tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post6669053190445154828..comments2024-03-29T09:13:55.008+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: CaliforniaLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-49175298257290323272009-09-23T17:45:24.885+00:002009-09-23T17:45:24.885+00:00I'm off to my home in Californis next week for...I'm off to my home in Californis next week for a break till christmas.The level of segregation in the county I live in makes england seem like a pc paradise...it suits me fine.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-42798126890706537112009-09-23T14:20:01.143+00:002009-09-23T14:20:01.143+00:00"Sun seems to never go down": had the bu..."Sun seems to never go down": had the bugger never been there? It goes down absurdly early all summer long.<br />And the first time I visited, it went down into a soup of filthy air.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-25269902490437723342009-09-23T11:34:32.192+00:002009-09-23T11:34:32.192+00:00Haven't commented for a while Laban, but here&...Haven't commented for a while Laban, but here's my 3s6d worth:<br /><br />*found this gem from the OST of 98's Manchurian Candidate - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkQLcG0ZXI4" rel="nofollow">It's Immaterial with <i>A Gigantic Raft In The Phillipines</i></a><br /><br />*2 quotes:<br /><br />Baroness Scotland - “This is a civil penalty just as if you drive into the city and you don’t pay a congestion charge. It is not a criminal offence. I made an administrative, technical error for which I am bitterly, bitterly sorry.”<br /><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6845117.ece<br /><br />and<br /><br />Lynne Featherstone's <a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?title=Lynne_Featherstone_delivers_speech_on_equality_to_Autumn_Conference&pPK=ab51aad5-dbe3-4ef9-95a1-8c91f2dd6a95" rel="nofollow">speech at the party conference today</a>:<br /><br />"On Monday morning I went to Moordown St John’s Primary School - here in Bournemouth - with Trevor Phillips from the Equality Commission.<br /><br />The children had been asked to draw pictures of politicians – <b>needless to say – the pictures were almost all male and almost all pale – just like the House of Commons!"</b><br /><br />"That’s why we need action - the practical step - is education and opportunity to blast away the old order." - more kulturkampf! <br /><br />"It costs nothing – and by removing the name from job application forms – <b>we remove from that very first sift the unconscious prejudice that sadly lurks in all of us."</b> - I wonder, does it REALLY 'lurk' in all of 'us'...hmmm?<br /><br />"9/11 and the subsequent Iraq war has fostered increasing ignorance and prejudice – on all sides.<br /><br />And it deepens apace – as we saw with the fascist demonstrations against the Harrow Mosque on the anniversary of 9/11.<br /><br />And there has been so much damage done to the image of Muslims with the reporting of news from overseas and here, where so-called Islamic terrorists often feature – but when those fighting the terrorists, or the victims of terrorism, are also Muslim – this often goes unmentioned. <br /><br />The drip-drip effect of linking the word 'Muslim' and the word 'terrorism' – but not linking "victim" and "Muslim" in the same way – is pernicious. <br /><br />And we have also seen a rising tide of attacks on Jewish people too." [...that subtle pause and was the sad irony a speechwriter's nod?]<br /><br />...and there's plenty more. This woman is truly awful - vomit-inducing. I also note that she replaced the even more 'vibrant' Barbara Roche as MP for her N London constituency.<br /><br />Celebrate diversity...or else!<br /><br />CheerioShlomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065431874502891937noreply@blogger.com