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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209490842014-12-14T11:37:01.290ZMartin KellyThoughts From The West Of Scotland Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-12046974867532788702014-11-09T20:33:00.000Z2014-11-09T20:35:28.803ZWorld Government
The Scottish National Party's recent upsurge in membership is not a development which, in my view, should cause Unionists to lose much sleep.

I might be wrong, of course, but it seems to me to be another expression of that devotion to a lost cause which led many Jacobites to follow Charles Edward Stuart in 1745, which led men to rally to the Stars and Bars as Sherman was marching through Georgia, and which caused Hitler's popularity to be at its highest as the Russians were moving on Germany. Some people are suckers for lost causes; and I will be surprised if one tenth of those who have joined the SNP in post-Referendum dudgeon will renew their memberships next year.

The history of Scottish devolution since 1999 does, however, shed an interesting insight into how world government could grow by stealth. This might indeed be the most interesting thing about this phase in our history.

I am not in the least suggesting that any Member of the Scottish Parliament is a 12 foot tall lizard in human form, although it is sometimes tempting to believe that that might explain why so many MSPs seem to struggle with English.

In recent years, successive Scottish administrations have adopted policies, such as the banning of smoking in public interiors, the covering of cigarette displays and charges for plastic bags in shops, which have previously been implemented in the Republic of Ireland. While this betrays an extreme poverty of imagination upon the part of Scotland's legislators, what is interesting is precisely that they are the same policies.

For what need would there be for a global government when all governments of the world are following the same policies? If every government in the world were to follow the same policies, you've got a global government whether you know it or not.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-3512155168623388012014-10-04T15:30:00.003+01:002014-10-04T15:32:27.144+01:00Hong KongThe thought occurs that the economic system used in mainland China is largely identical to that used in Hong Kong for decades. The parent adopted the ways of the child.

No matter what happens in Hong Kong, China's political establishment is going to be the loser; and that will be no bad thing; and if it means the end of Cowperthwaite's disgusting and inhumane economic system, that would be no bad thing either.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-51097159923779336512014-09-26T22:14:00.000+01:002014-09-26T22:15:52.210+01:00Islamic State Is A Barbarian War Band And Must Be Defeated
Today's vote in the House of Commons to authorise air strikes against Islamic State is most welcome.

In my eyes, Islamic State is nothing but a barbarian war band of the type described by Arnold Toynbee in 'A Study Of History'; the type of force that appears on the edges of civilisations as they break down. That is all it is. Its association with a religion is accordingly irrelevant to its character. The tortuous nature of the mess along the Sykes-Picot line, arising from the mess that is Syria and the mess that we and the Americans have created in Iraq, has been an ideal breeding ground for such a group. The absolute failure of the United Nations to defend the sovereignty of Syria and Iraq against Islamic State is one of the most gaping failures in its history.

We should have seen it coming! One of the greatest historians who has ever lived spent fifty years creating a work that told us something like them would appear! But we don't know anything these days. As Tacitus wrote of the mindset of those now in charge of us, 'Actium was won before the younger men were born'; not only do they nothing, they seem incapable of learning anything.

I hate the idea of air strikes; yet what is worse, air strikes on a barbarian war band, or allowing them to behave like a barbarian war band, including conducting crucifixions? Really? That's the horrible nature of the choice. In this instance, while all choices of this type are terrible, the choice is clear. Civilisation must confront and defeat barbarism, or else it dies; and if it does die, it's deserved it.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-68167355224702980032014-09-20T16:54:00.001+01:002014-09-21T01:28:08.114+01:00The King Over The Puddle
So it's farewell to Alex Salmond, whose leadership of the SNP to defeat in Thursday's referendum has proved that Enoch Powell's maxim that all political careers end in failure allows for no exceptions.

For many years, my perception that the SNP was a personality cult of Mr. Salmond's enabled me to refer to him as 'The Tartanissimo', a neologism of which I am very fond and which I will now have to retire. I am very keen on the process of national healing, and I was prepared to leave the topic of Mr. Salmond well alone until I read in today's 'Daily Mail' that newspapers which had opposed independence were excluded from his resignation press conference.

I don't know whether he was directly responsible for this, but the event took place in Bute House, which is public property, not the dressing room of a football club. Those who desire to govern must be inclusive, and that last churlishness is conclusive proof that the SNP are unfit to govern.

The Tartanissimo will soon become The King Over The Puddle. In my opinion, it is a good thing that his time at the top of Scottish public life is now almost at an end.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-10166440488584642262014-09-19T22:44:00.002+01:002014-09-21T01:27:51.602+01:00No
This has been the best day that British politics has enjoyed since the defeat of the Third Reich.

The Union has been preserved, by a clear margin and on a massive turnout.

No form of devolution available to Scotland can now be refused to the English and Welsh. The tendency of devolved government to social democracy may mean that regardless of any attempt made to ensure a Conservative presence, at a level below the national our politics will take a decisive turn to the left.

Which may mean that while he was perfectly magnanimous when he spoke in Downing Street this morning, David Cameron was, as he said, ushering in a new era; it's just that the era he's ushering in may, and I think will, be radically different from the era that began with the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. That time in our history ended this morning. It's over. Giving people powers to raise and spend money themselves will in all likelihood mean that they will be much more receptive to social democracy. People have had enough of austerity, of public services being made poor through being starved of funding, of the propagation of the idea that poor performance in the public services is the norm, and of the privatisation of services that can only be rationally and competently managed in public hands. They are tired of being told that they must always strive to be competitive when their hearts are aching and their feet are sore, and they are tired of constantly having to struggle in what's supposed to be one of the world's wealthiest nations. They will vote for redistribution. They have had enough, and the Tory ferals will be unable to stop them from voting themselves some relief from economic policies that belong more to the nineteenth century than the twenty-first.

