Je suis Charlie

Je Suis Charlie

This is to all those fundamentalists who misguidedly think murdering innocent people justifies their beliefs to take away the freedom of others. 

If we acted the same way as the fundamentalists they'd never be allowed an opinion, so why should they impose their opinion on the rest of us?

And another message from the freedom to live and express oneself which Europeans believe in.

Fuck You.

In Uganda you better not be gay

The president of Uganda believes being gay is a learnt process, it is not a genetic thing, people are taught to be gay. Which in the twenty first century sounds like he has come out of a time machine from the eighteenth century. However, it is not all his own fault. For Uganda has become a backward society. This is the road of countries which become religiously conservative. Those who follow scripture in relation to their own interpretation.  Little do they actually know that Jesus was gay. 

The last supper is the place where it all ended or where it all began,  because you really have to to ask yourself why is it Jesus has around him a load of disciples and they are all men. It is salient.   Because if he were a normal heterosexual there would of  been a fifty to fifty mix of female and male disciples. What was the reason for picking a load of fellas. It can only be because he was homosexual. In normal religious text you would hope gender was an irrelevant issue. Both men and women  being treated in  a similar fashion.  This is not however true. The stories are in relation to male disciples, it is always males who take the major roles. You have got to ask is there something fishy going on here. In my opinion there is, something very odd about the whole situation.

In a TV interview with a leading LBGT advocate in Uganda, it was pointed out the country had been invaded by American Christian fundamentalists. They were repeating the same line of crap and this had now insidiously invested the Ugandan population. Previously violence against LBGT people had not been part of the normal Ugandan reaction. However, now things had changed. Uganda is behind with the times because it is one of the African countries which does not have the same educational system, the same historical fight against the terrors of extremism. As in fact every African country is to some degree under developed. They still need another two to three hundred years of civilization to hopefully come out of ignorance and into light. While the western world still develops. Unfortunatly if you are gay or lesbian or bisexual or undergoing transgender changes life will remain a tragic and tough environment.  Where life could mean death.

Now if only the second coming were to take place, right in the middle of Uganda, and a wonderful GAY Jesus were to spew down on the fundamentalists the damnation of hell they deserve, then the world would right itself. Oh shit, there is no such thing as hell now, is there?

Andrew Marr the weak interviewer

There is nothing worse than a weak interviewer, one who it appears just wants to be friends with the person in the hot chair.  The so called hot chair then becomes tepid.  A great example of a tough interviewer is Jeremy Paxman, it is only a great shame he no longer does newsnight and it is our loss. On the other hand one of the weakest running interviewers is Andrew Mar.  I don't know if it is out of sympathy the BBC still keep him on, and still have a political program with his name, and his program should be a hell of a lot better than it is, but it's not.  I watch it and each time I do I get further disappointed at yet another opportunity lost. Another chance to really stick it to a politician and get a response. You can see them all lining up to be on his program because he is the easiest interviewer to have, we got a teddy bear when we need a shark.  There is no doubt this man is learned but he just does not have the ability to be cut throat in a cut throat political environment.  He must know all about false logical arguments but he doesn't use what he knows, he is a historian and yet he does not bring into play his knowledge base. How can a political program survive if it is not willing to go beyond the boundaries of niceness? In the case of Marr's show there must be someone in a powerful position who likes him.  For all intent and purpose this man needs to retire, or take on an alternative supporting roll. Perhaps as a political advisor, yes yet another one.  Then just maybe the job will be given to an interviewer who has guts.  BBC put this man out to pastures, green, gentle and away from what should be a gladiators arena, I'm sure he could handle a nice field somewhere.

Labour will lose Scotland

Today I saw a short interview with a Scottish Labour MP Jim Murphy and Andrew Marr it was by all intent a travesty to see Jim Murphy unable to accept Labour have lost Scotland. And they certainly have in mind and heart.  The reason behind this is their failure to emphasise the follow up to winning the No vote to independence.  Ed Miliband should of been in Scotland and telling the people exactly what he intends to do to support Scotland in the future, he should of spent time listening to their concerns and then formulating a firm Labour commitment to Scotland. He has not.  Jim stated the obvious, there were 2 million Scots who voted No and it is the Yes campaign who have taken it upon themselves to own the streets. It is like he doesn't understand why they would be on the streets.  So now the papers say Labour are going to lose Scotland, they will lose it bad and this will mean they can not rule in Parliament.  Not only have they lost Scotland they already have lost the next election and doomed it to a another hung parliament.  As Andrew remarked there are now 80,000 SNP members now, it is the biggest party in the country.  Jim has misread the lay of the land, he'll not be around after May 2015 and will live to regret it.  Given we are so close to an election he should of become the black sheep of the Labour party, he should of said Yes to independence and his metal would of been shown, instead Jim is a sheep, just like many MPs are.

Ed Milliband does not instil confidence in me, personally I don't think he should of been the leader of the Labour party, his brother would of been a better choice.  As for Scotland, it's as though he has no attachment to Scotland, I have not seen him in any interview talk about Scotland.  His profile in Scotland in non existent. So I don't know why it is he and his Labour party have taken such a broad assumption of winning 35 per cent of seats in Scotland. It is not going to happen.

