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style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-29UneogA6EI/TvB91AiTxBI/AAAAAAAAAzY/65wbik2YeiA/s1600/Santa%2527sprayer.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-29UneogA6EI/TvB91AiTxBI/AAAAAAAAAzY/65wbik2YeiA/s400/Santa%2527sprayer.jpeg" width="325" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Baby Jesus, mild and meek&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Grant us all an outlook bleak&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Guarantee a life austere&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Misery throughout the year&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Baby Jesus, barely born&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Look upon a world forlorn&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Billions facing daily strife&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Promise them an afterlife &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Through your death upon the cross&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Exalt obedience to the boss&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Put their suffering into perspective&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Serve as an ideological corrective&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Baby Jesus, it’s an emergency&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Banish the people’s thoughts of insurgency&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Justify their deprivation &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Self-sacrifice for their edification&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Banisher of usurers from the temple&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Set for us a good example&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Though many moralists still confuse&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Honest bankers and filthy Jews.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Baby Jesus, to Earth you came &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;To show us who we ought to blame&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Fornicators, harlots, commies,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Atheists and unwed mommies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Profligate Greeks who don’t pay taxes&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Teen binge drinkers with Brazilian waxes&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Rioters in cities, fighting the cops&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Liberal clergymen, establishment fops&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Immigrants, multiculturalism, violent video games&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Public sector workers, Wikileaks naming names,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Bradley Manning, Arab Spring, Wall Street Occupiers &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Baby Jesus, damn them all, to brimstone and Hell’s fires.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Better still, O bringer of peace&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;If it’s not too much trouble, bring bless&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;è&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;d release&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Free your people from their insanity&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Annihilate the rest of humanity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;May you all have a pious, spartan, and devotional Christmas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Besos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Manuel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-29UneogA6EI/TvB91AiTxBI/AAAAAAAAAzY/65wbik2YeiA/s72-c/Santa%2527sprayer.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1446775046539602946</id><published>2011-11-23T08:57:00.003Z</published><updated>2011-11-23T10:09:57.335Z</updated><title type='text'>Mariano's Trench</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0f_-kJ3tAM/Tsy1qvmZXVI/AAAAAAAAAy0/bqATjyqYTs8/s1600/mariano-rajoy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0f_-kJ3tAM/Tsy1qvmZXVI/AAAAAAAAAy0/bqATjyqYTs8/s400/mariano-rajoy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678112976143998290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;A loose translation: Aggressive Begging for Change. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This past month has been demonstrating the various ways in which the different nationalities of the world make clear their personal innate characteristics through their response to the austerity.  In Greece, the technocratic corporate government imposed by the Illuminati cabal at the head of the IMF and European Union has met with the typical Greek response to all forms of government: indifference that is borders on downright insolence; let us not forget that the Greeks was invent democracy, so they have had longer than anyone to realize that it does not work.  In Italy, as usual, the peoples there was meekly accepting the paternal advice of their German allies and happily sit back in the sun and not worry about anything, like Nicolas Cave in &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Captain Corelli's Mandrill&lt;/span&gt; and also every other film he has ever made. In Egypt, where they was make the initial mistake of getting rid of their  benign dictator (actually, their initial mistake was having for a dictator an Egyptian; they should have had a Spanish one), the people are now uprising because they have realize that everything lapses into chaos if you try to combine military rule with elections.  Either they must now hold their own elections independent of the military and nominate their own leaders, which would be a recipe for disaster: the pyramids was not built using direct democracy!  The alternative is to abolish elections and have a proper military government who can impose proper Christian austerity and asceticism, mostly by spending all the country's money on weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Ireland, in contrast, everyone has left the country. At least that is to say, all the smart peoples have gone, such as the foreing intellectuals who was only there for the "good times": the hookers, the cocaine, and the software localization jobs.  And good riddance too, I say.  Now that Ireland is enjoying a so-call brain-drain, leaving behind in charge End O'Kenny, the Drain-Brain, successor to Brain Cowen, the Inane-Brain, it will allow the 100% Real Irish people who have stay behind to return to the simpler days of Bord na Mona, proper Catholic education, and &lt;a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/mayor-of-naas-stands-down-after-race-remarks-529372.html"&gt;xenophobia&lt;/a&gt;.  The Irish are the only people in Europe who are actively looking forward to the austerity; do not underestimate the attractiveness of simpler, rural times dominating by big families, the radio phone-in, character-forming manual labour, and famine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in Spain, of course, the people have done the sensible thing and before the Illuminati get the chance to intervene, as per the idiot Zapatero's plan, we have instead elected in power the PP, which is stand for the People's Party and tell you all you need to know about who the People are.  You can see in the picture above the winner of the election, Mariano Rompuy, sorry, Rajoy, who was once upon a time a member of the post-Francoist People's Alliance party, which was the nice fascists.  Rajoy is what people with the political sophistication and pretentiousness call a &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;prominence grise,&lt;/span&gt; which is a Latin phrase that literally is translate as "a Grey Nose."  This is like a Brown Nose escept it is specifically relate to bureaucrats.  Think Adolf Eichmann.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The win for the PP is a strong kick in the genitals of both sexes of the socialists, the PSOE, who clearly was not austering fast enough in the view of the Spanish people.  The Spanish people knew that if things were allow to drift on the way they was, the Germans would intervene, in their BMWs and Heinkels, and take over and have all the fun.  Now, however, all the punishment will be in Spanish hands.  An iron fist in an oven glove is just what Spain is needing now, and it is better that it is a grey Spanish fisting than a German one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is still a problem with Spanish democracy, however, besides its very existence.  Of the 34 million legible voters, only 24 million are voting, and of those 24 million, 600,000 either blank their voting sheet or soil it.  That means, in toto, that one-third of the population is not taking democracy seriously; nearly half, if you count those who voted for the socialists.  In Australia, they respond to this crisis of legitimacy by making voting compulsory.  In Spain, however, this crisis of legitimacy is a good sign.  Contempt for democracy only goes to show how many of the people still hanker back for the days of dictatorship.  The Spanish people still innately understand that leaders are not people who are elected as such.  Human beings are constructed in such a way that there are natural-born leaders in any community, who come to the fore as a result of circumstance, history, or simply the force of their personality.  In any situation, there are natural leaders, even if it may only be just for that situation or particular talent: Who, for instance, can deny that Rafa Nadal is the best tennis player in the world? And yet give him a sack of kittens and ask him to drive over it in his Lexus 4X4 and he is useless.  If you want a kitten-squasher, you go to the expert.  Probly Andy Murray.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point is that leaders are not elected. They are chosen by birth.  And any electing, consensussing, accountability and cetera is just a brake on natural social forces that should be allow to play out as God intended. Ironically, by their inaction, the Spanish people have done precisely that.  In this sense, it is because democracy does not work that it has worked, allowing the true national Spanish spirit to espress itself in the embodiment of Rajoy, a Spanish man for our times.  His challenge now will be to wage war, figuratively, metaphorically, and literally, against the enemies of Spain on all fronts:  the Illuminati in Brussels, the atheist communists at home, the immigrants, un-Spanish thinking, and people in general.  All of us true Spanish must wish him well.  Certainly, I shall be watching on with great anticipation and enthusiasm and also with binoculars, from my austere retirement penthouse in Dublin 4.  Estìmulo: ¡Absente!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1446775046539602946?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1446775046539602946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1446775046539602946&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1446775046539602946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1446775046539602946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/11/marianos-trench.html' title='Mariano&apos;s Trench'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e0f_-kJ3tAM/Tsy1qvmZXVI/AAAAAAAAAy0/bqATjyqYTs8/s72-c/mariano-rajoy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1092043209185215273</id><published>2011-10-22T10:46:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T11:58:03.285+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Do Not Panic.  Kill All Actors!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_hd8C1lpCc/TqKRJuJfnrI/AAAAAAAAAyU/jYNCPWguFvc/s1600/bournewim.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_hd8C1lpCc/TqKRJuJfnrI/AAAAAAAAAyU/jYNCPWguFvc/s400/bournewim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666250877378207410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"No point getting toilet paper.  It will be miles away by now."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is Leonardo Da Capo and Kate Wimslet above from the new movie &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Contagion!&lt;/span&gt;, which is already spreading like an incurable rash across box offices near you.  The movie is telling the true story of how actors travel all around the world making films and in the process carrying with them virulent deadly diseases such as the lurgy, rabies, pimples, syphilis, and popcorn.  A lot of people have already made the point that the movie is not meant to be a true story but is only a metaphor that is meant to warn us about the dangers of immigration, and therefore that we should close all our borders, including the bookshops, but the irony is, and I don't believe in irony, that more than 30 people died during the making of the film, all of them from illnesses contracted because they went abroad.  But you won't hear that mentioned in the film, will you?  Oh no. And why not?  Because it is a work of fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the correct way to look at the film is this, my way.  Rather than the film's message being a metaphor for clamping down on illegal immigrants, those deaths of the various crew members (including two best boys, one first grip, and Miss Wimslet's fluffer) should be seen as a metaphor for the Hollywood movie industry and the way that it spreads its evil testicles through foreign cultures, the subcutaneous implicit insidious liberal value-system that Hollywood embodies infiltrating and undermining locally constructed belief systems such as voodoo, Copernicanism, creationism, heart-warming fascism, and, in places like Australia, Bananas in Pajamas and penis puppetry.  These long-held and much-cherished vernacular worldviews struggle in the face of the virulence of Hollywood liberalism because of the latter's technological know-how, its shiny newness that appeals to all primitive, innocent savages, and its loud bangs and large-breasted women, all of which distract and confuse the former penis worshippers so that they do not notice the sneaky subtext being slipped in underneath: the sympathetic portrayal of Jews and freemasons, the blatant feminism, the tolerance for inferior races, the anthropomorphizing of Muslims.  All of these things are there, if you look closely, but nobody does because they are all still recovering from the shock of seeing an elephant fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are probably thinking now, "Well that's all true, Manuel, and well observed," but how does this fit into the correct fascist view of the world?  Surely inferior races with their stupid worldviews and religions will just be wiped off the face of the earth in the struggle for survival like that appalling race of human beings in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Independence Day.&lt;/span&gt;  To which I would reply, "Did you not see the end of that movie?!  Also, you are confusing Catholic fascism with Social Darwinism, you inbecile!  Fascism does not want people to be killed. No!  That is just a typical Hollywood distortion of its actual, true message, which is stay where you are, don't immigrate, open your hearts to Jesus, and export your resources to Spain."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, we in the Falangist movement appreciate and understand the importance of societies retaining their own cultures and sense of place.  The peoples of all societies have developed their cultures and values so that they are appropriate to where they live—Islam for the desert, Buddhism for the rice paddy, Christianity for the battlefield, and cetera—and which is why they should never be mixed up together.  However and neverthenonetheless, having said all that, it is also clear that 1) Christianity is correct and therefore we have an obligation to take Jesus's Good News to all human beings regardless of their ability to understand it, and 2) it follows that there is a natural hierarchy between societies, specifically those superior ones which have received Jesus's message first, and the inferior ones which are not in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, then, it is cucumbent upon us, the European Christian West, particularly the Spanish, to shoulder the white man's burden of subjugating other cultures and, like benevolent but strict schoolmasters, guiding lesser races in their quest to be just like us, which they never can be.  This is a great and onerous burden, which is why we require so many resources from foreign countries to carry it out properly, what was incorrectly called the "circle of life" in that doicumentary &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Lion King,&lt;/span&gt; yet another piece of schmaltzy liberal Hollywood schlock that totally misrepresented Nature.  And don't not get me started on &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Bambi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Contagion!&lt;/span&gt; thus carries a confusing message.  It talks about contagious infectious death-dealing plagues as if they are a bad thing, when in fact it is movies that are the virus and therefore a bad thing, and the truth is that some plagues are actually a good thing, such as missionary work to unenlightened countries and The crusades.  Therefore, in conclusion, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Contagion!&lt;/span&gt;'s true message is that we are all dead in the long run and we are in a race against time to make sure everyone catches the virus of Christianity before they die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There.  Now you will not even have to see it.  Me neither.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1092043209185215273?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1092043209185215273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1092043209185215273&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1092043209185215273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1092043209185215273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/10/do-not-panic-kill-all-actors.html' title='Do Not Panic.  Kill All Actors!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N_hd8C1lpCc/TqKRJuJfnrI/AAAAAAAAAyU/jYNCPWguFvc/s72-c/bournewim.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6209511913329223964</id><published>2011-10-12T09:48:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T12:55:10.979+01:00</updated><title type='text'>#Occupy_Quality_Street!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEiFcy7vWfg/TpVUhHdy1oI/AAAAAAAAAyI/EkJqGEYWUVM/s1600/QualityStreet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEiFcy7vWfg/TpVUhHdy1oI/AAAAAAAAAyI/EkJqGEYWUVM/s400/QualityStreet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662525034404697730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Don't Mention the Chocolate War.  I was Mention It Once, But I Think I am Get Away with It. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless you have been living in a yurt (which is a tent containing pro-biotics), you will have by now have heard of the assortment of people, made homeless by predatory borrowing, who are making themselves at home on the various streets of the Western world, in imitation of the homeless Arabs in the Israel/Illuminati-inspired Arab Spring Surprise, which, coincidentally, was take place last spring.  These actions are being called occupations, which is ironic because all these people involved do not have occupations, being generally unkempt, hairy, unable to get out of bed on time, having a bad attitude, talking back to their boss, probably Humanities graduates types of people.   Of course, these are always the  first types to get hit when a recession takes place; it is a myth that the poor take the big brunt of economic crisises, and the reason is  because they are &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt; poor, and therefore they have inbuilt stalwart coping mechanisms already in place to deal with their powerlessness and poverty, such as alcohol, bingo, cigarettes, and church.  They do not have any espectations whether the economy is shit hot, or just shit, of any improvement in their lot, whereas during a boom time even Philosophy graduates can find work of some description, even if it is just in the fashion industry, where their feeble bodies are regarded as ideal and their feeble minds regarded as genius.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, as you are well know, I am by no means a fan of modernism, modernisty or modernart, but one of the top best things that modernisty ever produced was something called the public square, an idea nicked from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans, who also invented modernisty.  The public square is a place, or a Place, usually in the middle of the city, where can be concentrated all the ne'er-do-wells, the moaning Minis, the carpers, the pikeys, the breamers, and every, Tom, Dick, Harry, Sam n' Ella, thereby keeping them out of the way of hard-working decent ordinary apolitical and non-political people, the so-called backbone or cervix of society, who can therefore get on with their lives of quiet desperation undisturbed by rabble-carousing hordes.   In Germany, always ahead of the herd, they went one better:   Rather than a Public Square, they have instead the Public Sphere, invented by the Frankfurt School of Design and named after the famous and brilliant Nazi architect Sir Albert Sphere. This not only concentrates the city's malcontents, it is also sound-proof, so nobody can hear them scream.  In Morocco, on the other hand, rather than a sphere, they have the ram's bladder cup, which contains all the piss and vinegar but is open to the sky, where their Gods live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These present-day malingering occupants, however, either have not realize that they are meant to use the public square, or else they cannot read a map.  Or also, a further possibility is that they are like the zombies in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Evil Dead&lt;/span&gt; movies returning to the shopping mall, but instead of the shopping mall they are returning to the places where they use to work or where their money use to be, namely, banks, offshore covens, golf courses, the pockets of short-armed bondtraders and cetera.   They are milling about aimlessly, not knowing at all where they are going or what they are moaning about, also like zombies.  This, incidentally, is what happens when you have a leaderless movement.  In the old days, when there was things like useful trades unions, well-disciplined communist parties, reliable propaganda mechanisms, the idiot proletariat could be relied upon to march properly, all in a line behind their smarter but still idiot leaders, through the weekend streets when the offices are all shut, and all the way to the public square, where they was then entertained by tedious speeches from the platform, vacuous polemical haranguing, and Bono.  Then they would go home and try to spot themselves on the news.   When the cold war was ending, however, and capitalism no longer had any use of the useful idiots leading the useless idiots up a back alley to nowhere, then the unions and communist parties was all put into cold war storage, like the delivery boy in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Futurama,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; only perhaps to be brought out again in a time of crisis when it looks like the peoples are starting to get ideas above their station.  Or even next to their station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, no doubt soon you will probly hear soon some business leaders or pretend potential self-appointed communist leaders lamenting the lack of organization of the #Occupy movements, describing them as "in choate" (which is a kind of wide penis with no head), or "udderless," or "lacking discernible goals" (like Sporting Gijon).  What they are really mean is that there is a ferment of new ideas that therefore could be dangerous and must be curtailed, or at least curtopped.   After all, nobody has any idea where a march that goes nowhere might end up.   If these peoples weren't too feckless to emigrate we could at least lure them onto a ferry with the promise of jobs in Australia and transport them there.  We would never hear of them ever again!  But while they are there, in the midst of ordinary, heads-down, knees-back God-fearing punters, fermenting theories without limitations and trying out new processes, such as democracy—never a positive development—they constitute a threat to our docile, passive, obedient way of life.   They must be stomped on by square-headed baton-wielding riot police, preferably from up the country, before any new ideas seep out into the public body at large, like a ball of ideological pus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one advantage of having these malodorous obnoxities stay in one place for the time being is that the virus which they represent cannot spread.  What is more, it will be actually possible to sow a virus amongst them themselves.  Not an ideological one. A proper one.   I am not wanting to imagine for one moment what the sanitary conditions must be like on Wall Street, for instance, but it will only be a matter of time before the first spores of anthrax ripple through the throng; there must still be some of them left over from the biological research programs carried out by those involved in Farm Warfare (the CIA training facility, not the band from Liverpool).  I have already been told that there is a cockroach cluster assembling in Battery Park which has been trained to sneak into protestors' sleeping bags and deposit there a cough and cholera strain (possibly I misheard and it is a "cuff and collar" strain, equally deadly to these workshy recalcitrants. Or perhaps I am confusing it with the Tie Flu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You would naturally espect that countries like Italy and Spain, with their soft-centred atheist anarchist cosmopolitan populations, would soon fall for this sort of protesting.  So far, Paris, home to the crunchy Frog, has not surrendered, but it is only a matter of time.  Saddest of all is the news that even in Holy Pissing Ireland they have a couple of #Occupy sites. &lt;a href="http://occupieddublin.tumblr.com/post/11321226457/revised-timetable-of-talks-at-occupydamestreet"&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the sort of thing you can see and hear if you go to the one in Dublin.  Is a big disgrace!  I am mortified.  I think. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, you know what?  I think you should go down there right NOW if you are in Ireland and tell them what you think. And tell them Manuel sent you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6209511913329223964?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6209511913329223964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6209511913329223964&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6209511913329223964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6209511913329223964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupyqualitystreet.html' title='#Occupy_Quality_Street!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEiFcy7vWfg/TpVUhHdy1oI/AAAAAAAAAyI/EkJqGEYWUVM/s72-c/QualityStreet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5222906066089161386</id><published>2011-10-06T15:50:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T16:58:19.947+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Irritation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vaYa8fkTsUU/To3LJrDtFJI/AAAAAAAAAyA/8XXYhlwNdSw/s1600/A%2Bbullmarket.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vaYa8fkTsUU/To3LJrDtFJI/AAAAAAAAAyA/8XXYhlwNdSw/s400/A%2Bbullmarket.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660403673712104594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Didn't You Kill My Brother?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As goes the old saying&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Big fleas are having little fleas upon their backs which are bite them, and little fleas have even littler fleas, and so on until you get to the littlest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I am referencing here to on this occasion by my witty apothegm above is the recent case of plaguerism in the Irish media spotted by &lt;a href="http://brianwhelan.net/post/11065157725/irelands-harigate-examiner-journalist-plagiarises"&gt;Brian Whelan (Hack)&lt;/a&gt;, who has been uplifting the veil yesterday to show how (allegedly) the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Irish Esaminer&lt;/span&gt; columnist and ghostwriter Steven King has been publishing articles that are eerily similar to those which are also being written by former atheist communist Brendan O'Neill of &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Spooked Online&lt;/span&gt;, also known as The Dustbin of History.  King, who was previously a political adviser to Nobel Peace Loyalist and First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble, probly espected that nobody would remark upon the identicalities between his own words and those of O'Neill because what he was saying was esactly what you would espect from someone of their persuasion, whatever it is, and therefore people's eyes would glaze over before they got to the second paragraph.    However, for anyone who could be bothered to look closer, such as the indefatigable Whelan, the resemblance is almost uncanny, as if O'Neill and King were of one, collective hive mind, like the Phoners, which ironically enough appear in King's book &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Cell,&lt;/span&gt; or also the Borg, or else the Gerulaitis.  King also knew that O'Neill was previously belong to the Revolutionary Communist Party, an organization which was notorious for the fact that its members have never had a single original thought in their entire lives—indeed, since that party disbanded all its members have become The Institute of an Idea—and therefore that what O'Neill wrote had already been thought before, only probly more eloquently and more lucidly by fascist writers such as myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is where I am come in.  Because recently O'Neill was write what some people believed was a very witty parody of one of my own past blog posts for the British Empire newspaper the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Daily Telegraph.  &lt;/span&gt;This was an article in which he lament the death of bullfighting in Catalonia.  You can read the article &lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100107165/dying-in-a-bullfight-is-the-best-thing-that-can-happen-to-a-bull/"&gt;here,&lt;/a&gt; although you must forgive the typos, such as where it says "Brendan O'Neill is the editor of spiked, an independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;against&lt;/span&gt; misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms," where it clearly means to say &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;IN FAVOUR OF.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is O'Neill in full flight:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;To put a bull into a bullfight is to ennoble it. As a participant in a strange, centuries-old ritual, in a violent dance-off between man and beast, a bull acquires a significance far beyond its own natural existence. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In fact, the only "purpose" in the life of a bull is that bestowed upon it by picadors and matadors – it is through their efforts, and their efforts alone, that a bull is transformed from being a rather pointless, instinctual beast into a noble creature worthy of being watched by an audience of thousands.&lt;/span&gt; In this sense, bullfighting is humane rather than cruel, since through the endeavour and labour of the bullfighting brigade a bull is given a use and purpose nature could never have designed for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is a bull but a grunting creature destined to live a rather sad and short life of munching grass and impregnating cows? Through the humanity of the matadors, bulls selected for a bullfight are spared this terrible fate and are given something they could have never, in a million years, discovered for themselves: a purpose in life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and here is me, &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-international-outrage.html"&gt;writing in June of last year&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;If history is teach us anything, it is that the majority of the world's species alive today would not be alive were it not for the fact that they serve some purpose to humanity. The Dodo, for instance, is a prime esample. Once it had serve its purpose to mankind, in providing food, then it become estinct. Ecologists, sociologists, theologists, and macrobiotics are all unanimal on this: There would be no cows or pigs or sheeps on this planet, were it not for mankind husbanding them, wifing them, then killing and eating them. Is because mankind have a vested interest in their perpetuance that they are still around, whereas other animals that are not so tasty, such as the unicorn, are long gone. Why are you think Noah did not bother putting it in the ark? Because they are taste like shit! (And also because their horn could make significant damage beneath the water line if they broke loose and went on an escapade). Imagine what the world would be like with no cows, pigs and sheeps. It would be less smelly, certainly, and we could have a much better road and rail infrastructure once we had concrete over all those fields, but on the other hand, you would not have no hat. Nor sandals. Both of which are made from cow. You would have no bacon sarnies, no electricity, no pork scratching, and girls would have no pigtails, because they are all made from pig. And there would be no sheeps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In similar, if you are to ban the corrida, you will be in ultimate saying goodbye to the bull. Not, however, in this case because the bull will estinctify. No! Let us be honest. Throughout all time, we have know that the bull is mankind's natural enemy, after the Jew and the Muslim, that there is always been a danger in keeping sustained the bull population. But that was always the price we pay for the corrida. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The bull is an estremely fierce and proud and big-balled beast. He lives for the corrida, for the opportunity to do battle with Man, to chase around the sawdust a multicolour curtain and diminutive hero with sword and lances and things. There is nothing finer, more noble, for the bull than to compete in the corrida, to choke slowly on its own lifeblood knowing that it have given everything in a carnal, cathartic orgy of agony, lust, muscles, meat, power, yearning, thrusting, and an object lesson in mortality in front of a crowd of appreciative Spanish aesthetes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si!! Is almost as if a ventriloquist had come into the room, inserted his hand into Brendan O'Neill's anus, and then used his other hand to type an article having the same views as my own.  After having had lunch with me.  And washed his hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I am not the sort of person to cast aspersiums or to even claim to having had any original ideas of my own.  I get a lot of them from &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Top Gear.&lt;/span&gt;  But I merely draw to your attention how those of us such as myself with small minds (by which I mean we have no audience of readers), can be sucked off by other slightly less small minds, and so on and so on up the food chain, like mercury.  Is like a form of edmosis, in which partially formed ideas slowly crawl their way towards the light, similar to a scary foetus, until eventually everyone has got the same idea but have no idea where they got the idea from.  It was me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And therefore to those people who say that there is no point in me blogging my fascist views for nobody to read, I direct your attention to &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Irish Examiner,&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Sunday Independent,&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Daily Mail,&lt;/span&gt; and, to a lesser estent, everything printed by News International, who may not have necessarily been hacking my phones but, well, they was hardly had need to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not sure that I have any case to sue for any damages, but I console myself that the damages caused to society by my writing will more than compensate.  I merely am sew the seed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5222906066089161386?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5222906066089161386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5222906066089161386&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5222906066089161386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5222906066089161386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/10/irritgation-is-sincerest-form-of.html' title='Irritation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vaYa8fkTsUU/To3LJrDtFJI/AAAAAAAAAyA/8XXYhlwNdSw/s72-c/A%2Bbullmarket.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6070511061803523713</id><published>2011-05-25T17:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-05-25T20:14:24.254+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Wexford</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PnxrwhJWyzI/Td0wyoYJJ1I/AAAAAAAAAxs/qez4EzGi7Yg/s1600/02.india.ap.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PnxrwhJWyzI/Td0wyoYJJ1I/AAAAAAAAAxs/qez4EzGi7Yg/s400/02.india.ap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610694357163779922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;That Keith Richards has really let himself go, hasn't he?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quizmistress Anne Robinson:&lt;/span&gt;  Which Mick is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Idiot English Contestant:&lt;/span&gt;  Is it Bono?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those for whom Irish music is epitomized by the seisiún or the céilí, featuring a bodhrán player, a guitarist, a fiddler, a tin whistler and Shane MacGowan, will be surprised to know that most of the components of the traditional arrangements can locate their origins in the Iberian peninsula, with the exception of Shane MacGowan, who is as English as Pontefract Cakes and anal sex.  You only have to look at his teeth for proof.  The guitar, of course, everyone knows is Spanish; it was originally called the Spanish guitar, but this title eventually came to be regarded as a tautology because there was no other kind of guitar, the much-inferior banjo and ukulele being invented much later by slaves in America and Hawaii working in sweat shops making knock-offs.  The fiddle is a cheaper version of the violin, usually associated with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Northern Italy but so clearly related to the guitar in design that a good case can be made that they plagiarised it but never saw one being played and so improvised, using a modified horsewhip.  The tin whistle or flageolet was invented by a Frenchman, Juvigny, in the late 16th century, of which nothing can be gainsaid except that although he lived in Paris he always wanted to live in Madrid, like all Parisians of his own and our age.  The bodhrán, similarly, is a cheap imitation of the tamborine, this word being a corruption of the Spanish word Tambor, meaning drum.  &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-dxyKzI-s"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can see the Tambores de &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiW5JBy6Eo&amp;amp;NR=1"&gt;Calanda&lt;/a&gt;, which are played non-stop for 24 hours a day during Holy Week, regardless of whether the drummers' hands bleed, get blisters and calluses on their palms, or get splinters from the drumsticks in their eyes, mouth and/or ears.  They do this because to commemorate the fact that there were drummers following Jesus up to Calvary and because when they pushed away the stone from his tomb there was a massive drumroll from the skies.  And then a cymbal.   The only genuine and definite Irish musical instrument is the harp, which was invented by the blind Irish harpist O'Carolan (although he was not called this until after he invented the harp), and even then he didn't know what it was he was playing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was very keen to get to Wexford on my journey around Ireland because much of the archaeological and historical evidence indicates that it was here that Ireland's musical heritage began.  It was here that Saint Iberius established his church, long before Saint Patrick ever arrived on the island (there is no record of Patrick bringing any musical instruments with him, although he may have driven the snakes out of Ireland with his awful tin whistle playing, the first snake uncharmer).  Saint Iberius, who obviously came from Spain, lived on the island of Beggerin in Wexford harbour.  He drew many disciples to his modest church, mainly wanting to learn to play the guitar or the organ.  There wasn't much to do in Wexford in those days.  We know from the story of another saint, Saint Veoc, that in those days it was a desolate, barren place, qualities that drew Veoc there from Armagh in the hope of a hermitic existence.  Imagine his disappointment at finding the place full of spotty novices learning the first chords of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, Saint Iberius's home has now disappeared.  I was advised by the lady in the Tourist Information Office with the square glasses and peppery hair that the island had become part of the Sloblands, which I assumed was simply a reference to the local council estate, but which turned out to be &lt;a href="http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/flora-fauna/flora-and-fauna-of-wexfor/"&gt;reclaimed polder land&lt;/a&gt; like they have in Holland, so that the island had been rejoined to the mainland.  The lady in the Tourist Office also told me that I would need to get a licence from the council if I wanted to start digging there for the fossils of guitars or bodhráns, and she rather ignorantly opined that there were not likely to be any there after all these years.  Which shows how little she knows about Creationism.  In the same way that our Good Lord placed cenobites, Tyrannosauruses, saber-toothed tigers, and David Blaine in blocks of ice or inside coal mines to be discovered by humans as a test of faith, and also patience, so also he would preserve all the many important holy relics for worship by the faithful, rendering them incorrupted by the ages, the air, the bird poo, and science, like those dead nuns trapped in glass in the rue du Bac.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It so happened that this part of my tour coincided with a significant musical event in the history of Ireland, namely, the victory in the Eurovision Song Contest of the retarded Siamese twins Jedward, who you may have seen on the television being separated at birth by famous surgeons who also warned their parents that they would never be able to talk properly, let alone sing.  Nonetheless, the Irish elected to be represented in the contest by Jedward as a way of sticking up a metaphorical two fingers, both identical, at the Europe that is demanding that they all work harder and also have no jobs.  This is not the first time that Ireland has demonstrated such petulance, of course.  Only the other year they sent Dustin from Turkey, who wasn't even Irish, and in previous years they have sent Mary Hopkirk, Johnny Rogaine, Dickie Rock, and Mary Peters and Lee.  None of these did the Irish reputation for mellifluous Euterpian prowess any favours, and it was partly in response to watching these performances on European TV that the False Pope, Benedict, decided to ban rock and roll and support the call for the return to the Latin Mass, sung &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a cappella,&lt;/span&gt; with nary an amp in sight.  This was a pope who booed at Bob Dillon when he plugged in his electric chair at Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1954 and began singing along to the godawful racket that came out.  Then he turned it off and everyone realized the godawful racket had nothing to do with the electric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although from an Irish background, Dillon has never had the opportunity to represent Ireland at the Eurovision, and with him recently reaching the age of 70 and having been senile for the past 30 years, it doesn't look like he will ever have the chance to perform any of his classic tracks—"Wichita Grub Man," "The Times, They Are a Changeling," "I'm the Rolling Stones," and "Mister Tamberlaine Man" (he was also the inspiration for the well-known Beatles song "Hey Jew"—before an unappreciative audience of millions.  It may come as some consolation to him to have been awarded only a year or two ago the Prince of Asturias Art Award (previous winners include Yo-Yo Ma, Elvis Presley, and Hitler), which recognizes rich celebrities who have done something vaguely artistic, such as commodifying protest songs, but I suspect he would much rather compete against Ukrainian Death Metal Yodellers, prancing puppets on strings like Jedward, and the German S Club 7.  Any true artiste would want to show he could cut it with the best.  I know that he was massively disappointed not to be invited to Princess Diana's funeral, where all the biggest names in the industry appeared on the largest stage of all—The Abbey—to show what they could do.  Elton John sang his famous song hit "Candle with the Wind," which went straight to number one in the hit parade subsequently because the English people love funeral dirges and play them at all their parties. Then he followed up with "Rocket Man" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."  After that, blackface singer Tracy Chapman came on and sang "Fast Car," followed by the Animals, who sang "We Gotta Get Out of This Place." And finally Joe Dolce came on and closed with "Shaddap You Face" followed by a selection from his album &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Difficult Women.&lt;/span&gt; Dillon would have loved to have come on at that point and given a rousing rendition of "It's Alright Ma'am, I'm Only Bleeding," but apparently the Abbey was booked for a christening at six and the toilets needed hosing down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have not touched here, on my favourite Irish musician, who hails from a very different part of this pious land, but it would remiss of me not to mention a man who has contributed more to drawing the Irish people closer to the one true path through the medium of music than any fake messiah in sunglasses dodging taxes and swanning about with world leaders.  This man, like Our Lord Jesus, knows what it is to be reviled, to be persecuted, to be mocked and laughed at and scorned for daring to speak the truth.  He is thus a modern-day Cassandra, warning of catastrophe but never to be believed.  And yet he persists.  Indeed, only last year Jim Corr announced on the radio that he would, if necessary, stand for election for the European Union in order to save Ireland from the Freemasons. The government of Ireland, he warned, is riddled with secret societies, such as the Masons, the Rosicrucians, the Mormons, the Pretenders, the Persuaders, and the Champions, and that these societies are determined to sell Ireland's birthright to the highest bidder, probably Noel Eedmonds.  He would not allow this, he said. He would do everything in his special super powers to stop it. He also made the very interesting and novel observation that the attacks of 9/11 in the United States were caused by rogue elephants in the Bush administration, a claim I had not heard made before.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much as I admire the man, I believe his perspective on how the world works is nonetheless a little cock-eyed (an Irish expression which means he views the world through the eye of his cock, much like my randy brother Hornolo).  It is not the Irish government that is the enemy, but the Illuminati in Europe, the bankers and cabals running the Masonic European state.  Indeed, this is so obvious to any right-thinking Irish man that it makes me wonder whether or not Jim Corr is not in fact a false flag operation, a cleverly cultivated plant intended to discredit sensible fascist views with his bizarre rantings. His cloned sisters certainly suggest some kind of perverse scheme dreamt up by an insane Communist scientist in a Berlin atelier or Übungsräume. It is not beyond the realms of possibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, a partially accurate paranoid right-wing neo-fascist conspiracy theory is better than none.  And in days like these, when you don't even hear the likes of aryan ubermenschen Jedward demanding that the elderly and disabled be euthanized, it's necessary to find solace where one can.  Just don't listen to their music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Famous people from Wexford include American "comedian" Des Bishop, monobrowed narcissist Chris de Burgh, founder of Irish music Saint Iberius (see above), and U.S. president Barack Obama. Although there is some dispute about this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucky numbers: 0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gemstone: Bakelite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next week: County Waterford&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6070511061803523713?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6070511061803523713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6070511061803523713&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6070511061803523713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6070511061803523713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/05/round-ireland-with-falange-county_25.html' title='Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Wexford'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PnxrwhJWyzI/Td0wyoYJJ1I/AAAAAAAAAxs/qez4EzGi7Yg/s72-c/02.india.ap.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7400817086906185780</id><published>2011-05-12T09:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T21:35:42.038+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Carlow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S3KVceM8Wd4/TcucX69_WCI/AAAAAAAAAxM/FrfryEAYHyA/s1600/BagenalstownonaDurkopp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S3KVceM8Wd4/TcucX69_WCI/AAAAAAAAAxM/FrfryEAYHyA/s400/BagenalstownonaDurkopp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605746095972898850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Few people know that the Palace of Versailles is based on Bagenalstown railway station.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carole-Anne Delaney must have extraordinary influence within the Irish media, or else the jungle drums of County Wicklow work remarkably fast.  I was no more than ten minutes up the road, having escaped from her clutches, when I noticed people waving at me, pointing at me, or shouting in the distance and running after me.  "Surely," I thought, she cannot already have written a book review mentioning me in passing and had it published in the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Irish Times.&lt;/span&gt;  Even if she phoned it in and it went straight into the online edition."  But then I reminded myself that Wicklow is the natural home for the Irish literary intelligentsia/mafia, ever alert to developments at the leading edge of scriptorial erudition and technics, and they would inevitably have been following Miss Delaney on Twitter or Facebook.  Thus it followed that those mobs in the distance vigorously shaking baseball bats, pikes, and golf clubs above their heads were well-wishers from the book-reading classes alerted to my endeavours and keen to offer some encouragement in whatever way they could, no matter how small and inconsequential.  I waved back and offered them my most sincerest cheery smile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was half-way across the Wicklow Mountains National Park when I really started to feel the cold and thought it might be a good idea to put some clothes on.  When it was first made, in 1954, the Dürkopp Diana was regarded as one of the most luxurious scooters on the market, but time has moved on, and heated handlebars, shatterproof windshields, and woolly gloves and boots come as standard on most scooters, I understand.  I am reluctant to move with the times, but such an adherence to tradition has its downsides.  Fortunately, the  Diana &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;does&lt;/span&gt; have sufficient room for a ruck sack or travel bag, a suitcase at a push, and I had had the foresight to bring with me an extra set of clothes should I lose my original and preferred travel outfit under such circumstances as had occurred at Miss Delaney's house.  This change of clothes consisted in a pair of swimming trunks, 70-denier tights (jet black and therefore resembling leggings or, in my case, my legs), an Aran Isle sweater, a Real Madrid shirt (home), a deer-stalker hat, and a pair of expensive Italian shoes belonging to my dissolute and delinquent brother Hornolo.  I had taken them from him without his permission but knowing that they are wasted on him.  He has dozens more pairs besides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quick survey of the map upon exiting the park showed me that a small diversion of only several hours would take me to the Poulaphouca Reservoir, which I was determined to visit solely on account of its splendid name.  Indeed, as I wended my way northwards along the R756 and R758, the wind smiled as it caught my words, unable as I was to avoid revelling in the name, reciting it endlessly to myself: "Reh-Serr-Voir.  Reh-Serr-Voir.  Reh-Serr-Voir."  It has such a resonance, don't you think?  For me it conjures up Celtic mists, hills of bracken, diseases long unknown to Western civilization but still kept alive in Irish hamlets cut off from the world for centuries.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, when I arrived, it turned out to be a lake. Nothing more.   Two workman who saw my perplexity from across the road in their hut came over and were most helpful, explaining that "Poulaphouca" is an Irish word meaning "Pool of Water," "Phouca" or "Phucca," to give it its traditional pronunciation, being the old Irish word for water.  I committed it to my memory on the off-chance that it might come in handy later during my journey should I be dehydrated, and counted my diversion as not entirely wasted.  Interestingly enough, the workmen were at a loss to translate for me the word "Reservoir," that pungent and eloquent word so redolent of a lost Hibernia, and my Irish-Spanish dictionary was of no help.  The nearest word I could find was "Rastafáraí." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cut my losses.  