This morning has presented the British people with their greatest opportunity to achieve genuine social justice, a genuinely fairer society, since 1945. He might not agree, but the news that David Cameron was really proclaiming this morning was the death of the Conservative Party. And that may be no bad thing.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-17473761965327916282014-09-13T11:20:00.001+01:002014-09-21T01:27:34.934+01:00My Last Word On Our Independence Referendum
Paranoia might be setting in, but it's my opinion that an independent Scotland would very quickly degenerate into as close to a police state as the Nationalists could make it.

But that's OK. That's what nationalists do, and the well-informed man is ready for it.

In my view, Salmond doesn't have a clue about what to say to the people about their economy. Using the pound in the same way the Panamanians use the US dollar might be fine, but do you need capital controls, an effective defence against capital flight but unattractive to potential investors? No answer. Will we stay in the EU? They seem to say No, no matter what Salmond says.

The Scottish people are enjoying their greatest degree of international political attention since 1745, and some of us are just loving it. To those of my fellow Scots inclined to vote Yes, I have to say I think you would be making a grave and irrevocable error. If you feel exposed to the winds of the global economy now, in an independent Scotland it is very possible that your exposure might be a very great deal worse.

If you feel an atavistic attachment to the idea of being Scottish, I can't help you. All I can say to you is if you feel that way, you are the living proof of how liberal and tolerant the UK has been to its member nations over the course of its history. If you feel oppressed on account of your nationality, you should have tried being Yugoslavian.

But to my mind, there is one overarching reason not to break up the United Kingdom right now. It is that to do so would be, in my opinion, a gross weakening of international security. What could the world say to those who aspire to their own state, by any means they feel necessary and regardless of the consequences, if they knew the answer would be, 'But the British cannot keep their own country together!'

Vote Yes if you will, that is your right; but remember that more than beside your friends will be watching.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-10806512240156126142014-08-13T00:32:00.002+01:002014-08-13T00:56:53.074+01:00The Death Of Robin Williams
When I was a wee boy, my quadrilingial and hyperliterate much beloved late maiden great-aunt used to tell me a story about Joey Grimaldi.

A man went to see a doctor, and told him he was very sad and didn't see any point going on with life. His doctor tried to cheer him up, saying 'Why don't you go and see Grimaldi?'.

The man replied, 'Doctor, I am Grimaldi'.

Nice cheery story, that one (thanks, Aunty: God love her, she meant well and I'll always love her to bits, but the shackles of any culture can be bloody hard to throw off, even should you ever feel like doing so), but it was kind of brought back to my mind today by the passing of Robin Williams.

That funny, funny wee man - a man who from, say, 1988 to maybe 1993 might quite easily have claimed the title of most famous man alive, even when the opposition was Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela (the sheer extent, the width, breadth and height of Williams's fame during those years doesn't really seem to have been touched upon by his official obituarists) - has gone. The manner of his passing is most sad. It's so sad to be reminded that someone who made it his life work to make other people laugh, a task to which Williams set his back to the wheel like a Stakhanovite and in which he actually bloody succeeded, could not find happiness of his own in the end. Depression is not an indulgence, it is an illness, and it is grossly inhumane to suggest otherwise.

God have mercy upon his family. Having witnessed the irresoluble, unanswerable grief suffered by the survivors of suicide at the closest of quarters, it's something you'd never wish on your worst enemy.

There are at least three major wars going on in the world right now. Why should the death of a clown matter in the midst of all this? It matters a great deal. All those human beings involved in the commission of all that collective hatefulness in all those places are just being flawed humans. Williams was different. Flawed he might have been (I would prefer to describe him as frail; it seems fairer, for he was ill), but he expressed himself by trying to make other people happy for a while - and that's a damn sight more than most people do for their fellows throughout the course of their whole lives.

It isn't often one finds oneself in agreement with the minions of Rupert Murdoch, yet, being utterly selfish and self-centered, it was, well, kind of odd to see that of all the movies featuring the late Robin Williams that they could have shown as a tribute on Sky 1 tonight, the one that they chose to show was - 'Awakenings'.

Goodnight, Euphegenia. RIP.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-7647870253501627162014-07-19T17:13:00.003+01:002014-07-19T17:26:48.041+01:00Some Thoughts On The Massacre Of Flight MH17
"When the Scyths came to Sparta on this errand Cleomenes was with them continually; and growing somewhat too familiar, learnt of them to drink his wine without water, a practice which is thought by the Spartans to have caused his madness. From this distance of time the Spartans, according to their own account, have been accustomed, when they want to drink purer wine than common, to give the order to fill 'Scythian fashion'." -

Herodotus, 'Histories', Book Six.

Alcoholism in Russia is clearly nothing new.

Lake Voskhod, on Antarctica, is the largest body of absolutely pure water on the planet. Its preservation is deemed essential, as cosmologists think it is the nearest thing on Earth to the environment on Europa. A BBC science program broadcast some years ago reported the horror of NASA engineers on finding out that a group of Russian researchers had come with seconds of polluting the whole lake, having drilled to within six inches of the surface using a bit oiled with kerosene.

The story may be apocryphal, but in the novel 'The Hunt For Red October' the late Tom Clancy recorded how a Kazakh cook on a Russian nuclear submarine attempted to clean his pots with the steam from the reactor's outpipe. He was vaporised instantly.

