Our Masters

Taxes used for bonuses for high-ranking civil servants are an abomination. The government is taking, by force, money from people who work for it and giving it to people (in large sums) who have not worked for the amount of payment they receive.

Huh?

A 23-year-old yob glasses a 19-year-old in the face. He also is up on charges of "supplying" heroin. He shows no remorse for his crime or empathy for the victim. The judges cuts his sentence from six years to four and one-half.

Britons, your judges are trying to kill you...

British Children At Play

In Leicester.

Roman Wall at Verulamium (St. Albans)

This Is Very Odd

I'm sorry for this fellow in his current troubles, but can't the Brits find a better "spy chief"? And doesn't it boggle the mind that he "published a detailed personal website"?

This sort of story reinforces an idea of mine that since WWII Britain like the rest of Europe has been playing national defense as a jolly game and letting the Americans do the heavy lifting.

Eejits

What is it with these spectators at Wimbledon who just have to shout? They sound as if they're fully grown, too.

Scotland Isn't Scotland Anymore

Pipers banished from the Royal Mile.

Trying to Keep Scots Gaelic Alive

It's tough.

Britain Isn't Britain Anymore

This teacher should be given the boot.

July 4

I spent a good deal of yesterday watching TV, something I rarely do. So it was relaxing in a way. I watched the men's semifinals at Wimbledon and wished there were a couple more guys who could keep up with Federer and Nadal.

Also watched The American Revolution on the History Channel. They ran it all day. Very good thumbnail sketches of the history, and I usually like histories that occurred several centuries before the American Era. The actors playing the principals, I have to say, were a little oofy.

Saw the re-up ceremony for about 1200 service men and women in Baghdad. Those are the people in our culture really doing something.

And then I switched and saw Madonna's latest vid. Just pitiful.

Then I went outside and cleared the wisteria and grapevines that are gobbling up my yard. Worked up a good sweat.

The World Turned Upside Down, Pt. 4

The Lord Chief Justice of Britain has declared that certain aspects of Sharia law should be used in Britain by Muslim communities.

That's right, destroy all cultural cohesion of a country. It make the sheeple so much easier to rule.

White-Faced Sheep

From "Arthur Welling in the City of Angles"

A strange dream had just awakened him. In it, he was walking on a narrow road between rounded grassy banks and high wind-bent hedges. The road made its way in an arrow-straight line over a wide plain. Clouds scudded across the blue-black sky like great grey barrage balloons. It began to pelt a cold rain, and he wished he had a coat to pull over his threadbare sweater.

He heard a car coming behind him, a nice well-tuned purr. He turned to see a battered, black, mid-60’s-vintage Jaguar sedan bouncing his way. He moved to the right side of the road and kept trudging. The car stopped beside him. He peered into the open window on the driver’s side. A marmoreal motorist lounged behind the wheel, naked from the waist up. A narrow silver belt in the form of a snake biting its tail encircled her baby-fatted waist. She looked up at him with slate-dark eyes, pushed her black hair back, and said, “Get in before you are blue all over like my mad ancestors.”

(Excerpted from Killing the Celt)

The World Turned Upside Down, Pt. 3

Kylie Minogue receives OBE from Prince Charles.

The World Turned Upside Down, Pt. 2

An unnamed terrorist with ties to Osama Bin Laden has been released on bail by a British Court of Appeal. The Court ruled that this terrorist could not be deported to Algeria because he would have to face justice for the crimes he committed there. Instead he has been released on bail and the Court has ordered that his name, new address, and appearance be kept secret.

It should be clear by now that some members of our ruling class (the Judges on this Court, for instance) want to see us live in fear, indeed, to be murdered. One has to wonder why.

Perhaps if a suicide bomber walked into a session of Parliament and did his wonderful work for Allah, the British ruling class would do something to stop Islamic terrorism.

The World Turned Upside Down

Two French students set alight and stabbed 243 times in the hell of Southeast London. Any law-abiding citizen who would walk around South London without a loaded weapon is a fool.

Sounds Like Bad News To Me

A deconstruction of Sherlock Holmes starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson.

Large Scottish Impact Crater

Evidence of an impact crater near Ullapool, Scotland, under the Minch.

I drove through Ullapool on the way to Durness several years ago. I collected a ton of rocks, which I carried back to the States with me wrapped in newspaper in a backpack. I had to unwrap each rock to show to the airport screeners.

Another UFO Sighting

It seems that it's a hot time for UFO sightings in Britain this summer. This one near Harborough.

Wells at Night