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Slaves Of The Machine
Some say technology is the new magic and are willing to believe every new gadget launched improves beyond recognition the lives of those who own one. Others say we are becoming slaves to our machines and losing the ability to think for ourselves as well as our social lives and cultural bonds.
Dr. Pangloss Said All Is For The Best
Ever been irritated all those exhortations to "look on the bright side"and "be positive" Felt let down by hopey-changey stuff and people who say "lets join hands and sing kumbiya to create utopia" but fail to deliver. This article might be just what you need to read
Football really is in big trouble with this race thing.
The lastest chapter in the desultory narrative on racism in football was written on Friday night in the FA Cup tie between Oldham and Liverpool. It is alleged a Liverpool fan racially abused Oldham player Tom Adeyemi who was so upset at being called a "b**** cunt" he burst into tears. Boggart Blog thinks ...
Nursing In Crisis Says Prime Minister - We Tell Him Why
From The Daily Telegraph
There is a "real problem" with the standard of nursing in British hospitals, David Cameron has said, as he today calls on nurses to make hourly rounds to ensure patients are comfortable The problems with nursing standards can be explain by two things, out of control bureaucracy and the fact that nursing, traditionally a vocation, has become a degree entry ...
Are The Left Revving Up For A Race War
With Harriet Harman's Inequsalitries Bill having for the first time enshrined the superiority of black people over whites in the eyes of the law and footballer having been found guilty of being accused because a black players testimony can be taken as proof of guilt, are the left revving up for a race war? There are strong opinions here, you've been warned.
Myth, Folklore and The Supernatural
A squidoo lens currently in development that expores the history and meaning of myths and tries to find an answer to the question why these ancient stories still resonate so powerfully in the human psyche.
Milgram Goes Modern (The Milgram Experiments Revisited)
One of the things that annoys me about modern society and the noisy and illiberal "liberals" who wield far more influence than the number of people they represent entitles them to is the way that when a government scam, a scientific fraud of a rip off by bankers and financiers is being talked about, these people, these lovers of democracy and free speech as they like to style themselves, will try to suppress intelligent debate by yelling "Conspiracy Theory"
Will Humans Become Redundant In Your Lifetime?
As unemployment continues to rise a few people in all walks of life are starting to recognise that contrary to what we are constantly being told, the internet and technology in general is not a job creator but a job killer. And yet our politicians continue to export low skill jobs to low wahe economies and automate the work requiring higher skill levels ...
Cerne Abbas Giant To Be Castrated?
Nobody, so far as we know, has yet come out and called it Political Correctness gone mad but the story that caught our eye today must be the craziest piece of Politically Correct Thought Police brainwashing of ...
Coming Soon To A Waste Pipe Near You - Intelligent Slime
But you don't want to read such dross today so here's a story about the yellow peril. We're not being racist, this yellow peril is intelligent slime that can think like humans (i.e. it's about a billion times more intelligent than the computers that are ...
Memorial To The Occupy Protestors
Now may be the season to be jolly but it is also the season when church officials go a bit crazy. Especially, it seems, if they are Church of England senior clergymen. It may be all that business of having to pretend a virgin gave birth to a baby in a stable with an Ox, an Ass, a Lion and an Eagle looking on during a heavy snowfall in Palestine, while a bunch of ...
Merry Christmas from Boggart Blog
Yesterday I was very lazy, nicking a story from a Santa Monica, California, newspaper and putting a peronal veneer on it. The editorial on the same page amused me though. The columnist had wriiten, "I love ...
A Second Merry Christmas From Bogggart Blog
I should have checked my e mail before posting the Merry Christmas blog: Santa's Bad Day One particular Christmas season a long time ago, Santa was getting ready for is annual trip, but there were problems everywhere. Four of ...
The War On Christmas
There are two wars on Christmas: one public and baloney, one conceptual and terrifying. The first usually involves a group of Scrooge - like atheists (who claim to be secular humanists although their ideal world would be populated by unthinking droids whose idea of a good time is doing mathematics) “Bah! Humbug!” they say at all our Christmas traditions as they try to ban nativity scenes (Christian), Christmas light displays ...
American Economy Stgnates As Congress Hirs Deadlock
After a year marked by partisan squabbling, Republicans and Democrats in the American congress were at loggerheads on Wednesday over how to extend a cut in payroll tax introduced last year for more than 150m Americans. HSBC Bank (the world's second largest) said failure to extend the tax will cut growth in the US economy by 0.5pc in 2012, a year in which Wall Street was planning on the economy expanding by ...
When exam boards spoonfeed answers to children there is no hope for education.
The truly extraordinary thing about the latest exam board scandal is that the board in question felt it necessary to help children cheat. That is to say, the WJEC thought the questions it was setting in its GCSE exam in Information and Communications Technology were so difficult that ...
Not Roy Keane
Sports pundits are today reporting on sympathy among Premiership managers and coaching staff for beleagured Blackburn Rovers mananager Not Roy Keane.
"The fans never gave him a chance," Owen Coyle, boss of nearby Bolton said.
'Steve Kean is a terrific coach and manager. All you want is
The family fascist dictator business?
