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Supernatural beings that really exist - 1

There is quite conclusive evidence for the existence of some supernatural beings. Most important of these is the Great God Sod, whose law governs us on a daily basis. We at bloggoth have examined numerous instances of Sod's Law and the statistics provide a 98.37% probability that this mischievous god really exists.

However, not all of life's little annoyances are down to personal intervention by Sod, he has created a whole bunch of little demons and spirits to serve him. We at bloggoth have adapted our cheap ASDA camera to see what these invisible creatures look like. Here are two of the most common.


The Bits Monster

Wherever a houseproud housewive hoovers a carpet there will be a Bits Monster to prance gaily about scattering bits from the numerous pouches on its lumpy body.




The Itchy Nose Sprite

This little creature lies in wait until you are into a really mucky job like changing the oil filter on your car and your hands are covered in filth. It will then dive in with its fluffy tail and make your nose itch ferociously.



Illogical logic

Religion begins with a rigidly held viewpoint and attempts to provide logic to suit. When logic is misused like that, when the conclusion has already been reached and the analysis is not objective, it frequently isn't logic at all.

In Catholic apologetics for example, the fact that man makes things proves the universe must have been similarly made by an intelligent being and because his works are so much bigger and more complex he must be a supreme one. This is drawing parallels between two processes that bear no relation to each other whatever. In common with other animals, man simply rearranges parts of the existing world to suit his purpose and this is not the same as creating matter and everything else out of nothingness.

Illogical as that linkage is, it is nothing like as idiotic as the next step, the important one when it comes to religion; that of showing that an almighty being who could create a universe would be remotely interested in the fate of members of some infinitesmal part of it like mankind. Here is a being who made immense galaxies and yet he really, really cares if you face the wrong way while taking a dump or eat meat on a Friday.

It it makes you happy, just please don't keep trying to foist your nonsense on the rest of us.

Will the leftists and the Islamists rue their interference?

Although the BNP attracts protest votes from those fed up with high levels of uncontrolled immigration and the useless, criminal and/or hostile nature of far too many among the migrants it was never likely that it would get within a million miles of power.

Legal moves have now forced them to consider allowing other ethnic groups to join. Many rank and file members will probably be happy to see the party move away from a ridiculously narrow view of Britishness and the absurd priorities that see a high earning black/Asian guy who has adopted the important British values as less desirable than an unemployable white Australian. It is not only the white British who will be happier to openly join a party like that, many of the more useful migrants might also. Many want better controls that do not inflict their communities with the very problems they were trying to get away from. As that article indicates, there are others who recognise the threat *Note 1 that Islam presents to them as well as to the rest of us.

Despite its bravado the old BNP was going nowhere. The new BNP could have very different prospects.

Note 1: Perhaps that should be greater threat in some cases. As people of The Book, Christians could expect to receive what laughingly passes for tolerance under an Islamic regime. Sikhs and Hindus won't be so lucky.

Refreshing candour

Came across a news site, "The Mail and Guardian Online". Whaaat? The righty (hurrah hurrah) Daily Mail and The lefty (boo hiss) Guardian collaborating on a news site?? Surely not.

Ah no, it's from South Africa. We are quite impressed with the plain speaking, like this police chief talking of criminals who says "Shoot the bastards". Imagine any police chief in the UK getting away with that.

Not that we at bloggoth are in favour of the policy, not unless there is some way of ensuring the non bastards and minor bastards don't get shot anyway, but maybe one would get more sensible compromises if both sides of any argument were free to state their views. In the UK we get a built in bias to unrealistic lefty liberalism before we even start talking.

The bloggoth most wanted corner

One does wonder how the E-fit of the night stalker that appears to show a young white bloke bears any resemblance to the 53 year old black bloke they arrested. What exactly is the point of an E-fit like that? Maybe this is one of those tick box things for the police these days, even if they can't get a decent description they must issue an E-fit picture because some minister says so.

While we at bloggoth fully understand the satisfaction of pointless order, we probably spend more time rearranging our desktop shortcuts just so than developing our software, the artists and IT experts who do these things must cost the taxpayer a lot of money.

Our suggestion is that if descriptions of the suspect are not of sufficient quality to merit a professional E-fit job they should use non professionals; that we could encourage artistic skills or provide therapy and get them for free. The following are some great free E-fits of some unsolved crimes.


A woman who conned three elderly men out of their life savings in the Basingstoke area in 2006.
E-fit by Jessica Barnet age 5.


Three youths believed to have fatally stabbed another in the Thamesmead area of Bristol on July 2007.
E-fit by Jake Marks age 3.


The perpetrator of a drive by shooting in Barnett in 2001. It shows his escape in a satanic space ship.
E-fit by an unknown patient at the Marsmoor Secure Psychiatric Hospital near Solihull.

Airbrushing reality

We have mentioned before the annoying PC way that inclusiveness in adverts and the use of stock photos to illustrate news items never applies when we are talking about crime or disease. Young men with knives or benefit fraudsters or people thoughtlessly spreading germs to everyone else are almost always white. A trivial complaint? Maybe, but if that shouldn't matter to us why should proportionality in more positive adverts matter to minorities?

Despite common perceptions it the the right wing papers who are often more politically correct in these matters. The Guardian and the BBC may take a more liberal left view as to reasons but at least they do not normally misrepresent the facts. The Mail and Express sometimes apppear so frightened of their reputation they will fall over backwards to show they are not racist while the Guardian and BBC don't need to. As innacurate use of stock photos go they don't get much dafter than this one:

Plenty of Hitlers still to come

One of the fictions of the modern age is that human society is on a path of progressive improvement. Despite dictatorships, wars, civil unrest and economic failures that take individual countries backwards we fondly imagine that the general trend is forwards, that sooner or later, benign government will deliver the ideals of democracy and individual freedom to us all. While we may get a few nasty dictators in small third world countries, we are confident that the likes of Stalin, Hitler or Mao will not be seen again in the more advanced countries.

Like hell. Corruption and government go together. If there are no sanctions on our leaders, if we are not prepared to bring them to account for treasonous acts, like the signing of the Lisbon treaty, then what little democracy we have will not last.

So far, pointless beurocracy aside, the EU has been a relatively benign institution and UK citizens have suffered more state authoritarianism and intrusion at the hands of Westminster than they have at the hands of Brussels. There is nothing wrong with the ideal of a political union between cultures that have so much in common and paradoxically it is likely that we would have advanced further along this road if we only had more safeguards for our national aspirations. If we could control the pace of change, if we could opt out of any arrangements we were not ready for, if we could as a last resort withdraw from any that proved too painful, far fewer of us would be so opposed.

