tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37549952024-03-26T09:04:36.968+00:00Rant of the Week!The thankless task provided by bloggers around the world in an attempt to educate under-privileged Americans about the concepts of Satire, Cynicism and Humour (with a 'U').Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1457125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075855057892204522004-02-04T00:37:00.000+00:002004-02-04T00:39:54.840+00:00"The Rant of the Week" found to cure warts.Hello,
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<br /><b>Chaps, I have ordered Airforces I, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to swing by your various abodes to collect you for an emergency summit in Montecarlo. I believe that at the end of a week of full and frank constructive networking we will have come up with a satisfactory and mutually beneficial response to Mr. Monaghan's invitation.
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<br /><i>(Please note, I do not think that terrorists are involved. However the current advice to stay indoors, down in the cellar with enough Mars bars to see you through the next four or five decades still applies.)</i></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075831410428625252004-02-03T18:00:00.000+00:002004-02-03T18:05:47.340+00:00Resourceful Thinking<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/mikey_wbt/ugh/dead_wife.html">Who says Americans don't have great ideas?</A>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075489163531525292004-01-30T18:39:00.000+00:002004-01-30T19:02:58.013+00:00Hello Happiness...<b><center><p><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/rant.jpg"><p></center>
<br />To quote Alistair Campbell's diary, as read to the extremely impartial Lord Hutton during the inquiry that, should Tony Blair forget, the rest of us watched in full and managed to make up our own minds about..."We need to fuck Andrew Gilligan where it hurts!"
<br />Mission accomplished it would appear. And Greg Dyke's head hits the floor with a well-aimed machette courtesy of Campbell and Blair as well!
<br />I never thought I'd find myself defending the BBC...or to give it its proper Orwellian name, 'The Ministry of Truth' (no seriously...Orwell's Ministry of Truth really was actually aimed at the BBC where he originally worked before becoming a novelist)...but in this particular instance I'll gladly side with them.
<br />The Hutton report is one step closer to all-out facism. So far we've had the removal of human rights, access to lawyers and freedom of choice because of terrorist fears, the increase of racism in the form of convincing the general public that asylum seekers who are trying to escape the horrors of dictatorship have no place in our glorious nation, and the restructuring of education only for those elite enough to accept a right-wing agenda. And now Auntie Beeb is being forced to rethink itself and comply with government spin, or to put it another way, the surpression of real news in favour of pro-government rhetoric.
<br />At this rate the television will be full of scenes of Tony Blair every night set to up-lifting music after the fashion of Saddam in his salad days. Oh wait...we already had that at the election.
<br />These are disturbing times. To think my grandfather fought a war to keep fascism at bay! And now we've elected it into power...and we smile happily as the rascism rises, the oppression tightens and the right-wing religious extremists remove truth, freedom and tolerance from our daily lives.
<br />Tony Blair is a lying shit! He did 'Sex-up' the dossier. Claire Short and Robin Cook, along with various heads of intelligence that Lord Fucking Hutton conveniently ignored, actually said so on Channel Fours 'What the Hutton Report Won't Tell You' as broadcast the other night.
<br />I don't know what Screaming Lord Hutton's fucking definition of 'a lie' is. But to me, somebody altering the wording of a document in order to sell it incorrectly to a cynical country as a basis to murder thousands of innocent people abroad constitutes a lie of fucking enormous proportions!
<br />As for Campbell...what a cunt! What an unbelievable cunt! He wasn't even elected for Christ's sake!
<br />So...the question is folks...do we let these bastards continue to destroy democracy? Do we allow them free reign to lock people up without question, to censor the news, to control our lives, to destroy freedom of choice and to keep us subdued?
<br />Unfortunately the answer is yes...because we've got our football and our 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here' and our Harry Potter et al. And as long as we've got our mindless shit then we're happy, right?
<br />Well, tough shit folks...we're going down.
<br />And so's my bottle of Scotch.<p></b>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075434509020050422004-01-30T03:48:00.000+00:002004-01-30T03:57:20.576+00:00The Lord is my shepherd.<center><div style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 2px dotted; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; BORDER-TOP: black 2px dotted; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: black 2px dotted; WIDTH: 550px; PADDING-TOP: 10px; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px dotted; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><p><b>The long awaited Hutton Report has been rapturously welcomed by Tony Blair.<br /><br />British prime minister Tony Blair said a judge's report into the suicide of an Iraq weapons expert had exonerated him of the charges of lying to parliament and cleared his government of any underhand dealings.<br /><br /></b></p><center><span style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; FLOAT: left"><img src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/bushblairalsaheef4.JPG" border="3" /></span></center><br /><b>"Lord Hutton has concluded that all of my government's ridiculous claims, exaggerations, inaccuracies and massive whirling dervish spin doctoring of the British intelligence dossier were the result of honest error, not of dishonest scheming."<br /><br />"I am proud to lead a government that does not engage in deception. I am proud to lead a government that listens to the people. If these people happen to be inept, ill-informed and incompetent Dolly the sheep toadies is that my fault? (Not that thay are of course.) No, and the good Lord agrees. How much worse would it be if the British public had to suffer an arrogant government which only listened to smartarses, experts and boffins? My government is on first name terms with the vast range of well qualified soothsayers, conspiracy theorists and spoon-benders and these are very nice people with their hearts and minds in the right place. Cherie even knows a nice bloke from Australia who has lots of good ideas about lots of things. If more Australians were like Peter Foster the world would be a far better place ... and he can get you a slice of the action at a damn good price."