tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post7241542315711461573..comments2024-03-29T05:46:39.542+00:00Comments on Penny Red: Hope and Humbuggery: a Christmas tantrum.Penny Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-55346511077510332272019-06-18T13:28:49.463+01:002019-06-18T13:28:49.463+01:00Just have a look at these advices if you want to k...Just <a href="https://cellspyapps.org/track-cell-phone-location-for-free/" rel="nofollow">have a look</a> at these advices if you want to know more about tracking phone location. It will help you to achieve academic successRichard Majecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00744139132776752086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-68852007118222018952009-01-02T10:59:00.000+00:002009-01-02T10:59:00.000+00:00You do know if they abolish the welfare state you&...You do know if they abolish the welfare state you'll have to pay for your own medication & straightjackets right Patient 94...I mean Mr Wilson?<BR/><BR/>Until you stop these bizarre rants about parasites in your bowels sucking out your money you're going to have to stay locked up.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-32653396214063415722009-01-01T09:31:00.000+00:002009-01-01T09:31:00.000+00:00My dear Neuroskeptic.(Are you sure you shouldn’t o...My dear Neuroskeptic.<BR/><BR/>(Are you sure you shouldn’t omit the “k” from your moniker?)<BR/><BR/>I need no help whatsoever to maintain my existence, least of all from the NHS, since I am privately covered against all contingencies and acts of God. I am willing to bet that a substantial portion of taxes levied against my own professional earnings, property and investment portfolio are however instrumental vis-à-vis keeping people like you and the likes of you alive! I already contribute 40% of my income to the nation's coffers - soon to be 45% if the perfidious (New)Labour Party, aka neo-Conservative Party, wrecks it's wicked way upon me fiscally blast their eyes!<BR/><BR/>The bald fact is that you and people like you never contribute anything worthwhile to the world either creatively or destructively. You are born to live like parasites in the bowels of superior specimens of humanity, consuming enormous resources in the process, before begetting further by-blows like yourself and eventually dying in absolute obscurity. For all the difference you make to the world you might as well have never have existed at all.<BR/><BR/>Three cheers for James Purnell and Christopher Grayling! Between the two of them – whoever is in power - they’ll put some stick about and people of your ilk back in their natural places. <BR/><BR/>To me the future suddenly looks considerably brighter!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-4819258580988009162008-12-31T00:18:00.000+00:002008-12-31T00:18:00.000+00:00"it is natural for the ...stupid ... to die out"Wh...<I>"it is natural for the ...stupid ... to die out"</I><BR/><BR/>What high-tech gadgets are keeping you alive then?Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-18660000748670157182008-12-30T19:41:00.000+00:002008-12-30T19:41:00.000+00:00"In a wealthy or moderately wealthy country, there..."In a wealthy or moderately wealthy country, there is no sensible alternative to having a welfare state for working age people (pensions is a growing question as people live longer)."<BR/><BR/>You are quite wrong in everything you say, sir. What you suggest is no solution to the problems this country faces. TBRRob and me are right. Our ideals and policies as per the complete abolution of the welfare "nanny" state represent the <I>final solution</I> essential to Britain's success in the twenty first century. Bleeding hearts like you went out with the ark my friend.<BR/><BR/>Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow belong to the likes of TBRRob, James Purnell, John Hutton et al. James Purnell in particular is attempting to make worthy advances that I personally approve of and find wholly admirable; the Conservative party is now too soft and compassionate to initiate the necessary reforms that I envisage.<BR/><BR/>This is why I will be voting New Labour in 2010.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-89101315715913438962008-12-30T17:17:00.000+00:002008-12-30T17:17:00.000+00:00"Floyd you've got it all wrong. Part of the proble..."Floyd you've got it all wrong. Part of the problem is the welfare state. We can't afford it no matter how much we tax the rich etc, etc."<BR/><BR/>We can afford it. <BR/><BR/>Once people have actually got the cash, welfare benefits are one of the most productive forms of government spending in that most of the money goes to people who spend it quickly, putting money back into the economy creating more jobs and employment. <BR/><BR/>In a wealthy or moderately wealthy country, there is no sensible alternative to having a welfare state for working age people (pensions is a growing question as people live longer). <BR/><BR/>The USA do without one by having more than 2.5 million people in prisons - a cruel variation on the workhouse system we finally got rid of here in the early 20th century. <BR/><BR/>Ultimately, it's a choice about the kind of society we want to live in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-52051307646584626242008-12-30T15:22:00.000+00:002008-12-30T15:22:00.000+00:00I agree wholeheartedly with TBRRob.The welfare sta...I agree wholeheartedly with TBRRob.<BR/><BR/>The welfare state must go!