I will get backl to regular posts on Little Nicky Machiavelli's blog, I promise. Sometime, just don't hold your breath.

Meanwhile take a look at a few of these items:

Could Barak Obama be about to lose the election before poling day. Hillary Clinton supporting Lawyer Philip Berg has filed a court application seeking an injunction to prevent Obama's being a candidate on grounds he is not American. rread the details of
Berg vs Obama and decide for yourselves if the allegations that (a) Obama was born in Kenya and has been living in the USA on a forged birthb certificate and (b) that even if his Keyan birth cannot be proved, he lost US Citizenship on being adopted by his Indonesian stepdad.

If only Obama's dear old Mum, Stanley Anne Durham could have kept her knickers on around foreign guys, he'd be home and hosed now.

A popular history of history A history academic complains about the lack of academic rigour in "pop history". What a pity one of his fellow academicians who was advisor on the recent bollocks of a series Bonekickers recently published a pice of "academic work" so rigourous it identified The Druids as worshippers of an Anglo Saxon minor god.

Kill all academics before they make comedy bloggers redundant.

Foreigners make The best Food says Michele hanson of The Guardian. Nah then lads,wheer ah come fra' that's fightin' talk. Effing ignorant southerners.

(Michelle) Obama in Denver, Barry in trouble. The Democrats are starting to realise just how much trouble Barak Obama's campaign is in. Is it too late to save him or dump him?
Here's a link to another article on the same theme.
Democrat Pundit Predicts Obama Will Lose Well if by choosing a nomark the Democrats have handed America to the Republicans for another four years, we'll never forgive them.

VIDEO TIME
The People Who Will Decide The US Election. Excellent humour from the Onion defines thev 430 new demographics that will decide the U.S. election.
Would you have guessed that Obama leads by 99% among gay Dads while among wooodwork business owning brothers McCain leads by 81%?

And while we are doing video here's one on The Obamessiah from The Nose On Your Face

and finally

Its a cool cool summer

Barak Obama has a brother, George, back in Kenya. George lives on $1 a week in a mud hut. And he is curious to know why his rich, successful big bro has not been in touch especially seeing as Barry makes such a big thing of the family values he was taught by his Kenyan Daddy whom he never knew.

A few days ago a Tory - Boy Think Tank released a report of stupendous and stunning stupidity that suggested we should all abandon our homes in the cities and towns of the beautiful north because is was....well....the better in every way than the south. We ought to move to the scummy south brayed the Tory Boys in a tone reminiscent of Harry Enfield at his funniest or Margaret Thatcher at her most rabid.
Well it has rebounded on them with a vengance with the publication today of a study on coastal erosion witch suggests large tracts or land in "desirable locations" around the South Coast should be abandoned. The waterlevels will rise as the ice caps melt and the land is tilting, the south-east sinking into the Atlantic as the north rises. It is climate change plus geophysics, a double whammy.

Britain's crumbling coast

So really it is not the north that is failing but the south that is sinking. And far from abandoning our northern homes we should raise the baccricades, take up our pitchforks and cudgels and prepare to resist an invasion of greedy, humourless, property obessessed, demi-francaise, Tories. They'll play havoc with the value of our property you know, forcing up prices until we can't afford to heat our homes or buy our pie and chips.

The publication of the think tank report shows that despite Cameron's attempts at cuddliness, the Tories are still Thatchers party, braying, witless clowns with delusions of adequacy. We must never forget that.

Many people across the pond are wondering why I, a European leftie, am so irritated by Barak Obama and his fuckwitted Presenential campaign. Americans ten to see every issue as a black and white (oops, pardon!) choice. You Like Obama ergo you hate McCain and vice versa.

Well my politics are more subtle than that. In British politics for years I have managed to hate Conservastive and Labour with equal venom (though I have tilted towards superhating Labour recently.

Now Obama is a strange case. He is so politically naive you can hear more sophisticated arguments from a school debating society. His utterances have a quasi-religious tone that I find puke making and that effing supid, witless, ever present grin make me want to beat his face to pate.

On top of that Obama and his supporters have this annoying tendency to assume problems can be fixed just by saying "we'll fix it."

Latest in this line is the pro-choice /pro-life debate on abortion and contraception. An Obama advisor says, "The religious right hate abortion but in twenty years the Republicans have failed to reduce abortions. All we have to do is formulate a policy that will reduce abortions and the evangelical vote will come over to Sen. Obama.

Yeah right. It's just that easy. Like a magician pulling rabbits out of his magic hat.

How Obama can win over the pro - lifers - hufington Post

This article is by another Obama supporter who is not likely to be setting foot on this planet any time soon. Forgetting that the candidate is a deluded fantasist who has not yet stated a policy on anything, let alone the tough issues, how can Barak Obama formulate a policy that will reduce abortions without upsetting the religious right.

The fundies hate recreational sex as much as they hate abortions. The only way to reduce unwanted pregnancies is to offer free contraceptives, condoms, pill, morning aftrer pill. The pro-lifers abhor all of these, their position is abstinence only. The Republicans have failed to reduce aborion is because abstinence doesn't work, never has, never will.

So what has Obama to offer? Hopes dreams and visions, Bob the builder becomes a gynaecologist? And would he want to offer anything, after all his ex best buddy Jeremiah Wright preaches that Planned Parenthood is a WASP conspiracy to exterminate the dark skinned races.

If you want to abort any influence idiot articles like this may have on your thinking, read my article A Short History Of Contraception (Part 4) which deals with the modern era. (1 to 3, linked from the article deal with earlier periods of history. )
A Short History Of Abortion And Contraception (4)

About a year ago I posted an item titled The Scandal That Will Not Go Away. It was about the alleged link betwenn the MMR vaccine and Autism and the way that after ten years this controversy has not been resolved.

As anticipated I has a lot of hysterical and emotionally overwought responses from scientists accusing me of not understanding the issue because I was not a scientist.

Wrong on many counts. I was not coming down on either side of the argument, merely asking why the issue keeps resurfacing. I was accused of supporting Dr. Wakefield's research although I never mentioned him and one boy scientist even tried to tell me that "correlation does not prove causation" is the basis of scientific thinking. All he proved by that was he does not understand the difference between correlation and coincidence.

Well now the Labour government is launching another campaign aimed at bullying doubting parents into having their very young children injected with three potent toxins in a single dose and here is an article from Peter Wilby who claims he is a former editor of some crypto-fascist rag read by Ivory Tower dwelling Hampstead liberals showing us once more that the "scientific argument" supporting MMR consists of nothing more than mud slinging against sceptical voices.

Particularly intersting are the comments though, science fundies on one side and freethinkers on the other. Well I have said many times there are a breed of scientists who are seeking to turn their obsession into a religion. They should beware of coming here and complaining that I treat their irrational certainties with the same scant respect I give to the irrational certainties of Creationists preachers:

And Let them know that I am Machiavell,
and weigh not me and therefore not men's words...
I count religion but a childish toy, whatever label people put on it,
and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

More on the great MMR scandal from Little Nicky Machiavelli