Archdunce Dawkins -strike 2

This might not be a Christian country Richard Dawkins. But I`m damned even more than you are if I`m going to let you decide whether I am a Christian or not.

How dare the High Priest of Militant Atheist Secular Science set up for me a survey that will tell him whether I conform to his caricatures of Christianity or not. He has already set out his stall, and will be loading the questions in order to set me up to fail in whatever way he wants. He is not the slightest bit interested in me as one of the little people, nor of my views or testimony. He Does want to gather his evidence to ensure that no census question ever goes forward with any query about the "faith" of the person concerned.

In that way, Christianity will be banished to the margins-I mean if no Government even bothers to ask, then why should the views of Christians be bothered with in any regard whatsoever. A private opinion at best, and then he`ll doubtless be wanting to do something about that afterwards.

His survey has the interest of the fascinated and hypnotised cobra that only waits for the unexpected movement. Then it will strike and kill, contented that it observed and saw enough to learn.Learn enough hopefully to strangle any such stirrings at birth in future anyway.

That is not to say that there is nothing to learn from Dawkins survey. What you learn is that he is a flaccid biologist turned witchfinder general, and so statistical methods as well as survey techniques that screen out prebias are not his area of expertise. Neither by the look of this survey is theology, but that does not stop him from having his ill-informed opinions being quantified and measured as grooms might once have checked the stools of the Dauphin.

The survey if pretty much one a sixth former might have done for Heat Magazine in language and gauche simplistics. It holds no water in terms of what Christians do, think, believe or could possibly assist Dawkins with. His enquiries are those of the bent copper, wanting to frame the Christian bookseller for inciting racial hatred at a time more convenient to himself-pension secured and too old to be brought low for perjury or corruption.

Dawkins let this survey go out in his name,and so his ignorance and malice are inexcusable. He-like his UEA chums and Climategate-is responsible for this farrago, and so should resign...or desist from talking about much else that sexing the fruit flies. About the only followers that will be left with him if he does not use better sampling and survey techniques in future...oh yes, and do a bit of checking on doctrines, variations on the Christian message, and allow for errors a little. Then trying not to set us all up for the Today programme, who are no better at science or statistics than is the archdunce Dawkins on the basis of this pitiful survey of his.

Moral Maze

Was able to predict that the Moral Maze would be visiting the idea of Bin Laden and his termination in its programme tonight. I was right.
The programme is now bereft of any meaning. Mere pointless posturing by the liberal elite as it wrings out its hankies over the bones of any topic it chooses to suck the marrow from. The meaning and significance of the topic will long have been removed.
That is not to decry the wondrous fearless Melanie Phillips, but they only need her on to make themselves feel better and more virtuous by her presence. The liberal elite hate her kind.
Cue one of Blairs former policy wonks and Lauries lad...what was that about cosy interns then?..as he wonders whether Bin Ladens day in court might have served us all better than his rather cliched death. Typical graceless Yankies and all that.
So it is that we the usual parade of aimless controversists with remaindered books and a taxi running outside. We also get good people who are reduced to squabbling with the BBCs favoured fops who thought 9/11 was an artistic triumph with a bit of tasteless collateral excess in parts.
Tell us how you felt Mr Bin Laden as you stuck it to the maan in the White House. No further questions as we draw a discreet niqab over events we have all moved on from-or ought to have anyway!

Saint Rupert

On the basis of "my enemies enemy is therefore my friend" I can only find myself lighting a candle for Saint Rupert of Murdoch-or wherever his nationality of choice for himself is these days.
I declare him to be a saint on this day when I hear the ludicrous "Today " programme set him up as a heretic or blasphemer-or whatever relativist term of abuse might be their equivalent in Beebland..."inappropriately disappointing" maybe?
Yes-Montague was shrill in her hounding of Brendan O`Neill who was cast out in the boondocks and defending the Dirty Digger. She of course was making eye contact over the croissants there in the studio with some house trained meeja expert from "the Uni of Westminsta!"...where else do you go for numpties on speed dial who will cipher the BBCs(and indeed all right thinking types from the Guardian downwards)"concerns" at Murdochs undue influence on the media output of this country?
Here then is the first trick of the Beeb...the good guy in the studio and the contrary bad hatted one out on his phoneline...easier to cut off no doubt.

