Snow is falling.
But wait, it can’t be. This is the warmest year on record.
Ah. I know. It must be super dense second hand smoke, if ASH is to be believed.
Please tell this thicko what it really is. I am confused.com.
*I promise to post decent stuff tommorrow*
But I’m not holding my breath.
A police riot squad officer who escaped prosecution over Ian Tomlinson's death during the G20 protests has been served with gross misconduct allegations.
I posted about this case here. Injustice again.
He will also be accused of using force that "was not necessary, proportionate or reasonable in the circumstances", and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is consulting on whether to hold the misconduct hearing in public.
As far as I’m concerned this should most certainly be held in the public view. Maybe it would be a deterrent to the rest of those thugs dressed up in their stab vests and other accoutrements designed to frighten the average citizen on the streets.
They have long forgotten that they are members of the public given extra powers. I’m sure more and more of them think, that they are above the law, that the rest of us have to abide by.
Will justice be done in this case? As I said, I’m not holding my breath.
What do you think?
I just hope that they show that Cameron is the spineless shyster that I consider him to be. I would like to see him squirm on television trying to refute the claims.
Rant over.
Solicitors acting for Julian Lewis, MP for New Forest East, sent a strongly-worded warning to Richard Grant for saying in a published letter that Mr Lewis "got away with it" after claiming expenses which would be "considered unacceptable" by most people.
I personally think that his claims were extravagant. A bloody trouser press FFS.
The MP successfully claimed £119 for a wall-mounted trouser press, £5 for a "sweater tidy" and £2,369.75 for kitchen appliances.
Could he not use an iron like the rest of us?
Oh dearie me
A Missouri man has been arrested after allegedly carrying out a robbery on a petrol station kiosk by getting his female accomplice to flash her breasts at the clerks as a distraction.
Original to say the least.
Laron Pearson, 21, was taken into custody on Tuesday after showing up at the station three weeks after the original crime, when workers called the police to identify him as the same man according to the Kansas City Star.
And I couldn’t help myself in tampering with the charge
Pearson is charged with first-degree
Booberyrobbery.
I’ll have a look later to see what I can find. But meanwhile dissect this propaganda piece from the Righteous.
Passive smoking is responsible for one in every 100 deaths around the world each year, according to research published today.
And of course we have the usual band wagon jumpers.
‘This research underpins the long-held understanding that second-hand smoking kills and its greatest impact is on children,’ said Dan Tickle, of the No Smoking Day charity.
And
Betty McBride, of the British Heart Foundation, said: ‘These figures should make smokers stop and think about the impact they’re having on other people’s health, particularly children’s. They should also serve as encouragement to government to... promote smoke-free homes and cars.’
Pah,
Smoking might give you a heart attack but smokers have better chances of surviving a heart attack than non-smokers, according to a puzzling phenomenon dubbed "smokers paradox". The apparently "protective" effect of smoking in heart attack patients was highlighted in a study confirming smoker's paradox among older patients, released at an international cardiology conference. In a statistical analysis, smokers had a massive 75 per cent better chance of surviving heart attack than non-smokers, the study showed.
These findings may give heart attacks to anti-tobacco operatives. Although the researchers certainly peppered their report with anti-smoking provisos they deserve credit for examining a phenomenon that goes against the politically correct vein.
Several reasons for smokers having a better survival rate after heart attacks are advanced. Each of them implicitly contradicts the false notion that there are no benefits derived from smoking tobacco. Smokers, according to the director of a heart research institute, are less prone to pulmonary congestion, or fluid on the lungs, and often had lower blood pressure than non-smokers. They also have higher levels of carbon monoxide in the blood which helps them retain oxygen.
Despite the negative comments about smoking, a ritualistic defense all researchers must mumble whenever they find something positive to report about smokers, this study provides more evidence that tobacco is not the demon plant that the zealots would have the public believe.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. ASH