<br /></b><center><span style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FLOAT: right"><img src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/16010043.jpg" border="3" /></span></center><br /><b>"I invite the doomsayers and the Doubting Thomases to read the report in its entirety, not just the sexed up excerpts that are splashed across page three of "The Dirty Digger". In particular I would refer these people to Lord Hutton's recognition of my government's record. Legislation that found a cure for the common cold, eliminated world famine, reversed global warming, banned whales from maliciously beaching themselves and put the taste back into tomatoes."<br /><br />As a token of the government's appreciation of Lord Hutton's magnificent public service, a celebration is to be held next Tuesday. After the hanging of Robin Cook, Claire Short and a number of former BBC executives at Traitor's Gate, the public is invited to proceed in an orderly fashion to Buckingham Palace where they can join members of the government for strawberries and champagne, tea and scones and the ever popular bread and circuses.<br /><br />Prime Minister Blair has foreshadowed legislation that will make it mandatory for copies of Gideon's version of the Hutton Report to placed in all British hotel and motel rooms.<br /><br /><p><b>On a personal note Mr. Blair added, "Whilst I appreciate and am indeed flattered by his Lord Huttonship's recommendation, I believe His Holiness already has enough on his plate without having to consider this 'umble, ever so 'umble prime minister's elevation to sainthood."<br /><br />In conclusion the Prime Minister said: "I want to make it absolutely clear I fully respect the independence of the BBC. I have no doubt that the BBC will continue as it should do to probe and question the Government in every proper way. What this does now is allow us to draw a line in the sand on the new level playing field. There will be no more shifting of the goal posts and everyone will be expected to play with a straight bat until we get the chequered flag."<br /><br /></b></p><center><b>*****************************************</b></center><b><br />British Prime Minister Tony Blair's former communications director Alastair Campbell has welcomed the impending execution of the Chairman and a number of other BBC executives, "What a pack of arseholes! Gave spin doctoring a bad name, the whole lot of them. Got sprung. Unforgivable! Dickheads!"<br /><br />Sir Uriah Heep, the new chairman of the BBC has unreservedly apologised to the Government and the family of David Kelly. On his way to work Sir Heep also apologised to all his fellow bus passengers. Alighting from the bus he apologised to a large number of pedestrians, several sets of traffic lights and a flock of pigeons.<br /><br />"My task now is to restore honesty, accountability and integrity to the BBC. As a first step the entire News and Current Affairs staff will be sent off to "The Alistair Campbell Re-education Holiday Camp" to sharpen up their which side their bread is buttered on skills", said Sir Heep.<br /><br />Pulling a cat of nine tails from his briefcase and giving himself a damn good thrashing he added, "See! Now look what they've gone and made me do!"<br /><br /></b><center><b>*****************************************</b></center><br /><center><img alt="" src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/linedance.jpg" border="3" /></center><b><br />News of the Whitewash Report swiftly spread around the world. The Australian Prime Minister, stepping out of a telephone booth and assuming his role as The Man of Steel, demanded that all naughty children what had called him bad names come up in front of the class and write "Sorry" a hundred times on the blackboard and promise never ever to do it again. "How hard is it to apologise?", he thundered, "I'm going to stay here until everyone understands what they've done wrong and have received their full punishment."<br /></b><br /><br /><center><span style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FLOAT: right"><img src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/dunno.jpg" border="3" /></span></center><p><br /><b>President Bush when asked if the Hutton Report had any consequences for his administration forcefully retaliated, "Errr derrr guys? Reality check! What the goddam hell has a survey about the sexual behaviour of Americans in the 1950s got to do with the price of eggs in Chinastan!"</b><br /></p></b></div></center><br /><br /><center><img src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/huttons.gif" /></center><br>
<br />Cross posted from <a href="http://sedgwick.bloghorn.com/" target="_blank">http://sedgwick.bloghorn.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075316405920603642004-01-28T18:51:00.000+00:002004-01-28T19:05:24.263+00:00Hutton dressed up as Spam...<b><p><center><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/news.jpg"><p></center>
<br />Calls have been made for an inquiry into allegations that the Hutton Report was 'sexed-up' in favour of the British government. Angry protestors, having dismissed the report as a great big 'whitewash', are now demanding a full investigation, claiming that Hutton deliberately ignored testimonials from Robin Cook and Claire Short.
<br />Said a spokesman for the general public, "This report has been deliberately fabricated to mislead parliament in order to save Tony Blair's rubbery neck. Ultimately it has lead to the death of Andrew Gilligan's career."
<br />"The whole thing is a total fabrication of the facts," said Mr Hogwart, owner of the Fisherman's Arms tonight. "We all know that Blair's a bullshitter an' no poncy mate of 'is 'oo claims he's an ex-judge can palm us off with a load of arse-lickin' lies."
<br />After several more pints Hogwart added, "This seriously calls into question the legal system. Some of those stuck-up, wig-covered heads ought to roll."
<br />Bowing to demand for the immediate inquiry into the Hutton affair Tony Blair has appointed Alistair Campbell to spearhead the investigation in order to preserve integrity and approach the subject from an unbiased point of view.
