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A wee roundup of my favourite blogposts this morning

• The Libertarian Party on the government banning Winter
• Raedwald on the same topic
• Bishop Hill on Norfolk police finally investigating Climategate
• Mark Wadsworth on the changing figures for Alcohol-related deaths
• Luciana Berger is quite possibly the UK's last genuine Labour activist
• Ambush Predator on what we pay the binmen for

Morning blogulation - Wed 26-Aug-09

Eeep, in a hurry this morning, so moving swiftly one, here's some interesting post on t'internet...

• Their Contempt For You Is Total on the unlawful Video Recordings Act 1984
• Burning Our Money on the redistribution of wealth
• BBC News has football hooligans
• Wardman Wire on integrating our data, not sharing it
• Ambush Predator on disobeying the police
• UK Bubble has the credit crunch getting worse
• Sharpe's Opinion has a nice advert for TalkTalk
• Adam Smith Institute on how CCTV cameras don't cut crime
• Counting Cats in Zanzibar has the UN invading the national curriculum
• Quietus asks Sir Patrick Lord about pop music

Morning blogulation - Mon 25-Aug-09

Eee, I've started eating again, a huge bowl of cheap and cheerful fruit oaty stuff from Tesco. There was some blog I was reading yesterday about how with the British welfare system isn't not really possible to starve and die, there'a always benefits you can claim. But, well, in my case they just keep knocking back my claims. I currently have no income and the JSA, Benefits Agency and Housing Benefit think I'm not entitled to anything. Still the internet's here for me... Here are some posts I've been readingt his morning...

• Abstruse Goose on the blip of civilisation
• BBC News on how the success and value for money of CCTV
• EU Referendum on how we let doctors kill us for European peace
• Open Europe on the Lisbon 'yes' campaign in Ireland
• Michael Yon pisses off the army and gets the boot for it
• Ambush Predator has tips for presenting unruly children to the media
• Longrider is against demeaning old people
• Counting Cats thinks restaurant calorie counts is a step too far
• UK Bubble on the decline of productivity in the UK

Morning blogulation - Mon 24-Aug-09

Bah, and bah again, damned the postal service. My ma mailed me fifty quid in Sainsburys vouchers, she does worry about her poor skint son, and after three weeks they haven't arrived. Other post seems to get here fine, but not sorely need funds for food. I've been living off potatos and rice since Thursday, but do the postal service care? Here are some internet links to keep you entertained.

• Burning Out Money summarizes why The State is crap
• Capitalists@Work prods building societies for being crap too
• Corrupt Camden Council froths at whiney MPs
• The Libertarian Party blog jumps the shark
  
• The Adam Smith Institute appreciates Coca Cola's distribution network

Actually, I don't think the coca-cola thing is appreicated enough in the West, they brough the internet and modern farming to developing nations and the eastern bloc, along with McDonalds they're strong leaders in enlarging the Amazon-sphere (that part of the world where you can order stuff on Amazon and it arrives as and when expected), they provide consistency and quality, filtering away any corrupt authorities, and making the world a better place for it.

Morning blogulation - Sun 23-Aug-2009

I spent hours last night playing PGR3 on my new XBox 360, I love it so dearly, but still thatnagging suspicion that since I couldn't afford it, I shouldn't have bought it, so now I'm trying to justify it by quantifying my leisure time. The XBox cost £100, I've played it for 8 hours so far, £12 per hour. By the end of the week it'll be kind of justified. Anyhoo, right now, I'm scanning the internet...

• EU Referendum damns the MoD as "Essentially Incompetent
• Raedwald defends Gen Sir Richard Dannatt's thriftiness
• The Adam Smith Institute on how we're following the Roman Empire
• The Libertarian Alliance has taken a shine to Katie Price
• The LPUK blog wonders who owns the Bank of England
• Mark Reckons discusses the nature internships as free labour
• Coffeehouse has rumours to replace Gordon Brown
• Stephen's Linlithgow Journal lays into the Americans over al-Megrahi

Morning blogulation - Sat 22-Aug-2009

I'm starting to feel a little guilty about buying an XBox 360 yesterday, I didn't save up for it, it wasn't a gift, it was just bought on my credit card, with money I don't have, that I'll never be able to pay off, but having said that, playing Project Gotham Racing completes me, it fulfills an ambition I've had for the last five years, it satisfies. But getting an XBox this way isn't a valid accumulation of wealth, it breaks the system, it makes no sense. I am damned. Here are some pages from the internet...

