One of the few politicians that has shown any conviction in the last few years sadly died today.

I wish there were someone who would be able to take his place right now, but there’s not a sinner that could. In the same week that we hear Mo Mowlem is very ill, this is not good news. The only two principled politicians in that last 10 years are lost in a single week.

Menwhile, Blair carries on doing his thing, and Melanie Phillips has yet to be placed under arrest for impersonating a journalist

A very bad day for democracy. The good folks die too young, the useless of our society live to shite another day.

Writes a mental giant calling themselves Crimsonfisted over at LGF

ok – Someone in my house noticed the bombings in London today took place at:

Shepherd’s Bush

Warren Street

Oval Tube Stations

Hackney Road

Anyone else think it is a message the next attack will try to be Bush in the Oval office since no one was hurt? or is this a crack pot conspirancy theory?

I’m surprised that Pluto being in Cancer and the Pope being a German wasn’t included in there. Maybe a little story about it being ‘The End Times’ according to some redacted version of a 2000 year-old parchment and we could call ‘Bingo‘ on this sort of lunacy.

Having had to commute to central London all this week on the tube, to read that kind of shit from some lard-arse a couple of thousand miles away who wants to exterminate all moslems sort of grates on the nerves. The is the kind of person that calls England’s capital ‘Londistan’ and think they’re being original and clever – about as clever as someone as someone who spells America with ‘kk’ in the middle. Two sides of the same extreme coin, who can’t even use their heads, look around and see what’s wrong, never mind come up with a way to improve things.

Knee Jerkers, idiots and mouth-breathers, both sides. We need to up our game to overcome this latest challenge. Crimsonfisted and their ilk join the ‘we’re part of the problem’ camp. As for the rest of LGF? If I were Charles Johnson, I’d be scarlet with embarrasment that these idiots were the ‘LGF Minons‘.

Bye, bye Pajamas Media.

Update – That didn’t take long. I assume it was a local, knee jerk decision.

US troops ordered to avoid London

Most of the 12,000 US personnel in the UK are based at Mildenhall and Lakenheath.

“We are concerned about the safety of our folks and are trying to do what we can to protect them,” RAF Mildenhall spokesman Matt Tulis said.

“This is the best course of action right now.”

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Details of the travel ban, enforced on Friday, emerged as US President George W Bush said the US would “not retreat in the face of terrorists” .

He said: “In this difficult hour, the people of Great Britain can know the American people stand with you.”

Well, not quite with you, but maybe about 25 miles away.

Religious bullying at US academy

Soldier Sues Over Guantanamo Beating
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