Bloody Scott

Solved - Obambi in the Woods

2009-07-04T19:38:00.002Z

Brother Tim sez: "the only saving grace with Bush was he knew he was in over his head. O'bama on the other hand... has no clue."

Mug the Mullahs with Music

2009-06-30T21:23:00.003Z

Gerard Vanderleun highlights You Tube's contribution to the attempted revolution in Persia. Pleasant to the ear, angst for the Ayatollah.

Please network the link (click on caption).

Melanie as Hercules - I'll ride shot gun!

2009-06-21T23:50:00.003Z

Read Melanie Phillips' barnstorming piece in the Daily Mail today. Click on caption for link.

Not a wasted word and every one true. Get your wellies on, gal! To the Augean stables, SW1. I'll bring the high pressure hose. Trouble is, I suppose, the resultant effluent would pollute the Thames for at least two centuries. Perhaps the m.o. of Guy Fawkes is preferable, but not the bumbling execution of same. Just a short sharp shower of shit over Southwark, Surrey and Sussex. The wind is bound to be from the North - global warming, ennit?

Get yer Trousers on M'Lud - You're Nicked!

2009-06-19T23:23:00.004Z

Investigation? What's to investigate? Half of them have coughed already and some have even paid back the ill gotten gains to try to avoid the boys in blue. Just roll up with a tender Inspector Knacker and pick 'em off one by one. There is a mountain of prima facie evidence. Charge 'em, get a lay down for a month and line up the Daily Telegraph team as prime witnesses, that'll start the ball rolling. What a shame Bert Wickstead isn't still around - a dawn raid on the PoW with the tabloids tipped off before the action. Just get Nipper Reed out of retirement. I'll bet there's more ratfinks in the Westminster gasworks than in the Cosa Nostra. Better start arranging safe houses for the snitches. After all they are pretty used to 'flipping'. Haaaahahahahaaaa!

They're not using Yates of the Yard again are they?

What a charade! Tony Wright on Newsnight tonight was, with the help of his mate and propaganda midwife Kirsty Walk, taking the piss big time. Bumptious boggled-eyed little bleeder. What a hypocrite! Remember his posturing during the previous fiasco of Cash for Honours?

What with that and Question Time's show trial last night, the whole feckin' pantomime has become beyond any sort of parody. I can hear Gramsci's ghost laughing from cloud nine. "Just as I planned!"

Call a general election, Gozza, before you morph into Charles Laughton playing The Hunchback. The bells ....the bells! You have presided over the biggest conspiracy to defraud the people of Great Britain in its history you Scottish gargoyle, everything from petty fiddling to sluicing the nation down Barking Creek to drift over to 'Le Contenong' to manure the gardens of the Palaces of the Euromafia.

Scotland Yard is investigating indeed! Really??

Shit-or-Get-Off--the-Pot Time Obambi

2009-06-19T01:29:00.004Z

Melanie Phillips posted a seminal piece on Iran on June 16 captioned: 'Oh Dear, How Inconvenient For the Whitehouse.' A lively debate has followed since then and tonight I fired off the following comment, having contributed earlier a few times - some 'moderated' some printed. I fear this one will not get past the censor as I have damned the head honcho of the Speccie with faint praise:

The pussyfooting on Iran by the MSM is deluded. Gerard Vanderleun on American Digest blog explains why in pictures. Riveting! No words needed:

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/iwar/tehran_demonstr.php

What is about to happen there can go one of two ways: a deal between Dinnerjacket and Mousavi brokered by the Mullahs; or a brutal crack-down.

Either way makes all other petty partisan political issues pale into insignificance. And Bill O'Reilly has said tonight that he has been informed by sources close to Obama that the POTUS is hog-tied by a deal that was struck by Bush with the Mullahs to quell Muqtada al-Sadr in return for a free pass pro tem.

At the moment Al-Sadr is 'in counselling'. If this is true it's put up or shut up time, as there are many thousands of Americans troops in jeopardy in Iraq and Afghanistan at the sharp end and if al-Sadr is let loose in Iraq again.... But then, if the wheel comes off, we're all at the sharp end!

And of course QT tonight was devoted mainly to putting our sleazy pygmy politicians in the stocks; giving Polly Gruniad a chance to wear her baubles and prejudices and slip in a plug for proportional representation and letting Esther Rantzen prove beyond any doubt why we should refrain from voting for Independent Candidates in any General Election that may be deigned by the current Administration.

