Dolphin massacre turns sea blood red.

Is it bad to hate people?

"Guess the transexual" is apparently where modern entertainment is at... Either that of programmes where you "mix and match" two different types of people and then watch them break out into near violence in a Holiday Showdown.

So it looks like Ian Duncan Smith is about to be voted out as Leader of the Tory party. This means someone else will have to be chosen. A suggestion for making the whole thing more interesting (God knows the Tories need something to create interest).

Tory Idol

Televised, and voted for by the public, each prospective leader must perform a number of tasks, each week one candidate is voted off in a phone vote. Commentary by Ant and Dec with Simon Cowell throwing in his tuppenceworth.

It seems more and more each day that "terrorist" is the new name for "communist". In this story "Terror suspects lose appeal" five men have been held without a trial since December. Now this is the ones we know about. Given what the Americans are doing with their "suspects" it goes goes to show how we love to follow the American lead.
Still at least our prisoners are held in semi-decent conditions.

Have a look at this Food review site particularly the "review" starting with "When my boyfriend told me".

While trying to send my comment s on the recent
"Targeting Benefit Fraud - We're on to you" campaign, I discover that the website has had a failure and the comments aren't being understood.
Damn.
I'd loved to have seen the answer to my comments...

Hello,
Normally when the government provides advertising on benefits ("Take it...its yours" for instance) or anything targeted at the public at large (HIV information for instance) there is at least one black face, one Asian face and occasionally someone in a wheelchair. Please explain why I cannot see any ethnic faces in the recent advertisements? Do you think I could ask the CRE to investigate.

Thank you.
Tom Reynolds.

The Vatican is telling Africans, Asians and South Americans that condoms don't stop HIV, and that some condoms are laced with HIV. All because of some half-cocked idea that sex is bad. I'd like to see them try telling people that here. There is plenty of evidence that condoms help reduce the risk of HIV infection (CDC-Fact Sheet and USAID Global Health: HIV/AIDS, Technical Areas, Condoms, HIV/AIDS & Condoms)

Religion is one hell of a dangerous meme, and I wish I believed that Hell existed just so I could imagine the Pope's face when he turns up there, and not at the pearly gates.

Diamond Geezer is a Blog I read regularly, it has lots of good crunchy stuff about living in London. Recommended.

Just in from my late-shift and feeling more upbeat than normal, for tonight I delivered my first baby. And yet I can still turn this happy event into a rant.
Picture the scene, you are a midwife (this means you have a chip on your shoulder the size of the African debt), and a lady comes in to your maternity department in the first stages of labour. Do you...

(a) Say hello, take a room and we'll have that baby out as soon as we can, or...
(b) Tell them to go home and come back when the pain gets worse.

Guess which answer results in your baby being delivered by an ambulance bloke who has one days training in maternity (and to be honest slept through most of it)?

Then when I take mother and baby into the same maternity department are you...

(a) Vaguely apologetic, or...
(b) Snotty towards the ambulance crew who did your work for you.

Can you guess that tonight I got (b) for both questions?

Otherwise a nice simple delivery with dad shooting pictures on his mobile phone sending them to all and sundry while his wife was laying, bloodstained and naked on a leather sofa. Blood went all over that sofa, which come summer will start to smell just a little rank. Blood also went all over me (note to self - must remember to pack wellies next time) and my acting skills ("Don't worry mum, all normal, I've done hundreds of deliveries") were tested to the limit.

And I didn't have to pick up any alcoholics.

ARNULD has been elected. As Warren Ellis reminds us, you get the government you ask for.
Here is hoping that the British elections in around eighteen months are a bit less farcical. as Gary Turner points out.

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Mate Shot in the Arse.