Walsingham

The militias should be far more concerned with tehir total lack of secure comms, and free transport. You need a test AND a license to own a car. It's a conspiracy I say!

53% chance of survival. Although again, it takes no account of the fact that I would be with my unit.

The .50 BMG is one of the few guns which actually makes sense of the notion that guns are for defending against the state. I am utterly confused as to what all these gun nuts are going to do with their dinky revolvers against the New World Order 1st Armoured Division.

Well, we can agree about Ronaldo.

Godzilla, on TV tonight. Is it just me, or did the French guys get no bloody credit. Heroes, the lot of them!

Great Britain. I've warned you before! You'd hate it here. We have collective endeavour, Dunkirk spirit, and love the Navy.* *Lies!

I've got to say that filiming your activities eemes to be tantamount to releasing the stuff online immediately. On the plus side maybe since he is such a bigwig it will force he homophobes one millimetre closer to recognising that people can be gay and still be heroes. Now if only I could convince people that people can be short and ugly and still be heroes...

*wistful* I'd like wallpaper that is on fire all the time. That would be awesome. My favourite song at present:

That's really my point ! As this Japanese chap proved, they can easily shift to cars if we somehow managed to remove all sharp objects from the world. We need to concentrate on the perpetrators, not the weapons... while still trying to keep nutrcases away from .50 cals.

By the power of the intarnets I declare them now lesbyarns!

Glad to hear you like the sound of. Obviously add your own house rules, but it's surprisingly easy to do, and bags of fun. Certainly spices up the game.

1. I'm talking about crimes like this, but also so-called 'normal' crimes, like we have had in the media recently, where some kid knifes a random bloke on the bus over a disagreement no-one even understood. 2. Recent media coverage has illustrated that in the case of these hyper-aggressive incidents the individuals concerned have a long history of escalating behaviour, and mental issues. A history which was recognised at each stage as being a warning of things to come, but sod all was done about it. 3. Because of the above I am arguing that we should be doing more to - Connect the dots of noticing dangerous behaviour - Doing something about it - Doing something about it may mean anything from shipping them to antarctica, firing them into space, or giving them a yellow poncho. Whatever it takes, get it done.

I guess what I meant was that 1) Reducing the lethality of the weapons used in crime reduces the lethality of each incident 2) Violent incidents are likely to remain at the same levels; they will merely be reduced in severity but will still be unacceptably serious 3) To truly eradicate the problem we have to reduce the number of violent incidents, and that means the non-weapon segments. Thsi in turn means focussing on the human aspects of violence. After all, guns don't jsut fire themselves.* * Except like in that film.

One more point on the German team... they're a team. Both goals, and a number of other opportunities were the result of excellent teamwork. Poland had plenty of possession, but wound up failing to develop any power forward.

WTH? How is Barack Obama not a Christian? He's almost certainly been to more church than me. Does that mean I'm not one of a sudden? Also, and I can't stress this enough, Muslims are not 'the enemy'. Terrorism is the enemy. The two things are no more one and the same than pointing at Gerry Adams and saying Christianity is terrorist.

I'll not deny that weapons are helpful if you want to hurt people. If we all have flamethrowers there will be a rise in flamethrowings. But overall, the total degree of violence is in the minds of the people. Weapons really are a question of attitude. You can turn almost anything into a weapon.* *If you are locked in a shed with BA Barracus

As you chaps will know I have been having problems for some time with the useless power storage of all my portable devices. basically just enough to get a hipster from the coffee and bagels to the park and back. Now I have powermonkey. I can't speak for its long-term durability, but it basically: 1. Charges from a small solar cell 2. Charges from the mains 3. The small tough-looking charged battery can be linked to just about anything A simple thing, and quite expensive at 50 quid, but if it works half as well as it is now then I'm hooked. Just thought I'd mention it, since I'm always bitching.

Bone question: won'tthe coffee grinder just grind things?

I'd like to know why the galaxy's greatest comic has yet to produce a single decent videogame.

I thought you wanted to spend all rehabilitation money on large sticks with nails in.

Miracle?

100 deaths in Afghanistan for UK troops. I was struck by a couple of things. 1. 100 death is pretty low, especially once you get past the headline and discover that only 60 of these were due to enemy action. 2. 3 deaths in a single incident is, again, hardly Vietnam era engagements 3. As the CO Afghanistan says, the shift from 'true' Afghan firefights to suicide bombers highlights how un-Afghan the Taliban are. Thoughts with the families and friends.

Still sore about that bit of skulduggery at the world cup ehh If it were possible for a man to be literally the subject of his simile with certain procreative organs, Ronaldo would be that man. I'm only half English. I get to be mardi when I feel like it.

They wouldn't get any love here, Walsh. Another day of thunderstorms and tornadoes. There have been rain and tornadoes practically a week and a half straight. Its kind of getting on my nerves. I would love a week of tornadoes. From the safety of my luxury bunker, you understand.

Frankly this situation is caused by the other end of the spectrum. The so-called 'care in the community'. Some people are literally ticking bombs, and need to be dealt with accordingly. I am saying that we need a Jack Bauer who is clinically adroit, and sesnitive, but the end result has to be as emphatic as snipping the proverbial green wire. I take your point that we don't yet understand how to do this. My response is that it isn't bloody good enough. We had better learn. Quick.