Joe the plumber It is strange, is it not, hoe though Joe (or Sam as he's really named) was selected at random by barak Obama who was gladhanding people at random while doing a walkabout on the campaign trail.
When Mr. Obama did his routine trivk of trying to get the plumber to kiss The Obama's scrawny arse in sheer gratitude at being so blessed, Sam responded by asking a difficult question. The Obamessiah's Fast Action Response Team leaped into action, throwing up, as is their wont, all sorts of smears about Joe's private life.
What a pity we are not permitted such insights into Mr. Obama's private life, for example why will he not produce a copy of his birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii and not Kenya as the overwhelming body of evidence suggests. Why will he not admit that for much of his adult life he presented himself as a Muslim, even stating his religion as Muslim on his enrollment form for Chicago law school, and why he not tell us what exactly his work as a "community organiser" for ACORN involved.
Better still, as this individual wants to be the most powerful man in the world, aren't we entitled to some answers about his association with the genocidist Kenyan politician Ralia Odinga. And what favours does he owe the genocidist government of Indonesia for destroying the evidence of his Indonesian citizenship.
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McCain Obama debate election
Differing opinions of the Presidential Candidates debate, the Obama camp rroclaiming him the overwhelming victor because he is the anointed one who can walk on water and whose farts smell of perfume while The Republicans claim Obama waffled, evades issues and took refuge in vague talk of change, dreams, visions and the credibility he thinks can be gained using big words he obviously does not really understand. If McCain is elected America is only in as much trouble as it is in now. If Obama id elected the nation he will lead are fucked up beyond all redemption
What you haven't read about Obama
Which way will Joe Go
Despite the mauling he had from the Obama campaign, Joe the Plumber has not revealed which way his vote will go, insisting he has not yet made up his mind. Strikes me that in common with millions of others we might guess are natural republicans, Joe is playing it close to his chest.
Don't make the mistake of believing the polls, the most interesting statistic to emerge is not being published. That is the unusually high number of people, all registered voters, who are refusing to take part.
14 October 08
Recession Depression
Will the recession lead to an increase in mental health problems? We think it might turn out to be Catch 22 that drives people mad.
Depression economics explained
A good explainer of how the financial markets got in such a mess but not as good as the one given by Little Nicky Machiavelli
13 October 08
White collar prosecutions are likely
Here's a financial blogger worrying about hether some bankers who were involved in bdodgy deals and covering losses to make balance sheets look good might end up in jail. Somehow we don't think there will be a lot of sympathy for them.
Build our way out of depression, Democrats say
Well it worked in the 1930s so it must be the right thing to do now. Somehow, every instinct told me we could rely on Mr Obama and his stupid sidekicks who habitually peddle platitudes and cliches (when they're not making up fairy stories about Obama's past) to come up with a plan that is unoriginal, impractial and totally irrelevant. Ah but that is no problem to Obama's supporters. They know his farts smell of perfume so that makes everything OK. They do have some good ideas in some parts of America, but Nebraska is solid republican country
Banking Crisis - will nationalisation work
After all these years of saying Thatcherism and the free markey lunacy would end in a financial collapse it's nice to be vindicated at last. Margaret Thatcher swore she would never print money to buy our way out of a financial crisis. Unfortunately letting the banks conjure itout of this air created an even less substantial economy than those based on paper money. Magic Money was a clever illusion but in the end it was all done with smoke and mirrors.
Hotdog economics
When the Nobel Prize committee awarded a prize for economics this year they might well have been having a laugh. We have to take the award at face value though and make a comment. If anybody still thinks academic theories and mathematical modelling have any relevance in the real world they are mad as a box of frogs. Like the NuLab thinkers who still talk of having made great strides towards abolishing child poverty when they have dome more than anybosdy to increase parent poverty.
More commentand another point of view at Times Online...And the Nobel Prize for econimics this year
Recycling: is it a waste of time?
its easy to see why Tim Worstall thinks so when we find that recycled products actually use more resources to remanufacture than it would take to make new. We worry that the penalties for not complying with the bureaucratic and authoritarian regulations on recycling can bring down draconian penalites on those who do not conform. The townhall pokenoses have a long track record of eforcing most enthusiastically the most pointless regulations.
The Truth About Brown's boom and bust
Did Gordon Brown engineer the meltdown as a way of relaunching his government and his career. And how did he involve Iceland?
12 Oct 08
Banking Crisis Live
A minute by minute guide to the meltdown of Black Friday or should we call it red Friday as that was the dominant colour in most account books. And what role did Iceland play in the drama?