• Capitalists@Work think Sir Victor Blank is incompetent
• EU Referendum rounds up the failed election in Afghanistan
• Raedwald covers a report that cigarette sales are up on London
• Cracked has the Top 5 most embarrasing terrorists
• Ambush Predator reads in the Mail that the NHS is wasting money
• The Adam Smith Institute dissects those in the US without health insurance
• Obsidian goes out in Oldham
• Counting Cats validates his right-wing libertarianism

Morning blogulation - Fri 21-Aug-09

I've been at Centreparcs for the past few day the neice, bless 'er, she loves swimming so much, and I'm absolutely knackered, I got home yesterday afternoon and have slept for about 18 hours, anyhoo, here's the internet, well, the only pages worth reading...

• EU Referendum sees the hand of the censor
• Mark Wadsworth compares flu and swine flu deaths
• Blue Eyes neatly divides the issue of the fate of the Lockerbie Bomber
• The Devil covers the Tory booze crackdown
• Englishman's Castle on the £6.6billion of missing military equipment
• Chymical Ascension has a fine dissection of the Homelessness industry
• The Adam Smith Institute goes over the problems with the DNA database
• Rob Fisher's take on Caster Semenya
  

Right, I've had it up to here with almost every libertarian blog I read humping each other backwards about Iain 'bloody' Dale's Top 20 UK Libertarian blogs, so from this day onwards I'm cancelling my RSS subs to those twenty, never again shall they feature in my morning blogulation.

Morning blogulation - Mon 17-Aug-09

Its too warm, and I feel like I'm losing my way, my sense of purpose, here, take a look at some other blogs...

• Bishop Hill finds the conservatives of the Left
• Constantly Furious is 12/64, well done
• Obo Teh Clown has another Labour MP supporting terrorism
• Obsidian's World is picking at the alcohol blighted streets of Oldham
• Mark Wadsworth covers some summaries of the NHS debate
• The Adam Smith Institute crunches how much we pay for the free NHS
• Charlotte Gore gets cheap energy

Morning blogulation - Fri 14-Aug-09

Dear lord, my desktop puter takes so so long to boot up, luckily I splashed out the last of my redundancy pay months ago on a wee Acer netbook thing, and after having month of problems with it, I installed Ubuntu, and that springs into life in mere seconds. So whilst the big beast is booting I get to explored the blogosphere elsewhere...

• Mark Wadsworth rounds up some 'swine flu' deaths
• CoffeeHouse explains how the NHS isn't free
• Paul Waugh announces the Tory civil war over the NHS
• Liberal Conspiracy aligns itself with the Tory leadership
• Charlotte Gore wish they could all be sane rational adults
• Iain Dale wants a right-wing female blogger (I nominate the latter blog)
• Defense of the Realm reports on us still getting twatted in Afghanistan
• Open Europe has some more EU commission propaganda missions
• Constantly Furious wishes out nanny government would fuck off
• Tim Worstall thinks we should close polytechnics
• Guthrum is getting paranoid
  
• Foam sees regular shapes in his yeast culture
• Inuit Panda Scarlett Carwash reviews the latest Unknown Soldier comic

Morning blogulation - Thu 13-Aug-09

I awake hungry, switch on the old 'puter, since my benefits were unexpectedly cut the other week, I've been economising on food, for breakfast I eat two fortnight out of date eggs, scrambled, I pick up my ukulele and play a couple of old Plimptons songs, remembering past times, richer times, I load up Firefox and venture back into old Bloggington.

• Coffeehouse reckon's Mandelson's 500,000 jobs saved figure is full of shit
• Open Europe reckon's the Generation Yes campaign in Ireland is full of shit
• EU Referendum reports on the Bovine TB epidemic and how it has now passed to humans
• Junkfood Science reckons those who peddle the unhealthiness of being fat are full of shit
• Longrider covers the government misallocating funds
  
• The BBC reports on France and Germany coming out of the Recession
• The Adam Smith Institute suggests scrapping the minimum wage to deal with unemployment - nice idea, but there's no way parliament would do it
• Ambush Predator has noticed that councils aren't cutting jobs in the recession

Morning blogulation - Wed 12-Aug-09

I drive home, switch on my computer, marvel at the weather, brush my teeth, wait for my ancient computer to finish booting, absently consider the options for acquiring a new computer, and then finally set forth on my daily mission through the blogoscape.