Sarah says that Sky control 37% of all outlets in the country regarding output of news etc-wonder who has the other 63% then?...not the impartial BBC surely?
No matter-`twas indeed a joy to hear Sarah and our chum from Uni( no demonstrations to go on today sir?...doncha know of the cuts maan?) both shouting down young Brendan at one and the same time...a delight to smoke out (of course that is banned but you know what I mean!) the left liberal consensus that Rupert is a bad egg...and his seat at Oxford(normally a first port of call for experts in a barrel to choose from!)...is therefore given the cold shoulder for our man from Westminster Uni.
At least we did`nt get Greenslade or Howlett this time...give it a day or so boys!
So it is Saint Ruperts Day-and indeed will always be until the BBC is cut to its correct size,and we get it to represent all of us and not the bleeding Guardian all the time.
And hope came in the previous piece on its woeful show this morning. The World Service is to be cut-and an old BBC hand says that International Development should have been cut to save it...did I hear that right?... no ring fence for Geldof or Oxfam...don`t tell Bono anyone.
Oh-anyone else get the story about Carbon Trading trades being suspended due to unaccountable fraud on an industrial scale-and all in Euros too!...are you thinking what I`m thinking...not another Euroscam is it?...don`t expect Harrabin or Black to inform us further in any case.

Saint Rupert

Tatchell the theologian

Just seen Peter Tatchells hatchet job on Pope Benedict and the Catholic church he was voted in to lead.
Clearly Peter is a theologian as well as an activist so we are all grateful that he was able to put the Pope right on his two thousand odd years of canon law,tradition and scripture. No doubt Benedict was choosing not to pack his cloaks and making notes on how to create the brokeback church that Peter would be happy to grab the pulpit from. In short to make a church so craven and cringing that a gay atheist presumptuous nomark with too many airmiles and a free stopover in Thailand might feel happy to not visit!
Only Channel 4 or the BBC would produce such obscene bilge using licence fee payers money of no few catholics who are expected to take this abuse. Even Turkey and Syria were hospitable and courteous to a visiting head of the Catholic faith...only in Britain would we get this offence being caused with provocative and appalling ignorance. Here`s hoing that they pay Pastor Terry Jones to do an expose on the shallow charlatan that was and is Charles Darwin. Just the balance we need surely!Of course they won`t do this-for that would be the new heresy would it not?
Wonder if a visiting imam would get the same level of abuse from the State run media outlets?...course not...and Tatchell might have better saved his rage for the Iran he would have flew over. Don`t they hang his brothers from cranes there-now THAT would be a confrontation Pete could concoct for a few more airmiles surely.
Picking on the Pope whilst hiding behind the daughter of a dying man is the sickest grooming sight I have seen on telly for quite some while. No doubt we can expect much more of this-but not so much of the Buttiglionis or the EU eh?
The Pope has them rumbled since his sermon to the conclave on 19/4/05...worth a read to see why he is so feared and hated. He takes a scyth to all the left-liberal pretensions and fashions that the BBC and the Guardian so slavishly follow then discard long after the damage has been done and the perpetrators quietly moved on to other jobs at public expence.

Enough already Beeb!