<br /><p></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1075138043600945632004-01-26T17:06:00.000+00:002004-01-26T17:31:11.996+00:00Why go to Mars?<b>Though I can not reveal my source for this incredible information, I felt compelled to reveal to the millions of visitors to this website the real reason that American President George W. Bush is pushing for manned missions to Mars. According to Professor Gwelix of the University of Boston Albuquerque Campus, NASA is working hand in hand with the Vatican, and by orders of The Pope must begin sending real live people, specifically Catholic Priests, to Mars. Professor Gwelix worked hard to confirm rumors that The Pope believes Jesus now lives on Mars because of a theory that the Red Planet is actually the secret location of Heaven, and if we can find Jesus there, then we can maybe coax him to introduce us to God himself. This rumor proved false, however, with Vatican Spokesmen strictly denying that they ever believed Mars to be the location of Heaven. The Vatican wants to make it very clear that they do not believe Heaven could possibly exist on another planet because they are still pissed at Astronomers like Copernicus and Gallileo for ruining the idea that Earth is the only planet in The Universe.<p>Upon further investigation, Professor Gwelix is now working to confirm a new theory that the reason Catholic priests want so much to go to Mars is more for vacationing reasons. While vacationing on the Red Planet, priests will be free from all behavioral restrictions they live under on Earth, as Vatican Law does not reach beyond the boundries of Planet Earth. Professor Gwelix has found plans for the construction of a resort on Mars for vacationing Catholic Priests that will be regularly stocked with 14-year-old homosexual boys.</b><p>I would like to point out that, at the start of this post, I mentioned that I could not reveal my source for this amazing information, then proceeded to mention a Professor Gwelix of the University of Boston Albuquerque Campus. Please forget that I ever mentioned this man's name. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1074641226304664622004-01-20T23:27:00.000+00:002004-01-20T23:42:03.060+00:00John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, Man of Steel and owner of a very nice cardy. <center><img src="http://gallery.cybertarp.com/albums/userpics/12178/0003401189Picture1.jpg" border="3"></center>
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<br />It's become a bit dusty round these parts recently. (Personally I blame Sedgwick for shooting his crusty old load all over those photographs of Steve Irwin below.) But archaeology, diets and whisky by the bucket have been keeping me busy. Anyhow, I just thought I'd drop by and check on how things were going...or 'not' as the case might be. Since not being bothered to write a single word for this board after Christmas 2003, our viewing figures have dropped to twenty a day. Exactly the same as they were when I was composing fifty-thousand word essays every day for the damned thing, which just goes to show what a waste of time that was.
<br />So I'm off again for another six months. I shall leave you with these words of wisdom: The expression 'If you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything at all' lies at the root of totalitarianism.
<br />TTFNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1073303798613328382004-01-05T11:56:00.000+00:002004-01-05T22:40:35.873+00:00Out of the mouths of babes, crocs and dickheads.<center><div style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 2px dotted; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; BORDER-TOP: black 2px dotted; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-SIZE: 12px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: black 2px dotted; WIDTH: 550px; PADDING-TOP: 10px; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 2px dotted; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <b>Crikey, every man and his blue heeler has had a bite of this one. Figured I might as well dangle my thoughts out as well. (No children or other animals were harmed in the making of this posting.) </b>
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<br /></i>The Australian "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin has sparked outrage because he dangled his baby son in front of a 13ft crocodile's jaws.
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<br />The television celebrity, famous for picking up poisonous snakes and wrestling with huge reptiles for the cameras, brought his month-old baby into an enclosure during a public show at the Australian Zoo reptile park in Queensland. He held the child, called Robert, in one arm while using his other to hold a dead chicken in front of the crocodile, named Murray.
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<br />Irwin was unrepentant: "I was in complete control of the crocodile. Robert was tucked right in my arm. This kid has to grow up to be croc savvy. I am teaching him to be completely familiar with crocodiles."
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<br />Wife Terri also came to Mr Irwin's defence claiming it was a parent's duty to educate children against the dangers of tropical life.
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<br />"Children learn to swim at an early age. Would you rather have a child learning to swim under duress or to have them drown?," she said. "Children need to be taught the dangers of crocodiles."</i>
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<br /><b> <font color="#003366"> Evidence would suggest that Steve Irwin had a frontal lobotomy immediately after his birth. Sadly a swift and sure vasectomy did not immediately follow.
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<br />Not to put too fine a point on it Steve is a prize goose. This fine upstanding Aussie icon much beloved of Dubbya dickhead is to parenting what Herod was to the 'Stranger Danger' campaign.
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<br />Right Steve, it is essential to teach young Bob about the dangers of the big bad backpacker eating crocodiles. I'm sure that he was taking in your every warning word, making relevant notes on his Palm Pilot and texting your bon mots to every one of his one month old peers.
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<br />Yes Steve, it is wise to teach children about danger. I remember doing it with my child. I don't remember doing in front of a large crowd of camera toting, fee paying tourists at my workplace. I don't remember using my child as a prop for my circus act.
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<br />O.K. Mrs. Steve I would rather have a child learning to swim under duress than have it drown. Better still I'd rather have it eaten by a crocodile. Crikey, that'd teach it. By the livin' jingoes it wouldn't do anything careless ever again!
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<br />Poor old Steve is a bit pissed off at the treatment he is copping from the media. Steve has happily sucked on the bountiful and nurturing nipple of the media in recent years. Tough titty Steve if the media then turns all Lady Macbeth turn my milk into gall on you. The media is reptilian by nature Steve. Didn't your dad ever tell you "never smile at crocodiles" ... and never hop into bed with them without using protection. </font>
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<br /><i>Speaking on Channel Nine's A Current Affair, Mr Irwin says he did it to help his child become more familiar with the environment he lives in.
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<br />"What I would do differently is I would make sure that there was no cameras around," he said. "But unfortunately you're under the microscope and I can't escape cameras."</i>
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<br /><font color="#003366">Gee whiz Steve, you didn't know that all those tourists what bought tickets to your performance would be taking pictures did you? I've never heard of that happening before.</font>
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<br /><i>From David Salmon Producer/Reporter Seven News - Brisbane. "<font color="blue">Australia Zoo put out a media alert on Friday morning (Jan 2) advising the arrival of three elephants to the zoo, along with some Tibetan nuns, and the Croc Hunter.</font> Believing that such a grouping could provide some interesting pics we decided to take a look for a possible colour story. Our Seven Queensland crew did a great job in recognising the potential of the yarn while still at the zoo, at what was <font color="blue">a media event called by the croc-hunter himself!</font>"</i>
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<br />What was that Steve said again? <i>"But unfortunately you're under the microscope and I can't escape cameras."</i>
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<br /><font color="#003366">By the living Jiminy Crickets Steve, looks like you were desperately trying to hide your light under a microscopic bushel and then out of the blue along came all those bloody stickybeak Channel Seven media types what ambushed you good and proper. What bastards, Steve! </font>
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<br /><i>"I will continue to educate my children and the children of the world so that they don't share water with crocs, that's the most important thing," he said. "That's why I was put on this planet, that's why God built me and put me on this earth, is to show people how to avoid conflict with animals that can kill you."</i>
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<br /><font color="#003366">Good thinking Steve, but the most important thing you could do is to make sure that your own child doesn't share centre stage with his dad ... and probably not during the croc feeding part of the show.