• Constantly Furious lines up some more victims of the Baby P case and opens fire
• Boing Boing focuses of British health care and Dr Stephen Hawking
• Defence of the Realm has an indepth article about how we're getting twatted in Afghanistan
• Ambush Predator goes over the police trying to shut down perfectly legal events
• Englishman's Castle reports on councils' parking charges as a growing revenue stream
• Luciana Berger covers the same subject in Camden
• Raedwald reckons council houses should be smaller than private housing
  
• Charlotte Gore tries to mobilise the blogosphere to evangelise Free Trade
• The Adam Smith Institute posts it's take on 'food security'
• Blue Eyes doesn't like glossy brochures from his MP

Morning blogulation - Tue 11-Aug-09

Good morning dearest blog readers, and how are you? Any exciting plans for the day? What's doings? Me, I'm setting forth on the internet trying to read every single blogpost that matters. Join me.

• Spectator CoffeeHouse has Tory 0% pay rises
• Constantly Furious covers the anti-Tory bias of The Daily Telegraph
• EU Referendum thinks that the government and Defra are in denial
• Iain Dale has a Labour MP praising a war-time fascist
• Ambush Predator has a Labour MP suggesting people obtain a government licence to protest
• Burning Our Money notices that the government consistently gets it wrong
• Rob Fenwick compares the main political party websites
• Open Europe rips Margot Wallstrom a new hole
• Samizdata talks of building runways to summon better teachers
• Bishop Hill covers the start of the libertarian home teaching utopia in Scotland
• Boatang & Demetriou on the link between the police and the decline of law and order
• Charlotte Gore refuses to fear for her food
  
• Leg-Iron has written perhaps the finest blogpost of the year

Morning blogulation - Mon 10-Aug-09

I wake up, switch on my puter, realise its been days and days since I went online, feel a little sad, but then realise that I have been quite drunk recently, and also I still have half a raspberry pie in the fridge, eat said pie, wait for puter to finish booting, crack open Firefox and leap out onto the unsuspecting blogiverse...

• Charles Crawford covers cutting government consultancy, it ought to save some money
• Burning Our Money covers waste in defence spending, there be cost savings there too
• Constantly Furious has photos of thugs fighting on the streets
• Raedwald reports on the Association of Chief Police Officers' disregard for the law
• Samizdata also
• Old Holborn also has the police's disregard of the law
  
• The Adam Smith Institute on how job creation is a cost to organic farming
  

Morning blogulation - Fri 7-Aug-09

I awake with something of a hangover, yesterday's interviw more promising that these things usually are, my eyes open slowly and I fumble for a cup of Starbuck's Via instant coffee, its like the taste of Starbucks at home. Outside the weather is overcast and I've got 'things' to do today, but before any of that I must lather up and slide my way into the bloggobrane.

• Londonist reports of more strike action coming soon
• Burning Our Money has tales of banking and government conspiracies
• Capitalists@Work on the coincidence of quantative easing and government debt outrun
• UK Housing Bubble has the dangers of quantative easing
• Coffeehouse on how this recession is longer, deeper and slower than the previous three
• EU Referendum covers defence procurement and The Gray Report
• Constantly Furious notices the BBC reporting the complete opposite of everyone else
• Raedwald nicks the Economist's graphs on the UK's energy supply problems
• Open Europe looks at the costs of the energy supply issue
• Ambush Predator quotes some entertaining frothing at the mouth feminists

Morning blogulation - Thu 6-Aug-09

I wake up, wonder what the beer monkey has done to me this time, climb out of bed, crawl to switch on my puter, sleep some more, wake up once more, grab a nice cup of Starbucks Via instant coffee, its like the taste of Starbucks in your own home, wait for my puter to finish booting, somehow focus on the screen, and set forth into the blogosphere....

