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Monday, March 31, 2008
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Its The Bullets, Stoopid.
As George W. Bush ponders the failure of his twin missions to terminate ancient local cultures in Afghanistan and Iraq and seeks to understand why his highly trained and expensively equipped forces have failed to subdue resistance from raggle – taggle militias Boggart Blog can reveal the answer.
Instead of looking to Al Qaeda, The Mahdi Army, covert Saudi operations and a conspiracy between the cheese eating surrender monkeys and the Chinese, President Bush need look no further for the culprits than The Pentagon.
To paraphrase what Bill Clinton once said to Pappy Bush, "Its the Bullets Stupid."
Were I the Commander in chief I would be asking WTF the Department were thinking of when they awarded a contract to supply arms and munitions worth $300million to a one man company named AEY run by a small time con – man and fraudster out of a mail drop address in Miami.
Efriam Diversoli (22) tendered for the contract to supply guns and bullets to the U.S. military and on being awarded the contract managed to fulfil the requisition by supplying hardware sourced from stockpiles in former Soviet republics that he found for sale on the internet.
The equipment was poorly made, obsolete and had deteriorated badly after being stored in unsuitable conditions. The guns didn’t shoot straight and the bullets often didn’t fire.
This goes a long way towards explaining many things I think.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977294052&nav=Namespace
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Monday, March 17, 2008
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St.Paddy’s Day - Limericks with an Irish flavour
St. Paddy’s Day (Limericks with an Irish Flavour)
Limerick Limerick
(It’s said the Limerick for originated when someone declared it was impossible to rhyme the word Limerick)
Paddy said "Now here’s a trick,
I’ll set out on a trip from Limerick,
travel northwards to Lerwick,
returning via Berwick.
Now who said the Irish are thick?
No Benediction
Father Murphy was saying High Mass,
When a flea bit the priest on his ass,
"Oh feck," he exclaimed
(though recently ordained)
and forgot Benediction alas.
Leprechauns
Though Leprechauns are seldom seen
we all know their hair is bright green.
They eat Irish Stew,
Drink too much mountain dew
and their language becomes quite obscene.
The Black Stuff And Better
(The Black Stuff is Guinness stout of course)
There’s little an Irishman won’t do
for a pint of The Black Stuff or two
but on St. Paddy’s night
its their special delight
to sup poteen, a more potent brew.
The Lord of Bute
The Lord of the Island of Bute
thought excessive drinking a hoot,
he drank gallons of stout
(even though he had gout)
then threw up all over his suit.
Sex and the Sidhe
Caer Sidhe (pron. shee) is the overworld of Irish legend
The folk who dwell in Sidhe
are known for their bonhomie.
when they’ve had enough
of the rare owld stuff
They will bonk total strangers with glee.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Don’t Be Evil - That’s Facebook’s Job
Have you heard negative stuff about Facebook and wondered should you be there, or should your kids be there. Or are you not a member and wondering whether you should join the "coolest" of web communities?
In any case you need to read this.
About a year ago if you had asked me or any experienced Information Technology professional which web enterprise most derserved the title The Evil Empire, most of us would have said Google. Things change quickly on the web though.
Some time ago, after being invited to join Facebook by one of my contacts from blog.co.uk, I posted a blog on the subject of how pointless the site is. There were already rumours about the more sinister aspects of Facebook, their intrusive gathering and publishing of personal data, their plans to sell members proflies and information on online activity to advertisers and a general disregard for the ehics of business.
Since that post was made, more information has been leaking out about Facebook's dubious business methods and the connection their founder and financial backer has with certain neocon and it would not be exaggerating to say neofascist right wing organisations in the USA.
It is all pretty unpleasant. But you don't have to take my word for it, read
With Friends Like These,
a damning analysis of the Facebook culture. Its a long artcle and scarey stuff, but its worth the effort.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
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Security Forces Hunt Bhutto Assassain
It may be in rather bad taste to mention this – but when has that ever stopped us?