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<br /> As anyone who has a dog knows, it isn't exactly wise to go near the animal when its eating its food. I know from my own experience that if a waiter comes too close to my table when I'm tucking into a delicious "Canard a la Montmorency" he can expect a pretty conflictful nip on the ankle.
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<br />Sounds to me like Steve is trying to avoid conflict with media what can kill your image and career.
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<br />Look here Steve, I like a succulently sauteed infant in chasseur sauce as much as the next Aussie icon, but I dont pass off my gluttonous epicurean indulgence as Self Preservation 101 for Neonates. "Bobby, don't you go too close to Nigella's lovely busty substances lest she grabs you by the scruff of the neck, skins you, bones you, lightly coats you in seasoned flour and pops you in a preheated oven for 20 minutes, turning regularly."
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<br />Poor ole Steve. Why can't people leave him alone and treat him like any other common or garden millionaire in the street. (Oops, sorry! I forgot that's not currently P.C. ... tall iconic poppies and all that.)
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<br />Have to admit that I am really a bit torn on this issue. As Granny Biddy Stickynose I think Irwin was an absolute goose for this stunt. On the other hand I really do want Steve to keep dangling his offspring in front of 14 foot crocs thereby allowing the process of natural selection to proceed apace. With any luck, all Irwins would all end up as petit fours for reptiles. Crikey a world without feral Irwins sounds a pretty good place to me by jingoes golly gosh.
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<br />I lay before you evidence which might be offered as a defence against any charges that might be laid by the relevant legal authorities. </font>
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<br />"In front of us right now is the greatest leader Australia has ever had and the greatest leader in the world," Mr Irwin told the audience at Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane. "
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<br />"Not guilty by reason of insanity, your Honour. "
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<br />Crikey, you just couldn't get a good reliable frontal lobotomy back in those days.
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<br />BTW Steve, I gather there's an orphan kiddy by name of Annie Borden currently up for adoption. I'm sure she'd be more than pleased to teach you and Mrs. Icon a thing or two about the dangers of sharp chopping instruments.
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<br />Bob Monkhouse, last of the orange-faced Great British Comics (and no I'm not including Des O'Conner in that statement who, despite having the obligatory perma-tan head, is about as much of a humorous comic as Zit Magazine was), one-time cartoonist and legendary smarmball has died aged 75. No Americans were involved.<p>
<br />An estimated 25,000 people have been killed in the Iranian earthquake. Fortunately the U.S. Government haven't deemed this a great enough tragedy to warrant another one of their bile-spewing feel-good concerts. The ancient world heritage town of Wham-Bam has been completely destroyed in the quake and a further 40,000 residents have been left homeless. No Americans were involved...apparently.<p>
<br />Michael Jackson claims that the police beat him up in custardy, displaying the bruises on his arm as proof. To be honest his arm's that thin and twisted just grabbing him with cotton wool would have had the same effect. No human beings were involved.<p>
<br />And finally I'm starting my New Year's drinking binge early, building up to a huge party on New Year's Eve followed by projectile vommitting on Thursday morning. You can rest assured that no Americans will be involved.<p></b>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1072203770528249232003-12-23T18:14:00.000+00:002003-12-23T18:24:11.810+00:00Festive Reindeer Droppings!<b><p><center><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/rant.jpg"><p></center>
<br />Bah humbug, Christmas bollocks, sweaty aggressive shoppers, cold rain, slush, sneezes, dribbles, dead turkeys, crap presents, rubbish telly... Jesus Harold Corbett, I can't be arsed with this one!
<br />Christmas is way too obvious a target and festive rants have become almost a tradition now. If you're stupid enough to be manipulated by this crass comercialised bullshit (and you are...we all fucking are without exception) then it's hardly surprising that the war in Iraq happened, that Blair continues as head bastard and that Bush's plot to bring the Book of Revelation to life is allowed to go on. We're all weak and spineless and crap. We moan, we groan, we complain and we whinge and yet we continue, we decorate, we eat sprouts and fight queues and all the while we're saying, "It's for the children really," whilst thinking, "Actually it's all for the fucking economy" whilst trying to ignore that really it's "All because we haven't got the balls to humbugger the whole bastard thing and call it quits."
<br />So happy Christmas folks. I'm off to prop up the Scottish alcohol industry until New Year.<p></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1072059493475433672003-12-22T02:18:00.000+00:002003-12-22T03:23:22.090+00:00Even more Bull's Gonads<b>"The American Soldier" has been named Time magazine's "person of the year".
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<br />The weekly magazine says it is using the term broadly to include men and women in all branches of the US armed forces.
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<br />The editor of Time magazine, Nancy Gibbs, says <i>US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested the choice </i>when Time editors met him at the Pentagon in November.
