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We Could All Be Rich And Happy - Not!
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Sometimes one might read and article or hear and interview with a member of the self styled 'liberal left' of such gobsmacking stupidity" one wonders what planet these effing idiots live on.
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Obama's Climate Change Folly
Obama's climate change bill is so loony it makes even his insane financial policy look like the work of a competent government. If the world's future is in the hands of politicians and scientists is there any hope at all for saving civilisation?

Politically Correct Liars
Congressman Joe Wilson made a lot of trouble for himself when he shouted 'You Lie' at Barack Obama during the Presidents big speech on healthcare. Wilson was not wrong but it is a breach of etiquette to name someone, especially the President, as a liar in the debating chamber. Here are some politically correct ways of saying Liar, liar, pants on fire.

The Fourth Of July
It should be easy to wish Americans well as they celebrate theit Independence Day on July 4 so what is it about the mindset in America that makes people feel it is their duty to indlge in ritual xenophobia and Brit hating?.

Michael Jackson, Genius or Nut Job? by Cleo Hart

Everyone has their own opinion of Michael Jackson. For my generation he was a squeaky little irritant who danced like an epilleptic on speed. For my daughter Cleo Hart his music was part of the soundtrack of her life.
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European Elections 2009: Who's Afraid Of The BNP, The BNP...
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In the elections to the European Parliament held in June 2009 there was a strong swing to the right. Even parties of the extreme right did well aganst the centre and left. This article analyses what might really be going on in Europe's political makeup..

[ America's Right ] ... [ Gather ] ... [ Humanitas ] ... [ Little Nicky Machiavelli ] The Power Of Punctuation
After being in decline for a number of years good grammar and punctuation are making a comeback. Not in schools as one might hope, the National Curriculum is still driven by trendy academic theory and Politically Correct Thinking, but more people in adult life are finding out that being able to communicate well through the spoken and written word is an ever more valuable career development tool than a University degree.

Swine Flu: Crisis or Conspiracy?
The world seems to get more insane every day. Mainstream media in developed nations have in the past few days become frantic in their efforts to spread Fear and Panic. Why? Because the latest health scare, an outbreak of a new variant influenza virus that has so far infected a few thousand people and killed, up to now, around 150. There is talk of mass vaccinations, millions dying and a global catastrope. But is there really much to fear?

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The Evil Empire seem to think if they annonce the death of mainstream media often enough it will become truth. As Associated Press move against Google and other internet news aggregators that use print and broadcast media content without paying are we about to see a fightback by the content creators?

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The election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency was bound to have a negative effect on race relation all around the developed world, not just in the USA. Here The Daily Stirrer which brings you the best, most controversial opinion and comment on the web takes issue with a writer who complains that developed nations are not doing enough to preserve the cultural differences of minorities while helping them integrate. The complaint is a case of wanting to have your cake and eat it, a classic position of the race industry and the politically correct thought police.

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Has technology in general and the internet in particular delivered on its promise? Have the innovations had any real value in improving the societies we live in? Take for example the Google search engine which, it is claimed, offered "a new way of managing information." In fact what Google offered was a way of not managing the vast quantity of information available on the internet. And what is the "content" Google places on top of the pile.? That which earns the company most revenue of course.
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I Don't Want To Eat Clone, Leave My Steak Alone
In The Future how will we produce the food we eat? Science promises much but the scientists find it is easier to make promises than to deliver. One of the technologies to be bigged up over the past few years is the cloning of farm livestock. But is there any foundation for the claims that animals created in the laboratory will offer any economic or practical advantage over the conventional way of breeding involving a male and a female. This analysis of the economics and ethics suggests the "Frankenstein" science while not to be feared has little to offer in terms of financial and practical benefits. So what are the scientists up to, has their experiment failed or are they simply misrepresenting the benefits in order to blag research grants?
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Christmas Story Retold
A re-examination of the Christmas traditions in the light of what we may learn from documented historical events and from the mid winter festivals of other faiths that celebrate the passing of the shortest day but do not call it Christmas.

How We Live, Where We Live, Who We Are

The Flame Still Burns

250 years after his death Robert Burns remains one of the most popular poets in the world. What is the secret of Burns popularity when modern poets are sneered at, ridiculed and ignored. Appreciation of poetry is a very personal thing but the poems of Burns seem to transcend fads and fashions? Is it because his verse, written in the Scottish dialect of his time, speaks directly to the feelings and emotions of ordinary people. Burns was one of them, understood their lives and spoke directly to them in each poem.
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Of Human Folly

Get On Board The Athest Bus

A campaign by british atheists to raise money for a campaign to advertise atheism caused some guffaws, particularly from the non-evangelical wing of the British atheist community. Ad vertising the non - existence of God has about as much relevance as advertising that all soap powders are pretty much the same or that self control is a batter way to keep your weight stable than miracle weight loss products. If people believe in God they will just react scornfully. If they don't believe in God why spend money telling them he/ she/ it does not exist. And if they could not give a flying fuck either way....... well they couldn't give a fuck either way.

Devaluation By Degrees

A Degree used to be epitome of higher education, the indicator of academic excellence rather than vocational skills. With the proliferation of Universities and the Pick - And - Mix nature of many degree courses, this article asks if the University Degree is being devalued and the university courses downgraded to mere further education as the divinding line between academic degree and vocational diploma becomes more blurred. Is this doing a disservice to everybody involved?

Age: The New Apartheid

Is something sinister going on in our western societies. Whiles races are integrating people seem to have become segregated by age. In an era that sees people living and staying active longer than any previous generation it is bizarre that we throw older generations on the scrapheap earlier than ever before. Are the young really turning away from parents and grandparents in an evolutionary quirk or is there something more sinister behind the trends. We don't have to dig very deep to see that the culprits are those intellectual fascists who spend their lives in Universities dearming up insane theories about how societies should manage themselves but seldom come into contact with reality.

The New Olympians

: A fiction in four parts on ethics and morality versus meterialism. [ Part 1 ] ... [ Part 2 ] ... [ Part 3 ] ... [ Part 4 ]