I wanted to get to Bagenalstown by nightfall, which meant a straight run southwards along the N81 towards Tullow before heading cross-country on some of the scenic backroads of County Carlow.  The county's roads have long been known for their terrible state, the only rival to those of Cavan in Irish folklore for their potholes, crevasses, and sudden disappearances (to be replaced by paths of cowpat-friendly rubble).  There is an Irish tribute band from Drogheda called the Ring o'Stars* who have a line in one of their songs about "10,000 holes in the R170122," which is a two-mile stretch of road just outside Borris.  That said, the last two decades saw a remarkable turnaround in the maintenance and treatment of Carlow's roads, the intent being to attract tourists who would otherwise not feel inclined to visit the county, which has very little going for it other than its famed blandness.  But with the brand new roads, the place had something else to offer.  "Come to Carlow whether you have Haemorrhoids or Not!" was the Carlow County Tourist Board's slogan between 1998 and 2007.  And people did indeed come.  Tourism more than doubled during that period: up to as many as 831 people in 2003 alone.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The recession really bit in 2009, and last year's dreadful winter took even larger bites, mostly out of the concrete and Tarmacadam that had so mellifluously lulled visitors to sleep for many a trip.  Consequently, Carlow's roads are as bad now as they ever were.  Although it isn't just Carlow that's suffering.  Winter was winter everywhere in Ireland.  Saint Stephen's Green in Dublin's city centre now has chasms that stretch across several lanes, hardy weeds sprouting up from them due to a lack of upkeep, a decline in tourist traffic, and the price of petrol.  Evolution seems to have bred a particularly hardy weed there, immune to fumes and with an impressive elasticity that allows the plant to spring back to full size after being run over by the 145 bus.  Not that I believe in evolution.  I use the term as shorthand for my deity, the way Richard Dawkins does.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a futile effort to increase road use and thereby increase revenue through a tax on petrol use, the government recently widened the M1 motorway around Dublin airport, having been made aware of research showing that if you add more lanes to a road, they soon fill up with more traffic.  This is an argument generally used &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;against&lt;/span&gt; the adding of extra lanes and is premised on the existence of cheap fuel, but the government figured that if they make cuts to public transport at the same time, they could save money and force people onto the roads, thereby increasing state coffers.  A brilliant move, if people have jobs to go to, although as it has transpired, the Port Tunnel, the largest construction project in the history of the state, transporting goods and tourists to and from the ferry port without creating congestion in the city centre, currently has a rate of use of one vehicle per hour. It is anticipated that, at such a rate, the project will have paid for itself around the time that our Sun goes nova.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the population of Ireland back down to 3½ million and counting, it's difficult to know who the government thinks will be driving these cars.  Children barely know their left from their right and don't have much pocket money left over for petrol once they've budgeted for essentials like red lemonade and condoms, and it may surprise this government to learn that the dead don't get out much.  Zombies might be ubiquitous in the popular culture these days, but you never see them driving a car.  It isn't possible without a functioning brain stem.  Unless you count fans of &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Top Gear,&lt;/span&gt; that is, but they're already out on the road killing people. And in some cases, eating them.  Perhaps the government is banking on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Coach"&gt;Death Coach&lt;/a&gt; picking up some of the slack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as we like to say in Spain, "He who shops with Catalans must take two wallets."  Or, in other words, a hedged bet is better than a bet head.  In Spain a few years ago, we had &lt;a href="http://www.elcorreo.com/vizcaya/prensa/20070510/otros/detienen-invalido-camilla-autovia_20070510.html"&gt;a very famous case&lt;/a&gt; of a disabled man in his motorized bed who was arrested for drunk-driving on the motorway on his way to visit the local bordello. José Antonio Navarro, who is 95% disabled, had got drunk and was intending to visit ‘Jade,’ a local whorehouse, but took a wrong turning off the roundabout. When he realized that he had taken the wrong turnoff, he decided to continue along the motorway in order not to put other drivers in danger.  And fair play to him.  This is the sort of inspiring attitude that the Irish government should be encouraging.  I do not mean drunk-driving, of course, which even the Spanish only do at night-time, but if only the government was to open a few knocking-shops at the newly opened Apple services at strategic points along the motorways of this country (one just outside Galway would be particularly well-frequented), they could guarantee getting at least half of the Irish population out on the roads, whether they had cars or not.  I have frequently seen Spanish men crawling on their hands and knees both to and from such bordellos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not entirely sure how a bordello would go down in Bagenalstown, which strikes me as a very pious and devout place, even if at times ominous and filled with foreboding.  My history book &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Truth About Carlow!:  Saints, Murderers, Sodomites, and Celebrities&lt;/span&gt; tells me that this was the place where Saint Laserian first considered establishing his church, before eventually building his cathedral in Old Leighlin. Apparently, he was deterred from building in Bagenalstown on Day One of construction because the first person he saw that morning was a red-haired woman, considered even back then to be a terrible sign.  Consequently, he took the rest of the day off, like any sensible construction industry boss, but the next morning an angel came to him and told him to sit in the stone chair on the top of Ballycormac Hill and to build his church on the spot where the sun first shone. It turned out to be Old Leighlin.  My history book says the stone chair was preserved over dozens of generations at Ballycormac until 30 years ago, near to a house now occupied by a Mr. Radwell. The father of the present Mr. Radwell broke up the chair, however, and used the stones in making a fence.  His fate is not recorded, but I expect it was death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saint Laserian is recorded as having miraculously healed a boy who had been decapitated, but my book does not say if he, like Our Lady of Mount Carmel (see County Wicklow), used his laser vision (it was Saint Laserian who gave this particular holy power its name) in a kind of cauterizing/welding operation or if he just did it by praying.  It does, however, explain why Saint Laserian is now the patron saint of shipbuilders, microprocessor manufacturers, and Bond villains.  Even so, it was a holy power of no avail when Saint Laserian met his match, Saint Sillán of County Louth.  While he did not have laser vision, Saint Sillán's eyebrow more than compensated for this lack.  It was said that anyone who saw Sillán's eyebrow would die immediately.   Laserian, being a plucky saint, tried to pluck it out.  Unfortunately, he had to look to see what he was doing (my suspicion is that he pulled out hair from somewhere else on Sillán's body and upon looking at them doubted that they could be eyebrow hairs). One look at Sillán's eyebrow and it was curtains for Laserian.  Black curtains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happened over 1,000 years ago, on April 18th.  Which is his feast day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a range of opinion as to where Laserian's remains can be found.  Some say that he was buried under his church at Old Leighlin or under the high cross in Leighlin, whereas others say that looking at Sillán's eyebrow results in death by explosion and that Laserian has no remains other than those scattered around the fields of Leighlin and now well mulched into the earth that he once trod and ploughed with his laser vision.  Still others wonder why Laserian didn't just use his laser vision on Saint Sillán and evaporate him instead of using his normal vision, but the rules of engagement for saints in combat against each other preclude offensive use of holy weapons.  Sillán's eyebrow constitutes a defensive weapon, and anyway Laserian started it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Famous people from this town include Beauchamp Bagenal, famous rake, drunkard, duellist, and former MP who fought his duels leaning against a tombstone; Swami Dennis D'arcy, the guru with a whip; and Barack Obama.  Although there is some dispute about this.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucky numbers: 23, 12, 9, 1,034&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gemstone:  Mud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;Next week:  County Wexford&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ring o'Stars are less a tribute band than an Irish Oasis, updating and localizing the Beatles' lyrics rather than their music. Thus, they boast in their repertoire such classics as "Let It Beef," "Norbrinstown Wood," and "Lucy in the Spar with Dermot."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7400817086906185780?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7400817086906185780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7400817086906185780&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7400817086906185780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7400817086906185780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/05/round-ireland-with-falange-county_12.html' title='Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Carlow'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S3KVceM8Wd4/TcucX69_WCI/AAAAAAAAAxM/FrfryEAYHyA/s72-c/BagenalstownonaDurkopp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2934723949818416034</id><published>2011-05-06T09:56:00.017+01:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T21:12:46.423+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Wicklow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EetRvXyEc74/TcO34i-xMOI/AAAAAAAAAxE/j9wAnefcAvM/s1600/MADRID-WICKLOW.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EetRvXyEc74/TcO34i-xMOI/AAAAAAAAAxE/j9wAnefcAvM/s400/MADRID-WICKLOW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603524543469662434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;"You're not from around these parts, are you, Señor?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"On the run from the authorities and living in Cork."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Died in the arms of a rent boy from a methamphetamine overdose."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Lost his house in a poker game, went insane, now raising llamas in Monaghan for gladiatorial combat."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Locked herself in a cellar in 2005 and refuses to come out."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Jailed for treason."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Fired for impersonating a gynaecologist."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Caught cheating at Russian roulette.  Told to leave the country within 24 hours.  Training for the priesthood in Clare.  Still impersonating a man."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A decade is a long time in journalism.  It is nearly ten years.   That is my joke about journalistic accuracy.  And also it is difficult to drum up any sympathy for the plight of the average hack among the general public, who these days regard journalism as the first refuge of the scoundrel, a once-noble profession now reduced to regurgitating press releases, writing puff pieces for the local businesses who effectively pay their wages by deigning to advertise in their paper, or else rifling through the rubbish bins of minor Irish celebrities—all Irish celebrities are minor—in the hope of finding proof of sexual peccadilloes, infidelity, or drug abuse.  They know precisely what to look for thanks to their own tawdry, sordid, sad, sorry lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was hoping that at least one of my contacts would still be keeping it together after all this time, however.  When I was working for Spanish intelligence in Ireland back in the 1980s and 1990s, I frequently had cause to liaise with members of the Irish press in order to help them put the requisite spin on stories about Spain, whether it was to suggest connections between the IRA, ETA and Colonel Gadhafi, cover up details of Spanish government involvement in helping Nazis on the run, or promoting Enrique Iglesias's latest single.  Irish journalists were always very accommodating and co-operative, as you might imagine, in exchange for a box of Cohibas, a meal in the Four Seasons or Roly's Bistro, a massage and happy ending at Miss Whipcream's establishment in Dun Laoghaire, a day at the races with 500 punts to spend, or a weekend away at the Loughrea Hotel and Spa, all of which can now be won in competitions on TV3.  Journalists once upon a time had a reputation for longevity, for the capacity to endure, to type out nine types of shit, 12 hours a day, on two bottles of Paddy and 40 Carrolls, and still make it out of Doheny &amp;amp; Nesbitt's before the wankers from Department of Finance came in after work.  Unfortunately, the hard-bitten cynicism and contempt for authority once a pre-requisite of the self-respecting journalist has now been replaced by hard-bitten cynicism and contempt for oneself and the once-respected job of reporter, with the consequence that no-one can last in the job any longer than five years without becoming a parody of themselves, a mindless keyboard-banging monkey inebriated only to enable them to look in the mirror each morning without asking themselves how it came to pass that someone with a Master's from DCU and a 2.1 in English Literature could be pretending to have a shit in the bogs of Toner's just on the off-chance of overhearing a conversation between Eamonn Dunphy's daughter's nanny's brother and that bloke who does the cider adverts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had been hoping to drum up some publicity for my very important state-of-the-nation tour of Ireland by roping in some of my old friends and calling in a few favours, also known as blackmail.  I am by no means a miserly man and can admit to a small fortune, on paper at least, if you count my retirement home, shares in Miss Whipcream and Jane Bondage's highly lucrative business, and the gold ingots that my neighbours the Mengeles back in the Canarias have stowed away for me, but paper money butters no parsnips, or as we Spanish say, "God will look after the blind driver. Those who can see must look after themselves."  Therefore it was incumbent on me to try to find alternative sources of funding for my trip, and what better way, I thought, than to take advantage of the hospitality of the Irish, to exploit their reputation for welcoming strangers and milk the sow of human kindness, a kind of pig/person hybrid which came about through xenotransplantation rather than bestiality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There being not one of my former journalistic contacts still capable of generating goodwill towards my endeavour—who, in any case, would trust a journalist these days?—I retreated to the nearest barbershop for my morning hot towel shave and a well-deserved haircut to reflect on my available options.  I ought to point out here, perhaps, that this was no spontaneous, ad hoc decision.  I am a particularly hirsute individual who requires a minimum of two shaves a day, sometimes three, and a haircut at least once a week, and experience has taught me that time spent on this unavoidable chore is the perfect opportunity for reflection and inspiration.  In addition, barbers, at least in Spain, are the best source of underworld rumour, commonplace wisdom, arcane lore, and local gossip. Also they know 15 different ways to kill a man with a comb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gerry* the barber from Bray, for this is where I was on my tour so far by now, was a chunky balding middle-aged Londoner with sideburns who manipulated his blade and towel with a panache and bravado that would have put the great matador Enrique Ponce to shame. Barely was I in his chair and the razor disinfected than he had deduced my foreign origins and elicited from me the nature of my quest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We used to get journalists in here all the time," he told me, the flash of the morning sun sliding down the cutting edge of his blade as he scythed it through the air.  "Once upon a time they took pride in their work, in their appearance, in their vocation."  He paused to look me straight in the eye.  Via the mirror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Not any more. Too ashamed to be recognized in public.  These days they cower behind beards—even the women—and let their hair grow long and lank like . . . I don't know . . . greasers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What is greasers?"  I asked, without dropping my gaze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You know. People from Greece. Moustaches, beards, lots of hair, unkempt appearance, smashing plates."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ah yes, I know this," I said.  "Plates of meat: feet.  They have smashing feet."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No. Not rhyming slang.  They smash plates.  On the restaurant floor.  When they dance."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was a cultural stereotype that had passed me by, someone who generally prides himself on being able to compartmentalize and pass ready-made opinions of foreigners, but I took his word for it that this was something journalists do.  I had often seen them standing on the bar of the Shelbourne Hotel urinating into one another's mouths, but smashing plates on the restaurant floor . . . why would anyone do that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'll tell you what, though," he went on, "if you're stuck, you should try . . .  wassername . . . the Delaney woman down near Greystones.  She's always in the papers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"She is who?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Delaney.  You know. The writer woman."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had no idea who he meant, having failed to stay &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;au fait,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;au courant&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;au naturel&lt;/span&gt; with the world of literature, so it was with some embarrassment that I had to confess my ignorance of Ireland's most famous writer of chicken literature, Carol-Anne Delaney, author of the world-renowned "Irish Hearts" trilogy—&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hearts and Carrickmines, Clonskeagh to My Heart,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Heart of Greystones&lt;/span&gt;—as well as countless other blockbusters that have remained on the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt; Foreign paperback romantic fiction list for the better part of this century:  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Killiney and Tigers, A Celbridge Too Far, I Stepaside for No Man,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;These Boots Were Made for Walkinstown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I can make a call for you, if you'd like," said Gerry.  "I have a mate in the . . erm . . . legal profession who knows her well and owes me a favour.  He can have a word and see if she'd be willing to meet you, mention you in one of her columns, book reviews, fashion pieces, interviews, that sort of thing."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You could do that?" I said, turning my pristine, shiny face up in awe.  Gerry just shrugged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sure.  I'm the barber."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thus it was not two hours later that I found myself at the ivy-bordered front door of Rosacea Cottage, just outside the small village of Delgany, not a stone's throw from the  Carmelite convent, where tradition has it that Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared to the local children, who threw stones at her, and were consequently melted by her laser vision, whence the recipe for crème caramel.  The door was opened by a purple-haired giant of a woman with a snub nose and what I assumed were shoulder pads, even though she was wearing a halter top. Her smile was a gleaming, brilliant, bluey white, the result, I later found, of chewing biros and Mint Imperials all day, habits that Miss—NOT Ms—Delaney had acquired early in her writing career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Much of the surrounding land is of no agricultural value," she informed me off-handedly as she guided me into the conservatory for afternoon tea.  "I would rent it out to farmers, of course, even though they can be such cute hoors that most of my time would be spent keeping an eye on them, so instead I've had it all landscaped and called in one of the top Italian designers to give it that cultivated but louche look."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It reminded me that County Wicklow is known as the Garden of Ireland, an eminently suitable title, particularly given that it is indeed &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; Ireland.  Calling it The Garden of Austria would be bound to cause confusion.  Or worse, the Garden of Japan, since the Japanese Gardens are in Kildare, as everyone knows.  But I was not prepared for the vast size of Miss Delaney's holdings.  During the Celtic Tiger years, she explained to me, the Irish public couldn't get enough of chicken literature.  They were flying off the shelves.  Like chickens.  At the height of the boom, she told me, there were 300,000 chicken literature books being published every week in Ireland, which meant that each individual member of the public had either read or written 16 novels.  "And that's not including poetry," she said, "although there's no money in that.  Only idiots write poetry."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After tea she gave me a quick tour of the public areas of Rosacea Cottage (she has an open day once a year during which she poses for photographs with her adoring fans, signs copies of her novels, accepts gifts and tithes, and gets through two packets of Solpadeine; she used to stockpile Kaolin and Morphine and let the ingredients separate, but Boots have stopped selling it).  We then retired to her study/writing room to discuss business.  I must confess that I had anticipated an airy, cheerful, well-lit room overlooking the extensive gardens, but Miss Delaney prefers to work ("and it &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; work, don't forget") in an underground bunker, lined with mahogany panelling and bookshelves, featuring not her works, as one might expect, but photographs, some of the author herself, but most of them of her inspirations:  Mother Theresa, Dame Barbara Cartland, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Harney, Ayn Rand.  "All strong, powerful women, Manuel, you will notice," she explained.  "All of them knew what they wanted and pursued it single-mindedly, regardless of what anybody else thought of them."  She caressed the frame of a picture of Mary Harney strangling a goose.  "In women such qualities are invariably frowned upon, whereas in men they are considered honourable.  Just think.  Michael O'Leary, Jeffrey Archer, Michael McDowell, Gordon Ramsay.  All of them admired, nay, worshiped and fawned over for their strength of character and determination.  Women who exhibit those qualities, on the other hand . . . " Her voice trailed away and she shook her head dejectedly as she stroked Barbara Cartland's cheek.  I felt it best not to express my personal feelings on the matter of the weaker sex and the emasculating nature of liberal society, bearing in mind that I had not yet been able to take advantage of her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It must nevertheless mean a life of loneliness," I ventured, a speculation that suggested empathy when in fact I felt that it served her right for taking away a man's job.  But Miss Delaney had no time for mawkish self-pity.  She quickly bucked up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let's get some tea and biscuits and discuss your itinerary," she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the next 20 minutes or so I outlined my plans and offered suggestions for how Miss Delaney might help me: a direct donation into my account, going onto the airwaves and telling everyone to give me free food and accommodation, mentioning me in the opening lines of her next book review for the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Irish Times&lt;/span&gt; ("The correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt, skillfully edited and annotated in this volume by Martin Golightly, put me in mind of the fearless, handsome, and pious but humble Manuel Estímulo, currently making a tour of this benighted nation of ours . . . ").  At most turns, she demurred, not contemptuously but firmly explaining the shortcomings in my proposals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You must understand, my dear Manuel," she said, "the emphasis in the phrase 'publishing industry' falls upon the second word.  These days publishing is exclusively a business enterprise, and unless you are already a well-known public figure, publishing houses have no interest at all in attempting to sell your wares.  The publishing world is a very conservative place–"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"–I am pleased to hear it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Good.  But a consequence of this is that it is near impossible, especially in times like these, for outsiders to break in.  Even those of us who are successful must write to a formula, giving our readers exactly what they want.  I do not exaggerate.  I can give you the precise breakdown of the plot, character, and storyline requirements for the novels of any of the top 50 novelists alive today.  And that's before you begin to consider the tie-ins:  film rights, product placement, toys, spin-offs, location cachet, newsworthiness.  There's no point writing a book today about leukaemia or Alzheimer's.  They've been done to death.  Or autism.  Or the Holocaust.  You have to look at what's going to be in the news in 12 months' time.  Who's likely to be dead by then?  Is there a centenary coming up in 2014 that you can exploit?  Or else make up a new illness.  Growing old backwards, for instance.  That's a good one.  Or growing a new cock.  How about that?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was crunching my Hobnobs with abandon by this point, making furious notes in the margins of the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/span&gt; which I'd taken from the pile of newspapers Miss Delaney told me she was throwing out.  But at the mention of the word "cock" I must confess that my knee jerked with surprise (and a brief experience of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;déjà vu&lt;/span&gt; as I recalled the first day in the showers at school).  That jerk catapulted my tray of half-eaten Hobnobs to the floor, where the plate smashed and the biscuits crumbled.  I looked up at her in horror.  She rose from behind her desk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Not to worry, Manuel.  I'll go get a brush from the scullery. I'm sure the maid will have something like that."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She crossed the study to the door but turned as she opened it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Of course, there is one &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;other&lt;/span&gt; way of breaking into the business, you know, Manuel.  You could have sex with someone already on the inside."  She gave me what I thought must have been a meaningful look before disappearing up the stairs and into the daylight above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I am not fool enough to imagine myself to be a sophisticate, with all the worldly wiles of, say, an American. And Heaven knows that I have done my best to disdain and dismiss all material goods and pleasures as trivia, mere gew-gaws and trinkets of temptation by means of which Satan lures us into the maw of Hell.  But even I have the presence of mind to be able to spot an opportunity for career advancement when it is presented to me on a plate, as it were, winking at me over its shoulder with its arse raised in the air.  And therefore you will not be surprised when I tell you what I did next.  As quickly as possible, I relieved myself of my clothings so that I would be ready and waiting for Miss Delaney when she returned to the room, having no doubt washed herself down there and put some lippy on (I splashed some gin from the drinks cabinet on my cheeks and gave my penis a quick spritz too just to take the daily stink off it).  I then climbed up onto the Miss Delaney's desk, attempting to look magnificent, masculine, magisterial, and another word that begins with an m but I don't know what it is in English.  And while I stood there waiting, I did some dynamic tension exercises I remembered from Charles Atlas that would make me looked pumped.  Also I masturbated a little.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was therefore a little disappointed when Miss Delaney returned not only still fully dressed and with no apparent lipstick on her mouth, but also wielding what I can only describe as the thickest, longest, knobbliest broomstick I think it has ever been my misfortune to lay my eyes on.  "Unless I have seriously misread this situation and the next half an hour is not going to involve some rampant sex after all, I can't for the life of me imagine how she is going to incorporate a broomstick that size into proceedings," I thought to myself.  However, and possibly fortunately, I had indeed misread the situation.  Upon seeing my virile form standing erect upon her workstation, Miss Delaney at first screamed with terror, an emotion that soon took a backseat to violent, incandescent rage, which manifested itself in the way she charged at me waving the broomstick above her head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!" she yelled, channeling a million banshee howls, her huge shoulders now generating serious purchase through the broomhandle.  I leapt from the table, the first swipe missing me by inches, and clambered onto the nearest bookshelf, hoping to scramble high enough to be out of her reach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Get down here, you vile man!" she screeched, swiping again at my behind, which hung down like a forbidden fruit as I clung to the rail protecting her first-edition &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Atlas Shrugged.&lt;/span&gt;  I inched along as best I could, she still swiping with her broom, photos of Harney, Thatcher, Sarah Palin, crashing to the floor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Help me!  Help me!"  I implored, before realizing that there was nobody in earshot and that anyone who did happen upon us would simply imagine that we were re-enacting the final scene of the movie &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Fly,&lt;/span&gt; my pink shaven head lending the scene a particular veracity.  There was nothing for it but to jump and make a break for the door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's been a big mistake," I said, trying to placate my assailant in order to improve my chances of escape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'll say there has," she replied as I landed on the floor on all fours.  "Get out of my house, you monster."  She attempted to scuttle me off with a final swish, but I was already halfway up the stair before the broom's trajectory was complete, leaving my clothes behind, and I refused myself the luxury of looking back until I was at least a half-mile up the road.  At least I'd had the foresight to leave the ignition key in my scooter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*All names have been changed to protect the guilty.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2934723949818416034?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2934723949818416034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2934723949818416034&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2934723949818416034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2934723949818416034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/05/round-ireland-with-falange-county.html' title='Round Ireland with the Falange:  County Wicklow'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EetRvXyEc74/TcO34i-xMOI/AAAAAAAAAxE/j9wAnefcAvM/s72-c/MADRID-WICKLOW.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7564146325568437242</id><published>2011-04-14T08:47:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T12:30:58.037+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Every Cow Has a Silver Lining!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_ScmgZpQjrE/Taa7VYUM92I/AAAAAAAAAw8/752T7i0oGmQ/s1600/vacco.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_ScmgZpQjrE/Taa7VYUM92I/AAAAAAAAAw8/752T7i0oGmQ/s400/vacco.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595365563033253730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;It's What's Underneath That Counts! (Not the Udders)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What is the most common expression in Ireland?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the question which was pose for a competition recently in one of Ireland's most wide-read magazines, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland's Own&lt;/span&gt; (target demographic: widows/spinsters aged 90 to 130).  Although my subscription to the magazine was let lapse once I retired to the Canarias (prohibitive postal charges), when I was work in Ireland back in the 1980s for the Spanish intelligence services, this magazine was essential reading in order to acquire up-to-date information on what the population was thinking, and consequently a week was never go by without it appearing on the top of a pile of documents on my desk, the always gorgeous watercolour painting on its cover stamped with a single word:&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Urgente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even though my reading was for work purpoises and therefore by definition a trial to be endured, I was raised to enjoy pain and suffering, especially those of others, and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland's Own&lt;/span&gt; was replete with suffering, especially of the Irish people and their saints, all of whom seem to have been killed by the English at Vinegar Hill (which I think is a poetical metaphor for Calvary rather than an actual place).  Consequently I came very much to look forward to my rendez-vous with the Irish psyche, an attitude that both enhanced my appreciation for and understanding of the prevalent worldview abroad in the land and also to scale the greasy pole, which is not a reference to Ludmilla the office secretary but to the promotions I secured in my several years in the embassy.  When I leave Ireland, it was with much sadness but also a hefty pension as chief of station, and much of that can be placed at the doorstep of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland's Own,&lt;/span&gt; although, needless to say, I have no such intention of doing so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was, however, intrigued by the competition which was run by the magazine recently, if you remember.  Since I am now newly back in Ireland, it was strike me that the correct answer to this question would tell me a great deal about how much the country had changed in the years I had been away.  I had seen some of and sympathized with the lovely holy pissing Ireland of yore, a simple, pious, bitter, fervently nationalistic Ireland driven by self-hatred, hatred of others, and the love of our lord Jesus and his blessed mother, but it was clear to me that a materialist atheist capitalist conspiracy had insinuated itself into some parts of society, particularly the urban regions, with their cosmopolitanism, ladies living alone, Jews, bookshops, lack of playing fields, and huddled masses (although not huddled Masses, which were still, thankfully, much in evidence down the country). Thus I took it upon myself to utilize this competition question as a springboard for some amateur research, suspecting that the changes which have take place since the arrival and departure of the Celtic Tiger would manifest itself in the answers I was likely to receive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I therefore was set up my stall in various parts of the city of Dublin and the suburb of Dun Laoghaire where I am now based and asked people the question posed by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland's Own.&lt;/span&gt;  So in order as not to raise their suspicions, I carried on my person a fake Newstalk i.d., a microphone, a portable tape recorder (conveniently, I had &lt;a href="http://pianopod.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/cassette-recorder1.jpg"&gt;one given to me as a birthday present in the 1970s&lt;/a&gt;), and sunglasses so I could not be recognized.  I set up first my stall outside the swimming baths, sometimes following people in and sometimes following them home afterwards, then outside a GAA club, then also outside the FÁS offices on Baggot Street, then immediately after that outside the Waterloo pub (also on Baggot Street), then outside Harcourt Street police station, inside Harcourt Street police station, and then a ladies' hairdressing salon.  And finally back inside Harcourt Street police station.  I was able to make from this process a fairly representative sample to extrapolate with (and some nice photos too).  The most popular answers I received to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland's Own&lt;/span&gt;'s question, masquerading as &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Manuel's Own&lt;/span&gt; question were (in no particular order):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) "Hail Mary, full of grace. Our Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus."  (This was reassuring to hear and also allowed me to engage in some guerrilla praying.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2)  "If you really loved me, you'd put it in your mouth."  (This suggestion was particularly common among ladies.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3)  "We are where we are."  (This was usually said with a sneer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4)  "There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet." (A consecutive number of students from the college of F.E. in Ballsbridge said this to me with barely contained laughter, which I took for contempt and proof of the insidious Islamicization of education in Ireland that the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Irish Independent&lt;/span&gt; is always warning people about.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(5)  "This is the wettest July on record since last July."  (I insert here myself the word "July," but respondents actually used every month on the calendar).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(6)  "We apologize for the delay to this train, which was caused by a technical difficulty/a lorry hitting a bridge/suicide at Killester."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(7)  "What time's your flight?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(8)  "We here at &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ireland AM&lt;/span&gt; have teamed up with [insert the name of any half-empty hotel in the provinces]."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These, I think you must agree, constitute a varied and representative sample of what passes for the commonplace banter of the average Irish interlocutor.  Imagine therefore my surprise, having entered all eight of these statements into the competition under different identities but the same address so as not to complicate any prize collection, when the winning entry was announced and it transpired to be the proverb which now makes up the title of this blog post:  "Every Cow has a Silver Lining."  I was at once taken aback, mystified, and yet also strangely comforted, since it made me realize that the old Ireland that I had so much loved was still intact somewhere out there, somewhere beyond the fleshpots of sin and depravity that make up Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My overseas readers will no doubt be asking, though, what means this saying "Every Cow Has a Silver Lining"?  Although not my Spanish readers, who will be familiar with a similar such proverb which we have, "Every Bull Has Gold Inside," which is a clever proverb that plays on the words "Toro," meaning bull, and "Oro," which is the word for gold.  This is an old farming expression which tells you of the high esteem and importance in which rural communities hold bulls and their regenerative powers, since a good bull is much more valuable to a farmer than a dozen cows.  Some people, mostly foreigners, think that the saying is meant to be taken literally, as a reference to the bull's seed, but bull semen is not gold at all, merely a sort of orangey-beige, as any Spanish child can tell you from school trips.  The Spanish saying is therefore nothing more than a metaphor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of the Irish saying, however, there is some evidence that rural communities still believe that it is literally true that cows have silver linings.  This is because of the peculiar history of the Irish dairy economy.  Irish farmers, while astute, tight-fisted bastardos, are also very sentimental sons-of-bitches, and since the country gained independence, not a single cow has been slaughtered in the 26 counties.  Irish farmers could not bear to see the cows they had become so fond of and intimately affectionate with shot through the skull with a bolt gun.  Therefore, all cows were exported "on the hoof" by ferry to England, often under better conditions than Irish men and women (anyone who has taken the overnight boat train from Dublin to Holyhead can testify to this), and then the cows were ritually slaughtered by the English, which is what they are good at.  The butchered meat would then be distributed to all three corners of the British Empire, including Ireland, where the populace are notoriously fond of their rump steaks, chitlings, buffalo wings, and Bisto.  Of course, by the time the cows are in the butchers' shops in Kilkenny, Castlebar, Carlow, and sometimes Athlone, they are no longer recognizable as the individuals they once were, and what is more, their skin has been removed long ago, kept by the English who use them for their rugs, having FIRST removed the silver lining!  This, at least, has been for hundreds of years the Irish farmers' suspicion for how come the cruel, vicious, animal-hating Protestant English were getting so rich while the decent, animal-loving, pious Roman Catholic Irish were still having to pay €5 for a decent tongue sandwich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was heartening to think that this traditional worldview is still underneath the surface of the superficial postmodern multicultural communist Ireland of today, even though the casual observer has to peer deeply under the carapace, or the bonnet, depending if they are looking at a car, a ladybird, a small child, or a teenage girl.  The competition result proved to me that the shallow mediocrity that some sections of Ireland aspire to adopt as their defining national characteristic has not yet taken hold across the country; somewhere out there the beating heart of the true Ireland persists, throbbing under the surface like an unwanted erection at the aforementioned swimming baths, and since my return to this island has been premised on the belief that conditions have never been riper to restore Ireland to herself, her true pious, disciplined, fascist Roman Catholic self, locating the source of that pulsating flesh would be the sine qua non of success.  It must be massaged, cajoled, made stronger and bigger, the way it once was, so that it can rejuvenate and regenerate this once proud, but also very humble, nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have resolved therefore to embark upon a nationwide tour in search of the real true Ireland.  I plan to take in every single county and every major townland, village, convent, farm, and bar in my quest.  I have already packed my Tupperware box with sandwiches and filled my Thermos flask (with Bisto, of course!), and Miss Whipcream and Jane Bondage have promised to keep an eye on my home in my absence, dealing with post, burst pipes, death threats, unmarked packages that appear on bank statements as "Runnymede Entertainment Enterprises," and the football scores.  I have asked them to record for me the Champions League final so that I do not miss Real Madrid beating Manchester United 6-0 at Wembley, but I espect I shall be able to watch it in a field in Fermanagh, hopefully surrounded by cows.  With silver linings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us pray.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7564146325568437242?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7564146325568437242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7564146325568437242&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7564146325568437242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7564146325568437242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/04/every-cow-has-silver-lining.html' title='Every Cow Has a Silver Lining!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_ScmgZpQjrE/Taa7VYUM92I/AAAAAAAAAw8/752T7i0oGmQ/s72-c/vacco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-3013467416820019354</id><published>2011-04-07T11:39:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-07T14:54:44.291+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Man's Work is Never Done!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yX0bAo0dTz4/TZ2WNfF2DzI/AAAAAAAAAvs/m_Qyx24o5II/s1600/lifeandlove.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 298px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yX0bAo0dTz4/TZ2WNfF2DzI/AAAAAAAAAvs/m_Qyx24o5II/s400/lifeandlove.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592791470692503346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Why Book Burning was Invented!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have never been a great fan of Do-It-Yourself, also known as D.I.Why, both for practical and for ideological reasons.  In the first place, it is an attitude which is synomynous with anarchism, exemplified by the punk rocking, fanzines, blogging, and masturbation.  It reach its apogee in the late 1970s, when all across Britain and Ireland there was open all these megastores such as Virgin, B&amp;amp;Q, Homebase, Allied Carpet Bombings, Atlantic Homeboy, Home Despot, and, in Ireland, Hoodies.  Also on the television were such shows as &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Home Improvement, Tomorrow's World, Practical Anarchist, Kitchen Impossible,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Upstairs and Downstairs,&lt;/span&gt; all of which was intent on turning the men and women of Europe into atheist communist autonomous revolutionaries.  Every Sunday, which is God's day, I remind you, men and women with hate in their eyes and dogs in their cars would drive to these suspicious out-of-town meeting places where they would congregate, plot revolution, buy nailguns and grout, and then return to their homes and put honest decent Christian small businessmen out of work.  For this was their devious plan, the Why in the D.I.Why: A noxious conspiracy to break the petty bourgeoisie and draw them back into the seething proletarian mass, thereby polarizing society into decent God-fearing wealthy hacienda owners on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the scum.  Everybody else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Out of principle therefore I have never done a proper day's work in my life, choosing instead to employ others, lackeys of some sort or another, to do it for me. I am thereby generating employment, gratuitude, indebtedness,&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; droit de seigneur,&lt;/span&gt; and a sense of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;noblesse oblige&lt;/span&gt; which is only proper and fitting and which keeps society stable and moving in the right direction, which is nowhere.  I have deliberately avoided learning how to turn taps on and off, change a plug in my bath, how to empty my jacuzzi, how to open the oven (or close it, obviously!), how to exchange lightbulbs, or how to flush a toilet.  These are all jobs for someone else.  It has therefore been a bit of a wrench to find myself last week standing in my kitchen with, in my hand, a bit of a wrench.  And a bit.  A drill bit.  Which was because I have had the decorators in.  Miss Whipcream and Jane Bondage, my old friends who I was mention last week and have found me my new bachelor pad in Dun Laoghaire, have been getting the place "done up" for me, and it is turn out that they are dab hands at all manner of activities that involve screwing, nailing, banging, and plumming.  And also teabagging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My natural manliness was felt a little threatened by this broad knowledge, so in order not to be intiminated by them, I snuck out one of the mornings last week while they were still assembling the lowering apparatus in my bedroom and took a walk down to the Dun Laoghaire public library. I have never been in such a  place before, again as a matter of principle.  Libraries should be privately owned and books rented out to those willing to pay for them, not communally owned and given to all and sundry, whether they can read or not and who might get God-knows-what ideas out of them.  And who-knows-what infections off them.  At least with a private library you know whose pubic hairs they are.  Neverthenonetheless, I made a member of myself (although I used a pseudoname so as not to leave a record or to be embarrass at a later date for overdue fines and the likes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find myself now however in two minds about the value or lack therein of the public library.   After I was a member, I then say to the library lady, "Now perhaps you will help me, library lady.  I am somewhat retarded in the ability to do the crafts around the house, and therefore I am needing some books that will enable me to feel better about myself, especially in the presents of other sex members."  The library lady was just stand there for a minute contemplating me and stroking her moustache, and then she was take my hand and say, "Come with me, dear," and lead me to a shelf where she pull off two books which she give me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F18BXwPFslk/TZ2kUfYF_TI/AAAAAAAAAv0/Mq9gD0R1Lzs/s1600/Crafts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F18BXwPFslk/TZ2kUfYF_TI/AAAAAAAAAv0/Mq9gD0R1Lzs/s400/Crafts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592806984190917938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DfZ89vqbTZY/TZ2wrsrN7SI/AAAAAAAAAwk/8UZ-nZpTqaA/s1600/Recreation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DfZ89vqbTZY/TZ2wrsrN7SI/AAAAAAAAAwk/8UZ-nZpTqaA/s400/Recreation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592820577037315362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I think you will find these perfect for your special needs," she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not want to make her look like a fool in front of all the homeless people and snoring pensioners sitting around us, so I didn't not say anything at the time to dispel her of her mistake.  A man must show courtesy and discretion on such an occasion so as not to humiliate a woman until he gets her home, so I just nodded and said thank you to her and then when she had her back turned put the books in a small boy's satchel hanging on the back of a chair.  It was already apparent to me that all library staff are morons, probably volunteers left money in a feeble-minded aunt's will and therefore at a loose end and with a desire to confuse the aged, so I therefore ventured further into the library on my own in order to satisfy both my curiosity, which is very small, and my hunger, since they had also a cafe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After two hours of meandering and doughnut munching, I was finally able to find books of some merit.  Thus, even though I would instinctively feel that all public libraries should be burned to the ground, I was also force to ask myself where else in the Greater Dublin area I would be able to find books so perfectly tailored to my needs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqNjItpIysI/TZ2oQXpPy6I/AAAAAAAAAwE/Xyia0ijvWRo/s1600/coffins.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqNjItpIysI/TZ2oQXpPy6I/AAAAAAAAAwE/Xyia0ijvWRo/s400/coffins.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592811311442414498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just a refresher course for me.  Making coffins was part of my training during National Service.   Like the SAS, we in Spanish intelligence always know where the bodies are buried.  Because we buried them ourselves!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbIotFeUe-c/TZ2ogbpxhqI/AAAAAAAAAwU/G6bwK91kuW0/s1600/snake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YbIotFeUe-c/TZ2ogbpxhqI/AAAAAAAAAwU/G6bwK91kuW0/s400/snake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592811587396273826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Actually, I took this book for Miss Whipcream, who has a couple of boas.  Furry ones.  They do not look well at all.  They just lie there on the back of her sofa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2cLiRvrWqHg/TZ2oYUWxYzI/AAAAAAAAAwM/A8cky9onNgM/s1600/clothes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2cLiRvrWqHg/TZ2oYUWxYzI/AAAAAAAAAwM/A8cky9onNgM/s400/clothes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592811447998571314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am not disabled, but I do sit around all day doing nothing, so I am figure that clothes for the disabled will not be much different to clothes for the lazy.  Mostly tracksuits, pyjamas, and slankets.  I do not have much confidence in the contents of this book, however.  The cardigan on the cover has buttons on. Who can be arsed doing up buttons?