Those boozy thugs in balaclavas (a good Ukrainian word!) wandering through the wreckage of Flight MH17 may be willing to die for field, flag and fatherland, but whoever is responsible for massacring its passengers and crew made sure that three hundred other people with no real investment in their dispute can now be counted among their squabble's victims. Even before this, I found the conflict in Ukraine to be squalid and disgusting. It is heartbreaking that even in the year 2014 there are Europeans who cannot settle their cultural differences without resorting to guns and airstrikes. They kill each others' children with airstrikes; and now they have killed eighty children who might never even have heard of Ukraine. So many children.

Whoever is responsible, I do sincerely hope that this event causes these people to take a very good, very long and very hard look at why they are fighting each other. I hope that this is found to be the consequence of some drunken incompetent using a weapon which, in any situation requiring an iota of sanity, they would never be allowed near. In the context of the culture which prevails in that part of the world, such an event would be understandable; disgraceful, for sure, but understandable. If it is anything else - if that plane was fired at deliberately, for whatever reason - whichever juiced-up berserkers are responsible should be on the first flight to The Hague, by mutual consent of Moscow and Kiev. The Dutch are a civilised people, and I'm sure that the Netherlands prison authorities would not afford their new guests the welcome they might deserve.

No liability should attach to Malaysia Airlines for this incident. Its pilot was flying its plane at what they had every reason to consider was a safe height, over what they had every good reason to consider was safe airspace. In such circumstances, the possibility of being hit by a surface to air missile must have seemed as remote as being hit by a meteorite. There is nothing that either the captain of Flight MH17 or his employers could have done to prevent this crime. They are all innocents. May Malaysia Airlines fly forever.

Crimes have victims, and we should look forward to the perpetrators of this one, a crime of epic magnitude, being prosecuted forthwith. It is one of the very great tragedies of our time that we cannot consider the shooting down of a civilian aircraft and the three hundred consequent murders to be the crime of the century. Yet the perpetrators should be prosecuted, for if anything this is a greater attack upon our way of life, in terms of how we all actually live, than the horrible madness of that autumn morning thirteen years ago (God, it still seems like yesterday). The perpetrators of that crime were 'striking a blow', or some crap like that. The perpetrators of this crime weren't out for gain, or looking to make a point. Instead, their heads were full of the banality of nation-worship, making them reckless to a degree likely to be beyond the comprehension of psychiatry.

The sheer range of people from all backgrounds who have been murdered - members of the Toon Army going to see Newcastle United play in New Zealand; a florist (how Dutch!); a retired headmaster (bit close to home, that one); one of the world's greatest experts on the spread of HIV - remind one of how universal the ability to travel now is. Indeed, travelling isn't something we should consider ourselves as being able to do anymore, it's something one we should be considered as having the right to do, if we have the means. Both the nature of his work, and the degree of distinction he achieved within his field - evident from the regard with which he seems to have been held by fellow HIV researchers - has meant that the murder of Joep Lange has attracted more comment than most (I'm sure that the Internet's crackpot evangelical right will have had a field day celebrating the murder of someone who's alleviated the suffering of AIDS victims, but that's one sewer I have no inclination to trawl).

Yet his murder shines the light of a perfect irony on the massacre of Flight MH17. His murderers may have murdered him thinking that he was an enemy of their village/tribe/oblast/volk*(*delete as applicable), but Joep Lange spent his working life fighting a virus, an organism with no respect for borders and nationhood; an enemy of all mankind - even of his murderers, the hateful, drunken, bloody-minded, bloody-handed, bloody fools.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-58724113772276837192014-06-22T00:10:00.000+01:002014-06-22T00:17:10.352+01:00On The Death Of Gerry Conlon

The word 'iconic' is nauseatingly overused, and badly ill-used, these days; but if one single visual image which has entered the public consciousness as a consequence of the workings of the law of England and Wales within recent memory deserves to be regarded as being iconic in the the truest sense of the word, it is the image of Gerry Conlon walking out of the Court of Appeal through the front door.

No image shows more clearly how the system can go wrong.

No image shows more clearly how the system can go right.

The name of Gerry Conlon is a standing and immortal rebuke to all those who advocate the virtues of capital punishment. If the pea-brained hangers and floggers had their way, an innocent man would have hanged.

'In The Name Of The Father', indeed; by the grace of God, may the son now have joined his father in the reward of eternal peace they both so, so richly deserve. Eternal rest grant unto your children Guiseppe and Gerard, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them; may they rest in peace; and may the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-70435387318497155612014-06-21T23:52:00.000+01:002014-06-21T23:52:12.903+01:00On The Award Of A Knighthood To Professor Tom Devine
A bit behind events, I know, but I'm taking things at my own pace these days.

I may have said this before - I know I am becoming repetitive - but in my view Tom Devine should be considered Scotland's most distinguished living man of letters.

If ever a knighthood awarded to an historian has been earned - in terms of hours spent in the library, in terms of productivity of output, in terms of consistency of output, in terms of incisiveness of insight and in terms of quality of prose - it's this one. My congratulations to Sir Thomas and Lady Devine.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-53109447171065666412014-06-12T23:53:00.001+01:002014-06-12T23:53:41.497+01:00The Cybernats' Attack On JK Rowling
If Oscar Wilde was correct to describe foxhunting as 'the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible', then the so-called 'cybernats' can best be described as the unspeakable in pursuit of the unthinkable.

Yet this time the laptop lairds and keyboard kilties have excelled themselves. They have trolled JK Rowling - a unionist with more and better lawyers than they have.

Way to go, guys! That was really smart! Now, straight off to Azkaban with you!

