"The extremists are much more aware than we are that the front line of the rule of law matters. So they demand that the front line be broken. Sinn Fein made sure, as a condition of entering government, that Tony Blair would abolish its most formidable adversary, the Royal Ulster Constabulary. One reason that three members of the security forces died this week is that we no longer have the police and security knowledge needed to prevent such attacks.
In facing militant Islam, the police, attacked for "institutional racism" and "Islamophobia", effectively seek "Muslim permission" for legitimate inquiries. This risks hampering proper police work.
Guess whom the Bedfordshire Police arrested in Luton. Not the demonstrators with their revolting insults, but the members of the soldier-supporting public who threw things at them. "
"We can expect Luton-style protests and worse in the years to come unless the Government gets a grip on Islamism" and includes these thoughts: "It's comfortable for us to think that these are the actions of a small minority – but are they? The vile mob that hurled abuse against returning troops does not operate in a vacuum, somehow removed from other Muslims. Only two weeks ago, the same group of extremists openly marched in Tower Hamlets, Britain's most densely populated "Muslim area". Where was the local outrage against these bigots? The nearby east London Mosque – Europe's largest Muslim institution – sends groups of young vigilantes to hound local prostitutes and drug dealers, but it turns a blind eye to extremism.
This nationwide network of fanatics, who give themselves various names at different times to deceive the authorities – from al-Muhajiroun to the Saved Sect – is an offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group that shares al-Qaeda's aim of a global caliphate, but uses different methods."
"Suppose the police have a big DNA database. They find a degraded DNA sample at the crime scene which matches only one in a million people. A name pops out of the database, plod dashes round and makes a swift arrest. If there is no other evidence what is the chance of chummy being guilty?
The prosecutor's fallacy is to say it's 99.999% - there's only a one in a million chance that the DNA sample got the wrong man.
In reality, if the sample matches one in every million people, it must match around 60 people in the UK alone so, if we know no more than the criminal is probably from the UK, the chance of chummy being guilty is 1 in 60, or 1.67%."
"Gordon meanwhile, is on his way to the bank and he's not said a word because the Bank of England is "independent", and it's got "nowt to do with him". It would appear that Gordon is acting more like a silent Monopoly Man with our economy, rather than someone who's a part of the game others have no choice but to play."
"So increasingly absent the unifying Established Church that had for centuries helped mark out a large part of the “national boundary,” what remains? Shakespeare and Gibbon (and some today) might well have shared the views of certain Muslims regarding the proper fate of a pope. But that doesn’t mean that they would have shared the view that those same Mohammedans Muslims could be just as English as they themselves: how could they be, given they don’t adhere to the Established Christian Church?
Mr Norman and his Independent though, have cracked the exceedingly complicated question. No longer need we ponder it. Yes, we get it at last: if you are born in a barn, you are indeed a horse."
"The next person to argue to me that this recession is happening because of "deregulated" banks is going to get a carefully gift-wrapped punch in the face."Do read the whole piece.
"the Kaiser Chief's frontman Ricky Wilson doesn't want naked women at his concerts.
The singer was stunned when a trio of beauties stripped off and started dancing at the band's recent show in Zagreb, Croatia.
...
"They weren't looking at the stage they were dancing with each other. I immediately asked them to put their clothes back on and start enjoying the music properly.""
"We're just a gleam in lover's eyes, steam on sweaty bodies in the night One of us might make it through, the rest will disappear like dew Pressure building, gettin' hot, give it, give it, give it all you got When that love explosion comes, my, oh my, we want to be someone
CHORUS
Tryouts for the human race, from Burlington to Bonn Ah, we are a quarter billion strong Tryouts for the human race, from twilight time 'til dawn
We just want to be someone
We're the future and the past, we're the only way you're gonna last We're just pawns in a funny game, tiny actors in the oldest play It's an angry sea we face, just to get the chance to join the race Gotta make it, gotta try, gotta get the chance to live and die
CHORUS
We must, we must, we must leave from here We must, we must, we must, we must leave from here Gotta make our play, gotta get away Gotta make our play, gotta get away Gotta make our play, gotta get away Gotta make our play
Let us out of here, let us out of here, let us out of here
We just want to feel the sun and be your little daughter or your son We're just words that lovers use, words that light that automatic fuse When that love explosion comes, my, oh my, we want to be someone
CHORUS"
"I was born a little premature
Mom just couldn't take no more
Had no time to learn to cry
Goodbye, Mama, got to fly
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
Entered school when I was two
PhD'd that afternoon
Never entered any sports
Didn't look too good in shorts
Got divorced when I was four
CHORUS:
I've seen everything there is
I've done everything there is
I've met everyone but Liz
Now I've even met ol' Liz
No time for relationship
Skip the foreplay, let 'er rip
You gotta beat the clock, beat the clock, Beat the clock, beat the clock
I did lots of travelling
Parts of me unraveling
The Army then rejected me
Said I had two flat feet
Wore them out when I was three
Too bad there ain't ten of you
Then I'd show you what I'd do
I could cheat on five of you
And be faithful to you too
But there's only one of you
CHORUS"
"This is the number one song in heaven Written, of course, by the mightiest hand It's number one, all over heaven
It's number one, all over heaven
It's number one, all over heaven
The number one song all over heaven
If you should die before you wake
If you should die while crossing the street The song that you'll hear, I guarantee
It's number one, all over heaven
It's number one, all over heaven
It's number one, all over heaven
The number one song all over heaven
The one that's the rage up here in the clouds Loud as a crowd or soft as a doubt Lyrically weak, but the music's the thing
Gabriel plays it,
God how he plays it
Gabriel plays it,
God how he plays it
Gabriel plays it,
God how he plays it
Gabriel plays it, let's hear him play it
The song filters down, down through the clouds It reaches the earth and winds all around And then it breaks up in millions of ways
It goes la, la, la......
In cars it becomes a hit
In your homes it becomes advertisements And in the streets it becomes the children
singing..."
