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Tub-Thumper - 1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter. (from oed.com). This blog will be a combination of reasoned posting somedays and an occasional rant.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
posted by michael the tubthumper @ 11:29 AM   8 comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
TURN IT UP
Turn it right up as loud as it will go and enjoy!

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Monday, May 14, 2007
A BETTER ANSWER
One thing you always hear is that for protestors to be effective we 'need to have a better story.'

It has been repeated so often it has become accepted.

Here is a better story than killing kids.... NOT killing kids
Here is a better story than destroying the planet... NOT destroying the planet
Here is a better story than poisoning the air and water and ourselves... NOT poisoning the air and water and ourselves.

I don't need much of a better story than that

From George Orwell....

Socialist thought has to deal in prediction, but only in broad terms. One often has to aim at objectives which one can only very dimly see. At this moment, for instance, the world is at war and wants peace. Yet the world has no experience of peace, and never has had, unless the Noble Savage once existed. The world wants something which it is dimly aware could exist, but cannot accurately define. This Christmas Day, thousands of men will be bleeding to death in the Russian snows, or drowning in icy waters, or blowing one another to pieces on swampy islands of the Pacific; homeless children will be scrabbling for food among the wreckage of German cities. To make that kind of thing impossible is a good objective. But to say in detail what a peaceful world would be like is a different matter.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

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posted by michael the tubthumper @ 11:01 AM   3 comments
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
ANAGRAMS
Some anagrams of the names of our illustrious leaders

Tony Blair PM

I'M TORY PLAN B
A BLIMP NO TRY
BALM I NOT PRY
PORN BAT LIMY

George W Bush

BUGGERS WE OH
BUGGERS WE HO
BUGGER SHE OW
BUGGER HE SOW
BREWS EGO UGH


Margaret Thatcher

CATARRH TART GEM HEMP

Donald Rumsfeld

DULLARDS FOND ME
LANDLORDS DEF SUM
ADDS DULL MEN FOR
DADS OLD MEN FURL
LAMED FUND LORDS
DERMAL FOLDS DUN

Dick Cheney

CHICKEN DYE
DICKY HENCE

John Howard

WAR, D'OH JOHN

Silvio Berlusconi

VINCIBLE SOILS OUR
OBSCURE I ILL VINOS

Stephen Harper

REHASH NET PREP

Nicolas Sarkozy

A RACK IN SLY ZOOS
A CZAR IN YOLK, SOS

Favourites anyone? Or anymore?

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posted by michael the tubthumper @ 11:09 AM   3 comments
Thursday, May 03, 2007
SCOTTISH ELECTION DAY

I do not support one party or another and all the scaremongering from Westminster is over for at least a while but I hope we can at least make a start on the road to full independence today.

It is high time.

To paraphrase and translate a famous old Scottish quote

"It is better to have our politicians here in Edinburgh where we can throw stones at them because not even the strongest arm can throw as far as London."

p.s. Mary, please email the email you can find in my profile

Thanks

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posted by michael the tubthumper @ 10:18 AM   3 comments
Saturday, April 28, 2007
LEST WE FORGET
I am not a huge fan of Galloway but aside from the thing in the senate he really let rip on Rupert Murdoch's sky news here.

It's a great clip..

posted by michael the tubthumper @ 12:06 PM   3 comments
Thursday, April 26, 2007
SCAREMONGERING
As the Scottish election approaches (May 3rd) the usual scaremongering is going on. There are also the usual lies about Scotland not being able to support itself.

Funny then, that the Labour government in the 70s went to great lengths to cover up the McCrone Report which stated that a Scottish economy properly managed would be "in chronic surplus to a quite embarassing degree." "It's currency would become the hardest in Europe with the possible exception of the Norwegian Kroner."

Ho hum.

here are some responses to it and some links about the real picture..




http://www.scottishpolitics.org/scotching/greatdeception.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4303750.stm

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posted by michael the tubthumper @ 11:06 AM   3 comments
U.S. MONETARY Cost of the War in Iraq - other people are spending too, and the human cost is much higher
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About Me: Tub-Thumper - 1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter. This blog will be a combination of reasoned posting somedays and an occasional rant. 28 years old, I write and research for a couple of websites and also do my own stuff.
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I have made a few short movies. Here are links to free downloads for them all in the order that I made them (as far as I can remember). Please feel free to use, distribute, disagree with, shout at etc etc

  • Praise The Lord and Pass The Ammunition
  • This was a REAL song from World War 2. I was so stunned by it I had to make a movie

  • How Far Is It From Here to Nuremberg
  • This is my attempt at a video for the excellent, if worrying, David Rovics (see links) song

  • What You Like
  • I believe the word for this is "splenetic". Only 20 seconds long.

  • Imperial Measures
  • What is going on in Iraq? Some things you knew, some you didn't. A couple of bits of info are out of date now.

  • Wish You Were Here
  • Wish You Were Here is a 6 minute film about the unprecendted rate of animal extinction we are currently experiencing

  • Gorillas and us
  • I don't like creationism, neither did Douglas Adams

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  • sourcewatch
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  • ukwatch
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    some of the blogs I look at
    Arse of the month

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    The inaugural 'Arse of the month' award goes to our very own Scottish First Minister Jack (Joke) McConnell. He seems to spend a lot of his time sucking up to english politicians and yet it appears they don't even know his name. Follow the link to see..

    NODOBY KNOWS ME
    It's All Gone Scottish

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    A list of some other Scottish sites and blogs most of which, if not all, are pro-independence. I don't agree with content on all of them obviously. Some are Scots at home, others abroad.

  • The Scottish Patient
  • Kim Ayres
  • Our Scotland
  • average tosser
  • 1820
  • big stick small carrot
  • J. Arthur MacNumpty
  • World of Jack McConnell
  • The Firefox Chronicles
  • Independence 1st
  • Radio Free Scotland
  • Scots and independent
  • Scottish Independence Guide
  • TCOAW
  • Small Nation
  • Inveresk Street Ingrate
  • Radical Glasgow
  • Want to Swot?

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    If you like this site and think it is time to start getting informed here are a few real favourites of mine that will help you blow away the corporate and government propaganda you are constantly bombarded with. It is added to every so often.

  • politics and the english language
  • Beyond Hope
  • the gore exception
  • your tax dollars at work
  • a cultural chernobyl
  • choose life (not trainspotting)
  • shooting an elephant
  • a war crime within a war crime...
  • the menace of liberal scholarship
  • the modern era of law
  • naming the problem
  • the four ages of sand
  • a news revolution has begun
  • come september
  • money is the cause of poverty
  • countering corporate power
  • Other Stuff

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