Reasons to be angry

Seems about right.

Thanks to this oddly named blog(!) for the spot.

Just listen to what they say

Islamists make no secret of their aims, here's another one:

'Jerusalem is at the heart of the Palestinian cause, and the Palestinian cause is the cause of all Arabs and Muslims. Therefore, the elimination of the Zionist entity is beyond debate, and the only question has to do with the circumstances.

I believe that the Arab revolutions, which broke out in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen – as well as in Bahrain and elsewhere – generate the peoples' hope that one day, Jerusalem and Palestine will return to them....

We are constantly keeping the memory alive among the younger generations, so that they will realize that the Palestinian cause is an essential one. The hope and the memory will later turn into action. By next year, Allah willing, Israel will be annihilated.'

That's Egyptian Professor of Political Science, Gamal Zahra. All clear and understood. Of course the BBC will not report Gamal Zahra's words as they have a policy of not reporting the regular genocidal comments of Islamists, they will happily (indeed eagerly) report any such utterances from fringe Israeli figures. I have blogged and complained about this before but the BBC just won't accept that they are in the wrong, here's my last piece on the matter.

Barack Obama narcissist

Neil Armstong, a great hero of mine, died over the weekend and images of him on the moon or in his NASA unifirm abounded. Barack Obama thought he'd commemorate Neil Armstrong's death with a picture of himself looking at the moon...

Narcissistic, isn't he? And what's with the gazing at the crescent moon? Subliminal message?

How long are their holidays?

The BBC's Newsnight Economics Editor, Paul Mason, usually updates his blog very regularly, however he seems to have gone off the boil recently. Here's a list of the dates of the last 20 updates to his BBC blog:
26 April
30 April
30 April
3 May
9 May
14 May
16 May
23 May
6 June
12 June
13 June
14 June
15 June
18 June
28 June
29 June
2 July
3 July
4 July
27 July - A brief musing seemingly sparked by landing at Heathrow

Since then not a word. Could it be that Paul Mason has been away on holiday for a month? Lucky him, nothing too good for the BBC's in-house 'ex-Trotskist' - 'up the workers'.

I suppose that the longer he's away and silent, the less chance he has to poison people's minds.

Another Barack Obama supporter with a rather sick line in Tweeting

Barack Obama supporters can't help but show their true colours. This time it's Samuel L. Jackson

This is the same Samuel L. Jackson who once said "I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them".
Voting on race lines - tick
Wishing harm on Republicans - tick

Nice chap that Samuel L. Jackson, but then that tweet attracted the like-minded

What's sweet is how Samuel L. Jackson then rowed back, slowly but surely...

Samuel L. Jackson - busted.

Balen Report update

I have blogged about the disgusting way that the BBC have fought to keep the Balen Report secret for so long.

As I have said before, I think we can draw our own conclusions as to what the Balen Report found, from how resolutely the BBC has fought to keep its findings from reaching our eyes. I wonder how the BBC would react if the Balen Report was leaked, after all they do favour such leakings when it helps the interests of their friends on the left of politics.

So I was angered, if not surprised, to read at the Commentator the following:

'Today, The Commentator reveals a Freedom of Information request showing that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has so far spent almost a third of a million pounds (more than half a million dollars) in order to conceal the infamous 'Balen Report', into the corporation's coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the British public.

Britons are required by law to own licences in order to use televisions. This raises £3.6billion in funding for the state broadcaster. Despite this public funding, the BBC does not have to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with regard to actual information held for the purposes of journalism, art or literature.

The Balen Report was written in 2004 and campaigners say the BBC does not wish to release the document over fears that it will substantiate claims of BBC bias against Israel. Ironically, it is understood that former Director of News for the BBC, Richard Sambrook, commissioned the report in order to allay public fears.

The report, however, was never released.

Since 2004, campaigners have attempted to coax the BBC into releasing the report, taking the organisation through a series of legal battles in order to view the information held within.

It has now come to light that the BBC has spent almost a third of a million pounds to hide the report from the public eye: "The legal costs incurred by the BBC amount to £332,780.47," the BBC said.

 The actual cost to the BBC is likely to be far higher, as in-house legal time is not factored in and nor is Value Added Tax.'