• Constantly Furious on why rape conviction targets are wrong
• Coffeehouse explains why cutting taxes for the rich increases revenue
• Tom Harris and Dizzy forget that laptops come with built in webcams these days
• Ambush Predator covers teaching children to use violence only against men
• Wired Threat Level on the risks of RFID ID cards
• Capitalists@Work on the pensions crisis
• Camden Council Rotten Landlord on a new Labour candidate for Cantelowes ward
• The Adam Smith Institute covers The Right To Work and how to misunderstand the term

Also, there appears to be a new Labour Party website

Morning blogulation - Wed 5-Aug-09

I wake up, wonder if I'm still drunk, switch on the puter, get a phonecall about a real life job interview, do cartwheels, make myself a cup of Starbuck Via cofee, a new way to make a great cup of coffee, marvel at the sunshine, wait for the puter to finish booting, take a deep breath and only then set forth into the bloglight zone.

• Defence of the Realm on another MOD cockup
• EU Referendum has an MOD press officer finding his integrity
• Norfolk Blogger doesn't like open primaries to select parliamentary candidates
• Samizdata on how alcohol drinking limits develop
• Open Europe on the EU wasting our money on transient art
• Constantly Furious thinks the BBC is hypocritcial with conflicts of interest
• Obo and Holborn have a video of the police stopping searching a foreign cove for wearing an orange T-shirt
• UK Housing Bubble on the continuing decline of the UK Manufacturing industry
• Questionable Content renders every time I've ever been to How Does It Feel on my own

Morning blogulation - Tue 4-Aug-09 featuring webcomic roundup sub-paragraph

I wake up, switch on the puter, phone the benefits agency about my JSA, get told to fill in JSA3 for income-based support, have a shower, wait for the puter to finish booting, wonder if having 500,000 bots is what's slowing everything down, pick my nose and then, as usual, stagger unsteadily into the depths of The Blogobrane.

• Iain Dale discovers what the government's been doing with our money
• Ambush Predator covers the story of a chap prosecuted for merely looking like he was smoking
• Liberal Vision rips Jo Swinson a new one for her policy on airbrushing
• Englishman's Castle on starving wind turbine workers and students
• Carlotte Gore on the final solution to the immigration issue
• Mark Wadsworth is getting nowhere being abusive to the BBC

Webcomic Roundup sub-paragraph

• Scary Go Round - destiny comes a-calling for Carrot
• Questionable Content - Marten and Faye get all nostaligic
• Abstruse Goose - is a cyborg

Morning blogulation - Mon 03-Aug-09

Is it worth it? Is it worth getting up, cranking up the computer, picking my nose, waiting for the computer to boot and then trudging through the internet, looking for something, something, anything?

• Devil's Kitchen is unhappy about immigration regulations
• Englishman's Castle on wikipedia editing by global warming zealots
• UK Bubble wonders how much the millennium dome cost and how much its worth
• Libertarian Alliance froths about pay rises in Trade Unions
• Old Holborn moans about the problems caused by CRB checks
• The Adam Smith Institute wails about the decline in social mobility

Morning blogulation - Fri 31-Jul-09

I wake up, switch on the puter, go for a run, have a shower, make breakfast, send her off with a kiss, wait for the puter to finish booting, pick my nose, and then step manfully into the internet accellerator, and vanish...

• Mark Reckons has a final push for votes in the Total Politics thing
• Charles Crawford ponders what to do with failed states
• PJC on how Andre Power lost and what this means to us all
• Capitalists@Work covers unemployment around the Olympics
• Teh Adam Smith Institute on those who foresaw the recession
• Ambush Predator on the descent of wind power
• Obo the Clown on the un-British British ID card design
• SpyBlog suggests how to use ID cards to kill British citizens
• Rob rambles on about the end of Moores law or not
• Tim Worstall rips into Naomi Klein
• UK Housing Bubble is uncomfortable with rising house prices
• Pocketbooks are back from Indietracks

Morning blogulation - Thu 30-Jul-09

I wake up, drive home, switch on the 'puter, have a shower, ponder if anyone actually reads these morning blogulation posts, wait for the 'putr to boot up and once more set forth on the blogocube...

• Devil's Kitchen doesn't want smaller Mars Bars
• Leg Iron explains that obesity isn't a disease
• Ambush Predator finds that obesity is just a tickbox
• Raedwald tears apart Mandelson's fantasy on social mobility
• BBC reports on the Baby P remake
• Tim Worstall is glad people are paid to recycle
• Anna Raccoon reports on Tory Polico getting dingied by the tory press office
• The Adam Smith Institute shares it's views on subsidised housing
• The Tax Payer's Alliance on how to kill entrepeneurship