As it is, we would not discount the views of some anti-EU bloggers that this is another USSR in the making. You think this is a ridiculous comparison? Do a bit of research on Lenin in the early days of the Russian revolution. Contrast the idealistic nature of the man and his good intentions with the monster his ideas grew into. We would continue but someone else has already said it, allowing we at bloggoth to follow our favourite practice of not being arsed. The reference here is about the US but the principles are universal.

Within any country born of idealism, an about-face invariably happens … in that justice, the cornerstone of idealism, slowly erodes away until virtually a police state remains. Nor are democracies immune. It may take decades or even a century or two, but it happens every single solitary time. It is due to treasonous legislators passing unconstitutional laws and the bureaucrats bending the rest. All are not guilty of course, most try to enrich themselves and impose their will honestly. But some, to get what they want, stoop to treason. Yet, to mete out the appropriate punishment, treason must be called treason ... not merely malfeasance.

The problem is that bureaucrats, at every level, aren’t fully living up to the ‘intent’ of the constitution. It is curious why this wasn’t included as an act of treason… unless the founders thought compliance ‘goes without saying'. In other words, it was ‘expected’ these clauses would be fully honored. After all, a constitution is a host of declarations effectively ‘chiseled in stone’… being the most sacred vows mortal men can possibly make to each other. The founders apparently believed it would be forever unthinkable to ignore or convolute. It was a naive assumption unfortunately, later generations produced those who do the unthinkable.

So, without harsh penalties for treasonous presidents, judges, congressmen and bureaucrats, eventually a constitution will be totally compromised. It is inevitable. Without teeth, a constitution will only last as long as good men rule… except bureaucracies ultimately weed out the good men. You can make book on it... without teeth good men and bureaucracies can't coexist, not for long. No, the framers of the American constitution didn’t do a good enough job… actually, they forgot the most important part. After all, grandiose declarations about human rights are hollow statements without the wherewithal to back them up.

Great lessons of history

The US has managed to assassinate four presidents in less than 150 years. We in the UK lag far behind, having only had one Prime minister assassinated. Does this explain the relatively sad state of our democracy compared to that of the US? Would the UK's downtrodden citizens count for more if we had killed a few more of the bastards? Some feel that democracy is declining in the US, that the basic constitutional rights are being taken away or watered down. *Note 1 If that is true, could it be connected with the fact they haven't managed to assassinate a president for over 45 years? You're overdue guys, get cracking!

A comment on the supposed suicide of a British scientist in Vienna, complete with another quite spurious picture of the hideous {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff}, reminded we at bloggoth that history had some great ways of dealing with officialdom. Most of the bastards just got shot, stabbed, poisoned or blown up but a few dispatches had that certain je ne se quoi:

So how should we despatch the {Lying etc}? An explosive charge in the glass eye would be good. Or perhaps a variation on the fate of Hamlet's father; instead of poison in the ear while he slept, a drop up the nose. This poison would be entirely harmless until ingested, ie during a dull point *Note 2 of one of Darling's speeches.

We would have a poll of non existent readers except we don't really care what you lot think anyway. Plus obviously, we can't be arsed.

Note 1: That's what it implied in an episode of The Simpsons anyway. You only get soundly researched material here on bloggoth.

Note 2: i.e. absolutely anywhere.

Endorsement

The BNP have been attacked recently for saying Winston Churchill would have been a supporter. Now legal action may be taken against the Scientologists for using his name in a recruitment drive. How awful to use the name of this great man to promote dubious causes!!

It's tolerance Jim, but not as we know it

We have been reading/listening to a bit more of Imam Anwar al-Awlaki's stuff.

Many of us who loath Islam would agree with some of the things he says, about the cost of the ridiculous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the absurdity of sanctions on Iraq that killed so many children there. That is not to say that Anwar al-Awlaki's idea that this was all part of some attack on Islam holds any water. That conclusion only follows if you see things the way that Muslims do, and which is a logical flaw unique to them, that any conflict with any nation or group which happens to be Muslim for any reason whatever is an attack on Islam generally.

Have a listen to the speech on tolerance near the end of the page. We are first informed that it is the duty of Islam to be tolerant to all men, including non believers. Pretty moderate stuff, have we misjudged the man? He continues that tolerance to non believers is difficult in the present world condition of attacks (in his view) on Islam. A bit less tolerant than absolute tolerance but understandable, hell we're all only human aren't we? He then goes on to clarify that there are two sorts of tolerance, tolerance among Muslims and tolerance of Muslims to others. Er, hang on a minute, what does that mean? If there are two sorts of tolerance does that imply two levels? With the second being less important?

Unclear. Ok let's hear the man out. Oh no! We're into the Crusades again! And the Moorish occupation of Spain! Why does every Muslim argument have to drag in ancient history? Look here Mr al-Awlaki, can we inject a bit of practicality here? It's just that we non Muslims DO NOT OWN FUCKING TIME MACHINES! and how nice Islam might have been compared to the acknowledged barbarism of much of the Christian world umpteen hundred years ago has no practical relevance to our own lives here in the 21st century!

But maybe the details of these ancient tales do. Supposedly the prophet and his followers were very decent to the Jews in the places they took over and ruled benignly over their non Muslim subjects, only acting when the ingrates fought against them. Erm, sorry, but conquering others and then treating the conquered people humanely provided they accept your authority and do what you tell them to is not quite what the rest of us understand by tolerance. Unfortunately, in the most moderate of Muslim states today, that is exactly what Islam seems to understand by it and in many Muslim states even that ideal is not attained as the commonplace persecution of other faiths, like Hindus in Pakistan, indicates.

Have a look at the only pdf on that page, the "Allah is preparing us for victory" e book. It is a book about conquest of the rest of us. *Note 1 This is what nice Mr al-Awlaki was preaching in 2006, the very year that some of our moderate Muslims in the UK were praising him. What should that tell you about their intentions?

So this religion will reach to every continent, to every country, and to every city. The banner of La ilaaha illAllah will enter into every city. This religion will reach wherever night and day reaches; is there a place where night and day doesn’t reach? So you O Kafir, O Munaafiq, if you want to hide away from this religion you will need to go to mars or somewhere else! There will be no place for you on dunya!

