Sunday, April 30, 2006
Kaspy The Collie & Spike.
They never manage to agree on whose turn it is to do the dusting.
Foto's by The Mongrel.
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Foto's by The Mongrel.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Blogger Isn't Getting A Whole Lot Better.
As this is a Mac, I use that system's Safari web browser which has always displayed my blog perfectly, until Blogger's system went down last weekend and post titles started appearing in the sidebar while the stuff that should appear there disappeared completely.
Although it wouldn't affect Windoze users, anyone with a Mac and Safari was presumably seeing the same confused and distorted page as I was.
I've just had to delete several posts as nothing I could do would rectify the problem.
As a result quite a few comments that people posted - Elektrofly, Kats, Yuki and others - have also gone, and I apologize for that.
Am I the only one who is getting more and more problems recently with Blogger?
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Although it wouldn't affect Windoze users, anyone with a Mac and Safari was presumably seeing the same confused and distorted page as I was.
I've just had to delete several posts as nothing I could do would rectify the problem.
As a result quite a few comments that people posted - Elektrofly, Kats, Yuki and others - have also gone, and I apologize for that.
Am I the only one who is getting more and more problems recently with Blogger?
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Friday, April 07, 2006
Judge Under Attack For Having Some Sense.
A judge in Manchester, England, yesterday criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for bringing a case against a ten year old boy who allegedly shouted racist insults at another boy in a school playground.
District Judge Jonathon Finestein, said that in his view the case should not have reached the courts, concluding that the decision to prosecute appeared to be “political correctness gone mad”.
Ordering the Crown Prosecution Service to think again, Judge Finestein said that when he was at school other pupils would call him fat, but that did not amount to a criminal offence. In the old days the headmaster would have given them “a good clouting" and sent them on their way.
“Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting ten year old boys because of political correctness?” he said. “Does this amount to a criminal offence? It is crazy. Nobody is more against racist abuse than me, but these are boys in a playground.”
He went on: “This is how stupid the whole system is getting. If you get your car stolen it does not matter, but you get two kids falling out because of racist comments. This is nonsense.”
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: “We take all reports of crime seriously and remain totally opposed to racism in any form. We will continue to take appropriate action against anyone found to be acting in a racist manner.”
Considering that the two boys involved are now friends, and the judge displayed considerably more common sense than the police and the CPS, one might have expected and hoped that to be the end of the matter.
But no. Today teachers have criticised the judge for 'trivialising' racial abuse, accusing him of being out of date.
"What the judge is saying is that the two children should have just had their heads knocked together. He needs telling that it’s no longer within the control of the school to handle incidents of racial bullying," said Judith Elderkin of the National Union of Teachers.
It seems to me the people needing their heads knocked together here are the teachers, the CPS and the police, in the vain hope it might knock some sense and imagination into them.
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District Judge Jonathon Finestein, said that in his view the case should not have reached the courts, concluding that the decision to prosecute appeared to be “political correctness gone mad”.
Ordering the Crown Prosecution Service to think again, Judge Finestein said that when he was at school other pupils would call him fat, but that did not amount to a criminal offence. In the old days the headmaster would have given them “a good clouting" and sent them on their way.
“Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting ten year old boys because of political correctness?” he said. “Does this amount to a criminal offence? It is crazy. Nobody is more against racist abuse than me, but these are boys in a playground.”
He went on: “This is how stupid the whole system is getting. If you get your car stolen it does not matter, but you get two kids falling out because of racist comments. This is nonsense.”
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police said: “We take all reports of crime seriously and remain totally opposed to racism in any form. We will continue to take appropriate action against anyone found to be acting in a racist manner.”
Considering that the two boys involved are now friends, and the judge displayed considerably more common sense than the police and the CPS, one might have expected and hoped that to be the end of the matter.
But no. Today teachers have criticised the judge for 'trivialising' racial abuse, accusing him of being out of date.
"What the judge is saying is that the two children should have just had their heads knocked together. He needs telling that it’s no longer within the control of the school to handle incidents of racial bullying," said Judith Elderkin of the National Union of Teachers.
It seems to me the people needing their heads knocked together here are the teachers, the CPS and the police, in the vain hope it might knock some sense and imagination into them.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Terror Cops Calling... Now War Is Declared.
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared... and battle come down.......
... Now get this
LONDON CALLING YES I WAS THERE TOO
An' you know what they say
Well some of it was trueLondon calling at the top of the dial... an' after all this won't you gimme a smile....... London Calling... London Calling...
A man on his way to the airport was held by anti-terror police after being alerted by a taxi driver that his passenger asked him to play London Calling by The Clash on the car stereo.
Terror fear over Clash fan's song
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Pencil Drawing.
Balkello Standing Stone, Angus, Scotland.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Kaspy The Collie & Friend.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Yeah?
...Yeahyeah
yeah...
It's a very dangerous thing... to do exactly what you want...because you cannot know yourselves... or what you'd really do...With all your power....... What would you do? with all your power... What would you do?...
Yeahyeahyeah
yeahyeah.......
yeah...
It's a very dangerous thing... to do exactly what you want...because you cannot know yourselves... or what you'd really do...With all your power....... What would you do? with all your power... What would you do?...
Yeahyeahyeah
yeahyeah.......
The Flaming Lips...
At War With The Mystics.
Mischka.
Image by Jenny Campbell.
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