We could not help noticing a sub-healine to on of the reports of the assassination of Benhazir Bhutto read "Pakistan's security forces think the killers may never be caught".
As the attack was carried out by suicide bombers that statement falls into the No Shit Sherlock school of criminal investigation.
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Friday, December 07, 2007
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The Fresh Prince of Crackpot Religion (humour)
Category: Sports
I could never quite make my mind up about Will Smith and until now never understood why He was funny in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and as a stand up and turned in competent performances in films like Men in Black. Somehow though I never took to him, it was not his strange looking ears I'm sure, perhaps it was the way, because he is tall and gangly we are expected to assume he is multi – mega – talented (what happened to the little, fat, talented bloke in The Fresh Prince, he was hilarious?) No, whatever the thing about Will was, it remained intangible.
It troubled me for many years. I wanted to like the guy, he is intelligent, articulate and well presented but there was something that did not gel.
This week Will was reported as having leaped to the defence of his friend Tom' Cruise (4'6") whose devotion to the evil mind control cult of Scientology continues to attract ridicule. Styling himself a student of world religion, Will enlightened us thus: "The ideas of The Bible are 98% the same as the ideas of Scientology, Hinduism and Buddhism."
Hindus and Buddhists might be quite surprised to hear that and, well I'm no fan of The Bible but I don't recall any mention of inter-galactic Empires in the Old Testament.
So what are these Scientology beliefs that are 98% the same as most of the world's great religions?
The information I am about to give you is usually only revealed to people who have gained admission to Scientology's highest echelons by making a payment of £350,000 and an epoxy resin replica of Kirsty Alley's butt. Remember, you were let into this secret of the origins of civilisation for free at Boggart Blog (although if you want to send $350,000 (£175,000) feel free. We will pass on the replica. Here we go.
Seventy five million years ago the Intergalactic Evil Overlord Xenu banished dissidents from his realm and sent them to earth in spaceships that looked like Douglas Dakotas, (the WW2 transport plane.)
These beings were imprisoned in mountains before being blown up with H bombs, and brainwashed by repeated showings of movies based on the sci – fi novels of L Ron Hubbard. Their traumatised spirits, called Thetans, then took possession of human bodies and still possess us.
Your inner Thetan can only be removed by "advanced scientology" in a ceremony that involves paying the cult $350,000. You will be relieved to learn however that Xenu is safely in captivity under a mountain, just like Merlin in the King Arthur legend.
Will Smith is not yet a scientologist but says it is dangerous and ignorant to ridicule the beliefs of scientology.
"How can I condemn their beliefs when I believe my God was born of a pregnant virgin?" he asks.
So now I understand why I could not take to Will Smith for all those years.
He's a dick.
I just noticed a new feature, "Tell us what you are reading, playing, viewing or listening to. Well none of those things obviously, I'm posting a blog entry.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
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Pals (In Memoriam)
Category: Writing and Poetry
Munching my brunch of scrambled free range eggs on wholemeal bread and sipping my fair trade Orange Juice yesterday, I sumbled upon a TV show in which a "western" Feng Shui expert was advising a young woman on how to improve her life by moving the furniture around. The woman it turned out, was unhappy and could not keep her boyfriends.
Explaining the intricities of the ancient Chinese Art of rearranging furniture (that's what Feng Shui means. Don't argue, it effing does!) as he moved through the house the expert shifted chairs, mirrors and ornaments, binning some. Of one innocuous but quite attractive disc shaped thing he said, "This has to go, a Chinese Feng Shui Master would tell you something like that could kill."
Well yeah, it could if you tried to swallow it, it was about two and a half inches across, but while on the wall what harm could it do?
Next he shifted the bed around because the way it was facing "conflicted with male engery" which would put blokes off their game. Finally he painted the living room of the house pillar box red.
Call me an old fuddy duddy possums, but when people talk about Chinese culture I always think how can culture be associated with people who haven't mastered the knife and fork. It would help of course if Western Sinophiles took the trouble to understand eastern cultures and traditions rather than just treating them as money making opportunities.
