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.
technicolour, my real name is Ingo and its my first name. I also have a nom de plume which I use on my local newspaper which, in its simplicity is noncholant, thats why I like it.
BUT, everyone knows that its me anyway, its not designed as a cover but an acessory. But by their inceptions, silly names are like a dummy shoved in the head of a wanting child, it sucks and it sucks and it sucks again.
I hope the shoes fit dreolin, and that we will one day again enjoy your excellent posts
Iain Orr was another great commentator on this blog, I forgot to mention him earlier.
Yes, you’re right, technicolour at 7:08.
Oh yikes, my shoes! Maybe Angry went home to Oz for Christmas …
Thanks, Vronsky, Glenn, Suhayl, Ingo … No, I’m not gone. Just keeping my irritation (at trolls and ‘indentity theft’ and other such nonsense) away out of here until some form of moderation or registration arrives, maybe as a New Year pressie. With a bit of luck.
It’s Au Revoir and not Adieu — et Non, je ne regrette rien. 🙂
Come on Craig
Say Something FFS
Do You Know This Kid…
I Really Appreciate Such Courage…
It is Not Just That He Turned Up To Face The Riot Police….
Any kid can do that with their mates
Its that He actually got up on stage afterwards to talk about it
Such Courage Is BRILLIANT to see in Our Younger Generation
http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/
Tony
A bit early for your drunken rants, Tony the Truther
I suddenly feel quite festive…
‘Christmas is evil’: Muslim group launches poster campaign against festive period
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340794/Christmas-evil-Muslim-group-launch-poster-campaign-festive-period.html#ixzz19XJVtLkN
Someone’s missed the “secular muslims” memo:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12089543
Denmark holds ‘Muhammad cartoon plotters’
Five suspected Islamist militants have been arrested for planning a gun attack at the Copenhagen offices of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, police say.
Yes, Alan, but can’t you see that that’s America’s fault?
Alan: Since about one fifth of all humans are Muslim, it’s not surprising that one of them does or says something nutty once in a while. Your racist, bigoted references prove nothing. Why don’t you report on of crimes of intolerance, terrorism and various lunacy, declaring the perpetrators to be Christian, or white, or European, or American, as if that was the root of the problem? Damn you and your hate-mongering.
technicolour: Thank you for your comments, and you’re right – I am tired of these stinking cowardly trolls that behave in a manner, here, that they never would dare in real life. I don’t mind having disagreements with others – that’s how we learn things after all, and have our views challenged. I do mind the childish “Yah-Boo” style of spoiling that we’ve come to expect more and more these days.
Larry,
Just Face It…
You American Kids Are Just Not In The Same League
Sure Your Rich American Kids Come Over – and Make Friends With Our English Kids…
Trying To Learn Something…
But Such Courage is Rare and Special
It Is ENGLISH
You See We Have a History of Fighting Dragons
Normally We Just Stick a Sword Through Their Hearts and Tell The Rest Of Them To Fuck Off
So The NAZIs are Grouping In American and Isreal
Sue I Don’t Know How To Spell
CUNTS
But I Know Where The Love Is
Even Boris
I Mean FFS – How Can You Argue With The Mayor Of LOndon – A Friend of Isreal – I Have Checked Him Out
In New York They Have Rudi who Cries as He Blows Up All His World Trade Centres
I cant accuse Boris of Anything Except Some of The Funnies Things I Have Seen at The Closure of an Olympic Games
We Will Have All The Cunts In Jail
Before The Start of The London Olympics in 2012
You Just Have Got To Go With Boris…
“In the next decade I expect Tony Blair will finally be led in shackles to the Hague, to answer for his crimes against humanity. It will be a long indictment. Our former Prime Minister will be accused of taking his country to war on false pretences, of collaborating with the Bush regime in the waterboarding of prisoners, of recklessly endangering the safety of his fellow citizens.”
Tony
“Why don’t you report on of crimes…declaring the perpetrators to be Christian, or white”
But isn’t that your role, Glenn?
