We’re coming up to our one year anniversay Quinlan. Lots of ideas planned and things to be laid out. Keep watching and reading…

As I lay wanking, I was suddenly overcome with the desire to fuck something in the fridge. What would I find in there? A watermelon, some swiss cheese perhaps, or will I roger a carton of milk? So there I was, butt bollock naked with a britney spear hard enough to pierce through metal when I asked myself: how much would it hurt to place my testicles into a garlic crusher and squeeze really hard?

I don’t know where it comes from. This genius. But I’m honoured that I can share it with you. I hope it helps make your world a better place.

I have no friends, in case you’re wondering.

But you can and are, surely?

The internet is seeing the emergence of blogs, soapboxes on every street corner if you like, and we know that the majority of them are derivative and commenting on comment, but even so, they are a new force in terms of media if harnessed.

They are a force because they allow everyone a say, albeit, within the controls imposed by their respective governments and laws.

The next paradigm is for blogs to come together, to create a platform, which is what PickledPolitics is, along with the Huffington Post and others.

The Huffington Post is mainstream white collar, low brow, comfy America and PickledPolitcs, obviously, isn’t. So what is PickledPolitics in the greater structure of things?

In marketing terms it is a unique platform, bridging as it does several worlds. It has vibrancy and verve that HP can never achieve because of the nature of its mission and positioning statements and the people who run it. Although you may not think so, it is potentially a very desirable commodity, especially in the eyes of the mainstream press.

We kid ourselves the mainstream press has no control over the internet, but we should be aware that Murdoch and GWB, along with son of Colin Powell in the form of the FCC, are certainly trying to think up ways to extend control.

The only such lever open to the establishment at the moment is money and Ad revenue is currently the greatest money spinner on the web. We have gone through banners and pop-ups and portals, and now the latest business model is Google in-line ads that are keyword driven.

Platforms that emerge, like HP and PP, will at some point be offered money as inducements and then more money to allow the mainstream editorial control. As a means of gaining control of the web it will be a slow process, but, platforms will have the option of selling out, or if really successful doing an IPO.

Sorry to be long winded, and apologize if this seems like a lecture, but to come back to the point made by Yakoub/Julaybib.

The mainstream press is lazy and morally corrupt. By attacking the mainstream press and its writers on an individual basis through editorials, you will increase credence, therefore acceptance, therefore influence and so sway as a platform and in so doing, value in monetary terms. At which point a new dilemma kicks in.

The blogoverse is a peasant’s army looking for Wat Tylers. The sly tyranny we face is clear enough, and the weapon to use against it is editorials that can be circulated elsewhere. Take heart.

Oh, the hell with satire, he’s a money-grubbing pornographer and several other things I could describe were it not for landing Sunny with a libel action.

In response to your further demonising my community and inflaming tensions such that violent attacks against British Muslims are now more likely than ever.

I wish I could believe that there was a moral bone in even one body of the scum employed at your newspaper. I wish I could believe the Press Complaints Commission was anything more than a toothless crone at the side of your thuggish denigration of intelligent discourse. In your so-called democracy, I wish I could do more than piss in the wind against press barons who don’t give a toss if Pakis get murdered because of what their newspaper’s write.

Thank you for acting as my recruiting sergeant.

Osama bin Laden

Most of the press seems to be run by Murdoch, DMGT, or Nothern and Shell, and manipulated, as in the Ministry of Truth, to keep people twitching and twittering.

There is no desire to achieve resolution or lead public opinion, for in press terms, Resolution is Death, Conflict is Money, etc.

Check out Orwell Rolls in his Grave by Robert Kane Pappas if you haven’t already.

Quinlan, I thought that’s exactly what I was doing?

What I am trying to say, obviously badly, is that I chanced on a great product (site) here and it seems a shame (to me) to play the mainstream media game instead of savagely attacking lame articles like the DE’s for playing mind games with such horlicks.

Go for the jugular guys. You can be really mainstream if you want. The writing is much better, and sharper, than say the Huffington Post.

How exactly does one define the “west’s way of life”?

Government of, by, and for consumer capitalism?

Nope. Even when I try to pay them

I don’t see where this idea that the indefinable is worthless and the easily defined isn’t has come from?

No it isn’t.

The fact that the trees are still in the field and this yields us the fruit we need for the jam we hope to spread on our toasties next time the Pemberton’s come over to discuss George & Mildred’s christmas special from 1981

That’s a non sequitur

The question presented makes perfect sense

I like your mission statement. It is clear and well defined. How then can you ask such an arcane question as the above? It deserves only an arcane answer, such as, the west’s way of life is not the east’s way of life. Your point is a non sequitur.

Like must other mainstream media the Daily Express’s only interested is in meeting sales targets, which is why it deliberately puts out drivel like this; drivel designed to mislead and sap the public’s ability to think.

Don’t fall into their trap and reduce important issues to semantics; semantics which could easily be applied to the word Islamic – Wahhabist, Sunni, Shia, Druze, name your flavour.

This is not the point, unless you see Islam as a notional nation above all others which, 20 years ago, wasn’t how Iraq　and Iran saw it as they killed the prime of their nationhood in war.

The Daily Express may be a competitor of Murdoch and DMGT, but Richard Desmond is a publisher for the same reason, numbers and money; and he is selfish enough not to care what happens to the current generation or the next and his poor reporters are only thinking about their inflated paychecks and continued employment if they make their numbers.

Surely a more pressing question for address and debate is the recent speech by Doctor-of-Political-Theory Mr. Tamimi who tells Muslims they are Muslims in Europe, not European Muslims. Here is another man with a self-serving agenda that doesn’t give a tinkers cuss about what happens to ordinary people of any race, creed, or colour.

You say you are young and willing to challenge norms. If that is the case don’t dissipate your talents in this frivolous way. Stick with your mission, it is good. Question the reasons behind the question not the question per se.

The worst part about Jonz is that he offers no satisfaction for my ever increasing ego. He is way too stupid. What joy can you take out of picking on the disabled?

How unPC.

“How exactly does one define the “west’s way of life”? . The question itself is idiotic.”

How so? There are different and often contradictory ways of life in the West.

“Silly things like democracy, freedom of speech, equal rights, science over superstition, art and music and self-expression.”

Not to mention even sillier things likes, Communism, Nazism, Socialism, Fascism etc. You see Jonz over time the “West” has been many things, good and bad, tolerable, and intolerable, free, not so free. The “West” is a huge geograhical, cultural, social, historical entity that has gone through tons of changes and continues to go through changes because these pesky little beings called people happen to constitute what it is. You know how unpredictable people can be.

How does that fit in with world play in 1937? Or perhaps the war between North and South America?

The most important thing is of course, just don’t rock the boat.