Gunman kills seven and himself in Slovak capital | Reuters

I suppose the Slovaks will now get their first real dose of victim disarmament.

Gunman kills seven and himself in Slovak capital | Reuters

Sign of the times

Micael Winning

The Oxford English Dictionary may not be printed in hardcopy again. So what happens if the electricity gets tuenrd off by the greens?

Perhaps that is what the bastards have in mind all along. Not just cultural destruction as DD keeps on syaing but the removal of a whole language from the realm of meaning?

Living In A Madhouse

 

Living In A Madhouse

Far be it from me to point the accusing finger….

Sean Gabb

Of course, *IF* Mr Hague delights in a spot of bum fun – and I have no evidence whatever that he does – it’s hardly a sick bag matter. Certainly, it’s far less our concern than if he were flipping properties or otherwise fiddling his expenses. Indeed, the fact that he *MIGHT* have misled the public is of no consequence. When you have no right to ask a particular question, you have no reason to complain if you are not given a true answer.

No, what I dislike about William Hague is that he acted in 2001 *AS IF* he’d been bribed or blackmailed to throw the election, and he then somehow made millions for giving his crap speeches all over the place, and he appears to have been pushing like mad for support of British military involvement in America’s wars. He also helped stitch us up over the Lisbon referendum. All this is surely a product more of stupidity than of villainy. But I see no reason to think better of him for that.

If revelations that he has been more than “posing as a somdomite” are the only way of wiping that grin from his face, just watch how old-fashioned I can become!

Simon Heffer on why accuracy in English matters

David Davis

No Michael, I’m not getting at you here, so don’t worry. Heffer, though, as always, is a model of clarity.

Hague quashes the rumours: `I’m not gay’ ague – UK Politics, UK – The Independent

 

Hague quashes the rumours: `I’m not gay’ ague – UK Politics, UK – The Independent

Sean Gabb says: Hang on, hang on – I’ve just noticed this denial from 13 years ago. William Hague says unambiguously here that he is a man of normalitude. I think, therefore, we should stop this foolish and childish speculation, as it can only tend to put people in doubt of the Foreign Secretary’s veracity.

Cabinet minister may act over false claims of gay affairs – Telegraph

 

Cabinet minister may act over false claims of gay affairs – Telegraph

We cannot but be vague about these claims. SIG

I Can’t Sing this One Either

Sean Gabb

But at least I don’t have to count my way through every bar, staring and rubbing my eyes!

When the earth stands still

Michael Winning

I was idly moocing about on the internet and I found this. Of course its obvious that of stuff moves about on the earth from top to sides, it will change its angular momentum (whats angular monentum then?0) so you tech people might like this from Strange Maps, an interesting blog.

What hope for the rest of us?

Christopher Houseman

Forget “Spooks”. This is how effective the surveillance State is at protecting one of a hand-picked élite among its own lieutenants, who lived “about half-a-mile” from MI6 headquarters.

Yessiree, I for one sleep soundly at night, safe in the knowledge that the Security and Intelligence apparatus of Her Majesty’s Government is keeping a sharp look-out for those genuinely evil terrorist types it often helped to train and finance in the first place.

Cough, Splutter Rave….

Sean Gabb

I have a cough that is causing me to bring up lumps of yellow phlegm. I have decided to blame the Jewminati Lizards and their henchmen in the City of London.

Anyone who dares question this is by definition one of them!

7 Planets found 127 Light years away

michael Winning

I just noticed this and thought some of you people might be interested.

Best GCSE results ever!

David Davis

Here you go, let’s all rejoice.

Latest madness with biofuels at Drax Power Station

by Philip Foster

I have just heard from a friend that work is going on at the Drax Power Station building storage and adapting one of their 11 boilers to burn, wait for it…. willow wands! It will require, apparently, some 72,000 tons of the stuff every month. Local farmers are planting willows rather than crops to rake in the extra subsidies, but no way can they supply that amount of biofuel. Then there is the pollution generated by burning green twigs. Coal burning products are a doddle to clean up compared to this. These people are certifiable. Rev Philip Foster MA 1 Barnfield, Common Lane, Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire PE28 9AX 01480 399098 Also SMP Ltd.

What should a libertarian do?

