Trivia And A Thought

These few lines were originally a post script to the post below.

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Trivia footnote and a thought, though initially I only intended to mention the trivia.

"Twopen'orth" in the vernacular, two penny worth not "tuppence." as previously employed in certain quarters in what must the most bizarre statement ever given by the mother of a "kidnapped" child.

I quite often find myself feeling sorry for Kate McCann and "the situation she finds herself in," obviously a situation engineered by her bollocks of a husband, who once having put his grubby paws on the tiller, Kate McCann I feel was just a passenger on what has turned out to be a very long and seemingly endless stormy passage.

Kate McCann didn't have the smarts, or the arrogance for that matter, to have come up with such a hair brained scheme as the abduction scenario, I just think she was swept along by Captain Bollocks and his insane plan, never having the opportunity to tell the truth or grieve in a dignified manner the death of her child.

This of course based on the premiss that Kate had no direct involvement in Madeleine's demise notwithstanding her neglect and irresponsibility towards Madeleine.

There are a thousand and one seemingly voluntary statements and actions since given and past performed by Kate that would question her worthiness as a recipient for third party pity, but irrespective of this bizarre behaviour I do feel pity for the woman.

Until I remember Robert Murat, Brussels, Popes and all the rest of it that has come to pass.

The truth will come out one day, it's inevitable, there are too many people privy to the events and even more are privy to the reasons of why such extraordinary protection was afforded to you.

But from who's lips shall we hear the truth Kate?

Yet do I pity? yes, each new day must be hell on earth.

Gallery Thirty One

Here's something a little different for a change.

I don't give a tuppenny damn what Mosley gets up to in private, it's nobodies business but his own and certainly not the business of a Sunday Rag, so why Max?

It has much to do with him being pissed with power and his abuse of that power and perhaps more than a small possibility that I'm a McLaren supporter.

His recent attempt to curb press freedoms are not to be taken lightly by any means, (hence the graphics) but the Genesis of this story really starts with Formula One and Mosley's power run amok.

I wrote about it at the time under the banner Christmas Comes Early For Ron And Martin

I think it's no accident that the News of the World, proprietor Rupert Murdoch, splashed this all over the front page, because sometimes when a newspaper, The Times, proprietor Rupert Murdoch, is served with a writ for libel it's not totally out of the question that said proprietor, fights back, and fights back in the dirtiest of ways and they don't come any dirtier than Murdoch. more

and below an update that story and show Max Mosley for the vindictive cunt that he is and the dangers of unrestricted power:

Alan Donnelly former Labour MEP (explains a lot), the FIA’s representative on earth and chief defender of Max Mosley — is expending his energy trying to dissuade the BBC from employing Martin Brundle. This is despite the fact that Brundle is widely regarded as one of the best pundits in any sport, never mind F1. more

Other Mosley/F1 posts here.

Jan Moir: McCann's Red Carpet Of Grief

Thanks go out to Ms Moir, firstly for the article which speaks volumes in some few lines and secondly it gives me chance to throw up this graphic that I retrieved from the electronic waste bin.

There are a few things that don't make publication, some things just "don't work," some others, well quite frankly they're just plain old crap, or as in the graphic at the end of this post don't work because there is too much content, as you might agree when you have had a butchers.

The building, for those not familiar, is Portcullis House, host to the commons select/standing committee, the scene of Gerry McCanns recent home goal.

How strange it was to see pale, pugnacious Gerry McCann back in the news this week. It serves as a reminder that while the world has moved on for the rest of us, time stands still for him.

For the McCann family, the clocks stopped nearly two years ago, on that terrible night in the Algarve when their three-year-old daughter slipped from public view and has not been seen since.

In their quest to find Madeleine, the desperate McCanns invited the world's Press into their lives. It was a relationship that was doomed to sour.

For months, the McCanns' efforts to keep their daughter's plight high on the news agenda were intense. Far from shrinking from the oxygen of publicity, what they feared most was the muffle of public apathy. In the process, they became experts at manipulating the media to their own advantage.

At one point, Mr McCann even returned to the family home in Leicestershire to tie his own yellow ribbon to the teddystocked Madeleine shrine that had been hastily erected in the centre of the village.

Then and now, watching Gerry McCann walking the red carpet of his grief, as knowing as a Cannes film star, can be an uncomfortable experience.

This week, Mr McCann took the opportunity to air his grievances about the Press and its treatment of his family in front of the House of Commons Culture Select Committee.

For what possible purpose? Certainly, some bad judgment decisions were made by the more excitable newspapers, who have been punished with hefty libel payments and widespread approbation for their troubles. Surely that is an end to the matter?

No. Mr McCann is not finished complaining. Yet the more and more he complains about what happened in the aftermath of his daughter's disappearance, the more I feel he is attempting to assuage his own guilt for failing to be there when she needed him most.

Still, it's not his fault that these useless Select Committees, stuffed with the third rate and the Parliamentary walking wounded, give an indulgent platform for anyone with a grievance. Jan Moir. Mail on sunday.

Press Intrusion

Isn't it terrible the way the press have used the McCanns just to sell extra copy, it's almost as if there only concern is a financial one, don't they know that a child has disappeared? shameful behaviour if you ask me.

Screen Shots: Temporary Post

I have uploaded a few large and small screen shots of this bizarre creature here, they won't be there forever, nor this, grab 'em if you want's 'em.

It's A Funny Old World