Labour Minister says investors are entitled to their money
but being entitled to it and getting it are two very different things. As the Guardian readers who followed their paper's financial tipster are likely to find out. Guido Fawkes reports on Guardianista Frozen Cash
At least Gordon's smiling says BBC man Nick Robinson on his blog. And it's true, Gordon Brown looks like a dog with two dicks. The last time I saw him so happy was when he raided my pension fund.
Inevitably the American election intrudes into our consciousness. The story Boggart Blog and Little Nicky Machiavelli have been following is the court case aimed at proving Obama's foreign nationality makes him ineligible:
Texas Darlin claim to have proof in this story - Obama born in Kenya Meanwhile Citizen Wells bloggers are pursuinig the Democrats candidate not only on the nationality issue but a number of others including his relationships with terrorists and his connections to Kenyan political goups. Read more here Citizen Wells - Philip Berg talks about his lawsuit on the berg case, and find out about the Kenya connection here
Obama's visit to Kenya violates Logan act
2 October 08
When The Quiet Man Raised his Voice
David Cameron comes under fire from one of his predecessors as Conservative leader. And iain Duncan Smith shows he has a better understanding of how society works than the boss even if he does lack charisma.
Bill Clinton flirting with Obama
Why is bill Clinton suddenly so enthusiastially supporting the campaign of barak Obama when relations between the two men have previously been decidedly cool? Well we heard rumours there may soon be a vacancy for a Vice Presidential niminee in the Democratic Party.
See Little Nicky Machiavelli's comment on this story about the Clinton Obama love in.
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Raising the bar for Palin and Biden
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden get ready to go head to head in the Vice Presidential debate tonight. Who cares? Well Biden's plodding intellectualism against Palin's redneck fireworks could yield some laughs. Read Bogart Blog's thoughts by following the
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How Tony Blair can help Sarah Palin
Republican supporters could have made a wise move in pointing out to Palin the way Tony Blair used to deal with William Hague who was a much better performer in face to face question and answer sessions. Palin is no Blair of course, but then biden is even further from being in the same league as William Hague.
25 Sep 08
Economists - Kill Them
Like most sciences, economics simply cannot cope with the unscientific qualities of human nature. So if economic modelling does not work so why are we asking economists to help us fix the market meltdown? George W Bush is trying to appear statesmanlike in his handling of the financial crisis but the people he has called on to put a rescue package together are the very people whose crakpot thinking got Wall Street into this mess in the first place.
Little Nicky Machiavelli on Finance
The Maverick Rides Again
Barak Obama expected to gain form the economic crisis. Hopelessly outgunned by his opponent on foreign policy and general experience he tried to present himself as the candidate of economic competence. McCain's unexpected move to suspend the first of the televised debates has wrongfooted Obama again and all the Democrats can do in response is cry "ufair."
American Election
Buy Your Very Own Inflatable Sarah Palin
The cardboard cutout Sarah Palin that went on sale today has rather chunkier legs than that famous picture of her in a stars and stripes bikini would have us believe. Dammit, is the woman as phoney as Obama.
President Palin
24 sep 08
The Palin Nighmare
Scandals hovering over Sarah Palin are focusing on Troopergate, the allegation that she used her influence to get her State Trooper brother-in-law sacked afyter he abused Palin's siser and his stepkids. A lot of people whose votes the Democrats need think the guy got what he deserved. So it looks like that story will be no match for
The Obama elegibility scandal
Yes this is the one that has had MainStreamMedia sticking its fingers in its ears and going LA LA LA LA LA.
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This is shaping up to be the whackiest election ever. And there's
more on that lawsuit from Citizen Wells where you will find details of the legal proceedings and a whacky but feasible prognosis of how the saga may play out. It does not look good for Obama.
The Biggest Story Of The Campaign says Michael Tomasky an Obama nut who is so biased he has single handedly buried the twiching corpse of unbiased, objective journalism. Unfortunately for Mike the story had been proved a Democrat smear before the stoey was even written
Controlling Climate Change needn't cost the earth
Expensive schemes to control climate change are often ineffective but the solution is a lost simpler, cheaper and closer to home that we are prepared to acknowlede. Little Nicky Machiavelli on Science.
Novices; it therefore follows
If inexperienced Barak Obama and inexperienced Davo Milliband were leadrs og the Atlantic alliance what kind of cock ups could we expect? asks Conservative Blogger Iain Dale
But would conservative novices do any better?
