tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post2358045929030068390..comments2024-03-29T08:19:25.998+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: [the abyss] inexorably down or rising above itJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-79700384642253438722009-01-21T17:24:00.000+00:002009-01-21T17:24:00.000+00:00Ah, Laura Bertram: she of the firm, capable Canadi...Ah, Laura Bertram: she of the firm, capable Canadian thighs, eyes like limpid pools and a mouth you could lose yourself in.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-68760324668338370202009-01-21T13:41:00.000+00:002009-01-21T13:41:00.000+00:00Thank you all.Not Lexa Doig but Laura Bertram with...Thank you all.<BR/><BR/>Not Lexa Doig but Laura Bertram with the sunny disposition, truth be told. :)James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-23690527020875307242009-01-20T23:14:00.000+00:002009-01-20T23:14:00.000+00:00I agree Rob, hope comes in many packages and we sh...I agree Rob, hope comes in many packages and we should recognise it and hold on to it!CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-80682225127859886602009-01-20T23:07:00.000+00:002009-01-20T23:07:00.000+00:00Interesting James -- but are the people ready for ...Interesting James -- but are the people ready for what is coming. I fear not -- your abyss could easily take over. Hope comes in many packages -- and not always ones we like.RobWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255978974948870928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-89706037468872313062009-01-20T15:37:00.000+00:002009-01-20T15:37:00.000+00:00جبهة التهييس الشعبية European Jews did not send th...جبهة التهييس الشعبية <BR/><BR/>European Jews did not send thousands of rockets onto peaceful Germany for years.<BR/><BR/>European Jews did not take bombs into German weddings or dance halls or restaurants.<BR/><BR/>They did not call for the Germans to be destroyed.<BR/><BR/>They did not outnumber and surround the Germans by hundreds of millions.<BR/><BR/>Nazis put millions of Jews into gas chambers or machine-gunned them and threw them into mass graves.<BR/><BR/>Israel has occasionally assassinated actual terrorists and has bombed where those terrorists live and work in the civilian areas of Lebanon and Gaza which is where the terrorists cower. <BR/><BR/>There is no Israeli holocaust of 'Palestinians' and you are an anti-Semitic liar to suggest it.<BR/>So it's back to the moral pigsty for you, <BR/>جبهة التهييس الشعبية ,North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-3158372285913506652009-01-20T00:23:00.000+00:002009-01-20T00:23:00.000+00:00CherryPie :Thank you.I mean to take you up on your...CherryPie :<BR/><BR/>Thank you.<BR/><BR/>I mean to take you up on your kind offer of advice once some techies can persuade me that the Department of Hurt and Awful Nuisances (for which I work), won't find me out and arm me with the world's worst pistol.<BR/><BR/>Till then, I'll be loading up other ammo.<BR/><BR/>...and of course try guessing which side of the oven you bake...North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-52731066973216314132009-01-19T23:41:00.000+00:002009-01-19T23:41:00.000+00:00NNW - Love the quote 2 1/2 freedom-loving parties ...NNW - Love the quote 2 1/2 freedom-loving parties of the Right, it is so true ;-) My friends and I have lots of chuckles about that :-)<BR/><BR/>I am going to leave you wondering if you have read me right on my political stance, it is more fun ;-)<BR/><BR/>I can certainly give you lots of tips on campaigning, talking to the media, engaging with the public and getting your message heard. In my experience the media always want both points of view. But if one side has told the truth, the other side will decline to comment...<BR/><BR/>The campaigns I have been involved in are supported by both left, right and middle thinkers.<BR/><BR/>I think you have proposed a wonderful idea, and I may be able to help you move it forward.<BR/><BR/>I can share my experiences with campaigning and getting thoughts noticed on the internet.CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-90078138754475338062009-01-19T21:59:00.000+00:002009-01-19T21:59:00.000+00:00Bit deep for me JamesBit deep for me JamesJeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-34888197451921162902009-01-19T20:59:00.000+00:002009-01-19T20:59:00.000+00:00"Lexa Doig who plays Andromeda is hot!"Why yes, sh..."Lexa Doig who plays Andromeda is hot!"