The television program, for its conclusion, returned to the same young woman a month later to find how Feng Shui had changed her life. She still did not have a steady man; perhaps this was more to do with her not being very good looking, having a whiney voice and coming across as desperate, needful and clingy, all qualities that "conflict with male energy." She had however decided to move house. The expert claimed his Feng Shui had made her realise the house was not suited to her yin and yang.
The Common Sense gnome says wouldn't anyone want to move house if some wanker had painted their living room signal red?
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While we are having a giggle at that, let's not forget tomorrow (11/11) is the day we remember the dead of WW1 and subsequent wars including Iraq and Afghanistan. The linked poem commemorates the Accrington Pals, the young men of my home town, a generation of whom were wipre out in ten insane minutes in 1916.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Great Hlloween Gothic Horror Poems
Check Out these great Gothic Horror poems for halloween. Scary stuff from Ian Thorpe
Sceadugengan The Anglo Saxon myth of the sceadugengan or shadow walker sits nicely alongside the modern social plague of stalking. Here the poem describes a stalker from the dark side.
A Pale Horse: But is the rider what it seems to be. And why was the girl whose suicide is depicted described as "slender as a willow" and then found "hanging from a willow." There are obviously things going on at a deeper level here.
The Headless Horseman: Spooky comedy in the style of William McGonagall, the scottish poet credited as "the worst poet ever," this ballad, presented in audio is a real giggle maker.
Beloved Succubus: Another audio presentation, this time a playlet in verse, performed by two voices and set to the music of St .Saens "Danse Macabre."
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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Osama Loves Bush - True!
Osama Bin Laden and George W Bush are deeply in love. It may be hard to swallow (oops, pardon!) but if the evidence in this post from Scottish blogger nultygoestopartick is accurate, (and the camera does not lie,) the world may ber headed for an era of peace and cooperation.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
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God’s Shock Jock ?
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Those of you who read my articles might be surprised to learn that earlier today I was guesting on a Chistian Radio show for London's Premier Radio station.
Even more strage, the producer Justin Brierley contacted me after following comment threads on some of my jousts with fundies at fundie dominated host site Gather.
Well Justin's show "Unbelieveable" is a British production with a more moderate tone than U.S. evangelical Christianity, so after some discussion I decided the programme would be fun to do and managed to get my friend Jenni Hutchinson invited as my opponent, the Christian speaker. Did you know that satan is the Aramaic (ancient assyrian language) word for opponent or adversary. Ha! Jenni is a little devil - she will love that.
Anyway we put together a really good programme, covering topics such as how the church may fulfil a role in modern society, the nature of faith, building bridges (we bridged the religious divide, the generation gap - Jenni is 24 I'm...not. OK, I'm yibblety-yibble. the geographical divide between north and south and the soccer supporters gap, Jenni follows high flying Arsenal, one of the big guns of European soccer - my loyalties are to lowly Accrington Stanley (the team that came back from the dead - reluctantly apparently.)
All in all we proved there can be dialogue between Christians and non believers.
It will be difficult to get the show on the air in America but there is an internet feed. ?Here are the details:
The programme airs at 2pm this Saturday here are the ways to listen "Live"
1305, 1332, 1413 MW (Greater London)| Sky Digital 0123 | Virgin Media 968 | Freeview 725 | London DAB or online at www.premier.org.ukNot of great spiritual interest to many of my gather friends maybe, as most share my attitude to organised religion, but a worthwhile demonstration of constructive dialogue between faith and non-faith, with some good points made on both sides.
OK, that's just a cynical ploy to bost the show in search engine listings of course. But you will excuse me one shameless self promotion item I'm sure. I promise to get back to more humour and controversy next time.
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Monday, July 02, 2007
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What The Queen Really Said To Blair
Have you been wondering what was really said between The Queen and Tony Blair when he resigned. Do you find those stiffly formal official statements unconvincing?
To read an exclusive transcript of that conversation go to Boggart Blog - Blair's Last Audience
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