...the Hell out of Dodge...

Whistling men in yellow vans
They can and drew us diagrams
Showed us how it all worked it out
And wrote it down in case of doubt
-- "Build", the Housemartins

Yes. If any corporate shareholders are listening, I have a cunning plan. There was once a falling out between a Mr Ford, of car manufacture fame, and a Mr Dodge who was one of his shareholders and later competitors. He felt that Ford's use of company money to allow employees discounted cars was tantamount to theft from hsi dividend payment, the poor diddums.

He sued him and won compensation before buggering off to do his own thing elsewhere. Well, I see from various bits of left wing malarkey that I come across that it's become standard practice for the corporate officers of listed companies to donate money to their friends in high places. My idea is this: that someone with the resources could buy a share of such a company and sue the corporate offices for giving money to politicians that could have been in dividend payments instead. That way they'd either have to lose to save face, in which case you're in the money, or they could admit the truth, that this is a form of bribery and a legitimate business expense. And investment for which greater thing will be returned.

Either result would be interesting.

A piece of news from Islam: it's all a fraud. Who'd've thought it. The miraculous illiterate who could read and write prerfectly well who conquered Arabia with nothing to help him but Allah, a heavily armed state and his massive personaly fortune.

I'm really not fond of Islam. As the article points out it's a derivitive of Christianity. It's religious disinformation, trying to take the big-selling bits of Christianity and use them to attract followers for its own cause, which isn't ours but is one soaked in the blood of innocents offered up to the unholy threefold goddess the original Qu'ran was so fond of.

Hey, lets move on.

Well, back. To the call of Cthulhu. A very common theme in fiction, for obvious reasons. Specifically, its proximity to reality. Those who can feel an overshadowing presence and perhaps more likely to incorporate one into their works. I notice Mr Fairhall is of the opinion that there may be unilluminised people out there, those without what he calls the reptilian consciousness, which would make them immune from the subconscious influences.

Quatermass and the Pit again, the ones the alien hive mind took over took to killing the apparent minority who were merely human. Thirdspace, the Babylon 5 TVM (Pero claimed B5 was a documentary, probably not literally true, however there's a clear similarity between the Shadows of Zaha'dum and the legions of Sauron from Bara'dur). In that being from another realm take over the minds or normal people and have them kill those not marked out for salvation. The Lord of the Rings of course. All maleficent forces calling out to those with ears to hear. Also all cases of the return of an ancient evil, formerly defeated but now returning to capitalise on a weak and divided polity.

There is a watcher by the threshold. He's not as villainous as you might think. He has his reasons for being there and they take us into account.

Fairhall mentions a man flying from a high place in a downwards direction. Douglas Adams famously said that flying is the art of falling without hitting the ground. This man was only one step away. Chang the whisteblower. He went from a window in the City too. Couldn't been a suicide. Kroll Associated were investigating him. They were also looking into the Calvi case for his family, which they did both negligently and with a taste for cover-up. I've come across a book about the mafia, currently on the top of my pile of books to read. It's not particularly good but being about the Mafia and named after Casolaro's lost Opus it attracted me. Turns out it's not to my taste, claiming Mussolini was a hero for defeating some Communist conspiracy to control the world and also claiming that the Pope is directly chosen by God.

He's wrong of course. Italy would never have gone Communist but would have stayed democratic if it hadn't been for the fascists. But that's a pattern of course, democracts become communists when they aren't democratic in the right way. See Sandinistas. Republican Spain never went wholy Communist because of the power of the Anarchists but those Communists there were would have had less power if they hadn't been able to offer themselves as a way to fight the fascists. I don't know where people get their ideas about communism. The press I suppose. The Spanish communists were always portraying themselves as the enemies of the anarchists, saviours of the middle classes from the surge from below. The Italians were more right wing than our own Labour Party, not even supporting unilateral nuclear disarmament.

How the buggery did I get to talking about that?