Obvious onion...

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Now after the complete non-story of the 'massive revelation' at today's phone-hacking trial where jurors were read a "love letter" (ooooh) and told two former work colleagues at News Of The World (ironically this news is perfect for NOTW yet BBC et al have led the News today with it) had an affair that lasted at least six years (and?). Anyway, is nobody else seeing the bigger story here, the real sordid details...look at the imagine to the left; add some primer and face powder, pucker the lips, red wig...OMG! 

Obvious onion...

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Now after the complete non-story of the 'massive revelation' at today's phone-hacking trial where jurors were read a "love letter" (ooooh) and told two former work colleagues at News Of The World (ironically this news is perfect for NOTW yet BBC et al have led the News today with it) had an affair that lasted at least six years (and?). Anyway, is nobody else seeing the bigger story here, the real sordid details...look at the imagine to the left; add some primer and face powder, pucker the lips, red wig...OMG! 

Open objectors...

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"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs" or so many of the Del-Boy preachers said. Many objected; one of those wrote ninety five statements that quickly became the first media revolution; which led to a ration of invertebrates [or something] permitting anyone to kill said objector without legal consequence. The ensuing schism was massive and continues to this day. "What is Ows on about?" you cry! Reading Cranmer today would give you a massive clue. You certainly don't have to be a Christian - practising or not - to feel serious concern at how "Politicians and lawyers have conspired to nullify our ancient and hard-won liberties: we are no longer free."

Open objectors...

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"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs" or so many of the Del-Boy preachers said. Many objected; one of those wrote ninety five statements that quickly became the first media revolution; which led to a ration of invertebrates [or something] permitting anyone to kill said objector without legal consequence. The ensuing schism was massive and continues to this day. "What is Ows on about?" you cry! Reading Cranmer today would give you a massive clue. You certainly don't have to be a Christian - practising or not - to feel serious concern at how "Politicians and lawyers have conspired to nullify our ancient and hard-won liberties: we are no longer free."

Obganiation overcomes obscurantism...

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No memory whatsoever...

Still paying and for how long? The arch vampire has really never left the scene (look at the peace in the ME for instance...hah!) but sometimes his episodes do chime with what is right, which is also to say that they chime with what I think :-)

Notasheep directs us to this piece by Michael Savage in The Times (£) about TB (no, the one without the cull going on): "Labour should have made cuts to public spending before the financial crisis hit Britain" Tony Blair has admitted; he said that he regretted not following through on a plan [known as the Fundamental Savings Review] to weed out billions in unnecessary and wasteful spending in 2005." A planned killed off by Crash Gordon, Ed Milliband and Ed Balls (names you may recognise).



More to agree with: Blair added "I advise any young person who wants to go into politics today: go and spend some time out of politics. Go and work for a community organisation, a business, start your own business — do anything that isn't politics for at least several years"; [edit 6pm] as I wrote four years ago - considering the proliferation of a certain type of Old Oxfordian - I'd go further: this should even be a specific, obligatory requirement: "...it seems to me to be more urgent now - rather than just important - that any new MPs should have actually "lived" before joining the ruling elite."



obganiate v. - to irritate with reiteration

obscurantism n. - prevention of enlightenment [Luciferous Logolepsy]

Obganiation overcomes obscurantism...

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No memory whatsoever...

Still paying and for how long? The arch vampire has really never left the scene (look at the peace in the ME for instance...hah!) but sometimes his episodes do chime with what is right, which is also to say that they chime with what I think :-) Notasheep directs us to this piece by Michael Savage in The Times (£) about TB (no, the one without the cull going on): "Labour should have made cuts to public spending before the financial crisis hit Britain" Tony Blair has admitted; he said that he regretted not following through on a plan [known as the Fundamental Savings Review] to weed out billions in unnecessary and wasteful spending in 2005." A planned killed off by Crash Gordon, Ed Milliband and Ed Balls (names you may recognise).

