There's a lot of it about

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Spike Milligan was a real funnyman and surely got it right about the future when he wrote this script in 1983 :

Laugh at a cretin; Unemploymethon

'ROUSING, FUN TYPE, MUSIC, AS SIMILAR AS POSSIBLE TO LONDON WEEKEND'S 'GAME FOR A LAUGH'.
PAN ACROSS GLITTERY CAPTION : 'LAUGH AT A CRETIN' WE HEAR A LOUD JOLLY VOICE OVER :

VOICE OVER : Yes, it's 'Laugh at a cretin'. The show where the old, the educationally sub-normal, the poor, the disadvantaged, are laughed at by a load of awful fat woman with false teeth.

BRIEF CUT AWAY TO WEMBLEY CROWD CHEERING.'


Milligan wrote this 7 years after Russell Brand was born.


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Russell Brand, Ponce or Nonce?

The Guardian, Comment is Free

MerkinOnParis
Oct 28 08, 12:07am

'I would never get tired of punching Russell Brand'

That's all I said. Nine words.

I got towards 100 recommends and, more importantly, NOT ONE comment which said that my wish to protect a 78 year old pensioner was in some way disproportionately vocalized.

Far from it, there was actually support in other CiF blogs.

'If anyone gives either of them a right good seeing to it would be as much as they deserve.
Having said that, to abuse anyone never mind a 78 year old pensioner is deplorable.

To do it for money is even worse.

Recommended (101)'

And rightly so.

There is no reason to phone up elderly people and abuse them 'for fun'.
That 'for fun' mentality results in a lot of cats and dogs with fireworks up their arses on Guy Fawkes Night.
That 'for fun' was even 'the Abhu Graib excuse' for some defendants.

I digress. Nine words.

Then, I was moderated - about 15 hours after posting!

My comment on CiF doesn't exist now.
Vapourised.
Disappeared into the black hole of Orwellian history.

However, it does exist in the collective memory of those who agreed with me.

Perhaps I should have said : 'Russell Brand is an arrogant ponce who gets kicks from making dirty phone calls in order to bully other people'.

My family was on the receiving end of similar nonce calls at one point and, believe me, it was very distressing for those targeted.

Will Brand get his collar felt for this offence (people have been put on the sex offenders register for similar offences to his)?


No, he'll get a pay rise for bringing in extra publicity.

Will You Stroke my Love Bombs, Wee One?

LWTC24/7 said it very nicely :

"More child porn" demands bin Laden in latest tape said an Al Qaeda member as he opened up his latest e-mail. After taking n the visual treat for 10 minutes or so, he clicked ‘Start, programs and then AQ 2008(SE).

Propaganda and Psy-Ops manifest themselves in different ways.

Don't believe the official line about 9/11 or 7/7?
You must be a conspiracy theorist - believing in Giant Lizards and David Icke as Montezuma.
Even Vlad Putin was characterised as a conspiracy theorist by The Graun.

If that doesn't work lets try something else.

As we know, the official line about the War of Terror is starting to wear a bit thin.

Even Christopher Hitchens, finally, said :

'There is no such organisation as ‘Al Qaeda’. The spooks know this, Cabinet Ministers know this and so do the ‘security correspondents’ who so readily trot out the spooks’ point of view on our broadcasting networks.'

Fewer and fewer people believe the Government line so, like junkies, they have to try something stronger to get the masses on board.

During the Summer, they tried the Russian Bear as being the latest terrorist threat.
Didn't work.
Those and such as those were severely trashed when trying to put forward the view that 'Russia invaded Georgia'.

It didn't help that MillyVanilli was proved to be a 'figment of the imagination' who didn't even know who his enemy was.

Try something else.

So, now, Osama (sic) is a kiddie fondler? - and anyone who disbelieves the official line is a paedo?.

More Soma anyone?



As Stef says, 'Just how f***ing stupid do They think We are?!!'
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Well, obviously they do.


Update : Friday 24th

John Pilger has a good article in The Graun about 'protecting the children' as an excuse for another land and resource grab.


'"The land grab of Aboriginal tribal land has nothing to do with child sexual abuse," says the Australian scientist Helen Caldicott, "but all to do with open slather uranium mining and converting the Northern Territory to a global nuclear dump."


Update : Sunday 26th

' . . . the Rudd government prepares plans for a field trial of internet service provider (ISP) filtering products, with a view to introducing them nationally.'

'The aim, he said, was to create a safer online environment for Australian children.'

The Three Caballeros - Merkel, Sarkozy and Bruno

Earlier, I sent a mention to Barnacle Bill on his excellent blog (something about European solidarity).
It set me thinking.

'Oh, through fair
and stormy weather
We're always together
So let come what may
The three caballeros
Forever we'll stay'

Only a few days ago, we heard Ms Merkel stress that guaranteeing deposits was not the way to go.
Bruno said 'no unlimited guarantees' and 'led' the moves towards a piffling fund for small businesses that could easily be covered by a single parachute bonus to a failed banker.
Sarkozy also said that the EU must stick together - yet on Thursday guaranteed “not a single depositor will lose a single Euro because a financial establishment turns out to be unable to fulfil its obligations”.

It did not take long for this show of solidarity to show its ugly face :

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Germany became the latest, and by far the biggest, European country to explicitly guarantee the deposits in banks held by their citizens, in a move announced Sunday.

As I write, Bruno is trying to get the spin together to explain exactly why Darling Alastair will shortly be announcing something similar for the Brits.

Of course, The Three Gay Caballeros could equally apply to the re-birth of the Prince of Darkness being 'joined at the hip' with Gay Gordon (and a Middle Man or two).

We're Three happy chappies
with snappy sarapes
You'll find us beneath our sombreros
We're brave and we'll stay so
We're bright as a peso
Who says so, we say so
We're three caballeros

So, Mandelson has been back at the side of the PM for only 3 days and already the wheels are falling off another wagon on the euro-train.

'Way to go' as they say across the pond.

Maverick caught bang to rights.

Who is the tall, dark stranger there?
Maverick is the name.
Ridin’ the trail to who knows where,
Luck is his companion. Gamblin’ is his game.

John McCain rode to the rescue of the mighty Dollar - or did he?

Worth looking at is 'The bizarre tale of how the media turned a crooked Republican into the mirage of a principled politician.'

Is there a possibility that the reason Brown and Bush have acted without regard for the wishes of the majority in recent years is that they know there is piss all we can do about it.?

Reports tell us that, in America, the threat of Martial Law (perhaps more than a threat) was used to cajole politicians into voting for 'The Bailout' which legalises the largest robbery in history.

I accept that Martial Law in Congressional terms is different to the notion of having soldiers on the streets imposing a curfew, but the slippery slope is being tilted as we speak.

That The Bailout can't work is pretty obvious and difficult times will continue.
Difficult enough to suspend the electoral process in the US and the UK?

Doggone it, darn right, you betcha bottom dollar on a hockey mom's cotton socks.