Smile of the decade blog

This relates to the previous post - same story different angle...

Why did Mr Straw choose to go on the famous ten past eight slot of the Flagship News programme "Today"?

He repeated the same stance as he had always taken - that it was essential that no information about the reasons behind Jon Venables' recall to prison was released to the public...

So we were treated to John Humphrys finding fifteen different ways to skirt around the same question - exactly as Jack the Lad must have known he would, (given that all journalists seem to be of the opinion that the baying lynch mob must have their views expressed on every platform available.)

There is a clear explanation...
Straw loves the sound of his own voice and the notion of his own importance, (those are established facts not opinions) - so clearly this represented a great chance for him to look statesmanlike in his amazing ability and skill in saying nothing in fifteen different ways.

Well, he is a politician.

Worse though, even than Jack Straw's pathetic ego tripping, is that the Today producers thought it worthwhile and responsible to put him in this slot. Tabloid thinking on the Today show?

We should have had a straight statement - "There is no news on the Venables issue for solid legal reasons" - end of story. That's five seconds not fifteen prime-time minutes.

The title linked Daily Wail piece is not atypical of the tabloid response to news of Jon Venables getting into trouble and being recalled from his new identity release.

The following are quotes from those who enjoy such coverage

"As part of my tax is being used to feed and care for the murdering little shIt then yes, I say we have the right to know the details. I also say his identity should be disclosed and all police protection removed."

"It's only a matter of time before the evil little shit gets his comeuppance."

The print media are in decline, After a show of moral low ground scraping on the issue of a child killer (as in He was a child when he killed another child) they are not so much dying as committing Hara kiri.

The contempt of court they seek to commit and skirt round, playing to the baying mob makes me long for the day when all the tabloid press cease to exist - and stop polluting our society with their hate filled contemptuous trash.

Around the time of the Bulger killing there was a not dissimilar case in Norway. Two small children killed another - beating the toddler up and burying them in a snow drift.

Did we see crowds of baying stone throwing adults storming the courts and swearing death to the two child killers on TV news? no...

The community concerned wrapped itself with love around the parents of both victim and perpetrators' parents, trying desperately to come to terms with the horror for all concerned and heal the wounds that the incident caused.

Shame on Britain and its gutter press for doing the precise opposite -
Not one is genuinely concerned for the Bulger family, not one has looked at how these children, who became so psychopathic at the age of ten, were allowed to be so lost in our world. All they want is the sight of blood and a lynch mob appeased.

Sickening...and roll on Norwegian emigration...

Jogging for the cameras David?
Oh how it makes you look fit to lead...not.
David Cameron took a while to talk about the multi-millionaire Lord Ashcroft's "non-dom" status, what made me laugh was how he tried to shake it off with comments on Labour's donors and the "happy he is now clear about his status" line.
This deflective line on his status is the one that would have denied him his peerage in the first place according to William Hague, the then leader of the Tory party - (Yes, three leaders ago!) who was assured that he would be paying millions of pounds of UK taxes in order to comply with the permanent residence request...he lied to you William
- and you know it.

Today on Question time Ken Clarke tried the same line of "I don't know what the fuss is all about, probably most of us are envious of non doms' status..."

BZZZZZZZZZ! quack quack oops, that was a red white and blue rag to the others who could now proudly state how they were pleased to be UK residents. Also how pleased they are to be paying all their taxes here and are now expecting those charged with making laws that govern Brits to obey the rules that allowed them to reach that lofty position.

I have no doubt that this story arc, if properly maintained, can significantly expose the weaselly transparency -( as in "I have no substance" )- of David Cameron. And hopefully it will remind people that an outright Tory majority is a bad idea for the majority of UK taxpayers.

Which brings me to my desire for a hung parliament, and my message to the floating voters:-
You've voted for Tories, you've voted for Labour - which one has proved they do best with a landslide victory? - why are either of them to be more trusted than any other formula for government?
a cliche answer:
"Yeah, but a vote for the Lib Dems or Greens is a wasted vote innit?"
- you mean you only want to vote for a party that wins?(like London born fans of Manchester United)
"A fat lot of good that has done", is exactly what I am saying.
By voting for the Greens and acknowledging that the two main parties are so similarly bad as to not deserve an overall majority - you could actually force them to change...to agree to policies of foresight and consensus...

and by giving a voice to those who can see over a duck house and a tax break to the long term needs of the planet that we utterly depend upon for all life...
you might just help effect some real changes for the better...

Just in case anyone is new here - and if not, to remind you exactly why I would like to bring down the Catholic church and what it stands for...
try this - you'll have to go there yourself because my puritanical blog host prevents all links with the word "sex" (or "Zionist") in them
its one of the most viewed in the Guardian and look for the story that says "gay sex scandal hits the Vatican"

I have nothing against leading politicians being gay - of course not - as long as they don't hypocritically hide it and then try to repeal laws guaranteeing equal rights.

I have nothing against gay priests (except that they are priests)
until they go around preaching one thing but practicing the opposite.

(Hang on a minute - that is almost all of them)

We have, this year, the obscenity of the current Pope coming to the UK, and planning to beatify Cardinal Newman.
For those who don't know; as well as being the patron "Saint to be" of politicians, he is the man who burned people to death for daring to read the Bible in their own language, citing that the Church decreed it must be left in Latin only.

So the Church is giving out its usual lovely messages about the Holy Book....Murder to keep it private and under Priestly control and you can thus become a saint...WTF!?

The obscenity of that is a reflection of the obscenity of the entire Catholic structure - it is institutionally worse than anyone within it, and all other major church structures dare admit.

