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Kevin Rudd Says Not To Chinese Olympic Goons
SAYS Kevin Rudd, Australian leader du jour:
We will not be having Chinese security forces, or the Chinese security services, providing security for the torch when it is in Australia. We – Australia – will be providing that security.
Joe Bugner still alive?
Posted: 8th, April 2008 | In: Back pages, Politicians | Comment (1)
Nigel Lawson On Green Nazis
Nigel Lawson on the greens:
Those who wish to order us how to run our lives, faced with the uncomfortable evidence that economic prosperity is more likely to be achieved by less government intervention rather than more, naturally welcome the emergence of a new licence to intrude, to interfere, to tax and to regulate: all in the great cause of saving the planet from the alleged horrors of global warming …
People still feel the need for the comfort and higher values that religion can provide; and it is the quasi-religion of green alarmism, of which the global warming issue is the most striking example, which has filled the vacuum, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as little short of sacrilege.
He’s right. The greens are their worst are a shiny-eyed bunch of control freaks…
Posted: 7th, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama’s Rhetoric Idiot
BARACK Obama’s speeches for idiots:
Obama’s speeches frequently include passages that flatter their listeners who aren’t quite intelligent enough to realize how shallow his thinking actually is into thinking that they are more intelligent than they are.
Posted: 7th, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (8)
German Duke Franz Herzog von Bayern Is Rightful King Of England
GOD save Franz Herzog von Bayern new King of England and Scotland.
The Telegraph reports that should Gordon Brown repeal the 1701 Act of Settlement, something he is considering, the 74-year-old German will sit on the throne.
Brown sees the undoing of the Act as a way of “healing a historic injustice by ending the prohibition against Catholics taking the throne”.
No Act and Franz Herzog von Bayern, the current Duke of Bavaria, becomes the rightful heir to the British Crown under the Stuart line.
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Posted: 7th, April 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (35)
Vote Match For London Mayor: Anorak For Winston McKenzie
VOTE Match London wants you to answer questions to see how should get your vote in the London Mayoral and and Assembly elections*.
Q1. – Have you ever awoken to discover that Ken Livingstone is your dad?
Q2. – Have you ever tken on your long-lost real father in the contest to be London maoyr?
Q3. – Are you blonde?
*Anorak most agrees with Winston McKenzie – and we had to look him up to find out who he is…
Posted: 4th, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Ken Livingstone Knew Your Mother
SAYS Ken Livingstone, father to “FIVE” children by “THREE” different women: “I don’t think anybody in this city will be shocked by what two consenting adults do, as long as you don’t include children, animals and vegetables.
“No one has ever found anything in my private life that was illegal or immoral.”
But it’s not for want of looking. Asks the Sun: “DO YOU know Red Ken’s secret family?” If you do, then call the paper’s hotline.
And then call the paper’s owner and explain how no-one apparently knew the London mayor had a tribe of children until now.
As for Ken, who knew that sounding like a plugged in martial aid makes you such a hit with the ladies?
Posted: 4th, April 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (6)
Political Bloggers Do Stat Porn: Guido, Dale, DK And Tim
BRITISH bloggers do like their stat porn. Tim Worstall loosk at “The Biggest Willy Competition”. Who has it?
Yes, I do says Guido!
But mine is better says Iain!
And mine more sweary says the DK!
And mine more perfectly formed says Tim Ireland!
Guido gets 458,475 Page Hits from 352,291 Visitors
Dale gets 239,368 unique visitors; page impressions were 357,353; absolute uniques were 53,255
DK gets: Page Views: 67,565; Unique Visitors: 54,231
Tim gets : “Server logs show approx. 71,000 ‘unique’ visitors to the site. Google Analytics says 25,016 Absolute Unique Visitors involving the main weblog alone. Server logs show approx. 400,000 page views site-wide.”
Tim Worstall: 214,315 people visited this site; 219,306 Visits; 214,315 Absolute Unique Visitors. Over 200,000 absolute uniques! Yes, it’s true! Timmy has the biggest willy!
Paul Sorene’s Anorak gets 490,000 uniques and 1.2 million page views. and the readers stick around.
Posted: 4th, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
It’s 10pm, The Phone Is Ringing And John McCain Is Watching The Hills
“REALITY-soap bad girl Heidi Montag” of US show The Hills has endorsed John McCain.
And John McCain has responded:
“I’m honored to have Heidi’s support and I want to assure her that I never miss an episode of ‘The Hills,’ especially since the new season started.”
As one commentor on Time’s website notes: “McCain can’t remember if condoms prevent AIDS or who the players are in Iraq, but he knows who the actresses are on The Hills? Incredible.”