Sarahgate
Thankfully not Sarah Palin this time but Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon. Was Mrs Brown's short speech at the Labour conference as spontaneous as we are being told?
Elephant in the room - Georgie Bush at the UN
Bush's last stand up gig at the United Nations. Find a review of the gig at Boggart Blog
Is that young Spencer Davo Milliband or Frank Spencer
The Labour Party's woes seem to deepen, talk of plots unsettles the rank and file and a financial crisis seems set to redefine the political agenda as the leader Gordon Brown clings desperately to his job. And to top it all Boggart Blog's fatsally notices the Foreign Secretary bears an uncanny resemlence to Frank Spencer
Brown's speech met with mixed reviews. But never mind the content, Political Pop Pickers are more interested in a countdown of this years most used buzzwords. And unchanged an number one for the fifth year running....
All the reasons Obama can't win. The Democrats seem to have suddenly realised they picked a candidate who cannot possibly win.
So naturally, amid much wailing and gnashing of teeth the excuses and accusations of racism have started already. But the party and the Black community have only themselves to blame. Being a black canddate in a US Presidential election is a big enough handicap in itself. When that candidate is a proven fantasist with no track record in government and a huge identity problem it's an impossible task.
Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe highlights Obama's credibility problem here.
Brown's speech. Was Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party conference enough to save his career as Prime Minister. This writer thinks it might be but the jury is still out. Little Nicky Machiavelli thinks it was a lost cause the day Northern Rock went down.
See for yourself Barak Obama's fake birth certificate, read the reasoning of this blogger, think about the "Father's race" given as "African." Well if genuine the document, written out in 1960 would not have given the race as African as Negro was the legally accepted term for a black man then. That aside, it is strange is it not that the document refers to "race" and not nationality. Obama Snr. would have given his nationality as Kenyan or British Colonial, Kenya still being part of the British Empire then.
An open letter to Tina Fey. The young comedy actress Tina Fey is turning in wickedly accurate and wildly funny performances as Sarah Palin on the US Comedy show Saturday Night Live. Could it be for the first time since Spitting Image derailed Labour leaders Neil Kinnock's election campaign in 1992 a satirical TV show will inflence an election.
Foreign Secretary's Hand Gestures Lost In Translation
An analysis of David Milliband's speech to the Labour Conference reveals that Milliband managed to suggest to the conference that Gordon Brown has a very small penis.
The Jolly Return Of The Sniffups
Not a story about cocaine addiction as you might think but references to Lord Baden-Powell who had a very suspect interest in little boys. So what are the people behind this project up to?
Michael Palin for President
We did this story on boggart Blog around three weeks ago. Well the Dear Old Mainstream Media gets there in the end.
Orbiting infalatable Space Station
Boggart Blog slyly revealed a dastardly elitist polot in a post on Sarah Palin's ambitions this week. But surely they were jokng about an Inflatable Space Station. Or were they? Palin's Resisible March to the Presidency
HuffPost reckons Palin Bounce is starting to sag. Well after five kids and at forty four years of age noibody would expect her to be as pert as she was in the Beauty Queen pix.
Governor Palin's reading list
It's all Sarah Palin today. This report complains she has been reading political tomes by neofascist writers. Well we'd hardly expect her to be choosing The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists for her bedtime book would we?
How Many Cars Should A Candidate Own
Showing an admirable absence of bias U.S. left wing web news sheet Huffington Post alleged that John McCain owns thirteen cars while barak Obama owns just one. What they don't tell us is whether Obama gets around on a bike or rides in stretch limos with darkend windows hired for him by the taxpayer.
Baggy Trousers? It's madness
Some American states are enacting laws that outlaw baggy low crotch trousers that are currently fashionable among the urban poor. As a member of a generation who wore our trousers so tight round the crotch we looked as if we had three Adam's apples I can hardly complain about silly trousers. But I agree with locking these guys up. If they are so lacking imagination that wearing silly trousers is the only thing they can think of to offend older people they don't deserve a life.
Link to Boggart Blog comment at Comment Is Free
Dazzled by their good fortune
The financial crisis was 30 years in the making. Having won , in stages, all the deregulation they asked for, the leadrrs of the finance industry failed to recognize how privileged they were and did not exercise self discipline to such an extent tht their greed would allow them to obseve no ethical constraint.
Boggart Blog Comment
Creationists: they just don't have enough faith
A religious affairs writer askes if creationism is a cop out for those whose commitment to faith requires certainties to support it in an area here certainties are as rare as Rocking Horse Shit. Boggar Blog comment
Prof Reiss resigns after Witch Hunt
Have you noticed a rather sinister new trend towards authoritarianism in the scientific establishment. This is highlighted very clearly in this article on the witch hunt that followed aleged comments by Prof. Michael Reiss which appeared to support the teaching of creationism in science.