Just reminding you that there is a world outside of self-congratulatory bloggers on this site patting each other on the back saying how terribly brilliant and radical you all are.
Israel stuff on WikiLeaks Twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/wikileaks
Alan Campbell at 8:55pm: Are these guys made-to-order, one wonders, or do they simply germinate from the ice and snow? There are always a plenitude of nutters to go around but I note that the article suggests that these guys seem connected with the provocative idiot who organised a ‘demo’ at Wooton Bassett (where dead UK soldiers’ bodies are received). These guys serve as a gift to the hard state and the Far Right. As I said, there enough nutters to go around, without positing hard state involvement. And yet…
There are generally several ‘scare’ stories of this type around Xmas-time. These guys are basically just publicity-hungry vandals. Why is this being whipped-up into national news? Do they and the Daily Mail both long for Kristallnacht, Mark II? What precisely is their aim?
Have you been reading my posts in America??
I have been reading and writing in America for that last 4 years or so…
I thought there was not a point in weiting stuff on English blogs
And I do not know how to write in Spanish and French and German and Italian and Jewish and Egyprian and Arabic and all the other languages I don’t know…..
I know she is getting a bit fruity and wants to get out their and
Do it Again
and she is getting Really Angry
What Do You Want Me To Do
Tear My Passport into Pieces???
And I Try and Explain To Her That I am in Great Danger…
If Any Cunt Tries To “Pat You Down” in Any Airport In The World – Then I am Liable To Take His Gun Off Him and Stick It Up His Arse..
And so She Doesn’t Know Anything Of This Shit and
Is FREE To TRAVEL ANYWHERE On HER Planet Earth…
She is Soon To Come Out Of Ger SULK
These Things Never Last One…
(Tip – If You are Choosing a Potential Wife – Spend 5 Years Living With Her – Testing The Lengths of Her Sulks. Most Women Go Mad For a Few Days a Lunar Month – If They Try and String It Our For More Than THREE Says – Just Walk Away and Find Yourself another Girl)
I Can’t take This Manic Depression for More Than a Few Days
But I have Never Been Attracted To a Girl Who Can’t Do It…
The PASSION IN THE GIRLS
I mean its just fucking awesome
Don’t Try and Tame It
Just Learn To Live With It
She is a Lioness
And She Has Chosen You
To Spend Her Life With
Don’t Mess With The Girls – They Know EVERYTHING
A Hug a Kiss and a Cuddle is OK
Cos She Sees Me Doing That To My Male Friends Too
Tony
i’m not abandoning the blog, but i’m going to lay off, apart from lurkin, until a new post appears too. best to all
Dreoilin
Craig gets a dose of Christmas guilt-trip from his X around Xmas time, and he’s probably promised to catch up with his kids before he posts again.
In my experience they do get bored eventually ( the exes ) pulling the same old worn out strings like ian duncan smith or paddy ashdown. Everyone turns into a has-been eventually. Even Blair will shrivel into an elder statesman.
So far as I can tell, she has not yet joined the conservative or the green party – and obviously the liberals are ruled out….
So how come she just came downstairs from her massive sulk – and prepared even more Brussel Sprouts…
Now I don’t mind Guido Fawkes pinching My Jokes – But I Haven’t Had Sex Since Then…
If this is what the Green Party is All About – Then I am Sure There is a Lot Of Energy In There Which Can Be Captured
No I Never set a Light To It
Far Too Dangerous
I Don’t Want To Blow The Bedroom Up
Tony
(Moderated: off-topic)
Piss off tony_opmoc, you drunken fuck. You are a liar, as you promised not to post here any more.
To paraphrase someone, somewhere – “Never argue with trolls. They drag you down to their level and in the end they win on experience.”
great article,l like it
Never believe an alcoholic’s promises. His vanity is outstanding too.
Someone who has a lot of patience should try to explain to glenn the meaning of transference. There he goes again insulting people he falsely claims of insulting behaviour…..