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f8Jn9XsdOec/TZ2oojS7AVI/AAAAAAAAAwc/AixepzUVUi0/s1600/Donkeys.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 299px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f8Jn9XsdOec/TZ2oojS7AVI/AAAAAAAAAwc/AixepzUVUi0/s400/Donkeys.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592811726886863186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOW we are talking! Since part of my agenda is to take Ireland back to the days of the burro, this book will be invaluable in providing tips on feeding, beating, overworking, and insulting donkeys, all part of the traditional rural Irish way of life  that disappeared when the Ford plant opened in Cork (2005, I think).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see now why I am ambiguous about public libraries?  They are a source of some of the most treasured and valuable works in the English language, but they are also open to the malodorous hoi polloi.  It is very important therefore that they are saved and treated properly, preferably by being bought up by someone who will look after their contents for posterity.  I always say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, so it is better that the rabble have no knowledge whatsoever, and the little knowledge provided by libraries is shared amongst policemen, soldiers, and the secret service and intelligence agencies:  the people we want to be dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, when I got home, Miss Whipcream and Jane Bondage was fast asleep in my bed with smiles on their faces, and the batteries in my adjustable sander was all dead.   I wouldn't not mind, but they had still not erected my pommel horse.  Is a big disgrace!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-3013467416820019354?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/3013467416820019354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=3013467416820019354&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/3013467416820019354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/3013467416820019354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/04/mans-work-is-never-done.html' title='A Man&apos;s Work is Never Done!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yX0bAo0dTz4/TZ2WNfF2DzI/AAAAAAAAAvs/m_Qyx24o5II/s72-c/lifeandlove.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6786017509103511467</id><published>2011-04-01T11:23:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T12:47:03.421+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nazis R Us!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mj9x1WqNQ9E/TZWnww9_eiI/AAAAAAAAAvc/ZEGzxxLC71Y/s1600/ikeanazi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mj9x1WqNQ9E/TZWnww9_eiI/AAAAAAAAAvc/ZEGzxxLC71Y/s400/ikeanazi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590558968670812706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Enough Space for All the Books a Fascist Could Read!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being very sensible, over the past fourtnight (which is only actually two weeks: I will never get the stupid English!) I have been very busy organizing my return to my spiritual home, lovely holy pissing Ireland, having heeded the call from End O'Kenny (see last week's post) telling all ageing Nazis, fascists, Falangists, and cetera, that it is safe, just like in that film the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Marathon Man &lt;/span&gt;(which was recently remade as the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Snickers Man&lt;/span&gt;; not as good, but with the same strong message: you can't eat a lot of chocolate and espect to get off lightly at the dentist).   Safetiness is not my main reason for coming back to Ireland, however.  Not at all.  No.  Is instead because of the new climate that O'Kenny is promising the Irish people of austerity, suffering, poverty, inequality, joblessness, empty shelves, civil war, grazed elbows, holes in pullovers, rubbish haircuts, fly-tipping, water charges, no schools, weak beers, alcoholism, marital strife, and penile servitude.  What decent Christian in his own mind could resist the lure of such a scenario?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be much work to be done bringing the Irish peoples back to the proper austere Roman Catholic life to which they have traditionally been devoted until the Celtic Tiger turn their heads, but the circumstances are now propitious (whatever that means) and I am sure that the church hierarchy in Ireland is rubbing its hands and thighs in delight at the opportunity that the financial and social crisises will provide for them to insert themselves back into the lives of the men, women and children across the land.  In much the same way that the Big Society idea in the Great Britain really means hoovering up the crumbs traditionally scattered before the proles and instead letting the charities take the strain of separating out the "deserving" from the "undeserving" poor (in my view they all deserve to be poor), so the crisises in Ireland will mean cutting back all the communist features of the state (education, hospitals, care of the elderly, infrastructure) and encouraging instead the major civil institutions, such as the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Hezbollah, to demonstrate their magnaminity and that they don't not bear any grudges against the idiot Irish people who turned their back on God in favour of Mammon during the boom times.   The Church knows it full well from history that this is a regular occurrence, and it also knows full well the Parable of the Prodigal Son, which is in the Bible, so I am confident that the Church will happily and selflessly welcome home with open arms all repentant sinners on their hands and knees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An austere lifestyle is not just good for the soul but also good for the body, of course, and we Falangists pride ourselfs on our self-discipline, our self-denial, our Spartan bearing, our love of suffering (both our own and that of others), and our capacity to endure deprivation.  I have, however, deprived myself long enough of the delights of lovely pissing Ireland, stuck as I was in my retirement villa in the Canarias, idly sipping Cardenal Mendoza and watching the topless volleyball on the beach through my binoculars.  What kind of life is that for a man?  It is shallow, meaningless, and empty.  What pleasure there was to be had came thanks to my neighbours the Mengeles, but they now are getting old and withered and are unable to parade or hold a whip as well as they once could.  Is therefore good fortune for me that the tide has turn in Ireland.  Finally once again this is a place where an ascetic despiser of all things superfluous and luxurious such as I can feel at home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have therefore rented out a nice house in Dun Laoghaire, where I was previously once about to move in with my good friends Jane Bondage and Miss Whipcream, two ladies of high breeding what I was use to work with when I was stationed in Ireland with the Spanish intelligence. They was always giving me good-quality details about all the judges and politicians and businessmen visiting their premises.  I will be able to renew my close acquaintance with them, and they have been very decent enough to find for me this new bachelor pad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jwY86jwOKTs/TZWymwgMQUI/AAAAAAAAAvk/4p94cibdQJU/s1600/manuelsnewhome.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jwY86jwOKTs/TZWymwgMQUI/AAAAAAAAAvk/4p94cibdQJU/s400/manuelsnewhome.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590570891375034690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;where I am in the process of moving all my comestibles, domestics, cosmetics, and comics.  It is not the biggest and most pre-possessing of houses, I know, but it does have a certain &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;je ne sais quoi,&lt;/span&gt; a spirit, a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;geist&lt;/span&gt;, if you will.  Miss Whipcream tells me that it could do with a larger living room, and Jane says there are some slates missing, but she knows a local chap, Lenny Roofinstall, who will make it look just fabulous.  "It will be a triumph," were her precise words. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I am all boyant and enthused about this return.  I have it on good authority that &lt;a href="http://twitpic.com/2n0syd"&gt;some of my old comrades have already arrived in Dublin&lt;/a&gt; and are acclimating very well.  I have been already into IKEA to stock up on basics:  a chair, a spoon, a hunting knife, a silencer, night-vision goggles, some salmiak, a bottle of schnapps, a bookshelf (see main picture), hiking books, plimsolls, pantyhose, a tourniquet, and an iPad 2.  I have downloaded the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall now look forward to reacquainting myself with all my old Irish friends and also resurrecting my old network from the Gladio days.  Some of them must still be alive or on the outside.  A covert network of ageing fascists will be just the ticket to get the country going again.  Or at least to accelerate its headlong charge back to the 1930s.  My fervid hope is that once we pick up speed I can push Ireland right back to the 16th century before anyone can put the brakes on.  Feudalism might be asking a bit much, escept in Carlow, perhaps, but with a bit of luck we can at least get back to the days of burros and buboes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the economists are all correct, and they never are, Ireland is now esperienceing the clam before the storm.  They do not mean Jean van Damn Clam, the mussels from Brussells.   Rarther, it is a metaphor meaning that everything is locked tight shut like a shell but with the hurricane on the way about to batter it.  Like scampi.  I shall therefore make haste and reach Ireland by next week.  Miss Whipcream says she still has my Wellington boots and long brown mackintosh.  I don't think I shall need them, however.  I AM the coming storm!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6786017509103511467?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6786017509103511467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6786017509103511467&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6786017509103511467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6786017509103511467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/04/nazis-r-us.html' title='Nazis R Us!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mj9x1WqNQ9E/TZWnww9_eiI/AAAAAAAAAvc/ZEGzxxLC71Y/s72-c/ikeanazi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1724465190950768037</id><published>2011-03-24T12:43:00.009Z</published><updated>2011-03-24T16:07:53.161Z</updated><title type='text'>Turn Your Pasty Irish Faces to the Sun.  And Go Blind!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T5FktXLD6RE/TYs8lXzkksI/AAAAAAAAAvM/-NN-6MGAS18/s1600/carasol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T5FktXLD6RE/TYs8lXzkksI/AAAAAAAAAvM/-NN-6MGAS18/s400/carasol.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587626375426380482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;¡A Land Fit for Falangists!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"This is our country. This is our journey. Yes, we are in times without precedent but I believe that for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the dawn, that we have a generational &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nietzsche-espiritu-ligereza-lightness-spirit/dp/849678004X"&gt;lightness of soul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, that in the long Hibernian nights on the western edge of Europe we remembered the light that went before, imagined the light to come. We are a people looking always and ever to the possibilities of a new day. That new day is here, a bright new day where there is no gap, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgemeinschaft"&gt;where the people and its Government are one again, a day when our people are united in cause&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. Seamus Heaney said: “You have to try to make sense of what comes, remember everything and keep your head.” We will. Together and for our country let us believe in our future. For Ireland and each other, let us lift up our heads, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cara_al_Sol"&gt;turn our faces to the sun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; and, as has been already said, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://asoldiersdeath.blogspot.com/2011/03/george-bernard-shaw-on-michael-collins_24.html"&gt;hang out our brightest colours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. This is the first day of a journey to a better future. That future will be achievable when Ireland can again &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.crystalinks.com/speardestiny.html"&gt;take charge of its own destiny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, when by the centenary of the 1916 Rising we can prove to be the best small country in the world in which to do business, to raise a family and to grow old with dignity and respect."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Enda Kenny, March 9, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Facing the sun in my new shirt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;that you embroidered in red yesterday,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;That's how death will find me if it takes me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and I won't see you again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I'll take my place alongside my companions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;who stand on guard in the heavens,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;with a hard countenance,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;they are alive in our effort.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If they say to you that I fell,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;know that I'm gone to my post up there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Victorious flags will return&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;at the merry step of Peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and they'll bring five roses:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the arrows of my quiver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spring will laugh again,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;which we await by air, land and sea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Onwards, squadrons, to victory,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;that a new day dawns on Spain!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spain united!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spain (the) great!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Spain (the) free!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Onwards Spain!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;English translation of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cara al Sol,&lt;/span&gt; the anthem of the Falange Party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿What clearer clarion call could there be?  Now is the time I think for me to return to my spiritual homeland, lovely holy pissing Ireland.  I have heard the call and got the message.  ¡Ireland is open for business!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1724465190950768037?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1724465190950768037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1724465190950768037&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1724465190950768037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1724465190950768037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/03/turn-your-pasty-irish-faces-to-sun-and.html' title='Turn Your Pasty Irish Faces to the Sun.  And Go Blind!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T5FktXLD6RE/TYs8lXzkksI/AAAAAAAAAvM/-NN-6MGAS18/s72-c/carasol.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-8657288122504230226</id><published>2011-03-02T10:05:00.006Z</published><updated>2011-03-02T12:10:29.554Z</updated><title type='text'>¿What Colour is Your Parasite?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Npb1twOTLck/TW4WfjCn97I/AAAAAAAAAvA/TVy52aBzGcE/s1600/fine-gael.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Npb1twOTLck/TW4WfjCn97I/AAAAAAAAAvA/TVy52aBzGcE/s400/fine-gael.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579421719596627890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;¿Why Does My Home Smell All Fishy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a very wily, clever, cunning word-play, probly invented by The Jews, according to which it is argued that Jesus Christ was NOT a Christian. ¡Sí! ¿How ridiculous is that? ¡It was his surname, for Christ's sake!  Saying this is like saying that I am not an Estímulon.  It would make no sense whatsoever.  And yet this is what the atheist communist Jews are try to instinuate:  Jesus was a Jew, they say, deliberately trying to discredit Jesus and sow doubt amongst the Christian faithful, particularly those of them who have not read the Bible.  The intention is to make them start think to themselfs, "Oh dear, maybe that is true.   Perhaps it is in the Bible and I was not aware of it. I had better not admit I am not sure.   But wait.  Perhaps I am being taken for a mick.  ¿After all, if Jesus wasn't a Christian, then why are there so many of us?  I shall ask my priest in the morning.  He will know.  He knows everything.  He would have heard during Confession if there was any truth to the rumour."  And so most Christians are usually stay Christians, fortunately, but still the gnawing doubt has have been put in their heads by the evil Jews, and so when the first time the Christians read the Bible and find out that Jesus &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; a Jew, they realize that the priest is a liar and lose all faith in the Bible and Jesus.  Because of the Jews. The wily cunning Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moral is:  Do not read the Bible.  Especially if you are Christian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a similar way, Karl Marx, who was also a Jew, like Jesus, but not a Christian, although he did become a Christian, being baptized when he was 6, once said, "I am not a Marxist."   Which again was just confuse everyone.  But remember, Marx was a Jew, and he was using what is called Dialectical Mentalism, which was invented by Plato (not a Jew, as far as I can ascertain), which is a way of saying something and its opposite both at the same time.  Which is what The Jews do.   You see, Marx was a Marxist, being named Marx, but he wasn't not a follower of Marx, who are also called Marxists, because they are dicks.  Similarly, Jesus wasn't not a follower of Jesus, unless you count the Holy Ghost, who was also Jesus and God and who followed him around everywhere.  What Jesus and Marx are really mean is simply that they did not believe in themselves.  Such low self-esteem is quite normal for high achievers.  For esample, you only have to take one look at the world around you to realize that God was lacking in self-belief.  It did not stop Him from creating the Universe.  Indeed, it was his main motivation, his Prime Mover, if you will.  If it wasn't for self-doubt, none of us would be here.  I think.  Although I am not sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karl Marx was enough of a Marxist, however, to know the writings of Karl Marx, wherein he was correctly saying that "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."  And he is not alone in being correctly saying this, or in being a Marxist to the degree that he believe it.  Indeed, all the ruling classes of societies are good enough Marxists to know that this is true.  Moreover, they are further good enough Marxists to know that the most important aspect of being the ruling class is to keep hidden from all the other classes that there is a class struggle going on. Because so long as the other classes are not aware of it, they will not try to organize against the ruling class in order to secure a larger portion of the social cheese.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was the absence of this knowledge which is what was strike me the most about all the stupid moron commentary which have been taking place in Ireland over the last week in response to the stupid moron general election there.  Liberal writer Fintan the Toole in the &lt;a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0222/1224290515105.html"&gt;Irish Times last week&lt;/a&gt;, for instance, says ridic things such as that the Irish people have voted to endorse the EU-IMF bailout.  Lots of other people are say things like, "I cannot understand it. The people have voted for the same thing that they have just voted out. ¡Another right-wing government!"  This lack of awareness is a good thing, of course, from my own personal fascist perspective, even though I would prefer they had no election at all.  And also no Internet or Fintan the Toole.  And you will find hundreds of comments like this, all incredulous that the "Irish People" "don't get it" or "are idiots" or "deserve everything they get after voting for austerity," or "are timid, cowardly, conservative people."    Which all really just prove none of the above but that the commenters themselves are big suckers and dupes.   Or if they are not dupes they are dupliciting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the big unmentioned yellow elephant in the room is class.  It is a classroom.  As someone else once said somewhere else (it might have been Jesus), "there is a class war being waged, but only one side is aware of it." You see, it is not being the "Irish people" or "the voters" who have voted for the Fine Gaels.  No.  It is the professional and ruling and chattering classes who was voted for them, and they have did so with a perfectly cold and reasonable logic too.  They are know full well that the policies which the Fine Gaels will implement in the process of running Ireland will not hurt them anywhere near as much as they will hammer the idiot working classes and the poor and the young.  And they know this because the Fine Gaels have told them so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must never underestimate the capacity of the upper, middle, and professional classes to protect their own interests, to the exclusion of everything else.   You must realize that they did not get where they are today by hard work. No.  They got where they are today by protecting their privileges, their wealth, and their unequal opportunities, AND by denying and minimizing them to others.  The more they can ensure that social mobility is reduced for those beneath them, then the safer they are feel; the less competition there is, the more secure are their privileges.   The Fine Gaels know this full well, and so they are shape their electoral message loud and clear and sent it to their target demographic:  Everyone must share the pain, but that doesn't not mean the pain must be share equally.  Indeed, under the Fine Gaels, relatively speaking, you will be better off than before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;QED:  The Fine Gaels are a Marxist party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only worrying aspect of the stupid moron general election was that this time it is become clear increasingly that the idiot subject classes are start to become aware that their interest is not being serve by the government.  Once upon the time, they was use to vote for the right-wing populist Fianna Fail party, who was always sure to give them crumbs from the dinner table, but now they are begin to catch on that they are engaged in a game that they cannot not win.   This time around, some of them voted for communist parties such as the Labour Party or the atheist People Without Prophets, which is a very worrying sign and should be stopped immediately.  If that sort of insubordinate behaviour is allow to spread, we could end up with a repeat of the civil war.  And I am not mean the Spanish Civil War for Golf, which we win, or the Irish Civil War, which we was also win, but the English Civil War, the one which had the romantic lovely royalist Calvaliers but also the mean Protestant ugly Skinheads and, worse, the spit-on-their-hands Diggers, the trouserless Sans Culottes,  the dog-on-a-string Levellers, the New Model Army, the Muggletonians, and the Mekons.    The sound track might appeal to middle ages people, but the dress sense will be appalling.  And no true-blooded Irish man wants to fight in an English Civil War.    He would want both sides to lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The plan now is that the Fine Gaels can con the idiot Labour Party into coming into government with them.  This will make the government look like it is being run in the national interest and will help to conceal its real agenda of protecting the wealthy.  And when the protests inevitably start, it will be the Labour Party  which will take all the stick.  And all the stone.  Like a police man's riot shield.  And the Fine Gaels are his baton.   The presence of the Labour Party in government will also serve to divide again the subject classes and disillusion them with the possibility of solidarity and therefore the possibility of successful struggle.  As long as then all the workers and poor do not emigrate, then the system can keep on working.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone had better close the borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-8657288122504230226?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/8657288122504230226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=8657288122504230226&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8657288122504230226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8657288122504230226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-colour-is-your-parasite.html' title='¿What Colour is Your Parasite?'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Npb1twOTLck/TW4WfjCn97I/AAAAAAAAAvA/TVy52aBzGcE/s72-c/fine-gael.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7073751304097488226</id><published>2011-02-24T12:14:00.006Z</published><updated>2011-02-24T13:42:13.333Z</updated><title type='text'>Who Needs International Rescue?!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Laa9in77sXI/TWZL4_wPKVI/AAAAAAAAAu4/apLeT7CfLD4/s1600/InternationalEnd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Laa9in77sXI/TWZL4_wPKVI/AAAAAAAAAu4/apLeT7CfLD4/s400/InternationalEnd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577228631103449426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Is End O'Kenny.  Our Very Own Tracey Ireland!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you remember growing up the very amazing clever animated television program show &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Thrunderbirds Are Go&lt;/span&gt;!?  No.  Me neither.  I am too old.  In Spain, when I was grow up, all we had was comic magazines about the Crusades and oranges on a stick.  But a few years ago, the Thrunderbirds was come back in fashion for the young children these days when the presenters on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Blue Peter Show&lt;/span&gt; make a cheapskate version of the program set, featuring the Thrunderbirds' home base, Tracey Ireland, named after the head of the family, Tracey Ireland.  It was composed with cheap nasty disposable items that children could easily find such as plastic bags, Stanley knives, Parazone bottles, used toilet paper, coat hangars, some leaves, and a rocket ship.  Children all over the world made their own Tracey Irelands and played at being one of the Thrunderbird pilots, such as Alan, Scott, Gordon, Brians, The Hood, Tintin, and Bitch.  Very few of the children wanted to be Tracy Ireland himself, since he was a kind of father figure who overseed everything with a benign indifference and was too busy anyway playing golf, reading the papers, and shooting boatpeople.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The show was brung to mind for me only his week by the uncanny parallels between &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Thrunderbirds&lt;/span&gt; the show and Ireland the country, which is this week facing the dismal prospect of a democratic election.  As you are already know by now, I am violently opposed, in principle and also in practice, to democratic elections, but this one in lovely pissing holy Ireland is different because it is not really a proper democratic election anyway:  all the parties who are being allowed to win have the same policies.   Also besides, the election is already a foregone conclusion, since the winners and losers are already decided.  End O'Kenny will be the winner, and everyone else will be the losers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fine Gaels have been keeping End O'Kenny under raps, which I was thought was because they were embarrassed by him. But now I realize that he is their secret weapon.  Like Thrunderbird One.  At the bottom of the swimming pool.  Escept he would not sink, because he is so wooden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was what was strike me when I watched O'Kenny in one of the tougher interviews he has done this election, on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Den.&lt;/span&gt;  For the viewer, the esperience was like the end of the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Animal Farm,&lt;/span&gt; where the animals look from pig to farmer and back again and cannot tell them apart.  This time, my eyes was switch from End O'Kenny to Dustin the Turkey (the interviewer) and from Dustin the Turkey (the interviewer) back to End O'Kenny, and it was impossible for me to tell which one was the politician and which one was the puppet.  And then, when O'Kenny kept going on about the International Rescue and taking care of the corporations but otherwise cow-towing to Ireland's European masters, it hit me that he is not just any puppet running just any puppet government.  No!  He is Tracey Ireland from &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Thrunderbirds, &lt;/span&gt;the father of all the Ireland people, and like they did on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Blue Peter Show,&lt;/span&gt; he is going to transform the country into a model economy, composed of cheap nasty items and used toilet paper.  But without the rocket ship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wondrous thing about lovely pissing holy Ireland is that most of the Ireland family (Scott, Gordon, Alan, Bitch etc.) are not only willing to trust Tracey, they are lending him active support by voting for him in their drives.  The only dissenters seems to be Brians, the twins, who have cut the apron strings, and also the puppet strings, and fled the nest to Australia, a large, warm, sunny Ireland with jobs.  The rest of the family, brought up on obedience and father nose best, are ready to put their shoulders to the grindstone and their ears to the wheel, even though they will have no jobs, no homes to go to, and not even a suitcase to hide in and shout "let me out." Like Cuddles the monkey.  On the contrary and neverthenonetheless, they have taken up the Fine Gaels campaign slogans as their own:  Vote for Emigration!  Vote for Homelessness!  Vote for Famine!  And they are all singing the Fine Gaels' campaign song, Prince's "Tonight We're Going to Party Like It's 1845."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this, of course, on the proviso that it is the public sector workers and trade unions which suffer the most. "You must never underestimate the power of spite, Señor Estímulo" Herr Mengele was point out to me as we watched O'Kenny struggle with short words and lose to Dustin at Jenga.  "So long as he promises vicious vengeance against anyone with a cheerful, positive, or compassionate outlook on life—nurses, carers, firemen, charity workers—there will always be plenty of pinch-faced misanthropic church-going rural folk—our kind of people—ready to support him, keen to punish anyone who exhibits such naivety and arrogance.   You must see, of course, that it isn't self-hatred that motivates people to vote for Kenny.  Nein.  It is hatred of other Irish people.  For being uppity.  The Brians realized this, and they have already left the country, because they could.  Those who remain behind in Ireland either have a vested interest in the system and too much to lose by emigrating, so they will vote O'Kenny, or else they have no choice but to stay.  And those, the ones who are stuck, they are the ones O'Kenny will punish.  The sitting ducks."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I have to say, Herr Mengele," I was reply.  "I do like his style.  He really does sound like one of us, doesn't he?  Do you think we should invite him to join our Fascist International?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herr Mengele just winked at me and was tap the side of his nose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I don't think he needs an invitation, Señor Estímulo," was all he said.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7073751304097488226?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7073751304097488226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7073751304097488226&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7073751304097488226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7073751304097488226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-needs-international-rescue.html' title='Who Needs International Rescue?!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Laa9in77sXI/TWZL4_wPKVI/AAAAAAAAAu4/apLeT7CfLD4/s72-c/InternationalEnd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2723255383460517987</id><published>2011-02-10T10:46:00.003Z</published><updated>2011-02-10T13:19:16.170Z</updated><title type='text'>VOTE CHAIR FOR A FASCIST FUTURE!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iVXaBWLDW2g/TVPCUiwTaxI/AAAAAAAAAuw/1aBy_TKPCOk/s1600/smokey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iVXaBWLDW2g/TVPCUiwTaxI/AAAAAAAAAuw/1aBy_TKPCOk/s400/smokey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572010822170012434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;We Promise an Electrifying Campaign!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are say to anyone, "Who was your favourite ancient Greek philosopher born in the 4th century BC and who was belong to the Cynic school and who live in a barrel," seven times out of ten they will answer you "Diogenes of Sinope."  Because he is.  Everyone is know about and love Diogenes, who was called a Cynic because he believed that human beings are no better than dogs, and who therefore was a proto-typical fascist.  The word "Cynic," incidentally, is come from the Greek word for "dog," which finds its roots in the original Spanish word "Canarias," meaning "canary," named after the bird which the ancient Spanish used to hunt dogs.  There was some confusion at the time, when the ancient Greeks didn't realize which one we were pointing at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diogenes was well known not so much for his theories as for putting them into practice, such as living in a barrel, masturbating in public, and living on a diet of onions, all of which are things that dogs do.  Most famously, on once occasion, Diogenes was walked around Athens in the middle of the day holding a lit candle.  When people was ask him what he was doing, he reply, "I am looking for an honest man."  This is clever, because it is imply that daylight on its own is not enough for him to find one.  Legend has it that when Alexander the Great was meet Diogenes and his candle and ask him if there was anything he could do for him, Diogenes' reply was, "Yes.  You can get out of my light."  For which he was killed.  On another occasion, when Plato had made the pompous declaration to a crowd that "Man is a featherless biped," Diogenes turned up later with a plucked chicken, which he then throw in front of the crowd and say, "There is Plato's man." Everyone had a big laugh.   Diogenes was actually more of a Sarcastic than a Cynic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I am mention Diogenes because of the story that when the Athenians was preparing for their elections, Diogenes used to get out of the barrel and roll it all around the city just so he could "look busy as well."  Nobody liked him.    However, it again is time for us to "roll out the barrel," because the pointless politicians of lovely holy pissing Ireland have begun their pointless election campaigns to decide who will implement the policies of their Illuminati/Masonic/Jewish masters.  Earlier this week was appearing the first priministerial debate on Ireland's porn channel, TV3, in which the priminister in waiting, End O'Kenny of the Fine Gaels, didn't not appear.   He had something more important to do in Leitrim.  Such as hide.  Instead, the debate was between the two runners-up, Martin Michael of the Fianna fail and Eamon Gilmore of the Labour Pastry.   Overall the general view afterward was that everybody was a winner.  Martin Michael was a winner just by being there, because his presence was lending credibility to the idea that Fianna fail is a party that may legitimately be considered as the prospective government instead of a bunch of criminals and traitors who should be making their argument in the dock, not on television.  Eamon Gilmore was a winner because he is not Biff O'Cowen or End O'Kenny, even though everyone would have preferred to see his Fat Rabbit.  And End O'Kenny was a winner by NOT being there.  The only loser was the Irish public, because TV3 had originally announce that if End O'Kenny did not turn up, they would replace him with an empty chair.  But they did not.  It was a lie.  But also, it was a disappointment, because a lot of people would have like to have hear what the empty chair had to offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made the point to my neighbour Herr Mengele yesterday morning over Bran Flakes and brandy and cigars, that a very good case could be made for the Irish people to elect an empty chair rather than any of the partys in thrall to the Dark Alien Forces.   Herr Mengele was agree with me hole-heartedly, but then he was come up with an even better idea.  "Rather than just any old chair, Señor Estímulo, we should encourage the Irish people to vote for an electric chair."  I was at first bemused, in spite of my natural prejudice in favour of capital punishment and my desire to see it implemented everywhere.  But Herr Mengele elaborated:   "Not only would it be a snub for the Eurocrats and Jews," he said, warming to his argument, "But we can make a perfectly plausible and economic case for its use as well.   What is more, I know just the place where we can get one.    It is fortunate for us that the American judicial system is so soft and weak-kneed liberal.   These days they only ever do humane executions.  Where's the fun in that?  Come, let us draw up a manifesto."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so we was spend all of yesterday morning fine-tuning our policies, using a calculator and a colouring-in book, like the Greens do.    I am not personally having a particular head for business, but Herr Mengele is still rapier-sharp in his head.  "First, we will execute the paedophiles," he said.   "Not priests, though," I interjected, "who were tempted by Satan."  "Then we will execute the drug dealers."  Again, only illegal drugs will be included, such as marijuana, smack, and crunk, not legal drugs such as Bran Flakes, brandy, and cigars.  "Then, of course the Travellers."  By which he mean not people going to their second home in Kinsale or rich foreingers bringing in money to the country, but gypsies and anyone generally scruffy.   "And last but not least, strikers," by which he was mean Aer Lingus cabin staff, nurses, and so on, not Robbie Keane, who isn't much of a striker these days anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Most importantly," said Herr Mengele, "are these two points. One, we show the executions on the paper view channel.  And two, all of the patients, er, I mean prisoners, will be executed naked."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first, I was not sure about this.  I am not the sort of man who is interested in looking at a naked man, even if he is being killed.  "But Señor Estímulo, consider how much pleasure you will get as a diminutive hairy ugly old Spanish man with a tiny penis seeing a tall handsome oiled blond 20-year-old with an enormous wang meet his maker as an undignified writhing contorted mass of shit, piss, and dripping fat.  We Germans have a word, you know, which is called &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;schadenfreude.&lt;/span&gt;  I do not know what it is called in Spanish.  But trust me, you will not be alone in wanted to see such a show.  Besides, we can always get in PR and marketing people like that Terri Prone to advise us on who we should be executing to maximize our returns.  You'd be surprised at the things people will watch.  Ryan Tubridy, for instance.   Besides, if they are naked we can post the videos on the Internet.  That's where all the real money is being made these days."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have therefore calculated that if we charge €100 per execution and begin with 100 executions a year, with a population of 4 million people in Ireland, that will bring in roughly €40 billion in the first year alone, more than enough to pay off the Gnomes of Zurich, Bankers of Brussels, and Merchants of Venice.  Then we will take our product to the next level.  Advertisers will be knocking down our door for a piece of the action, I think.  Not the Gas Bord, obviously,  but undoubtedly companies like George Foreman, Marlboro, Braun, McDonald's.  And then we will broaden out into celebrity executions.  Under the Taliban, the half-time entertainment at the Afghan Cup Final used to be provided by one of the popular local boy bands, who would be reunited for a final time in front of a huge crowd by being hanged from the crossbar.  I have no doubt that we could do something similar in Ireland with Westlife or Jedward.  Also, we could have a phone-in vote for viewers to decide which member of the band will be killed.  I shall call it the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Execution Factor&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know, I am amaze really that Rupert Murdoch has not yet trademark this idea.  But then, when did he &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ever&lt;/span&gt; have the interests of the public in mind?  He is happy just to force-feed them shallow, hedonistic garbage, not the kind of edifying, motivating and spiritually rewarding programming we are talking about here.  Sometimes I wonder if he is even a Catholic at all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I am asking all of my Irish friends to spread the word.  Myself and Herr Mengele have become very aroused at this conception, and now I think we can arouse the hole Irish people by getting them to fill in their box with CHAIR.  There is no better alternative in this election, and in the long run they will thank us.  Go home, therefore, back to your cottages, huts, and hovels, with this powerful, uncompromising message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ELECT FOR ELECTROCUTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;YOU ARE KNOW IT MAKES SENSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;VOTE CHAIR!!      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2723255383460517987?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2723255383460517987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2723255383460517987&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2723255383460517987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2723255383460517987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/02/vote-chair-for-fascist-future.html' title='VOTE CHAIR FOR A FASCIST FUTURE!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iVXaBWLDW2g/TVPCUiwTaxI/AAAAAAAAAuw/1aBy_TKPCOk/s72-c/smokey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-4364375687552320924</id><published>2011-02-03T09:59:00.003Z</published><updated>2011-02-03T10:52:49.372Z</updated><title type='text'>The Haçienda Must be Destroyed!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUp8rfTea8I/AAAAAAAAAuo/Ql5vgx6fXKo/s1600/biffotheclowen.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUp8rfTea8I/AAAAAAAAAuo/Ql5vgx6fXKo/s400/biffotheclowen.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569400975776443330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "&gt;Send Off the Clowens!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lovely holy pissing Ireland has erupt into chaos and violence this week as the government was dissolve and now there is an empty vacuum standing in its place.  A very espensive vacuum that does not work very well.  A Dyson.  And as any moron student of political philosophy can tell you, if a society is not having a leader, very quickly humans return to a state of nature, eating berries and twigs, like they do in Monaghan, and having unprotected sex outside marriage and without a priest watching, like in Cork.  Is therefore imperative that lovely holy pissing Ireland is soon replacing the vacuum with a new brush that sweeps clean.  Not one of those little handbrushes with a dust pan, either, but a gigantic nailbrush, with metal wires for hairs and wielded by a strong man.  Or better yet, a strongman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The currant problem with Ireland is that it is have an electoral system which guarantee that nothing can ever change.  The same peoples have been in power in the country since the 1920s.  They are called The Gombeen Men and they have a new record out in March.   Of course, not having no change ever is a very good thing, so long as what you have in place is a strict feudal hierarchy, but Ireland was taking a wrong turn in the old days when it was introduce the new-fangled concept of democracy, even though it had already been tried and showed to fail in the USA, America, Britain, France, and Germany. But once democracy sinks its teeth into a people, it does not let go.  Is like rabies.  And also, like rabies, eventually the people who are bitten stop noticing that they have been bitten and even stop being in any pain after a while because the virus has got to their brain and they end up comatose and frothing at the mouth and being scared of water.   Is like a frog in a blender.  You can slowly turn up the speed and the frog will not notice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, however, what is happen is that the democracy atrophies into the kind of corrupt, decadent, nepotistic cronygarchy that we are see today in Ireland.  Is only natural, of course, and Aristotle the Greek was warn everyone about it several hundred year ago.   What will happen, he esplained, was that when you have a stable democracy, everyone is go about their normal day-today lifes and in the meanwhile there is develop a division of labour, with the consequence that you end up with a political class which is self-perpetuate and act in its own interest at the espense of the rest of the people.  And because the job of running a democracy is in basic one of managing the state, all the rival groups within the political class all end up looking and acting the same, going to the same restaurants and brothels, the same schools and golf clubs, and in reality they have nothing between them different escept a cosmetic veneer.  Thus, as you can see above, Biff O'Cowen has eyeliner and lipstick on, whereas End O'Kenny, who is boss of the Fine Gaels, wears a wig and high heels.  Otherwise, there is nothing to tell them apart.  Even their parties are no different, escept that the Fine Gaels does not pretend that it cares about the working class. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This stability of the decadent corrupt political class is reinforce by the political structures that the class has put in place to protect itself.  The simple idiot Irish electorate votes by using a system known as UTV, which is stand for Unavoidable Transferring Vote.  What this mean is that whoever they vote for, the same people get in.   If they vote for the Fianna fail, that party is form the government with its Gombeen agenda.  If they vote for the Fine Gaels, that party forms the government, with its Gombeen agenda, with little difference from Fianna fail.  And if they vote Labour, Labour is make a coalition with the Fine Gaels, who they pretend not to agree with but in fact they are indistinguishable.  So, a vote for Labour is a vote for the Fine Gaels is a vote for Fianna fail.  Is genius!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only that, but also the political class has covered itself so that when one party is out of power, it is really in power by virtue of marriage.  For instance, Richard Burton of the Fine Gaels, who was use to be married to Elizabeth Taylor, is now married to Joan Burton, of the Labour Party.    Brian Lenihan of the Fianna fail is married to the chairman of the Central Bank of Ireland and to the head of RTE.  End O'Kenny is married to the owner of the Irish Independent and Biff O'Cowen to the owner of the Irish Times.  And Eamonn Gilmore is not married to anyone but he has a Fat Rabbit.   Is just like the 400 Familles that run France, or else Paraguay in the 19th century, when the country was belong to a small elite of landholders and haçienda dwellers, all married to one another and owning the newspapers, television, race horses, race llamas, and the now-estinct paraguays, after which the country was named.  Similarly, in Ireland even today, a third of all the TDs are landlords.  And some of the others are landladies.   The rest are not.  But they would like to be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is therefore impossible for the electoral system in Ireland to change anything.  Is the electoral system itself which is have to be change.  The most sensisble suggestion I have heard so far is that instead of electioning a government, Ireland should dissolve the political class altogether and hold a lottery.  Whoever wins the lottery can then be made ruler of Ireland, unless it is a lady who wins, in which case we will have to re-run the lottery until we get it right.   As Aristotle was rightly point out, dictatorship is a much better idea than democracy and has been tried many times in history with much success, e.g. Spain.  The lottery has the added benefit that whoever is made dictator will probly be just an ordinary decent run-up-the-mill Irish citizen with your typical broadly acceptable fascist beliefs, and he will no doubt jump at the chance to rule the country if history is anything to go by.  However, to ensure that there is no nepotism or cronyism, which has been the downfall of Ireland so far, whoever wins the lottery, we will have to kill all his family.  Is a small price to pay to avoid corruption, I think, and I imagine the winner himself will be okay with it given all the free sex and drugs he will be able to get as absolute ruler.   Berlusconi seems to handle it quite well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, to all my reader in Ireland, I would ask you to doorstop your candidates when they come pleading for your vote and ask them, "Are you willing to have all your family killed for a better Ireland?"  If they say no, you have my permission to slam your door in their faces.  Do not accept any compromise on this point.  Sinn Fein may offer to have other people's families killed, but that does not count. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if they DO have a lottery, don't forget to buy a ticket.  It Could be You!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-4364375687552320924?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/4364375687552320924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=4364375687552320924&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4364375687552320924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4364375687552320924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/02/hacienda-must-be-destroyed.html' title='The Haçienda Must be Destroyed!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUp8rfTea8I/AAAAAAAAAuo/Ql5vgx6fXKo/s72-c/biffotheclowen.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7112464524747224477</id><published>2011-01-28T10:20:00.005Z</published><updated>2011-01-28T18:28:00.031Z</updated><title type='text'>Less Politics, More Football!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUKemuHVxWI/AAAAAAAAAuc/257ZMwOujSA/s1600/worryingsign.