Sim-O

FFS!! Fucking computers!!

Labels: Odds and Sods

FFS!! Fucking computers!!

Labels: Odds and Sods

Well, George W. Bushs’ time in office is coming to an end, so like Our tone a couple of months ago, has had to dust off his CV ready for his next appointment.

Desertpeace has posted it, and what a fascinating read it is too.
As someone in the comments says, it beggars belief that he got a second term (I nearly said elected a second time, but he wasn’t elected the first time).

Labels: Bush

Iain Dales’ Diary may seem intelligible enough, but if you want to know what he’s really trying to say, John Hirst has set up Ians’ Daily Diary to cut through the shit.

And very helpful it is too.

Oh, some people, including me, can have trouble with the written word, so I should just make this clear, it’s satire.

Via Tim

Labels: Blogging, Twats That Talk Bollox

Ian Dale:

…there’s no doubt about it – if you mention the words Ronald and Reagan in the same sentence you’re guaranteed a huge cheer.

Perhaps it will one day be the same in Britain for Margaret Thatcher. Such a shame politicians have to die first for their legacy to be truly appreciated.

Maggies’ legacy is truly appreciated already, Iain.

Labels: Odds and Sods

Lenin:

Let me see if I can get this straight. In Palestine, there is a state that was created out of the murder and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of the original inhabitants, which is fuelled by racism and religious fanaticism, and which has consistently murdered Palestinians and imposed forms of segregation on them in lieu of a just settlement. If you criticise this from any prominent position, you’re likely to be called an anti-Jewish racist – and there’s no Israel Lobby? Conversely, there is in the United States a powerful coalition of energy interests and finance-capital, interlocked with a state which has been engaged in the serious business of empire for over a century. It has built a coalition of popular support involving hard right Christians, racist crackers and militaristic gun nuts, behind a hard-right administration. But if it attacks an oil-rich country in the Middle East, it needs the permission of a small country in the Levant?

The Rest

Labels: Israel, USA

Q: What happens when a ‘libertarian‘ who steals images and bandwidth gets called a thief?

A: Out come the laywers. Amusingly, a tax laywer.

Tim Ireland:

Recently, I wrote an article about Paul Staines (you know him better as ‘Guido Fawkes’) stealing images and bandwidth. Now I’m getting threatening emails from his lawyer, Donal Blaney (you can’t see those, but you can see my replies).

To put it bluntly, I suspect that I am being targeted not because of what I said, but because of who I am.

Blaney appears to be very closely aligned to Staines personally, professionally and politically. He also appears to be an odd choice of lawyer for a libel case (if indeed one is truly in the offing), as his specialty/background is tax law.

Via Donal Blaney, Paul Staines has been badgering me to reveal my home address or retain the services of a lawyer in an effort to bully me into silence without true recourse to law.

It’s The Alisher Usmanov Affair all over again…. and I’d appreciate your support. Again.

After all, if some jumped-up blogger with a lawyer for a mate came after you, I’d be in your corner and slugging it out without hesitation.

Damn right I’d want Tim in my corner. For what it’s worth, I’m with you, Tim.

Labels: Blogging, Freedom of Speech, Law/Legal

Labels: Photoshopping

Haaretz:

Israel should grant all of world Jewry the right to vote even on political issues, the president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, demanded on Monday.

OK, how does this sound? Let me vote in the US elections because my family are Christians? No?
What’s the difference, then?

Labels: Israel

The Guardian:

Tory leader David Cameron has pledged to scrap restrictions on controversial police stop-and-search powers in a bid to reduce gun and knife crime.

He said there needed to be “far more” on-the-spot action and pledged to take on critics who argue the tactic alienates ethnic minorities who are more likely to be stopped.

In an interview with The Sun newspaper, he argued black and Asian youngsters would benefit most from a tougher regime as they were the ones being stabbed and shot.

Because the Police, at the moment, need a reason to stop someone. As if they don’t have enough reasons already, like loitering suspiciously, or acting suspiciously or walking suspiciously, or, well, you get the idea. If they don’t have to give a reason just imagine the amount of crimanals they could catch!

He added: “Stop and search rules were put in place to protect young black and Asian British kids. Now it’s the young black and British Asian kids that are being stabbed and shot and the rules are getting in the way of protecting them.

Stop and search rules weren’t put in place to protect black and asain kids. They were put in place to protect us all from a Police state.

Racist attitudes in the police had now been changed, he said, meaning the powers could be extended without charges of prejudice being levelled at officers.

What the fuck does that mean? I unserstand that charges of racism can be easily thrown at officers, and being white working class (the wife would say middle class, but then she is Indian) I don’t really have any experience of harrassment by The Fuzz, but I’m sure that the Police already have all the powers they need to stop an asain or black kid if they’re acting suspiciously.
Or is it the quotas getting in the way again?

Labels: The Police