More to agree with: Blair added "I advise any young person who wants to go into politics today: go and spend some time out of politics. Go and work for a community organisation, a business, start your own business — do anything that isn't politics for at least several years"; [edit 6pm] as I wrote four years ago - considering the proliferation of a certain type of Old Oxfordian - I'd go further: this should even be a specific, obligatory requirement: "...it seems to me to be more urgent now - rather than just important - that any new MPs should have actually "lived" before joining the ruling elite."

obganiate v. - to irritate with reiteration
obscurantism n. - prevention of enlightenment [Luciferous Logolepsy]

Okinawan option...

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Hmmm...are the best ways of promoting World Vegan Month really making meat look so tasty? maybe. 'Sexy vegan' Shayna Weisz says:

"Purging our diets of meat, eggs and dairy products will help to safeguard our health, reduce our carbon footprint and save the lives of many animals every year"

Naturally I disagree entirely. An alternative would be eat less, exercise more and slow down (chill!) [research pdf].

Okinawan option...

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Hmmm...are the best ways of promoting World Vegan Month really making meat look so tasty? maybe. 'Sexy vegan' Shayna Weisz says:

"Purging our diets of meat, eggs and dairy products will help to safeguard our health, reduce our carbon footprint and save the lives of many animals every year"

Naturally I disagree entirely. An alternative would be eat less, exercise more and slow down (chill!) [research pdf].

Obvious opportunity IV...

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Excellent news for the South West and the UK with some sort of energy self sufficiency being brought back (despite foreign firms in control!); soon to be followed by more good [nuclear] news. Despite being "dangerous, unpopular, expensive and risky...replaceable with relative ease and could be forgone with no huge structural shifts in the way the world works" [The Economist: 24/05/11, the 14% solution] it is still a very viable option that Green activists should encourage. Already the future cost being too high etc is being spouted. The image left (click to enlarge) shows what the area in terms of power generated is but the cost of nuclear energy will be now so high, increased "to a level comparable with onshore wind, losing most if not all of the comparative cost advantage, and making it vastly more expensive than coal-fired generation." EUReferendum goes on to say how this due to 'deliberate ploys to increase the price of nuclear plants' and 'fuel poverty will kill vastly more than nuclear accidents are ever likely to'. "...regulation is reckoned to be enough to have caused the massive hike. And much of the regulation has been promoted by Green activists, the aim being to price nuclear power out of business."

Obvious opportunity IV...

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Excellent news for the South West and the UK with some sort of energy self sufficiency being brought back (despite foreign firms in control!); soon to be followed by more good [nuclear] news. Despite being "dangerous, unpopular, expensive and risky...replaceable with relative ease and could be forgone with no huge structural shifts in the way the world works" [The Economist: 24/05/11, the 14% solution] it is still a very viable option that Green activists should encourage. Already the future cost being too high etc is being spouted. The image left (click to enlarge) shows what the area in terms of power generated is but the cost of nuclear energy will be now so high, increased "to a level comparable with onshore wind, losing most if not all of the comparative cost advantage, and making it vastly more expensive than coal-fired generation." EUReferendum goes on to say how this due to 'deliberate ploys to increase the price of nuclear plants' and 'fuel poverty will kill vastly more than nuclear accidents are ever likely to'. "...regulation is reckoned to be enough to have caused the massive hike. And much of the regulation has been promoted by Green activists, the aim being to price nuclear power out of business."

Oprah Obama over?...

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Yes...it would seem "Oprah's friends publicly dismiss the idea that she had a falling out with Obama" however she didn't campaign for Obama in the 2012 race for POTUS reelection and has been conspicuous by her absence from Obama's battles on immigration reform and gun control amongst other things. The White House wanted celebrities, including "the Queen of All Media" up to generate decent publicity for ObamaCare, Oprah refused [NYP];

"All of Oprah's top people thought she would go, because when the president invites you to the White House, most people automatically say yes,” said one of Oprah’s closest advisers. “But Oprah said she didn't have the time or inclination to go. It wasn't like she had to think it over. It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no."