The death of the Korean leader Kim Jong Il, best known for his role in the film Team America, has fuelled a lot of specualtion about the security of ...
It's Too Late! The Thought Police Are At The Door. Bad Taste Is Now A Crime
Thought crime is here to stay, and not just thought crime, but thoughtlessness crime, bad taste crime and wrong place at the wrong time crime. The Thought Police are on the march and soon they will control your minds. Their chief weapons are ...
The Infallibility Of Science, The Divinity Of Jesus and A Pope
When a question about why so many seemingly rational people accept the idea of Jesus's divinity was posted at a site I use a very lively thread developed. Strangely it was not the Christians who were pedantic and resisdtant to new ideas but people who claim they are atheists and agnostics.
Healthy Active Girl Branded Obese by the Thought Police
The parents of a healthy and active seven-year-old girl have been left angered after health chiefs warned she was borderline obese. Libbie Boardman, a budding gymnast, was weighed and measured as part of a pilot scheme in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The schoolgirl, who is 4ft 2in tall and weighs 5st 5lb, was described as being at the top end of the ...
Britain's Fishing Industry Angry As EU Stabs Fishermen In The Back
Under new EU fishing rules the British fishing fleet will be allowed to catch bigger quotas but it faces an estimated 15 to 25 per cent cut in the number of days at sea following a marathon negotiation session which ended at dawn on Saturday in Brussels. As a result of the deal the UK’s fleet will be forced to spend more time in port than ever before.
Tesco Tax" The First Step Towards Saving Our Towns
When Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson announced his "Tesco Tax" a planned levy on big stores intended to underwrite tax breaks for small, independent businesses and go some way towards redressing the balance after small shops were forced during thirteen years of Labour misrule to fund tax breaks offered to entice global retail corporations to set up shop in out of town big shed developments he expected ...
China's Credit Bubble Bursts - Just As The Daily Stirrer Predicted.
China's credit bubble has burst spectacularly, just asd The Dasily Stirrer predicted it would. In xxxxx we said hopes expressed by the Obama administration in the US and by the unelected bureaucrats who run the EU that the Chinese might step in to buy up Euro zone toxic debt were delusional because China's economic boom would turn to bust by the end of the year.
Parecetamol poisoning is a nasty way to die
There is a very sad story in the paper and on the website today about a young woman who accidentally poisoned herself with paracetamol. Desiree Phillips, 20, seems to have suffered a “staggered overdoses” of paracetamol over the course of a few days during which she may have exceeded the recommended dose, but possibly not by much.
Tories embrace Labour government poke nose strategy
Dave has today revealed plans to create another Politically Correct Thought Police hit squad, the problem families and fat children unit. The new squad will work closely with the alcohol abuse team which will be doubled in size and given the power to physically abuse anyone suspected of even thinking about having a drink and also with ...
Cameron Looks Less Isolated As Euro Nations Unity Shatters
Over the past few days there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth from control freaks of the progressive left about David Cameron's flat refusal to regulation of Britain's financial affairs by unelected bureaucrats from Brussels. Now other nations are backing off too.
War On The High Street Is Just A Skirmish In The War On Our Way Of Life
It seems the mainstream media are for the first time acknowledging the government, lackeys of fascistic corporate interests and banks, have been complicit in the waging a war on the Hiigh Stret and local shops. The weaponse have been generous tax breaks for global corporations who wanted to open for business in out of town "Big Shed" developments and the lax regulation of internet commerce which allowed fraudsters ...
CERN Science Con - Faith and the Priests Of The New Physics
This morning the world of arrested adloescent fantasists Theoretical physics awaited the announcement from CERN on the existence or not of the almost mythical Higgs boson, the sub atomic particle. The announcement? They might have found something but aren't sure.
David Cameron Isolated As EuroNazis Try To Save The Single Nation Project
Senior analysts and traders in the financial markets have warned that bank failures are likely as the summit convened to work out a way to save the Euro and solve the European debt crisis failed to deliver a solution. The only positive outcome of the meeting was that David Cameron vetoed a deal which would have given a huge chunk of Britain's national sovereignty away by handing over ...
Rats Are Nicer Than You Thought
News from the Bizarro World this week is that rats are really very nice. You may think that rats are the people who trampled on you when they were on the way up, shat on you when they were at the top, and will joyously stab you in the back on ...
Brussels Euronazis In Shock As Cameron Grows A Pair.
As leaders of EU member nations gathered in Brussels to save the Euro by establishing a Third Reich style bureaucratic dictatorship to govern the proposed European Supernation they must have felt confident that in spite of his brave talk David Cameron would ...
Health Shock: Coffee Contains Small Doses Of Caffeine
I get so tired of the agents of Nanny State warning us this or that is dangerous or bad for our health or should be avoided, ridiculing their efforts has become a kind of tilting at windmills exercise for me (satire).
The Panopticon
Ever had that feeling you are being watched, unseen eyes are monitoring your every move, recording your every action, even knowing what you think. We live in a surveillance society but few really understand how intrusive the activiries of the watchers are. Welcome to the Panopticon. Jeremy Bentham's ideal prison has become a metaphor for the world we have created.