The Reiss Resignation Is Science's Loss
The comments actually made by Prof. Reiss were a very reasonable suggestion that science tachers should be willing to discuss in classrooms views put forward by pupils from creationist families as to simply diss these pupils as superstitios peddlers of unscientific nonsense is hardly the way to win friends and influence people. Read the main story linked above and them look at the comic take on scientific fascism at Boggart Blog
How The Rich Can Still Buy Our Silence With This 13th-century law
A rant against Britain's medieval libel laws by environmentalist George Monbiot whose outspoken views have been gagged many times by threats of lawsuits from people who obviously had a lot to hide.
Boggart Blog on craziness in the legal system
Vernon Kay Is Not Dead
Yeah that headline was a bitter disappointment to us too. Really the article is about how rumours spread on the internet, a further point of view on the article by Andrew Keen denouncing calls by alleged world wide wen inventor Tim Berners Lee for regulation of the web because "the reals science is being pushed aside by the dross. Funny how TBL did not have a problem with the kiddie porn, phishing, hacking and all the other nasties his evil baby facilitated but once his own area is the subject of ridicule he wants regulation to protect it. I don't know what scientists call that but where I come from its called hypocrisy.
More on the incipient war between science and freethinking from Boggart Blog
Tories Over 50% says a report on Iain Dale's blog.
That is a lot of alcohol to have in the bloodstream. Think what you like of Tory politics, you have to admire their livers.
Boggart Blog on The Conservatives
Many pundits fear that if the Republicans win the American election the U.S. global hegemony will be strengthened. The American way or the highway This article discusses some possible altrnative routes for Europe that allowing our nations to be increasingly dominated economically and culturally by the U.S.A.
Boggart Blog looks at America
Compact cassettes, CDs MP3s, nothing seems to be the 12" album or seven inch single now both over 50 years old. The future of music is vinyl Who would have thought a few inches of plastic could give so many people so much pleasure for so long
Technology at Boggart Blog
Children are incrasingly being turned off books at primary school level by factors ranging from trendy teaching methods to politically correct readin choices.Death of the bookworm But is something more sinister going on? Consider our links above to the new breed of authoritarian scientists who will not tolerate differing views. Consider the Cororate control freakery that seeks to restrict our freedom of thought by controlling the flow of information. Are we seeing the rise of a new fporm of fascism more subtle than we have seen before?
Happiness Lessons
Women in politics When Jaqui Smith, Britain's most senior female politicians complained that women are not taken seriously enough in politics Boggart Blog decided to investigate
Slinging mud to hide the real dirt
In the American election the Democrats constantly accuse the Republicans of mud slinging and dirty politics (see article linked) but the Dems are not whiter than white themselves. Remember how Barak Obama the born again Christian (formerly Barry Soetoro the Muslim) tried to brand John McCain a racist by telling theo world of some comments which John McCain had not made and then yelling "racist slur" on the grounds that McCain might say those things?
Andrew Keen - the age of disbelief
Tim Berners Lee has been complaining about the amount of dross on the web. But as he ignored warnings that his brainchild had no security shouln't the finger of blame be pointing at him? Oh no, he's an omnipotent scientist, he cannot possibly have made a mistake. here Andrew Keen a humanities professor and well known critic of the internet takes TBL to task by reminding him that when it comes to people having access to dross it was ever thus. Few people everl read scientific journals, most got their information from TV or the tabloids. In the end it looks as though Berners Lee and the Science Cult lining up behind him are saying there should be no view but theirs available on the web.
Religion versus Science
Put Clegg Out To Stud - Iain Dale
Liberal Democrat Evan harris reckons if Nick Clegg's leadership does not improve the party's standing they can always put him out to stud. Well by his own admission Cleggy was a prodigious shagger in his carefree youth so he is well qualified for the task of increasing Lib-Dem membership figures.
I'm in love with Sarah Palin
Not the real Sarah Palin you understand, grizzly bear wrestling is not my thing; no the Saturday Night Live Sarah Palin (comedy actress Tina Fey) is gorgeous though. Take a look on the You Tube video.
If
Amanda accuses Republicans of putting more effort into PR than into formulating policies. Perhaps is the Democrats put as much effort into winning as they do into being Politically Correct perhaps the GOP would not find life so easy,
Reuters - The End Of The World Machine
The chances of the world being destroyed are very small.