It's tolerance Jim, but...

Note 1: With lots of references to the Crusades and other ancient history obviously.

Reality is an inconsequential detail of real life.

No doubting Imam Anwar al-Awlaki is a bright and educated chap. One feels that if one met the bloke, this radical Muslim, this alleged encourager of terrorism, one might actually quite like him. This is a major mistake of human kind, the idea that some men are truly evil. Evil is a religious concept, a fiction.

Regarding people as evil is a totally different thing from believing they truly are. Regarding those who threaten one's own life or one's way of life as evil is a necessity, an essential part of our defence mechanism that allows us to fight to defend ourselves and our own without the encumbrances of compassion or empathy. This is how nature and survival works.

Hear, hear. Bang on.

Someone from such an immensely useful and value-for-money body as the UN has a clear right to comment on the US's homeless problem and this is totally bang on:

The burden is disproportionately on... African-Americans, on Latinos and immigrant communities...

So true what these people have to put up with. When you look at the stable, socially progressive, low-crime economic powerhouses that these low income migrants come from, like Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, The Middle East, North Korea or the Phillipines and the way that all of the groups that this UN special rapporteur mentions are such a brilliantly successful inspiration to the residents of every other country they live in, it is really amazing that any want to live in racist countries like the US and the UK and have their incredible potential stiffled by our appalling discrimination.

We should all be very grateful to them.

Who can blame them?

It seems that Quebec nationalists have demonstrated against a tour by the Prince of Daftness.

We at bloggoth cannot understand why the rest of Canada didn't demonstrate too. We must be nuts not to give monarchy the boot ourselves but Canada and Australia must be even more nuts not to. Why would any nation continue to have rulers, even if they are only figureheads, from another nation? The need to get shot of the monarchy is increasing. While the Queen does a good job and stays out of politics (as the much maligned Camilla appears to), once the Prince of Daftness takes over he will use his unmerited position to push his own agendas even more than he does now.

A monarch is nothing more than an undeserving welfare claimant with a vastly bigger payout and the probable future incument is an utter arse. The often advanced argument in favour of monarchy, that as an institution outside politics it somehow protects our democracy, is bullshit. If the government abolished elections tomorrow do you really think our monarchy would put their own privileged positions on the line for us? That it would make the slightest difference even if they did?

Good on yer Quebecians, throw a few eggs for us.

Who wadda thought it?

Not we at bloggoth obviously but some bloggers with an anti-Islamic agenda can be somewhat unbalanced. For example, a crime that does not have an obvious religious motivation by someone described in reports as Asian is mentioned in a thread on Islam with a description of "Asian". Even if he was "Asian" and not Asian, Muslims sometimes commit crimes that have nothing to do with their beliefs like the rest of us.

However, that bias is as nothing compared to that of the strange people who simply will not grasp the threat even when it is reputable sources that are reporting the intolerant nature of this creed, the awful things done in its name and the way that extremism is far from being the province of a tiny disaffected minority.

Here is yet another example of that last fact.

A radical preacher who allegedly inspired the Fort Hood gunman has a large following in Britain and counts prominent mainstream Muslims among his supporters.

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Counter-terrorism sources said yesterday that Mr al-Awlaki was barred from entering Britain on security grounds while the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation said he was “perhaps the most influential pro-jihadist ideologue preaching in English today”.

Despite his extremist reputation, the cleric had attracted support from mainstream British Muslim groups. Azad Ali, president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, wrote last November that Mr al-Awlaki was “one of my favourite speakers and scholars”.

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The cleric was also praised in 2006 by Osama Saeed, an SNP parliamentary candidate, who said “he preached nothing but peace”.

The moderate Muslims quoted as praising him in that article are now rushing to disown the views of someone who was a jolly nice chap when they praised him but has apparently turned into an extremist in the short period since. Puts one in mind of those moderate mosques that just happened to be visited by the odd rogue extremist speaker in the three months that Channel 4 chose to investigate them and the extremist literature found in schools that was really just a bit of never read historical perspective stuff that crept in by oversight just before the inspection. Islam really is so unlucky in these things!

Here you can find some of Mr al-Awlaki's published works from 2006, the same year that he was praised by one of those moderates. One would not expect to find explicit support for terrorist attacks on a public website but they are all about ensuring Muslim victory over the West by one means or another. Check some of the footnotes showing scorn for those Muslims who advocate tolerance to the rest of us. Since they approved of his ideas then we must assume those "moderate" Muslims are happy with the idea of subjugating the rest of us into a global Ummah.

Disbelieve what us nasty right wing bloggers say by all means but if you can't discern the threat in the news about Islam, day after day, from reputable sources, you must be an idiot.


PS We did find one statement by Mr al-Awlaki we totally agreed with though. Taxes is haraam and the one who deals in any job related to taxes is cursed. We at bloggoth are off to the local mosque to get converted. We will then stop paying taxes and claim discrimation against our faith if HMRC attempts to recover it.

Oh I dunno though

In the view of we at bloggoth there is far too much sensitivity in British society. People continually see offence where none is intended. On Sunday we wrote that it was idiotic to attack {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} over trivial mistakes in a letter but couldn't be arsed to post it.

However, on further consideration we have decided it is self evident that {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} should be an exception and should be maliciously attacked for absolutely everything, so three cheers for The Sun! Some might say that will only arouse sympathy for the man. Some soft hearted sorts feel sorry for serial killers due to their awful childhood so that may be true but not to worry, give it day or two and he will surely do something utterly lefty and incompetent to the detriment of Britain and its citizens and restore the normal feeling of universal hatred.

Our sources at Whitehall have informed us of a fact about {Lying etc...} that is absolutely true. When he goes to bed at night he likes to store his glass eye up his rectum so it is nice and warm when he pops it back in in the morning.

Sunday blogging? Can't be arsed

Especially as Jeremy Clarkson has said it all.

PS As long as he has not made any of his horrid comments about nice little animals or nature obviously. We couldn't be arsed to read it all.

Bleedin eck, why is this so difficult?

More crap in the news about rules for MP's expenses, what they should be able to claim and what they shouldn't, which parts of some expensive report will be implemented and which will not. WTF is wrong with this rule?

Members of The Commons and The Lords will be subject to the same rules on expenses as other UK citizens. It will be their responsibility to comply with these rules and to take all reasonable steps to ensure that they do. HMRC may investigate their tax affairs to ensure that the correct amount of tax is paid and take action to recover any sum owed in accordance with the laws and procedures that apply to other taxpayers.