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<br /><i> "They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. <font color="red">(!? ... seems like both "Time" and GWB suffer from nationalistic priapism and premature ejaculation.) </font>They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is TIME's Person of the Year ."</i>
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<br /><font color="teal">Amidst this crock of patriotic hyperbole from Time (what has outed itself as the publishing arm of the US Department of Defence) I'm surprised that no mention of The American Soldier being faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and possessing the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound.</font>
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<br /><i>"The American solider was represented on the cover of Time by three helmeted and uniformed soldiers from an artillery survey unit of the US Army's 1st Armored Division nicknamed the "Tomb Raiders" after being assigned the task of searching for weapons in a Baghdad cemetery."</i>
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<br /><font color="teal">Seems odd to select the <i>"Tomb Raiders"</i> who seem to have been monumentally unsuccessful in their grave task of finding the legendary WMDs. Then again maybe Time has discovered that weapon which has always eluded the Americans ... irony.</font></b>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071860804684593632003-12-19T19:05:00.000+00:002003-12-19T19:08:48.216+00:00More Bull's Gonads<b><center><p><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/news.jpg"><p></center>
<br />Ian Huntley's mother told the Sun newspaper this morning that her son "...ought t' bleedin' hang for the monstrous crimes what he committed!"
<br />And suddenly the reasons for Huntley ending up the way he did become apparent.
<br />In a deliberately contentious poll last night 94% of Channel Five News viewers (all six of them) wanted a return of the death penalty for child molesters...which says more about Channel Five viewers than it does about the true state of affairs within the justice system.
<br />One person on the new death row, of course, would be Michael Jackson who, whilst facing several accounts of child molestation, has been allowed to visit Britain this week. Still riding the Soham gravy train the British media are currently whipping the public into a Christmas lynching frenzy. All notions of 'innocent until proven guilty' have conveniently vanished along with 'human rights' and 'access to Belmarsh for lawyers.'
<br />The cancer-stricken child at the centre of the Jackson allegations has, apparently, found himself on the receiving end of no less than seven 'celebrity paedophile' cases in the past.
<br />"I've made a few bad choices in celebrity holiday destinations...for which, of course, we've been financially compensated," said the boy's mother. "But this Christmas I'm sending him round to Gary Glitter's house to make sure he's out of harm's way."
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071658163443180042003-12-17T10:49:00.000+00:002003-12-17T10:52:43.810+00:00Anyone willing to brave the casting couch?<center><img src="http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/wombat3041/CartoonLeunig25.JPG"></center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071616285899357052003-12-16T23:10:00.000+00:002003-12-16T23:12:38.373+00:00Pre-Christmas Bollocks<b><center><p><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/rant.jpg"><p></center>
<br />Tonight I'm bogged off by several items.
<br />Firstly there's that advert on the telly sponsored by the Anti-Smoking Hitler Youth. The one with all those kids breathing out smoke accompanied by the words, "If you smoke then I smoke too." That's not on! Have you seen the price of fags these days? The little bastards can buy their own! It costs me an arm, a leg and one lung in taxes to give those little twats a pointless education as it is, just so they can leave school and embark on a life of mindless crime and shit, manufactured pop music. If they want to smoke they can get themselves a job or dowse themselves with petrol or something.
<br />Secondly, what gives with all this crap about the government having to build loads more runways in Britain? The thought of John Prescott pushing a wheelbarrow of tarmac across an airfield with his arsecrack on display is bad enough...but I was under the impression that nobody flew anywhere any more. For the last two years, since that twin eyesore in New York was demolished, the news programmes have constantly been harping on about airlines going bankrupt. So how come suddenly there aren't enough runways to support the traffic? Is this just the government diverting our attention away from something more important? Such as the rising body count in Iraq.
<br />Speaking of which...thirdly...the Americans now want to try a head of state for murdering half a million innocent Iraqis...presumably because they can't try him for harbouring weapons of mass destruction. Well, I'm all for it! Let's publicly execute Bush seeing as he's killed fifty-odd thousand innocent Iraqis on a false premise himself. Well...I say fifty-odd thousand...that was the last estimate and it's currently rising. We don't keep track of how many Iraqis are now dead...only American and British occupying forces have any relevance in the real world.
<br />And finally...I've got the stinking flu again for Christmas! Every bastard year without fail! I've got snot coming out of every orifice including the letterbox on the front door, and then some. I'm virtually deaf on one side of my head and I ache in places that I didn't know existed this time last week. I blame it all on those dirty, little, cigarette stealing bastards in Iceland who can't be arsed covering their fucking mouths when they cough and sneeze and don't seem to understand the meaning of the words, "Get away from me you snotty faced little shit!"
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071529909445720362003-12-15T23:11:00.000+00:002003-12-15T23:13:00.590+00:00Joker beats the Ace of Spades<b><center><p><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/news.jpg"><p></center>
<br />American intelligence agents (insert your own joke here) have finally finished checking Saddam's hair and throat for those elusive weapons of mass destruction and have now moved on to the question of how best to publicly <strike>humiliate/kill</strike> try him. Saddam was discovered on Saturday morning in an eight foot hole (shouldn't that be in metric figures these days?) beneath a privy in Tekrit, disguised rather stupidly as that other international figure of hate Terence Sedgwick. (Sedgwick himself was discovered last Tuesday hiding in Ann Widdicombe's own eight-foot hole.)
<br />Tired and confused due to the concoction of drugs the American forces pumped into him, Saddam posed briefly for the cameras...defiantly proving what a big fuss about nothing American POWs had made in front of Iraqi cameras a few months ago.
<br />Tony Blair has already distanced Britain from any trial that might involve the death penalty. (Nice one Tony! Pontious Pilot strikes again, eh?)
<br />Said a spokesman for the Whitehouse, "We would have captured him earlier but it took us fifteen days to decide on a name for the operation. At first we thought, "Cobra Strike" but that sounded a bit gay. Eventually we hit upon the title of the little known and really shit film "Red Dawn." It's about a bunch of plucky young American students fighting back against terrorism...although on reflection Steptoe and Son might have been more appropriate."
<br />Since Saddam's capture British news programmes have suspended all other news, preferring instead to repeat the three and a half seconds of his medical footage over and over again.
<br />"Material hasn't been stretched this thin since the last series of Graham Norton," commented Mr Seagull in the Fisherman's Arms tonight. "Although Ann Diamond's knicker elastic has come pretty close at times."