David Davis

Apologies again for absence. Since Gordon Brown and Tony Blair (and John Major and Thatcher too, for they failed to kill the rot while they could have done cheaply) have run out of everyone’s money, I have been scratching around on the bottom of the chicken-coop of this gigantic open prison, for things that might earn a crust or two. Not much success, but some thoughts.

Libertarians, as we are now, are good at talking to ourselves. We blog, we rant, we publish sundry pamphlets, and all the while the gramsoStaliNazis go marching on. Through the “Institutions” (they’ve done that now and have corrupted them quite fully enough), through the “New Universities” – that great hotbed of bureaucrat-spawning which they wanted deliberately to create so as to keep the supply of willing concentration-camp-guards going, using courses like “Town Planning Studies” (I made that one up but you know what we mean.)

We the Libertarians have not been very good at seeing how to trip up our enemies capitally, using no money, in no time, and with no resources. This is a failing. We are quite good at articulating arguments for liberalism, which is to say: capitalism and individual freedom in all aspects of life, but we are absolutely shite at persuading the right number (which is to say: thousands and thousands and thousands, and more thousands) of people (not just “students” who will be “important” later) _/IN POWER NOW/_ that we are right, and everything that they have been taight and have hitherto believed about which way round the relationships in a civilisation are, is wrong.

That their view of how society works is an inversion of the truth, and that ours is the correct way up, escapes them totally. We know we are right, and we know they are wrong, but can we get it across?

Nah.

Dr Sean Gabb, who has been on the TV and the radio more times than all of us together have had a hot dinner, is used by the Enemy-Class as the statutory fall-guy, and straw-man, whose mike can be turned off as soon as he has said something that Yasmin Alibi-Brown can’t answer. The rest of us, about five, won’t even get asked on, even if we could perform. Look at what was done to The Devil even, by that guy who pilloried him on live TV a few months ago.

I’m not saying I know what the solution is. Can anybody help in the discussion, in which I hope you will all get killed in the rush to respond?

As promised, we have just raised the price of the LA Conference to £99

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/conferences/conf10brochure.htm

Our reason is that the National Liberal Club has had to increase its own prices, and, while we never make a profit from the conference, we cannot afford a loss.

Yes, think of this every time some slimy politician comes on the telly and tries telling us that inflation is not a problem.

I Think I have Published One of My Books via Kindle

Sean Gabb

But am unable to see if I have done a good or a crap job of setting the text. How without spending money, can I see a copy?

How Could Illegal Immigration Make America Any Worse Than It Already Is? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

 

Nice reference to Sean Gabb here!

As a people that have long puffed out their chests for having the most free and richest country in the history of the world, it is hard for Americans to come to grips with the fact that their country is now a toilet (hat tip to Sean Gabb for this phenomenal metaphor). The country they have long viewed as a bastion of liberty and free markets is now nothing more than a bankrupt, run-of-the-mill police state, but many Americans have been slow to recognize this, and they continue to flail away at issues that are completely irrelevant or quixotic. The prime example of this is the fact that many Americans still waste their time trying to get Congressman X or Senator Y elected, as though it really matters whether the man in Washington robbing them to fund war, government eavesdropping, and corporate welfare is from the Donkey syndicate or the Elephant syndicate. There is a very fine line dividing the cautiously optimistic from the hopelessly naïve, and I fear that an overwhelming number of Americans have slipped into the latter category as they wistfully imagine that their government and their economy can be salvaged in the voting booth.

How Could Illegal Immigration Make America Any Worse Than It Already Is? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

When was a Militarised Police State “Progressive”?

by Sean Gabb

Tha answer, I suppose, is when you’re a Liberal Democrat MP. Ever since they went into coalition with a Tory Party that is, admittedly, awful, they’ve been whining about the chance they missed of creating a “progressive” coalition.

What was progressive about the Blair/Brown Junto? Its wars with Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq? The Civil Contingencies Act? The various “terror” laws? Identity cards? When did the Tories last do anything that awful? What chance they will this time?

My advice to David Cameron is to wait until Labour has burdened itself with a new and useless leader, and then hurry off to make HMQEII dissolve Parliament. I don’t fancy a Tory majority – not bearing in mind the dross who get selected. Better that, though, that having to be partly governed by a few dozen people who, despite the name they’ve given their party, are neither liberals nor democrats.

Something Wonderful

Sean Gabb

The score is handy for telling me the piece is in Db. And it generally helps explain why my own efforts at singing it in the car have not so far matched those of Mme Callas….