In defence of the Sloop John B...

...because he is entirely correct and Sunny is as wrong as a wrong-un.

Amnesty International has decided to get involved with domestic violence, its not in their remit but that wouldn't be such a problem if they weren't such split tongued, Janus faced fuckers. Below is my response to Sunny being a fucking idiot:


"I’m satisfied by that response"

and I am not.

Lying about a problem, (and lets split no hairs here, that is what they are doing), is not helpful. Domestic violence is not part of their remit and trying to get a message across is not a good reason for making stuff up.

I suggest the author of the following quotes look for his fellows in the eighth circle:

"Our first point on statistics is that we would urge people to show support for victims of violence against women rather than get into a debate about the niceties of statistics"

So they admit that they lied.

"Interestingly though, once the men began to accept the statistics they were very horrified and had massively underestimated the scale and extent of violence against women."

Astonishing, people didn't initially believe the stats you made up.

"Do we have to dispute the niceties of the stats or can we have a more humane starting point that we reject violence against women and wish it to end."

Despite what you may believe, those arguing over the stats also think violence against women, (or indeed anybody), is a very bad thing. Those disputers believe it is important enough not to lie about it.

"of course stats should not be misused"

Then stop doing so. LIES DO NOT HELP.

A policeman's lot is now a happy one

For many years policemen have been in hiding. Terrified beyond reason that somewhere, someone is holding a camera and may take their picture which will inevitably lead to their grisly demise.

You see, before going out on the beat all prospective policemen are taken to the UberUltraSuperSecret Temple of Mild Discombobulation where their souls are removed and stored in canopic jars with a single pickle to maintain their "soul integrity". The extraordinary effect of this fantastic procedure is to leave the policeman invunerable to terrorists, (all that body armor is just to disguise their glorious power).

However, like the fleet footed man killer Achilles, the policeman's protection is not without flaw. Should some EVIL TERRORIST gain a picture of a policeman (Link is NSFW and not in a fun way either), the protective spell is broken and the poor policeman shall surely die!!!!

Now this new law preventing TEH EVIL ONESES taking pictures will mean no policeman has to fear the loss of his soul protection and will be able to win THE WAR ON TERRORISM!, THE WAR ON DRUGS!!, THE WAR ON RUGS!!! and THE WAR ON (insert abstract noun here)!!!!!!

We are now safe, thank you Gordon, thank you Labour, thank you from the deapths of the rotting pit in which you belong.

Beeb-bop

For no good reason that I can see, (other than thoroughly intentional myopia), I have from time to time been described as a deeply cynical bastard. This possible cynicism in no way informs my take on the recent Beeb / Gaza charity spat.

However, it did occur to me that if I were running an organisation accused of systematic bias in contravention of the charter under which the organisation operates, even to the extent of hiding an investigation into possible bias, I might consider a false flag operation. From now on, any time the BBC is accused of anti-Israel bias they will be able to say, "Oh come on, we didn't even show a charity appeal for Gaza civilians. How dare you accuse us of being anti-Israel."

Of course the Beeb is perfect in every way and I'm sure they would never stoop to such tactics, (I may have been accused of being sarky once or twice as well).

Kill it, cook it, eat it

It's not all that often that I champion the Beeb but I do think that this is a worthwhile program.

People have managed to disassociate meat from the animals that they get them from. While I hate to state the unbloodybelievably obvious, animals have to die for you to eat meat.

A few months ago I went rabbit hunting with an item similar to this uniquely ill suited equipment:



The result was this:


I shot it just behind the skull, killing it instantly but I wrung its neck to make sure that it was not suffering. In all honesty, shooting it was barely a conscious decision, I saw it run and before I was even aware of what was happening, I had killed it.

I was sad that I had ended it's life, however, I don't regret my actions because it became food and damn tasty it was to.


I suspect that despite the protestations of modern man, (let alone woman), we retain an instinctive ability to kill for food. Whether we like it or not, we are very successful predators and that propensity is not going to disappear overnight.

As for any deeper point; appreciate meat, it's harder than you might think to hunt the little buggers down and vegetarians are, as we always suspected, lacking in many ways.

Fish...

...in favour of water.

Falco's First Law

If you allow the state to have power over you beyond preventing obvious harm to another, then innocent or guilty, it will be used against you and yours, by this government or the next.

Not something I say every epoch

Sunny has written a fairly sensible article about the latest Israel / Palestine (I/P) massacre.

Sunny, criticises Israel for killing one fuck of a lot of people but also provides this gem, worthy of any good swearblogger:

"As for those defending Hamas - I don’t see what else they were expecting given the recent upsurge of rocket attacks into Israeli areas. A fucking Blue Peter badge? This really is a crappy state of affairs."

Sunny is correct in saying that both are to blame but the question is how to end it. Unlike Darrell in the comments I doubt that "providing a reasonable framework for a viable state and supporting the Palestinian people" would work. There are many reasons why the I/P situation has gone on for so long, it's the longest running phony war that I'm aware of. However, this is not a Cold War to be settled by the eventual disintegration of one state and the obvious superiority of the other. The I/P is a hot war quenched by repeated international pressure and I cannot see a way out for either people without a total victory for one side or the other.

The problem with searching for a peaceful solution to this conflict is the assumption that one might exist. It is increasingly evident that there never was.

UPDATE........

We now have this from Darrell Goodliffe showing rather less sense than Sunny. I was particularly struck by this glaring example of stupidity:

"Israeli’s meanwhile would be forced to face .... that the only way to end the attacks is to make some painful but necessary concessions to win the hearts and minds of Palestinians."

Given that the only concession that would satisfy the Palestinians would be the total destruction of Israel, Darrell is rather reminiscent of an American commenter on Vietnam but gone arse about face:

"The Israelis must all die in order to win."