Enough already Beeb!
Just sat through most of the appalling “Any Questions” regurgitated from last night.
It came from a private girls school up in Sheffield…where else would an Ed Balls,a Brendan Barber or a BBC outside broadcast to the the provinces find a sanctuary to begin the fightback against those Thatcherite Tories now in power? Still they all got their two cents worth of bile against Gove and his attempt to get the state off the teachers backs-hell the last thing that the unions and politicians want.
For this is where the last delusions of easy socialism are hardest to uproot. These featherbedded nobodies on fat salaries who preach the revolution but were privately educated themselves. They have their Tuscan retreats and two sets of expenses to claim from we the proles. They can strike a pose of equality and diversity at any workshop you set up for them to patronise…but somehow keep the cream whilst denouncing the schools attempts to provide some real mobility based on talent or merit-much as grammar schools and no tuition fees once did funnily enough!
But hey…we are where we are and it helps no-one to remind them of the past. Particularly the recent past which they actually DID influence! The one where schools turned tricks for dross but loads of targets and qualifications for all who cared to fish them from the bins of history –for it sure as hell is not getting taught anymore.
Witness the howling down in boos and jeers of the Tory on the panel who had the sheer nerve to say that actually the financial mess we have been left with was caused by Balls, Barber and their like. The facts meant nothing-no er “right thinking person” could deny that the Tories very existence and wish to enact policies that were voted through would divide the nation ,take the bread of the poor out of their mouths and even a BBC poll proves this very fact.
As for Islam-religion of peace ,peace be upon it…this pesky pastor has got us all round his finger-people will die if he burns the Koran…Islam is not yet ready to get the nuances of multicultural western thought so we are to get the shin pads on and metal detectors set up or on until they deign to do so.
Polly Toynbee says as much on Dateline London-and she personifies the smug and patronising air of entitlement as well as being taken oh so seriously that the Beeb regards as a healthy incest and a marriage of like minds that doesn`t need arranging or dowries-but the public can stump up for her private educations ,her Philippine maid and Tuscan villa as well as buying her a plot in Richmond Park to plant a poplar to assuage the effects of flying off to Tuscany with her gravy trained quangocrats in the family in order to look at windmill catalogues and solar power plans for Notting Hill. Hypocrisy-aren`t we all doing it dear?
In short-how much bile inducing phoniness and hypocrisy-how many Muslim mice do we say will have no effect on the elephant in the room…because there isn`t one silly…and that tumbleweed means no lack of thought but the effects of global warming if Monbiot doesn`t get your airmiles and you insist on seeing granny in Melbourne.

Hats off to Bob Crow!

Hats off to Bob Crow at least.
There is a Latin phrase that needs no translation. Just as well because old dead languages such as Latin have few speakers apart from say a Boris Johnson.
“Reductio ad adsurdem” means exactly what you might imagine it to mean. You follow a line of argument to its culmination no matter where it might lead-absurd?...maybe,but not necessarily so!
So it is with our Bob. No longer safely frugging at Tolpuddle as he introduces the Alabama 3 to the assembled weekend rebels. Not to be contained in a “cockney whelk” exhibit on Any Questions…certainly no answers!
No ,our cockney sparer merely follows his logic to its ultimate conclusion. Is he not right that the bankers caused all the financial disaster we now live in the face of? Don `t the BBC blame a Bob Diamond or a BP each and every day? Why on earth should the poor pay for the incompetence and greed of bankers, MPs and the BBC to name but a few? They did not cause any of this ,because they were bypassed by Parliament and the EU.
They marched against Iraq but fat good that did them.
No…the BBC show that they want a cosy and a trained rebellion. They want the cameras there and both sides of the limited arguments that they rather hope to keep within their parameters. They want balance as long as they can keep their pensions and salaries with the panstick allowance in perpetuity. If the Beeb choose to release their hounds and they prove to be poodles instead then the BBC will be in trouble…and not before time.
Have they not wanted to chase a uniform or two for ratings…sniff the fear and the adrenaline before filing the story back to W.1 and the cab back to Crouch End? So here we are boys and girls…Crow might be overpaid and a previous glove puppet of NuLabor in his way ,but his rhetoric is right. He is economically illiterate but so were the bankers-and so of course are the government and the HMRC they preside over. In media terms he can be as ignorant as he likes-he is passionate and that is all the media requires.
So to quote Mao…Bob knows it…sing along now
“Change must come from the barrel of a gun”
May you live in interesting times indeed…and we do!