God, the dreariness of this whole referendum crap thing is overwhelming.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-35221283288701525202014-05-26T22:21:00.002+01:002014-05-26T22:21:53.716+01:00The Fire At Glasgow School Of Art
To us, this is what a fire at the Louvre might be to Parisians. It's that bad. We don't have much of a visual arts heritage in Scotland; we think we do, but we don't really, as the loss of patronage occasioned by the removal of James VI and I to London in 1603 upon the Union of Crowns retarded the production of visual art here for at least two full centuries (one of the great unanswered questions of Scottish history is whether the same retardation of visual art was a factor that led to our subsequent emphasis on technical education, at which we certainly did excel, but that's another story). The Mackintosh Building is very possibly the single most important piece of visual art ever produced in Scotland, made so that art could be made within art, and the thought of it being damaged is just so saddening. Your heart can't help but go out to students who've lost work.

We are all proud of that building, one of the most important and least contentious pieces of our common Scottish heritage; our own wee crown jewel. May it rise again, and, yes, flourish.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-82108255369067502392014-05-17T17:38:00.000+01:002014-05-17T17:38:22.800+01:00The Boko Haram Kidnappings
I can recall seeing fewer sadder sights than the image of those wee lassies being paraded by their kidnappers.

My heart goes out to them and to their parents. You can glue together any number of adjectives to describe it; hateful, barbaric, medieval, whatever. The bottom line is that it's just so sad.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-7194356784530341742014-04-23T00:48:00.001+01:002014-04-23T00:48:08.550+01:00Is The Referendum Over Yet?I'm bored with it all now. Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-87050553804078698572014-04-23T00:47:00.000+01:002014-04-24T21:24:24.484+01:00On Mountaineering - 'Into The Silence'
I've recently finished Wade Davis's 'Into The Silence'.

This is a truly marvellous book of incredible range and scope. Davis has a wonderful turn of phrase, and his description of the British Army of the era in question as being 'militantly anti-intellectual' is just about the last word that really should be said about that particular civilisational dead end. Since having read that one of the reasons why the bridges of British naval vessels were less well-fortified than those of their German counterparts was that a British naval officer was expected to have more pluck than his Teutonic opponent, I have regarded the cult of pluck as being a death cult as beastly as any human sacrifice cult in pre-Christian Central America; and the comment of Arthur Hinks, long time London frontman of the Everest Committee, that 'only rotters use oxygen' did little to dispel that view.

Yet what was really striking about the book was that absolutely none of the Englishmen who went to climb Everest in 1921, 1922 and 1924 seemed to possess the slightest degree of humility in the face of nature. The Tibetans did - that's why they didn't climb the mountains. It really got me wondering about what motivates people like that to do that sort of thing, and the only cogent reason I could come up with as that at bottom they are as empty as the spaces they try to conquer. If you have a hole in the middle of yourself, nothing can fill it - not the sound of your own voice, not drink, not even the tallest mountain in the world. This is a question of very great importance in the here and now, because in 2014 we have become a full twelve-sevenths more efficient at enabling the deaths of Sherpas on Mount Everest than we were in 1922. The journey to the top of Chomolungma does not therefore seem to be taking us very far if enabling greater numbers of Sherpas to die is the only metric by which we seem to measure progress. The mountain isn't going to get any bigger, and lots of people have been up there already, with far too many not coming down again afterwards. Why, therefore, do we persist in putting ourselves and, more importantly, the Sherpas through this?

I think it's because we don't really want to conquer it - it's because we want to consume it; and all too often, it consumes us instead. A giant lump of rock that stands over 28,000 feet tall cannot be consumed, it is too much for anyone to swallow; and maybe it's time we stopped trying.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-9216059430231690432014-04-23T00:11:00.002+01:002014-04-23T00:11:52.362+01:00On People Who Moan About How Bad Their Well-Paid Jobs AreIf they so wish, they can always apply for posts as street sweepers instead. Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-72565811914694591202014-04-09T01:17:00.001+01:002014-04-09T22:10:54.814+01:00A Short Thought On The Death And Career - The Two Having Been Inextricably Intertwined - Of Margo MacDonald
De Mortua Nil Nisi Bonum, I suppose, the deceased having done a Tony Nicklinson and presumably died in her sleep (if one should ever go out of one's way to try and look for proof of the existence of God, then totting up the number of right-to-death campaigners who, like MacDonald, like Nicklinson, like Ludovic Kennedy, die in their own beds might be a good place to start; never let it be said that God does not possess a sense of humour).

What we can do is analyse her achievements. She was an MP for 112 days, forty-one years ago. Wow. She was an independent MSP, meaning that she represented a constituency of one. Nice work, if you can get it. The only significant impression I gained from those tributes to her which I saw is that the upper reaches of Scottish public life seem to be claustrophobically small in scope, with everyone knowing everyone else and all of them apparently suspicious of outsiders; a village, in every sense of the word. No matter what else she achieved, what she really was was a consummate insider, as all the best 'independents' always are.

However, speaking subjectively as someone whose hands now tremor not only in different directions but also at different speeds, her most lasting achievement might have been to lodge the idea that Parkinson's Disease is a death sentence into the Scottish public consciousness, in my view undoing the great deal of good work done by the health authorities to normalise the Parkinson's experience with what can only be described as ruthless selfishness.

And during the last years of her life, she might have done irreparable harm to the cause of life rights in Scotland - other people's life rights, mind you, not, as it turned out, her own; and that is one helluva legacy for anyone to leave behind them.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-30586989653961175562014-04-09T00:42:00.000+01:002014-04-09T01:18:02.727+01:00A Short Thought On The Power Of The Google Algorithm
(Dedicated to the memories of Peaches Geldof, Freddy McConnel, Michael Suchar and Burton Wragg; the bravest, most selfless headmaster of a primary school who ever drew breath).

