The body of a 52-year-old woman who fell to her death in the Pyrenees was devoured by Griffon vultures before emergency services were able to retrieve it. Furious locals are demanding that authorities take action against the endangered carrion-eaters after they left only the woman’s bones, clothes and shoes for burial. What sort of action? Convert them to vegetarianism? ‘When we first went out in the helicopter looking for the…
If things we did growing up were in error, how far can one go down that path before nothing is good we knew and did? The heroes and villains become less able to be distinguished one from the other as one grows older. There is a point of view that the Boomers did it wrong, had the wrong icons, shut Gen X out of the jobs for so long and…
Following a post at NO on Hollande and the blunderbussing of gay laws, followed by demonstrations up and down the country, commenter Richard wrote: I am an atheist and gays (or wooly-woofters as I refer to them) are involved in voluntary relationships so intellectually I don’t see a philosophical problem with gay marriage. But, oh but… every country debating this “problem” at the same time as if it was a…
If I were the anti-Christ, as someone on my testimonials page said, if I knew that Enoch Powell was basically right about non-assimilating cultures, if I wanted an end-result of a society with no free movement of people but wanted to make mischief and sow discord along the way, I ‘d firstly give the people a bubble. Never mind that they can’t afford it and are living on credit which…
The Slog [John Ward] makes reference to the “business community” in Germany demanding over Cyprus: Business community discontent pushes EC into plans for total control To an extent that’s right but there are others in Germany and always have been who are far more demanding, as they see themselves as carrying German destiny to its logical conclusion. It has never changed, right back to the Hapsburgs. This by Edward is…
Mavis Masarirambi had agreed to be repatriated after her asylum bid was rejected, and had been staying at a property in Cobridge provided by a Government contractor. But last Thursday she was told she would have to leave the house – despite the fact that arrangements were being made for her to fly back home within days. Well, yes. There’s probably a Department of Removals and a Department of Rentals…
People don’t do things for no reason. Even if the violence seems mindless, there is a cause and effect somewhere but too often it’s so diffused by the time you get to it, others can say you’re in the realms of fantasy. The person I quote from time to time, Svali, said that these people think they’re “doing a good work”, truly believe they’re looking after society in the interests…
Great post by AKH on a group of people in our society who need all the help we can give them: We have a huge problem in the largely unrecognised plight of special pleaders, especially when we include the government, MPs, lawyers, landlords, bankers, the arms industry, large charities, the BBC, the NHS, high street retailers, the CBI, house builders, landowners, local government, trade unions, quangos, minorities, car makers, energy…
A man living in Kandos (near Mudgee in NSW, Australia) received a bill in March for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another bill and threw that one away too. The following month the gas company sent him a very nasty note stating that they were going to cancel his gas line if he…
First, a good article via haiku: Just in case it’s not utterly obvious, I’m glad that the two murderous cowards who attacked civilians in Boston recently are off the streets. One dead and one in custody is a great outcome. That said, a large percent of the reaction in Boston has been security theater. “Four victims brutally killed” goes by other names in other cities. In Detroit, for example, they…
By Amfortas: The raging of Global Warmists against the doubters, calling them ‘Deniers’ and worse, often much worse, seems not matched by the doubters’ considered and more instructive observations about them. There is something deeply psychological about the disconnect in GW fanatic’s minds which, although I spent 25 years as a psychologist, frankly I just cannot be arsed figuring out. In Oz we have an arch-GW apologist/defender/advocate who is also…
The mother of a Croydon clubber who died in Ibiza after taking ecstasy has called for a clampdown on drug taking on the party isle. Why? Have they started ramming it down the throats of the unwilling? Today her mother, Debbie Nieman, 50, said she was “disgusted” by the availability of drugs and the prevalence of drug pushers on the island after she tracked the last movements of her daughter.…
By Amfortas: The horrendous ‘victim’ stories about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland added to the voluminous ‘evidence’ of the wickedness of the Catholic Church and its Religious staff. The stories were as quick to be believed as the speed of condemnation heaped on the Church. It had to be investigated, by popular demand. That popular perception behind the demand is as manipulated and distorted by ‘agendas’ as any Gramscian plot.…
From Amfortas: That most common phrase in the Bible, itself full of arab shepherd magnates prophesying this and that. “And it came to pass that….”. The prediction bizzo continues but like the ‘clutter’ on the British radar used in Hawaii as the Pearl Harbour attack was in full swing, no-one believed what was being seen on the screen. The Japs then were as thankful as the European elites today that…
What is wrong with this picture? The picture is of the five first line US nuclear carriers docked together in one place. Just like Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. This picture was taken the other day in Norfolk, Virginia. The Obama Administration ordered 5 nuclear carriers into harbor for “routine” (?) inspections. Heads of the Navy were flabbergasted by the directive but had to comply as it was a direct…
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