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Holy shit!

A pub in Bicester demanded that patrons entering the premises be subjected to a banned substances scan, consisting of swabbing the palms of your hands and then scanning the swab.

Drug scanner checks public.

If you decided not to submit to the test, you were banned from entering the pub, if you submitted to the test and it showed you were positive for a banned substance, including cocaine and weed, you were searched and banned from the pub — what happened to guilty until proven innocent? What happened to personal freedom? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THIS FUCKING COUNTRY!?

Apparently, by testing positive, the police have “reasonable suspicion” to search you. It’s this paragraph which amazes me the most:

Mr Duffy explained the machine also picked up tiny traces of drugs that innocent people could get from handling contaminated bank notes.

Essentially, if someone you don’t know, have never met, or even SEEN hands a £20 to someone in a supermarket that they spent the morning snorting charlie up their nose with, you’re then given the £20 as change and head to The Litten Tree in Bicester, you’re going to be arrested. Arrested? Yes. Read the following quote:

The drug itemiser was also used in Witney and Banbury two weeks ago. About 260 revellers were tested, with one person arrested on suspicion of possessing class A and C drugs

“Hah!” Thinks you, “drugs on money! Never”. Read these:

Banknotes ‘tainted with cocaine’ (This was in 1999!)
£15m of notes tainted by drugs are destroyed

What amazes me is the look of gurning foolery on the fuckers face in the photo. Does he not realise that his civil liberties have been eroded just a little bit? By relenting your freedom and offering yourself to this kind of Orwellian badgering by the government, we’re taking one step closer to a police state and the government maintaining strict control over every aspect of your life. Not only that, once you’re inside the pub, you can drink as much Stella as you’re capable of paying for and then, on the way home get into a fight and punch/kick/stab someone/smash a window/etc/etc! It’s OK, just don’t smoke that joint when you get home, you’ll be breaking the law and will have to go to jail.

So, it’s been a while since I last posted anything on this site. I’ve toyed with the idea of creating a new site, just for my photographs and this random shit that I post here. I don’t know if anyone reads this stuff and I don’t care. I just enjoy writing it. On here, I can pretend I have a rapier like wit, an ego the size of the Isle of Wight, a brain like Stephen Fry and a cock like Marky Mark in that film about big cocks and roller skating porn stars - Dirk Diggler.

So, I guess the biggest news I have is about being given the boot by Monitor Media. I could go into it, but I think I’ll save the for another post. It’s a long winded story and best told with a mug of cocoa and box of tissues. It is safe to say, however, that I got shafted, with a rather large stick, right up the poo tunnel. Still, I’m not burning any bridges, I’ll wait until they’ve forgotten about me, then burn the bridge, the fort and the fucking castle all in one. Bitter? Moi?

I’ve started contracting now, it’s much better, I earn twice as much, have 3 times the responsibility and I am actually LEARNING stuff. I was amazed at just how little I was learning at Monitor Media, doing the same old shite, I have only really realised this since I left. My skillz as a l33t php c0d3r have improved 4-fold in the 3 or 4 months I’ve not been there.

I try and go it alone, but I don’t have the contacts, or the marketing sense really to make a go of it. All of my work is done on referrals, so if no-one refers me, I don’t get any work! You can see this here: MonkeyMafia.

What else is there? I still haven’t got a Wii, mainly because I’ve been skint and they are like hens teeth/rocking horse shit/gold dust. I’ll bide my time, wait until Sony release the bloated and, ultimately, doomed PS3, wait for Ninty to drop the price and leap on it like a rabid hound on the stuffed rabbit at the tracks.

If all one of you who reads this would like to see pictures of what I have been up to for the past few months, then go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/miketakespictures.

While you’re there, download Picasa, it’s Googles photo managment tool (well, they bought the original company and made it better) it’s bloody lovely. Plus $25 (which is about 18p now USA opened up a new front on Somalia, G. Bush Jnr - what a cuntbag.), buys you 6gb for a years photo and video hosting, which, given the ease of uploading those suckers and the features the software and site offer together, is a damn bargain.

Nuff wafflin’ for now. I may post more frequently, I may not. Who knows? Who cares? Do you? If you care, or even if you read this, please leave a comment, it’d be nice to know someone does actually read this every now and then, even if it is only googlebot…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican paper announced in Tuesdays edition that Intelligent Design is not science.

No shit.

I’ve been reading bits and peices about intelligent design for a while and one thing that strikes me is that it is all very purile.

Some religious nuts are upset that only science is taught in schools, which is a fair point. But ‘Intelligent Design’ is just a thinly veiled attempt at turning religion into science as far as I can tell, and I can’t remember the last time that any school system was allowed to teach it’s children lies and half-truths based on a work of fiction written about 2000 years ago.

I think that children should be exposed to religion, but only when they are old enough and only as a point of reference. I.E. religion is out there kids, this is what it is, make your own mind up. Not teaching them that it is THE TRUTH. Kids believe Power Rangers are real, how difficult will it be to push onto them fiction about a man on a cross who could perform miracles? Not very difficuly I would wager.

I don’t want to get into a bitchfight with myself about religion, I’ve still not completely made up my mind about it. All I do know is that it is a great way to control a large number of people, but religion is losing it’s hold over society - the internet helps. It’s now easier than ever to find out about anything, not just religion and to get a — mostly — unbiased view on the subject.