Given the nature of the terribly sad event which was the lead item on yesterday's news, it came as no surprise that this was my most viewed item today.

God rest her soul.

Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-88433886569727663932014-03-04T17:17:00.003Z2014-03-04T17:22:20.903ZCrimea
I'm sorry if I've written this before - I am becoming more repetitive - but one of the most illuminating aspects of reading Orlando Figes's 'Crimea: The Last Crusade' was seeing what Russian diplomats had to say about their country's security at the time of that terrible and wholly unnecessary war.

They complained about British complaints about them trying to strengthen their position on the Black Sea when the British were ensconced on their southern flank in India (if memory serves they were also being pestered by one of the nuttier, more bloodthirsty Transcaucasian warlords at that time, so they weren't naturally in the best of moods).

What was fascinating - what made the hair on the back of my neck stand up - was comparing what they said in their despatches and communiques in 1854 with what they said at the UN Security Council in 1962, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. One hundred and eight years later, they were saying precisely the same things, the only difference being that in the nuclear age they were complaining that the USA was preventing them from installing defences in Cuba while itself installing missiles directly to the south of them in Turkey.

(Two points - firstly, I may be mistaken, but I don't think Professor Figes undertook this exercise in his own book. Secondly, like just about every other right-thinking person I am very grateful that Soviet missiles were removed from Cuba).

To my mind, the very sinister events which have taken place in Ukraine are cause for the greatest concern. A democratically elected government has been overthrown, and London or Washington are mute in the face of the putsch, indeed endorse it by the laying of flowers; the banal and sentimental act of those with no cogent response to events. This has happened while the local regional power has been otherwise engaged - would this have happened had the Winter Olympics not been taking place in Sochi? I very much doubt it. The timing of these events are the biggest two fingers that anti-Russian elements in Ukraine could have elevated to The Kremlin. This is not a pro-Ukrainian event. It is an anti-Russian event, deeply unpleasant Russophobia currently being sanctified by the words, actions, money and floristry of the British and American governments.

The people who are fronting it seem to include ultranationalists, among whom are some very unsavoury characters whose only distinguishing features are their penchant for carrying weapons and their need to wear distinguishing clothing and regalia - two of the hallmarks of classical fascism, wherever it is found - and criminals. One of the most disturbing aspects of the reporting we receive from that part of the world is that anyone who opposes Russia within its sphere of influence and who ends up in jail is somehow automatically and unthinkingly elevated to the status of martyr. I don't know why the political loser Yulia Tymoshenko was in jail - for all we know she could have been in there because she's a crook. Is it still OK to say that in this country these days?

Russian military activity in Crimea seems to be directed solely towards the protection of ethnic Russians who actively want them there (shades of Northern Ireland, at least in 1969). This is not a popular revolution, not by any manner of means. Could it the case that the Russian military presence on the peninsula is actually necessary, in order to protect ethnic Russians? It doesn't seem to be the ethnic Russians who are wearing the SS armbands. Just saying.

And of course, we have William Hague and Barack Obama and Uncle Tom Cobley and all all talking cobblers at the Russians about the need for them to show restraint, when they seem to have shown and seem to be showing nothing but restraint. The Russians are not the ones who overthrew the government of Ukraine - Ukrainian putschists did that. What has happened in Ukraine has been an assault on democracy everywhere. An unintended consequence of failing to address that might be that public opinion in a country whose recent experiences of dealing with democracies include swapping tyranny for penury starts to lose interest in democracy.

And that would be a tragedy not just for Russia, but for the world.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-62404150190056014652014-03-04T16:18:00.000Z2014-03-04T17:30:20.426ZOn The Foreign-ness Of An Independent Scotland
The BBC reports that,

"The Scottish first minister is to say that Scotland and England will not be "foreign" to each other even if the political union between the two ends."

This will be an impossible feat to manage, given that for a Glaswegian like me every part of Scotland other than Glasgow already feels foreign (no jokes about lager, sorry laager mentality, please). If he doesn't want to be a foreigner when he goes to England, why is he putting the rest of us through all of this?

Should he win, God forbid, the first thing he and his disciples will do is redefine acceptable Scottishness according to their own tastes and prejudices, a process they will enjoy with all the ruthless, iconoclastic relish of a De Valera; but does he think he will also be able to redefine 'foreign-ness?' How does he think an English person returning to visit Scotland after separation will feel as they enter a country which has become so fundamentally different to the one they used to know? In which, by the mere fact of their own circumstances, they are now a foreigner? How is he going to do this?

It's not going to be as a consequence of us all using the same money, that's for sure. That curling stone has unceremoniously stopped before the mark, and no amount of frantic brushing of the ice, nor panicked shouting, is going to make it budge any further. It's not going to be as a result of us all still being in the European Union. That hole's been bogeyed. The degree of foreign-ness that visitors to Scotland will feel after independence will be incredible - one sign of which might just be the presence of very much more aggressive police officers on the streets.

The Tartanissimo's knowledge of famous authors named Hartley might not stretch beyond J. R. to L.P., but the latter wrote 'The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there'. Maybe The Tartanissimo, perhaps animated by the arrogance that possessing an excessive love of nation over nationals tends to breed, thinks that not only is the past a foreign country, but that the present is as well - he is, after all, First Minister in 'The Scottish Government' (come on now, don't laugh - at least, not all at once). He already thinks he's the head of a 'government', even if it's only a small, mean, soi-disant, ersatz one. He's got no chance of combatting a sensation of foreign-ness after independence. He's already got the biggest dose of it going.
Martinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-38437677790206369322014-03-04T15:44:00.001Z2014-03-04T15:44:56.859Z'The First Four Georges'
Although J. H. Plumb did possess the rather stupid habit of describing people who were obviously quite able as being stupid, a habit which does detract from his book a little if only because it might provide an unattractive insight into his own mindset at the time he was writing it, 'The First Four Georges' is nonetheless an enjoyable, if rather brief, tour through the highest reaches of English society from 1713 until 1830.