<BR/><BR/>Why yes, she surely is. I looked the series up out of idle curiosity - you know, nothing much happening in the news today: America's looking fine; the Middle East is fully at peace; the European Union is rich and getting richer; the Conservatives are at their highest peak of moral and intellectual strength and looking such a good option to elect after Mister Brown's put the finishing touches to perfecting our prosperous economy. I was very happy with life and planning a trip to London to thank all those clever people for their efforts on our behalf.<BR/><BR/>And so I looked her up on Wikipedia and imdb.com and Lexa Doig is indeed very hot. So hot in fact that I dropped the range finder into my cartridge case.<BR/>Bother.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-15457813601919403182009-01-19T20:25:00.000+00:002009-01-19T20:25:00.000+00:00Janes admit it: Yo find Andromeda complling viewin...Janes admit it: Yo find Andromeda complling viewing because Lexa Doig who plays Adndromeda is hot!jams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-49039482895189577542009-01-19T15:22:00.000+00:002009-01-19T15:22:00.000+00:00Thank you both for the encouragement.Bonne voyage,...Thank you both for the encouragement.<BR/><BR/>Bonne voyage, James. Don't do your back in carrying furniture up stairs. It's murder, take it from me.<BR/><BR/>I mean to try - if I can get some help from others to do some of the work, and if I can find a way to escape my employers finding out what I'm doing.<BR/><BR/>I'm only a former untertechie too, so suggestions, offers to post, ideas to design, register, optimise, market, etc would be very welcome.<BR/><BR/>BTW : Does<BR/>"Citizens and Neighbours" sound better? <BR/><BR/>www.can.org.uk?North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-21368997279132065872009-01-19T13:19:00.000+00:002009-01-19T13:19:00.000+00:00*Just kidding, North Guy.Your comment blew me away...*Just kidding, North Guy.<BR/>Your comment blew me away btw.<BR/>I hope that you really will do this!UBERMOUTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428848028109037855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-10109731064025216042009-01-19T13:13:00.000+00:002009-01-19T13:13:00.000+00:00Well, thank you James ! I am most flattered.:)Well, thank you James ! I am most flattered.:)UBERMOUTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428848028109037855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-86742221014933222322009-01-19T12:22:00.000+00:002009-01-19T12:22:00.000+00:00I tell you one thing - I know a good blogger when ...I tell you one thing - I know a good blogger when I see one.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-67651535809157752642009-01-19T12:17:00.000+00:002009-01-19T12:17:00.000+00:00North Guy,That's a fabulous idea and one I would s...North Guy,<BR/>That's a fabulous idea and one I would support wholeheartedly.<BR/><BR/>Your proposals are what the blogosphere should be about!<BR/><BR/>James,<BR/>Don't be away for too long.Good luck with the move.UBERMOUTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428848028109037855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-29949080311031097022009-01-19T10:44:00.000+00:002009-01-19T10:44:00.000+00:00Good luck with your move, James. I’m going to post...Good luck with your move, James. I’m going to post this in a couple of places in the hope you’ll see it.<BR/><BR/>From yours of yesterday<BR/>“It's as well to look yet again at the elite's manifesto:<BR/>1) Abolition of all ordered governments<BR/>2) Abolition of private property<BR/>3) Abolition of inheritance<BR/>4) Abolition of patriotism<BR/>5) Abolition of the family<BR/>6) Abolition of religion<BR/>7) Creation of a world government <BR/><BR/>Marriage and the family<BR/><BR/>Pornography, the gay mafia, feminism and the predictable male backlash, along with the tame reconstructed male, domestic violence which is never explored for its true antecedents, the rise of the unsocialized young male and now female, the dumbing down of education, agendas of destructive organizations like planned parenthood and the detested CSA, the controlled MSM, a new generation which knows nothing of ordered society - all contribute to the destruction of the family unit and marriage as its binding glue.”