Their salary is a separate issue. MPs do not take any financial risks like business owners, they do not have to negotiate their pay according to their individual worth or get paid according to results like consultants. Essentially they are employees of the state and like any other employee, civil servants included, they should not be setting their own salaries.

If a fully independent panel decides they deserve more then so be it. This panel should look at how well parliament fulfils its essential obligations and ask:

Any MP can work hard, asking questions in the house, sitting on committees, listening to constituents, lobbying government ministers on local issues. But if it makes very little difference because the government does not have to listen or does not have the power to act anyway what is the point?

Rubber stamps are not worth paying.

Losing the will to not live

We at bloggoth are working on another educational CD for our tiny company and were looking at the National Curriculum. The youngest pupils should be taught: "the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive"

Trouble is, not sure the distinction is clear cut. We at bloggoth have been dejunking the attic recently and decided our old Psion 5 might come in handy for taking the odd note. Put new batteries in but it keeps resetting although it was fine when we stored it away. The spare answer phone was fine too but now it just cuts out after a few minutes. This week we brought a new pedometer as we thought the old one had been lost then found it in a clothes drawer. Now it just won't work, reads 0 all the time.

This seems to happen over and over again, appliances work fine until you stop using them or replace them, when they stop working. There is only one explanation. All these little gadgets just lose the will to work because they feel unwanted. Their little hearts, or whatever the equivalent is, have been broken.

All those summer days running on the country footpaths together, we had grown to love our little Tesco pedometer too.

So obviously...

Oh no! Not another addition to the bloggoth editorial staff! The office is crowded enough as it is with all us old skulls and mummified mice and snakes!



AND puppet parrots!



Morning all! I'm Phil the broken pedometer but you can call me pedo Phil. Have you seen what's in The Daily Mail today?



Do anti-discrimination laws actually help?

This was probably inevitable. Introduce vaguely worded laws about rights and sooner or later somebody is going to try and stretch them.

It would not be such a problem if it was not for this ridiculous modern notion that one person's rights are somehow independent of everyone else's, which would only make sense if the population was a few thousand and they were all hermits. In real society practical laws should be about balance of one person's rights against another's.

Not sure what the alternative is but do discrimination laws in employment really help? There was news the other day about how job applications with an ethnic name resulted in fewer interviews than those with similar qualifications and a British sounding name. Racism? Almost certainly some but could it in part be due to the discrimination laws? Because in the wake of too many well publicised discrimination cases people are reluctant to take on ethnic staff because they fear legal action if these staff are legitimately disciplined, sacked or refused promotion? That they will have to make special arrangements to accomodate beliefs and sensitivities even if these are not in the employment contract and were not mentioned in the application or at interview? That they might even face action due to failing to offer a job after interview?

Hello devil. Got any vodka?

We at bloggoth have been keeping pretty fit the last year or two. One of the nicest ways has just been jogging along footpaths in some of the rather great country round here but we are running out of new routes in the near vicinity and the weather ain't what it was.

So we have devised a new scheme to put the fun back into jogging. We intend to go monster/devil/alien dodging. First stop, next good bit of weather in the next few weeks, is to run 7 times around the clump of trees at Chanctonbury Ring in an anti clockwise direction and see if the devil appears as he is supposed to. Only just over 3km according to Google ruler, piece of cake although if we really do meet the devil it may take longer than expected. We are not keen on soup though. After that, assuming we survive, there's a dragon in a forest near Horsham.

PC Games for all

We at bloggoth have never been into computer games at home although we did once spend a lot of evenings playing "House of the Dead" in the arcades when we were stuck in Blackpool in the dead of winter. It was either that or the gay bars. Action adventures, war games, driving games, they are all more a younger man's thing. It is a bit unfair that there is very little to appeal to us old farts. This should be rectified immediately with a series of arcade games to appeal to the older user.

Quest for the lost glasses. Guide the hero Jim through his house in an exciting search for his lost reading glasses. When he has found his reading glasses you move to the next level to search for the reading glasses that he immediately mislaid again after finishing the first level. You get extra points for noticing he is already wearing them.

This game comes with a special zoom feature for users who can't find their computer glasses.



Bob the Amateur Builder In this exciting cartoon adventure you have to guide Bob through a series of unecessary and excruciatingly bad DIY projects on his house. You get points for doing each job as cheaply as possible.

In this scene we see Bob deciding which special fastener to use to fix a plastic weather vane onto his gable end. A true master will click the "None of these" option and gain extra points by using a rusty nail taken from the old fence panel. Expensive shiny fastenings should be carefully sorted and kept in the shed to admire and for use in a future job that will never happen.



Ailment Hero This game comes with special add ons to your PC in the form of enormous bottles of blood pressure pills, Stannah stairlifts, incontinence pads and so on. The aim is to compete with other individuals as to who can moan and complain about their ailments the most whilst continually telling people you don't like to make a fuss.



Muscle builder

While Googling for images of a builder for the next item we came across this. Cooooor! We would!



Yahoo Babel Fish vs Google translater

We have always used Babel Fish out of habit but the results are usually pretty awful. Here is a Babel Fish translation of a paragraph of an anti-socialist blog in Portugeuse:

Hugo Chavez is clearly one vitiated in cocaine. One only drugged would make what it makes. The face must smell a dust nonsense to be whinnying in the TV and the radio in interminable speeches for up to 10 followed hours, only saying to excrement the time all. Even in the headquarters of the ONU the destrambelhado doidão board the disgusting clown ahead of the eyes of the world, without never touching of the paper ridicule that it is playing, and still is found optimum. The drop dágua was to accuse some governments to conspire a conspiracy to kill it. It goes to die is of overdose. Paranoia, megalomania, aggressiveness, verborragia and loss of the sense of the reality are classic symptoms of all cocaine addict. This face is consuming everything what the Columbian friends of it do not obtain to vender.

Here is the translation of the same page in Google translate:

Hugo Chávez is clearly addicted to cocaine.Only an addict would do what he does. The guy should smell a powder to be neighing nonsense on TV and radio in endless speeches by up to 10 hours straight, just talking shit all the time. Even in the UN headquarters dilapidated can play the clown repugnant in the eyes of the world, without never play the role it is playing ridiculous, and still think the best. The final straw was accusing several governments of plotting a conspiracy to kill him. He is going to die of an overdose. Paranoia, megalomania, aggressiveness, verbiage and loss of sense of reality are all classic symptoms of cokehead. This guy is consuming all the Colombians his friends can not sell.