Maybe she knew what a complete balls-up it would be: NYT "Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule"...



Update: you could opt-out...

Oprah Obama over?...

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Yes...it would seem "Oprah's friends publicly dismiss the idea that she had a falling out with Obama" however she didn't campaign for Obama in the 2012 race for POTUS reelection and has been conspicuous by her absence from Obama's battles on immigration reform and gun control amongst other things. The White House wanted celebrities, including "the Queen of All Media" up to generate decent publicity for ObamaCare, Oprah refused [NYP];

"All of Oprah's top people thought she would go, because when the president invites you to the White House, most people automatically say yes,” said one of Oprah’s closest advisers. “But Oprah said she didn't have the time or inclination to go. It wasn't like she had to think it over. It was an immediate, flat-out, unequivocal no."

Maybe she knew what a complete balls-up it would be: NYT "Obamacare, Failing Ahead of Schedule"...

Update: you could opt-out...

Obstrobogulous oblectation...

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Exclusive: Labour, 1997-2010, was The Worst Government Ever. And this is why… Well said Sean Thomas in the DT today! The worse thing is that he doesn't mention the half of it; but he has a good go:

"...William the Conqueror turned half the nation into a desolate wasteland for centuries – perhaps he inspired Gordon Brown – but none of them equal New Labour’s magnificent record, right across the board, for wretched, lying, blundering, poisonous, catastrophic ineptitude. 

And you know what’s so depressing? This so-called “party”, this cancer called “Labour”, this affliction which keeps returning to the UK like a kind of sociopolitical syphilis, could be in power, once more, in about 18 months' time."

Obstrobogulous oblectation...

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Exclusive: Labour, 1997-2010, was The Worst Government Ever. And this is why… Well said Sean Thomas in the DT today! The worse thing is that he doesn't mention the half of it; but he has a good go:

"...William the Conqueror turned half the nation into a desolate wasteland for centuries – perhaps he inspired Gordon Brown – but none of them equal New Labour’s magnificent record, right across the board, for wretched, lying, blundering, poisonous, catastrophic ineptitude. 

And you know what’s so depressing? This so-called “party”, this cancer called “Labour”, this affliction which keeps returning to the UK like a kind of sociopolitical syphilis, could be in power, once more, in about 18 months' time."

Obnoxious Ohio ornery's opus...

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An interesting post by Mark Steyn (as always...) at the weekend: "America's so-called government shutdown* got me thinking. What do government officials do when they're not governmentalizing? Well, some of them write hit songs."...that got my attention:

"...who is the only successful candidate on a national ticket to write a big hit song? A song so big it features in the plot of the novel cited above - Summer Blue by Floyd Skloot - not to mention a bunch of movies, including Diner and She's Having A Baby. It's the only American Number One and British Number One to be written by a Nobel Peace Prize winner... ...A song so popular, it's been in and out of the charts pretty much every few years for six decades. A song so versatile it's been recorded by Bing Crosby, Van Morrison, Dinah Shore, UB40, Liberace, Barry White, Merle Haggard, Elton John, Lawrence Welk, Donny and Marie Osmond, Louis Armstrong, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Sammy Davis Jr, Phoebe Snow, Isaac Hayes, and the Gaylads."

WOW. Well, if you haven't already read Mark's piece, it was this man and here's Cliff's version.



* Re the shutdown, all I can say is don't get your US news from the BBC.

Obnoxious Ohio ornery's opus...