<BR/><BR/>In my opinion we should scrap the "welfare state" altogether and let nature take its course. The "nanny state" is keeping too many of the unfit alive for too long: it is natural for the old, sick, disabled, stupid and unlucky to die out and not pass on their genes to the next generation. Wouldn't this country be much better without the elderly, blind, deaf, mute, weak, retarded and other physically disadvantaged sub-humans cluttering up the place and bleeding the nation's already merge resources.<BR/><BR/>I would also advocate some kind of licensing in respect to human reproduction coupled with a programme of genetic screening (with compulsory abortion enforceable by law as necessary) to prevent women giving birth to obviously imperfect children and, as they used to do in ancient Sparta, discard babies who slip through pre-natal screening who have not been born up to specification.<BR/><BR/>I would also advocate bringing back the death sentence and construction of detainment centres where criminals, miscreants and other undesirables could be confined and made to do hard and productive labour for the country as part of their punishment. I would also like to see a programme of compulsory castration enacted in respect to the worst and most recidivist male criminals to prevent them from reproducing if/when they find themselves in the civil community.<BR/><BR/>The sooner we move into this more enlightened age the better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-43828126476574365452008-12-29T16:10:00.000+00:002008-12-29T16:10:00.000+00:00"On the plus side, unlike the US, we do actually h..."On the plus side, unlike the US, we do actually have a welfare state so, rhetoric aside, the UK will be a slightly more pleasant place to live through a recession in a material sense."<BR/><BR/>Floyd you've got it all wrong. Part of the problem is the welfare state. We can't afford it no matter how much we tax the rich etc, etc.<BR/><BR/>Also Penny I'd like to know what you mean when you use the word 'liberal'?RobWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255978974948870928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-23545384446145722962008-12-29T11:58:00.000+00:002008-12-29T11:58:00.000+00:00"The black dog of recession is crunching us in its..."The black dog of recession is crunching us in its bloody jaws and, unlike the States, we don’t have any liberal saviour preaching change who we can clutch at, whispering save us."<BR/><BR/>On the plus side, unlike the US, we do actually have a welfare state so, rhetoric aside, the UK will be a slightly more pleasant place to live through a recession in a material sense. <BR/><BR/>I feel a bit sorry for the Pope. Eighty-year-old conservative priest has traditional views on gender surely isn't the world's biggest news story. What did people think he thought about these things? <BR/><BR/>"The rest of this beautiful, broken, brilliant decade is going to entail threats to socialism, liberalism and freedom of thought and action from all sides, with governments offering no quarter and giving none."<BR/><BR/>Well, I think the remnants of Western social democracy are less threatened now than they have been at any point since 1979. <BR/><BR/>Neo-liberalism is in retreat, it has to be replaced by something and the challenge for the left is to make sure it isn't replaced by something worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-32408283696987113622008-12-25T11:51:00.000+00:002008-12-25T11:51:00.000+00:00Sebastian: you've not come across Derek Jarman's f...Sebastian: you've not come across <A HREF="http://jclarkmedia.com/jarman/jarman01sebastiane.html" REL="nofollow">Derek Jarman's film</A>?!<BR/><BR/>Laurie: Thanks for the posts, and (pace Momus) stay angry: it's a welcome antidote to the apathy of the rest of the worldDan O'Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16056171537827957715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-4135088499660346972008-12-24T00:31:00.000+00:002008-12-24T00:31:00.000+00:00You know, I'd never thought of Saint Sebastian as ...You know, I'd never thought of Saint Sebastian as a queer icon before. Thank you - you've added an extra element to my seasonal cheer. <BR/><BR/>S.<BR/>xxxwildeabandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683064568234595192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-26170670464919463432008-12-23T18:33:00.000+00:002008-12-23T18:33:00.000+00:00Stop seeing red, Penny. I have enjoyed your blog a...Stop seeing red, Penny. <BR/><BR/>I have enjoyed your blog and see a spark of light in you that is wholly admirable in my opinion. As a festive present I can do no better than to offer you this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke:<BR/><BR/><I>"We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abuses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. <BR/><BR/>How should we be able to forget those ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.<BR/><BR/>So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand, it will not let you fall."</I><BR/><BR/>Cheer up kiddo. You are pretty much correct in almost everything you say online but I fear you may be too perceptive and too intelligent to ever be truly happy.<BR/><BR/>Put aside your militancy for a few weeks rest and recreation, then gird your loins for the coming battle in 2009 and beyond.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-79717534562491288032008-12-23T16:25:00.000+00:002008-12-23T16:25:00.000+00:00Hi, I've been reading your blog for a while and ju...Hi, I've been reading your blog for a while and just set up my own, which contains a post on the Pope's speech (http://directionlessbones.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/homosexuality-will-kill-millions-leave-billions-homeless/)<BR/><BR/>I was wondering if you'd mind me putting you on my blogroll?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com