It also gave Charlie Faulkner, the man who usurped the office of Lord Chancellor, then destroyed it, to make the most hypocritical denunciation of Brown that I have so far seen; and that must be a Guinness Book of Records jobbie. At least Don Scotia Nostra of 'This Week' (and this parish) covered Iran in some depth - albeit giving Obama a free pass, as usual. I was pleased to see that even The Proclaimers have accepted that Cameron will defeat Brown in the General Election (unless our barmy dictator really flips, declares Brown Rule in Perpetuity and thereby causes HM QEII to find three suitable duly authorised officers to deem him and make him King of Ealing in a quiet room in St Bernard’s). He'd probably settle for that just now, in view of Lord Butler's drubbing over the Independent Iraq War Inquiry”.

A New Collins Frictionary

2009-06-17T17:20:00.003Z

For those who occasionally visit this pasture and who not already aware, Dan Collins has broken free from the confines of Protein Wisdom and set up on his own (for URL click on caption). I'm sure his posts will continue to be erudite, lively, controversial and quirky. We wish him luck in his new venture: a gentleman, scholar and reputed Anglophile, his work has brightened many a dull and anxious day for many and this lost soul in particular.

Mother of Parliament or Parliament of Mother --s?

2009-05-19T00:52:00.006Z

The TV pictures of the pathetic disarray in the House of Commons, beamed around the world today, irreparably damages our Monarchy, our Constitution and our standing in world affairs. The ugly ignoramus who could not even read the apology that had been drafted by his corrupt minders and who manifestly displayed his complete ignorance of the procedures that he is employed to administer and invigilate, has presided over and indulged himself in almost a decade of venality that makes Sir Robert Walpole look straight by comparison. The Queen should act, not with a nod and a wink, but by firmly demanding Gordon Brown's resignation, then she should prorogue (and de-rogue) Parliament and call an election. If he refuses, she must call upon the Head of the Armed Services, Sir Jock Stirrup, and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, Sir Paul Stephenson, to arrest Brown and detain him. They should then organise a general election with the assistance of all the senior civil service mandarins. All the MPs (and the Speaker) exposed as corrupt and venal should be arrested, charged and remanded in custody until after the election. Failing this, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail should collaborate in organising the biggest demonstration over convened in this country to march first the Palace of Westminster, then Buckingham Palace, demanding a general election. Moreover, I want my money back you thieving bastards!

The Gimp that is... England!

2009-05-05T19:56:00.000Z

Anybody home?

Sauce for the Goose ...

2009-04-11T15:35:00.005Z

Rod Liddle carries The Cross in the Spectator this weekend (click on title for link), penning a brave denunciation of the pusillanimous Archbullshitter of Canterbury for his failure to resist Islamic encroachment both in the UK and abroad. As it was a somewhat lengthy treatise, I proffered the following redacted version, for the commentary box, which didn't make the cut:

"Rod , permit me try to summarise your comprehensive, albeit somewhat prolix, article for those who haven't the time to fully absorb your whimsical and informative prose:

Dr Rowan Williams, as the embodiment of the Anglican Church, having been smote on the cheek by the 'mozzies', has not only in accordance with Christ's teachings 'turned the other cheek', but also offered to part the posterior cheeks of his Church, ready for a good shafting by Big Mo. Would Christ approve of the latter submission? Who knows? I know there have been rumours for the past couple of millennia, but I suspect that perhaps he would have adjudged that a couple of cheeks too far.

Is that a fair synopsis?"

Obviously Rod thought not. Or perhaps the moderator spiked it on the grounds of bad taste, blasphemy, or fear of a fatwa. If so, perhaps the article itself should have been censored under the same criteria; particularly as Rod is a sinner with a rap sheet as long as the Dead Sea scrolls.

Castration of the Nation

2009-04-05T11:39:00.004Z

Having just posted a comment on Gerard Vanderleun's American Digest (on the 'Traditionally American Presidents Do Not Bow Down to Kings' thread) I repeat a slightly emended version here because that thread may already be dormant - Gerard having moved on to more optimistic topics:

"Whatever benefits may have emanated from the Internet in general and the blogospshere in particular have all been utterly negated by its enabling this front man of an unholy alliance of crooks, ideologues and enemies of the West to usurp the power of the POTUS.

