Cricket thats fun
It isnt’t only Gnotalex who finds the fun games…this one involves bashing Aussies as far as you smack em.
Comments are off for this postThe EU exposed?
Guido has just followed through a lead from The Gray Monk to an interesting website operated by one of our (apparently disillusioned!) MEP’s. The good Mr Mote has blown the whistle on the games the Brussels bureaucrats play – and the pretense that it is all above board and democratic. Any betting on his retaining his seat at the next election? Guido’s money says the bureaucrats will do their utmost to sabotage it!
Tellingly he reports that the Council of Ministers usually arrive and sign agreements before a meeting – at which they supposedly make the decision they have signed before meeting. Even the “Parliament” is in on this act – to quote Mr Mote:
So if the parliament is a charade, why is it so well attended? In a word – money. If an MEP fails to push his electronic buttons during more than 50% of the votes, his allowances are cut. No wonder MEPs have been described as little more than a highly paid monkeys pressing buttons for bananas.In one-hour sessions, which always precede lunch, hundreds of votes are taken at breakneck speed on long lists of resolutions and amendments. The purpose is to give democratic legitimacy to what passes for law in the European Union. Voting is so fast MEPs read the papers next day to understand what they decided, and to find out how the commission is interpreting the results.
This torrent of new law feeds the once obedient civil servants back in Britain. They are having the time of their life, enforcing millions of words of regulations and directives from Brussels. Of course they enthuse about the EU. It has much to their satisfaction effectively given them a bureaucrats charter.
I wonder if they rent out the cellars to commercial purveyors of gunpowder? It might be the only recourse to restoring democracy!
Read more Comments are off for this postTemple Mount Blogburst
Judith is running a blog-burst centreing around Tisha B’Av. This blog is proud to be helping with this effort.
Comments are off for this postTemple Mount blogburst: Introduction and Index
Tisha B’Av – which begins tomorrow evening – commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnetzar (which led to the founding of the influential Jewish community of Babylonia), and again in 70 CE, by the Romans. It also serves as a catch-all day of mourning for other major Jewish historical calamities (such as the massacres of the Crusades), but its central text – Jeremiah’s Eicha, or Lamentations – is an unflinching description of the horrors inflicted upon Jerusalem by Nebuchadnetzar’s seige and massacre.
So now is also an appropriate time to revisit the condition of the Temple Mount, site of the holiest places in Jewish ritual, a topic I wrote on in my first weeks at Kesher Talk, and several times since.
This blogburst has several sections:
Temple Mount blogburst: Introduction (this page)
Temple Mount blogburst: Tisha B’Av
Temple Mount blogburst: Israel past present and future
Temple Mount blogburst: Jihadism and reality
Temple Mount blogburst: The Mount since 1967
Temple Mount blogburst: Poetry pierces the iron curtain
Norse Gods Banquet
Ever wondered where the Norse gods used to go after a night on the ale?
This is it .