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567186477434389858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUKemuHVxWI/AAAAAAAAAuc/257ZMwOujSA/s400/worryingsign.jpeg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;This is a Worrying Sign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just over a year ago there was big riots in Egypt and in Algeria by football fans who was angry about the cheating of the opposition's players, not surprising when you consider that it was two Arab countries who was play one another. Even although there was much tut-tutting at the time about this sort of disgraceful public behaviour, many others of us was more sanguine. We said not just "Well what are you espect?" but also, "At least all these rioting fans are demonstrate a healthy nationalism and xenophobia, which will distract them from not having no jobs and also prevent them from joining some kinds of pan-Arab Muslim brotherhood. Otherwise we will have to start the Crusades again." But now, not 18 month later, splashed all over our television screen like the incontinent sploogings of a rabid Onanist, is all the news that the Arabs are once more revolting, not against homosexuals, Israel, the idiot George Bush or even falafel prices, but this time in protest against their own masters, the very men who have given them football and foreing enemies for the last 30 years. Is a big disgrace! Some peoples are have no gratitude whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was start off in Tunisia, which have always struck me as a very nice place to visit, everythings considered. Unlike other Muslim countries, you can drink their lousy local beer in public and sit by the pool showing your legs. Even the ladies, if they are foreing. Everyone in Tunisia was also strike me as well-educate and able to speak Spanish or, if that was too difficult, Italian. The government also had agreed not to teach any of the natives to swim, in a deal with Silvio Berlusconi, so that none of them would ever make it by accident across to Sicily, and in return Berlusconi was send over wealthy Italians to be waited on hand and foot and also his home videos. Tunisians peoples, when I have visited there, are always very polite to your face and do not spit in your soup and, as far as I know, had also a healthy contempt for all their neighbour Arab countries, such as Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and El Salvador. Indeed, they are almost European in their contempt for Arabs. So this is what is make me so confuse now about all the protest that are going on. The Tunisians had never have it so good! They are as close to European as an Arab can be, they have a nice hot sunny country, they live under a dictatorship, the most ideal kind of government, they know the Spanish, which mean they can appreciate the best culture and civilization, so what on Earth is making them want to have a revolution? Is not make no sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then, to make the matters worse, the ingrates in Egypt are see what was happen in Tunisia, and instead of saying to one another, "I see the Jews are stir it up in Tunisia. And stupid fucking Tunisians have fell for it too," the Egyptians, who themselves are have a marvelous tradition of 300-year-old dictatorship, are say to one another, "Let's show those Tunisian morons what a REAL revolution is," and they are start rampaigning in the streets, showering themselves beneath police batons, and waving threatening placards such as like the one above which must make any decent person shit in their spats. And not just are they trying to outdo the Tunisians in iconoclastics, they are also try to outdo them in tourism by making a virtue of their infantile rebelliousness. Look, for instance, at the latest video here for the Egyptian Tourist Board:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe class="youtube-player" title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q2DOErX7AVc" frameborder="0" width="400" height="300" type="text/html" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I am hear report on Al Jazeera that the protestings have spread all over my Yemen, wherever that is, and that today in Egypt they are especting massive protests because it is the Muslim bank holiday, so it will all be kicking off for the weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But not kicking off in the right way. If only the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt had have any foresight or common knowledge, they would have realized that it was time to organize a football match between their countries. Perhaps a round-robin of all the Arab countries, called the Arab League, which would have ensure that instead of trying to outdo each other in revolutioning, the ignorant masses would have been fighting in the streets over which of their countries was best at kicking a bladder between two sticks. All smart dictators are know the important of sports. That is why El Generalísimo was have Real Madrid invented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a sad day when football itself is become under such pressure that nobody is able to take it seriously any more. Even in the United Kingdom, which have a queen, football is become a laughing stoke because two football commenters have been give the sack just because they are make sexist comments behind closed whores. What is the world come to when the sexism is not allowed in football? What is the point of having sport in the first place if there is not going to be allow any male bonding, competition, aggression, violence, anger, hatred, misogyny, viciousness, racism, sleazy gang bangs in motel rooms, war, nationalism, innuendo, vulgarity, drunken arguments, vindictive chanting, WAGs, roasting, and replica kits? If you are start to sissify sport by insisting on non-threatening work environments, equality, and respect for the opposition, then you must not be surprise when it stop being a useful social tool for maintaining patriarchy, discipline, and rivalry among the idiot masses. We must stand up now and loudly proclaim our support for Randy Gray and Richard Quays because if we do not, our countries too will go the same way as the Arabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say It Loud and Say It Proudly: &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Balls NOT Jobs! Goals NOT Votes!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are know it make sense.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7112464524747224477?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7112464524747224477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7112464524747224477&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7112464524747224477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7112464524747224477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/01/less-politics-more-football.html' title='Less Politics, More Football!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TUKemuHVxWI/AAAAAAAAAuc/257ZMwOujSA/s72-c/worryingsign.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6093977448957687366</id><published>2011-01-14T08:56:00.002Z</published><updated>2011-01-14T10:46:07.277Z</updated><title type='text'>Fascist Ladies:  Know Your Place!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TTAP0rZJYpI/AAAAAAAAAuU/w8_nZZHBfyI/s1600/speckypalin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TTAP0rZJYpI/AAAAAAAAAuU/w8_nZZHBfyI/s400/speckypalin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561962937478374034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;You should be at home making profiteroles, not making penis jokes on a podium.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me: &lt;/span&gt; I have a question for you.  What have got in common Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul Mark 2?  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You:&lt;/span&gt; Is  it that they all are dead?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;  Don't be a moronic.  Everyone all knows that Pope John Paul Mark 2 is not at all dead but is being kept under loch and quay in the cellars of Castelgandolfo by the evil usurper Bendedict and his lackeys.  Also his lickeys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You:  &lt;/span&gt;Yes, of course.  You have reason.  I give up, then.  In what way are they all common?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;  I am glad you ask.  What they all have in common is that they was all spared by God from being assassinate in order to carry out their divine mission of restoring the caliphate.  No.  Not the caliphate.  The other one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You:&lt;/span&gt;  Hell on Earth?  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me: &lt;/span&gt; No! Idiot! I mean the restoration of the rule of the Holy Roman Catholic Church on Earth.  The Pontifract.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You: &lt;/span&gt; Ah yes.  Of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;  Of course.  Because, as you have probably already notice from looking back at history, all the good people who are fulfill God's divine mission on Earth survive assassinations, whereas all the evil peoples—John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Lennon, George Harris—die.  And as you can see from this list, it is not like there is any simple earthly esplanation, such as right-wingers are better marksman than liberal pacifists, because it is clear that the people who was doing the shooting were not politically motivated at all.  They was just either concerned citizens, such as John Wilkes Booth, James Earl Gray, and Lee Harvey Norman, or else just fans of good music, such as Mark Chapman and cancer (Chapman, I understand, was motivated by the rumour that the Beatles was about to re-form, so his differences with John Lennon was mainly aesthetic). And also the peoples who tried to kill Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope John Paul Mark 2, namely, John Hinckley, the IRA, and Grey Wilf, they was all similarly apolitical. They just liked Jodie Foster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, even though it is a truism that the Good Lord works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, any fool with half a brain left, like JFK, can see that there is a definite pattern in his actions, and this is why I am much begrieved to see fascist ladies such as Sarah Palin who should know better making ridic statements in the media following the rampage shooting in Tucson, Arizona, last weekend. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can always tell that a political movement is in trouble, when its leader is a lady.  The so-call Tea Party movement, for instant, have made Palin its spokesperson.  Obviously, she is the brains of the outfit; you can tell, because she wears glasses.  But this in itself is a sign that something is fundamentally wrong.  No right-wing organization can survive for long when women are its leaders, intellectual or otherwise.  It is symptomatic of the decadence, degeneracy and flabbiness of American conservatism that its men have allowed women out of the house in the first place, let alone allow them to read books/teleprompters/&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;People Weekly.&lt;/span&gt;  And then to put them in charge of the movement?   What kind of limp-wristed panty-waist lisping flounceboys are the "men" in this so-call Tea Party!?  Are they biscuit munchers?!  Are they saucer sippers?! Are they pinkie raisers?!  They should be ashame that they are incapable of organizing a virile, manly, BUTCH tea party, with their women back in the kitchen making the sandwiches and scones and fairy cakes.  With two sugars please.  That way, you would not have the idiot Palin standing up in public with her mouth in a luscious O around a hairy microphone, ridiculing her husband's dimensions, and saying stupid things like, "this rampage was not politically motivate.  It was a nutter on the bus."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si!  That is what she was say: It was not a politically motivate rampage!  It was just by chance that the gunman shot a congresswoman and a judge, and everyone around them.  Because in any random crowd at any shopping mall in the United States, you can guarantee that at least one person will be a judge, and another one will be a member of Congress.  America is a democracy like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am being sarcarstic, of course.  The fact is, unless you are willing to argue that the gunman's REAL target was a nine-year-old girl and it just was happen to be a coincidence that the judge and congresswoman was there—a conspiracy theory that I have not yet heard on Glenn Beck but is only a matter of time—then you really do not have a leg to stand on and should think about sitting down.  And maybe buying a wheelchair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is very embarrassing for the so-call Tea Party.  And it also show (1) that a little learning is a bad thing and (b) that fascist ladies are better off having no learning at all.  Even the more proof of that came when Palin was make reference in her television speech to the casting of a "blood libel" against Tea Party members by those who have accuse them of stoking hatred.  What a dunts!  Any fascist in his right mind can tell you that the term "blood libel" is have a specific meaning, and the fact that Sarah Palin was use it demonstrates conclusively that her husband have been leaving books lying about the house and she has most likely dipped in and skimmed one then lost interest without properly digesting it, like when you do a brass rubbing of a Latin inscription.  Some trace remains, but you are not know what it means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Blood libel" is a term which was invented by the Jews, Zionists, Masons, Illuminati, and their liberal intellectual friends in the media as a way of smearing fascists and holy Roman Catholics for their revelation that Jews killed Christian children and used their blood in the making of matzos for consuming at Passover, when the Jewish God flew over Egypt and only killed the Christian children.  No true fascist would ever use the term "blood libel," because it implies that there is no truth to the claim.  Therefore, when Sarah Palin was include it in her speech, you could hear fascists all around the country slapping their foreheads in exasperation in front of their televisions and saying "somebody needs to take that woman indoors and shoot her."  But of course they was only say it to themselves.  Not on a Web site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My only hope is that all of this is a cunning plan to unite all right-thinking right-wing people by bringing down the wrath of mockery upon Palin to such an estent that they begin to feel protective of her.  We know how this was done very cleverly by George W. Bush.  He was such a blitherin gidiot that when all the liberals and blue state pointy heads was laugh at him for not knowing where New Orleans was or for stapling himself in the ear when he answer the phone, ordinary American fascists who was just like Bush felt defensive about him, which was consequently able to generate solidarity with him and sympathy for him.  True-blooded American fascists all said, "Hey!  We can't not spell either and who cares where foreing is?! We want a president just like us, not one like you smart-arse liberals who can hold pencils and speak black." And so spiteful did they feel, that they was all vote for him. Twice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we must be careful.  Fascists rarely trust cunning plans.  We prefer generally to be outfront and calling a spade a spade.  If something stands in our way—a gate, a whitetail deer, a trade union—we prefer to smash it using brute force rather than guile.  You need to show all of the above who is boss.  Cunning plans have a way of backfiring.  Or firing back.  Because fascists are not cunning.  Jews and liberals are. And also women. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But not fascist women.  Go figure!    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You:&lt;/span&gt; Women, eh?  Kuh.  How true.  Bless you, Manuel.  And thank you.  I will go now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me: &lt;/span&gt; Si.  Go. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You:&lt;/span&gt;  I love you, Manuel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me:&lt;/span&gt;  Si.  I know. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You:&lt;/span&gt;  Will you hug me in a manly way?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me: &lt;/span&gt; Not right now.  Just go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6093977448957687366?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6093977448957687366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6093977448957687366&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6093977448957687366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6093977448957687366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2011/01/fascist-ladies-know-your-place.html' title='Fascist Ladies:  Know Your Place!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TTAP0rZJYpI/AAAAAAAAAuU/w8_nZZHBfyI/s72-c/speckypalin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5605734869728201371</id><published>2010-12-20T10:07:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-12-20T10:54:07.737Z</updated><title type='text'>The Beast Is Among Us (Again!!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TQ8q9nrTUKI/AAAAAAAAAuE/OKIkkI9bDF0/s1600/Donkey-monkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TQ8q9nrTUKI/AAAAAAAAAuE/OKIkkI9bDF0/s400/Donkey-monkey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552704103682101410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Is Julian Donkey-Boy.  Everything About Him Is Scream "Antichrist"!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The always-reliable Bible (New Testament) is tell us that when the Antichrist is come to Earth, everything about him will make people think that he is really the Messiah, and you can see from the picture above that the founder of Wikileak is tick ALL the boxes in that regard.  Not only is he blond and blue-eyed like Jesus, but also he is a reader of the communist atheist Guardian "newspaper" and he is use an Apple Mac laptop.  Nothing could be more puke-inducinglish right-on and do-goody and decent and APPARENTLY moral, unless he was wearing a halo.  Even his name is suggesting holiness:  Julian Ass-Ange, which is mean Julian Donkey-Angel in French, a reminder of the birth of Our Lord in a manger in a stable in Australia all those years ago.  Is therefore no coincidence, I think, that this sinister epitome of virtue has appear at this time of year, like an unmoving star in the firmnament, so that people deliberately make the connection between him and the true Messiah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, no true Catholic will be deceived by this façade.  Or should I say, F-ass-ade?  No.  Is façade.  Is a French word.  For one thing, Wikileak itself is pretending to be a source of liberation for humanity that can only bring good results, as if knowledge and information were ever a blessing.  All that Wikileak has done so far is sow dissension, doubt, mockery of authority, and social chaos.  In a time when everyone sensible is agree that society and social cohesion is founded on trust, faith, obedience, and discipline, the very idea that knowledge wants to be free is an offence to humanity as a hole.  We must keep knowledge in its place!  There is more important things than knowledge and freedom, and those who preach otherwise are dissemblers and bringers of discord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, if you say his name properly, Assange's name in French is NOT donkey and angel but Ass-Singe.  Si! He is revealed to be Julian Donkey-Monkey!  Thus is esposed his true Darwinian atheist agenda and true patronage.  The Book of Revelation by John the Hallucinator is telling us in Chapter 6 verses 65-67 that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Beware the beast born of the coupling of ass and ape, who will rise when the Moon does not.  There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth in his wake.  In his bearing he will resemble Adam, but in his character he is the snake.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everythin here is thus clear as liquid!  You can see in the photo above that Donkey-Monkey is the bearer of the Apple!  What was the Apple in the Garden of Eden?  It was the forbidden fruit which Man ate at the bidding of the Snake.  What was the apple represent?  Knowledge!  Which was what lead to Man's downfall.  Quod Bot Demstromandum.  The Donkey-Monkey is the Snake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final bint in the jigsaw is the nonsense about the Moon not rising.  This is make sense when you are realize that there is a &lt;a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/1412010/"&gt;lunar moon eclipse on December 21st&lt;/a&gt; this year, which is, not coincidentally, the Solstic, the longest night of the year, when everything is coated in darkness.  Is truly the most appopriate time for the appearance of the antichrist himself, and God have sent us these warnings, in the sign of the eclipse, the Bible, the Apple computers, and the silly name Wikileak, to warn us that this man is the TOTAL INCARNATION OF EVIL INCARNATE!  Approach him only with garlic and onions.  Do not try to apprehend him, or he will use his special hypnotic powers and laser vision.  Also he will fly away.  Whatever British judges is say.  He has secret wings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Franco's day we would have all enjoy a massive show trial and witch burning before Donkey-Monkey was found correctly guilty and shot.  Is a sad indictment of our world, I think, that we cannot do this anymore.  There is lots of candidates who I would like to see burn at the steak, and is so cold at the moment that we could all do with a good fire to gather round and rub bodies together.  Would be very good in itself for social cohesion. And even if there was not a fire, we would probly all be stick together by the cold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5605734869728201371?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5605734869728201371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5605734869728201371&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5605734869728201371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5605734869728201371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/12/antichrist-is-walk-among-us-again.html' title='The Beast Is Among Us (Again!!)'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TQ8q9nrTUKI/AAAAAAAAAuE/OKIkkI9bDF0/s72-c/Donkey-monkey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7695119812257743170</id><published>2010-12-07T11:41:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-12-07T12:49:56.548Z</updated><title type='text'>Erin Go Feudal!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TP4dfLA9TlI/AAAAAAAAAt8/QCh0ZolR0AU/s1600/crowdedplaya.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TP4dfLA9TlI/AAAAAAAAAt8/QCh0ZolR0AU/s400/crowdedplaya.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547904212336987730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Future is So Dark, I Cannot Find My Shades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see from the above photo which I was take the day before yesterday, everyone here is bloody freezing and having to huddle together on the beach at Playa Blanca in the hope that our body heat will generate enough warmth to see us through another miserable Canary winter.  You may not have notice the weather report among all else that is going to go on these days (such as the Winkileaks fiasco and the Danny Bonaduce surprise wedding/massacre) but last week the temperature in Lanzarote dip to 21 degrees Celsius.  Is a big disgrace!  And we are all know who to blame for this, don't we?:   Yes.  Is the filthy Jews and their Masonic allies who control the weather in order to manipulate the markets.  You know, my good neighbours the Mengeles have had to dig out their old black leather overcoats and peaked caps, which they have not worn since the war! And even then, they dare not venture outside; not even in the daytime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Manuel, I am hear you say, how come all those people on the beach in Playa Blanca are naked?  I know you have a lot of Germans there in the Canarias, and we all know how much they like to be the first on the beach, but we are also know how much Germans love their lebensraum.  The only thing worse than being squashed up against a fat sweaty German belly is being another fat sweaty German.  So who are all the other naked peoples?  They are not English because there are no tattoos.  What give?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well the answer is simple.  They are all normal native Canarians.  More specifically, they are the indigenous populations of Lanzarote.  And as you can see in this picture, they are all facing towards Fuerteventura, which is full of soft southern shites and where the temperature is currently 24 degrees Celsius.  In a proud display of Northern machismo, the Lanzaroteans are stripping to their bare breasts and showing that no matter how cold it is get in Lanzarote, we are all hard.  Also we are drinking proper beer, Dorada Especial.  None of that fizzy Clara piss.  And we are smeurk the tabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, even in our shivering we are mindful of occurrences that take place elsewhere in more fortunate lands.  In lovely pissing Ireland, for esample, today is when is announced the decision that the country have decided to revert to feudalism, having finally realize that the benefits of capitalism are illusory or else end up in the pockets of bankers and their lick-spittle lackeys in government.  I have been saying this for years, as you are all know, like a voice in the wildebeest, and nobody was pay any attention whatsoever.  I was always console myself with the thought that one day they would all learn and it would serve them right and if there was any justice in the world they would come on hans and knees crawling to me and beg for forgiveness and ask for me to take over ruling the country like a benevolent despot (in the same way that El Generalísimo was rule over Spain for so many wonderful year).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is look to me like this is not going to happen anytime soon, but I am neverthenonetheless so please that lovey pissing Ireland, a place so close to my heart, is at last see the error of its ways and is return to the proper, god-given traditions of austerity, obedience, poverty, piety and emigration. Is devoutly to be hoped that also they include chastity in their regained virtues, but I am not hold out much hope.  Before I move to Ireland, I had ask friends how much action I was likely to get from the Irish ladies, and they was tell me in no uncertain terms, "Fuck all, Manuel."  But they were big liars.  In all my time there, I got fuck nothing.  Which is not to say that Irish ladies these days are not degenerate filthbags.  Only that they combine this with a sense of respect for hairy devout Spanish gentlemen of diminutive stature and Falangist self-discipline.  I could sense it when I was talk to them through the letter box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall be spend the afternoon today truly well wrap up in my private chapel in my basement making prayers that the good people of Ireland get the budget they need to take them back into the Dark Ages.  Some of them will moan, of course, but that is part of the Irish charm.  Is the sort of delightful suffering which is what make them the land of such good writers, such as the Irvine Welch (who is not Welch at all!), Priscilla Ahern, ABC Pierre, Len Deighton, and John Simpson. Remember that all the rubbish ones, like the James Joyce, Iain Banks, and Lemuel Beckett, was jump ship when the going get rough, proving that they are decadent moddle-coddled Modernist communists who cannot even string two words together without the middle one being "cock."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am digress.  Won't you join me in prayer this afternoon for Ireland?  We are all in this together, after all. And it give me no comfort to say this from my verandah 1,000 miles away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7695119812257743170?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7695119812257743170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7695119812257743170&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7695119812257743170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7695119812257743170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/12/erin-go-feudal.html' title='Erin Go Feudal!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TP4dfLA9TlI/AAAAAAAAAt8/QCh0ZolR0AU/s72-c/crowdedplaya.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2926318724107962612</id><published>2010-11-24T12:21:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-11-24T13:43:20.363Z</updated><title type='text'>He Cometh Like a Thief in a Knight!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TO0EJy__LEI/AAAAAAAAAt0/18U1efk6-oU/s1600/maleprossiehat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TO0EJy__LEI/AAAAAAAAAt0/18U1efk6-oU/s400/maleprossiehat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543091282718436418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Some of My Best Friends are Male Prostitutes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ancient Chinese use to have an ancient Chinese blessing, which was go like this:  May you be in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Interesting Times.&lt;/span&gt;  The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Interesting Times&lt;/span&gt; was the first ever invented daily newspaper, based in Beijing, which then was called Peking, and before that Constantinople. It was consider to be a height of good fortune to appear in the paper in those days, because there was not no paparazzi (the emperor had them all hung, drawn and quartered, then the drawings was put in the paper) and therefore there was not the celebrity culture and people saying "Ooh, hasn't she got big feet," or "That Lady Wei have let herself go a bit."  Thus everyone who appear in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Interesting Times&lt;/span&gt; was treat with respect or awe. Or respect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are therefore you should think blessed ourselves for being in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Interesting Times.&lt;/span&gt;  Not in the literal sense of having time-travelled back, like Doctor Hu, but in the metaphorical sense of having lots of interesting things happen around us.  Only in the past this week, for instants, we are having the big mine esplosion in New Zealand, in their competition with Chile; the big implosion of the economy in lovely pissing Ireland which may yet cause the whole of Europe to sink beneath the waves; the unclear war between the North Korea and the South Korea; the stunning fight to the death between that white tiger and Wendy Craig in the Harrowgate Tesco's car park; the annunciation of the royal wedding between Prince William from England and Princess Kate from Middleton; the general strike by the lazy, indigent Portugueses; the hilarious torturing of Penelope Keith on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I'm a Celeriac, Eat Me Out of Here&lt;/span&gt;; and also John Travolta and Kelly Preston's new replacement son.  Is all, I am sure you agree, incredibly interesting, and would provide me with a total complete range of topics on which to blogpost about fascism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is only ONE STORY this week that is really worth commenting on, and that is because it is the one story that truly presages the end of civilization as we are know it and which PROVE DEFINITIVELY my contention that the Throne of Saint Peter is being now occupy by a FALSE POPE, a USURPER whose plan is to bring into discreditacy the one true church by introducing illegal, immoral, liberal, evil, sinful atheist communist policies, all under the guise of being a wise, level-headed, disciplined, sensible right-wing hero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, the usurper Bendedict this week made the declaration in a book about to be publish that it is acceptable for male prostitutes, also known as jingolos, to use condnoms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The very act of typing such blasphemy have just cause my little finger to drop off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si!  That is how much of an abomnination this new ruling truly is.  And what justification does the Usurper give for this ruling?  He is say that if a male prostitute is using a condnom to prevent the spread of HIV, then this may signify the beginning of a realization that sex is an act that involve something more than the eschange of money and bodily fluids.  It is no longer just about the men having an orgasm and the women having a nice lie down.  No.  It is the start of the realization that sex is a meaningful social activity that take place between one and up to six people and therefore entails responsibilities to those other peoples, such as cleaning down the leather couch afterwards, vacuuming, and bleaching the anus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever heard such ludicrant hoarse manure in all your god-given daze?  Since when was stopping people from getting the HIV from a prostitute a good thing?  Everyone knows that this is the price they are espect to pay for the sex outside of marriage.  If they was not having the sex in the first place with a prostitute, they would not be getting the HIV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is even more worrying, however, is the logical estension of this argument that the Usurper Bendedict is making.  If it is acceptable to use the condnoms for non-prophylactic purposes such as this, then it follow also that there may be other circumstance where condnoms may also be use to prevent the transfer of HIV and where there is no danger whatsoever in the first place of reproduction, i.e., namely, such as the anal sex between a male homosexual prostitute and his male clients.  In other word, what the Usurper Pope has done here is to produce a somdomite's charter encouraging anal sex between men for money!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My thumb have just fallen off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At what point will realize the people of the Holy Roman Catholic Church that they are being rule over by a fake, a charletan, a chiseler, an imposter, a swimbler, a spinx, and a cock?  Surely now any authority that the Church has have had over its minions have been blown forever, like the head of an inflatable doll in a public school khazi.  Jesus must be spinning in his grave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the ancient Chinese also were having another ancient Chinese blessing, which was go like this:  This two shall pass.  The origin of this saying is lost in time but have something to do I think with a pair of the empress's love balls that went missing.  Anyway, the point is that eventually everything comes out in the end.  That is the thought with which we must arseole ourselves.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2926318724107962612?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2926318724107962612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2926318724107962612&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2926318724107962612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2926318724107962612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/11/he-cometh-like-thief-in-knight.html' title='He Cometh Like a Thief in a Knight!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TO0EJy__LEI/AAAAAAAAAt0/18U1efk6-oU/s72-c/maleprossiehat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2395473081188147567</id><published>2010-11-12T08:36:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-11-12T10:15:35.559Z</updated><title type='text'>UK DK @ CP HQ:  PCPs</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNz9Asb39CI/AAAAAAAAAtk/cPlqgXgDIK4/s1600/toryhq.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNz9Asb39CI/AAAAAAAAAtk/cPlqgXgDIK4/s400/toryhq.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538579830128768034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Even their interior designer does not think much of the Tories!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no doubt that you share my bone-shivering outrage and anger and also fist-clenching teeth-grinding mouth-foaming hair-splitting frustration at the failures of the police in both Ireland and England to kill any atheist communist students over the past 20 years or so.  It has not been like they have needed a reason.  The last dead student I can think of was the Blair Peach, who they made a film about, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Blair Peach Project,&lt;/span&gt; but since then not a single student has even been hanged.  And now, this week, we have seen where it all ends up.  With mass carnage and destruction of property, which, let me remind you, is much more costly and valuable than people:  One fire estinguisher lobbed from the top of a building costs £600 to replace.  That is the price of at least four students' lives, or one policeman, or seventeen taxi drivers, or a handjob off Duncan Iain Smith.  And this is ironic, because if Duncan Iain Smith hadn't been so busy making money all his life, he could have gone to the University of Joined Up Thinking, where he would have realize the illogic of his policies and then have close down all universities so there would not be students at all and we would not have them throwing fire estinguishers off buildings.  The world truly does revolve in circles, doesn't it?   But not around the Sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem as I see it, and therefore as it truly is, is that for 30 years the governments of Europe has been widening the access of universities to all and sundries, including the working classes, who would otherwise be on the dole unemployed, which would have meant them sleeping in until 11 o'clock, sitting on the sofa all day, smoking roll-ups, and watching TV, without making any useful contribution to society and being paid to do it, all of which add up to major negative PR for the government.  So instead the governments decide to send them all to college, which was cheaper, provide jobs also for teachers of art history, philosophy, Business, Music, smoking roll-ups, and so on, getting both students and teachers off the settee/dole, reducing thereby negative PR, and also making it look like society was investing in the future, because as everyone knows, education is the key to making society competitive, to compete with foreing other countries in the global marketplace, even though they have no education systems abroad, only prisons and maquiladoras, which is the Spanish word for Italian hat.   of course, this policy was all very well and good while we was able to espand the deficits and buy cheaply from slaves, but when the economy went bellies up all of a sudden, the governments panicked and decide they must cut everything everywhere, including dole, pensions, education, and so on, without no understanding of how the jigsaw fit together or how one back hand shakes with the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now the Tories and Liberal Cleggs are decide to make students pay for their education with the result that those who cannot afford it will go on the dole and add instead to the unemployment queues where also are being cut the social welfare and benefits of the indolent, i.e. those too proud to become students, with therefore no net gain, numbers of unemployed having increased and numbers of students paying fees having decreased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TN0DxJQrEPI/AAAAAAAAAts/j476wx50_sQ/s1600/laststand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TN0DxJQrEPI/AAAAAAAAAts/j476wx50_sQ/s400/laststand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538587259569901810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Protecting property and privilege. About time too! (3.50 p.m.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in Ireland also there was kerfuffling in the streets last week when the students try to occupy the unoccupied department of finance (which have no money anyway) and the police had to move in on horses, which as you know were invented in Spain, in order to trample all over students' rights.  Also their lefts and middles.  This was really a training exercise for the Gardai, who realize that everyone likes to see students getting their heads batched in and they will have no sympathy for them.   It was a hole different story last year, of course, when farmers occupy the European Commission offices in Dublin.  On &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; time, the Gardai actually made them all cups of tea and went to Brown Thomas and did their shopping for them while they were up in the capital.  But this is because (1) most gardai are the children of farmers who have moved to the big city to make something of themselves, (2) everyone loves farmers, and (3) there was not the need then to get some practice in smashing heads because the government did not espect civil war. In previous occasions, the Gardai have had to travel all the way up to Mayo to practice assaulting people, and there is no urban environment in Mayo, only fields and sheep carcasses, which is not good practice for protecting the Winter Palace (if they have one in Ireland, I don't know).  Thus therefore the Gardai had not had no proper live exercise in an urban environment for a good five years, when they disgraced themselves by rioting, or even longer ago when English fascists came to Lansdowne Road and receive a good kicking which even had Sinn Fein cheering the Gards on.  But which was a big disgrace.  I know for a fact that some Gards were weeping openly as they bringed their batons down on the heads of the poor BNPs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the rock-hard bald pate of a fat English social inadequate is no replacement for a seething mass of lank-haired spindly torsos sitting self-righteously in the middle of Merrion Row practicing the passive resistance with indignation and rucksacks.  And this is why the obvious solution hits you between the eyes like a plastic bullet fired by a lady.  Aiming at your groin:  The stupid inbred idiot Tories have missed a trick here, which is paying the students to be full-time employed practice targets for the police.  This is perfect!    Think about it.  It would turn the students into useful members of society, keep them off the unemployment rolls, it would also save the costs of sending them to university, and it would simletaneously give the police a chance to practice their repression techniques for the forthcoming civil war, when they will need them to use against proper people such as pensioners, servants, farmers, union malcontents, office workers/drones, and women.  It also means the government does not have to resort to the army to do the job properly, when they should be off abroad killing foreingers and keeping the peace there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I notice, inthedentally, that a lot of people are commemorating the Poppy Day over there in British Isles.  Of course, we in Spain have no such nonsense, since we were not stupid enough to get involved in the World Wars in the first place.  Beside the which, we was learn long before the rest of Europe the importance of having a volunteer army of professional killers rather than a conscript army made up of insubords and hoi pollois.  What are you doing when you train the working classes how to use weapons if not producing your own esecutioners?  Far better to have an army loyal to the state, with an officer class entirely from your ruling families, willing to come home if need be to brake the strikes, teach the unions a lesson, and govern benighnly, like the way Franco did.  It took Great Britain two world wars and several labour governments to realize this.  And the price they had to pay for that was the massive welfare state, with education and health for everyone, regardless of their class, health or stupidity.   Is precisely which is what has got them into this mess in the first place!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am only saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2395473081188147567?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2395473081188147567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2395473081188147567&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2395473081188147567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2395473081188147567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/11/uk-dk-cp-hq-pcps.html' title='UK DK @ CP HQ:  PCPs'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNz9Asb39CI/AAAAAAAAAtk/cPlqgXgDIK4/s72-c/toryhq.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-4466423473648207369</id><published>2010-11-07T13:17:00.007Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T15:52:08.292Z</updated><title type='text'>Crocnodile Shoes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNanT0R9ApI/AAAAAAAAAtM/qwvA1GudQBM/s1600/emergencyexist.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNanT0R9ApI/AAAAAAAAAtM/qwvA1GudQBM/s400/emergencyexist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536796750791901842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Satan is my co-pilot.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The evil usurper anti-Pope Bendedict is being in Spain for the last couple of days, as if our poor beknighted country is not having enough to worry about.  Yesterday he was in &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20101106/sociedad/declaraciones-papa-avion-201011061054.html#"&gt;Santiago de Compostela,&lt;/a&gt; where he was give out about the "aggressive anti-clericalism" which is holding Spain in its sway, just like when it was the 1930s, when the peoples were shooting priests and disinterring the corpses of nuns from their coffins and dancing with them in the streets to show that they was not incorrupted.  In also Bednedict was criticise the modern-day fashion for modernity, saying that, "Once again there is a clash of civilizations, between those who base their faith in science and so-call "facts" demonstrate by "evidence" of the senses, logic, and the discredited inductive-empirical method, and those who obey God who created the universe and knows better than everyone."  In Spain, as you may already know, the atheist communist liberal government has put a stop to obligatory religious education in state schools and have also legalise the abortion on demand, just to annoy men, especially men like priests, who do not have sex with women.  This is the sort of discredited modern world we live in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the Usurper Bendedict is &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20101107/local-cataluna/benedicto-pone-gaudi-como-201011071036.html"&gt;going to Barcelona&lt;/a&gt;, the capital of the Catalan province of Spain, where he is espect to make a saint out of Antoni Gaudí, the man who couldn't finish building the Sagrada Família.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNaqT-Fao3I/AAAAAAAAAtU/RhfpPuDYu3k/s1600/unfinished.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNaqT-Fao3I/AAAAAAAAAtU/RhfpPuDYu3k/s400/unfinished.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536800051958555506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Is STILL not finish.  But what are you espect if you use lazy fucking Catalans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Barcelona he is also going to condemn the abortings and the euthanasia, which is when you kill old people because Nature won't.  This, says the Usurper pope, is taking God's pleasure into our own hands.  Only God is allowed to kill people. Or a theological state acting in God's name - not Iran, though.  The real God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this pontificating would be all well and good, if it was not coming from the mouth of the discredited anti-Pope whose words fall like Onan's seed onto barren stone (unless you have carpet in your bathroom).  Similarly, his crocnodile tears for a victimized church fall like dead leaves onto a soiled handkerchief.  A soiled black handkerchief.  With a hole in.  Because it is NOT true that the people of Spain has turn its back on the One True Religion.  No.  They are just as spiritual and pious and devout as they always was, even when they were just pretending in order to get their children into the good schools.  If the Usurper Bendedict thinks he perceives anti-church feeling, he should look to himself and his surrounding cronies and ne'er-do-wells.  For it is THEY on whom the people of Spain has turned its backs to.  It is the Usurper Bendedict who have brought the Catholic Church into disrepute, with his usurping and fake piety and skin-deep fascism (remember that he was only CONSCRIPTED into the Hitler Youth), none of which speak well of his character.  This is why I am calling his lamentations only crocnodile tears.  If he was have any self-awareness at all he would resign now and go and live in a hermitage.  Like a crab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNbKUScsEHI/AAAAAAAAAtc/YHdCd7gBgvk/s1600/Lookofevil.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNbKUScsEHI/AAAAAAAAAtc/YHdCd7gBgvk/s400/Lookofevil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536835241796964466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Bringing the Church into a House of Ill-Repute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course, the Usurper Bendedict knows esactly what he is doing.  Is not a matter of self-awareness.  He is deliberately gone now to Spain to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;bolster&lt;/span&gt; the anti-Church feeling there.  In beatifying a man who couldn't even build properly (next time you are in Barcelona - not that I am recommend that you go there - have a look at the Sagrada Família:  Is full of holes!  I have seen mental children's sandcastles on the beach after high tide that look more spiritual than that!) Bendedict is bringing the Catholic Church into further houses of ill-repute.  He is making a mockerage of beatification.  Even the required miracle that is necessary for making someone a saint is, on this occasion, totally ridic.  It is report that a woman from Reus, &lt;a href="http://www.larazon.es/noticia/3161-gaudi-podria-sea-beatificado-en-el-noventa-aniversario-de-su-muerte"&gt;Montserrat Barenys,&lt;/a&gt; is claiming that her sight in one eye was miraculously restore after she prayed to Gaudí for help. Barenys said she was diagnose with a perforated retina and was due to be operate on, but then she pray to Gaudí for help and suddenly was being cured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, far it is for me to especulate upon the motives and internal psychological mechanisations of the brains of a mad woman, but who, in their right mind, could think it would make sense that they would get their sight in one eye back by praying to a dead architect?  Particularly one who could not build properly.  What on earth was she imagining?  Is like, for the sake of an analogy, if I had arthritis, let us say.  Not bad arthritis, because in this analogy, Señora Barenys was not going total blind, only a bit blind, so let us say I have got arthritis in one leg.  In my knee.  And the doctors have told me that I will have to hop for the rest of my life.  So I am very depress, obviously.  What, then, is my logical next step?  Well, it is to use my good leg.   Or is to buy myself a Segway.  One thing is for certain.  It is NOT that I start praying to Christopher Wren to make me better!  And not just because he is an Anglian, and would probly therefore intervene with Our Lord only to make sure I get osteoporosis.  No.  I may as well pray to Herman Melville, who at least had some sympathy with one-legged people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, the only conclusion that anyone can drawer from this sorry tail is that the Usurper Bendedict is so intent of making the Church a source of ridicule that it suits him not just to beatify a rubbish architect but to do so on the testimony of a madwoman.  One with perfect eyesight, I am grant you, but a madwoman neverthenonetheless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the Spanish aggressive secularists are laughing today.  We must make them laugh on the other sides of their face one day.  This may require patience, stealth, and Stanley knives, but this embarrassment of an anti-pont is only making it increasingly necessary.  However much we are going to enjoy it, we must not forget that it is he who made us do it.  Also, is God's will.   I can hear his voice now.   Kill them. Kill them all.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-4466423473648207369?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/4466423473648207369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=4466423473648207369&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4466423473648207369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4466423473648207369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/11/crocnodile-shoes.html' title='Crocnodile Shoes'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TNanT0R9ApI/AAAAAAAAAtM/qwvA1GudQBM/s72-c/emergencyexist.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7168915196803159991</id><published>2010-09-16T14:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-16T16:01:00.226+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Caution:  Devil at Work!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TJIhGppXRVI/AAAAAAAAAsA/Uue9Z1Anpto/s1600/stanand+ollie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TJIhGppXRVI/AAAAAAAAAsA/Uue9Z1Anpto/s400/stanand+ollie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517508891624555858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Usurper Bendedict:&lt;/span&gt;  Don't worry, is just a bit of wind, queen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Queen: &lt;/span&gt;Si, but I think I may have follow through, usurper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The usurper Bendedict is on the fake papal visit to Britain this week in an attempt to butter up the Queen and Prince Phillips and divert attention away from sundry ill-doings and goings-on at the Vatican.  I espect that while everyone is looking the other way, over there, at England, Vatican malefactors are secretly smuggling the Real Pope John Paul Mark Two out of his prison cell in the dungeons and moving him to a secure location while the health and safety people pay a visit.  If you have not been read the papers recently, this has become all necessary following the revelations by the Vatican's chief esorcist last week that the Devil himself is working in the Vatican.  Father Gabriele Amorth, who, coincidentally, has a book out, &lt;a href="http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/devil-is-at-work-in-vatican-says-churchs-top-exorcist-2095048.html"&gt;said in the paper this week&lt;/a&gt; that Satan actually is paying rent to the Vatican for lodging there, which has come as a total shock but not complete surprise to anyone who knows a thing about the Vatican bankers, who will take money off anyone, no questions bothered.  Health and Safety presumably are concern because the devil is both living and working in the Vatican, which therefore mean the place has dual use, his residence serving as a workplace.  They will have to make sure that there are safe stairs, electricity, air, a fridge, and toilet facilities which are all up to scratch and nobody can fall in or have accidents (such as like the queen in the picture above). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, this is all horsing around after the bolt has stabled.  If they had really want to find Satan in the Vatican, they had no need escept to look any further than the end of his noses!  For it is precisely the usurper Bendedict who is the best candidate for being the antichrist, so long as you know where to look.  This is why he is so keen to hang onto his skulkcap above; underneath you can clearly make out the 666 tattoo he have had on his head since the day he join the Nazi Party (Hitler was member number 555, but the membership numbers started at 500:  This is a true lie).  People should not be put off and dissuaded by the False Pope's impeccable credentials as a former Nazi, anti-Vatican II, traditionalist, misogynist anti-Semite.  This is all just for show.  He is what is known in the trades as a long sleeper.  This means he lie in bed until lunchtime plotting and scheming and pretend to be who he isn't.  That is who he is.  And now it is all come to fruition, as the usurper Bendedict has watched over the steady decline of the One True Church into infamy and discredit so that everyone would turn away from God.   It is He who have put the lust into the hearts of priests and made all those children look sexy.  It is He who have from the start encourage not just the coverups, which in themself was not a bad idea, but who ensure that it was all so incompetently done that they would get find out.  It was He who had the Real Pope John Paul Mark Two drugged and hallucinated to make it look like he had died so that Saint Peter's Seat was empty (Seat as in throne, not as in top-notch brand of Spanish car. Saint Peter did not drive:  He had a unicycle). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father Gabriele Amorth is reckon that he has been involve in 70,000 cases of demonic possession during his time as the Vatican head esorcist.  