Because the purpose of nearly all institutions is self preservation BEFORE the good of mankind, and the bigger and older the institution the worse this self preservation behaviour becomes...

and more good news...The Pope cannot heal anyone - placebo effects do not last.

please let this be the first year in many, when Catholic numbers worldwide start to reduce as intelligence and education rises...

this is a sorry table of "paid" members..
Seminarians (men studying for the priesthood) 110,583
Religious sisters 769,142
Religious brothers 55,057
Diocesan and religious priests 405,178
Lay Ecclesial Ministers 30,632
Permanent deacons 27,824
Bishops 3,475
Archbishops 914
Cardinals 183
Pope 1

Total 1,402,989

to serve a world membership of 1,300,000,000 - and rising. (who presumably provide the millions of pounds that pays for all these people...and their nefarious activities).

we need to turn this around people - the Idiocracy is still alive and well...

A Bridge not big enough?

Footballers who get to the top of their profession play in the English premier league. But nearly all English players retain a little bit of pride in playing for their country too, so is Wayne Bridge being a bigger man by refusing to play for his country because... because...

what the hell is it because?

I am all for discouraging adultery - and the England player Terry was stripped of the England captaincy because he "played away", as in, he is a married man, he fell for the charms of a serial shagger of soccer players.

In this case, this one had happened to spend a little bit of time, previously, as in 'long ago finished with', Wayne Bridge, a former club and erstwhile England team mate...

Now I can get that this might be mildly upsetting - seeing your ex with another guy you thought was your friend, but have the words "get over it" not been rightly said to Wayne in this context?
To give up your England career, because that is what he is saying in effect, seems to be a bit daft. His colleagues say his mental state has been crumbling due to this event, and while he may be ready to play opposite Terry as a club opponent, he is only just this close to having to take a complete break from the game.

Sorry Wayne, but if this is over your ex going on to shag someone else, then Football was never the career for you in the first place... and you can bet that unless you come back now no future England manager is going to have you down as first choice for left back.

the average Joe soccer punter on the street may not be the sharpest on emotional psychology but will wonder why anyone who earns that much money and attracts that many soccer shagger types in every night club can get upset over the similar idiocies of another over paid player.

An every day story of indecent exposure being completely misunderstood.
the title linked piece is being rightly pursued as a ridiculous way to treat a breast feeding mother...
I agree - people should be allowed to breast feed in public (unless the recipient is an adult who should know better.)

The bus driver and anyone else who objects should realise that exposing ones breasts is not an offence anywhere...never mind if there's a baby suckling a well hidden boob under a sloppy jumper-

they don't really object to this...

they just don't like seeing real, less glamorous ones being used for their main purpose... pathetic..

Anna Ford.

I always thought there was more than the looks that made me find her attractive, made me switch my news viewing habits way back when.
Then she went on to set up TVAM with David Frost and others. Those others including Jonathan Aitken, then just a rich Tory PR scum bag, rather than proven to be a lying, bribing, cheating arrogant Tory MP convicted of contempt of court,- scumbag.

She threw a glass of wine over him in public when she learned of his role in selling out the fledgling station and dismissing her from the presenting team. As it turned out this was much less than he deserved, as his arrogance proved too much for his own survival and hubris landed him in prison for contempt of court.

Her latest attack is on the godfather of her own daughter, Mr Martin Amis, the well known arrogant misogynist writer, son of the also well known arrogant misogynist writer, Kingsley.
She details in her open letter (see title linked story) just how self obsessed and uncaring he really is in his private life, utterly ignoring the request of Anna's dying husband to be their daughter's godparent, and generally behaving like a spoiled schoolboy who got lucky and inherited the head boy's typewriter.

I have never read a Martin Amis novel.
I have read a short piece of his in the paper and heard him interviewed on an arts programme, and until then might have been persuaded by the sway of popular sales to try a novel. But these exposures swayed me against him, and now Anna Ford seems to help make it clear why my almost instinctive judgement of him was correct. I would rather whiny spoiled brats like him rotted, wingeing, unread, in some preppy study room full of smoke, than buy one of his books.

So, here's to you Anna.
As well as being a strong woman, done down by the system, you remain a hero of taste in a world where deference to rich, nominally "successful" men, no matter how shallow their characters, is utterly undeserved but somehow expected.

What does a murderer look like?
Many times you hear neighbours talk of how they were the nice quiet type, and what a surprise it is to learn that nice Mr Shipman killed all those people.

The Dubai authorities have now shown us what a typical Israeli hit squad looks like. They have also revealed how they will clone passports of people living in their own country - for the convenience of being able to use deception at national border controls to carry out murders abroad.
The picture (right) shows a smiling assassin having had his photo pasted into an Irish citizen's passport in order to be part of the squad that took out a Hamas leader in Dubai.

There is a little bit of diplomatic upset about this, "How dare they use our citizens' passports?" our embassies are saying to the Israeli ambassadors. They might even give them a strict telling off and not allow them sugar in their coffee at the telling off meeting...
But very few are seeking to draw the long reign of terror of the Zionist regime to an end...
So very many still justify, at least to themselves to avoid guilt feelings, the murderous actions of the invading and occupying Israelis by saying "Aaah but the Palestinians are firing rockets at Israel"...

...a swallowing of Zionist propaganda that is equivalent to an American tribunal accepting the justifying of the Vietnamese My Lai massacre because a child spat at one of the US soldiers who had just shot his mother...

This is not "one bad apple" - this is fifty rotten barrels of Zionism and its blatant defiance of civilised states' moral codes. It is a way of invasion and occupation, backed by deceit and murder that needs to be stopped by international outrage.