William Hague 2

I was ignorant when I wrote of the Hague virus yesterday. During the evening I caught up on reading Tuesday's newspaper and went through Wednesday's.
The Palestinians are not allowed pre-conditions by Messrs Hague and Clinton set theirs. They have to undertake not to pursue Israel for war crimes.
I recall an Israel supporter telling me that Israelis ( he said "Jews") cannot commit war crimes. When I asked why he said that they just can't.
Well, there is a case to answer and apparently the freedom loving Conservative Party thinks it legimitate to try to organise things so that Palestine cannot bring that case against its occupiers

William Hague sets a pre-condition for UK government support (he terms it "UK support" but he does not represent me) for the Palestinian request for upgraded status at the UN. The pre-condition is, inter alia, that they may not have any preconditions. He says this is because he supports them but does not want to risk the peace process.

The hypocritical smear of runny shit.

What peace process? Permanently Occupied Palestine, aka Israel, makes plenty of preconditions

Cougar Elinux

I just had a message to a colleague bounce.

He'd said he was having trouble.

But this email from Mailer-Daemon@cougar.elinuxservers.com says that he has exceeded his mailbox quota. That could explain a few things.

I noticed though that it also says “Spam detection software, running on the system "cougar.elinuxservers.com", has  identified this incoming email as possible spam.” and this would seem to be a message that was in the process of being sent to my colleague when the bounce cut in.

I went to their website and found that the sender is listed as “low trust”. Whether that applies to my mail provider or to me is unclear; they are writing in jargon to people who do not know their usage so they earn a few ignorance points there.

I went to their website and found that “low trust” in their private language is the default for most systems.

So someone is being paid to monitor mail for spam and their method is to say that any particular message is probably spam because most email is.

There was nothing in the message to suspect spam. They quoted it and drew attention to nothing. It was all based on origin, which a machine looks up in a list, a list written by a machine devised by a dog turd in a suit.

I think the people taking the profit have earned the right to wear the I am a frequent wanker t-shirt

Well done Cougar Elinux

BBC Bias

Newsday BBC World Service early today included an interview with a young Palestinian blogger in Gaza. She was telling them what it is like to live in Gaza. They interrupted her and asked: Yes, but what is it like? She said: I am telling you. And continued.

They interrupted her and asked if she supported Hamas.

She said it isn't that simple and continued.

They interrupted her and said: No, say yes or no.

She said it isnt that simple and continued.

They interrupted her and said: I can't understand you. Answer yes or no.

She continued.

They interrupted her and said: I am sorry we have run out of time.

The diction and phrasing of what she said were for sure familiar; but she wasn't programmed. She knew what she was saying and clearly understood what they were doing.

She was no more programmed than the official Israeli spokespersons who are left to practice their reasonable men accents on us at length.

This is how the Nazis did it, I believe.

One of the spokespersons said: Israelis just want to live normal lives

Like the settlers in America who are portrayed as muttering “murdering redskins” when their repro Euro lives were disrupted by dispossessed Americans.

In fact some of those films might be a rehearsal for the fib of a 2 state solution.

One of the Israeli Reasonable Men yesterday always referred to his people as Israelis, which is appropriate because they could give Jewish people a bad name. But whenever he spoke about Israelis being hurt, he referred to them as Jewish.

And so it continues. Maybe Jim'll fix it.

There doesn't appear to be any complaint system clearly displayed.

Gas and stupidity

It has been suggested that traders have been manipulating the price of gas; and the government says that it is worried. Didn't they know?
I knew that from nothing and I know nothing about it.
We are being ripped off.
I assumed the government knew. If they really did not then they have no business being the government.
I am put in mind of a quote I learned a few minutes ago, attributed to J S Mill: Conservatives are not necessarily stupid; but stupid people tend to be conservatives.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall go bang

I was quite deeply in blanking thought today, sitting in silence with others, and no one had spoken for 30 minutes; I was as good as nowhere and hardly aware and aware

and then a crash
and I was somewhere
full of questions and nonsense

an explosion

I thought it was a big firework
and began to reconsider my fellow bipeds as buffoons

and then I realised it must be some kind of remembrance day thing

two minutes later the same thing again
i hadnt even regained my composure

how odd it is that the death of so many people for no defensible reason should be marked by the firing of a big gun

Odd value sets

Things are the wrong way up.

Lawed McAlpine will have the world know that he is not a paedophile; and Mr Messham would seem to corroborate this by saying that he, Messham, made a mistake.

But McAlpine does not deny that he has been the Treasurer of The Conservative Party.In the light of that it strikes me as odd that he should express any concern about his reputation.

In USA Mr Petraeus resigns because it has been discovered that he's had a sexual relations with someone other than his wife. Sounds highly correct of him.

But he has resigned as Head of CIA. He doesn't apologise for that.