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UKIP Councillor For Henley-on-Thames David Silvester Says Gays Make It Rain
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the gay clubs
WHY does it rain so much? That question to you, UKIP councillor Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire David Silvester:
“The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war… I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill. But he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.”
Phew! Not global warming then. Crank up the supercar….
Double phew! The sooner gay marry in Qatar the better. It’s not rained for days…
Posted: 18th, January 2014 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s Letter On Unnatural Gays And The ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’
HIGHLIGHTS of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni ‘s long letter on the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” passed by parliament in December.
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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Vladimir Putin Says All Gays Must Stary Away From Children
VLADIMIR Putin will now do his utmost to show you what a bigoted cretin he is:
“We do not have a ban on non-traditional sexual relationships. We have a ban on the propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia. I want to underline this. Propaganda among children. These are absolutely different things – a ban on something or a ban on the propaganda of that thing…
“We are not forbidding anything and nobody is being grabbed off the street, and there is no punishment for such kinds of relations. You can feel relaxed and calm [in Russia], but leave children alone please.”
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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Diane Abbott’s Portrait Alludes To Her Role As Swimming Pool Tsar
THIS portrait of Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott cost you £11, 750.
She is not alone on those elite Commons’ walls. Between 2000 and 2010, 21 parliamentarians were immortalised in paint and bronze.
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Posted: 14th, January 2014 | In: Politicians | Comment
Francois Hollande Ruins The Economy And Proves The French Can’t Even Have A Decent Affair
This Sunday, May 6, 2012, file photo shows French president-elect Francois Hollande kissing his companion, Valerie Trierweiler, after greeting crowds gathered to celebrate his election victory in Bastille Square in Paris. Hollande is threatening legal action over magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with a French actress. The magazine Closer published images Friday Jan.10, 2014 showing his bodyguard and a helmeted man it says is Hollande visiting what it says is the apartment of the actress. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FRANCOIS Hollande, the French president, says Closer magazine’s exposure of his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, an actress, is outrageous. (Always the actress.) The details are not especially juicy. The highlight is that Hollande arrives for trysts in a borrowed flat on the back of a scooter.
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Posted: 13th, January 2014 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Francois Hollande And The Actor: PC Abandonment of The Word ‘Actress’ Sparks Gay Rumours
This Sunday, May 6, 2012, file photo shows French president-elect Francois Hollande kissing his companion, Valerie Trierweiler, after greeting crowds gathered to celebrate his election victory in Bastille Square in Paris. Hollande is threatening legal action over magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with a French actress. The magazine Closer published images Friday Jan.10, 2014 showing his bodyguard and a helmeted man it says is Hollande visiting what it says is the apartment of the actress. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FRENCH President Francois Hollande has been discussing Mali with Julie Gayet. Incredibly, news that a French politician shags around is, well, newsworthy. But as the tabloids make ready to break the news that Katie Price sleeps on her back and Simon Cowell owns just 8 CDs, we notice a funny thing: many in the media are referring to Gayet as an “actor”. This gives the story a shade more intrigue:
The Australian: “French President Francois Hollande having affair with actor”
The Tribune: “French magazine says Hollande having affair with actor”
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Posted: 11th, January 2014 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Independent Uses Mandela’s Funeral To Bash Israel
DO you shape the news to fit your agenda? Do you see in every news story the chance to bang a drum for what it you believe in or desire? In his “2013 – the year in review. Peter Popham writer in the Independent of Nelson Mandela. He tells us:
It took his death, but the world came together for a moment for Nelson Mandela
The world came together. But what’s this? The lead photo has a caption:
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Posted: 2nd, January 2014 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Arvind Kejriwal: India’s Anti-Corruption Transparency Hero Tweets His Diarrhea
ARVIND Kejriwal is Delhi’s new chief minister, head of the new anti-corruption party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man’s party (the party symbol is of a broom) and champion of the common man.
Mr Kejriwal will be transparent and clean in all things – even his insides are open to the public gaze.
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Posted: 31st, December 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment
Madiba Tributes: The Nelson Mandela Full-Body-Fat Work-Out
THE Nelson Mandela keep-fit tribute video:
As many of you might know, this week we lost one of our favorite son’s here in South-Africa, Nelson Mandela.
So I decide to go and shoot a workout video in a very special place to pay our respects to this great man!