Given the way that the BBC has fought so hard to keep the Balen Report secret, is it fair to assume that the report does not say that the BBC's coverage of the Israel-Palestinian conflict is entirely unbiased? What is also interesting is that the BBC is usually so in favour of 'freedom of information', witness their joy over the Wikileaks site. It couldn't be the case that the BBC only favour leaks that help further causes dear to their hearts, could it?

Anyone listening to or watching the BBC's coverage of Israel and the Palestinians can be in no doubt that the BBC is decidedly biased against Israel. It seems pretty clear that a report into this area would find such bias. The BBC's desperate and determined efforts to keep the Balen Report secret can only confirm this view.

It is pretty certain that if the Balen Report cleared the BBC of anti-Israel bias then they would happily release it, that they don't can mean just one thing.

It's odd where 'the left' draw the line

Over the past week 'the left' have criticised George Galloway twice. First for his rather unenlightened comments about rape, whilst defending Julian Assange and second for this Tweet

What is odd is that those up in arms about George Galloway's alleged misogyny and lack of sensitivity towards the disabled seem to have been less willing to criticise him for his working for Iran's Press TV and his less than pleasant views about Israel.

The double-standards of 'the left' are really quite abhorrent but not surprising. What is cheering is that, for whatever reason, this particular boil on the bum of British society might at last be ready for lancing.

I'm back

I'm back and what a lot to write about there is!

Postings to come this morning, unless work interrupts, will be on George Galloway and the inconsistencies of 'the left', the Balen Report and a catch-up article.

Posh Nosh - Episode 3

Paella

"When the fishermen are still wet"
"By all means buy stock cubes if you have no self-esteem"

Blog update

Posting will hopefully return to normal tomorrow. There's a lot I have missed out on and I may try and catch-up with a few articles on Tuesday and Wednsday.

Posh Nosh - Episode 2

Birthday Parties

"You can feel their nuts as they fall..."
"Like suckng nectar through a hangman's noose"

Jim Carrey also does good impressions

Just the two and only the faces: Jack Nicholson & Clint Eastwood

Kevin Spacey does some rather good impressions

Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Clint Eastwood, Jack Lemmon, John Gielgud and others.

Oh JOY - Posh Nosh

I have just found all of the Posh Nosh episodes on YouTube. Richard E. Grant and Arabella Weir are a sheer joy to watch and listen to in this series of eight episodes. Joanna Lumley's voiceover is also frightfully good. One a night seems about right....

Episode 1 - Architects Chips

The first question, the oldest question...

Doctor Who: The First Question Teaser Trailer I managed to miss this at the time, just saw this recently...

A Brief Encounter parody

Victoria Wood is brilliant.

A Moody French Rugby Player

Sébastien Chabal - "We are in France, we speak French... OK ?" Except he said that in English...

An anniversary that the BBC will not be commemorating

'Starting on Friday, August 23, 1929 and lasting for a week, attacks by enraged Arab mobs were launched against Jews in the Old City in Jerusalem, in Jerusalem suburbs Sanhedria, Motza, Bayit Vegan, Ramat Rachel, in outlying Jewish communities, and in the Galilee town of Tzfat.  Small Jewish communities in Gaza, Ramla, Jenin, and Nablus had to be abandoned.

The attack in Hebron became a frenzied pogrom with the Arab mob stabbing, axing, decapitating and disemboweling 67 men, women and children. At least 133 Jews were killed across Palestine.'

The BBC will not commemorate these massacres, including the most famous one in Hebron on 24 August 1929, because to do so would mean accepting that there were Jews living in what is now Israel, including all of Jerusalem as well as Judea & Samaria (what the BBC refer to as the West Bank). To accept this is to go against the Palestinian narrative of Jewish invaders of Palestinian land. Don't confuse the BBC with an impartial news reporting organisation, it's not.

Never Mind The Buzzcocks meets Doctor Who

The 'next lines' round is particularly fine, especially the last one.

Family Guy porn - don't worry this is SFW

This is the only part of the video I found that was not NSFW. The rest can be found quite easily on the web, along with some Simpsons and Futurama porn, should you be interested!