The chances of learning anything useful from the experiment are just as small.
The problem with recreating conditions that existed just after Big Bang centre on their being no proof there ever was a Big Bang.
Physicists enthusiasm for their work would be admirable were so much of it not based on theories that are based on theories. The chase for the theoretical sub particle, the Higgs Boson, would be less pointless if the scientists could tell us how they will distinguish it's manifestation from any other wavy line on an oscilloscope screen.
The previous experiment a few years ago picked up what was thought to be the Higgs Boson. Turned out to be the energy exerted by the moon's gravity on the surface of Lake Geneva which causes a miniscule tide.
At least that is what they thought it was but others think it was more likely side emissions from the electric cables on a railway track a few kilometers away.
Boggart Blog: It's not the end of the world (or is it)
Is Clegg Inadvertently Helping Cameron
The only people pushing David Cameron through the door of No. 10 are The Labour Party.
The lastest fiasco, the plot against Brown, is a typical example of how far up that very smelly creek Labour are. And not a paddle in sight.
Nick Clegg's job now is to stop disenchanted voters deserting Labour from travelling the full spectrum straight into the waiting arms of the Flesh Eating Zombie Conservatives who are recently risen from the dead.
With Labour dead in the water a hung parliament is our only hope of avoiding a return to full on Thatcherism in an Eton school uniform.
Boggart Blog: Conspiracy, What Conspiracy
Scientists Must Nail The Creationists
When the "Science is God" cult realise that not all believers in the divine are creationists and Religious Fundamentalists realise that ancient scriptures are not history books we might get somewhere.
I used to hold to the view that religion had no place in schools until an American friend pointed out to me that my Godless generation of British pupils educated through the 1950s/60s had turned rejected church sponsored mind-control. In the U.S. where separation of religion and state laws keep religion out of schools, the same generation led the fundamentalist revival.
Its a good point
Little Nicky Machiavelli on Religion vs Science (the new religion)
Forget The Lipstick, Think About Palin's Politics
Palin is a joke. Unfortunately Obama has no sense of humour. How did he ever think he was going to get away with that "Lipstick" crack, a redneck colloquialism that would have sounded wrong coming from the mouth of a Harvard lawyer even if he hd not delivered it in a "ghetto black" accent borrowed from a Richard Prior comedy routine.
That a nation of 300million cannot find a single candidate worthy of the Presidency is hysterical. But hysterical laughter usually turns to tears.
Boggart Blog - Sarah Palin A Bad Mother?
The funniest blog on the web, Boggart Blog has been commenting on the following:
Paul Waugh - Evening Standard
All around the country councils are ripping up old gravestones. Could it be because the marble is worth serious money?
Bruce Dessau - Evening Standard
Russell Brand backs Obama at the MTV awards. Considering the unfunniness and physical repulsiveness of the comedian this is really likely to help the Republicans.
Comedy actress Tina Fey to play pit bull with lipstick
American comedy show Saturday Night Live have pulled a master stroke by hiring comedy actress Tina Fey to play Sarah Palin in political sketches. Take a look at Sarah Palin meet Tina Fey at The Swamp to see the likeness.
McCain Edges Ahead Of Obama
With the 25% undecideds starting to make up their minds the pendulum is swinging away from Barak Obama. Choosing him was always a mistake as Little Nicky Machiavelli never tires of telling people
Labour is too frightened to learn Obama's lesson
You have to wonder what kind of idiot would advise the British Labour Party to copy barak Obama's political philosophy when his campaign is in meltdown and anyway he learned his hopes dreams and visions quasi-religious schtick from Tony Blair who got Labour into its current mess.
Guido Fawkes - is it a Blairite plot
As a senior Labour front bencher is sacked for calling for a Leadership election Guido Fawkes asks is there a conspiracy to bring back Blair. And Little Nicky Machiavelli asks, if there is, was it hatched on the day Blair left power and Gordon Brown took over in No. 10?
Lib Dem Lovlies in the Sun
So you thought female politicians were all mingers. Well take a look at these Lib-Dem luscious lovley ladies pictured in The Sun. Almost enough to make a man get off his arse and go to vote isn't it?
And Pigs Might Fly
Obama, lipstick and pigs examined in this Comment Is Free Article. Barak Obama denied he meant to insult Sarah Palin with his pig/lipstick remark. But even an elitist of his stupendous political ineptitude could not have failed to realise that is how the remark would be contruded. Ans exactly why did this Harvard educated failed lawyer turned community organiser feel he had to deliver the insult by using a working class "redneck" colloquialism in a "ghetto black" accent that could have been learned by watching Richard Pryor comedy videos?