<br />The circus continues although edited highlights will be repeated through Bush's re-election campaign.
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071480545639308352003-12-15T09:29:00.000+00:002003-12-15T09:32:42.483+00:00"We've got 'im ... By George we think we've got 'im ... errrr ... we think we've got 'im. Anyway we've got someone with a daggy beard."<center><img src=http://www.volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/wombat3041/4caught2bw.JPG border="3"></center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071424802354786112003-12-14T17:58:00.000+00:002003-12-14T18:01:12.060+00:00Now, what about that other bloke...Ozzy bin Osbourne or whatever his name was...?<b><p><center><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/saddam.jpg"><p></center>
<br />December 2003: Bugger! Obviously the false beard disguise wasn't as cunning as I originally thought.
<br /><p></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1071230494748436732003-12-12T12:01:00.000+00:002003-12-12T12:17:09.653+00:00Are you a friendly coalition folk? If not, go folk yourself!<b><i>Anger in Europe over the U.S. decision to exclude countries, including France, Germany and Russia, from billions of dollars worth of Iraqi reconstruction contracts is not going away. Thursday, the European Union called the move unjustified and difficult to accept.
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<br />"It does seem gratuitous and unnecessary," said Anthony Gooch, a spokesman for the EU's delegation in Washington. He denounced the move as puzzling, especially since it comes at a time when President Bush has been telephoning the leaders of European nations asking for their help in forgiving Iraqi debt.
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<br />"On a day when you see President Bush seeking the active support of three heads of government from Russia, Germany and France to help restructure Iraq's debt, that while the left hand is doing one thing while the right hand is doing something else, it does suggest a certain incoherence," he continued.
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<br />But the president, in his first public comments about the dispute, defended the decision in an exchange with reporters.
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<br />"Our people risked their lives," defended Mr. Bush. "Friendly coalition folks risked their lives and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that and that's what the U.S. <s>voters</s> taxpayers expect." </i>
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<br /><font color="teal">AKA Statement #319 in the re-election campaign or Item #23a/2b in the Haliburton Annual Report.
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<br />Might be nice if these contracts were "going to reflect" and address the needs of your common or garden embattled Iraqi in the street.
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<br />(Sorry about that. I just had a very silly Pollyanna moment.) </font></b>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070649826002021002003-12-05T18:40:00.000+00:002003-12-05T18:44:43.483+00:00Strange Report of the Week<b>Yesterday, CNN reported a story of a burglar in Australia who is breaking into people's homes, stealing their valuables, and in each case leaves behind a sort of "calling card"...a photocopied picture of his naked bottom. Be honest, Sedgwick...do you have anything to do with this?</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070484214497898772003-12-03T20:43:00.000+00:002003-12-03T20:46:51.310+00:00Accomplishments as President By GEORGE W. BUSH<b>* I attacked and took over two countries.<br />
<br />* I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.<br />
<br />* I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.<br />
<br />* I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.<br />
<br />* I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.<br />
<br />* In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.<br />
<br />* After taking the entire month of August 2001 off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.<br />
<br />* I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by any president in US history.<br />
<br />* In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.<br />
<br />* I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.<br />
<br />* I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.<br />
<br />* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.<br />
<br />* I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV.<br />
<br />* I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history.<br />
<br />* I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.<br />
<br />* I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.<br />
<br />* I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.<br />
<br />* I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind<br />
<br />* I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.<br />
<br />* I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.<br />
<br />* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.<br />
<br />* I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.<br />
<br />* I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.<br />
<br />* I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.<br />
<br />* I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of Congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.<br />
<br />* I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.<br />
<br />* I withdrew from the International Criminal Court.<br />
<br />* I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.<br />
<br />* I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.<br />
<br />* I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.<br />
<br />* The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEOof Enron Corporation).<br />
<br />*I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.<br />
<br />* I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)<br />
<br />* I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.<br />
<br />* I took the world's sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).<br />
<br />* I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe(71%)view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.<br />
<br />* I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea feel more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.<br />
<br />* I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.<br />
<br />* I set the all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.<br />
<br />* I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.<br />
<br />* In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the civil war.<br />
<br />* I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down, record unemployment being the most recent achievement.</p>
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<br /><p>RECORDS AND REFERENCES:<br />
<br />* I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas drug conviction has been erased and is not available).<br />
<br />* I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.<br />
<br />* I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.<br />
<br />* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.<br />
<br />* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.<br />
<br />* All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.<br />
<br />* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. <br />
<br /><A HREF="http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/surfdomarchives/001722.php" target="_blank">SOURCE.</a></b>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070217293991395332003-11-30T18:20:00.000+00:002003-11-30T18:35:44.860+00:00Same old...same old...<b><p><center><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/nigel1.jpg"><p></center>
<br />wizzo chaps (chiz chiz) wer now the listnin careing shareing govermmmnt cos our leader hous master toni he say im listnin to the oiks thay kan ee-male me and texk me (hem hem) and tellyfone me and tell me wat thay think and wat i should do with the cuntry (Huraah for Sportsmaster Toni!!!!!) But then he dosent giv anyone his ee-male adresss or his fone number or his texk facks thing whatever it iz so nowon kan get in tuch with him too mak him listen to them. Not that it maters anywa becos if he did here anybody sayin somethin then it wood no dowt be in a dopeler affect as sevral months ago toni alzo say i hav no revers geer so im not listnin anyhow. and besides thos oiks hav nothing worth while saying anywai becose they ar stoopid and hav no propper educashon becos its to expensiv. but all thiz listnin and carin stuff maks uz look gud and wat with chrimbo coming (raz raz) we need evryone to ralli behind uz and help uz put ar decorashons up in the first formers house ov comons room so we beter luk good or else. Natrally the lord chanslors chrissmaz deckies ar the mos expensive (as usual!!!!!!!!!!!!) costin abowt fife million squid a streemer cos there made of solid gold and its traditshon and wot not. And toni say mek sure that deupty hed boy lardars prescott dosent eet all the pork pies again thiz yeer like he did last chrispmas and then get drunk and punch the refectry staff in there oiky faces chiz chiz!
