You know how the righteous use this phrase to try and ban everything.
Firstly, I'd like to know who this one child is that keeps getting its life saved. It's either enormously lucky, or a stupid little toe-rag. Probably the latter – it does keep getting into these scrapes that it has to be rescued from. If someone can let me know the little bastard's name and address, I'll undertake to go round and put it permanently out of our misery.
Job done.
A grandmother has been jailed for five years for possessing a "family heirloom" World War II pistol.
Gail Cochrane, 53, had kept the gun for 29 years following the death of her father, who had been in the Royal Navy.
Police found the weapon, a Browning self-loading pistol, during a search of her home in Dundee while looking for her son.
She admitted illegal possession of the firearm, an offence with a minimum five-year jail term under Scots law.
Cases like these beggar belief. How on earth is this "Justice".
And as for Judge Lady stupid Smith. Can she not see how see how the ordinary man in the street will percieve this?
The judge said she was unable to find herself satisfied that this was one of the rare cases in which exceptional circumstances existed.
She said: "The result is I have no alternative but to sentence Mrs Cochrane to a period of five years."
Technically she is right. But oh so morally wrong.
I'm going to lie down in a darkened room
This is Lahore in Pakistan...
And this is Dewsbury in the United Kingdom...
Something odd? Can't quite put my finger on it............
A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he made a rude gesture at a group of Hells Angels, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a stolen bulldozer.
WTF. But it gets better.
After making his getaway, he stole the bulldozer from a construction site, and attempted to drive it to Munich. However, it was not fast enough, and his snail-like pace caused a 3-mile traffic jam near the southern town of Allershausen, according to a report in the English-language newspaper The Local, which cited the daily tz.
Apparently he was suffering from depression.
No puppies were hurled hurt in the writing of this article.
SOURCE
*The cat will get it though, if it climbs over the keyboard again*
Who would of thunk it? Whale shit is saving the planet from biggest ever scare story man made global warming.
Sperm whales offset their carbon footprint by stimulating plant growth with their own faeces, scientists have discovered.
Australian researchers worked out that Southern Ocean sperm whales release about 50 tonnes of iron when they defecate every year.
This stimulates the growth of phytoplankton - which absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.
Phytoplankton are marine plants which are eaten in turn by tiny marine animals - zooplankton - which are then eaten by larger sea animals.
Must enlarge the pond at FE towers.
There seems to be a new group of islamofascists in town.
They really are playing with fire in the current situation where we are getting reports of more deaths of servicemen by the day.
I respect their right to free speech but fear that those of a patriotic persuasion may snap in the near future. There may be blood on the streets soon.
A group of predominantly Muslim protesters gathered in Barking town centre, in east London, as members of the 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marched through the streets.
One witness said: "There were about 25 to 50 Muslim protesters carrying placards with things like 'Muslims Against Crusades' and 'British Soldiers Go To Hell'.
And
"Then there was a counter-protest of about 100 guys barracking them."
I gather that these were members of "The English Defence League", who proceeded to pelt the MAC with beer and sausages.
The URL for Muslims against crusade if you are interested.
However it's either overloaded or else they've got crap computing power as it is almost impossible to get on there. Mind you, the message I left there with mahommed and Kiddy fidler in the same sentence might have sent their server into meltdown.
An interesting article I've been reading this morning about the fervour of the Anti smoking lobby.
Here are a few bites of the cherry:
The Antismoking Lobby has perfected the art of media sound bites. Short, sweet, sticky to the mind, almost totally void of meaning … but deadly in their effectiveness. They are just more lies though, and if you know them you can laugh when you hear them. Some to watch for:
Antismokers claim smoking causes 400,000 deaths a year. (Actually, this is a computer generated imaginary number. And half of those imaginary deaths occur after age 72 … almost 20% of them after age 85!)
Antismokers claim scientific studies are unanimous and unequivocal in proving secondary smoke is killing thousands from lung cancer.
(Actually, the vast majority fail to find even a basic statistically significant link. The UN’s huge 1998 study actually found significant protection from lung cancer in children exposed to secondary smoke at home!)
Antismokers claim smoke contains 4,000 poisons and carcinogens.
(Actually, the EPA can only identify 432: the rest are theory. In toxicology “The dose makes the poison.” Nonsmokers never absorb enough smoke to even approach OSHA safety concern levels for any of them!)
Antismokers claim secondary smoke is just like Asbestos and Radon.
(Actually, sunshine, beer and sawdust are also all Class A Carcinogens.)
Antismokers claim having a non-smoking section in a restaurant is the same as having a non-pissing section in a pool.
(Actually, since pool water is changed about 1x/year and the air in a decent restaurant is changed about 50,000x/year, they’re not the same at all!)
Antismokers claim California’s extreme bans reduced lung cancer by 14%.
(Actually, that drop occurred in 1996… two years before their total ban!)
Antismokers claim that uncounted masses of hospitality workers are dying every year from secondary smoke.
(Actually, “uncounted” is absolutely right… they must all be stacked in a pile next to Saddam Hussein’s nukes and watched over by OJ’s “real killer.”)
You can read the whole article at the Encyclopedia.
It's an easy read, that you can print out and thrust in an antismokers face. (Preferably rolled up, end first).
Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lynsey Scott, of Wigan, died months after surgery at Wythenshawe Hospital last year.
Sad but it happens.
Well the crux of the matter is that she had a double lung transplant. All well and good.
But oh Noes.
Shock horror. The lungs were from a smoker.
The father of Lynsey who died after a double lung transplant said she would have been "horrified" to discover the organs were from a smoker of 30 years.
What is it with the righteous, that even when a good deed has been done to prolongue this woman's life, they still have to castigate the donor, because he or she smoked.
She was bloody lucky to get the transplant in any case.
And now she didn't die because of that lung transplant.
She died a few months later in July. Tests later concluded the primary cause of death was pneumonia.
Well Mr Scott and the NHS. Tough shit. My lungs are going to the crematorium with me.
The Food Standards Agency.
The FSA was established on 1 April 2000
by Act of Parliament (Food Standards
Act 1999).
I wonder what we did before this quango was established?
We did of course have this:
The Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) was
originally established on 1st April 1995.
What I can't understand is why did we ever need them in the first place? In my childhood we never had people dying by the thousands, with bodies littering the houses and streets of the country.
Why not, you ask?
Because we had cookery classes in school which taught the basics about food preparation, storage and hygiene.
We also had parents who passed on their knowledge gained by their experience.
And none of this cost an eye watering £155,000,000 per annum.
The net cost of the FSA was £155m against
available funding of £160m to 31 March
2009.
Their success rate is astounding. Look at the huge amount of successful prosecutions that they have accomplished with taxpayer funded millions.
However, it is possible to report on all
those cases that were concluded during
2008/09. Overall, 18 cases (comprising
a total of 106 individual charges) were
brought before the courts by the FSA,
Defra, or Procurators fiscal during the year.
The charges laid in these cases covered a
total of 41 separate referrals from the MHS.
Convictions were secured in 14 of the
cases. One case resulted in acquittal with
proceedings withdrawn in three cases.
Rant over. I rest my case.
The FSA
