[DUBLIN] Scandal and screaming in Dail Eireann as TD George Lee peppers the chamber door with assorted toys fired from an armoured pram.

To say the least. NATO missiles a few miles from Moscow, what a sensible idea that is!

Details about that in the New York Times.

Predictably, 'President Dmitry Medvedev approved Friday a new military doctrine identifying NATO expansion as a national threat and reaffirming Russia's right to use nuclear weapons if the country's existence is threatened.'

See the Reuters story.

And I say thank you, thank you thank you thank you Mister 'Nobel Peace Prize' Obama, for ending all life on Earth! O, thank you! Cheers! It's been a pleasure! Don't run for office on any other planets, by the way!

Idiot.

Read the Long lost theory and let's raise Great Cthulhu once and for all!

A 1991 gem for you this week, '101' from Finitribe.

Little Green Footballs, the American site which tracks (amongst other things) what seems like the increasingly more moonbat trajectory of the American right's thinking, has posted results of a poll of Republicans voters on everything from Obama's motives to the inclusion of Creationism in schools. The results are... well, you can see for yourself. But should we be surprised? Is there anything new here? Or is this just the latest manifestation of a narrative which has been growing and replicating this last sixty years or so, only now brought to a head by the presence of an African-American in the West Wing?

In May of 2010, Blather.net will be thirteen years old. That's thirteen. Puberty, ladies and spambots, is imminent and the wearing of short trousers will no longer be tolerated. In light of this disturbing turn of events (and the increasingly litigious, cut-throat monitoring of general web-activities by THEM), we have felt it necessary to update our Terms and Conditions to reflect this momentous period of change.

There's an old joke about Irish politics: that the second item on the agenda of any new political movement's first meeting is the split. The Tea Party, the notional emerging third party of American politics, already seems to be heading in the same direction.

Via Roighters:
The Irish government today announced that it would immediately align itself with Venezuelan president Victor Chavez in blaming the United States for Everything That's Ever Gone Wrong in History of the Planet, in particular the recent 'cold' weather in Ireland

In a surprise briefing to reporters on the steps of Leinster House, Taoiseach Brian Cowen grimaced into the cold February wind, before launching into a tirade against the current US administration.

"Now in fairness, I think it's a bit of coincidence how the winters have suddenly gotten colder since Mr Osama took over in the White House", said Mr Cowen. "It was bad enough that we had all those desperate wet summers that Bush man was in charge, but this, quite frankly, is taking the mickey".

[CARACAS] Presidents Chavez and Ahmadinejad blame Obama administration for the Haiti earthquake, conflict in Israel, 13th century plague, the Crusades, the sinking of the Titanic and the clogging of Kim Jong Il's toilet.

Barry

RadiOrakel fm 99,3.

Super Sonisk Sommer.

Update:

The playlist

Super Sonisk Sommer jingle remixed by me!
Dacianos - Sweet Companion ('Gratis?' 2009) www.dacianos.com
Time - noiseimmemorial.blogspot.com (feat. Mark Dicker myspace.com/trenchergrind )
Anne Lene Hägglund - Big Men ('Bird Cherry Grove' 2010)
Dag Stiberg - Cracked Up ('Monolithic Time' 2010)
Bat For Lashes - Siren Song ('Two Suns' 2009)
Children & Corpse Playing in the Streets - New Bike ('Honey, I'm Home!' 2009)
Jæ - That I Shouldn't Have (EP 2009)
Sacred Harp - Elevator Endeløs (EP 2009)
Masselys - Freak in the Mirror (12" 2009)
Barry Adamson - It's Business As Usual ('Oedipus Schmoedipus' 1996)
Blixa Bargeld - Over the Rainbow ('Commissioned Music' 1994)

Thanks to Linda

Yes, we know you've already had your Friday Choon, but in honour of the flood of new folk joining us on Twitter and on Facebook today, get yer ears around these guys. Utter legends.

(image by austinevan, used under a CC license)

It's 80s cheese week here at Blather HQ, which has seen Dave dancing about the boardroom in his Y-fronts to Erasure and Buggles. Me, I'm a man of more cultured tastes and have been listening to some genuine 80s gems, such as this slice of fried edam from Murray Head.

Admit it: as much as it makes you giggle, it makes you tap your foot.

Alfred Korzybski said that 'the map is not the territory'. That said, sometimes a 'notional map' might help us visualise that which defies classification.

'In October I mooted the idea of a bounty to which the public could contribute, ­payable to anyone who tried to arrest Tony Blair if he became president of the European Union. He didn't of course, but I asked those who had pledged money whether we should go ahead anyway. The response was overwhelmingly positive. So today I am launching a website - www.arrestblair.org - whose purpose is to raise money as a reward for people attempting a peaceful citizen's arrest of the former prime minister. I have put up the first £100...'

Read the full Monbiot article and visit arrestblair.org.

- the sad revealing news in the Independent

Thanks to a commenter calling themselves "Liam", over on an old Hellfire Club article, I just found out that the notoriously haunted Killakee House in the Dublin

Here's how you can rent the house - details and photographs on let.ie »

There's lots more about Killakee House and its ghosts in my book, Haunted Dublin »

More about the Hellfire Club here »

- Read more and get the relevant links from the Federation of American Scientists.

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Read the full story (and download the pdf of the Navy Instruction) from the Federation of American Scientists

Would-be ethnographers of the web such as ourselves are often advised to try to take a neutral stance on conspiracy theories, seeking to take a position of 'negative capability', resulting in the publication of posts which take a reasonable, balanced and calm approach to the issue at hand.

This is not one of those posts.

I read this in the Irish Independent. We're moving closer to the day when the FBI will arrest a fake Bin Laden, be he Spanish politician or Blather.net reader. Unless their arch-enemies the CIA arrest their own fake Bin Laden first!

Check it out in the Independent. Now, I wonder if those police, whose 'jobs' involve reading twitter and 7 hours 'questioning' a random member of the public, read Blather.net? I mean, they obviously have the time. There's only one way to find out! I hereby declare that I, Heinrich Bivouac, Internal Silage Manager of Blather.net Knitting Systems Inc., will utterly destroy Robin Hood Airport in a week and a bit, once I work out where the hell it is! Doncaster? Where's that???

From the Press Association

'A High Court judge will rule on whether Home Secretary Alan Johnson was wrong to allow the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, it was announced today. Mr McKinnon's lawyers have been granted permission for judicial review of Mr Johnson's decision...'

Independent.

Secret societies, alleged grave robbing, little black books, Thor, the possible skull of Geronimo, grizzly human remains, shadowy establishment figures, ex-Presidents, conspiracies, the CIA and supreme court judges.

While these may certainly sound like the frustrated ramblings of DeCount O'Blather on a wet-wristed Wednesday wankathon (TM) [don't think we haven't heard those rusty bed springs late at night in Blather HQ, mister], they also happen to be involved in an upcoming lot for sale at Christies which has quite a few people in a bit of a tizzy.