A few oddities in the second one but generally the blogger's meaning is far clearer. We know which translater we will be using in future. Babel Fish! It's much funnier!

Sorry, what we meant to say was: Some queernesses in second but generally blogger' the meaning of s is enlightening distant. We know that translating we will be using in the future. Babelfish! It' much more funny s!

PS We agree entirely with the general sentiment on Chavez, a Stalin in the making. Democracy and socialism are mutually exclusive. Too right also on the later item on the same page about Marx. Apart from writing a few articles for newspapers Marx never worked, instead relying on inheritances and handouts from Engels and others to fund an extravagant lifestyle for himself. Much like many socialists really, a hypocrite and a sponger.

Nuts

We really don't understand this item, how can a ruling in the UK be enforced abroad anyway? How can damages and costs be recovered unless the loser actually has UK assets to seize? If there are international mechanisms for doing so then presumably they won't only apply to rulings in London. Does this mean some nutcase government in the third world could set up a court and start taking proceeding against UK citizens for imagined slights? Still, the Times will hardly be making it up. It just shows that the UK is as bad as any other country in interfering in the lives of citizens of others.

Someday, in a thousand years time, we may have a world where nationalism is as dead as tribalism is in advanced countries today and it may look as undesirable in retrospect. But until mankind generally has brought into this ideal, until individuals have stopped using international laws and international courts and forums as a means to serve their own ends, until politicians have stopped seeing them solely as a way to serve their own ambitions and until nations and religious and political groups have stopped using them to their own narrow advantage we need them like a hole in the head.

Good for the US states which are putting a stop to this. The US has decent laws that protect freedom of speech, not ones that suppress valid criticism of objectionable views and practices (when it suits that is). Every nation should enact laws to protect its own citizens against rulings in international courts or in other countries which do not accord with its own laws and unless entirely reciprocal arrangements have been negotiated.

The only problem is that the last place to do so would be the idiotic UK, fast becoming an absolute pisshole of a place, increasingly governed by lunatics and which no longer really belongs to its own people at all.


Update
Well, the US used to have free speech anyway. Sneaking a so called hate crime clause into a defence bill sounds like the sort of utter dishonesty and contempt for democracy that we have become used to in the UK and the EU. Ah! Of course it will only apply to speech likely to incite violence or raise predudice without good reason won't it? We have heard that before.

Idiocy of the intelligent

While looking for some software on the net we happened to come across an old report that someone who was a leading light in mobile PC development gave it all up to pursue his beliefs in the Singularity, a sort of nerdy version of the rapture which will happen around 2035. It is amazing the daft ways in which the human mind will think but it is a total mistake to think that it is only the minds of daft people that do.

For another good example of the illogical way that intelligent people can think, have a decko at this.

115 professional analysts, employed by industry, universities, or research institutes, were randomly divided into two different experimental groups who were then asked to rate the probability of two different statements, each group seeing only one statement:

1.“A complete suspension of diplomatic relations between the USA and the Soviet Union, sometime in 1983.” 2.“A Russian invasion of Poland, and a complete suspension of diplomatic relations between the USA and the Soviet Union, sometime in 1983.”

Estimates of probability were low for both statements, but significantly lower for the first group (1%) than the second (4%).

The moral? Adding more detail or extra assumptions can make an event seem more plausible, even though the event necessarily becomes less probable.

Maybe this partly explains the popularity of Islam. Christianity, going from the often incomprehensible sayings of Jesus in the New testament anyway, is often somewhat vague. "I am the way, the truth and the light" Groovy, but what does it mean? Anyone could say that. But if somebody comes along with detailed instructions on every aspect of your life, how you should deal with non believers, react to dogs or pigs or birds of prey, slaughter a goat, what position to adopt when drinking, how to respond if someone looks through your window, when it is ok to drink dirty water, even what hand you should wipe your arse with - hell, that guy has to know what he is talking about! Nobody could make all that up could they?

We at bloggoth would not accuse Muslims in general of being stupid, on average we daresay they are at least as intelligent as anyone else. Nevetheless, they sure think as idiots.

Yeh! Arise Sir Dracula Fangs

Dracula Pictures, Images and Photos

It is so dreary and irritating to see a lot of boring bloody civil servants knighted every year only for doing their jobs. If you bulldozed most of them into a skip and used the resulting fertiliser to raise geraniums it would be a great improvement.

However, it is really great to see that Christopher Lee has at last been knighted. Christopher is a great actor, famed for parts involving big teeth and supernumerary nipples.

Well deserved!



Odd

A little way back (but we can't be arsed to link to it) we had a sneer at people who see life's little coincidences as evidence of the supernatural.

Yesterday we had one of our own. We had modified a little home brew utility to put a clickable icon on the system tray of the PC. This icon is just a yellow square with a black dot in the middle as we obviously could not be arsed to do a proper one. Later, when we started the PC this icon has somehow changed to be what looked like a witch's head, white face, big ears and a pointy black hat. Very appropriate given it's almost halloween.

A quick recompile and today it's back to normal. Just as well we at bloggoth are not superstitious or we might be claiming our PC is haunted. That would be...

Hang on, what's that growing black spot on the screen? There's something moving inside it, it looks like, oh god no, it's, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!


Hey!!! I just found out the witch was trying to tell me something! It reminded me of a tale of a haunted PC what I wrote a long time ago and thought I had put on xoggoth tales but it turns out I hadn't. Anyway it's there now and here it is. Happy Halloween to all the non existent readers!

Excellent

The war criminal's chances of EU presidency fading.

Is the PC cover up worse than we think?

As we have said before, political correctness is not entirely without merit. We need to encourage the less successful UK citizens and it hardly helps to continually point out their supposed defects without good reason. We can see how galling it may be for useful and law abiding members of those communities to have only the negative aspects pointed out.

But the crucial phrase here is "without good reason" and there is one currently. We have out of control immigration and we need to call for a properly controlled system that does not keep on repeating the same mistakes. If a particular group, however defined, has been a problem for the UK in the past, we need to ensure they are either vetted much better or excluded in the future. We need to be careful how we call for it to avoid undeserved problems for those who have succeeded and fitted in but call for it we must. Getting immigration properly under control is an essential first step to integrating the minorities we already have.