However, I didn't really feel I learned very much from it; not the best thing you can say about a work of history.

Not necessarily a recommend, but certainly a pleasant way of passing the time.
Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-42458558495513564682014-03-04T15:33:00.000Z2014-03-04T15:33:08.437Z'The Great Siege'
This fascinating book, incredibly well-written by a fascinating man, is one of the most gripping I can recall ever picking up.

The Great Siege of Malta in 1565 is one of the most important events on the history of the world; and one could hope for no better guide to it than this book. I am no big fan of military history - too much bloody blood, give me a nice, clean, safe monastery, library or throne-room any day - but Ernle Bradford possessed the unique skill of making the reader feel as if they were actually in the middle of the events he was describing; and Malta in the summer of 1565 was by no means a pleasant place to be. This enables the reader to feel grateful that it is only by the Grace of God that they were not.

For sure, you have to wade through a wee bit of Anglocentric propaganda - it is gratifying to know that Good Queen Bess, God bless her, was worried about the consequences of an Ottoman victory; pity she later seemed happy to treat with them in order to cause trouble for the Spanish - but the author was a man of his own time and culture, and cannot be blamed for having picked up some of their barnacling conceits. Bradford is one of those authors whose works should be much more widely-known than they are. On the basis of this book, I don't feel it's going too far to suggest that he should be on every literate person's reading list.

Must read. Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-60319832345555319092014-02-22T23:15:00.003Z2014-02-22T23:15:40.313Z'The Little Hero'The true story of a very brave little boy, told by a righteously angry man. The fight goes on.

Must read. Martinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20949084.post-46669280471199692752014-02-19T23:08:00.000Z2014-02-19T23:08:21.052ZThe Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill
Monitoring and checking and nosey-parkering into loving families...the SNP really are a bunch of natural born narks, snipes and clipes...disgustingly prurient people...
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"The more one touches the pitch that is the phone-hacking scandal, in all its tawdriness, the case for a judicial enquiry, best headed by a Law Lord, into the conduct of News International, with comprehensive powers to compel the attendance of witness, hear evidence on oath and demand documents at leisure becomes compelling. And it cannot be the whitewash the Hutton enquiry (sic) was perceived to be, Lord Hutton having been hamstrung by the parameters within which he had to work; parameters which gave him no option but to find the BBC guilty as libelled" -

Me, 11 April 2011.

"Only got ten minutes before I see Charlie for confiscation!

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1. Form an independent unit that has a outside junior council, ken macdonald, a great and good type, a serious forensic criminal barrister, internal counsel, proper fact checkers etc in it. Get them to investigate me and others and publish a hutton (sic) style report." -

Rebekah Brooks, 11 July 2011.