And today, just to prove my point, accompanied by his brittle Amazonic Marxist minder (in her ill-fitting haute couture) and, coincidental to a mad Asian communist tyrant flashing his dick to the West by launching a fizzer into space, Obama, apparently to underline the threat steps on the world stage in Europe and, with the aid of the teleprompter and his shyster's drawl - while flashing his own empty scrotum to the world - declares that he also intends to neuter the United States of America to assist the Internationalist Socialist cause. And he was cheered by a starry-eyed and mesmerised audience that, of all people, should know better having been rescued from both the Nazis and the USSR by the Americans over the last seven decades of history. What hope is there for us?"

One thing is certain, Gerard, your Mary Poppins post today failed to erase (for me anyway) the infamy of your President's words in Eurabia yesterday.

The Grovelling Generation of Gramsci

2009-04-01T16:23:00.004Z

The assinine Nick Clegg, the 'Leader' of the libdem losers is reported to be miffed by his failure to obtain an audience with the Obamessiah of the Chicago mob during his cavorting in the UK, reports James Forsyth on the Coffee House blog (click on title for link). I was moved to respond with the following comment, which is unlikely to get past the 'moderator' so excuse me while I let off steam here:

"This clamour to kiss Obama's ass is disgusting; what a nation we have now become! Roll up the red carpet and tell this wooden mouthpiece of multi-mobbery and neo-Marxist thuggery to piss off back to corrupt Chicago where he belongs with his shyster sidekicks and backers. Cameron should have either given him the cold shoulder, or a bollocking, for trying to jig up another Ponzi scam with yet another socialist sub-agenda; if Cameron has anything in common with him and his henchman/wimmin then the Tories have the wrong leader. As for Richard Kay and the juvenile Clegg: two further examples of national decline! Except in their case they are risible rather than dangerous.

How my heart aches for what once was and will never be again.

England O England
Why have we failed you?
Betrayed your dead heroes;
Squandered their blood and
Dishonoured their sacrifice?
Shame on a craven generation
Of destructive decadence!
Lower the Royal Standard.
Beat the Retreat.
Dissolve into deep disgrace
And demeaning Dhimmitude...
We are done for!"

More Random Paranoia from the States

2009-03-21T15:09:00.002Z

From the Bordering on Fringe Collection:

Guns & Ammo - shortages of ammunition persist - in particular 9mm ammunition - across the States. Whether shopping Wal-Mart or Cabelas (an outdoorsman outfitter chain) or a local gun shop, 9mm is mighty hard to find. Shotgun shells are fairly bountiful yet, but there is a massive shortage surrounding 9mm and more common rounds used by assault weapons. As mentioned previously, it appears that the anti-gun lobbyists (unable to accomplish an assault weapons ban) are now targeting ammunition used by said weapons. See this article here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92095 - this news source is relatively fringe in terms of content focus, though not tabloid-esque.

I recently visited one of the local outfitters and asked the folks at the gun counter how business was - they reported that it continues to be very to extremely swift... both in new/used gun purchases and ammunition - hard-to-finds in terms of weapons are, of course, more traditional assault rifles and 9mm handguns - as such, I am told people are shifting to smaller "tactical weapons" (short carbines, etc.).

From the almost, but not quite, Kingdom of Nigh (pretty out there stuff) Collection:

The Pending Pandemic - always fun to mull over - the next major Pandemic - AIDS does't really count, now that the legions of afflicted in the Western World can be preserved for some time through pharma-coctails - re: Magic Johnson - although we have hit a Centers for Disease Control figure of >3% in the DC Metropolitan Area. The rates in Africa are terribly high, but again, now that the West can band-aid it it seems to have lost its immediacy in the minds of the proletariat and bourgeoisie (as well as the ruling elite). So that leaves us with Bird Flu - http://rense.com/general85/dsd2.htm - now if'n you believe even for a second that there is some sort of global manipulation going on in the affairs of Man, then this will shiver your spine - on the other hand, if you believe corruption stops at the UN and other supra-national organizations, then this is just more lunacy.

Of FEMA Camps, Cuban Missle Crisis Deux, Stagflation, Chinese Repomen, Ammo Shortages, and other Obamanations

2009-03-15T23:19:00.003Z

I find it interesting to track all manner of media, whether "fringe" or mainstream. And in so doing, it is pretty neat to note when one spills over to the other, or bubbles up (or out), depending on how you see it.

Anyway, for the sake of content, I provide the following hap-hazard list of themes out among the sites I frequent for news, News, or NEWS.

