Archive for January 13th, 2006
1. I have slightly modified my blog’s name to stop people from thinking it says “Gay Politics” - it doesn’t!
2. I have made a Freedom of Information request. I’ll keep you posted about its progress and, if I get something useful, I’ll share that with you.
3. Greenie Watch kindly linked to me yesterday about a piece I wrote on Clarkson and I would like to extend the courtesy of linking back to him. He writes on the environmental movement in a sensible way — embracing change in order to protect our planet, but not at the expense of disproportionate response. A couple of choice quotes from the inimitable Jeremy Clarkson that he provides, raise Clarkson in my estimations even more:
“Plainly he doesn’t mind if all the Africans die of disease and hunger, because like all socialists, he wants to help the poor only about half as much as he wants to hurt the rich.”; and
“I love filling my dining room with social workers and foxhunters so everyone can roll up their sleeves and have a damn good row. That’s because I believe in freedom of speech. Plainly the honourable member for Morley & Rothwell does not.”; and
“And I believe that western governments are in the process of spending billions of pounds trying to stem something over which we have no control. I believe that this money could be used to make the world a fairer, more peaceful place. I would much rather bring clean drinking water to an impoverished village in Sudan than bring a wind farm to the shores of Scotland.”
(Source)
Sorry, that turned into three quotes. Suffice to say Greenie Watch is one to read and is on the BlogRoll.
4. (And that’ll be four) I’ve added a few more to the BlogRoll so do a bit of navigating!
Gay Horse
There’s been today a gay horse, a violently dangerous Greenpeace video and a violently dangerous Department for Education.
We all must know now that [”about ten”] paedophiles have been working as teachers in schools. Today there is new news of a convicted paedophile working as a teacher. The man in the news this time was convicted of sexual assault on a child in 1980 and yet the BBC deigns it inappropriate, one must assume, to use the politically incorrect word “paedophile” choosing instead to call the perpetrator of mental scarring and evil trauma on an innocent child as a “sex offender”.
Should I need to be shaking with anger over something so obvious?
And then Greenpeace suggests we don’t do anything that may cause Islamic fundamentalists to attack us in this video (thanks John). As I said on John’s site:
So, we’re to change our way of life, rely on Middle East oil and pollute our planet so that we’re not attacked?
Great, let’s all make our ladies wear burkas and persecute homosexuals so that don’t attack us too! Absolute, dangerous, nonsense.
And then, as if political correctness hadn’t gone mad enough a student of the University of Oxford makes what must have been a very funny comment (”Excuse me, do you realise your horse is gay?”) to a mounted police officer and, instead of laughing it off or even giving a stern look, the police chose to arrest Sam Brown for “homophobic remarks”.
Thank goodness the CPS dropped the case, but what was going through the mind not only of the police officer riding the ‘gay’ horse but also of every one of his colleagues who didn’t say:
“Don’t be daft”
or words to that affect.
Some people should learn, despite all that is serious and nasty in the world, to take a few moments to look on the lighter side of some topics!
P.S. Thanks for the image suggestion - you know who you are.
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