History will deem the greatest victim of the Hutton Inquiry to have been Lord Hutton himself.
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I use the Sullivan cables, the plastic tubes are already installed in the fuse, I just have to insert the cable and solder on the ends.
In your case doing a referb, I would use something like the Dubro gold-n-rods, you can just drill some 3/16 holes and fish them through with a coat hanger. You need to secure the outer tube best you can to prevent flex.
|Sep 16, 2011, 09:22 PM
I was wondering the same question when building mine. The instructions didn't even mention the pushrods until after the fuse was closed up. I'm glad I read the book through, then tossed it (at least when it came to the pushrods). I used Gold'N'Rods, and anchored them inside the fuse at the formers to keep them from banging around. There was no WAY I would have used the balsa sticks with bits of wire glued in.
|Sep 16, 2011, 09:27 PM
Actually the sticks work well. Thermally stable and the way it was done for a long time. A little heavy though.
On the housings: You need to be sure they are really nailed down the length. Any movement will result in slop.
On rudder I'm strictly a pull-pull guy. Almost zero weight.
|Sep 17, 2011, 03:15 AM
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Its a sad day for all flyer's and the people who lost their lifes and were hurt at Reno on friday when the P51 went in.
Too bad that is the down side to the racing game, looks like he had a airframe failure some how and lost control and at that speed there is not much the pilot can do just try to get it away from the people if you can in a few seconds of time that you have.
Have to say a prayer for them all.
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|Sep 17, 2011, 03:38 AM
Yeah, Don. My deepest sympathies go out to all who were affected by this tragedy.
I will be interested in the investigation. One bystander said something about seeing "pieces flying off" the airplane, but it wasn't clear if she was talking about before or during the crash. The only thing that looks relatively certain at this early stage is there was SOME kind of failure to result in that kind of loss of control.
Lay a wreath at Reno for Mr. Leeward.
|Sep 17, 2011, 07:14 AM
Sad day. It's almost amazing that even more people weren't hurt. Investigation may never determine what happened. I met Mt. Leeward once about 15 years ago. Very nice person. Prayers for everyone.
|Sep 17, 2011, 07:27 AM
KOLO TV, out of Reno, is showing pictures showing the elevator trim tab in the process of leaving the plane and then gone altogether. Some people have commented it doesn't seem like enough to cause a crash, but screwing with the trim at 300+ miles per hour, a few hundred feet above the ground, it doesn't take much. It's just about 9/10ths of a mistake too low.
|Sep 17, 2011, 10:09 AM
I was looking at a blog and the guy talked about the aileron not returning to center, one other guy said he was 50 feet away he said they had box seats in front of the grandstands and it hit in the box seats.
It looked like a straight in path witch saved a lot of people compared to coming in in a slide angle that would have been a lot worse.
Like you say Owl they are right on the deck and have no time & space to recover from a small bobble of any kind, i just hope they keep the races going and not have to shut them down.
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|Sep 17, 2011, 10:23 AM
i thought someone asked for pics of the sagitta 900 given to me, with out the canopy,so heres the pics,, Also im still building olly2s need electronics and covered, for maiden.
|Sep 17, 2011, 01:32 PM
Yeah, the trim tab was definetly off before it hit. Tons of pressure on that elevator. Trim tab departing would be plenty enough to throw it around and too low to recover.
|Sep 17, 2011, 02:58 PM
They would never let me fly "real" airplanes, but that didn't stop me from reading, and learning. Reading comments now, in many places, from many non-pilots, or just .. well... plain old dumbs... is very upsetting. People who don't know what they're talking about should keep their mouths shut.
Like the nitwit who said "That little piece just keeps the plane level. It couldn't cause a crash!"
|Sep 17, 2011, 03:37 PM
I just saw one guy on the tube that was in the stands and said that it did roll over and went in inverted, so it might have had a stuck aileron.
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|Sep 17, 2011, 04:00 PM
I noticed in the videos that the tailwheel was also extended, which is definitely abnormal, suggesting some problem in the tail.
|Sep 17, 2011, 04:07 PM
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Everything is pointing to a mechanical failure in the elevator control system; causing a hard pitch-up, subsequent loss of the trim tab (inconsequential.) The high G-loading, perhaps in the 8-10g range caused the tail wheel to deploy. Pilot nearly instantly blacked out and the aircraft continued through the pitch up. The aircraft naturally torque rolled over the top and went hard in with pilot still incapacitated. (Seen in still photos, the pilot's head/helmet isn't visible, ie. slumped over) There was no effort to control the aircraft after the initial violent pitch-up. Basically is was pure luck that the aircraft hit where it did. There were no heroics on the part of the pilot, just a complete accident / tragedy.
|Sep 17, 2011, 07:56 PM
Yeah, I guess we shouldn't be speculating but it does point to elevator problems.
You're right Owl. I've been around my share of crashes and the speculation doesn't do a thing, especially for the pilot.
Lost another one today. One of the Trojan Horsemen in W Va.
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Rachel rocked the FBI role on The Inside, a Fox show back in 2005. I was completely smitten with her skills, and the show in general. Of course, they cancelled it. I've never watched Criminal Minds, but her pick-up makes me want to give it a try.
Im angered that they get rid of AJ Cook and then hire some new girl. I do like Rachel from Alias so I hope she does a good job
Just one more piece of info. Although some TV sites are reporting Nichols's already inked a deal, CBS's official position is that she is in talks to become a regular, and that the negotiations are progressing. It is also CBS's position that Paget Brewster has been asked to reconsider a return to her former full-time regular option. Neither the actresses have come up with a definitive answer. Brewster wants to keep her option as it is for the time being, so she can be free to consider new projects, while Nichols haven't voiced her agreement yet. She did tweet it was a dream come true and that she felt blessed, but it referred to CBS's invitation not to an actual understanding. I personally think CBS releasing this news just before the airing of Nichols's episode arc is far from being a coincidence. It is a very clever comercial strategy to gain viewers' interest in the upcoming episodes. The network certainly aims to check Nichols' acceptance in the episodes rating/buzz before making an official announcement about her status on the show. I think it's a matter of wait and see, and I would be careful before buying this whole story as a done deal.
I have nothing against Rachel Nichols (actually don't even know who she is). The problem I have with Criminal Minds is the ousting of A.J. Cook. J.J. was the best character on the show and Cook is an amazing actress. I still don't understand why they cut her out
Ed Bernero is a showrunner, a producer of the show. He does not own it. He is not the one who decides who's in and who's out of it. He can be kicked out of it just like anybody in the cast or crew. CBS owns Criminal Minds. CBS fires and hires cast members. CBS producers are the ones who gives general creative premises and financial support. Exec producers like Ed just make it happen according to their wishes. And sell the product as it is. We have to be careful so as to aim our rage into the right targets, not to punish the show itself for the network's upheavals. Just saying...
I think it was soooo unfair for Mr. Bernero to quash the role of JJ and then announce that they were not really replacing AJ Cook (just when the controversy over her sudden firing was intensifying) and then, squeeze in a new face whom they were careful to stress was only a "guest," and then after fans' emotions have been assuaged to SUDDENLY announce they were making this "prosthetic mamarian" a regular! The nerve! If they are that cavalier with loyal fans of CM, they should not be surprised IF we decide to watch "Modern Family" instead. They should be soooo lucky, if the executives of CM think they can get away with this skullduggery!!!!!