1) we have our first Halfrican-American, bona fide hyphenated President. Yet, is he truly a native son of los estados unidos? The sticky questions surrounding his legitimacy is not going to go away soon. One wonders why Hawaii just doesn't make his birth certificate available.
2) many have stated, quite incorrectly, that El Presidente is just like another JFK. Of course, any student of history can shoot down this comparison, but it is pervasive. The comparison holds, however, with respect to his rapid ascendancy and the fact that the Russians are going to park bombers in Cuba again.
3) Stagflation is a bitch. Shit economy... with massive influx of dollars will result in this. I am still saying the Dow bottoms out at 5500 and unemployment (now at 8%) will reach 15%. The Summer of Hell is upon us.
4) FEMA Camps - urban legend... or reality? Google it. It's at least spooky to think about the not-so-wonderful reasons why we have so many across the States.
5) Chinese Repo Men - I postulated last Summer to my neighbor that eventually the Chinese would use their financial leverage of our leverage against us. How this will shape up is interesting. What I do know is that we will be seeing red one way or another. My gut check tells me the Chinese have been waiting a very long time to flog the old US of A. Pretty much game-set-match on this. How will they collect their assets, one wonder aloud.
6) Google "US Ammunition Shortages" or check out some of the on-line gun and ammunition shops. Pay particular attention to how much of the stuff is out of stock. Since Obama's election, Gun sales in the US have grown some 10-fold. The thinking is either buy them while you can... or I wanna make sure when it comes time for squatters rights to replace the social contract, better to go out shooting than to be rounded up without a shot being fired. Which returns some minds to FEMA Camps.

Time to kiss our asses goodbye, me thinks. Who will carry the flag?

Royal Prerogative

2009-03-07T10:14:00.004Z

Honours for a Coward

Oh Mary Jo he let you down;
Oh Mary Jo he let you drown.
And now he goes to London Town
For honours from the British Crown?
For services to Gordon Brown?

Her Majesty should not agree
To this egregious travesty.
She simply must not let it be.
No KBE for cowardly
Edward Moron Kennedy!

Easing the way to recovery

2009-03-05T00:29:00.006Z

Sky News Money Panel has advised the Bank of England to indulge in a little "quantitive easing" to help counteract the global slump, by printing £150bn or so worth of readies for circulation among the hoi polloi to enable us to buy goods and services and thereby kick-start the economy - click on caption for the article in question.

When some gifted members of the International Brotherhood of Forgers and Paperhangers, that I once encountered during my erstwhile official duties a few decades ago, did something similar through the means of private enterprise, artistic skills and an adapted printing press, they definitely created some monetary fluidity - something of a boom for a while in fact. However the subsequent bust - theirs - resulted in the architects of that recovery plan receiving between 10 and 15years porridge for their public spiritedness.

When private entrepreneurs do it, it's called forgery, uttering forged currency and conspiracy to defraud. When governments do it, that's called 'quantitive easing' apparently, even if they run countries that are bankrupt. The crooks of the Hungarian Circle conspiracy of whom I speak, were probably a lot less evil than those involved in the current official global scams. In fact I am led to believe that one or two of them were hired from time to time after their release, to surreptitiously advise certain members of governments on how to 'paperhang' and where to invest their own personal cuts from the proceeds. All pro bono publico, of course. It's a funny old world. I'm off to Ebay now to see whether I can pick up an old printing press. There's some quantitive easing to be done, my parlour needs papering and I would like to ease poverty throughout the world, particularly in my neck of the woods.

What's it all about Alfie?

2009-02-14T16:53:00.003Z

Melanie Phillips has written a piece for Daily Mail on-line concerning the baby born of 15-year-old mother by a 13-year-old father: (click on title for link).

As usual Melanie enters the moral maze with great confidence and an aerial diagram of the layout. This time I’m not necessarily lock-stepping her all the way, as there may be more than one way through it.

Moreover, there is an elephant wandering around in this one, which everyone seems to be ignoring. How are they going to prevent this young 'couple' from continuing their illegal sexual relationship when it has already borne fruit, so to speak? Denying ‘parents’ conjugal rights that might cement a relationship that would benefit the baby in later years could be deleterious - a tricky problem for both familes, the social services and the police, I would have thought. The difficulties are obvious, but the solutions are not easily formulated. Perhaps there may have to be blind eyes turned here to allow evolution to proceed in the least worst of all possibilities. Innocence is something we should do all we can to protect in children, but once lost it cannot be restored or repaired, but it can be replaced by support, education and encouragement towards parental responsibility and the natural affection involved fostered in all possible ways.

