Timing is All 251

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Meryl Streep took best actress award at the Golden Globes for The Iron Lady. There has been much media speculation about the motivation for Alex Salmond choosing Autumn 2014 for the independence referendum, largely centring around Bannockburn. Personally I can see the referendum coinciding brilliantly with Margaret Thatcher’s state funeral in London. That really would clinch it.

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  • Alan Arsebridger

    No, I can’t stop you. You can speak of King Elizabeth if you want. You can go to France and get all your adjectives wrong and be misunderstood. Why bother opening your mouth if you’re going to mangle the sense out of the language?

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Now, getting back to Thatcher. Personally, you know, we always knew where she stood, we knew what she was, politicaly, she basically did what she said she would do. So I can see why to some – to many- she remains a heroine (see, Arsebridger, Eureka! Through the agency of your sublime, erudite and masterful linguistic ejaculation, I have re-discovered the magnificently gendered English language!). I’ve often thought that, if only we’d had someone of similar strength of conviction on the Left in Britain! We were betrayed by Kinnock/Smith/Blair or rather, we betrayed ourselves via New Labour (and now again, this time via the Lib Dems, which largely is composed of the SDP, aka New Labour-before-New-Labour-was). Those who pretend to be friends and then stab one in the back are far worse, really, than those who were always honest (honest, in this sense only) enemies. And of course, she didn’t do it alone. Her henchmen and later her illegitimate sons (Blair, Brown et al) are equally to blame. They betrayed the working class (i.e. most of us).

  • Passerby

    Slap my thigh, I never , I am shocked I tell you , Shocked, , shocked I tell you; Nuclear Iran could deter military action, says Isreal.
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    Zionism is bullshit coming through loud and clear, all the brouhaha about the existential threats from Iranian nukes is the fear of zionist may have difficulties in going around killing indiscriminately and mooning the wider world afterwards, all the while swinging their dicks around and shouting out; wuchyo gonna doaboutit?

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    JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior Israeli military official says a nuclear Iran could make it tougher for Israel to act against enemies closer to home.

    Military planning division chief Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel says a nuclear-armed Tehran could constrain Israel from striking Iranian-backed Islamists groups in Lebanon and Gaza — Hezbollah and Hamas respectively.

    Eshel said Tuesday that if Israel is “forced to do things in Gaza or in Lebanon, under the Iranian nuclear umbrella it might be different.”

    Israel worries that a nuclear-armed Iran could threaten its survival and has hinted it could strike Iran militarily if international sanctions do not halt Tehran’s nuclear program.

    Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes, such as energy and the production of medical isotopes.

    as per this report

  • Suhayl Saadi

    King Elizabeth is good for me. The institution of monarchy knows no gender. It must be toppled! Down with the King of England! Down with the King’s English! Down with the King’s adjectives! At noon today, I declare war on semi-colons! We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the page…
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    Thank you, Arsebridger, for reminding the natives of the correct usage of our sacred tongue. It is much appreciated and for such a profound and luminous contribution, may I suggest you for a knighthood, perhaps? Sir Arsebridger of… Or better still, a baronetcy.

  • Mary

    Have you noticed that the PR operatives for Mickey Arison of Carnival Corp have cleverly excluded his name from all of the dreadful news?
    {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micky_Arison}
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    This is the latest.
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    Concordia Disaster: Hopes Fade For Missing
    The nationalities of the people missing from the capsized Costa Concordia have been revealed, with 14 of the 29 still not accounted for from Germany.
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    Rescuers off the Italian coast are also searching for six Italians, four French citizens, two Americans and three people from Peru, India and Hungary.
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    Four of those missing are crew members and the rest are passengers.
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    Search teams have been using explosives to blast holes in the half-submerged cruise ship but time is running out in the search for survivors.
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    Following the evacuation of the vessel on Friday night, US authorities have been appealing for information about a couple from Minnesota.
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    Jerry and Barbara Heil, from White Bear Lake, were on a 16-day once-in-a-lifetime holiday.
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    The couple, aged 69 and 70, are devout Catholics who spend much of their time volunteering at their local church.
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    http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16150728

  • Mary

    Nuid I too heard that decision of the ECHR. Mrs May is not having any of it though.
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    In a statement, Home Secretary Theresa May said: “I am disappointed that the court has made this ruling. This is not the end of the road, and we will now consider all the legal options available to us. In the meantime, Qatada will remain in detention in the UK.