<br />anyways i say hapy chrispmass evryone and hers to clare short former hed gurl wererever she mite be.
<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070147913833912252003-11-29T23:18:00.000+00:002003-11-29T23:45:32.966+00:00Diego Garcia - doesn't he run the tapas bar on the High Street?<strong>The Ilois (also known as Chagossians) are one of the most poverty-stricken groups of people in the world. They are Creoles, claiming descent from the ancestors originating from India, Madagascar, Mauritius and Mozambique who were mostly African slaves or Indian labourers. Today they number around 7,000 and most of them inhabit an urban slum called Cassis on Mauritius, impoverished and marginalised from Mauritian society.
<br /> Life is very hard for the Ilois. They have a 60% unemployment rate (the rate for native Mauritians is 4% for men and 15% for women) and 45% are illiterate. Out of despair many of the younger Ilois men have resorted to alcohol, drugs and crime while many women owe their continuing existence to prostitution. The suicide rate is very high.
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<br />So what? There are cultures all over the world who have an even tougher existence.
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<br />On the 21st May, 2002, Jack Straw signed a document that effectively made the Ilois British Citizens as they were formerly inhabitants of a British colony. The problem is, the ungrateful wretches don’t want British passports. They want to go home.
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<br />Home is the Chagos Archipelago, a collection of tiny islands and atolls situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a thousand miles south of Mauritius. The largest island is a tropical paradise called Diego Garcia. The Ilois survived by fishing or cultivating sugar cane and coconuts. They didn’t have cars, telephones or any gizmo a western culture would consider essential to daily life life. But their culture has flourished in the archipelago since the early nineteenth century and what they did have was theirs – or so they thought.
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<br />The Chagos Archipelago is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), or what remains of it after the Seychelles gained independence in 1976. Its three thousand inhabitants lived their lives, bothering no one. But all that changed in 1967.
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<br />Just two words changed the lives of the Ilois - strategic importance. In the northern hemisphere the Cold War was at its height. The US needed a base within reach of southern USSR. Britain had the real estate that exactly fitted the bill – Diego Garcia. In a secret deal with the US, the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Britain, gave the US a fifty year lease on Diego Garcia and allowed them to establish a military base (the lease expires in 2016). The US Navy has a base on the island and so does the US Air Force (for long range B1 and B52 bombers).
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<br />Suddenly the Ilois found themselves labelled as “contract labourers” rather than an indigenous culture. Harold Wilson served up the archipelago to British and US politicians as “uninhabited” which was a cynical lie. Their existence officially denied, even refused birth certificates that could identify them as born and bred Chagossians, the Ilois found themselves illegally and callously disenfranchised.
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<br />Between 1965 and 1973 the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago was either conned into leaving their homes or, during the final phase in 1973, forcibly removed, loaded onto boats and relocated to the Seychelles or Mauritius (mostly to the latter). They were forced to abandon their homes, their furniture, their livestock, their land and the cemeteries that contained generations of their ancestors (which made a complete nonsense of the “contract labour” soubriquet even without the birth certificates). Cast adrift in a strange land, destitute and lacking the skills to cope in society completely alien to their culture, the Ilois were left to rot for seven years. Britain then offered some financial assistance but is was pitifully too little, too late and was rejected by the majority of Ilois. They didn’t want foreign money or to live in a foreign slum, they wanted to go home.
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<br />In 1982, the plight the Ilois people was championed by World in Action and by a Labour backbench MP by the name of Robin Cook. Cook conveniently forgot all about them when he became a cabinet minister. Perhaps, when he resigned and unleashed his venom against his cabinet colleagues, he also conveniently forgot something else the public ought to know about Diego Garcia.
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<br />With the Cold War over Diego Garcia was used as a refuelling base during the Gulf War in 1991. During Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, B52s flew from Diego Garcia base to launch a payload of 100 cruise missiles at targets inside Iraq. The war against Afghanistan saw both B1 and B52 bombers take off from Diego Garcia. The base also played a crucial strategic role during the war with Iraq earlier this year and seems set to be a valuable military asset for some years to come.
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<br />In an article penned by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Corbyn points out that, when papers relating to the Diego Garcia deal were released under the thirty year rule, it was discovered that, quote, “Labour ministers and officials were very aware of the Ilois’ existence.” Presumably so were the people, both British and American, who cleared the Ilois out of the islands and saw evidence that they were not merely a transient population – unless you consider 200 years of continued occupation transient.
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<br />And the price of causing three thousand people and the following generation abject misery? Five million pound knocked off the price of a Polaris nuclear submarine!!! The US pays no rent or any other remuneration for its occupation of a British sovereign territory.
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<br />The Ilois won a seminal victory in the British courts in November, 2001 when their claim to the Chagos Archipelago was recognised, as was the illegality of their removal from their homes. Unfortunately, Phoney Tony, world statesman and indefatigable champion of Human Rights, had his government swiftly launch legislation permitting the Ilois to return to the Archipelago but not to Diego Garcia.
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<br />This was too much for the Ilois. Denied their existence, thrown out of their homes without compensation and now winning a victory only to have it snatched from them, they launched a new lawsuit, claiming for compensation against the British Government for the loss of their homes and for personal injury suffered during their eviction and resettlement. Appeal Court judge Mr. Justice Ousely dismissed the Ilois’ claim, perversely accepting the argument of the British Government which insisted that the Ilois held the status of mere contract labourers and not natives and therefore possessing no legal claim to the islands. In effect, Bleugghh took the lie spun by Wilson to oust the Ilois from their homeland and used it to keep them out and not pay them a penny in compensation, and all in the spirit of the “special relationship”. Pity Phoney isn’t as ruthless with the likes of hate-preaching Abu Hamza.
