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15 July 2009
Conservative Hypocrisy and Liberal Hypocrisy asks why the extra marital affairs of conservative politicians are treated more harshly than those of liberals. Could it be anything to do with the big deal conservatives make of family values?

The Canonisation Of CelebrityFarrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson A post contrasting the freak show that Michael Jackson's life became with the dignified way in which Farrah Fawcett coped with the fading of her fame.

Very weird creature caught on camera. Well enlarged it looks like a hunan female vagina when giving birth but in reality it is little different to any other microbe.

9 July 2009
The Price Of Climate Change
American writer Thomas Noyes sings the praises of Obama's climate change bill. But will it change anything? Boggart Blog's Ian Thorpe thinks not. Is Boris's Charm Wearing Thin
The resiganation of Boris Johnson's deputy after he claimed his mistress as a business expensecannot be glossed over with buffoonery

Goodbye Pink Paper
Peter Tatchell whines about the closure of the only UK print newspaper for gays. Isn't that a tad hetrophobic of him?

23 June 2009
Boris's Deputy Resigns
Mayor of London Boris Johnson suffered a blow yesterday when his deputy Ian Clement resigned after he was revealed as having claimed dinners with his lover on official expenses. Rule one when playing away from home; never claim your lover as a business expense, it's an affront to their dignity.

19 june 2009
Can Ritalin really improve humankind?
News that the children of the meritocracy are taking ADHD drug Ritalin in the belief it wil enhance their concentration and improve cognitive skills thus making them more competitive in the careers market. Not only is that tragically sad, there are a lot of question marks over the drug's efficacy and alleged side effects.

2 July 2009 Can Ritalin Really Improve Humankind News that the children of the meritocracy are taking ADHD drug Ritalin in the belief it will enhance their concentration and improve cognitive skills thus making them more competitive in the careers market. Not only is that tragically sad, there are a lot of question marks over the drug's 17June 2009
Prince Charles and Modern Architecture
Whether you like the Monarchy or not, Charlie has a point when he says modern architecture is shite

Green Shoots May Not Flourish Politicians and members of the financial industry hierarchy keep talking about Green Shoots Of Recovery but is their optimism based on anything more than desperation?

14 june 2009
Crosses, Crescents and Crystals American paranoia is alive and well and Jewish partanoia is in its usual state of rude health as this story which inflates a legal dispute over commercial misuse of acharitable symbol into a liberal/muslim conspiracy against Christians and Jews.

13 June 2009
We've Got All The Space In The World
The editor of website "spiked" lays into Hollywood star Cameron Diaz for her view that overpopulation is the cause of climate change. In one of the most idiotic articles I have ever read Brendan O Neil says that with new technological developments (dependent on technologies that only exist in Scf Fi movies as yet) the planet will be able to support hundreds of billions of humans.

Blackberry - Destroyer Of Worlds
Some say communications gadgets, mobile phones and internet browsers, blackberrys etc are destroying civilisation. That might be going a bit far but this week a Blackberry brought down the state government of New York.
11 June 2009
Ebooks won't solve California's education crisis
The suggestion that in order to save money the almost bankrupt government of the State of California is considering a suggestion that texr books can be scapped and pupils can use the internet as a source of learing material instead. Not only is the idea idiotic, it has sinister undertones too. The Daily Stirrer

Stupid White Heterosexual Male
A prank by an undergraduate at Oxford University has feminists whining about immaturity and sexism. They always fall for the sucker punch of course. Starting the strident feminists whining was the intention behind the stunt. Well at least we all have a laugh. Why isn't there a word like mysogynist that describes a woman who hates mean? There is: woman.

The Politically Correct backlash against Caroline Flint Funny how the left turned on Labour hot totty Caroline Flint when she chose to think for herself instead of staying "on message"

10June 2009
Why The Cabinet Did Not Go For The Kill
Gordon Brown is badly mauled but he survived because his indecisive would-be assassins are ultimately afraid of the alternative...