    “It is important to note that this ruling does not prevent us seeking to deport other foreign nationals.”
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    The British government can make a final appeal before the judgement becomes binding in three months’ time. If it does not appeal, the cleric will have to be released from detention.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16590662
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    She still has Sheikh Raed Salah in her sights for deportation AFAIK.

  • Passerby

    This is how Jerusalem post hysterically reports the story I published earlier as per AP.
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    IDF officer: Nuclear Iran would deter against war in Gaza
    By REUTERS
    17/01/2012

    A nuclear-armed Iran could deter Israel from going to war in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip against Tehran’s terrorist allies, a IDF officer said on Tuesday.

    OC Planning Directorate head Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel echoed leaders in Jerusalem who argue that c nuclear-armed Iran could create a “global nuclear jungle” and fuel arms races in an already volatile Middle East.

    Eshel made clear that Israel worries that Syria and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia as well as Hamas in the Gaza Strip could one day find reassurance in an Iranian bomb.
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    Back to the “everyone will want a nuke if Iran gets one” story, as well as the “terrorists” peppered here and there, although grudgingly and in a step to inflame the “settlers” (zioBBC calls these Vandals, as the reporter asks; are we allowed to say that?) keeps the headline; Nuclear Iran would deter against war in Gaza
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    In reality a nuclear armed Iran would actually save lives judging by the admissions of these ziobullshit artists, simply through deterring and stopping state of perpetual war waged upon Palestinian civilians.
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    source; Jerusalem Post article

  • ingo

    Had a beautifull Monday off with the missis. Dim sum for lunch and a delightfull afternoon in the renovated Cinema City in Norwich, consuming my xmas present in the form of ‘the artist’.
    I can very much recommend it, even if its just for the antics of a well trained mutt. But the allegories and metaphors of a modernising Hollywood, somebody had found out how to put sound to film, all there in a beautifully made, silent film.
    I was not put off by the occaisional muffled explosion from ‘war horse’ playing next door to our screen, multiscreens are probably not the best for watching this excellent film made in the old fashioned way.
    It is also a good educational film if one would want to teach students the decadent gender inequality and false value’s that underpinned the early film industry. Enjoy.

  • Ben Franklin

    Mary;

    No offense, but your infatuation with Ron Paul is misguided.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/how-ron-pauls-libertarianism-supports-racism.html

    “You can see this premise at work in Paul’s statements about civil rights. In a 2004 statement condemning the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Paul laid out his doctrinaire libertarian opposition. “[T]he forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty,” he wrote. “The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties.””

  • MJ

    Ben Franklin: the thing about Paul is that he is the only candidate prepared to take on the banks by reforming the Fed. It is for this reason that the MSM is doing its best to pretend he doesn’t exist. He’s the only one who threatens the money men.
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    My humble advice to the American people would be to vote for him once, with fingers over the nose. Give him the opportunity to reform the Fed. If he doesn’t, get rid of him. If he does, say thanks very much and get rid of him.

  • Mary

    Ian Hislop and Alan Rusbridger were at the Leveson Inquiry today. Someone was saying that nothing will come of it except there will be a new version of the Press Complaints Commission but with teeth. More like gums or dentures I thought to myself. As Hislop said, all the stuff that has come out were crimes for which the perpetrators should have been punished. Exactly so.
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    http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/about/inquiry-costs/
    Costs so far £855,000 !!!!!July-September 2011

  • Mary

    Timing is all. Believe it or believe it not but Clarence Mitchell of Madeleine McCann fame is representing the sunken liner’s owners, Costa {CrockofShit} Crociere, aka Carnival Corp.
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    Mr Schettino is under arrest on suspicion of multiple manslaughter and abandoning his ship. Clarence Mitchell, who is representing the ship’s owners, Costa Crociere, confirmed the captain had been approaching the island to “make a salute”. He said: “The company says this was caused by an attempt by the captain to show the ship to the port. But there’s a criminal investigation going on and we’re not going to say anything that’s going to compromise that or the captain’s case.”

