tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post2234846889798066023..comments2024-03-29T03:13:58.789+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: .......AND DOG SHALL HAVE HIS DAY.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54848688762667449052016-02-28T15:40:50.775+00:002016-02-28T15:40:50.775+00:00The money stuff, mr dick, is as you like it, terri...The money stuff, mr dick, is as you like it, terrifyingly real or laughably imaginary. The Cintons, though, back in the Big House, especially if he croaks, mid-term, that really is heavy shit. In a sensible world she'd have been sectioned, long ago.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-6700705703555713832016-02-28T15:35:43.716+00:002016-02-28T15:35:43.716+00:00Further on up the road, mr yardarm.Further on up the road, mr yardarm.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-29331584653179272892016-02-28T15:34:22.999+00:002016-02-28T15:34:22.999+00:00You do pretty well, yourself, Tacitus-wise, as I h...You do pretty well, yourself, Tacitus-wise, as I have occasionally, appreciatively observed.<br /><br />The exploratory, incomplete sideshoot, though, which mr mongoose recently mentioned and the memory jogged by historical contextuality, these can take fruitful flight and are, I submit, more generous, more fertile than dry, conclusive axiom.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53611275551188182942016-02-28T12:59:12.411+00:002016-02-28T12:59:12.411+00:00I love my adopted language but I do wish one could...I love my adopted language but I do wish one could easily compress it as Tacitus compressed his. "Where others rose by industry he idled into fame" is too much for the contemporary ear, even if "cashiers are neither obliged to give change nor authorised to demand it" was natural enough for a public notice not so long ago. Maybe making publishing so effortless causes word inflation: would be an excuse for Twitter were tweets themselves as constrained in number as in length. Or maybe it is the prevalence of inexpert, ill-disciplined users. The way to chaos is familiar but to order always mysterious.tdgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23146805999521456542016-02-28T10:56:30.244+00:002016-02-28T10:56:30.244+00:00I stopped long ago even attempting to work out for...I stopped long ago even attempting to work out foreign election predictions because no matter how much is read, watched, understood etc, voting is very much a stick your finger in the air affair and check which way the wind's blowing but...ffs, i'm glad i'm not Amerkin. Just the length of the campaigns for 1 thing - fuck me, there's over 8 months left of this shit and it's not as though government stops, some cunts are just doing stuff with fuck all oversight and with Diana Ross dying they've got the added smokescreen of hiring a Supreme whilst Rome gets napalmed. $20 fucking trillion - what the fuck is that - how on planet fuck can a country be $20 trillion in the red without alarm bells ringing at a constant ear-splitting pitch and estimates to drift to 10x that are truly fucking setting up shop on the Rubicon flogging shitty souvenirs. I think we're at about £1.8 and up to about £4 with private debt and I thought that was pretty bad but.....<br /><br /> Yeah, I hope Trump wins too - sure, he's a retard cunt but he's underselling himself - better than a false prophet 'hopey changey' wank that's been the operating model for far too long. The Sanders guy's a good egg - decent cove, probably talking bollox and would never get the votes or authority to get his policies through the Senate but fair play to the lad yet still they (rigged) vote for Clinton - something to do with super delegates that i've not got y head round. <br /><br /> Geez, a 2 party state - let's hear it for the Lib Dems........tumbleweed....DtPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43497249421721931862016-02-27T21:56:01.621+00:002016-02-27T21:56:01.621+00:00Puts things into perspective, seeing the Dumpster ...Puts things into perspective, seeing the Dumpster compared to the filth that came before. Cometh the cuntish hour, cometh the cunt. And the Rotherham bastards; the councillors, social workers, plod deserve to spend as long in the slammer as the nonces.yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59512967345326739842016-02-27T11:57:26.608+00:002016-02-27T11:57:26.608+00:00He surely is the Ugly American and it'd be lov...He surely is the Ugly American and it'd be lovely to see him get a smack in the kisser, his goons in Aberdeen treated the local