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SYRIA: new rocket attack on Assad bases, Israel toys with Iran invasion, and US weapons expert explodes Douma chemical attack myth. (But Piers Morgan is alright, Jack)
As The Slog predicted last week, the Syrian crisis has only just begun. Benjamin Netanyahu is teeing up an attack on Iran, and ‘somebody’ attacked Syrian bases last Sunday night. Little by little, the lava of Western lies is flowing hotter and more freely….but the old media cabal is studiously ignoring it. Is the internet Resistance too little too late?¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Bear with me, this is not a bzzzzz deviation: it is a sure sign of the decline in our civilisation that, not only is Piers Morgan a free man facing no charges of any kind, he still has a job. It’s not much of a job mind you – presenting Good Morning Britain for ITV with three attractive young women – but it does give him free rein to strut his stuff.In truth, Piers doesn’t strut, he romps. One of my few claims to minor fame is…View original post 1,800 more words
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Chaucer’s Cunt
Now that I have your attention, I regret to inform you that he didn’t have one. On several occasions recently, sometimes in conversations about censorship, I have heard people say that Chaucer used the word “cunt.” Indeed, Wikipedia says, “The word appears several times in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1390) in bawdy contexts, but it does not appear to be considered obscene at this point, since it is used openly.” Similarly, RationalWiki proclaims that “Chaucer used the word unblushingly in his Canterbury Tales.”Oddly, these statements are followed by quotes from The Canterbury Tales that belie them, for the word that Chaucer uses is not “cunt,” but “queynte.” “Queint,” as a noun, literally means “a clever or curious device or ornament” (Middle English Dictionary) or an “elegant, pleasing thing” (Riverside Chaucer). When used to refer to a woman’s genitalia, it is both…View original post 664 more words
From This is not an Orange to Hate Speech and Were the Germans so Stupid? Anthony Lawson, Critical Thought and the Ministry for Silly Stances.