RIP Madiba!
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Posted: 30th, December 2013 | In: Politicians, The Consumer | Comment
British Intelligence File: ‘Michael Collins Will Stop at Nothing’
IN around 1910, British Intelligence noted that Michael Collins “Will Stop at Nothing”.
Michael Collins, Chief of I.R.A. & organizer of all ambushes and murders, eyes dark & sharp. Often wears the disguise of a Priest. He sometimes wears a black moustache, which is false, and often changed for another colour. He has been known to travel as a nun. Collins, who will stop at nothing, is an expert shot.
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Posted: 20th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Politicians | Comment
21 Facebook Status Updates Made Into Inspirational Quotes
WHAT makes a memorable, quotable quote, the kind of thing you slap in an essay at school to earn a tick, or include in an article to illustrate a point, your theories backed up by a person of note’s wit and wisdom? Like you, we have no idea. But Phil Lucas has nailed it. It could be anything. He’s taken Facebook status updates and attributed them to famous faces. No longer trite, the words are injected with meaning and depth. Well, maybe:
Karl Marx
Mikhail Gorbachev
Charles Dickens
John Lennon
Lord Nelson
Albert Einstein
Nelson Mandela
Dalai Lama
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
Fidel Castro
Florence Nightingale
George Washington
Tony Benn
Emily Pankhurst
Marie Curie
Terry Waite
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Jim Morrison
Posted: 19th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Politicians, Technology | Comment (1)
Petition Asks David Cameron To Put An End To Dirty Music Videos
YOU may not know, but Robin Thicke is the first man ever on Earth to be featured in a clip with some naked women for spurious reasons. We checked on Twitter and the outrage confirmed it.
And his Blurred Lines video really caused a stink, to the point that it has prompted a petition urging Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to change the law and ban children from watching dirty music videos online.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
Dear Miliboy: It Ain’t A Tax Cut For Hedge Funds
WE have Ed Miliboy whining about a tax cut for hedge funds:
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, in September suggested that Labour would reinstate the tax, describing the Coalition move as a “tax cut on hedge funds”.
Hmm, wonder what this could be?
The Treasury has promised to abolish “Schedule 19” stamp duty reserve tax, which applies to some investments sold by funds.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment
Nelson Mandela Balls: Madiba Helps Golfers Get The Putts
NELSON Mandela Balls: Golf 365 talks about golf:
The great man who was Nelson Mandela strongly believed that sport could be one of the most inspirational unifiers of a nation and so it may be more than a mere coincidence that the Nelson Mandela Championship, presented by ISPS Handa, is set to be played this week.
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Posted: 11th, December 2013 | In: Politicians, Sports | Comment
Mandela Selfie-Gate Photos: Michelle Obama Makes Helle Freeze Over
TO the Nelson Mandela jamboree, where David Cameron, Barack Obama and “Danish PM”are the stars of what the Sun is calling “Selfie-gate”.
All eyes, however, should be on Michelle Obama, who could well be thinking: “The blondes. Always the blondes.”
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Posted: 11th, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Rick Santorum: ‘Nelson Mandela Is Just Like Me’
US Senator Rick Santorum will now tell Bill O’Reilly of Fox News that Nelson Mandela’s battle against apartheid is just like his opposition to the Affordable Care Act:
“He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives — and Obamacare is front and center in that.”
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment
‘Our Nelson Mandelas’ – The IRA’s Balcombe Street Gang
Photo: The four Provisional IRA terrorists known as the Balcombe Street Terror Gang, from left: Hugh Doherty, Martin O’Connel, Edward Butler and Harry Duggan, in a line up in London.
ON May 10 1998, four men made a dramatic appearance on the platform at a special Sinn Fein conference in Dublin. There was ‘stamping of feet, wild applause and triumphant cheering’ during a 10 minute ovation while the men known as the Balcombe Street gang stood grinning with clenched fists in the air. At the same conference, and to great applause, Gerry Adams described the four men as ‘our Nelson Mandelas!’
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Nelson Mandela: The Best Anti-Guff Tributes
WHEN Nelson Mandela died, the tribute industry went into overdrive. Words were said. Acres of newsprint filled. Hours of television focused on one man. He is praised rightly for his strength of character in facing down a brutal, humiliating and dehumanising system underpinned by the fraud of white supremacy. And then John Simpson, the BBC reporter, said that Mandela’s death at 95 left him feeling orphaned. The white BBC man was orphaned by the death of the 95-year-old black South African? They had shared blood, as father to son?
