Moral Swampland

Gordon Broon is a fine one to chunner on about people consorting with known criminals. How many Labour MPs were sacked and sent to gaol for stealing from the taxpayer? And how many of these known criminals got away with it? And what about Gordon’s cheerleading for an illegal war started on the basis of manufactured evidence by the New Labour government he was part of? Yep, you’re a fine one to talk about known criminals, Gordon.

A rather peculiar revenge

How odd that the people taking the biggest pops at the defunct NotW are the ones whose bizarre and disgusting lives were exposed by the News of the Screws. Or are they so desperate to be noticed that they don’t care that the other papers will take the chance to rake over the muck one more time in the name of providing context for the sordid celebs’ rants?

The First & the Last

Just back from watching the last ever space shuttle launch. Having seen the first one by accident 30 years ago – they were a couple of days late with the launch and fell into my window of opportunity – I thought it would be a good idea to do the last one by design.

No. 135 wasn’t as impressive as No. 1, which had a white-painted external fuel tank instead of a nasty old “rusty after being left out in the rain for a couple of years” finish. The first 3 launches looked like proper spaceships instead of refugees from a scrapyard.

Pass the hypocrisy pills, Mary!

The Labour party cosied up to the banks and they went crazy with their customers’ money. The Labour party cosied up to the Murdoch organization and the News of the Screws hacked into every voicemail account available. Now, we get Labour’s war criminals, guys who lied to the country to start an illegal war, pontificating about how they have the answer to it all, and look at me, I got away with it, by the way. Will the same standards be applied to the criminals at the News of the World? Joke!

What nice people!

What is it about cycling that brings out the worst in those involved? You get contestants guzzling drugs supplied by the team pusher and getting themselves overloaded with red blood cells, and officials distorting the results with wilfully perverse rulings that lack a leg to stand on. And they dare to call this a sport!

Mug me, please!

I was innocently reading my Sunday Telegraph yesterday when I came across a brilliant offer. Renewable Energy Bonds paying an A.E.R. of 8%! Wow! Then I read the small print. Woe!

The bonds can’t be traded and they can’t be redeemed for at least 4 years. Worse, the company offers no guarantee that it will ever pay any interest. Even worse, the company doesn’t even have to give you your money back. And they call it an “ethical investment”.

Just common sense, really

It would appear that the government took steps to stop the anti-nuclear lobby from turning the disaster at the power station in earthquake-prone Japan into silly scare stories aimed at the British nuclear programme (such as it is). Sounds like good government to me; something which has become fairly unknown after 13 years of Bliar & Broon.