The referendum in Scotland was as Alex Salmond said one which had been balanced on fear. The fear factor for pensioners.  In particular it was Gordon Brown who threw in the bucket this point. He rammed it home every time he was on TV, stating how pensions could never be guaranteed in Scotland if they voted Yes. As such he also became a representative of Labour in Scotland. The real problem for the Labour party on this issue is they were on a no winner from the start. The entire issue to them was a poison pill.  The only way they could of maintained any kind of influence would of been by keeping a neutral stand or saying Scottish people should of voted Yes. Maybe both of these views were not in their vocabulary. Yet, come May 2015 they will get a chance to feel it. Fundamentally labour will have to completely change their philosophy.  For some bland reason Miliband is trumping up the introduction of a new Lords, which he would call a Senate. This may very well be an important point, but it is not going to be a game changer and right now this is exactly what Labour need.

Scotland will be lost for Labour, and there is very shakey ground for the Tories taking a majority because their sleeping partners are about to be kicked into the long grass. For popping his head up and being quite often heard is Farage, who doesn't really care much at all for Scotland at all.  So the Scots have got to look after themselves they have to vote SNP and continue to the goal of independence which may not be decades away, well maybe one but not two.

Product placement the bane of the viewer

Product placement advertising in music videos is beyond a joke, and the bigger the star it seems the more frequent the advertising. Regardless of whether the product is any good, it just has to be seen. It's as though the advertisers think their audience is a bunch of morons. There is not a product explicitly advertised in any music video I have ever bought, and I'll tell you what I have seen thousands and thousands of them. It gets to the point where I create a music list then just play the music in the background not watching the vid. Most juke boxes don't show the vids of the music either.  I have no reason to purchase these things and I don't. Products which are functional not glamours are the things which catch my attention. Although it is possible to get some items which are  pleasing to the eye and do the job very well. Then I will purposefully search out and read hundreds of reviews.

In fact it isn't even the value of an item which is taken into account (within reason) it is whether it does it's job, whether it is easy to use, if it is made to last, do I need it and lastly perhaps can I live with what it looks like. Lets face it there are hundreds of items we use and they don't look particularly good. A knife and fork are such things, but they are functionally brilliant.

If an advertiser is pushing something in my face, if they are going all out to sell a product, you have to ask yourself how much money are they making on this and then wonder surely if something is good silent recommendation is worth more than any pound spent in advertising. It is good to see new products, but not have them rammed down your throat. Maybe they are just targeted at a certain type of person or generation of person, but even a niave idiot would soon get to realise they can't be an idiot all their life.

Give me a knife and fork any day.

Sheffield Hallam rid us of this nasty man

Next year will tell the extent Liberal Democrats are liked or disliked. The worst representative of this party is it's leader Nick Clegg and at this crucial time the people of Hallam in Sheffield hold in their hand a powerful pen, one which could be used wisely to rid the country of this man.  Yes the Liberal Democrats were not in power from their own majority, but by coalition.  Yes they had to make compromises to be in this place, but they sold their souls to the devil.  They made promises they could not keep and they are now equally responsible for every Tory policy as are the Tories.  Their strength would of been greater had they allowed a hung parliament and stood by their views, forcing the hand of the Tories on every vote.  Instead the UK is in no better a place than when the Tories came into power.  In fact it is worse.  Clegg must go, he can not be allowed back into politics again, who knows what deals he would then make with the next person in charge, the next Tory how would Nick strip this country and backtrack on more false promises. Once a promise breaker always a promise breaker.  He can not be relied on to appropriately look after this country and if he loves Europe so much why the heck doesn't he go and live in Luxembourg or France because if the voters of the country have anything to say in this matter he's not going to be welcome.  Were I in Hallam I'd be motivated to certainly get this man out, he is without honour and he has helped to create further poverty.

Who is guilty of the Slenderman horror?

It was with horror I read an article about two 12 year old girls who plotted to murder a friend for a fictional internet horror character call Slenderman.  A being somehow created through viral internet rumour who is malevolent and fictionally kills children.  It makes me wonder how on earth such a concept can be allowed to run riot in the world.  Small children are easily influenced and do not understand right from wrong or what is fictional and what is real. This character has been allowed to snowball into a scary creature, to the extent these girls thought he was real and by killing a classmate they would curry favour with him. They just didn't have a grip on reality and are going to be tried as adults. Their victim was stabbed 19 times, she did not die and it must of been with superhuman effort she crawled out of a wood to a track and was discovered by a cyclist.  She is currently in hospital and stable.  The attempted murders have been bailed for $500,000 each. This took place in a wood in Wakuesha, Wisconsin. 

However, I cannot help think the creator of this character is also part to blame.  If they had weaved a story early on how Slender man liked to stamp on snails and snatch doughnuts from children with his biggest kick coming from leaving his tag on homework books then there would be little in the way of moving deeper into his malevolence.  The creator of this character should of had some small incite into how children think.  They are in my mind equally liable and particularly so would be those who hide behind a cloak of anonymity embellishing his life history with worse deeds. The imagination of these little girls was wild on what they had read from the internet, they are not responsible for this action but at the same time they are. They will now never get the chance to lead a normal life and because of this single action in their lives be forever tainted as evil girls.

The sad thing is, this is a story to learn from and to act by changing the laws and protect children. I wonder if this will happen?