tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post5460241076958975593..comments2024-03-29T10:44:29.343+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Guardian Hyperventilation and the Fitzroy Maclean CureCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-64201129298027024882017-03-16T21:57:42.580+00:002017-03-16T21:57:42.580+00:00Appreciated, Thud. Appreciated, Thud. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18701665611994452962017-03-15T23:42:57.319+00:002017-03-15T23:42:57.319+00:00
iirc, the solution to the service being blogged i...<br />iirc, the solution to the service being blogged is called one shotandrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-19646392271743017512017-03-15T21:48:17.417+00:002017-03-15T21:48:17.417+00:00Kev, you get a medal for service to blogging...or ...Kev, you get a medal for service to blogging...or something like that.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-42500914026882080742017-03-15T21:00:53.580+00:002017-03-15T21:00:53.580+00:00If I had one I'd be dropping it into every top...If I had one I'd be dropping it into every topic, which is probably why I don't have one. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-70984745236045788652017-03-15T19:37:27.800+00:002017-03-15T19:37:27.800+00:00oh piss off Kev!
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oh piss off Kev!<br /><br />(+:<br /><br /><br /><br />Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-25297928211847249922017-03-15T18:54:02.581+00:002017-03-15T18:54:02.581+00:00Nick's DSO took years to be revealed on these ...Nick's DSO took years to be revealed on these pages and only at the right moment. The man is sheer class ! Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-12831435094257221772017-03-15T18:15:18.091+00:002017-03-15T18:15:18.091+00:00JM,
of course they wouldn't last very long at ...JM,<br />of course they wouldn't last very long at all.<br />The thing is it just doesn't occur to the majority of them.<br />I think you are however spot on re Sturgeon.<br /><br />On the topic of the current left, I would strongly recommend listening to Dr Jordan Peterson's lecture on freedom of speech and political correctness:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDRgMUoEvcg<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-10700636335766314282017-03-15T12:57:22.917+00:002017-03-15T12:57:22.917+00:00Travel certainly improves the reading time.Travel certainly improves the reading time.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-39234918554823407152017-03-15T10:47:35.094+00:002017-03-15T10:47:35.094+00:00I always console myself with the thought that, und...I always console myself with the thought that, under their favoured regime, their offices would be raided, the staff taken to the nearest Gulag and Polly taken out and shot.<br /><br />Like Sturgeon, their nightly prayer must be "Oh God, don't let my dreams come true!".dustyblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14032381020404935256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-61038787747697413322017-03-15T10:40:29.616+00:002017-03-15T10:40:29.616+00:00Firing a pistol point blank at a tank! Guess he wa...Firing a pistol point blank at a tank! Guess he was a little bit peeved! Whadda guy! I also expect his missus had a fine line in passive aggression - "well, if that's what you want to do - go on then, have fun, try and write ocassionally!"Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-4328105560994590662017-03-15T10:23:30.461+00:002017-03-15T10:23:30.461+00:00Even in a democracy there is a priesthood to be re...Even in a democracy there is a priesthood to be resisted. I recall someone (was it Cherie Blair?) saying that she'd gone into law to make changes to society. The traditional routes for making changes to society used to be politics or religion.<br /><br />We've seen the legal priesthood in action for 40-odd years now. Think of the amount of effort devoted to the rights of the criminal compared with the rights of their victims.<br /><br /><i>"The government's new xxxx policy will face a legal challenge this morning ..."</i> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27248628072324604022017-03-15T10:03:55.412+00:002017-03-15T10:03:55.412+00:00thanks, Anon - a fine quote on theocracy, one to c...thanks, Anon - a fine quote on theocracy, one to cut-out-and-keep<br /><br />complements my own feelings about (e.g.) the EU, because IMHO the EC is a priesthood. As I put <a href="http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2016/10/nissan-shape-of-things-to-come.html" rel="nofollow">here (in rather less elegant terms than Lewis)</a><br /><br /><i>(1) Rule of Law is the most important thing in civil life, with reasonable ways to change laws coming in second<br />(2) the only known ways to maintain RoL are (a) democracy (b) priesthood. Priesthood doesn't allow for reasonable changes in law. I opt for democracy (worst system except for all the others etc etc)<br />(3) EC is a priesthood, and a mendacious one to boot ... </i>Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-56063906537051588572017-03-15T10:02:58.243+00:002017-03-15T10:02:58.243+00:00yes, CU, I could just fancy a bar to my DSO (+:yes, CU, I could just fancy a bar to my DSO (+:Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-28640967299232193952017-03-15T09:44:09.141+00:002017-03-15T09:44:09.141+00:00Reading yesterday about Fred Selous, a Boy's O...Reading yesterday about Fred Selous, a Boy's Own hero, shot by a sniper at 65 while leading an attack (the SAS of former Rhodesia, the Selous Scouts, were named for him).<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous<br /><br />On the Guardian, C.S. Lewis was prophetic.<br /><br /><i>If we must have a tyrant a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven <b>will torment us infinitely more because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience</b>, and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. <br /><br />And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be. <b>A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign.</b> It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated. In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right. We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future. To attach to a party programme — whose highest claim is to reasonable prudence — the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication.</i><br /><br />"Diversity is a strength"<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-51145534677327991042017-03-15T09:26:33.955+00:002017-03-15T09:26:33.955+00:00Time enough for you yet then, ND.Time enough for you yet then, ND.CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-76607473361806286942017-03-15T08:18:28.816+00:002017-03-15T08:18:28.816+00:00I think we can safely ignore the Guardian comment ...I think we can safely ignore the Guardian comment pages/blogs. The Graun is just as much "click bait" as the rest of them. It is a handwringers' Daily Fail - the difference is that hardly anyone actually reads the left-wing version.<br /><br />I like the sound of Cowan...!Blue Eyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16556174219724957585noreply@blogger.com