British people do not have a duty to provide a fast track into first world society for those from the third world and to rectify our every shortcoming, whether real or imagined, to do so. The reasons for failures of some ethnic groups are completely irrelevant in the absence of affordable solutions. It is similarly irrelevant to point out that white British society has plenty of problems of its own, like drunkeness, vandalism and pedophilia; we are stuck with our problem citizens, that doesn't mean we have a duty to cope with those of other nations.

Avoiding predudice is not about concealing the truth, that simply increases the cynicism about the real positives but unfortunately pretence and concealment are what we seem to be getting on this issue. If you record all the most serious crimes of violence in England (Scottish society has enormous problems which have little to do with migrants) reported in the national papers and follow them through until the nature of the perpetrators is revealed, assuming it is, you will find certain groups quite disproportionately represented. Googling gun crime, gangs, cannabis growing, counterfeit DVDs, heroine, cocaine, cyber crime, identity theft and credit card fraud and even scrap metal theft and choosing only the reports from reputable sources will give you much the same picture.

Local papers give you an even worse picture. The crimes reported on the BBC site often seem rather trivial yet some stories never appear. Isn't it odd how we have never heard of this chap who has been breaking into pensioner's houses, robbing them and sexually assaulting them for ten years? In Bromley, one of the most white British London boroughs, this is the most wanted list. Note the names, not just the photos. Here is Scotland Yard's.

If you check those links in six months the individuals may have changed but it's a pretty fair bet that the nature of them won't. This is the non PC reality of much recent immigration. It doesn't need shouting from the rooftops but it does need to be acknowledged and acted on by those in charge. This continued pretence does not benefit any decent people, whatever their ethnic origin.

Wonder who?

We at bloggoth are in favour of personal freedom unless there is a darn good reason to curtail it in the public interest or to preserve the reasonable rights of others. "Reasonable rights" does not include a right to irrational objection. In our view, public displays of affection or lust by homosexuals should be subject to the same limits as those of straights and what they get up to in private is simply nobody else's business.

A decade or two ago it did seem that we were creating a more tolerant society but in recent years there has been a surge in homophobic attacks in South London. Is this related to other trends in South London that have turned places that were largely white when we left there in 1982 into places that are now scarcely recognisable as being in Europe? Some who do not appear to be racist but are basing their views on actual experience of attacks on them and their acquaintances seem to think so. It's not the only gay site to voice the same concern but the other major one is a bit too gay for a link from our butch site. Given the attitudes to homosexuals in the Carribean, in Africa and in Islamic countries, their claims are very plausible.

It may not be PC to say it but in this, as in other areas, uncontrolled migration of the uneducated from backward third world countries seems to be dragging our own society backwards.


PS While it has a sympathetic slant (It's all about alienation and so is our fault) even The Guardian seems to agree where the leap in these assaults is coming from, at least in Tower Hamlets, one of the worst affected areas.

Unlikely superheros 5 - Unbelievably Bulimic Woman

1 Unbelievably Bulimic Woman is on holiday abroad with her boyfriend, having a drink in the bar of a posh hotel.
2 Suddenly three terrorists rush in with automatic weapons.
3 Unbelievably Bulimic Woman instantly sucks in all the bar snacks, meals from the nearby restaurant and food in the kitchens. The sudden expansion of her belly crushes one terrorist against the wall.
4 She sticks a finger in her throat and the second terrorist is instantly drowned in the resulting thick tsunami.
5 She takes a handful of powerful laxatives and the third terrorist is engulfed in a tidal wave from her other end. It is particularly powerful against Islamic terrorists as she ate lots of bacon sandwiches the day before.
6 The threat over and she is restored to her normal size. They finish their drinks and order some more.


Hurrah for Unbelievably Bulimic Woman!

IAS protests

A fairly rare event, protests against an international meeting just two miles from xoggoth Towers. It was the 25th anniversary of the IAS, outside Saint Hill Manor where L Ron Hubbard devised all his Scientology guff, in between writing his ghastly science fiction novels presumably. Damn. I hoped it would show my van going past.


PS Mr Sheep. Definitely all you Yanks' fault, this one.

Hmm

On a hunch, had a Google for Scientology and Alistair Crowley. Quite a lot comes up including this one. Interesting, even if the narrator sounds more barking than the men he is commenting on.

Crowley was famous for being a mountaineer and his mantra "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". Sound chap. And for taking large quantities of mercury to keep his syphilis at bay. Or was that one the popes? Anyway, Scientology seems much more sensible than we thought. We are off to join.


PS Sorta like Judaism and Islam. Why can't people think up a totally new religion instead of pinching bits from old ones?

Why is this allowed to go on?

It is a common problem that should unite many normally divided nations. Americans, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, they have all had problems with Somali piracy and surely this is one issue, above all others, on which international conscensus should be possible. They know what ports the pirates are operating from, so why the HELL is this allowed to continue year after year?

Flatten the fucking lot of them and keep doing so until, one way or another, the problem stops!

Democracy is history

Have a Google for "Common Purpose" conspiracy.

The core concern of many is real in my view. They just haven't grasped that they are wasting their time, that resistance is futile.

We at bloggoth do not believe in one single shadowy organisation controlling or seeking to control us all; it simply isn't that formal, there aren't people taking oaths of secrecy, hidden meetings of all the world's most powerful and influential men, people who know too much disappearing etc.

However, there is no doubt that there are many who do believe in a world order, who have no time for the little man's concept of national culture or independence. They are professionals moving in an elite world who see none of the problems the common man sees because they only meet educated professionals like themselves, a world in which cultural differences as normally defined scarcely exist. They see themselves as creating a golden future but all they are doing is the age old mankind thing of becoming dominant, there is no difference between them and the kings and barons of old.

Unfortunately, we now live in a globalised world where there is nothing to stop them. Nationality is probably a thing of the past and because the issues that concern the little man are no longer of consequence and his petty concerns have no place in the grand scheme of things there is no need to consult him either.

As the events of the last few decades have surely shown, democracy (not that it ever had much reality) is history.

Commenty boxy thing

Post comments here. Promises of money or ecstatic praise only please. Anything remotely critical will be removed. If you do not agree with me you are clearly insane.


FFS!

Here we have yet another ghost caught on film. Isn't it odd how it only moves when there are cars in the area? I think the first commenter has rather summed it up.

We at bloggoth would not totally discount the idea of "something else" as one cannot disprove it after all and we have had one experience ourselves, witnessed by two of us, that had no conceivable rational explanation.