“Someone who has a lot of patience should try to explain to glenn the meaning of transference. There he goes again insulting people he falsely claims of insulting behaviour….”
I don’t think anyone has that much patience. Once glenn has a thought he’s so overwhelmingly proud of it that he can’t resist showing it off to anyone he speaks to no matter how silly it is and no matter how many people tell him that.
He’ll come back now with “Don’t insult me you lying cowardly stinking teabagging shill!”
tony_opmoc is now talking about his excrement on a public forum. I think this man needs help too. It’s a bit like a mental institution around here.
Denmark holds anti-cartoon plotters.
Would be wind up merchant alan campbell reminds me of the windows search dog. Let me remind you, it is not a real dog, it is a cartoon, digging an imaginary hole on a computer screen. Alan is the same. He appears to be busy foraging for anti-Muslim sentiment and asking the big question: Is God real?
Look, we have plenty of Muslims who are pretending they are not Muslims, so they can carry on feeding at the food trough of socialism. And we have plenty of Muslims who tolerate ignorance of their religion while they strive for its reality and knowledge. But when the police come up with a bunch of idiots who are really and earnestly sincere about destroying the western usury system, any idiot can work out that they if they were really sincere about Islam, they would utilise Islam’s tools for dealing with faith difficulties. viz rational discussion, consultation with people of knowledge, patient protest.
It’s only computer dog cartoons like alan campbell that are unable to detect that this is a set up. Your cartoon brain finds a file and unthinkingly presents it for discussion. There is no doubt in my mind and in the mind of all of the practising Muslims that these so-called instances are false-flag, state-generated illusions. only the very simple-minded buy into them from their own ignorance, prejudice and delusions.
tony_opmoc’s christmas binge cry for help on a blog is a long shot, but drinkers are survivors. The mental hospital in Birmingham which deals with alcohol problems is so unsympathetic and rough on drinkers in difficulties that is able to cover from Gloucester to Aberystwyth with 20 beds, because nobody is uncautious enough to enter it. Those who do, leave very soon.
My family were held to ransom by a blocked toilet for three days, so I ended up in roughly the same situation as Tony’s description, but apparently with less fascination. Western society is a like living in mental institution, in so far as it creates a festival that worships alcohol, and then abuses those who cannot control their drinking. Take note, ye Alans, western society abuses its social victims and reduces others to the status of strangled corpses to be found by dog-walkers. Why not just switch off the bigotry about Islam for a change, my man.
“Tariq Aziz at least had a show trial ?” he is a symbol of the hundreds awaiting death in Iraq who have not even had that. He was also a nationalist who begged the former pope not to allow Iraq to be destroyed by an invasion ?” and refused to leave the country which, for all his failings, he had devoted his life to. Under Saddam Hussein, those over 70 could not be executed. Tariq Aziz is a 74-year-old stroke victim. It looks to many as if what the US and UK have wrought in Iraq continues the excesses of the former regime. One can only hang one’s head in shame. Saddam was executed ?” some say lynched ?” on 31 December. Let us hope history does not repeat this shame ?” in our name.”
Oh, puuuuuuuh-leaze! Poor ole Tariq Aziz serve his country and yada yada yada…
His death sentence probably will not be carried out because the new president said he wouldn’t sign the execution order. But try not to pretend that he’s just some regular run of the mill dissident, Tariq Aziz was part of a government that ruthlessly tortured and butchered its political oppoenents.
“Saddam was executed ?” some say lynched ?” on 31 December.”
“Some say” many stupid things. The hanging was probably a bad idea but if anyone deserved it it was Saddam Hussein (Saddam to his friends).
“The silence of the pope…” Teh pope has asked for Tariq Aziz not to be hanged.
“Under Saddam Hussein, those over 70 could not be executed. Tariq Aziz is a 74-year-old stroke victim.”
Cry me a river!
Let’s watch how Saddam Hussein ran his country and let’s see what justice he meted out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm64E5R12s8
Oh, and who’s that over the shoulder of Saddam Hussein? Why, it’s Tariq Aziz!
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