Tim Blair

Kinky for Gov? Why the hell not. He's a good guy and he's snorted coke with Piers Akerman. I'd vote for him if I lived in Texas.

The Guardian story doesn't mention it, but Robert Kilroy-Silk, the broadcaster who was sacked for criticising Arab culture, won a seat along with many others from his anti-EU party.

Commenting on Galloway's alleged defeat at the polls, Andrew Gilligan reported, "I'm at the polling place, and there is no sign of anti-Galloway voters at the polling place," and accused the Government of 'sexing up' the election results...

Saw Kinky "Put your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed" Friedman in concert in a small downtown hall in the 70's, Houston. He's pure camp and would make a fun mayor. Guv'ner of Texas is too much of a launching pad. Anyway, what would the Europeans say about a cowboy Jew in office? Is that better or worse than a cowboy Christian?

I hope his "save the cat claws" issue gets traction.

EU-sceptic and outright anti-EU parties also pulled sizable numbers in Austria, France, Poland, and if I heard it correctly on Sunday night also several other new member states besides Poland.

Along with the usual nutjobs (France's Front National etc.) who tend to be on the anti-European bandwagon by default, they'll probably account for some 10% of seats in the new European Parliament. I don't have much faith in them to provide much of a constructive force (how could you, if your raison d'être is to get rid of, or at least out of, that same parliament?), but I can't help but be a bit gleeful at the potential for obstructionism.

Oh yeah, voter participation declined for the fifth straight election.

They can however be a spanner in the works PW. More importantly with so many of them, it will be hard for the EU gestapo to harass all of them. Expect a lot more exposure of EU waste, fraud and deception. This will damn good fun to watch.

Kinky is OK. He funds and runs a large animal shelter in Medina Texas. I like dogs more than most people.

Maybe I missed something, but why hasn't Galloway been charged with something and put on trial yet?

P. Doyle, you legend! I haven't the time to argue with Margo, though you summed a few things up, well done.

Time asks itself 'Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? And then goes on to answer 'Because they're fast, funny and totally biased.'

Media organisation calls someone else biased?

Then it sets the record straight: Jessa Crispin started a blog for serious readers called bookslut.com. "We give books a better chance," she says. "The New York Times Book Review is so boring. We take each book at face value. There's no politics behind it."

Exactly.

The Guardian story doesn't mention it, but Robert Kilroy-Silk, the broadcaster who was sacked for criticising Arab culture, won a seat along with many others from his anti-EU party.

I remember seeing him on tv news about his win (on the ABC I think, probably lateline), and thought if that was the guy sacked from the BBC.

* George Galloway failed to win a seat in the European parliament and his Respect Party claimed just 4.79% of the vote. Nevertheless, Galloway claims his little gang of losers is "the coming power in the land".

I'm glad he didn't get a seat, but that's a higher vote than you'd expect for someone alleged to have received money from Saddam.

Jozef Imrich: Is US like Germany of the '30s?: "Has the combination of the World Trade Center attack and a president who believes his instructions come from God unleashed the dark side of the American heritage?"

(Two paragraphs later)

Ian Read: For you and your readers' information, the Pentagon Torture Memo that Ashcroft refuses to release can be downloaded at what really happened

"What really happened" (to the best of my recollection) loves Jew-hating conspiracies.

Andjam, your recollections are correct. "What really happened" is also the site that was caught plagiarizing from a white supremacist website. Surprise, surprise, a lot of anti-war leftists recommend it, apparently believing someone who uses neo-Nazi websites as sources is a good source of info on the Middle East.

Kinky Friedman - Texan and Jewish. I can't wait to see how the DU conspiracy geekazoids react.

Indeed, I remember one dear little troll named fatfingers referencing that site in an arguement about who was really responsible for 9-11.

He even said that we should sift through the anti-Jew rhetoric to find the evidence on that site.

I'm not joking.

And lest I forget, he was quite surprised when we flatly refused to take any information from that site.

Sortelli, as I recall, fatfingers was also surprised when we didn't fall at his feet, basking in the light of his genius, and begging for more of his rhetoric. And quite upset as well. Talk about sociopaths.......

He even said that we should sift through the anti-Jew rhetoric to find the evidence on that site.

Was this before or after he defended Pete Singer's ideas on bestiality, or before or after he defended Osama's innocence?

Nice guy, that fatfingers.

Tim,
Twice on this site in one night!
Find that Doyle bloke and buy him a dozen of whatever he drinks!!
Margo's sole defence is to admit to one mis-attribution which doesn't materially challenge anything he said.
Jim

Fingers didn't defend Pete Singer's views, he just totally flat-out said they were something different.

He then went on to prove that 2+2=Fish.

Andjam, Galloway's mob did rather well in Muslim areas of the UK (especially London).