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also funny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shrimpton_(barrister_and_terror_expert)

” is one of AMTRAK’s few UK Guest Rewards members” Now that is impressive. Can it be true?

Well he is telling the truth about being on faculty at the American Military University, it doesn’t say he’s a QC though.

http://www.amu.apus.edu/Academics/Faculty/faculty-details.htm?facultyID=1014

slightly zany conspiracy theories, usually involving catholics

Isn’t it you who should avail yourself of a tin foil hat? Can you substantiate this?

I won’t name him

That’s because you don’t know who he is and only have a certain Catholic Herald editor’s own conspiracy theory to base it on…

I guessed this was Shrimpton after reading the first line of the quote, which shows how much crap I’ve absorbed on-line over the years. Shrimpton sees Germanic intelligence behind a lot of things, from Marx (a Prussian agent sent to Britain to spread discord) through to the disappearance of Madelaine McCann.

I came across him a few months ago when I was researching Alan Harvey’s “Springbok Club” and the “London Swinton Circle” (although I should stress there is no evidence Shrimpton shares any of Harvey’s views on South Africa). According to Harvey:

In his most revealing and powerful address Mr. Shrimpton told something about the international forces which lay behind the abandonment of the British Empire post-World War II, which culminated in the betrayal of Rhodesia, and also gave an in-depth account of some of the little-reported facts about those involved in the recent US Presidential Election.

Cramner is a blogger who has a reputation for slightly zany conspiracy theories, usually involving catholics.

If you say so. In my experience he is well-regarded by several prominent, orthodox Catholics, and is not prone to “Papish plot” style stuff at all, really.

(Ruth Gledhill at The Times, however, is a different matter entirely, although at least they h ave Bess Twiston-Davies to go some way towards making up for her).

I mean, one might draw all sorts of conclusions from the nom de plume that he has adopted, but a ready familiarity with the substance of much of what he writes should rapidly allow one to throw over such false presumptions.

This is jolly entertaining in its fashion
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/07/facebook-is-two-faced-hypocritical.html.

Although is sure shows how far England has fallen, how base and degraded contemporary English culture has become, when a more-or-less reliable ally of the Catholic cause in this country can name himself after arch-heretic Cramner.

It is no surprise that the British Government was well prepared, given the introduction of Avian Flu to this country after Gordon Brown, who was opposed by Germany, became Prime Minister.

What is this confused sentence trying to say? That Germany is entitled to have an opinion on who is the UK’s PM? Definitely Tin Hat Planet.

Nothing wrong with representing the Metric Martyrs, however; quite the reverse.

Cranmer’s latest post deals with the subject of the beatification of Cardinal Newman:

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/07/cardinal-john-henry-newman-to-be.html

Is there anything in the post to suggest that Cranmer is an anti-Catholic conspiracy theorist? I don’t think so.

Well, the name “Cranmer” does rather give it away; how could he be anything other than an anti-Catholic conspirator? It takes less than that to get labelled by some of the Torquemadas on a certain blog…

During Cast Lead he wrote a very supportive, pro-Israeli post written somewhere – I just can’t remember where, but it was pretty good stuff.

Would I be sued for saying that he sounds like a Walt?:

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Walts

Name apart, he seems like less of an anti-Catholic conspirator than a good number of the bishops of England & Wales, Scotland or Ireland…

Also, the endorsements of the blog down the right hand column include those of the Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Herald (and “Catholic correspondent of the Telegraph) , Damian Thompson; Daniel Hannon MEP – who may or may not be Catholic, I have no idea, but who has written pieces in the aforementioned Herald; and the Great Joanna Bogle “Catholic journalist and Author” (and who, in the absence of anyone from the BIshops’ Conference, took it upon herself to be mauled on Channel 4 News in defending the Pope’s recent, and wholly correct, observations about the ill effects of the contraceptive culture).

So, even if he is as anti-Catholic as the real Cramner was, he is still immeasurably less so than the vast bulk of today’s sick-secularised press and media and general cultural ambiance.

It’s the idea of a conspiracy to coverty bring down Comets that I’m enjoyed. If ever there’s an example of fatigue flexing of metal happening in an unexpected (at the time) fashion and re-writing the book on materials design, it’s the Comet crashes. It’s on a par with the deck hatches of Liberty Ships as a defining engineering event.

I will put this in a thread of its own.

I assumed Cramner was having a laugh with this!

In his post on Cardinal Newman, up for sainthood, Cranmer thinks that 2012 is the right date. The inconsistency of celebrating a man like Newman in terms of the modern Olympics, a secular arrogant self regarding commercial event, and the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty, the Head of the Anglican Church that Newman deserted, does not occur to him.

“I assumed Cramner was having a laugh with this!”

I think he was..

Gordon Bennet @ 3 July 2009, 2:19 pm

“Nothing wrong with representing the Metric Martyrs, however; quite the reverse.”

It’s perfectly legal to sell in pre-metric units; so long as the seller quotes metric equivalents so that customers, critics and casual passers-by can make comparisons.

It’s perfectly legal to sell in pre-metric units; so long as the seller quotes metric equivalents so that customers, critics and casual passers-by can make comparisons.
didn’t it have to go to court before several local authority trading standards departments realised this though?

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