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<br />The term “contract labourers” hints at short term occupation of the islands yet the Ilois and their ancestors have inhabited the islands since at least 1814. Some contract!!!!! What sort of legal footing does this give any small nation founded by slaves, the impoverished and the dispossessed?
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<br />The judge sympathised, admitting the Ilois had been treated shamefully. Yet he denied them compensation because their claim had now been time barred. This is rich given that the British government refused to recognise the existence of the Ilois for thirty years and they could only bring their case to court once official documents acknowledging their existence had been released under the 30 year rule.
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<br />The Ilois continue to fight on, not only on British soil but by taking their case to the American courts too. I wish them well in their quest for justice.
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<br />As a foot note to this scandal, the US now has a new, even more sinister use for its base on Diego Garcia. The base is currently playing host to some al-Qaeda terrorists. Among the “guests” being detained and interrogated is Riduann Isamuddin, alias Hambali. Isamuddin is the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Asian terrorist group believed responsible for the Bali bombing earlier this year.
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<br />Given the US track record for its treatment of Muslim prisoners held without charge at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, it’s very likely that similar conditions exist on Diego Garcia which is, of course, firmly situated on British territory. Despite the atrocities these prisoners may or may not have committed, what happens inside Guatanamo is an international disgrace. If this sort of thing is occurring on British soil, with the full knowledge of New Labour ministers, then it is a scandal that potentially equals the recent Hanson enquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly and the allegations that Downing Street sexed-up a WMD dossier to make a phoney case for a war with Iraq. Could this possibly be the reason for Phoney’s oh so feeble attempts to castigate Dubya for his unethical treatment of Guatanamo detainees whose guilt (or innocence) has not been established?
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<br />I think we should be told.</strong>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070105525052174342003-11-29T11:32:00.000+00:002003-11-29T11:57:58.200+00:00Be afraid, be very afraid!<b><font color="teal">It is a quiet Saturday night downunder. It's 10 p.m. and it's still hot. The first big bushfires of the season are up and running. The wombats are all tucked up in bed with smiles on their faces. I read them a nice bed-time story. The one about Goldilocks and the 3 incredibly well hung bears.
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<br />I've nearly finished the slab of Fosters. Before I pour myself into bed I thought I should have a look at a site or six. Below are some snippets from some of the finest American blogs it's been my pleasure to try to comprehend. </font> </b> <font color="red"> <h3>Sarge's Stars & Stripes Bulletin</h3></font><b>A Blog for Americans.........Respecting God, Country and our President! Items of interest for American Citizens and the Servicemembers of the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard.
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<br />They, who have protected us in the past, protect us in the present and will protect us in the future, under God; we owe our FREEDOM and our THANKS! Now, have a cup a' joe and stay awhile. Ya' know I ain't always Right; but I'm never Left!</b><font color="red"> <h3>Hey you! Don't be a pinko commie! Support Capitalism, and support this website. Keep praying to Allah, boys. In a few years we'll be sending the Terminator after your ass. </h3></font><b>One day the world will realize that the threat from Islamofascists has nothing to do with American foreign policy, or oil, or any other damn thing. These are people who have declared war on the west, and it is a war that the west simply must win.
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<br />Unfortunately I think that it is going to take another massive terrorist attack before some begin to acknowledge this indisputable fact. </b><font color="red"> <h3>IF THE DRAFT WILL LET ME SERVE AGAIN, THEN I'M FOR IT! </h3></font><b>Moments like this one reminds me of the President we all got to know right after 9/11, the man some of us already knew as Governor of Texas, a standup guy with his heart in the right place and a keen sense of what's right and what's wrong and humility and gratitude towards those who man the wall throughout the long, dark night, keeping us all safe inside.
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<br />THAT'S the Bush that fills me with pride, THAT'S the Bush that I have faith in and THAT'S the Bush that I'd go through Hell and high water for.</b><font color="red"> <h3>Right We Are! - a conservative, pro-US, Republican blog by two chicks on the Right side!</h3></font><b>OK, I really dislike this asshat [Al Franken] and he may very well try to run for the senate. Well, I must admit I would much rather these celebs who are on the left put their money where their mouth is and run for office instead of just using their celebrity to run at the mouth and write books when that is not their job. In the past, it only seemed like Republican celebs actually got the balls to run and be a politician. Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Fred Thompson, Arnold and so on.
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<br /> These "movie stars" [Susan Sarandon and Martin Sheen] flap their lips but never actually step up to the plate and "DO" anything. The "Terminator" is temporarily giving up his movie career and getting into office! He's not just at some movie premier flapping his lips.
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<br />I hate this woman [Barbra Streisand] more and more each day. What else is new in her little rich bitch world besides more pissing and moaning? Frankly I'm surprised she has not gotten together with the pile of poo Michael Moore to make more movies with lies.
<br /></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3754995.post-1070100027200477652003-11-29T09:53:00.000+00:002003-11-29T10:01:16.763+00:00Welsh Titbits<b><p><center><img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~scragends/bio/review.jpg"><p>Dirty Sanchez: Channel Four Friday Night</center><p>
<br />Now here's an original premise...a group of sad tossers whacking each other as hard as they can with rulers, elastic bands, large slabs of metal etc. Nothing like Jack Ass at all really, except with gentials on view, bad language not bleeped out and Welsh accents.
<br />Having witnessed last night one mindless bellend slapping his testicles into a snooker table pocket whilst his mate took pot shots at them (bursting his scrotum in the process I should add...thus displaying exactly how much balls a stunt like that requires) I think I can quite safely say that the bravest thing these lads could do would be to admit that they were masochist homosexuals and have done with it once and for all.
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