Sarah Palin Talks The God Talk
She loves God. She's from Wasilla. Godsilla. Watch out Democrats, middle America has a new hero. Democrat elitists are taking a huge risk in mocking Sarah Palin's CXhristian Conservative beliefs. She talks to the America Obama's high flying rhetoric cannot reach. And it is an America that has a lot of votes to cast
What the next tory intake believes
Benedict Brogan of The Daily Mail responds to criticisms of Conserative Candidates and identifies a tendency on the part of Labout to make the same mistake as the American Democrats by underestimating the intelligence of small town conservative voters
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The Death of the Industrial Correspondent
Iain Dale laments the passing of the media Indistrial Correspondent, a breed struggling to find a role since the demise of the powerful trade unions. We in the north still lament the passing of industry, a victim of the lunacy of Conservative Icon and Gorgon of Grantham,Maggie Thatcher.
Why Obama should rage against the dying of the light
Obama needs to show some fire and passion if he is to stop the rot argues Anrianna Huffngton. it's too late for that, Obama has been sussed out as an elitist and a windbag, all mouth no trousers as we say in my part of the world.
At last the PC commentators are getting real - Obama's race will be an issue if not the issue in the US elections. Now the conventions are over and the candidates are on the final lap, so to speak, to the finish line on Nov4, the campaigning will get dirty as is traditional. Most of us in Britain wanted to see a Democrat in The White House after the disastrous Bush era, but questioned the choice of the untested and inexperienced Barak Obama, an effete intellectual elitist who could never appeal to the working class vote the Democrats needed to win. This final stretch of the campaign ought to be a test of Obama's mettle, but his mettle has already been revealed to be an alloy containing much that shines brightly but tarnishes quickly and far too little steel. Now to maintain the illusion they have a chance of winning the Democrats maintain that race will not be an issue.
Sadly the ineptitude of their campaign has ensured race will be the major issue. And there are millions of voters in middle America who in a normal election would not cross the room to vote for John McCain but will be willing to wade a mile through raw sewage to vote against barak Obama.
Sarah Palin - A Trojan moose
Still on the US election this shows that while Bacak Obama's campaign shows ham - fisted incompetence in matters of politics when political skills are needed to back up the quasi-religious posturing of the candidate, the selection of inexperiences, untested and seriously loopy Sarah Palin by the Republicans is a masterstroke. Not only does Palin appeal to regular Americans as Obama never can ,any attacks on her will be seen by those regular Americans as attacks on one of their own by an elitist liberal intellectual.
For a change of tone read this Boggart Blog satire on the attacks aimed at Palin.
Collisionsns large or small - large hadron collider
It is interesting to see the different attitudes on the science is God cult and the ordinary punters to CERN's Large Hadron Collider. While the science worshippers berate the masses for "believing nonsense" about the experiment's potential to destroy the earth, the whimsical majority who were never really worried at all are finding the whole business a grand excuse to take the piss out of scientists.
The problem with theoretical science is it is - well - theoretical. While scientists rant about the stupidity of people who believe in God, magic, The Soup Dragon etc. they do not see the stupidity of spending £billions of taxpayers money, not to mention most of their sad, dysfuntional little lives trying to prove that an equation based on a false premise can actually reveal the secrets of the Universe.
Slave to the system -are we getting too reliant on technology?
While we are with the scientific, is it time we stopped and examined our increasing dependence on technology. Given that machines are not alive and the "thinking machine" is a scientists pipe dream (even though they have wet dreams contemplating such a device,) it it time we, the unthinking masses according to followers of the Science is God cult, stepped back from the idea constantly being pushed at us by the Great Conspiracy that we are better off letting machines do the thinking for us and reasserted our right to think for ourselves?
CERN's 17 mile long atom smasher
An American and therefore much more respectful view of the Large Wasting-Money-Gives-Us-A-Hardon Collider at CERN.
UK losing 60,000 scientists a year
No wonder, just read some of the comments from the Science Is God lobby on a Comment Is Free thread, where with encouragement and carefully crafted provocation from Greenteeth's Ian Thorpe, science fand show whatan ignorant, bunch of narrow minded bigots they are.
Is it any wondr pupils turn their backs on sciences when the whole spectrum of study seems to turn people into osessive, narrow - minded humourless billy-no-mtes nerds.
For better opitions in education read Boggart Blog's plan for happiness lessons.
