Ok, this is silly and childish, but equally maybe amusing.
A friend* of mine reports that Mooncup are having a poll as to what women call their vagina’s, but it won’t let anyone say that they call their vagina a cunt. Which afore mentioned friend rather objects to, reading that reminded me of a campaign of Old Holborn had a while back and to which I still link, that many people should call Jackboot Jacqui a cunt.
Hopefully by now you can see where this is going and may be amused by the idea. So in the long tradition of breaking stupid internet marketing polls do get over to the Mooncup web site and tell them that you “lovingly call yours” – Jacqui
N.B. Normally it’s quite important to make sure we all use the same spelling and capitilization – as was discovered in the People magazine vote for “Hank the ugly drunken dwarf”
* They may of course not be a friend after this.
Just been pointed at a shiny new website from Cyberium/George Monbiot (hat tip : Her Ladyship at Tora Towers).
http://www.arrestblair.org/
The stated aim of the site is:
“This site offers a reward to people attempting a peaceful citizen’s arrest of the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, for crimes against peace. Anyone attempting an arrest which meets the rules laid down here will be entitled to one quarter of the money collected at the time of his or her application.
Money donated to this site will be used for no other purpose than to pay bounties for attempts to arrest Tony Blair. All administration and other costs, apart from any charges added to your donations by Paypal, will be paid by the site’s founder.”
A site well worth giivng a high profile to – though if Wikileaks is anything to judge by PayPal will no doubt pull the plug fairly quickly.
Via Anna Racoon a rather thought provoking article from Not born yesterday. As quite a few other people have also done I shall just reproduce the first paragraph:
“The Prime Minister of Great Britain is a man too ill to be holding the Office.” This was the conclusion last week of a senior civil servant liaising regularly with Gordon Brown. For reasons which will become clear, the person involved will not go public with the evidence for this conclusion. The same applies to a high-ranking Treasury official who told us “In both a physical and mental sense, the Prime Minister is a very sick man, seriously disabled.” Three years ago, an Opposition MP told nby “He is on extremely heavy doses of cutting-edge anti-depressants, but so far they have made little difference”. And during the last fortnight, another high-ranking government source claimed “He is now on pills which restrict the foods he can eat and what he can drink. He is losing the sight of his good eye quite rapidly. It’s a mess, and nobody knows what to do”.
and suggest you go read the rest of it. If it’s true or not we may never know or at lest not in time, but there’s an awful lot of it that’s plausible. So have a read and see what you think.
I’ve been resisting doing the whole list of must read post things for a while now but The Salted Slug is talking far too much sense to not bring it to everyone’s attention. So for my inaugral “must read” post list:
Just back from holiday were interactions with local police and PCSO’s gives me some hope that bastions of sanity still exist.
However meantime two campaigns that really need advertising, even though they’re a bit old and I’m sure most people have seen them.
Firstly sign up to the petition for Gordon Brown to go and go now at Number 10
Secondly if you have an old shirt to hand save the government the effort of stealing it from your back and send it direct to Gordon. Then do let the libertarian party now, they’re not organising it but are keeping count as oddly Number 10 claim not to have received any 1984@lpuk.org, see Old Holborn for more details.
In the best traditions of rigging google and getting heard, Old holborn suggests that everyone so inclined should observe on thier blog that “Jacqui Smith is a Cunt”
Having done so I’d everyone joining in, just to help google and the like pick up on it.
It seems that Mr Pullmans article is now back on line at the Times with not a word changed. Which would make me suspect it’s vanishing was merely due to technical issues with the publishing system used by the Times, except for the way it also vanished so quickly from the Google cache ( as others also noticed). Though whilst one should always remember the rule that given a choice between cock-up and conspiracy 99% of the time it’ll be cock up, sometimes conspiracy is the right choice and only by watching for patterns can one after a while make a better guess as to which is more likely. whilst there were some rumours that Mr Pullman wasn’t actually the author, he claims otherwise and had no idea why it vanished either. Still it’s back now so if you’ve not read it go and read it, even though its style isn’t to everyones taste and keep a copy just in case it gets lost again.
further commentary from: Heresy corner
Finally the erosion of our Civil liberties appears to be hitting the main stream media, via a rather excellent article in the Times by the Childrens Author Philip Pullman. If you don’t read anything else today make sure you read:
Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms
Though oddly now it’s vanished, one could almost get paranoid about such a thing. Fortunately despite going from google cache as well (I guess keeping it must have been evil) it wasn’t properly vanished. So there is a copy below the cut tag and links to other peoples copies below so you can double check for edits. Best to save it from further vanishing.
(Via Old Holborn, Hat Tip Van Helsing)
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Recently a Home Office spokesman said that the new provisions in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 would only be used in “very exceptional circumstances“, which has of course been claimed before for various bits of legislation that have subsequently, and to little surprise, been used in very unexceptional circumstances. However this does reinforce the idea that this (and probably most any other) government are quite happy to bring in legislation to deal with “exceptional circumstances” before such circumstances arise. Then there’s the continual attempts to bring in 42 day detention with out trial, just in case it’s needed at some indeterminate point in the future. So it would seem that pre-emptive legislation is somewhat à la Mode, and it really doesn’t matter if it’s already illegal, duplicate legislation is quite OK.
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