We looked around. Was anyone else rolling their eyes? Yes.
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment (1)
Chicago Prisons Official Was Arrested 24 Times
HOW politics works: Xadrian McCracken works with the Illinois Department of Corrections. His salary is $110,000 a year. So says Breitbart’s Mike Flynn. He says McCracken has been arrested no fewer than 24 times. He is thus well versed in all sides of the prison system.
Not that 24 arrests means he’s a criminal. He could be unlucky or picked upon. Indeed, Flynn might be guilty of a little prejudgement, given that Xadrian’s surname is McCraven, nor McCracken, of the Safe McCrackens.
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
George Osborne’s Annual Christmas Party (With Geri Halliwell) – Photos
CHANCELLOR George Osborne mets Geri Halliwell at his annual Christmas party at No11 Downing Street in London. Rupert Grint was there, too. He;s the third wheel of the Harry Potter gang, tipped to be the next Dennis Waterman. He’s not quite made it.
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Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
BBC Defends Mandela Coverage Against 1,000 Loons Who Complained About It
IT is only when important figures die that you start to reflect and realise what you had before your eyes all this time. In Nelson Mandela, we had a Martin Luther King Jr. We had a Gandhi. We had a Malcolm X. Of course, these people were divisive, but everyone should applaud what they aimed to do – stop unfair, inhumane treatment of people who aren’t white.
To some Mandela was a terrorist. To most, he was a man who defied a racist regime, went to prison and stayed strong in his belief to do the right thing and, inexplicably, he managed it. Apartheid, initially a ghettoisation of people, dressed up all cuddly by White Supremacists as ‘helping us all to be better neighbours’ rather than ‘Hey! Black guy! Whitey will have where you’re stood, ’til the horizon, thanks! And we’ll kill you if you complain!’, was lead by Mandela and the whole world rejoiced because he never gave up in his quest to end segregation.
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Politicians, Reviews, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Inequality Caused By Cronyism Kills Economic Growth
INEQUALITY. Is it harmful? It can be. When caused by cronyism.
In other words, is it a bad thing for a country to have some really rich people? Again, it depends on how they got rich.
Sutirtha Bagchi of the University of Michigan’s business school and Jan Svejnar of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs studied how inequality correlates with economic growth. In general, more inequality meant slower growth, and less inequality meant faster growth.
But in many countries, over various time periods, growing inequality had no effect on economic growth. The new study suggests that an increase in inequality hurt the economy when the rich were getting rich through political connections.
That is, inequality hurts the economy when “a large share of the national wealth is held by a small number of politically connected families,” as the authors put it. . . . When a country’s wealthiest people got their wealth as Pangestu and Fridman did, inequality places a drag on the economy. When a country’s wealthiest got wealthy through market means, the resulting inequality has no negative effect on economic growth.
This jibes with what we know about free markets. If people can get rich by providing valuable things at good prices, then society will get more valuable things at good prices—and people across the income spectrum benefit. But if people get rich by pocketing subsidies and using the state to crush competitors, then they gained their wealth at the expense of everyone else.
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Posted: 9th, December 2013 | In: Money, Politicians, Reviews | Comment (1)
Mandela Balls: John Simpson Says Nelson Mandela’s Death Makes Him Feel Like ‘An Orphan’
NELSON Mandela is dead. The world salutes a lost leader. And we ask that only South Africans call him Madiba. And then John Simpson types his tribute to the man:
The BBC reporter softens readers up before the pic last line:
I listed him as a hero in my examination for Cambridge, and when I got there in 1963 I found someone had painted “FREE NELSON MANDELA” in huge white letters on a wall that I had to pass every morning on my way to lectures. It caused a scandal at the time: graffiti was still frowned on in the early 1960s.
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Posted: 8th, December 2013 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Everything Victoria Ayling Knows About Immigration She Learnt From These Daily Mail Front Pages
THE Mail leads with the news that a Ukip member thinks all immigrants should “go home“. She says she was referring to “illegal immigrants”. What is unclear is whether or not the paper agrees with her. How long will it be before Victoria Ayling is being talked about in positive tones by the Mail’s columnists?
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Posted: 8th, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment
