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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44719934886233279272015-05-24T15:39:13.327+01:00Obnoxio The ClownA constant reminder that life was so much better before the internetObnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-65706872405601686672015-05-23T13:29:00.000+01:002015-05-23T13:29:21.070+01:00Ireland takes it up the shitterIt's not final yet, but it looks like the bogtrotters have decided to let pooves, dykes and other assorted perverts and deviants get married.

This is great news, it's entirely unclear to me why only breeders should be allowed the misery and stress of married life. And it's also good that it looks like it will be a clear, unambiguous and wide-spread decision.

However, I do have a couple of reservations:

what happens if there is a different definition of marriage for straights and queers, like there is in the UK? As far as I'm concerned, if there's not actual equality, then this isn't really any different from civil partnerships.

why are there different definitions of marriage for different groups of people? Well, you might argue that the definition of sex between straights, gays and dykes is potentially all different, so what constitutes adultery is different. But then I might, as a straight, commit an act that is not adultery in a gay marriage but is adultery in a straight marriage. How is that equality?

why is the state even involved in defining and restricting what is essentially a private contract between two people? The state doesn't get involved in my business transactions (other than to extort protection money off me!), why the hell should it have anything to do with my love life? People used to let the church run the whole farce, that was no better, but the state's involvement is terrible, as it gives political parties the ability to indulge in social engineering to suit their own agenda

Anyway, here's to the impending misery of bulldykes and shirt lifters in the Emerald Isle.

Cheers!
Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-376356121633585012014-09-19T11:00:00.000+01:002014-09-19T11:00:03.507+01:00Isn't democracy wonderful?So, there we have it, a clear result in favour of being fucked over by Oxbridge PPEs who live 500 miles away. Bargain.
As I said, Salmond didn't want to win, he wanted to panic Westminster into giving him more powers with less accountability. Even though he didn't win, he got what he actually wanted. A very canny and astute politician, to be fair, but does making Salmond happy improve Scotland's situation?
I don't know if I'm just being unduly cynical here, but were the No guys really so unsure of their case that they really believed that handing over free bags of sweeties to Salmond would do the trick? Fuck that. If there was ever proof that the current parliament was populated by vacuous makeweight retards*, this was surely it? You had no plan, nothing more powerful than to bring out a discredited, cowardly ex-Prime Mentalist to make offers that NO FUCKING CUNT HAD VOTED ON?
That's a ringing endorsement of democracy right there.
A further ringing endorsement is that despite it being massively engaged, with a broader plebiscite than usual and huge turnout, the result ultimately disenfranchises nearly half of the Scottish population.
Let's be generous for a moment: let's imagine that all the people voting yes had done detailed research, had genuine aspirations to independence and had a clear, optimistic vision of their future - those people will now never have the chance to exercise that vision. 45% (and possibly more) of the Scottish people will now have to live out their lives with their greatest aspiration as a people, crushed.
Now let's be realistic: one-third of the Yes voters would have voted whatever the SNP suggested, much like one-third of the UK's population would vote for Labour, even if their MP was a massive turd wearing a red rosette. Or John Prescott. One-third of them would have voted as a protest against the Tories, because Thatcher. And the rest would have genuinely aspired to independent Scotland. What would have happened if they'd won?
Which of those scenarios makes a better case for democracy? The case that a large portion (in the UK overall it's generally TWO-THIRDS of us) now live in a situation they didn't want; or the case that unreasoned, unthinking stupidity can make a decision that everyone else has to live with?
*Apologies to retards everywhere.
Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-89561746550891834212014-09-17T11:00:00.000+01:002014-09-17T11:00:01.147+01:00Hoots, mon! #indyrefOK, let me get my cards on the table: I want a fully independent Scotland. I don't have any emotional attachment to a Union that was created to benefit one group of poshos and bail out another. Smaller territories, genuine community concerns, etc., lead to more relevant politics.
There's plenty of reason why an independent Scotland really appeals to me, not the least of which is that the endless Scottish whingeing about Westminster can finally fuck the fuck off. Labour destroyed for the foreseeable future? Well, suck my cock. David Cameron in a lose-lose situation? Cry me a river.
But the truth of it is that the Scots are going to bottle it. It's going to be a narrow No vote. Narrow enough that Alex Salmond is going to claim vindication and carry on banging on to acquire more powers for Alex Salmond.
Useless, desperate Westminster politicians will throw money and power without consequences at Holyrood in a desperate attempt to hang on to their own power.
The hated and despised English will continue to fork out for every fucking thing.
Alex Salmond isn't really interested in independence for Scotland, the hope thereof is his gimmick, his schtick for more power without any responsibility. If the Scots do vote Yes, what's going to be his unique selling point? People may start to look at his policies and start to question them.
He's not prepared fully for the consequences of independence, that's because he doesn't really want it. He's in a powerful position, pandering to the nationalist elements of the Scots, with massive power over what happens but equally no responsibilities and a handy scapegoat if shit goes wrong.
Which politician would want that happy gravy train to reach a destination?
Proof that democracy is a terrible thing shows in the fact that 97% of Scottish people think that the outcome this referendum is going to make their lives better. It's as stupid as people believing that UKIP will be any different to the existing political structure if they get any power.
The worst possible outcome (and therefore the most likely one) is that the No vote squeaks in. The Yes camp will be outraged, calling it a fix. Westminster will be fully cowed, aware that unless they accede to Salmond they will be only one referendum away from losing the thing that will cost them their own power. Everybody else's money will be thrown at the Scots to keep them quiet and Salmond will negotiate himself even more powers with even less accountability.
Ordinary Scots will be no better off than they are now, but the political elite in Holyrood will be much better off and may trumpet their "achievements" to appease the nationalist vote, to keep them on side.
Ultimately, the only true independence is the one where we walk away from the states that control and shepherd us. That will never happen because people are afraid of the responsibility that comes with that.
A small taste of that fear is what will keep Scotland in check. All the No campaign has offered is fear, uncertainty and doubt. It's much more powerful than hope and opportunity.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-91813514953803369612013-12-06T15:30:00.000+00:002013-12-06T15:30:00.555+00:00Thoughts on #Mandela (for @kevin_maguire and others)So, he's gone. Predictably, the sanctimonious bullshit has been dialled up to 11.
One of the most depressing things about it has been the preponderance of left-wing political animals (if not MPs) like Alastair Campbell and Charlie Whelan banging on about meeting him.

Look at mmmeeeeeeEEEEEEE!! Look at me! I met him! I touched him! Behold, he cured my leprosy!

From utter cunts who would mock the shit out of someone saying the Pope had done that.
Equally annoying has been the whitewashing of his history. He was given a fair trial and a fair sentence, even Amnesty fucking International said so. He WAS a terrorist.
He was also a politician upon release, who had some good ideas and equally, some fucking insane ones. Ironically, he replaced a notionally democratic but really one party state with another notionally democratic but really one party state, although to be fair, this was hardly his fault.
He did keep a lid on the widely-expected violent backlash, but today there are more murders of white farmers in SA than there ever were in Zimbabwe.
He did, for a very brief time, largely unite the nation (apart from lunatic neo-nazis and equally lunatic black consciousness marxists, but nothing's going to make those fuckers talk to anyone else!) Ultimately that was down to the cult around his person - he did not make this a lasting legacy.
He did drag South Africa out of the Stone Age in terms of some social liberties, but ultimately the economic policies he introduced replaced the handful of white oligarchs with a handful of black ones while leaving the overwhelming majority of South Africans even worse off than they'd been under the Apartheid regime.
He fucked up royally on crime and let's face it, the corruption of other politicians did not start after he left power.
So his legacy can basically summed as a mixed bag - hardly the amazing result he seems to be associated with.
But really, the worst whole thing about the grief whoring is that people who hold him up as some sort of role-model-y godlike figure display none of the values that they claim to admire in Mandela: that people can change and that you should forgive.
As an example of this: a load of bollocks has been spouted about Dishface wanting to hang Mandela in the 80's. Even if he did (and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case), the whole fucking point about lionising Mandela is that he is the model of change for the good, of humility and of reconciliation and forgiveness. We venerate Mandela, an ex-terrorist, because when he got to power he didn't use that power to victimise the people who branded him a terrorist. He changed. He forgave.
Unlike the tolerant, always-correct left. Using the death of a man they claim to admire to score some cheap, political points. Nice one, Kev!
I wish that people who are venerating Mandela would display some of the fucking qualities they claim to admire in him.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-70402626712056915182013-08-08T09:00:00.000+01:002013-08-08T09:00:02.718+01:00Hypocritical Lefty Luvvie Twitter TalibanistasI shan't go on about Caitlin Moron, who apparently can make all the violent threats, homophobic and ableist jokes or other trolling comments because "context", apparently.
Today I saw someone tweet about Graham Lineham blocking them while he (Graham Lineham) was dishing out abuse. I read the tweets in question and there was no fucking "context" there at all. Lineham was just calling people cunts. Tonight I saw him concur with Frankie "I can dish it out but I'm a big frit girl's blouse when I get it" Boyle saying that if his block button killed people, it would be a nicer place.
(Just revel in the fact there for a moment that the man who made his career out of being offensive wants to kill people who he finds offensive. Jaw-dropping, isn't it?)
I'm sure I could go on (and on and ON) finding other examples of hypocritical lefty luvvie twitter talibanistas if I wanted to, but you get the point.
I'm not really sure how different this is from me calling for the heads of hypocritical lefty luvvie twitter talibanistas (HLLTT's) on pikes, but apparently, when I dish abuse out, it's vile, when HLLTT's do it, it's funny and, y'know, "context".
From my perspective, I don't have a problem with Lineham or Moran or anyone else being abusive in the name of being funny. What I do find unbearable is them smugly pontificating about "abuse" and "politeness" while they do exactly the same things they're describing as being unacceptable and even worse, their armies of cock-sucking windowlickers actually having the temerity to justify it.
Either it's acceptable or it's not, if Moron or Lineham or Boyle can do it, why can't I?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-2940985939171317792013-08-06T09:00:00.000+01:002013-08-06T09:00:09.225+01:00Don't feed the trollsI know a bit about trolling, I used to be one. I also spent a lot of time on the receiving end of possibly the best troll the internet has ever seen (anyone heard from pneawf lately?)
I was but an amateur, more of a wind-up artist than anything else, and I still am, online and in real life. My favourite TV show is The Mentalist, especially the early ones, because the character is a massive cunt and a wind-up merchant.
But I did learn from some awe-inspiring trolls, which is why I can spot one so easily.
And it annoys the fuck out of me that mongoloid fucktards with IQs of 7 and one track minds spouting mindless abuse get called trolls. They aren't. They are stupid, pointless bullies who don't put the slightest effort into winding people up, they just make shouty threats of violence when they see someone that they think can easily be bullied.
They are no different to Liverpudlians who perceive a slight on Liverpool; like wibbling leftards; like Terminators: they cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be bargained with and they will absolutely not stop until they've hounded you off the internet and shut down your voice.
But what they are not, are trolls.
Trolls will put a bit of effort in, will wind you up in several different ways, often without saying an unkind or improper word and leave you raging while chuckling to themselves.
Trolls do not shout mindless abuse.
However, the psychology of dealing with abuse and dealing with trolls is very much the same, and unfortunately it is not in the nature of those being trolled or abused to respond correctly. But it is simple to deal with a troll and probably equally simple to deal with an abuser:
Do not rise to the bait. If you suspect you're being trolled, or you have a shouty abuser on the line: DO NOT RESPOND.
 If you don't respond to a troll, it frustrates the fuck out of them and they move on looking for a new target. If someone shouts abuse at you and you don't respond, they will get bored and look for someone who does.
Speaking as someone who has been on the end, ironically, of both the Scouse hate mob AND Old Holborn's pack of windowlickers, I'm quite certain that someone who actually wants you dead, assaulted or raped is not going to warn you - they're just going to do it. All they're trying to do is make you feel scared.
It's simple, it works and it pisses them they hell off. What's not to like?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-26622487945087813562013-07-18T09:00:00.000+01:002013-07-18T09:00:07.543+01:00Guess who's back?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-75829232628475616212013-06-27T09:00:00.000+01:002013-06-27T09:00:01.954+01:00Can someone please enlighten me?Right, so as far as I can ascertain, lefties are frothing about the expulsion of Trenton Oldfield, while being horrified that the EDL's Tommy Robinson remains in the country.
Trenton Oldfield is apparently proud of the fact that 500,000 people googled "elitism" after his fucking up something that two teams of people had trained pretty much their whole lives for.
I can therefor only assume that as soon as Tommy Robinson starts drawing attention to Islamic "religious elitism", lefties will be queueing up to beg him to bomb mosques.
Seriously, what is this fucking bullshit? Why is it OK for Trenton Oldfield to "draw attention" to the "damage" that "elitism" is doing to the country, while Tommy Robinson is hated for "drawing attention" to the "damage" that "Islam" is doing to the country?
It's perfectly feasible to argue that both have benefits and both have drawbacks. But picking on one is fine, picking on the other is the ultimate thoughtcrime.
Arguably, you have less control about which social circle you're born into that which religion you choose to follow.
Picking on someone because they're born black is disgusting and shameful. Picking on someone because they were born gay is hateful and cruel. Picking on someone because they were born rich is ... fine?
Can someone please clarify for me why being born in the "person of colour" group is a reason for veneration, being born in the "alternate sexuality" group means you're great, but being born "rich" means you're an unspeakable cunt and there's no reason to give you the same respect you'd give anyone else?
And can someone please explain why people who are all fans of Richard Dawkins (or even Richard Dawkins himself) can rip the shit out of Christianity (which is a load of bollocks perpetuated by fallible misogynist cunts) but not Islam (which is a load of bollocks perpetuated by fallible misogynist cunts)?
Surely they're all deserving of respect or none of them are deserving of respect?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-37856942677797712932013-06-18T09:00:00.000+01:002013-07-11T15:29:43.606+01:00Nigella contretempsLet me start this by saying that I don't know whether Nigella was assaulted by her husband. If he did, then I have absolutely no fucking time for him whatsoever and he deserves whatever's coming to him after due process.
I do not condone domestic violence, I despise anyone who picks on someone unable to defend themselves. I despise the mental abuse that accompanies the physical violence in these situations.
And yet, I have to say that I don't really think ANYONE has enough evidence based on the pictures to form an opinion.
Let me just say this: a Labour-supporting newspaper publishes a set of photos depicting someone who helped the Tories in an unflattering light. We don't know how many photos there are, the person who could have submitted only some of the photos or the paper could have chosen the photos to fit a certain narrative. The article is full of irrelevant bollocks, disparaging innuendo passing as comment and "onlookers said". The assaultee seems to have carried on living with the assaulter and seems perfectly happy. There have never even been rumours of marital
Based on the photos, the body language for an assault is entirely wrong. I've seen similar role-playing behaviour between consenting adults.
I'd have absolutely no trouble believing that Saatchi was a dom and that Nigella was a sub. And if you didn't know what goes on in the world of BDSM, you would quite likely freak out if you saw it being enacted in public. But the key difference between kink and domestic violence is the issue of consent. And if two consenting adults choose to do things that you or I find incomprehensible, does this mean that the police need to be involved?
So I'm not going to say that it's not assault, but I'm not immediately convinced that it is. I'm certainly not going to rush to judgment on the basis of those photos.
If it was a bit of hanky-panky, I'm bloody sure they both regret it; if it was assault, it's surely her decision to make something of it, or not.
I'm unsurprised that feminists have been jumping up and down about this, immediately calling it domestic violence, demanding police action and making snarky remarks about anybody with a contrary opinion.
However, I've been fucking horrified by "anarchists" calling for the police to get involved in the private affairs of a successful, powerful, adult woman. It's almost like they don't think she's capable of cutting his balls off with a deft twitch of a kitchen knife or, you know, going to the police herself.
The whole thing is profoundly depressing to me.
Update: I spoke to a professional domme about this. She says that the body language is not fully the language of someone who's enjoying it. But even she isn't sure that it's not a bit of roleplay. She thinks that Mr Saatchi may be a bit unpleasant. The jury is still out on what happened, but no matter what the truth is, it's none of our fucking business unless they choose to make it public.
Second update: Apparently Mr Saatchi is a cunt who has accepted a police caution for assault. So that's me told.
Third update: I believe a divorce is in the offing. So I was completely wrong.
No change there, then.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-58455359342188996822013-06-17T09:00:00.000+01:002013-06-17T09:00:00.525+01:00@OwenJones84 is a shameless hypocrite and a knaveI'm sure that it will come as absolutely NO surprise that I disagree with Owen Jones on matters political. But his latest heap of festering faeces unequivocally demonstrates the destructive nature of his argument.

What do I mean about abolishing the Oxbridge system? I don't mean bulldozing the universities – and their beautiful quads – into rubble. There is an argument about transforming the universities into purely postgraduate institutions, and I am sympathetic to that.
But, to begin with, I would dispense with the interview system, which is biased towards the more articulate – and the more articulate are those who tend to be more middle-class and have benefited from "cultural capital" passed on from their parents. They are not, necessarily, automatically brighter than those who have benefited from far fewer resources.
Then I would completely overhaul the admissions system. George Monbiot suggests offering a place to the top one or two every school in the country. That's a good start to the debate. I remember one privately educated fellow Oxford student (who had been rejected the first time he applied) suggesting that comprehensive school students like myself only got in because of quotas. In actual fact research has shown that students from comprehensives do better at Oxford than those from public schools. More widely, research has shown state students do better at university than those who were privately educated.
But, as well as redressing the balance with the types of schools, admissions needs to take account of class. The top percentage of those who were once eligible for Educational Maintenance Allowance or on free school meals should be offered automatic admissions, for a start.
It's not just Oxford and Cambridge this should apply to: all the top Russell Group universities should be made to follow suit.
Above all, Oxford and Cambridge should be normalised as universities. The best tutors should be encouraged to disperse across the university system – perhaps with incentives. It is right to have a top tier of universities catering to the brightest students – particularly when they are forced to reflect society as a whole, rather than the brightest rich kids: and that is the model that should be promoted.
But Oxford and Cambridge should no longer be regarded as the nation's top universities. It's time to leave the Oxbridge era behind us.

I can see lefties nodding their heads like Churchill the insurance dog at these wise words. But you're ALL entirely wrong.
If you want to know why you're wrong, let me ask some simple questions: given the unlimited financial muscle of the state (with our money), the fact that comprehensive teachers are heavily unionized and largely toe the left's line and given that we had 13 years of Labour paradise with Gordon Brown pissing our money away at the left's tropes du jour:

why the fuck ARE public schools still so much better?

why DO the top teachers and top tutors flock to public schools and Russell Group universities?

why does Oxbridge retain any cachet?

And more importantly, why does someone who would have been a complete and utter non-entity but for his Oxbridge education want to deny other people the same thing?
At no point in his tedious, right-on cockwaffle does the dreadful scumbag attack the heavily unionized teaching profession and the overwrought polytechnics for not getting better so that public schools don't have an advantage or raising the standard of "David Beckham Studies" to compete with a PPE.
It's all about destroying the great to make everyone a nice anodyne shade of beige, with a smug side helping of "I'm alright, Jack, I've been and got all the perks, but heaven forbid anyone else should get a look in."
Unlike Owen Jones, I don't have the advantage of an Oxbridge education. But I don't begrudge anyone else the right to it.
If I was going to bitch about education, I'd be asking why the people who absolutely love sucking Owen's cock are not asking why state education should not be made better, rather than why public school and Russell Group universities should be torn down to the mediocrity that Owen seems to think the rest of us should be moulded to.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-34670288138590215352013-06-14T12:00:00.000+01:002013-06-14T12:00:04.812+01:00Tax is theftThis is a guest post from @VendettaBeretta
Tax is theft.
Don't believe me? Read on....
The following is taken from an email sent to me by a poster on Twitter.
I first took an interest due to a tweet that read
"grrrrr now I will go for a cold shower, as the Inland Revenue have taken my bathtub (really)"

Now, you can probably see what caught my attention. The Inland Revenue wouldn't actually remove someone's bathtub, surely? Guess again. And her underwear. Not sure what the resale value is in worn pants these days, but I'm sure there's probably a market for it in the office of HMRC anyway.
Anyway, to the email.
"they suddenly gave me a tax bill of £125.000.00 - yes £125k and it was outrageous given that I mormally paid about £10-12k a year. my accountant told me to ignore it as it was wrong - so I did but I telephoned them to say so. they changed the bill from 125k down to 88k then 55k then 35k but all the while they had my bank accounts frozen and they had out liens on my property - i had 2 properties, they took one property and i went ballistic - then 18 months later they took my mnain business property - I owned both these buildings with no mortgage. I am now living in a flat with a mortgage but since they bankrupted me I have been on the dole and now the mortgage company are repossesing this flat - and they have kindly agreed to wait till after I have had 2 knee operations. but my time is running out I will be evicted soon - god help me - I have lived here for 10 years. the main reason why they took all my property is that they kept me bankrupt for over 3 years and (you might not know this but) every single week the IR keep you bankrupt they charge you (or me) £1000.00 administration costs - so I didnt have a leg to stand on. every time I filled in forms or went for an interview - they told me they would have to look into in it - it took them 6 months to get my bank statements (they would not asccept them off my accountant or me) so in that 6 months - I was billed for 26k in admin costs - thats the way trhey play and its DIRTY and very very unfair - i fought like hell but i had no credit cards and no cheque books and - after 3 years they had accunilated almost £200k in administration costs -thats when the bill was brought down to 33k but with the admin costs - they seized my property and contents - and left me with nothing - not even any clothes - its a bad story. I NEVER thought my country could do this to me."

The highlights are mine.
The point I'm raising is not just against the clearly incompetent accountant, who should have advised against ignoring HMRC demands, but of the conduct of HMRC throughout this affair.
How does a demand for £125 grand turn into £35 grand? On what formula is this based? Does this sound like a professional government agency, or gangsters demanding protection money? The taking of two properties? The admin charges of £1000 per week would make Wonga blush.
Tax is theft. You can keep your bullshit about fair shares and tax avoidance. You can claim it to be part of a social contract if you like that sort of statist newspeak. You try not paying the tax man, and he'll be riflling through your knicker drawer like your babysitters 15 year old boyfriend.
Here's a little addition to this story.
The lady in question employed 21 members of staff. All of whom lost their jobs. She is about to be evicted from her flat. She's also now unemployed. The irony in the state stealing from her, and making her reliant upon the welfare system hasn't been lost on me. This is the new way comrades. Turnips for all.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-6284935745653730672013-04-25T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-25T09:00:12.343+01:00Why would anybody need an automatic rifle?A lot of fuss has been made about the apparent insanity of Americans with regard to gun control. There is no reason, people argue, that private individuals should have automatic firearms with clips that can fire off tens or hundreds of rounds.
Well, here are a couple of reasons:

Why should I, a sane, balanced individual who has never harmed anyone in my life, not have such a weapon for my defence or indeed my pleasure, if that is how I want to spend my time? I mean, people collect stamps or do morris dancing or watch cookery programs for fun. I can't understand doing any of those things for fun, but it doesn't mean I think they should be banned.

"Nobody needs more than 30 rounds to defend themselves." Perhaps if you're John Rambo, or Ethan Hunt; but in the real world, things are very different. It's surprisingly difficult to shoot a moving target, even for trained professionals like soldiers and the police. I was once involved in someone running a road block with a car, where around 80 rounds were fired and only 3 hit the car, none hit any of the occupants. (I wasn't shooting mind, if I had been, no rounds would have hit the car!)

"There is no need for anyone but the government to have such powerful weapons." This fundamentally misunderstands the skeptical view that the Founding Fathers had of government. It is precisely because the government has such powerful weapons that the common man should have them too, to be able to bear equivalent arms against the state. You need to keep the state's monopoly on violence as weak and counterbalanced as possible.

So there.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-55130611904889755232013-04-17T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-17T09:11:29.829+01:00The S-wordI am profoundly depressed today: the aftermath of the Boston bombing has left a truly awful taste in my mouth.
The reaction of (some) left-wing people (Owen Jones, Maria Eagle, amongst others: I'm looking at you) has left me profoundly angry: they used the "s-word".
Solidarity.
Just roll the word around your mouth for a moment.
Solidarity.
A word redolent of union activity and collectivist thinking and utterly bereft of humanity. The sort of word that RMT committees might use to indicate moral support of a strike by the NUT. A word, charitably, that communists might use to express their support to workers exploited by capitalist running dogs.
But is it really the word to express your sympathy and empathy to victims of an atrocity? Do you really think such a politically loaded word is the right thing to say to someone who has suffered such violence? You're not standing shoulder to shoulder in the battle against the exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie here. These people are frightened, angry, hurt, grieving, anguished.
Where is your humanity, your heart, your compassion, when you all can offer is the tepid, banal solidarity of the proletariat?
Maria Eagle particularly got up my nose with the implication that there was some mileage in levering in the Hillsborough disaster into the frame of this most recent tragedy.
But of course, the masterclass in hypocrisy had to be Gerry fucking Adams expressing his "solidarity" with the people of Boston, who have, ironically, funded him generously to bomb the fuck out of the people of the United Kingdom.
There is no mileage to be made out of scoring points on the back of a tragedy, particularly when nothing is known about who or why it was done (something a lot of people pointing out the previous irony seem to have forgotten by going on to say unpleasant things about Bostonians deserving this tragedy.)
But there is hope among the bile, vapidity and stupidity: thousands of Americans (those callous, heartless bastards) have opened their homes to victims and their families to help them get through this.
It just goes to show that when you let go of party political bullshit, people can do the right thing without the state forcing them to do so.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-78147873307092851482013-04-12T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-12T09:00:15.313+01:00Police State KlaxonThe Met Police have, quite frankly, excelled themselves here:

The Metropolitan Police has asked groups planning to demonstrate during or in advance of Margaret Thatcher's funeral to make themselves known to officers so that their "right to protest can be upheld".

I'm sorry, what?
What fucking shit is this? Why the fuck would the police need to know who wants to protest so that they can "uphold" their right to protest? See that fucker over there protesting? Uphold his right. Jesus.
The next thing you know, people will have to apply to the police for permission to protest. Oh, hang on.
Look, Thatcher was a flawed politician, any politician is flawed. I also remain unconvinced that her "achievements", good or bad, were down to her alone. Unlike Blair, she still believed in having a cabinet where relevant ministers made their own decisions. That the mines closed down and industry was gutted was much more down to the unions having no business sense and believing they could leech indefinitely more and more off a failing, sickly host. So I'm not convinced that her veneration by the right is justified.
I can understand the hatred of the left, however, because it's much easier and more desirable to blame someone external for your own complete, abject failure than to look at yourself and say: "We fucked up." The petulant, pouty lip of people who weren't fucking born or were still in nappies when Thatcher was ejected from power is ludicrous, but typical of the whingeing lack of responsibility of communitarian, authoritarian leftards.
But having said all that, if people want to protest her, they should be free to do so and the police's burgeoning contempt for the Peelian principle of policing by consent needs to be slapped down very soon.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-33857377556588231432013-04-11T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-11T09:00:03.641+01:00A new religionA couple of days ago, it dawned on me why religion is becoming less relevant in our lives. It isn't. It's just that the god we worship is no longer the abstract skyfairy YHWH or his myriad descendants and variants, but the equally abstract (yet much more apparent) state.
Authoritarian worshippers of the two main factions (the Left and the Right) argue violently about which of them holds the keys to the True Way Forward To Holiness by insisting their grip on the levers of the state will lead to a path of plenty and righteousness.
As with most religious beliefs, the opportunities for apparently sensible, intelligent people to talk utter bullshit in defence of their religious hierarchy and slant on what the state should be are no more illogical and incomprehensible than Catholics refusing contraception in an era of HIV:

Funnily enough, last year one of those sympathetic to Brown had a very different take on a 17-year old tweeter. Graham Linehan noted in the case of "@Rileyy_69", who was arrested for tweeting abuse (and a lame death threat) to Tom Daley:

As a symbol of free speech, Riley69 is not Lenny Bruce. He's not even the EDL. He's a teenager going through that thing a lot of teenagers go through where they seem unable to feel empathy. This kind of temporary sociopath can be very dangerous and using these new tools they can wreak havoc more efficiently than ever before.

He was all for Riley's arrest - there was no 'oh teenagers!' on display here. Yet Riley69 wasn't a public figure, just someone who had tweeted idiotic comments to a celebrity. If Tom Daley had quickly blocked him, almost no-one would have ever heard of him. Instead Daley alerted his followers and we ended up with people like Linehan defending Riley69's arrest. The logic, then, that it's simply awful to bring to light the casual homophobia/racism etc of a newly-pointed police figure but fine and dandy to arrest someone of the same age for their idiotic tweets seems rather…pained. It's for this reason that I have zero doubt that, had Brown's tweets not came to light via the Daily Mail but rather (say) through some left-wing blogger who presented them as highlighting her use of 'faggots', the response from many would be very different.

People on the Left will grumpily endorse actions from their bishops that would drive them insane if called for by the bishops of the Right and vice versa.
It's also ironic how many left-wing "atheists" will happily venerate the state to irrational heights. In a sense, I'd regard the Left as the devout Catholics of statism, and the Right as milque-toast CoE. The Left seem to have a peculiar belief in the holiness of the state: philanthropy and charity of individuals is shameful, the Holy State should provide for all from its extortion. The Right still go to church, but they've jettisoned some of the more ludicrous aspects of the theology.
Irrational, prone to violent and unreasoning reaction to heretics, filled with internecine squabbles and ridiculous sects, governed by arcane rules interpreted by people of dubious morality using their shamanic powers to hide disgusting deeds: religion has not gone away at all, the world has just adopted a hungrier, more violent god.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-43351820408106555082013-04-10T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-10T09:00:01.061+01:00Rust In PeaceWell, Margaret Hilda Thatcher has finally succumbed, and from the clamour on both sides, you'd think it was a current serving prime minister who had popped her clogs in office.
I look at the right and I see beatification of someone who ultimately believed that the state had a purpose, even if it was a different purpose than what Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband would expect. From the left, it's like Adolf Hitler had been toppled by people beating him to death with rolled-up copies of the Socialist Worker.
Her policies broke the mould of a nation that was still, 35 years after the event, shaped by the attitudes and experiences of a war that everyone else in the world had left behind.
Today, Britain is still largely defined by what she did. For all the talk that I hear from "the left", the only way Labour came to power was to embrace Thatcherism and evolve it very slightly.
I think Thatcher's real legacy is not her considerable achievements for both good and bad as a politician, her immense climb to power at a time when sexism was still rampant and she was not of the Eton / Bullingdon elite or the strength of the mutual bond that she forged with the US that no subsequent PM matched, or indeed anything else that she did.
Her real legacy was to show the poverty of British politics, where leaders who are not merely mediocre dross, leaders with actual ideas and the will to take them forward come along only once in a lifetime.
Before Thatcher, everyone was still living based on the war, weak, tired and stultified while the rest of the world surged past. Thatcher may have broken the old, comfortable, "clubby" Britain, where your club was either the Bullingdon or the local working man's club, but she also opened Britain up to the rest of the world again.
How depressing that people on the left and the right have got nothing better to offer than evolutions of, or rebuttals to, Thatcherism. It was nearly a quarter of a century ago that she was in power, more than a quarter of the average person's life, and still politicians have nothing more to offer us than what she had.
Ultimately, by dishing up increasingly hair-splitting variations on what Thatcher left behind, British politics is starting a massive race to the bottom.
The empire is over. Britain's first world status is severely at risk and old ways and reversion to some golden era are just not going to happen. Stop dwelling on what's been and start looking to the future, or another 35 years will have gone by and Britain will become an irrelevant museum again, this time the museum of Thatcherism.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-2897520236787770172013-04-05T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-05T09:00:01.305+01:00Gothic policingI see the rozzers have decided to start record attacks on goths and emos as "hate crime".

Sorry. I just had to stop and sit with my head in my hands for a moment and think about how fucking stupid that is.
Apparently, this is because someone got killed because they looked a bit different.

Sorry, I had to stop and rock back and forth again, keening.
I almost can't work up the strength to blog about this stupidity. All this kind of thing does is to encourage people to focus on their differences, not their common humanity.
All this is going to to is to validate the sick fucks who go around looking for excuses to beat people up. Society gives preferential treatment to one group, which makes people not in that group resentful. This then validates them when they express their frustration.
I find it odd that people who support things like quotas and "positive" discrimination never work out the consequences. By highlighting the differences between people, you diminish the things we have in common. Adding to the pool of differences simply adds to alienation. "I'm not in one of the approved groups, so I'm not worth as much as a human being."
The only upside I can find to this is that if this divide and conquer bollocks is taken to its natural conclusion, ultimately we will all end up in some "preferred" group or t'other.
But we could short-circuit that process and immediately focus on that ultimate minority: the individual. Treat every crime against people as an affront to the person, not to some specious, artificial group.
Or is that too much to ask for?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-40048637979905351852013-04-04T09:00:00.000+01:002013-04-04T09:00:08.078+01:00PhilpottySo, the Daily Mail has done it again: trolled the chattering classes into a good old froth.

Vile product of Welfare UK: Man who bred 17 babies by five women to milk benefits system is guilty of killing six of them

Apparently, the word "bred" offended one frother. Well, yes, but he wasn't exactly guilty of "fathering" them, was he? He did absolutely treat them as cattle. He may have shown them affection from time to time, but so would any farmer of milk cows. Just because they were human beings, doesn't mean he treated them as such.
Furthermore, it's hard to say why Philpott isn't the product of Welfare UK. He was definitely a weapons-grade cunt, but if he didn't have a benefits system he could milk to fuck he'd have had to become a criminal or work. The Welfare State may not have made him a complete cunt, but it certainly enabled him.
To be brutally honest, I've personally met more people who milk the benefits system and more people who have been completely let down by the benefits system than I've met people who have been helped by it, by about 5 to 1.
I notice, too, that the much vaunted social care that the saintly state provides completely bypassed all these poor children, despite the minor red flag of him bragging on national TV about what a cunt he was. Well, I guess that's a bit subtle.

As an inquiry was launched into the case, it also emerged that:

'Shameless Mick' faces a fresh police investigation for allegedly raping a woman who went on to bear one of his children.

He was jailed for trying to kill a schoolgirl lover, stabbing her 27 times after she ended their relationship.

Philpott plotted to 'get rich quick' – turning funeral funds donated by the local community into Argos vouchers.

God only knows what those children would have turned out like with that as a role model, though.
And God help the rest of them.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-59375641787762109562013-03-26T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-26T09:00:05.444+00:00CyprusI don't really have coherent words to describe this.
I cannot believe that anyone can still think of the EU as any kind of force for good if they are prepared to take this kind of action to protect their precious, impractical, insane, vanity project currency.
What's worse is the Pandora's box that's been opened. Now, any government in need of money will simply hit your bank accounts, your pension any fucking thing they want and can with a "one off stability levy" that doesn't even need discussing in parliament.
Just so they can piss it up against the wall of their incompetence and interference.
Nice going Urophiles.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-22092583674260064272013-03-22T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-22T09:00:01.126+00:00Publish and be DamnedFirst of all, despite the fact that I am not a lawyer, I am a deeply cynical person and arguments such as this do not compel me in the slightest:

In light of these definitions individual bloggers are unlikely to be subject to the new proposed regulatory regime. So for example those individual blogs on WordPress or Blogger would remain unregulated and not subject to the adverse costs awards, or possibility of exemplary damages, that can result from not signing up as members of the proposed regulator. On the other hand websites such run by those such as the Huffington Post or Guido Fawkes could be.
Paul Staines's 'Guido Fawkes' website for instance has a number of contributors, is run as a business and despite being off shore is targeted primarily at an audience in the United Kingdom.

If I enable Google Ads on my blog, I would fall under this regulator, because I've got a couple of guest posts on my blog.
The article goes on to say:

Whilst he is entitled to protest and refuse to join the regulator one has to ask, from a commercial perspective, why such a website would do so?

Well, up to a point, your honour. The events that led up to Leveson were NOT issues of regulation, they were quite clearly acts that were proscribed by law in which the media, police and the political establishment were complicit. The whole Hacked Off bollocks was not a failure in the existing media regulatory system, it was a failure of the criminal justice system to which the media were a party.
That is quite a different matter altogether and one that our glorious politico-legal Establishment has quietly glossed over with some fetching Farrow & Ball Red Herring emulsion.
The whole issue of media regulation (or not) should much more correctly be looking at the consumers of this tripe. The Sun, the Daily Star, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, etc. all feature swathes of salacious, scandalous gossip because that's what people want to read. If people didn't want to read this shit or see tits on Page 3, they shouldn't buy papers that provide that sort of thing.
The fact that this tripe gets bought and read so avidly is because there are cunts who want to read this sort of shit. It's a fucking lie to say that if papers didn't print it people would suddenly start reading Tolstoy, because there is a massive market for vacuous magazines filled to the brim with the banal details of Z-list-sleb lives.
You can regulate yourself to death and not fix the root cause of this shit.
And, of course, the slebs themselves are not at all blameless for this situation. It's insane for Hugh Grant to live the vacuous life of a sleb, trolling from movie star wife to movie star wife, enjoying all the glamour to then get the hump when the same media that fawned over him suddenly get the chance to report that he's been sucked off in a car by a prostitute.
The people who are actually the least to blame in this whole farrago of bullshit are probably the media, who are simply providing consumers with what they want.
The people who buy this shit and the slebs who whore themselves around for media attention both need to take a long, hard look at themselves.
The cunts.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-80868889856593862462013-03-18T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-18T09:00:01.028+00:00The Pope is a DopeSo much for infallibility: Da Pope has apparently been rumbled for dodgy dealings in Argentina. What is it with the Catlicks and fascism, eh, Benny?
But you have to admire his brass neck:
"The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers."
 ... said the man who is now in charge of one of the world's largest businesses, built almost entirely off extortion from the poorest and most vulnerable.
When these fuckers stop telling us how we have to change our ways to help out other and start changing their ways to help others, I'll start listening to them. Until then, they're no fucking different to a government.
Jesus wept.
As it were.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-8831645059515211702013-03-15T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-15T09:00:11.381+00:00And so it begins... (for @TomHarrisMP) #equalmarriageI think this is the first time I've noticed the start of a Fabian twisting of our language.
While I'm all for teh gayz having the right to fuck up their lives with marriage, I now see that we're not allowed to talk about gay marriage. It's "equal marriage".
No, it's not equal. There are different constraints that apply to gay marriage, one of which is that gays can have affairs and it's not grounds for divorce. That's a pretty weird form of exclusive monogamous commitment right there. There are other differences, a lack of consummation is not grounds for divorce either. So, you can have a gay marriage, never touch your partner, fuck around as much as you want and your partner just has to put up with it.
What kind of marriage is that, then?
But somehow, this has become "equal marriage". I'm pretty sure there's loads of people in straight marriages who would like the same perks, frankly. There are probably more straight people fuck around in their marriages and would like to do so without any prospect of sanction than there are gays who want to get married. What about some "equal rights" for them?
And what happens if a transgender gets married as a straight and then converts? Does their "conventional" marriage now become an "equal" marriage or are they a same-sex couple who have to be faithful?
This is just another badly-drafted, ill-considered bit of law that is going to fuck things around more. But mostly I'm annoyed about the abuse of the language.
It makes me wonder how much other "equality" law is a load of shit.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-73363911377207758152013-03-13T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-14T22:03:15.384+00:00The failed promise of UKIPThere was a time when I had some hope for UKIP. There were a number of young activists who had strongly libertarian ideas and the unformed nature of the party meant that it could, for a time, have the potential to appeal to those who aren't served by the malign, Fabian social democracy of the other parties.
But alas, it was not meant to be. Occasional, stupid, illiberal, vote-grabbing policies and the rawness of their politicians shown up by smooth careerists have been firmed up into more frequent stupid, illiberal, vote-grabbing policies and their politicians are gradually having their raw edges knocked off. Soon, we won't be able to tell them apart from the Liberal Democrats.
How sad.Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-89507775509283403782013-03-05T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-05T09:00:06.354+00:00Actually, let's NOT "privatise" the NHS, shall we?I realise this is probably going to come as a bit of a shock to everyone, given that I hate socialised anything, and my experience of the NHS has been universally depressing and distressing and frustrating.
But I've just realised the outcome of "privatising" the NHS is not going to be loads of independent surgeries and hospitals all competing openly and honestly, driving down costs and improving the experience of healthcare for everyone; it's much more likely to be like public transport, with large, bureaucratic corporate companies gobbling up regions of healthcare and providing de facto (or even worse, de jure) monopolies in each area.
It's a measure of just how useless government is and how reluctant it is to relinquish control of anything that the only model they have for privatisation is to farm the services out to a couple of their mates so that it's easy to "nudge" them in the "right" direction, rather than opening things up to the market and leaving them to sort themselves out. This despite the repeated and rather obvious failure of the model to provide any cost savings or a genuine improvement in service.
We might as well save ourselves the inevitable arse raping (without lube) that is going to happen, since government won't actually privatise the service, but rather just outsource it.
I can't really tell the difference between fascism and modern corporatism.
Can you?Obnoxio The Clownhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471993488623327927.post-39759396001277662162013-03-04T09:00:00.000+00:002013-03-04T09:00:01.672+00:00A Ramble through BeastleighSo, there we have hit: modern social democracy in one easy-to-digest bite!
Despite losing 14% of their previous vote, despite an actual majority (53%) of people wanting a centre-right party, they got whatever it is the LibDems are this week. That's democracy based on party politics in action, right there.
But it's OK, because there's at least a 30% chance that the Lib Dems will be a centre-right party on any given day of the week. And still the yellow drones flock to them.
One thing, however, has been entirely misinterpreted by the Twitterati: "A lurch to the right is not a good idea for the Tories as their candidate was virtually a UKIPper" - nope, people weren't voting for the candidates, they were voting according to tribal loyalty or, in the best case, for what they saw as the parties' direction. The only thing a candidate can really do is fuck up their chances, like, say, wishing that a former Prime Minister had actually died in a bomb blast.
Effectively, Cameron's vacuous social democratic politics do not appeal to enough people, they only "won over" people who would vote for a Blue-ribboned dog turd.
People don't understand this "core vote" thing at all. The core vote will always vote for the party, it doesn't matter whether you lurch to the left or the right.
(I recently spent a weekend with some Labour activists and some of the stories they told me made even my hair stand on end. And yet, despite their very clear understanding that the people that they're supporting are bullies, sexual predators, backstabbers and people that they intensely dislike, THEY STILL VOTE FOR THEM AND WORK THEIR ARSES OFF TO SUPPORT THEM.)
As we say in Topeka, Kansas: "Da FUQUE??"
Having said that, everybody (even the tribal faithful) can see the yawning chasm of amoral, unprincipled emptiness at the heart of modern politics. People don't vote for Cameron in droves despite Gordon Brown's disastrous incompetence because he stands for absolutely nothing. He is the heir to Blair in that regard, but he lacks Blair's media control.
People yearn for politics where there are principles, where they vote for some thing. Politicians since Blair have set expectations that the "thing" they're voting for is all about throwing money from the magic money tree, and recipients of their "largesse" are quite understandably upset that this can't happen indefinitely.
Ultimately, nobody is happy with the way things are being run. It's much easier to accept austerity if there's a clear goal at the end of it. But since there isn't a clear goal other than "clearing up Labour's mess" and there is no apparent sign of the chosen path to austerity working, as raising taxes leaves people with less money in their pockets to restart the economy, everybody is unhappy with the Tory government.
The rise of UKIP is not entirely down to the innate bigotry of British people, it's mostly down to the fact that they appear to stand for something and they're not one of the current lot, all of whom are regarded as massive failures.
But for politics to have principle does not require a "lurch to the right", a "lurch to the left" or a "lurch to the middle". British politicians are fighting over a tiny patch of centre-right, authoritarian ground. Even the ostensibly less authoritarian, more left-wing Greens are just eco-fascists, who want to inflict their own particular brand of bullshit on the rest of us.
Why can't politicians take a stand based on less authoritarianism? It's clear since Blair what the economic sweet spot is, but when it comes to letting people live their lives, every government seems to be more and more authoritarian. How much further can they actually go before we start getting curfews and shit like that?
Why can't we get a party that says: "You know what? As a thank you for voting for us, we're going to get out of your face. We're going to stop micromanaging your life. We're going to trust you to do the right thing like you're trusting us to do the right thing"? Obnoxio The Clownhttp://email@example.com


