You’re guilty even though you maybe innocent.

Ollie Cromwell, a blogger that has been trying to expose the somewhat dubious machinations of Bexley Council could use a little help. His blog has been a bit sweary at times but he is being attacked by the state apparatus for daring to question the politburo on Bexley council.  In his words:

I started this blog post a few days ago, and subsequently changed my mind about publishing it, for the simple reason that if I continued to write it I’d lose my temper and do something silly. Adorning the top of this post you will see two images. Look VERY closely at them for they are documented proof that freedom of speech and expression in this country is not only dead, it’s decomposing and leaving a stinking, rotting stench behind. A stench which I fear is spreading, rather fucking quickly. Let alone the lack of any sort of legitimate justice.

The original post was only going to be about the proposed restraining order that the CPS were applying for. Alas! Life she isn’t that simple, or nice really, she likes throwing more than one rotting c**t flap at you in one go. I’ll get to that bit in a minute, I just want to comment on the proposed restraining order. It’s not going to be a lengthy analysis, just important points that I want to make.

Now I don’t say here that this is the whole story, but having followed his blog for some time, I feel inclined to believe his side of the story.

If nothing else, just go over and read his story.

For background reading on Bexley councils antics go over to Malcolm’s blog for some measured background information.  

Why?

 

Sorry

To the good folks out there who read this blog in the wilderness of the rankings. I have three little rating boxes below any post. These are labelled (Fuck I’ve forgotten what they say. Hang on a minute I’ll be right back) Good, Fair, and Utter shite. My question is: I know I write Utter shite, why can’t you recognise it? Stop being so polite.

Then again maybe you feel sorry for a poor pensioner struggling to pay for his whisky and baccy bills whilst huddling around an open fire, whilst his once a week tin bath, warms slowly. (I made the open fire and tin bath up just to see if you have a sympathetic bone in your body. The whisky and baccy bit is more important ).

I must admit I tend to forget to look at the little boxy things (sorry to all those that have ticked them), as I use google reader to keep up with all the blogs that I read. This means that I rarely look at my actual Blog posts as you see them. In that case just label them all as “Utter Shite” just to teach me a lesson.

Your comments, on the other hand, are magically sent to me via the wonders of Email (Whatever that is?) and I do read these wondrous comments everyday. Often I will comment back, Sometimes not. (It’s a whisky thing I suspect). The purpose of this missive is to say thankyou for just reading this blog.

*fools*

Hands Off

Bugger off nanny

Bird Mincers fall over

Ever wonder about which bits of a wind turbine fails the most? Well here you are.

What surprised me was that as these are onshore, why should the towers fail? I would have put bearings, gearboxes, and blades first. How can a tower built on land fail? It’s not as we have massive earthquakes every year. I expect it of offshore turbines due to poor grouting and scour of the sea bed around the towers, but not onshore. I wouldn’t want one of those on my doorstep.

And we’re paying a green Tariff for these poorly constructed blots on the landscape. Sheesh.

The graph comes from a source that is from a wind turbine company which I’d rather not mention here. If so my source of information may dry up.

And now for the News

Second Smoke kills……..

Or not if this study is correct.

1. 80 epidemiological studies of lung cancer among lifelong nonsmokers have been published.

2. The overall evidence shows no statistically significant increased risk of lung cancer in relation to ETS exposure from parents in childhood, or in social situations, or to nonspousal ETS exposure at home.

3. The overall evidence shows that lung cancer risk among nonsmoking women is significantly associated with having a husband who smokes (with a similar association seen in nonsmoking men in relation to smoking by the wife, though based on far less data).
There is also evidence of a dose-response relationship,1 with risk higher if the husband smokes more cigarettes per day or for a longer period of time. However, there are a number of reasons why this association and dose-response relationship cannot be interpreted as indicating a causal effect of ETS exposure including:

the association is weak and is not statistically significant in the great majority of studies: over 80% show no statistically significant association between smoking by the husband and the development of lung cancer;

It goes on with a lot more elucidation, ending with this final bullet point before the data part.

Taken as a whole, the epidemiology does not support the claim that ETS causes lung cancer in non-smokers.

I’m sure the nanny state and the Fascists over at ASH don’t want you to know this. So I’m telling you instead.

Happy Birthday to me.

At least I’ve still remembered. Shows I’m not senile yet.

We will fight on the blogs, we will fight with art……

We will prevail

Have you ever wondered……

Who’s watching you on line

Track the trackers. If you use Firefox you might like to try their add on called Collusion.

Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.

It really is quite startling to see, in a cloud type format, who has linked to you with a cookie.