This must, I am imagine, include cases of mass possession, such as the crowd at the Nou Camp.  Otherwise he would have been doing, in my estimation, 300 casting outs a day, and that is just one esorcist.  Nonetheless, even if he can't add up, we must trust his espertise in matters pataphysical and theodoxical.    If anyone knows what the Devil is look like, it will be him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview with the Italian newspaper &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La Repubblica,&lt;/span&gt; Father Amorth was saying that Satan is "pure spirit, invisible. But he manifests himself with blasphemies and afflictions in the person he possesses. He can remain hidden, or speak in different languages, transform himself or appear to be agreeable. He can speak Latin and Greek but also Norwegian and Klingon.  He can appear as a 5-million-year-old man or a day-old tadpole.  He could be that table over there.  That microphone you are holding.  This Strepsil.  He likes to make fun of me.  Him and lots of other people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si, Satan is a slippery piece of shit alright and, make no mistakes, this is why we haven't not caught him yet.  What's more, when the antichrist comes, he will look like the Messiah.  That is what John the Elevator tells us in the apocryphal &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Book of Scaring Children.&lt;/span&gt;  However, there is always one way to be sure you have identify correctly the Beast, and that is to answer yourself the question "Cui Bono?"  Whenever there is some scandal that appears to discredit the Catholic Churuch, or wherever there is some media figure acting like he is the Messiah and bringing heaven to earth, you just need to say to yourself, "Where is Bono?"  And if he is there among the middle of the action, hogging the limelights (or even just having a dump in the cherrylights), you can be sure that evil is afoot. Or afeet. Have you ever not notice that we have never not seen the usurper Bendedict and Bono in the same room together?  I will let you drawer your own conclusals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, if U2 perform live during the papal visit, all the above is wrong and it would mean that the hole past 58 years of my life would have been wasted.   But somehow, I AM DOUBT IT VERY MUCH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If any of my British readers is want by the way to have a go at assassinating the pope, &lt;a href="http://www.thepapalvisit.org.uk/2010-Visit/Visit-event-Information/Attending-Events/How-can-I-see-the-Pope-in-the-UK"&gt;here is his itinerary&lt;/a&gt;.  Or if you simply want to avoid seeing U2, you can be certain they will not be at these venues.  Why not kill two birds with one stone.   A big stone.  Or failing that, use a gun.  No jury on earth will convict you.  Just tell them God told you to do it. They will understand completely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7168915196803159991?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7168915196803159991/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7168915196803159991&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7168915196803159991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7168915196803159991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/09/caution-devil-at-work.html' title='Caution:  Devil at Work!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TJIhGppXRVI/AAAAAAAAAsA/Uue9Z1Anpto/s72-c/stanand+ollie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5139247894743330127</id><published>2010-09-02T12:43:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T14:02:56.813+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Romas Go Home!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-Oh0OCj6I/AAAAAAAAArg/yHbqFBcpLoc/s1600/Belus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-Oh0OCj6I/AAAAAAAAArg/yHbqFBcpLoc/s400/Belus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512281180529135522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Where is My Fire Engine, Thieving Gypsy Lady?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am can only give you a roundup of the impressive fascism-on-the-march news this week, since it have all been so busy, but you should all be inspire and motivate by seeing some of the most important people in Europe FINALLY doing some moves to promote the escape goating of foreingers, gypsises, Jews, and freemasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big noise in France this week was &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100830/internacional/francia-expulsiones-201008301803.html"&gt;the diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy&lt;/a&gt;, who have had enough of the Roma encampments, with their ambiguous legality, aggressive marketing, bad news begging, cluttering the place up, making people uncomfortable in the street, and wearing burqas. Also for robbing from foreing tourists, thereby taking work from Paris's bars, bistros and hotels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a young Roma was shot in the street in warm blood by a gendarme recently, generations of French-born Romas was involved in rioting for several days, which prompted Sarkozy to announce that French nationality would be strip from people "of foreing origin" who make life-threatening attacks on the police, such as the Roma boy who was shot dead in his life-threatening attack, and all the other French-born foreingers.  Oddly, the Catholic Church is out of step on this issue, condemning Sarkozy for his Roma-bashing, but this is presumably because this is a topic where nobody doesn't not give a shit anyway and it can let the church look like it is sidling up with the poor.  In any case, Sarkozy's policy is distracting people from the shambles that was the French football team in the World Cup, the decline in the number of cheeses, and also it is the silly season, when all the Parisians decamp to their country homes like a nation of migrants, so the papers have nothing better to write about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Romas will not be welcome however back home in Italy, where they come from, I suspec, because Silvio Berlusconi (who you can see above protecting himself from any more &lt;a href="http://www.coddlepot.com/2009/12/16/an-affront-to-democracy/"&gt;flying cathedrals&lt;/a&gt;) is now contemplate &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100830/internacional/roma-gadaffi-201008301732.html"&gt;the offer from Libyan leader Muhammad Gadaffy&lt;/a&gt; to stop any more Africans coming into Europe, for the reasonable price of €5 billion a week, no questions ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-US2DW-5I/AAAAAAAAAro/wiAFI4pdvSg/s1600/hermanos.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-US2DW-5I/AAAAAAAAAro/wiAFI4pdvSg/s400/hermanos.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512287520392936338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;They could almost be brothers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gadaffy made a very valid point in his blackmail speech to Italy this week, which went:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We don't know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans. We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is only go to show that he has not have been here for a while.  In order to assuage the starving and ignorant African Gadaffy, Berlusconi was organize for him to make another speech, this time to a room full of beautiful models, which prompt the question, Where on earth would someone like Berlusconi find beautiful models?  Anyway, he was hope that it take Gadaffy's mind off the money.  Unfortunely, it did.  TOO MUCH!  Gadaffy was so aroused by his audience of beautiful women that he was unable to contain himselve, and he tell all the ladies they should take their clothes off and put on Muslim dress instead.  He then tell them that Islam ought to should be the religion of Europe and he give them free copies of the Koran, but only after he had lecture them for an hour on the freedoms enjoyed by women in Libya. Which is then prompt the question, of course, If all the women in Libya are so free, why do they want to climb into boats and come to Europe?  Or is the boats only full of depressed African men who are want to escape a country where women are free?  It all make no sense whatsoever.  And if Islam is so great, how come its followers are starving and ignorant Africans who are want to come to white Christian Europe?  Answer that, idiot Gadaffy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-ciCc-DUI/AAAAAAAAArw/Rrey0h_kMIA/s1600/razorsharp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 395px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-ciCc-DUI/AAAAAAAAArw/Rrey0h_kMIA/s400/razorsharp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512296577512639810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;He might look senile, but he have the mind of a razor blade!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps they are envying of Europeans for their freedom of speech, in which case, they should stay at home.  Freedom of speech is a privilege, not a right, otherwise we would have all sorts of moronic statements in the public realm, and not just sensible comments from the church.  Which is make a nice Segway to my final item of this week, the sensible comments made in Germany by &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100831/internacional/socialdemocrata-aleman-desata-polemica-20100831.html"&gt;Thilo Sarrazin&lt;/a&gt;, a member of German's Central Bank, who is have a book out this week called &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Germany Is Disappearing Up Its Own Hole.&lt;/span&gt;   Sarrazin has said in previous speechings about Muslims such things as Turks are "conquering Germany in exactly the same way the Kosovars conquered Kosovo: with a higher birth rate" and also that "A large number of Arabs and Turks in Berlin have no productive function other than selling fruit and vegetables" which is probly not the most compelling of criticism, comely as it does from a man who's entire business sector is depend on unearned income.  As a consequent of his comments, there was efforts to remove Sarrazin from his post for giving the game away and drawing attention to the parasitic role of banks in society, but he manage to cling on to it, realizing that without it he would be just another idiot drooling in the street about blacks:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I, like any other employee of the Bundesbank ... have the right to express my opinion," he said, which is in totally correct but was also which draw unwanted attention to the fact that the rest of Germans do not have that right.  Because they are nobodies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week, Sarrazin is in trouble for making the perfectly inoffensive observation that Basques and Jews all have the same genes.   Which would esplain a hell of a lot.  Both Basques and Jews have for a long time insist on the specificityness of their own culture and language and food and music and hats.  So this is not such a controversial statement as it was at first appear.  See how much already they have in common!  Even though they may have what in superficial look like different languages and culture and food and music and hats, they are nevertheless identical in insisting on their specificityness.  Is true!  And just consider, that it is take a banker, interestingly, to spot this.  And not just any old banker.  A banker who has a book coming out.  Who was it said fascists cannot write?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hope that you will be going out this week and buy Thilo Sarazzin's important book.  I have read already the humourous comments on the Internet that people are moving Tony Blair's new autobiography into the Crime Section of their bookstores.  Perhaps also we should move Sarrazin's book into the Children's Section.  Children need to learn that, after priests, the most reliable adults they should look to are the bankers.  Trust them and obey!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5139247894743330127?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5139247894743330127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5139247894743330127&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5139247894743330127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5139247894743330127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/09/romas-go-home.html' title='Romas Go Home!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TH-Oh0OCj6I/AAAAAAAAArg/yHbqFBcpLoc/s72-c/Belus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5628930911405571485</id><published>2010-08-26T07:28:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T12:57:17.826+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fight Like a Man!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/THYnZingpBI/AAAAAAAAArY/zs5ojPMmhgE/s1600/spartniks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509634513877115922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/THYnZingpBI/AAAAAAAAArY/zs5ojPMmhgE/s400/spartniks.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;Meet the Spartniks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As regular readers of my blog are already know, my father was in the Spanish air force back in the time when it was the poor relation of the arm services. The navy and army and Spanish Foreign Legion was get most of the glory during the Spanish Civil War for Golf, and because there was no airplanes in Spain in those days, Franco borrowed Hitler's mighty &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Laftwuffe, &lt;/span&gt;whose notorious Condor Legion could bomb with pinpoint inaccuracy and was responsible for such atrocities as Coventry city centre and Picasso's &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Guernica.&lt;/span&gt; In my father's day, things were had have moved on a little, but even then the pilots was all having to share one plane between them, a decommished Douglas DC-3 which was bought from BOAC. One of the pilots and navigator would take off, while all the other 30 pilots would sit in the passenger seats, passing comments and making notes, and then they would take their turns flying the plane, practicing strafing, bombing, pretend machine gunning, loopy-loops, aerobantics, hide-and-seek, and cetera, and then also landing or crashing. Usually the pilot who was best at landing the plane did that bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In them days, having 32 men coop up in a confine space having larks and high-jinx and serving one another airline food and cockedtails and generally cavorting at altitude was a recipe for disaster, or worse, homosexuality. Remember, there was no trollie-dollies in the air force, so somebody had to be the lady. Fortunately, back then, there was also no homosexuality in Spain, because Franco had made them all convert. Those was the times, if you remember, although of course you are too young to remember, when Adolf Hitler make a promise that "every German lady will have a husband, no matter how ugly she is," which was ensure that he had all the women of Germany on his side, as well as all the ladies of other countries who did not want to marry German men; it was used to be said back then that "Hitler had his hands in the knickers of every woman in Germany." But in a nice way. Similarly, in Falangist Spain, there was no space for gayness. Unless it was a prison cell. This was not a case of homophobia, however, despite what you may imagine. Homophobia is fear of homosexuals, and we was not scared of them. If we had been scared of them, we would not have been able to beat them up or imprisom them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great deal have changed since those kingfisher days, of course, but it was still come as a great shock to me when I read &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100823/espana/boda-soldado-201008231811.html"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; in the paper the other day about the Spanish air force, who have just expel their first gay married man for being psychologically unfit for duty. What is shocking is not that he is a Spanish gay, since they are all over the place these days, but this bit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="p"&gt;En septiembre de 2006, Linero y Alberto Sánchez Fernández, también soldado destinado en la base de Morón de la Frontera (Sevilla), se casaron en el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla vestidos con el traje de gran gala del Ejército del Aire, en la que se definió como la primera boda entre militares homosexuales españoles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="p"&gt;La ceremonia fue oficiada por el alcalde de Sevilla, Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín (PSOE), con asistencia de la concejal del PP Evelia Rincón y unos cien invitados entre familiares y amigos, además de varios militares compañeros de los novios. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="p"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;What this is say is that two members of the military got married in their uniforms, and that this was not just acceptable but was preside over by the mayor of Seville (who was a socialist, so is no surprise there) but also with the assistance of a PP councilman and also not even in secret!, with friends and family there and also comrades from the military!! Is a big disgrace!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The once-proud tradition of shame and dissimulation and hiding one's carnal desires have disappear entirely from modern society, not just between men and women but also between men and men and women and women. And you can trust me, because I am have done the research. Thoroughly. In Franco's Spain, there was none of this nonsense. The hole society was militarized. Indeed, I can remember back in the 1970s, when all the communists and atheist socialists were causing trouble and stirring up discontent amongs the labour force, whenever there was a strike, El Generalísimo would put all of the striking workers on active military duty, so that, if they was refuse to work, they would be subjec to court martial for not obeying orders. This was a very clever and smart way of putting an end to any of that kind of thing, and the total militarization of society that way ensure also there was no homosexuality too. The laws which apply to the military apply to society as a hole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Students of history will know, however, that this was only possible because we in Spain have fought the Spanish Civil War for Golf, a devout holy pious crusade of social hygience that enable us to fertilize the soil of Christian Spain with the blood of thousands of inverts, traitors, and infidels, all summarily esecuted so as not to corrupt our children with their foreing ideas. As consequences, we in Spain was having an almost utopian society after the war, and it was only due to the inflirtration of the country by its enemies in the 1960s and 1970s that everything was go downhill. In a golf cart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other societies was not so lucky. They was have to do things the hard way. Countries like America and Britain and France did not kill all their subversants, with the result that when war came and they was introduce conscuption for everyone, it meant that all the subversants were being give full military training and was teached how to use guns, bombs, grenades, and how to attack mansions and stately homes and castles with moats and so on. What a crazy idea!! Is bad enough teaching all your peasants to read. Imagine teaching them to read AND how to use weapons. Is an utter stupid!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After both world war ones and twos, Great Britain was close to revolution, in much part because of the suffering and brutality, but also because the stupid government had arm the workers. It was take a while to dawn on the slow demented inbred English aristocracy, but finally they realize that this is not the way to run an army. You need to have volunteers from the peasantry who are sutiably indoctrinated with patriotism, underneath an officer hierarchy which is entirely drawn from the ruling class. This is why now all the private schools in England teach their pupils officer training and why the aristocrats go hunting. It keeps them in tip-top military form and peek conditions, while the workers are all sat in front of the idiot-box and eating fish and chip and don't even know how to use a fork, let alone a knife or catapunt. And in America, the last time they was try conscuption it was for the Vietnam War, and that resulted in hippies. They won't do that again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This logic of a militarize ruling class (when you cannot militarize society as a hole) was originally drawn from the Spartniks, who pinched the idea from Friedrich Nietzsche, famous for the saying, "Man is made for war, and woman is made for pleasure. All is else is madness." And he should know. The Spartniks engaged full-time in military training, and periodically they were allow thmselves to declare war on their own underclass, the Helots, who was the peasants and slaves and who provide the food for the society but who was not allow to possess weapons or to receive military instruction. What is also interesting about the Spartniks, however, and which is finally bring me to my point, is that the army was organize in such a way that every fighting man was given a partner, another fighting man, and they was often go in to battle tied together. What is more, the Spartnik society encourage the fighting men to love one another in a disgusting carnal way, so that they would be prepare to die for one another, but more important, kill for one another, on the battlefield.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now although this is sound like something straight out of a gay porno fantasy (although I was drew the line at that particular research, so I am not sure), there is a logic here that I am think we could make use of to improve our decadent corrupt democratic Western atheist society one smidgen the better: Don't ban gays in the military. Make it compulsory! That way, we get all the homosexuals out of mainstream society and put in the full-time professional army. They will all be over the moon at the camaraderie and dressing up and marching and will be willing to kill and just die for one another, and at the same time this will avoid the need for having to train the peasantry in military skills. Of course, the officer class will still all be members of the ruling families, but wider society will be free of homosexuality's influence, we can post them all overseas to hot and sunny places a lot of the time, and this will do away also with that ridiculous kerfuffle they have in America over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." You will be able to tell by the way they use their walk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is possibly too radical blue sky at night thinking for some people, and I know I will take flak, and possibly shrapnel, from some of my Falangist comrades for suggesting that the army's proud traditions of vigourous heterosexual brutality should be besmirch in this way, like a dark turd smeared across the Spanish flag, but I am trying to make the best of a bad fist. We have to work with what we are given, and although we fascists are not known for our compromise, this is a modern solution to a modern problem. It is not a final solution, obviously, and a final solution is probly out of the question once we have armed the gays, but it does mean the only people who will get killed in wartime will be non-breeders, so we can spare them anyway, and all the normal lovely civilian Spanish ladies will have every chance of finding a decent pious diminutive but hairy heterosexual Spanish husband such as myself, because we won't not be being blown up abroad for the greater glory of Halliburton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5628930911405571485?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5628930911405571485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5628930911405571485&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5628930911405571485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5628930911405571485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/fight-like-man.html' title='Fight Like a Man!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/THYnZingpBI/AAAAAAAAArY/zs5ojPMmhgE/s72-c/spartniks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1615916661028600775</id><published>2010-08-19T12:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T14:03:03.100+01:00</updated><title type='text'>We Are Not Need No Education!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TG0RhQyno7I/AAAAAAAAArQ/ov3LelaowpM/s1600/eton.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TG0RhQyno7I/AAAAAAAAArQ/ov3LelaowpM/s400/eton.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507077182484620210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The Bullingdon Club: Producing Your Cultured Elite for the Last 200 Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week is a big one for all those layabout teenagers getting their A-level results and Leaving Cert certificates so that they can become layabout students at the espense of those of us who work or who live on their well-earn pensions, such as myself.  Is a time of much angst, whatever that is, crying, punching walls, celebratory sex, consolatory sex, hangovers, legovers, pullovers, suicides, and avoiding the neighbours or phone calls from the smug relatives.  As you will have seen in the paper today, the pass rate in Britain for the A levels this year was 99.999999 percent, which meant that only three people in the hole country failed, and they were all from the same family, in Southampton.  The consequence of such a high pass rate, beside making the qualifications totally meaningless (consider, after all, that only 93 percent of the population has a birth certificate, which mean that being born is actually more impressive than having A-level molecular biology), is that competition for places in the country's universities are will be much intenserer than in previous years, which will mean that parents will be pulling all their strings to get their children in, whether they are pursestrings, apronstrings, or arsestrings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Ireland, there is a big kerfuffle now because of the danger of lots of students ending up on the dole, since there is no work for the ones who cannot get into university, and the goverment realize that providing places for them in university would (1) be estremely more espensive, and (2) could result in rioting like what happen in France and England in 1968, when lots of unemployable louts and thickoes were kept artificially off the unemployment register by building redbull universities and teaching them non-educational subjects like media studies, sociology, art, and cetera, which would be of no use to them when they eventually graduate and find a job in Abrakebabra or prostitution. Which is why they rioted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ireland traditionally was always use to have an escape hatch, because families were able to send their pointless mouths abroad to be a burden on somebody else instead, on the off-chance they might strike it lucky and send back lottery winnings or, if they emigrate to Australia, sunshine.  This time round, however, there is nowhere for the family disgrace to be disappeared to, unless they are buried at the bottom of the garden and then everyone pretends that he have gone interrailing or off to India to find herself.  Taking a year out is a great fall-back escuse, and in the meantime the family can build a hot tub in the back yard over the grave and then move to a new town where nobody know them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, though, I think that the concern about these results has getted out of all proportion.  After all, who is really needing an education in this day and age, when we discover, like we did last week, that airplanes can now be landed by monkeys using just their thoughtwaves?  Once upon a time a modicum of knowledge was required of the peasants so that they was able to do our accounts, read the weather forecast, fix my car, but with that came all the conconcomitant dangers posed by enabling inferior peoples to think for themselves and learn independently: teaching them to read would not have been so bad if the printing press was not being invented.  They would have had nothing to read! Sadly, for some reason, education seems to come only with the harmful side-effect of autonomous thinking, which should always be stamped on like it was a crazed ant.  Or boil water on it.  Or crush its eggs and set fire to its nest.  Fortunately, these days, the only people who are need knowledge are the Church, which is why we have confession, and robots who, eventually, when they are sophisticate enough, will be our willing slaves and will replace all the until now necessary workforce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a solution to hand for all this bewailing and moaning, but the so-called right-wing governments in Britain and Ireland are too chickenshit coward to take the logical necessary steps, namely, to close down all the schools and universities.  Think of all the money that would be saved (Schools like Eton and Clongowes would stay open, funded by the wealthy parents, but of course the purpose of such schools is not to provide an education:  It is to provide a ruling class.)  The governments could also then cut unemployment benefit to increase competition for the remaining jobs, so that only the best, most subservient and abject subjects would survive.  All of the money saved from shutting the schools and getting rid of the dole could then be used to save the banks and reinstate the bonuses of the much-maligned and hard-done-by ruling elite who suffer more than anyone in harsh times because they are so much more sensitive and cultured than the brutish ignorant masses they support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When punk band the Pink Floyd bring out their song "Another Prick in the Wall," which provide the title of this post, I was buy it straight away, listen to it, memorize the words, then eat it.  I was a spy, remember, in those days.  In a way, that song is still lodged within in me, both in my brain and in my lower instestine.  Is time now, I believe, to bring it back up, to regurgitate values from the good old days so that society as a hole may benefit.  Please join in with me.  If you are not knowing the words, they go:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"&gt;We are not need no education&lt;br /&gt;What we need is thought control&lt;br /&gt;Some dark Sarkozy in the palace&lt;br /&gt;Teach us to leave our nads alone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey! Teach us!  to leave our nads alone&lt;br /&gt;Pray to god the ball hits another prick in the wall&lt;br /&gt;Cover your crotch but don't touch your prick in the wall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Louder!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1615916661028600775?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1615916661028600775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1615916661028600775&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1615916661028600775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1615916661028600775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/we-are-not-need-no-education.html' title='We Are Not Need No Education!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TG0RhQyno7I/AAAAAAAAArQ/ov3LelaowpM/s72-c/eton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-407908904632747522</id><published>2010-08-06T15:23:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-06T16:23:54.888+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Not a Worker in Sight:  Paradise!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFwbH-a85zI/AAAAAAAAArI/VICEaoER2ys/s1600/LaGomera.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFwbH-a85zI/AAAAAAAAArI/VICEaoER2ys/s400/LaGomera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502302668568979250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Meet Your Brand-New Flight Crew!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There have been esciting developments in the world of Spanish aviation which not many of you will have read about unless you subscribe to the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Daily Mail,&lt;/span&gt; which is never cease to go on about bloody Spanish air traffic controllers.  Visitors to Spain, tourists, foreingers, businessmen, decent people, those with private income, holidaymakers, and drug smugglers have all been unanimous, it is fair to say, over the years, in their frustration at the strikes, go-slows, go-quicks, and work-to-rules that these feckless layabout "workers" have seen fit to impose whenever it seem like the sun will come out.  And if it is not the air traffic controllers, it is the pilots, and if it is not them, it is the baggage manhandlers.  Only the nice pretty cabin staff seem to have a vocation, and that is only because ladies in Spain have always being brought up properly to do as they are told and to keep their mouths shut and not make a fuss.  Otherwise nobody will want them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These troubles and travails is all a thing of the past now, however, with the wonderful news that the island of La Gomera in Las Islas Canarias is pioneering a new system which will mean that the island's &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-29-07-2010/abc/Nacional/la-gomera-el-primer-aeropuerto-de-espa%C3%B1a-sin-controladores_140434567981.html"&gt;airport will no longer require air traffic controllers whatsoever.&lt;/a&gt; That's right!  No more queueing for landing or taking off, no more sitting in hot tar on the runaway, no more smart-alex in the control tower barking orders to their betters just because pilots have a uniform and they don't.  From now on, all planes will take off and arrive on time in La Gomera, which will mean that the several dozen tourists who visit the island each year will begin and end their holidays at the correct appointed hour, all the eggs and cattle at breakfast will be fresh, there will be soap and clean water available on arrival at their hotel, and the airport will be able to open and close at its designated official times (11.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m, escept Mondays).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How are they all able to do this? I hear you ask.  Weren't we all told that air traffic controllers are the vital life blood that keep the airports running smoothly and ensuring peoples get their connecting flights, and make sure planes don't crash into one another either by accident or for a laugh, because controllers are somber people who like nothing less than a good joke?  Yes, you are right, we was all told that, but it turns out to have been propaganda from the Air Traffic Controllers Union People (ACT-UP).  It now transpires that the airports can be run by teenagers using remote-controls guiding the planes into the airport.  All that is needed is the ability to read a timetable and the use of both thumbs.  Who was it said nothing good came out of 9/11?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can imagine, not ALL of the youngsters on the island of La Gomera will be qualify for this job.  Only the brightest and best amongst them, who you can see in the photo above.  But just imagine this: A mere decade ago, even the majority of grownups on La Gomera pointed every time a plane went over head, and then hid under a cart, whereas today, thanks to juduicious use of the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStable, several of the island's children have been fully modernized, in a business-backed program that will see them given clothes and food and segregated off from the other children for fear of contamination.  They will then work around a clock to ensure there are no more disasters like Pam Ann Flight 90210 or Heathrow Terminal 5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is, I think, only the start of a golden age of new efficiency in the workerless paradise of the new Spain.  If you are think about it, there is no real need for the pilots on these planes either, because all they do is take off, say hello to the passengers, put the plane on autopilot, have a siesta, take the plane off autopilot, say goodbye to the passengers, then get lots of money.  If the children at La Gomera take charge of take-off and landing, the autopilot can surely do the rest.  And if you take a leaf out of Ryanair's books, you will not need the baggage manhandlers either, or even the cabin crew, escept to prevent/initiate punch-ups on board or give alcoholic drinks to frightened babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know, an initiative like this could inspire businesses not just across Spain but right across Europe as a hole, in these dire economic times.  If we are able to replace an entire workforce in the airports with a handful of idiot children and battery-controlled remotes, surely we can do the same in our factories, schools, and hospitals.  I know David Cameron-Clegg for one is keen on the idea.  He has already got rid of the ASBOs to free up the child labour force so they can leave the house at night time for the late shift down at the abattoir.  Many jobs in the so-called "caring" professions, though not as worthwhile as jobs in, say, defence or marketing, can easily be carry out by children and the disabled.  Having children in care or those on disability benefit team up and take care of one another automatically halves costs for the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, why stop at children?  I was seeing on television a program about a paraplegic man who was waited on hand and foot by a trained spider monkey.  They literally work for peanuts.  And you must have &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080528/full/news.2008.861.html"&gt;read about the recent research&lt;/a&gt; in which scientists taught a monkey to move a robotic arm using just the power of its own thought?  Consider the possibilities!  In a few years times we could have monkeys landing planes just by thinking about it.  And the rest of us could go on holiday all year in the very same planes, guided by monkeys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't go to La Gomera, though.   It is shit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-407908904632747522?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/407908904632747522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=407908904632747522&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/407908904632747522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/407908904632747522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-worker-in-sight-paradise.html' title='Not a Worker in Sight:  Paradise!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFwbH-a85zI/AAAAAAAAArI/VICEaoER2ys/s72-c/LaGomera.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2423762146145368165</id><published>2010-07-29T09:45:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T11:18:04.911+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cheap Misery in Other People's Holiday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFFASq08TjI/AAAAAAAAArA/ft-d1ugwYO0/s1600/hols.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFFASq08TjI/AAAAAAAAArA/ft-d1ugwYO0/s400/hols.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499247309474254386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Michelle the Obama in CNT Colours.  Is a Big Disgrace!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Far be it from me to begrudge anyone the desire to want to come to glorious beautiful holy España, since because why wouldn't they? but it is one thing to have the desire and is another thing for them to be allow to satisfy their desire, especially if they are foreing.   We are being told &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-26-07-2010/abc/INTERNACIONAL/michelle-obama-visitara-a-los-reyes-durante-su-estancia-en-espa%C3%B1a_140424962097.html"&gt;in the paper this week&lt;/a&gt; that Michelle the Obama is coming to Marbella for a holidays with one of her children, Sasha, but that the Antichrist Barack the Obama will be stay at home to enjoy his 49th birthday in peace and quiet and sacrificing goats. Sasha will fit right in, I am espect, because she is have a Russian name, and these days Marbella is fill-up with Russian Mafia and Oligarchs who are all call things like Sasha, Natasha, Alyosha, Gallosha, and Gnasha.  Michelle will not fit in so easily, I am think, but my friend Juan says that she was only invite in the first place by the government of the idiot Zapatero by mistake, because he is think she is Condoleezza Rice!   This idea was make us both laugh very much. And is not racist of Juan to say such a thing, by the way, before the liberal among you decide to start the boycott.  No.  Is racist of Zapatero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Zapatero had want any of the the Obamas to come, it would have been Barack the Obama, so that he would save Zapatero's government by giving it some stimulation in the way that Angela Merkel will not.  Merkel, as you know, is a stern tasklady and very tight, who will not give money to the Greek wastrel socialists or the Spanish idiot socialists, both of who will just waste the money on healthcare (i.e. the sick, the elderly, the feculent and the lazy) or on buying cheap generic drugs instead of proper drugs from German pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Merck, or the Kleine bit of GlaxoSmithKleine.  Obama, on the other hand, is a soft touch who is also in a bit of a pickle because of declining American influence globally.  Zapatero was hope to bring him to Spain and to say, "Well, the Obama, if you are not able to give us money, we will aks the Chinese, who is very keen to espand their influential hegemony, whatever that is.  And if they say no we will aks the Russian oligarchs.  They are only down the road.  The big mansion on the left."  And Obama will then feel pressurized to not lose his face and hand over wods of cash for Zapatero to give to the unemployed.  Or, in the case of Basques, the unemployable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Obama is have better things to do than visit Spain while his wife is away visiting Spain, such as a big lads' party round at his house, with strippers and beer and a basketball shoot-out on his private court which he has have had built at the White House on the old helipad.  And surfing the net for porn and knocking several out (I should mention, for those who think this is disgusting, that Malia will not be in the house; she is at summer camp.  Even the Antichrist has morals.) Obama should find that he will have plenty of time, too.  I have little doubt that once Michelle the Obama is come to Spain, she will not want to go back to America.  She will probly claim political asylum or mental asylum or refugee status.  When you are see the &lt;a href="http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/VillaPadierna/Default.htm"&gt;lovely hotel&lt;/a&gt; where they are stay, you too might want to claim sanctuary.  They are have nothing like that in America, I guarantee you.  And with the added bonus of no Americans!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michelle will probly not want to leave the hotel itself either, which is probly a good thing.  The Costa del Sol is increasingly a dangerous place to visit.  Only the last day there was an &lt;a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0729/breaking12.html"&gt;Irish man shot dead&lt;/a&gt; for no other reason than being from Coolock, apparently shot by a Liverpool man from England.  This is the sort of scum who they are let into Spain these days. English.  At least the  Russian Oligarchs are have the good decency only to bring their drug money or gun money, not their drugs and guns.  It would not never have happen under Franco, let me tell you.  When Franco was encouraging tourism to Spain, it was the police who had all the guns.  And quite right too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hands, however, is all a bit of a shame that Michelle and Sasha will not get out of the hotel.  They should sample some of the disappearing Spain.  As you are know, the filthy Catalans have now outlaw the bullfighting, pretending to be more civilize than the rest of us but in real it is because they are contemptuous of proper culture.  Consequently, any visitors to Spain will be less likely to see the real thing and more likely to see &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/videos-nacional/20100729/grupos-antitaurinos-piden-tradicion-308975667001.html"&gt;things like this,&lt;/a&gt; which is a shoddy imitation, I am hope you will agree.  This is a children's television show, the equivalent of what you will have in Britain called &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tiswas&lt;/span&gt; or in Ireland &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Den&lt;/span&gt; with Liam Dempsey, Dustin from Turkey, and Jayo the Sherlock monster.  It is clearly just two men, or perhaps a man and two ladies, dressed up in a bull outfit with sparklers on their head, chasing children around the studio.  Is this what we want Spain to be remember for?  I am think not.  Don't let Sasha watch the Spanish TV.  Or talk to Spanish children.  Just give her a copy of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;People en Español&lt;/span&gt; magazine and tell her the TV is brokened.  She will probly have the withdrawal symptoms, but making a little American girl cry for all her holidays is a small price to pay for Spain's international dignity, I am sure you are agree.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your stay, First Lady!  Not so much, Second Daughter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2423762146145368165?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2423762146145368165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2423762146145368165&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2423762146145368165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2423762146145368165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/07/cheap-misery-in-other-peoples-holiday.html' title='Cheap Misery in Other People&apos;s Holiday'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TFFASq08TjI/AAAAAAAAArA/ft-d1ugwYO0/s72-c/hols.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5109158271240574225</id><published>2010-07-22T16:41:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T17:48:17.170+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Speak Spanish, Guinea Pig!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TEhm9xqohDI/AAAAAAAAAq4/C3sTPQhkjMs/s1600/sitonit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TEhm9xqohDI/AAAAAAAAAq4/C3sTPQhkjMs/s400/sitonit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496756556695897138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Can I Have a Translation, Please!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who is have even the smallest knowledge of Spain's glorious imperial history will know that while all the other despicable Protestant European countries (Britain, Germany, Holland, France, and cetera) devoted their ambitions and attentions to exploiting the resources and benighted savages of Africa, creating the immoral, barbaric, and illegal slave economy, which was ultimately give rise to such atrocities as the movie &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amistad,&lt;/span&gt; jazz music, the French football team, and 9/11, the pious Catholic empire of Spain was pursuing an ideological agenda of civilizing the appalling cannibalistic and Satanistic pagans of the Americas, such as the Inkas, the Aztecs, and the Matalans, bringing them the One True Church, the Word of Our Lord, a Mediterranean diet, and an ascetic attitude towards worldly goods which was mean they didn't need their gold any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one esception to this magnificent civilizing mission in America is the country of Equitorial Guinea, which acsidentally was fall into Spanish hands as a result of the Treaty of El Pardo in 1778.  As a result of being ruled wisely by the Spanish, this part of Africa was become the richest part of the entire continent, making proof that the Spanish way of doing things is universally the best, so long as the Spanish are in charge, and also putting to shame all the other imperial powers who were embarrass by what a success we was making of Africa when they had universally rape and pillage it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly for the natives, Equitorial Guinea attain its independence in 1968, and it have been a downhill story ever since.  Now it is ruled over by the dictator Teodoro Obiang, who you can see above in the picture.  He is the one on the left.  The man on the right is the man of the left Lula Ignacio de Silva of Brazil, who is now Obiang's best friend, even though he is clearly in this photograph offering one of the most offensive insults in the Spanish gestural vocabulary.   This upfront contempt is something that Obiang had better get use to, because according to &lt;a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE65R0JG20100628"&gt;the newspapers&lt;/a&gt;, Obiang is deliberately going out on his limbs try to seduce foreign powers to come to his country and suck off his massive oil reserves.  Reuters is say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Equatorial Guinea is one of the smallest nations in Africa, where the oil wealth is concentrate in government and elite hands, with around 70 percent of the more than one million population live in grinding poverty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The country was discovering big offshore oil reserves in the 1990s and draw a rapid influx of investment from especially U.S. energy firms such as Exxon Mobil, Marathon Oil and Hess that turn it into a big oil supplier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But production was start to decline earlier this decade, and the pace of investment is fall by about 30 percent between 2005 and 2008 to $1.3 billion, according to the latest United Nations statistics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obiang, who has rule the tiny former Spanish colony for over 30 years, is say it would not be easy to implement the reforms in his country, which gain independence 42 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We will not ask the global advocacy groups that have criticise us to look the other way and stop their criticisms, but we are ask the international community to help us to help ourselves and help us implement this reform program so that we are become partners with the world's democracies."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJwoZ8mNsH6rmmmABI3tjPFkkspwD9GKE5U00"&gt;Associated Press&lt;/a&gt; is say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The longtime leader of Equatorial Guinea was pledge Monday to make sweeping reforms in transparency and human rights in the country he has rule for three decades. But an international rights group was call it empty posturing from a corrupt leader intent on attract investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teodoro Obiang Nguema told a meeting of investors and business leaders in Cape Town that his five-point plan will dramatically change conditions in the West African country, which is regularly criticize for its corruption, poor human rights record and grinding poverty despite its tremendous oil wealth.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, yes, yes.  We are all know that.  Is typical Western liberal carping all about human rights, hospitals, freedom, poverty and that.  So immerse in their own agenda are the media that they miss the major, most important aspect of this entire story.  It was require a proper, unsentimental, right-wing paper to identify the real disgrace.  Spanish paper &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100722/internacional/obiang-intenta-hacer-amigos-201007212057.html"&gt;ABC&lt;/a&gt; reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Obiang intenta hacer amigos proclamando el portugués lengua oficial de Guinea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El dictador busca así la legitimación internacional de que su país entre en la Comunidad de Países de Lengua Portuguesa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si!!  You are read it right the first time!  Obiang is going to make Portugueses the official language of the country, so that he can join the Commonwealth of Portuguese Speaking Countries!!  Is a big disgrace!  And is no coincidence, I am think, that this Commonwealth includes such oil-country powerhouses as Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Venezuela, Angola, East Timor, and Goa.  It is enough to make you puke through your nostril!  Clearly, Obiang's reforms have already started:  How much more transparent can you get?!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And look again at that headline:  La Comunidad de Países de Lengua Portuguesa.  The organization's name isn't even Portuguese.  It is Spanish!  What a joke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am like very much the line in this ABC article by Fátima Proença, who I espect is a Portuguese person, judging by her name.  She says, "There is a risk that the organization of Lusofones will become known as the organization of Petrofones."  This is very funny in Spanish.  And possibly also in Portuguese.  I do not know.  And this is my point.    How can the people in this once-fine country, all of whom are speak Spanish, be suddenly espect to know what is being said about them by their new "friends," all of whome have already known each other for a long time and are used to going to parties together, and all of whome also speak the same language, which the Guineas do not.   I can see very well how this will all work out.  The Portugueses will talk their own language to one another and then in Spanish to the Guineas, which will mean that the Guineas won't have a clue what is going on while all their oil is being sucked off.  Is the total reverse trick that the Basques use, speaking Basques esclusively when you go into one of their restaurants, but the minute you leave they are revert back to peaking Spanish again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The poor  Guineas will be in for a big shock now when their president is make his next speech and they cannot understand a word he is saying.   In the old days of course, the solution would be obvious:  Send down the Spanish military to liberate the country from this maniac.  But that is not allowed any more unless you speak American, and we all know that Obama is a Portuguese name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is ironic that, just as our footballers have conquer the world in Africa, the last bit of Africa that was Spain is gone.  All I can say is, is a good job that we got out with the only bit of gold left on the continent:  the World Cup!