<BR/><BR/><BR/>It’s one of the great fun things about t’interweb to meet like-minded people, and as our posts show, we tend to agree on lots of stuff, you and I. but then, so do a lot of others, it seems.<BR/><BR/>To put it crudely (hey, it works for me), when I read this particular post I nearly arrived.<BR/><BR/>It also crystallized something I’ve been thinking about lately.<BR/><BR/>Now, here’s the thing. I witter on in my own sweet way about the culture wars, taking my inspiration from House of Dumb, ambush Predator, Ranting Stan, Unenlightened Commentary, UK commentators, Archbishop Cranmer, NO itself, and the like. <BR/><BR/>Western civilisation is down 4-1 and it’s nearly full time. <BR/><BR/>A Gramscian Marxist is about to be inaugurated President of the United States with a torrent of media approval and with the full cultural anointment of Hollywood; the Manchurian Candidate, originally filmed as a satire of Red-baiting in the US but which also pointed out that the Communist world was indeed a foul, manipulative, and imperialist place, has been remade with the evil corporations rather than communists as the manipulative web-masters; and the Leader of the Conservative Party is not planning to cut taxes to help cure the oncoming socialist-created depression.<BR/><BR/>(Pause to adjust jaunty angle of Bacofoil bonnet, kiss piece of True Cross, touch Enoch’s collected speeches.)<BR/><BR/>We freedom-lovers and culture-warriors are divided. There are at least 2 1/2 freedom-loving parties of the Right intending to put up Westminster candidates against each other. The good guys in the Liberal Democrats are pretty much imprisoned by being mixed in amongst all those communitaire illiberal non-democrats, and as for the torch of freedom being upheld by patriotic Labour supporters…Well, they are out there alright, by the busload; look at Harry’s Place or, I’m guessing Cherry Pie(? sorry if I’ve read you wrongly Cherie), Steven Pollard and the rest. But mostly, such people seem to be huddled, spiritually, at Frank Field’s lighthouse whilst the Harmans and Smiths and Darlings rule the roost. <BR/><BR/>…And then there are the hundreds of thousands of people out there who comment on the BBC CIF and Daily Mail blogs with varying chances of being published.<BR/>Some of these may occasionally write to their MP ( -’s secretary/assistant who may or may not pass the odd letter on, or do a digest of the day’s/week’s mail, depending on just how dedicated and professional the MP is) but the MPs look at the media and other politicians’ blogs perhaps more than they pay attention to us; the poor dumb schmucks who provide their daily swill.<BR/><BR/>So the statist Left, the militant atheists and class warriors, the Gaian fanatics, the family-haters and cultural relativists have a pretty clear run at it. <BR/><BR/>When a proposed and much-needed road finally gets planning permission, it’s the antis who do the demonstrations, who contact the media and who are interviewed at length. If a freedom type or traditional Labour person gets interviewed, then the journalists will already have been extensively briefed by the wreckers’ incoming phone calls, emails, information packs and, of course, they’ll know where to find their Greenpeace/Marie Stopes/Amnesty/CND/Liberty website.<BR/><BR/>Our side doesn’t get much of a look-in in the local papers, radio station phone-ins and websites because our side are off doing jobs and are already out of the information loop about local and national issues not highlighted by their own favoured information sources. There’s no single go-to place for news about vindictive bin-men and unwelcome housing developments and high local taxation, and even where such things are posted, they don’t usually link to or provide information about the national bodies and campaigning groups which are interested in such issues. <BR/><BR/>When an MP opens his mail digest – if he gets one – he will be impressed by the high numbers, quality and clarity of the Left’s demands that he follows their viewpoint. Even if he is highly ideologically educated and resistant to Left-wing propaganda, he still wants to be re-elected, and if he gets a diet of this every day he’s going to at least consider a course change closer to port.