Nevertheless the way that ghosts, flying saucers, images of Jesus etc are so regularly conjured up out of natural phenomena or naturally occuring patterns and superimpositions is quite ludicrous.


PS If it is real it appears to be some poor chap caught in an endless cycle of drawing money from a cash machine. It must be expensive in the twighlight zone.

Well placed to weather the recession He haa haa ho ha hahhahah he ha...

Some more entirely expected news.

The figures from the Office for National Statistics also makes it highly likely that the UK will be the last leading industrialised nation to emerge from recession with forthcoming statistics expected to show the US, Germany, Japan, France and Italy growing between July and September.

Well done scumbags. The two issues that polls repeatedly show to be most Britains' top concerns, the economy and immigration and you make an utter fuck up of both. Socialists always make (even more of) a fuck up on these two issues and always will. This is not bad luck or coincidence but implicit in socialism which ignores the natural human desires, to provide for one's own and to be with others like ourselves.


Well, we can't claim this was predictable but it is certainly not surprising. Lenin's revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the brain. Pity the 6th century is too long ago for anyone to establish the truth but we would not be surprised if another violent vision-seeing repeating-everything-twice inspiration to millions of irrational people had something severely wrong with his brain too.


PS I dunno though. That article says Henry VIII, Ivan the Terrible, Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte all had syphilis. Whatever else you can say about them you have to admit they were all very successful for a time. Hello? Kittens Massage Parlour? Have you got any girls with syphilis?

Predictable

We at bloggoth only watched about 10 minutes of Question time with Griffin last night, the whole thing was tedious and the result was entirely predictable. The comments on the BBC website are largely in Griffin's favour and many will consider voting BNP.

Few people support his narrow view of culture, for most of us our culture is whatever culture we grew up with, but they are not prepared for a scale of immigration that makes them feel like foreigners on their own streets, to see values like free speech, individual freedom, democracy and female equality challenged daily, to see their taxes spent on large numbers who have contributed nothing and are never likely to, to be put at risk by foreign gangs and feral youths from lawless tribal societies, to see their quality of life ruined by sheer numbers.

The nature of so many immigrants is not a BNP invention; the truth on welfare, social housing, the prison population and health expenditure is to be found in the statistics from the government's own departments or respectable organisations like Channel 4. The dominance of foreign gangs in many areas of crime is not a BNP invention, it is to be found in the police reports.

It is not only the BNP or even just white people who express concerns. The young black guy in the audience who expressed concern about the government's failure to control immigration was probably not exceptional as it is the law abiding members of the migrant communities who bear the brunt of criminal activity within them. It isn't white businesses that are targetted by Kurdish or Chinese protection rackets, it mostly isn't white people who get knifed by Khat-chewing Somali youths. Then their own reputation is tarnished because outsiders bracket them all together. Concerns over immigration, multiculturalism and failure to tackle extremist groups have been expressed by Trevor Phillips, by Archbishop Sentamu, by an Asian Labour MP, an Asian archbishop, by people who came on the Windrush and by foreign governments.

From the bit we saw, Griffin was not very impressive, he is certainly no Churchill. But, short of him speaking in favour of death camps, there was no way that a rise in BNP support was not almost gauranteed. That wasn't because of his convincing arguments or simply because he had been given the publicity. It was gauranteed the moment that that damn fool Straw said that BNP support was simply a protest about MP's expenses.

Because this government simply WILL NOT LISTEN.

The spy in your head

The current government monitoring plans are nothing compared to what they have planned. Monitoring internet usage only only tells them of what goes outside our homes. What they want to do is to see what we are doing inside our homes or better still, inside our heads and then control it.

bloggoth's spies inside the government have learned of secret research that will hand them this ability. In this scheme a substance, known by the innocuous name of Disemarol, will be added to all our water supplies. Prolonged exposure to Disemarol induces a rare form of schizophrenia, commonly known as split personality. Other drugs currently under evaluation induce a form of socialist consciousness in the part of the brain controlled by one of these personalities; for obvious reasons this is most readily induced in the least logical and joyless areas of the brain.

When our dominant personality performs any action that is illegal or on a list of 36,459 (currently) acts deemed worthy of further investigation, this other personality will report us without our knowledge.

Disposal of body is "violation of dead man's human rights"

In another bizarre case that will have repercussions for all of us, the law Lords today ruled that a man who had requested that his body remains with his family after his death should have his wishes respected. Lord Chapman said that cremation or putting his body in a coffin would violate his reasonable desire for a family life.

"We wouldn't mind so much" said his wife "but we don't have room in the freezer and have had to leave him in the spare bedroom. This case has been dragging on for months and he is getting a bit smelly"


Mr Belcher today

PM approval ruins good news

We at bloggoth are not really into sport but it is certainly pleasing news that the F1 championship has been won by a Brit for the second year running. But as usual that utterly useless scumbag {Lying Scottish C* ... Brownstuff} has felt the need to comment.

Shut up scumbag, your approval of any great event only reduces it for the rest of us.

No loss

The Maldives cabinet has been meeting underwater to increase publicity for rising seas, the Maldives being among the world's lowest lying nations.

What many may not know is that the Maldives government is one of the most extreme and intolerant Islamic regimes in the world, comparable to that of Saudi Arabia. Citizens are compelled to be Muslim and no other public expression of religion is allowed. If global warming really does submerge this tiny state it will be a tragedy for many ordinary citizens who have no say in their nation's conduct and a tragedy for any wildlife but the loss of an Islamic nation like that is no loss at all.

Religious freedom should certainly be a precondition of any Western aid to this state.

Short story

Could do better

Wilders in the UK

Excellent news. Why should Islam dictate who we allow into the UK? especially give the nature of their dictat. If Hindus express concern about a visitor we should be fair enough to listen because we know they tend to make their points peacefully but Islam always demands and threatens. The rest of us have never been given any choice about the influx of Muslims, many dangerous radicals among them, into a Christian/secular UK over recent decades. Why should they decide who comes in when we have never been allowed to do so?

We were not impressed by Fitna, it was a mistake to concentrate so much on terrorism and other actions that can too easily be dismissed as being more about current conflicts or the cultures of some Islamic countries than Islam as such. It should have concentrated more on the intolerant, repressive and irrational nature of official Islam, Shariah as implemented by Islamic states and regions throughout the world. All the same, while Fitna may not be a wholly balanced picture, there is nothing we have seen of what Wilders has said that is not substantially correct and it would be impossible to put together a similar film about any other single creed in today's world, there simply is not the material.