Sadly, there are thousands of couplings of individuals whose maturity is probably even less developed than that of these two children, but whose legal right to breed is inviolate merely because of the arbitrary parameter of age alone and they have ‘rights’. Whether the result is any better for society than this sad little story is debatable.

In the counter culture ethos (or rather chaos) that has engulfed us, ostracism, peer group pressures, judgemental attitudes and other social mores that were once natural regulators (along with civil and religious laws) are now infra dig - in some cases illegal. It follows that an increase in feral children, promiscuous and/or perverted sexual behaviour, breeding patterns and all the consequences that issue forth are inevitable. Add to that the all-pervasive and baleful influences of television and its intrusion into childhood, through lack of any real regulation or even parental supervision, and it is perhaps inevitable that things will have to get worse before, or rather if, they are to get better. Humanity is too clever by half and too stupid by a country mile to better its lot on this planet. There’s the paradox! And most of us shrank from stamping our feet harder and resisting the great army of the deluded and depraved culture warriors when they started their long march.

At least in this particular case, the little family involved emerges from the same nation, race, social status; the child is the issue of a heterosexual coupling with no test tubes involved and if they are given the privacy and support they need, it could turn out to be a happy family in 5 – 10 years, who knows? Calm down dear, it’s only nature taking its course; admittedly, on this occasion, a little prematurely, but there is a possibility of a good result, at least. Just give Old Father Time a chance to help out. In the meantime someone has to decide whether this prematurely aged young man is entitled to his regular ration of oats and in due course the young lady too, to balance the more onerous elements of parenthood as it did for most of us, I guess. I’m just glad I don’t have to decide on that issue.

Ahhh. There’s the exit to this maze. I’m outa here before I get trampled to death. By Melanie that is, not the elephant!

The Way We Were...

2009-02-05T13:20:00.003Z

After the huge loss of men on the Somme during World War I, and before the USA entered the war, some women visited the American Ambassador in London to ask him for help in finding their menfolk. Walter Hines Page, the US Ambassador, recorded:

"I suppose a thousand English women have been to see me - as a last hope - to ask me to have enquiries made in Germany about their 'missing' sons or husbands, generally sons. They are of every class and rank, from Marchioness to scrub-woman. Every one tells her story with the same dignity of grief, the same marvellous self-restraint, the same courtesy and deference and sorrowful pride. Not one has whimpered...It's the breed....They never weep; their voices do not falter. Not a tear have I seen yet. They take it as part of the price of greatness and empire. You guess at their grief only by their reticence. They use as few words as possible and then courteously take themselves away. It isn't an accident that these people own a fifth of the world. Utterly unwarlike, they outlast anybody else when war comes...."

(quoted in 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900' by Andrew Roberts)

Stephenson's delayed action rocket to power.

2009-01-28T01:06:00.004Z

So it looks as though despite the tough talk about the 'Muscular Mayor's' shake up at The Yard, Smudger Smiff, our even more muscular Home Secretary, who sadly also hasn't yet lost her job in the great exodus of women from the workplace cited by Yazza, has prevailed and Sir Ian Blair's ex-Deputy, currently holding the fort, has landed the job. A little embarrassing for the Speccy mag., which yesterday publicised a leak of a conversation between Boris and Blair about the Stockwell nut job. It is worth reading through the post and commentary (click on caption). If today's Sky revelation is correct, it makes amusing reading. Not too late to influence events, Boris, if that mayoral muscle really exists. Otherwise business as usual at the Yard. Birds of a feather copper together at that level. I wonder if Roger Graef will do a fly-on-the-wall documentary of his selection board interview. Now that would be interesting.

Dear God, why can't one of them be hers?

2009-01-26T11:11:00.001Z

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: 'Our struggle for equality has just become more difficult'

"Female job losses are calculated to be happening at twice the rate of men's"

The Independent
Monday, 26 January 2009

We Need More Honorable Men in Manhattan and Washington DC (and London)

2009-01-03T22:56:00.007Z

I hate to write anything positive about the French. I really do. But I have to mention that in this case we find a Frenchman who some may say is a coward... but I say is a hero. Now, yes, I am not at all a fan of suicide. Not for the least part because of my particular religious beliefs. But, to be honest with you, I find something appealing in the act of this particular Frenchman. In the way he went out.