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5109158271240574225?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5109158271240574225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5109158271240574225&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5109158271240574225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5109158271240574225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/07/speak-spanish-guinea-pig.html' title='Speak Spanish, Guinea Pig!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TEhm9xqohDI/AAAAAAAAAq4/C3sTPQhkjMs/s72-c/sitonit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2643185413030349184</id><published>2010-07-12T22:30:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-07-12T23:16:07.702+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Champions of Infinity!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TDuJglu9POI/AAAAAAAAAqw/0GDOBzlX7fM/s1600/Casillas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TDuJglu9POI/AAAAAAAAAqw/0GDOBzlX7fM/s400/Casillas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493135363486334178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;A Vindication of Del Bosque's Team Selection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall not harp on about the demonstration of Spain's genetic and moral superiority that was prove over the weekend yet again.  After all, as foregone conclusions go, this one have gone long before it ever went.  Even despite the lubricous decisions of the idiot English referee Clive Webb, who was refuse to punich any sort of Dutch wrongdoing short of immolation, the character of the Spanish players on the Spanish team shone through, won out, paid off, and bent over. Indeed, such was their masterfulness that, for anyone who was watch the game impartially, they could not but want Spain to win; even all the Dutch fans I have spoken to, here on the beaches this morning, have say to me, "Yes definitely the Spain was the better team and we were supporting them all along and the Dutch were scum and we hope they all die."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They may actually have been Germans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Them impartial watchers was also all unaminously agreed that the match was won by one man, namely, the Real Madrid goalpeeker Iker Casillas, who was also captain, best player in the whole tournament, and the man who designed the World Cup.  How fitting then that he should be given it by Sepp Blatter in the ceremonial scrum at the end of the match.  It was Casillas's wisdom, maturity, and general knowledge that guided his team of Catalans, Basques, Galicians, and other assorted non-Spanish Spaniards to the trophy.  Without him, they would no doubt have lost in the first round to someone totally rubbish, like England.  This organizational setup, well chosen by del Bosque, it must be said,  sends an important moral to the people of Spain in much the same way as the multicultural team of France did when they won the cup in 1998 and then when they crash out and burn one another in subsequent competitions in an orgy of race hatred and anarchist disobedience (or, in the case of Franck Ribery, Bemzemer and Govou, an ordinary orgy with naked ladies).  The moral is that Spain wins things when its natural masters are put in charge, namely, the Madrileños, and when all the inferior provinces and regions do what they are told.  In this way the country achieves concord, success, and stability.  Not progress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will have also notice that the two teams in the final was both countries that are monarchies.  This is no coincidence.  If the French, Germans, Brazilians, Italians, or English ever want to win the World Cup again, they will have to both reorganize the structures of their football leagues and restore their monarchies, preferably the Spanish monarchy.  And of course pay reparations for having left the Spanish commonwealth in the first place (or, if they were not members, for not having been a member).   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see in the news also that the Dutch fans have had a big riot to celebrate their team's defeat, although this was only 200 fans rioting and was in The Hague, so it was probably lawyers from the International War Crimes Tribunal annoyed that Clive Webb was not arrested after the match.  This is what you would espect in a Protestant country where they cannot get passionate about anything escept tolerance.  Besides, it was clear for all the world to see on Sunday night where all of Holland's hooligans was:  On the pitch nailing their studs to the chest of Xavi Alonso!  And as for Marco van Bommel, the only good thing to say is that he makes Puyol look like a sex dog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was last night had my own celebrations driving around Lanzarote with the top of my scooter down and waving my Spanish flag, which drew many comments, cheers, stones, hardened faeces, from Canarian Independence supporters, so I got the ferry over to Fuerteventura and scooted around there for a bit also, since I knew I would get a better reception there from all the Germans, who had already forgotten how we had stuff them in the semis because we had beat the Hun, which is what they call the Dutch.  I was therefore in my elememt, and we had many fine schnapps and brandeys until the wee hours.  After I had have my wee, I went home and prayed my thanks to Our Lady and made some final touches to my diorama of the Inquisition, replacing the Jew being tortured with a replica of Clive Webb, which I had got in a Coco Pops packet, and then lit the torches which the Inquisitors was holding to his nostrils.  The  I fell asleep.  Then I woke up with my feet on fire and did some more dancing out into the street, which passing party-goers assumed was in celebration, so they join in and lift me on their shoulders and carry me off to the beach and when I get home this morning my diorama was gone.  And also my guitar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a good job I hid my Bible.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2643185413030349184?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2643185413030349184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2643185413030349184&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2643185413030349184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2643185413030349184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/07/champions-of-infinity.html' title='Champions of Infinity!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TDuJglu9POI/AAAAAAAAAqw/0GDOBzlX7fM/s72-c/Casillas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1017096334414250039</id><published>2010-06-30T22:12:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T22:52:08.768+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pwnaldo!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TCuzWx7knII/AAAAAAAAAqo/yvg8Q7Td86s/s1600/broke.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TCuzWx7knII/AAAAAAAAAqo/yvg8Q7Td86s/s400/broke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488677774822775938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;I am a broke man!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are all must be enjoying the World Cup as much as I am.  This have especially been a fantastic World Cup for all the Ireland football supporters, much better than if their team was being there.  They have been esperienceing unadulteried pleasure at watching France crash and burn, and then drown before being hanged drawn and quartled.  Although is only now the French government is demanding to know how come the manager and the team could bring the country into such disrepute.  Is a question they should have been asking after the match against Ireland in the qualifiers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also for the Ireland fans has been the joy of seeing their former colonial masterds England being humiliate by the Germans again.  And not even an Aryan master race German team but a bunch of Turks, midgets, circus freaks, and clowns. The only proud Aryan amongs them was the mighty Sebastian Schicklegruber.  The rest was half-breeds, and they STILL spank the English arses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too have been supporting the proxy Irish teams, but most of my arousal has been at the performances so far of the Spain, who once again showed that they own Portugal, not just historically and geographically but, more importantly, morally, as proved on the football pitch the other night.  Indeed, the best that Portugal have to offer were soundly put in their place, and, as if to demonstrate our complete dominance, Real Madrid has also bought Portugal's best sports esports, namely Cronaldo and Jose Mourinho.  As long as they can acculturate themselves to the civilized life of Madrid, they will undoubtedly flourish to the best of their limited ability.  Is a  shame only that Real cough up so much money for Cronaldo, since it turn out after the match that he say &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jun/30/cristiano-ronaldo-portugal-world-cup"&gt;he is a broke man.&lt;/a&gt; If we had known that beforehand we could have pick him up for 50 bob a week and a jar of peanut butter, which is what they eat in Portugal.  And sardines.  Is no wonder he is spitting all the time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spain victory and the Germany victory were also important for a greater, pan-European reason, however.  And that is because both of the teams was sponsored by Adidas, the multinational corporate sweatshop employer of choice for all correct-thinking Europeans.  Adidas is a proud German manufacturer with a long tradition of making football things.  Whereas Nike is a decadent corrupt American chancer who have historically had nothing to do with either football or Europe escept when bombing it.  Nike is a johnny come afterwards who, let us not forget, was try before the last World Cup to sign the German team away from Adidas with an offer of billions of dollars and membership of the Skull and Bones club (the Germans sensibly pointed out that they already had one).  Nike have also spent $666 million on marketing for this World Cup.  That figure alone should make you suspicious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spain against Portugal was a match which pit Adidas (good) against Nike (evil), and the England versus Germany match was pit Umbro (owned sneakily by Nike [evil]) against Adidas (good [again]).  It is imperative that Europe does not let football get taken out of its hands by the Americans.  Here are the Adidas teams for you to support:  Germany, Spain, Argentina, Paraguay.  Here are the Nike teams for you to boo: Brazil, Netherlands.  The match on Friday between Netherlands and Brazil will see all good Europeans booing both teams.  Sept Blatter, who have done up til now a very good job of fixing everything for the Germans and Spanish to win, may have done an oversight here, and also in the other match, between Uruguay and Ghana, both of which is sponsored by Puma.  While this is mean at least one non-Adidas team is guarantee to go out, it also is mean that one goes through.  Thus we will have two non-Adidas teams in the semi-finals.  Is a big disgrace!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Paraguay v Spain you must cheer Spain but not boo too much the Paraguay.  And for Germany v Argentina it doesn't matter.  Most of them all have relations in the other country anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ozuFBD0XG0o&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ozuFBD0XG0o&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know the best way to get Portuguese spit out of a living room carpet?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1017096334414250039?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1017096334414250039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1017096334414250039&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1017096334414250039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1017096334414250039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/07/pwnaldo.html' title='Pwnaldo!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TCuzWx7knII/AAAAAAAAAqo/yvg8Q7Td86s/s72-c/broke.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6767749030575403468</id><published>2010-06-03T10:26:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-03T11:12:21.055+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Is an International Outrage!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TAd1T495ILI/AAAAAAAAAqg/hTU_wO1nZs0/s1600/outrageous.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TAd1T495ILI/AAAAAAAAAqg/hTU_wO1nZs0/s400/outrageous.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478476456289444018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "&gt;For How Much Longer Will We See Images like This?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure you were both horrified, like me, to read in the newspapers this week about the &lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/prohibicion/toros/Cataluna/supera/penultimo/tramite/elpepucul/20100603elpepunac_2/Tes"&gt;disgusting debate&lt;/a&gt; in the Catalan parliament to ban bull-fighting forever in that region of Spain.  Those of us with any sense of history or appreciation of cultural identity will realize what a disgraceful attack this is, not just on a people's sense of nationshood and therefore natural justice, but also on Mother Nature herself, over whom God have given us dominion in the confidence that we will custode it wisely and with a proper and appropriate respect for its rules (kill or be killed, dog-eat-dog, Man is wolf to Man, wolf is man to wolf, you can lead a whore to water, many hands make light aircraft, and cetera).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If history is teach us anything, it is that the majority of the world's species alive today would not be alive were it not for the fact that they serve some purpose to humanity.  The Dodo, for instance, is a prime esample.  Once it had serve its purpose to mankind, in providing food, then it become estinct.  Ecologists, sociologists, theologists, and macrobiotics are all unanimal on this:  There would be no cows or pigs or sheeps on this planet, were it not for mankind husbanding them, wifing them, then killing and eating them.  Is because mankind have a vested interest in their perpetuance that they are still around, whereas other animals that are not so tasty, such as the unicorn, are long gone.  Why are you think Noah did not bother putting it in the ark?  Because they are taste like shit! (And also because their horn could make significant damage beneath the water line if they broke loose and went on an escapade).  Imagine what the world would be like with no cows, pigs and sheeps.  It would be less smelly, certainly, and we could have a much better road and rail infrastructure once we had concrete over all those fields, but on the other hand, you would not have no hat.  Nor sandals. Both of which are made from cow.  You would have no bacon sarnies, no electricity, no pork scratching, and girls would have no pigtails, because they are all made from pig.  And there would be no sheeps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In similar, if you are to ban the corrida, you will be in ultimate saying goodbye to the bull.  Not, however, in this case because the bull will estinctify.  No! Let us be honest.  Throughout all time, we have know that the bull is mankind's natural enemy, after the Jew and the Muslim, that there is always been a danger in keeping sustained the bull population.  But that was always the price we pay for the corrida.  The bull is an estremely fierce and proud and big-balled beast.  He lives for the corrida, for the opportunity to do battle with Man, to chase around the sawdust a multicolour curtain and diminutive hero with sword and lances and things.  There is nothing finer, more noble, for the bull than to compete in the corrida, to choke slowly on its own lifeblood knowing that it have given everything in a carnal, cathartic orgy of agony, lust, muscles, meat, power, yearning, thrusting, and an object lesson in mortality in front of a crowd of appreciative Spanish aesthetes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escuse me, I must just go to the bathroom a minute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry about that.  The sweat on my mouse was make it difficult to type.  As you can see, I am get very het up when I am think about what we will lose if we allow the filthy Catalans to outlaw this holesome, educative and arousing spectacle from Spanish life. Is to be applauded, therefore, that the vice president of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez, have announced this morning that his government have moved to protect the corrida by declaring the bull an object of cultural importance and Spanish national heritage, so that anyone who tries to ban or hurt bulls is thereby a traitor to Spain.  The president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, have said that bulls are "belong to the Mediterranean and Spanish culture since time immemorial. Goya, Picasso, García Lorca, Hemingway, Orson Welles and recently Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear have handled bulls in such a way as to prove their artistic importance."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, I am call upon all people of good conscience and well-meaningness to do whatever they can to impress upon the illegitimate parliament of Catalonia that this debate is an outrage and that the bull must be protect at all costs.  Lobby your own governments to impose sanctions on Catalonia.  Protest outside your local Catalan embassy and/or consulate and/or restaurant.  And above all, refuse to handle any Catalan produce, mugs, women and boycott all travel companies, airlines, flotillas, pedaloes, and supermarkets which are facilitate the continued survival and economic self-sufficiency of this illegitmal and law-flouting state, until it decide conclusively that bulls have every right to exist and continue to meet their heroic and glorious demise at the hands of a noble toreador, just as he have for millions and millions of years, if the Bible is correct, which it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are KNOW it make sense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6767749030575403468?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6767749030575403468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6767749030575403468&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6767749030575403468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6767749030575403468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-international-outrage.html' title='Is an International Outrage!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/TAd1T495ILI/AAAAAAAAAqg/hTU_wO1nZs0/s72-c/outrageous.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-4716929653371111899</id><published>2010-05-28T08:16:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-28T09:22:14.952+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Love of Power 1, Power of Love 0</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S_9t9JssO2I/AAAAAAAAAqY/hQsxJP3gnH8/s1600/love.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S_9t9JssO2I/AAAAAAAAAqY/hQsxJP3gnH8/s400/love.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476216569248627554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;"Inter fans, I am have some good news and some bad news!!!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a great fan of logic, as you are all know, but when you have won the most prestigious club competition in the world with two mediocre clubs, logic must dictate to you that there is nothing left for you to do escept either (1) retire, (2) do it all again but with the crappest club in all the world, or (3) become manager of the best club in the world, the perfect fit for the best manager in the world, and hope that soon some kind of intergalactic tournament is set up so that you can test still further your brilliance and fantastic talents.  Number (1) is out of the question if you are only 47, number (2) is out of the question if you hate Barcelona with a vengenance, which is only leave number (3), and which is why we can espect any day now that the world's best Portuguese man (including Brazil) Jose Mourinho will be announced as the new manager of Real Madrid best team in the world.  This is fantastic news not just for him, but also will put the wind up Barcelona fans, who are already hate Mourinho and whose hatred is reciprocate.  It will also be great news for Manchester United supporters, who are espect that all the best players from Chelsea will now head for the Bernabeu, such as Frank Crampard, Ellen Terry, Diddle-eye Drogba, and Joke Hole.  But not Deco.  Arsenal fans will be less happy, Tottenham fans will be peeved, and Liverpool fans couldn't not give a shit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was only yesterweek that Mourinho was leading Inter Milan to the Champion League trophy, but already behind the scene there was machinations going on to lure him away.  The previous manager of Real, whose name I can't now remember, was unable to secure even a single piece of silverware in the past season.  Someone even stole some of the spoons in the players' lounge, so the club is actually down on silverware this year.  This was despite having spent over 250 billion euros in the previous summer to buy players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Xabi Alonso, who are all now estremely embarrass.  Spare a thought for them.  They have win nothing this year.  Nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Real's president, Florentino Perez, have said that "Mourinho's style of play will fit with the history of Madrid. To win, the values, the spirit of sacrifice, it will fit perfectly."  I am not sure which Madrid he is talk about here.  I am hope he is refer to the heroism of Siege of the Alcázar, rather than the sneakiness of fifth columnists.  But of course it takes more than a spirit of sacrifice to win. It requires stealth, cleverness, and torture of prisoners. Ask Alex Ferguson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mourinho will not lack for motivation to win La Liga.  Everyone is know how much he despise Barcelona for the contempt with which they treat him and for never having offer him the manager job there. Mourinho would take the Madrid job just to snub the  Catalans (so if Perez has play his cards right, he should be able to get Mourinho cheap!).  In Barcelona, they are still refer to him as "The Translator," because when he come to the club with Bobby Robson from Portugal, it was Mourinho who learn Catalan and who answer all the interview questions for him and for Louis van Gaal afterward, when Robson leave.  Who can forget the hilarious post-match chat on La Sexta when one of the questioners was describe van Gaal's demeanour as "Fishwifish" but Mourinho was translate it as "Fishknifish"?  Everyone was fall about on the floor when they see the look on van Gaal's face.  Because it was very fishwifish indeed!*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, I am not sure why calling someone "The Translator" is such an insult in Barcelona.  If you go there or to the Basque country or Cornwall or any similar such places where they have artificially encouraged dead languages, you will find that nearly 50% of those in work are either interpreters or translators.  Is one of the main ways to stimulate the economy when the rest of the population is feckless. Perhaps it is an insult in the same way that dole cheats and lazy anarchists mock hard-working ordinary folk as "wage slaves."  In which case Mourinho should wear it as a badge of pride, and when Real win La Liga nest year, on his blazer he should have the word "Translator" printed.  In Catalan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am also hope just to spite Barcelona that we will get a decent sponsor this year.  Barcelona is so pious and high and mighty with Unesco emblazoned across their shirts it make me want to puke.  They are SO self-righteous.  Hopefully we can find sponsors who make something that kill children, such as a weapons manufacturer or McDonald's.  There is nothing worse than a holier-than-thou Catalan, and is about time that they were reminded that it is Real Madrid that is Jesus' team, not theirs. That is why Jesus wears white!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* I am reliably inform that these are the only two words in the English language in which the word "fish" is appear twice.  The only phrase that comes close is Martin Luther King's famous "I haddock bream."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-4716929653371111899?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/4716929653371111899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=4716929653371111899&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4716929653371111899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4716929653371111899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/05/love-of-power-1-power-of-love-0.html' title='Love of Power 1, Power of Love 0'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S_9t9JssO2I/AAAAAAAAAqY/hQsxJP3gnH8/s72-c/love.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6219637305380069481</id><published>2010-05-13T08:08:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T09:50:21.384+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Craven Cottagers!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S-ulfppjTxI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/Oz2Jejujgos/s1600/craven.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S-ulfppjTxI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/Oz2Jejujgos/s400/craven.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470648135546261266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Maggie Thatcher, Lady Di.  Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the next 12 months, no Real Madrid fan is going to be able to get a shoeshine, a pizza delivered, or a happy ending, because all of these mundane and menial tasks will run the risk of an encounter with a fan of the so-call football team Atlético Madrid, which as you will have see last night, humiliate the public schoolboys of Fulham, Chelsea, Putney, London, England, in the final of some second-rate European competition for losers, a bit like the Plate event at Wimbledon, which is what they introduce to give English tennis players the chance to win something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a reason why Real Madrid fans sing, only half in jest, the song, "I'd rather be a Catalan than Atlético fan."  This is because the very esistence of Atlético Madrid makes public knowledge the fact that our beautiful and holy city is also home to morons and imbeciles who think they are being clever and non-conformist by not following what is clearly the best team in the world.  Is like asking a teenage girl "Which is your favorite vampire movie?" and she say, "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nosferatu.&lt;/span&gt;" You would know she is just being difficult.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like similarly, following Atlético is nothing more or less than a sign of immaturity.  Is something only an adolescent would do.  Which, of course, is good news for the street ladies of Hamburg, who last night will have had a bumper time getting through 25 or 30 Atlético fans each hour, premature ejaculation being what it is among virgins.  And of course, hormones being what they are, none of the Fulham fans will have been visit the prostitutes.  Scientific research has demonstrate that when a fan's team is lose, his testosterone levels are drop through the floor like Ruth Ellis, and he is have no desire whatsoever to have sex with anyone, including himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is for certain is that you will not hear on the news this morning the phrase "There were clashes outside the ground after the match," because (1) the Atlético fans will have been escorted straight onto their schoolbus home and (2) because Fulham fans usually are leave a place they visit tidier and cleaner than when they get there.  Public schools may inculcate in the English a love of homosexuality, arrogance, sado-masochism, and spotted dicks, but at least it is teach them to make their beds and leave their rooms spik and span.  Failure to do so was mean they face the headboy's wrath, which is I think an English word for naked caning.  Not only will the streets of Hamburg be spotless this morning, but even some of the street ladies will have been redeemed, taking up jobs this morning as temps, legal secretaries, or dental hygienists. For many of them, it will mean a drop in income, of course, and for any French ladies among them it will mean giving up their vocation, but if it means the city will be less sullied and decadent, I am think it is all worth it.  Perhaps Fulham should be made to play away every weekend.  Against Barcelona!     &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6219637305380069481?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6219637305380069481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6219637305380069481&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6219637305380069481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6219637305380069481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/05/craven-cottagers.html' title='Craven Cottagers!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S-ulfppjTxI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/Oz2Jejujgos/s72-c/craven.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6736646903298795277</id><published>2010-04-30T07:36:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-30T08:26:38.095+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Especial School</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9p6hk_eh-I/AAAAAAAAAqI/m83XvaB3Neg/s1600/especial.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9p6hk_eh-I/AAAAAAAAAqI/m83XvaB3Neg/s400/especial.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465815815051708386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Mourinho was give the Catalans a Brazilian!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure you was all saw the Champions League semifinals match on Wednesday night, played in Spain's seventh most important city, Barcelona (after Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Toledo, Oviedo, and Pontevedra).  I am only now this morning come round from my stupendous party, which have been going on for two nights and which feature nine bottles of Cardenal Mendoza, fourteen Double Corona cigars, and a light salad.  Even now, I am barely believe that the UEFA was allow the Inter Milan to get to the final ahead of Barcelona, but who am I to question their judgement.  I am sure that they have got some very clever intellectual plan, perhaps an attempt to popularize football among the Italians, which is, I understand, a growing market.  Whatever their intentions is, the  fact that it succeed at the same time as robbing the Catalans is make the victory all the more sweeter for us neutrals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the second leg was even start, all my neutral friends was very worried.  They was telling me that the referee, whose name, apparently, is Homer, would cave in under pressure from the Camp Nou crowd, the way he had in Milano when he courageously was book Carlos Puyol under the advice of the Inter midfield.  "Is not a chance he will run the risk of letting Inter win," say my comrade Gonsalvo, who was drink with me in the bar where we watch the match.  "There is no police escort for referees in Barcelona.  Is a city where the police are too scare to go out."  And of course, our worse suspicions was arouse when after less than half the hour, Inter were reduce to ten men when Thiago Motta fobbed off Sergio Busquets with what to all neutrals was look like nothing more than a feeble moribund grandmother refusing a third slice of cake, but which Busquets was make look like a Bruce Lee Iron Fist of Death to the Larynx.  Is no wonder Thiago Motta was get hold of Busquets afterwards by the neck and try to choke the cake back out of him.  Was totally ungratitude!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So then we was have an hour of sitting on the edge of our seats, masturbating.  This was because it was all so tense watching the match that we was need some kind of relief.  So we was turn over and watch a Salma de Nora film.  This was take our mind off the match no problem, but you can only masturbate so many times in an hour (six, in my case, using ice), so eventually, and languidly, the bar manager was turn back to the football just in time for us to see Gerard Pique, the one who is look like Chandler's room mate Eddie, spin round, get dizzy, and accidentally swing his leg at the ball and it go in the Inter goal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will spend several estra months in purgatory for the language we use over the subsequent seven minute, but they are all change when the idiot-genius referee is disallow a perfectly good second goal, which would have put Barcelona into the final, on account of a supposed handball by the otherwise total useless Yaya Touré, who nobody all match could esplain what he was doing on the pitch for, all was become clear in that instant.  Was all part of Our Lord's divine plan for him to look like he was handballing when he had not even touch the ball with either arm. Was only his crotch!  Was at that point that we all knew Inter was going to the final and that the referee had obviously organize some helicopter rescue or had dig some secret underground tunnel before the match so that he could get out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people have wonder at Jose Mourinho's genius tactic knowledge, and the best esplanation that I have find so far is that he is Portuguese.  Because he can decipher the words, it mean that he is have access to all the playbooks develop by the Brazilians which nobody else in Europe have, unless they can find a Portuguese person, who are notoriously thin on the ground but also fat on the bed.  Is all very ironic, because, as you are know, the Portuguese language, which is in fact really a Spanish dialect, is another of those public languages, like Catalan, Basque, and cetera, which nobody actually speak at home but which they suddenly start using as soon as there is a Castilian, a priest, or a policeman in the room.  Is a way of concealing information from the legitimate authorities, such as where is the guns stached, where are the brothels, and, on this occasion, how to break down the 3-3-1-3 formation, which Mourinho was cleverly do by change his players ten minutes before the start.  That is an old Brazil trick!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I am not one to glote.  Suffice to say that on this occasion, what is go around is come around.  Everyone in Ireland is still remember the match against France where Thierry Henry was make a basketball dribble through the Irish defence and the ref was see nothing.  Well, Henry was on the bench on Wednesday night, but is only fair, I think, now that the referee should see a handball where there was none, thereby cancelling out Henry's previous crime.  Is proof that the Good Lord is move in mysterious ways.  But even the Good Lord's moves is not as mysterious as Zlatan Ibrahimovic.  At least, that would be true, if he moved!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6736646903298795277?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6736646903298795277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6736646903298795277&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6736646903298795277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6736646903298795277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/04/especial-school.html' title='Especial School'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9p6hk_eh-I/AAAAAAAAAqI/m83XvaB3Neg/s72-c/especial.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1033448420244763560</id><published>2010-04-22T08:36:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-22T09:54:20.031+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Only the Good Die Young!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8_8ziuu1GI/AAAAAAAAApo/uaRAOzXTAOQ/s1600/juansam.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8_8ziuu1GI/AAAAAAAAApo/uaRAOzXTAOQ/s400/juansam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462862835450041442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Why did you take him, Lord?  He was only 89.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of all the terrible appalling news that there have been in recent weeks, such as the small earthquake in China, the volcano in irrelevant Iceland, the discovering of life on Neptune, the decision by Dublin Bus to change many of its routes, surely they are all being overshadow by the news yesterday of the premature death of the glorious and incomparable Juan Antonio Samaranch Torelló, the man who invent the Olympic Games and make them what they are today, a beacon of fascism in a world of decadence and feculence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even now I am find I am not able to believe that he is gone, and yet the news report is too accurate to be disbelieving:  According to &lt;a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&amp;amp;id=5121594"&gt;ESPN&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Samaranch"&gt;Marquess of Samaranch&lt;/a&gt; died alone in his bed of a heart attack brought about by masturbating while watching the tennis.  What could be more fitting?!  Surely this is how he would have wanted to go and how he would like us to remember him.  Escept, obviously, it would have been better if it had been the ladies' tennis he was watching, and not Rafa Nadal.   Still, nobody could have put it better than as the Marquess's own son, who was say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It's the first time I go through this, losing a father, and it's not easy," he said. "If there is a good way to die, I guess it was this way. He had a full life and career.  And he loved wacking off"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si.  And who can forget such a glittery career?  Here he is in 1956 at a ceremony commemorating dead fascists:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9ABEEVrkhI/AAAAAAAAApw/U2ryBensIM0/s1600/samaranch_1956.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9ABEEVrkhI/AAAAAAAAApw/U2ryBensIM0/s320/samaranch_1956.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462867517396193810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you see the flaming torches on the left-hand side?  Si!  Is where he got the idea from for the Olympic Flame! Here is also the wonderful Marquess being swore in as the Sports Minister in Spain in 1967.  Look Also!  There is El Generalísimo himselve having a benign watch over proceedings (I also have a benign watch.  It is stuck in 1956):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9ACWOEMhMI/AAAAAAAAAp4/oiADdtEvM4w/s1600/samaranch_franco_1967.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9ACWOEMhMI/AAAAAAAAAp4/oiADdtEvM4w/s320/samaranch_franco_1967.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462868928756483266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course, what Samaranch will mostly be remember for is for the way he took a stupid communist French idea about promoting peace among nations through sports events in  which their citizens would participate as amateur idiots and was able to transform it into a powerhouse steamtrain of propaganda for competition, professionalism, the Triumph of the Will, battering the weak into submission, the glorification of youth, strength, power, speed, money, and drugs.  The degenerate French Baron de Coubertin said (in French)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'ętre bien battu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which mean, if I am translate it correct (although my French is not near as well as my English)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The important thing in life is NOT the winning, but the struggle, the main thing is not to have been victorious but to have done your best.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a crockleshit! Thank God the Marquess was able to take over power of the Olympic movement!  There is no future in such mealy-mouth pacifist defeatist slave-mentality talk such as that. Who will pay to watch noncompetitive sport?!  Only the Scandinavians.  And if you do not believe me, the proof is in the fact that it was after Samaranch take over the International Olympic Committee that finally the Games become profitable.  Because the Marquess was understand that the peoples of the world were hungry.  And hungry not just for Snickers bars, Coca-Cola, McDonald's hamburgles, and MasterCards.  But hungry also for a chance to rub other people's noses in the dirt, to show we are the champions, to show that members of our military or sports academies have the best training facilities, the best physicians, and the best pharmaceuticals in the world.  That is why they all go to California.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Marquess was always understand the importance of sports to nationalism and right-wing politics. And yet, at the same time, he was able to present the Olympic Games as non-political. Where before it had have been a political football being used by the United States grubby capitalists and the Soviet Union filthy communists and the Black September dirty Muslims as a vehicle to score political points, once Samaranch was in control of the Games he was able to depoliticize the events by privatizing them, introducing purely commercial and business interests into his and our bedrooms so that viewers was stop worrying about how many Jews had been killed and focus more on which ladies in the floor exercises have the nicest breasts and buttocks.  There is no rumour to the truth, by the way, that Samaranch wanted all the ladies events to be naked, the way they were in Ancient Greece and in his private Olympics which he regularly held in his apartment in Switzerland.  Nor is it true that he always espected to be referred to as "His Escellency."  I am know for a fact that he was prefer "El Caudillo," "Your Majesty," and "Her Highness." Also he did not live on drinking children's blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can only hope now that the Marquess's legacy will live on in his absence.  The next Olympic Games is being held in London, which is in England.  That is not an auspicious start.  The English are not so good at fascism as the Chinese.  The last Olympics was fantastic, wasn't it?  And who have the English got in charge?  A man name Sebastian.  I am think the next Games will be like the book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Maidenhead Revisited.&lt;/span&gt; An insult to the Olympic ideal, an ideal best captured by this picture, I think:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9AJfvZ8qgI/AAAAAAAAAqA/x2FHsS-3BIc/s1600/uboat_with_rings%282%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S9AJfvZ8qgI/AAAAAAAAAqA/x2FHsS-3BIc/s320/uboat_with_rings%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462876788906306050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a Nazi U-Boat with the Olympic Symbol on.  I take this picture &lt;a href="http://www.coddlepot.com/2009/08/26/che-guevara-lives/"&gt;off the coast of Fuerteventura last year&lt;/a&gt;.  Some of us will not forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Samaranch, Presente!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1033448420244763560?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1033448420244763560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1033448420244763560&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1033448420244763560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1033448420244763560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/04/only-good-die-young.html' title='Only the Good Die Young!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8_8ziuu1GI/AAAAAAAAApo/uaRAOzXTAOQ/s72-c/juansam.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1920527644766156389</id><published>2010-04-14T09:14:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T11:02:59.343+01:00</updated><title type='text'>If It's Tuesday, It Must Be the Jews!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8V53R4nrvI/AAAAAAAAApg/AENI04Yt4sg/s1600/Buitoni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459904113857244914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 265px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8V53R4nrvI/AAAAAAAAApg/AENI04Yt4sg/s400/Buitoni.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;That Outfit is Sooooooo Last Year!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until very recent, I was labour under the misapprehension that a Syllagism was a dessert with sperm in, but it transpire that, for the first time, I was wrong. Is not a syllagism, but a syllogism, and what it is is a logical argument which is construct in such a way that, if the premises is true, then the consclusion is also true, of necessityness. Thus, as was esplain to me by a boy scout friend, is possible to have an argument which is logically valid but not true, if one of the premises is not true, for esample:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Mens are Fallible&lt;br /&gt;The Pope is a Man, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;The Pope is Fallible,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which follows logically but is not true because the first premise is false. Not all Men are Fallible. The Pope is a Man and he is not Fallible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, is possible to have an argument in which all the Premises is True, but the argument is not valid, such as:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Real Madrid is play in Madrid&lt;br /&gt;Madrid is in Spain, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;Real Madrid is the best team in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, the premises and conclusion is all true, but they are not follow logically from one another, and therefore the argument is not valid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was force to reflect on the Syllogism by the big row this week because of the statement by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (of course, the communist &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/vatican-homosexuality-paedophilia-claim-condemned"&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt; was spot it!), who was say that the Child Abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is all the fault of the Homosexuals! I am not sure where the cardinal is getting his information from; I would have thought he was well-place to know what was going on inside the Catholic Church. But whatever way you are look at this statement, it is totally ridiculous! We can only think that he has deliberately being provocative in order just to annoy the Gays or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, I am still try to parse the Cardinal's argument. Is very difficult to figure out which it is. Is it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Priests are Homosexuals&lt;br /&gt;Some Priests are Paedophiles, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;Some Homosexuals are Paedophiles?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, this is not work. All the priests who are paedophiles may not be the same ones who are also the homosexuals, and therefore if this is what the cardinal is saying, his argument is not valid. Perhaps then he is saying this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Homosexuals are Paedophiles&lt;br /&gt;Some Homosexuals are Priests, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;Some Priests are Paedophiles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but also this, which if you follow it, is not a valid argument, even if the premises and the conclusion was true. The homosexuals who are paedophiles are not necessarily the same homosexuals who are priests. Therefore, I am led to the conclusion that the Cardinal's argument is this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All Priests are Paedophiles&lt;br /&gt;Some Priests are Homosexuals, therefore,&lt;br /&gt;Some Paedophiles are Homosexuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This argument, as you can see, have the virtue of being valid. However, it also have the vice of not being true! In the first place, the initial premise that all priests are paedophiles is not proven (in Ireland this argument is what they call "Beyond the Pail," meaning only someone who wants to kick the bucket would dare make it). In the second place, the second premise that there are some priests who are homosexual is ALSO false. We know that there are NO homosexual priests because it is not allowed by the Vatican, and for the Cardinal to suggest that there are homosexual priests is a BIG disgrace!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am think the cardinal has made a major mistake in confusing celibacy, which is not having sex with a lady, with homosexuality, which is not having sex with a lady, but also having sex with a man. Is celibacy with benefits. He is also forgetting that, for centuries, the Vatican has have had a special department, the Vatican Small Arms, or VSA, whose job it is to travel the world looking for Catholic men with short arms and then recruiting them into the priesthood, much like the Buddhists looking for reincarnated llamas. The logic was that men with short arms are less likely to have sex with anyone, including themselves, and therefore are more likely to make good priests, than long-armed men, who are more likely to make good baboons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mainly, however, I think, the problem is that the cardinal did not get the Memo, which was tell all clergy that the problem with the Child Abuse scandal is no longer the fault of the homosexuals. Now it is the fault of the Jews. The Cardinal is totally Off-Message! Si. Apparently, the scandal is all the result of a well-orchestrate campaign by Christ-killers; this is, at least, according to quotes attribute to &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/catholic-bishop-blames-jews"&gt;Giacomo Babini, the emeritus bishop of Grosseto.&lt;/a&gt; Strangely, the bishop is now deny having ever said these words, but he does have also a track record, having previously criticize the Jews for esploiting the Holocaust and having also criticize homosexuality, in line with last year's message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Babini's error, clearly, is one of Premature Anti-Semitism. The Memo which was telling all Clergy to now blame the Jews had not yet reach Cardinal Bertone, but Babini had got wind of it and was speak out of turn, thinking it was already Catholic Doctrine. Red Faces All Round at the Vatican!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, just to be clear, here is the official doctrine of the Catholic Church for 2010 regarding the Child Abuse scandal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;It was Homosexuals in the Catholic Church responsible for molesting children, but there are no Homosexuals in the Catholic Church, it is all lies made up by the Jews.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There now. I am hope that is all perfectly clear.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1920527644766156389?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1920527644766156389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1920527644766156389&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1920527644766156389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1920527644766156389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/04/if-its-tuesday-it-must-be-jews.html' title='If It&apos;s Tuesday, It Must Be the Jews!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S8V53R4nrvI/AAAAAAAAApg/AENI04Yt4sg/s72-c/Buitoni.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-471737158484625521</id><published>2010-03-31T07:53:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T08:51:07.723+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hole She Bangs!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S7LyADn1D0I/AAAAAAAAApQ/WgNzB_Em1y4/s1600/Randy-Martin-Magic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S7LyADn1D0I/AAAAAAAAApQ/WgNzB_Em1y4/s400/Randy-Martin-Magic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454688181485375298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Is Not How It Looks. She is Just My Assistant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The appalling latest news in the world of celebrity "entertainment," which was come out of the blue only this week, is the confession from Latin heart-thrub and all-round croner Randy Martin that he has been leading a double-life all this time.   In secret, and behind everyone's backs, he has also been an &lt;a href="http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/914-how-to-say-it.html"&gt;82-year-old homosexual magician.&lt;/a&gt;  Si! He is not just a singer.  He is also a trickster jiggerer pokerer and an atheist, to boot, who have all these years been sawing ladies in half, disappearing the Eiffel Tower, and hiding the sausage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This kind of misdirection is known in the trade as a beard, which you can see Martin wearing in the picture below during his live show at the Copacabana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S7Lz43hCThI/AAAAAAAAApY/8P0pmrvu6Ic/s1600/rio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S7Lz43hCThI/AAAAAAAAApY/8P0pmrvu6Ic/s400/rio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454690256999829010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;She's into superstitions black cats and voodoo dolls. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;I feel a  premonition that girl's gonna make me fall. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;She's into new  sensations new kicks in the candle light. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;She's got a new addiction  for every day and night. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;She'll make you take your clothes off  and go dancing in the rain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;She'll make you live her crazy life but  she'll take away your pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;like a bullet to your brain. Come On! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;[CHORUS:]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Upside,  inside out she's livin la vida loca etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody would have thought to put the two and two together and realize Martin's other identity, and seeing he has come out of the cabinet of curiosities, everyone is wondering why on earth he thought that now would be a good time to espose himself.  