7 June 2009
Reckoning Coming For Obama Victor Hanson Davis examines the political naivete of Barack Obama and points out that appeasement of extremists and high rhetoric will not solve the world's proplems any more than Obama's 1960s strudent-revolutionary idealism will ever address the economic realities of the economic crisis

5 june 2009 Contradictory Rulings In Autism Court
Mother of an autistic son and Anti-MMR campaigner Ginger Taylor reports truthfully on the contradictory rulings coming out of US courts in cases involving the role of MMR vaccine in development of Autism and other developmental problems in children. Truth is a commodity you are increasingly less likely to find in mainstream media reports on this and realted issues.

4 June 2009
Is Obama Christian, Muslim Or Atheist?
Texas Darlin asks what happened to Brack Obama's devout Christian faith since he won the election. Why does he feel a need to keep mentioning his Muslim roots and his Muslim childhood in Indonesia. Is the closet Muslim finally getting ready to come out?

3 June 2009
You heard it here first
Contrarian Tom harries predicts a very different outcome to the next general election to the one most people expect

Is The Telegraph Spinning For Dowing Street
An extraordinary suggestion from parliamentary insider blog Dizzy Thinks

Alan Johnstone opposes changing leaders
The front runner for the Labour leadership tells Times Online he is against changing leaders at this stage. Isn't that what they all say just before they stab the leader in the back? I've read Julius Ceasar

2 June 2009
Sex, Lies and nicotine
My mother was right. Fibbing really doesn't pay, especially when talking to curious taxi drivers

Making Laws Without A Mandate
Despite a looming election defeat, this government is pushing through a raft of legislative proposals that have no moral authority Gordon Brown's Labour government is pushing through a raft of legislative proposals that have no moral authority

30 May 2009
Mother Deemed Too Stupid To Care For Her Daughter Another story of bureaucratic high handedness and incompetence in the field of childcare.

The Sunday Times covered It too. You can find The Daily Stirrers opionon on this and other items in Can It Get Any Worse

Labour's last chance: oust Brown and then bring in PR
Face it Pol, the last chance was wasted long ago. Labour has turned into a Dad's Army farce. Even yesterday's front page story reported a "senior labour MP" as saying:
"We're doomed, we're all doomed."

Faith In Science
The "let's make science a religion" brigade are off again. Here philosopher A.C. Grayling demonstrates that he, like the more nerdy types of science writer, does not truly understand what "science" means. Understandable for scientists, they're all stupid anyway, but it a pretty damming shortcoming in a philosopher

31 May 2009
2009 Euro Elections: Conservatives On Target To Make Gains
Conservative maverick Daniel Hannan reports from the front line: We're in the last week now, and I'm canvassing on autopilot. "Yes, Madam, Conservatives. No, ha ha, we can't actually put canvassing on expenses.

Queen Not Invited To Frane's D Day Commemorations
Well at least they haven't invited any BNP London Assembly members along.

Atheists: No God Just Whining.
I don't like being called an atheist as most of that persuasion tend to think there is no god but the god of abraham for us not to to believe in. By not allowing oneself to be constrained within such narrow minded attitudes it is possible to not believe in the hundreds of gods of the pagan pantheon, the thousands of gods of the Hindu pantheon, the gods of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, Assyria, Persia etc.

Libertas Demands Exposure New anti - Europe party painted a naked lady blue to promote their demand for complete exposure of MPs expenses claims. She got my vote

Atheists? No God Just WhiningAtheists are just a bunch of whiners who ae obsessed with proving God does not exist, says Charlotte Allen. But doen't her capitalisation of God prove she thinks there is only one god atheists can decline to believe in? I'm a pagan atheist, I don't believe in thousands of gods.

Middle East Hangs On Obama's Words
Maybe so, but they will still be beheading adulterers long after a speech full of the usual banalities about hope and change.