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    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ships-captain-was-showboating-admits-cruise-firm-6290685.html

  • guano

    ‘They were not “mistakes”!!!, they were very carefully planned and excuted by some very evil people, things were meant to be the way they wanted things to be. They knew what they were doing, we are all just pawns on a big chessboard, puppets on strings.’

    In hindsight it’s possible that the feasting on borrowing/lending and removal of currency transfer abroad may have had a political motive, viz to demolish the Soviet Union.
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    Nobody seems to have stopped for a hiccup before they turned the same policy towards the task of destroying Islam.
    Our government is now suing for peace in Afghanistan and commissioning AlQaida (if it exists) to fight proxy battles for Africom colonial expansion in Africa.
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    Deregulation was not in itself the problem. The real problem is that government sought to increase freedom for Western culture while decreasing freedom in Muslim cultures. The transfer of power from the ageing Muslim dictatorships to AlQaida draconian Islam will reduce personal freedom to zero.
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    Zionism is now actively seeking to create a version of Islam which no sane person will ever embrace, and most sane people will run away from, an Islam based on lying , spying, and double-standards of justice between the in-group and out group as defined by the torture-maddened Mullahs put in power by the UKUSIS Western governments.
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    As with Mrs T’s reforms, these guys, Obama, Cameron, Fox or Hague know exactly the evil of their strategy and they are labelling it as a popular , Arab Spring. Contents: 100% USUKIS Urine

  • glenn_uk

    Ben Franklin: I entirely agree with you about Ron Paul. He’s one racist, bigoted old “let ’em starve!” style advocate of laissez-faire type capitalism who lives in a fantasy world, where every last item of government protection for civilians should be done away with. He doesn’t believe in society, in other words. His supporters catch on to a few of his policies that are useful, but this is where government should butt out of people’s lives anyway (eg, prostitution, drug-taking and military adventurism). All his other policies are total poison.

  • nuid

    Ron Paul’s foreign policy is all he has going for him and it sounds very attractive to me as a non-American — but if I was an American, I’d run a mile from him and his “let em starve” policies. (Having said that, he wouldn’t have the power to put half of what he talks about into practise, surely? Reform the Fed? On his own?)

  • Clark

    Hello all, I thought I’d mention, for those that know; my old dog Shiboo died yesterday. I called out the vet who administered a lethal injection. A friend and I buried Shiboo today; we finished just as Sirius was rising. I’d had him since June 1995; I think he was about eighteen. My thanks to various people here for their support.

  • nuid

    So sad to hear your news, Clark. I too know how you’re feeling. My cat was 18 when I had to do the same. It’s hard.

  • glenn_uk

    Clark: Sorry mate. It sounds like we’re being self-indulgent going on about pets, but they are actually members of the family, completely dependent on us and we see them every day – they’re part of our lives.
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    We lost a dragon last year, a rescue pet nursed back to life by the misses and lived with us for nearly a decade, who’d been ill for a few months. It was a pretty damned sad time all round, particularly knowing he was slipping away all the while. Of course it’s not as bad as losing a wife, child, parent or friend – but all the same, a member of the family is lost, and we miss him.

  • Ben Franklin

    http://crookedtimber.org/2012/01/17/goodbye-labour/

    “In an attempt to demonstrate their credentials as the takers of “tough decisions”, British Labour leader Ed Miliband (whom I backed as leader) and his shadow Chancellor Ed Balls have been telling the world that a future Labour government can’t guarantee to reverse Tory public expenditure cuts, and favour a public sector pay freeze, and even pay cuts for public sector workers (to save jobs, apparently). Well it is a funny world where a sign of your toughness is your willingness to pander to the right-wing commentariat. Of course I understand that a future Labour government will have to cope with the world it inherits and that difficult choices will have to be made. But in the interim, people are fighting to stop the coalition from vandalising Britain’s public services and punishing the poorest and most vulnerable. Faced with Miliband and Balls “signalling” (or whatever), those negotiating to defend workers will be told by their managements that “even” the Labour leadership concede the necessity for cuts and concessions. This simply cuts the ground from under the feet of trade unionists and campaigners. It also validates Tory policies in the eyes of large parts of the electorate. Well they’ve made their choice and I’ve made mine. It is a small one, and Ed and Ed won’t even notice, but I have left the party.?

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