So, becoming religious is almost like buying a new car or house. You pick the one most suited to your needs - which kind of makes a mockery of it eh?

Everyone needs faith in something, but faith is a personal thing and not something you can put upon other people, espcially children. Parents have a duty to educate their children on many things, but religion is something personal. Of course, as a parent, you want your child to have the same set of beliefs that you do, but you also want to give them the choice and the information to make it an informed choice. Well you should do, what kind of parent are you otherwise? Until a child reaches an age where they CAN make informed choices based upon the information they have, what can you do? Your best. Show them what you believe and try to get them to understand it’s a choice they have as they grow up.

But don’t teach it to children in schools as the truth. That’s just plain wrong.

Read more > CBS News

So, Bush Plans to Seek $1.5 Bln to Bolster Levees in New Orleans?

Thats fantastic news - but, didn’t he spend all the original money that had already been set aside to reinforce the levees (before the hurricanes) on the Iraq War?

To date, more than $219 billion has been spent on the Iraq war. This folly has diverted billions from the Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Project, despite pre-Katrina warnings of impending disaster from former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe Allbaugh and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chief Mike Parker.

2theadvocate.com

See that? Folly. Haha. I like that word. Folly, the Iraq war is a folly. I wonder whether Bush will receive a boost in the polls, now he’s left it long enough so people will forget it was his fault there was no money to strengthen the levees BEFORE the hurricane.

The man is a fucking moron.

This morning at 08.01GMT Stanley “Tookie” Williams was killed by lethal injection. See the BBC story here.

26 years ago, he was accused of murdering 4 people, a convenience store owner called Albert Owens and an elderly Taiwanese couple and their daughter at the motel they owned, for 26 years he has claimed he is innocent. He denounced gang life while serving his sentence on death row and his written a number of books on the subject - mostly childrens books - about how gang life is the wrong path to take. Teachers and parents use the book as a source of material to further explain how gang life is the wrong way. Tookie, who co-founded the Crips gang in Los Angeles in 1971, which has now spread to many other states and even has copy-cat gangs in South Africa, was even nominated for a nobel peace prize in 2001. Tookie has always been deeply regretful for his involvement in founding the Crips and it’s subsequent spread and increase in members.

On Monday 12th December 2005, the US Supreme Court refused a stay of execution, as had California’s Supreme Court and a federal appeals court.

California Govenor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, denied clemency after “studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences”. (You can read higlights of his statement here.)

What a fucking tradegdy. In this day and age, for the death penalty to still be a feasible means of punishment is barbaric.

For 26 years Tookie denined that he was responsible for the murders. How can the anyone say, with 100% certainty, that he was definately guilty? Read through Tookies website and you’ll see how the court case was nothing less than a farce, employing racist tactics (who’d have thought that 26 years ago, racism would have been rife in a public court) and other “reprehensible and unconstitutional” means.

Could Tookie have been of more use if he was kept alive? If his sentence was reduced to life without parole? If he had written more books, more teachings, sent more letters to kids who are still unsure about their life in South Central and helped them to decided that ganglife wasn’t for them? If he *did* commit the murders, how many lives has he actually saved since he was convicted by turning kids away from crime and gang life?

Who knows? And I guess no one ever will.

But maybe Tookie won’t neccesarily have died in vein. Perhaps the media circus around this whole event, the fact a FUCKING MOVIE STAR had to make a judgment on someones life, the protests and the backing from Hollywood celebraties to commute his sentence, might bring the subject of the legality, the issues surrounding it and the unconstitutional-ness of the Death Sentence to the fore.

I hope that someone clears Tookies of the crimes, won’t that fuck up the so-called justice that American dishes out.

So, the Vatican newspaper said, on Tuesday, that homosexuality risked “destabilizing people and society,”.

What a crock of shit.

But, it’s not as if anyone really gives a shit what the Vatican thinks, right? I mean, only religious zealots would take this crap as a rule of law, right?

I’d like to think thats right, I’d like to believe that a majority of society or mentally stable enough to take this with a pinch of salt eh?

Read more > Wired.com

An American mother is on trial for killing her children. The chain of events: she set the family dog on fire because her son was allergic to it. Burning dog set fire house ablaze. The kids in it died.

Source: Popbitch newsletter

OK, so, printer manufacturers are embedding a code made of “less than a milimeter in diameter” yellow dots, in all the documents you print.

This “code” can be deciphered by the US Secret Service (does that mean MI5 aswell?) and tells them where, when and from which printer the code originated from.

Apparently, this is so they can better monitor counterfiting.

Yeah, OK. Sounds plausible, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be used for anything else, does it?

Read more from News24

Edit: More links
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

So, the powers that be in China have set down a whole bunch of new rules on how website can report news. It amazes me, how, in this day and age, a government can get away with this kind of thing: disseminating propoganda in order to control the masses. The rest of the world simply stares in disbelief (except Americans who don’t know about anything outside of their continent) and is frozen on the spot as they fail to comprend the sheer audacity of the Chinese Govt.

This is the bit that makes my hair stand on end:

[internet news sites] must be directed toward serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests.

This peice came from Slashdot