home-owners like sub-humans, aided and abetted, of course, by FatBoy Salmond, in exchange for a fistful of dollars, that both survive and flourish is a sign of the times and in Salmond's case an unducation of the steep decline in standards of journalism, before-before his exes and his lies and incompetences would have been ruthlessly investigated and exposed, instead, he's seen as good click-bait. <br /><br />As for your flat-shod American Friend, perhaps you should direct her to some of the US locally made documentaries on RT about destructive, predatory and poisonous EarthCrime projects being conducted in the American wilderness by Hillary's backers, trampling all over the Holy Constitution. Were I mongoosing, colleague-wise, with such a political naive as she, I would buy her a subscription to callmeishmael and direct her mind to the many editions which concentrate upon the doings of Spunky Bill and his maddened doxy.<br /><br />I have read some of Carson's stuff but not seen him and he seemed decent enough, as presidential candidates go.<br /><br />I was also quite cheered by a man of Asian/Indian extraction, Bobby something, now a full-blooded Republican who spoke with some authority about immigration, how there should be no more hyphenated Americans Afro-, Asian-, Sino- and so on, but just Americans, period; if you want to import your own alien culture you really should stay where you are in the first place, it was a bit more subtle than that but that was the essence of it. If only the aldermen, sherrif and justices of Rotherham had proved so forthright.<br /><br />Les biens pensants will surely suffer moral dyspepsia should Donald come marching home, please God, and piss on their croissants.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32900860366657934942016-02-27T00:29:21.937+00:002016-02-27T00:29:21.937+00:00The cross-hairs solution had occurred to me too, M...The cross-hairs solution had occurred to me too, Mr Ishmael, but it is a bit early yet for that. We'll be needing an acceptable Veep before taking that plunge.<br /><br />My dear Scotland-based but US-born colleague has lost the plot with the Trumpster now. An Ivy League, New England liberal to her sensible flat shoes, she is banking on Hillary making it all nice and comfy again but the drama is beginning to give her the shakes. Because I am insane, I was up quite late last night at the windowsill watching the last (I think) Republican debate: Trump, Rubio and Cruz. Plus some guy on the right whose name mercifully I missed, and Carson, the black doctor guy, on the left who made the most sense of any of them but was so reasonable, so measured, and so bloody boring in his doctorly way that my cat would beat him in a debate. The rest of it was a stitched up exercise in metaphorically for the moment killing The Donald. Trump appears to have the hide of several rhinoceroses to protect his colossal ego but gave pretty simple answers to pretty stupid taunts. Who but a fool or a pair of same would attack a businessman for employing people? The technicality being several layers deep and needing subclauses to establish before being stomped dead by the obvious taunt that Trump has employed tens of thousands of people - and not just a tribe of interns at the public expense. The other idiot decided to have a go at financial malfeasance in terms of taxation - the new sin not being cheating on your taxes but lawfully avoiding paying more than some moral level that can be adjusted to suit. As if Trump isn't going to be inspected to his laces and the while having the resources to smash the IRS into submission year after year. His being a very different game to trying to get the new car through on your exes. Oh dear, so stupid of them both not to see that this is a different game. He is though, the Trump, a monumentally horrible bastard that his country's fat and odious ruling class richly deserves. Every such needs a good kicking every now and again and maybe they are about to get theirs. It will be interesting to watch if he gets Super Tuesday sorted next week and the full weight of the entire western world's illiberal media class take to the airwaves to tear him down. The coronation of Hillary must not be obstructed. There'll be tears in Edinburgh if it is.<br /><br />Those two blokes needed their beers pouring on their heads, Mr Mike, and telling to learn some fucking manners.