Says another: “Has she been trained in Iran? Have you watched her show? It’s entirely possible that she has been sent by terrorists to punish us.”
But the pick has to be: “It’s 10pm and your children are safe and asleep. There’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing. Something’s happening in the world. But the president is watching The Hills. He never misses an episode. The world can wait, Heidi and Spencer are breaking up again.”
Posted: 3rd, April 2008 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
Boris Johnson Inhales Janet Street-Porter’s Oysters
JANET Street-Porter is in conversation with Boris Johnson. The words feature in Marie Claire magazine, the organ of heart-wrenching stories:
JSP: Are you prepared for what’s going to be slung at you as this election campaign gets under way? Your past is going to be raked over. What about drugs? In an interview, you said, ‘I’ve snorted coke, but I sneezed.’
BJ: I thoroughly disagree with drugs, and…
You smoked dope before you went to university.
That’s true, but the stuff you and I may have smoked is not the same as what the kids are having now. I think skunk and this stuff is very, very dangerous.
Well, you’re a father and you’ve got four children.
I don’t want my kids having drugs.
…You said in interviews that you’ve snorted coke.Well, that was when I was 19. It all goes to show that, sometimes, it’s better not to say anything.
Brilliant stuff. Always good if a journalist can encourage their subject not to speak…
“Oysters for everyone!” says Boris. “I promise to oysterize all of south London!”
Posted: 3rd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Looking At The New British Coins
THOSE new British coins:
The coins are thereby symbolic of what New Labour has done to the United Kingdom, to the British Constitution, and to the ancient rights and liberties of the British people. From the grandness of unity, purpose, meaning and wholeness which was symbolised by Britannia, we now have the splintered autonomy of micro-narratives; a disparate collection of sub-cultures and designer cults, each with its own language, code and life-style. What a farrago.
Do they weight the same as the old ones?
Posted: 3rd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Civil Servants And Bottled Water
CIVIL servants love bottled water:
It sounds like it is very thirsty work at the DWP. Since April 2006 they have purchased 5.3 million litres of bottled water. Apparently they’re planning on introducing the use of tap water by summer 2008. Does that mean they don’t have any taps already? How difficult is it to say “we’re not buying that anymore, go use a tap”?
They do love their own branded bottled water…
Posted: 3rd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
MPs Wants Rise In The House Market
“NEGATIVE EQUITY THREAT TO 3M HOMES,” says the Mail’s front-page headline.
Says the Mirror: “A mortgage famine is on the cards as more banks follow First Direct’s decision to slam the door on new borrowers. Experts fear we could be heading back to the bad old days of mortgage rationing as the worldwide credit crunch tightens.”
Says the Expres on its front page: “NOW MPS WANTS £23,000 PAY RISE.”
MPs are “accsued of lining their pockets.”
Only: “They want the astonishing sum to replace their lavish second-home allowamnces of up to £22,100.”
So the politicos want to do up their homes rather than move? Given the economic climate, this seems entirely reasonable…
Posted: 3rd, April 2008 | In: Money, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment (1)
Barack Obama’s Rhetoric On John McCain’s 100 Years War
SAYS JOHN McCain on Iraq:
Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty years…McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred. We’ve been in South Korea, we’ve been in Japan for sixty years. We’ve been in South Korea for fifty years or so. That’d be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then it’s fine with me. I would hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
Says Barack Obama:
We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another hundred years.”
And: “(McCain) says that he is willing to send our troops into another hundred years of war in Iraq.”
Well, that’s not quite what he said, is it..?
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Third Of Britons Are Paranoid, All Others Under Observation
HARRIET Harman might not be such a fool to walk around in a stab-proof vest – she might just be paranoid.
The Sun says more than a third of Brits are “PARANOID”.
How do we know this? By scientists watching you and noting all you do down on pads, that’s how. Also, researchers sent 200 volunteers on a computer-generated four-minute trip in a London Tube carriage.
One paranoid passenger said a “dodgy” computer character looked as if he might turn aggressive or “plant a bomb”.
A second was scared she might be sexually molested, while a third feared a virtual passenger who kept moving a hand was a pickpocket.
A fourth was “spooked” by another virtual passenger. She said later: “I’m sure he looked at me more than a couple of times though I might be imagining it.”
Meanwhile a woman in south London is taking no chances, her party is handing out ID cards and her leader is invading Iraq just in case it has big guns that can kill us all in 45 minutes…
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (4)
Harriet Harman’s Vest Hard Hat Story
HARRIET Harman is wearing a stab-proof vest.
The Labour deputy leader dressed in the Kevlar jacket to tour Peckham, South London. Just in case one vest as not enough, she took along three spares, carried by three coppers.
