Walsingham

Try the Turks. They're hilarious!

As any apartheid policeman wuold tell you: there's **** all point rushing a man with an automatic weapon. This isn't the movies. As for the notion that whatsisface was some sort of 'highly disciplined' killer, that's arse. He is by comparison with many of the comitragic jifascist efforts we've seen recently. But there was nothing in what he did which would be beyond the owner of any small business that makes pots or does gardening. I find suggestions that he was very disciplined ill conceived at best, and secretly admiring at worst.

Slept for 13 hours! Feel about five years younger! Huge breakfast and coffee. Slouching about the house, tidying dribs and drabs.

Drunk last night. You have no idea how long it took me to write this.

Why don't they just sell Alaska back to the Russians (or sell it to the Chinese for that matter). I seem to remember reading somewhere, that it is the greatest money pit and most subsidized by federal tax money place in the US I'm investing in Australia too... bought some beer and a few bottles of wine Don't you ****ing dare! Alaska is awesome. They should sell off New York It's not really American in the first place.

Turns out my notion of getting unexpectedly bongoed was not too far from true! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14344626

Sand was a true gentleman, even if he was a colonial. I regret not knowing him better.

I don't want to stamp all over your point old man, but I know what life was like under Apartheid. It wasn't like that in Europe last time I checked. Nope. I just checked again. I have full franchise rights and employment possibilities. Plus a cracking stack of booze and porn. No Islamofascist nightmare just yet.

I think the whole point of lucid dreaming is that you are empowered, not trapped. You're talking about 'nachtshrecken'.

35% top tax rate seems pretty fair. As you say, once you're buying ferraris then you've got enough cash to be enjoying yourself. And a good start would be sunshine and floozies, IMO. Not Italian engi-wank.

Couldn't sleep last night because I was afraid - and I'm not kidding - of dying in my sleep. I think something busted when I was looking after my mother. Don't really want to spend money on psychiatrists. Or time, to be honest. I wouldn't mind if they actually did any work. "No, no. I want to know how YOU think this can be fixed."

LOL contemptible ****slaves. i'm not reading the Times any time soon. {I read the Torygraph, so I this is one occasion where I don't look like so much of a fascist}

I've had plenty of lucid dreams, from the one where I spent five minutes in a warzone before being shot in the thigh and medevac'd, to the one where I discussed order vs chaos with the Lord Buddha, to getting trapped at an incredibly boring tea party. The more you do it, the more you do it, is what I heard.

I don't want to sound like LoF here, so I'm asking so someone can set me straight. Basically throughout the early noughties people enjoyed a lot of services and bought a lot of stuff on credit. Other people enjoyed the benefits of providing those services and bits of tat. Now, essentially, we hit a wall in that all the imaginary money used to pay for all the healthy economic behaviour and people in jobs ...was imaginary. Which is in essence fine, because modern economics is entirely based on imaginary money. Now, my point is that it occurs to me that the only people who have been shafted here are rich people. As in mega rich people. they're the ones who lended the imaginary money. But they lent too much imaginary money and no w imaginary money is worth less than they think it should be. I say mega rich people because all the normal people have either enjoyed or are still enjoying the things they bought with the imaginary money. Am I right so far?

ROFL

I can't think of many law enforcement organisations which would send officers directly into an island which contains at least one armed man equipped with automatic weapons and grenades without mustering and trying to get a brief on layout and survivors first. If anything one hour is quite fast! And can I throw in my ten pennorth and observe that you all sound hysterical about the anti-muslim thing? This attack was planned using jihadi principles, and executed in a manner consistent with jihadi MO. There's no juicy conspiracy involved in blaming muslims any more than if a 2 tonne carbomb goes off at Castlereagh everyone blames the IRA rather than the 'Knights Templar'. As I say, the fact that all sorts of groups and ideologies are turning to terrorism is because for the last ten years we've seen terrorism actually achieving its aims of affecting democratic states. Combined with the baseline narrative that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" how could terrorism get anything other than worse, and used by more people?

Spent almost whole day being enraged. That is all. Oh yes, played Empire Total War. Took out my rage on the Spanish. Defeated 20 galleons with three 4th rates, a galleon, and a brig which instantly exploded on first contact with the enemy. It was epic.

I think on reflection that the point of the political motivation is a chimera. the key point here is that we have seen across Europe that Jihadist attacks have affected national policies, and are on the point of convincing western governments to abandon Afghanistan. Terrorism is a technique which we have abdicated to, and therefore it will inevitably be used by more and more groups to get what they want. Jihadist, neo-nazi, communist, anarchist, fringe nationalist. None of it is significant so long as they all use the same technique.

Actually, Volo, if you'd bothered to follow this properly broadcasters are required to uphold 'silly moral niceties' in the UK. If they are found unfit then they can be denied the right to broadcast.

Mangos are even easier. Without cutting the skin, simply massage it's flesh until it goes all pulpy. Bite off one end, and suck out the juice.

Even if he's a Norwegian national that doesn't mean he's not a jihadi. 'White'* jihadis keep turning up in jihadists camps and plots. I could believe he was a right winger trying to provoke a backlash against muslims. But if so, getting caught would bestupid. No more stupid than doing it in the first place, but you know what I mean. *Whatever the f*** that means.

The 'group' claiming responsibilty alleged it was to do with Norway's 400 or so troops, in Afghanistan. I believe that Norway's also been participating in the Libyan air strikes. You know, the ones intended to protect muslim civilians. Clearly the glorious mujaheddin feel this is a slight on their own abilities. Still, it could also be neonazis or what have you. Forensic analysis will probably make a lot more clear. Be a few days if not weeks before they say anything. It'll be interesting to see if Norway behaves as openly as usual with this investigation. BTW, don't let all the mess fool you. That's pretty normal for a big bomb. What's interesting is how some windows are unbroken. Maybe it didn't go off properly?

BBC had a reference to Al Mansur something or other. But I can't find it now. The fact that you have two linked attacks at almost identical times is a hallmark of jihadi doctrine. It's basically them showing off their organisational skills. Although why it's somehow an achievement I've never understood. Incidentally, I notice that it's been a good day for Islamists. Al-Shabab in Somalia are denying that there is any famine, and are refusing to permit food aid distribution.

News just coming in of attacks in Norway which I'm sure you'll all have caught on your respective news media. Responsibility at this stage is being claimed by Jihadi groups. You will recall that there were arrests several years ago of individuals who were planning terrorist attacks in Norway. So you could argue that the attack is a continuation of a long standing theme. But my analysis is that this is an attempt to repeat the Spanish process of an attack at the point when the country was due to leave Afghan anyway, and thereby claim a public 'victory'. Hope none of you chaps have been directly affected.

the trick with a pineapple is twofold: 1) grasping it by the topknot, carve off the very outer portion of skin. Do not attempt to remove all the skin, i.e. those bits which are recessed 2)Still grasping it by the topknot, cut diagonal trenches from dent to dent. If you do this it's quick, clean, and looks rather nice.