I am becoming quite fond of my little corner of Schiphol airport. I have put up my Christmas cards and a few bits of tinsel. I now have a boarding card for the 0800 to Manchester. This is the sixth boarding card I have had. It is very hard to understand why, time after time, they don’t know a flight is cancelled until some time after it was due to leave and all the passengers have queued at the gate for hours.
Of course, Manchester is a lot further from Ramsgate than Schiphol is, so even if the flight atually goes, this represents rather dubious progress.
Happy New Year everybody.
Remarkably, KLM delivered my lost luggage, including my laptop, at 9.30 pm on New Year’s Eve. At that time a pretty lively party was already in full swing,much improved by the presence of a great many beautiful young women, mostly from Latvia. I am not sure why; my life as ever consists of a bewildering succession of chance encounters with really nice people. I am in the fortunate position of being able to say that Nadira was the most lovely of all, without indulging in dutiful hyperbole.
It was an extremely happy Christmas. Having my mum, both my brothers and all my three chidren together was as great as it was rare.
We have been through the laptop in lost luggage discussion before. The problem is that my shoulders dislocate at the drop of a hat, and I travel without hand luggage to avoid an accident.
2011 is going to be a very important year for me. particularly the first quarter. A number of crucial events are going either to set me up financially for the rest of my life, or result in real distress and failure. At present I have reason to be very optimistic. I am also very absorbed in my life of Alexander Burnes, which I hope will help establish a serious academic reputation.
The Portuguese edition of Murder in Samarkand has sold unexpectedly well in Brazil. The translation of the Turkish edition has just been finished.
I hope to do a Wikileaks retrospective in the next couple of days. Just a quick thought on the case of the poor young gardener in Bristol. Of the Jill Dando case, long before Barry Bulsara’s succesful appeal I blogged that this appeared to be a miscarriage of justice in which the police had fitted up the local weirdo.
Despite not being enamoured of landlords in general, I fear the same dynamic is at work in Bristol, albeit Chris Jefferies is much more intellectually capable than Bulsara. My instinct is that the police have picked up on Jefferies for being camper than a boy scout jamboree and archer than Trajan.
Jefferies’ release on bail has me worried that there was nothing against him other than the “He’s a weird one, guv” instinct of some not very bright cop. The case needs to be closely watched as history shows that the powers of the police to make the evidence fit the suspect are considerable.
Larry, you need to get onto the important stuff, about that day you’re so obsessed with, about what you remember and how it all unfolded. Not the stuff on the news or on the ‘net, but what happened to YOU. YOUR memories count, too.
Suhayl is you ‘net neighbour!
Suhayl is you ‘net neighbour!
Problems posting again?
Clark,
Does that mean LnfSL has a static IP address?
My point is that the people that personally attacked and killed your friend also deliberately put themselves beyond retribution, and that is a very difficult thing for you to have to cope with.
To be honest I’m a bit more concerned with the current jihadist threat.
But I seem to be more concerned with sad cases like Roderick being egged on by Suhayl.
I’m also concerned with you people getting 911 completely wrong and using it to your selfish political advantage.
Mark, I don’t know, but in a section of comments over an hour, several from “Larry”, and one in the midst of them from “Omar”, issued from the same IP address.
Clark: “The 9/11 hijackers are dead.”
Not according to this documentary, at 1:07:40 –
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2296490368603788739#
So LnfSL has now sunk to the level of an imposter? – figures – I ask because over the past three weeks I persistently get offers of money to COIA from varying emailers with gmail addresses!
Larry, I very strongly get the impression that you have a problem with Muslims, and I guess that some others reading here will feel likewise. Your attacks against Suhayl Saadi must have some significance. Suhayl consistently advocates peace and promotes understanding amongst people. He offered you his sympathy, and how have you responded?
Whatever, Italianate. I don’t want to turn this into another 9/11 debate. This is about Larry and his feelings about Muslims.
Part of the problem is that wherever Larry goes, 9/11 follows. It’d drive me mad.
Mark, the “Omar” incident was months ago.
Larry, we’ve hijacked the thread here, and maybe it’s too public. My e-mail is on my link, if you want it.
Heh Mark – why won’t you take my money? BWWWWAAAHHHAAAA!!!
So Larry, you’d rather fight, yes?
“Larry, I very strongly get the impression that you have a problem with Muslims,”
Fuck you, Clark. My kids are having some Muslim kids over today. It’s only relevant because of what they can eat.
With respect to my problems with radical Muslims, I have some of the same problems with radical Christians.
Suhayl would demonstrate his morality to me by encouraging Roderick to seek professional help.