And so I face the final curtain
The Final Countdown
When Barak's Berserkers Lost The Plot
The hype that typified the Obama campaign quickly became hysteria and suched in the desperate for victory Democrats, leading them to spurn potential winner Hillary Clinton in favour of non - starter Barak Obama. Obama's quasi-religious, elitist style does not resonate with the undecided voters of middle America though.
Chronicles Of The Obamessiah Vol 1 - The Adulteress
Very funny set of mashup videos from American political satire website The Nose On Your Face. I guess the footage is sourced from the movie Passion of The Christ, with Barak Obama's face grafted onto the character of Jesus. This is No1, The Adultress.
The Chronicles of The Obamessiah Vol 2 - Teaching In The Temple
Another sickly and patronising homily form the Jesus - like Obamessiah. The speech mannerism and idioms are captured perfectly in this satirical mashup video.
The Chronicles of The Obamessiah Vol3 - Walking On Water
Jesus / Obamessiah appears to the disciples as they cast their nets from a fishing boat. Another mashup video that perfectly captures the patronising, condescending, cliche packed style of Barak Obama's much acclaimed "oratory skills".
Have Faith In Education
While the Greenteeth crew are a bunch of Godless heathens it was attending schools that featured Religious Education in the syllabus that made us that way. So after reading so many bad-tempered, ill-informed and irrational anti-religion rants from scientists in comment threads we are happy to link to this balanced and well argued plea for the inclusion of a broad introduction to the belief systems of the major faiths in the National Curriculum. After all, if the collective insanity of scientists is the biggest factor in turning pupils away from science, surely we have a duty to offer an alternative world view.
Blinding Us With Science
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is due to be switched on by nuclear physicists in a few days. There is a possibility this will create a Black Hole that will expand and swalow the Universe. A group of sceptical (or just envious) scientists are trying through legal action to get the project stopped. The CERN boys have no idea what the consequences of their experiment will be, claim their critics. Are scientists out of control - and if their experiment goes out of control is it all over for Life, The Universe And Everything?
See also: Before Big Bang - Part 1 and Before Big Bang - Part 2 an exploration of the most likely origin of the known Universe.
Sarah Palin, Thomas Eagleton
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate in the Presidential election has attracted criticism. Palin is being described by supporters of barak Obama as "another Eagleton": a reference to a Democrat VP candidate who cost his running mate the election when details of a mental illness were revealed.
See also: Picking Palin Shows McCain Is No Dead Parrot a satirical take on the Republican ticket from the top comedy bloggers.
The Right Woman For The Job
The Democrats may be queueing to predict the political demise of Sarah Palin but plenty of independent commentators recognise John McCain's running mate as the smart choice for the Republican. And the rumoured scandals around her are not nearly as serious as those attaching to Barak Barry Soetoro Obama Dunham who has never been able to make up his mind what nationality or religion he is.
Meet The Leftnecks
American Joe Baegent, a media professional from a working class baxckground knows the mindset of the American working class voter as well as anybody. And he thinks the Democrats have badly misjudge their consituency and the election was lost when Barak Obama made his ill - judged "clinging to guns and bibles remark.
Those Radical, Gay Loving Republicans
And while baegent says the Rednecks are more politically savvy than liberals give them credit for, delegates at the Republican National Conference showed they are more liberal than their opponents think when a poll showed a majority in favour of legalising same sex marriages or civil unions.
Enter The Freedom Zone
Blogging in the UK has some way to go before it catches up with the influence and the kind of readership American Blogs get. This item from Dizzy Thinks shows we are getting there though.
The Party's Just Starting For John McCain
yet another independent with an article showing how America's Democrats have blown their main chance by letting politically correct sentiments overrule sound political strategy. The Obama style of bilious rhetoric and prechiness and his talk of Hopes, Dreams and Visions that have eraned him the nickname The Obamessisah
Berg vs Obama
An East Coast lawyer and hillary Clinton supporter has launched a lawsuit aimed at blocking Barak Obama's candidacy. Obama it seems has never satisfactorily proved he is qualified to run for President in the American election. Apparently he can't make up his mind whether he wants to be American, Kenyan or Indonesian. Interesting....
For Obama, race is not over
American Democrats are deluding themselves if they think race will not have a big influence on the way many people vote in the Presidential Election. While people are willing to overlook any political, or intellectual shortcomings or even the difficulty both candidates have in understanding the concept of truth, they cannot help but focus on Obama's colour.