After all, it is not like it is any more acceptable to be a magician today than it was in the 19th or 20th centuries, when members of the Magic Circle were social outcasts, lepers, misfits who were hunted down, humiliated, scorned, and then tied up in a strait jacket, suspended upside down, and lowered into a tank of water behind a curtain so that nobody could see.  And then afterwards he was punched in the stomach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suspect the reason is that Martin has seen the success that peoples like David Blaine, Uri Geller, Derren Brown and David Koresh was having with their prestidigitation, magnetic hypnotisms, and sleights of hand and thought that perhaps society was becoming increasingly tolerant if it was able to make heroes out of such social inadequates.  What he was fail to realize is that these men are successful only on sufferance.  The Atheistic Masonic Illuminati who allow them their popularity do so only on condition that they devote their time to debunking religion, casting aspersions on the miracles of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus, and generally being septical of Christianity and bringing it into disrepute such as by claiming to be the Messiah (as in the case of Koresh and Blaine). Foolishly, in his magician guise, Martin himself have also &lt;a href="http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html"&gt;offered $1 million dollar&lt;/a&gt; if anyone can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.  While this may curry favour with his evil overlords and masters, it is not making him any more loveable to decent ordinary fascist Christians such as alright-thinking people like me and you, dear both my reader.  Thus it is a real conandrumm as to why Martin have made this admission now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unless of course he is about to plead for our forgiveness.  Si.  That could be it.  He wants to apologize and make up for everything that he have inflicted on us up til now.  For &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Medio Vivir,&lt;/span&gt; for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Almas del Silencio,&lt;/span&gt; for &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sound Loaded,&lt;/span&gt; and most of all, for not being Gloria Estefan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe in another life, Randy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-471737158484625521?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/471737158484625521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=471737158484625521&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/471737158484625521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/471737158484625521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/03/hole-she-bangs.html' title='The Hole She Bangs!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S7LyADn1D0I/AAAAAAAAApQ/WgNzB_Em1y4/s72-c/Randy-Martin-Magic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-3999398239746311281</id><published>2010-03-25T07:32:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-03-25T08:39:53.991Z</updated><title type='text'>Have You Seen This Dog?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6sRjOrJ_QI/AAAAAAAAApI/-49JmNNEhv8/s1600/dogg1xa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6sRjOrJ_QI/AAAAAAAAApI/-49JmNNEhv8/s400/dogg1xa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452471070794317058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;He is not easy to miss!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am think I was mention last week in my post that my next-door neighbours, the Mengeles, have been in a state of self-impose quarantine for the last six weeks.  But I was not specify the reasons, which is that they were carrying out very important secret domestic science esperiments.  You see, while the Mengeles are, like most inhabitants of Las Canarias, misanthropic loners who are fervently hoping that the climate change is real and the rest of the entire planet is engulfed by water/fire/snow/snot/ketchup, they are neverthenonetheless estremely fond of animals, in particular their pet dogs.  Germans love their dogs, as you will have seen in a hole range of top-shelf magazines.  However, the Germans are in a habit of breeding big dogs, such as the Doberman Pinschers, the German Shepherds, and the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and there is several problems that accompany the ownership of big dogs: (1) Having to replace all the dead gardeners; (2) Having to replace all the big dogs; (3) Having to replace all the small dogs; (4) Cleaning up after them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first problem is easy to solve.  There are, after all, thousands of cheap illegal Africans washed up on the shore of the Canarias looking for a better life, and for the three or four weeks that they survive in the employ of the Mengeles, they are able to enjoy that better life.  The second problem is more tiresome, because the Mengeles are the kinds of people who quickly become attached to their animals; they have so much love to give, having kept it to themselves for most of their life, particularly during the 20th century, when Germans was not having any outlet for espressing their caring side.  Besides, there are no dog breeders on the Canarias to buy new dogs from, which is ironic, because the islands' name comes from the Latin word for dog, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Canis&lt;/span&gt; (which is originally come from the Spanish word, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;el perro&lt;/span&gt;).  So every time the Mengeles are lose a dog, they have to fly back to Germany to get a new one, with all the concomitant risk of being identified, arrested, and flown to The Hague for crimes against humanity trials.  Or worse, Israel, for a holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The small dogs which they are always have to replace are the small dogs which belong to local Spanish owners.  The Spanish are prefer small dogs rather than big dogs, which might bully them.  However, the Mengeles' big dogs are as affectionate as the Mengeles themselves, which usually results in couplings that are detrimental to the health of the small dogs.  Or else they are eat them.  Sometimes both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final problem is so obvious you cannot miss them.  German dogs do not do poos.  They do pies.  "That is not just a pie!  Is a cake!" said Frau Mengele the last time she was accidentally place her cup of tea on top of one, thinking it was a garden table her husband had bought without telling her.  "Si.  Is a cack cake!" I said, laughing internally and rupturing something.  "Where is your glasses, Frau Mengele?  Was you not realize?" In truth, the poo was not just clearly identifiable, squatting by the pool like a malevolent pouffe, it could also be smelled while we was still inside the house, and with the sliding doors shut too.  But Frau Mengele is getting very old, and both her eyes and her nose are not what they used to be.  What they used to be was someone else's eyes and nose, but thanks to the Chinese government and private transplant facilities, they are now Frau Mengele's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we had had our afternoon tea and scones and Frau Mengele had hired a new African to clear away the mess, she make a call to her husband, who was I think out windsurfing, and was tell him now that they are get rid finally of the big dogs and that they were going native, buying a small dog, which, as you can see in my photo above, is what they did, escept, to spare themselves the embarrassment of the small dog, they have disguise him up as a big dog, in case any of their German friends come round and point and laugh.  They are also training the dog to attack strangers, so he is more like a German dog.  So far, the training is not going well, mainly because the dog is keep trying to escape.  But of course, as I was point out to the Mengeles, this is what &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt; happen when you bestow skills on someone.  Teach people to read, and they start questioning your interpretation of the Bible.  Teach them to use weapons to defend you, and they can turn those weapons against you.  Teach your dog the elementary principles of disguise, and soon he is impersonating the postman and making a break for it.   Which was  not all so bad, since the post have improved since he take over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But however now the Mengeles are both frustrate and sad that he is try to escape, because they have already grow to love him and his small poos.  So I make tripwiring for all the hedges and fences for them around their property so that Rudolf does not get out (all of the Mengeles' dogs have always been call Rudolf.  I have no idea why.  None of them ever have red noses!)  But Rudolf is so quick that, as soon as someone open the front gate, he is down the garden path, leap up the small step, and is out onto the esplanade to worry the topless ladies.  It is then take all day for Herr Mengele to track him down, usually in a bar or nightclub, sometimes the 24-hour supermarket, where Rudolf has found himself a job on the tills.  They will employ anyone there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yes, the six-weeks' quarantine that I mention. Is this.  Herr Mengele was have a brilliant idea to stop Rudolf's running aways.  He was see on the Internet or in one of his regular magazines an advertisement for the &lt;a href="http://www.bathmate-goliath.com/goliath.php"&gt;Bathmate Goliath,&lt;/a&gt; which is a very useful machinery for making big the male penis.  Geniusly, he send off for it, using his lateral thinking, after reading about its money-back guarantee.  If you use it for six weeks and there is no massive improvement, you can sent it back, unused, at no loss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think you are probly ahead of me already.  For the past six weeks, they have been using the Bathmate Goliath three times a day on Rudolf, with such amazing success that now his male member drag along under him on the floor.  Is hilarious to watch.  Rudolf is like a dog with two tails!  And so now, whenever someone is come through the gate and Rudolf make a sprint for it, whenever he get to the small step and try to jump up it, his monstrous manbit is act like an anchor and catch on the step.  Rudolf is give a big yelp and curl into an agony ball on the grass, which give time—usually 20 minutes or so—for Frau Mengele to walk the 18 feet to the end of the garden and shut the gate.  It work like a charm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well.  It have work like a charm for a week.  Having learn that he can no longer escape through the gate, Rudolf spent all last Thursday night watching Herr Mengele's collection of animal porn, then while everyone else was still in bed, he ran the length of the garden and pole-vaulted over the gate, and nobody has seen him since.  Herr Mengele has try all the exotic dance bars and strip joints in Corralejo and Puerto del Carmen.  He is also think of maybe trying Gran Canaria, where they are much more keen on that sort of thing.  He is only interest in bringing Rudolf home and looking after him, you understand.  He is not intending to hire Rudolf out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, please, if you are see Rudolf anywhere (he may not be answering to the name Rudolf; he may already be using a pseudonym), please let me know as soon as you can, for me that I can inform the Mengeles.  They are missing their Rudolf terribly, and is not nice to see a grown man cry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, would anyone like to buy a second-hand &lt;a href="http://www.bathmate-goliath.com/goliath.php"&gt;Bathmate Goliath&lt;/a&gt;.  One very careful pervious owner.  Contact address as above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-3999398239746311281?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/3999398239746311281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=3999398239746311281&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/3999398239746311281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/3999398239746311281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/03/have-you-seen-this-dog.html' title='Have You Seen This Dog?'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6sRjOrJ_QI/AAAAAAAAApI/-49JmNNEhv8/s72-c/dogg1xa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-9197521471021828994</id><published>2010-03-19T06:21:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-03-19T07:37:57.802Z</updated><title type='text'>Look!  Is My Mate!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6MX9IiLf0I/AAAAAAAAAo4/BoOHVlBUQ0A/s1600-h/mymate.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6MX9IiLf0I/AAAAAAAAAo4/BoOHVlBUQ0A/s400/mymate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450226313078734658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Spread it on your Bread of Heaven!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you see the &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8071865.stm"&gt;story on the communist liberal BBC&lt;/a&gt; about the family in Wales that are find the image of Our Lord on the lid of something call Marmite?  No?  Neither did I.  But thanks to &lt;a href="http://daphnewaynebough.blogspot.com/"&gt;Daphne&lt;/a&gt;'s sharp eyes, we can all now see what can only be further proof that the end of civilization is upon us. Oh yes indeed.   Anyone with half a brain can see what is happening here.  So let me tell you.   First we was having the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPo411ysueM"&gt;Jesus toast.&lt;/a&gt;   Then later we was having, in my very own home, &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-sign-from-god-about-dolphins.html"&gt;the sign of the dolphin under the coffee cup.&lt;/a&gt;  After that, we was having the &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-happy-easter-breakfast-miracle.html"&gt;miracle of the Padre Pio butter.&lt;/a&gt;  And now we have the Our Lord in Marmite.  Anytime soon, mark my word, we can espect to see the following:  Passionfruit jam, Pain au Chocolat, and Crossants.  That is right.  Prepare yourselves for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Last Breakfast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The table have already been prepare by George W. Bush and his nutters, who have made sure the global economy is descend into chaos, the &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-end-of-western-civilization-as-we.html"&gt;Antichrist is in charge of the White House,&lt;/a&gt; and the False Pope is leading the One True Faith into a miasmi of doubt and despair as all the revelations about false priests being tempted by Satan drip into the public conscienceness like so many beads of diseased sperm on the tongue of an innocent child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least, that is what I am think this means.  Because when I look again at the Marmite, I am think I also possibly see not Our Lord but maybe the rubbish symbol of the forthcoming London Olympics, the one with &lt;a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2007/06/05/olympics460.jpg"&gt;Lisa Simpson giving a man a blow job&lt;/a&gt;.  Or possibly the man on the left is tossing off a bloke in a wheelchair, which would be more appropriate, I think, as the symbol of the Paralympics, not the Proper Olympics.   I am only suggest this because, as pictures of Jesus go, he is having particularly beady eyes, which even though they follow you around the kitchen like real Jesus eyes, they are also make you wonder if this Jesus is &lt;a href="http://www.astro.wisc.edu/%7Etrouille/EYH/pics/435px-Alien.png"&gt;an alien.&lt;/a&gt;  And that is raise also a significant question:  Why don't aliens have beards?  Are their spaceships so advance that they have the Gillette Mach Three Turbo technology?  Or is it that they fly so fast that they are not get time to even develop a five-the-clock shadow?  I think we should be told.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But never mind that, Manuel, you are already saying.  What the fuck is Marmite?   This is a difficult question, particularly to someone as unsophist as me who have gone out of their way to cultivate ignorance of worldly matters all these years.  Well, out of a sense of obligation to both my reader, I was undertake some research, but guess what:  It is not mentioned nowhere in the Bible at all.  Not even in Leviticus!  So I was phone up my next-door neighbours the Mengeles (I could not go round because their house is in quarantine at the moment), and they were put me on to a pharmacist friend of theirs who have spent some time among the natives of Britain doing missionary work and trying to show the idiot British how to dress and behave properly—basic hygience, politeness, stop invading other people's countries, and so on—and according to him, although you are probly not going to believe this, Marmite is a yeast that tastes like beef and which the English are put in their mouths!  Si!  Drink some water, quick!  How fowl and disgusting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, they are only do this, apparently, because they are run out of cows, thanks to the BSE and the stockpiles they had to burn:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6Mf_D5jIPI/AAAAAAAAApA/DQm5oFpJ4ZE/s1600-h/Bovril.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6Mf_D5jIPI/AAAAAAAAApA/DQm5oFpJ4ZE/s400/Bovril.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450235142287335666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Apparently NOT How They Make Bovril&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once their Twiglet supplies had run out, British people was having nowhere to turn for their dietary yeast—well, nowhere that tasted very nice—and so they were reduce to the consumption of this savoury breakfast spread which you can use on bread, toast, ryvitas, crackers, and water biscuits.  But also, if you are already fed up with lamb chops and gammon steak, you can spread it on your meat and pretend that it is sirloin.  Especially if you close your eyes.  And hold your nose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, we in civilize Spain have never had this problem.  Be cause we &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;know&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.topnews.in/files/matador.jpg"&gt;how to treat &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;our&lt;/span&gt; cattle.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It could never happen here!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-9197521471021828994?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/9197521471021828994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=9197521471021828994&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/9197521471021828994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/9197521471021828994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/03/look-is-my-mate.html' title='Look!  Is My Mate!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S6MX9IiLf0I/AAAAAAAAAo4/BoOHVlBUQ0A/s72-c/mymate.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6896263536343519842</id><published>2010-03-05T14:54:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-03-06T16:24:02.185Z</updated><title type='text'>Give Ireland Back to the English!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S5Jsz4ET6zI/AAAAAAAAAow/cPu211cWBRk/s1600-h/chaniabeach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S5Jsz4ET6zI/AAAAAAAAAow/cPu211cWBRk/s400/chaniabeach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445534537923947314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Welcome to Sunny Crete.  Don't Not Forget Your Beach Towels!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did my title get your attention?  Si!  Are you like it? Of course!   Is my entry suggestion for the new competition &lt;a href="http://www.yourcountryyourcall.com/"&gt;Your Lovely Pissing Country, Your Call,&lt;/a&gt; which have been set up by the husband of the president of lovely pissing Ireland, Michael MacIntyre, in the hope that the country's devout, downtrodden peasants can come up with free ideas to get the place out of another fine mess they've gotten us into, all because the government just haven't got a clue what to do.  They are like a man who have sat in a bucket and lowered himself down a well and then when he get to the bottom remembers he cannot swim, and also is allergic to water and buckets.  He is at the bottom shouting up, "Hello!!  Is there anybody out there?  Peasants!  Little help!"  And the peasants are say, "We'd be very glad to help you, escept you are have our only bucket.  And you have also cut our turning-the-winch wages, which means we are not have much energy or enthusiasm for pulling you back up.  Our wages are already suppose to be use to bail you out.  Where did they go?"  But he cannot tell them that they have gone because his bucket have a hole in, dear Liza with a zed, and because they will go bonkers and put a lid on the well and maybe even estend the metaphor still further yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, even if you are think my suggestion is crazy—and after the hames the Irish have made of Ireland, it is not—I am only make the suggestion after stealing it from the Germans, who was &lt;a href="http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/wirtschaft/2010/03/04/pleite-griechen/regierung-athen-sparen-verkauft-inseln-pleite-akropolis.html"&gt;last week in the papers suggesting&lt;/a&gt; to the Greeks that they should sell off some off their islands to save their economy.  The Germans are resenting having to loan back to Greece the money they stole at the end of the war and are thinking themselves up the clever ways to solve the problem, in an ad hoc competition called "Someone Else's Country, Your Insults."  There have been a big kerfuffle in the media over this suggestion, but in fact I think that it can kill one bird with two stones if done correctly.  For esample, why not just give the Germans Crete back?  The Germans have shown themselves &lt;a href="http://www.coddlepot.com/2009/10/14/away-from-it-all/"&gt;inordinately fond of visiting the island&lt;/a&gt; and did their best to get rid of any Greeks they found there the last time they were there en masse.  The Germans do not have any sunny bits in their own country, and eschanging Crete for writing off the Greek debt would have the benefits of (1) being a simple solution, (2) cheering the Germans up, and (3) providing some much-desired lebensraum that would make Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia breathe much more easy at last.  There are already thousands of Germans in Crete, most of them dead, so it would not take long for the new arrivals to make themself at home.  &lt;a href="http://www.coddlepot.com/2009/08/26/che-guevara-lives/"&gt;As you are know already&lt;/a&gt;, my dear reader, we Spanish made this same esperiment after the war when El Generalísimo Francisco Franco was give the southern part of the island of Fuerteventura, the province of Jandía, to the Third Reichs in gratitude for all the help that it had given in the Spanish Civil War for Golf.  And everyone have been happy ever after.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also in the news this week was &lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/20100304/sociedad-religion/vaticano-podria-retrasar-beatificacion-201003041713.html"&gt;the disgraceful news&lt;/a&gt; about the Vatican conspiracy to undermine efforts to make the Real Pope John Paul Mark 2 into a saint, although of course he is not dead but held prisoner in Castelgandolfo.  As you may have read, the nun who was cure of Michael Parkinson Disease by praying to the real pope have fallen sick again.  The only possible esplanation of this is that she have been gotten to by the evil forces of the Usurper Pope Bendedict, who have clearly re-Parkinsoned her to prevent the Real Pope's canonisation.  They cannot come out upfront and say, "He cannot be a saint because he is not dead yet," because this would make a real giveaway, so instead they are have to deliberately undercut all the other planks of the campaign, by discrediting the evidence for his saintliness.  Is only a matter of time before the Swiss Guard locate the smoking gun, however, or the smoking syringe, or whatever it is they give to people to re-Parkinson them.  Not that you will hear about it in the papers.  For which I blame Rupert Murdoct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One story that was make me laugh heartily and I espect you will laugh too, dear reader, was &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/israeli-embassy-spanish-children-antisemitic-postcards"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; in the Communist atheist &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Guardian&lt;/span&gt; about how the Israel embassy in Madrid is receive letters from schoolchildren in Valencia saying things like "Why are you killing Palestinian children?" and "Get off my land."  Of course, the weak-kneed &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Guardian&lt;/span&gt; feels obliged to get an opinion from the Jews, who are say: "the Spanish government is allowing state schools to be used to promote hatred of both Jews and Israel in a country that already ranks as one of the most antisemitic in Europe." As if that is a bad thing!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be frank about the Middle East conundrum.  I am not really understand, as a follower of the One True Faith, what the fuss is about when Jews and Muslims are killing one another.  Is not like we Catholics are have a horse in this race.  The Middle East should belong to Christians, of that there is no dispute, and the best thing we can do is let them batter one another to a sweetmeat so that when they are both eshausted we can step back in again a regain the territory so tragically lost after the crusade.  For which I blame Saladin.  And Rupert Murdoct.  And also the fundamentalist Protestants who for some reason believe Israel's victory will precipitate the Second Coming, as if it is something for them to look forward to.  Ha ha ha!  I cannot wait to see the looks on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; faces!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall be spend the nest two weeks on the beach of an unnameable Greek island myself on a busman's holiday; the view from my terrace here in the Islas Canarias can be a little tiresome when there is no topless beach volleyball happening, and so I am parting my legs and seeing new horizons, escept it is the same one as last year, where I will watch tanned foreing ladies doing naked wrestling and possibly also drinking raki and ouzo and eating figs.  Can you tell where it is yet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I am there, I shall be listening to my newly bought &lt;a href="http://gobible.com/index.html"&gt;iGod,&lt;/a&gt; which have the entire Bible, both the true bit and the old bit, translated into English and also in the original Spanish.  Naturally, I can already recite it from memory, but I am figure you can't get enough of a good thing, and also it would help me improve my English—not that it is need improving!—if I get borded of listening to the Sermol on the Mount for the 3,000th time.  There is no better way of drowning out the sound of children laughing, birds singing, sweet music playing, the sea gently waving at the Laps, and all those other annoying distractions that can ruin a holiday.  I shall even wear it while I sleep in the knowledge that I can thereby become subconsciously more pious and repress all those sadistic erotic fantasies about my mother that so frequently are inhabit my dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are have any ideas, incidentally, about how we can improve lovely pissing Ireland, don't tell me about them.  Go direct to the horse's arse and tell them.  I am sure they will be greatful for any imaginary suggestions.  Is what the hole economy was based on!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6896263536343519842?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6896263536343519842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6896263536343519842&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6896263536343519842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6896263536343519842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/03/give-ireland-back-to-english.html' title='Give Ireland Back to the English!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S5Jsz4ET6zI/AAAAAAAAAow/cPu211cWBRk/s72-c/chaniabeach.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-8181710611235833053</id><published>2010-02-26T05:36:00.007Z</published><updated>2010-02-26T06:50:57.667Z</updated><title type='text'>Not Every Wound Heals</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S4degSOnr2I/AAAAAAAAAoo/nHvkCxPYy0Q/s1600-h/Isadora.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S4degSOnr2I/AAAAAAAAAoo/nHvkCxPYy0Q/s400/Isadora.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442422583442517858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Don't Call Me Scarface!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si, is the very lovely late actress Vanessa Redgrave, who I think was die last week because I see a tribute to her on the BIFTAS.  Here in this picture she is also dying, but just pretend dying, in the role of the socialite Isadora Dunkin, who was invent not just the modern dance but also the scarf, autoerotic asphyxiation, and the donut.  And although she was American, she had two Irish children, Deirdre and Patrick, so she was not all bad.  And also although most right-thinking people said when she died that she had it coming, the way she was carrying on, ignoring health and safety, being decadent, dancing on peoples' graves, and so on, we must not forget her legacy.  Or her armacy.  In his poem &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Isadora Dunkin,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.coddlepot.com/2009/08/27/walk-softly-and-carry-a-bag-of-sticks/"&gt;Carl Sandburg&lt;/a&gt;, the fascist poet, wrote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She was a &lt;a href="http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2006/04/cristiano-ronaldo-shirtless-speedo.jpg"&gt;Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href="http://fcdenver.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cristiano-ronaldo-entertainer.jpg"&gt;flappy generation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was remind of Isadora when I see Vanessa's obituary on satellite television last week (with the sound off, I admit; I thought I had hear burglars outside, but it turn out just to be the wind.  And the sea and the moon) and I was led to reflect on not just what an unhappy year it have been for Vanessa, what with dying and all, but also how tough life must have been for her in general, born into a world of privilege and good fortune and famousness only to see all her dreams shatted like broken mirrors in a grotty West End cabaret night club urinal.  Not just the loss of her extremely gorgeous and sexy daughter Miranda—who will forget her Queen Victoria in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Blackadder&lt;/span&gt;?—but also the fall of the Soviet Union, the implosion of her Troskyite Workers Revolutionary Party, and the triumph of her estranged brother Steve at four separate Olympic Gameses.  But it was not just Vanessa's life that I was reflect on.  It was all of us's lives.  Si.  We all have such moments of despair and failure and abjection and humiliation and unsuccessful coverups in our lives, don't we not?   Sometimes it is the end of a beautiful long-term relationship with a member of the opposite sex, unsullied by carnal knowledge and resplendent in its many hours of mutual contemplation of the Divine, terminated only by the cruel hand of MI5.  Other times it is &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-more-than-just-about-me.html"&gt;the death of a younger sibling with whom one has shared intimate biological secrets&lt;/a&gt; and become a kind of plaything to one another in a way that some people might think is improper but which you was see nothing wrong with at the time and so what? We was both condescending adults.  Other times again it is when you are caught with half a dog in your freezer.  What was all that about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I am have undressed myself of an evening and before I say my prayers and climb onto my bed, sometimes I am catch site of myself in the full-length mirror on the ceiling.  And though I am often take my own breath away with my majesty, even without glasses on and though I am very diminutive, even still I can make out, under all my fur, the various and numerous scars that I have acquire over my 56 year on this appalling loathsome planet.  The dent on the top of my head where the skip of rabbits fell on me as I pursued escaped Nazis through the backstreets of São Paulo (I was only trying to give them their paintings back!); the pockmarks where Dick Cheney shot me in the face with a BB gun while showing off to some girls sat on the wall by the shops—he claims it was an accident, but if so why did he do it repeatedly?; the delicate cicatrix on my neck where the surgeon removed my first face; the mass of blisters around my crotch that will never go away, no matter how hard I scrub; and, of course, my stigmata, which I am wear with pride but also use as a sex aid, and also to scare children, and also also to settle arguments about where the nails went in Jesus and to prove they had guns in those days (there are still bits of shrapnel in the wound on my side).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our scars are thus a way of telling our life story, a kind of chronological moonscape, particularly if you have a pimply arse.  But a pimply arse is not the hole story.  For the body has such remarkable powers of renewal that all the outward, visible imperfections are neverthenonetheless repaired, testimony to the genius of our creator, and also doctors.  There always remain unhealed, unrepaired, internal scars.  These are mental scars, scars of the soul.  And sadly, as was point out by the bishop of San Sebastián, &lt;a href="http://www.publico.es/espana/285653/munilla/recomienda/terremoto/haiti/zapatero/evite/acercarse/tomar/comunion"&gt;José Ignacio Munilla&lt;/a&gt;, recently in relation to Haiti, these scars are more permanent, more real, and much bigger scars than any mere physical wounds, amputations, decapitations, or cuts and bruises. They are cause by consumerism, materialism, communism, and they consist in jealousy, envy, pride, lust, gluttony, indolence, disobedience, septicism, and science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not here today to tell you what the answer is.  You are already know what the answer is.  The questions is, what is the question?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-8181710611235833053?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/8181710611235833053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=8181710611235833053&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8181710611235833053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8181710611235833053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/02/not-every-wound-heals.html' title='Not Every Wound Heals'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S4degSOnr2I/AAAAAAAAAoo/nHvkCxPYy0Q/s72-c/Isadora.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-5834889875324077199</id><published>2010-02-18T07:58:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-02-18T10:43:24.621Z</updated><title type='text'>Between a Rock Salmon and a Hard Plaice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3zzVZgvl6I/AAAAAAAAAog/_xuQRVcnb9U/s1600-h/seriouslytho.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439489998907742114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3zzVZgvl6I/AAAAAAAAAog/_xuQRVcnb9U/s400/seriouslytho.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)"&gt;Seriously, though, who is going to read all that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it was the ancient Greek philosopher Epididymis who was said, "Woe be unto him who is know not what he has got. For his neighbour will be livid when he catch it off him." At the time, he was talking about the pneubonic plague that was wipe out all the Athenians escept for Thucydides, the historian famous for his Peloponnesian Wars but who should be better remember for his impressive immune system. And it is an immune system that Europe is need right now to protect it from the latest version of the swine flu, which being cause by the PIGS, which is also the countries that make up the so-called Club Meg, namely, Paris, Indigo, Scotland, and Greece. In that order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week it was the peoples of Athens, &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2008/12/those-crazy-greeks.html"&gt;those crazy Greeks&lt;/a&gt; again, who was making the protests, waving the red flags, walking five yards ahead of a steam engine, and shouting "This is Greece, not Iceland. We have Maps to Prove It!" Their main complain was the IMF, a well-known international cabal and also a nest of vipers, was planning to step in and make the Greeks run their economy properly, whereas the Greeks was saying "Let me have a look at your shopping list, IMF. Look here. You have 2 kilos of frozen prawns, one lobster, two bags of oven chips, one Black Forest gateau, and 60 bags of vol au vents. We do not do frozen seafood, only fresh. You are in the wrong country." And so they was send off the IMFs with a flea in their ear and very unhappy with Garmin altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a narrow squeal for the Greeks and also a sign that the Germans have still not learn to read maps, which is what led to all that trouble over Poland. For it is the Germans once again who are the most concern about what goes on in other peoples' countries and think they could do things better if they was in charge. Angela Merkel is pulling out her hair at the incompetence of all those foreingers who keep ruining Germany's destiny. They are put her in a very stiff predicament; whichever way she turns, she is in ein pickle. Probably a schickelgruber. Lovely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For here is her dilemmma: On the one hand, Germany can refuse to help the Greece and other PIGGING countries from surviving financially, which would make sense from a German financial points of view. It would send a sign to everyone that Germany is no longer going to be the whippy boy of Europe, pushed around for far too long, having his pocklet money stolen by ne'er-do-well atheist communists with their liberal spendthrift corrupt necrony capitalisms. Beside, Greece is just a piddling economy which account for about .000003 of the the eurozone's gross domestic product. Nobody would notice if it fell into the sea and ended up as thousands of small, pretty islands starring Meryl Streep. The problem is, however, that the currant crisis in Europe is also about Germany's future. Angela Merkel know that even though Germany is the master race, as a country it does not come anywhere near the strength of the perfidious masonic United States or communist atheist China, or even, in the long run, sexy Brazil or journalist-murdering Russia. Merkel is being told by her gnomes of Berlin that Germany's place on the world stage is being usurped; instead of being the leading female in costume she is becoming an extra with no lines and not even miming. The only way to remedy this is to make the Europe strong again, with Germany pulling the strings, and also being in charge of the lighting and directing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if she is to bail out the Greece, Merkel then is face the opposite problem. If she bail out one, why not the rest? Because she cannot afford it you cheeky bastard. Beside, the Germans are not going to want to have to pay for all the indolence of the Mediterranean countries just because they want to laze on the beach in the sunshine all day. You should try living in Hamburg, you Latino ingrate. The only way Germany could bail out all the PIGS is if it was go to the IMF after all, caps in hand, to ask for help. Which is where we all came in in the first place. Without a map!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that it is hardly necessary for me to point out to my reader, but Greece was never have this problem when the Colonels was run the country. In fact, the good news is that I am already hear from some of my old comrades in Spanish intelligence that a military takeover is being discuss in some circles as a way to resolve this crisis and keep the Greek workers' demands to a minimum. A curfew always does wonders for a country's balance sheet, for some reason, which is always struck me as strange; where is everyone shopping? Perhaps they are all on Amazon, using their credit cards. I think that is esplain everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-5834889875324077199?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/5834889875324077199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=5834889875324077199&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5834889875324077199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/5834889875324077199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/02/between-rock-salmon-and-hard-plaice.html' title='Between a Rock Salmon and a Hard Plaice'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3zzVZgvl6I/AAAAAAAAAog/_xuQRVcnb9U/s72-c/seriouslytho.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-1861207787197080221</id><published>2010-02-10T08:25:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-02-10T09:10:28.189Z</updated><title type='text'>Is the Vilence of the Rams!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3JtheiWL_I/AAAAAAAAAoY/Yq_QXzLbnhA/s1600-h/ramboy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3JtheiWL_I/AAAAAAAAAoY/Yq_QXzLbnhA/s400/ramboy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436528122089844722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Si!  Is Sylvester Stallion as Ramboy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am have been particularly sicken this week by reading the papers.  Reading the papers was always make me sick, but this week the sick was coming out my nostrils, especially when I was read &lt;a href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1191398_police_hunt_after_girls_sprayed_with_animal_semen"&gt;this story&lt;/a&gt; about ladies in Manchester, England, being sprayed by a man who throws his animal semen over them in a plastic bag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hope you are not eating your breakfast!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the police, the young man who is spraying the girls secretes the semen about his body, then creep up on them and spray them with it.  Well, I am not know about you, but the only thing that I secrete about my body is sweat, sebum, pus, testosterones, toblerones, eastergens, and occasionally the odd bottle of brandy the morning after I have had a particular late night playing bridge with the archbishop and his crones.  One thing I am never secrete is animal semen. But I know where you can get some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a long time now, as my reader will know, I have been warning the whole world about the dangers of genetic modificification.  These attacks on innocent female Manchestrians are just the short end of the wenge, I promise you.  I am not know how this young man, let us call him Ramboy because I have a copyright on it, have become genetically modificated—he was probly the result of some esperiment on an island with Malcolm McDowell in it run by a mad genius Jewish scientist trying to make nondrip honey—but the fact of the matter is that we had already gone much too far down the line years ago when we learned how to insert camel genes into brie, moth genes into Ford Fiestas, paper genes into chimpanzees, and wasps into amber.  Mankind's hubris is know no Bounce.  You mark my words; they will all come out in the wash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big problem with the genetic modificification is that it undermine Nature, which was create by God to function in a particular way.  Consider the GM crops, for esample, which we are being told by Monsanto and Monsanto-sponsored politicians will stop people from starving.  This is totally against Nature!  People are meant to starve.  Is an incentive for them to go to Church. Once you start feeding people who should rightly be dead, Heaven will be empty!  Jesus will probly return to Earth again NOT because it is time for the Second Coming but because he have no one to talk to!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have discuss this issue many times of a Saturday afternoon, when I am get together with my comrades at the Playa Blanca Falangist Pot Luck Dinner and Prayer Meet (and march past), where many of my friends who are much further to the right of me try to reassure me. They are only being kind, I know, which is so unlike them.  Manolo, they are say to me, you are fail to understand basic economics.  Companies like Monsanto are profit-driven and are therefore motivate to drive all naturally occurring species that they do not have a patent to out of existence.  They are want all patents to species to be in private ownership so that they can make money from them.  You may think this is a bad thing, but you are forget that the free market is run on the basis of supply and demand, NOT supply and need.  Only those people who have money will be able to buy Monsanto seeds, and because they are Terminator seeds, the customers have to keep come back every year for new ones.  The peoples who have no money will still starve to death and go to Heaven.  So you see you have nothing to worry about. The Free Market will do God's work for Him!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not yet convince, myself.  While I see an opportunity here for the Church to intervene when the Poor and Needy are throw themselves upon its mercy and charity, it irks me greatly that these days the Church's customer base is so . . . hmm, como se dice,  . . . well . . . so poor.  The Church, after all, was not amass all its great wealth and glory by ministering to the Poor.  It was do so by wielding great political power and being able to estort money from the rich people, too, who were scared of going to Hell.  That way the Church could go on Crusades to save the souls of heathens and infidels and get them to surrender all their worldly goods, too, and follow the Lord.  The way I am see it, the free market just complicate things.  The world would be a far simpler place if everyone was just do what I tell them.  That is the virtue of dictatorship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But will they listen?  Will they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not know.  I haven't ask them.  I am too shy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-1861207787197080221?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/1861207787197080221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=1861207787197080221&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1861207787197080221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/1861207787197080221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-vilence-of-rams.html' title='Is the Vilence of the Rams!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S3JtheiWL_I/AAAAAAAAAoY/Yq_QXzLbnhA/s72-c/ramboy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-795684287379027749</id><published>2010-01-28T15:15:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-01-28T16:08:40.592Z</updated><title type='text'>Where is Fascist Aid?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S2GqPb0wzWI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WyF5u7grQWo/s1600-h/earthkwake.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S2GqPb0wzWI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WyF5u7grQWo/s400/earthkwake.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431809807729347938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "&gt;Earthquakes Leave Us All in a Difficult Position&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like everyone else in the world, I have been watching the earthquake coverage on the television from Haiti and making prayers morning noon and night that God will stop now.  I am as lacking in compassion as the next man, so long as the next man is me, but even I am hope that we have learned the lesson from this terrible event that God was want us to learn and send it for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main lesson that I, personally, am draw from it is what a shoddy state of organization fascism is in today.  I have been all over the Internet trying to locate a Fascist Aid or Fascist Emergency Relief for Haiti charity so that I could make a donate of some money, food, sperm, or whatever else they might need, but there is not one single such charity for me to give them to.  And I have millions.  Even when you go to Google and type in "Fascist Aid," the first link is to &lt;a href="https://www.unicef.ie/Content.aspx?pid=75&amp;amp;emId=22"&gt;Unicef&lt;/a&gt;!  Now, I am have no doubt that Unicef is doing what it regard as a good job in Haiti, but it is not strictly a fascist organization in the sense that I understand it.  Nor is &lt;a href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/"&gt;Doctors without Boredom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://secure.savethechildren.org/01/web_e_haiti_earthquake_10"&gt;Saves the Children&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.hopeforhaitinow.org/Default.asp"&gt;Hope for Haiti&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://yele.org/"&gt;Yèle Haiti&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/1_12_10.html"&gt;Haiti Action.&lt;/a&gt;  In fact, the nearest I could find to a fascist charity was &lt;a href="http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/"&gt;Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund&lt;/a&gt;, and there is something about the two men fronting it, I cannot quite put my finger on what, but when I think of them and their past involvement and foreing countries, for some reason aid and assistance is not what spring readily to mind.  Anyway, is a terrible state of affairs when even the &lt;a href="http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-17424-f0.cfm"&gt;trade unions&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://miamiautonomyandsolidarity.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/donate-now-to-batay-ouvriye-haitian-worker-and-peasants-organization/"&gt;anarchist communist atheists&lt;/a&gt; have got organize enough to get help to Haiti and we fascists cannot even organize a piss-up in a beer hall.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For, make no mistake, Haiti is providing us with an opportunity to begin with a clean slate, to start afresh all over again, and nothing could be better for the world right now than a fully functioning fascist utopia to demonstrate to the peoples everywhere that the future lies in a fully militarized authoritarian past.   However, when all the Yankees have gone home, do you think they will leave behind a fascist state?  Some chance.  Look at their track record:  Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua.  Wherever they go, they leave behind Communist Socialist hells.  Who could wish that on Haiti?  It would be far better for them to know that aid is coming from benevolent fascists abroad who would like nothing better than to see their country standing proud and foreinger-free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, so far, most fascists have done little more than use the issue of foreing aid as a stick with which to beat themselves.  The fuhrer of the BNP in England, &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8462717.stm"&gt;Sir Nick Griffle&lt;/a&gt;, for esample, has been saying that more elderly English people will die of the cold weather this winter in Britain than all the people who die in the Haiti earthquake!  What a moron! This is muddle thinking of the worse kind and does not reflect well on fascism at all (is probly cause by jealousy at the nice weather in Port au Prince).  People will just answer to him, "Well, Sir Nick, if all those old people was living in Haiti, they wouldn't get the cold in the first place.  Are you advocating we deport all our elderly people there?  Is a strange policy for a fascist."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Spain also, the bishop of San Sebastian, &lt;a href="http://www.publico.es/espana/285653/munilla/recomienda/terremoto/haiti/zapatero/evite/acercarse/tomar/comunion"&gt;José Ignacio Munilla&lt;/a&gt;, have been get in trouble for his comment that even though things are bad in Haiti, the situation is not as bad as it is for the Spanish peoples, who are suffering from a spiritual malaise—much worse therefore than any temporary physical discomfort—cause by materialism, consumerism, and having a socialist government.  This is to neglect, I think, the fact that peoples in Haiti are not only have the physical malaise, they also have the spiritual malaise too, especially now that all their churches are collapse.  Is nowhere now for them to make confession.  Imagine the guilt they all must feel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best of all, however, was the born-again Protestant fascist Pat Robinson, not to be confused with Irish born-again Protestant fascist Pete Robinson, who was make the ridiculous &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TE99sAbwM"&gt;claim on his TV show&lt;/a&gt; that the Haitians are being punished by God because they have been make a pact with the Devil in order to kick out the French. How ridiculous!  Have you seen the French army?  No.  Neither have anybody else.  But is hard to imagine that anyone would require the help of the Devil to kick them out of a brothel, let alone a whole country.  The man is a total idiot! And I am not just say that because he is a Protestant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For both my reader, therefore, I suppose you could use any of the above links to make the donations for Haiti if you can find no other alternative.  Until fascists in the decadent corrupt West are get their act together, they will have to do.  But be under no illusions.  Giving your money to help others will not turn them into fascists overnight.  It will take much more than that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-795684287379027749?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/795684287379027749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=795684287379027749&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/795684287379027749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/795684287379027749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/01/where-is-fascist-aid.html' title='Where is Fascist Aid?'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S2GqPb0wzWI/AAAAAAAAAoQ/WyF5u7grQWo/s72-c/earthkwake.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6955231912311248803</id><published>2010-01-21T08:33:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-01-21T10:34:29.029Z</updated><title type='text'>Robinson's Ma'am Laid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S1gRjMiomkI/AAAAAAAAAoI/y2ZPD6B1h8M/s1600-h/givinghead.