The 911 hijackers aren’t dead? You heard it here at Craig Murray’s blog! Hahahahahahahahhahah!
“So Larry, you’d rather fight, yes?”
Fight? What?
If Larry’s a paid shill, he’s a waste of resources. He looks just like someone who lost a friend on 9/11 and comprehensively failed to cope with it. He’s obsessed with 9/11, and hurls insults at or suggests violent courses of action to Internet strangers he identifies as Muslim.
And he just happens to live on Craig’s blog like soba, who showed up at exactly the same time, which does seem very odd indeed. Let’s put it down to a bad waste of resources then. 😉
Clark,
Are you forgetting the fact that I’ve dutifully insulted you, Mark Golding, etc. – I don’t imagine that any of you are Muslim.
But you’re one of lefty loons of the world who believes that if one insults a Muslim, then he must have a problem with all of Islam.
You’re really not the brightest person here, Clark.
The Muslim population has grown from 1.65 million to 2.87 million since 2001, say researchers. What does this mean for liberal Britain?
Setting aside for the moment the topics of Muslim ghettos and jihadist Islam, let’s ask another question. How will the rapid growth of a conservative religion affect British social attitudes towards women’s rights, marriage, divorce, homosexuality and abortion? Liberal commentators are busy making fools of themselves in the Guardian and on Twitter accusing the mild-mannered Coalition of behaving like Nazis for trimming state spending. But I suspect that nothing politicians do will, in chattering terminology, “set back” social attitudes as drastically as the growth among young people of a faith that, even in its moderate incarnations, is resolutely non-liberal on many moral issues. What do you think?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100069830/the-muslim-population-has-grown-from-1-65-million-to-2-87-million-since-2001-say-researchers-what-does-this-mean-for-liberal-britain/
The Muslim population has grown from 1.65 million to 2.87 million since 2001, say researchers. What does this mean for liberal Britain?
Setting aside for the moment the topics of Muslim ghettos and jihadist Islam, let’s ask another question. How will the rapid growth of a conservative religion affect British social attitudes towards women’s rights, marriage, divorce, homosexuality and abortion? Liberal commentators are busy making fools of themselves in the Guardian and on Twitter accusing the mild-mannered Coalition of behaving like Nazis for trimming state spending. But I suspect that nothing politicians do will, in chattering terminology, “set back” social attitudes as drastically as the growth among young people of a faith that, even in its moderate incarnations, is resolutely non-liberal on many moral issues. What do you think?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100069830/the-muslim-population-has-grown-from-1-65-million-to-2-87-million-since-2001-say-researchers-what-does-this-mean-for-liberal-britain/
It is thoroughly remarkable that the person to get the most abuse from Larry (who was banned, by the way) is Suhayl; who he’s attacked with a viciousness and intensity that suggests a deeply nasty mind, or an illness, or both. Roderick Russell is plainly an excuse to hurl insults at him. I think it’s appalling.
Alan, it’s not your day to post articles. I thought that was covered in the meeting.
It is thoroughly remarkable that the person to get the most abuse from Larry (who was banned, by the way) is Suhayl; who he’s attacked with a viciousness and intensity that suggests a deeply nasty mind, or an illness, or both. Roderick Russell is plainly an excuse to hurl insults at him. I think it’s appalling.
As for you, Jaded, would you like me to find that quote of yours which downplays and trivialises the Holocaust, again? Or would you just like to keep pretending you’re a good guy?
alancampbell: ‘mild mannered coalition’. Like Alfred, I believe you live abroad (you have other similarities too). What perspective can you possibly have on the effect of these cuts? What the hell have they got to do with the growth of a particular religion? I’m not surprised to hear the Telegraph peddling the ridiculous ‘Muslims are taking over’ line (how many in parliament again?); their idea of journalism is recording second hand gossip from Vince Cable. But of course, I forgot, waste of time engaging with you as you always end up resorting to abuse, if, that is, you haven’t started with it.
I believe your weak effort to discredit me was trounced. Feel free to get trounced again.. No skin of my nose Mr. Zionist. 🙂
It does seem to be a feeble attempt to deflect the thread away from Larry. See him for what he is everyone. Old dogs, old tricks. Those poor, pathetic Zionists are going down the pan. Ha ha ha. :-0
Yeah very funny: a Zionist would hardly call the Israeli government ‘paranoid maniacs’; as I believe Clark has pointed out to you. But how very telling that you resort to that word as your first line of abuse.
Yes, they would if it suited their purpose. They conduct acts of mass murder, but wouldn’t tell a lie on a blog. Ha ha ha. You are priceless. Keep it up. 😉