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WASHINGTON, D.C.– Comcast released the second progress report on its Internet Essentials program, the company's major effort at connecting lower-income Americans to the Internet.
"In just 16 months, Internet Essentials has helped put a real dent in the digital divide and connected more than 150,000 low-income families, or 600,000 Americans, to the power of the Internet, most for the first time in their lives," said Comcast Executive VP David L. Cohen. "That's approximately the entire population of Washington, D.C. or Boston," Cohen added.
Internet Essentials is the nation's largest, most comprehensive broadband adoption initiative designed to help close the digital divide.
"When it comes to education, the Internet has changed everything," said Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho. Children, he said, can do research for their homework, and parents get connected to their child's school to monitor grades and see their child's development, Carvalho added.
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- Received more than 800,000 visitors to the Internet Essentials and Internet Basico websites.
- Partnered with almost 7,000 community-based organizations; government agencies and federal, state and local elected officials.
Comcast's Internet Essentials is the nation's largest and most comprehensive broadband adoption program. It provides low-cost broadband service for $9.95 a month plus tax; the option to purchase an Internet-ready computer for under $150; and multiple options to access free digital literacy training in print, online, and in-person.
Qualified families must have at least one child eligible to participate in the National School Lunch Program, including public, parochial, private and home school students. An estimated total of 2.6 million eligible families live in Comcast's service area and could apply for Internet Essentials.
Comcast will sign up eligible families in the program through the end of the 2013-2014 school year. These households will remain eligible as long as one child eligible for a free or reduced lunch remains living in the household.
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A commentary by Loyd Welbern
As a business office director for the past 36 years at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center, Fort Smith, Ark., I have dealt with attorneys handling private adoptions my entire career.
In the past, the hospital business office manager would contact the attorney who was handling the private adoption and make arrangements with him or her to pay the mother's and baby's hospital charges through the attorney's escrow account. The business office manager would send itemized bills for the mother and baby to the attorney's office, and the attorney would send a check to the hospital to cover the mother's and baby's charges.
The way it happens now-and has for the past six or eight years-is the attorney is contacted by the business office manager to make arrangements for payment, and the attorney tells the hospital to file Medicaid for the mother's and baby's charges. If the mother is not currently on Medicaid, the attorney expects the hospital to help her enroll in Medicaid.
In the meantime, the attorney has collected a large sum of money from the adopting parents. In the past, the attorneys would pay the hospital for the mothers' and baby's charges out of this sum of money. Now, they pocket it all and have Medicaid pay the hospital out of Medicaid funds.
Because the hospital has no legal recourse in these private adoption against anyone but the child's natural mother, the hospital is forced to take the Medicaid payment, which, on average, is around 20 percent of actual charges.
I believe this practice, when looked at from a national perspective, is costing the Medicaid program $100 million to $200 million annually. I came up with this estimate by multiplying what I knew St. Edward has lost per year from these private adoptions and multiplied that by the number of U.S. hospitals with obstetrics services.
Adopting parents are generally blind to this arrangement. I think that most adopting parents are led to believe from their attorneys that part of the large sum of money they are paying is going to pay the medical bills of the natural mother and baby.
Over the past four years, I have met with my hospital association, my state representative, my U.S. congressman and senator, and my state Department of Human Services representative to discuss how attorneys are handling private adoption. On one occasion, I had most of the people mentioned together in one room to discuss this problem. During our discussion, it was agreed upon that this practice was wrong and that something should be done to correct it-but no one knew how.
So after four years of informing everyone about what is going on with private adoptions, I am no closer to getting it corrected.
I have come to the conclusion that even though hospitals should be outraged at only getting 20 percent of their charges, the Medicaid program is paying out $100 million to $200 million unnecessarily, and attorneys are getting rich handling private adoptions, it's all OK.
It's no wonder our country is in the financial shape it's in when it allows practices like this to continue.
I would hope when CFOs and business office managers read this article, it will at least have them run reports on the private adoptions at their hospitals to see how they are being paid and how much money they are losing by accepting Medicaid for these births.
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