The Weekly Blog Posts - Sunday, February 3 2008
February 3rd, 2008 by ThunderDragon
- Norfolk Blogger points out that it’s very easy to mock the McQualification, but why should we? He is right there is too much snobbery about formal qualifications from educational establishments. Why shouldn’t the skills of McDonalds staff be formally recognised?
- Devil’s Kitchen looks at suggestions of how to make Britain better. Some are, of course, utter shit and others very good suggestions.
- Tony Sharp laments the neutering of Parliament through the tiny amount of debate allowed on the
EU Constitution“Lisbon Treaty”. And he’s right. Such a large and important subject requires much more discussion.
Tuesday
- Tom Paine says Happy Birthday to… Tom Paine. The real one, that is. Happy Birthday Tom!
- Alex Singleton of the Telegraph Politics Blogs tells us all to be aware that the State is reading our emails. Why? Because they can. Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt!
- Ellee Seymour asks when food became so complicated? Probably when it started to come pre-prepared, and when people stopped actually making it themselves. If you make it yourself, you know exactly what’s in it. If you don’t, who knows?
Wednesday
- Mr Eugenides decides to regurgitate a Conservative party press release. Because, unlike ID cards, it’s a good IDea.
- Iain Dale want’s to be inspired by Barack Obama. Obama would be my choice, had I a vote in America. Both against Hillary Clinton or whoever [probably McCain] that the Republicans put up.
- Daniel Finkelstein points out to Diane Abbott that it’s not only left-wingers who are allowed to - let alone can - have insights. Which is obvious. Well, to anyone except a left-winger who are so convinced that the sun does shine out of their own arses that they spend most of their time with their heads up them looking for it.
- Garbo wants HR professionals to select who works for our MPs. Which is fine, until you realise that most HR people are actually crap…
Friday
- Lewis Baston writes a response at the Wardman Wire to my column last week on Proportional Representation. Of course, I’m right.
- Writing at the ASI, Tim Worstall points out that people are rational - if they are in familiar situations where they understand all the options and consequences of selecting them. Which seems a rational explanation to me.
Saturday
- Ben Brogan rejoices that Carla Bruni will be paying a visit to the UK presumably, since Sarkozy her now husband is visiting next month. It will make a nice change from seeing leader’s wives like Cherie Blair and Sarah Brown.
- Tim Worstall says that he must have pissed off a Wikipedia editor, considering what his Wikipedia entry has been edited to say. By a retard, presumably.
- Mike Ion says that there should be “equal treatment for agency workers”. As a temp myself, I wrote about it when the EU proposed this idiocy. It was a stupid idea then, and remains a stupid idea now. And always will be a stupid idea.
Sunday
- EU Referendum on the claim that the EU is “easily the most popular and successful empire in history”. Which is of course utter bollocks, as it is indeed neither.
- Guido Fawkes has a round-up of the sleaze stories that currently abound in the press. It’s really quite a large number!
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Another roundup ….
The competition increases.
This must take ages to sort out each week. I like these sort of roundups because they organise things for me to look for. It’s far less hit and miss and saves me lots of time.
Not as much as you’d think, actually, since I tend to pick the posts as I go through my weekly reading anyway.
I’m glad it’s helpful to you!