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S1gRjMiomkI/AAAAAAAAAoI/y2ZPD6B1h8M/s400/givinghead.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429108647154719298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Young Boys Will Stick Their Head Anywhere!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have always found the politics in Northern Ireland very confusing, I must confess.  As I am understand it, the place is divided up into two part, one ruled over by a militaristic authoritarian misogynistic reactionary Protestant fascism, which want to take everyone back to the 17th century, and the other part is rule over by a militaristic authoritarian misogynistic progressive Catholic fascism, which want to take everyone back to the 1920s.   And even though they seem to have everything in common with one another, the main sticking plaster is they cannot agree over which football team to support.  It all very much seem like a stork in a teacup!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My more sophistic readers who know their Jonathan Livingstone Swift will recognize the story here of &lt;i&gt;Lilliver's Travels,&lt;/i&gt; in which a giant man Lilliver is go to Northern Ireland and finds two communities at war over which end of a boiled egg should be opened at breakfast (the correct answer is neither; you should have toast and brandy for breakfast).  Swift was write this rather shoddy analogy to poke fun at the Northern Irelanders and to draw attention to a phenomenal that is known to psychologists as the "Narcisssism of Small Differents."  What this mean is that the smaller the differents you are from someone, the more you hate them.  I am not buying it myself, of course.  It is those foreingers who are the problem, especially the Portuguese. Neverthenonetheless, his argument was thrown into swift (Si!) relief these past week by the starling revelations, which even the European papers are report, about the goings-on in the two communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Protestant Fascist community there have been a big outrage because the wife of the first minster has been have an affair with a teenage boy behind her husband's back when he wasn't looking (possibly he was, we don't know).  Iris Robinson, the questionable lady, is exemplifying a new modern type of woman which is being called in the media a "Jaguar."  This is a fast, espensive older lady who searches out young boys and then give them a smooth comfortable ride.  The home of the Jaguar is Coventry, which presumably is now where Iris can be found.   Of course, and typically for the liberal communist media, they are less interested in the corrupt decadent morality of modern life that could have enabled a woman to reach such a position of power and influence that she could seduce young boys, and more interested in the financial sheganigans that have surround the relationship, such as the possible kickbacks, backhanders, one-handers, handshandies, munchengladbacks and murunbuchstansangurs that have taken place, and therefore have throw the Northern Irish financial system into disrepute.   Yes.  We &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;ALL&lt;/span&gt; know whose first concern is the state of the financial system:  that secret Jewish Cabal that runs Northern Ireland behind all the scenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the Catholic Fascist community have been doing its best to keep up, with its version of &lt;a href="http://www.madoomovie.com/media/0818The%20Addams%20Family%20Values.jpg"&gt;Addams Family Values.&lt;/a&gt;  It is transpire that the brother of Jerry Addams was being allegated to have commit child abuse yet was able to work for youth groups in west Belfast and the Irish Republic and was also allow to be sitting in a chair on a branch in Sinn Fein three years after he was meant to have been expel from the party.  In addition, the party is being accused of covering up claims of sexual abuse perpetrate by republicans against ladies.  Addams is say that there is always smoke without fire, and both he and Peter Robinson are trying to wriggle off the hook that they have been hoist on.  But, and as I am never cease to point out in my astute observations of modern life, this is &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt; what happen when hierarchies are allowed to break down.   Liberal communist notions of accountability, transparency, and democracy replace sensible concepts such as obedience, suffering in silence, self-sacrifice, and discipline.  Once the Peace Process was take hold in Northern Ireland, everything went pie-high. Not to mention sky-eyed.  A society that is on a permanent war footing, such as my ideal fascist society, would not allow such activities as these to ever see the light of day.  A more rigid sense of discipline, a stricter hierarchy which ensure that a woman's place is in the home and that children would be seen and not heard, the regular use of punishment beatings, and of course unswerving devotion and loyalty to church, God, and country would all have prevented any of this dreadful publicity that is now turning Northern Ireland into the subject of much ridicule.  I have lose count now of how many times I have receive texts from people with Iris Robinson jokes, and I am not even have a mobile!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favourite so far, however, is this one:  Q:  Why did Iris Robinson have an adulterous affair with a 19-year-old boy?  A:  because all Protestants are going to burn in Hell anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I feel it is my duty to warn all my readers about a spoof Ireland fascist site called &lt;a href="http://www.irelandfirst.ie/"&gt;Ireland First,&lt;/a&gt; (DO NOT CLICK on LINK!) which, as far as I can tell, is attempting to provide an intellectual foundation for fascism.  Is a big disgrace!  As you are know, I strongly object to any sort of thinking.  Fascism must, by definition, be wilfully blind to all facts and base itself on faith alone, on the ecstatic bliss of sacrificing one's own desires for the collective regardless of the moral consequences, on giving oneself over entirely to the myth of the totality, on losing one's own identity in the values and culture of an artificially constructed and historically contingent "community" regardless of who actually benefits from the dissolution of one's own autonomy, on surrendering all control over one's own powers so that one can finally be free of the responsibility of thinking for oneself.  &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Any&lt;/span&gt; attempt at intellectualizing fascism must surely be an attempt by decadent, cosmopolitan, alien forces to  insinuate themselves into the fold.  The last thing fascism needs is for the Jews to be running it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manuel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6955231912311248803?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6955231912311248803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6955231912311248803&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6955231912311248803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6955231912311248803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/01/robinsons-maam-laid.html' title='Robinson&apos;s Ma&apos;am Laid'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S1gRjMiomkI/AAAAAAAAAoI/y2ZPD6B1h8M/s72-c/givinghead.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-71916253663715630</id><published>2010-01-14T07:55:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-01-14T08:37:31.395Z</updated><title type='text'>Is the Horror of Immigration.  Now in 3-D!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07OHqWXbJI/AAAAAAAAAng/wDj4wgAhVjU/s1600-h/atavar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07OHqWXbJI/AAAAAAAAAng/wDj4wgAhVjU/s400/atavar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426501232050531474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Is Like It Almost Poke You in the Eye!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you are probly know if you are a funky culture vulture with your fingers in the pulses, peoples everywhere are rave about the new blue movie &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Atavar, &lt;/span&gt;by Irish director James Cameron, mostly because it is in three dimensions, going not only up and down the screen and both ways across the screen but also, if you wear special spectacles, like the founder of the Mormons, even out of the screen and into the theatre.  Or, if you are watch it at home, into your living room, all over your carpet, and into your bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may be a bit too close for comfort for many viewers, of course, because this is a movie that deal with a most unpalatable topic, namley, foreingers, and the last thing most people want is foreingers in their bedroom.  Neverthenonetheless, you should bare with me, because the movie is have an important message that people do not really been pay attention to, and is about bloody time that they did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the audience watching it and reading this will be old enough, I espect, to remember the film&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Planet of the Ape,&lt;/span&gt; which star the brilliant Charlton Hesto and was base on the even better book&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Monkey Planet,&lt;/span&gt; by Pierre Boulez.  Boulez's intention at the time was to warn western civilization about the coming destruction of society as a result of immigration by blacks who would one day take over the world and wield the whip hand.  Was a powerful and necessary message that only a few people really pay attention to, mostly fascists, and that is only preaching to the inverted.  Sadly, when the film was made to reach a bigger audience, the message was softened, and the monkeys were become almost nearly sympathetic, especially Rodney McDowall, (in the remake, the directors was try to overcome this by casting Helena Bonham-Carter-Ruck as a chimp, but that still was not make people angry enough).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's children will have forgot the Ape Cycle (&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Planet of the Ape, Escape from Planet of the Ape, Behind the Planet of the Ape,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Never Turn Your Back on Planet of the Ape&lt;/span&gt;), which is why this new movie is so necessary.  Cameron has try to be as subtle as Boulez, translating the Irish term for black man, "Fear Gorm," into its literal meaning—blue man—and then tarting up the movie with a few 3-D effects so that his message is not lost in all the tits and whistles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know the movie is being particularly well-receive in Britain, where the people of foreing colour is now 3 million out of 60 million.  If my math is correct, that is almost half the population.  No wonder British people are feel swamped and say their culture is disappearing.  Remember, these foreingers are people who will not integrate into the traditional British culture of drinking alcohol until you are sick in the street, fighting strangers, eating at McDonald's, obsessing about football and cars, marrying white girls, talking proper, doing poorly in school, eating bacon and Sunday roast, and going to church religiously.  And their youngsters, instead of hoodies, are wear the hijab or the turban in the street, and instead of trainers they are wear sandals or flip-flops or whatever it is they do wear.  And they won't join the army or the air force.  Is a big disgrace!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am hope that Cameron's movie will do something to restore pride for civilize people in their country and that they get properly the message of the film. My fear, however, is that people are stupid and will miss the hole point.  Indeed, I am see already that the liberal atheist media are try to put the spin on it, as we might espect.  They try to present the film as an allegory about imperialism and colonialism.  As if they were somehow BAD things!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, what can we do in a democracy, where even stupid people are allow to have opinions?  In an ideal world, where we could shut down all the media and force people to watch the film without any preconception, then maybe we might stand a chance. But then, in an ideal world, their opinions would not matter in the first place and we would not have to go through the hole charade of giving a toss.  I am call this Estímulo's Paradox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My advice, therefore, is that you read the book.  The film have already been spoiled.  And in any case, they all die in the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-71916253663715630?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/71916253663715630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=71916253663715630&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/71916253663715630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/71916253663715630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-horror-of-immigration-now-in-3-d.html' title='Is the Horror of Immigration.  Now in 3-D!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07OHqWXbJI/AAAAAAAAAng/wDj4wgAhVjU/s72-c/atavar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-2323434809951450184</id><published>2010-01-07T06:31:00.001Z</published><updated>2010-01-07T06:32:20.386Z</updated><title type='text'>Is the End Return of the World as We Know It!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2184" src="http://www.coddlepot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/orphanagefire.jpg" alt="orphanagefire" width="425" height="282" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Is Sister Hermann Maria and the Orphanage Fire which She Alone Predict!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is my very great pleasure today to present for to you the annual apocalyptic predictions from Sister Hermann Marie Assumpta, the well-known hallucinating mystic nun with the migraines and the sunglasses.  Notorious for the accuracy of her predictions, Sister Hermann Maria has been preparing all Devouts to brace themselves for the Second Coming of Our Lord God Jesus since 1963, when she experienced her first visitation from Our Lady while on a shopping trip to Medjugorje.  She is neverthenonetheless shy of publicity, a handicap in the mystic nun stakes, and which make her not necessarily the best vehicle for maximizing her very important message.  Is therefore why I am reproduce below her latest forebodings, knowing that the thousands of pious and holy readers who come to Coddle Pot will take note and do everything they can to circulate her incredible good news.  Here is what she is predict for the year ahead:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January:&lt;/strong&gt; The Liberal-Left Agenda to destroy Christian civilization continues apace with the introduction of a new &lt;strong&gt;BLASPHEMY LAW&lt;/strong&gt; in Ireland.  The new law extends the crime of blasphemy so that it applies not just to Catholicism but also to all other religions, an unwarranted extension of tolerance, cosmopolitanism, pluralism, and barbarism at a time when the need for a muscular Catholicism to guide humanity is at its greatest.  As punishment, God will smite each government minister, one by one, with a serious illness, until the law is repealed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February:&lt;/strong&gt; As foretold in the Book of Revelation, the &lt;strong&gt;DEAD&lt;/strong&gt; will begin to &lt;strong&gt;RISE&lt;/strong&gt; from the &lt;strong&gt;GRAVE.&lt;/strong&gt; It transpires that they are able to run after all, but don't do it very often because it's a waste of energy.  Also, despite another popular misconception, they do not eat human flesh, being zombies, not cannibals.  They do, however, exhibit a fondness for bestiality and golf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;strong&gt;WHORE OF BABYLON&lt;/strong&gt; comes from nowhere and goes straight in at Number One with her download-only single, “Hot Love.”  Purists argue that it isn’t as good as the T. Rex original, but she observes blithely that they're missing the point.  Her dismissive attitude wins her few friends in the media.  Max Clifford takes on her PR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April:&lt;/strong&gt; ITV announces that there will be no more series of &lt;em&gt;Britain’s Got Talent.&lt;/em&gt; There is much &lt;strong&gt;WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. &lt;/strong&gt; There is also much inexplicable gnashing of woolens.  And a plague of child singers roaming the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May:&lt;/strong&gt; The first appearance of &lt;strong&gt;THE BEAST,&lt;/strong&gt; as described in the Book of Revelation, &lt;em&gt;The Observer Guide to How to Spot the Beast,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Mysterious Tumour of Gold.&lt;/em&gt; To the Beast's consternation, he is not immediately recognized, but this is because he gives his number as 00 353 61 836 66121, which isn't as immediately memorable as 666.  Those who call discover that it is a telesales number for a life insurance company and accident claims specialists.  The Beast says in an interview with the &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt; that he is “raking it in” but also “spending it like there’s no tomorrow.”  Because there isn’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June:&lt;/strong&gt; The Great Irish iPod Famine.   Teenagers across the country are distraught.  There will be great &lt;strong&gt;TEARING OF HAIR AND TEARING OF EYES.&lt;/strong&gt; On the upside, the art of teenage conversation is briefly revived, and the generation gap is momentarily breached.  A 13-year-old in Ballinasloe utters the first word heard by a teenager this millennium:  “Whatever.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July:&lt;/strong&gt; The sound of &lt;strong&gt;SEVEN TRUMPETS&lt;/strong&gt; will be heard across the entire European landmass, throwing cities into panic, horses into ditches, water into wine, etc.   Residents around Croke Park lodge a complaint and stage a picket outside the Dexy’s Midnight Runners reunion concert.  Singer Kevin Rowland says the extraordinary volume of his brass section is the result of the cavernous echo of an empty stadium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August:&lt;/strong&gt; In line with the Prophecy, &lt;strong&gt;SEVEN SEALS&lt;/strong&gt; are washed up on Brighton beach. A massive row ensues when a so-called “expert” from the local zoo points out that they are not seals at all, but sea lions, escaped from the nearby circus.  God is hubristically accused of inattention to detail.  Smites Brighton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September:&lt;/strong&gt; The most convincing sign yet of the &lt;strong&gt;ENDTIMES,&lt;/strong&gt; September 10 sees the terrifying discovery of a massive gas-giant planet a mere 130 miles from Earth.  Everyone says to themselves, "I wondered why the high tide level was in Mansfield."  In mitigation, astronomers say that all their telescopes had been pointed the other way, into deep space.  Everybody’s watches stop, yet all trains are suddenly and miraculously “on time,” and not just because of dubious accounting practices.  Astrologers are finally vindicated as the real scientists, since they'd been predicting that this would happen every September for the last two centuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October:&lt;/strong&gt; Massive &lt;strong&gt;EARTHQUAKE&lt;/strong&gt; tips San Francisco and L.A. into the sea.  About bloody time, say seismologists, homophobes, and fashion gurus.  Shares in Bollywood film companies soar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;EVOLUTION DISPROVED.&lt;/strong&gt; In China, there are reports of the discovery of the fossils of a group of centaurs.  Religious observers argue that the new find disproves the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection.  Biologists respond by pointing out that it also disproves Intelligent Design.   Only the wisest heads, familiar with the ancient languages of the Bible, realize that these are the four horse-men of the Apocalypse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December: &lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;strong&gt;END OF THE WORLD.&lt;/strong&gt; Shops report a noticeable drop-off in pre-Christmas sales.  The Day of Judgement beats the X-Factor finals in Christmas Day ratings.  The Irish government announces that the economy is on the upturn. A fawning media credit the "brave Taoiseach" for his heroic obliteration of the public sector.  God finishes the job by obliterating all other sectors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a superstitious man in general, but I shall be keeping my finger and leg and eye crossed all year in the hope that Sister Hermann Maria have finally got it right this time.  Is all in the hands of Our Lord now.  All we can do is pray!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-2323434809951450184?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/2323434809951450184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=2323434809951450184&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2323434809951450184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/2323434809951450184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-end-return-of-world-as-we-know-it.html' title='Is the &lt;strike&gt;End&lt;/strike&gt; Return of the World as We Know It!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-8215174928894779667</id><published>2009-06-11T12:04:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T12:54:59.836+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Escape to Victory!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SjDk52jJkVI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/2XhSLJJ3H9o/s1600-h/cristiano-ronaldo-entertainer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SjDk52jJkVI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/2XhSLJJ3H9o/s400/cristiano-ronaldo-entertainer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346024440235397458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I Flap My Wings and Fly Like Icarus!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si, is the great news that Real Madrid the Best Team in the World have &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8094720.stm"&gt;deigned to sign&lt;/a&gt; from the useless Manchester waste-of-space-can't-even-beat-Barcelona team their only decent player, Cronaldo of Portugal (which historically belong to Spain).  He is will play alongside the Brazilian genius Kaka, who will also do his translating for him, in a Galactico v.2.0 that will inevitable win all the trophies going next year, including probly the World Cup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cronaldo was always very unhappy with staying at the Manchester, mostly because of all the ugliness everywhere.  Every day he was having to drive through the horrible pissing rain, all along the grimy Coronation Street, and into the mouldy old Trafford, where he would have to spend the day with &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01124/wayne-rooney_1124077c.jpg"&gt;Mr. Potato Head&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/508.$plit/C_71_article_1003304_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg"&gt;Frank Ribery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.topnews.in/files/Paul_Scholes.jpg"&gt;The Orange Utan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jan2009/9/9/C703F1E3-CE0D-224D-B155BA9FE0CD17A0.jpg"&gt;Beetroot Face&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KHq_qK5fCew/Ro5cJFw7hvI/AAAAAAAAAEo/l1ZaLqp__dE/s1600-h/belly.jpg.jpg"&gt;Nemanja Vidic.&lt;/a&gt;   Was all very depressing.  Is no wonder he try to end it all by crashing his &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2009/jan/08/manchester-united-cristiano-ronaldo-car-crash?picture=341509591"&gt;Frerrarri into a wall&lt;/a&gt;!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now instead he will enjoy the sunny and glorious Madrid, drive along beautiful and wide and clean streets, look at all the beautiful virginal Madrilenas (although he cannot touch them because he is still a foreinger), arrive in the magnificent Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, and play alongside other beautiful and virile young men such as the Kaka, Raúl, Guti, Saviola and, to a lesser estent, Van Nistelrooy.  Will be just like the old Galactico team—which have the genius Zidane, the little girl Beckham, the traitor Figo, and the bald Ronaldo—escept this time much better looking.  With Florentino Perez back in charge, once again Real Madrid will be organized in the traditional feudal Spanish Christian way, with a small group of aesthetically beautiful and delicately tended geniuses supported by a mass of thick ignorant peasant.  And I don't mean the fans!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Así gana Real Madrid!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-8215174928894779667?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/8215174928894779667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=8215174928894779667&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8215174928894779667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/8215174928894779667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/06/escape-to-victory.html' title='Escape to Victory!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SjDk52jJkVI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/2XhSLJJ3H9o/s72-c/cristiano-ronaldo-entertainer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-6072614639501455228</id><published>2009-06-06T11:16:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-06T13:38:38.541+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Opportunity Knocks!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SipO1qeO3uI/AAAAAAAAAnI/D5DwgszHgQ4/s1600-h/mossley.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SipO1qeO3uI/AAAAAAAAAnI/D5DwgszHgQ4/s400/mossley.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344170591669640930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SipOBKef9eI/AAAAAAAAAm4/s9EmeXkODqk/s1600-h/Cowel2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 273px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SipOBKef9eI/AAAAAAAAAm4/s9EmeXkODqk/s400/Cowel2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344169689727628770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One is an unpleasant demagogue contemptuous of the masses and who always wear black.  The other is the former leader of the British Union of Fascists!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am reading all about the disarray in the British government and the big spanking that Gordon Brown is getting from the idiot British electorate and also from his party of atheist communists (with the dishonourable esception of Tony Blair, who get out while the going was good and avoid making all the difficult decisions by becoming a Catholic &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;after&lt;/span&gt; he leave power), and I am notice that generally in the Britain there is an overwhelming contempt for politicians of all stripe because of their fiddling, diddling, piddling, and other things that rhyme with griddle.  The inbred Tory Party is an obnoscious bunch of self-glorifying creeps eager to get at the public trough and return once more to the glory days of John Major, William The Hague, and the other bald one, when Conservatism was a by-word for insipid craven prefect types such as the Hamilton sisters, Neil and Christine.  The Liberal Democrats is the party where everyone go to when they die.  And the Greens want to harness all brand-new technology at the nation's disposal to take us back to the feudal era, which in iself is not objectionable, escept their version of feudalism involve maypoles, cider, and paganism, not proper feudalism, with strict hierarchy, the Inquisition, and death at 27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a consequence, a lot of peoples in Britain is casting around for a proper party that have nothing to do with politics at all, and this is where the BNP is coming in.  Is a tradition in Britain that the fascists never do very well because all of their interests have been cater for by the Conservative Party, Little Chefs, motorway motels, and private clubs in Streatham.  Also because the Second World War, with the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, the bombing of Coventry, the glorious retreat at Dunkirk, and the such like, all of which give fascism a bad name in England.  Is not possible anymore to be a proper self-admitted fascist in Britain without somehow getting a bad name.  People will say to you, "If you like it so much, why don't you go back to 1930s Germany?"  Also, if you look at the class that which have traditionally been associate with fascism, such as criminals, thugs, gangsters, sociopath, second-hand car dealers and their sons, they are all now only on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Eastenders&lt;/span&gt;!  Even the current leader of the BNP, Nick the Greek, is a fictional character; my Irish readers swill remember in James Joyce's &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ulysses&lt;/span&gt; that the Nationalist character in his book have only one eye (is meant to be the Cyclops from the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Odyssey&lt;/span&gt;).  Was meant to be a metaphor, but I think the BNP have take it literally!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, we fascist know that there is nothing wrong with having only the one eye.  You can still be a member of the master race.  One of Spain most greatest fascist, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mill%C3%A1n_Astray"&gt;José Millán Astray&lt;/a&gt;, have not just one eye but also one arm.  However, he lose his arm and his eye on the battlefield, not opening a can of paint to spray &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pakis Out&lt;/span&gt; on a wall in Cambridge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the British people will be vote for BNP in the  elections, but they will do so with no illusion that the BNP can return Britain to the glory days of fascism, such as under Margaret Thatcher or Cromwell.  Neverthenonetheless, is clear that there is a thirst among the British idiot public for a strong and charismatic leaderclass who can discipline and punish them and also scapegoat the Jewish bankers, the European Union, and immigrants for the current economic crisis (UKIP is not up to the job, let's face it).  But where is this leaderclass?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look no further than the reality television.  Right there you are have the Simon Cowell, the Gordon Ramsay, the Anne Robinson, and, for the sake of political correctness, the Alan Sugar.  Straight away you have four very unpleasant individual who espress nothing but contempt for the British public, and the British public love it! They are mean, rude, they wield their power capriciously and thoughtlessly, they are without guilt or shame, they revel in their own achievements, they have no capacity for introspection, reflection, or sense of social justice.  Nietzsche would be very proud of them.  I can picture them, even as I sit here naked, executing small ponies without an ounce of pity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is necessary therefore that the mass rallies that are &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Britain's Got Talent&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;X-Factor&lt;/span&gt; are now transform into mobs of reaction.  Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden must lead the people out into the streets of the United Kingdom to smash up Jewish pawnbrokers, assault beggars and chuggers, burn down foreign fast food outlets such as Pizza Espress, Kentucky Fry Chicken, and Abrakebabra (not McDonald's, which is originally Scottish), and then lead a mass orgy of looting and praying before storming the parliament and installing Gordon Ramsay as Lord Protector and cooking for everyone a nice meal of bangers and mush.  Only then will Britain be Great once more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know it make it sense!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-6072614639501455228?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/6072614639501455228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=6072614639501455228&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6072614639501455228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/6072614639501455228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/06/opportunity-knocks.html' title='Opportunity Knocks!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SipO1qeO3uI/AAAAAAAAAnI/D5DwgszHgQ4/s72-c/mossley.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-4591645948231199878</id><published>2009-05-26T20:59:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T22:38:38.896+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ask a Man Who Knows!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShxLprNlEPI/AAAAAAAAAmY/EpdHdd-Yvzg/s1600-h/priest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShxLprNlEPI/AAAAAAAAAmY/EpdHdd-Yvzg/s400/priest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340226437500965106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;You Can Trust Me, Sir.  I'm a Priest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the upsides to all this kerfuffle about sexual abuse and the clergy is that it will lay to rest forever the argument that priests are in no position to offer marital or sexual advice because of their lack of esperience.  On the contrary, we now know that priests have been getting much more sex than the rest of the adult population and are therefore probly in a far much better position to offer tips about handjobs, blowjobs, snowjobs, dogging, catting, and hamstering than any of the so-called "experts" in the back pages of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Marie-Claire, Cosmoplolitan,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Model Railroader&lt;/span&gt; magazine.  I know that if ever I was having sexual problems, such as a disobedient wife or penis, the first person I would go to ask about it would be Father Pedro.  Well, after I had spoken to the girl at Samaritans on the phone and pulled myself off; I don't want to turn up at Father Pedro's and halfway through our frank and candid discussion about rubberwear develop an unwanted espression of friendliness in my trousers that he might miscontrue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not alone in this belief, it would appear.  &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8049853.stm"&gt;The news is reporting&lt;/a&gt; that "a Polish Catholic priest has published a book which provides married couples with a theological and practical guide to spicing up their sex lives."  Father Kasweary Kuntz is the author of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Sex for Catholics:  Getting Away with Getting It Up,&lt;/span&gt; which presents advice for married Catholic couples on how to spice up their sex lives while remaining faithful to Our Lady.  He recommends, for esample, inviting in some Protestants to watch, not because voyeurism is intrinsically arousing but because their presence will provide an incentive to show much how much better it is to be Catholic (Protestants are not allowed to remove their socks or underwear, for instance, whereas Catholics can engage in all sorts of toe sucking and sole scratching).  Another suggestion from Father Kuntz is that the husband make a donation to the church every time his wife suck his balls, which is clever because ladies are traditionally more pious than men and so will want the church to benefit from their actions, but they also know that sex is a filthy disgusting evil activity, especially when men are involved, so they are frequently reluctant, I am told, to lick any part of the male anatomy, with the possible esception of the elbow.  Following Father Kuntz's advice, however, will render prostitution entirely unnecessary ever again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some peoples may look askance at a sex book by a priest, but Father Kuntz insists that all of his tips and advice are in keeping with the teachings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.  He discourages the use of contraceptives, for esample, because they lead Catholic couples down a slippery slope, especially if they have used lubrication at the same time.  Before they know it, they will not just be using contraceptives but also engaging in all manner of Protestant activities, such as homosexuality, reading the Bible for themselves, and teabagging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides, says Father Kuntz, as many priests will tell you, they never had to use a contraceptive once, and yet their sexual partners NEVER get pregnant. God knows his own and takes care of them.  And so does the Catholic Church!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-4591645948231199878?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/4591645948231199878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=4591645948231199878&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4591645948231199878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4591645948231199878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/05/ask-man-who-knows.html' title='Ask a Man Who Knows!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShxLprNlEPI/AAAAAAAAAmY/EpdHdd-Yvzg/s72-c/priest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-14052271221331723</id><published>2009-05-20T19:35:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-21T05:58:37.483+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pay Attention Juan Carlos!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShRNlIwRaeI/AAAAAAAAAlg/1x0M4QEkZuA/s1600-h/Princephil2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 335px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShRNlIwRaeI/AAAAAAAAAlg/1x0M4QEkZuA/s400/Princephil2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337976758741330402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And This Does Not Include My Duke of Edinburgh Award!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si, is the Prince Phillips of England, spouse of the Queen but not a king himself, just a sort of male First Lady, but with more balls than Laura the Bush and Michelle the Obama, although not Hillary the Clinton. Indeed, some people are say that Prince Phillips compensates for not being the king by his escessively aggressive xenophobia, homophobia, hydrophobia, quadrophenia, and misogyny, but I say, "not at all!"  There is nothing escessive about any bits of him!  In fact, he is an esample of one of those crazy Greeks who we would all do well to learn from.  He always speaks his mind and it never take him very long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phillips is in the news this week because the so-called neo-Nazis of the British National Party have announced that they are boycotting a &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8060268.stm"&gt;Buckingham Palace Garden Party to which they have been invited&lt;/a&gt; because of the likelihood that he will be there.  They have said in a statement that "we do not wish to be associate with estremists, racists, nutters in general, or people who make slitty-eye faces or the jokes about suntans and nig-nogs.  The British Nazi Party is a respectable democratic organization that will have no truck with antiquated reactionary ideologies and does not think Dukes should be allowed on platforms or that Prince is even a proper name, escept for a dog.  Political estremists of all stripes should be sent back to wherever they come from or hunted down like Jews."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This, I think, show an utter lack of sense of humour on the part of the BNP, not to mention a lack of respect for the less important members of the royal family.  Have they already forgotten Prince Harry's swastika armband, Prince Williams's aryan good looks, Prince Charles's adoration of Albert Speer, Lady Diana's tribute to Jorg Haider?  I, for one, would kill any number of my own family, or indeed the royal family, to get a chance to meet the Duke of Earl.  He is what every modern monarch (or monarch's wife) should be.  He is tall, like Michelle the Obama, he have a grimacey smile like Hillary the Clinton, and he is bald, like Laura the Bush.  But more importantantly, he uphold traditional British values which the British themselves have seem to forget, such as anti-intellectualism, killing things, and awkwardness in social situations, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; major English character trait and which esplain why, historically, the English was always preferring killing people to meeting them, all the better if it could be done from a distance, such as over Dresden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look at our own dear king, the doting and moribund Juan-Carlos, and I wish that we could do a swap.  Prince Phillips look like a thrusting dynamo in comparison.  He is Patrick Swayze to Juan-Carlos's Farrah Fawcett.  I bet that if Prince Phillips had been king of Spain during &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23-F"&gt;El Tejerazo,&lt;/a&gt; he would not have peed in his trousers and told the army to get back to the barracks. No!  He would have rub his thighs in delight and say "Bring it on, you beauty!" or whatever the English aristocracy is saying whenever it daydream about the mass slaughter of the working class.  In fact, I think he would have been leading the coup himself, with his trusty shotgun in his hand shooting down the peasants like pheasants and the pheasants like grouse.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British Nazi Party need to take a good look at themselves and laugh.  That is what Prince Phillips would do.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe that is why they are too scared to go.  He would outwit them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is a joke!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-14052271221331723?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/14052271221331723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=14052271221331723&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/14052271221331723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/14052271221331723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/05/pay-attention-juan-carlos.html' title='Pay Attention Juan Carlos!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/ShRNlIwRaeI/AAAAAAAAAlg/1x0M4QEkZuA/s72-c/Princephil2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-4253111876252225821</id><published>2009-05-14T06:54:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T07:39:29.639+01:00</updated><title type='text'>False Pope Visits Israel, Condemns Jews, Muslims, to Hell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SguyLIJzwZI/AAAAAAAAAlY/EHn9zMt66YQ/s1600-h/usurperinisrael.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SguyLIJzwZI/AAAAAAAAAlY/EHn9zMt66YQ/s400/usurperinisrael.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335554087787413906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Is the Usurper Pope in a Usurper State!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the papers this week are being raging about the news of the False Pope, Benedinct, and his visits to the bit of Palestine called Israel and the bits of Palestine called Palestine in order to finally bring peace to that dreadful place, although his real message to the world, obviously, is that if everyone was Catholic, none of this would be happening.  And also to laugh up his sleeve at people of other religions killing one another.  Like all popes, false or not, I'm sure he is totally in favour of that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was always going to be being a delicate trip for the pope, one of the reasons why he did not call for the annihilation of Israel while he was there.  As a former Nazi and the leader, or fuhrer, of a religion that, until recently, correctly condemn all Jews as deicides, responsible for the executing of Jesus, he was having his work cut out to make a convincing case for the Holocaust.  Fortunately, he have the sense to take a middle line, not going the way of the total deniers and pretending that nothing untoward happened in Poland in the 1940s; nor going the other route of saying, "Yes, we killed millions of Jews.  What of it?" which is the attitude of most Germans of his generation.  Instead, he recognize his obligation, as leader of a mainly non-German church, to acknowledge the Holocaust without taking any responsibility for it or saying sorry, which to me seem very sensible indeed.  After all, his main responsibility as fake head of the Catholic Church is to all the world's Roman Catholics, many of whom are not German and did not directly take part in the Holocaust.  Indeed, many Roman Catholics who were around at the time in France, Italy, Poland, Czaechoslovakia, and so on, all lost Jewish neighbours during the war and were forced to watch in the streets as they were dragged off and put on trucks and carted off to who knows where and never seen again.  What do they have to apologize for?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si.  Is very important to recognize that the False Pope is in the Middle East NOT as a former Nazi but as the head of the universal church, and therefore it is wrong to criticize him, as some have done, for his wartime indiscretions.  What's more, we shouldn't be distracted from the real issue here, which is the False Pope's illegitimate reign of terror that renders all statements he makes on behalf of Catholics entirely without validity.  People need to get some perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few years after the Real Pope, John Paul Mark Two, was kidnapped and usurped, a Holocaust survivor named Idit Tzirir described how a young seminary student named Karol Wojtyla trudged through the snow for miles carrying her on his back after her release, emaciated and suffering from tuberculosis, from a German labor camp.  At the time, we all knew that this was an attempt by the Benedinct cabal to smear John Paul's good name among true Catholics, but consider now how useful that story might have been from a PR point of view if it had been John Paul still in power today visiting Israel and not the admitted former Hitler Youth member Benedinct, who might have come across Tzirir in the snow and shot her!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I am see also that the Vatican has been making statements defending the usurper Benedinct's anti-Nazi credentials.  It is saying that some of the pope's best friends are Jews, and also it is saying, "for Christ's sake, give it a rest.  Do you espect him to mention the Holocaust EVERY time he visit a synagogue?  Is only the Jews who do that!" And also, to appease the Israelis, Benedinct made an important statement to the Palestinians, telling them to stop throwing stones at Israeli tanks.  And also to stop persecuting Christians.  After all, Palestine really belong to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Middle East truly is a minefield, even if you have the best will in the world, so imagine what it must be like for the False Pope.  Every step he take is accompanied by a BOOM!  And yet still he walks among us, spreading his false creed.  The only esplanation can be that he is the anti-christ himself, which is what I have said all along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Him or Barack the Obama.  I am not able to decide.  Maybe both.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-4253111876252225821?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/4253111876252225821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=4253111876252225821&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4253111876252225821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/4253111876252225821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/05/false-pope-visits-israel-condemns-jews.html' title='False Pope Visits Israel, Condemns Jews, Muslims, to Hell'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/S07ZUYQ-keI/AAAAAAAAAno/2NQn49V8jkg/S220/Manuel.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SguyLIJzwZI/AAAAAAAAAlY/EHn9zMt66YQ/s72-c/usurperinisrael.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19176767.post-7859375799727596527</id><published>2009-05-08T20:42:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T07:46:00.937+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Scratch an Anarchist and a Fascist Bleed!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SgSLNYHmZmI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/l6ORz3sgT04/s1600-h/mussolini+death+hanging+lynching+world+war+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1_SBZQDYI0/SgSLNYHmZmI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/l6ORz3sgT04/s400/mussolini+death+hanging+lynching+world+war+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333540920642397794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;No, Silly, is not Cirque du Soleil.  Is Mussolini being hanged by the Garibaldis!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whenever peoples are asking me to esplain to them the intricicasies of the Spanish Civil War for Golf, I always tell them, "ask your priest!"  But sometimes they are persisting, because it is all too complex for even a man of the cloths to understand, and besides they know that I will give them the truth, rather than an impartial, objective "historical" account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What they are all wanting to know is:  How come the Trostskyists and the Anarchists were both fighting for the republic yet were also Fascists, as the Soviet Union said.  Also, how come the Soviet Union was betraying the Spanish working class and undermine its revolution when it was meant to be the vanguard of the international proletariat.  Also also how come the Generalísimo's best fighters in the crusade for Christian Spain were the Moors who he set loose upon fellow Spaniards to do the pillage, rape, torture, and murder for Christianity.  How come also the Irish was fighting on both sides?  And where were the crazy Greeks?  And many other such intriguing questions that the war throw up like undigested liver and onions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I make them sit them down, and then I make them stand up again and go to the bar and buy me a Cardenal Mendoza.  And when they come back I esplain to them that the war was really a very big and sad misunderstanding that was mainly the result of the fact that a large proportion of the people of Spain, such as the Basques and the filthy Catalans, did not speak Spanish properly, and as a consequence there was lots of crossed lines, faux pas like the bombing of Guernica, and other summary massacres that was really just lapses in etiquette.  Because, what you are having to understand about the Spanish people as a whole, is that all of them are, in reality, natural fascists, like all peoples in other countries too, especially the Irish, who I espect were fighting on both sides just to make sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this confusement about the war was brought to mind by the comments of the mad crazy anarchists and fascists who have been leaving comments on my blog over the past few weeks.  On the one hand, there have been peoples such as &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;amp;postID=1774939451408002401&amp;amp;isPopup=true"&gt;Poutsas,&lt;/a&gt; who claim to be an anarchist and then call me a "stupid cunt," which is unusually florid and angle-saxton language to hear from anyone of the politically correct persuasion these days.  And then, on the other hand, there is peoples like &lt;a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;amp;postID=6959252842779195257&amp;amp;isPopup=true"&gt;Neonazi Greek and Greek Nazi&lt;/a&gt; who use language that is either much too educated and correct grammatically for a proper fascist, or else they describe engaging in filthy disgusting homosexual practices that I thought was only allowed in Masonic rituals!  You can see how easy it is for people to get the wrong end of the stick when there are fascist thug anarchists and genteel homoerotic Nazis. How are the police going to know which ones to beat about the head?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which all bring me back of course to Benighted Benito, pictured above doing political gyrations for which he was well known. Mussolini begin his political career as a socialist and syndicalist but only later did he see the light and become true to his nature and adopt fascism.  He was realizing that very often people's purported political beliefs are really just a disguise, a justification for their resentments, grudges, and self-interest.  Instead of pretending to be principled and idealistic, he decided to be sincere about his prejudices and biases.  If you happen to know any fascists yourself, you will know already that they are all always very honest.  They hate intellectuals and people who are better educated than themselves, and they hate people who have more money than them, and they hate women and foreingers, and they hate liberals, and they hate the Jews.  In other words, they are just like everybody else, with the difference that they make no effort to conceal their feelings.  They are like you only more sincere!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is why Mussolini had to be &lt;a href="http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-right.html"&gt;hanged and beaten like a pinata,&lt;/a&gt; of course.  Because honesty always makes people uncomfortable.  And also because of all the people he killed.  But at least the people he killed knew he had integrity, whereas when the anarchists was killing people, they were not only committing murder, they was also doing it in Bad Faith. Think how &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; victims must have felt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, war between fascists is a terrible, terrible thing.  And yet, somehow, it seem to be so right!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19176767-7859375799727596527?l=manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/feeds/7859375799727596527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19176767&amp;postID=7859375799727596527&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7859375799727596527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19176767/posts/default/7859375799727596527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://manuel-estimulo.blogspot.com/2009/05/scratch-anarchist-and-fascist-bleed.html' title='Scratch an Anarchist and a Fascist Bleed!!'/><author><name>Manuel Estimulo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10611753680384433098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.goog