Libertas Demands Exposure New anti - Europe party painted a naked lady blue to promote their demand for complete exposure of MPs expenses claims. She got my vote

Atheists? No God Just WhiningAtheists are just a bunch of whiners who ae obsessed with proving God does not exist, says Charlotte Allen. But doen't her capitalisation of God prove she thinks there is only one god atheists can decline to believe in? I'm a pagan atheist, I don't believe in thousands of gods.

Middle East Hangs On Obama's Words
Maybe so, but they will still be beheading adulterers long after a speech full of the usual banalities about hope and change.

Faith In Science
The "let's make science a religion" brigade are off again. Here philosopher A.C. Grayling demonstrates that he, like the more nerdy types of science writer, does not truly understand what "science" means. Understandable for scientists, they're all stupid anyway, but it a pretty damming shortcoming in a philosopher

The Left Is A Lonely Place On Liberty
A plea for people to support the left as the politics of civil liberty. But everywhere we look we see the political left becoming the promoter of authoritarianism and corporateism
Liberal Guilt That hurts Africa
A talk at the hay Festival of Books, given by Zambian polymath on the ideas contained in herr book Dead Aid in which she argues that foreign aid actually obstructs economic and social development in Africa

Losing Your Religion
An online debate on the Christian versus Manichaean view of good and evil.

America's Hunger Crisis Obama's stimulus, never anything more than a handout to groups that supported his campaign, has failed and every day the US economy continues to flatline the queue for the soup kitchen gets longer.

My Advice To Obama On Guantanamo: When in a hole stop digging. Con. Coughlan for The Daily Telegraph advises the President it is time to stop speechifying and telling supporters what they want to hear and to start learning what real politics is all about.

How Perez Hilton & Co Hurt The Gay Cause As the backlash against gay uberrbitch Perez Hilton grows Pajamas Media's Daliel Blatt argues the faction of the gay community who try to scream down any criticism are actually harming the cause.

Obama's "Internet Czar" seeks powers to regulate web content. For years the webheads wailed and whined about basic regulation to prevent cyber crime. Now they have a government that will use cybercrime as an excuse to suppress criticism of its activities in blogs and web forums, Thread 25 May 2009
Obama breaks Pledge To Help Africa Texas Darlin' exposes another broken promise by Obama who has arbitarily reduce monrey pledged to combatting AIDS/ HIV in Africa.

Obama A MuslimUS "digger" Citizen Wells reveals who Michelle Obama never accompanies her husband on his trips to Muslim nations. Well some of us have been trying to tell you for over a year.

ID Cards Could Give The Taxman Access To Your Bank Records. The true extent of the intrusiveness of Labour's ID cards scam is beginning to emerge. Well some of us have been trying to warn you for years of the fascist nature of New Labours Politicall Correct Thought Police

BNP Does Not Represent British Workers. Charlie brooker warns against the BNP's appeal to nationalism. But don't Guardian writers realise nothing is more likely to rile working class voters than smug twats writing in the Guardian telling them who they are allowed to vote for.

Eurovision: An Apology To Andrew Lloyd Webber It was never fair to ask Anrrew Lloyd Webber to stake his reputation on something as phony and shite as the Eurovision song contest. But when Norways were allowed to have their entry sung by a baby troll it was no contest. Which is why the result of Saturday nights vote was announced on Friday afternoon. Eurovision song contest satire

Google Get Your Act Together Now. Daily Terlegraph tech writer Baseera Khan suggests Google is no good any more, searches a too commercially driven and results not relevant. Ian Thorpe asks was Google ever any good?

20 May 2009
Jonathan Ross's Gay joke Was Wrong Oh dear, Jonathan has got the gay community wound up again. Just about the only thing less funny than Wossy is the gay community throwing a hissy fit over something he has said

Education Alone Cannot Make People Clever Naturally the Politically Correct Thought Police were not impressed with Woodhead's thoughts. Having addled their brains with politically correct ideology though these smug twats latch on to Woodhead's saying not all children can be clever although that is completely correct. Where he went wrong... The Daily Stirrer

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