I just can't put my finger on it......

......but this collage of youths murdered in London during 2007, suggests some form of pattern...and I can't seem to figure it out!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7117749.stm

The House (of Cards) that Gordon built.

There was a house, upon a hill,

Built by a wise old Scot.

No chimney, no stairs, no windows nor sill,

No water, cold or hot.

The walls were thin, with pictures inside,

Of kings, knaves and a queen.

"The house is grand", the Scot - he lied!

(It was the worst house ever seen).

"Keep the houses few, keep the people many,"

Was the wise old Scot's refrain.

"That way, they're worth a pretty penny,

It's good economy - I do maintain"

With a Chinese telly, there's no inflation,

For the wise old Scot to shepherd.

The ginger Hucknall urged a grateful nation,

And with plaudits, the Scot was peppered.

So this dreadful house, built of card,

That the lying Scot has made,

Swamps road, rail and dockard,

With Pole, Paki and Spade.

For when there's people few, houses many,

The reckoning will call.

Then the house of cards - not worth a penny,

Means the lying Scot will fall.

Quite the Prophet....

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities — but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

WSC 1899

They just don't get it....

Journalists and bloggers alike, wonder why blogging has a preminence of right-wing blogs. All the analysis I've seen has been wrong.

Steve Richards, in an article on political blogging, writes in the Independant;

"Probably part of the reason for the blogging hyperactivity on the right is the current turmoil in the Conservative Party. When a party seeks a new sense of direction after three election defeats there is scope for endless debate, heightened by fleeting moments of fuming anger and joyful euphoria.

Presumably in the late Seventies and and early Eighties, there would have been addictive blogs putting the case for Tony Benn. They would have been countered perhaps by must-read sites from those heading for the SDP. I guess left-of-centre bloggers would have flourished when Labour was overwhelmed by civil war. Now Labour is more settled and will be thrown into blog paradise/crisis only if it loses the next election."

This is nonsense. The reason so many people come to conclusions like the one above, is because they have come to regard the MSM - the mainstream media, as the norm; a balanced status quo by which the Blogosphere is judged.

But the MSM is heavily weighted by two factors, both in favour of the Left. Firstly, Britain's - and the world's - biggest news media, the BBC, are wholly Left Wing. Nearly all its output is flavoured by its entrenched Liberal worldview. Many BBC employees have never worked anywhere else since they were recruited from the pages of the Guardian after having graduated. Secondly, the MSM is paralysed by the zeitgeist of fear concerning "offence" which pervades all print and speech media. We live in a Victim Culture and its effects are not always apparent, but reading the pages of Britain's newspapers after a Muslim bombing is salutary. Any criticism of a racial group is littered with clumsy legal safeguards, taking the form of praising certain sections of a group whose members have just blown a bus up, or wandering off-topic to enable throwing in some abstract criticism of certain indigenous Britons - in order to appear "balanced". It's is almost as if MSM journalists have to write in a codified English to get over a message which is then made somewhat ambiguous due to that coding.

The blogosphere is free (for now) of all that clutter. Here you can get your views raw, without the dissembling that political correctness inflicts. So, I would say to Steve Richards and all others who share his views, that the Blogsphere represents the natural order of opinion when you take away the statist financial leg-up and legal/social repression that buoys the Left in the MSM. Without these artificial aids, the Leftwing view sinks to its natural position.

So....they got away with it.....

The aquittal of "Lord" Levy, the advisor and envoy of Tony Blair, the most corrupt British Prime Minister ever, has plunged Britain into a deeper moral trough than it's ever been in before.

This is a defeat for common justice. This is a defeat for all the people who have worked tirelessly to find cures for cancer over 20 years and are rewarded with an honour. This is a defeat for all those who are brave and are rewarded withan honour. This is a defeat for the couple in their late fifties who have fostered 30 kids in their lifetime and are rewarded with a small honour. This is a defeat for the man who started an enterprise in his garden shed and now employs 300 people earning Britain £millions for its NHS. This is a defeat for the carer who receives an MBE for 40 years selfless devotion to those who can't cope.

These people have lost out, because thanks to selfish and dishonest people like Blair and Levy, those small tokens of esteem from the State, are now - by association - nearly worthless.

Ahhhh....bless!

This four year old's level of political and economic literacy is shared by millions of grown women all over Britain. That's why we've had the house-of-cards we know of as New Labour for 10 years. Obviously, being only four, she has an excuse............

Toad recommends......

This is the book that articulates all that is wrong with the dreadful Liberal experiment that is being played out in British inner cities. I found myself laughing with disbelief as "the one true way" of Polly Toynbee et al, was comprehensively demolished by a man I would not hesitate to call the "Orwell of our time". A psychiatrist and doctor, Theodore Dalrymple's experience of the British underclass leaves him exceptionally well positioned as a social commentator covering the moral decline in British cities. A thorough expose of the sheer dishonesty of the Left. Brilliant.