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24440546336845488292016-02-26T22:26:36.042+00:002016-02-26T22:26:36.042+00:00It is official US warcrime policy, mr mike, not ...It is official US warcrime policy, mr mike, not to count the deaths of any but their own forces. What was it, sixty thousand US forces killed, three million Vietnamese? You don't have to be a jihadi to see Uncle Sam as the Great Satan.pcall me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12879359735708807482016-02-26T22:17:52.078+00:002016-02-26T22:17:52.078+00:00I daresay thar had the martyred ones been born a b...I daresay thar had the martyred ones been born a bit later they would've been funneling money and weapons to Kneecaps & Co, as it is, somehow, Spunky Bill was ensuring their kid-glove treatment at the hands of Blair and his gang. It really is shit, this idea of statehood and representative democracy; ghouls, thieves and degenerates running everything. Yes, ABC, anybody but Clinton.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-9825249664658713232016-02-26T21:48:09.711+00:002016-02-26T21:48:09.711+00:00A scene at a street cafe in Siem Reap, Cambodia - ...A scene at a street cafe in Siem Reap, Cambodia - at once, both horrible and hilarious.<br /><br />2 old US vets, with hats and medals, at the next table, loudly reliving past glories on a battlefield tour of SE Asia. An old local came round with no hands. In his pigeon English he explained to them that his hands were blown off by an American mine. <br /><br />How these fuckers have the cheek astounds me. And they wonder why the world hates the US.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25666292742826701652016-02-26T21:27:06.034+00:002016-02-26T21:27:06.034+00:00Hillary really fucking spooks me Mr I - much more ...Hillary really fucking spooks me Mr I - much more so than Trump or, frankly, any of the others. I'd rather see a President Palin than another member of the Clinton dynasty at the helm. These are truly dangerous times...SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-75671606686458281892016-02-26T21:26:13.495+00:002016-02-26T21:26:13.495+00:00Excellent and the facts are the best satire of all...Excellent and the facts are the best satire of all.<br /><br />Joe Kennedy, the voice and mind of Irish American anglophobia, nice to be reminded of him and his diseased tribe. Mr Mike's recent diagnosis of US military-corporate destruction over the past 70 years seemed about right, its mission to kill Daddy and then screw the world.<br /><br />Sox has been a long-term prick and he is a fitting commentator on the brainless parade.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-32673659044935028742016-02-26T20:47:58.766+00:002016-02-26T20:47:58.766+00:00Roget had "politics" pigeon holed correc...Roget had "politics" pigeon holed correctly in his Thesaurus.Alphonsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-77685881779968999962016-02-26T20:29:09.994+00:002016-02-26T20:29:09.994+00:00Indeed Mr I:
1,454,436 votes = 56 SNP seats
3,88...Indeed Mr I:<br /><br />1,454,436 votes = 56 SNP seats<br /><br />3,881,099 votes = 1 UKIP seat<br /><br />The Barnett Formula in action!<br /><br />Maybe the answer is to operate our first past post system like the Union block vote - that way each MP would carry the weight of the electorate that their party commanded behind them...<br />SGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-86405731164105978422016-02-26T19:56:32.601+00:002016-02-26T19:56:32.601+00:00He finished his broadcast, the other night,mr sg, ...He finished his broadcast, the other night,mr sg, by singing a duet with the hideous Ms Catherine Tait. Probably some mad, Soxian bucket list thing. I keep looking for it but no-one has posted it yet. It is as bad as the PBC, C4 news, jobs for life for a favoured few, tedium and irritation for the audience. Yeah, Trump is an arse but I don't see how he's a bigger arse than the rest of them. And it doesn't matter what we think, if enough people vote for him, that's how it goes; odd, the number of liberals questioning the right of other people to vote as they choose, not as odd as how 4 million Poundlanders share one MP.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-88007382278906075782016-02-26T19:04:02.286+00:002016-02-26T19:04:02.286+00:00Nice work Mr I. That John Sox, busier than a membe...Nice work Mr I. That John Sox, busier than a member of the Royal family ain't he? In fact, if there was any justice in the world he would surely be offered honourary membership of 'The Firm'... Goldman's - they make The Mafia, SPECTRE et al look like wholesome charitable foundations. 'The Donald', a beacon of hope for oppressed nylon haired people everywhere - bring him on!SGnoreply@blogger.com