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An interesting post by Mark Steyn (as always...) at the weekend: "America's so-called government shutdown* got me thinking. What do government officials do when they're not governmentalizing? Well, some of them write hit songs."...that got my attention:

"...who is the only successful candidate on a national ticket to write a big hit song? A song so big it features in the plot of the novel cited above - Summer Blue by Floyd Skloot - not to mention a bunch of movies, including Diner and She's Having A Baby. It's the only American Number One and British Number One to be written by a Nobel Peace Prize winner... ...A song so popular, it's been in and out of the charts pretty much every few years for six decades. A song so versatile it's been recorded by Bing Crosby, Van Morrison, Dinah Shore, UB40, Liberace, Barry White, Merle Haggard, Elton John, Lawrence Welk, Donny and Marie Osmond, Louis Armstrong, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Sammy Davis Jr, Phoebe Snow, Isaac Hayes, and the Gaylads."

WOW. Well, if you haven't already read Mark's piece, it was this man and here's Cliff's version.

* Re the shutdown, all I can say is don't get your US news from the BBC.

Ows opines V...

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[Edited 11:30 pm] "No folk music or incest?" asks Paul, a fair question when looking at the results of an online survey by Ask Jeeves to which I'd add 'no Maypole/ Morris dancing and no watching Big Brother?'; the survey asked Brits to name things they had tried once and wouldn't be trying again. All I can say is looking at the lists for Food & Drink, Places and Hobbies you have to wonder who they were asking! The Top Ten for food and drink were as follows: 1. Tripe, 2. Marmite, 3. Whisky, 4. Liver, 5. Gin, 6. Cigarettes, 7. Octopus, 8. Rabbit, 9. Real Ale and 10. Irn Bru. My comments to that Top Ten are below; the rest in the comments over at One Page In A Library of Millions [Link]

1. Tripe: depends how its cooked and served e.g. Mondongo and Trippa alla Fiorentina...mmmmm


2. Marmite: what's not to like? 


3. Whisky: got drunk at an Aunt's wedding in the 70s; now even the smell turns my guts. 


4. Liver: wonderful stuff, see Marmite (fried liver and onion...mmmmmmm)


5. Gin: if well mixed (i.e. sufficiently diluted) can be just about drinkable.


6. Cigarettes: never tempted, peer pressure was never a weakness. 


7. Octopus: see tripe (personal favourite Pulpo Gallego/Pulpo a la Gallega)


8. Rabbit: see Marmite (who cannot like rabbit stew, who are these people!)


9. Real Ale: ah, the answer, clearly lily-livered pansy-arsed lager drinking pussies were asked. 


10. Irn Bru: good pop, 'Frescolita' in Venezuela.

Ows opines V...

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[Edited 11:30 pm] "No folk music or incest?" asks Paul, a fair question when looking at the results of an online survey by Ask Jeeves to which I'd add 'no Maypole/ Morris dancing and no watching Big Brother?'; the survey asked Brits to name things they had tried once and wouldn't be trying again. All I can say is looking at the lists for Food & Drink, Places and Hobbies you have to wonder who they were asking! The Top Ten for food and drink were as follows: 1. Tripe, 2. Marmite, 3. Whisky, 4. Liver, 5. Gin, 6. Cigarettes, 7. Octopus, 8. Rabbit, 9. Real Ale and 10. Irn Bru. My comments to that Top Ten are below; the rest in the comments over at One Page In A Library of Millions [Link]

1. Tripe: depends how its cooked and served e.g. Mondongo and Trippa alla Fiorentina...mmmmm
2. Marmite: what's not to like? 
3. Whisky: got drunk at an Aunt's wedding in the 70s; now even the smell turns my guts. 
4. Liver: wonderful stuff, see Marmite (fried liver and onion...mmmmmmm)
5. Gin: if well mixed (i.e. sufficiently diluted) can be just about drinkable.
6. Cigarettes: never tempted, peer pressure was never a weakness. 
7. Octopus: see tripe (personal favourite Pulpo Gallego/Pulpo a la Gallega)
8. Rabbit: see Marmite (who cannot like rabbit stew, who are these people!)
9. Real Ale: ah, the answer, clearly lily-livered pansy-arsed lager drinking pussies were asked. 
10. Irn Bru: good pop, 'Frescolita' in Venezuela.