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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Casey Kasem, the internationally famous radio broadcaster and disc jockey, who became the king of the Top 40 countdown, died Sunday.
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Kasem's "American Top 40" radio show started in 1970 and ran for decades, until his farewell show in 2009.
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Kasem's voice was heard and recognized worldwide, in both radio and television. He was the voice behind the timid "Shaggy" in the popular Scooby-Doo cartoon series in the 70's and 80's. He also appeared in countless commercials.
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Churches flirting with the fashionable righteousness of Earth Day foodie-ism are entertaining a false prophet. Here's why the faithful should shun the Church of the Divine Palate.
The long Lenten fast has nearly ended. You can taste the sausage biscuit, bacon burger or chicken salad you've valiantly avoided for six Fridays in a row. But, imagine for a moment that this Easter, woven into the message of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, comes a new proclamation of church discipline. Abstinence from meat, the pastor declares, should now continue indefinitely. And it arrives not as penitence for which Christians find Biblical justification and historical recognition, but instead to free your soul from the potential sin of participating in an unjust and unethical modern food system.
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Excellent article!
Want to share some verses with you that I believe sum up where we are today in society.
1 Timothy 4.
1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
There is more to the chapter, but verses 1-6 are key.
Thank you for writing such a great piece.
See this US News & World Report expose on it at www.maninnature.com/Fisheries/Whatpricedolphin.pdf
Those interested in learning why animal rights perverts Christianity, perverts ethics, and damages the environment should consider reading Dominion over Wildlife? An Environmental-Theology of Human-Wildlife Relations (Wipf and Stock, 2009).
Thank you for this clear and forthright article! It deserves wide reading. Would you consider putting it into pamphlet form, the more easily to insert into church bulletins and pew racks?!
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I know what happened to Jay, and Alan but, what about those like wildcat, or Dr. Midnite, hourman, or starman? I mean since the relaunch I haven't heard anything about them. So does that mean that they don't exist anymore because it kind of bothers me that character interaction doesn't exist anymore. Also are any of the flashes going to meet Jay? the same question goes for the GLs and Alan or Shiera and Carter. These are interactions that have to happen at some point right?
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They will probably be introduced sometime in the future, but I just hope that the wildcat universe becomes it's own multiverse (like DC and Marvel), and does not interact with the rebooted new 52 multiverse. They are too different to mix.
Well, since DC hates their own history, superheroes have only been around for 6 years in the DCnU. So, there is no longer any WWII era heroes, no JSA, and no legacy heroes. Those characters may appear in Earth 2, but that book hasn't and probably isn't going to satisfy JSA fans who want their team and characters back.
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I kinda hope they stay in the main DC universe. I don't like what Earth 2 has been doing to the Golden Age characters. From the Earth 2 comics I read and from the panels I have seen on the Internet I am not that big of a fan of what has been going on. The story is interesting I just don't like the designs. They look like totally new characters to me.
I do hope though they do a story arc or something in Flash where Barry meets Jay Garrick for the first time. Kind of how they did back in the Silver Age of comics.
I like the Earth-2 characters but they do feel like redesigns. Jay Garrick is probably my favorite but I can see why older fans would be pissed he's now a very young man again. Same goes for the rest of the JSA characters reintroduced in it. It's more of an Ultimate JSA book than anything.


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I wouldn't choose to sit down to eat here, (noisy fast food atmosphere) but they deliver and their food is very good!
After a few visits, we notice the difference in the food. We asked if they had changed the cook. The cashier said no, but the food was not the same. I didn't like the set up 1/2 restaurant 1/2 fast food. I haven't been there since the remodel... because the food was not as good as it used to be.
Not fancy, just good food. You can see the kitchen and how they work from the order window. All types of Mexican food and beverages with a large condiment bar. There is an outside, covered eating area which is great in the summer. Simply cooked, large portions, and the prices are the best. I recommend the flautas.
This is a local joint, not a place to go out of the way to visit. Food is average to good and at times great. This joint can get really busy so be patient. If you are looking for a good meal at a great value this is your place. If you want above average service, eat healthy or organic,,,...
After driving by Los Sanchez for years, I finally stopped in and ordered a couple of tacos, a sope and a burrito and took them home to share. Everything was greasy, greasy, greasy. I would not call anything flavorful. Over half ended up in the trash. As a bonus, we both got sick afterward. Still looking for a good Mexican...
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Is this shy guy jealous?
I think a guy likes me, but he is too shy. He saw me with another guy /we were alone, but not on a date/ and he didn't acknowledge me, he didn't say hi, he didn't even look at me. The shy guy was even looking at his feet while we were walking by, but I noticed that he seemed to listen to our conversation or at least during the few seconds he was walking near us. Anyways, a few days later I talked to him. I initiated the conversation, he was answering back with one-word answers and he was giving me the cold shoulder. Do you think that he is jealous or simply not interested?
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Yep, just answered a question about modern dating... this fits the bill.I'm shy, and live online, and know how this goes when I'm out in the real world. Women seem more important than they really are if you don't watch out. That's not to insult you. I'm saying he's blown you up in his head, and now feels like he made a mistake.Shy guys' crushes are tentative. We don't want to screw up and say the wrong thing, so we usually don't interact as much as we should when we meet a girl we like. Then when we do interact, every positive turn makes our little hearts flip and jump around like a happy puppy. When he saw you with the other guy, his hopes were dashed. Thought you had a relationship going on with the other guy, felt ostracized. The key with a shy guy is letting him know he isn't going to be taken so seriously as he takes himself, in a kind-hearted, respectful way... but he might need to be snapped out of it with some flirting and teasing, at this point.
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Not enough information, but from the looks of it, if I like a girl and I see her with another guy, I would be tempted to give her the cold shoulder too (my teenage self talking here), but you know what? Being much older now, I seriously wouldn't give a sh*t, id go up to her and flirt with her right in front of that other guy and treat him like he's not even there (my early twenties talking here). but you know what? I;d go up to her smile and then introduce myself to other guy and find out how they are affliated, like siblings, in a relationshiop? if not, then id flirt with her right in front of him and peace out (me right now talking right now)
Well he looked down originally because he didn't want a confrontation, he didn't want to talk to that guy and he didn't want to interrupt your fun. He evidently does like you but now he's too shy to make a move because he thinks you're taken and doesn't want to make it awkward.He is neither jealous or not interested, he's simply shy and courteous. If you like him you'd have to make a move.


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