And should a presentation about a threat to our society have to be entirely balanced? Nazism had some big positives, it gave Germans back their pride, restored order, rebuilt the German economy, gave German youth a sense of purpose and belonging, inspired some magnificent architecture and gave us some major advances in technology but is anyone demanding a balanced view of Nazism? We don't think so, the awful aspects of it were enough for us to reject it and the pluses were irrelevant. Islam too has positives; Islamic states do not have our problems with STDs, teenage pregnancies or binge drinking but the price, the loss of freedom and democracy and the hope of rational laws, is simply not worth paying, especially when there are far more sensible ways of tackling these problems. If the harsh measures adopted by some Islamic states really do work then we could always reduce crime by flogging people and cutting their hands off without having to adopt the whole bullshit belief system. Assuming we wanted to throw away 13 centuries of social progress, that is.

Is there anything that says more about Islam than the fact that this prominent man, like several others, has to be guarded round the clock against constant and credible threats to his life? That today's press conference had to be moved due to fears over safety? How many radical Muslims who have disputed the divinity of Jesus or made allegations and threats against gays or Jews face a similar level of threat from those groups? None that we have heard of.

Why will people not exercise the most basic logic and recognise this creed for what it is? It would help if they actually tried reading that "facist" text and the Haddiths and made up their own minds instead of simply accepting the selective quotations by their adherents.


PS Muslim protestors at Wilder's visit carrying extreme banners calling for worldwide Shariah and Islamic domination and saying to hell with freedom. Comments that he should be put to death, saying he is a dog who should be put on a leash. And it is Wilders with his measured words who is accused of extremism? Wilders who gets banned? Wilders who gets compared to a Nazi? Wake up UK, you are insane!

We blame Martin Luther King

Theories about the huge decline of bees in Europe and the US include viruses, loss of habitat and plant variety due to man's activities and mobile phones disrupting their navigation systems.

What is clear from recent news is that very few bees are free bees. They have been enticed and scraped into man's hives with precisely positioned combs simply to serve us and make us honey. We think that somewhere in the bee world there came a radical bee, a Moses or a Martin Luther King bee, who woke up all the other bees to awareness of their servile position.

This bee probably gave a stirring speech, just like Martin Luther king, who famously pronounced "I am not a number, I am a free man" before being chased away by lots of mysterious silver balloons. All the other bees buzzed off, determined to build their own hives as nature intended, to be free or dead. Unfortunately, it had been so long since any of them had built their own hives they forgot that the combs need to be 38.1mm apart and built them 28.1mm apart whereupon they all got stuck and died.

PS We have built this great mobile phone made entirely of bees. It works very well.

Last of the summer whine

Pity it's gone, we rather enjoyed it. The little things were among the best, like just running on the local footpaths.


Local scenery


Less than half a mile from home


xoggoth Towers

Eh?

The Roma do not have a good press and, political correctness aside, it is not entirely undeserved. However, we do not understand this criticism at all. These look rather groovy to us. What would the commenters prefer, tatty prefabs and caravans?

Harmful rituals

There is nothing wrong with harmless religious rituals or those that only affect those concerned, however daft and pointless they may appear to outsiders, but they should not take precedence over important principles of civilised society or sensible public policy in the general interest.

It always sounded like utter bollox that having the throat cut is painless but this study appears to confirm the barbarism of ritual slaughter. It is time we insisted on civilised practice; if Muslims and Jews want to continue with ritual slaughter, let them do it somewhere else.

Similarly this decision by a London school to ban wearing of a five inch blade, given the huge problems with youth knife crime, is totally the right one. It is irrelevant to argue that a Sikh would not use the Kirpan as a weapon, once it is through the gates of a rough school what is to prevent someone else taking and using it? Other schools should follow suit.

Yes, but

Wow! an electric car in which the energy only costs a penny a mile!.

Pity about the enormous Lithium battery that prevent you from carrying back seat passengers so if you go on holiday with the kids both you and the wife will have to take a car. That's still only 2p a mile and only sometimes. Now and then you may have unexpected journeys and find you have to charge it at peak times. That will happen more often when the lithium battery deteriorates and reduces the range. Still, that's only 4p per mile, or 8p a mile when you and the wife go on holiday with the kids.

A small car, assuming 50 miles on a gallon costing £2 is 4p a mile at absolute best so mostly you will still save with the electric car. Except that the actual petrol cost when you exclude the fuel tax is only 1.2p per mile, not a lot different from your best electric car figure. And if everyone rushed out and brought these cars the government would soon find ways to tax them to bring in equal amounts that they can waste. Plus a bit more probably.

When government starts grabbing and squandering, economic comparisons on scientific grounds tend to become worthless.

Revenge may be sweet but the principle is wrong

MPs should certainly repay any amounts fiddled but we sympathise with their objections to retrospective changes to the rules.

Tax laws, rules and interpretations should never be changed retrospectively. Far too often, HMRC seeks to apply different interpretations to legislation and then backdate a law or judgement, most recently on dividends between husband and wife and on offshore investments. This does not just hit the tax avoiding rich with their slick accountants but ordinary people who simply manage their affairs in accordance with the advice they receive.

Even with the most creative tax avoidance scheme there is no excuse for backdating to before a point at which HMRC guidance discouraging the practice has been issued. HMRC does not always insist on the letter of the law and if they allow a practice to continue it is reasonable to suppose they have no objection to it. Look at any other area of the law and there is a principle of implied consent for example if a neighbour fences off part of your land with your knowledge and you do nothing about it for a few years without good reason you would have a job recovering it. Why should HMRC be an exception to this principle?

All this emphasis on whether MPs stretched or broke the rules is rather missing the essential point. If you look at the wording of UK tax legislation as we at bloggoth often have, you frequently come across clauses with special provision relating to members of parliament. It is the very existence of those clauses that is quite wrong.

Sure feels nice

One of the world's greatest bands. Fleetwood Mac.

Are we a nation or not?

Don't answer that, the answer is obvious.

Our law making handed to Brussels, our culture diluted by third world immigration, the social progress gained over centuries dragged backwards by the cretinous nonsense of Islam and other backwardness that they bring with them and our tongue stuck firmly up the arse of the United States, a so called ally which takes and takes and gives nothing in return. Fuck 'em all.

 

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