On Wills and Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, Kate, The Mail can be such fun: # Why do I find the Middleton teeth so bewildering? – Fred the Red, Redsville, Little Britain # They better be careful. Remember what happened to the Boleyns! – james bottom, Ashford, Kent # The truth is that Uncle Gary was [...]
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[This post will remain at the top on Wednesday.] Here were the results: # A Herd of Cats (33%, 15 Votes) # The Orphans of Liberty (20%, 9 Votes) # Turning the Tide (16%, 7 Votes) # Occam’s Garotte (9%, 4 Votes) # The Age of Reason (9%, 4 Votes) # The Right Liberties (7%, [...]
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Courtesy Patrick Harris, via Blaize Burdon:
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Sorry my site here is a bit messy these few days but interesting times. Just took the new blog for a test drive, looking good, threw in A Herd of Cats, with tagline “… possibly but masters of our own destiny – a thinktank on liberty”. Obviously that is not going to be it but [...]
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I’ve not asked this before, am sensitive to how it looks and yet don’t see any alternative. People, we need a resolution to the name issue and though we have some leading names, it’s still not clear. 20 people have voted and yet we know there are hundreds viewing us both on the issue of [...]
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Predictable: Moving to the news that rattled US markets last night, it was really no news at all. S&P warned that the United States credit rating could be downgraded if the ratbag Republicans and the dimwit Democrats didn’t agree to bring the rampaging federal deficit under control. S&P didn’t pick sides, but a blind donkey [...]
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A Herd of Cats was not my suggestion but having researched it, it has its points. Perhaps it needs some explanation. Feel free to explain any other suggestion you like, in comments. Wiki says, of herding cats: A saying that refers to a task that is extremely difficult or impossible to do, due to one [...]
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If you have name suggestions, could you please put them here or here. The post below is only about how the blog will probably work. ………. We’re looking at using WordPress because of its security and ease of multi-authoring. It will have a theme from here or here or maybe from here. While we looked [...]
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I’ve greylighted the ones I would personally shortlist: # The Orphans of Liberty # The Phantom of Liberty # Folkmoot # Wapenshaw # PORG-Person Of Restricted Gullibility # Good Men [and Women?] Doing Something # Diabolical Liberties # Free Speech # Free Expression # Liberty Hall? # Better Read than Dead # UnderStated? # Government [...]
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Cherie caught the spectacle. Click the pic. Not wishing to be irreverent or anything …
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UPDATE 10 a.m.: very, very positive feedback and this project is go. We have to make sure we get it right and not let anyone pull the plug on us. Most people on our side of politics know that a libertarian is not necessarily a conservative. He can be and the conservative can have libertarian [...]
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From one commenter: “The songwriter was in a wheelchair. He often took his wife to dances and allowed her the freedom to dance with men during the night but she always danced with him at the end of the night. When I heard this story after many years of loving the song it just gave [...]
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I bought a book yesterday – The Book of General Ignorance – which tells the “true” story behind many myths. Methought it might make a good series so here’s the first instalment: “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man and his number is [...]
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Any new project is only as good as the clarity of its central idea and the quality of the people involved. Some time ago, Longrider wrote: Further to Autonomous Mind possibly going into semi-retirement and suggesting the possibility of guest posting on other sites, I left an offer on the table. Tom Paine made a [...]
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This blog, Nourishing Obscurity, does not stay out of things, it does not suddenly go quiet on issues, go to water or lie low but it always allows the other side to be put, in comments, at the time. On an issue such as Andrew Bolt, where the facts appear to support the man, those [...]
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Oh, for goodness sake. I knew about the Andrew Bolt court case Downunder but hadn’t really studied it. The lefty, feelgood, false construct brigade are going to crucify the poor bstd. Basically, he maintains that half blood aborigines, with say, English, Jewish and some aboriginal blood are claiming they’re full bloods, in order to claim [...]
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Very sad: # Can you imagine many men (not in the first flush of youth) having been for a waltz around the” family courts” thinking wow! that was fun, must do that again? # I don’t want a man in my life these days. I am happy without one. I got rid of the man, [...]
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One question that came up recently was the meaning of the phrase “deceptively large”. Some thought that it meant that a thing was smaller than it looked, while others thought that it meant that it was bigger than it looked. Take the survey at Steve Hayes’ place.
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Having just read this post and comments about LPUK, I have to admit to being a bit nonplussed. Possibly because of my impecunious state, I never seem to have been of financial interest to the movers and shakers. There was a quote from Blind Cyclists: “Don’t you ever get sick of the endless parade of [...]
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Mulgan Globalist watchers learn to recognize the jargon, the buzzwords, the weasel words of the other side. Fairness, Tolerance, Human Rights, Inclusion but not meaning any of those things at all, quite the opposite, are a few of those words and where they trip themselves up is when they go on about “positive” discrimination, meaning [...]
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A short time ago, I had a spam attack here. Essentially, one source got some of its spam past the WP guard and it was published as comments and yet its own spam was also put in the light, moderate and bad lists as well. I don’t understand the technical means by which a previously [...]
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