Piers Morgan was given the boot after publishing false photos, Rather seems safe behind the ramparts of Democrat NY.

Swift Boat veterans received a similar British brush off. I realise the Left’s distain for the military, but the sworn affidavits of 250 fellow servicemen seem worthy of at least some coverage. Alas, that story will die in the ‘Reject’ pile, along with Rather’s sad attempt at election-tampering.

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Today a BBC ‘expert’ pronounced ‘Almost all British Moslems are absolutely appalled at Islamic fundamentalism’.

Really? Where does this belief come from, the upper class cappuccino bars of Islington, or the back streets of Burnley.

Judging by Hammas’ popularity ratings here, raking an packed Israeli School bus with machine gun fire may not be considered an unworthy pastime in many of our ever declining inner-cities.

The Left’s attempt to cram reality into the confines of defeatist, Euro-socialist dogma have never been more desperate, or more dangerous.

The Left’s strangle-hold on our electronic media has been broken by noble Blogs such as this, as Rather now understands. Though anti-Kerry stories remain firmly out of reach of the non-blogging British public for the foreseeable future.

Explore the possibilities of a really powerful third party candidate.

The reasons for voting Cthulhu are rather convincing.

On Homeland Security:

Who would mess with Cthulhu? ‘nuff said.

On Foreign Policy:

Our candidate routinely meets with an asian special interest group called the “Tcho tcho”. The word “leng” has been heard mentioned many times, and that’s the chinese word for “cool”!!

On Mental Health:

Many of you have asked: “What Would Cthulhu Do, if voted into office?” The anwser is: Drive Everyone Mad and Eat Them…

On the Economy and the Environment:

Great Cthulhu has solutions for unemployment and protecting the environment, for after Cthulhu eats half the world’s population there will be plenty of job openings and urban sprawl will be a thing of the past.

Via: Bureaucrash

I am expecting a package, as you do, from the US. UPS were given instructions on the other side of the pond on how to deliver my package. They ignored them completely. I called them up yesterday to re-arrange a delivery for today, gave instructions, which they ignored completely. The instructions were fairly simple…don’t deliver before noon and use the knocker instead of the bell. So the long and short of it is, if you are sending a package to the UK, do not use UPS. Use Fed-Ex, instead.

As I don’t trust these nitwits to deliver it properly on Monday I have to go pick it up tomorrow morning.

They really don’t grasp the point of a delivery do they?

What exactly is the story here.

This Brit took the shilling to go to Iraq, he knew it was dangerous, he knew the risks, and he knew the big fat cheque waiting for him at the end of each month.

He risked, he lost.

The media’s gone nuts, the BBC’s turned itself into the kidnap channel (all kidnap all the time), for what?

A more appropriate title might be ‘Man In War Zone In Danger – Shock’.

No risk, no big money, I don’t see Brits queuing up to become engineers in piss poor Haiti; perhaps that’s due to the lack cash.

What turns a bounty hunter into Mother Terresa. Perhaps the Left’s desire to paint this war as black as possible, while retaining the pretence of impartiality.

Bah. Sony’s sponsoring this Armchair Games competition. The game isn’t terribly interesting and the music is interestingly terrible, but I thought it’d be worth enduring, because the prize is a 37” flatscreen plasma TV.

So I played it, filled out the entry form, then clicked on Terms and Conditions to find out it’s only for residents of the U.K. Which would explain the drop-down list of countries.

Bah. OTOH, if you happen to live in the U.K., go for it.

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Well there is one for sale on e-Bay where else?

TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION

Via: Dan Hannan MEP

Speaking of the EU and all that rot, the New Frontiers Foundation website & blog has gone live. They are a non-partisan grouping of sceptical individuals who believe that the UK’s relationship with the EU needs to be reaccessed and recalibrated for the realities of the 21st century.