A popular history of history
Popular history writing lacks academic rigour complains this academic. Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe replies that academics are too emotionally attached to the agenta set by the religious and political establishments to tell it like it is.
Foreigners make The best Food says The Guardian's Michelle Hanson. That's fighting talk where the Boggart Bloggers come from as the Greenteeth Multi Media Food Menu will quickly prove to visitors.
Democrat Pundit Predicts Obama Will Lose
Don't get me wrong, I'm no more fond of America's Republicans than any European Socialist. That's why I was horrified when the Democrats tied themselves to to candidates who whould fight the election with their hands tied. Then I was even more horrified when Political Correctness prompted them to pick the effete novice with zero personality,no political base and no experience, nothing to offer in fact except a speech about hopes dreams and visions. Words like LOSER - LOSER - LOSER came to mind.
The People Who Will Decide The US Election
Excellent humour from the Onion defines thev 430 new demographics that will decide the U.S. election.
Would you have guessed that Obama leads by 99% among gay Dads while among wooodwork business owning brothers McCain leads by 81%?
And while we are doing video here's one on The Obamessiah from The Nose On Your Face, a right leaning and very funny U.S. site.
Why Obama Will Lose
At last a Democrat supporting commentator who has factored in the race effect instead of pretending America is a Politically Correct paradise where race is not an issue.
Saddleback Watershed Moment
In a debate on the abortion issue with John McCain in front of an audience of Evangelical Christians McCain answered the questions put to him while Obama talked about "change" and the "new democrats" creating a "new America." All very reminiscent of Tony Blair's New Labour, New Britain.
Should We Abandon Britain's Crumbling Coast
A new report from oceanographers seems to expose the Tory thinktank that recommended we should abandon the "failing north" as opportunists hoping to snap up abandoned properties as people flee the sinking south.
Are We The Champions
Why are Britain's athletes suddenly world beaters and can it last?
These Olympian Feats Can Inspire Our Obese Nation says a health expert. But is it more likely to inspire couch potatoes to spend more time slumped in front of the television watching sport?
Fiskeing Yvette Cooper
Conservative blogger iain Dale ridicules another inept Labour attack on David Cameron. But does Cameron have more to fear from his own party?
Also read Britain's Crumbling Coast by Little nicky Machiavlli
Voodoo Science Blames Climate Change On Immigrants
This story from Huffington Post deals with a piece if warpedlogic from climate change deniers. Anbd while we are on the subject of voodoo check out this bit of nonsense by Ian Thorpe...
Politics Intrudes On Our Olympic Reverie
Much kerfuffle about fakery at the Olympic Games, lip-synching singers, lead-gilt gold medals, women with bollocks and beards. But is it not typical of what has been going on in the west for years?
Small and Beautiful Georgian What? As the Russian occupation of tiny Georgia continues western politicians queue to condemn the aggression. But are any of them really qualified to comment on the Caucasian state?
Gymnastics Ain't What it Used To Be Evrything is dumbing down it seems, even the commentaries on sports at the Olympic games
If Its Good Enough For Madonna, It's Good Enough For The Olympic Games: Boggart Blog. posted by ian Thorpe, Wed 13 Aug 2008: Tags Humour, humor, sport: The Olympics are being called The Phoney Games but isn't it a lot of fuss to make over a little lip syncing?
The Trashiest Tabloid
Barak Obama and his supporters are whining again. Will they ever understand that having nasty, hurtful and untrue things said about one are part of the political game.
The Prince and the Pauper
Is PrinceCharles showing he is a wooly brained, inbred bufoon who is totally out of touch with reality when he criticises GM crops. Or does he have a point and the scientists are again demonstrating their inability to see what's staring them in the fucking face when they turn on him. Emily Hill argues the case for science in the main article. In the comment linked here
Ian Thorpe explains the ecomonics of GM crops and demolishes it.
For Freedom's Sake We Must Stop Libel Tourism
Britain's libel laws are archaic and oppressive. Designed to protect the rich and powerful from criticism they are now being used in the global cybervillage created by the internet to stifle justified criticism by those whose activities are most in need of public examination.
The Blue Collar Myth
Will Obama's team of meritocrats manage to shake off the elitist tag or will they become identified with that humourless, self-important corporate clas that spawned the campaign and lose the election because everybody hates smug arseholes. If the campaign team don't heed the message the blue collar appeal factor will decide the election, race not be the only issue Obama has to worry about. It is not The Blue Collar Myth that will bring down Barak Obama but the
invincibility myth Obama and his supporters have spun around him.
From the bloggers at top comedy site Boggart Blog: 