Harman says wearing the vest on Monday was a “courtesy” while visiting police. Says she: “I didn’t have to wear a stab-proof jacket. Just as I might wear a hard hat on a building site, it’s about wearing the kit.”
Look out for Harman wearing full football kit to talk about sport, a nurse’s uniform to discuss the NHS and a burka to get into the mood for dialogue on the War on Terror…
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (6)
Gordon Brown Advertises or Professional Immigrants
“IMMIGRANTS,” screams the Express, calling the country’s assorted Poles, Australians and more to attention, “NO BROWN WANTS MORE.”
When Anorak mocked up Gordon Brown as Oliver Twist, we meant it in jest.
But he can’t have any more. There aren’t any more. Everyone’s already here. To get more immigrants, the immigrants will have to go away and come back again. Perhaps British Airways could put them in bags to Milan and save on costs?
But Gordon Brown wants more. He says the number of job vacancies has now increased to 675,000 and businesses can benefit from being able to “recruit more widely”.
The Express presses ‘1’ on the speed dial and contacts Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of Migrationwatch UK.
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Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2)
Ken Livingstone’s Proudest Moment Gives Labour Hope
KEN Livingstone is now a rank outsider to beat Boris Johnson to be London Mayor. And then this video appears:
Coincidence?
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Sir David King And Russian Climate Control
SAYS Bishop Hill: “There’s a lovely anecdote doing the rounds of climate sceptic blogs about Sir David King, the climate alarmist and former chief scientific adviser to the British government.”
The scene:
“It seems that President Putin asked some of his leading scientists to meet Sir David when he went to Moscow as part of the entourage of the foreign secretary. King apparently launched into his standard spiel about how we’re all going to fry, but was a bit taken aback when the assembled scientists told him he was talking rubbish. When they had the temerity to list all the scientific evidence which refuted his claims of impending armageddon, our man was left looking a bit of a ninny and turned on his heels and stormed out of the room.”
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Hillary Clinton Admits She Will Lose To A Black Fighter
HILLARY Clinton is a contender.
In Pennsylvania on a bonding mission, Hillary compares herself to Sly Stallone’s Rocky, specifically the moment when he races up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Says Hillary: “Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s about far enough’.
“When it comes to finishing a fight Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never give up. I know what it’s like to get knocked down. I’ve never stayed down and never will.”
In the film, Rocky loses to a black boxer with superior showmanship…
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Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Hillary Clinton Is F*cking Barack Obama
HILLARY Clinton or Obama? Why can’t they just breed:
Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Al Gore’s Rage Against The Machine
AL Gore has a plan. Al Gore wants 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change. There will be adverts on American TV. Lots of them.
The target is a big number. The Guardian says it’s twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.
“The resources are completely unprecedented in American politics,” says Philip Clapp, of the Pew Environment Group. The Alliance for Climate Protection “has already reached out to organisations as diverse as the Girl Scouts and the steelworkers union to try to broaden its appeal”.
Steelworkers and girl scouts. The green movement is throwing up some unlikely bedfellows. Cookies and pig iron. The former Vice President of the USA waging war on the machines, one of which caused so many hanging chads and lost him Florida and with it the White House.
Gore hates machines, just hates them.
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Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev Runs In Olympics
NO, not the Running of the Jews:
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev will run a 250m stretch of the torch relay after the Beijing Olympic flame arrives in Almaty, Kazakhstan on April 2, 2008.
Mr Nazarbayen is 67 years old. There is little like seeing a politician in shorts and sweat to make him appear statesmanlike and noble…
Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Back pages, Politicians | Comment (1)
Tibetans Plan Suicide Attacks On China
OVER the newswires come stories of suicide bombing Tibetans:
China on Tuesday accused “Tibet independence forces” of planning to use suicide squads to trigger bloody attacks — the lastest in a string of accusations that have taken aim at supporters of the Dalai Lama.
The prime minister of Tibet’s government-in-exile denied the claims, saying Tibetans are committed to a “nonviolent path.”
“To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks,” Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping said Tuesday.
“They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice,” Wu told a news conference.
Wu offered no firm evidence to support his claims.
When monks attack…
Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Didn’t We Do Well And The Elite
ON doing well at school:
The idea that we should seek to equalise outcomes between the “highly motivated” and the “less well motivated” is interesting. It suggests that giving everyone the chance to do well means (in the minds of people like Baroness Blackstone) neutering “doing well” to the point where everyone does well, regardless. Demanding that all universities have resources “concentrated” on them, across the board, is equally vacuous. “Achievement for all”; “resources concentrated on every area” — meaningless slogans, no doubt intended to sound appealing.
Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