Here is why: assuming he was not a coward (as in he was just afraid to face the music), his act, though again not to be praised, demonstrates he was capable of shame. And embarrassment. And guilt. That is... he appears to have been... human. It also appears that he was not given to pointing the finger at others for his mistakes. That means he felt responsible for his actions.

I like him. And in particular, I like him because he is dead. I think the US/Britain could benefit from this sort of culling of the herd.

God forgive me. But I really think we would benefit.

Instead, the power-centers are populated with shameless creatures that represent the most base Humanity has to offer.

So Farewell then, Samuel Huntington (died 24/12/2008)

2009-01-03T21:14:00.003Z

If you haven’t read ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’ (1993/6) yet, I think you probably should. Huntington's analysis can be queried, and subjected to the death of a thousand academic qualifications, but he is definitely on to something.

Writing well before 9/11, Huntington argues that the old ideological certainties of the Cold War would be replaced by older religio-cultural (aka 'civilisational') divisions. Far from being drawn together by globalisation, the different civilisations would increasingly conflict. Liberal capitalism would not automatically triumph, as his former pupil (and utter charlatan?), Francis Fukuyama, had claimed. Democracy is a result of certain specific cultural circumstances; and it cannot easily be transplanted.

In 2004, he made the obvious point that American culture is the product of Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture, and he went on to claim that the recent huge influx of Latinos would unmoor the USA from its cultural roots.

Now, the US is not my country, but his point resonates with me. Dan will say that the Latinos are hard-working, and Enoch will applaud their overwhelming Catholicism, but I cannot help seeing such a huge migration as a threat to the West as a whole and to the country that leads us.

A high-breeding racially and linguistically distinct people with a partly non-western cultural heritage are colonising the USA. Latinos are not merely New World Spaniards, but Spanish-speaking people of mixed race who are largely of non-western descent. Inevitably, their arrival in the USA will change the linguistic basis of the US; and their attachment to democracy and classical liberalism will not be so strong. And ultimately those states in which they come to be a majority may wish to secede from the union…

Meanwhile, things are worse over here...but that is another story and another post...

Next Crisis, Please

2008-12-31T19:17:00.006Z

Us 'n' Them

2008-12-27T14:33:00.009Z

Click on the caption to view and listen to someone explaining the rules of the Great Game. Geopolitically things have moved on a bit since it was recorded. But has the powerful, relentless beat of the message changed in its rhythm or force? Personally, I think not. Unfortunately it is still being transmitted below the radar of the majority of the Western democratic electorate and consistently jammed anyway by the lamestream* media. Why is this? Are we all communistic at heart and have a secret desire for Marxian fulfilment? The facade of the subterfuge is wafer thin, transparent and prone to eruption, yet most refuse to see or hear what is happening and certainly cannot forsee the consequences of ceding to it. Hope! Change! Obamesmerised! Some would say its no longer a subterfuge; it is now overt imposition of the counter-cultural hegemony. Perhaps Gorbachev was a great deal more cunning than he was given credit for. Who would have forecast the collapse of capitalism within two decades in 1989?

Is it too late to reverse the rout? Probably. But try we must. Only a matter of time before the blogs are suppressed.

*ack. Darleen Click - wordsmith extraordinaire

A Christmas Wish

2008-12-24T20:24:00.004Z

To the last of the few of the Daily Ablution and anyone else who may drop by, may you be surrounded by those that love you at Christmas and may the Year 2009 be a much better one than I expect it to be. It's been a a strange start to the New Millennium; but keep buggering on.

Life has been the better for knowing y'all and long may that prevail. The Missus 'n' me will raise a glass of Bloody Scotch over the Christmas pud and propose a toast to you and yours. Cheers!

And just in case our erstwhile host Scott Burgess Esq. is still extant in this troubled Universe, we hope that your post-Ablution adventures have been worthwhile, Scott. If so we would be pleased to know that you have survived the fatwa. I'd activate the Anti-Terrorism squad at NSY to send out a search party if they weren't so busy running their Taxi firms and trying to sabotage the Tory Party for their old mate Smudger Smiff.

So, the Pope's a Catholic...

2008-12-23T13:31:00.003Z

It was almost enough to make me want to convert. And then His Holiness has to ruin it by regurgitating eco-propaganda about the rain forests.