<BR/><BR/>And what are all those unaffiliated, floating voters; our silent majority, our moral majority to do? Who promotes their concerns to local, regional and national media? <BR/>Where do they get the encouragement to phone councillors (whose phone numbers are where, exactly and what are their names?) <BR/>Where can they find information packs and existing local pressure groups so they don’t needlessly duplicated effort? <BR/>Where do churchgoers who would never, in a million years, consider themselves to be political, let alone culture warriors or Tories [heaven forfend!] or libertarians [the paedo drug-users, right?] find the people and the resources to oppose LEAs’ gay rights or other sex education indoctrination? <BR/>Where does the Starbucks employee get to meet the rabbi when they’ve finished sweeping up the broken glass and how do they get to learn about the Zion chapel’s vandalism? Who’s going to join the dots for them – where would they even see the dots? Remember, a lot of these people are unlikely to meet each other and would normally run a mile if obliged to read a specialist website which is known to be contaminated by the dreaded Tory name, or the unforgivable ‘Right-wing.’ <BR/>Who will make up the numbers in the media wars? <BR/>How will they ever realise that their own personal interests are a part of a shared struggle [same cultural enemies in charge of their nightmares and ours] and team up for mutual support – we’ll support your family-friendly housing development if you call Radio Castletown about the kerb-crawling down by the old railway sheds. Together we’ll team up and support the copper who’s in trouble for investigating whether those schoolgirls are going off to be married in the middle of term.<BR/><BR/>Where’s the go-to source for information for the good guys?<BR/><BR/>How do we, the somewhat aware, do what American conservatives and patriots of both of their main parties did from the 1950s onwards to build campaigns that would one day coalesce with Moral Majority, national security buffs and fiscal conservatives to create the Reagan coalition?<BR/><BR/>We have so much knowledge and talent out there on our side; I don’t think we’re even a minority in our own land, but we need to get the people together because what with one thing and another, considering what the Left has been doing to us for decades, the majority of our countrymen have developed a defective gag reflex.<BR/><BR/>The comments on your site and mine from in response to “Why We Blog” and at NO “[freedom] twilight's last blogging” have somewhat clarified my thoughts on this.<BR/><BR/>The good news is that politics is the League, not a knockout cup competition.<BR/><BR/>Today Devil’s Kitchen proposed a specialist version of my idea – a bogus charity site to identify and expose the insiders’ quangocrats. Take a look when you’ve moved if you like. It’s very good.<BR/><BR/>http://fakecharities.org/<BR/><BR/><BR/>I’m thinking of a site where people can post information about local campaigns in a readily accessible form, by town, county, or region, or by theme – womens’ rights and safety and the right to life [nice trick if you can combine the two!], justice, the welfare state benefits aristocracy, taxation, Euro-serfdom, against anti-Semitism, and so on – and about local, national or international issues that the other side are promoting. <BR/><BR/>This should gather together the resources; campaign groups, contact details for potential listeners or publishers in the media and their audiences and readerships, plus MPs, MEPs, councillors and other decision-makers so that people can at least put it all together and put pressure on the Them to at least hear about and maybe even consider the interests of Us.<BR/><BR/>I don’t yet know how or even whether to resolve the obvious potential problems of those who value freedom more than some other valuable thing like national security on each particular issue; libertarian versus wider conservative concerns. Perhaps it would be a good idea just post the lot and let readers’ consciences sort them out. Freedom, and all that.<BR/><BR/>It should be non-partisan – this is our shared civilisation we need to protect; not just some Tory private estate. The Atlantic seabed is littered with merchant and RN ships enclosing the skeletons of sailors from all political persuasion who thought that Britain and the West worth fighting for.<BR/><BR/>Call it something like “national and local citizenship information” and let battle commence.<BR/><BR/>Any takers?<BR/><BR/>Better yet, any givers?North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.com